Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 278: Happy little life

"Boss, Ron Miller is gone."

Ten minutes later, in the office of Warner Chairman, a middle-aged white man in a suit reported to Steve Ross, who was standing in front of the window looking at the world: "When he left, he showed great anger and entered After getting into my nanny car, I even hammered the seat back without any concealment."

"Judging from everything I witnessed, he was out of control at this point."

These words made Steve Ross, who had his hands behind his back, nod slightly and say "hmm".

The gentle response made the male secretary purse his lips, looked at the thin figure, and asked anxiously, "Boss, is it inappropriate for us to do this?"

"What's wrong?"

"Ron Miller..." the male secretary hesitated, "He is our ally after all."

"Oh -" Steve Ross turned his head when he heard the sound, looked at the subordinate who had been with him for decades with a smile, and said, "I heard two meanings in your words."

"On the first level, you want to say that Ron Miller is our ally. If we abandon our ally now, it would be a betrayal. On the second level, you want to say that Ron Miller is our ally. During that time, he learned a lot of our secrets, and abandoning him would bring unnecessary trouble to us."

"is it?"

The straightforward question made the male secretary's face freeze, and he nodded immediately and said: "Boss, no matter which floor it is, it is very disadvantageous for us."

“Abandoning allies would undermine the stability of our alliance.”

"And if Ron Miller leaks the secret, Ethan Jones, who learns the information, will take precautions."

"So?" The secretary's words made Steve Ross lean back and put his hands on the window sill.

As the golden sunlight spread, he was gleaming in the brilliance.

But perhaps because his back was to the sun, there was a little more shadow on his face at this moment.

"So do you have any good ideas?" Steve Ross asked.

Although his tone was very calm, the male secretary who looked at him still felt an indescribable sense of oppression. His Adam's apple was trembling and he was speechless. And Steve Ross...

The old man sneered and said, "You can't do anything about it, right?"

"Everybody knows……"

"There's no way Disney, or Ron Miller, can be saved, right?"

The male secretary didn't know how to answer this question, but Steve Ross crossed his arms and leaned against the window sill, saying: "So... recycling is the best choice, isn't it?"

"You know, Ethan Jones's game console sold 300 million units in three days."

"Currently, all evaluators estimate that sales this year will be 1000 million units."

"When his product can enter the homes of 1000 million North American users..."

"What can Ron Miller do to win over Roy Disney?"

"Take your own head?"

“Does he deserve to be chairman of the board of directors of the Walt Disney Company?”

"He doesn't deserve it!"

The sudden rise in his voice illustrates Steve Ross' anger.

The unabashed question made the male secretary lower his head.

This situation made Steve Ross wave his hand and say get out.

Following his order, the male secretary immediately left the boss's office.

There was just a "click" sound, and the office door was locked. This result also made Steve Ross sigh.Turning around again, when he turned his gaze to the outside world again, the clouds in the sky suddenly covered the sun, and the originally sunny world suddenly dimmed.

In fact, when Steve Ross learned that Destiny Games' Johnson home console had sold 300 million units in three days, he was shocked.

He sat on the sofa and calmed down for a long time. It wasn't until the subordinate on the other end of the phone realized something was wrong and kept calling his name that he recovered from his surprise.

Then, like Roy Disney, he compared the income of Ethan Jones with Hollywood data, and then threw the data away.

Who likes to compare with whom?
When the exaggerated data visible to the naked eye appears, any comparison is meaningless!
Previously, people only speculated that based on the current development momentum, the video game industry might catch up with the output value of movies and music in a very short period of time.

but now……

What people can do is accept this fact!
Although Steve Ross was very unwilling, he had always felt that he was the real son of destiny after acquiring Atari, but in the face of the fact that it was 300 million in three days and expected to be 1000 million, he was unable to resist, because He knows that sales of 1000 million units are equivalent to all households in North America!
When Ethan Jones's products can truly enter thousands of households, will they continue to show off their strength?

That’s clowning!
Because even when Walt Disney was running the Disney Club, he did not expand the number of registered members of the Disney Club to 1000 million families!

Now, at least 1000 million families will pay for Johnson consoles!
This special code is outrageous!
How does Ron Miller handle this situation?
Steve Ross felt that this guy was doomed.

Previously, the reason why third-party shareholders in Disney chose Ron Miller was because Ron Miller had won the support of veterans of the Disney Group.

When those who helped make Walt Disney famous say that Ron Miller is the future of the Disney Group, outside shareholders who want a solid investment will naturally vote for him.

But when Roy Disney got strong support in Ethan Jones...

Ron Miller?

Go die!
When the video game industry has only developed for eight years and can create more exaggerated value than film entertainment, any individual will embrace the former!After waiting for Roy Disney to embrace Ethan Jones's thigh, the guys who chose Ron Miller because of financial investment will naturally vote with their feet!
Therefore, after getting the sales report that could not be faked, Steve Ross felt that even if God came, there would be no way to help Ron Miller maintain his position!

Since the cruel fact will definitely happen, then...

Why not change your mind and turn crisis into opportunity?

It is the right way to introduce external capital that is interested in Disney to confront Roy Disney and others, and let Roy Disney drag Ethan Jones into the abyss of the acquisition war!

And that's what everyone else in the league thinks too.

Rockwell, Commodore, MGM, and Philips have all communicated with him.

Everyone felt that sacrificing Ron Miller was the best choice.

As long as they can waste a lot of Ethan Jones' time and energy in this way, then they will be one step closer to success!Because they have already laid out the plan, what they are missing now is time!
As long as we free up production space for the notebook, then...

The better Ethan Jones's reputation now, the worse he will fall in the future!

Thinking of this, Steve Ross, who was looking at the outside world, murmured to himself——

"Ron, Ron..."

"Since death is doomed, why do you struggle?"

"Your resistance will not bring you success, it will only make you——"

"Falling deeper and deeper!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Steve Ross noticed that there seemed to be a dark spot in the blue sky.

Immediately afterwards, the black spot grew larger and larger, as if ink had been spilled.

In less than 5 minutes, the originally clear sky had disappeared, and was replaced by the overwhelming scenery of black clouds. About 10 minutes later, pouring rain fell like a blanket.

Although it is normal for the weather at the beach to change at any time, this situation still made Steve Ross laugh, "You think I'm right, don't you?"

He murmured, "You also think it's time for Ron Miller to recognize reality, right?"

Even though no one responded, Steve Ross still nodded with satisfaction.

Staring at the crazy raindrops, I witnessed them hitting the ground hard and then exploding in all directions.

The act of doing it without hesitation despite knowing that he would be shattered to pieces made him purse his lips.

At this moment, he felt that the best possible outcome for Ron Miller would be this.

Although Ron Miller dismissed his advice and rejected the white knight's advice,...

As long as Ron Miller is unwilling to delegate power, and as long as Ron Miller still wants to control the Walt Disney Group, he will definitely look for foreign help!Even if the foreign aid has nothing to do with their Warner Communications, it doesn't matter, because what Steve Ross wants is Ron Miller's heart that goes to the end!
As for whether Ron Miller will rebel because of his giving up?
This Steve Ross isn't worried.

If Ron Miller could still shake hands with Roy Disney after four years of fighting and losing tens of millions of his fortune, how could they have fought in the first place?

Since everyone is here for money, they cannot leave empty-handed!

Looking at the drifting rain outside the window, Steve Ross, who had lost his temper due to Ethan Jones' creativity, pursed his lips, but soon he remembered his experience in the final that day.

When he saw Nintendo's president Hiroshi Yamauchi appearing at the finals and recognized his old and new friends, a confident smile appeared on his face.

He also murmured: "Ethan - let you be happy for another week -"

"Enjoy the flowers—"

"Enjoy the applause——"

"Your time -" "There isn't much time -"

While heavy rains are sweeping across Los Angeles, the sun is shining brightly here in the Bay Area. The suitable temperature and humidity make people feel comfortable physically and mentally. And the game of destiny in Palo Alto... is even more in full swing at the moment.

The chaotic phone ringing came from the marketing department, and the reminder calls from all over the country proved that the business was booming; the clear footsteps echoed in the finance department, and the cost accountant, current accountant, general ledger accountant, and cashier were working together to check the factory and underwriting Accounts sent by Fang.

The R&D department is not idle either. The old employees are working hard to develop the "Star Wars" project according to Ethan's needs, and the two new employees who have just joined...

They are now in Ethan's office, listening to their boss's teachings.

"Sid Meier, Will Wright, since you are new to the company and are not familiar with everything, and the two project team members of our R&D department have been cooperating for many months and have formed a certain tacit understanding, it is not easy to place you rashly. Go in, so after thinking about it, I decided to arrange a special task for you."

"You must have played Pac-Man and Star Wars, right?"

"I want you to take games from arcades and make them games on consoles."

"I only have one request, and that is to restore the original appearance of the game as much as possible while controlling costs. I wonder if you have the confidence? Are you willing?"

"Of course!" Sid Meier and Will Wright replied in unison.

"Of course we are confident and we believe we can do this well."

"Oh - then this difficult task will be left to you." Ethan liked this answer.

Before leaving, he added: "If you have any problems at work, you can ask Damio Dean, the director of the R&D Department, for help. He is very good."

"If you have any personnel or other questions, you can come to me directly."

"Our company implements flat management and does not have too many management layers, so as long as you feel that you need to report something to me, you can come directly, Okay?"

"Yeah!" Sid Meier and Will Wright nodded excitedly.

They like this way of communicating directly with the big boss.

After seeing them off, Ethan finally had time to lean on his seat.

While waiting for him to cross his legs and set up the desk, wherever he looked...

Those are all gifts!

That's right, after three days of sales of 300 million, Ethan's phone was like a boiling kettle, beeping and beeping.Partners and friends from all walks of life called to congratulate him. Not only that, all kinds of weird gifts also appeared in front of him in various ways.

For example, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas knew that Ethan's last attempt to buy Barbra Streisand from Columbia Records failed, and they also knew , it was Barbra Streisand that Evelyn liked, so this time, in order to celebrate the sales of Johnson's home console, the two of them specifically contacted Barbra Streisand.

After learning that the other party had completed a new album and wanted to write, direct and star in a movie, they decisively extended an invitation and signed Barbra Streisand's new film to Destiny Pictures.

Although they cannot guarantee that the movie will be [-]% profitable, they can guarantee that all the music in the movie will be attributed to Destiny Music, because Barbra Streisand's contract with Columbia Records is only a fixed album contract, which does not include movie soundtracks and It's a movie song, so this is not against the rules.

And when Barbra Streisand signed the contract, it meant that Ethan Jones had already intervened between the queen and Columbia Records. The point was that Columbia Pictures could only watch.

To be honest, Ethan actually liked this gift very much, and the one who liked it more than him was Evelyn. When Steven Spielberg and George Lucas invited Barbra Streisand to Paro After Otto, Evelin immediately screamed excitedly.

I can't help it, I like it too much.

Even if she has produced countless best-selling works, even if her net worth is already hundreds of millions, the joy brought by her love can transcend the gap between identity and status.

This is just like many people who like to buy toys for themselves when they grow up that they could not get when they were children. This is just like many people who will spend huge sums of money to listen to an idol's concert when they grow up. As long as the toys are Still there, as long as the idol has not collapsed, the enthusiasm will never fade.

Oh, by the way, on the night of Barbra Streisand's visit, Ethan Jones also booked a hotel in nearby San Jose and invited them and the company's employees to have a get-together.

At the banquet, Barbra Streisand also showed off her singing voice.

Sung the Grammy-winning song "Past Feelings" in [-].

When the music queen sang loudly, Ethan, who was leaning on his seat, had only one feeling——

It's nice to have money!

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ gifts were very thoughtful, and just as thoughtful as they were were the two Steves of Cupertino. Due to work, Ethan had a long time Neither of them went to Apple anymore, but the two of them never forgot about Ethan.

The two men brought Ethan an experimental product, the CD-ROM version of Apple.

When Jobs took out a laser disc projector from his crotch, Ethan was stunned!And when Woz connected it to the Apple II and released the great white shark, he was even more confused!
Only then did he remember that Steven Spielberg had given him a laser disc projector before, but he had never used that machine because it was taken away by Jobs.

Since Ethan didn't really want to watch CDs at the time, but wanted to take the opportunity to enter this technical field, so he didn't care, but now...

"Are you surprised? Are you surprised?"

Jobs patted the connector in front of him with a proud smile on his face.

"The explosion of my special code!" Ethan cursed.

"You made this?" He was a little unbelievable.

"Of course!" Jobs nodded vigorously and explained.

"At first, after seeing the laser disc, I just thought it was fun."

"But when I took it back, found Stephen, and asked him how it was made, he told me that it seemed that this thing could be combined with a computer."

"Because there is not much difference between a computer monitor and a TV, so if the TV can be used, the computer should also be able to be used. And if the combination of the two parties is successful, it will also be a new selling point for the second generation of Apple. It creates more possibilities.”

"So..." Jobs said in a longer voice.

"I started researching it." Woz took over the words at the right time and said: "And it succeeded."

"It's just that we couldn't find a good publicity point, and the products of Philips and Universal sold mediocrely, so we never brought it to the market and just regarded it as a toy."

"And when we discovered at the beginning of this year that Philips had improved the optical disc, abandoned the analog laser disc, and changed it to a digital disc, and after it became possible to store it..."

"We immediately felt that this thing might actually be useful."

"But we never found a chance to tell you, so..."

"Just give it to you as a gift."

"Hope you like it."

The little fat man Woz rubbed his hands with a smile.

And Ethan...

"Of course I like it!" He cursed.

To be honest, Ethan never expected that the two Steves could bring him such a surprise. When he was secretly studying the CD, the two of them were already thinking of ways to press the CD onto the Apple?

This is simply a stroke of genius!

Because this means that in the future, when he wants to add an optical drive to Apple, it will be very simple.

In addition to these, others also sent him some good things——

For example, Professor Ralph Bell sent someone the world's first home game console. It was the first experimental product he made. He originally wanted to keep it forever, but Ethan's product made him feel that this It might be better to put something with a commemorative significance in the Destiny game;

Like Bill Mensch, he sent Ethan the original design manuscript of the MOS 6502 and the table-like splicing transistor circuit he made by himself. Like Professor Ralph Bell, he also felt that this thing was very useful. In Destiny Game it may be more memorable;
Another example is Roy Disney. This guy personally brought two ponies because he heard that Ethan was building a manor and had the idea of ​​building a horse farm, so he sent two pet horses over and asked him to ride them first. Getting used to it, if Ethan is really interested in horses, he still has two pure white Andalusians in his horse farm, which can be transported directly by air...

When all kinds of gifts appeared in front of Ethan, he was overjoyed by the popularity brought about by his success. Of course, while accepting them, he also knew that many people actually wanted something from them.

This is a sincere gift, probably from classmate Xiao Qiao?
But that's not important, right?
Because only when you are very important to other people, your social value will be reflected.

and this……

In fact, it is a status symbol.

It is also the representative of joy and the source of happiness.

Therefore, while accepting the gift, Ethan also made some promises to the gift-giver.

For example, when Roy Disney looked at him eagerly, he said that he would start officially shopping at the beginning of July, and strive to buy four points by the end of the year, ensuring that he would have all the goods on hand before next year's shareholders' meeting. All stocks can gain voting rights and promote him to the top.

At the same time, Ethan also promised that as long as Roy Disney becomes the chairman of Disney, he will let the production team of Destiny Game create customized video games for the Disney Group.

He can directly release this news to persuade those third-party shareholders to vote for him.

If those shareholders want to verify the authenticity, then Roy Disney can find a suitable time to hold a dinner party, and then Ethan Jones will take the time to attend.

Ethan just said a word lightly, and Roy Disney was ecstatic.

While he was excited and grateful, Ethan, who was leaning on the sofa, also felt relieved.

If I had to describe it, it felt like an ancient emperor.

One word can determine life or death, one word can determine the destruction of a country!
Hehe ~
(End of this chapter)