When Eric heard what Chris said, he smiled and said, "I only care about when he will be able to make hotmail's online mailbox service?"
"It will take at least half a year," Chris said, seeming to remember something, operated the mouse and clicked on a program on the laptop in front of him, and said, "Eric, maybe you should take a look at this, this is Microsoft's 3.1 system Launched the email client ail."
Eric took a brief look, and soon realized that this email client integrated in Microsoft Office should be the predecessor of the famous Outlook, and in the original time and space, Outlook was after Microsoft acquired the hotmail online email service , an office product launched by integrating with its own email client.
However, now this ail is also just a peer-to-peer LAN email client, which can only be used on a fixed computer, and has no online email function: "Don't worry, Chris, this application is not a threat to us, we Hotmail is aimed at all Internet users, while Microsoft’s application is more limited to business office, and ordinary people basically don’t have access to it.”
Chris also knew that what Eric said was true, so he only said 8, just casually mentioning it.
The reason why Eric is so relieved is mainly because all the software giants are not aware of the huge development prospects of the Internet, so Firefly has enough time to make a layout. As for Microsoft, although its launch has received a good response, Microsoft's operating system still has not reached the mainstream state. Windows 95, which brought Microsoft to the dominant position of the operating system, will not be released until three years later.
The two chatted all afternoon in the study unknowingly. The women have not come to bother. Chris didn't plan to leave until the two noticed that the sky outside the window had darkened at the same time.
When he was about to leave, Chris stopped suddenly and said, "Eric, there is one more thing I almost forgot to say. After making a series of investments, the company still has about US$1 billion in cash. These funds Putting it in a currency fund can only generate an annual return of 6%. Personally, I still hope that the company can make larger investments.”
"In my opinion, the money is not too much," Eric said after listening to Chris's words: "It's just a billion dollars. If we invest in diversification, we often can't get enough right to speak, so it's not as good as No, and I haven't found any big projects worth selling yet."
Chris smiled and said, "It's not too much, the whole of the United States. There are not too many companies with a liquidity of more than one billion dollars."
Eric nodded, but he remembered the apple from his previous life. He remembered reading in an article that Apple’s cash flow once reached more than 200 billion U.S. dollars, even surpassing Disney’s market value. Moreover, since Jobs took power for the second time, he has been implementing a debt-free business model in Apple. As a listed company, although the interest on debt can offset various benefits such as income tax, Apple has been debt-free for two decades.
And it is Jobs' extremely stubborn business model that makes Apple's business strategy extremely flexible without the constraints of shareholders and creditors. Apple wanted to make a MacBook, so it made it, and it wanted to make an ipod, so it made it. I wanted to make an iPhone, so I did it, and at the same time, I achieved Apple's dominance of the world's largest market value twenty years later.
Eric knows that he doesn't have much talent in running a company. However, as a person who traveled from the cottage kingdom and is lucky to have a memory bank of his previous life, Eric is confident that he can imitate other people's paths. questionable. If Firefly Pictures goes public or issues a large amount of bonds, although it can bring enough benefits to the company, it will also make the company's business strategy have to succumb to investors. However, Eric knows that many decisions he made based on his memory will definitely be difficult for many people to understand. If he cannot control the absolute control of the company, it will be difficult to implement many strategies, and he may have to wait for investors. After that, many opportunities have disappeared.
"Don't worry, Chris, I have a sense of proportion, but I remember I told you that if you have a promising project, you can also invest. You are not my housekeeper, but the CEO of Firefly Investment Company .”
Chris shrugged and said with a smile: "As long as you know it well, to be honest, since Cisco at the beginning, I think your investment vision is definitely much stronger than mine, and that's what my father said. We invest in Cisco That money will at least double this year.”
Eric can see the doubts in Chris's eyes. He is only a high school graduate. Chris must be full of doubts about how he picked Cisco and how he can make movies, but Eric is destined to fail in these things. Possibly confess to Chris.
The door of the study was knocked several times, and after getting a response, Virginia poked her head in and asked, "Eric, it's six o'clock now, let me ask you what you have for dinner?"
"No need, Miss Madsen, Emily and I will leave right away, we have a date to attend tonight," Chris shook his head quickly.
Eric asked to stay, but Chris really had something to do, so he didn't insist.
After eating, Eric took the initiative to tell the two women about the content of the chat with Chris in the afternoon. After listening to Eric, Virginia and Joanna looked at each other. He said, "Eric, you have been in New York for several days. There must be a lot of things to do in Los Angeles. You should go back tomorrow."
Eric did not refuse, but said: "What about you, go back to Los Angeles with me, I don't feel at ease staying alone in New York."
Virginia smiled and said: "We are not children, besides, there are servants, you just need to call us often."
"I really don't understand why you guys don't want to go back to Los Angeles with me," Eric shook his head again.
Virginia gave Eric a white look. Said: "You clearly know."
Eric immediately raised his hands: "Okay. I surrender."
"Hehe." Joanna and Virginia laughed together. The reason why they didn't want to go back to Los Angeles with Eric was actually very simple, because Eric had too many women in Los Angeles. If you are pregnant and return to Los Angeles, there will definitely be unnecessary troubles, and women want to live in peace. The safest way is to keep a certain distance.
The next day, Eric explained a lot of things to the two women, and then boarded a flight to Los Angeles. From July to now, he has been away from Los Angeles for a full three months, and Eric can almost Imagine the scene where mountains of things await you.
A few hours later, the plane landed at Los Angeles Airport. Eric walked out of the airport hall, and the petite figure in a pink hoodie rushed over, kissing and rubbing as usual.
"Okay. Drew, I'm going to yell molestation again." Eric smiled and pulled Xiao Nizi off his body, letting the girl walk towards the car with his arm.
"I miss you. Originally, I wanted to go to Hawaii, but who knew that you went to France again, and finally went to New York. Hehe, you almost forgot about me, right?"
Eric got into the car with Drew, reached out and pinched the girl's baby face affectionately: "How can I hear such a strong sour smell?"
Drew stretched out his hand and slapped Eric's hand pinching his face away, and a small look drifted over obliquely, as if you had explained it yourself.
"You know everything, what else do you want me to say?" Eric couldn't help but smiled and stretched out his hand.
"Hateful," Drew raised his hand again, but pulled Eric's big hand over and put it in front of him: "So, are they really pregnant, or are they pregnant together?"
Eric nodded: "I'm afraid so."
"Then what are you going to do?" Drew asked nervously.
"Of course they were born and then raised. You can't make me an irresponsible man, can you?"
Drew rolled his eyes at Eric, and then stretched out two little fingers: "But, that's two, two at a time."
"This doesn't seem like a serious problem, isn't it that I can't afford it?" Eric wondered.
Drew didn't know what to say, and a sullen expression flashed on his face.
Eric patted the girl's head comfortingly: "Don't lose your temper, you have two more siblings, isn't it good?"
When Drew heard this, he was taken aback for a moment, then smiled, hugged his chest and hummed twice: "Brother and sister, hum, Eric, you are so evil."
Eric just subconsciously regarded Drew as a child. The two have been together for several years. Eric has never felt that Drew has grown up, so he blurted out the sentence just now, looking at Xiao Nizi's appearance at this time , Eric realized the ambiguity in the words just now, and quickly corrected: "Well, it's not a younger brother or sister, but a little nephew or a little niece. You will be an aunt."
"Hmph, I've heard it just now, don't you think it's too late to say this again?"
"Then let's not talk about it, where are your two little followers?" Eric said with a smile.
Drew dissatisfied: "You are all my little followers, not my daughter, I don't need to take them with me all the time."
Eric felt that the girl must have drank a bottle of old vinegar and a shot of gunpowder today, and was full of anger. Realizing that what he said was useless, Eric simply leaned on the back of the chair and closed his eyes to rest.
There was a moment of silence in the car, and buildings passed by the car window, and soon came to the coastal highway leading to Malibu.
After a while, a soft little body leaned over and lay in Eric's arms, whispering like a cat: "Eric, I miss you."
Eric hugged the girl lightly: "I know, I miss you too."
"Really?"
"Why don't you ask it yourself," Eric grabbed the girl's little hand and pressed it to his heart.
After not coming back for three months, when he walked into the villa of the Sharp Point Manor again, Eric even felt a faint feeling of a world away. Under Xiao Nizi's care, the villa is still the same as when he left, and it seems that there is no change.
Drew directed the driver to bring Eric's luggage in, and then drove them out.
"Eric, go and rest first, I'll pack your luggage for you, and I'll call you at dinner," Drew said as he helped Eric search through his luggage.
"Okay, there are gifts I brought back from France, you pick one."
"Hmph, it's all mine," Drew yelled with some gusto after seeing a pile of gift boxes in the suitcase.
Eric smiled and walked towards the bedroom alone without answering.
When he woke up, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening, Eric went downstairs, saw a busy little figure in the kitchen, and walked over.
"I haven't learned it for a long time, so I had to call someone to send a ready-made one," Drew, who was operating the microwave oven, explained with a little embarrassment when he saw Eric sniffling.
Eric had already smelled a burnt smell as soon as he came in, and he didn't know what the girl had burned. Hearing this explanation, he stepped forward: "Let me do it, what's in it?"
"Pizza, we can only eat this at night." Drew was a little embarrassed.
"Pizza is fine, do you have any juice?"
"There's orange juice, I just squeezed it," Drew pointed to the juicer.
The two of them simply got busy, and soon sat down in the living room.
Eric ate dinner and listened silently to the girl's report on the recent situation in Los Angeles.
"The rough cut of "Plane Detective" has been completed, but Liz is not satisfied with the announcement plan given by Firefly. Last time, she ran to quarrel with Michael Lynn," the girl said like a thief. Whistleblower traitor.
Eric smiled and said, "Why do I feel that you must be instigating it?"
"No," the girl retorted immediately, but she obviously didn't have enough confidence: "Okay, I did say a few words, but Liz definitely went alone to quarrel with Michael Lynn."
"Michael didn't tell me about this matter, so it must have been resolved. What happened?" Eric asked directly.
"The scale of announcement and release is the same as "Speed", but "Aeroplane" will be put on the Christmas file, and the screen will start at 2,000 yuan."
Eric thought for a while and nodded. A group of chicks didn't make any outrageous things. The scale of the announcement and the scale of the release are very reasonable.
With the box office potential shown by the summer file "Ghost in Masquerade", "Aeroplane" is indeed worthy of such a scale of publicity. Moreover, the detective plane should really be placed in the Christmas schedule.
With the box office potential shown by the summer file "Ghost in Masquerade", "Aeroplane" is indeed worthy of such a scale of publicity. Moreover, the detective plane should really be placed in the Christmas schedule. (To be continued..)