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   Chapter 373 The Butterfly Effect

   At least compared to other Hollywood companies, Ted Sarando has the support of the financial master, the Weta special effects studio, the IMDB website, and the support of a number of brother companies and allies.

   To put it bluntly, when DreamWorks was founded, in addition to the fame of the Spielberg Big Three, it may not have the family background of Ted Sarando.

   The key is that apart from Western Pictures, I am afraid that other major Hollywood companies may not choose to use Ted Sarando, who is not too famous yet, to serve as the head.

Of course, for Ted Sarando, this is his opportunity and his pressure. If he fails to achieve results, I am afraid that even if Song Yang favors him again, Ted Sarando will not be able to play in the Western Films. The CEO of the industry has been sitting in the position for too long!

In addition to the performance, although Song Yang did not speak out, Ted Sarando still felt that Song Yang asked Western Pictures to launch the Internet video business, I am afraid that he also wanted Western Pictures to take advantage of the Internet. And then it's on the market within a few years, otherwise it doesn't take so long at all.

   Western Pictures officially announced that the news of Ted Sarando becoming the head of the film did not cause much of a stir for Hollywood in Vanity Fair. After all, Ted Sarando is not very famous these days.

As for Song Yang, why did he choose Ted Sarando to be the president of Western Pictures, there are also many people's voices, just as Song Yang chose Iger to be the president of America Telecom, many people think that Song Yang chose Ted ·Sarando is also cheap enough to be the president of Western Pictures...

   After all, compared to those Wall Street executives who have been delisted, Ted Sarando’s salary today is not high, and it is indeed “cheap” enough.

  No matter what Hollywood talks about, Ted Sarando has begun to take over as the president of Western Pictures, and Western Pictures has officially entered the era of Ted Sarando.

   As soon as he took over the Western Pictures, Ted Sarando started to announce for "The Matrix", but also started to cooperate with ICNC TV station and started to co-produce TV series.

  Ted Sarando used his Hollywood contacts to find a group of powerful screenwriters and producers, and began to formulate projects and plans for the Western Film Industry. The entire Western Film industry began to operate like a sophisticated machine.

   When Western Pictures started to get busy, 25-year-old Reed Hastings was depressingly paying a fine. The "Apollo 13" disc he rented at Blockbuster was overdue and he was paying a fine.

For Reed Hastings, who has now achieved financial freedom, a fine of forty dollars is nothing to him at all, but it still makes Reed Hastings who likes mathematics and has studied numbers. Feeling annoyed.

Reed Hastings did not come from an unknown family. His great-grandfather, Fred Loomis, was one of the earliest bigwigs on Wall Street. In 1929, the American stock market crashed, not only did not make his great-grandfather go bankrupt, on the contrary, it was ahead of schedule. Predicting the stock market crash is a huge profit.

   His great-grandfather was also the financier of a laboratory. The staff of this laboratory, including figures such as Einstein, Fermi, and Lawrence, can imagine how Reed Hastings's family was.

  Reed Hastings's father was a barrister, and his mother worked for the commander-in-chief during the Federal Watergate incident, and belonged to a true American family.

Reed Hastings standard American high society background, grew up in affluent Boston, graduated from Bowdoin College, trained in the Marine Corps, served as a math lecturer in Swaziland, and received a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University. After his degree, Reed Hastings established his own software company.

Last year, when Song Yang had just made his debut, Reed Hastings also appeared on the cover of "America Today" as a "tech genius". .

Reed Hastings made his debut very early. As early as five years ago, he established a company that measures software quality. He is also a technical background. This year, the boom of the Internet finally made Reed Hastings. The company established by Tins has also been targeted by the big financier, and is currently in the process of acquiring it. If nothing else, the size of the transaction will be around US$700 million.

For Reed Hastings, who has an extraordinary family background, this acquisition only allowed him to "realize" his value, and he was not too excited. Therefore, compared with his counterparts in Silicon Valley, although he is also in Silicon Valley, California, he is not too excited. But Reed Hastings rarely appears in front of the camera like Anderson and Yang Zhiyuan. He is very low-key. Even the media reports on Song Yang much more than Reed Hastings!

  Returning to his residence, Reed Hastings, who was still uneasy, turned on the TV and saw the news from the TV station, which was reporting the news of Song Yang and Western Pictures.

For Song Yang's news, Reed Hastings has long been no surprise. In Silicon Valley and even California, as long as it involves technology and Internet news, the three most frequent ones are undoubtedly Anderson, Yang Zhiyuan and others. Song Yang is gone.

"Western Pictures, a Hollywood film and television company owned by Bruno Song, officially announced today that Ted Sarando will be the president. It is predicted that this is one of Bruno Song's signals for the rectification of Western Pictures, and there is a Silicon Valley Internet professional. People claim that the possibility that Western Pictures will develop business in the Internet industry in the future cannot be ruled out..."

   Watching the news on TV and seeing Song Yang's report, Reed Hastings suddenly felt a sense of enlightenment.

On the Silicon Valley side, the evaluation of Song Yang's style is typical of the style of Western Texas. When dealing with the Trade Commission, Wall Street, and previous opponents, it is always revenge. Will be merciful.

   Thinking of the $40 late fee charged by Blockbuster, Reed Hastings always felt that he was owed something, and couldn't help but think, if Song Yang was replaced, how would Blockbuster be treated?

  Reed Hastings felt that the biggest possibility was that Song Yang was going to turn over Blockbuster and cancel the late fee!

  Thinking of this, Reed Hastings, who was ready to sell the five-year-old company, came up with an inexplicable idea, what would happen if a company to replace Blockbuster was established?

As soon as the idea of ​​   appeared, it appeared in his mind like a mad weed, and immediately called his good friends Mark Randolph, McLeod and others.

   And just the day after Ted Sarando took over as the head of Western Pictures, a company called Netflix, which specializes in online disc rentals, was established.

Song Yang didn't pay too much attention to the grievances between Blockbuster and Netflix. Now Blockbuster is not a dying existence that will collapse when the wind blows, but a company with a market value of more than six billion dollars. , with strong cash flow.

Two years ago, Viacom's Redstone also used Blockbuster's cash flow to get rid of his rival, Hollywood godfather-level figure, former Paramount president Barry Diller, with more than 10 billion US dollars. The knife took down the Paramount.

  Even if Netflix is ​​established, even if Netflix and Reed Hastings hype again, they are now being beaten by Blockbuster.

As long as Netflix does not transform into Internet video, then Western Pictures does not need to pay attention to Netflix. As for Blockbuster, unless it kills itself, no one can kill it in the film rental industry, and neither can Netflix , until the rise of Internet video, after you can download videos and videos at will, Blockbuster will be finished.

Of course, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, and Blockbuster still has a lot of good things. For so many years, Blockbuster has been scouring Hollywood everywhere, and it holds a huge library of film and television copyrights. Although it is not a well-known film and television copyright, it wins. If there is a chance, Western Pictures can collect Blockbuster’s copyright library, show old movies on the film and television channel of ICNC TV station, and add some inventory to IMDB…

  In Los Angeles, after picking a head for Western Pictures and hanging out with Jenny for a few days, Song Yang returned to San Jose. There was already a person who arrived in San Jose, waiting for Song Yang to meet.

  In a hotel built by Japanese in San Jose, Satomi sat in a Japanese-style room in the hotel and looked out the window on the street.

In the 1980s, Nippon bought a part of America. Although most of them have dissipated now, Nippon's investment in America still retains a lot, especially hotels, real estate and the like, which are still in operation. , just moved from the blatant front to the backstage.

As the president of Sammi Company, the second largest manufacturer of pachinko machines in Japan, Harumi Satomi came to America quietly this time, without disturbing anyone, and even in order not to leak the news I specially stayed at this Japanese hotel.

Thinking of the quotation that I received suddenly a few days ago, Satomi still feels a little weird now, there is no wind, and even the Xueleshan Riben Company, which has never heard the name several times before Satomi, suddenly asked Sammi. The offer, to buy the entire Sammi's business in Japan and Southeast Asia, surprised Satomi and Sammi's board of directors.

But after being stunned, Satomi Haru and Sammy Co., after getting to know Xuele Mountain, were a little moved. In the past, Xuele Mountain was not loved by my uncle and my grandmother, and several gold owners regarded Xuele Mountain. As a cash cow in the search.

But the current Xue Leshan is different from the past. The new owner attaches great importance to Xue Leshan. Just like a beautiful knife is not money, it keeps giving Xue Leshan blood transfusions, which makes Xue Leshan stand up again in a short period of time. Going around in the gaming industry.

   And this time, Xueleshan set up a company in Japan, and suddenly shot at Sammy, which inevitably made Sammy speculate about what Xueleshan was doing.

   Thinking that Xue Leshan is going to start the billiard room industry, Satomi's heart can't help jumping. If this news gets out, I am afraid that the entire Japanese marble room industry will be shaken!

   (end of this chapter)