reborn in the fiery age

Since my own strength is not enough now, and the old Maozi's experts are too fraught, then I will invite the experts from the American Emperor. It just so happens that the American Emperor is laying off staff, which is a godsend.

After Sun Zujie finished speaking, the Tianyi executives present were a little silent. Zhao Ziran shook his head and said, "Mr. Sun, we thought we could get some support in the hard disk field."

Sun Zujie shook his head, "There are priorities, and the chip field is our first priority. Mechanical hard disks are mechatronics, and we don't have so many researchers. I thought this was too simple at the beginning, and I didn't think about it. , to make it into the current situation of no ups and downs.

In the past few years, there has been little progress in the field of mechanical hard disks. I think we should focus on solid-state hard disks. After all, the performance of the latter mainly depends on the main control chip and relies on algorithms, so it is easier for us to break through. "

"The truth is true, but our investment in the field of mechanical hard drives is not small!"

"Priority must be prioritized. We have limited energy and cannot do everything. Oupai Electronics is already integrating businesses, and you Tianyi will also integrate them.

In my opinion, we should go out independently, set up a hard disk company, and transfer it to Shennan. At that time, it can be listed on Hong Kong Island or listed on the venture capital board.

In addition, I heard that the Electronics Corporation is also making hard drives. You can ask them. If they are willing, our two mechanical hard drive research departments can be integrated.

There is also the low-end and mid-end computer accessories industrial park we established in the 80s, and we have to find a way to get rid of it.We stop doing low-end things, and concentrate our funds on network equipment and communications, focusing on CDMA. "

Chapter 599

In fact, Sun Zujie's request is not surprising. During this period of time, Oupai Electronics released a large number of technical personnel to start a business for the same purpose. The superficial purpose is not to do everything.

The core purpose is to lower the management level of the enterprise and make the enterprise more dynamic. At the same time, it can also build an Oupai Electronics around Oupai Electronics, so that those who are interested in starting a business can also be developed.

So he also has the same requirement for Tianyi. Now that Meidi has made a lot of money in investment, he will give up the low-end accessories and concentrate on making higher-end things.

Sun Zujie believed that the mid-to-low-end accessories abandoned by the Tianyi Industrial Park were still very marketable. There must be many people who were interested, and it was still possible to sell them at a good price. After all, the great development of personal computers in Huaguo had not yet begun.

In fact, Zhao Ziran had this idea a long time ago, the reason is very simple, now that the personal computer market is not tight, the life of accessory manufacturers is of course even more difficult, and the profits they earn are very meager.

Anyway, the investment in the industrial park has been earned back over the years. It is completely possible to sell this piece, and then concentrate on making more profitable network and communication equipment, or doing things in the United States.

In the past few years, Tianyi's investment income in the United States has been too large, and more and more, so that Zhao Ziran is a little confused, what are we doing so hard to do business, and making money from investing is enough.

Of course, Tianyi doesn't make money from everything. Apart from Huhu.com, which loses money, there is another company that loses money, that is Tianyi Special Effects Company.

Shangri-La was released in 1984. In order to increase the effect, Sun Zujie asked some people to create special effects for the movie.After seeing the effect, these people were separated out and set up a special Tianyi special effect.

Of course, there is another reason, that is, according to Sun Zujie, we need to keep an eye on Jobs. Whatever he does, we also do. This guy has too many ideas, so it’s always right to keep an eye on him.

It’s just that in the 80s, due to the general level of computers, and Hollywood didn’t believe in special effects very much, so the research on computer special effects didn’t make any money, and even lost a lot.

At that time, Tianyi's special effects were mainly based on shooting animation titles and animation shorts to dawdle, and it was not enough to support the programmers, and Tianyi Group needed to continue to contribute money.

Of course, compared to Jobs' Pixar, the investment in Tianyi special effects is smaller. Although the core technical experts of Tianyi special effects come from the United States, most of the simple technical work is subcontracted to China, and the labor cost is relatively low;

In addition, Tianyi Special Effects engages in animation design, and also cooperates with the art film studio in Shanghai, so the cost is even lower. Therefore, apart from the old friend Warner, the partners of Tianyi Special Effects, which offer relatively low prices, are also slowly getting along with Disney, which is going downhill at this time. came together.

That is, in May of 1991, Tianyi Special Effects successfully established a cooperative relationship with Disney and obtained the production qualification of a computer animation feature film, which made Jobs' Pixar studio very unhappy.

Because they only got one, and Disney originally planned to shoot three computer-animated feature films, but after the Tianyi special effects were mixed in, both sides suffered losses, and no one got the benefit.

At that time, Disney had two candidates, one was Pixar Studios, and the other was Tianyi Special Effects.When negotiating, Jobs was very proud. He insisted on taking a share of the box office, and at the same time asked for partial ownership of the films and characters that the two parties cooperated with, and enjoyed the authorship and sequel development rights of the film together with Disney;

And Tianyi Special Effects teamed up with Heshi International's film and television investment fund to come up with another plan. They are willing to join in the investment, which can reduce Disney's investment risk, so of course they also have to get a part of the North American box office share. As for the copyright, they hope Obtained the copyright of characters in Greater China, where piracy is very serious.

The price of Tianyi special effects is obviously much lower than that of Pixar, so Disney made a profit and pushed Jobs' price to the extreme. In the end, Jobs only got an order for a feature film, and the profit was only a meager 10% of the box office. get nothing.

Moreover, Disney also added an overlord treaty, which can stop the cooperation between the two parties at any time at the cost of a small liquidated damages. Disney has the right but not the obligation to cooperate with Pixar to continue making movies. Moreover, Disney also has the right not to cooperate with Pixar. , making a sequel with characters from an already co-op film.

Similarly, the special effects of Tianyi, which was funded by the He's Fund, did not benefit much. The box office share was indeed higher, and it also obtained the copyright of the Greater China region where piracy was serious, but it was owned by the He's Fund. Other conditions are exactly the same as Pixar.

Moreover, both special effects companies have only one film contract. According to Disney, whoever does a good job is qualified to make the third film.But for Sun Zujie, it doesn't matter whether the first film makes money or not. As long as it becomes a hit, the special effects company will be the one who negotiates the conditions at that time, so it is enough to shoot a movie.

Of course, if you want to become a hit, you must not only have good quality, but you must also be the number one, so you must be ahead of Pixar Studios at any cost, and do a better job of this animated feature film called Toy Story.

Of course, Sun Zujie believes that Jobs also understands this point, but the strength of Tianyi Group is much stronger than the current Jobs, and Jobs can only come slowly.

So at the end of the meeting, Sun Zujie asked about the two money-losing products. Regarding Tianyi special effects, Sun Zujie said that you now have more money and more personnel than Pixar, so you should be progressing faster.

Sure enough, Zhao Ziran's answer made Sun Zujie very happy, "Mr. Sun, we have spent more than 2000 million US dollars and have completed 80% of the work. It is estimated that the film will be completed in the first half of next year."

Sun Zujie nodded in satisfaction, "The progress is fast enough, then I will go over tomorrow to see the effect!"

Zhao Ziran said with a little worry, "Mr. Sun, every time I come here in the past two years, I will go and see the effect. It is really good. We should be able to earn it back, right? At least we can't lose too much."

Compared to Firefox, which is unclear, Zhao Ziran, a native of Hong Kong, can still understand the special effects of Tianyi. This thing costs a lot of money, but the animation produced is real, so she has no objection to using it in this area. investment.

What's more, such a large investment is not only Tianyi Special Effects, Disney and He's Fund also invested money, they are all professional in film, their vision should be more reliable.

Sun Zujie said with a smile, "Having the title of the first computer-animated feature film, as long as the quality is excellent, we will definitely not lose money, and there may be some surprises."

Sun Zujie recalled the scene when Pixar Studio went public in his previous life.After the hit of Toy Story, Pixar immediately went public. It is true that Jobs spent 5000 million, but he made a billion immediately after the listing. Later, with Pixar, he became the largest individual shareholder of Disney and returned to Apple.

It’s just that now with Tianyi special effects, Sun Zujie believes that the value of Pixar Studios will be suppressed to a certain extent, and it will even affect the process of his return to Apple Computer. Follow behind and eat ashes.

And Sun Zujie wants more special effects for Tianyi. As long as the animation film is finished, Huaguo will have a new type of propaganda weapon. He can shoot animated movies such as Kung Fu Panda and Hua Mulan, subtly promote Huaguo, and It's not that Hollywood sang a wrong tune.

In addition, the large number of copyrights owned by these animated films will become more and more valuable in the future, and even a fantasy castle that can compete with Disney can be built in Huaguo in the future. It is expected to challenge Disney in the future.

Of course, these are all expectations for the future, too exaggerated, and even unbelievable, so Sun Zujie didn't say anything, but thought about it while quietly listening to Zhao Ziran's report on Firefox.com.

Chapter 600 Sudden realization

The time came to October 1993. At this time, the Internet population of the United States had exceeded 300 million, and the Internet had undergone many changes, with various websites emerging one after another.

It's just that in this era of pioneering, all kinds of websites are developing by instinct, of course, Firefox is not the case.From the beginning, Sun Zujie positioned Firefox as a portal website, so according to the characteristics of the portal website, various news can be seen after it is opened.

But in the United States, of course, the collection of various news needs money, so Firefox needs to continue to spend money to buy various news, and slowly the investment of millions of dollars can no longer bear it.

However, with the addition of online information and free mailboxes, Firefox has developed very rapidly. As the number of clicks continues to increase, advertisements have also begun to appear on the website.

As a well-known traffic company, with the popularity of Oupai Online Supermarket, a lot of merchants who are willing to advertise come here uninvited.In this way, Wall Street also sees the value of this thing clearly. The more clicks, the more advertising fees, the higher the value of the portal.

Therefore, when Kapman met with Sun Zujie this time, he formally proposed two points, that is, to make Firefox bigger and stronger. On the one hand, increase the purchase of news, and on the other hand, Firefox must have its own reporters. Get more first-hand information.

Although Wall Street also sees the value of Firefox, they are also very afraid of raising this baby to death again, so Kapman's wishful thinking is that the specific operation will be done by the Tianyi team, but the news channel needs his people to manage it.

Sun Zujie welcomes this very much, but Zhao Ziran will discuss how much capital needs to be increased and how many shares Tianyi needs to sell. Anyway, Sun Zujie's goal is to keep as much equity as possible, and then wait to cash out when it goes public.

In addition, Sun Zujie also has some ideas. For example, with more and more web pages, there must be a web page guide similar to hao123. He wants to name it Yes! , this webpage guide can facilitate the Internet, and there is another value, the ranking of the simple webpage guide is also money.

Sun Zujie has a lot of good things in his stomach, but he only needs to push Firefox’s traffic ranking to the top, and he doesn’t need to take out everything, such as forums, the current Internet speed is too slow, and it’s too early to take them out It's not realistic either.

After Sun Zujie finished talking about his negotiation arrangements for Firefox.com, he took out a piece of paper and drew the general structure of the Yes! webpage guide, and handed it over to Xie Zhiping. You can do the rest.

After finishing speaking, Sun Zujie said with a smile, "Wall Street is generous. I heard what Kapman said. He is going to spend another 3000 million U.S. dollars to let you waste money. Based on this calculation, Wall Street's valuation of this website should be hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars." Alright, those shares in our hands are estimated to be worth tens of millions!"

Zhao Ziran was very convinced, "Mr. Sun, why don't you set up a few more Firefox Internet cafes for us, so that if our main business encounters difficulties, this one can also be used for emergency relief!"