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Chapter 373 The Butterfly Effect
At least compared to other Hollywood companies, Ted Sarando has the support of financial backers, Weta special effects studio, IMDB website, and the support of many brother companies and allies.

To put it bluntly, when DreamWorks was first established, apart from the fame of Spielberg's Big Three, it may not have a family background like Ted Sarando.

The key is that apart from Western Films, I am afraid that other major Hollywood companies may not choose it. Ted Sarando, who is not very famous, will be the head.

Of course, for Ted Sarando, this is his opportunity as well as his pressure. If he fails to achieve results for a long time, then even if Song Yang favors him, Ted Sarando will not be able to play in the western movie. Sitting in the CEO position for too long!
In addition to performance, although Song Yang didn't say it outright, Ted Sarando still felt that Song Yang let Western Films launch the Internet video business, I am afraid that he wanted Western Films to take advantage of the wind of the Internet. Then it will be listed within a few years, otherwise there is no need to toss for so long.

Western Films officially announced that Ted Sarando became the head of the news. For Vanity Fair Hollywood, it did not cause much sensation. After all, Ted Sarando is not very famous now.

As for why Song Yang chose Ted Sarando as the president of Western Films, many voices appeared. Just like Song Yang’s selection of Iger as the president of American Telecom, many people believed that Song Yang chose Ted Sharando is cheap enough to be the president of Western Films...

After all, compared to those Wall Street executives who have been removed from the list, Ted Sarando's current salary is not high, and it is indeed "cheap" enough.

No matter what Hollywood talks about, Ted Sarando has begun to take over the position of president of Western Films, and Western Films has officially entered the era of Ted Sarando.

As soon as he took over the western film industry, Ted Sarando started to cooperate with ICNC TV station in addition to starting to promote "The Matrix", and started to co-produce TV series.

Ted Sarando used his contacts in Hollywood to find a group of powerful screenwriters and producers, and began to formulate projects and plans for Western Films. The entire Western Films began to operate like a sophisticated machine.

When the western film industry started to get busy, 25-year-old Reed Hastings was depressed to pay a fine. The "Apollo 13" disc he rented from Blockbuster was overdue and he was paying the fine.

For Reed Hastings, who has now achieved financial freedom, a fine of forty dollars is nothing to him, but it still makes Reed Hastings, who likes mathematics and has studied numbers feeling annoyed.

Reed Hastings was not born in an unknown family. His great-grandfather, Fred Loomis, was one of the earliest big names on Wall Street. The stock market crash in America in 1929 not only did not make his great-grandfather go bankrupt, but brought him ahead of schedule. Foreseeing the stock market crash is a big profit.

His great-grandfather was also the patron of a laboratory. The personnel in this laboratory included figures like Einstein, Fermi, and Lawrence. One can imagine how Reed Hastings' family was.

Reed Hastings, whose father was a barrister and whose mother had worked for the Confederate General during the Watergate incident, belonged to a truly distinguished family of American origin.

Reed Hastings was born in the upper class of American society, grew up in the wealthy area of ​​Boston, graduated from Bowdoin College, trained in the Marine Corps, worked as a mathematics lecturer in Swaziland, and studied computer science at Stanford University. After his degree, Reed Hastings built his own software company.

Last year, when Song Yang just debuted, Reed Hastings also appeared on the cover of "America Today" as a "technical genius". .

Reed Hastings made his debut very early. As early as five years ago, he established a company to measure software quality. The company established by Tings has also been targeted by big investors, and is currently in the process of negotiating an acquisition. If there is no accident, the scale of this transaction will be around [-] million US dollars.

For Reed Hastings, who comes from an extraordinary family, this acquisition only allowed him to "realize" his own value, and he was not too excited. Therefore, compared with his counterparts in Silicon Valley, although he is also in Silicon Valley, California But Reed Hastings seldom appeared in front of the camera like Anderson and Yang Zhiyuan. He was very low-key. Even the media reported more about Song Yang than Reed Hastings!
Back at the residence, Reed Hastings, who was still feeling impatient, turned on the TV and saw the news on the TV station, which was reporting the news about Song Yang and Western Films.

For Song Yang's news, Reed Hastings is no longer surprised. In Silicon Valley or even California, as long as it involves technology and Internet news, the three people with the highest frequency are undoubtedly Anderson, Yang Zhiyuan and Song Yang is gone.

"Western Films, the Hollywood film and television company under Bruno Song, officially announced today that Ted Sarando will be the president. The outside world predicts that this is one of Bruno Song's signals for the rectification of Western Films. There are Silicon Valley Internet professionals. The personage claimed that the possibility that Western Films will conduct business in the Internet industry in the future cannot be ruled out..."

Watching the news on TV and seeing Song Yang's report, Reed Hastings suddenly felt a sense of enlightenment in his heart.

In Silicon Valley, the evaluation of Song Yang's personality is the typical style of his origin in West Texas. He treats the Trade Commission, Wall Street, and his previous opponents. Will show mercy.

Thinking of the forty-dollar late fee charged by Blockbuster, Reed Hastings, who always felt owed something, couldn't help but think, what would he do to Blockbuster if it was Song Yang?
Reed Hastings feels that the most likely possibility is that Song Yang is going to overthrow Blockbuster and cancel the late fee!

Thinking of this, Reed Hastings, who had been preparing to sell the company for five years, inexplicably had an idea, what would happen if a company was established to replace Blockbuster?
As soon as this idea appeared, it appeared in his mind like crazy weeds, and immediately called his good friends Mark Randolph, Melold and others.

And on the second day when Ted Sarando became the head of the western film industry, a company called Netflix, which mainly engaged in online disc rental, was established.

Song Yang didn't pay too much attention to the grievances between Blockbuster and Netflix. The current Blockbuster is not a dying existence that will fall if the wind blows, but a company with a market value of more than 60 billion US dollars and owns Strong cash flow.

Two years ago, Redstone of Viacom, also with the help of Blockbuster's cash flow, killed his competitor, Hollywood godfather-level figure, former Paramount president Barry Diller, with more than 100 billion US dollars Got Paramount.

Even if Netflix was established, even if Netflix and Reed Hastings boasted about the hype, they are still being beaten by Blockbuster.

As long as Netflix does not transform into Internet video, Western Films does not need to pay attention to Netflix. As for Blockbuster, unless it kills itself, no one can kill it in the video rental industry now, and neither can Netflix. , After the rise of Internet video and the ability to download videos and movies on the Internet at will, Blockbuster will finish it by itself.

Of course, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and Blockbuster still has a lot of good things. For so many years, Blockbuster has gone around Hollywood and holds a huge library of film and television copyrights. Although it is not a well-known film and television copyright, it is better than others. If there is a chance, Western Films can take over Blockbuster's copyright library, show old movies on the film and television channel of ICNC TV station, and add some inventory to IMDB...

In Los Angeles, after choosing a leader for Western Films and hanging out with Jenny for a few days, Song Yang returned to San Jose. There was already a person who had rushed to San Jose, waiting for Song Yang to meet him.

In a Japanese-established hotel in San Jose, Satomi sat in a Japanese-style room in the hotel, looking out the window at the street.

In the 80s, Japan Benzene bought a part of America. Although most of them have dissipated now, Japan Benzene still retains a lot of its investment in America, especially hotels and real estate, which are still in operation. From being blatantly in front of the stage to behind the scenes.

As the president of Sammy Corporation, the second largest pachinko machine manufacturer in Japan, Satoshi Satomi came to America this time quietly and without disturbing anyone. I stayed in this Japanese-style hotel on purpose.

Thinking of the quotation that he received suddenly a few days ago, Satomi still feels a little unbelievable. There is no rumor, and even Satomi has never heard of the name of Xueleshan Ribenzene Company. The offer was to buy the entire Sammy business in Japan and Southeast Asia, which shocked Satomi and the Sammy board of directors.

But after being stunned, Satomiji and Sammy Company got to know Xuele Mountain, but they were a little moved. The previous Xuele Mountain was not loved by uncles and grandma. Think of it as a cash cow in search.

But the current Xuele Mountain is different from the past. The new owner attaches great importance to Xuele Mountain, just like a knife is not money, and keeps giving Xuele Mountain blood transfusions, allowing Xuele Mountain to stand up again in a short period of time. Going around in the games industry.

But this time, Xueleshan established a company in Japan and suddenly made a move to Sammy, which made Samy wonder what Xueleshan was going to do.

Thinking that Xue Leshan was going to attack the pachinko room industry, Satomiji's heart couldn't help jumping. If this news got out, the entire Japanese pachinko room industry would be shaken up!

(End of this chapter)