Chapter 857

Simon listened to Charlotte brenita patiently, took the coffee in front of him, took a sip on the sofa, shook his head and said, "what you said is very reasonable, Charley, but I'm still not interested in investing in the Internet industry in Europe. In fact, the westero system will not completely ignore Europe. It's just for the investment here, our own team is enough, and we don't need it I want to work with you. "

It has been proved that, due to market capacity, language differences and other reasons, Europe has never been able to appear large-scale Internet giants.

If Simon is willing to spare no effort, he may be able to change history, but from his current position, there is no reason to do so.

As for the troubles he may encounter in the future, Simon has many similar cases in his memory. Apple, Google and Facebook have been repeatedly found fault by the EU antitrust organization, and they have been fined tens of billions of euros. However, because the monopoly pattern of a group of Internet giants has been deeply rooted, these measures can not make the giants hurt.

In order to fight for the right to speak in the family business over the years, Charlotte brenita has not known how many times she has refused. Simon's words did not disappoint her. It's a success for her to see westero today. Even if she comes back empty handed this time, it will bring her unexpected benefits if she talks about having had coffee with Simon westero on some suitable occasions in the future.

Charlotte brenita did not give up easily, and continued: "Mr. westero, the financial investment environment in Switzerland is very different from that in other regions. You must be aware of this. Just like melisandro, the registered office is in Switzerland. In addition, we also have incomparable confidentiality advantages over other countries. So I'm sure there will be opportunities for us to work together. "

Simon thought of one thing when he heard brenita's words. He looked up at the woman beside him and asked, "do you know anything about China? What do you think of the economic situation of this country?"

Simon turned a little abruptly, but Charlotte brenita didn't have much trouble. She did her homework ahead of time. She knew that the westero system attached great importance to investment in China, so she quickly said: "China's economic growth in recent years has been very fast, but I don't think much about the long-term prospects of this country. China's economic foundation is very weak, and at the present stage, it's just a matter of time The rapid development is due to the cheap demographic dividend, but it is not irreplaceable. Just like your layout in Ukraine, the cost of human resources in Ukraine is cheaper than that in China. Moreover, Ukraine is very close to Europe and has obvious geographical advantages. Therefore, I think China is more likely to be another Argentina in the future. "

"Argentina?"

"Or the whole of Latin America," Charlotte brenita said, adding, "the middle-income trap."

Simon understood and said, "well, if you want to cooperate with me, you'd better get to know more about China in the future. You'd better go a few times in person."

Charlotte Brittany is now the president of the venture capital Department of Brittany asset management company. In recent years, her focus of work will also be in the field of new technology. Out of some biases in her bones, women don't think that China has the soil to invest in new technology. How many computers can a backward country have?

However, Simon said so, she immediately nodded down.

Charlotte brenita's ultimate goal is to control the whole family business. Therefore, if necessary, she doesn't mind stepping into other areas of investment in China. As long as she can get in touch with westrow, she also believes that the investors behind the family business don't mind letting her cross the border.

In westrow's plan to conquer the global Internet industry, Simon does not intend to support any local Internet giants in Europe, but China is different. China's policy and institutional barriers make it difficult for western internet giants to develop smoothly in that country, so they need to be localized.

This time, it's just another idle game.

After all, in the future, a large number of Chinese Internet giants will stand behind the scenes with the vistro system, which is not good-looking. If the shell capital in North America, Australia, Southeast Asia, and Switzerland are supporting one another, even if they are still vaguely able to trace back to the westero system, at least on the surface, it makes sense.

That's enough.

Simon can also see that women are not too interested in China, but they don't demand it. When the opportunity is given, they can't grasp it. That's their own business. So he changed the subject and asked, "do you have any other projects here besides subscribing to igritte and investing in instagram?"

"I'm studying computer games recently, and I plan to invest in several game studios. Steam mall, owned by igritte, has greatly lowered the threshold of game distribution for independent studios. Moreover, the development cost of computer games is usually low, and there are successful cases like happy farm."

"It's a good direction," Simon nodded slightly, and said, "but if you pay enough attention to the industry dynamics, you should find that igritte has been raising the threshold of launching steam mall, especially Facebook's game platform. Therefore, in the future, games developed by any independent studio will not be able to go online. I recently read a memo from igritte about the game business. In the future, whether it's steam or Facebook, the principle of operating games is to launch a classic game with 10 million users rather than 1000 inferior games with only 10000 users. So if you're just going to play with tickets or speculate, I advise you to give up the plan. "Igritte's game mall has a low threshold in the early stage of development. Many independent game studios and even individual developers can upload games and earn a lot of money.

However, with the case of "the collapse of Atari" in the past, igritte will not repeat it.

As steam mall and Facebook platform attract more and more players, igritte team is also constantly improving the threshold of game listing audit. Recently, it has put forward the criterion Simon just mentioned, that is, it is better to have 10 million than 10 million, which will inevitably turn away a large number of weak small developers and poor quality games.

Maybe one or two black horses will inevitably appear in these games that can't be put on the shelves, but on the whole, it can ensure the long-term development of igritte's steam mall and facebook game platform to the greatest extent.

In fact, there is another intention to do so, that is, to rush a large number of inferior games to other game platforms with lower threshold.

It is inevitable for online game publishers to lower the threshold to attract content in the early stage, but when the industry starts to standardize, especially when the leader has appeared, if they do so again, a large number of inferior games will fill the platform, which will only make those second and third tier publishers more quickly eliminated by the market.

The original "yadali crash" was because too many inferior games filled yadali's console platform, which led to the complete abandonment of a game console that made a lot of money every day.

"Thank you for reminding me, Mr. westlow. I'll pay attention."

Charlotte brenita seriously agrees that although she doesn't intend to focus on the game field for a long time, she doesn't have any idea of playing tickets or speculating. Her plan is to acquire several start-up game studios, invest in developing one or two high-quality games, and seek to sell and cash out the studios at the same time when the game is successful.

This is also the general operation process of venture capital.

Select a group of studios. As long as one project is successful in the operation in the next few years, the overall return will be good.

Of course, if a studio can launch a phenomenal game, such as Nintendo's Super Mario or Facebook's happy farm, Charlotte brenita will definitely hold the relevant studio for a long time.

It's just that there's no need to elaborate on the man in front of you.

The two continued to chat for a while. Girl a came in to remind Simon that it was almost noon. He got up and said to Brittany, "I have a manor nearby. Let's have lunch together."

Charlotte brenita almost thought that vestero was going to see off the guests. When the man said that, of course, he agreed.

It is said that they left the military theme park nearby and drove for about half an hour before arriving at their destination.

This is a hot spring manor in the mountains and forests more than 30 kilometers north of livny. The manor is surrounded by snow and trees. Not to mention the private woodland that has been quietly surrounded by Simon within a few kilometers, the manor within the enclosure covers an area of 10 acres.

The interior architecture of the manor is still in the style of American Rural vacation, but the overall pattern has absorbed some design concepts of oriental gardens. Therefore, it is not as open as the usual Western Manor. The pavilions and pavilions designed with westernization of the main building make the interior of the manor appear scattered. Because it is located on the hot spring, the interior of the manor is lush and beautiful Shuttle dotted in the manor stream pool, along the bank there are blooming flowers.

Even though living in a rich family and entering this manor since childhood, Charlotte brenita is still slightly absent-minded under the impact of the scene.

Such a paradise can't be built with money.

Until she found that Simon westero had stopped for a while to wait for herself, Charlotte brenita quickly took another step and apologized to the man.

Lunch is ready.

Before dinner, Charlotte brenita thought it was just her and Simon. Unexpectedly, there were seven people sitting at the long dining table, Simon, girl a, three scallions and a tall girl. The man was surrounded by three little scallions. She sat opposite girl a and the tall girl who introduced herself as Eve.

The dining atmosphere is still warm. Most of the time, three scallions are talking with the man opposite. Balabala and Charlotte brenita don't know Russian, and they can't speak Ukrainian. Fortunately, the man opposite and the girl a often take the initiative to talk with her in English, but they don't give up.

Looking at the other waiters who are not bad in appearance, and the girls sitting around, brenita realized something by accident.

The mood inexplicably began to be a little uneasy.

Or.

Maybe, maybe, maybe, I'm looking forward to it.

Although she is 35 years old and has been married for many years, she has already made some preparations since she promised the meeting under the obvious hint of grace.

It's Simon westero, after all.

Men will rate women, and women will also rate men.Charlotte Brittany is confident that she can achieve more than 90 points. For a young man standing high in the cloud, if the full score is 100 points, it is not too much for him to break the standard and add 20 points.

Sleeping with westero, she thought she was the one who took advantage.

At the end of lunch, yekaterina's three girls take Simon to the hot spring. The man casually invites her to join him. After a little hesitation, he agrees.

I'm really hesitant.

It's not that I don't want to, but if it's the "lineup" at lunch, it's really a bit chaotic.

Fortunately.

In the end, nothing happened.

It's not that nothing happened, but that she became the one who was invited out of the scene. Only three green apples were left in the indoor hot spring bath.

Again, there was some frustration.

And some rebellious thoughts.

Since he was not sent away, he insisted on not taking the initiative to leave.

That a-girl is not warm to her from the beginning to the end, but she knows the importance of each other around westrow. You know, a few days ago, there were two a, B, C and D-girls on the Forbes 400 rich list in the United States, and so on, many things can be imagined.

It's not the first time that she has encountered such indifference. Although she is very proud in her heart, Charlotte Brittany doesn't mind putting down her position as long as it's good for her. In the end, she successfully gets the contact information of girl a in the evening, even if it's just her work mailbox, it's enough.

I thought I would spend the night here. After dinner, we set out again in the dark and rushed back to downtown livny.

I paid special attention to it.

The faces of the three green and astringent little apples all turned red, as if they were suddenly mature. They were inexplicably envious.

It's more than eight o'clock in the evening when we get back to the city.

At first, I didn't quite understand why I had to make such a fuss. Staying in the hot spring manor must be more comfortable than the city. Until the motorcade split in two, Simon's seat drove into a brightly lit area in the northwest of livny, and the car stopped, I knew that the man had another arrangement.

Seeing Simon get out of the car and step forward on his way back, Charlotte brenita, who is sitting beside him, can leave the Mercedes Benz car together. This is a crowded street entrance.

I don't understand what men do.

However, when she found that the three little apples and girl a left with the other cars, and that she was the only one with westrow, Britta was still a little happy. She took the initiative to come to the man and asked softly, "Simon, what are we going to do?"

Familiar with, quietly changed the name.

Simon motioned in the direction of the busy street and said, "business street, let's go and have a look."

Charlotte Brittany is still a little unclear, so she doesn't ask much. She follows the man into the crowded street and looks around curiously, but she soon loses interest. On both sides of the street, there are only ordinary restaurants, clothing, electrical appliances, food and other types of shops, and the grade is not high. Compared with the commercial streets she once visited, it's totally acceptable It's described as shabby.

However, after all, I graduated from the best London Business School in Europe and gradually found the difference in this street.

In the cold night of minus 10 degrees around, it is too busy here, and the flow of people is definitely not comparable to those commercial streets in my memory. To be sure, every shop on this street, at least for the owners of those shops, is very profitable.

This commercial street is actually built by the westrow system.