Hollywood Starts with Animation

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"Mr. Murdoch, I learned from the media this morning that icq has acquired 29 companies in a row in just one year since its listing on Nasdaq last year. What's going on?"

Zucker and Rupert Murdoch chatted and chatted about icq.

Murdoch's face changed slightly.

After taking a sip of champagne, he sighed: "It's also my fault that we are too eager for quick success. The representatives of all parties on the board believe that relying on icq's huge number of users to divert other industries can achieve rapid and large profits."

"Draining other industries, this is no problem!"

Zucker frowned.

Icq is an instant messaging software. Before the technology of video chat and voice chat has been realized, it is mainly based on text chat. Its own means of profit are extremely limited, nothing more than the user's membership, and the income from advertising.

However, the number of users icq has is as many as hundreds of millions!

Centered on icq chat software, radiating industries such as film and television, beverages, clothing, food, games, music, etc., it is bound to be able to attract a huge number of users in a very short period of time, so as to achieve rapid profit.

This is how Tencent QQ Group made its fortune!

"The crux of the problem is that we are too anxious, whether it is the management represented by Vesig and Vardy, or the shareholder representative group of Sequoia Capital, Goldman Sachs and my News Corporation, they have spread too much. In one year, it has acquired 29 companies around the world, covering film and television, games, media, magazines, toys, food, clothing, finance, banking... and many industries."

Murdoch said solemnly: "Zuck, do you know how much it cost?"

"How much?" Zucker was curious.

"$5.8 billion!"

Murdoch's language is not astonishingly dead.

What the hell!

At this moment, Zhu Ke, who was used to seeing strong winds and waves, couldn't help but be surprised. The funds of 5.8 billion US dollars completely exceeded the net worth of Zhu Ke's 4 years of struggle.

"Impossible, it cost $5.8 billion to acquire 29 companies?" Zucker blurted out.

"no."

Murdoch shook his head and said: "Acquiring 29 companies cost a lot of money, and the subsequent integration investment adds up to 5.8 billion US dollars. However, do you know how long it has been since Icq has been updated?"

Zhu Ke shook his head and said, "I don't know. But when I didn't leave icq and served as the chief creative officer, I once gave instructions that icq must be updated on a small scale every 2 to 3 months, and it must be done once every 10 to 12 months. A big update to keep users fresh all the time. Well, didn't they do that?"

"He's a fart!"

Murdoch scolded in a low voice: "From the time of listing to the present, icq has been updated twice in a full 15 months, and the magnitude is not large, and there is no creative update."

Hearing this, Zu Ke shook his head.

A piece of software cannot maintain a certain degree of freshness, especially in the case of other competitors, it is undoubtedly the way to die!

Moreover, Zucker also learned from Murdoch's mouth that the board of directors is quite dissatisfied with the management teams such as Wisger and Vardy.

Since the fortune of icq, Wesger has continuously invested in new Internet companies while operating icq.

In more than a year before and after, the number of Internet companies invested has reached as high as more than 40; among the many companies invested, there is a graphics processing software company that was listed on Nasdaq in early February this year. Wisger's 13 percent stake in the company brought him $40 million in profits.

As a result, Wisger is a little out of business!

"So, you are really dissatisfied with Visig and Vardy," Zucker joked.

Hearing this, Murdoch glanced at Zucker angrily.

......

Ended the chat with Murdoch, and in the following time, Zucker chatted with other visitors.

IBM executives: Tawe Schindler;

Intel executives: Smith Williams;

Hewlett-Packard executives: Dana Mlito;

Oracle Chairman: Larry Ellison;

Dell boss: Dell;

Wait for as many as a dozen people, and they exchanged blows with Zucker Business.

Especially Larry Ellison, who made a deep impression on Zucker because his girlfriend was so beautiful.

"Larry, you old guy, where did you get such a beautiful female companion?" Zucker nudged him with his arm.

"Ha ha!"

Larry Ellison immediately said, "Envy. I'll just tell you that since the beginning of this year, I've changed 9 female partners."

"You're an animal!" Zuke's eyebrows trembled.

"Haha, thanks for the compliment."

Larry Ellison added: "I heard Steve Jobs say yesterday that you increased your holdings of Apple stock last month?"

Zucker nodded and said, "There's nothing to hide. Although I'm not happy with Jobs, I'm optimistic about Apple!"

Larry Ellison made fun of Zucker, and in front of Zucker, he slapped the butt of the beautiful female companion next to him severely, which made Zucker extremely unhappy.

Old guy, what a dude!

Looking at the big names in the Internet and technology fields in the United States, Larry Ellison is the most crazy about beauty. He doesn't want Jobs, Gates and others to sneak and hide, so he dares to face the media, Said that his greatest hobby is to hook up with beautiful women.

Listen, how many billionaires in America are like him?

Even Zucker was careful when stealing food.

......

Not long after, under the auspices of Visig, the reception for the third anniversary of the establishment of icq officially started!

Wisger delivered a speech in front of hundreds of guests.

"ICQ was founded on May 15, 1996. It has been bumpy and rough, and it has come to today. Everyone in our team has invested 12 points of energy. Each of us at icq should be proud and proud."

"From the beginning with just a few people, today we have 27,000 employees worldwide."

"From a small company worth less than 1 million to today's giant company with a market value of $7.2 billion, an instant messaging overlord."

"From a company to a large enterprise with more than 40 subsidiaries with icq as the main body."

"Every step we take is related to the pulse of the times and involves changes in the technology network!"

"Guests, as the chairman of icq, I would like to welcome you all!"

When the voice fell, it was naturally a round of applause.

Even if icq has been bad recently, the people who have been invited are all scene people, and they will definitely not embarrass icq Wesger and others at this time. Although I know whether icq will win this battle in the field of instant messaging.

If we win, then the opportunities for cooperation in the future will naturally be the more the better.

Those who make enemies for no reason in business will never end well.

After Wisig finished speaking, Vardy rushed over to him with a sullen expression as soon as he stepped off the stage.

Vardy whispered, "Vesger, why did you revise the speech?"

"I didn't," Wisig denied.

Wadi grabbed Wisger and whispered: "I'm not joking with you, I mean that in the speech, you deleted all the content involving Mr. Zucker Wald, what do you think? "

Weiss was speechless.

"Visig, it was you who first proposed to welcome Mr. Wald back to icq to save icq's current slump. But now, you can't keep your face down, what do you want us to do?" Vardy gritted his teeth.

Wisig's heart is full of anger!

He really couldn't hold back his face.

"Also, Wisig, long time no see."

At this moment, a middle-aged lady came. Her arrival interrupted the argument between Wisig and Vardy.

Immediately, Wisger ignored Vardy.

"idiot!"

Vardy looked at Wisger's back and cursed in a low voice: "Is your face worth anything? If you don't go to Mr. Wald, then I will! I will never let icq go into ruin!"

"Did he change his mind halfway through?"

Both hindering this time, Goldfinger, one of the founders of icq, came to Vardy's side: "He is such an indecisive master, we should not have trusted him in the first place."

"Yeah, if Mr. Wald had been the chairman of icq, we wouldn't have gotten to this point." Vardy sighed.

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