[Comprehensive] Hollywood's new dignitaries

In the undergraduate dormitory of Leland Jr. Stanford University in November, Candice, who was lucky to be praised by Professor Harvey, was holding a copy of "The Art of War" and looking at Cici, "What is this? The magic book of the East?"

"War strategy book," the half-breed beauty explained to her in detail why this book will appear in the bedroom of the two, "Zuckerberg once again proposed to buy and burn after reading, and he asked Evan to Menlo Park, which is his Facebook office in California to meet, but Evan, I said you have a similar personality, and he replied - I would love to meet earlier... provided you come to meet me."

Candice couldn't help laughing, "So - old Zack is here?" The technology upstarts are really competitive. Mark Zuckerberg, who is only 28 years old, has become old Zack in front of these brats.

"Yes," cici said with a helpless expression, "and he demonstrated Facebook's new product poke for Evan. Berg wrote the code himself, developed it in just 12 days, well, he's a bit shameless, but he's a genius."

"Wow~ Old Zack seems to be sure to win the acquisition. Of course, the failure of the acquisition will completely destroy the post-reading attitude is high-profile enough." Candice pointed to "Sun Tzu's Art of War", "This will not be Egypt Wen asked to order it?"

"Yeap," Cici rolled his eyes, "he ordered a copy of "Sun Tzu's Art of War" for all the employees."

Candice was very interested, "What's the conclusion?"

"Determined not to sell, their goal is to overthrow the existing social media establishment."

Evan Spiegel is a typical second-generation California elite, with a kind of conceit and ambition engraved in his bones, but he told cici that Candice is very similar to him, so she asked: "I think Evan is Running around for a new round of financing, how about you invite him to return to campus life for a while, I think we can have dinner and talk about whether he needs an angel investor, as for the investment amount—” Candice’s income in Hollywood has always been A professional manager will be responsible, and she is not going to use the profits from investing in movies with David and Megan. She blinked and thought that she seemed to have just sold a big guy who was dispensable to her last month, "Two billion dollars."

Candice's love for airplanes obviously did not extend to yachts because they are also expensive representatives. This is the world's first private yacht "Rising Sun" with 12 cylinders and 1 super powerful horsepower. For her, there is nothing to say. If it is not for Larry's competitive spirit, she has no problem selling it to Bill Gates. Well, well, she always has to worry about the wayward Silicon Valley bad boys, so she said last month. The low price of 2 million US dollars was sold to the entertainment industry tycoon, David Geffen, one of the "DreamWorks Big Three".Her acquaintance with David Geffen is not only because of Hollywood where the law of money operates, but the most direct reason is that David Geffen's mansion on Malibu Beach is adjacent to Larry's top mansion. The difference between a "bad role model" in his field who loves to throw all kinds of parties is probably just a difference in sexuality. David Geffen, the most powerful gay man in Hollywood, has his Geffen boys, and Larry Geffen Ellison has countless sexy model girlfriends.Larry had no issue with her decision to sell the Rising Sun to Geffen.

Cici's expression was shocked, trying to find her voice, "Two hundred million dollars! areyoukidding?!"

The green-eyed blonde girl is wearing a stylish but simple black sweater. Apart from being too beautiful, she looks like a college freshman enjoying campus life. Evan plays a fun game of challenging authority."

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"Spiegel revealed that K made another bid invitation, and said that it would be burnt after reading and rejected again. K would launch a photo-sharing mobile application Poke copied from Burning After Reading in December. For K CEO Mark Zucker Spiegel will never give in to this shameless act of Berg. He will fight it all. When an interviewer asks why you don’t sell your mission, his answer to this is-this way is not earning money. Money is just a passing fad. And at the end of the conversation, he easily shared a piece of news that was not pleasant to K: Burning after reading it got a new financing of up to 12 million US dollars from an angel investor with outstanding vision. "

"Two hundred million dollars? Angel investors? Where did Spiegel find a lunatic who went crazy with him? Although it is very popular now, it is too hasty to reject a $30 billion acquisition, and even the challenge of k Leading to the self-destruction of this software, as for the crazy investor who went crazy with him, of course he will lose everything." This is a supporter who waved the flag for the social media authority k.

But some people don't think so: "Sharing photos is the core application of k, and the disappearing after reading is becoming one of the largest photo sharing applications on smartphones. With the rapid growth of the disappearing after reading, k has lost a lot of social data , last quarter, young people who used k showed boredom, their perception now-k is not that interesting, not a place to spend time. What else is there? Burn after reading appeared.

But, well, even though I have firm confidence in the development prospects of the disappearing after reading, I am still shocked by the courage of the angel investor, [-] million US dollars?my God! "

In the national science and technology newspapers and website forums, when the prediction of the outcome of the upcoming battle of k and ephemeral reading is in full swing, the army of children aged 13 to 23 in the United States almost overwhelmingly supports ephemeral reading, and they have posted on social media It is said on the Internet that K's behavior of bullying the small is vicious and shameless, and K is the main position for parents to "monitor" them, which is not cool at all.In contrast, Burn After Reading is almost entirely composed of Stanford-born members, forming the kind of team character they dare to imagine and challenge authority that they have been immersed in Silicon Valley for a long time. Naturally, they are deeply sought after by this group of bear children.And one thing that the media and the bear kids are also most curious about - who is that angel investor?Some Silicon Valley mogul?Or a member of the "New York" old money family, or from Wall Street, where money never sleeps?

On this day when the discussion became more intense, Evan Spiegel shared a photo on his personal account that burned after reading it-"Angel investor who is more beautiful than an angel." Destroyed, the number of people who saved the screenshots in these 10 seconds caused Evan to receive hundreds of screenshot notifications from the other party, and these hundreds of people posted the photos to major social platforms in less than ten seconds.

In the photo, the blonde girl is sitting by the window of a mid-range restaurant on the Stanford campus, the sun is shining on her handsome bomber jacket enthusiastically, and the delicious lunch has been placed on the table, but her hands are still on the K She is typing something, with the attitude of a master of engineering, and her face is so beautiful, because she is Candice Ellison.

"omg! The angel investor is Candy?! Don't talk to me, I'm going to download it and burn it after reading it!"

"Stanford vs. Harvard? MIT is probably the happiest?"

"Candice Ellison raised [-] million US dollars for Burning After Reading in her own name. Today, Stanford's two most well-known high-achieving undergraduate students have joined forces to challenge Harvard's industry authority as a dark horse? Oh, I still don't know. I remember someone said they were Stanford's promiscuous combination, but I think these are two typical second-generation California elites, smart, ambitious, and full of strength."

"Is this a battle between Silicon Valley's upstarts and industry authority, or the heirs of the Ellison elite's ambitions for new fields, as Larry said - Candice is his counterpart, who just passed her birthday last month The behavior of Wonder Girl and Spiegel to cooperate against K reminds me of the decades-long struggle between Larry Ellison and Bill Gates, and the result-they are now the richest people in the United States People and the third richest man, in the process, their old enemy, old friend Steve Jobs has even passed away, and their dispute is still endless. Ellison Spiegel's California elite alliance and Jewish How will the top smart Zuckerberg match up? It's hard to tell, but it's going to be pretty exciting."

At this time, Candice returned to Los Angeles, and it was still Megan's office. The difference was that she was sitting side by side with Megan, and facing their biological mother——Elaine Day. profit.

"Candy, your arrogance has no end." Elaine's willingness to spend time flying to Los Angeles has already shown her attitude, but her desire to control makes her never easily agree to the other party's request, and this request can even be called arrogance , "Even if I don't know much about Hollywood, I know the Oscars are not the Grammys."

Indeed, compared with the Grammys who like to create huge surprises and create superstars for multiple awards, the Academy Awards Oscar is more like an occasion for sharing pork. Ok, you are good at spending enough money to play PR tricks, I will give you Awards, but how many important awards does a movie want to take away?no way.

Well, at least not that easy.

"The early release of "Hunting Bin Laden" has increased Mr. President's chances of re-election to a certain extent," Candice said with a calm smile, "compared to this, my ambition is nothing; The risk is on your side, it's not worth the nomination alone."

What she asked for was—

a legend.