In the past 30 years, there have been two industries that often create wealth myths, one is real estate and the other is the Internet.
Real estate is played by people with certain capital, but the Internet may turn the poor overnight.
The day before, the person who squeezed into the rental house with 5 friends and ordered takeout from McDonald's became a millionaire with $10 million on the card the day after. This is not fiction, this is what has happened or is happening in the internet world.
The American drama "Silicon Valley" that I want to recommend to you today analyzes the myth of the Internet's wealth creation to the audience. We know that many people have a net worth of tens of millions or over 100 million overnight, and this drama tells us how these tens of millions and hundreds of millions of wealth came from.
The story takes place in Silicon Valley, California, USA.
Richard is a pale-skinned programmer with an odd voice.
(Programmer Richard)
He is also a diaosi programmer. Living in a private house in Silicon Valley, with three other friends to develop a software called "Pied Piper".
In the beginning, this software was mainly for music producers to identify whether their own works were plagiarized or not, and whether they duplicated existing works on the market. Such software, as you can imagine, is at home!
Which music artist will use a software to compare the song after writing the song? Isn't that frustrating.
As a result, Richard and his friends lived in poverty, and on the Silicon Valley party, they looked enviously at the billionaires on stage chatting.
(The little friends are full of envious eyes)
Back in the "incubator (actually the private house I mentioned earlier)", Richard had to endure the teasing of two programmers working nearby.
(Two programmers play tricks on Richard)
More importantly, because he has no money or fame, Richard has to endure the exploitation of Ehrlich, the owner of the "incubator": he does nothing and has a bad attitude, but owns 10% of their software.
(Incubator owner Ehrlich)
Fortunately, wild lily also has spring. The two programmers who liked to play tricks on Richard stumbled upon this: Richard's software had an awesome compression capability. That is, after uploading a file to his software Pied Piper, Pied Piper can quickly compress the file to a small memory, and the quality of the file does not change.
This function is simply amazing. Imagine that the pictures and videos in our mobile phones can be instantly compressed into a small memory and remain undistorted. What kind of function is that? Just dick.
The two programmers discovered the brilliance of Richard's software and immediately reported it to their boss. Gavin, the owner of Mutual Benefit, immediately called Richard to meet him, and was willing to pay a high price for Richard's software.
(Mutual Benefit CEO Gavin)
Silicon Valley is as much a place of wealth-making myths as it is of hunters with a keen sense of smell. The Pied Piper software spread in Silicon Valley, and Peter Gregory, the CEO of another company, La Vega, heard about it, and he increased the price on the phone to buy the Pied Piper.
As a result, Pied Piper became the object of competition between the two big companies in Silicon Valley. There are two options in front of Richard: either sell the Pied Piper for $10 million plus one, or accept Gregory's investment and sell 10% of the Pied Piper for $2 million.
Happiness came so suddenly that Richard had a panic attack and had to go to the hospital for a checkup.
(Richard went to the hospital for a checkup because of a panic attack)
In the end, Richard accepted the investment of Peter Gregory and continued to develop the Pied Piper business with his friends.
Do you think you will see a rainbow after a storm, and it will be smooth sailing from now on? of course not.
Richard's troubles really started.
In the past, they were a few talented programmers playing together, no one paying attention and no one competing. After taking the financing, it is considered to have officially entered the Internet arena, and it is necessary to begin to face the sinister nature of the arena.
The first time he communicated with investors about investment details and reviewed the business plan, Richard ran into trouble: he didn't know how to write a business plan because he had never written one.
Finally found a person who can write and is willing to write Jared, but Jared is a mutual benefit employee and poached the mutual benefit employee. Now Richard completely offended the mutual benefit.
(Can't write code, but has super organized ability, Jared with a cute face)
In the process of writing the planning book, Richard discovered that his best friend, Datou, was useless in the company. Therefore, the founding team members all asked Jared to fire Datou and divide up Datou’s shares at the same time.
(useless big head)
Richard eventually reluctantly fired Datou (fortunately Datou also found a good job), but trouble came again.
The financing check Peter Gregory gave them could not be cashed because: Pied Piper already had a company trademark in California, a sprinkler company.
(Boss of the sprinkler company)
Richard negotiated with the owner of the sprinkler company for many times, and was blackmailed by the boss, but finally he got the registered trademark of Pied Piper and can operate normally.
The ordeal is not over yet, there is no successful investment and shareholding, and the Mutual Benefit Company, which was dug up by Richard, organized a group of people to work on the compression software New Nuclear Force at the same time. The algorithm principle is the same as that of the Pied Piper.
At the same time, the owner of the mutual benefit company said that he would use his own compression software, New Nuclear Power, to participate in the Internet Entrepreneurship Competition.
Richard's challenge is: in a short period of time, he needs to make a functional and demonstrable Pied Piper software to beat the mutual benefit company in the entrepreneurial competition.
After some hardships, although the Pied Piper Company made a usable software and entered the finals of the Entrepreneurship Demonstration Competition, but because there are people in the mutual benefit company who have money and market experience, they have made a more complete and more powerful software. Software New Nuclear Force.
(Mutual Benefit CEO Gavin preached New Nuclear Power Software at the Entrepreneurship Competition, stunning the audience)
Seeing the evaluation report and offline advertisement of the mutual benefit company New Nuclear Power Software, Peter Gregory, the investor of the Pied Piper, gave up Richard and the others, and was going to transfer back the assistant Monica who was sent to the startup competition. The investment on Gauri's side is looking yellow.
In a critical period, genius burst into superhuman creativity. Richard came up with a new algorithm overnight, to the effect that the original compression was performed sequentially from the bottom to the top, and the compression speed and memory space were limited. Now he invented the compression method of irregular diffusion. The process runs simultaneously from the middle to all sides, allowing the efficiency and quality of compression to increase exponentially. As a result, Richard and the others won the entrepreneurship competition.
The following plot should be: More companies in Silicon Valley are rushing to invest in Pied Piper, and all kinds of parties with extreme hilarity invite Pied Piper...
(Richard was invited to the annual meeting of the investment fund and became the focus of the party)
Unfortunately, we only guessed the beginning and not the end. Before the $50,000 prize won in the startup competition was distributed, and the new round of investment was not accounted for, the Mutual Benefit Company sued Richard and the others, saying that The Magic Piper copied their company's New Nuclear Power.
We all know that intellectual property lawsuits are difficult lawsuits in any country, often killing the parties. Richard and the Pied Piper were also almost ruined by this lawsuit, because: the lawsuit with Huli would cost millions, and the funds were not enough; the intellectual property rights were unclear, no one dared to invest in Richard and the others, and the capital chain would be broken; more Important: Richard and the Pied Piper were sued by a large corporation like Mutual Benefit, and they were killed.
The story has entered the second season at this time, Richard and the others bravely faced the lawsuit of Mutual Benefit Company and the lack of Pied Piper's capital chain...
The show has now reached its fifth season.
The process of watching the show is both tangled and exciting. Whenever the audience thinks that Richard and the Pied Piper can operate well and create value for the society, there is always an unexpected event that pushes them to the brink of bankruptcy. Whenever you think that their game is over, there is always a turning point, and there is always a fine line between poverty and prosperity. This is Silicon Valley, and this is the most exciting Internet battlefield.
Just like the big opening of the show said: Silicon Valley is full of dollars, but not a single one hits our heads.
The producer of this drama is HBO, known as Xiaohuangtai. The TV series broadcast on Xiaohuangtai include "Game of Thrones", "Westworld", "True Love Like Blood", etc. These TV series have a common feature, that is, Huang Baoyu.
In this "Silicon Valley", Xiao Huangtai is surprisingly restrained, and there is no large scale. But even so, the show still gained widespread support and became the favorite of many fans. This is because: in the fierce Internet market, the competition for wealth is fiercer than war, and it happens around us and affects our lives. Such a story is naturally bloody.
This drama is worth watching, if you want to watch it, leave me a message.
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