Chapter 1132: Digging, Digging, Digging

Hastings has been suffering from severe insomnia recently.

He found that the moment he knew that might allow him to discover the new direction Feng Yiping mentioned could not help him much now. He still had no idea, and Feng Yiping still seemed to be moving in a leisurely and orderly manner. Follow the original layout.

A very real question is, can I survive until the moment when I can discover Feng Yiping's true purpose? This is very questionable.

So, wouldn’t Feng Yiping formally and directly take action against Netflix before then? There is no doubt about this. Feng Yiping will definitely not do that. Who knows, the acquisition will officially start tomorrow.

But apart from some methods of perishing together, there is really nothing that can stop Feng Yiping, who is well-funded and well-prepared, from taking action on his own Netflix.

He read the latest report with great expectations, and it turned out that there was no improvement as usual. He was a little disappointed and a little proud.

Disappointingly, most companies in Silicon Valley have improved this year, but my own company's recent performance has not been good. It can be said to be tepid.

But such a tepid company has also made Feng Yiping, a Chinese boy known for his outstanding vision, never forget it. This is something that can make him proud.

After reading the report again and silently listing his advantages in his mind, Hastings, who still felt overwhelmed, relaxed.

After so many years of entrepreneurship, the journey has not been very smooth. When looking back on the roads he has taken with Netflix, Hastings is often very glad that many things are not as he later told the media. When facing a difficulty, how calm I am and how confident I am that my strategy will work.

In fact, most of the time, when he decides to do something like that, how can he be completely sure in his heart?

However, he still had the last laugh, as if a god was taking care of him.

For example, in 2001, the bursting of the Internet bubble disrupted the company's IPO plan, and the company was on the verge of bankruptcy, so much so that the company had to lay off 1/3 of its employees to survive. But who would have thought that things would turn around at Christmas? Coming?

At Christmas that year, DVD players became a popular gift for no reason, and the company's DVD mailing subscription business unexpectedly surged.

Although this time is the one he feels least sure of, he believes that as long as he always stays awake, makes no mistakes, and leads the company not to collapse in the face of pressure, he will be able to persevere to the end and survive as before. This difficulty.

This is actually another level of Ah Q’s spirit.

However, in many cases, especially in difficult times, this spirit can really help. This spirit can make you more positive and prevent people from collapsing in the face of huge pressure.

After relaxing, Hastings looked at the emails in his mailbox and unconsciously fell asleep leaning on his chair, still holding the mouse in his hand.

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But Hastings, who fell asleep, did not relax.

He found himself running up and down a building in a daze and without any reason, but he just couldn't get to where he wanted to go. After struggling for a long time, he finally squeezed into an elevator. The elevator car was small, but But it was packed.

The elevator was running extremely unevenly. It didn't look like it was simply moving upwards, but like a car driven by a reckless driver who was in a hurry on a road with a serious traffic jam. It turned left and right. , and then brake suddenly.

In this way, Hastings, who was unable to stand firmly in the car that was making irregular upward movements, was frightened and highly nervous, but he was not desperate. It was useless to be desperate, or he believed that he would never be in the car. He couldn't tell what happened in something like this.

Just as he thought, after struggling in the elevator for who knows how long, neither he nor the people around him shouted. Finally, the car finally rushed out of the shaft and was thrown sideways - it did not fall at a high speed.

As soon as he fumbled to sit upright, the elevator door opened. The sun outside was dazzling and the cheers were very loud. A person whose face he couldn't see clearly pulled him out in a hurry.

He looked back and saw that the other people in the elevator had disappeared. He didn't know why and followed the person nonchalantly. He found that he was in the middle of a football field. The deafening cheers came from the crowds in the surrounding stands. auditorium.

Are these cheers for me? He smiled proudly and waved to the stands.

But after a while, he was taken to a place, and he discovered that it was a goal. He turned out to be a goalkeeper? That must be a meritorious goalkeeper!

Before he could warm up, the whistle sounded, but what happened? A large group of people came running in front of the goal. Although they could not see their faces clearly, they could clearly see the football at their feet.

Why are so many people shooting?

He looked again and saw that the goal he was guarding was extremely big. He couldn't even touch the door frame when he jumped up. It was also extremely wide. He estimated that the goal he was guarding could fully accommodate a car. London's double-decker buses don't even have grilles on the sides or back.

Before he could figure out what was going on, the large group of people in front of him kicked their feet vigorously and shot footballs towards the goal from different angles.

He quickly prepared to block it, but found that he was still wearing a shirt, trousers and leather shoes, without even a set of equipment, and his hands were all bare.

And those balls seemed to arrive suddenly. Although the angles were different, it seemed that the final landing point was on him. "F*uck," he only had time to curse, and amidst the harsh sneers from the audience in the stands, he moved his hands. I squatted down with my head in my hands, and the next moment, there was a "bang" sound...

At this doomed to be a tragic moment, Hastings woke up, "dong dong dong," someone was knocking on the door very patiently.

"Come in," he said with the mentality of surviving a disaster. He used the mouse as a habit, but found that the mouse was lying quietly on the carpet next to the chair. The muffled "bang" just now, could it be the mouse? The sound of falling to the ground?

"Hastings, are you okay?" He raised his head and found that the person who came to look for him was his old partner Mark Randolph, who also saved him from that terrible dream. "We called, but you haven't been there yet. catch,"

"Oh, I was thinking about something and didn't hear it,"

"Hastings, you must know this situation now," Randolph was so absorbed in thinking without asking him what question he was thinking about, and called out the door, "Come in,"

Several executives filed in, all with heavy expressions. Hastings, who had just escaped from such a dream, could not see such an expression. "What's wrong? Did Pearl Harbor or 911 happen again?"

Everyone ignored the sarcasm in his words, "Hastings," Randolph walked around anxiously in front of his desk with his hands on his hips, "Several departments have received accurate news that Blockbuster is about to go online. For the online DVD rental business, the monthly membership fee is $8, which is a full two dollars lower than ours!”

After hearing this, Hastings felt dizzy. Let's just let so many footballs hit me!

He understood very well the reason why the people in front of him seemed panicked. That was Blockbuster, the market leader in this industry. It turned out that they were not qualified to be its rivals. Blockbuster had more resources, users and influence. Powerful Blockbuster.

Before its price strategy is two dollars lower than its own every month, the loyalty of its own users, what the hell is that loyalty!

"Hastings, tell me, what should we do?"

Seeing this large number of people looking anxious and anxious, Hastings became angry and exploded with his partners and assistants who were supposed to be solving problems for him, and he burst out, "What should I do? Isn't this what I should ask you Isn’t that why the company hired you?”

"You know very well the style of the company. We don't tolerate failed employees, nor do we tolerate smart assholes. No matter what the reason is, if you can't solve the problems at work, then the company has no reason to keep you,"

"Are you going back to study the response plan now, or are you here to ask me what to do?"

"Get out of here," he pointed in the direction of the door. "Think carefully about how your department should respond, and come up with a plan before leaving get off work."

"Also, when you go out, remember to straighten your back for me. Don't look like your wife ran away with someone else,"

When he got angry, Randolph, who treated everyone equally and looked very unhappy, looked at Hastings, who had a stern face and was already working on the computer. His mouth moved, but in the end he didn't say a word.

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Back in his office, a sullen Mark Randolph finally couldn't help but punch his desk, "That damn goatee," he said.

Randolph was actually a really good-tempered man.

This seems to be a common quality for many people who are co-founders but are not the soul of the company.

Generally speaking, the main founders of well-known high-tech companies in the United States are not only extremely capable, but also extremely individual.

If a co-founder like Randolph had a bad temper, he wouldn't have been able to start a business together with those guys.

However, whether it is a foreign company or a domestic company, things are often like this. When the company is just starting out and struggling, everyone can still think together and work hard in one direction.

When the company has achieved success and everyone is rich and does not have to worry about money, tempers seem to change with the growth of wealth. People with good tempers become more and more difficult to tolerate people with bad tempers. Like Apple's other co-founder, Steve Wozniak, Randolph is increasingly impatient with Hastings.

All the trees in the world need their bark, and all the people in the world need their faces.

Although he knows that Hastings has been under a lot of pressure recently, he has made it difficult for him to stand down in front of many people again and again. It is really becoming more and more unbearable for Randolph.

Now, he is no longer in the mood to think about the problems facing the company.

As for the deadline set by Hastings to come up with a response plan before get off work, he automatically forgot about it.

In the evening, he will accompany his wife to a charity dinner.

It is reported that the bosses of many other high-tech companies in Silicon Valley will also be present, and now it is time for me to get to know more people again.

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Like all charity gatherings in the United States, this evening charity event aimed at protecting whales was held in the garden of a mansion in Palo Alto. After a speech by the promoter and several rounds of auctions aimed at raising funds, It becomes a social occasion for free communication.

Randolph, who spent $100,000 to buy a bottle of red wine, walked around the venue with his wife. His performance just now made many people very interested in talking to him. In just over ten minutes, he successfully exchanged business cards with several influential entrepreneurs, and they all had a good impression of each other.

But his mood was still very low. From the bottom of his heart, he really didn't want to leave Netflix. After all, it was the result of his hard work for so many years.

But Hastings, why have you changed so much now? Why are you increasingly disregarding my feelings?

He walked to a corner of the garden with a glass of wine, looking at those well-dressed and leisurely people in the venue, feeling a little lonely.

"Very boring, right?" A voice sounded next to him.

Randolph turned his head and saw that it was a successful person at first glance, holding an Asian mixed-race girl with a good figure and appearance, looking at him with sparkling eyes.

"Hello, I'm Cummins," the middle-aged man introduced himself, "This is my female companion Emilia,"

"Mark Randolph, nice to meet you,"

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At Netflix, after the employees got off work, the conference room was brightly lit, Hastings hurried to the main seat with a computer and sat down, "Everyone, please share your ideas,"

The next moment, he saw the empty chair on his left, "Where is Randolph?"

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