Hollywood Hunter

Bill Gates felt it was a mistake to come and meet Simon today.

If it weren't for the young man's birth, he felt that he should now be the richest man in the Federation.Unfortunately, this year's Forbes list of $10.5 billion in wealth, compared with the $120 billion of young people in front of him, can only look up.

The feeling of the two people getting along now makes Gates think of Microsoft's early contact with Steve Jobs.

At the time, Jobs was already a startup star with a net worth of more than 100 million yuan. Microsoft was only an Apple office software supplier. Because of various differences between Apple and Microsoft, he and Jobs had quarrels more than once.

Or, to be more precise, he was completely reprimanded by Jobs.

Now Jobs has long lost its former glory, and the rise of Microsoft is unstoppable.

However, he found that there was a guy more disgusting than Jobs on his head again.

This young man would not yell like Jobs once, and even in the face of his anger did not even bother to show a touch of emotion, but for Gates, it was a more serious contempt.

It seems that the other party is completely standing on another level, looking down at all beings.

This may be the case, and Gates is reluctant to admit it anyway.

The meeting was over.

Regarding Linux and IE, the conditions given by Simon are basically things that have already been determined, and there is no room for negotiation at all.

When the classmates left, they had already taken care of themselves.

After all, IE is to run on the Windows platform, and it is not difficult to grasp it.

Simon doesn't care about Gates's idea. His current attitude is to stand by and watch. The specific game is run by the executives of one of his companies.

In fact, I can think of some tricks that Gates will play, but if it is urgent, Igrid may really launch a free Linux desktop operating system.

The rise of Windows has been advanced due to the rise of the Internet wave, and there is still a certain distance from a complete monopoly.

The launch of the free Linux desktop operating system now is not without the opportunity to redefine the operating system market pattern. Once the Android was only after Apple’s iOS has been launched, the key operating system software ecological issues, Microsoft also has no absolute advantage , Igrid also has the corresponding strength to coordinate various software vendors to develop software for Linux.

Of course, this is definitely a strategy of losing both sides.

Less than a last resort, Igrid would not do it.

Breaking down Microsoft, Simon, the second largest shareholder, must suffer severe losses.

Returning to Los Angeles on Monday, the most important news is that Canada's Seagram Group officially announced the acquisition of Paramount Communications.

Prior to this, the two companies have negotiated secretly for more than three months.

It's actually not a secret.

In recent months, gossip about Seagram’s upcoming acquisition of Paramount Communications has been constantly reported. Paramount’s share price has risen more than 25% compared to the end of May, and its recent market value has reached $5.9 billion.

Now that the information is open, the two sides have basically reached an agreement.

Seagram Group will acquire Paramount Communications for $66 per share, with a total value of approximately $8 billion, paid in cash.At the same time, Seagram Group will also assume Paramount’s $1.2 billion in debt, with a total transaction value of $9.2 billion.

On the day of the announcement, Paramount's stock price rose again by 11%.

For the next period of time, as long as no other bidders appeared, the transaction would be formally concluded after the Paramount board voted and the federal authorities approved it.

In the eyes of many people, the possibility of bidders is already very low.

Compared with the initial negotiations, Seagram’s offer of $66 per share is equivalent to a 70% premium. The most important point is that it is completely paid in cash.

With the announcement of the news, the hotspots of the federal media discussion again focused on whether the regulation of the media industry should be released as soon as possible.

Because public television networks are not allowed to hold Hollywood studios’ bans, in these years, the three old-fashioned federal television networks with sufficient strength to integrate with major Hollywood studios have been unable to participate in the acquisition of Hollywood studios. MGM has already fallen into the hands of foreign investors and Universal Pictures has almost been acquired by Panasonic. Now, Hollywood has another veteran studio, Paramount Communications, which will also become a subsidiary of overseas capital.

The New York Times believes that similar acquisitions have threatened the US cultural industry, and the federal government should ban Seagram from acquiring Paramount.

Such suggestions are hard to come true.

Now that Sony can complete the acquisition of Columbia Pictures, Australian capital has also swallowed MGM. According to existing laws, the federal government has no reason to prevent Seagram from annexing Paramount Communications.

Unless the media control is immediately released, the three powerful public television network groups are allowed to join the acquisition.

The media industry’s lobbying for the lifting of the regulatory ban has continued, and this matter has almost become a consensus among the top federal officials.However, if you want to repeal the original bill, it will not happen overnight.

At least this time, the acquisition of Paramount Communications by Seagram has been inevitable.

Dumei Point Estate.

The time is Wednesday, September 29.

Simon was invited by Paramount Pictures President Robert Rem to participate in the other party's reception at the Beverly Hills, and left early at 9 o'clock in the evening.

Back home, Janet hadn't rested yet, and was discussing with girl A in a living room of the villa.

Simon sat down next to Janet, curiously looking at the file in the woman's hand.

Janet handed it over to Simon directly, and said, "What about the list you just sorted out?"

Simon took the folder. The above is a stack of resumes that have just been printed out. They are randomly turned over. They are all 18 to 22-year-old university girls. They are in North America, Australia and Europe. Of famous school students.

ABCD, who is next to him, is gradually leaving his position. Janet recently began to look for a new batch of personal maid candidates.

Simon originally felt that there was no need to look for girls who were too smart. However, judging from the accidents among the girls who came out of the housekeeper Alice, smart girls were more reliable. Smart people often knew what to do or not. What to do.

Looking around, Simon said: "I think it's better to choose younger ones for training, these ages are a bit older."

Janet moved around, curled up on the sofa next to Simon, and came over to read the resume on the document and said: "I also know that it is better to grow up since childhood, but how do you plan to find a little girl, you can't buy it directly? , It's easy to cause trouble."

Simon raised his arms around Janet and made her lean more comfortably. She looked at the file on her knee with one hand and thought for a while, said: "This is easy. It is selected from Latin America or Eastern Europe."

Janet was still puzzled: "Huh?"

Simon said: "You know, in Latin America and Eastern Europe, there are girls with excellent selection conditions for model scouts available to major brokerage companies. We just need to select the people we want from this channel."

Janet's head pressed down on Simon's shoulder: "Is that what you want?"

Simon smiled: "Yeah, you can't use it again."

Janet pretended to grumble dissatisfiedly and said to the girl A who was sitting quietly beside her: "A, um, let B do this, it's the last job before she leaves."

Alison nodded and said to write down.

Janet turned around again, gestured to the folder on Simon's knee, and said, "What about these?"

"Choose a few and try to cultivate."

Simon said, continuing to turn a few pages, and was suddenly attracted by a piece of information.

This is the information of a girl who just entered the computer department of Stanford University this year, named Marissa Mayer.Looking at the photo in the upper right corner of the resume again, yes, it is Marisa Mayer in her memory.

Since the information was sent to the Simons, they actually negotiated their work intentions in advance.

Simon did not expect that the famous senior woman in Silicon Valley would want this job.

However, in this case, Simon is not polite, and directly extracted Mayer's information, saying: "This is good."

Simon didn’t hide his preference in front of Janet, and Janet didn’t care. After curiously reading the information, he looked at it and said, “It’s just a freshman, but it’s enough to give her two years. It doesn’t matter if you get a Stanford degree."

Simon nodded and continued to look through, no other familiar names were found, so he discussed with Janet and selected seven out of a total of more than sixty resumes, counted Marisa Mayer, and joined two again The four-person group, after targeted training, may filter out half of the future, leaving four.

A, B, C, and D were selected in this way.

Westeros' current maid team, in addition to the ABCD that has been scattered, there are the Indian girl Alia and the housekeeper Alice team brought out Zoe Parks and Isabel Dunn, this is the most personal Several maids.In addition, some girls in charge of many properties under Simon’s name in North America and Europe will basically not appear beside the Simons.

According to the frequency of ABCD leaving, when these girls retire, Marissa Mayer and others are also enough to take over the former position.

Later, it is probably the girl selected by Latin America and Eastern Europe.

In fact, Stanford also hides a goblin, Simon’s third Jenny, Jennifer Bray, but Jenny’s positioning is probably similar to that of a female assistant, and it needs to wait another two years.

After discussing this matter, girl A was sent to rest, and Simon personally took care of Janet and went upstairs to take a shower and sleep.

The next morning, Janet was hugged to leave, and the couple didn't get up until more than eight o'clock.

After eating breakfast, accompanied Janet to Westeros Family Hospital for routine pregnancy checkup, accompanied by a pregnant women class, and returned to Dumei Point Estate for lunch at noon.

The pregnancy schedule of the two Jenny is actually the same, monotonous, boring, after all, it is not a real vacation, with a baby in her belly, many things can not be done at all, the female assistant is more restricted, and even not open Appear on occasions.

After lunch, Janet was arranged for a nap, but Simon was not asleep.

Taking advantage of the warm sunshine in the afternoon, I came to the villa to swim in the open-air swimming pool near the sea for a while. After leaving the pool, B girl Hope Qi handed over the towels. Simon simply wiped it and walked to the lounge chair by the pool. Sit down, pick up the juice on the table next to it, and motion to girl B to ask, "How is your financial information platform prepared?"

Girl B sat down on the lounge chair next to Simon, her eyes involuntarily glanced at her boss’s sturdy, muscular body, and quickly regained her gaze, saying: "The software development team has gradually been completed, Goldman Sachs, Morgan and Se Xi Capital has agreed to cooperate, and Yahoo Finance also agreed to provide us with content. I am currently in contact with some traditional financial media to discuss cooperation matters."

Simon smiled and said, "Is this a problem?"

Girl B nodded. Igrid’s 58list has just offended the traditional paper media. It is certainly not easy to reach an agreement with established financial media such as Thomson, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, and Business Weekly.What's more, these companies themselves also have their own partners and interests in financial information.

"Come step by step," Simon continued: "Actually, your idea of ​​"destroying good money to drive out good money" is very good. It's not that we want to provide inferior services, but we understand the gap between ourselves and the old financial information platform. This is important. Many people fail because they don’t understand their position."

Girl B wants to create a financial information company similar to Bloomberg, which is a very promising idea.

In the next two decades, the US financial industry will become more developed, and the demand for professional financial information platforms will increase substantially.

Take Bloomberg for example. At this stage, the total global sales of Bloomberg terminals are actually only about 15,000 units, and the annual revenue is about 200 million US dollars.

In Simon’s memory, Bloomberg’s Bloomberg terminal had annual sales of 300,000 units at its peak, which is 20 times the size of the current market. Michael Bloomberg also relied on a Bloomberg company for more than 50 billion U.S. dollars. Net worth, so we can see that the professional financial information platform is promising.

Relying on the resources of the Westeros system, even if B Girl's financial information platform cannot completely defeat Bloomberg, as long as it can gain a firm foothold in this industry and fight with Bloomberg in court, the scale of future enterprises will definitely reach tens of billions of dollars.

Bloomberg was founded in 1981 and has a decade of accumulation. The B-girl company wants to catch up with this company, which will definitely not be achieved overnight.

Therefore, Becky developed a plan code-named "Bad Currency Drives Out Good Currency".

Create a junior financial information platform to catch up with Bloomberg terminal step by step, and at the same time use the low price advantage to gradually invade Bloomberg terminal and other existing stock market equipment, and finally achieve the effect of a "bad currency expelling good currency", Moreover, after continuous accumulation, the company itself will evolve from'bad currency' to'good currency'.

Thinking about it this way, Simon asked Girl B: "Right, is the company name up?"

Girl B nodded and said, "Alphabeta."

Simon froze for a moment. The name seemed to have been heard somewhere.

Well, Google’s parent company!

"How come such a name?"

"This is a project I planned with A. Her $10 million vase fund will also be invested, and I will help me continue to make ideas in private."

A, B, Alphabeta, that's right.

Thinking about it, Simon asked, "How do you spell it?"

Girl B spelled it quickly.

Simon found out that there is still a difference between the two names. The name of Google's parent company is Alphabet, and finally there is a missing letter'a', but the AB girl company is Alphabeta, with a complete spelling.

Confirming that this was just a small coincidence, Simon nodded and smiled, "A very good name."