Cisco has achieved rapid development after getting capital injection from Sequoia Capital. Just like in history, Henry does not worry too much about it.
On July 1, 1986, Henry heard a news that Industrial Light & Magic was going to sell its computer animation department. After Henry listened, he almost jumped with excitement! This computer animation department will be the famous Pixar company in the future. Pixar's brilliance must be understood by many people who follow Hollywood, and it is definitely a very powerful animation film company! Later, Disney spent $7.4 billion to acquire it!
Henry knew that there was a rare opportunity, and if I missed this opportunity, there would be no bargain! Of course, he has a competitor-former Apple CEO Jobs (Jobs was kicked out of Apple in 1985)!
In order to understand the situation, Henry sent someone to Industrial Light & Magic to inquire about this matter. That night, he got an accurate answer.
Henry thought about how to win the computer animation department. He now has more than 20 million US dollars. The draft fee for "Harry Potter" gave Henry ample confidence. Moreover, in his previous life, Jobs bought the computer animation department for only ten million dollars, and Henry didn't even mind the extra ten million. On the next day, Henry organized the manpower, and in the name of Nicholas Bookstore, he proposed to George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic to acquire the intention.
Nicholas Bookstore has developed and has become famous. As the head of the stunt company, George Lucas may naturally have heard of the name of Nicholas Bookstore! With the development of Cisco and the Internet, Nicholas Bookstore has also grown by leaps and bounds. Although as early as 1985, Symbolics registered the first domain name, but the world's first website in the true sense still belongs to the Nicholas Bookstore website, because it uses the WWW protocol, and the content of the website also conforms to the W3C standard, which will be the World Wide Web in the future. Alliance standards. Since the success of the Nicholas Bookstore website, many companies have followed suit and set up their own websites.
But some of these companies don't know how to build a website, so they contacted Nicholas Bookstore and asked it to help design a website. For this, Nicholas Bookstore has made a lot of money! The Netscape browser has become the carrier of the website, with simple and easy-to-use functions, smooth and fast, and it has won the likes of all users! After the establishment of many company websites, Nicholas Bookstore took the lead to establish the most authoritative and influential international neutral technical standards organization in the field of web technology-Nicholas Web Alliance!
The main members of the alliance are: Nicholas Bookstore, Cisco.
Although the alliance has few members, low strength, and not much reputation, many companies are willing to join in the world's leading web technology! Nicholas Bookstore had studied for a long time in order to make the Netscape browser. For this reason, it also specially developed the XML Extensible Markup Language and XHTML Hypertext Markup Language to facilitate the production of web pages. Of course, the original R&D personnel would not think of these, it was Henry who asked them to do it! After applying for a patent, these relevant language standards were published in professional computer magazines, and they were provided to all computer enthusiasts to learn and use for free.
The so-called first-class enterprise sets the standard! !
Netscape browsers are going to be developed, and they don't set standards and don't take patents. Are they waiting for Microsoft to counterattack in the future?
Henry's ambition is to establish a strong patent barrier, so that Microsoft and other companies cannot compete with itself! !
Imagine that all websites use Nicholas web standards. Who can use Microsoft's Internet Explorer? No other websites can be searched on IE. Not only will users not use it, but other companies will not build websites on it. It is too difficult for Microsoft to break this deadlock!
George's Industrial Light and Magic is also one of the users of Nicholas Bookstore. They are also using the Netscape browser, and they have applied for a domain name and established their own website. Therefore, George also knows the name of Nicholas Bookstore. After hearing Nicholas Bookstore's intention to acquire its own computer animation department this time, I was also very willing to contact the two parties to discuss the acquisition.
However, when Henry rushed to Industrial Light & Magic with the negotiating team, he actually saw Jobs. Henry shook his head speechlessly, yelling at George Lucas, this guy is too shameful, he actually called his rival!
When Jobs and George saw Henry, they both froze for a moment. They didn't wake up until Henry introduced himself. George stared at Henry in amazement, obviously very curious about Henry, but Jobs looked like a **** and didn't put Henry in his eyes at all. When Henry saw Jobs, his heart became even more determined to seize the Pixar animation factory!
Jobs later became famous because of Pixar's success, and Apple's board of directors felt that Jobs was indeed awesome, and he could bring Pixar to glory, so that Jobs could get the chance to return to Apple. And Henry is about to break his path, and then Apple is likely to fail, and Henry will have the opportunity to acquire it! !
Henry looked firm, and under the leadership of George Lucas, he and Jobs came to the meeting room.
Obviously, this negotiation is a tripartite talk!
With a smile on his face, George asked everyone to sit down and said: "Mr. Jobs and Henry kids both want to acquire the computer animation department of Industrial Light & Magic. On behalf of Industrial Light & Magic, I welcome you! Then, when the negotiations begin, please say first Talk about your conditions!"
Henry hadn't spoken yet, and Jobs had rushed to the front and said: "I am very interested in the computer animation department of Industrial Light and Magic. I hope George can sell it to me. Because only I can bring it to success!!!" Jobs 1 The face is rebellious and confident, "George, the computer animation department is also a part of your Industrial Light and Magic. You don't want it to be entrusted to inhumans and destroyed in the hands of some people?!" Obviously, Jobs It means something, but there is something in the words.
Henry blushed, showing a trace of anger, and counterattacked: "Mr. Jobs is right. If the computer animation department of Industrial Light and Magic is abolished, I am afraid it will damage the reputation of Industrial Light and Magic. So You must find a capable company to take over. Although Mr. Jobs founded Apple, well..."
Henry chuckled, there was no need to point at all, anyway, everyone knew what he meant.
Steve Jobs's face was blue at the moment, his eyes fired, he was the founder of Apple, but in the end he was swept out by Apple, which is simply a shame! Henry blatantly exposes his scars in front of him. How can this make him not angry? Henry felt that if his eyes could kill, he estimated that he would be killed by Jobs 10,000 times! !
George Lucas saw that the atmosphere was so wrong, and he immediately came out to make ends meet: "Harmony makes money, and harmony makes money. We are all friends, so why bother about it! Come on, let's continue to talk, continue to talk..."
Steve Jobs's face was still cold, his temper was as if he had taken gunpowder, he slapped the table, and said loudly: "George, I bought the computer animation department, I see who dares to fight with me!!"
Henry sneered on his face, and, following the way Jobs was, he slapped the table and shouted, "Mr. Lucas, I also bought the computer animation department!!"
George Lucas was secretly happy that the more the two sides competed, the higher the price of the final sale.
"Hehe, I am optimistic about the abilities of the two of you. I believe that the computer animation department can be brilliant under your leadership. Then, now it depends on who pays more. Whoever pays more, I will sell it to whom!"
As soon as George Lucas finished speaking, Jobs calmed down, and Henry couldn't let Lucas this "fisherman" easily succeed. In terms of bidding, both parties are very conservative and test the other's bottom line. Jobs first shouted: "Eight million dollars!"
But even George Lucas disagreed with this price. Once Jobs finished speaking, he even refused: "The low price is 10 million US dollars. Don't sell it if you don't!"
Come on, a negotiation finally turned into an auction.
Henry smiled, then raised his hand, and said lightly: "Eleven million..."
"12.5 million..."
As soon as Jobs finished his voice, Henry immediately shouted: "18 million!!"
When he heard this offer, Jobs couldn't help frowning. The price actually far exceeded the true value of the Industrial Light and Magic Computer Animation Department. Jobs felt that Henry was not buying things, but **** off. He was so dizzy and extremely stupid! Coupled with Henry's young age and impulsiveness, it's possible to make arbitrary bids. After calmly thinking about it, Jobs decided to withdraw from this competition. Therefore, he did not continue to bid.
George Lucas was already very happy in his heart. He originally planned to package and sell the entire computer animation department for $10 million. Now I have encountered a man who is willing to pay 8 million dollars more. This is really a big surprise!
"Kid Henry really has extraordinary courage. From now on, the computer animation department under Industrial Light & Magic will be yours!" George Lucas said while looking at Henry with a smile.
"Hehe." Henry chuckled lightly.
Jobs looked a little gloomy, immediately snorted, said goodbye to George, and left Industrial Light & Magic. And Henry had to discuss some detailed issues with George. Henry must ensure the integrity of the entire computer animation department, including the entire technical and management team, as well as various equipment, computer animation production software and patents. Since Henry has paid so much money, he doesn't want to be pitted by George in the end!
George Lucas agreed to Henry's request one by one. If you want to sell it, you can sell it simply, and since the buyer has paid a big price, if you cheat others, your reputation will not be very good. Furthermore, George was also worried that if Henry didn't buy it, wouldn't the extra eight million dollars be gone? Where are you going to find the second taker! !
George was refreshed, Henry was refreshed, and signed the contract in the afternoon. However, in terms of payment methods, Henry only promised to pay half first, and the latter half would be paid in three months. Henry didn't have the money to pay in one go, but he had to leave a sum of money for emergency use. The huge sale of "Harry Potter" brought him more than 20 million U.S. dollars in income. Coupled with the inheritance of his grandfather's estate, Henry is still very rich, which adds up to nearly 40 million U.S. dollars! Although a lot of money was spent on investing in Nicholas Bookstore and Cisco (Among them, Cisco invested only 3 million, and Nicholas Bookstore invested more than 10 million), but his bank card still has more than 20 million dollars left. And at the end of the year, Penguin Publishing will pay Henry the manuscript fee, which may have another tens of millions of dollars in income!
George considered it for a while, and finally agreed to Henry's terms. After completing the acquisition, Henry, under the leadership of George, went to the Computer Animation Department to inspect the situation. The people in the computer animation department seemed to have known about the arrival of Henry and others, and did not seem very surprised. But to learn that the new boss is a twelve-year-old boy, everyone is a little confused! Originally, they felt that they were abandoned by the company, like an abandoned child, so they were not in a good mood and were very depressed. But after all, there is still a glimmer of hope, maybe the next new boss will be a Bole, able to recognize and appreciate himself! Unexpectedly, the new boss is a twelve-year-old boy! !
"Does a twelve-year-old boy buy and play?" Thinking of this, everyone in the studio was desperate, and morale was so low that it was almost at the bottom!
Henry must stand up at this time. He understood that if they were allowed to continue to sink, perhaps this investment would be in vain. Henry deliberately coughed a few times to attract everyone's attention, and then said loudly: "Do you feel disappointed when you see me? Actually, I want to tell you. You should not be disappointed, but should be happy, you should be very happy! Don't! Seeing that I am young, but am aspiring not to be in my senior year, I definitely decided not to pat my head to buy the computer power department, but to make this decision after careful consideration in advance!"
Henry paused, and then said: "I want to make a computer animation, a classic full-length animated film that can be shown on the movie screen. I am very optimistic about you, I think you are the best team in this industry. For this reason, I even bought this computer animation department at a high price. I hope this computer animation department can achieve great success in the future. I hope this computer animation department can become synonymous with global classic animation. When thinking of animation, the first thing that comes to mind must be our computer animation department!!"
Papa...
Henry had just finished speaking, and the applause suddenly surged.
After the applause stopped, Henry glanced at everyone and asked: "Which of you are Edwin Cartham and John Lasset?" Henry knew these two people. Edwin Cartham was the creator of Pixar. He is the inventor of purely computer-made movies, and he is a technical master. And John Lasseter is the driver of Pixar's creativity and belongs to the creative talent.
Edwin Katem is in his forties, mature and stable, and now he is the head of the computer animation department of Industrial Light & Magic.
And John Lasseter is young, only 29 years old.
When Henry asked, Edwin and John both stood up and introduced themselves. When they finished their introduction, Henry nodded, and then announced to everyone: "From today, the computer animation department will be renamed Pixar Animation Studios and become an independent company (), Edwin will serve as the CEO. , John is the chief creative consultant! In addition, I want to tell you a huge good news!!"
Speaking of this, Henry deliberately stopped, and then looked at them. Seeing them all looking at him curiously, Henry smiled, no longer stunned, and announced to them: "The good news is that after the establishment of Pixar Animation Studios, I will continue to invest 10 million US dollars. !!and…"
Henry stopped in the middle of talking, everyone was happy and anxious, and what, hurry up? !
"Moreover, I will use 12.5% of the shares to start an equity incentive plan to reward employees who have made outstanding contributions to the company!"
When everyone heard this, they cheered and their morale was high and full of motivation!
Equity incentive plan allows everyone to enjoy the economic benefits and rights brought by equity, participate in corporate decision-making, share profits, and bear risks as shareholders. This is an excellent way to attract talent! Henry not only intends to implement an equity incentive plan in Pixar, but also implements an equity incentive plan in all his holding companies!
It's just that, in order to boost morale, Pixar Animation Studios took the lead in launching the plan!
Looking at the excited faces in front of him, Henry believes that in the near future, Pixar Animation Studios will surely shock Hollywood and the world! !