Chapter 1038: ten years
Firefly Group Burbank headquarters.
Elizabeth took an assistant off the parking lot and walked straight into the Firefly Group's headquarters building. Compared with the past, today's Firefly Group headquarters is obviously a lot of lively, the people in the hall on the first floor are shaking, and the men and women in suits and suits gather together and chat.
Elizabeth knew that these people were just coming to the fireflies system executives who came to the meeting and left their assistants here. She went straight to the VIP elevator of the building.
When I came to the top floor of Eric's office and greeted the outside secretary, she pushed the door and went inside.
The situation in the office made Elizabeth slightly a little worried, Eric stood at the window and carried his chin, and Kelly Haynes was carefully helping the men to tie the tie.
When she saw Elizabeth coming in, Kelly squatted and then smiled and said, "Oh, Leeds, you are here, I have work to do, you can help Eric to tie the tie."
Kelly finished, loosened her tie, picked up a few documents on Eric's desk and nodded to Elizabeth, and left the office.
After Kelly left, Eric grabbed half of her neck and looked at Elizabeth, laughing: "Look, come over and help me tie."
Elizabeth pouted and walked to the front, raised her hand and took the tie in Eric’s hand, and couldn’t help but pull it. “You’re not afraid that I will strangle you, so many people are waiting outside, this time is still messy. Come."
"Well, anyway, how can I explain that you will not believe it."
Elizabeth ignored Eric and posted it on him for a few moments. Then he showed your eyes and said: "What are you going to do with such a big noise?"
Eric shook his head and said: "Nothing, just suddenly want everyone to get together, of course, do something small by the way."
Elizabeth is very dissatisfied: "Hey, you are so glaring at me, be careful that Fox doesn't cooperate with you here."
"It doesn't matter, if Fox dares not cooperate, I will go to clean up his boss's daughter tonight."
Elizabeth's head turned a bit, and the hand was a force: "You bastard."
"Slightly, I really want to be strangled," Eric smiled and grabbed Elizabeth's little hand and said, "Come on my tie and have good things for you."
Elizabeth’s movements accelerated and she was curious: “What?”
Eric smiled and didn't answer. When Elizabeth tied the tie, he took a script from the filing cabinet under the desk: "Hey, give it to you."
"The script you wrote?" Elizabeth said, picking it up and seeing it, "The Gladiator, the project of Ridley Scott, isn't it said that it has been confirmed to cooperate with Ann Berlin?" ”
The projects of the first-line directors of Hollywood will basically appear on the watch list of the executives of the studios. It is not surprising that Elizabeth directly said the information of "Gladiator".
Eric explained: "There was a problem with the funds in Ann Berlin. Of course, it may be that there is not enough confidence in this project, so I cut the project. On Saturday I met Tony Scott who just knew this. Things, I took the script and looked at it. I feel very good. However, the big production project on the firefly side has been scheduled for three years, so it is up to you to be responsible."
Elizabeth flipped a few pages at random, and some hesitated: "Epic film, now everyone knows that the risk of epic film is very high, even if it was the "Brave Heart" a few years ago, the box office was not too successful."
Eric said: "The script of "Gladiator" is more extensive than the "Brave Heart", and the director's skill of Ridley Scott is still guaranteed."
"Well, then I will go back and discuss it for everyone," Elizabeth nodded, and she naturally believed in Eric's judgment.
As the saying goes, the office door is pushed away again. The girl is rarely wearing a small shirt and white casual trousers today, but she still flies like a little girl and wraps it directly on Eric. It’s awesome at his waist, but there’s no Natasha’s 'killing power'.
Eric licked the small body of the girl and reached for her little hip. She said helplessly, "Don't make trouble, Leeds is here."
Shantou smiled and kissed Eric's face, stood up, and suddenly reached out to grab the script from Elizabeth's hand.
Elizabeth, who had been prepared for it, was skilled to avoid it, and the backhand was called again: "Xiaobichi."
When Shantou took back his hand and hugged Eric’s arm, he grievances: “Eric, she scolded me.”
Eric separated the two women who were not right at the head and said, "Okay, don't quarrel, let's go to the conference room. People are almost there."
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The largest conference room at the Firefly Group headquarters was filled with people. Eric walked outside with Elizabeth and Shantou, and Kelly just pushed the door out.
Eric stopped and asked, "Is everything ready?"
Kelly said: "There are some problems with the Nokia connection, but it is already good."
Eric nodded and took the lead and walked in.
When I saw Eric coming in, all the people who were whispering and chatting were all quiet, and they all got up and looked at Eric who had just entered the door.
At this time, the firefly system, in addition to the Firefly Group, the Fox Group and the MGM Group three executives in Los Angeles, the West Coast headquarters in San Francisco, the Firefly Electronics Big Three, the headquarters of San Diego-based Qualcome, several core executives also rushed over Other departments and companies were connected via video and appeared on ten 32-inch wall-mounted screens lined up on both sides of the large conference room.
Eric walked to the top position and took a folder from Caroline and nodded to everyone: "Let's sit down."
A lot of people were seated, and Eric was still standing there. He didn't have a seat in his position today.
Conference room, Hollywood system of Kasenberg, Frank Wells, Shantou, Elizabeth, Amy Pascal, John Cali, Joe Ross and Firefly Electronics Victor McNealy, Qualcomm The CEO, Owen Jacobs, and others sat on either side of the large conference table. On the conference room wall, ten 32-inch wall-mounted screens are connected with executives such as Robert Eiger of ABC in New York, Chris and Emily of Firefly Investment, John Chambers of Cisco Headquarters, and Yahoo! En Garnier and other ten offices like Apple, Sprint, Amazon, etc.
Sweeping around and around, feeling the gaze of dozens of people through the scene and the camera lens, Eric suddenly gave a feeling of smugness.
This is your own business empire.
Firefly Empire.
Eric’s feeling is that everyone on the scene and through the video connection to the conference has also produced an inexplicable shock.
Unconsciously, everyone found out that they were in such a huge business empire.
At this time, in addition to the Firefly Group, Cisco's market value has also exceeded 100 billion US dollars. Although it has been excluded from the firefly system, AOL, which still holds more than 15% of its shares, has already broken through 50 billion US dollars. Compared with the core Yahoo, Nokia, Firefly Electronics, LTD and other companies, the market value of the company has reached 10 billion or even tens of billions of dollars.
After years of accumulation, the size of the assets controlled by the entire firefly system has exceeded 400 billion US dollars.
According to recent statistics, among the latest data on GDP in the world, India ranks 13th, with a GDP of 429 billion US dollars, and Australia ranked 14th, with a GDP of only 380 billion.
In this way, only the firefly system is equivalent to controlling a huge ‘economic body’ ranked 14th in the world. It is a veritable rich enemy.
After a quiet moment in the conference room, Eric finally took a shot and attracted everyone's attention. He smiled and said: "The Yahoo Annual Meeting last year, Chris Wedding last year, everyone gathered together. I originally hoped This kind of party can be held once a year. However, this year has passed eight months. Everyone, including myself, is very busy. This year’s real party may not have time, so I have to choose this. The way to get together. Starting next year, I hope to be able to completely determine this gathering and arrange the date and itinerary in advance."
A group of people nodded in agreement, Eric took a two-step break and continued: "Of course, everyone must have discovered that this time we have a partner who has withdrawn from the meeting. This has to be said to be a pity. Because in my vision, all the companies in the firefly system are an indispensable part, and the departure of AOL has also made me realize that there are too many things in the world that are not always satisfactory, but I hope In the next few years, the vacancies left by AOL will be refilled."
After saying this, I paused for a moment and scanned all the people inside and outside the court. Eric suddenly smiled and said, "Well, everyone must have heard about what happened recently. It’s very lively. I suddenly feel that I will even By identifying the script, you can live well. After all, just my affirmation, I can raise the price of a script worth $100,000 to $7.5 million."
In the slightly ridiculous laughter of the crowd, Eric took another shot and continued: "Hey, let’s talk about it last time, watching everyone sitting in front of me and attending this meeting through video, I am now Still some people can't believe that this is all true."
Eric said, very casually pulling up the sleeves of the shirt, taking these memories, slowly said: "I remembered ten years ago, oh, it’s really just ten years, 1988, probably this time, I I was still a waitress in an Italian restaurant, and, because of some accidents, I suddenly found that I was left alone in my own world. Every day I gave the guests a gap in the plate. I was basically in a daze, thinking about my own business. I think about the future, thinking about it, I feel that I can't go on like this. At least, I should do something to prove that I am really real. Then I wrote my first novel. The first script, participated in the first film, and directed my first film. Now, in retrospect, I found out how lucky I am, because this way, I can always help myself. People."
"Standing in Hollywood, I founded the Firefly Group. Slowly, I also started to want to do more things. I admit that at the beginning, I was holding a very blind and completely speculative. The mentality to do these things is like investing in AOL, as well as Cisco, and even Nokia. My idea at the time was to wait for these companies to develop and then take the stocks that were invested at that time and make a lot of money. money."
Listening to the laughter that sounded again and again on the court, Eric also smiled and said: "But now, I have no idea of speculation, even if it is the AOL that is about to leave the big family of fireflies, I think everyone is sure It is very clear that there is not much money in this, but there is a conflict between the development concepts of the outside world, and the two sides have to be separated. In fact, if possible, I even hope that everyone can go hand in hand forever, because, Or the sentence I just had, in my heart, every team in the firefly system is indispensable."
With that said, Eric made a gesture to Carolyn, who was sitting next to him quietly. The engineering prototype that took a tablet computer from the other side was displayed in front of everyone. "Maybe, everyone will think that what I just said is Out of the box, but definitely not. In short, the future of the firefly system can be concentrated in this small machine. You must already know that this is the tablet developed by Firefly Electronics and Yahoo. Perhaps, at this time, you will have doubts in your heart. This has something to do with me. Of course, it has a relationship."
"In my vision, this machine can link the entire firefly system..."
For the next half hour, Eric is explaining that the planned tablet and even further smartphones will be the entire Firefly system of Internet devices, content, service providers and mobile communication equipment manufacturers, underlying technology research and development companies and even Hollywood. The media group's content services are connected in series to form a complete and ambitious blueprint for the information age industry.
Since Monday, Eric has been preparing for today's speech. Combined with the future development of the information industry in memory and the accumulated experience of these years, Eric's description of the future of the firefly system has made everyone on the scene fascinated.
It is blunt to say that if Eric's vision can be achieved, the entire 21st century may be the era of the firefly system, just as the two families of Morgan and Rockefeller in the 20th century relied on energy, automobile, and finance to control the whole world. That way.
At the time, I was convinced that Eric’s age factor was always inevitable for him to bring some contempt and prejudice to the elite.
This young man may not have a high degree like the Ivy League school, or perhaps they have no experience in the workplace that they have accumulated over the years, but this visionary that is manifested at this time may be that he can lead the firefly system in just ten years. Let's go to the present reason.
After all, there is no shortage of talents in this world, and there is no shortage of geniuses. What is lacking is only those who have a keen and forward-looking vision who can always walk on the right path.