Chapter 262

Simon is chatting with his female assistant, and Sophia, who is also a little free, comes to them from a distance, only with a slight frown.

Noting the worry in Sophia's expression, Simon asked, "what's wrong?"

Sophia stood next to Simon, looked at the crowd on the other side of the runway, nodded and said, "Colombe pringer, the editor in chief of vogue, and I have an appointment to attend this party. In the evening, I suddenly said that I can't make it. Paris match has just called, and the 8-page "Gucci night" feature page that was originally negotiated has also been cancelled

There was music in the hall.

The runway show starts.

This is a show with the theme of Audrey Hepburn's Roman holiday. Gregory Peck, the hero of Roman holiday, who will be awarded the Cannes Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, was specially invited to attend.

Simon looked at the colorful clothes and decorations in the venue and asked, "is there anything else?"

"In recent years, several top models in the industry, Claudia Schiffer, Linda evangelinsta, Naomi Campbell and Christie Trenton, have turned down our party invitation. What's more, this party is not the most important. I'm worried that we may not be able to invite these models to participate in the fashion week in September. "

Simon was not surprised to hear Sofia talk about these situations.

The scale of the luxury industry is also limited. Gucci has vigorously rallied in recent months, and other luxury brands will naturally feel threatened.

Gucci's recovery in North America has not encountered any obstacles because of the support of danielis entertainment. However, in France, where luxury brands are clustered, it is obvious that local leaders such as Dior, Chanel, Hermes and Louis Vuitton will not allow Gucci, an outsider, to make a name for himself in his own territory.

Waving to the passing waiters, Simon served two glasses of red wine to the two women beside him, and then continued to say to Sophia, "so, what are you going to do?"

Sophia took a sip of the wine, thought about it and said, "if it's just the French side, it's not a big problem."

"You take care of the media. As for the fashion week in September, I've just seen Cindy Crawford and Helena Christensen. If those supermodels you mentioned don't want to join our show, you can find someone else. It's impossible that all models don't want to. What's more, it's just to increase the exposure. At that time, we can invite more stars. The effect is the same. This is just our advantage. "

As they chatted, the catwalk over there ended, followed by a charity auction.

The auction items are a batch of the latest Gucci satchels carried by the models on the catwalk, and the money will be donated to a charity dedicated to solving the famine problem in Africa. Simon didn't know the name of the organization. He felt that the direction was right, so he spent 200000 dollars to shoot a delicate white satchel.

The charity auction is over and tonight's party is coming to an end.

Although some French media temporarily cancelled the cooperation with Gucci, a large number of European media reported the grand Gucci night activity early the next morning.

Simon knows the mission of his mascot.

If you just show your face at the party and don't bring any benefits to the guests who come to him, others won't show up next time. Therefore, some entertainment media also timely appeared that Simon westero and some stars had a good talk at the Gucci night party, and the two sides may cooperate.

It's not just a gimmick to make such a noise.

Simon had a similar idea when he was shooting Batman in Melbourne.

Hollywood will expand all over the world in the next few years, which will inevitably cause resistance from overseas film markets.

If daenerys entertainment can invest in making a batch of overseas films every year, it can not only enrich its own film library resources, but also win the favor of European, Australian and even Asian filmmakers. Moreover, mastering a large number of film projects will not only affect the career prospects of many filmmakers, but also bring a kind of hidden power to danielis entertainment.

In addition, compared with those film investors who often lose all their money, Simon's advantages of being a prophet of two generations can also ensure that he can select projects that can bring profits relatively accurately.

Danielis entertainment is still in the accumulation stage, and Simon is not eager for this plan.

However, the Australian branch's investment in Peter Jackson's new film and the signing of a few more directors this time will be equivalent to planning ahead of time for this project.

After completing his mascot mission, Simon left Cannes and flew to Geneva, the border of France and Switzerland.

Geneva is the second largest city in Switzerland, where CERN, a joint venture of more than 20 countries, is located.

Tim Berners Lee was a computer engineer at the Institute.

Coincidentally, Simon had the idea of looking for Tim Berners Lee, just stepped on a very precise point in time.According to Simon's information, Tim Berners Lee submitted a project plan to CERN senior management for the first time in March this year, proposing to connect the computers of all laboratories in the institute through Hypertext Technology. Once the project is completed, it can even be further extended to the whole world.

Tim Berners Lee's proposal received a lot of support. However, because CERN is a physics research organization, the senior management of CERN did not approve the project. However, Li didn't give up. After two months' preparation for the proposal, he was preparing to submit his proposal again recently, and Simon took the initiative to find the door.

Simon first found each other through a paper on hypertext markup language published by Tim Berners Lee.

When she came to Europe, after making an appointment with Tim Berners Lee, her revised plan was transferred directly to Simon.

Sad to say, Tim Berners Lee, known as the father of the Internet in the industry, has been fighting for months. Most of the budget is just for a next computer worth 6500 dollars.

Yes, it's the high-performance personal computer that jobs developed for universities and research institutions after he left apple.

The city of Geneva is surrounded by the vast south end of Geneva.

As the most livable city in Europe, Simon will not miss Geneva in the process of purchasing real estate. He lives on more than three acres on the scenic Lake Geneva in the northern suburbs of the city and owns a private pier.

Arriving in Geneva on the morning of the weekend, Simon spent the next three days talking with Tim Berners Lichang about various ideas about the Internet.

Tuesday, May 23.

After finishing work in Cannes, Sophia came from Cannes in the afternoon. Walking into the living room of the villa in this lakeside mansion, she saw Simon and a middle-aged man in his thirties standing in front of a white board, talking quickly. The white board was full of various nouns and symbols that she could not understand.

There are all kinds of books and materials everywhere in the living room, as well as two open computers. Although the arrangement of these things is not messy, it is incompatible with the luxury decoration around.

Jennifer is looking after a printer that keeps spitting out information by the sofa.

Sophia noticed her figure and understood why the basic order could still be maintained in the living room.

He went over and said hello to the female assistant. Simon saw her coming, but he just gave a sign in his eyes and continued to discuss with the middle-aged man.

"Creating such a website can be used to list the sites joining the Internet, so that users can more intuitively retrieve the contents of the Internet. In addition, we can also provide forum services through this website for users to communicate in all aspects. Of course, we can add more service content later, such as search, such as communication and so on. "

"In your opinion, Simon, we must continue to promote commercialization, or we will not be able to support the operation of such a website. We have been discussing this issue for three days. I don't resist commercialization, but if so, there will be competitors joining in to create different standards, which will lead to the split of the Internet. This is not in line with our goal of connecting the world. "

"Anyone with a little foresight can see that the split of the network is not in everyone's interest. Even if that happens, all parties will definitely compromise in the end. And, Tim, I think we have the ability to avoid that because we don't have competitors yet. It's like building a road. If many people realize a goal and start building roads at the same time, there will be many different roads for their own interests. But now we are the only ones who want to build this road. If we can build the road before other people react and provide a certain degree of free passage, I believe there should be few people willing to spend money and effort to build another road. "

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Sophia listens to Simon's conversation, and curiously picks up a piece of information that Jennifer has just sorted out.

Looking down, this is a development plan of literal script language. Patiently read a few pages, roughly understand that this scripting language is used to increase the dynamic function of HTML pages.

As for what is an HTML web page, Sophia also knows a little.

Simon and Li continued their discussion for more than an hour, and they didn't stop until the white board was full of notes and it was near evening.

After a formal introduction to Sophia, Tim Berners Lee left the lakeside villa with a thick document compiled by Jennifer. After three days of discussion, he has confirmed many things with Simon, and promised Simon to quit his job as soon as possible and go to North America to preside over the operation of the new company to be established.

Ygritte。

This is the name of a network technology company Simon is going to set up.

Ygritte, ygritte.

Or Simon thinks the translation of "igritte" is more pleasing to the eye.After "Denise", "melisandro" and "cersei", igritte will become the fourth "woman" of westero.

Simon has even come up with a slogan similar to Google's "don't be evil" for the company.

It's a slogan with some bad taste.

That's right.

‘You-know-nothing！’

In the future, there is absolutely no need to take off such a slogan because you want to do evil.

As for the meaning, when igritte company rises, people full of romantic fantasy spirit will certainly be able to give all kinds of implied philosophical interpretations. Simon would never make it clear that it was just some red haired savage criticizing her lover's dullness.

In the determined plan, Simon will invest $10 million and hold 90% of igritte. As head of the company, Simon gives Tim Berners Lee a 10% stake. According to the investment ratio, the 10% shares are worth millions of dollars.

Moreover, as long as igritte can develop to the scale expected by Simon, although Tim Berners Lee's shares will be diluted in the later financing process, it will definitely be a huge fortune in the future.

According to the plan discussed in the previous three days, Tim Berners Lee will quit CERN and go to San Francisco to preside over the establishment and operation of igritte.

Simon wants igritte to be based in Los Angeles, but that's not rational. Relying on Silicon Valley, this company can get the technology and talent support it wants more easily.

The first step of igrit after its establishment will be to complete the creation of various network standards based on Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), and apply for a complete set of Internet technology patents in advance, just like the layout of Qualcomm in the 3G era.

Simon doesn't intend to build patent barriers to collect money, at least in the early days of the development of the Internet. The purpose of building patent barriers is to take the initiative as much as possible after the rise of the Internet era.

While improving the technical standards, igrit will also launch the development of two kinds of software, one for web design, for the developer community, and the other is a graphical interface browser, for ordinary users.

These two tools will become the sharpest weapons for igritte to seize the opportunity of the Internet era.

In Simon's plan, the graphical interface browser will always be free, and the web design software will be free in the early stage, and may be divided into ordinary free version and professional fee version in the later stage according to the situation.

In the course of their discussion, Tim Berners Lee agreed on a business model to make profits by selling software and maintain igritte's operation. Limited by the limitations of the times, Tim Berners Lee was obviously unpredictable. Simon casually mentioned the plan of creating a website directory, which was the top priority of his plan.

, the most famous website directory in the early days of Internet development, was named YAHOO. At the peak of the Internet bubble, the company had a market value of more than 100 billion dollars.

Moreover, compared with the rapid decline of Yahoo after the Internet 1.0 era, Simon has set a sustainable development path for ygritte portal. Simon can't be more clear about the huge development potential of instant messaging, e-mail and search engine.

Even if igrit falls into a big company's dilemma in the future and can't flexibly realize the transformation, Simon, who can clearly judge the development trend of the industry, can continue his layout in the Internet industry by investing in other technology enterprises.