Chapter 839： Facebook bottleneck

839 Facebook Bottleneck

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Although Evan Bell bought the script of "Little Sunshine", he did not plan to start shooting immediately, not only because "Brokeback Mountain" was about to start shooting, but most importantly, Evan Bell thought Check out the distribution channels for ** movies.

After the post-production of "Mysterious Skin" was completed, no film company came to inquire about the distribution, and there was no news at all, including Universal Pictures, which had "strong interest" before. At the same time, Evan Bell is not in a hurry to come to sell this work. He did not take the initiative to contact the happy 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., etc., but started "Mysterious Skin" to participate in the tour of major film festivals. .

There are two purposes for a ** film to participate in the film festival, to gain recognition and to gain attention. Those who have not yet determined the distribution company, hope to be favored by the distribution company; those who have determined the distribution company, hope to preheat the release through the affirmation of the judges. The previous "Fatal Identity" and "Crash" were all because the distribution company was determined early, so Eleven Studios did not have any experience in how to participate in the film festival.

Although Evan Bell's unique vision is now talked about by the media, major film companies are also happy to believe in Evan Bell's choice. But judging from the situation of "Mysterious Skin" and "Brokeback Mountain", it can be known that Hollywood's unspoken rules cannot be shaken. In the future, after Eleven Studios expands, maybe not every work will feature Evan Bell, so are these works still attractive to distribution companies? This is an unknown.

Therefore, Evan Bell simply took the opportunity of this "mysterious skin" to follow the development trajectory of most high-end movies, gain attention through film festivals, and take the first step. And the situation of "Little Sunshine" is not expected to be much better than "Mysterious Skin", and it is bound to embark on the road of major film festivals, so Evan Bell is not in a hurry in the early stage of "Little Sunshine" prepare.

Michael Amter has had the most up-and-down week of his life, and he's about to lose his strength. From Focus Films giving up, to Marc Tetotu intervening, to everything messed up, and then he appeared in Dubai... In these seven days, Michael Amter has circled most of the United States and most of the world. In the circle, his dream finally persisted until the moment of dawn, ushering in the first ray of dawn.

However, Michael Amter has not had time to take a breath, too late to think about what happened in the past week, how things have developed to this point; too late to think about how to start the preparations for "Little Sunshine" in the future; too late to even express his joy. Out and about to embark on another flight back to the United States, a day earlier than expected.

Because Evan Bell was called back!

"Architect Bell strikes again to challenge Dubai's landmark buildings!"

"Summer in the desert flowers, Avon Beach in a cozy vacation."

"Hot beauties accompany each other, and Evan enjoys the best of luck on vacation."

... After Evan Bell arrived in Dubai, there was publicity by municipal fu, and every move of Evan Bell became the focus of media coverage, and naturally all kinds of reports filled the attention of all audiences. There are basically only two focuses of reporters. One is that Evan Bell will return to the position of architect after the Freedom Tower. I wonder if Evan Bell will be able to do it in the design of the Burj Khalifa this time. Once again won the championship; the second is Evan Bell's interaction with bikini beauties on the beach, which is particularly moving under the blue sea and blue sky.

However, whether it is the former or the latter, the media are a little less interested. If the architectural design wins the bid, it is worth paying attention to. Now I support participating in the bidding meeting, and there is not much to watch; and it is even less interesting to be accompanied by beautiful women. Take a look at Evan Bell's famous list, every once in a while. The name of a woman will be changed, and the media will report it every time, but it is inevitable that it is a bit repetitive. The most important thing is that there have been two breaking news stories of "Brokeback Mountain" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" in succession. Now, no matter what the news is, it is a lot inferior in comparison. Naturally, the media cannot be more excited.

Evan Bell will end his trip to Dubai early, naturally not because of the interruption of these reporters. Michael Amter only knows that after the interview between the two people that afternoon, Evan Bell played beach volleyball very much. Professor Richard Wendy and others had dinner together, and Evan Bell's nightlife was even more colorful after nightfall. However, he received a call early the next morning and immediately decided to go back to New York.

Michael Armt had no choice but to follow Evan Bell back to New York in a confused way: because he didn't have the money to buy a plane ticket, he had no choice but to follow his boss.

After arriving in New York, Evan Bell rushed to Palo Alto (.) - a city 50 kilometers away from San Francisco, known as the center of Silicon Valley! It is also home to the prestigious Stanford University.

In the past two months, the development of "Facebook(k has entered a critical period. Yesterday, it was Mark Zuckerberg who called Evan Bell for help. He did not believe in Sean Parker. He also doesn't believe in Eduardo Savalin. In fact, he doesn't believe in Evan Bell. He believes in himself, but he thinks Evan Bell's opinion is very valuable and helps him to clarify his thinking, so He called Evan Bell.

Since the beginning of the summer at Harvard, the development of "Facebook" can definitely be said to be changing and changing rapidly.

After entering the summer, Mark Zuckerberg took the advice of Evan Bell and Sean Parker and decided to go to Silicon Valley to have a look, and Palo Alto, the center of Silicon Valley, became the first choice. Mark Zuckerberg persuaded Bill Olsen, Dustin Moskovitz to go to Silicon Valley with him, and Chris Hughes, who had joined a summer program in France, could only do so at the end of the program. Then head to Palo Alto. And Eduardo Savalin refused to go to Palo Alto.

For the traditionally educated Eduardo Savalin, Palo Alto had no appeal, and he decided to use his summer vacation to travel to New York to get more advertising in one of the world's four largest cities Business - His obsession with advertising has never improved, and he's interning at an investment firm with which his father is associated.

The Facebook team, which arrived in Palo Alto, rented a house on Jennifer Road two blocks from Stanford, and soon welcomed a new member: Sean Parker.

Although the entire team, including Evan Bell, did not welcome Sean Parker, because his lazy attitude and luxurious life were fatal to the fledgling "Facebook". Although Bill Olsen believes that "Parker lives a loose, unrestrained life", but Mark Zuckerberg has not dispelled this idea. He said he had heard of it, but Sean Parker's experience and brains far outweighed the risk that his personal style would negatively impact the company, after all, Sean Parker had helped Napster's development in its infancy. . Not only that, but he is also a small investor and friend of the founder of endster, which was previously known as the originator of the social network. Sean Parker's words moved Mark Zuckerberg, he believes, "'Facebook' is an opportunity to correct the mistakes made by the endster."

As a result, Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz and others were in charge of programming, especially Dustin Moskovitz, Bill Olson and others who were hard-working, down-to-earth, versatile and pragmatic. It laid a solid foundation for the early development of "Facebook". The two of them are responsible for maintaining the operation of the website service, setting up the database for the newly connected school, and if necessary, they will work all night to keep the system running.

On the other hand, Sean Parker is the opposite. He has rich experience in building companies, is familiar with the methods and methods of operation, is good at building real-world relationships, and has a wide range of people in Silicon Valley. He knows how to get information about Silicon Valley. He knows how to enjoy life - as long as he has the money in his hand, he will go to eat delicious food, get stylish haircuts, and buy trendy clothes. He may occasionally cancel a meeting the next day because he's exhausted from the party the night before, but he's still the best person to stand on the front desk promoting "Facebook," which is exactly what the site needs. In Silicon Valley, most people who have heard of "Facebook" think the site is stupid and caters to a bunch of sex-hungry college students. And Sean Parker's grandiose blueprint will help earn Facebook's respect in the industry.

Under the operation of the entire team, although all major schools have been emptied due to the summer vacation, the traffic growth of "Facebook" has slowed down, but it still maintains a stable growth rate , before the end of July, more than 300,000 people had signed up to join "Facebook". Everyone agrees that the start of the new term will bring in a lot of new users, which means the site needs more reliable software and more computing power.

Under this circumstance, "Facebook" needs to invest a lot of money to maintain the operation of the website, and the increase in the demand for servers has led to a rapid increase in the consumption of funds. In the first two weeks of coming to Palo Alto, Mark Zuckerberg spent 20,000 dollars, which is just a word to increase the server of the website's virtual host. Obviously, the investment will increase exponentially after that.

Before that, "Facebook"'s funding mainly came from the investment of Evan Bell, Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Savarin, as well as the advertising sponsorship pulled by Eduardo Savarin , and most advertising sales have been suspended during the summer vacation. Funding for "Facebook" is already stretched thin.

But at this critical moment, Eduardova-Savarin actually froze the bank account, cut off all the funding sources of "Facebook", and put the development of the website into a dilemma. So Mark Zuckerberg called Evan Bell for help.

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