Because there were elderly people and children, during the dinner, they only talked about some very common topics, including homework for the two children, some recent interesting news about Greenwich. Mr. President parked the plane on the runway and cut off his hair and blocked others for more than an hour.

At around 8 o'clock, after dinner, Sofia's parents took the initiative to take their two children away.

Simon, Sophia and Nancy came to a living room in the villa to continue chatting, and the topic turned to more formal business affairs.

Forbes announced the new year's 400 American Rich List. This week, Simon, who was promoted to the world's first billionaire, has not changed much. The media's discussion on this topic is very lively. In particular, the hustle and bustle caused by the launch of the 58list website of the Igret Portal has not completely disappeared, and most of the evaluations of Simon on traditional paper media platforms are not too positive.

"The layout of the Westeros system in the Internet industry is simply an existence that is more advanced than any monopoly alliance in the past. You are involved in almost all aspects of this new technological revolution and have a strong voice. Given that the relationship between the Westeros system and traditional paper media has begun to deteriorate, I think what you should worry about the most is the emergence of another 'Ada Betal'."

In the living room, two women snuggled on the sofa next to them. When talking about the series of storms caused by 58list, Nancy commented.

Sofia is a Frenchman, and obviously doesn't pay much attention to the long-standing antitrust history of the US oil industry. He said curiously: "Who is Ada Betal?"

Nancy explained: "The author of "History of Standard Oil Company", she directly led to the split of the Rockefeller business empire through more than ten consecutive heavyweight reports that year."

Simon leaned against the single sofa next to him, holding a cup of coffee in his hand, and said, "I remember there were many analysis later. "Standard Oil Company History" was full of unfactual prejudice. Moreover, after Standard Oil was split, it did not bring benefits to the public. In the following decade, oil prices rose sharply."

"Even if this is true, who cares? Most of the public is stupid and prone to incitement. It's enough that they just need to see what is called justice being served."

Simon nodded: "I agree with this, so I have been making it as good as possible for the public to see what they want to see recently."

During this 58list website storm, the public opinion orientation that Igrit Company focused on promoting is the large amount of free convenience provided by the 58list website to the public.

Nancy said: "But, power is not really in the hands of the public."

“The Westeros system spends much more on government lobbying this year than you think, and I urged Jeff to set up a special lobbying office in Washington some time ago.”

Nancy looked at Simon a few times: "Are you really only 25 years old this year?"

Many people always have to learn from their mistakes before they can gain wisdom. A guy seems to be able to arrange many things in advance without having to experience.

Simon took a sip of coffee slowly and said quietly: "Actually, I'm 280 years old."

Nancy picked up a small pillow and threw it at Simon, but couldn't help but say to Sophia: "I think he is really a 280-year-old vampire."

Sofia smiled and asked back, "What do you mean?"

Nancy poked out her little hand and sided the scarf on Sophia's neck: "It's obvious evidence."

Sophia's face turned slightly red and opened Nancy's little hand.

Nancy just joked, and did not pursue her, and turned to Simon and said, "Actually, there is the most important point. Mr. Westeros, interests and interests are the root cause of all disputes."

"If you are careful enough, a lot of my layouts in the past few years have been to alleviate potential conflicts of interest as much as possible."

"It's a pity that this is far from enough."

"I understand that whether it is the new technology industry or Hollywood, I actually hope that companies in the Westeros system can eventually become mass-owned companies. Of course, control must be in my hands."

Nancy said: "Then why do you still hold so many in your hands now?"

Simon shrugged and said, "I can't give it all at once. People are greedy and I'm too proactive. Some people will think I'm too weak and ask for more."

Nancy tilted her head, thought for a moment, and couldn't help but shake her head: "This is simply a dead knot."

"Yes," Simon smiled and said, "So, my next plan is to let them come and compete."

The Westeros system is now in a capital jungle where the strong prey on the weak.

Simonta took the initiative to throw the food he had reserved to the beasts around him, which would only attract more predators. Although he did not intend to oppose everyone, before sharing the food, smashing some tiger-headed and wolf-legged legs can also make many predators who want to come forward to grab food to weigh their strength.

Nancy heard this and said, "Aren't you worried that things can't be handled?"

Simon glanced at Nancy: "Do you think a billionaire is easy to bully?"

Nancy curled her lips: "You have become arrogant."

"This is confidence," Simon said, raising his wrist and looking at his watch, and said unceremoniously to a small woman leaning on Sophia, "Do you go back? It just so happens that I can send a driver to send you a ride."

Nancy blinked and quickly grabbed Sophia's arm: "I plan to stay here tonight to sleep with Sophie."

Simon looked at the little woman wrapped around Sophia and said, "I'm already thinking about how to wear small shoes for you."

"You try it. At worst, I can resign. I have been in contact with me in the past two years."

"Or what if we leave the decision to Sophie?"

"Okay," Nancy said, tightening her little arm around Sophia's arm, looking at her best friend: "Sophie, do you choose me, or choose me?"

Simon protested: "Is this too tricky?"

Nancy just snorted, her bright eyes continued to look at Sophia, and showed a bit of pitiful expression.

Sophia blushed and gave a look at Simon helplessly.

"All right."

Knowing that there was no chance tonight, Simon put down the coffee cup in his hand, stood up and walked towards the two girls.

Nancy was stunned, feeling a man's tall figure pressing over, leaning over and picking up Sophia's chin and kissing her unrestrainedly. The slight shameful sound made her subconsciously shrink back and endure for a moment. Just when she could hardly help but run away, the man finally let go of Sophia and said, "Then, good night."

Sophia's voice was soft: "Well, good night, you."

Until Simon left for a while, Nancy finally opened her mouth and took a deep breath, then looked at Sophia with condemnation: "You are so letting him go."

As a woman, Sophia couldn't see the potential spark between Nancy and Simon. This best friend of hers has a strong strength that is not consistent with her appearance. The one who can move her is often a stronger man. The guy who just left happened to be this kind of person.

There was not much space to occupy in that little man's heart, and Sophia didn't want anyone to come and share it with her. However, apart from taking advantage of the situation, she did not intend to make anything too deliberately because she knew that this might backfire.

The next day is Saturday, September 11th.

Early in the morning, the New York Times announced that the U.S. Senate officially confirmed that it would hold a hearing on issues such as fraudulent information involving the 58list website of Igrit Company, endangering public safety, and disguised low-price dumping, to decide whether to conduct further investigations.

Igrit Company immediately responded positively on its portal, saying that it would try its best to cooperate with the hearing.

In the original time and space, the slackness and arrogance shown by Damen's classmates in the congressional hearing on Microsoft's monopoly issue directly led to a large-scale investigation of Microsoft's antitrust case for two years, and Microsoft was once infinitely close to being split.

In the subsequent Facebook privacy leak incident, Zuckerberg learned the lessons of his classmates at that time well and cooperated with the Congressional hearings very respectfully. A large number of lawmakers were very satisfied with Xiao Za's performance. The hearing, which had originally vowed to punish Facebook for trillions of dollars, turned into a farce that was a formality.

Although there are many other influencing factors, it is absolutely beneficial to coax a group of officials from Congress.

After all, everyone is a person who wants face.

The congressional hearing requires the head of the target company to attend, and the CEO of 58list is Michael Novarek. However, in order to show his importance to the hearing, Jeff Bezos, president of Igret, took the initiative to say on his Facebook page that he would attend the hearing and answer some possible questions from all members of the parliament.

Not only to prepare for possible problems in advance, Egret also invited a dedicated PR team and government consultants to design all the details of next week's hearing.

However, regarding the invitation from Senate Republican leader Bob Doll to hope that Simon will attend the hearing in person, Egret politely expressed his rejection on the grounds that his boss wanted to accompany his pregnant wife.

A congressional hearing is not a decent thing after all.

All the face you should give is given, but it is wrong to be arrogant.

Simon flew from New York to San Francisco on two days weekends, spent a weekend with his female assistant, and returned to Los Angeles on Monday.

Janet has already negotiated with Veronica about staying in North America.

Veronica will next be based in New York as the special financial advisor for Westeros, mainly responsible for overseeing the financial status of three companies, including AOL, Verizon Telecom and Nokia.

All three companies are in a state of rapid growth, because of their continued expansion, capital flows are very active, and senior management has great autonomy.

In this state, it is actually very dangerous to have a long-term lack of strict supervision. If you are not careful, you may have a copy of the Anron incident in Simon's memory.

After the appointment of Veronica's position was issued, the heads of the three companies called Simon in person to express their objections to varying degrees, but Simon did not make concessions. As long as the three companies did not go in the wrong direction, he would not interfere too much in the management of Steve Case and others, which does not mean that he would fully trust several executives.

On September 16, a congressional hearing on the 58list website was held in Washington as scheduled.

In fact, there were three parties in the hearing, including Senate Congressmen, executives of Igrit Company and delegations from several large American newspaper groups.

In order to avoid being taken out of context by traditional paper media to guide public opinion, Igrit Company has made the hearing live in a form of television broadcast. NBC TV Network and CNN TV will broadcast the expected three-hour hearing live.

FOX and ABC, which were originally intimate with the Westeros system, chose to refuse this time because of their own interests in the field of paper media.

Simon was not surprised by this either.

At the same time, the Igrit portal will also conduct a comprehensive live broadcast of graphics and audio of this hearing.

After more than half a year of technological upgrades, American Online has basically completed the ADSL transformation of its own network, which means that as of September, the basic network speed of the World Wide Web users with more than 26 million coverage of American Online has reached 256Kbps, which is directly doubled compared to the old-style dial-up Internet speed with a maximum of 128Kbps.

In fact, many users have enabled higher-speed 512Kbps, which is enough for web pages to play audio content in real time.

As Simon began to allow Westeros system to expand wildly, American Online, which has completed ADSL layout, will also accelerate industrial layout in other areas of the United States outside the east and west coasts.

Simon finished the three-hour hearing at Dumei Point Manor.

There was no special accident in the entire hearing, and Igret's advantages were very obvious.

Most of the old antiques in the Senate are obviously not clear about what the Internet actually means, so Michael Novarek needs to explain many issues personally.

Novarek was very patient, and these basic questions, such as what kind of services 58list provides, how the website relies on to make profits, etc., inevitably occupied most of the events in the hearing.

Although there is no shortage of sharp questions about how 58list will deal with fraud and false information, these questions were resolved one by one by Michael Novarek with careful preparation in advance.

The climax of the hearing is probably counted as a charge from representatives of several newspaper groups that have alleged that 58list websites are suspected of low-priced dumping.

The paper media believes that the free model of 58list is completely destroying the classified information advertising industry worth tens of billions of dollars in traditional paper media in a disguised low-price model. This behavior threatens the work of tens of thousands of newspaper practitioners. Moreover, once the classified information advertising business of traditional newspapers is destroyed and the market advantages of its own, 58list may charge consumers higher fees.

Igret was unwilling to give in.

It means that the launch of the 58list service actually saved the public a lot of unnecessary expenses.

It may cost $30 for users to publish a classified information advertisement in the newspaper. However, using this $30, users can not only enjoy free news, email, social network, online games and other services from Igret Company, but 58list is just one of them.

Moreover, the Igret Portal has its own business model, and its main revenue comes from merchant advertising.

This is also the basis for 58list to provide free services.

In addition, the website will not be able to charge users high fees in the future, because once this is done, other free websites of the same type will inevitably appear, and the accusations from the representatives of the newspaper group are not valid at all.

Finally, after statistics, a three-hour hearing was held, a Senate representative basically made a soy sauce, and the newspaper group representatives were completely defeated.

The more than 50 million users who were following the hearing in real time on the Internet and TV platforms, and they leaned against the Igrit Company. The newspaper group that wanted to protect their own interests became the villain of the hearing.
Chapter completed!