Just arrived in Silicon Valley, jet lag was kicking my butt.

Wide awake in the middle of the night, I ended up watching movies until three in the morning.

After watching *Deep Impact*, Su Yehao was struck by the realization that if Hong Kong films continued to rely on low-budget productions, they were doomed.

It wasn't the fault of the film companies; the market was too small. The highest grossing films in Hong Kong only made around forty or fifty million Hong Kong dollars. The soil simply didn't have enough nutrients.

The mainland's film market hadn't developed yet, resembling a stagnant pool. And in the international market, cultural differences made it difficult to grow.

The Japanese were smarter, acquiring Hollywood film companies and sneaking into the wolf pack to snatch meat. Su Yehao could do the same, but it was too expensive.

Right now, Xiao Nizi and Jiang Yu were busy preparing to start an entertainment company, and his support was limited.

If he wanted to save money, there was a way.

The most economical approach would be to create boy groups and girl groups, let a bunch of handsome guys and pretty girls sing and dance, try TV variety shows and melodramatic dramas, and recycle the "car accident, amnesia, incurable disease" trifecta.

Talent didn't matter; the key was to select and cultivate a batch of stars who were eye-catching and likable.

By modifying the K-pop formula of the future, he might have a chance to revive Hong Kong's entertainment industry for another twenty years. Hong Kong's entertainment industry had a low ceiling, but it could expand into Southeast Asia and East Asia.

South Korea's population wasn't large either, but its export of entertainment industry was doing quite well.

And compared to South Korea, Hong Kong was already the entertainment center of Asia. The advantage was still there, but the unchanging formula had become tiresome, leading to a transitional period.

The Heavenly Kings were gradually passing their peak, and the goddesses were either getting married or aging.

The entire environment was declining, urgently needing transformation and a new lease on life.

Before going to bed, he spent over ten minutes helping Xiao Nizi plan the entertainment company's development direction, and also considered letting Jiang Yu help out, giving her some shares to be a small boss, so she wouldn't overthink things when she was idle.

Four girls by his side.

If everyone clung to Su Yehao, he wouldn't get anything done all day long. Keeping them a little busy was actually beneficial for a harmonious life...

He didn't wake up until after eleven in the morning.

After going out for a seafood meal, he went to the Yanwenzi Group headquarters in the afternoon and called in the senior executives of iCQ and tvt for a meeting.

The meeting was all about the company's IPO and the troubles it faced in the short term. Everyone sat down to chat, and many of the newly joined executives were seeing Su Yehao, the big boss, for the first time.

They knew he was young, but seeing him in person, they realized he looked like a college freshman.

As long as the company went public smoothly, everyone present could get rich.

So age didn't matter at all. Su Yehao could make them rich, which made him a great boss. The atmosphere at the meeting was harmonious.

Generally speaking.

In Silicon Valley, employee turnover among large companies isn't significant.

This is partly due to non-compete agreements, and partly due to the "anti-poaching alliance" among Silicon Valley companies.

In the early years, they poached each other too aggressively. Eventually, everyone realized that nobody was having a good time. Labor costs increased significantly, many projects lacked leadership, and only the employees benefited.

So everyone sat down and discussed it, and gradually reached a consensus. The cost of employees switching jobs was too high. Unless they encountered a truly good opportunity, even a slight raise wouldn't be enough to attract them to move.

This time.

With iCQ and tvt merging into Yanwenzi Group for an IPO, even the company's receptionist, cleaning lady, and security guard at the gate would receive a certain amount of incentive stock.

Anyway, a total of 3.5% of the total shares were being distributed. Su Yehao was happy to do a favor, and maybe the news would earn him some praise in the news.

Employees becoming shareholders created a new bond between them and the company, and the sense of cohesion skyrocketed.

Almost everyone was a shareholder, and they all had restricted shares. Who would dare to hold the company back, wouldn't that be going against their colleagues?

Earlier, there was some perfunctory and lax behavior at iCQ.

Since the rectification and the linking of interests and contributions, the situation has improved recently.

The CEO of iCQ smiled throughout the meeting, calling him "Boss" and offering suggestions for future development, such as quickly solving the problem of image compression technology.

The more compressed the images, the faster the upload and download speeds.

It was said that this was the most desired update by users. Many iCQ users had used the "People Nearby" feature to meet netizens offline, leading to many tearful tragedies.

Because the motives for meeting were impure, users naturally wanted as many photos as possible. Broadband was still a niche technology, so more efficient image compression technology could indeed be useful in increasing users' goodwill towards the company's products.

Any of the talents who could become senior executives had better education and management experience than Su Yehao.

He spoke less and listened more at the meeting, and made decisions when he heard good suggestions...

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The auction didn't start until seven in the evening.

After the meeting, Su Yehao wasn't in a hurry to go to San Francisco. He went to Google's headquarters first.

Compared to when he first invested last year, Google had completely changed. The number of employees had increased to more than two hundred, and they had rented two floors of office space.

A set of servers purchased from Oracle was worth more than ten million US dollars. With Su Yehao's financial support, the development speed was quite fast. A new generation of search engine was being developed, and a Google browser project was launched, and a group of small teams that could be used were acquired.

Compared to the original residence, it was a huge improvement.

Larry Page learned that Su Yehao was coming, and came to greet him personally. He inspected the open office area and introduced the specific tasks of each project team.

At that time, Google was acquired by Su Yehao as a whole, and only gave Larry Page and Sergey Brin some shares, which would not be diluted until Google went public.

Compared with the previous backlinks company, Google's current valuation has soared to about 70 million US dollars.

These founders no longer had any complaints.

They could focus on development and no longer had to sigh all day long for investment funds. They were much more relaxed and their faces were radiant.

At this time.

Su Yehao asked, "Are there any movements from Yahoo as we expand?"

Larry Page nodded and said, "Of course, they won't accept our advertisements, and they prohibit talent from jumping ship to us, and it has affected a number of venture capital managers."

"...That's okay, Yahoo is so big, they probably won't pay too much attention to us for the time being. As for funding, I'm the one paying for it all, so those venture capital companies don't have a chance to invest."

Su Yehao found a computer and tried searching for the keywords "San Francisco, Christie's auction". The response speed was quite fast. The first entry was the official website of Christie's auction house, followed by news of the upcoming auction tonight.

Broadband had been rolled out in Silicon Valley, especially at the headquarters of this kind of technology company. It would be strange if the internet speed was slow.

The most advanced communication technologies were all concentrated in Silicon Valley.

Google's headquarters wasn't far from Cisco's headquarters, and Qualcomm's headquarters was in San Diego, California.

Last year, Su Yehao had planned to visit Qualcomm, but he was too lazy to go out, so he gave up.