Perfection of Rebirth

Chapter 383 The Journey of Android Acquisition
Last year, Dream Band and Rolling Stone signed a contract, but the contract was only one year. After the expiration, Zhang Mengze and others consulted Jiang Hui's opinion and did not renew the contract, but set up a studio by themselves.

The star studio refers to a team composed of a relatively small number of staff, which is responsible for the performing arts of a specific artist or several artists.At present, domestic studios can be roughly divided into two categories. One is the self-supporting type, that is, you can be your own boss. This type of studio has a lot of autonomy, and the corresponding risks and costs are also high.Another category is to rely on the artist's contracted brokerage company to establish a studio. The most common one is that Huayi Brothers' contracted artist establishes a studio within the company. This kind of studio is not as independent as the former, but it has resource advantages. For example, it can Use the company's network resources to provide convenience for your own studio to discuss business.

Although the Dream Band can also sign a contract with Guanghui Film and Television, and then rely on Guanghui Film and Television to establish a studio, but Jiang Hui considers that everyone in the Dream Band has a deep background, and his relationship with them is more of a friend relationship now. Contaminated with too many interests, it is suggested that they set up a separate studio.

Anyway, with the support of companies such as Brilliant Film and Television and Brilliant Weibo, coupled with the background and fame of Dream Band itself, there is no need to worry about no business.

Jiang Hui stayed and talked with Zhang Mengze and others about Dream Band's next album and future cooperation with Guanghui Film and Television, and then returned to the company.

In the next few days, the security team was quickly in place, and Jiang Hui focused his energy on the Brilliant drone and the Brilliant mobile phone.

For Guanghui Group, 2005 was a year for laying the foundation for the industrial company and making full preparations for flying higher in the future.Even Jiang Hui has set up a separate project team at Autohome to plan the future of Brilliant Auto.

Industry is king, Jiang Hui is not just talking.

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Jiang Hui's trip to the United States was very low-key. A bodyguard - Lan Faqing, a secretary - Zeng Qingying, plus Fang Dawen, general manager of Tudou, a group of four came to the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

Those who came to pick me up were the general manager of Tudou.com's US branch and others.It is rare for the big boss Jiang Hui to come to the United States. The leadership of Tudou.com's US branch attaches great importance to it, hoping to leave a good impression on the boss.

Tudou.com's shareholdings in China and the United States are different. Relatively speaking, China's shareholding is more dispersed and there are more shareholders. However, after several capital injections, the US branch has almost become Jiang Hui's wholly-owned holding company.Although the operation of the US branch is still under the management of the Tianchao headquarters, its independence is already relatively high.

Although Jiang Hui was eager to acquire Android, since he came to the United States, he had to go to Tudou.com's US branch first to boost everyone's morale.

As the largest video website in the United States, Wall Street's venture capital has valued Tudou.com's US branch at more than 20 billion US dollars.Although the number of users is not as high as that of China, the valuation is not lower than that of the headquarters (the shares of the US branch are not held by the headquarters of Tudou.cn, but by Guanghui Technology. Therefore, the valuation of Tudou.com in China does not include the US branch).

American Internet giants Yahoo and Google both wanted to acquire Tudou.com's US branch, but they were rejected. Jiang Hui would not sell the company directly. If it was just a venture capital investment, it could be considered for better development in the future.

Jiang Hui and his entourage stayed at the US branch of Tudou for a whole day, listened to the company's development report, and after making some demands, they got up and started the Android acquisition journey.

In October 2003, Andy Rubin and others founded the Android company and formed the Android team.

Without the influence of Jiang Hui, a butterfly, on August 2005, 8, Google would have quietly acquired the high-tech enterprise Android and its team, which was established only 17 months ago.Andy Rubin became Google's vice president of engineering and continued to lead the Android project.But now obviously there will be no such thing as Google.

Although I obtained the contact information of Andy Rubin, the founder of Android, through the American branch of Tudou, and made an appointment to meet.Jiang Hui still did a good job of investigating Andy Rubin.

The father of Android was born in a small town in New York State in 1963. His father studied psychology and ran an electronic toy direct selling company.After the sales samples are photographed and placed in the sales catalogue, it belongs to little Andy, whose room is full of the latest electronic toys.Taking apart these toys repeatedly is one of his favorite things to do.His geek gene was planted here.

After graduating from university, he joined Carl Zeiss, which is famous for its optical instruments, as a robotics engineer, mainly engaged in digital communication networks.Later, he also worked in a robotics company in Switzerland, where he was very happy.However, an accidental event changed his life.

In 1989, Andy traveled to the Cayman Islands. When he was walking alone on the beach early in the morning, he met a man sleeping on a deck chair pitifully-he had a fight with his girlfriend and was kicked out of the beach house. Andy found him a place to live.In return, the man promised to introduce Andy to work in his company.It turned out that this person was an engineer at Apple in its first heyday.

The extraordinary experience in Silicon Valley makes Andy Rubin a duck to water in an Apple company dominated by engineers. The desktop system Quadra and the first software Modem in history are both his works.He also didn't forget to show his Geek true qualities: he reprogrammed the company's internal phone system, pretended to be the CEO to call personnel, and instructed his fellow engineers in his group to be rewarded with stocks.Of course, the information department will inevitably come to him.

After that, he worked in several companies that were born out of Apple, and then went to Microsoft for a while.Later, he came out and founded Danger company by himself.

In the process of founding Danger and serving as CEO, Andy completed the transition from engineer to manager.More importantly, he and his colleagues have found a model that combines the interests of mobile operators and mobile phone manufacturers, which is very similar to the iPhone.However, the company's operations were not ideal, and Andy accepted the decision of the board of directors to resign and left the company with some disappointment.

In early 2002, while still at Danger, Andy Rubin gave a lecture in an engineering class at Stanford University.Among the audience were Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two founders of Google.Page was deeply moved by the idea of ​​an Internet phone, especially when he noticed that the default search engine on Danger products was Google.Originally, Android would be acquired by Google. It was because of this lecture that Andy Rubin met Page. When discussing Android after-sales business with other companies, the two hooked up again. As a result, they hit it off and Android became a subsidiary of Google.

Fate is so magical.

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