Six o'clock in the morning.
In the master bedroom of the villa in Woodside, Simon was dressed after washing, and the two big goblins were still sleeping on the big bed.
Simon couldn't put it down last night because of the smooth skin the two girls had after soaking in hot springs during their trip to Japan. The three of them didn't fall asleep until after midnight. Not sure if she felt the man's gaze, Yasmin opened her eyes in confusion, turned over slightly, and saw the man beside the big bed putting on a sports vest, with a charming face covered by long hair. He showed a lazy smile unique to morning: "Good morning, Simon."
"Good morning. What do you want to eat later? I'll ask them to prepare it?"
"Well, I'm very hungry, but I don't want to get up."
"Then eat in bed."
"It's better not to give it up, you'll be jealous."
Nadja on the other side also woke up after hearing the conversation between the two. She leaned behind Yasmin and seemed to wrap her arms around her thin waist under the quilt. She raised her head slightly and said: "Simon, I want fruit salad and... Nut milkshake, um... I’m really hungry too, let’s add an apple pie today, I want D to make it, the one she had last night was delicious.”
Simon nodded and looked at Yao Jing again.
Yasmin said: "I can do the same as Nadja."
Simon went downstairs, and the other girls in the villa had already gotten up. He came to the kitchen to explain to Aaliyah and Girl D, who had already started preparing breakfast, and then he went to the villa gym.
I used to enjoy running on the mountain trails in Woodside when I came to San Francisco, but this period was not suitable for public appearances. Nowadays, even if Simon goes out for a run, he may be captured and criticized by the media with ulterior motives. Regardless of others, Simon believes that the best way to deal with media public opinion is to disappear. Of course, there must be no less public relations in private, otherwise he will just You will be led by the nose.
Just as she stepped on the treadmill, little Jenny also came to the gym. The girl was also wearing a tank top and shorts. Even though she was small, her body proportions were very well-proportioned. Her milk-white skin was Simon's favorite.
Choosing a treadmill next to Simon, the little goblin started the machine and while jogging, Barabala talked about her recent events and introduced her graduation thesis on the development prospects of the portal website. Because of the proximity to the water and the terrace, the girl was able to get There is a lot of first-hand information, so it is far-sighted to determine that portals may be just a transition in the early stages of the development of the Internet industry. The future Internet will be more diversified and refined.
Simon has instilled many of his opinions on the Internet 1.0 and 2.0 eras to Jeff Bezos and others, and Yigrit's development plan in the general direction is based on this. However, these very confidential discussions will not even leave detailed paper documents, and it is even less likely that Yigret executives will tell little Jenny.
Obviously, these are the girl's own perceptions.
Even if the judgment about the future of the Internet is not accurate, it is beyond Simon's expectation to see that the portal is just a transition.
After chatting casually and jogging for half an hour, Simon was about to go upstairs to take a shower when a sweaty little goblin came up to him with a grunt. It was a seamless transition between a top student and a nymphomaniac.
Simon did not refuse and took the girl upstairs to take a shower, but he did not go any further. He had always been very restrained in matters between men and women.
During this time, Simon had been promoted by Hearst Group as a playboy who played every night.
It's true that he is a playboy, but it definitely doesn't count as having sex every night. Simon sometimes doesn't touch women even for ten and a half months. For example, last night was actually the first time this week, and there was also a Sundance movie at the beginning of the year. Simon has never touched a vase named Mia that he captured during the festival.
Ordinary people’s fantasies about the top of the pyramid cannot escape the King’s Golden Hoe. In fact, when something is too easy to get, they don’t care. Many rich people, apart from working non-stop, would rather spend their free time watching drag racing and playing basketball. At sports competitions.
After taking a shower, she went downstairs again to an office in the villa. Girl A had already organized today's media briefing. Recently, the Westeros family's public relations team has been following up on the North American mainstream media's reports on the Westeros system every day. various reports, especially the media owned by Hearst Group, in order to respond in a timely manner.
In addition to some innocuous articles criticizing the fact that the success of "Farm" is actually due to Ygritte's monopoly on Internet interfaces, today's more important revelation from the Hearst Group comes from its Texas-based " Houston Chronicle.
The newspaper exposed a shady connection between Simon and Joseph Lewis, the founder of the Tavistock Group. The article revealed that Lewis had shorted European currencies with George Soros two years ago and accused Weiss of it. The Tello system once stated that it was not involved in the European currency crisis. It was actually nonsense. Simon Westero was also the mastermind behind the financial disaster.
The European currency crisis in 1992 not only led to the collapse of the European monetary system and the sharp devaluation of the currencies of the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and other countries, but also further triggered a severe economic recession in European countries in the past two years.
Even wise people know that this matter is fundamentally a game between the two major economic systems of Europe and the United States. However, both politicians with ulterior motives and ordinary people who like conspiracy theories obviously prefer to point the finger at a specific person behind the scenes. .
Soros has basically shouldered the blame for the European currency crisis in the past two years. This financier is not involved in the real industry and can turn a blind eye to all kinds of infamy.
The Westeros system does not.
Simon's current goal is much bigger than Soros. Once the 'crime' is confirmed, various industries of the Westeros system in Europe may be substantially affected.
Simon actually despises Hearst Group’s recent revelations.
Even though a hundred years have passed, this media family that once created the standard for pornographic journalism has not innovated and is still accustomed to suppressing its opponents by exposing people's privacy.
Unfortunately, if your shot cannot cause substantial damage to the enemy, it is probably just a joke.
Simon has been dealing with this matter recently with a nonchalant mentality. The Westeros family's intelligence team has actually collected a lot of black information about the Hearst family, but he is too lazy to retaliate. This is the reason. After all, if you are bitten by a dog, you can't just go back. What Simon has to do is to beat the vicious dog that attacked him to death with a stick.
After reaching a cooperation intention with British businessman Joseph Lewis at the beginning of last year, apart from a symbolic investment of US$100 million, Simon subsequently did not meet with him for a few times. This article in the "Houston Chronicle" naturally has no substantive evidence and is still just hearsay.
However, it is a fact that the Westeros System has a cooperative relationship with the Tavistok Group.
Therefore this matter cannot be clarified.
If it is claimed that Simon established contact with Joseph Lewis only after the European currency crisis, even if this is true, the 'savvy' media and the public will obviously not believe this 'nonsense'.
The best way to deal with it is to ignore it.
During this period, Simon has asked the core executives of the Westeros system to avoid interviews with the media as much as possible. The Westeros family public relations team has completely cut off contact with the media, and only counterattacks through portals and related newspapers. The whistle-blowing offensive of the Stern Group.
The main reason is that Simon doesn't like lying.
Every lie often requires thousands of lies to make up for it, and Simon doesn't want that.
Hearst Group’s revelations are always lies mixed with some truth. Just like today’s report, the Westeros system does have an interest relationship with the Tavistock Group. This is the truth. Then, once admitted In this matter, and all other accusations, you can't defend it at all in the public's mentality of "I don't believe it, I don't believe it, I don't believe it."
The private preparations were almost complete. After reading today's media briefing, Simon no longer planned to play with the Hearst Group. He called George Norman and asked him to start the 'litigation bombing' plan starting next Monday.
In the past, Peter Thiel, one of the founders of PayPal and later a famous investor in Silicon Valley, spent ten years and invested tens of millions of dollars in sponsorship and sponsorship with that company in order to retaliate for a gossip website’s revelation that he was gay. Various victims of the website's legal entanglements continued to file huge claims and lawsuits against each other, and eventually succeeded in filing a bankruptcy lawsuit against the website.
This time, Simon plans to follow suit.
Compared with a gossip website, the Hearst Group, which owns dozens of newspapers across the United States, has definitely not lacked a large number of victims of false or excessive reports in order to attract attention over the years. Everyone knows that legal proceedings in the United States are expensive. In the past, these victims simply did not have the capital or strength to fight against the powerful Hearst Group, and most of them could only admit that they were out of luck.
What Simon has to do is to find these people and provide financial support to initiate lawsuits against the Hearst Group's media outlets in turn at any cost.
The Westeros system's ban on the Hearst Group was enough to stagnate the growth of this old media group.
Now, in order to bring down the Hearst Group, Simon plans to adopt a litigation bombing strategy regardless of the cost, even if he invests hundreds of millions of dollars in litigation funds every year.
The outcome of legal proceedings in the United States is largely a battle of money and capital. The Westeros system uses the top lawyers to litigate for victims of Hearst's media. If the Hearst Group does not use lawyers of the same level, Fighting with a team of lawyers will inevitably mean losing the lawsuit, and they will have to pay huge claims. If a lawyer team of the same level is used, the capital strength of the Hearst Group is not at the same level as the Westeros system.
Lawsuits have been bombarded one after another. Even if Hearst Group can win all the lawsuits, the huge litigation costs will be enough to severely weaken this old media group and eventually lead to its demise.
The simplest calculation method, if Simon burns 2.5 billion US dollars, it will only be one-eightyth of his current personal assets of 200 billion US dollars. It will not hurt the Hearst family, whose total assets are less than 2.5 billion US dollars. Losing the same amount of funds means losing everything.
This is the power of capital.
In the past, the victims of the Hearst Group's media would only be crushed by the Hearst family's strong capital strength. Now, the positions have been reversed, and the Hearst family will be the party to be crushed.
After arranging this matter and having breakfast, Simon rushed to Ygritte Company even though it was Saturday.
In the morning, we will listen to a report from Jeff Bezos on the development status of Ygrit's overseas network business and discuss the next expansion plan.
Since two years ago, Igret has gradually launched its various businesses in Europe, Asia and Australia, and now has basically established a firm foothold in major overseas developed countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Australia.
As the growth rate of Internet users in overseas countries exceeded that of North America last year, Igret's business in overseas countries also needs to be strengthened.
Simon originally had no intention of meeting directly with the Indian businessman Azim Premji introduced by Alia.
However, after Simon personally called last night, Bezos took the matter very seriously and directly arranged a dinner meeting at noon on Saturday. After finishing his work in the morning, Simon had no other plans for lunch, so he just went with him.
Jeff Bezos also specifically explained to Simon that Azim Premji's Wipro is indeed very powerful in India. However, Wipro, which has only just entered the software business in recent years, has a weak position in this aspect. Far inferior to other established technology companies in India.
Wipro currently prefers a diversified entity company that mainly deals in personal computers, lighting fixtures and other products. The other party even has an oil extraction business.
Even if the purpose of outsourcing is to save costs, in order to ensure the security of Igret's software data to the greatest extent, Bezos and other executives would rather pay more costs than rashly use Wipro, which has just entered the software field. company, which is why Wipro received nothing in the Igret software outsourcing bidding in March.
Although it is impossible to fully understand a person in just one lunch, Simon was impressed by Azim Premji's familiarity with Igret's software outsourcing needs and his explanation of the business and management ideas of Wipro's software department during the lunch meal. and Bezos were very satisfied, and Azim finally said that Yigrit could send a team to India to personally inspect Wipro's software team and a large number of advanced equipment that had recently been updated at a huge cost.
After the meal, the plainly dressed Indian entrepreneur was sent away in an ordinary taxi. After a brief discussion, Simon and Bezos decided to give Wipro a certain business order.
Igret's software outsourcing orders for Indian companies have all been signed, but there are still many outsourcing businesses that were originally planned to be tendered in North America, Europe, Australia and other places. Whether the cooperation will be strengthened in the future will depend on the results of the first trial cooperation between the two parties.
Returning to Ygritte's headquarters in the afternoon, Simon reconvened the four giants of Ygritte to detail the idea he had last night to create a specialized software outsourcing platform.
Even if they didn't understand Simon's potential ambition to create and control more people's jobs around the world, Tim Berners-Lee and others could see the potential of this plan at a glance.
In fact, similar ideas are still not new.
There are already similar websites on the Internet platform at this stage, including the 58list classified information website owned by Yigrit, and there are also information directories that specifically hire temporary outsourced programmers. However, these are just small projects because they lack enough authority. sex and credibility, it is difficult to develop and grow.
Igret has exactly these advantages.
Throughout the afternoon, the five Simons discussed the detailed plan for creating this software outsourcing platform, including the construction plan of the outsourcing platform, how to use their own advantages, how to avoid competition from the same industry, specific sustainable business models, etc. .
By the time the preliminary project plan was finalized, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.
Bezos and others continued to improve the design and construction of the platform, the task release system, and the use of Yigrit cloud computing resources as much as possible. The main suggestion made by Simon was to use the instant messaging tool under Yigrit. Based on ICQ, create a professional software communication platform that integrates email, instant messaging, file transfer, information release and other functions specifically for instant communication and collaboration between enterprise users.
Historically, DingTalk released by Alibaba and Slack in the United States were both very successful enterprise-level collaborative communication software.
DingTalk is a part of Alibaba, so it is difficult to estimate, but Slack belongs to a company of its own. Just relying on this piece of software, the market value of Slack Technology Company easily exceeded 20 billion US dollars after it went public, which shows the potential broad business prospects of similar platforms.
To get a good omen, Simon simply named the software that will be separated from the ICQ tool Slack.
ICQ, an instant messaging tool quietly released by Yigrit in 1992, has now accumulated more than 27 million users around the world. Originally, everyone had been confused about the business model of this software, but it was not until "Happy Farm" was launched last week that it suddenly became clear.
Users are actually the greatest wealth owned by Yigrit Company.
As long as it maintains a huge user base, Yigrit will be able to find a suitable business model sooner or later. And just like "Happy Farm", as long as it finds a suitable business model, Yigrit's huge user base will inevitably mean that Huge gains.
Alice once hoped that ICQ would be used as an instant messaging tool for Amazon's online mall to communicate with buyers. Simon did not agree at first, but he agreed that the housekeeper developed another instant messaging software LSD (Let's Deal) based on ICQ technology specifically for e-commerce communication. ), which is currently in use.
Including Slack, which is about to be developed, the original idea of an instant messaging software has spawned three different tools under the Igret company.
Whether it’s ICQ, LSD or the planned Slack, it’s no surprise that it will bring huge benefits to Yigrit in the future.
Because it has mastered a large number of core patents on instant messaging tools, it is difficult for other manufacturers to compete with Yigrit in this regard at this stage. Even if there are companies in the future that bypass Yigrit's patents and develop similar products, in Yigrit Faced with the huge user scale that Rite has formed the Matthew Effect, it is impossible for it to do much.
Sunday is Easter.
After Simon finished the meeting with the Big Four of Ygritte, Girl A came over and said that Janet had returned to Los Angeles with her family, and called Simon to ask when he would arrive home.
The original plan was to spend two or three hours discussing the software outsourcing platform plan with Bezos and others, and then go to Cisco headquarters for a meeting in the afternoon and fly back to Los Angeles in the evening.
Unexpectedly, this topic would continue until about eight o'clock in the evening.
Because he had to spend Easter with his woman and children, Simon had no plans to stay overnight in San Francisco, and the Cisco meeting could only be postponed until tomorrow morning on the phone. However, after the meeting, Simon still had dinner with Bezos and others before boarding the plane back to Los Angeles.