Rachel Weisz hadn't finished eating a piece of bread yet, and the glass door leading to the terrace in the living room was pushed open with a bang.

The two women looked up together.

Seeing the two beautiful girls in the room, the students in the door were slightly moved, and their faces changed a few times, as if they wanted to restrain their disobedience in their expressions. They quickly gave up and continued to keep their anger through the room and left.

After a while, Simon pushed the door open and didn't mean to send his classmates to the door. He nodded slightly to Rachel at the dining table and walked to the corner of Kate Beckinsale's lying on the couch.

Kate put down the magazine in his hand, held up his body and climbed along the sofa to the other end with a little seductive look. Seeing the man reaching out, he lay down with his head on Simon's legs, gently pressing the man to caress the big hand on her delicate face, and asked with a smile: "What happened just now?"

Simon smiled and said, "It's obvious that the negotiations have broken down."

Kate then smiled: "Then why are you still so happy? Mr. Gates looked very angry just now."

Simon's fingertips slid from Kate's smooth face toward her neck, saying, "Although the negotiations broke down, I was actually bullying him. You know, I always feel good after bullying people."

Kate symbolically blocked the man's movements, and also heard some other meanings from his words, and said in a kind of intimate tone of lovers: "You are such a bad guy."

Simon looked at the beautiful eyes of the British rose and said, "I'm going back to California soon. Do you go back with me, or do you want to play here for a few days?"

"So anxious, today is Saturday?"

Kate was a little surprised and almost wanted to sit up.

I had no resistance to this legendary man. Last night, although a guy became stronger, he actually gave her a very good feeling. He also wanted to take advantage of this weekend to get along better, at least he had to become his lover first. Perhaps it is not impossible to achieve a certain goal in the future.

Simon said: "There are a lot of things, so you must set off immediately. This way, you and Rachel can play in Seattle for a few days. The cherry blossoms in this city will be in full bloom soon. It's very beautiful."

Kaite nodded, and seemed a little uncertain: "Simon, can we continue to live here?"

Simon smiled and said, "Of course, I will leave a few people for you to be drivers and wallets. You can do whatever you want and buy whatever you want."

"Thank you, Simon, you're so considerate," Kate sat up with Simon's arm, kissed the man's face, and said, "So, when will we see you again next time?"

"This should be very fast."

Simon said, with his arm withdrawn from Kate's arms, stood up and said, "Since that's the case, I'll leave first."

Rachel Weizi, who had never had the chance to speak, finally realized that the two of them were about to walk out, and subconsciously stood up and followed. The followers outside had packed up and waited for departure, and kept sending the man to the small dock by the lake. Seeing him boarding the speedboat and heading towards the airport across the lake, he blinked his eyes a few times.

Did you promise anything?

Domineering guy.

She never said she would stay in Seattle, let alone with Kate Beckinsale.

I had a grudge last night.

When the speedboat quickly arrived across the lake, Kait pulled Rachel beside him: "Hey, I'm back, are you still reluctant to leave?"

"Where do I have it," Rachel subconsciously denied it, and said, "and, I didn't say I wanted to stay, he just made the decision for me."

Kate slanted her and showed a contemptuous expression: "Then why didn't you say it just now?"

Rachel argued: "He didn't give me a chance to speak."

"The mouth is on you, and Simon has not put tape on it," Kate said again, then waved his hand, hugged her shoulder and dragged it to the villa: "Okay, sisters, we just need to carefully plan what to do in the next few days. You heard that there are drivers and wallets."

"I think this is not good."

Rachel frowned slightly and said softly.

When we first met yesterday, Rachel had a good impression of Kate, generous and straightforward, and good at getting along with others. She had high IQ and EQ, and was a fellow British fellow. However, after a day and a night, she gradually disliked her, played too much, was a bit wealth-worshipful, and was not good at taking care of others' feelings. She did not hide her words and deeds at all... Well, she coveted her, and even didn't care at all about the fact that the other party was a married man.

Back at the villa, Rachel continued to be pulled by Kate to the study room with a computer, and began to search and plan the schedule for the next few days according to the information on the Internet. By chance, through the study window, he saw a Boeing 767 flying into the sky at the airport across the lake, but he still did not propose to leave.

Then Rachel couldn't help feeling in her heart that she probably wanted to stay.

All right.

I am also a hypocritical woman.

Don't care.

He made up his mind so self-deprecating that the two girls went out to find a famous restaurant to have a meal at noon, and started having fun, shopping everywhere in the afternoon. Anyway, a man paid the bill, and that guy had too much money to spend it all, so he let go of his hands and feet for the first time in his life.

Of course, both women are very smart people.

At the same time, he quietly set his spending limit to around 100,000 US dollars.

Even if you understand that adding another zero is irrelevant to someone, you need to have self-knowledge.

If a man takes the initiative to give, even if it is Beverly's mansion, Kate is willing to accept it. Rachel will probably struggle to accept it. Now it is the man who asks them to take it by themselves. If he doesn't know how to control himself, he will have an IQ problem.

Moreover, both women can only be regarded as third-tier actresses in Hollywood at present, with 100,000 US dollars, which is already a lot of money for them.

Kate returned to the UK last year to shoot a thriller "Murdering Step by Step". The heroine is still very large. Given her qualifications in the circle, her salary is still only 30,000 pounds.

The glamorousness of the entertainment industry has always been the glamorousness of few people at the top.

This is why countless people are willing to sell everything they have to climb up in every way.

After investing in Microsoft for so many years, until her meeting with Damen classmates on March 11, Simon has always been looking forward to the software giant becoming a part of the Westeros system.

Microsoft, Intel, Igrit, Cisco, American Online, Oracle, SUN and other companies work closely together, and the Westeros system is enough to completely control the global information industry.

Unfortunately, this idea failed to come true.

Simon just regretted this, but was not too disappointed.

People's hearts are unpredictable.

The more outstanding or self-deserving a person is, the more he would rather have a chicken head than an ox tail.

Even if you understand that everyone can maximize the benefits of cooperation, some people are more inclined to take absolute initiative on their own land. Even if they have a little harvest, a little difficulty in development, or even accidentally decline, they are unwilling to accept that they are nominally becoming vassals of others.

The former Soviet Union fell apart because of this.

Ukraine, who inherited the large legacy of the former Soviet Union and also got rid of a large group of burdens that needed to be helped. It could have relied on its profound background in industry and agriculture to become a "mini Soviet Union" in Simon's memory, fell to the poorest destruction of Europe. Too many people were either in conflict with their own interests or were bound by public opinion for various reasons. In short, they could not make the best choice for this country.

Bill Gates is a very proud person.

As Windows' monopoly advantage in the operating system field becomes more and more obvious, the software tycoon is increasingly resistant to becoming a part of a certain business system. Even if he understands that this will have many benefits for Microsoft, his classmates are more willing to keep the company firmly in his hands, and probably have the ambition to directly compete with the Westeros system in his heart.

At the meeting on the morning of March 11, Simon was sure that there was no room for some things to turn around, so he completely let go of the idea of ​​making Microsoft a member of the Westeros system.

Speaking of which, it is actually not bad to have such an enemy.

The Westeros system actually requires opponents, which not only maintains the enterprising spirit within the company, but also avoids the outside world's fear of various companies in the Westeros system.

However, just as many major powers in this world are clearly actually hostile relations, there is still very extensive economic cooperation on the surface, even if the positions are completely opposed, the cooperation between Microsoft and the Westeros system will not stop.

Because both sides have bargaining chips that depend on each other and restrict each other.

Just like back then, Apple was at its peak. Faced with the threat of Gates stopping supplying office software, it could only allow the other party to develop a separate operating system and then raise a tiger.

Microsoft's current advantages in the operating system field are just like Apple back then, and the comprehensive strength of the Westeros system is even stronger.

After Saturday's meeting, Simon did not expect the students from the gate to take the initiative to compromise. He quickly contacted the spokesperson of the Westeros system on the Microsoft board of directors and some other shareholders and executives of Microsoft. Even if Microsoft is Gates's one-man show in daily life, facing Simon's ultimatum, I believe Microsoft knows how to choose.

Not only that, the next day, on March 12, Igret Company suddenly released its full-year financial report for 1994.

After the Daenerys Entertainment Group's fiscal year cycle was listed last year, according to the Hollywood entertainment industry's off-peak season rules, it was set from October of the previous year to September of the second year. This boundary happened to be the end of the summer season and the opening of the TV autumn season. This setting is more conducive to financial statistics in all aspects, and even tax avoidance effects.

Before Igret went public, financial statistics were still conducted according to natural year.

As expected, after listing, Egret's fiscal year cycle will still be calculated based on natural year.

This is off-topic.

Even though there were many speculations and estimates in advance, when Igret actually released its full-year financial report for 1994, it still caused a sensation in the entire media industry.

Igret's annual revenue data of $5.41 billion last year was already amazing.

This year, when Igrit's revenue data of up to US$11.67 billion for the whole year appeared on major online platforms and a series of mainstream newspapers in North America, many people even questioned it as soon as possible, believing that this is likely to be a false financial data made by Igrit to obtain a higher IPO valuation.

$11.67 billion!

How is that possible?

However, after carefully reading the detailed financial report data published on many platforms, everyone had to accept it.

First of all, the advertising business that contributed the largest revenue to Igrit in the past year

Compared with the $1.15 billion in advertising revenue in 1993, all new technology companies have begun to burn money in the past year, and even traditional companies have begun to pay attention to the marketing of Internet platforms. The total revenue of the four major online advertising platforms of Igret's portal, social network, search engine and advertising alliance reached an astonishing US$3.21 billion, with a growth rate of up to 179%.

E-commerce business.

Amazon Online Mall's annual revenue in 1994 was US$2.59 billion, which was nearly doubled compared with US$1.36 billion in 1993.

Under the radical expansion strategy of a workaholic female housekeeper, the gross profit margin of e-commerce is far lower than that of other businesses, coupled with huge technological research and development, channel construction, advertising and marketing, and even large-scale subsidy investment in order to enable users to form online consumption habits, the single department of e-commerce business suffered as much as US$710 million.

However, no one can ignore the high growth potential of this business and the broad market potential far exceeding software, advertising and other businesses.

Software and advertising are more inclined to corporate users after all, but e-commerce is aimed at all public. The most typical reference is the scale comparison between traditional paper media and TV advertising and the retail industry.

Amazon in the original time and space gradually became the overlord of the e-commerce field with a steady development strategy. However, in Simon's view, Bezos's stability also had to do so, because Amazon had just begun to move to the fast lane and encountered the bursting of the Internet bubble, and its market value once fell by 90%. In the critical years of Amazon's rapid growth, there was no such much money for Bezos to burn wildly.

Simon initially also hoped that Egret's e-commerce business would grow steadily.

After all, things went against my wishes.

Every manager has his own style of doing things, and Simon cannot directly call Bezos, who has begun to control the overall situation, to replace Alice in charge of e-commerce business.

However, the result is pretty good.
To be continued...