From New York to London, and then from London to New York, a continuous sixteen-hour journey, Alice Ferguson carefully arranged her time.
Six hours of rest, four hours of serving your boss, and the last six hours of work.
The Yigrit online application store project she is responsible for is already undergoing internal testing. It is just a software download and sales platform, and it is actually very easy to develop. However, if you want to achieve successful operations and build a complete business model, things are by no means simple, and countless problems need to be solved.
The project team has recently been working with the online payment team to develop a security software specifically designed to protect online payments.
After the Morris worm incident three years ago, hackers and viruses seem to have become more popular in recent years.
As the most successful Internet site at the moment, the Igret portal is undoubtedly the target of many hackers who want to show off their skills. Just last month, the website was down for 20 minutes due to a hacker attack. Fortunately, it was late at night and it did not have much impact.
If online payment is not involved, these things will only cause trouble to the website, but no serious accidents will occur.
Now, that's apparently no longer the case.
For users to consume through the Internet, payment security must be guaranteed first.
Realizing the seriousness of this problem, Yigret is now expanding its security team. It is inevitable to encounter attacks, but it is still feasible to reduce the risk as much as possible through a strong technical team and reasonable response strategies.
What my boss means is to develop a free security software.
Realizing the business opportunities, of course some people also mentioned charging fees.
However, Simon's words have dispelled many people's thoughts: Once charges are charged and a security software industry is formed that others will join in, then the Internet is likely to suffer a large-scale virus catastrophe every once in a while. .
After figuring out the joints, even Alice herself had to admit that the man was right.
Just like the world we live in, because the interest chain involved in the military industry is so huge, war is inevitable.
The Boeing 767 landed again on the runway of New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. The housekeeper came to a room in the middle cabin and knocked on the door. When the other party opened the door, she said in a cold tone: "Ms. Jenna, the car has been arranged outside. The driver I’ll take you back to Manhattan.”
Kris Jenner also tried to have a good relationship with Simon's housekeeper along the way, but when she didn't get a response, she stopped trying. At this time, he just agreed, picked up his satchel and walked out.
Alice followed the other person to send her out of the cabin. She couldn't help but frown slightly when she saw that even though more than ten hours had passed, the woman's figure was still a little unnatural when she walked.
There was a slight concern in his expression.
In the previous more than ten hours of travel, this woman only stayed in the front cabin for more than an hour before being sent out. During this period, the housekeeper was called in by some hateful guy to deliver things, and then she naturally saw something that she shouldn't have seen. picture.
vivid memory.
Therefore, she felt that if a guy dared to do that to her, she must resist.
must.
After seeing off the outsiders, Alice took the other three girls to tidy up the cabin, watched personally as the plane was stored in the hangar, and left JFK International Airport.
Start the work week.
The first thing to do is to conduct routine cleaning on several properties in the New York area that belong to the owner.
As the number of Simon's properties continues to increase, the maid team has also been expanding, and Alice now has a team of more than 30 people.
However, this time many girls were directly assigned to the city where the property was located. Usually two girls worked in teams. They no longer worked full-time like the first batch, but spent one or two days a week doing routine cleaning of the property. You can get a very good reward.
Alice discovered that her boss initially asked them to travel between cities in person, just because he was worried that the properties would be used for other things if they were handed over to outsiders.
In the past six months, with the rise of the Internet, all Simon properties scattered around have been equipped with 24-hour video surveillance systems. There are everything inside and outside the villa, and the internal monitoring will only be removed when moving in.
Nowadays, the average user's network speed may only be 56K or 128K, which is naturally not a problem for Simon. All connected properties directly use 5M optical fiber access, and the monitoring terminal is at Dumei Point Manor.
Another responsibility of the direct line of housekeepers now is to check the work of corresponding maids in properties far away in cities such as Seattle or Miami through video, and to see if these people have done anything they should not do.
I had been reminded beforehand that there was surveillance in the villa, but some people were still restless.
Some people use their high salaries to hire other people to help clean, some people use the bathroom of the master bedroom of the villa to take a bath without permission, some people try to be lazy and get over it, and some people plan to have a party in Simon's villa...
Not only were all these people fired, but they also received punitive claims under their contracts.
Therefore, even the housekeeper has now generally discovered the strong primitive territorial awareness of her boss.
Several properties on the east and west coast where Simon lives are still in charge of Alice and others, so the girls need to fly to the east and west coast at least once a week.
At first, the girls were quite excited to have a private jet of their own.
Once you get used to it, you'll get used to it.
However, Alice also noticed that her friends had a very obvious sense of superiority in front of ordinary people.
Even she herself is probably like this.
Um.
Except, of course, for a certain guy that people can only look up to.
From Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday morning, after finishing cleaning several properties in Manhattan and Greenwich, Alice took several girls on board their Gulfstream IV to return to the West Coast.
After spending another day taking care of a few properties in Los Angeles, most of the girls' work for the week was basically over.
Therefore, to say that a guy is just throwing money at raising a vase is a very fitting description.
Janet told several housekeepers in private, with a bit of joking tone, that they were the vases raised by Simon Westeros.
However, most girls are basically willing to treat this as a vase with extremely good treatment.
Even with a $10 million vase fund, many girls who are accustomed to this kind of pampering cannot afford to do anything.
Janet has promised that as long as they perform well enough, they can work until they are 30 years old and are no longer limited to a five-year contract period.
Most people will never earn $1 million in a lifetime of busy work.
At the age of 30, if you save a few million dollars, you can basically retire directly. You can do whatever you want in the future, so why do you have to be so tired
What's more, the $10 million vase fund is really hard to get.
Of course Alice didn't think so.
If she didn't want to make a career, she wouldn't accept this job at all.
The housekeeper has always done her best in her 'job'. However, she has not wasted any extra time on the affairs of Ygritte Company.
Privately, he is still figuring out how to get his share of the $10 million Vase Fund.
Of course, the treatment you deserve should not be wasted.
Not trying to save some guy any money.
In addition, I also have some thoughts on competing with another 'vase'.
When she first joined the company, she was tricked by Girl C next to Simon.
Women are very vindictive.
The card camera project of C girl Claire Gein and Simon's seemingly partial support made the housekeeper feel a slight threat.
Igret purchased all the first 1,000 iCam 10 units from Tinkerbell in its official name, and launched a free trial for blog users in June, which caused a very strong response.
In order to promote iCam, the blog team also specially developed a web interface.
All users who send pictures through iCam will be accompanied by a 'Picture From iCam' prompt on the web blog post, which will also lead directly to the official website of the Tinkerbell company.
Because it is the first product, iCam inevitably has some minor problems. However, in the face of this product's ultra-high cost performance, other professional digital cameras worth thousands of dollars in the same period are simply not competitive.
What's more, there is also the full support of Yigrit official.
During this period, driven by the trend of posting pictures on Yigrit's blog, many users asked where they could buy such a camera.
North American businesses with a keen sense of smell cannot ignore such business opportunities.
As of early July, Tinkerbell has received more than 100,000 order invitations from electronics retailers across North America.
It is obviously unlikely that such an order will be realized in a short period of time, but it is definitely a good start.
During early discussions with Simon, Lady C also considered conducting remote sales through the Internet if smooth retail channels could not be established, just like the current TV shopping.
Now, because of the popularity of iCam, some things seem to fall into place.
Of course, competition is inevitable.
Simon had warned Girl C in advance that if many powerful electronic manufacturers, such as Sony and Panasonic, wanted to launch such a simple-function card camera, it might only take a month.
However, Tinkerbell’s advantage is actually very obvious because of Ygritte’s support.
In addition to the most obvious time advantage, iCam shoots directly in the GIF image format developed by Yigrit. The Photoshop software is enough to provide a large bonus, and it also has official technical and promotional support from Yigrit.
With such an obvious advantage, if it fails to succeed, Simon will have no choice but to let other electronics manufacturers enter this market. According to the previously set development plan, enriching the content of the Internet platform as soon as possible is the first priority no matter what.
Simon is personally following the filming of "Wonder Woman" in the UK. In North America, the summer season is still going on.
From June 28 to July 4, "Terminator 2" opened its first week, and the final box office revenue was US$56.93 million.
This result obviously cannot be compared with "Batman: The Dark Knight". However, the first-week box office of US$56.93 million exceeded most people's expectations, and Fox was even more relieved.
The box office in the first week reached US$56.93 million, which means that the North American box office of "Terminator 2" is still very guaranteed to reach US$200 million.
The North American box office revenue was US$200 million, which basically recovered all the early production and publicity costs.
As the production costs of Hollywood movies continue to rise, and overseas markets, video channels, and television platforms continue to expand, the North American box office of Hollywood movies has become increasingly less important.
People tend to regard local box office as a measure of a film's final commercial potential.
Many movies with budgets often exceeding US$50 million cannot recoup their costs simply by relying on local box office.
It is very rare for a film like "Terminator 2" with a total production and promotion budget of US$100 million to be able to recoup its costs just through distribution in North American theaters.
The local box office can reach US$200 million, and the film's overseas box office potential is the same, or even higher.
Including subsequent video tapes and TV broadcast platforms, the project's net profit in the next three years will basically reach US$200 million.
The profit scale of the two blockbusters in the DC movie universe can only be described as miraculous, and there is no comparison at all. Projects like "Terminator 2" with expected revenue reaching US$200 million are the goals pursued by various Hollywood studios.
In addition, in the week from June 28 to July 4, the box office of "The Dark Knight" dropped 23%, collecting another US$34.77 million, with a cumulative box office of US$242.05 million.
The film's single-week box office has dropped back to the range of 30 million to 40 million US dollars, which basically will not have a big impact on other summer movies.
According to the current box office trend, the North American box office of "The Dark Knight" will exceed US$300 million in at most three weeks. As for whether it can hit US$400 million, we can only look forward to subsequent market performance.
Relying on the strong performance of overseas markets and peripheral derivatives markets, "The Dark Knight" has actually recovered all production and promotion costs on its books in the second week of the film's release. At present, this super-blockbuster has already Continue to make profits for Daenerys and Time Warner.
On July 5th, the atmosphere brought by the Independence Day holiday in the United States has not dissipated, and North American theaters once again opened three movies.
They are the comedy "Trick or Treat 2" from Universal Pictures, which is now part of Daenerys Entertainment, Disney's re-release of the classic 2D animation "101 Dalmatians" and the drama "About Henry" produced by Paramount Pictures 》.
Since they are placed on the summer schedule, the three films are all key projects of each studio.
However, the market performance of these three new films is very average.
The best box office performer was Disney's re-release of "101 Dalmatians," which took in US$16.86 million in the first seven days. "About Henry," starring Michael Douglas and Annette Bening, only made $10.91 million at the box office in its first week. Universal Pictures is obviously trying to follow the trend of "Home Alone" and "Mischief 2" at the end of last year, which also only brought in $10.29 million in the first seven days.
Therefore, in the week from July 5th to July 11th, "Terminator 2" and "Batman: The Dark Knight" still led the North American film market.
In its second week of release, "Terminator 2"'s box office dropped by 37% compared to its first week. This drop was better than that of "The Dark Knight." Of course, the box office opening volume of the two cannot be compared.
However, the box office revenue of US$41.33 million in the next week also quickly pushed the North American box office of "Terminator 2" to US$98.26 million.
Basically, it can be counted as breaking 100 million in two weeks.
Hollywood studios have also realized that the era of more intensive saturated comprehensive releases has officially arrived with the release of the two movies "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "Terminator 2".