After finishing his conversation with Joseph Lewis, Simon ordered the A girl who was following her to collect some information about each other, and walked towards Lawrence Fink of Black Rock Asset Management.

Lawrence Fink is chatting with several guests, including the butler Alice Ferguson.

In addition to executives of several companies on the East Coast of Westeros, due to the transfer of equity of Igrit, a group of senior executives of Igrit on the West Coast also came to New York today. With the outstanding performance of Amazon Online Mall in the past year, the female housekeeper has been one of the core of Igrit's management.

Simon is not very familiar with the other man and two women in the small circle.

When he came close to him and said hello, Lawrence Fink took the initiative to explain: "Simon, this is Ronald Lauder and his wife Carol, and their daughter, Miss Erin Lauder."

When Simon heard the surname "Lader", he roughly understood the other party's identity.

The Lauder family behind the Estee Lauder Group.

Simon is very optimistic about this world's largest cosmetics group in memory. Apollo Management, a subsidiary of Cersei Capital, bought 10% of Estee Lauder's unvoted shares two years ago, and plans to take over by Melisandra after Estee Lauder's IPO so that Estee Lauder can become a part of Melisandra's fashion territory.

He shook hands with Lauder's family of three enthusiastically and exchanged greetings for a few words. Simon asked, "What are you talking about just now?"

Lawrence Fink said: "About the Amazon Online Mall where Alice is responsible, Ronald is considering whether Estee Lauder will enter the e-commerce field in advance. Simon, what do you think?"

Simon shook his head with a smile and said, "Now is not the time for a single manufacturer to develop e-commerce. Website operation is second. The key is that the cost of the warehousing and logistics system is too high. However, Estee Lauder can carry out some experiential e-commerce operations, through a combination of official websites and offline retail, so that it can accumulate experience in advance without consuming too much money."

After listening to Simon's words carefully, the Lauders and his wife had not spoken yet. After that, Erin Lauders, who was in their early twenties, said: "Mr. Westeros, you mean, consumers place orders on the website and then go to the specialty store to pick up the goods, right?"

Simon nodded and said, "Yes, Erin, you can call me Simon."

Erin Lauder felt the gentle tone of the man opposite, which made people feel favorably, but he was not polite, saying: "But isn't this a waste of time? Consumers can buy cosmetics directly at specialty stores. Why do they have to add a layer of trouble to themselves by placing an order online?"

When the Lauders heard Erin Lauder's almost aggressive tone, they glared at their daughter at the same time. In fact, they also discovered the flaws in Simon's suggestion, but this girl was too rude. If the young man in front of him could not come to Taiwan, the Lauders family would not be angry.

Simon's expression was not displeased at all, saying: "The two are of course different. Many women who buy cosmetics care very much about the specific effects of a product, so they hope to have a detailed understanding of certain cosmetics before purchasing. The website can provide a very detailed introduction to the product through rich pictures and texts. This is an effect that specialty store sales staff are difficult to achieve in short-term sales words. Therefore, an e-commerce platform can not only give consumers a brand new shopping experience, but also is also a good online marketing platform. As for online orders and offline pickups, it will seem unnecessary. Erin, if you plan to buy a set of cosmetics, one way is to sit in front of the computer leisurely before going to bed, quietly browse some products and place orders, and pick up the goods directly in the specialty store the next day. The other way is to spend more than ten or twenty minutes in the store to buy a product that you may still not know much. Which method would you choose?"

After Simon finished speaking, the people around him could not help but nod.

Erin Lauder did not give in and said, "There must be many women who like to choose in person in specialty stores."

"Of course," Simon nodded, saying, "and there will definitely be no shortage of women who want to place orders online. In fact, my suggestion is just a compromise transition solution. Real e-commerce should be for users to place orders online and the products are delivered directly to them. But Estee Lauder is difficult to bear such a cost now."

In order to prevent the youngest daughter of the Lauder family from continuing to make things difficult for her boss, Lawrence Fink took the topic at the right time: "Amazon Online Mall has done a very good job in book sales in the past year. I found that the mall has recently added videotapes and movie peripheral products. Simon, will Amazon continue to increase product types in the next step, such as cosmetics?"

Simon nodded and said, "This is for sure, but Amazon will focus on deepening its existing commodity fields for at least the next two years."

The most fundamental purpose of controlling the types of products is to control operating costs.

This year, videotape and movie peripheral products are added mainly because the Westeros system has deep roots in Hollywood and can actively cooperate with Amazon's expansion in this field.

If we continue to increase product categories, Amazon will almost have to configure a complete set of procurement, warehousing and logistics teams to significantly increase Amazon's operating burden. Even once the sales status of new product categories is lower than expected, this part of the business will become a burden to Amazon and drag down the development of the entire company.

E-commerce is still in its early stages of development. In recent years, Amazon's main business goal is to continue to accumulate operational experience in the e-commerce field by operating existing businesses, and thus reduce cost control risks as much as possible in the future business expansion process.

Lawrence Fink heard Simon's answer and said, "In this way, e-commerce in other product fields may be first launched by other companies."

Simon nodded with a smile: "Yes, but Amazon can't take all the benefits."

In fact, this situation is beneficial to Amazon and even the entire Igrit Company.

Amazon is only involved in the fields of books, audio-visual and movies, and has given up other types of e-commerce, which has given enough room for other companies that are interested in developing e-commerce.

In the past year, Simon has seen e-commerce planning plans such as selling groceries online, selling infant products online, selling pet rations online, and other e-commerce planning plans from Westeros in the venture capital department of Silicon Valley. With the official announcement of the "Information Highway Plan" and the previous stimulation of the capital of Egret's financial report data on all parties, it can be imagined that a variety of e-commerce websites will appear next.

Since there are such rich opportunities on the Internet, capital's hostility towards Igret, which possesses too many resources, will fade a lot in the future.

Everyone continued to talk about various topics. Erin Lauder, who had just picked Simon, did not speak again. However, the girl's eyes did not stop, and she looked at the young man opposite and the two women around the man.

Just as Simon approached, Alice and A happened to stand beside him, one left and one right. A kept her assistant's duties and stood slightly behind the man. However, Erin Lauder found that Alice Ferguson on the other side was almost instinctively standing behind the man's side, and naturally guarded Simon Westero in the middle.

Not to mention Girl A, Alice Ferguson is a highly anticipated business rookie at this cocktail party tonight. The other party is in charge of the Amazon Online Mall of Igret, which was in charge of the other party. When others were still hesitating about e-commerce, it took only one year to achieve a very impressive success. This is definitely not something an ordinary professional manager can do.

It can be said that if Alice Ferguson plans to leave Egret and work alone, a large number of venture capital funds will immediately rush to provide funds for her.

Such a woman instinctively showed an auxiliary posture in front of a young man, and she was once just a maid from the Westeros family.

So, even though a guy has seen too much information about the other party in various media over the years, Erin Lauder can't help but be curious at this time, what kind of person is the other party?

Simon continued to chat with the few people for a while, and made an appointment with Lawrence Fink for a meal tomorrow morning, and then walked to another place.

Erin Lauder's eyes couldn't help but follow a guy.

About ten minutes later, I saw a beautiful girl at the cocktail party that obviously had done a small accident on purpose and sprinkled the wine on the man. Erin Lauder, who was watching silently, couldn't help rolling his eyes.

It's really clumsy.

These women have been pouring wine on men for hundreds of years, so why can’t they be a little innovative?

If it's yourself...

Thinking of this, he found that Westeros had left the hall, and the woman who was trying to splash wine and chat with him was hung down, and he couldn't help but feel a little gloating.

Then, after hesitating for a moment, Erin Lauder put down the glass that had been empty for a long time and followed him quietly.

After leaving the hall, Erin Lauder regretted it.

I'm really crazy.

There was a corridor outside, and of course there was no sign of a guy. Erin Lauder stood in the distance and paused, decided to walk to the corner in front, and if he couldn't touch it, he would turn around and go back.

When we came to the corner, there was obviously no shadow of Simon Westeros.

Well, he must go to the bathroom, of course he won't be here.

Since childhood, I have attended various parties at the Gramessi Hotel more than once, so of course I know how to take the bathroom before taking it.

I questioned again, but still looked for it.

Soon I came to the bathroom door at the end of a corridor and saw two bodyguards guarding outside the door, and I was sure that I was here.

As if nothing had happened, the two bodyguards did not stop her and allowed her to enter the female bathroom.

Standing by the bathroom stand and putting on makeup, rubbing for a while, she heard the footsteps outside, quickly put away her makeup box and walked out with her handbag.

The man was moving so fast that she walked out and the other party had already walked back to the hall.

After all this, I had to take the initiative to speak: "Hey, Simon."

The man stopped and turned around, saw that it was her, and smiled and nodded: "Hello, Erin."

Oh, this tone looks like an old man who pretends to be a gentleman.

With a forced complaint in his heart, Erin Lauder walked up to him and found that the man continued to walk towards the hall. He couldn't help but say, "Do you like to hang out among those bald middle-aged people?"

Simon smiled and said, "Irene, this is a bit rude, your dad is there too."

Erin Lauder rolled his eyes: "Mr. Westeros, can you stop talking to me in this tone? You are obviously as old as me, but you are like an old man."

Simon was easy to talk and nodded, "Okay."

“…”

Following the man a few steps forward, Erin Lauder said again: "Hey, how about we go to the bar downstairs for a drink?"

Simon finally stopped and looked at the girl beside him.

Compared with the bright and beautiful housekeeper and the sexy and perceptive A-tea girl, Erin Lauder's only advantage is probably the exquisite atmosphere raised by living in a wealthy family since childhood.

After Simon looked at it like this, Erin Lauder couldn't stand it. He raised his head slightly and looked at the man without showing any signs of weakness, asking, "Why should I look at me like this?"

Simon smiled, turned around and continued, saying, "Let's go, take you to drink."

Erin Lauder subconsciously kept up, but, in the instinct of a woman, she keenly sensed some dangerous aura.

The man was not very fast, and she could easily keep up with him, walking side by side with him, and said, "Hey, we just have a drink. I will still go home later."

Simon nodded: "Of course."

Erin Lauder glanced suspiciously: "Do you want to get me drunk?"

Simon shook his head: "I never intentionally get a woman drunk."

Erin Lauder grabbed the man's mouth: "That is, if a woman gets drunk, you won't stop him?"

"yes."

"So, what about after getting drunk?"

"After getting drunk, um, are you talking about women? Women are usually ugly after getting drunk and may even vomit."

Erin Lauder is only 22 years old this year. Although the federal legal drinking age is 21, there are actually not many people who will abide by it. She has been drunk before, but it is certain that she is definitely not as unbearable as the men around her.

"Simon, you seem to be scaring me?"

"I just don't like drunk women, it's a big trouble."

Erin Lauder curled his lips and said, "Don't men like to get women drunk and take advantage of them?"

Simon looked at the girl beside him again, smiled and said, "I prefer women to be more awake."

A hesitant little thought flashed through Erin Lauder's mind. Should I get drunk or not?

Immediately, she found the hateful smile on the corner of the man's mouth, and she immediately decided not to get drunk.

Hum, let's see how you can do to me!
Chapter completed!