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Hollywood Starts with Animation

Chapter 51

Author: Chief Minister
updatedAt: 2025-08-15

the second day.

    Silicon Valley, Wald building, ICQ.

    ICQ has just been established, and its CEO is weisig, 27; Vadi, the president, is 26 years old; Chief technology officer Goldfinger, 26 years old; And Annon Amir, 24, who just came from Israel to serve as director of marketing;

    It has to be said that ICQ is an Internet company with very young members.

    Of course, this situation is very common in Silicon Valley in the 1990s!

    Now the official version of ICQ has been successfully developed. Zhu Ke, who knows its future, naturally came here very early.

    "I''m really a genius. I won 40% of the original shares with 400000 US dollars. Even if the subsequent rounds of additional investment will dilute the shares, I will definitely make a lot of money!" There was a movement in Zhuk''s mind.

    In 1998, AOL paid more than US $400 million to acquire ICQ!

    "Juke, you''re here at last." Weisger said.

    Chuck said with a smile, "can I not come? I''m the chief creative officer of the company. "

    "Yes, yes."

    On one side, wadi and others kept nodding.

    Although Zhuke often does not come to ICQ company, he is absolutely qualified as the chief creative officer. Many of the proposed functions are in line with the development of ICQ. As soon as it comes out, its future development will be clear.

    Can''t it fit?

    Zhuke is a passer-by. Even if he was a member of the Chinese Empire in his last life, he didn''t know the specific function of ICQ, but didn''t he know QQ?

    Free software download;

    Membership grade title;

    Recharge members, enjoy the text color, member level acceleration, text effects and other functions;

    While developing the English version, we also develop the small languages of other countries;

    ......

    Zucker mentioned a lot of such suggestions.

    In particular, page simplification and the development of non English languages are particularly important.

    ICQ of the last generation, with its amazing creativity and free concept, has shocked the world and set off an upsurge of "online chat" all over the world. Even in non English Asian regions, it also occupies 70% of the market.

    Of course, due to the lack of development of non English languages, many non English speaking countries have rapidly launched ICQ like instant messaging software in their own languages.

    For example, qicq in the Great China Dynasty and QQ imitating qicq.

    The wrong operation of ICQ makes it lose the market of many countries in the world.

    Therefore, it is particularly important to develop non English languages!

    Secondly, the simplification of the page is also the key.

    Too many functions will make the software page appear too bloated, at the same time, many functions are not used by many people, which will greatly hurt the user''s experience.

    "Lao Tzu has put forward so many suggestions, I don''t believe that ICQ will not be as high as the previous life."

    Of course, Zhuke wants to go back, but he will never blindly think that ICQ will occupy the market of all countries in the world.

    In the early 2000''s, Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other giant enterprises entered the Great China, which one was not aggressive and had the momentum of being the second best.

    But what happened?

    It''s a fiasco!

    Therefore, from the beginning to the end, the purpose of Zhuke is very clear!

    That is to push ICQ to a higher level than the original time and space, and then successfully sell their own shares!

    "Please, I''m just an ordinary passer-by!"

    "In my last life, I said I was half a person in the entertainment industry. In fact, I was an ordinary loser!"

    "It''s very hard to run a film company at this stage. If you want to run a few more enterprises that are going to fail in the original time and space, you can''t be blind."

    "How can I do that?"

    "I don''t think that I have the ability to reverse the fate of a failed enterprise."

    "Well, even if I have the ability to reverse my fate by mistake, I will not do it. I''m just a shareholder. If all the shares in the company are mine, I can''t say that I will fight for them. "

    "As for ICQ?"

    "Forget it, just sell it at the peak."

    Zhuke kept looking at the technicians and testing the icq1.0 version on the spot. He had entered the rhythm of fantasy in his mind.

    .......

    "Mr. Wald, at present, the version 1.0 of rightness we have developed has been completed, and the results of one week''s test are quite perfect. Our server devices can at least meet the needs of 1 million people online at the same time." Chief technology officer Goldfinger said.

    Zhuke nodded and said, "it''s amazing to be able to meet 1 million people online at the present stage, but it''s not enough. I think we need to continue to add servers. In the future, we need to be able to meet tens of millions of people, even hundreds of millions of people online at the same time."

    Weisige, wadi and others agreed on the spot.

    Although young people have no money, they are absolutely motivated.

    In the following time, Zhuke made another suggestion.

    "You mean movie placement?"

    Weisger was surprised and said: "Zhuke, you''re right. The placement ads of popular movies do have a great effect on the early promotion of our products, but there''s no money on our company''s account now!"

    Wadi also said: "no money is the biggest problem."

    "In addition to money, it''s also very important to choose an unpublished film with high box office potential," Goldfinger lamented

    Money?

    High box office movies?

    Ha ha ~!

    Jack is a real chicken thief.

    You have no money, but I have money; You don''t know about movies that haven''t been shown and have high box office potential, but I do!

    Juno''s box office in North America is $140 million.

    Moreover, the audience of the film is mostly young people, which is particularly important for young groups on the Internet.

    "You guys, don''t forget that I''m the chief creative officer of ICQ, and I''m also the boss of a film company. Our company''s film Juno will be released in the near future. I can add embedded ads to the film. Well, of course, I have a charge. "

    The words fell, and the whole office was quiet on the spot.

    "Of course, I''ll give the company a discount of $300000," he added

    300000 dollars?

    It''s not expensive just for embedded ads.

    But the problem is that ICQ company has no money!

    "Money is not a problem," chucker said with a smile. I have! I can continue to invest more. "

    For a time, weisige and other entrepreneurial teams fell into the discussion.

    Zhuke was not in a hurry, so he watched them discuss.

    Finally, weisige and others gave in!

    Weisige is very smart right, but at this stage there is no money, is their biggest disadvantage.

    Because the version 1.0 of ICQ has been completed, and the equity proportion of Zhuke has been very high, reaching 40%, so this time, even if Zhuke made additional investment, the equity won''t be very much.

    An additional $500000 was added to take another 5% stake in ICQ.

    Zhuke saved his ICQ equity to 45%.

    The first largest individual shareholder at this stage!

    .......

    Back at Wald pictures in Burbank, Los Angeles, Zucker immediately asked Victor to contact director Lynn clyt, asking him to recall some of the actors and employees of the "Juno" crew, and add a few sets of advertising shots.

    "Boss, is this ICQ also your company?" Asked victor.

    Juke waved his hand and said with a smile, "not really. I''m just taking a small share. "

    A little bit of stock?

    That is to say, weisige is not here, otherwise he will certainly denounce Zhuke''s shamelessness.

    It''s more than 50% of his motherfucker''s block. How can he even say that he only has a small share?

    No double blessing, no single disaster!

    The ancients did not deceive me!

    The good news about the launch of ICQ has already excited Zhuke. No, just a few days later, he received a good news.

    The 40 episodes of SpongeBob Season 1 have been completed.

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