Hollywood Hunter

A villa on Mercer Island in the center of Lake Washington, Seattle.

Seeing Alice Ferguson almost teetering downstairs, Zoe Parks and Isabel Dunn almost all wanted to laugh, with some inexplicable envy in their emotions.

The housekeeper who was no longer the housekeeper glared at the two women and walked to the restaurant with her own self, while at the same time having a bit of hatred for a fellow again.

Anyway, I will never give in.

Today is January 12, Tuesday.

Simon came to Seattle as a major shareholder to participate in a high-level meeting of Microsoft, mainly to discuss the IE browser pre-installed Windows system.

The matter with the housekeeper actually started with some disputes.

In the past week, Ypay's online payment tool Ypay has successively authorized the payment interface applications of six online business websites, including many merchants that form direct or indirect competition with Amazon.

This was naturally opposed by the female housekeeper, thinking that Simon was marrying someone.

Simon didn't want to talk too much to the housekeeper, so this dispute turned into a direct'body conflict' last night. Not only that, after waking up in the morning, the housekeeper was forcibly conflicted again. What Iraq and Isabel saw.

Moments later, Simon followed downstairs, carrying a sense of excitement that he only had after some exercise.

Came to the restaurant, sat down in the awe-inspiring eyes of the two maids, and began to eat breakfast.

It was already nine o'clock. Zoe and Isabel had already had breakfast. They arranged for the two to quietly exit the restaurant.

Simon took a sip of milk, picked up the cutlery again and cut the fried egg, finally said to the housekeeper: "The consumption point card can be terminated. You can go back and discuss with Jeff about this matter."

In order to promote Internet users to try online consumption, Igrid issued a point of consumption card similar to a prepaid phone card.

For a $10 point card, Igrid will have to pay no less than $2 in all aspects.

At the beginning of the development of Igret, there is nothing wrong. Now, the outbreak of the Internet is accelerating, and the growth of e-commerce will also be greatly accelerated. Moreover, Igrit has already opened up the online payment channels of several major US banks, and users have also Increasingly, it is possible to accept online consumption directly by binding credit cards.Continuing to issue point cards is a bit of a gain to Igreat.

The housekeeper just hummed a little, saying that she was still angry.

In fact, she first raised this matter at the end of last year, but she did not get a response.

What does the man say at this moment?

Give a sweet date?

I am not so easy to be bought.

Simon also does not mind the cold buttiness of the female housekeeper. He continued: "There is also ICQ instant messaging tool, which still cannot be used as an Amazon customer communication tool. I hope it can be developed into a pure even social software. I have personally tried it , The instant messaging you developed on the page is good, which must also use ICQ's patented technology, there is no need to pull ICQ over."

The housekeeper gave another cry.

A thought flashed in my head: stick?

Simon still does not care and continues: "There is also the matter of Ypay cooperating with other e-commerce sites. I remember I have said more than once that the Internet industry will be very large, and no company can fully occupy it. Moreover, at this stage, promote the Internet It is more prosperous and making this platform more accepted by people is more important than the monopoly idea you can’t wait for."

Even Amazon, which was originally at the peak of its timeline, accounted for less than 50% of the US online e-commerce share.

The housekeeper finally said this time: "I never thought of monopolizing the Internet."

Simon said: "But you are trying to do this."

The housekeeper was silent again.

Simon continued: "Actually I also thought that this is the ambition that every businessman has. However, things are simply unrealistic. Especially in the early stages of industrial development,

The housekeeper had already agreed with some guy. After hearing the last sentence, she finally looked up and gave him a hard look.

What the hell is the hotbed girl?

Simon smiled and said: "Recommend a book to you, "Dream of Red Mansions", Jenny likes to read it. Well, you better learn some Chinese."

As a former housekeeper, Alice actually knew about it.

The surface is still unconvincing, but it is silently remembered in the heart, but the topic changes, saying: "Will you promise Gates about the cooperation conditions of the browser pre-installed?"

At the meeting yesterday, Damen students proposed that it is not impossible for IE browser to be pre-installed with Microsoft. However, Microsoft needs to obtain the permission to adjust the corresponding functions of this browser. Not only that, Damen students also requested to obtain related technologies of the World Wide Web for direct commercial use Authorization.

There are actually many restrictions on the previously published World Wide Web patents.

The most important point is that other companies should not directly use the technology of the World Wide Web for profit. In short, they should not use the technology of the World Wide Web to develop relevant application software for profits. The World Wide Web browser, web design software, etc. are all listed here.

Because this is the reserved land of the company.

In the past year, it was only $10 for browser software, and Igreat sold 23.79 million sets worldwide, and thus obtained a huge profit of $230 million.

In addition, with the exponential explosion of World Wide Web sites, web design software that varies in price between individuals or companies, but averages between US$300 and US$500, also sold 760,000 sets, so Make this part of the income easily exceed the original most profitable browser software, reaching 280 million US dollars.

For the software related to web design, the operation team of Eaglenet had considered renting instead of a direct one-off sale, so as to ensure a longer-term sustainable income.However, considering that Oracle directly subverted the monopoly of database software by traditional IT vendors such as IBM through the one-off sale of software, Simon ultimately chose to sell it directly.

Therefore, whether it is browser software or web design software, it will largely be a one-time benefit.

However, even so, only the benefits of these two simple softwares are enough for Igerett to pay most of its initial budget.

The financial information of Igret is still in the statistics just in 1992, but because of the outbreak of software sales again, Igret's loss this year has also been greatly reduced, and it may eventually be only tens of millions of dollars.

Moreover, this loss is deliberately caused by the Igreat operation team.

Simon is not as profitable as Igreat, and Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz are not short of this vision.

Not only that, according to the loss deduction provisions in the US tax law, the current losses can be reduced to income tax deductions within the next 15 years.

Amazon, which was originally on the timeline, used this technique to make tens of billions of dollars in net profit every year. Instead of paying taxes, it could get a part of the tax refund from the federal government, which eventually formed a rare "negative tax rate" phenomenon for federal companies. .

If factors such as inflation are taken into account, it is not cost-effective to use current losses to offset future profits.

However, considering from other aspects, the current investment will actually be converted into the strength and advantages of the company in the Internet industry. In the long run, this is very cost-effective.

At this time in the restaurant.

Hearing the problem of the housekeeper, Simon quickly shook his head and said, "I plan to let Jeff discuss the pre-installation with the OEM directly, and Gates will be fine."

Alice paused, a little teasing in her tone: "You just said you don't want to monopolize the Internet?"

The intentional cultivation of Amazon’s competitors in e-commerce, and the restriction of the appearance of other competitors in the World Wide Web technology, is indeed somewhat contradictory.

Simon said: "It's two different things. I don't want to license to Microsoft. I'm not worried about competition. You have to understand that I am also the largest shareholder of Microsoft. Well, now, it should be the second largest shareholder. The development of Microsoft can also give me brings advantages."

Bill Gates and Paul Allen were originally Microsoft's first and second largest shareholders.

However, after the equity transaction in the previous two years, coupled with the subsequent sale of some shares by Paul Allen, his shareholding in Microsoft has now dropped to 18.6%, and Westero’s shareholding in Microsoft is still 21.3%, so Westeros is now the second largest shareholder of Microsoft after Bill Gates.

Alice naturally knew this and asked, "Why is that again?"

"I just don't want the Internet standards to split," Simon said: "If more World Wide Web technologies are licensed to Gates, Bill may use the market advantages of Windows to create other different technologies in order to compete with Igrid. Standard, and it is probably a standard that is not compatible with Igret. As you can imagine, if the original power system did not have a unified standard, some grids were 110 volts, some grids were 220 volts, and some grids were 240 volts. How much inconvenience will it cause to users, and to what extent will it hinder the development of the power revolution?"

The housekeeper nodded subconsciously, but immediately retorted: "So, don't you worry that this will happen in e-commerce?"

Simon laughed: "Of course not, e-commerce websites, a little more image, more still in the position of "household appliances", no matter what kind of electrical appliances, need to adapt to the federal 110 volt voltage standard."

"But," the housekeeper hesitated this time and said, "You indulge so many'electrical appliances' to come out to compete with Amazon. If, if I mess up, you will also be responsible."

"If there are no competitors, I think you are more likely to mess up," Simon said, adding: "And, frankly, the Westeros system is now very large, I have enough chips, and I'm not afraid that one or two of them will fail. For example, several e-commerce websites that were authorized this time, most of them have venture capital of Westeros system."

The housekeeper was depressed again.

In fact, she has understood this since he let Amazon and Blockbuster sell videotapes and movies.

However, she was still somewhat lost that he didn't have that strong confidence in her.

Damn guy.

How many times.

Always talk about what to do if one fails and fails.

As if she was doomed not to succeed.

Simon did not care about the care of the female housekeeper, and all the explanations were explained. After lunch, the two left Seattle to San Francisco together.

In the afternoon, I discussed with the senior leaders of Igrid to change the pre-installed thinking, and stayed in San Francisco for another night before Simon returned to Los Angeles.

At the beginning of the year, Daenerys Entertainment’s key movies for the next one or two years have been determined, but there are still many sub-level projects gradually established.

On Wednesday morning, Simon asked Roland Emmerich and Michael Bay to discuss a movie written by Roland Emmerich, called "Cosmos".

Roland Emmerich is still busy for the later period of "Superman". Although it has begun to finish, but after finishing the first "Superman", he will almost immediately put into the preparation of the sequel, and there is no time to take care of other projects.

Therefore, Simon, who is the screenwriter of the director himself, intends to hand it to Michael Bay who just completed the Victoria's Secret show late last year.

In the original timeline, "Cosmos" was Roland Emmerich's famous work in Hollywood. It was the success of "Cosmos" that allowed Roland Emmerich to shoot his masterpiece in Hollywood. Independence Day.

This time, if there is no accident, Simon intends to give both opportunities to Michael Bay.

The two films, especially "Independence Day", are also very suitable for Michael Bay's personal style.

As for Emmerich, as long as the "Superman" series can be successful, the reputation of the director will not be much worse than the original timeline. Simon's plan this time is to let the other party be the producer of "Cosmos" Next, it may be the producer of "Independence Day".

"Cosmos" tells a human archaeologist who discovered that the pyramid is actually the "Interstellar Gate" leading to a different world, leading a team of soldiers through the "Interstellar Gate" to explore, and leading the humans of the different world to resist the alien race The story of rule and return to earth.

Overall, this is a sci-fi action movie with a big brain hole.

Sci-fi action movies happen to be the type that Michael Bay was good at.

After a preliminary estimate, the budget of Stargate is $30 million, slightly higher than Simon’s expectations. However, for science fiction movies, such a production budget is not too high, and Simon also believes that Michael Bay’s ability , Fully capable of completing the movie within a budget of $30 million.