Chapter 266 Big Day! Hot!
Finally, Lin Xiao arrived at the company at 10:30 in the evening.
Just like her habit in China, Wu Lingxi treated the company as her home and bought a suite upstairs.
"Just eat this?" Lin Xiao wondered.
In the gorgeous living room, candles were lit and each person was served a portion of pasta.
"I wanted to fry the steak, but it would get stuck in my teeth, which is a bit unsightly." Wu Lingxi: "It's good enough to have something to eat, why are you asking for so much."
After they finished their pasta, she brought out a very small cake.
A candle was lit on it, which was casually blown out before each person took half and finished in two or three bites.
Then she went into her room.
About twenty minutes later, she walked out of the room wearing a graceful dress and light makeup.
Put on a CD and music starts playing in the house.
She pulled Lin Xiao up and danced gently in the living room.
Her whole body is filled with a faint, charming fragrance.
"You haven't dealt with those two girls yet?"
Lin Xiao: "It won't happen that fast. Things will turn out well if you take your time. It takes time."
Wu Lingxi: "Where did your courage go when you sexually harassed me? I thought you were a radical, but I didn't expect you to be a conservative."
That's not me at all.
Lin Xiao: "When it comes to writing, I am extremely fierce."
Of course he couldn't say that the person who had been flirting with him was Xia Xi, otherwise, given the personality of the woman in front of him, she would definitely get angry and embarrassed.
Wu Lingxi: "In Hong Kong, capital is paramount, so this aspect is much better."
"But in the final analysis, secular rules can still be overturned, but you always want to avoid injury, so it will take time in the end."
"You're still so proud."
"But for me, feelings are dispensable."
Lin Xiao: "You are a monster, how can they compare with you?"
Wu Lingxi: "I only have impulses, not emotional needs."
"Tomorrow our American Campus Beauty and Campus Husband PK Competition will begin. It will last for about two months. When it comes to the American Facebook Night, do you plan to go on stage?"
Lin Xiao: “No!”
“I wouldn’t even necessarily sit down there.”
"I said, Facebook America is yours, Facebook outside of East Asia is yours, and I won't come out to steal your limelight."
"I'm afraid you'll bite me."
Wu Lingxi sneered: "You are so boring in real life. You are not as wild as you are in the text messages. You are so boring."
While mocking Lin Xiao, she moved closer to him and rubbed his body bit by bit.
Then, she put her face on Lin Xiao's shoulder and bit Lin Xiao's ear.
"You're up... you're pretty fierce."
She even used her thighs to squeeze it, trying harder.
Her movements became more and more intense, and suddenly she bit Lin Xiao's ear.
It really bites hard.
The kind that hurts a lot.
"It's twelve o'clock, my birthday is over, get out of here..."
Then she walked to the dining table, poured a glass of wine, shook the glass lazily, and looked at Lin Xiao teasingly.
"This is your punishment."
"I can't stand your arrogant and scoundrel look."
"They teased me and harassed me without any bottom line."
"It's like they've got me in their arms."
Lin Xiao raised his middle finger at her and walked out the door.
When they reached the door, Wu Lingxi suddenly called out, "Lin Xiao."
Lin Xiao stopped and turned around.
Wu Lingxi simply tore off her shoulder straps, revealing a snow-capped mountain.
Take it off quickly and put it on quickly.
From start to finish, it takes no more than half a second.
The shape is indeed perfect.
"Get out, get out..." She waved her hands again.
After Lin Xiao left, she hummed a little tune, in a very happy mood. She held the wine in her hand and went to the computer to continue working.
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Inside a hotel cafe.
Susan Collins is waiting with a manuscript in hand.
She is in her thirties this year, mature and beautiful.
"Forest……"
"It's our second meeting. This is a gift for you." She handed over a gift box.
Lin Xiao: “Thank you.”
He also placed a gift on the table.
"This novel is a huge challenge for me, but it is also a huge breakthrough for my career." Susan Collins: "I have been writing children's plays and children's literature for more than ten years. I can't express the feeling in words."
"Your book The Graveyard Book really inspired me greatly. It looks like children's literature, but it is actually very profound."
"Unlike my Underground Chronicles, which is aimed squarely at children around ten years old."
Next, she handed the written manuscript to Lin Xiao.
"I'll go back and take a look." Lin Xiao said.
Susan Collins: "You know what? In fact, I have watched almost all of your works recently. Of course, I mean the movies."
"Then I have a question for you."
Lin Xiao: "Please speak."
Susan Collins: "What do you think is the most fundamental difference between Chinese and American TV dramas?"
Lin Xiao thought for a while and shook his head: "I can't think of it."
The other party couldn't help but be stunned.
She originally thought that Lin Xiao would say, one is outgoing, the other is reserved, or one is an individualist, the other is a collectivist, and so on.
Lin Xiao: "If you want to talk about the difference in culture, the difference in writing, or even the difference in the core of civilization, I can tell you."
"But if you ask me what the essential differences are between Chinese and American films, I can probably name a lot, but it's hard to get to the heart of the matter."
Lin Xiao: "Of course the most important thing is, at least for me now, I am more inclined to pursue the similar parts rather than the special parts."
“For mass cultural products, I try to make them similar first and then gradually become special.”
Susan Collins: "You are completely different from what I imagined, you know? In the United States, almost everyone wants to express their own uniqueness, as if they are born different. Only you are talking about pursuing the greatest similarity. You are too ambitious."
"This is the attitude of a conqueror, Mr. Lin Xiao."
Lin Xiao: "Whether it's an individual or a nation, it's good to maintain one's own uniqueness. Otherwise, the world would be too mediocre and lacking in richness and diversity."
“Whether it’s commercial or artistic, even the most obscure works will try to explore some commonality deep in everyone’s heart.”
Susan Collins: "Do you think you are unique?"
Lin Xiao: "Perhaps I am on the path of being unique. This may be a result, but it is not the essence. Whether it is my talent, gift, or personality, I am far from being unique. There should be many people who are similar to me, but they are not on my path."
Susan Collins: "You are very, very rich. Even in the United States, you are considered very, very outstanding. You even control a business empire. But you recently gave up this business empire. Why? What gave you such great courage to give up such great power?"
Lin Xiao: "Susan, are you a reporter?"
Susan Collins: "No, no, because I'm a writer, so I love studying people. Did my question offend you?"
Lin Xiao: "I think that in this world, no one should be willing to completely and voluntarily give up the power and wealth they have."
Susan Collins: "What about the Duke of Windsor?"
Lin Xiao: "Losing the throne is just the price he paid for his indulgence, not his own initiative."
Susan Collins: "What about you?"
Lin Xiao: "I am pursuing a higher goal."
Susan Collins: "Then I might be a little offended by this question."
Lin Xiao: “You say.”
Susan Collins: "Do you think that yellow and white people, purely from an aesthetic point of view..."
Halfway through her speech, she seemed to feel that she was being a little too flamboyant, and that the topic even touched upon racial discrimination, but she really wanted to discuss it.
"Well, do you think aesthetics is subjective or objective..."
She originally wanted to discuss which race is better looking, white people or yellow people, but felt that the topic was a bit risky, so she shifted the topic to the subjectivity and objectivity of aesthetics.
But this has been a debate topic for thousands of years, and there has been no conclusion after thousands of years of discussion.
Moreover, there are many experts on both sides.
Lin Xiao: “I think it’s objective.”
"Wow..." Susan Collins: "You know what? Your answer has in a sense answered my potentially offensive question."
“But I think that anyone who feels objective is really very powerful.”
"It's just a coincidence. I also think it's objective."
"For example, many people say that in the eyes of white people, it is impossible to distinguish the appearance of yellow people, and they all look the same. But in fact... it is not like that."
"At least I think you're pretty. Not only do I think so, but the waitress who served us coffee and the lady who just passed by also think so."
“But if there is a certain universality in cognition, then there is a certain objectivity.”
"Can I make a very bold statement?"
Lin Xiao: "Please speak."
Susan Collins: "I think that very, very good-looking people among you yellow races will have some characteristics of white races. And vice versa, very, very good-looking white races will have some characteristics of yellow races."
"Okay, okay."
"That's enough. If I continue, I might end up in court."
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Sure enough, the same activity caused a much stronger response in the United States.
Facebook in the United States has just announced that it will hold a nationwide campus beauty and hunk competition, and the total amount of the event will reach 110 million US dollars.
Four hundred people will share a prize of $20 million.
The number one campus beauty will become the heroine of the movie "The Hunger Games", and the entire movie will be invested with 70 million US dollars.
The number one school idol will become the co-lead actor of Breaking Bad, and the first season will be invested with 20 million US dollars.
As soon as this announcement came out.
Suddenly... the whole United States exploded.
The speed of spread is much faster than that in China.
Then, without much warm-up, various media outlets flocked to the scene.
The first person to be surrounded and interviewed was Columbia's president, Amy Pascal.
"That's right, the first place winner of the American Facebook talent show will become the heroine of The Hunger Games, a show that doesn't even have a male lead."
"Acting? I believe more in the vision of American college students. Inner temperament, personality and charm are more important. Acting can be trained."
“There are so many famous actors in Hollywood who are not professionals.”
"It's an incredible challenge in itself, isn't it, to make an ordinary college girl into a superstar?"
Then, the number of registered users of Facebook in the United States increased like a tsunami.
This growth rate is many times faster than that of Facebook in China.
Because the reward is so generous, all major TV stations and media are paying full attention to it.
Of course, these media have basically mixed reviews about this competition.
Most media outlets believed that Sony and Columbia had fallen by serving an Internet company.
An investment of 70 million US dollars is still very huge. Making a movie specifically for a talent show is completely against the spirit of Hollywood.
Internet forces should not invade Hollywood too much.
The quality of a movie made for a flashy event can be imagined.
If the $70 million was paid by Facebook in the United States, then Sony Columbia just paid for the production fee and also lost its own style.
And so on, there are endless debates on various opinions.
The Faces, which was originally caught up in an internal fight among its founders, immediately sensed something was wrong when they saw Facebook's grand nationwide talent show.
Then, stop the internal fighting and start discussing countermeasures.
The final result of the discussion is whether to hold competitions of the same level?
If that is the case, it would require an investment of more than 100 million US dollars.
The Faces would never be able to pay this money without a parent company.
Of course, Google can afford it.
Zuckerberg immediately went to see Eric Schmidt of Google.
Of course, Google could easily come up with this money at this time, as its market value had already exceeded that of Yahoo.
But Zuckerberg backed off.
Because if Google takes out this money, it will be considered an investment and it will take away most of the shares.
And the most important thing is, even if I am willing to sell a lot of shares, even if I get more than 100 million US dollars, can I get the same effect as the Facebook talent show?
That requires deep collaboration with Hollywood.
Both Google and The Faces had relatively distant relations with Hollywood before.
So the two sides held meetings and discussions continuously.
Moreover, a plan was put forward in the shortest possible time, and even a rough script had been found, whether it was a movie script or a TV series script.
Even the cooperating Hollywood film companies and related TV stations have been found.
The only question left is whether to do it or not.
And at this time, "The Hunger Games", published by Scholar Press, was officially released.
The author is Ergou Jiaozhu, Susan Collins.
This publishing house mainly targets teenagers, and the Harry Potter series was published by this publishing house.
Originally, this book became a huge hit as soon as it was published.
And in this world, it's even more popular.
Because Facebook's nationwide talent show is in full swing, countless people have heard of the name before this book was even released.
Almost as soon as it was released, it went straight to the New York Times bestseller list, the most authoritative list.
In the second week, he jumped straight to first place! And then...it never came down again and continued to dominate the charts! "The Hunger Games" became a very well-known IP in almost the shortest time, further promoting Facebook's national talent show.
At this time, The Faces and Google were still holding meetings to discuss whether to hold the same event to block the attack.
but……
After just half a month, they gave up.
Because if we follow them now, it would be like imitating someone else without any effort.
The momentum of the talent show on Facebook has completely picked up.
This campaign only started for half a month, and the number of registered users of Facebook in the United States soared to four million! It soared directly from 200,000 to 4 million.
And it is still soaring.
At the same time, sales of the book "The Hunger Games" also skyrocketed.
Susan Collins became very famous because she was the only one who came out to be interviewed every time.
"I must state that I am not the first author of this book. The whole story was conceived by Lin."
"He is an excellent author. His book The Graveyard Book won the Hugo Award."
"That's even less true, Gunner."
"He is fully capable of writing a better book, but because the protagonist of the book is a girl, he needed a female perspective, so he found me."
"He came to me because he had read my book 'Underground Chronicles'. My God, that's a children's book."
"Lin, you can generously admit that it's because of my beauty."
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November 11th! X Research Institute is officially established!
In fact, they have already started the work for almost two months, but they chose this special day today to hold the ceremony.
Maybe in the future, this day will be great! Masayoshi Son, Zhiyuan Yang, Liang Mengsong, Warren East of ARM, Richard Templeton of Texas Instruments and many others were present.
Even Ambassador Zhou arrived at the scene.
The entire X Institute has 149 people.
Among them, there are more than 60 Chinese.
These Chinese backbones will return to China next year to establish the China Department of X Research Institute.
Then, the two places began to exchange intensively.
Lin Xiao did not give a speech, but let the big guys speak instead.
"Lin, is this all your future career will be?" asked Masayoshi Son.
Lin Xiao: "Yes, it will be my only career for many years to come."
However, Masayoshi Son seemed to have seen a money-shredding machine. Although there were only one or two hundred people, a large amount of US dollars was burning every day.
Even for the super rich Masayoshi Son, it feels a bit painful.
Because the previous investment in Lin Xiao soon paid off, and the return was several times the original amount.
The only thing that needs to happen is the X Research Institute, which needs to keep burning money.
“It would be great if this X Research Institute could develop as fast as Facebook in the United States.” Son said, “Your choice is absolutely correct.”
Then, Masayoshi Son looked at Yang Zhiyuan and said, "Yang, we have always said that the United States is the most mature and developed Internet market in the world. But this statement needs to be changed to a certain extent, because Facebook in the United States completely copied the practices of Facebook in China, and as a result, it achieved success more easily."
More than a decade later, the Chinese Internet market is the most competitive market. All those who win here are monsters, and they immediately become invincible after going overseas.
After Ambassador Zhou finished speaking, there was thunderous applause.
Then, everyone looked at Lin Xiao, the nominal dean.
"You want me to speak?"
"I'm not prepared."
Lin Xiao stepped forward and looked at the one or two hundred people below, almost all of whom were doctors.
“I’m not very tech-savvy!”
"But I can see into the future."
“I can see five years into the future, ten years into the future.”
“Maybe I’m a natural helmsman.”
"Google is watching us, Microsoft is watching us, Nokia is watching us."
“Say hello to them and salute them!”
Lin Xiao usually doesn't wear a hat, but he put it on specially to take it off.
He took off his hat and bowed slightly towards the approximate direction of Microsoft!
But everyone present knew that this was not a salute, but more like the salute that gentlemen exchanged before drawing their guns in a duel one or two hundred years ago.
Because this is America.
What is needed is publicity and personal heroism.
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night!
Lin Xiao had a conversation with Richard Templeton of Texas Instruments.
Upon hearing Lin Xiao's request, the other party shook his head frantically.
"No, no, no!"
"Absolutely impossible!"
Because Lin Xiao's request was simply incredible, because he asked X Research Institute to work with Texas Instruments and ARM to design a most advanced chip in two years.
The requirement is to surpass Qualcomm's most advanced chip two years later.
Moreover, it must be designed according to the 45-nanometer process specifications.
In addition, this chip must be supplied exclusively to Lin Xiao’s mobile phone company and may not be sold outside.
Not only that, it is also required to be able to drive a 480P high-definition screen.
And so on and so forth, a series of requirements.
"Mr. Lin, no one can meet your request. We at Texas Instruments will never accept such a condition."
"In fact, you don't understand technology at all, and the requirements you put forward are very amateurish."
"First, the most advanced foundry, TSMC, only started trial operation of the 65-nanometer process this year."
"Secondly, no mobile phone has adopted a 720*480 resolution screen so far."
Lin Xiao certainly knew that the screen resolution of the first generation IPHONE was only 480*320.
"And from what I understand, your mobile phone operating system is only a prototype."
"But in your plan, this is a very large operating system, much larger than any other operating system on the market."
"And you asked for a 5-megapixel camera."
"Do you realize how crazy all this is?"
“Your mobile phone brand is still just a concept, and you haven’t even built a factory yet, but you’ve made such high demands on us.”
Lin Xiao said slowly: "I will purchase more than five million."
Suddenly, Richard Templeton's voice stopped abruptly, and he felt even more that the person in front of him was a madman.
Your mobile phone is just a concept now, and you don’t even know what the brand is. You are starting from scratch, but you want to purchase five million of them directly?
Does this mean that the first mobile phone you produce needs to sell more than five million units? How much investment will this require?
How much of a risk does this entail? But...for Texas Instruments, this deal is interesting, even very interesting.
This is easy, it's a business worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Texas Instruments' revenue for the entire year is less than $3 billion.
And the most important thing is that he now sees very clearly that the entire mobile phone industry is upgrading. Texas Instruments was still strong in the 2G era, but has gradually fallen behind. It is no longer possible without transformation and upgrading.
The key is that upgrading and transformation requires a lot of money and costs, and it is still unknown whether it will succeed.
And now Lin Xiao has given a very simple and crude goal, which... is also a direction.
The key is that the other party is willing to pay and greatly share the cost.
"Mr. Lin, your request is still too crazy." Richard: "But I am still very interested in our cooperation. I need to go back to discuss it."
"In addition, I also hope to have a full discussion with your team and come up with a more realistic goal."
“There are also experts in the chip field and senior executives from TSMC here today. You can also communicate with them.”
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Lin Xiao then began to run around everywhere and encountered obstacles everywhere.
The next focus of the trip is Japan, where we will customize the phone screen and camera.
Mr. Lei and Mr. Luo also said that when they were making mobile phones, they really had to beg everyone for help at the beginning, and they had to beg the supply chain.
Lin Xiao’s starting point is already very high because he has a very close relationship with Sony Entertainment.
So when he went to Sony Electronics, he was treated as a VIP.
But when he made his request, he was still treated impolitely.
The electronics industry is changing with each passing day.
What the other party meant was that you can just use whatever products we have when the time comes.
Why are you asking for it now?
What you are asking for now is really unrealistic.
However, for Lin Xiao, he just wants his product to be ahead of the first generation IPHONE in all parameters when it is released.
Otherwise, what's the point? From now on, it seems difficult.
But historically, it is not that difficult, because the industry chain develops very quickly and does require foresight in products.
In 2008, the parameters of the first generation of IPHONE were already considered outdated.
Whether it is screen resolution, mobile phone camera, etc.
The IOS system is so excellent that other brands can only pile up parameters.
And the key is that everyone has the same starting point, and heap parameters are really useful.
After leaving Sony Electronics, Lin Xiao visited Sharp again and came to the same conclusion: the resolution of Sharp's mainstream flagship screen this year is 320*240.
Of course it is not impossible to produce a screen with the specifications that Lin Xiao wants. It can definitely be done.
But what about the cost? What about the purchase price?
At the same time, Li Shuang also flew to the United States.
She represented Dream Vision and came to the United States to promote the new TV series "Squid Game".
The drama has been completed and has been sold to Japan and South Korea long ago, but it has not been aired yet.
The focus of promotion is the North American market.
Chinese-language films have also been successful in the North American market, but what about TV series?
Not at all.
Not to mention achieving success, even entering the North American market is extremely difficult.
It's really a breakthrough from zero.
"Squid Game" is the first international TV series produced by Fantasy Vision.
Historically, this drama has directly topped the charts even in the United States!
Of course, this has to do with Netflix itself. This is its own drama, and Netflix was already very powerful at the time.
At this time, online television was not popular at all, and TV networks were still king.
It was extremely difficult for Li Shuang to get "Squid Game" broadcast on North American TV networks.
Even though one of the three major shareholders of Dream Vision is Sony Columbia.
But Sony doesn't own the TV network.
CBS, or Columbia Broadcasting Corporation, is one of the three largest television stations in the United States, with a national audience rating of about 31%, but now it is not the same company as Columbia Pictures.
At this time, Lin Xiao's mobile phone business was still a difficult and arduous journey.
The same is basically true for Li Shuang's TV series promotion in the United States.
Only Wu Lingxi's American Facebook has made rapid progress and is in full swing.
Many American media outlets exclaimed that they had never seen a website rise so quickly and so fiercely.
To be precise, not the same family.
But two.
Along with the rapid development of Facebook in the United States, the YouTube video website.
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Lin Xiao is still flying around the world, he even went to Samsung. You should know that Samsung's mobile phone screens at that time were not very strong and could not compare with Sony and Sharp.
Accompanying Lin Xiao as he visits various industry chain giants.
He almost got a nickname, the whimsical lunatic.
Especially the major mobile phone giants, there is even a deep sense of absurdity.
I flew outside for about a month.
December! Lin Xiaocai returned to China and went back to Linshan from Hangzhou, and appeared in front of Xiao Momo again.
Because Bubble is about to give birth.
This was the first time that Bubble saw Lin Xiao like this.
His face was weather-beaten and his beard was untidy.
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Note: I don’t know how many hours I spent writing this, but I finally finished it! If you have monthly tickets, could you please give me a few? Thank you very much! (End of this chapter)
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