Hollywood Hunter

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Bill Gates felt it was a mistake to come over to meet Simon today.

If it wasn't for this young man's birth, he felt that he should be the richest man in the Federation by now. It's a pity that his $10.5 billion fortune on this year's Forbes list can only be looked up to when compared with the $120 billion of young people in front of him.

The feeling that the two people get along with now makes Gates think of the contact with Jobs in the early days of Microsoft's development.

At that time, Jobs was already a rising star with a net worth of more than 100 million yuan, and Microsoft was only an office software supplier of Apple. Because of various differences between Apple and Microsoft, he and Jobs had quarreled more than once.

Or, to be more precise, he was completely berated by Jobs at the time.

Now Steve Jobs has long lost his former brilliance, and Microsoft's rise is unstoppable.

However, he found himself again on top of a guy even more disgusting than Jobs.

The young man wouldn't yell like Steve Jobs once did, or even bother to show a shred of emotion in the face of his anger, but for Gates, it was a more serious form of contempt.

It was as if the other party was standing on another level entirely, looking down at all beings.

That may be the case, and Gates is reluctant to admit it anyway.

This meeting was unhappy.

Regarding linux and ie, the conditions given by Simon are basically determined things, and there is absolutely no room for negotiation.

When the gate classmates left, they already had some thoughts in their hearts.

After all, ie needs to run on the windows platform, and it is not difficult to figure it out.

Simon doesn't care about Gates' thoughts. His current attitude is to sit on the sidelines, and the specific game is run by the executives of one of his companies.

In fact, I can think of what tricks Gates will play. However, if he is in a hurry, Igret may really launch a free Linux desktop operating system.

The rise of windows has been advanced due to the rise of the Internet wave, and there is still a certain distance from a complete monopoly.

The launch of the free Linux desktop operating system is not without the opportunity to redefine the market structure of the operating system. In the past, Android has come to the forefront after Apple's ios has been launched. In the key operating system software ecological issues, Microsoft also does not have an absolute advantage. , Igreit also happens to have the corresponding strength to coordinate various software vendors to develop software for linux.

Of course, this is definitely a lose-lose strategy.

Igreit would not do this unless it was a last resort.

Bring down Microsoft, Simon, the second largest shareholder, will definitely suffer serious losses.

Back in Los Angeles on Monday, the most important news is that Canada's Seagram Group officially announced the acquisition of Paramount Communications.

Before that, the two companies had been secretly negotiating for more than three months.

It's not really a secret.

In recent months, gossip about Seagram Group's upcoming acquisition of Paramount Communications has been in the newspapers. Paramount Communications' stock price has risen by more than 25% compared with the end of May, and its recent market value has reached 5.9 billion US dollars.

Now that the news is public, the two sides have basically reached an agreement.

Seagram Group will buy Paramount Communications for $66 per share, valued at about $8 billion, in all cash. At the same time, Seagram Group will also assume $1.2 billion in debt from Paramount Communications, bringing the total transaction value to $9.2 billion.

On the day the news was announced, Paramount’s shares rose another 11%.

For a period of time, as long as no other bidders emerge, the deal will officially close after a vote by Paramount's board of directors and approval by federal authorities.

For many, the odds of a bidder appearing are already low.

Compared with the initial negotiation, Seagram's offer of $66 per share is equivalent to a 70% premium. The most critical point is that it is fully paid in cash, such as Barry Diller's qvc or Sam Redstone's Viacom Mu, even if he wanted to buy Paramount, he couldn't make such a price at all.

With the announcement of the news, the focus of discussion in the federal media once again focused on the issue of whether to liberalize the media industry as soon as possible.

Because the public television network is not allowed to hold the ban of Hollywood studios, in recent years, the three old federal television networks, which are strong enough to integrate with Hollywood film companies, cannot participate in the acquisition of Hollywood studios. MGM has already fallen into the hands of foreign investors, and Universal Pictures was almost acquired by Panasonic. Now, another old Hollywood studio, Paramount Communications, will also become a subsidiary of overseas capital.

The New York Times believes that similar acquisitions have threatened the cultural industry in the United States, and the federal government should prohibit Seagram from acquiring Paramount.

Such advice is difficult to come true.

Now that Sony can complete the acquisition of Columbia Pictures and Australian capital has also swallowed MGM, under existing law, the federal government has no reason to prevent Seagram Group from annexing Paramount Communications.

Unless media controls are lifted immediately, the three powerful public television network groups are allowed to join the acquisition.

The media industry's ongoing lobbying for deregulatory bans has almost become a consensus at the top federal levels. It's just that I want to repeal the original bill, but I also

It's not an overnight thing.

At least this time, Seagram's acquisition of Paramount Communications has been unavoidable.

Dumay Point Manor.

The time is Wednesday, September 29th.

Simon was invited by Robert Rehm, president of Paramount Pictures, to attend the reception held by the other party at his home in Beverly Hills, and left early at more than nine o'clock in the evening.

Back home, Janet hadn't rested yet, and was discussing something with girl a in a living room of the villa.

Simon sat down beside Janet and looked curiously at the document in the woman's hand.

Janet handed it directly to Simon and said, "What do you think of the list you just sorted out?"

Simon took the folder, and on it was a stack of resumes that had obviously just been printed out. He flipped through them at random. They were all college girls between 18 and 22 years old, from North America, Australia and Europe, and naturally they were all the best everywhere. of famous students.

The most convenient abcd is gradually leaving her post, and Janet has recently started to look for a new batch of personal maid candidates.

Simon originally thought that there was no need to look for too smart girls. However, judging from the fact that there were always 'accidents' among the girls brought out by the housekeeper Alice, smarter girls were more reliable, and smart people often knew what to do and what not to do. what to do.

Looking at it casually, Simon said: "I think it is better to choose a younger grade for training. These ages are a bit older."

Janet moved her body, curled up on the sofa next to Simon, came over to read the resume on the document and said, "I also know that it is better to cultivate from an early age, but how are you going to find a little girl, you can't buy it directly? , it's easy to cause trouble."

Simon raised his arms around Janet to make her lean more comfortably. He flipped through the document on his knee with one hand, thought about it, and said, "This is easy, choose from Latin America or Eastern Europe."

Janet was still a little puzzled: "Huh?"

Simon said: "You know, in Latin America and Eastern Europe, there are model scouts everywhere who select girls with excellent conditions and provide them to major agencies. We just need to select the ones we want from this channel."

Janet's head rested on Simon's shoulder: "Is it what you want?"

Simon smiled: "Yes, you can't use it."

Janet pretended to hum a few times in dissatisfaction, and said to Girl A who had been sitting quietly beside her, "A, um, let B do this. It's her last job before she leaves."

Alison nodded, taking note.

Janet turned around again, gestured to the folder on Simon's knee, and said, "What about these?"

"Choose a few and try to cultivate them."

Simon said, continued to turn a few pages, and was suddenly attracted by a document.

This is the profile of a girl named Marissa Mayer who just entered Stanford University's Department of Computer Science this year. I glanced at the photo in the upper right corner of my resume again. Yes, it was the Marissa Mayer in my memory.

Since the materials were sent to the Simon and his wife, they actually negotiated their work intentions in advance.

Simon didn't expect the famous Silicon Valley executive from memory to want the job.

However, since this is the case, Simon is not polite, and directly pulls out Mayer's information, saying: "This is not bad."

Simon didn't hide his preferences in front of Janet, and Janet didn't care. She took a look at the information and said, "It's just a freshman year, but two years is enough for her. It doesn't matter if you get a Stanford degree."

Simon nodded and continued to look through, but could not find any other familiar names, so he discussed with Janet and selected seven from a total of more than 60 resumes, including Marissa Mayer, and collected two again. The four-person group, after targeted training, may filter out another half in the future, leaving four.

a, b, c, and d were chosen that way.

The current maid team of the Westeros family, in addition to the scattered abcd, also includes the Indian girl Alia and Zoe Parks and Isabel Dunn brought out from the team of the housekeeper Alice. This is the most personal Several maids. In addition, some girls in North America and Europe who are responsible for taking care of many properties under Simon's name basically do not appear around Simon and his wife.

According to the frequency of abcd's departure, when these girls recede, Marissa Mayer and others are enough to take over the former's position.

After that, it is probably the girls selected from Latin America and Eastern Europe.

In fact, there is still a little goblin hidden in Stanford, Simon's third Jenny, Jennifer Brie. However, Jenny's position is probably similar to that of a female assistant, and it will take another two years to wait.

After discussing this matter, Girl A was sent to rest, and Simon took care of Janet and came upstairs to take a bath and sleep.

The next morning, Janet held her in her arms and kept her from leaving, and the couple didn't get up until after eight o'clock.

After breakfast, I accompany Janet to the Westeros Family Hospital for a routine pregnancy check-up, followed by a maternity course, and return to Dumay Cape Manor for lunch at noon.

The two Jenny's pregnancy schedules are actually like this, monotonous and boring. After all, it is not a real vacation. With a baby in her belly, many things can't be done at all. Female assistants are more restricted, and they can't even make it public. Occasion to show up.

After lunch, Janet was scheduled to take a nap, but Simon was not sleepy.

Taking advantage of the warm sunshine in the afternoon, I went to the open-air swimming pool of the villa by the sea for a while, and left the pool.

Qi Hope handed over the bath towel, Simon wiped it briefly, walked to the lounge chair by the pool and sat down, picked up the juice on the table next to him, motioned girl B to come over, and asked, "Your financial information platform has prepared How's it going?"

Lady B sat down on the reclining chair next to Simon, her eyes involuntarily looking at her boss's strong and sturdy body, she quickly retracted her gaze, and said, "The software development team has gradually completed, Goldman Sachs, Morgan and Se Xi Capital has all agreed to cooperate, Yahoo Finance has also agreed to provide us with content, and I have recently been in contact with some traditional financial media to negotiate cooperation.”

Simon smiled and said, "Is there any trouble with this?"

Girl B nodded. Igret's 58list has just offended the traditional paper media. It is definitely not easy to reach an agreement with the old-fashioned financial media such as Townsend, Reuters, "Wall Street Journal" and "Business Week". What's more, these companies themselves also have their own partners and interests in financial information.

"Come on step by step," Simon continued: "Actually, your idea of ​​'bad money drives out good money' is very good. It's not that we want to provide inferior services, but that we understand the gap between ourselves and the old financial information platform. This is very important, many people fail because they don’t understand their position.”

B-girl wants to create a financial information company similar to Bloomberg, which is a very promising idea.

In the next two decades, the financial industry in the United States will become more developed, and the demand for professional financial information platforms will also increase significantly.

Take Bloomberg as an example. At this stage, the total global sales volume of Bloomberg terminals is actually only about 15,000 units, and the annual revenue is about 200 million US dollars.

In Simon's memory, the annual sales of Bloomberg's Bloomberg terminal reached 300,000 units at its peak, which was 20 times the current market size. Michael Bloomberg also only relied on Bloomberg to get more than 50 billion US dollars. Therefore, it can be seen that the professional financial information platform has great potential.

Relying on the resources of the Westeros system, even if B-girl's financial information platform cannot completely defeat Bloomberg, as long as it can gain a firm foothold in this industry and compete with Bloomberg, the scale of the company in the future will definitely reach the level of tens of billions of dollars.

Bloomberg was founded in 1981 and has accumulated ten years of experience. It is definitely not something that B-girl's company wants to catch up with this company overnight.

So Betsy devised a plan code-named 'bad money drives out good money'.

Create a primary financial information platform, catch up with the Bloomberg terminal step by step, and use the low price advantage to gradually encroach on the Bloomberg terminal and other existing stock market equipment, and finally achieve the effect of 'bad money drives out good money', Moreover, after continuous accumulation, the company itself will evolve from 'bad money' to 'good money'.

Thinking like this, Simon asked Girl B: "By the way, has the company name been chosen?"

Girl B nodded and said, "alphabeta."

Simon was stunned for a moment, this name seems to have been heard before.

Well, the Google parent company!

"How come you have such a name?"

"This is a project I planned with a. Her $10 million vase fund will also be invested, and she will also help me continue to give ideas in private."

a, b, beta, that's right.

After thinking about it, Simon asked, "How to spell it out?"

Girl b quickly spelled it out.

Only then did Simon find out that the two names are still different. The name of Google's parent company is alphabet, and the letter 'a' is missing at the end, but the company of the two girls ab is alphabeta, which is the complete spelling.

Confirming that this was just a small coincidence, Simon nodded and smiled: "Very nice name."

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