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Finally, Igret also set up a dedicated enterprise evaluation team and began to quietly evaluate the current operating conditions of new technology companies in all aspects.

Simon was not so fraternal.

After the bursting of the new technology bubble, some companies are worth saving, and many more have to be abandoned.

Moreover, Simon did not intend to do good deeds in vain.

Although the entire Westeros system has been investing heavily in start-up technology companies while developing its own key enterprises in recent years, it is conceivable that after the expected capital winter, the Westeros system has undergone large-scale mergers and integrations. Control of the industry will become more entrenched.

October 8th, Thursday.

He was in San Francisco from Monday to Wednesday. On Thursday morning, Simon departed for New York before eight o'clock and arrived on the east coast. It was still just working time here.

Girl A beside her reminded softly that when he arrived at the East Coast headquarters of Daenerys Entertainment on 66th Street in the Upper West Side, Simon had just finished reading some documents that he had been looking at along the way. A scheme for the function of the mini Internet cafe of the Starbucks chain store.

Inspiration still comes from the recent Olympic Games.

There is no mobile Internet at this stage, and the several products of the Tinkobel company created by Miss C all rely on the Internet and consider the consumer mentality. Whether it is an iCam or iRec user, it is obvious that they hope to be able to take photos and videos as soon as possible. Upload to the network to share with friends.

Just like during the Olympic Games, the most popular places to consume in Atlanta are the Internet cafes in the urban area.

After taking photos and videos, tourists from North America and all over the world looked for Internet cafes to upload and share, causing the Internet cafes in the Atlanta area to be full almost [-]/[-].

Simon had promoted the development of the Internet cafe industry in North America a few years ago, but it was still in 1991. The main purpose was to allow potential users to try the Internet in order to promote the general public to access Internet services.Unlike the Internet cafe industry in China, which can remain quite hot for many years to come, Simon is actually not very optimistic about the development of the Internet cafe industry in North America because of the consumption capacity, so he quickly transferred related projects to cash out.

In the solution provided by Clare, the function of the Internet cafe has changed, and the core is no longer purely providing Internet services for users, but as a supporting product of Tinkber.

In fact, many Internet giants in Simon's memory have spared no effort to promote one thing, which is to allow more people in the world to connect to the Internet. For this purpose, giants such as Google or Facebook have opened their own Internet service companies and released Internet satellites. , build public WiFi and even try to provide wireless network with aircraft and so on.

Claire's plan this time is the same as what a series of Internet giants have done before.

The problem now is that it costs too much to open a chain of Internet cafes alone, so we cooperate with Starbucks all over the United States and even the world. Each Starbucks store adds a few computers for users to upload instantly to form a mini Internet cafe. a good choice.

This is a win-win solution.

Adding Internet access, like providing free Wi-Fi later, can attract more customers for Starbucks.Similarly, more convenient uploading can also stimulate consumers to purchase electronic products such as iCam.

Therefore, both parties have shown a clear intention to cooperate.

The next step is the specific cooperation plan. In the final analysis, it is still a question of money.

Chapter 998 Buying Apple

Ten years later, Starbucks, McDonald's and other stores will have free Wi-Fi. Tinkber wants to provide mini Internet cafes in Starbucks chain stores. Whether to charge and who will bear the cost is a problem. The plan was submitted to Simon, and Miss C also hoped that Ygritte could participate and share the cost together.

If it was a few years ago, in order to allow more people to access the Internet, Ygritte would be happy to do so.

Even now, Silicon Valley's new technology giants are actually pushing more people to connect to the Internet like Facebook, Google and other companies in the past, but this plan is relatively more in line with the interests of Tinkobel. The special promotion is not big, so it is not that enthusiastic.

Simon came directly from the airport to 66th Street in the Upper West Side to attend a meeting at 10 o'clock in the morning. He entered a conference room in the East Coast headquarters building, some time before the meeting, and hurriedly wrote down his opinions on the document.

Simon disapproved of the proposal.

If it is only to provide users such as iCam, iRec, and iPlayer with convenient upload interfaces, Tinkobel does not need to cooperate with Starbucks, but can completely provide vending machines or public telephone booths in public places with relatively large traffic Tinkber products are dedicated network upload devices, and a special closed system is designed to only provide related product applications, such as image upload, video upload or audio download, which can greatly improve the application efficiency of the device.

In contrast, setting up a mini Internet bar in Starbucks must provide a complete PC Internet access function, and Starbucks users may not necessarily use it to connect to Tinkerbell products.Or, if it is a targeted closed system device, it must pay Starbucks a licensing fee.

No need.

The plan was rejected, and the cooperation with Ygritte was naturally avoided.

Finally, Simon suddenly remembered to remind Miss C on the note that the acquisition of Apple can be initiated.This is a plan that Simon has determined a long time ago. Now Apple is already in the lowest state of the company. If you win Apple, the Westeros system can obtain a large number of underlying core patents about the operating system, and Tinkobel will expand. In addition to its own hardware product line and global operation team, it can also take advantage of Apple's system technology background to develop a closed-system dedicated network upload device in the shortest possible time.

Get more in one fell swoop.

After writing the notes, I handed them over to the girl A beside me and passed them to Silicon Valley, and the time came to 10 o'clock.

Robert Iger and other Daenerys Entertainment West Coast cores are basically present. This meeting mainly discusses the broadcast cooperation between ESPN and the NFL involving 90 billion US dollars. After going around and around to the present, the matter finally came to an end. This meeting finalized Some details are expected to be formally signed and announced next Monday.

A large-scale contract involving US$90 billion is also related to the future of ESPN, and of course Simon cannot be absent.

However, during the two-hour meeting in the morning, Simon did not intervene too much. He has not been very keen on sports, and tried his best to avoid laymen guiding experts.

The morning meeting ended, and I had lunch with Robert Iger, Steve Bernstein and others at noon, and I did not leave afterwards. In the afternoon, I will also participate in the review of the upcoming autumn file of the major TV stations under the Daenerys Entertainment TV department. The core program is busy from one o'clock in the afternoon to seven o'clock in the afternoon.

Now the core platforms of Daenerys entertainment TV business such as ABC TV Network, USA Women's Channel, A;E TV Network, Fashion TV, etc., "Seinfeld", "Desperate Housewives", "Sex and the City", and the reality show series of The Wife series, etc. The program, as well as the super ace "American Idol" series launched by ABC last year, and even the series "Friends" and "Emergency Room Stories" that Simon deliberately transferred to other major TV networks, are still in a very popular stage. Therefore, this year's TV business is generally stable, and Simon is not in a hurry to launch a new flagship program.

More concerned about the second season of "American Idol."

This singing reality show that caused a carnival last year, just the first season of advertising revenue, title sponsorship and copyright sales brought a huge revenue of 8.6 million US dollars to Daenerys TV department. After $2.3 million in production and marketing costs, the gross profit came to $6.3 million.

After the end of the first season, the subsequent national tour concerts, related record sales, etc., have earned more than 3 million US dollars so far.This is not to mention the indirect promotion of this program to the overall ratings of the ABC television network, the development of Daenerys Records, and even other companies in the Westeros system such as Tinkerbell.

Completely a golden hen.

Because of the perfect planning at the beginning, the cost of the second season of "American Idol", which has already started production, will not increase too much. However, it is expected that the number of episodes will be extended again in the second season, and the revenue and profit of the project will continue to increase. record high.

At the end of the day's work, he returned to the manor in the northern suburbs of Greenwich by helicopter, and invited B-girl Betsy Hope and her fiancé Mark Shiner, who works at Long-Term Capital Management, for dinner.

Compared with A, C, and D, the number of meetings between Simon and girl B in the past two years is very small. However, the development speed of Aaliya company founded by girl B has not slowed down at all. With the style of stockholder speculation and the spare no effort to support the Westeros system, coupled with the low-price strategy, the Alia software, which is the main product of Alia, has developed more than 26 subscribers worldwide so far.

Even if Alia's software products are only one-tenth of the price of the Bloomberg terminal, 26 subscribers can currently contribute more than 3000 million US dollars to Alia's monthly revenue. Considering the continuous growth factors, it is expected that Alia will Ya's full-year 1996 revenue will reach $4 million.

Compared with Bloomberg's revenue of US$10 billion, the gap between Aaliyah and this direct competitor is still obvious. However, relying on the huge user base of Bloomberg, which has far surpassed only more than 2 users, Aaliyah has already started. Own financial data ecological construction.

The former Bloomberg system was actually very difficult to use. The key to Wall Street’s inseparability is the data ecology. Everyone is trapped in this system, and all data is in this system. If you want to get relevant information, you only need to You can use the Bloomberg terminal.

Aaliyah broke out when Bloomberg was only less than one-tenth the size of its peak period, and it has already caused Bloomberg to be in chaos.

In the past two years, Bloomberg and Aaliyah have been engaged in all-round hand-to-hand combat in various aspects from software technology to legal proceedings to talent competition.Even when Aaliyah was quietly raising the price of her own software, Bloomberg had to adopt a price reduction strategy to deal with it.

On the other hand, the background of Aaliyah, the 'goblin', is obviously too strong. After Bloomberg developed, it deliberately bought back its shares and dumped its former partners. at an obvious disadvantage.

Although there is no plan to go public, according to the industry's evaluation, only based on a relatively conservative price-earnings ratio of 30 times and a net profit rate of more than 20%, Aria's current valuation has reached about 25 billion US dollars.If it is really listed, because of Alia's obvious Internet attributes, coupled with the high growth of the business, it will not be a problem to double the market value again.

Even if it is calculated on the basis of 25 billion U.S. dollars, if B girl holds 15% of Aaliyah's shares, she is worth 3.75 million U.S. dollars.

Another emerging rich man who is close to the threshold of the Forbes 400 Rich List in the United States.

This dinner did not discuss much about Aaliyah's company, but Miss B and her fiancé Mark Shinal will officially get married in September, and they have been matched with Miss A who has always been very close to Miss B in private. With this dinner, it is congratulations and blessings in advance.

As for the upcoming wedding, although the two invited them at dinner, Simon declined.

If you really agree, it will be a mess.

Speaking of which, the four girls A, B, C, and D, Simon just happened to have nothing to do with B, but outsiders obviously don't believe it.

Even Simon himself didn't quite believe it.

Ok.

Has it ever happened, this, there are too many women, it's a bit... I can't remember.

Boss scum!

This is a little grievance of a certain girl when Simon and A were chatting after sending off the two girls.Then, after finally getting a night alone, A girl took advantage of it very well,

The next morning, Gemma next door came to have breakfast together, and saw someone who was rarely planted with strawberries upside down. Rolling eyes for the second time.

Chapter 999 Your father is mine now

After breakfast, I rushed to Manhattan again. Today's main agenda is related to a series of investment or cooperation projects of the Westeros system in China.

The focus is on a meeting in the morning about China Telecom's IPO.

The First Boston team of Credit Suisse and the Apollo Management team of Cersei Capital participated together, and also connected with the Chinese team. The main purpose of the meeting was to accelerate the overseas listing process of China Telecom.

According to previous memories, Simon previously believed that China Telecom’s overseas listing could only be completed in the first half of next year, because the second half of the year will be the financial crisis in Southeast Asia. Once the crisis breaks out, the IPO will still be successfully completed even under the Westeros system. The amount will inevitably shrink sharply, and it will also affect the subsequent stock price trend.

The listing date originally set was around May next year.Now, Simon personally made the decision to advance the deadline by 5 months, requiring the IPO operation to be completed by the end of this year.

The IPO of large state-owned telecommunications companies has already had cases such as Japan Telecom and Deutsche Telekom. The IPO process of these companies once took several years. For China, the initial plan to sign the contract officially when Simon visited China in April is next May. Listing, originally only one year.

Suddenly shortened to 7 months, all parties were caught off guard.

Simon is also helpless.

With the momentum of the current wave of new technology, Simon believes that the Nasdaq index will last until the end of the year at most. It just so happens that the overseas IPO idea designed by the Westeros system for China Telecom is largely based on the concept of new technology. Gimmicks attract investment.In this case, once China Telecom conducts an IPO after the new technology bubble bursts, the result can be imagined.

Simon did not publicly finalize the reasons for the decision in the conference room, but all parties knew it well.

At the end of the meeting, Simon had a phone call with the person in charge of the Chinese side at noon, and finally reached a consensus.Compared with the procrastinating West, Simon is actually very confident in the efficiency of China's work. In the past few months, the reorganization of China Telecom's assets supported by the Apollo management team has progressed much faster than originally expected.

This is also a Chinese characteristic.

Decision-making is very slow, and sometimes it is not impossible to delay it for ten or eight years, but once the decision is made, the execution efficiency will be very high.

In addition, at the end of the morning meeting, Simon personally drove the teams of First Boston and Apollo Management Company to board the plane to China. They also rushed to China with Chen Qing and his daughter. Simon hoped that they would temporarily put down The work in hand, personally participate in the entire China Telecom IPO process in the next few months, so that not only can you accumulate more experience, but you can also further expand your network.

At the same time, it also acts as Simon's 'eyes'.

China Telecom is the first attempt of China's large state-owned enterprises to go public overseas, and it is also a trial of overseas financing for many large Chinese state-owned enterprises. Cake is also crucial to the Westeros system.

So there is nothing to lose.

After the day's work, it was an investor reception reception for Verizon Telecom in the evening. Simon didn't stay at the reception for too long. He arrived at [-] o'clock, but simply greeted some important guests and exchanged pleasantries. Half an hour later Just leave early.

Rush to an apartment in Greenwich, this is the home of Jerry Hall.

After knocking on the door a few times, the door opened, and an even slimmer little girl jumped out, pounced on Simon, and said sweetly, "Daddy."

Simon walked in with Jerry Hall's eldest daughter Elizabeth in his arms, only to find out that there was also a party here, and it was a very relaxed family party, the kind of family party.

It is roughly clear at a glance, this is Jerry Hall's social circle, in the fashion industry, "Vogue" editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and the like; in the TV circle, Fashion TV female president Anna Coleman Or the heroines of The Beautiful Wife series, Cathy Hilton and Kris Jenner, etc.; in the music circle, Jane Wenner, editor-in-chief of "Rolling Stone" magazine, and the like.

Because of the memory of the previous life, most of them know each other.

Of course, many of them are just acquaintances. In the past, even with more than a dozen identities, they had to maintain an attitude of looking up to these elites at the top of the pyramid, but this time, Simon was absolutely looked up to.

Because it was some unscrupulous little girl who probably got news or instructions from her mother, she called at noon to invite Simon to come here for the night, but she didn't expect to hold a party.Even though he was busy for a week and didn't want to socialize anymore, Simon didn't mind too much about women's small thoughts. Anyway, he didn't need to spend any thought on this level of socializing.

Throwing the grinning goblin on a sofa in the living room, Simon turned to Jerry Hall who came over.

Jerry Hall carefully looked at Simon's expression and confirmed that the man didn't mind, so he was relieved. He stepped forward and hugged Simon, and took his arm and walked towards the crowd.

Many sharp-eyed guests also came over immediately.

Jerry Hall’s flat-floor apartment that Simon paid for at the beginning has a total area of ​​more than 700 square meters, occupying an entire floor of the apartment building, which is equivalent to the size of six or seven flat-floor apartments in ordinary people’s homes. If you don’t pay attention, you may get lost To an extent, there are more than 100 guests scattered in it tonight, and it is not crowded at all.

"For the closure of Victoria's Secret, this is really a big loss for the fashion industry, Simon, are you really not going to think about it?"

In the corner of the living room, Anna Wintour said this with a regretful face, and the few people who were able to gather around also agreed.For this circle, the latest hot topic is that the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show will be closed after this year. After all, the influence accumulated by the Super Bowl in the fashion industry over the past few years is too great.

Simon put his arms around the slender waist of the tall woman beside him, smiled and shook his head: "This is a decision that has been made, and it is not a permanent suspension. Unlike the Super Bowl or the Oscars, the model of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is difficult to achieve every year. It was a surprise for the audience, so I hope it can be paused while it still has the best memories for people, and it will be restarted at the right time in the future."

Everyone nodded in understanding.

To meet this young man with growing power and wealth tonight was a pleasant surprise, and no one would be so stupid as to deliberately criticize him.

Anna Wintour also had an understanding expression: "Simon, speaking of it, we have already finalized the September issue of this year's most important "Vogue" to be a Victoria's Secret feature. As the leader of the Victoria's Secret show, can you take time to accept a A brief interview?"

This time Simon just smiled and shook his head.

Don't want to take the limelight.

Anna Wintour didn't bother, and Jane Wenner, editor-in-chief of "Rolling Stone" magazine, interjected at this time: "Simon, I am most concerned about music. Since this is the last issue, everyone is very much looking forward to your offering a few more songs." BGM?"

"This one needs inspiration."

As Simon said this, he couldn't help but think of "Love Transfer" a few days ago.

Janet's idea was to make a new single of Simon Westero's "To Jane" and release it to the public. The more Simon thought about it, the more something went wrong, and finally gave up under firm opposition. After all, this song is not Chinese. Say, the lyrics... as a Westerner, Janet does not have a deep understanding of Simon.

It is simply not suitable to be published in the name of Simon.

In the end, it was just decided to continue to promote related projects related to movies and music in China, and Simon did not intend to sign at all.

Janet pretended to be angry, but let it go in a blink of an eye.

For this Victoria's Secret show, if he wanted to, Simon could easily come up with a few classic BGMs, but he didn't have such a plan. Facing Jane Wenner's inquiry, he just played Tai Chi.

After socializing like this for a while, Simon left temporarily, went to the bathroom, came out again, and saw Kris Jenner in a black deep V dress coming here through the corridor. It was quite accidental, seeing Simon, He greeted him again with an appropriate expression of surprise, "Simon, I... well, let's go over there."

For this woman, every time he sees it, Simon always has the urge to play with it.

He casually pushed open a door next to him, ignored the woman's little excuse, and said directly: "Come."

Kris Jenner hesitated for a while, then subconsciously looked behind her, and after confirming that no one was paying attention, she hurried into the room.Close the door, turn around and look around, this is a study room with a simple style, the side by the window is the rest area, the man is already leaning on the sofa, seeing her turn around, raised his hand and made a downward movement with a smirk.

There have been several similar encounters, and every time she thinks of the powerful position of this man not far away, Kris Jenner, who is submissive to power in her bones, can't produce any resistance, more just surrender instinctively, unconsciously He lowered his body and slowly crawled towards the man with a flattering expression on his face.