The next day.
At the same time that the movie "The Purge Project" started various promotional campaigns, Zane Blackwood came to Silicon Valley in a hurry.
LinkedIn is a company founded by Zane after ICQ opened a round of financing. It is now also housed in the Blackwood Building.
As soon as he entered LinkedIn, Zane directly approached Jeff Weiner, the president of LinkedIn.
"Jeff, I am here today to inform you that the ICQ company will move out of the Blackwood building within a week. Of course, the address is still in Silicon Valley."
Zane said.
ICQ moving out of the Blackwood Building?
This news was totally good news for Jeff Weiner.
You had to know that the Blackwood Building, which Zane bought for US$6 million, was not unknown in Silicon Valley.
The ICQ company in the field of instant messaging;
The Water World Animation Studio that created the "SpongeBob SquarePants" animation series;
and the newly established LinkedIn company;
The above three companies were all gathered in the 8-floor Blackwood Building. With the exception of LinkedIn, they were now well-known in their respective American fields. Especially the ICQ company, with rounds of expansion and soaring manpower, it almost occupied the units above the sixth floor of the Blackwood Building, causing the entire building to be very crowded.
Therefore, the ICQ company chose to move its headquarters away from the Blackwood building.
Not only that, the wealthy ICQ company directly bought a 12-story building not far away as the new headquarters of the ICQ Group.
"After ICQ bought the new headquarters building, having basically spent the funds from the previous financing round, it's estimated that the B round of financing will be opened soon," Zane thought to himself.
For the moment, Zane didn't think too much about it.
Anyway, the decision to buy the Blackwood Building was made!
Real estate in the United States is indeed not always very valuable and profitable, and it's even possible to lose money.
But there are often exceptions.
That is Silicon Valley in the 90s!
With the onset of the Internet wave, Internet companies completed their listings on the Nasdaq one after another, creating miracles that caused investors to participate eagerly, and land prices in Silicon Valley also soared.
15 months ago, Zane spent 6 million U.S. dollars to buy the Blackwood Building. Now it had appreciated significantly. He wouldn't even consider an offer below 10 million now.
"Jeff, informing you that ICQ is leaving is not my main purpose. I came here to make a final confirmation on LinkedIn's official launch."
Zane said solemnly.
Hearing the words, Jeff Weiner immediately straightened up, and at the same time was a little excited.
LinkedIn was founded by Zane, but it also cost Jeff Weiner a great deal of effort.
Online network recruitment!
What a groundbreaking website!
He couldn't wait for LinkedIn to officially go out into the world!
After the establishment of LinkedIn, Zane had almost given Jeff Weiner full autonomy, and of course, he had not disappointed Zane.
LinkedIn's creativity was extraordinary, and building the website was easy. However, what was difficult was the data collection from major companies, including signing online recruitment agreements with large, medium, and small companies.
You had to know that in the 1990s, there were no big data analysis centers, and data collection was done entirely manually.
The difficulty of this work was extremely tedious.
For this reason, Jeff Weiner and his team, working almost day and night, had finally paid off.
"Boss, we are already ready!"
"Whether it is the construction of the website or the arrangement of the various promotion teams, we can ensure the stability of LinkedIn after it goes live."
"As of yesterday, my team and I have negotiated with 850 large and medium-sized enterprises in major first-tier cities in the United States such as Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Washington, and Chicago, including Walmart, Ford Manufacturing, Microsoft, HP and other Fortune 500 companies."
"I believe that as soon as LinkedIn launches, it will definitely be able to capture the United States' share of the online recruitment field in the shortest time."
Jeff Weiner's words were full of confidence and enthusiasm.
Zane couldn't help but nod, feeling infected by his energy.
Zane believed in Jeff Weiner's ability.
In its original context, it was after Jeff Weiner became the CEO of LinkedIn that it truly developed and expanded, becoming a Fortune 500 company.
In 2016, Microsoft spent $26.2 billion to acquire LinkedIn at a sky-high price. That was no joke.
Moreover, the price of US$26.2 billion was actually far lower than market expectations for LinkedIn at the time.
In fact, the market a few years later showed that Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn was indeed highly profitable!
"June 13th!"
"Jeff, you heard me right. It was June 13th. It is not only the day when 'The Purge Project' produced by Wald Pictures premieres, but also the day when our LinkedIn company officially launches."
Zane said solemnly: "At this time tomorrow, I will arrange for someone to deposit 5 million U.S. dollars into the LinkedIn company account. Your job is to spend all 5 million U.S. dollars in this short period of less than ten days. Can it be done?"
"No problem!" Jeff nodded heavily.
It's hard to make money, but it's even harder to spend money wisely!
Of course, the difficulty of spending money here isn't about letting you mess around arbitrarily, but about spending 5 million dollars in a planned way to achieve the maximum effect of publicity and promotion.
LinkedIn is finally going to be exposed to the world!
Zane was also a little excited at the moment.
After all, it was an Internet company that actually belonged to Zane, not a company like ICQ where he was just a major shareholder.
...
June 4th.
The broadcast of the new episode of "America's Got Talent" naturally triggered a ratings frenzy across the country.
After the first episode was broadcast, the audience rating of the previous episode hit a new high, with an average audience rating of 5.3%. Moreover, if it weren't for the UPN television network being a cable channel instead of a public broadcast network, its ratings would inevitably have been another 2% higher.
However, the current ratings had already shocked the entire United States!
This episode of the program was naturally brilliant, but in the advertising segment, new projects had been added.
"'The Purge Project' produced by Wald Pictures will officially land in major theaters across North America on June 13. Are you ready?"
"In order to relieve social pressure, the federal government in the film has established a designated Purge night that ignores the law, ignores morals, and allows free killing. This night, the entire society will be filled with killing and blood. Are you ready?"
...
June 6th.
The ace talk show "I'm a Celebrity" on the entertainment channel of UPN TV network aired on time.
The director of "The Purge Project" crew, Zack Snyder, and the main actors of the film became the guests of this episode.
Director Zack Snyder said in the program: "Employment, unemployment, high social crime rates, and the conflicts caused by the uneven distribution of social wealth, do you feel the same?"
"Do you envy your neighbor's wealth?"
"Are you dissatisfied with the success of some friends you have a bad relationship with?"
"Looking at someone else's family being happy, while you are alone, suffering from poverty, hunger, and anger?"
"You work very hard, but you are often given a hard time by your boss and bullied by your colleagues?"
"It's ok!"
"All of this, you can say no to in 'The Purge Project'!"
"My film 'The Purge Project', in the film, the government stipulates a 12-hour free Purge festival, which is the best channel for you to release your inner dissatisfaction!"
"June 13th, the Purge strikes, are you ready?!"
...
June 7th/8th/9th.
Three days in a row.
The topic of "the Purge" created by Wald Pictures' marketing teams set off a huge wave on the Internet and triggered discussions among countless netizens.
Offline media, newspapers and periodicals, whether paid or not, in order to chase the trend, also hyped the topic of "The Purge Project" highly!
For a while, even the recently released "Jurassic Park 2" was overshadowed by the topic of "the Purge."
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