Chapter 790

Rachel Vicky had not finished a piece of bread when the glass door from the living room to the terrace slammed open.

The two women looked up together.

Seeing the two beautiful girls in the room and the fierce front door, the students moved slightly and changed their faces quickly. It seemed that they wanted to restrain their gaffes and gave up quickly. They continued to walk through the room in anger and left.

A moment later, Simon pushed the door in, didn't mean to see her classmates off. He nodded slightly to Rachel at the table, went to a corner of Kate Beckinsale's reclining couch and sat down.

Kate put down her magazine, lifted herself up and crawled to the other end of the sofa. She saw the man reach over and lie on his back with his head resting on Simon's leg. She gently pressed the man's big hand on her delicate face and asked with a smile, "what just happened?"

Simon said with a smile: "obviously, the negotiation has broken down."

Kate followed with a smile: "then why are you so happy? Mr. Gates was very angry just now. "

Simon fingertips from Kate's smooth face to her neck, said: "although the negotiation broke down, but in fact I am bullying him, you know, after bullying people always in a good mood."

Kate symbolically blocked the man's action, but also from his words to hear some other meaning, with a lover's intimate tone slightly angry way: "you are really a bad guy."

Simon looked into the beautiful eyes of the British rose and said, "I'm going back to California soon. Will you come back with me or stay here for a few days?"

"In such a hurry, today is Saturday?"

Kate was so surprised that she almost wanted to sit up.

There was no resistance to this legendary man. Last night, although a guy was a little stronger, she felt very good. She wanted to get along with him further this weekend, at least to become his lover first. Maybe, it's not impossible to achieve a certain goal in the future.

Simon said: "there are so many things that we have to start right away. Well, you and Rachel can spend a few days in Seattle. The cherry blossoms in this city will be blooming soon. It's very beautiful. "

Kate nodded, as if unsure: "Simon, can we stay here?"

Simon said with a smile: "of course, I'll leave a few people as drivers and wallets for you. You can go anywhere you want and buy anything you want."

"Thank you, Simon. It's very thoughtful of you," Kate sat up with Simon's arm in her hand, gave him a kiss on the face, and said, "so, when can we see you again?"

"This should be quick."

Simon said, taking his arm out of Kate's arms, stood up and said, "in that case, I'll go first."

Rachel Vichy, who has never had a chance to speak, finally reacts when she sees that they are going to walk out and subconsciously stands up to keep up. The entourage outside had already packed up and waited to start. He took the man to the small dock by the lake and watched him board the speedboat and go to the airport on the other side of the lake. Then he blinked a few times.

Did you promise anything?

A bully.

She didn't say she would stay in Seattle, much less with Kate Beckinsale.

Last night it was a grudge.

When the speedboat arrived on the other side of the lake, Katla pulled Rachel beside her: "Hey, you're back. You can't bear it?"

"I don't know," Rachel subconsciously denied, adding, "besides, I didn't say I was going to stay, so he decided for me."

Kate tilted her disdainful expression: "then why didn't you just say that?"

"He didn't give me a chance to talk," Rachel argued

"It's on you, and Simon doesn't have any tape on it," Kate added. Then she put her hand around her shoulder and dragged her to the villa. "OK, sister, now we just need to plan how to play in the next few days, but you hear, there are drivers and wallets."

"I don't think that's good."

Rachel frowned and murmured.

When we met yesterday, Rachel was very fond of Kate. She was generous and straightforward, and she was good at getting along with people. She had a high IQ and EQ, and she was a British fellow. However, after a day and a night, I gradually disliked it. I played too much and was a little money worshipper. I didn't take care of other people's feelings. I didn't hide my love for a guy in my words and deeds Well, covet, even completely ignore the fact that the other party is a married man.

Back at the villa, Rachel continues to be led by Katra to the study with a computer installed. She starts to plan her schedule for the next few days according to the information on the Internet. By chance, through the window of the study, she sees a Boeing 767 flying into the sky at the airport on the other side of the great lake. After all, she still doesn't propose to leave.

Then Rachel couldn't help feeling that she wanted to stay.

All right.

I am also a hypocritical woman.

Whatever.The two women decided to go out to a famous restaurant for lunch. In the afternoon, they began to play around and go shopping. Anyway, a man paid the bill, and that guy had too much money to spend. In my life, the Internet industry never lacked ideas.

Before Uber, a travel giant, appeared, many people had already come up with similar project planning. However, most of the solutions are hindered by one of the key difficulties, that is, how to let users get rid of the traditional travel habits and use the online taxi service.

In the end, people just find that poverty limits people's imagination.

The sharing giant's solution to this is very simple and crude.

Subsidies.

Frantically burning money to subsidize.

It is found that this strategy is actually effective. All Internet enterprises, whether new or old, whether sharing or e-commerce, have started a new round of subsidy war one after another. At that time, red envelopes are flying all over the world, and the giants have also unconsciously reaped a large number of users.

When consumption habits are formed and subsidies disappear, users can no longer get rid of their dependence on these services.

Simon opened the Internet era ahead of time by sparing no effort to invest, and basically relied on throwing money. In order to promote its own network services, AOL also used a large-scale subsidy scheme.

It's just that I didn't think much about it at that time.

It is Alice's radical expansion strategy that makes Simon see the shadow of the money burning war in the future.

At this stage, with sufficient funds and complete conditions in all aspects, it is not impossible for Simon to directly spend money to promote the rapid expansion of e-commerce market.

At the end of last year, in the process of planning for the development of the enterprise in the new year, Simon personally approved the expansion plan of igritte's e-commerce business in 1995, which lost 1 billion US dollars, most of which will be used as product discounts and transportation cost subsidies directly for users.

Online shopping is actually addictive.

After I get used to it, I can't change it.

As long as users form habits, all the investment will be doubled in the future.

After e-commerce, another important software business, as the types of Internet related software of igrit continued to increase in the past year, this year's free ie enterprise service fee revenue was also included. Igrit's software business revenue in 1994 totaled 1.99 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 145%.

For one thing, igritte is no less than Microsoft, which had a total revenue of $5.63 billion in the last fiscal year.

In my memory, Microsoft's later operating system business was gradually marginalized. On the contrary, it seemed insignificant to ordinary people. Office revenue gradually accounted for as much as one third of the enterprise's revenue. Therefore, we can see the strong vitality of application software. Moreover, the later strength of office largely depends on the subscription mode gradually turning to the cloud.

Igrit's Internet tool software matrix has now realized the transformation from selling out to subscription.

In the past year, in addition to the Three Musketeers on the web and the image design software ygritte Photoshop, the embedded browser playback software ygritte flash player, and the video editing software ygritte For key products such as VideoStudio, igritte software department has also successively launched some other professional software closely related to Internet services, such as audio editing, network document, typesetting design, through its own R & D and merger and acquisition.

Moreover, in order to avoid the emergence of other 3D software in the industry, Simon has decided to hand over the 3D modeling and animation software Maya used by Denise special effects and Pixar studio to igritte software department for transformation, development and commercial operation. Of course, the functions of the public version will certainly be limited. Simon's another purpose is to promote the development of 3D games.

With the rapid improvement of basic software and hardware performance, it is the embryonic stage of 3D games.

Compared with animation and special effects, the market scale of 3D software in the game field is larger.

In addition to the software business, YWS data center business, which is also in the charge of Carol Bartz, has also achieved an ultra-high annual growth of 118% in the past year, with a revenue of US $1.73 billion.

By calculation, the total revenue of advertising, e-commerce, software and YWS has reached US $9.52 billion.

Other businesses, such as ystore software store, steam game store, online game business, solutions and patent licensing, also contributed $2.15 billion in revenue.

According to comprehensive statistics, in 1994, igrit, which has become a giant, had a total annual revenue of US $11.67 billion.

As predicted by some media, with the annual revenue of 10 billion US dollars, igritte's earning speed has exceeded its spending speed. Even after a large investment in all aspects, this new technology company, which has only been established for about five years, still achieves a net profit of 790 million US dollars.For the media and the public, igritte's financial data is just a shock.

For Microsoft, it is the most direct strong sense of oppression.

In the face of Simon's ultimatum, under the lobbying and pressure of Microsoft's board of directors, major shareholders and management, on Monday morning, March 13, Bill Gates chose to compromise and agreed to Simon's requirement of pre installing ie in the windows system sold overseas.