The car stopped in front of the Shell Villa in Cape Dume Manor. Simon had no intention of getting out of the car immediately, but said to Sarah beside him: "I'll have someone take you back."
Sarah Michelle Gellar was stunned for a moment, looking at Simon with some confusion and disappointment.
Simon gave instructions to the driver in the front row. Seeing the girl's pitiful expression, he reached out and pinched her chin, and said with a smile: "It's not very convenient tonight. If I have time, I will take you to Europe." .”
Sarah still didn't quite understand, but she grabbed Simon's big hand that he wanted to take back and shook it. She raised her face and said, "Then, Simon, we have an agreement."
Simon smiled and nodded: "Of course."
The driver opened the car door outside. Seeing Simon about to get out of the car, the girl leaned closer and said, "But Simon, how can I contact you?"
"I'll contact you."
After Simon got out of the car, he gave the driver another instruction and walked towards the villa.
Sarah Michelle Gellar wanted to muster up the courage to chase him out, but before she could make a move, the driver closed the car door. She had to sit down again and watched Simon through the car window as he walked toward the building that often appeared on the pages of newspapers and magazines. Shell villa on.
The driver in the front seat interrupted Sarah's daze with a polite question.
The girl responded quickly. When the car started, she couldn't see the man, and looked longingly at the manor that was destined to only be glimpsed in the night.
Simon is very aware that there are countless eyes around him all the time. This is California, but Sarah Michelle Gellar is only 15 years old. Even if the girl is willing, there is no guarantee that someone will not be caught and make a fuss in the future. Some disturbances arise.
There is no shortage of women around him, so there is no need to plant such a time bomb.
In fact, I have been too busy recently, otherwise I could have taken the girl to other states tonight as usual. The laws of each state in the United States are different. In many areas, such as Utah or Washington State, girls can get married at the age of 12.
The three girls A, B, and D are taking care of Janet on the east coast. Here in Cape Dume, the baby-faced Zoe Parks and the eye-catching breasted Isabel Dunn are currently responsible for Simon's daily life.
Simon entered the villa and was greeted by Isabel.
After saying hello, taking Simon's suit and folding it in front of her chest, Isabel said: "Boss, Alice is back."
Although she still serves as the housekeeper of the Westeros family, Alice Ferguson spends more of her free time in San Francisco because of the Amazon online store.
Zoe and Isabel have recently been arranged to take care of Simon's daily life at the Dume Point Manor. In fact, the housekeeper is training her successor with tacit approval.
The Westeros family's maid team in North America alone has reached more than thirty people.
However, after several adjustments, many girls were directly arranged to stay in the city where the properties under Simon's name were located. Those who could get close to Simon and his wife were still the first batch.
After taking a look at the way Isabel squeezed her suit on her chest intentionally, Simon asked with a smile: "Where is it?"
Isabel straightened her waist slightly under Simon's gaze, but her expression looked as if she was unaware. She pointed in one direction and said: "Over there in the living room."
There is an activity area specially arranged for the maids in the Shell Villa. Generally, the bedrooms are on the second floor. There are also exclusive rooms for them on the first floor such as kitchen, cloakroom, gym and living room.
Of course, this kind of treatment is limited to a few girls such as ABCD and the housekeeper who can stay with the Simons. Most of the others can only live outside the manor even in Los Angeles.
Today is already April 9, and some operating data for the first quarter of 1992 from Ygriet should have been released.
Simon thought about this and walked straight to a living room on the east side of the villa hall that Isabel pointed to.
Isabel was slightly stunned when she saw Simon's movement, and then quickly followed.
Simon rarely took the initiative to go to their room in the past.
As soon as he arrived at the door of the living room, Simon heard a burst of coquettish laughter.
Standing at the door and looking in, Alice Ferguson was sitting on the sofa holding a laptop. Zoe Parks was cuddled next to her, her arms around the housekeeper's waist, her chin still resting on her shoulder, with a smile on her lips. The ground whispered something.
A baby-faced girl is leaning next to a short-haired beauty with a cold temperament.
This picture is, well, beautiful.
only.
Simon couldn't help but feel like he was being forced into a corner.
This is the little vase that I work hard to earn money to support every day!
Isabel Dunn followed Simon, and she also heard Zoe's chuckle. She carefully glanced past Simon toward the living room, and then looked at the male host's reaction, and immediately felt a bit of a sense of luck. .
Let you always look indifferent to us!
Hum.
However, in order to prevent the plot from being too embarrassing, Isabel took the initiative to cough lightly as a reminder.
The living room was brightly lit, but there were only yellow wall lamps in the corridor, so the two housekeepers did not notice Simon's arrival immediately.
Suddenly hearing a sound, the two women looked over together.
Seeing that it was Simon, Zoe Parks, who was still clinging to the housekeeper, was the first to react. She jumped off the sofa and stood up like a frightened kitten. Her eyes flashed left and right in a panic, and then she said hello calmly: " Good evening, boss."
The housekeeper looked very calm, stood up and said hello, and then took the initiative to send Zoe, who had a guilty conscience, to prepare coffee for Simon.
Watching the baby-faced girl run out of the room, Simon walked into the living room, sat down on the single sofa next to the housekeeper, crossed his legs, and looked at the cold beauty in front of him, without saying a word, as if "you can explain it yourself." The appearance of a bad boss.
Isabel actually wanted to come in and join in the fun.
However, seeing Simon's appearance, the girl just stepped into the door a few steps and quietly stepped back out.
The housekeeper sat down on the sofa again, calmly picked up the laptop again, tapped it a few times, then handed the laptop to Simon and said: "Boss, the online mall's basic revenue data for the first quarter has been preliminary calculated. It’s done, do you want to take a look?”
Simon took the laptop handed over by the housekeeper and put it on his lap. He looked at the documents on the screen and said, "Aren't you going to explain it?"
The housekeeper's tone remained calm: "Boss, you never said that office romance is not allowed."
Simon frowned slightly as if he was trying to remember it, and then said: "Okay, probably, I really didn't say it."
Seeing that Simon's attention was focused on the laptop screen, the housekeeper quickly and seriously looked at the expression of the man in front of her, and then felt relieved.
My boss obviously doesn't really care about this.
After working for Simon for so long, Alice can roughly tell when this young man, who always seems to have a calm appearance, is really angry.
However, I suddenly discovered that for such a long time, this man with an indifferent nature had been angry more times than he could count on one hand.
It seemed like there wasn't much in the world that he cared about.
Indeed, at the age of 24, he has already reached a peak that most people in this world may not reach in ten lifetimes. It is so easy to get everything you want, so naturally it is difficult to care.
I couldn’t help but think, what if it was me
After having this idea, the housekeeper suddenly realized that maybe her idea just now was not accurate.
It’s not that he has too much and doesn’t care.
More likely, this is the nature of this man.
Geniuses are often lonely and indifferent.
The man in front of him cannot even be described as a simple genius.
It's a complete miracle.
A miracle that easily gives rise to a strong desire to get to the bottom of things: What kind of person is he, how did he achieve everything he does now, and what are his limits in the future
"Ellie, did you know? When a woman has a strong curiosity about a man, she will often fall in love with him unknowingly."
A voice suddenly came to her ears. The housekeeper woke up and suddenly realized that she had been staring at her boss for an unknown amount of time.
There were two cups of hot coffee on the coffee table in front of me.
Apparently, Zoe had brought coffee in and left quietly.
He looked away in a panic, and subconsciously retorted: "I will never fall in love with you."
I immediately regretted saying it.
This sentence is simply the standard response of a soap opera heroine when she says something but doesn't mean what she means.
Simon smiled and continued to look through the financial report data on his laptop.
The Amazon online store opened on January 23 at the beginning of the year. In the first quarter, it actually only ran for about 70 days.
After an explosion of orders on the first day due to users' early adopter mentality and extensive publicity and marketing, the online mall's subsequent sales began to decline rapidly.
Compared with the astonishing 1.32 million book purchase orders on the first day, the average daily order volume of the online mall after smooth operation was only between 50,000 and 100,000.
This sharp drop in sales figures is actually expected.
Simon remembers that during shopping carnivals such as Double Eleven, the order volume in a single day can often reach more than ten times that of normal days.
The first day Amazon's online mall opened was equivalent to a small shopping carnival thanks to the Westeros system's sparing no effort in marketing.
Subsequent orders shrank significantly, which was the normal state in the early stages of e-commerce development.
Even so, throughout the first quarter, the cumulative number of orders on Amazon's online mall reached 5.03 million, 6.19 million books were sold, and sales reached US$135.71 million.
In Simon's memory, Amazon was founded in 1995, and it was not until 1998, three years later, that it achieved annual sales of US$600 million.
The current new version of Amazon has completed sales of US$135 million in the first quarter of its opening. With the continued growth in subsequent quarters, there is no problem that the annual revenue will exceed US$600 million.
In the early 1990s, the annual sales volume of the U.S. book market was around 500 million copies.
According to the sales data in the first quarter, in just one year, Amazon’s online mall’s share of the book market is expected to exceed 5%. This performance growth rate has made the entire physical book retail industry feel like a formidable enemy.
On the other hand, the amazing sales performance achieved by Amazon's online mall actually seems logical.
Unlike Amazon, where Jeff Bezos had to start from scratch in the original time and space, the Amazon online mall now relies on Igret. Almost as soon as it goes online, it has the traffic import of tens of millions of users of the entire World Wide Web platform. This is a huge consumer group with a size of more than 20 million, and they are all high-end consumer groups with the best economic situation in the United States and the highest education levels, so they also have reading habits and often buy books.
In addition to its large-scale high-quality user base, the new Amazon Mall also has an increasingly complete Ypay online payment system, which is far beyond the reach of the former Amazon.
Even in terms of platform capacity, because Amazon started from scratch, it could only expand its scale step by step, from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands to millions of users.
This time, the Amazon online mall was able to support a simultaneous access capacity of 5 million people when the platform was opened.
Moreover, because of the use of cloud computing technology, Amazon was able to support simultaneous access by 5 million users in a single segment on the first day of its opening. However, at the same time, after user traffic dropped, it was able to very flexibly reduce server resources to corresponding levels. scale, resulting in significant cost savings.
This technology is simply amazing to some technology companies in the industry who have glimpsed it.
Computing resources have always been an essential and very expensive cost for high-tech information companies.
If the Amazon online mall did not use cloud computing technology, the huge server cost would become a huge burden on the mall. Significant expansion of server equipment in order to adapt to traffic peaks would also cause a large amount of waste of computing resources during off-peak hours.
In another key aspect of logistics, Simon also used his foresight advantage based on his impression of the Blockbuster model and many other information to allow Amazon to establish a close cooperative relationship with the United States Postal Service, the largest logistics network in the United States, in advance, to the greatest extent possible. Ensure users’ online shopping experience.
All in all, the success of Amazon's online mall should actually be regarded as the result of the continuous investment and accumulation of Yigrit Company in the few years since its establishment.
You must know that in the previous year of 1991, the total operating income of Yigret Company in YWS services, online advertising, Ystore and IE browser sales reached US$491 million, which is also a big initiative in the industry. .
However, on the other hand, behind Yigret's annual revenue of nearly US$500 million, there was a net loss of US$387 million.
In the history of American business, few capitals have dared to spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year on an industry with no clear future. You know, the entry threshold for the 1991 Forbes 400 list of richest people in the United States was just over $300 million.
Moreover, the loss of 387 million U.S. dollars not only means that Yigrett Company only burned 387 million U.S. dollars in 1991, but nearly 500 million U.S. dollars in revenue were basically reinvested in Yigrit's talent recruitment, Technology research and development, publicity and marketing, data center construction and other aspects.
Many well-known technology companies at this time, such as Intel, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, etc., only raised hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in financing in the early stages of development, and then grew step by step.
With Simon's investment regardless of cost, Yigrite is completely a leap-forward development with super high growth potential.
Moreover, unlike the early days when the Internet industry flourished in the original time and space, it is precisely because of Simon's unswerving investment that the current World Wide Web, even though it has always been under the banner of openness and sharing, everyone can see that this is a world wide web created by Igrit. The company basically monopolizes the online platform.
In the past few years, the Westeros Company has directly created a new high-tech industry by uniting with a large number of technology companies such as Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, and AOL, and sparing no effort to spend money.
After reading the information, Simon casually glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the laptop. It was almost eleven o'clock at night.
Glancing next to him, he saw the housekeeper still sitting upright.
With a smile on his lips, Simon put down his laptop, stood up and walked to the housekeeper. In the girl's panicked eyes, which had a slightly different meaning, he said, "I suddenly want you to fulfill your original promise."
After Simon finished speaking, like a robber, he stepped forward and directly picked up a stiff woman, turned around and walked out of the living room.