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I saw a report yesterday that the mainstream purchaser of iPhone 11 has become post-00s. I have to admit that the vitality of Apple's products is still strong today.
Jobs changed the world with his ideas and products. Countless people use his products.
But few people remember that today is the 8th anniversary of Steve Jobs' death. On October 5, 2011, he died at the age of 56 due to a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor.
The Prodigal Son is just a movie account. I wanted to find a movie about Steve Jobs's life to show his respect; but sadly discovered that all movies titled "Jobs Biography" are all rubbish without exception. Filmmakers' understanding of entrepreneurship, technology and entrepreneurial spirit is not as profound as they think.
After going over and over again, I found a movie that is not very well-rated and well-known, but can deeply interpret the heart of entrepreneurs and creators: "The Hummingbird Project . "
This film is also the best entrepreneurial film in the heart of the prodigal son, not one of them.
It takes 16 milliseconds for a hummingbird to wave its wings once
As an arrogant film critic, I hate the retelling of movie plots with illustrations. But considering the relatively niche "Hummingbird Project", I still have to introduce it.
Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg, "Janxi", once starred in Mark Zuckerberg, Lex Luther) is a high-frequency trader in Kansas-what is high-frequency trading, we Does not expand. You only need to know that high-frequency trading is the act of trading securities in milliseconds or even nanoseconds. The faster the network speed and the higher the computing power, the more money can be made.
Therefore, major high-frequency trading companies are desperately improving their network response speed. Vincent, on the other hand, bet on a very earthy but very fast speed- up plan- pulling an optical cable across the United States that goes straight to Wall Street. Once this idea is realized, he can increase the transaction response speed to about 16 milliseconds-the time it takes for a hummingbird to move its wings once, so this project is called the "Hummingbird Project" , which will bring him wealth and freedom.
So he gave up his job, offended his boss, gambled on everything and started his own business. And his partner is the technical core of the original unit: his bald cousin Anton (Alexander Skarsgard, Big E, just won the Golden Globe Award). The reason why Vincent attracted Anton is also very simple. The company disagreed with Anton's speed-up plan and began to study signal towers instead.
Vincent's execution is very strong. He found investor Brian and quickly completed the financing. Then I found more than a dozen construction teams and started laying lines across the United States.
In the process of traversing the United States, he encountered various problems. For example, the optical cable must pass through the national park, otherwise the response speed will be much slower and everything will be meaningless. Vincent can only use debt to force investors to think of ways to pass the underground of the national park over budget.
During this process, Anton also discovered that even if the project is completed, the response speed should be 17 milliseconds instead of 16 milliseconds under today's technical conditions. The difference of 1 millisecond is the difference between heaven and earth. Vincent did not hesitate to put him under house arrest and let him upgrade his skills. In order to break through this 1 millisecond, Anton made his head bald even day and night.
Vincent, who was in charge of overseeing and spending money, encountered even greater troubles. A group of Mormons didn't buy oil and salt, and didn't give money, just didn't let the fiber optic cable go through their farm. After the communication was fruitless, Vincent did not hesitate to find litigation sticks and took advantage of the legal loopholes- anyone can use land under 100 feet, and the farmer has no right to interfere-finally broke through this difficulty.
At this time, Vincent detected stomach cancer . But he resolutely decided to continue to complete this project. Former boss Eva came to threaten, after all, these two boys might have robbed her of her job. But Vincent didn't buy it, and Eva decided to put the two men in jail .
Anton, who was warned, did not escape. Just before his arrest, he completed a technological leap and finally shortened the response speed from 17 milliseconds to 16 milliseconds. But the construction team was instigated by the former boss Eva. Vincent had no choice but to find investors to invest again, which also made the investors walk into the narrow path with them.
Vincent and Anton were able to escape jail only when Anton threatened the back door remaining in the former company's system .
The final project is completed, 15.73 milliseconds! Better than expected!
Unfortunately, it makes no sense.
In the former boss’s development team, a young man of Chinese descent completed the core algorithm of signal tower transmission in a short period of time. The signal tower plan of the former company landed one step earlier than the Hummingbird plan. The response speed: 11 milliseconds .
This makes all the efforts made by Vincent and Anton, who have given up everything and have lost their lives, have become a joke. Vincent lost everything, Anton had nowhere to go, and the investor Bryan was dragged down by the Hummingbird plan and went bankrupt.
Finally, Vincent returned to the nail house farm that prevented him from constructing and fell tired in the barn.
Failure is the epitaph of the loser
Among the numerous entrepreneurial-themed movies, "The Hummingbird Project" is the one that resonates most with prodigal sons. On the one hand, perhaps because I have been in this industry, on the other hand, only this movie and the guy who tells Han Chen in "Infernal Affairs" tells the truth about entrepreneurship: one accomplishes everything.
Why do I think this movie about losers can best express my respect for Jobs?
Is it just because the protagonist, like the gang leader, suffers from cancer? No, this is just the surface.
What I really want to say is: The great success that Steve Jobs led Apple has actually failed every second. The failure of entrepreneurship is unreasonable. As shown in the movie: the 16 millisecond miracle that was achieved through exhaustion and painstaking effort (really) was turned into rubbish because of an accidental gain by the opponent.
There is no reason on this road.
With his unparalleled creativity and authoritarian character, Jobs defeated countless foreign enemies, internal troubles, political factors, legal factors, user habits and own diseases, and then coupled with horrible luck, he achieved unprecedented success.
Then, died young.
We pay homage to him not only because of his success, but also because he may fail at any time-what if Nokia is not brain-dead? What if Microsoft noticed the mobile terminal? What if Saipan rises? ……Hard to say. Precisely because it is "not easy to say", so we should see that this success is not easy.
Failure, of course, is the epitaph of the loser; but at the same time, it is also the paving stone for the successful.
I did not write anything when Jobs passed away, because the whole world is mourning; today, I decided to write a few, because few people remember.
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