Winners in life: starting from the street writer

Chapter 133 Armed with no dead ends
Like this squid game shoot, Zhou Tongyu knew at the beginning that he was supporting a newcomer, so he was somewhat reluctant.

But as Chen Ying's performance improved little by little, Zhou Tongyu felt a little relieved.

At least Chen Ying's acting was not bad, so that after the broadcast, someone would ridicule her for acting in a bad drama, and even acted as a supporting role for a rookie who had no acting skills.

Although in terms of acting skills, Zhou Tongyu is confident that he can beat Chen Ying by a thousand miles.

But when it comes to appearance and figure, Zhou Tongyu can only be envious.

In the crew, everyone knew that Shen Hao and Chen Yao had a close relationship.

But neither of them is married, even if they are close, it's not a big deal.

What's more, Shen Hao is still Chen Ying's boss.

It's a little ambiguous, and it's not a basic operation yet.

When the scene of Shen Hao was filmed, everyone came to the sidelines with some curiosity and consideration.

If you want to say that the most powerful person in the crew is this inconspicuous Mr. Shen.

Even Song Xiuzhu, who was always aloof and proud, treated Shen Hao with respect.

The other actors in the crew, even Ge You, a veteran actor, had to be polite to Shen Hao.

Some well-informed people have even learned that Shen Hao is also the owner of the well-known domestic theater group - Star Cinemas.

The owner of hundreds of movie theaters has a very important position in the entertainment industry.

Although it was his first time filming, Shen Hao's performance was exceptionally amazing.

It's not that his acting skills are so good, but that everyone's expectations for him are very low, as long as he can read the lines well.

But to everyone's surprise, Shen Hao's positioning, expression, and lines skills are all very good.

At least in the circle of young actors, Shen Hao is definitely considered very high.

That's already a big deal.

Even Song Xiuzhu was very pleasantly surprised.

He didn't expect the boss to be so proficient in acting, so he could only sigh that a genius is a genius.

After all, Shen Hao's role as the policeman's younger brother is just a supporting role.

In the next season's plot, there will be more.

According to the plot, after the bloody and shocking baptism of the first level, only 201 people survived.

The surviving contestants begged for mercy to end the game.

Although the life of these people in debt is very difficult, their purpose of participating in this game is to have money to survive.

But once they faced death, they became afraid again.

But at this time, a group of staff with guns started to make trouble.

Hang a giant glass ball in the air, and pour all the 201 million bonuses accumulated by the 2010 people who died before into the glass ball.

Immediately, all the surviving contestants couldn't help showing obsessive and eager eyes.

And when the staff announced that they could vote to decide whether to continue the game.

In the end, the number of people who gave up the competition exceeded one vote to continue the competition, and the game was temporarily suspended.

All contestants return to their normal routines.

At this time, Cao You, one of the male protagonists played by Chen Kun.

After experiencing a round of squid games, I chose to tell the police about the organization of squid games, and went to the police station to report the case, but the police did not believe it.

Because I witnessed those masked people in the squid game illegally possessing firearms.

Cao You hopes that the people behind the squid game will get the punishment they deserve.

But no one believed what Cao Shangyou said. They all felt that Cao You was being stimulated and joking with them, and they had never heard of the squid game that Cao You said.

As a rookie policeman, Huang Hao, played by Shen Hao, listened to Cao You's words.

Huang Hao investigated the business card that Cao You gave him, only to find out that there really is a squid game.

Huang Hao replaced the identity of a desperado and entered the squid game. After entering the jurisdiction of the squid game, he hijacked the masked man in the game, replaced the identity of the masked man, and entered the interior of the squid game.

In the squid game, the masked man lives under surveillance all the time.

Whether eating or sleeping, there are surveillance cameras next to the masked people, filming their daily life.

No matter how good Huang Hao's cover was, he had to take off his mask when eating.

Immediately, the person in charge of the game saw Huang Junhao's true face.

The person in charge of the squid game recognized at a glance that Huang Hao was not a member of the organization, but he did not expose Huang Hao's identity.

After entering the game, Huang Hao witnessed the cruelty of the squid game, and saw how the participants of the squid game cleared the level.

At this time, according to the usual routine, it is natural for Huang Hao to find a way to bring this evil organization to justice.

But it's a pity that Huang Hao, who thought he was hiding well, was suddenly spotted by an old white man wearing a tiger-head mask who came to visit, and wanted to play some kind of male-female game.

Huang Hao endured the nausea in his heart, and cooperated with the old man to come to the box.

Waiting for the end of his eyes to stare, he immediately pointed a gun at the old man's head, forcing him to tell more inside stories about the squid game.

The old man also told Huang Hao everything he knew, and was finally beaten to the ground by Huang Hao.

At this time, Huang Hao was naturally exposed, and began to be hunted down by the administrator of the man in black.

The previous plots are okay, and the difficulty itself is not very high.

But wait until you play against Guo Tianwang.

Song Xiuzhu couldn't help but sweat for Shen Hao.

As a veteran actor, Guo Tianwang's acting skills are naturally far better than the current young actors.

After Guo Tianwang took off the mask, Huang Hao discovered that the manager of this evil organization turned out to be his missing brother.

Anger, bewilderment, surprise and other emotions should be shown on his face at the same time.

The acting skills at 6 o'clock are still not enough.

Even though Song Xiuzhu pointed out many times, it still took a whole day to get the effect Song Xiuzhu was satisfied with.

Guo Tianwang didn't say anything, but exchanged some performance experience with Shen Hao very friendly.

We are all smart people, who wouldn't want another friend with energy.

And Shen Hao has a theater chain, a film and television company, and a well-known director in the industry.

No one wants to get acquainted with such a character.

What's more, Shen Hao also kept a low profile, even though Song Xiuzhu repeatedly asked for a reshoot, he didn't say anything.

From this point alone, Guo Tianwang had to secretly give a thumbs up.

Once the most difficult part of the scene is over, the rest will be much easier.

Guo Tianwang, who played the elder brother, shot Huang Hao in the shoulder, and Huang Hao fell into the cliff, his life and death unknown.

At this point, Shen Hao's role is over.

It sounds simple, but it took more than half a month to shoot, and this is also because his role in the scene is only a supporting role.

For his convenience, Song Xiuzhu deliberately picked out his part to focus on shooting.

After filming his own film, Shen Hao invited the crew to a big meal before leaving, as a reward for everyone's hard work during this time.

After everyone took turns to toast, Shen Hao also drank too much, and was finally helped back to the room by Zhou Sen.

In the dead of night, Shen Hao lived in the presidential suite of the hotel again.

There are bodyguards guarding the stairs, even paparazzi can't get in.

And a woman's figure sneaked out from the stairwell.

The eyes of several bodyguards were fixed on her almost at the same time.

But when he saw the appearance of the person coming, he suddenly continued to inspect other places.

Chen Ying was also taken aback when she was suddenly stared at by several sharp eyes just now.

But fortunately, these bodyguards treated her as if they hadn't seen her.

When she reached the door, Chen Ying couldn't help feeling a little nervous.

Open the double wooden doors and enter the grand and luxurious suite.

Zhou Sen, who was sitting on the sofa, immediately got up and nodded slightly to her.

Then he walked out of the suite and closed the door for the two of them.

During filming during this period, the two would occasionally sneak together, and she was the one who came to find Shen Hao most of the time.

No way, who made Shen Hao's level of security tight.

Unlike her level, where there are many people with mixed eyes, it is easy to be spotted.

Now Shen Hao is leaving the film crew tomorrow, and Chen Ying, as the heroine, will continue filming for a while.

When Chen Ying walked into the bedroom, she saw that it was empty, and there was a sound of water flowing from the bathroom.

Chen Ying rolled her eyes and sneaked into the quilt, hoping to wait for Shen Hao to come out to scare him.

When Chen Ying's face was flushed and she was about to lose her breath.

Finally, there was a commotion, and Shen Hao came out of the bathroom.

A bath towel was wrapped around his body, and Shen Hao wiped his wet hair with the towel in his right hand.

Seeing that Zhou Sen was not in the room, he immediately knew that it must be Chen Ying.

But seeing how quiet the room was, the quilt seemed to bulge up.

If he doesn't know that Chen Ying is hiding here, then he is really stupid.

Originally, Chen Ying was still wondering why Shen Hao didn't make any sound after walking into the room?

Suddenly, the quilt was flung open.

Then a figure came in with lightning speed and hugged her tightly.

After a while, Chen Ying quickly got her head out of the quilt, breathing heavily, almost lacking oxygen.

Seeing Shen Hao's playful smile again, Chen Ying was immediately ashamed and angry.

A few hits on Shen Hao's body, it can be regarded as revenge for the almost hypoxic just now.

There is nothing so comforting as action at the time of parting.

And Shen Hao is a man of action.

With his current physique, Chen Ying is no match.

More than two hours later, Chen Ying hung up the exemption card and raised the white flag, unable to celebrate.

Shen Hao also accepted as soon as he saw it, caressing Chen Ying's fair and delicate skin, teasing her with a smile, "How does it feel to be sneaked by the boss?"

"What can I do, who asked me to sign a 15-year contract of selling my life, and all my youth in this life will be planted on you."

Chen Ying gently pressed her forehead with a few strands of hair against Shen Hao's chest.

Just listening to Shen Hao's powerful heartbeat made her feel very at ease.

"That's right, why do I feel that I'm similar to Zhou Papi?"

Shen Hao pinched Chen Ying's fair and tender face, "This squid game, no accident, will be played all over the world, and then you will experience the joy of becoming an international star."

"You really like this drama so much?"

Chen Ying was a little surprised. She just thought the theme of this show was quite scary, and she didn't expect too much, she just wanted to be gilded.

"Silly girl, for this drama, do you know how many well-known actresses have asked someone to pass on the terms, and the conditions are up to me. Do you understand what it means?"

Shen Hao patted Chen Ying's butt, feeling a little speechless.

The supermodel in South Korea, because of this drama, gained 2000 million followers on ins.

It is conceivable how popular this show was after it aired.

And the squid game is Shen Hao's sharp weapon to open up the Southeast Asian market.

The serious loss of Iflix is ​​also related to the previous development ideas.

Just thinking about hoarding copyrights, but not having the ability to make your own series, it is only natural that you can't do Netflix.

You know, when Iflix was at its peak, it even entered the Middle East and African markets.

But by the time of selling themselves, the Middle East and African markets have been forced to withdraw.

With serious losses, they simply cannot afford the operating and bandwidth costs in these two regions.

The consumption in the African market itself is very poor, and the Middle East business was sold to one of the previous investors.

At the time of the sale, Iflix only had its market business in Southeast Asia.

If it weren't for the sudden interest of Goose Factory and Yuanmeng Film and Television, the only thing waiting for Iflix is ​​bankruptcy and liquidation.

Chen Ying immediately hugged Shen Hao coquettishly, "But those people, aren't you afraid that they will be dirty?"

"So, it's cheap for you, so let's have fun in the future."

Shen Hao pinched Chen Ying's nose. This girl's nose is real, and the shape of her nose is beautiful, not worse than those technological faces with big knives on her face.

After resting for a while, Shen Hao turned around and fought again.

After the fierce battle until dawn, Shen Hao greeted Song Xiuzhu in advance.

Today I won't shoot Chen Ying's scene, but I will make up some other scenes.

As for himself, before leaving, he kissed the red-eyed Chen Ying on the forehead, turned around and took Zhou Sen and the others away.

This time, he has already delayed a lot of time for filming, and there are still many things waiting for him to deal with.

As the head of a large group, I dare not say that I have a lot of things to deal with, but there are too many things to deal with.

Fortunately, each company has competent subordinates to share the pressure for him.

Only when some relatively high budgets are involved, will he apply for approval.

……

As soon as he returned to Hangzhou, Zhu Tianyu brought a guest to visit.

Because of investing in Powehi, Zhu Tianyu was ridiculed by many people in the investment circle.

Zhu Tianyu dared to give a valuation of 40 billion US dollars for a company that has just completed its A round, which is outrageous.

However, seeing Powehi's two seasons of sponsorship with Sister Lang's popularity, coupled with the generous spending of money to attract middle and low-level bloggers, has the rhythm of leaping to the fourth largest short video platform.

The first three are Douyin, WeChat video account, and Kuaishou.

After that, there is Powehi, which has exceeded [-] million daily active users.

Many investment institutions can't sit still.

No, Zhu Tianyu, who had a closer relationship with Shen Hao, became the guest of honor of these people and had no choice but to introduce Shen Hao for them.

Just looking at the current development situation of Powehi, everyone will surely make a lot of money when it goes public.

In this way, everyone is naturally very open to valuation.

The general valuation is much higher than the A round, and Zhu Tianyu is naturally the one in the best mood.

Because of investing in Powehi, they made a lot of money, which also made the second phase of fundraising of Blue Pool quite smooth.

It took almost no effort to complete the fundraising of 5 million US dollars.

There are many LPs subscribed, including some domestic government-led funds.

In the final analysis, the difficulty of raising funds for an investment institution depends on the previous record of the investment institution.

Like Zhu Tianyu, this time he not only serves as a referral, but also continues to pursue Powehi on behalf of Blue Chi.

Under Zhu Tianyu's recommendation, Shen Hao also gradually became familiar with this group of people.

It's a pity that Kong Xin is raising a baby at home, otherwise Kong Xin is definitely the most suitable to deal with these people for him.

In general, everyone chatted happily.

In the conference room, Shen Hao also impassionedly drew a big cake for this group of people, but if he couldn't stand it, this group of people would eat it.

Moreover, Shen Hao also has a reliable basis.

In terms of variety shows, Sister Lang 2 continues the popularity of the first season.

After the broadcast, let all sponsored brands reap satisfactory results.

Powehi, as the exclusive title, is the one who has gained the most.

Many viewers who were fanned by the sisters specially downloaded Powehi to vote, and gradually got used to watching videos on Powehi.

Powehi, which has [-] million daily active users, has also begun to actively seek ways to monetize.

The first is to dig a big player who is in charge of advertising and marketing business.

With Douyin as a reference target, it is easy to judge that with Powehi's size, it is not that difficult to make a profit.

Even with the growth of users, the revenue of advertising business will be higher and higher.

In addition, Powehi's support for original bloggers is relatively expensive, and it will continue to be a subsidy strategy for a long time.

In order to make up for the loss in this area, the revenue generated from the advertising business will also be appropriately subsidized to further explore and cultivate more top influencers.

In addition to the expenditure in this area, the biggest expenditure is the server.

This is unavoidable for all companies.

On Powehi's side, Zhi Ying also made a more detailed report as the CEO.

After these investors had a clear idea, they began to discuss the valuation.

Shen Hao entrusted this task to Zhi Ying. In principle, he hoped to obtain a valuation of no less than 120 billion US dollars.

If it can reach 150 billion US dollars, that would be great.

With [-] million daily active users, the confidence is so strong.

You know, after Douyin’s daily activity exceeded 1.5 million users, Byte received a valuation of 200 billion US dollars given by investment institutions.

Although Powehi now has only [-] million daily active users and more than [-] million monthly active users.

But this rising momentum is still visible to the naked eye.

For Zhiying, the asking price is 150 billion US dollars.

On the investor side, some felt that the price was too high and chose to give up directly.

But there are also investors with deep pockets, such as Boyu Capital, Temasek, Pan Pacific and other well-known venture capital.

Every time a number is spit out from their mouths, it is enough to make ordinary people's heart beat faster.

Finally, after several rounds of bidding.

The proposed valuation is US$140 billion, the financing is US$14 billion, and the post-investment valuation is US$154 billion.

Naturally, such a large amount of investment cannot be eaten by a venture capitalist.

Even a powerful capital like Pan Pacific would be willing to share the risk with several other VCs first.

Among them, Pan Pacific led the B round, eating up 50% of the investment share, accounting for 5% of the shares.

Blue Pool's strength is limited, but it also gritted its teeth to eat 10% of the investment share. The funds raised this time suddenly fell by a large amount, holding 5.5% of the shares.

But in Zhu Tianyu's eyes, it was definitely worth it.

In many cases, investors also rely on intuition.

Shen Hao left a deep impression on Zhu Tianyu.

The last investment also proved that his vision was correct.

Powehi's users have surged, and it took less than a year to secure its position as the fourth largest short video platform.

In time, when Powehi goes public, he will definitely return amazingly.

Wait for the news of Powehi's successful financing to come out.

Immediately, many people who had been waiting and watching were strengthened in their confidence.

Even Douyin has made a statement of traffic support, but it is still not as real as Powehi directly giving money.

It is worth mentioning that with the increase of bloggers.

The reward standard on the video side has also been relatively improved.

In the past, there were not many users on the platform, and a like was worth a dime, but now it becomes two cents.

But I can't stand the big plate, there are many popular videos, and it's easy to get millions of likes

But even if the income from likes has shrunk a lot, it is still more attractive than Douyin.

As for Kuaishou?

From the start, Powehi didn't target them.

As more and more creators are attracted to post videos, Powehi is also focusing on supporting several top Internet celebrities.

If the platform wants to make a person popular, it's really easy.

As long as the other party has some talent, relying on Powehi's traffic, a top internet celebrity can be easily created.

At this time, Mr. Shen, after participating in the Powehi B round financing reception, the whole person was drunk.

The system also responded again.

"Ding, congratulations on the accumulative valuation of the company under your name reaching 100 billion U.S. dollars. Your entrepreneur level has been raised, and now you are at the world-renowned level. Rewards are being issued to you. Please wait patiently..."

"Ding, congratulations on obtaining the full property rights of the first building in Xixi (with a construction area of ​​25 square meters)!"

"Ding, congratulations on getting the top talent recruitment ticket (loyalty) x10!"

"Ding, congratulations on getting Mayfly Golden Clothes x1!"

"Ding, congratulations on getting Black Hole Cloud Technology Co., Ltd. (with 40 servers) x1!"

"Ding, congratulations on increasing your startup subsidy to 100 million US dollars per day!"

For this upgrade, the system is obviously based on his current situation, and the rewards are also very targeted.

The first seat in Xixi, Shen Hao is also very impressed, and he went there to check in before.

The total construction area is as high as 25 square meters, of which the office area is 12 square meters and the commercial area is nearly 2.9 square meters.

The remaining 10 square meters are underground construction area.

Catering, retail, supermarkets, fitness clubs, health clubs, financial and other supporting facilities are very complete.

Shen Hao checked and found that such a large office park is worth at least 50 billion.

This wave is bloody money!
Shen Hao continued to look at the system's rewards happily.

The start-up subsidy has also doubled from the previous 300 million RMB per day to the current 100 million US dollars per day.

A month is 3000 million U.S. dollars, and a year is 3.6 million U.S. dollars!
What concept?
A lot of VCs can't afford to raise that much money.

But Shen Hao has so much disposable funds easily by himself.

The profits are his, and the losses are systematically borne. This kind of good thing cannot be found in the whole world.

Looking back, Shen Hao was also very surprised by the appearance of the black hole cloud.

You know, like Powehi today, the biggest expense is not subsidizing the anchor.

It's the monthly cost of renting a server.

Like now, Powehi has rented 12 servers.

Only in this way can we ensure that when users use the software, there will be no problems such as video freezes.

There is a saying in the industry that as long as you rent more than 10 servers, building your own is cheaper than renting them.

Like Byte, JD.com, and Huawei, they rent first and then build themselves.

In the final analysis, it is still not cost-effective to rent.

Originally, Shen Hao also had this consideration in mind, and had already begun to send people to investigate suitable places to build a data center by himself.

I didn't expect the system to be so sensible, and directly gave Shen Hao a ready-made cloud service company with 40 servers, enough for them to use for a long time.

At least before Powehi grows to 5 million daily active users, the number of servers in Black Hole Cloud can fully meet the needs of users.

And when Shen Hao saw the mayfly golden suit, he was completely dumbfounded.

Isn't this a replica of Ant Financial?
Mayfly Financial Services has third-party payment licenses and personal credit reference licenses that include banks, insurance companies, funds, and traditional financial institutions.

It almost extends its tentacles to almost every aspect of financial life accessible to ordinary people.

Be good, the father of the system is too particular, this is the rhythm of arming him without dead ends!
(End of this chapter)