Los Angeles.
Daenerys Studios in Malibu.
Before eight o'clock in the morning, Amy Pascal had already arrived at the company. The 'Embracing the Internet' press conference at ten o'clock this morning is related to whether Daenerys Entertainment can successfully achieve a market value of one trillion before the Internet bubble bursts. She can't help but ignore it.
I personally checked the layout of the press conference located in the employee activity center on the second floor of the movie theater, made some temporary adjustments, and started styling again. I was in front of the dressing table, holding the manuscript while rehearsing the various speeches that were to come.
This goes until nine o'clock, when preparations are completed and many guests specially invited today have to be entertained.
In addition to its own management, there are also Jeff Bezos, CEO of Ygrit, Neil Brantley, president of Tincobel, and many other business executives, political and business celebrities inside and outside the Westeros system, etc. , were all invited to Los Angeles to attend this press conference.
After spinning like this for more than an hour, less than ten minutes before the start of the press conference, the event center hall was already filled with guests, and Amy was finally able to return to the lounge backstage to catch her breath briefly.
Then I saw a small female executive, with a little one in her arms, chatting leisurely with Robert Iger, who came all the way from the East Coast yesterday.
Feeling a little thirsty, she still resisted the urge to drink water, mainly because she was worried about ruining the lip makeup carefully done by the makeup artist. After greeting several people in the lounge, Amy came to sit next to Nancy Brill, stretched out her hand and squeezed She patted the face of the little boy who looked very beautiful because his parents' genes were good enough, and said dissatisfied: "I'm so busy that I'm so busy. You actually brought your child here. Nancy, you can't even give a speech on today's product introduction." Not prepared?"
"Of course I'm ready." Nancy felt that her son seemed to be grabbing Amy's brooch, and let his small body lean over. Seeing that Amy had no choice but to dodge, she pulled her son back and said with a smile, "Everyone understands this announcement. What could it be for, Amy, there’s no need for you to be so nervous.”
In the final analysis, this is a show to use the concept of the Internet to push Daenerys to hit a trillion-dollar market value. Whether it can achieve its goal will probably be known next week.
And if it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t really matter.
After all, no one can deny Daenerys Entertainment’s dominant position in the American and global entertainment industries.
Of course, this is just Nancy's idea.
As the nominal head of Daenerys Entertainment, Amy Pascal is very much looking forward to adding another dazzling medal to her career. She is not short of money now, and people who are not short of money often pursue reputation. .
After all, there is always something to pursue, right
Thinking like this, Amy saw that the little one still looked helpless, so she simply took off the platinum brooch inlaid with rubies, handed it to the little one in Nancy's arms, and said: "Nancy, you used to work very hard. , it seems that Alex has successfully bound you."
The smart little guy who also inherited his parents' brains is already over a year old and knows what he can eat and what he can't. Nancy still carefully watched her son to prevent him from putting the brooch in his mouth. Listening to Amy's teasing, she didn't feel embarrassed at all. With some small satisfaction. But he would not admit it, and looked at his son Nuannuan: "It's so naughty. I want to throw him away many times."
"Compared to the one at home, Alex is already very well-behaved." Amy competed without any trace, and found that she was really no match. She couldn't help but hold the little guy's arm and shake it, and said with a 'provocative' tone: " Alex, what should you do if your mother doesn’t want you?”
The little guy was spreading out his mother's outstretched palm, and gently drawing something on Nancy's palm with the expensive brooch. Hearing this, he looked up, blinked, and replied in a childish voice with clear words and logic: "I'm going to Cape Dume."
When she was too busy, or on business trips, Nancy would send the little one to the Dume Point Manor.
When Amy heard this answer, she couldn't hold it back and burst into laughter.
Robert Egger and the others next to him couldn't help but smile.
Of course, everyone knew the identity of the little one in front of them, but it was really hard to laugh at the fact that the little boy in front of him, who was only a year old, responded to Amy's question with such a clear mind. The key was an answer that everyone would definitely not mention under normal circumstances. .
Nancy was depressed. She opened her mouth and took a bite on her son's face. She pretended to be angry and said, "I will send you to Dumei Point Manor later. You will never see your mother again."
The little boy, who had just thought clearly, acted as if he didn't hear anything this time, as if he knew his mother was just bluffing, and lowered his head to play with the expensive brooch again, looking quite calm.
This made everyone chuckle again.
Comparing it with her own children, Amy had to admit that she was a little envious of her boss's children's intelligence that seemed to be in their genes. However, when she thought about a little girl named Seattle Westeros, well, what she saw in front of her was Little guy, it’s actually quite normal.
After chatting for a while, the staff came forward to remind Amy that she had to get up. She also reminded Nancy that if she got stuck on stage later, she would decisively deduct her bonus.
It's ten o'clock sharp.
Daenerys Entertainment's 2000 Autumn Corporate Development Strategy Conference titled "Embracing the Internet" officially began.
After the opening speech, Amy Pascal first reviewed the achievements Daenerys Entertainment has accumulated in the Internet industry in the past few years, and then, there was a carefully prepared pie.
The plan takes three years and is expected to invest US$15 billion.
The content covers many aspects such as membership system, online games, film and television rentals, etc. Most of them are follow-up expansion plans for Daenerys Entertainment’s existing business.
Such as membership services.
Prior to this, Daenerys Entertainment's membership services were mainly limited to North America. However, after this time, at least in the explicit plan, Daenerys Entertainment will promote its membership business globally.
The ultimate goal is that in any corner of the world, as long as you have a membership of Daenerys Entertainment, you can enjoy a large number of Daenerys Entertainment's various services. Moreover, no matter where you are in the world, your membership can be used globally.
Obviously, to achieve this, the cooperation of the Internet platform is essential.
Then there is the game business, which has been the focus of Daenerys Entertainment’s growth in recent years. This time, the emphasis is on online games.
Simon also made some suggestions, giving a well-known concept of the 'metaverse' in memory, and Daenerys Entertainment's team deconstructed it into the idea that in the future people will have two lives, one online and one online. Planted offline.
Online games are an important carrier of this double-sided life.
Daenerys Entertainment also plans to continuously open up the channel between reality and fantasy through linkage, such as people's virtual assets, so that they can also be realized in reality, and so on.
Next, there is film and television rental.
This is very simple. Blockbuster will further increase the proportion of online business, and the ultimate goal is to fully realize digitalization.
In addition to existing business, of course there are also some new projects.
For example, the cloud rendering service for Daenerys special effects will be launched soon.
In fact, this has been a project that Daenerys Entertainment has been developing privately for a long time. It plans to connect the company's rendering farms around the world through the network. In addition to its own use, it will also provide services to film and television special effects, animation production and game design. businesses in related fields are open.
When the project starts, no matter where a company is in the world, as long as it can connect to the Internet, it can complete the rendering work of film and television images and other content at a relatively low price, without having to invest huge sums of money to build its own rendering server.
This is actually a type of cloud computing service.
In private discussions, Simon was hesitant about letting Daenerys Entertainment be responsible for this service, and felt that it would be better to transfer it to Ygritte. However, he ultimately complied with the attitude of his own executives.
After all, this service can be directly used by Daenerys Entertainment's film, animation and game businesses, and the demand is very high. It is inconvenient to transfer it to Igrit, even if it is their own company, separated by one layer.
The disadvantage is that Daenerys Entertainment does not have Ygritte's increasingly mature global business operations team, broad platform and a large number of direct potential customer groups.
The obvious fact is that Igrit's user base completely exceeds Daenerys' online business by several orders of magnitude.
In any case, this part of the business had nothing to do with the overall situation, so Simon didn't force it.
In addition to these own businesses, Daenerys Entertainment will also spend US$3 billion out of the US$15 billion planned budget to invest in Internet start-ups related to its own entertainment business.
Venture capital is actually something Daenerys has been doing quietly. For example, in recent years, she has invested in many movie and game information websites as an online marketing aid for her own related products.
This time it was just a big publicity.
All in all, the press conference lasted for an hour and a half, with Daenerys' executives taking turns to appear, and the media's flashlights in the audience continued, making it very lively.
After the press conference, a large number of pre-arranged press releases immediately flooded onto the Internet platform, and the topic quickly occupied the top spot on mainstream Internet portals. Later, major TV stations, the evening newspapers, etc. also quickly followed up, comprehensively flowering.
This is also a tacit understanding that does not require excessive contact between all parties.
The Nasdaq can't hold on for much longer. Anyone with some sense knows this. Therefore, many people are actually slowly exiting the market. It just so happens that this shot in the arm from Daenerys Entertainment can finally attract a group of leeks to come in and take over, making it easier for everyone to escape.
Of course, no one will feel that they are actually the leek.
As for Daenerys Entertainment's attempt to hit a trillion-dollar market value, many people are also aware of it, and some funds have even made up their minds to help.
After all, compared to other speculated concept IT stocks with price-earning ratios of hundreds or thousands of times, Daenerys Entertainment is still quite value for money. Moreover, speculating on a trillion-dollar company will also have an impact on the leeks outside the market. to attract.
Amid all this hubbub, a new week is approaching, and when major mainstream newspapers and morning news programs take turns to report on Daenerys Entertainment's "Embracing the Internet" press conference, countless people inside and outside Wall Street are already ready to make a move.