Chapter 113

a few days ago.

In a luxury villa in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.

Reed harringtons was sitting on the sofa, staring at the TV.

As a technology elite who has been in Silicon Valley for many years, his goal has always been Bill Gates.

When it aims at the market vacancy and spends a lot of manpower and material resources to design an office software, its dream will come true.

Good die not die, this software actually attracted the attention of big blue IBM.

The other party first proposed a wholly-owned acquisition, and after it was rejected, it retreated and then asked for part of the shares.

But reed, who has completed the most difficult stage of R & D, has naively chosen to ignore it.

As a result, he felt the deep malice from large enterprises.

IBM first reverse analyzed the software, and began to promote it by using its powerful channel.

As a result, of course, the creator's total collapse, Reed's dream was also knocked down from the cloud into the soil.

Unwilling, he filed a patent lawsuit with the court.

However, the legal department of IBM skillfully applied all kinds of skills to the court to postpone the trial.

And the huge amount of attorney fees, has been about to crush reed.

At this time, IBM shed crocodile tears again and applied for acquisition at a high price.

This time, Reid, defeated by reality, had no choice but to accept it.

He felt a deep sense of powerlessness when he signed the contract of abandoning patent litigation and agreeing to a wholly-owned acquisition.

Sure enough, in front of capital, dreams are as fragile as soap bubbles.

Reid, who has lost his dream, is just like a real nerd. He rents all kinds of Hollywood blockbusters where justice will prevail over evil and goes home to watch them.

It's like this can fill the vacancy in my heart.

But one thing doesn't go well, Pepsi doesn't go well, a lot of videos are either not available or rented out.

Even self anesthesia is not available, he can only choose to face the reality.

I was born in 1960 and just turned 35.

Is it like a parasite, eating and dying?

He forced himself up and began to look for a new starting point in his career.

Then reed thought about the huge gap in the video market.

Influenced by the mature film and television technology industry, a large number of films and TV plays are produced in the United States every year.

Only a small part of them can get on the big screen of cinema and the small screen of TV station.

Most of these works flow into the video market in order to recover the cost.

And Hollywood's giants also use video tapes to squeeze the last bit of profit from some fire movies.

But these profits, obviously, can not let the media giants spend too much effort.

Therefore, the videotape market in the United States is very disorderly.

After consulting a lot of information, reed finally made up his mind to test the video market.

On the one hand, he contacted as many film and television companies as possible, hoping to obtain the right to sell the video.

On the one hand, they are considering how to stand out in the video market.

That is, have their own unique things!

But if you want to cooperate with big media giants and get the exclusive right to sell, you have to be prepared to be eaten alive by IBM.

Just like now jobs' Pixar Animation has become increasingly inseparable from Disney.

And small film and television companies can't produce attractive works.

It's a little difficult.

In this way, during this time, reed seemed absent-minded, but his wife did not notice at all.

"Reed, do you watch TV?" His wife patted him on the shoulder, waking him from his meditation.

"If you don't watch it, remember to record CBS's prison break for me." The wife put on her coat and was ready to go out. "I have to go to the parents' party."

Reed looked at the time. It was just ten in the morning.

"What's on the show at this time?"

"Of course, prison break was really good."

"I record every episode. If I have nothing to do, I'll watch the replay." His wife went to the video recorder and began to set it up. "I just don't know what the film and television company thinks, and I don't follow up the release of the first few episodes."

"No video?" Reed was a little confused when he heard this.

"Well." The wife turned and walked toward the door. "You remember to have lunch. I may not be able to come back at noon."

After his wife left, reed watched prison break curiously for a while.

Er...

it's hard to say!

But my wife seems to like it very much.

This has to let reed sigh, the film and television company's audience positioning is very accurate.

But there is no follow-up release, the video of the show has been broadcastWhat's going on?

Reed curiously turns on his computer and logs into the official website of CBS.

Prison break was produced by Goldman Sachs and wangwen.com ？

Goldman Sachs, which has always wanted to enter the media field, is finally getting better?

So, how will the media giants meet the Wall Street dragon?

Reid, fearing that the world would not be in chaos, searched for relevant information.

But a moment later, he found that it was not what he thought.

Is this the unexpected factor wangwen.com What's your website?

He picked up the phone and asked his friends in the financial sector for help.

Then, they enter the URL, login to this website with a strange domain name.

Huh?

Is this a literary website?

Reed, a senior it professional, can click on the page at will.

After that, he felt a little interesting.

In the Internet companies with free services to increase the number of users, in order to make money as soon as possible listed environment.

This website is actually charged?

After thinking about it, he picked up the phone and called the IT broker.

"Have you heard of it wangwen.com No? "

"Nonsense, I've taken over many of their businesses." The head hacker on the other side replied.

"Can you help me with a website?" Reed was stunned and then asked, "at the current market price."

"It's said that we are partners!" The hacker yelled.

"Double the price!"

"Oh, in half an hour." I hung up on the other side.

At this time, friends in the financial sector called to tell us about Goldman Sachs and the website.

Reed listened carefully, comparing the difference between the website and his own software company.

Well, I wish I had accepted IBM's request for capital injection.

He hung up, thinking and sighing.

Then the phone beeped.

The head hacker faxed the information he wanted.

Reed picked up the fax and read it carefully.

Huh?

Pay user unexpectedly many!

What's more, does the website have some peripheral copyright of the works?

He clicks on the website page, looking at a large number of works, lost in thought.

This is a huge and diverse IP pool!

Or the most popular IP with novel ideas and stories in the video market!

Reed looked down at the fax and said, "at present, the website is looking for partners to jointly produce the prequel of prison break."

He put down the fax, went to the kitchen and made a big pot of coffee.

When he finished his coffee, reed picked up the phone and called his friend who had quit the software company at the same time.

"Hey, are you interested in being a producer and entering the entertainment industry from the video market?"

"OK, I'll see you in New York then."