Hollywood Hunter

At the end of the conversation with Joseph Lewis, Simon instructed the girl A beside him to collect some information about the other party, while walking towards Lawrence Fink of Black Rock Asset Management.

Lawrence Fink is chatting with several guests, including the housekeeper Alice Ferguson.

In addition to the executives of several companies on the east coast of the Westeros system, because of the equity transfer of Igreat, all senior executives of Igrete on the west coast have also arrived in New York today. With the Amazon online store in the past One year of outstanding performance, the female housekeeper has been one of the core of Igritt's management.

Simon is not familiar with the other men and women in the small circle.

When I came near, I simply said hello, and Lawrence Fink took the initiative to help explain: "Simon, this is Ronald Lauder and his wife Carol, and their daughter Miss Irene Lauder. "

Hearing the surname'Landee', Simon roughly understood the identity of the other party.

The Lauder family behind the Estee Lauder Group.

Simon is very optimistic about the world’s largest cosmetics group in memory. Apollo Management, a subsidiary of Cersei Capital, bought 10% of Estee Lauder’s non-voting shares two years ago, and plans to have Mei Lishan after the Estee Lauder IPO. Zhuo took over to make Estee Lauder a part of Melisandre’s fashion map.

Shaking hands with the Lauder family enthusiastically, a few words of greeting, Simon asked: "What are you just talking about?"

Lawrence Fink said: "Regarding the Amazon online store that Alice is in charge of, Ronald is considering whether Estee Lauder is going to enter the e-commerce field in advance, Simon, do you think?"

Simon shook his head with a smile and said, "It is not the time for a single manufacturer to develop e-commerce. The website operation is still second. The key is that the cost of the warehousing and logistics system is too high. However, Estee Lauder can carry out some experiential e-commerce operations. , Through the combination of official website and offline retail mode, so that you can accumulate experience in advance without consuming too much money."

The Lauder family's expressions listened to Simon's words carefully. The Lauders and his wife hadn't spoken yet. It looked like Irene Lauder in her early twenties said: "Mr. Westeros, you mean that consumers are on the site. Order, and then pick up at the store, right?"

Simon nodded and said, "Yes, Irene, you can call me Simon."

Erin Lauder felt the gentle tone of the opposite man's natural goodwill, but he was not polite, saying: "But isn't it unnecessary to do so? Consumers can go directly to the store to buy cosmetics, why should they Add a layer of trouble to yourself by placing an order online?"

When the Lauders heard Alin Lauder’s almost aggressive tone, they glared at her daughter. They actually found the flaw in Simon’s proposal, but this girl was too rude. If young people do not come to Taiwan, it is inevitable that the Lauder family will not be angered.

Simon's expression was not displeased at all, saying: "Of course the two are different. Many women who buy cosmetics will be very concerned about the specific effect of a product, so I hope to be able to understand some cosmetics in detail before buying. The site happens to be available through The rich pictures and texts make a very detailed introduction to the product, which is an effect that the sales staff of the store can hardly achieve in the short marketing speech. Therefore, the e-commerce platform can not only give consumers a brand new shopping experience, In fact, it will also be a good online marketing platform. As for the online order collection, it will be superfluous. Irene, if you plan to buy a set of cosmetics, one way is to take a leisurely bath in the evening before going to bed. Sitting in front of the computer quietly browsing some products and placing orders, picking up the goods directly in the store the next day, another way is to spend a dozen or twenty minutes in the store to buy one that you may still not understand Product, which way would you choose?"

Simon's voice fell, and no one around him nodded.

Erin Lauder did not admit defeat,

"Of course," Simon nodded and said: "And there will certainly be no shortage of women who want to place orders online. In fact, my suggestion is only a compromise transition plan. For real e-commerce, users should place orders online and the goods directly. Delivered to them. It's just that Estee Lauder has a hard time paying such costs now."

In order to prevent the young daughter of the Lauder family from continuing to make things difficult for her own boss, but to keep everyone from coming to Taiwan, Lawrence Fink took over the topic in a timely manner: "Amazon online store has done a very good job in book sales in the past year, I found the store Recently, video and movie peripheral products have been added. Simon, will Amazon continue to increase product types, such as cosmetics?"

Simon nodded and said: "This is for sure, but at least for the next two years, Amazon will focus on deepening the existing commodity field."

To control the types of commodities, the most fundamental purpose is to control operating costs.

The addition of video tapes and movie peripheral products this year is mainly because the Westeros system has deep roots in Hollywood and can actively cooperate with Amazon's expansion in this field.

If you continue to increase product categories, Amazon will almost need to configure a full set of purchasing, warehousing and logistics teams, thereby greatly increasing Amazon's operating burden, and even once the sales of new product categories are lower than expected, this part of the business will become Amazon's Cumbersome, dragging down the development of the entire company.

After all, e-commerce is still in the early stages of development. In recent years, Amazon’s main business goal is to continue to accumulate operating experience in the e-commerce field by operating existing businesses, and then reduce the cost control risk as much as possible in the future business expansion.

Lawrence Fink heard Simon’s answer and said, “In this case, e-commerce in other product areas may soon have to be won by other companies.”

Simon nodded with a smile: "Yeah, but Amazon can't always take advantage of it."

In fact, this kind of situation is good for Amazon and the entire Igret company.

Amazon is only involved in the peripheral areas of books, audiovisual and movies, giving up other types of e-commerce, it also gives other companies interested in developing e-commerce enough room to develop.

In the past year, Simon has seen from Westeros’ venture capital department set up in Silicon Valley such as online sales of groceries, online sales of infant products, online sales of pet rations, etc. The official announcement of the "Road Plan", as well as the stimulus from the previous Igreat’s financial report to all parties’ capital, it is conceivable that a variety of e-commerce websites will appear next.

Since there are still so many opportunities on the Internet, the hostility of the capital to Igreat, which occupies too many resources, will also subside.

Everyone continued to talk about various topics. Irene Lauder, who had just spurred Simon, did not speak again, but the girl’s eyes did not stop, and she looked at the young man opposite him, and the two men beside him. Women.

Just as Simon approached, Alice and Girl A happened to stand beside him from left to right.Girl A kept her assistant's duty and stood a little behind the man, but Erin Lauder found that Alice Ferguson on the other side almost instinctively stood behind the man on the other side, naturally. Place Simon Westero in the center.

Girl A, not to mention, Alice Ferguson was the high-profile business rookie at this reception tonight. The other company’s Amazon Web Store, the company that is in charge of the other party, only used it when others were hesitant about e-commerce. It has achieved very impressive success in a year, which is definitely not what an ordinary professional manager can do.

It can be said that if Alice Ferguson intends to leave the Igreat company alone, there will be a large number of venture capital funds competing to provide funds for her immediately.

Such a woman instinctively exhibited a subsidiary gesture in front of a young man, and she was once only a maid of the Westeros.

So, a guy, even though he has read too much information about each other in various media over the years, Irene Lauder still can't help but wonder at the moment, what kind of person is the other person?

Simon continued to chat with a few people for a while, and agreed with Lawrence Fink about tomorrow morning's meal, and then went to other places.

Erin Lauder's gaze couldn't help but always followed the figure of a fellow.

After about ten minutes or so, I saw a pretty girl at the reception party apparently intentionally made a small accident, sprinkled the wine on the man, and Irene Lauder, who was silently watching not far away, couldn't help but turn over Glance.

It's really bad.

These women have poured wine on men for hundreds of years. Why can't they be a bit innovative?

If you are...

Thinking about it, I found Westero left the hall, and the woman who tried to splash wine and talked about it was hung down, and she couldn't help but gloating.

Immediately, after hesitating for a while, Erin Lauder put down her wine glass that had been empty for a while and quietly followed.

After leaving the hall, Irene Lauder regretted it.

I'm crazy.

The outside room was a corridor. Of course, I could no longer see the figure of a certain guy. Erin Lauder paused in the distance and decided to walk to the front corner. If she couldn't touch it, she turned back.

Come to the corner, apparently still no shadow of Simon Westero.

Well, he must be going to the bathroom, of course, not here.

I have also participated in various parties more than once in the Gramercy Hotel since I was small, and of course I knew that I would take it in the bathroom.

I questioned it again, but still found it.

Soon I came to the door of the restroom at the end of a corridor and saw the two bodyguards guarding the door. I was sure to be here.

If they stepped forward casually, the two bodyguards did not stop, letting her enter the women's bathroom.

Standing next to the washstand and applying makeup, she rubbed for a moment and heard the footsteps outside. She quickly put away her makeup box and walked out with her handbag.

The man's movements were so fast, she came out, and the other party had already walked back to the hall.

At this point, he had to take the initiative to say: "Hello, Simon."

The man stopped and turned around, saw her, smiled and nodded: "Hello, Irene."

Oh, this tone is really like an old man who is a pretender gentleman.

With a forced voice in her heart, Erin Lauder stepped forward to shoulder with him, and found that the man continued to walk to the side of the hall, couldn't help saying: "Do you like to be mixed between those bald middle-aged people?"

Simon smiled: "Irene, this is a little rude, your dad is there."

Erin Lauder rolled her eyes: "Mr. Westeros, please don't talk to me in this tone, you are obviously as old as me, but like an old man."

Simon spoke well and nodded, "Okay."

"..."

Following the man a few steps, Irene Lauder said again: "Hey, how about we go to the bar downstairs for a drink?"

Simon finally stopped and looked at the girl beside him.

Compared with the bright and beautiful female housekeeper and the sexually-conscious A girl, Erin Lauder's only advantage is probably the exquisite atmosphere she grew up from living in a wealthy home.

After being looked at by Simon this way, Erin Lauder couldn't bear it. She looked up slightly and looked at the man without any weakness, asking, "Why are you looking at me like this?"

Simon smiled, turned around and continued walking, said: "Go, take you to drink."

Erin Lauder kept up subconsciously, but, in a woman's instinct, she was keenly aware of some dangerous breath.

The man’s footsteps are not fast. She is easy to keep up and walks side by side with him, saying: "Hey, we, but just a drink, I will go home later."

Simon nodded: "Of course."

Erin Lauder glanced suspiciously: "Do you want to get me drunk?"

Simon shook his head: "I never drunk a woman on purpose."

Erin Lauder grabbed the man's words: "That is to say, if the woman is drunk herself, you will not stop it?"

"Yes."

"So, what about after being drunk?"

"After being drunk, uh, you mean a woman? When a woman is drunk, she is usually very ugly and may vomit."

Erin Lauder is only 22 years old this year. Although the legal drinking age of the Federation is 21 years old, there will be people who will obey it. In fact, there are not many. She has been drunk before, but it is certain that it is not as unbearable as the man beside him. .

"Simon, you seem to be scaring me?"

"I just don't like drunk women, it's troublesome."

Elin Lauder pouted: "Doesn't men like to intoxicate women and take advantage?"

Simon looked at the girl next to him again, smiled and said, "I prefer women to be more sober."

A little hesitant thought flashed through Eileen Lauder's mind. Wait, should I get drunk or not?

Immediately, she discovered the awful smile in the corner of the man's mouth, and she immediately decided not to be drunk.

Humph, see how you can treat me!