Rebirth: I Want to Surf

Even though Hong Kong films have many deficiencies, there is one contribution that cannot be denied: Hong Kong films are one of the most successful cultural exports.

It can even be said that based on the past glory of Hong Kong films, we exported "Kung Fu" to all over the world and became the only original genre of Chinese-language films.

Such a good thing was lost in a daze.

In fact, there are many Kung Fu fans all over the world, and the media of later generations has also developed, and the industry has also prospered. As a result, we can't shoot it ourselves!

In other words, the management thinks that the Kung Fu film market is too small, so they don't make it.

…………

While Jiajia was collecting talents, Yao Yuan brought a group of people to the United States.

This time is different from the last time. The last time the stroll was of the nature of tourism, this time it was for business, so he brought his own business team to be responsible for analysis, negotiation and other work.

San Francisco.

Zhao Haitao, the person in charge of the overseas studio, could say that he was eating a pot of milk to welcome Mr. Wang, rented the best car, called the most beautiful secretary, and greeted Mr. Yao grandly.

After resting in the hotel for a day, I went to the studio the next day.

Today's office space has been replaced by a small three-story building. Zhao Haitao has followed suit, with all kinds of fancy decorations and furnishings, which has the sweet taste of American air.

"This way please! This way please!"

He led Yao Yuan upstairs, past a young white man swaggering on a bicycle, two girls lying on mats doing yoga, a few employees eating potato chips and drinking Coke in the so-called "leisure and entertainment area"...

Finally got into the office.

Yao Yuan sat down on the boss chair and said, "Close the door."

"okay!"

Zhao Haitao turned around and closed the door happily, but Cheng Wei moved aside without showing any signs. Sure enough, the moment Zhao Haitao turned his head, a stack of documents fell on his face.

boom!

Crash!

"Yao, Mr. Yao..."

Zhao Haitao was stunned for a moment. Since he joined 99, he has never seen the other party get angry, let alone throw things at people.

"Look what you look like!"

Yao Yuan pointed at his nose and scolded, "What the hell have you only been here for a few days? Just like other people who ride luxury cars to pick up foreign girls. How did I tell you before, don't drift, be steady! Look at those employees, you Are they working or being ancestors? It’s 2 pm, and I don’t see a single person working seriously!”

"Mr. Yao, I'm here to welcome you. It's so easy for you to come here."

Zhao Haitao was quite aggrieved, and said: "And I also learned from Facebook. Their working environment is like this. I also think it is very good. It is free and easy, and it is conducive to creation and development."

boom!

Another pile fell over.

"I asked you to gain a firm foothold and expand your career, not to let you be free and easy! What achievements have you made this year? Tell me about creation and development with a shy face? The results have not been made, and you have learned a lot from stinky mistakes. If you are young 100 million dollars, I don't care if they shit in the office!"

"..."

Zhao Haitao stopped talking.

The overseas studio was established last year and has developed several small games such as "Texas Hold'em" and "Scrabble Puzzle".

Really nothing creative.

Yao Yuan made a fuss, and said directly: "Your employees are useless, they are all fired!"

"Then we have to pay compensation?"

"If you pay, you will pay. This batch has been pampered by you. Change to a new batch. We are just a small studio and the technical threshold is not high. Don't always use big companies to benchmark!"

In the past, there were always public intellectuals clamoring that there are labor unions in the United States, and the rights of American employees are paramount, and the company did not dare to fire Barabara...the result was slapped in the face by Musk until he was swollen.

Musk took over Twitter, laid off at least 70% of its employees, and had a pregnant female executive.

In the United States, companies can fire employees without any reason, as long as they pay compensation. For this compensation, the regulations of each state are different, and the agreement between the company and employees is also different.

Of course, this is not something to be proud of. There is also such a virtue in China. There is only labor and no law.

What makes Yao Yuan most angry is that Zhao Haitao has been assimilated quickly after only a year since he came here.

He has decided to make a substitution.

In the United States, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. If you can't achieve unity with your own thoughts, then you simply don't need this person. The purpose of his overseas studio is for social games now and for mobile games in the future.

In the final analysis, it is for the 99 Group to make money, not for the benefit of the American people.

Yao Yuan scolded for a while, and then started to check the homework. He opened a game "FarmVille", which can be called "Virtual Farm" in translation.

That's right, this is the overseas version of "Happy Farm" that will be launched on Facebook soon.

Historically, after "Happy Farm" became popular, a group of counterfeiters appeared in China, and after the game went overseas, there were also a group of counterfeiters overseas.

Zynga, a company specializing in social games, copied "Happy Farm" and launched a version that is more suitable for Westerners.

It has been a great success, with hundreds of millions of players around the world, and an annual income of hundreds of millions of dollars. It is the most popular game on Facebook, and it will not be closed until 2020.

What Yao Yuan asked overseas studios to develop was exactly the version adapted by Zynga.

Domestic "Happy Farm" is particularly foolish, easy to use, and has no threshold. But this version is much more complicated. First of all, you can choose your own character image.

There are Southern Rednecks, Texas Cowboys, Minority Spice Girls, and Black Guys... They are highly targeted, and thanks to the fact that it was 2008, in future generations, there will be more than a hundred of them just by gender.

In terms of gameplay, not only grow vegetables, but also build houses, raise livestock, plant trees, dig ponds, process in small workshops, etc.

"Happy Farm" is called a farm, but it is actually a few vegetable fields. How many of us have seen a real farm? At most, tinkering in the village.

But there are a lot of private farms in the United States, so it is necessary to prescribe the right medicine, so the map of "FarmVille" is relatively large, no longer a few vegetable fields, and the operation process is closer to reality.

"Is everything settled?"

"We've negotiated, we'll be online in a week."

"Does Zuckerberg know I'm coming?"

"Uh, I told him."

Zhao Haitao is obsessive, and he doesn't feel ashamed just now, and he probably knows that his career is over.

Alas, I was wrong at the beginning, and I was wrong too...

Yao Yuan self-reflects and dispatches work. Ability is one aspect, and character may be more important than ability. But forget it, I have to stay for a while, and it's okay to meet Zuckerberg.

...

the next day.

He visited facebook for the second time, and Zuckerberg once again received him in person.

It was still the same small building with fancy decorations. Zuckerberg was dressed in casual clothes as usual, looking casual, and said with a smile: "I'm really glad you can come. We had a good communication last time. Of course, the cooperation after that will be even more pleasant. .

Your prediction has come true, social games have become a booster, and we have increased a lot of users with "Car Parking" and "Friends Buying and Selling"... Unfortunately, the current environment is very bad, and Wall Street and Silicon Valley are having a hard time. "

Yao Yuan walked through the corridor and saw two people discussing in a room with large glass windows, one of them was seriously bald.

Zuckerberg is very friendly to Yao Yuan now. He is a partner after all. He introduced: "That guy is from Russia. He wanted to invest. I have already rejected him, but he came here in person."

After speaking, he shrugged his shoulders, quite disdainfully.

Yao Yuan smiled. In Silicon Valley, taking money from Russians is a shameful thing.

Coincidentally, he had an impression of the Russian's face.

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