Hollywood Hunter

The potential benefits involved are too large, and the success of Happy Farm has naturally aroused internal disputes among Igrid about whether it should open its platform to third-party game developers.

Even if there is a phenomenal chance of the success of "Happy Farm", according to the current sustained explosion rate of the Internet, as more game content is launched one after another, the internal prediction of the company is likely to be a production value of not less than 10 billion The emerging industry of the dollar.

At this stage, Igrid almost monopolizes the social networking market, and the development of web games relying on animation technology is very low. Compared with the return, the cost is lower. This is the most direct proof of "Happy Farm", so it is completely The game production team can be developed by the company.

Even if it cooperates with foreign countries, it is best to only be a fertile field like EA.

Otherwise, it would be a bit too generous to cede a large portion of the revenue generated by the huge number of users of the platform to unrelated game manufacturers, and even be a bit stupid.

It was not until Simon came to San Francisco that this matter was finalized.

Keep it open.

It is not just in the field of online games, maintaining an open external cooperation attitude should be the fundamental development strategy of the entire Igriat company.

The Internet is destined to be an open platform.

If you choose to close, the result will only cause companies and users to continue to escape from the Egritte ecosystem, and eventually cause themselves to gradually wither and decay like trees that lack nutrients.

Once the early Internet portal giants in China, they basically turned into online game companies.

For Igret, the huge success of Happy Farm also clearly made the management find a very clear way to monetize users, but Simon did not want Igrit to become an online game company anyway. .Already have a broad pattern at this stage, if eventually reduced to a game company, it is really a riot.

Similarly, even if he attaches great importance to search engines and social networks, Simon does not want Igerett to become an advertising company.

Simon's most fundamental vision is to hope that Igrid will always maintain its own position as a technology company and promote continuous long-term development of the enterprise through continuous technological innovation.

For example, this time "Happy Farm" mainly relies on the latest page animation technology developed by Igret. Perhaps later people have become familiar with this technology, even in the Internet environment, as common as air and water in reality. But in fact, for the Internet at this stage, this is a huge innovation.

Because this seemingly uncomplicated innovation has brought a brand-new industry with an output value of billions and tens of billions of dollars, this is the ultimate charm of technological innovation.

"Of course, I'm definitely not against everyone taking the benefits we deserve from the game industry. You will discuss the specific implementation clauses. However, I want to emphasize that everyone should have a broader pattern for Igret. , Our goal is the entire Internet, and should not be blinded by the interests of a certain field alone, hindering our own pace of innovation and exploration."

Palo Alto, a small conference room at the headquarters of Eaglet.

Simon confronted Tim Berners Lee, Jeff Bezos, Carol Bartz and Alice Ferguson, who had quietly promoted to one of the Big Four. Another topic: "The free plan for IE browser needs to be advanced. Jeff, what other manufacturers have not negotiated?"

In the original plan, after completing the repricing communication with the major pre-installed manufacturers and telecom operators, the IE browser will be officially declared free before May, that is to say, the plan will be officially factual by the end of April.

Several other people in the conference room looked at each other, Jeff Bezos said: "It is mainly several giants such as IBM and Japan's Toshiba. In terms of operators, AT-T's attitude is also more persistent."

As an AT-T that still maintains nationwide operation coverage after the split in that year,

Although compared with AOL, which has a market share of 70%, no one dares to ignore the existence of AT-T.

Simon doesn’t want to know if there are other games, whether it’s the manufacturers or operators who want more concessions, the Westeros system’s joint efforts by several big companies, or some senior executives deliberately delaying from IE The browser gains some more benefits, saying: "In terms of PC manufacturers and operators, refer to the cooperation plan between Compaq and AOL, which has been negotiated, for those manufacturers who are still hesitating to consider the last three days, three days After that, either sign a contract, or they won’t need to use our software again. I want you to officially declare IE free this Friday."

Carol Bartz couldn't help but say: "Simon, is it too anxious? The counter-attack we are facing now... well, the pressure on litigation is not so serious?"

Hearing the apparent pause in Carol's words, several others couldn't help smiling.

Obviously, Bartz wanted to talk about antitrust pressures, but because of a punishment by Simon some time ago, the spunky senior woman was obviously allergic to the word.

The thing stems from an email.

In a working email to Simon, Carol Bartz detailed the current monopoly advantage of Igreat's basic tool software and how to maintain this advantage in the recent market public opinion environment.

Simon agreed with Carol's point of view, and then fined the senior woman a tenth of her annual salary.

The reason is that Bartz used too much of the word "monopoly" in his emails.

Simon later emphasized clearly at a small meeting of the core senior executives of Igret, whether it is future e-mail, telephone communication, high-level meetings or even private conversations, you need to avoid the explicit use of the word "monopoly" because you don’t pay attention. These may be used as evidence in the anti-monopoly investigation against Igret.

This is not without precedent.

In the 1970s, Buffett bought a newspaper called "Buffalo Evening News" in Buffalo, New York. In order to squeeze out the competitors' monopoly on the Buffalo newspaper market, Buffett demanded that this newspaper did not have a Sunday version. The Sunday edition was released to combat another "Messenger Express" that could only survive by relying on the exclusive Sunday edition. At that time, Buffalo had only two of these slightly stronger newspapers.

In order to avoid being crushed, the Courier Express sued the Buffalo Evening News for unfair competition to try to monopolize the Buffalo newspaper.

This lawsuit was originally unreasonable, because the core of the federal antitrust law is to encourage competition rather than suppress it, so the "Buffalo Evening News" is fully qualified to launch the Sunday class to compete with the "Express Courier".

As a result, Buffett lost the lawsuit.

The reason is that the investment tycoon once publicly published a'bridge toll gate' statement, saying that owning a newspaper that monopolizes a regional market is like having a bridge toll gate. The operator will be able to raise prices at will according to his will.

Because of this open monopoly speech, an otherwise unreasonable lawsuit ended in failure.

The official strict restrictive judgment even led the Buffalo Evening News, which had the leading position, almost failed to persist. At that time, Buffett’s acquisition of the Buffalo Evening News’ $35 million investment was the largest investment by the investor in that era. Once the investment is lost, there may be no Berkshire Hathaway now.

The most important rule brought to Simon by the dozen or so life experiences in my mind is that you can do a lot of things, but never say it.

It's like the real monopoly of Igret.

It's like the deep-rooted racial discrimination in America.

And many others.

Simon is very satisfied with the outspoken senior executive of Bates in time, otherwise he intends to deduct one-tenth of the other's annual salary. According to the agreement signed at the time, after the contract expires, it is almost determined that they are billionaires. Of course, the Big Three do not care about the current annual salary of hundreds of thousands of dollars, but at this stage they still have to pay most of their living expenses.

Also following everyone's smile, Simon quickly converged and said, "Carly, this matter has nothing to do with the authorities' investigation. If IE's charges are important to Igret, even if it is a lawsuit for ten years, What I can’t give up, I’m still not going to give up easily. IE’s free plan, in addition to making it easy for Igrid to push our latest technology, the most important reason is to fundamentally determine the global scope of this browser software. Market status. Now everyone has realized the importance of the browser software interface. In the Federation, we already have an absolute advantage. For the time being, we don’t have too much worry. However, in the global scope, some countries have Igreat control, already considering the use of government public power to ask us to give up the exclusive rights of IE, these things you should know better than me. The implementation of the free plan will be that even if we lose the exclusive rights, we can still maintain a strong market position . So, only one week, I don’t want any of you to delay this matter for any reason, understand?"

After staring sharply at everyone, Simon withdrew his eyes, looked down at the memo in front of him, and raised his head to the housekeeper: "Alice, about Wisconsin Senator Craig Ames accusing us The logistics distribution center under construction should voluntarily abandon the tax relief plan provided by the local. Don’t pay attention to this matter. However, the recruitment plan of the distribution center needs to be advanced. Some people will contact you about the specific operation of this matter. You know why, so , I need your absolute cooperation, OK?"

Alice nodded.

The female housekeeper who has been paying attention to what has happened recently certainly understands that there is no room for discussion.

Senator Craig Ames of the Wisconsin Democratic Congress, which proposed a proposal for almost "personal property tax" for Simon alone last month, has not stopped the attack on the Westeros system. The target is the tax relief plan for a large logistics distribution center in Wisconsin that Amazon.com is building.

As one of the seven most important large logistics distribution centers in Amazon's next phase of development, once it is opened, it will directly bring about 1,500 long-term jobs to Wisconsin, and the indirect job opportunities are endless.

However, although the parliamentarian did not ignore all of this, he still emphasized that the Westeros system should pay more. For example, he actively gave up the tax relief plan provided by the local government in order to win this project. This is obviously a rogue.

In fact, Simon can now completely withdraw this logistics distribution center from Wisconsin. The big tens of millions of dollars that have been invested are just looking at the drift. However, this kind of enthusiasm can only be considered. Simon is not an impulse. People.The site selection of the seven logistics distribution centers under construction by Amazon has been carefully considered in many aspects, and the abandonment or even abandonment will even affect the next development of the E-grid e-commerce property.

After talking about this, Simon looked at his memo again and started the next issue.

In this way, I was busy at Igret headquarters for a whole day. Until more than six o'clock in the afternoon, Simon took a female assistant from the Igret park site under construction in Mountain View to the villa in the woodside mountains in the west of the Bay Area.

It was quite lively in the villa.

Naga Allman and Jasmine Gary experienced a small startle and ran to Simon’s private plane to go shopping in Tokyo and relax. After returning from Japan today, they learned that Simon was in San Francisco , Came here directly.

In addition to the waist, legs, and legs, Claire also ran over with a goblin to count for dinner.

Coupled with the A girl and the Indian girl Alia and D girl who recently took charge of Simon's living, there are a total of seven women in the villa, and they are all high-scoring women.

One man and seven women.

It is conceivable that once it spreads, there will definitely be a lot of excitement in the media.

When Simon arrived home, at least superficially harmonious girls were preparing dinner in the kitchen, noisy.

After a busy day, Simon went upstairs and planned to take a bath to change his clothes. Although there was no command, Alia, who saw him moving, followed quietly and followed Simon into the master bedroom upstairs.

Only intending to take a shower, there is no need to release water, Simon instructed Alia to help herself prepare the clothes, and then entered the bathroom.

About ten minutes later, Simon wiped his body clean, only walked out of the bathroom with a large towel around his waist, and found that Alia, who had prepared herself for the clothes, did not leave, bent over and folded a shirt repeatedly by the bed To pretend to be very busy, because of the practice of yoga, the girl's figure wrapped in a slim white shirt and black trousers with a special and graceful femininity when bending over.

Seeing stepping out of the bathroom first, Aaliya straightened up quickly, still holding Simon's shirt: "Boss, um, here you are."

After the girl finished, she felt inappropriate, and quickly found the ready men's shorts from the big bed and handed them over. She looked at Simon's muscular chest, and her cheeks were flushed unconsciously.

For the vases around him, Simon has never been Liu Xiahui, but he usually takes into account the possibility of changing the working mentality of the girls so that they will not easily eat them. At this time, watching the reaction of the Indian girls, Simon also noticed that this is obviously not seduce Ask yourself with a smile: "Something to tell me?"

Aaliyah heard that she was obviously guilty, but nodded subconsciously.

Simon took the men's shorts and said, "Go to the study next door and wait. I'll come over when I get dressed."

Aaliyah didn't expect her host to speak so well, but it had been brewing for a few days to prepare a series of speeches. At this time, he heard the words, paused, and stepped forward a little bit, saying: "Boss, do you need my help?"

Simon smiled and picked the girl's delicate chin: "Go to the next door and wait, I'm not Moore, they need your help to get dressed."