Whether it is Tinkobaier or Broadcast, they are actually absolutely controlled by the Westeros system.

When Claire heard Simon talk about the IPO, he said in confusion: "Boss, I think that as long as you agree to this matter, there is no need to IPO to Tinkobaier."

The main purpose of most IPOs is to raise funds.

However, for Tinkobaier, although it has not been established for a long time, the company has begun to generate stable cash flow sufficient for the next stage of expansion by relying on the hot sales of a series of products. Even if financing is really needed, it is very convenient to use debt financing now.

The most important thing is that it is not cost-effective to conduct an IPO on Tinkobaier now.

Tinkobaier has maintained a performance growth of more than 100% for two consecutive years, and the revenue growth rate in the first few months of this year showed no sign of slowing down. In addition, the newly launched digital music player iPlayer has quickly gained market recognition. It can be said that, like Igret, the later the company conducts an IPO, the higher the valuation it can obtain.

A short-term IPO is equivalent to selling at a low price.

Claire also knew this and mentioned the Broadcast matter to Simon, just hoping that his boss would promote the private merger of the two companies, and did not intend to let Tinkobaier go public.

Simon just shook his head and said, "Of course there are other reasons, C, are you satisfied with Tinkobaier now?"

Girl C suddenly showed a nice smile: "To be honest, boss, when I first started, I didn't think that Tinkobaier could grow to its current scale, so I was really satisfied."

Simon was speechless.

Claire chuckled softly.

After joking, Simon picked up the coffee next to him and took a sip of it, then picked up the sunglasses and put them on to cover the afternoon sun on the terrace, saying, "Actually, it's not just Broadcast, I also hope that Tinkobaier can acquire Apple in the past two years."

Girl C was a little surprised: "Boss, Apple's current decline is very obvious, and..." Speaking of this, Claire suddenly understood something, sat up slightly, and looked at Simon: "Boss, do you want to support Apple and the operating system that Egret quietly developed, competing with Microsoft?"

After a period of disputes, Igrit has officially reached an agreement with Microsoft to pre-install IE browser on the overseas version of Windows. However, both in the circle and in the media, there are also signs of conflict between Microsoft and Westeros. Recently, there are quite a lot of signs related to it all year round.

Being in this circle, Claire naturally felt it deeper. When Simon mentioned Apple, she quickly reacted.

Simon did not deny it, and nodded directly, saying, "Not only compete with Microsoft, Apple also has a lot of things that both Igrit and Tinkobaier need very much."

Girl C followed up this time: "Patent?"

This is the result of Simon's long-term report on his life.

A long time ago, when Tinkobaier was just established, Simon emphasized the importance of patents to C Girl more than once. In the entire Westeros system, almost all companies have special departments responsible for applying for various brand trademarks and patent technologies in the United States and around the world.

The effect is remarkable.

Simon nodded again and said, "Yes, patents, because they were developed earlier than Microsoft, Apple has a large number of core patents related to operating systems. Only by obtaining these patents can we successfully launch another operating system platform, which can ensure that the Internet ecosystem of Westeros system is not restricted by the Windows system. In fact, as Microsoft's second largest shareholder, I do not want to develop the second operating system that competes with Windows. It's just because of the cover.

Not only does Ts not want Microsoft to integrate into the Westeros system, but also has a very hostile attitude towards us. I can only do this. However, even if a personal computer with Linux system is launched, its market share will not be too high in the future, and it will not become the core business of Igrit and Tinkobaier. In the final analysis, this is just an insurance policy, an insurance that Microsoft fears. I want Gates to understand that if Microsoft cannot support the Westeros system's Internet ecosystem well, it will only drive users to our Linux platform."

The C girl knows very well that her boss has played a crucial role in it. Over the years, watching the rapid rise of the Westeros system, Claire has almost blind trust in her boss. After listening to Simon's explanation, Claire said directly: "Then, boss, have I started preparing for the IPO in the near future?"

Simon tapped his fingers on the wooden bracket of the recliner, shook his head slightly and said, "In this way, you discuss the acquisition of Broadcast with Jeff and others first. Although I can make a decision directly, this matter still needs to be coordinated by Igret, and the New York Times Group. After all, they are also important shareholders of Broadcast. When you complete the merger, you will start the IPO."

Claire turned to his side on his recliner and confirmed, "Boss, do you agree?"

Simon is not a person who lacks decision.

Whether it is to keep Broadcast's solemn operation and become a large online audio sales platform for all digital music player markets in the future, or to integrate it into Tinkobaier to maintain the market advantages of iPlayer to the greatest extent, it is a very good choice.

But things can't be done in the end.

Moreover, if you want to realize the previous plan, you don’t know which day you have to wait. There will be many changes in the meantime, but the latter is right in front of you, so it is not difficult to make a choice.

The merger of the two companies will also maximize the Internet attributes of Tinkobaier and will help future IPO valuations.

Simon agreed to the question of Girl C and said: "Although that's the case, you have to face more challenges in the future. Before that, my original intention was to concentrate all major record giants around the world on the Broadcast platform and build it into the only online genuine audio sales platform for all digital music players. Because Broadcast does not belong to any hardware company, the difficulty of this matter is relatively low. Now, once you merge, it will be difficult to obtain authorization from the record company. Just like Sony, in order to protect Walkman's interests, they will definitely not easily sell music on the Broadcast platform for sale."

Girl C blinked: "Boss, do you think there will be a second digital music player manufacturer that can compete with Tinkobaier?"

Simon smiled and said, "This is certain. I know you have created a very strong patent barrier. However, in this regard, we cannot compare to the accumulation of veteran manufacturers such as Sony. With the hot sales situation of iPlayer this month, as long as other manufacturers are not stupid, they will definitely start developing the same type of products as soon as possible."

In history, iPod was launched in 2001. It was not until 2005 that Jobs opened this MP3 player to platforms such as Windows under pressure from all parties, which eventually led to the explosion of iPod sales. However, at that time, iPod actually missed the excellent period of monopolizing the market. Major digital music player manufacturers around the world have successively launched related products, and there is a larger number of counterfeit assembly markets.

Moreover, the era of smartphones has arrived soon, and traditional feature phones have also begun to integrate MP3 functions on a large scale, resulting in the rapid elimination of MP3 players by the market.

The result is that the dominant iPod is actually just a few years since 2005. This is because the arrival of the new era has hit other manufacturers' enthusiasm for developing MP3 players. Even so, the market share of iPod has dropped to about 60% after 2006.

It's different now.

Although Moore's Law's semiconductor performance double cycle is very short, it will take time after all. This means that from 1995 to 2005, there will be at least 10 years. Due to the performance of semiconductor chips, electronic manufacturers cannot integrate digital cameras, digital music players and other products. It is not that they cannot do it, but that the performance is difficult to meet the standards and the cost will be very expensive. This makes digital music players such as iPlayer, which have a relatively single function, have a prosperous period of at least ten years.

In ten years, even if Tinkobaier is strong and under the trend of huge profits, there will inevitably be competitors who will spare no effort to explore this market.

Girl C plans to merge with Broadcast mainly to gain more initiative in content.

After hearing Simon say this, and combined with the man's other plan just now, he realized that he did not think about the long-term as his boss had.

Simon looked at the expression of the C girl and said, "Actually, there is another point that the popularity of iPlayer should be similar to the VCD I planned to promote in China, and it mainly relies on pirated resources. You should have felt this in recent times. In fact, it is better to hand over the Broadcast to you, so that you can block the mouths of those record companies to the greatest extent. Of course, it's enough for everyone to know this, and don't say it out."

Girl C nodded with a little smirk, as if she had done something bad with her boss, and said, "However, Sony has already protested against us."

Simon smiled and said, "Sony is the least qualified to do this. When Hollywood sued Sony, they won in the end. If Sony initiated the same lawsuit against us, their own case would be taken as a precedent. Of course, in my opinion, the main role of piracy should be to force those record companies to authorize Broadcast to sell genuine music resources. You must remember this. At the right time, Igret and Tinkobaier will also actively jointly combat Internet piracy resources. C, you must understand that copyright is the foundation of the entertainment industry. If we do not respect this, then the proliferation of piracy will destroy the entire entertainment industry. At that time, hardware companies like Tinkobaier, which are dependent on the entertainment industry, will only die."

Claire nodded solemnly and said to write it down.

The two continued chatting, and they stood up from the terrace together as it was about two o'clock in the afternoon.

Claire left first to go to Tinkobaier's headquarters to continue working in the afternoon. Simon came to the master bedroom of the villa. The butler was still sleeping. He noticed the movements around him. He woke up keenly and sat up. His fair face was still blushing, like the first awakening of spring begonia.

Simon walked over and gently pushed the girl down on the bed again. He also lay beside him, holding his head with one hand to look at the cold beauty in front of him, and asked with a smile: "Is it a good feeling to be lazy?"

Perhaps because she just woke up, the butler's temperament was less popular, but more charming. She turned her head slightly and looked at Simon, with a solicitation in her tone: "I should go to work."

Simon couldn't help it, so he leaned over and kissed the girl on the lips, and then said, "Let's go together later."

Alice just nodded softly and continued to look at the man who was close to her.

Because Simon's personal advice, under Claire and his "accomplice for the tiger", the current female housekeeper's working hours are controlled within 10 hours every day, and they are required to rest on weekends. Although this working rhythm is still beyond the normal working hours of most Westerners, it is nothing in Silicon Valley, and girls are forced to learn to delegate power as much as possible to hand over their work to others.

Alice is not a ungrateful person, she knows very well that men are doing her good.

No one can support long-term high-intensity work. What's more, even if you are unwilling to admit it, women are not as physically as men.

Moreover, after maintaining the working rhythm of Zhang Chi, the development of Amazon Online Mall has not been affected. After letting go of work, the female housekeeper also has more time to think about all aspects of e-commerce, and at the same time, he increasingly realizes the correctness of the man's advice to those who are good at it.

If any enterprise is small in scale, it is no problem to do everything by itself. However, if it wants to grow and grow, doing everything by itself will only have a counterproductive effect.

The e-commerce business of Igret is now very large.

If you cannot hand over as much work as possible to professionals, the result of this part of the business will either collapse or stop.

During this period, I got the stock reward I deserved and suddenly had a huge net worth of more than $2 billion, far exceeding the boldest goal I once set. Alice began to feel a little confused. On the big bed in the bedroom, she looked at the man for a moment, and Alice finally asked softly: "Boss, you already have so much, why are you still working hard?"

Simon was slightly stunned and smiled again: "I want to talk about life, I like this."

As he said that, he simply kicked off his leather shoes and changed himself to a more comfortable position.

Alice rolled her eyes lightly, and moved to the side, but her eyes were still inquiring.

Simon lay beside the girl, feeling the smell of a woman, reached out and stroked her smooth face, and asked with a smile: "Do you feel that you already have so much money and feel that your life is confused?"

Alice hesitated slightly, but nodded slightly.

However, just waiting for a long speech by the man, the other party's heavy body was pressing over. Before he fell, he only heard a hateful guy talking about his preference for men and women to talk about the last step in life.

It was not until four o'clock in the afternoon that the two finally left the Bay Villa and came to the nearby Igret headquarters to start work.

The butler got an answer from Simon.

When you feel confused about life, set a goal for yourself, in the next year, a month, a day, or even an hour, and try to achieve it, and try to make it happen. Moreover, this goal does not have to be so-called hard work, it can be any sudden thought in your mind, drinking a glass of water, folding a paper plane, reading a poem, cleaning your desk, learning a painting technique, and taking a journey that goes without saying a word.

Perhaps in the long and long future, when you recall the past, you will feel that your life is at least very fulfilling.

Just like an ant.

Dedicated to devote your life to the instinct in the gene, and when death comes, there will be no regrets.

Ultimately, with the vast scale of the universe, there is no difference between a human life and an ant's life. When encountering confusion and confusion, instead of thinking about life in vain, it is better to let yourself live more fulfillingly.
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