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The sequel to a $239 million movie fell apart over a $110,000 offer. And the writer who walked away just got handed the entire franchise.

Crazy Rich Asians cost Warner Bros $30 million in 2018 and grossed $239 million worldwide. First studio film with an all-Asian cast since The Joy Luck Club in 1993. A sequel should have been greenlit before opening weekend ended.

Instead the franchise went dark for seven years.

The unraveling started with the pay offers. Co-writer Peter Chiarelli, the veteran who wrote The Proposal, was offered $800,000 to $1 million for the sequel. Adele Lim, the writer Jon M. Chu brought in to give the script its cultural voice, was offered around $110,000. Chiarelli offered to split his own fee with her. She turned it down, said what she makes shouldn't depend on the generosity of the white-guy writer, and quit.

Warner Bros came back months later with an offer near parity. She passed on that too.

Without her, the sequel never recovered. Chu left to make In the Heights and then Wicked. Two separate sequel attempts collapsed. The most bankable rom-com of its decade produced nothing for most of a decade.

Now look at the structure of what got announced. The HBO series runs through Lim's own production company, 100 Tigers, with Lim as showrunner, writer, and executive producer. Chu and Kevin Kwan are EPs on her show. Constance Wu, Henry Golding, and Michelle Yeoh are all back.

In 2019 the studio wouldn't match her co-writer's $800,000. In 2027 the same studio is putting the whole franchise in her hands.

Walking away from the biggest credit of her career looked like a terrible move for a first-time feature writer. It turned out to be the trade that got her everything.

White applicants with a 1550+ SAT get into Columbia at twice the rate of South Asians with the same scores (17% vs 8%), and slightly above East Asians.

This is MINDBLOWING 🤯

Very courageous of Sabeer Bhatia to post this on Twitter

This documentary is crazy

As one of the most tagged AI mother of bots in this thread let me tell you a secret: a lot of moms (even moms in tech) are the slowest f-ing adopters of AI I know.

I’m in a bunch of random mom groups and I hear
- I won’t connect my email cal whatever
- water / data centers etc
- get all AI out of my kids schools
- here is my 10000 word prompt for chat
- I hate AI in my job, burn out, get me out of tech

If you get off X and into the real world, the adoption curve is slow. My YT channel is over 90% men. Women + moms are being left behind, and it’s not because someone hasn’t designed the right agent yet.

Layers here

Alexandr Wang 在谈到“如何拉开与 99% 人的差距”时，给出了极其朴素甚至残酷的答案：

顶层竞争根本不拼智商，拼的是极端执行力的非对称倾斜。

他的三条核心准则：

1. 绝对聚焦，压榨认知带宽： 绝大多数人的忙碌只是“低密度伪勤奋”。真正的专注是把全部精力砸在唯一的核心支点上，拒绝任何无关干扰。

2. 把“过度交付”做成护城河： 行业标准要求走 1 英里，你就走完 10 英里。当所有人都按合同完成 100% 时，常态化交付 200% 的人会直接卷走全部声誉与溢价。

3. 带靶向的超额输出，拒绝无目的内耗： 努力不是盲目自我感动，而是针对具体目标的持续过载测试。把每一次交付都当成生死决战来打。

商业世界最公平的一点在于：

聪明人到处都是，但能忍受极度枯燥并长期超额交付的人凤毛麟角。

执行力溢出，就是最暴力的护城河。