I’m in Hollywood Chapter 82: Pixar Change Master
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California Richmond, Eric has been here for three days. In the past few days, he hired a professional team of Silicon Valley to conduct a detailed investigation and evaluation of the assets of Pixar.
Jobs is anxious to complete the transaction, expressing its dissatisfaction with Eric's "excessive action" behavior, but there is no alternative. Eric doesn't care about the feelings of Jobs.
Although Jobs's talent is unquestionable, his character is really unflattering. However, in order to deny the child support of the illegitimate daughter, he can publicly claim to be the master of sexual incompetence. Therefore, it is impossible for Eric to complete the transaction without a detailed evaluation of Pixar.
Three days later, Pixar was located in a single-story office building in Richmond. Eric placed a thick dozen of evaluation documents on meeting table, gently tapped on the desktop with his fingers, and sat on the opposite Jobs Road: "Steve , I was very sincere in acquiring Pixar, but unfortunately, I did not see your sincerity. "
Jobs is not affected by the tone of Eric at all, and there is a helpless look on the face of the insider to see the layman: "Eric, if you have any doubts, you can say it, I will seriously answer it for you. I directly accuse me of not Sincerity, this is too serious. "
Eric lamented the psychological quality of Jobs. No matter how the inner activity is, there is no fear on the surface. This calmness is hard to achieve even for him, who has lived for two lifetimes.
He was n’t in a mood to play psychological warfare with Jobs, and he came straight to the point: "Okay, Steve, I said it directly. The reason why I bought Pixar, what I value is the 3D animation technology of Pixar, so you have sold the hardware department , I do n’t mind this point. "
Eric said, turning the data in his hand a few times before proceeding: "However, the data collected in my hand shows that in the graphics rendering software package developed by Pixar, the ownership of the three core software was set a while ago. Joined your next computer company, and the most important animation production system, although the core software is in, but the ownership of a coloring software has also been transferred. The reason why Pixar can receive Disney two-dimensional animation outsourcing projects, rely on This is the software that can greatly reduce the filling time. Do you need an explanation for these? "
Jobs is really not an honest person. The reason for this is that by virtue of luck, I want to ridicule Eric. Once successful, the software can be sold for millions of dollars. Some people may wonder how much a few pieces of software are worth. If this doubt arises, think about Microsoft.
But what Jobs did n’t expect was that Eric was indeed a layman, but he knew that the matter should be handed over to insiders, so he specially invited the professional evaluation team of Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is a place where technical lunatics get together, and it ’s also a great fraud In the terrible area, those people soon noticed Jobs's small movements.
Actually, after Eric made this move, Jobs didn't have any luck in it. But with his face, even if he was poked face to face, it would certainly not be so easy to follow.
"Eric, taking over Pixar for the past four years, I invested at least 50 million USD in Pixar, and the hardware department only sold 16 million. And your asking price is only 20 million, and the money is only enough to buy what I stay in Pixar."
Eric smiled mockingly, closed the folder, put his hands on meeting table, and stared at Jobs: "Steve, it seems that you still do n’t want to easily admit your failure. Well, I said a little more clearly, from Lucas acquires the single business of Pixar, you fail again, the loser must have the consciousness of the loser, loss is inevitable. In order to save your next computer company, you must complete the complete Pixar software department of Pixar Sell it to me at a low price. So, return those softwares before we can continue to talk about other ones. "
Jobs's face changed between blue and white a few times. As an extremely proud and self-confident person, he was always the only one who pointed at others for cursing. Now he is reprimanded by a young man who is more than ten years younger than himself. As a loser, even with his extraordinary psychological qualities, it is difficult to change his face.
Instead of pretending to be busy working in the workplace outside, John · Lasseter and others who actually raised their ears and listened to the conversation between the two, felt very refreshed.
Jobs has never been an amiable Boss. Every time he comes to Pixar, he will catch all the main creators and criticize their labor achievements for nothing. Then, on the condition of taking back part of the management ’s equity, he abandons a check .
After several years, with these methods, Pixar has completely become the personal property of Jobs, and all the shares in the hands of the management have been taken away by him.
Now I finally see Jobs being scolded by others. Based on this alone, the awkward emotions of working under a young man disappeared directly.
In the conference room, Jobs said with a stretched face: "Mr. Williams, you acquired Pixar, should you use it to make an animated movie? You have achieved great success in several consecutive movies, I believe many people will notice your Every move, if I reveal the news that you are optimistic about Pixar, there may be many people who are interested and pay a higher price, what do you think? "
Eric's right ring finger shook slightly, but fortunately this detail was not noticed by Jobs.
Forcibly throwing away this worry in the happy, Eric sneered without hesitation and said: "Mr. Jobs, your sentence is worth 1 million. I don't like others to pinch me, so I decided to compress the offer to 19million. Pixar is actually like a A camera, under my command, can shoot "Home Alone", can shoot 《Pretty Woman》, but in other Director hands, it is difficult to say anything. So, 19million USD, the complete Pixar software department. Think good , Call me before I leave Richmond. "
After finishing Eric, he packed his personal belongings and walked out of the Pixar office. Private lawyer Edward also quickly followed. It took a long time before Jobs walked out of the meeting room, glanced at the employees who were working or pretending to work, and abnormally did not get angry, and left Pixar Headquarters silently.
The next morning, Eric and Jobs sat in the meeting room again.
This is the case with many business negotiations, always going through several rounds of confrontation. Even if the last quarrel was insulting, it was almost necessary to slam my arms up, and there was a big two-shot posture, but at the beginning of the next round, everyone still had to be in a good mood to continue sitting together and then play.
Today Jobs obviously has dark circles under its eyes: "Eric, I did what I did before, and everyone will do their best for their own benefit. But I agree to return those softwares, but the price still has to be Keep 20 million USD unchanged. We ... are sane adults, and we ca n’t compress 1 million USD in just one sentence. That ’s what kids do. "
Eric does not want to force Jobs too hard. In case of a crash, he can spend money to set up another animation studio, but develop the corresponding software and accumulate enough technology, which not only requires a lot of money, but also requires a long time. Up to several years. Although Eric is not short of money, he does not have enough time to accumulate technology.
previous life everyone knows that 3D animation movies and the surrounding can bring huge profits, but Hollywood has always appeared so few well-known animation studios, because these studios are far ahead of other peers in technology, and occupy at the same time Off the market.
It's a very difficult thing for others to catch up. It's a very difficult thing for you to do for a few years, and finally you have reached a certain level, but other people's skills have accumulated more than you for years. In this situation, the latecomer can never keep up with his predecessors.
In the conference room, the two had been talking to each other for half an hour. It was impossible for Eric to swallow all the words they said yesterday. Finally, both parties made a small concession and reached the price of 19500,000 USD.
After taking back the ownership of the software, Eric once again confirmed the correctness before signing the contract readily. Jobs collected the check and glanced at the employees who had been working under his own for several years. He felt that there was nothing to say, so he nodded and turned to leave Pixar Headquarters.