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Seattle, a villa on Mercer Island in the center of Lake Washington.

Zoe parks and Isabel Dunn almost wanted to laugh when they saw that Alice Ferguson was almost on the verge of falling downstairs, with some inexplicable envy in their mood.

The housekeeper, who is no longer a housekeeper, stares at the two girls and goes to the restaurant, while hating some guy again.

Anyway, I will never give in.

Today is Tuesday, January 12.

Simon came to Seattle as a major shareholder to attend a high-level meeting of Microsoft, mainly discussing the pre installed windows system in IE browser.

The affair with the housekeeper actually started with some disputes.

In the recent week, ypay, an online payment tool of igritte, has authorized payment interface applications from six online commerce websites in succession, including businesses that compete directly or indirectly with Amazon.

Naturally, the housekeeper objected that Simon was getting married.

Simon didn't have the heart to reason with the housekeeper too much, so the dispute turned into a direct "physical conflict" last night. Not only that, after waking up in the morning, the housekeeper was forced to conflict again, so Zoe and Isabel saw the situation.

A moment later, Simon followed him downstairs, with the energy he had gained after a bit of exercise.

He came to the dining room, sat down in the awed eyes of the two maids and began to eat breakfast.

It was already nine o'clock, and Zoe and Isabel had already had breakfast. They arranged for them and quietly left the restaurant.

Simon took a sip of milk, picked up the tableware again, cut the fried eggs, and finally said to the housekeeper, "the consumption point card can be terminated. You can go back to discuss this with Jeff and them."

At the beginning, in order to promote Internet users to try online consumption, igrit company issued a consumption point card similar to prepaid phone card.

For a $10 point card, igritte will have to bear no less than $2 in all aspects.

At the beginning of its development, igritte has nothing to do with it. At present, the outbreak of the Internet is accelerating, and the growth of e-commerce will be greatly accelerated. Moreover, igritte has opened up the online payment channels of several major banks in the United States, and users are increasingly able to accept online consumption directly by binding credit cards. Continue to issue point cards, for igrit company, some of the gain is not worth the loss.

The housekeeper just said softly that she was still angry.

In fact, she first raised this issue at the end of last year, but she didn't get a response.

What does a man mean when he says that?

Would you like a date?

I'm not that easy to buy off.

Simon didn't mind the housekeeper's indifference, and continued: "ICQ instant messaging tool, which can't be used as Amazon's customer communication tool, I hope it can develop into a pure social software. I've tried it myself. The instant messaging page you developed is good. It must also use the patented technology of ICQ. There's no need to pull ICQ over. "

The housekeeper said again.

A thought flashed through my head: stick?

Simon still didn't care, and continued: "there is also the cooperation between ypay and other e-commerce websites. I remember I said more than once that the Internet industry will be very huge, and no company can fully occupy it. Moreover, at this stage, it is more important to promote the prosperity of the Internet and let this platform be accepted by more people than the monopoly idea you can't wait for. "

Even Amazon, which was originally at the peak of the time line, accounted for less than 50% of online e-commerce in the United States.

The housekeeper finally said, "I didn't want to monopolize the Internet."

Simon said, "but that's what you're trying to do."

The housekeeper was silent again.

Simon then said: "actually, I have thought that this is the ambition of every businessman. However, things are not realistic at all. Especially in the early stage of an industry's development, it directly forms a monopoly, which is not good for the monopoly company. Without competition, it will stop, become bloated, and cause all kinds of problems. The final result will only be elimination. Compared with other companies, Amazon already has enough resources. Now there are just a few more people to catch up with. If you can't cope with this competition, please come back and be a bed warming girl for me. "

The housekeeper had already agreed with some guy. When she heard the last sentence, she finally raised her head and glared at him.

What kind of ghost is a bed warming girl?

Simon smiles and says, "I recommend a book, a dream of Red Mansions, which Jennie likes to read very much. Well, you'd better learn more Chinese."

As a former housekeeper, Alice actually knew about it.

On the surface, he was still unconvinced, but he kept it in mind silently, but he changed the topic and said, "will you agree to the cooperation conditions of the browser pre installed by gates?"

At yesterday's meeting, Damen pointed out that it is not impossible for Microsoft to pre install IE browser. However, Microsoft needs to obtain the right to adjust the functions of this browser. Not only that, Damen also asked for the authorization of direct commercialization of world wide web related technologies.In fact, there are many restrictions on the World Wide Web patents published before.

The most critical point is that other companies should not directly use the world wide web technology to seek benefits. In short, they should not use the world wide web technology to develop related application software to make profits. World Wide Web browsers, web design software, etc. are all listed here.

Because it's a private plot of igritte.

Just in the past year, igritte sold 23.79 million sets of browser software for only US $10 each worldwide, resulting in huge profits of US $230 million.

In addition, with the exponential outbreak of World Wide Web sites, there are also 760000 sets of web design software sold at an average price of $300 to $500 according to the different prices of the customers. As a result, this part of the revenue easily exceeds the original most profitable browser software, reaching $280 million.

For web design related software, the operation team of igritte company also considered to rent it instead of direct one-time sale, so as to ensure more long-term sustainable income. However, considering that Oracle directly subverts the monopoly of traditional IT companies such as IBM on database software by selling software at one time, Simon finally chose to sell it directly.

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Therefore, whether browser software or web design software, to a large extent, will be a one-time income.

However, even so, the benefits of these two simple software are enough for igritte to pay most of its initial budget.

Just in the past 1992, the financial information of igritte company is still in the statistics. However, due to the outbreak of software sales again, the loss of igritte company this year has also decreased significantly, and it may only be tens of millions of dollars in the end.

Moreover, the loss was deliberately caused by igritte's operation team.

Simon didn't make profits as early as igritte, and Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz didn't lack that vision.

Moreover, according to the loss deduction clause in the U.S. tax law, the current loss can be used as the amount of income tax relief in the next 15 years.

Amazon used this method to make its annual net profit of tens of billions of US dollars. Instead of paying taxes, it can get part of the tax rebate from the federal government, which eventually led to a rare phenomenon of "negative tax rate" in federal enterprises.

If inflation and other elements are taken into account, it is not cost-effective to offset future profits with current losses.

But considering from other aspects, the current investment will actually turn into the strength and advantage accumulation of igrit in the Internet industry, which is very cost-effective in the long run.

In the dining room at this time.

Hearing the housekeeper's question, Simon quickly shook his head and said, "I'm going to let Jeff and them discuss the pre installation directly with the OEM manufacturers, and gates will forget it."

Alice pause, tone with a little bit of ridicule: "you just said you don't want to monopolize the Internet?"

In e-commerce, it deliberately cultivates Amazon's competitors, but in the world wide web technology, it limits the emergence of other competitors, which is indeed a bit contradictory.

Simon said: "it's two things. I don't want to authorize Microsoft. I'm not worried about competition. You should understand that I am also a major shareholder of Microsoft. Well, now, I should be the second largest shareholder. The development of Microsoft can also bring me benefits."

Bill Gates and Paul Allen were Microsoft's first and second largest shareholders.

However, after the equity transaction in the first two years, plus Paul Allen's subsequent sale of part of the equity, now his shareholding in Microsoft has dropped to 18.6%, and westero's shareholding in Microsoft is still 21.3%. Therefore, westero is now the second largest shareholder of Microsoft after Bill Gates.

Alice knew that, and asked, "why is that?"

"I just don't want the Internet standards to split," Simon said. "If more World Wide Web technologies are authorized to gates, in order to compete with igrit, bill may take advantage of the market advantage of windows system to create other different technical standards, which may be incompatible with igrit. Can you imagine that if there was no unified standard for the original power system, some power grids were 110V, some were 220V, and some were 240V, how much inconvenience would it bring to users, and to what extent would it hinder the development of the power revolution? "

The housekeeper nodded subconsciously, but immediately retorted, "so, don't you worry about e-commerce?"

Simon said with a smile: "of course not. E-commerce websites are more like" home appliances ". No matter what kind of appliances they are, they need to adapt to the federal 110 volt voltage standard."

"But," the housekeeper hesitated this time, and said, "if you connive so many 'appliances' to compete with Amazon, if, if I mess up, you have to take responsibility."

"Without competitors, I think you're more likely to screw up," Simon said, adding, "and, frankly, the westero system is so huge now that I have enough chips to fear that one or two of them will fail. For example, several authorized e-commerce websites, most of which have venture capital of westero system. "The housekeeper was depressed again.

In fact, she has understood this since he let Amazon and blockbuster sell videos and movies around.

However, for he had not so strong confidence in her, she was still a little lost.

Hateful guy.

How many times.

Always talking about how to do if you fail.

It's like she's not meant to succeed.

Simon didn't care about the housekeeper's careful thinking. He explained everything. After lunch, they left Seattle and flew to San Francisco.

In the afternoon, he discussed with igritte's senior management to change his mind. After another night in San Francisco, Simon returned to Los Angeles.

At the beginning of the year, the key films of danielis entertainment in the next year or two have been determined, but there are still many first-class projects gradually approved.

On Wednesday morning, Simon invited Roland Emmerich and Michael Bay to discuss a film written by Roland Emmerich called "the wonder of the universe.".

Roland Emmerich is still busy for the later stage of Superman. Although he has begun to finish the first Superman, he is almost ready to prepare for the sequel and has no time to consider other projects.

As a result, Simon plans to hand over the director's own screenplay "the wonder of the universe" to Michael Bay, who has just completed the Weimi show at the end of last year.

In the original time line, marvel of the universe is Roland Emmerich's famous work in Hollywood. It is the success of marvel of the universe that makes Roland Emmerich shoot his masterpiece "Independence Day" in Hollywood.

This time, if nothing happens, Simon plans to give both opportunities to Michael Bay.

The two films, especially "Independence Day", are also very suitable for Michael Bay's personal style.

As for Emmerich, as long as the Superman series can be successful, the fame it brings to the director will not be much worse than the original timeline. Simon's plan this time is to let the other party act as the producer of "the wonder of the universe", and then, it may be the producer of "Independence Day".

"The wonder of the universe" tells the story of a human archaeologist who led a team of soldiers to explore through the "Stargate" after discovering that the pyramid is actually the "Stargate" leading to the alien world, and led the alien world's human beings to fight against the alien race rule and return to the earth.

On the whole, it's a mind opening sci-fi action movie.

Science fiction action movies are just what Michael Bay was good at on the original timeline.

According to a preliminary estimate, the budget of stargate is $30 million, which is slightly higher than Simon's expectation. However, for science fiction movies, this kind of budget is not too high. Simon also believes that with Michael Bay's ability, he can complete the movie within the budget of $30 million.

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