Hollywood Hunter

Leaving EA headquarters, Simon rushed to the headquarters of Palo Alto Gregret to participate in a project meeting on splitting the online software store.

In fact, it is still related to video games.

In order to further refine the operation, Ystore, the online software sales platform originally launched with Ypay system, recently planned to split into two parts. The original Ystore store continued to provide various types of paid or free software sales and download services, and the game software was separately disassembled. Separate it out and set up a dedicated comprehensive website.

According to his long-term personal habits, Simon has already named this website: Steam.

The Ystore store was originally created by Simon’s housekeeper Alice Ferguson. The focus of the housekeeper’s work has now shifted to the Amazon online store. The Ystore business is still in charge of her. The split meeting also attended.

The purpose of Simon’s participation in these meetings is just to have a more intuitive understanding of the business of Igret. The one-hour meeting was mainly in charge of the team’s independent speech and discussion. He did not express any views.

At the end of the meeting, the others were sent away. Simon looked at the female housekeeper who had taken a sip of coffee from the opposite side and asked, "Did you not take a break on the weekend?"

Alice Ferguson put down the coffee cup and said, "About the planning of a new batch of distribution centers."

Simon nodded, and he knew about it.

Amazon.com is planning to build a batch of brand new large-scale logistics distribution centers. The total investment of all 7 distribution centers will reach 350 million US dollars. The average investment of each distribution center is 50 million US dollars. Even if it is put in many years, it will be a big investment. It will also provide more than 10,000 new jobs across North America.

After these batches of logistics distribution centers were completed and started operation at the end of this year and early next year, the Amazon online store will also further increase the variety of products on the website beyond books, videos and movies. Therefore, it is important for Egrete’s e-commerce business Layout.

Looking at the obvious tiredness on the delicate but beautiful face of the female housekeeper, Simon said: "You know, the business of Igret has a clear product priority in my mind. Among the businesses you are responsible for, the online mall is The top priority is absolutely not to be missed. Even if it fails completely, I will restart my second investment. In comparison, if necessary, I will not hesitate to abandon the software store business."

Simon has actually emphasized these more than once.

Alice Ferguson disagreed somewhat, saying: "In the past year, the software store has provided us with considerable revenue and profits."

"But you also need to see the development trend of online software sales," Simon said: "At this stage, Ygreat's Ystore does have unparalleled advantages in technical support, payment tools, website traffic, marketing promotion, etc. Game manufacturers choose to sell their products in software stores to sell 10 million sets. Building their own website may sell only 1 million sets. In this way, the 30% bonus is very cost-effective. However, the Internet is very open Platform, not only Microsoft and AOL, but also some other independent network companies are also trying to enter this industry. Moreover, with the continuous development of network technology, marketing channels, payment tools, and their brand awareness, once the manufacturers Found that selling the product alone is more objective than the 30% return to the software store. They will certainly tend to do this. What are you going to do at this time?"

Alice frowned slightly.

In fact, this trend has already appeared, or has always existed.

Oracle's database software and a series of Microsoft's software products have not been logged in Ystore since the beginning, because these manufacturers already have their own very mature distribution channels, can make the gross profit higher than the Ystore store's share ratio.

The female housekeeper didn’t think about lowering the share ratio to attract these manufacturers to join,

After AOL completed the ADSL network upgrade, the Internet speed of most Internet users in North America has been greatly improved, and Internet transmission technology and online payment tools have become more mature. When Ystore wants to facilitate these cooperations, Microsoft has launched its own The software store recently abandoned Ypay decisively and launched its own online payment tool Microsoft-Wallet in cooperation with American Express.

Simon didn’t wait for the housekeeper’s answer, and continued: “You must be thinking that you may be able to force them to follow by limiting the exposure of these sites on the Ygritte portal or refusing to provide them with Ypay tools as a bargaining chip. It will be cheaper for our competitors. Ygreat’s product priority is also the first echelon. A decision that if it is beneficial to Ypay’s development will hurt Ystore, then this decision should still be passed You think that these manufacturers will completely escape from Igret, but it is not. Although they lost 30% of the software store, they still have to use our Ypay tool and pay for it, without the official promotion of Ystore. , They also need to put a lot of online advertisements to promote their websites. The Igret portal happens to be an advertising platform that they can never circumvent. It happens that the priority of online advertising business also exceeds Ystore because of the law of the Matthew effect. In this respect, we also have the advantage that it is difficult for other manufacturers to easily subvert."

Simon said here, he tapped his fingers on the conference table a few times, and said, "It seems that we need to convene a meeting for this, let's do it tomorrow," and looked at girl A: "Schedule it, at nine o'clock tomorrow morning, Anyone in the Bay Area must attend on time."

Alison promised to bow her head to write down the matter on the memo.

After Simon had commanded, he looked at the female housekeeper on the opposite side again, and said to the girl A sitting next to him again: "Wait, you don't have to go to Mountain View with me. Take Alice to do a beauty spa or something. Various maintenance of the woman, and then sent her to my villa in Woodside."

The female housekeeper would have refused. Hearing Simon's last words, he even blushed and protested: "I still have work."

"there's no more."

After Simon finished standing, he would rush to the construction site of Mountain View's Igret Park.

Alice sat still, her beautiful eyes glared over, and repeated: "I still have work."

Simon also glared: "Be obedient, or I will let you take a compulsory vacation."

Alice stared at the opposite man for half a second, dodged a little, and looked back again, bargaining: "I won't go to you at night."

"Okay, I'll go to you."

"..."

When Simon went out and disappeared, Alice's stiffness softened.

Girl A left by Simon smiled and said: "Let's go, Alice, you really need to relax."

The female housekeeper still has a cold face, but the party still leaves. She has not stalemate with Alison. The relationship between the two parties is not good. The female housekeeper is not very good at handling people. She will not forget the original on the East Coast Greenwich. Once met, the ABCD four girls pitted the past.

The two walked out of the conference room. Simon had left in a hurry, leaving a driver to the two women.

The current level of the female housekeeper has her own full-time driver, but she did not refuse the good intention of a certain guy.Girl A is not familiar with San Francisco, but she made a phone call to Girl C and arranged everything in less than five minutes.

The time is approaching twelve noon.

The two girls first found a restaurant for lunch, and then rushed to a beauty club near Atherton to spend a whole afternoon doing a complete set of maintenance.

In the evening when she left the meeting room, girl C drove over.

The two girls stood at the door of the clubhouse and saw Claire get out of the car. Girl A subconsciously glanced into the compartment and asked with a smile, "What about that little goblin?"

"The school is very busy lately," Claire and Alison hugged and smiled: "Will I call her to come over."

Alison just rolled her eyes.

Claire hugged Alice intimately again, and said, "Alice, you are beautiful again, even I am so excited."

Knowing that Claire was teasing herself, the housekeeper rolled her eyes.

After greeting, Claire dropped her car, the three girls squeezed in a car and came to a nearby French restaurant. Girl C had set a position in advance.

"Sony refused directly, and Panasonic wanted a 30% stake. How could I agree? The most popular thing is Kodak. They would rather have their technology rotten than cooperate with us. If we want to work on the digital camera project, we only I can rely on myself."

At the dinner table, the topics discussed by the three very ambitious women are still inseparable from work.

Tincobal will release the third-generation iCam digital camera during Easter this year.

With the further popularization of the Internet and the rise of social networks, more and more users tend to show themselves on the Internet platform, and the demand for digital cameras has also increased significantly.

In the case where other established manufacturers have launched their own products, not high-end iCam has firmly occupied 60% of the digital camera market shipments in the past year due to its advantages in brand, price and network adaptation. %, the total shipments in 1993 reached 2.76 million units, a 350% increase from the shipments of 610,000 units in 1992, annual sales reached 1.39 billion US dollars, and preliminary statistics for the full year net profit also reached 120 million US dollars about.

As a supporting hardware around the Internet, the rise of Tinkerbair is undoubtedly the most intuitive proof of the outbreak of the Internet industry.

Digital cameras have provided richer picture content for Internet platforms. The explosion of the Internet industry has also greatly increased the public's demand for digital camera products. The two sides complement each other.

While further strengthening his investment in the digital camera project, Tincobayr did not stop developing new projects.

In addition to products such as MP3 players that have been perfected in private and U-disks that are planned to be launched with USB technology, Tinkerbair recently plans to launch a digital video camera (DV) project.

Compared with digital cameras, the threshold of digital video cameras is much higher, and it also involves patent barriers.

Incumbent electronics manufacturers around the world have long begun to invest in the research and development of digital cameras. Although most of the manufacturers' goals are professional-grade commercial products rather than mass consumer products targeted by Tinkerbayer, whether they are patent layout or technology accumulation, Tinkerbair was out of reach.

Cooperating with these established manufacturers can not only launch their own products faster, but also obtain related patent authorizations to avoid future patent litigation.

However, all the old electronic manufacturers have given Dincobayer the first chance in digital cameras. Now they regret that they will no longer support Dinkobarr in the development of digital camera projects, so they either directly refused or proposed The unacceptable conditions of cooperation, Tincobair can only rely on themselves.

Alison listened to Claire saying, "Actually, I think that the current popularity of home film cameras is so high, you may consider developing a special machine for film to digital, let everyone convert their stored film video to digital Video, this should have a big market."

Claire shook his head: "You haven't seen Hollywood-specific rubber-to-magnetic equipment. It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars professionally. It's huge and bulky. How can it be possible to achieve a household level?"

Girl A said: "You can't do it at home, you can do it at the level of commercial shops, and the equipment in Hollywood is film-level, and the quality requirements for conversion are very high, but you only need to get the ultra-eight millimeter film for home. The picture quality does not need to be perfect."

Girl C continued to shake her head: "If you are interested, you can try this project."

On the other hand, a female housekeeper who has always had very few words said: "Since digitalization is an inevitable trend, this machine has been developed, and the product cycle will not be too long. Maybe DV has not been promoted, and DV has been popularized."

Girl A paused, wanting to refute that film and digital may coexist for a long time, just like today's digital cameras and film cameras.

But think about it, she still didn't speak.

At the current speed of popularization of digital cameras, perhaps after the introduction of DV, considering the many advantages of this product, perhaps the elimination of home film cameras will be faster and faster.

Girl C did not continue this topic, instead asked about the AlphaBeta company where AB girls worked together, and regretted that she should have

The three women seemed to have had dinner very harmoniously. When they left the restaurant, they unknowingly split into two groups.

The driver drove the car over, and Alison held Claire's arm to the housekeeper: "Me and C will go shopping for a while, you can go back first, remember to rest early, there will be a meeting tomorrow morning, I will not specifically notify you Now."

The butler stood by the door and didn't get on the bus immediately. Hesitating for a moment, she tit-for-tat: "I'm going to Woodside, you have to open the door for me."

Girl A was a little disappointed: "Don't you say you want to go home, the boss may also go directly to you."

"I go to Woodside."

The female housekeeper repeated the sentence and got on the car.

The driver did not close the door and looked at the girl A while waiting.

Alison pulled Laclair helplessly: "Go to Woodside tonight, shall we sleep together?"

Claire did not refuse and nodded with a smile: "Okay."