Hollywood Hunter

Simon was talking with the female assistant, and Sofia came not far away.

Noting the worries in Sofia's expression, Simon asked, "What's wrong?"

Sofia stood next to Simon and nodded: "The French version of "Vogue" editor-in-chief Colombe Pring and I made an appointment to attend this party, and in the evening suddenly said something could not come. "Paris-Match" magazine The aspect has just called, and the originally negotiated 8-page special issue page has been cancelled."

Music sounded in the hall at this time.

The catwalk over the catwalk began.This is a performing catwalk, with the theme of Audrey Hepburn's "Roman Holiday" as the theme. Gregory Pike, the actor of "Roman Holiday" who will be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Cannes Film Festival, was also specially invited to attend.

Simon looked at the Chinese dress beauty not far away and the wine was green and red, and asked: "Is there any?"

"Claudia Schiffer, Linda Ivangolinsta, Naomi Campbell and Christie Trington refused our party invitation. Moreover, this party is not the most important , I am worried about the September Fashion Week, we may not be able to invite these models to participate in the catwalk."

Simon heard Sofia talk about these conditions, but was not surprised.

The "cake" of the luxury industry is also limited. Gucci has been aggressively regrouping in recent months, and other luxury brands will naturally feel threatened.

Gucci's recovery in North America is not hindered by the support of Daenerys Entertainment, but in France, where luxury brands are gathered, Dior, Chanel, Hermes, Louis Vuitton and other land snakes will obviously not allow Gucci, an outsider, on his own site. Call for wind and rain.

Beckoning the passing waiter to come over, he gave two glasses of red wine to the two girls next to him, and Simon also took a glass before continuing to Sofia: "So, what are you going to do?"

Sofia took a sip of the red wine and thought for a while, said: "If it is just the situation on the French side, there is no problem."

"You can do the media yourself. As for the September fashion week, I just saw Cindy Crawford and Helena Christensen. If you don’t want to participate in our catwalks for the supermodels you said, then Just looking for other people, it is impossible for all models to be reluctant. Moreover, it is nothing more than to increase the exposure rate. At that time, we can invite more stars. The effect is the same, which is exactly our advantage."

The catwalk ended, followed by a charity auction.

The auction product is a batch of the latest Gucci shoulder bags that were carried when the model walked the show. The money will be donated to a charity organization dedicated to solving the problem of famine in Africa. Simon has never heard of the name of this organization. Ten thousand dollars photographed an elegant white shoulder bag.

The charity auction is over and the party tonight is coming to an end.

Although some French media temporarily canceled their cooperation with Gucci, early in the morning of the next day, many media in various European countries reported on this Gucci night event.

Simon is well aware of his mascot's mission. If he only shows up at the party and does not bring any benefits to the guests who rushed to him, others will not appear again next time.Therefore, some entertainment media also appeared in a timely manner Simon Westero and XX star at the Gucci night party very happy, the two sides may start cooperation and the like.

It's not just a gimmick to release such a wind.

While shooting Batman in Melbourne, Simon had a similar idea.

Hollywood will expand to the world in the next few years, which will inevitably cause resistance in the overseas film market.

If Daenerys Entertainment can invest and produce a batch of overseas movies every year, not only can it quickly enrich its own film library resources, but also get the favor of filmmakers in Europe, Australia and even Asia.Moreover, mastering a large number of film projects, implicating the career prospects of many filmmakers, can also bring a hidden power to Daenerys Entertainment.

Moreover, compared to those film investors who have lost their eyes and eventually lost their lives, Simon II's prophetic advantage can also ensure that he relatively accurately selects projects that are profitable.

Daenerys Entertainment is still in the accumulation stage, Simon is not eager for this.However, if the Australian branch invests in Peter Jackson's new film, and if he can sign several more directors this time, it is actually equivalent to laying out these ideas in advance.

After completing the mission of his mascot, Simon left Cannes and flew to Geneva at the border between France and Switzerland.

Geneva is the second largest city in Switzerland, and the European Research Institute of Particle Physics (CERN) co-invested by more than 20 countries is located here.Tim Berners-Lee is now a computer engineer at the institute.

Coincidentally, Simon had the idea of ​​looking for Tim Berners-Lee and happened to step on a very precise point in time.

According to information obtained by Simon, Tim Berners Lee submitted a project plan for the first time to CERN executives in March this year, suggesting to connect all the computers in the laboratory of the institute through hypertext technology. Once this project Completion can even be further extended to the whole world.

Tim Berners Lee’s plan was supported by many people, but because CERN is a particle physics institute, the senior management did not approve the project.However, Li did not give up. After two months of re-preparation of the plan, he was preparing to resubmit his proposal recently, and Simon came to the door.

Simon initially found each other through a paper on hypertext markup language published by Tim Berners-Lee.

Came to Europe, after Jennifer and Tim Berners Lee made an appointment to meet the schedule, the revised plan book in the other hand was directly transferred to Simon.

Sadly speaking, Tim Berners Lee, who is respected as the father of the Internet in the industry, has won a planning book for several months. Most of the budget is only for the purchase of a NeXT computer worth $6,500.That's right, the high-performance personal computer that Jobs developed specifically for universities and research institutions after he left Apple.

The city of Geneva surrounds the southern end of the vast Lake Geneva.

As the most livable city in Europe, Simon will naturally not miss Geneva in the process of purchasing real estate.His residence here is located on the scenic Lake Geneva in the northern suburbs of the city. It covers more than 3 acres and also has a private dock.

He arrived in Geneva on the weekend morning, and then for three days, Simon was talking to Tim Berners-Lee about various ideas about the Internet.

Tuesday, May 23.

After finishing work in Cannes, Sofia came from Cannes in the afternoon.Entering the living room of the villa by the lake, she saw Simon talking with a middle-aged man in his thirties in front of a whiteboard, and the whiteboard was filled with various nouns that she could not understand. And symbol.

There are various books and materials in the living room at this time, as well as two open computers. Although the arrangement of these things is not cluttered, it is also incompatible with the surrounding luxury decoration.

Jennifer was watching a printer beside the sofa that kept spitting out information.

Sofia noticed Jennifer's figure and understood roughly why the basic order could be maintained in the living room.

Going over to say hello to the female assistant, Simon also saw her coming, but he just gestured and continued to discuss with the middle-aged man.

"Creating such a website can be used to list the directories of websites that join the Internet, so that users can see the contents of the Internet more intuitively. In addition, we can also provide forum services through this website for users to communicate directly. Of course, we will also More service content can be added, such as search, such as communication, etc."

"According to your ideas, Simon, we must continue to promote commercialization, otherwise we will be unable to support the operation of such a website. We have discussed this issue for three days, and I am not resistant to commercial operation, but, if so, it will definitely Competitors have joined in to create different standards, leading to the fragmentation of the Internet, which is not in line with our goal of connecting the world."

"As long as someone with a little vision, can see that the split of the network is not in everyone’s interest, even if the situation you said happened, in the end, all parties will definitely go to compromise. And, Tim, I think we completely We have the ability to avoid this because we don’t have competitors now. It’s like building a road. If many people realize a goal and start building roads together, for their own benefit, there will definitely be many different roads. However, we are the only one who wants to build this road now. If we can repair the road before other people react and provide a certain degree of free passage, I believe that people who are willing to spend money to build another road should not many."

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Sofia seemed to understand the conversation between Simon and the two inexplicably while picking up a piece of information that Jennifer had just sorted out.

Looking down, this is a development plan for a literal translation script language. After reading a few pages patiently, I generally understand that this script language is used to increase the dynamic functions of HTML pages.

As for what is an HTML page, Sofia also knows nothing.

Simon and Li continued to discuss for more than an hour, until the whiteboard was filled with notes, and the time was approaching the evening, they stopped.

Formally introducing Sofia, Tim Berners Lee took a thick document compiled by Jennifer and left the lakeside villa. After three days of discussion, he has confirmed a lot of things with Simon and promised Simon quit his job and went to North America to take charge of the operation of the upcoming new company.

Ygritte.

This is the name of a network technology company that Simon is about to set up.

Ygritte, Gregory.

Or, Simon felt that it was more pleasing to translate as "Igrid".

After Daenerys, Melisandre, and Cersei, Eaglet will also become the fourth'woman' of Westeros.

Simon has even thought of a slogan similar to Google's "Don "t-be-evil" for this company.

That's right.

'You-Know-Nothing!'

Such a slogan of super-great oil, in the future, absolutely do not need to shy his face because he wants to do evil.

As for the meaning, when the Igreat company rises, people full of romantic fantasy can always come up with reasonable interpretations. Simon is definitely not going to make it clear that this is just a wooden man whose red-haired savages are accusing the lover.

In the determined plan, Simon Westeros will invest 10 million US dollars and hold 90% of the shares of Igret. As the person in charge of this company, Simon will give Tim Berners Lee shares as 10%.Based on the investment ratio, the 10% share ratio is worth millions of dollars.

In fact, as long as Igrid can achieve the goals Simon expected, although Tim Berners Lee’s shares will be diluted in the subsequent continued financing process, it will definitely be a very large sum in the future. Wealth.

According to the plan discussed in the previous three days, Tim Berners Lee will quit his job at CERN and rush to San Francisco to preside over the establishment and operation of Igret.

Simon hoped that Igrid could be established in Los Angeles, but this did not leave. Backed by Silicon Valley, this company can more easily obtain the desired technical and talent support.

The first step after the establishment of Igrid will be to complete the creation of various network standards based on Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), and as Qualcomm's layout in the 3G era, apply for a complete set of Internet technology patents in advance .

Simon did not intend to learn from Qualcomm to build patent barriers to collect money, at least in the early stages of Internet development, he did not have this idea.Patent barriers are built only to be able to take the initiative as much as possible after the rise of the Internet era.

While perfecting the technical standards, Eaglet will also start to develop two softwares, one for web design, for the developer community, and one for the graphical interface browser, for ordinary users.

In Simon's plan, the graphical interface browser will always be free, and the web design software will be free in the early stage. Later, depending on the situation, it may be divided into ordinary free version and professional paid version.

Earning profits through selling software maintains the operation of Igret, which is also the business model that Tim Berners Lee recognized in the process of discussion between the two. Due to the limitations of the times, Tim Berners Lee Obviously, Simon's plan to create a website directory was the top priority in his plan.

In the original space and time, the most well-known'web directory' in the early stage of Internet development was named Yahoo. At the peak of the Internet bubble, the market value exceeded 100 billion US dollars.

Moreover, compared to Yahoo, which has rapidly declined since the Internet 1.0 era, Simon has set a sustainable development path for the Ygritte portal. Instant messaging, e-mail, search engines, the development potential of these businesses, this world is not Probably better than Simon.

Even if Igrid can't flexibly transform into a big company in the future, Simon, who can clearly judge the development trend of the industry, can set aside this company to achieve Westero's'transformation' in the Internet industry through other investments.