Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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In fact, Tang Huan's companies began to be investigated by intelligence agencies including the FBI as they undertook projects from the government and the military.

Some of these investigations were carried out secretly, some openly, some consulted third-party opinions, and some directly came to the door. Tang Huan once received telephone inquiries from FBI investigators, and some of the questions were even more interesting, such as whether he had a history of drug use, how many times he had been high, and so on.

It was only with the public listing of Fangyuan Computer Company that Tang Huan tried his best to get rid of the daily management responsibilities of the company, and this kind of harassment began to disappear.

After drinking the cup of hot milk in a leisurely manner, Tang Huan slowly ordered: In this way, you keep calm and do whatever you need to do; let the younger sister come out from Goldman Sachs to help temporarily; in addition, the business volume of EA in Japan It is very large, including real estate projects such as theme parks, with ample room for operation, and can further cover through its subsidiaries.

Zhuang Menghua, who graduated from Harvard Business School, has experienced well in the past few years, enough to take on the heavy responsibility.

Tang Huan intends to let himself, who is further freed from specific work, stand in the open, and try his best to attract the attention of those who are interested, so that the confidant who accepts the entrustment can handle the work behind the scenes more freely.

In fact, he has nothing to be afraid of. Merchants seek profit, and the tricks in it can be understood by sensible people-the two brothers Nelson Hunter and William Hunter brought the silver futures market to the brink of collapse, and there is no prison in the end. This is a major feature of the American ecology.

The point is, as long as you are worthy, you will be welcomed. Mark Rich insisted on doing oil business with Iran, violated the US trade embargo, and finally had to flee to Switzerland. But that's all. In the original time and space, he was still alive and kicking until the 21st century, and he was buried in Israel after his death.

Tang Huan, who has mastered information asymmetry, sees through the rules, and has controlled enough resources. He is very calm from a high place, which is not something close subordinates like Tang Wenmao can understand.

After Tang Wenmao left, it was impossible for Tang Huan to go back to sleep in and start a day's work.

During lunch, my little cousin Meng Jing came over. She had just started college this year, and Tang Huan was worried about this wild girl, so she arranged for her to go to Stanford University nearby, and she also had a caregiver.

After college,

Finally, I can breathe the air of freedom. Tang Huan joked, because the management of the high school the other party attended was very strict, which caused him to complain a lot.

That's the thing. Meng Jing took a sip of the juice, and then replied indifferently.

The two were chatting about interesting things on campus, and Spielberg and George Lucas came over with drinks.

Two, rare customers. And they appeared at the same time. Tang Huan said with some surprise: Didn't you come to Cupertino for a special trip to taste our restaurant's food?

Tang Huan was really surprised. These two are busy people. In addition to producing Back to the Future this summer, Spielberg is also directing a movie called Purple; George Lu On Cass' side, the endless bickering of the divorce lawsuit alone was enough to make him burnt out.

Speaking of which, George Lucas and his first wife, Marcia Lucas, were like-minded, especially a film editor. In 1974, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Editing for his small-cost and refreshing work American Graffiti, which sold well at the box office.

After that, Marcia Lucas also served as editorial supervisor of Taxi Driver, starring Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster, which won the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. George Lucas won the 1977 Academy Award for Best Editing for Star Wars.

It's a pity that things are unpredictable. This pair of life partners and business partners is now going to work together.

The restaurant here is really not like a staff canteen. The food quality can be compared with the professional restaurants outside. George Lucas complimented with a smile.

Tang Huan estimated that something must have happened to the two of them, but he didn't rush to ask. Just ask them to sit down.

Spielberg was the first to explain, George's cash flow has been tight recently, so he plans to sell some of Lucasfilm's computer business, and he wants to ask Don if he is interested.

Among the series of companies created by George Lucas, the most familiar one may be Industrial Light and Magic, which deals with visual effects—Industrial Light and Magic. In fact, SkywalkerSound, which handles sound effects, is also important. Games LucasArts - Lucasfilm games and more.

I heard from Spielberg that George Lucas was going to sell some companies to cash out. Tang Huan immediately heard the sound of the piano and guessed that George Lucas was affected by the divorce lawsuit. In addition, the income of Star Wars could not last forever, which caused his cash flow to be so tight.

It must be pointed out that for these celebrities in the United States, if there is no agreement, the cost of divorce is often very high.

Take Robert Noyce, one of the founders of Intel, for example. Because of an extramarital affair, his original wife filed a divorce lawsuit with him in a California court, and directly distributed half of his family property worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

George Lucas is in such a difficult situation now, he must have net worth, but cash is another matter.

Tang Huan reckoned that George Lucas hadn't reached the point of selling Industrial Light \u0026 Magic, so he asked curiously, Which departments or subsidiaries does George plan to sell?

Computer department. George Lucas replied: At present it has two main components, a team responsible for developing custom computers that can digitize images on live-action film and incorporate cool special effects; A team focused on computer animation.

I'm going, isn't this the predecessor of Pixar Animation Studio! Tang Huan immediately reacted, and wondered secretly, Why hasn't Jobs hooked up with this loser?

Then he suddenly realized that George Lucas was troubled by divorce lawsuits, and Jobs was not much better, also entangled in lawsuits-Apple was preparing to sue him for digging his own foot.

In other words, Jobs hasn't had time to spare time to take care of other things.

To be honest, Tang Huan was not very interested in this deal. Gein's industry has basically taken shape in the fields it is currently involved in. It has also gone through the stage of brutal expansion, and now the focus is on practicing internal strength.

DigitalDomain——Digital Domain is D2. It is not an exaggeration to say that it has surpassed Industrial Light and Magic in terms of visual effects and computer animation.

If you have to find a factor that can impress Tang Huan. Maybe it's talent.

But his company has already made a name for itself, and talents in the IT field often come to him on their own initiative; as for the relatively scarce artistic and creative talents, they have also recruited a lot.

For example, John Lasseter, who was fired by Disney, turned around and happily entered D2 after being frustrated.

In this way. Lucasfilm's computer department, whether it's technology or talent, can't generate the attraction that Tang Huan has to take action.

You know, in the original time and space, the Pixar animation studio in the hands of Jobs had been losing money before Toy Story was released. And the success of Toy Story also has a certain coincidence. At that time, Disney did not plan to release it online in movie theaters.

It is estimated that only the paranoid Jobs would spend tens of millions of dollars out of his own pocket to tenaciously maintain the survival of Pixar Animation Studios, but it almost couldn't stand it. Sold it before Toy Story came out.

Seeing that Tang Huan didn't make a statement right away, George Lucas couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart. He probably would have made a futile trip this time.

Lucasfilm's computer division isn't deserted, it's just that willing buyers have been hesitant.

The main reason is that under the leadership of Tang Huan, the entry threshold of the rapidly developing computer industry has begun to increase at this stage, and non-professionals who want to make quick money may plunge into it and disappear. The prospects for non-mainstream computers like Lucasfilm's computer division are too confusing.

In this case, the highest offer George Lucas got was only $5 million, which was a bit far from his expectations. So much so that Edwin Catmull and Elvie Smith, the heads of Lucasfilm's computer department, planned to buy the company by seeing the market, and then recruited a powerful investor to continue the operation.

George Lucas must raise enough cash flow within a limited time. Seeing that there is not much time left for himself to raise funds. He planned to sell it at a loss.

After Spielberg knew about this, he suggested that George Lucas should take the initiative to contact Tang Huan. The richest man has always paid attention to the sparks that may erupt after the combination of computer technology and creativity, including art. The computer department of Cass Films will be able to get into the eyes of others, and then get a satisfactory quotation.

that's it. George Lucas, who had no choice but to be persuaded, decided to follow the enthusiastic Spielberg and come to Tang Huan to try his luck. But judging from the other party's reaction, it seems that there is no game.

Seeing this scene, Spielberg also felt a little embarrassed, and was about to try to lobby around, Meng Jing, who was sitting next to Tang Huan, muttered in Mandarin: Can you be so stingy, the movie Star Wars tested things, After all, it won’t be too much difference, even if you don’t need it, you can’t keep it for others, anyway, you are not short of money.”

You little prodigal girl... Tang Huan laughed out loud at being teased by his little cousin, but the sentence I don't need it and can't keep it for others made him feel moved.

Sometimes, it must be admitted that people make things happen, Edwin Catmull and Elvy Smith, the current heads of Lucasfilm's computer department, are like this for Pixar Animation Studios in the original time and space, although later The author was kicked out because of his conflict with Jobs, and was intentionally removed from the history of Pixar Animation Studios, but the credit cannot be erased.

For these two alone, it was worth buying Lucasfilm's computer division, while also selling George Lucas and Spielberg's favor.

Now Warner's boss, Steve Ross, and Universal Pictures' president, Sid Hinberg, are trying to win over Spielberg in various ways, and he can't just give up this contact carelessly.

More importantly, control of the

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Seeing that Tang Huan didn't make a statement right away, George Lucas couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart. He probably would have made a futile trip this time.

Lucasfilm's computer division isn't deserted, it's just that willing buyers have been hesitant.

The main reason is that under the leadership of Tang Huan, the entry threshold of the rapidly developing computer industry has begun to increase at this stage, and non-professionals who want to make quick money may plunge into it and disappear. The prospects for non-mainstream computers like Lucasfilm's computer division are too confusing.

In this case, the highest offer that George Lucas got was only 5 million US dollars, which was a bit far from his expectation, so that Edwin Catmull, the head of Lucasfilm's computer department, and Eric Elvie Smith planned to buy the company according to the market situation, and then recruit a powerful investor to continue the operation.

George Lucas must raise enough cash flow within a limited time. Seeing that there was not much time left for him to raise money, he planned to sell it at a loss.

After Spielberg knew about this, he suggested that George Lucas should take the initiative to contact Tang Huan. The richest man has always paid attention to the sparks that may erupt after the combination of computer technology and creativity, including art. The computer department of Cass Films will be able to get into the eyes of others, and then get a satisfactory quotation.

In this way, George Lucas, who had no choice but to be persuaded, decided to follow the enthusiastic Spielberg and come to Tang Huan to try his luck. But judging from the other party's reaction, it seems that there is no game.

Seeing this scene, Spielberg also felt a little embarrassed, and was about to try to lobby around, Meng Jing, who was sitting next to Tang Huan, muttered in Mandarin: Can you be so stingy, the movie Star Wars tested things, After all, it won’t be too much difference, even if you don’t need it, you can’t keep it for others, anyway, you are not short of money.”

You little prodigal girl... Tang Huan laughed out loud at being teased by his little cousin, but the sentence I don't need it and can't keep it for others made him feel moved. (To be continued.)