Gu Ao didn't have time to personally observe the subsequent box office performance of "Terminator" in the United States.

He had to return home when the box office just exceeded $6 million in the first week.

Because his reason for taking a leave of absence was to take the blame for "it was too hasty when I came to report, and no one took over many career jobs", so he came to the United States first for one semester, and then took a leave of absence for one year to hand over the work.

For American universities, the three semesters of the handover months are January, May and September respectively. It is a bit unreasonable if Gu Ao stays until June 1st before returning to China.

After conspiring with Harvey Weinstein to the last step of the film promotion and hype, and partially knocking on Mars Theater, Gu Ao got rid of Tiffany's entanglement.

He assigned his last two days in the United States to Mr. Schulhof, executive vice president of Tiankun Media (USA), and the guests he helped to meet.

He still has some final work layout to discuss.

Schulkhof performed well in the hype battle with Atari, and Gu Ao had just clarified his position as executive vice president.

For this meeting, Gu Ao flew another route from Los Angeles to San Francisco.

When they arrived in San Francisco, Schulhof personally went to the airport to pick him up, and then the company's car took Gu Ao to Stanford University in Palo Alto.

Gu Ao wanted to meet with an academic giant at Stanford University, which involved the feasibility of his subsequent talent layout for Tiankun Media in the electronics industry, so it was very important.

Schulhof himself is also a top student in Harvard. He has been an executive of a multinational company for more than ten years and has some connections in this regard.

In addition, Gu Ao is blessed with the halo of "studying for a doctorate with Kissinger", and Tiankun Media and Atari are having a quarrel again recently, which has slightly established its position in the Silicon Valley, so this time the request for a meeting will be so smooth.

Otherwise, if you are just a local bun, no matter how rich you are, you want to discuss cooperation with a science and engineering master at the Stanford department head level, or even have postgraduate quotas, that is free of charge. The top universities in the United States have sponsorships and some are scientific research funds for government projects, but it is not that you have seen money.

If the local buns don’t have a technology company’s signature and want to spend $1 million to enter, they will not be able to see any waves, and they can’t even find the door and don’t know where to smash it.

After waiting and communicating, Gu Ao visited a bald man about fifty years old with gray hair in a conference room in the teaching building of the Stanford Mathematics Department.

President Shulhoff quickly introduced him: "Chairman, this is Professor William Perry, and the deputy director of the Department of Mathematics. Professor, this is Mr. Gu Ao, chairman of Tiankun Media. You should have heard of his reputation in Silicon Valley recently."

"Sit down, don't be restrained. I wonder if Tiankun Media wants to cooperate with our school."

Professor William Perry spoke very straightforwardly, and he was a science student at first glance. However, he still had basic etiquette in every move. He was a comprehensive science talent who often reported on projects and organized and coordinated at a high level, rather than a purely technical home.

In fact, William Perry's resume is a bit weird. He is a talented person who has been studying all the way to study in Stanford, and has studied mathematics and ee departments (electronic engineering). When he was studying in the 1950s, he was even a graduate student led by President Frederick Telman himself. (In the 1950s, Frederick Telman had not yet become President Stanford, and the principal was the title of later)

To put it bluntly, when William Perry was studying for a master's degree in Stanford EE, he was a classmate of Zhang Zhongmou, the later king of chip foundry, but he was not at the same level.

After graduation, William Perry stayed at Stanford to teach for a while, but he also had several years of qualifications to serve at Osrd, and later returned to Stanford as the department chair. Outsiders have speculated that the years he went to Osrd were arranged by Professor Telman. The purpose was to bury an undercover agent for the Stanford Department in Osrd and increase Stanford's voice in federal scientific research planning.

osrd is the "office of scientific and development" of the US federal government. This office was established during World War II and has been retained due to the Cold War. Its responsibility is to lead the investment and use of scientific research funds from the US government and the military, and decide which basic scientific research projects the government's money is spent on.

So although this is just a unit with the title of "office", its strength is no less than that of a ministerial-level unit.

During World War II, they held the decision-making power of more than one billion US dollars in annual scientific research funds, claiming that "except for the Manhattan Project, the scientific research funds of all other federal governments are under the jurisdiction of OSD."

After the Cold War, except for the Apollo Moon President who directly managed the funds for other federal scientific research, all the funds for scientific research were still under OSD, and now there are tens of billions of dollars a year.

Therefore, people who have experienced Osrd, even if they are just grassroots clerks in offices, are people who have definitely seen the world and will not be tempted by small money.

In fact, Professor William Perry will have a more bizarre encounter in 12 years, that is, President Clinton invited him to be the defense chief for four years.

The reason why a scholar who was engaged in mathematical analysis was made was that the work tasks of the US Defense Secretary in 1993 were completely different from those of other previous sessions - he had to face the demise of the Soviet Union, and all parties had to coordinate the layoffs of nuclear weapons, without considering how to fight.

Professor William Perry happened to handle the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 during the years of Osrd, and worked as a technical consultant to the government. He also had some experience in denuclearization, so he was driven to the shelves.

When President Clinton's second term in 1997, when he needed to fight the Kosovo War and a military talented defense minister, the mathematician who only knew how to coordinate disarmament but did not fight was removed and continued to teach mathematics in Stanford.

Of course these are all later stories.

(To put it another joke, in 1942, when President Roosevelt was established, the first year of Osrd's establishment, and the budget for communications and electronics funds was US$450 million.

At that time, because the director of Osrd's office was Professor Verne Bush who was born in mit (this professor Bush was also the mentor of President Telman. Later Stanford president Telman, who studied at mit when he was studying for his doctorate), mit received the maximum amount of 120 million US dollars as a special budget for electronic research.

The subsequent California Polytechnic scored 80 million, and even a liberal arts university like Harvard was assigned 30 million with a "Harvard Radio Laboratory". Although the ee department at Stanford University was very strong, it was looked down upon by traditional Northeasters and only received 50,000 US dollars.

President Tailman was deeply ashamed of it, and from then on he suffered from lobby phobia. He no longer sent his most proud disciples to do scientific research, but instead asked first-class talents to brag about Stanford to ask for funds, and second-class students stayed to do scientific research. This also led to Stanford's academic style, which was the most important of reporting talents, and the second-class students were the second to do scientific research.)

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It was a bit far away and I went back to meeting and mediation for the time being.

As long as you know, the potential collaborator in front of Gu Ao is quite awesome at the moment, and will be even more awesome in the future.

After simple politeness and temptation, Gu Ao went straight to the point:

"Professor Perry, if we Tiankun Media are willing to fund sponsorship, we request your school to accept several undergraduate graduates from China's top science and engineering universities every year and conduct targeted training for graduate studies - do you think there is a possibility of cooperation? We can guarantee that these talents will be used at the forefront of confrontation with Atari and contribute to the prosperity of Silicon Valley's industrial development."

Gu Ao made such a proposal, of course, not only to be eager to obtain outstanding talents, but also to ensure that he can control the company's technical team in the future--

He also has some students from famous schools who are very easy to use in China, such as Yang Zihao, Lu Yunda and others who are doing game console development for him. They have been working in obscurity.

However, with this group of undergraduate students in Class 77 in July this year, with China's national conditions, they have to be assigned to various units by the state.

This is mandatory by law, and Gu Ao has no way to do anything.

If you want to keep the easy-to-use talents, the only way is to start a study abroad exchange program first. Once these people become international students, China's talent management laws and policies will not control how they find employment in the future.

In 1981, there was already a public study abroad channel in China, and the policy allowed it. However, the country did not have enough money and could not find foreign sponsorship, so the scale was not large.

If Gu Ao doesn't want to show off his own feelings, then let Shulhof come forward and talk to the education authorities and even the university. Sponsorship in the name of tencoin entertainment (usa), people in China know the real tricks.

After going abroad, there were many international students who refused to come back in the end. There were only the group of people whom Gu Ao won over. Even if they didn't go back, they still worked for Gu Ao in Silicon Valley, using the commission contract and confidentiality agreement in Silicon Valley, and would not give them the chance to betray Gu Ao.

However, Gu Ao's big game is not attractive to outsiders.

So William Perry didn't want to let go of his mouth at all for the time being.

He said in an official manner: "Stanford certainly has precedent for this model of exchange students. But we need to ensure the quality of students. Moreover, this kind of thing is not suitable for both parties to discuss. It should be a tripartite cooperation - which Chinese universities are you talking about? Why didn't they send someone?"

Gu Ao: "Then let me say it more directly. I will donate 2 million US dollars to Stanford University unconditionally. I hope you can cooperate with Zhejiang University to accept two undergraduate graduates from the Department of Electronic Engineering and Mathematics every year. We will calculate the expenses for each person each year.

If they were in school, the tutor was willing to conduct some less basic research that could be transformed into commercial technological achievements, and Tiankun Entertainment could also sponsor scientific research funds.”

William Perry thought about it and keenly retorted: "Zhejiang University...I don't understand. Maybe I can ask Qiu, this question is temporarily put on hold.

However, the 'sponsored scientific research funding' you mentioned should be the one that your company wants to eventually occupy the scientific research results. What kind of sponsorship is this? To sponsor, you must at least 1 to 1 additional sponsorship of basic research, otherwise you will be free of negotiations."

The "Qiu" mentioned by William Perry is of course his colleague Professor Qiu Chengtong.

Professor Qiu is still teaching in the Department of Mathematics of Stanford. He is the most popular young mathematician at present. In history, he will receive the Fields Medal, the highest award in human mathematics every four years next year. In another time and space, Zhejiang University later received some Stanford exchange quotas from the 1990s, relying on the mediation of Professor Qiu Chengtong, and the first batch of international students who were piloting, the practice later became a common practice.

However, the period before and after Professor Qiu won the award was also involved in his job change. Professor Qiu seemed to have finally chosen to be poached Princeton before he won the Fields Medal. It can be seen that the trend of European and American academics is still very strong. Sometimes if you don’t go to Princeton or Paris, you don’t seem to be qualified to be a top mathematician of mankind.

At the same time, William Perry's sensitivity when discussing the conditions was not vague at all, and there was no possibility of being fooled by the "big capitalists".

He exposes the so-called "sponsorship" promised by Gu Ao in one sentence.

At first glance, it is the sophistication I developed in those years of Osrd.

But he has the right to speak in this regard. Gu Ao wanted to talk to someone else, but it was impossible for him to go around.

"Well, I promise that if sponsored, you will definitely mix 1-to-1 targeted funding and non-targeted funding - that is, half of the money, you can do any basic research at will, even if the results cannot be commercialized."

After the tone was set, both sides finally started bargaining slightly happily.

Professor Perry would not personally agree to give graduate students quotas, obviously he would like to attract a few accomplices to share the risks and share the spoils.

At the same time, Gu Ao also knows how to talk to others and talk to ghosts. For example, when in front of Professor Perry's colleagues, the total conditions raised must be a bit different from those when talking to William Perry alone.

When talking about things, do we need to set a kickback difference between decision makers?

The specific process is too sinister, which can easily cause discomfort and defile the sacred academic, so it is skipped.

The harsh conditions that Perry finally offered were roughly as follows:

"We donated $3 million in one lump sum, and we took this academic exchange as a semi-fixed system and agreed to it. From now on, we will give Stanford Mathematics School 600,000 US dollars and the School of Electronic Engineering 600,000 US dollars each year. The Department of Mathematics and Electronic Engineering will recruit two outstanding undergraduate graduates from Zhejiang University respectively.

However, we have to organize our own admission exams. If we fail, we will send invitations to mathematics and electrical majors in other top Chinese universities to fill the vacancies.”

Gu Ao calculated that this is the company will need to give a sponsorship of $300,000 for every person sent to graduate school. This money is considered to be the student’s expenses for three years, the benefits to the school, and the scientific research funding for basic projects with the mentors in the past three years.

You should know that now, the Stanford engineering graduate students who have been admitted to the normal school entrance examination have only been studying for three years, and the average expenditure is more than 80,000 US dollars. (Of course, it is already an astronomical figure for Chinese people in 1981, and they cannot afford to stay at their own expenses.)

If Gu Ao still wants to possess the commercial research results of graduate students during their school days, he will have to sponsor at most $300,000 in scientific research funds. The results made from that part of the money are the intellectual property rights that completely belong to Tiankun Media.

Of course, after spending this 300,000 yuan, it can also take up the talent and energy of some mentors, which is the real value and attractiveness. After all, Stanford professors can just give you a few tips, and it will be very valuable.

It is really expensive to do top scientific research in Silicon Valley.

However, with the collapse of Atari, the era of coders and circuit design can be handled by fighting alone, and will soon pass. Even scientific research in the field of applied electronic products will soon enter an era of huge costs.

Gu Ao has no choice for the time being.

Stanford is to Silicon Valley, just as Silicon Valley is to the United States, just as the United States is to the world.

Fortunately, he has a lot of money, so he has tolerated it for the time being. After he killed Atari in two years and completely proved his awesomeness, it was the turn of the academic community in Silicon Valley to ask him to give him front-line opportunities and project directions.

Just like any small Internet company in later generations, if you want to recruit general talents, the cost of hiring Alibaba will definitely cost more than Alibaba to recruit the same person - because Alibaba has a signature and future, and the qualifications are written in the resume, so you can only compensate others more for money.

If Tiankun Entertainment did not have the title of "Adali's only designated enemy" that had been hyped before, people wouldn't bother paying attention to you with money.

After Gu Ao figured it out, he accepted: "Thank you, the cooperation is pleasant. Let's do this, I will pay another $100,000. I hope I can ask the old principal of Taierman to show his face. At that time, attend the cooperation ceremony between the two parties. What do you think?"

The old principal of Taierman is 81 years old this year and has retired long ago. He has been in poor health and has been bedridden for a long time (here he will die next year in history)

But he was William Perry's teacher, and his prestige at Stanford was unparalleled.

It is also a reasonable price to buy him at an occasion of 100,000 US dollars to take a photo together.

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To be continued...