There is a bar in Houhai

Chapter 20
Shen Lei's film and television special effects company is called "Shanghai Ghost Ax Tiangong Film and Television Technology Company". It is located in a high-tech industrial park near the suburbs of Suzhou and Kuncheng, only tens of kilometers away from Shanghai.As a group of otaku who are addicted to technology, far away from the prosperity and temptation of the metropolis, they also enjoy themselves in this industrial park surrounded by green mountains and green waters.

Although today is Saturday, there is basically no distinction between weekends and working days for high-tech companies.Shen Fang followed Shen Lei into a small four-story building located in a corner of the industrial park.Most of Shen Lei's special effects companies are recruited from major foreign companies, so the design of the office area is also full of casualness from Silicon Valley.The industrial floor in earthy tones is covered with custom patterns, topped with a dark textured exposed ceiling, and the most amazing thing is the facade, which is covered with graffiti on walls painted in different warm tones. Full of childishness and will not cause visual fatigue.

Since the financing of 2 million yuan and the change of shares are involved, Shen Lei specially notified the relevant senior management of the company to hold a meeting.

"This is our CTO (Chief Technology Officer) Davis Chen, you should still remember." Shen Lei pointed to a man in his 30s with obvious Chinese descent.

"David, hello. When I visited you back then, I was rejected twice in a row." Shen Fang smiled.

Davis Chen is the CTO of the "Digital Domain" created by the famous Hollywood technology madman James Cameron. He witnessed the "Titanic" crash into an iceberg, and also froze the entire northern hemisphere in the "day after tomorrow", and even helped American soldiers fight against the "Titanic" Transformers".At its most glorious time, it was once the special effects company in Hollywood second only to Industrial Light and Magic.The award-winning special effects company struggled to make ends meet after the 2008 economic crisis. In 2010, more than half of the staff was laid off. At that time, Shen Fang was entrusted by Shen Lei and visited many times. Finally, Davis was moved by the sincerity of Shen Fang and Shen Lei, and led the previous team to Shanghai to help the ghosts. Ax Tiangong Film and Television Company set up a team.

"Charles, I really want to thank you." Davis is still used to calling Shen Fang by his English name, "Please forgive me for my negligence at the time. After all, we were really afraid of going to work in a strange country at that time." Pause After a while, Davis stood up and bowed to Shen Fang, "Now I really appreciate you for pointing me to a clear path when I was stuck. My team and I really don't know how to live, you don't know The layoffs in the 'digital realm' were a bolt from the blue for us."

"I have always believed that with the development of technology, the application of digital special effects in film and television will become more and more important. The field of special effects in Hollywood has reached a bottleneck, but the eastern market is still a virgin land. Instead of being trapped in Hollywood, it is better to turn our attention to the east. I I believe that in the next ten years, Huaxia will shock the world. This time our financing is mainly to increase investment in equipment and increase our leading edge in domestic technology," Shen Lei said.

Then Shen Lei introduced several other high-level executives: "This is CFO (Chief Financial Officer) Johnny Zhou, Zhou Ruofei, 38 years old this year, graduated from the University of Illinois, once worked in PricewaterhouseCoopers accounting firm, in Southern California I pulled them back and went back to China to start a business together." Zhou Ruofei is a gentle and elegant middle-aged man, dressed in a neat suit and wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, looking mature and steady.

"I am the Chief Operating Officer (COO) Kang Qiao, healthy Kang, and Xiao Qiao's Joe. It's the first time we meet, hello!" The last one was a 27-year-old very beautiful white-collar woman, wearing a silver-gray suit The skirt suit looks graceful.

"Xiao Qiao is my right-hand man. This is Uncle Kang's daughter. The two of us grew up together. Although my company has technology, it has no market. Later, it was only with Xiao Qiao's help to open up the situation that we were able to become a small company in the domestic special effects field. Famous." Standing beside Kang Qiao, Shen Lei introduced to Shen Fang.

"Hello, is this Kang Yushan, Uncle Kang?" Shen Fang asked uncertainly. Kang Yushan was Shen Haiyang's partner when he started the business together, and is now one of the main shareholders of Hon Hai Group.

"Yes, Kang Yushan is my father." Kang Qiao looked at Shen Fang and said.

Shen Lei said, "She is Uncle Kang's daughter, a top student at Harvard. If I hadn't worked so hard, she wouldn't have agreed to submit to my small company."

Shen Lei pointed to Shen Fang and said to several senior executives of the company: "My cousin, Shen Fang, opened an investment company in the United States. Last year, he sold Groupon shares and made a lot of money. I don't think I can let him go easily. So I raised 2 million yuan from him, and the shares in the stock pool of you and the employees will not change, and 10% of my personal shares will be transferred to him."

"Groupon? Are you the Charles Shen who sold shares to Sequoia Capital for US$12 billion?" Time to prepare, so he pays close attention to the relevant information of the Internet industry in the United States at all times.It's just that I didn't expect that an investor who made more than 10 billion profits in the United States in four years would appear in front of me like this.

Then Shen Lei took Shen Fang to visit the entire company.The environment of the company's employees is very comfortable. There is no cubicle in the traditional office building, but to arrange their own office area according to everyone's preferences and habits. The clothes of the employees are also very casual, mostly T-shirts, and there is even a Employees in their pajamas and slippers wandered around the office area.Shen Fang has also invested in several Internet companies in Silicon Valley, and knowing their living habits, he is not surprised.

At noon, Shen Fang and Shen Lei had lunch in the company's cafeteria. The company's cafeteria is open 24 hours a day to ensure that these nerds can find food anytime when they are hungry.

In the afternoon, Shen Fang watched their previous video materials in the company, most of which were based on the theme of fairy tales, with fluttering white clothes, flying swords, spectacular fairy sects, eerie demon caves, tens of thousands of battles between the two armies , the heavenly court of the immortals.Anyway, starting from "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", the fairy tale style in the domestic film and television industry has become more and more intense.

"How about it, our technology should be okay?" Shen Lei asked.

"I don't know much about this. I'm just a layman watching the excitement. Seeing these people whizzing... swish... swishing, it feels okay. This should be the effect of the green screen." Shen Fang said casually.

"Yes, we have reached the top level in the industry for green screen, and now we are mainly planning to invest in the motion capture system. This is basically blank in China," Davis said.

"I see that you are basically outsourcing work now, have you ever thought about making a complete film and television drama by yourself?" Shen Fang asked puzzled.

Shen Lei explained: "It's not that we don't want to do it. The main reason is that a complete film and television drama requires various departments such as screenwriter, director, editing, and post-production. We haven't been able to perfect it yet, so now we can only do it in the professional field. .”

"The film and television company I plan to invest in is going to start with the script first, and then we will cooperate." Shen Fang did not elaborate.

After staying in the company all afternoon, when the evening approached, Shen Lei asked Shen Fang: "What are your plans for the evening? If not, I will take you to meet some friends."

"What kind of good friends can you have, not just a group of cronies." Kang Qiao curled his lips beside him and said, "Be careful to bring Shen Fang into trouble, Uncle Shen has skinned you."

"Can I bring him down? We don't go to any unscrupulous places. Are you free at night? Come with us and let you see if we are not like bad people." Shen Lei said disdainfully.

After an afternoon of observation, Shen Fang had already learned that Kang Qiao might be interested in Shen Lei, but Shen Lei didn't know much about it for the time being, so he was happy to see the two of them fighting each other.

Kang Qiao went to change into a dark blue dress, Shen Fang asked Shen Lei to drive her, and he drove Shen Lei's car, and followed them all the way to a high-end club in Hudong District.After parking the car, Shen Lei took out a box of wine from the trunk of the car, Shen Fang glanced at it, it should be sent to him by himself.This guy just took it here to show off.Shen Fang looked at Kang Qiao in a dress, then reached out to take the wine, let Kang Qiao lead the way with Shen Lei on his arm, and followed behind with the wine.

　It's the end of the month, and there are some things to deal with, so try to keep updating.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)