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Bill Gates felt that today's meeting with Simon was a complete mistake.
If this young man had not been born, he would have been the richest man in the Federation. Unfortunately, his $10.5 billion fortune on this year's Forbes list, compared with the $120 billion of young people in front of him, can only be looked up to.
The feeling when they get along with each other makes gates think of the contact with jobs in the early development of Microsoft.
At that time, jobs was already a new business star with a fortune of over 100 million, and Microsoft was only the office software supplier of apple. Because of the differences between apple and Microsoft, he and jobs had quarreled more than once.
Or, to be more precise, he was completely reprimanded by jobs at that time.
Now jobs has no light, and the rise of Microsoft is unstoppable.
However, gates found himself head unconsciously appeared a more disgusting guy than jobs.
This young man won't yell at jobs like he used to. He won't even show any emotion in the face of his anger. For gates, this is a more serious contempt.
It seems that the other side is completely standing on another level, looking down at all living beings.
In fact, Bill Gates is not willing to admit it.
The meeting broke up in a bad mood.
About Linux and ie, Simon's conditions are basically that the other party has already made a plan to pay attention to. This meeting did not bring him any room to turn around.
When Bill Gates left, he was already worried.
IE will run on Windows platform after all. It's not difficult to grasp it.
Simon doesn't care what his classmates think. His current attitude is to look on coldly. The specific game is operated by the senior executives of many of his enterprises.
It's actually like raising poisonous insects.
No matter which side wins, the westero system will have a large share of interests in it.
What's more, Simon can probably imagine what kind of tricks gates will play, but if he is in a hurry, igritte's team may really launch a free Linux desktop operating system.
The rise of windows is ahead of time because of the rise of the Internet wave, but there is still a certain gap from the complete monopoly.
Now the free Linux desktop operating system is not without the opportunity to redefine the market structure of the operating system. In the past, Android came from behind when Apple's IOS was launched. The key problem is the software ecology of the operating system. At the present stage, Microsoft also has no absolute advantage. Igritte just has the corresponding strength to coordinate various software manufacturers to develop software for Linux.
Of course, this is definitely a strategy of losing both sides.
The igritte team won't do it unless it has to.
Hit Microsoft hard, Simon, the second largest shareholder will also suffer serious losses.
Returning to Los Angeles on Monday, the heaviest news was that Canada's sigram Group officially announced its acquisition of paramount communications.
Prior to this, the two companies have been secretly negotiating for more than three months.
In fact, it's not too secret.
In recent months, rumors about sigram group's upcoming acquisition of paramount communications have been constantly in the press. Paramount communications's share price has increased by more than 25% compared with the end of May, and its recent market value has reached $5.9 billion.
Now that the news is public, the two sides have basically reached an agreement.
Sigram will buy paramount communications for $66 A share, with a total value of about $8 billion, all in cash. At the same time, sigram group will also bear $1.2 billion debt of paramount communications, with a total transaction amount of $9.2 billion.
On the day of the announcement, Paramount's share price rose again by 11%.
Over the next period of time, as long as there are no other bidders, the deal will be formally concluded after the paramount board votes and the federal authorities approve it.
In the view of many people, the possibility of bidders is already very low.
Compared with the initial negotiation, sigma group's offer of $66 per share is equivalent to a 70% premium. The most important point is that the transaction is completely paid in cash, such as QVC of Barry Diller or Viacom of Sam Redstone. Even if it intends to acquire paramount, it can't offer such a price at all.
With the announcement of the news, the focus of the federal media discussion is again on whether the media industry should be deregulated as soon as possible.
Because of the ban that public television networks are not allowed to merge with large content producers, in recent years, the three old federal television networks, which are strong enough to integrate with major Hollywood film companies, have been unable to participate in the acquisition of Hollywood studios. As a result, Colombia and MGM have successively fallen into the hands of foreign investors, and Universal Pictures has almost been acquired by Panasonic.
Now, another old Hollywood studio, paramount communications, will also become a subsidiary of overseas capital.The New York Times believes that similar acquisitions have threatened the cultural industry in the United States, and the federal government should prohibit sigram from acquiring paramount.
Such an appeal is hardly effective.
Since Sony is able to complete the acquisition of Columbia Pictures and Australian capital has taken MGM, according to the existing law, the federal government has no reason to prevent sigram group from merging paramount communications.
Unless media control is immediately deregulated and three powerful public television network groups are allowed to join the acquisition.
The media giants' lobbying for lifting the industry control ban has been going on, which has become a consensus at the top of the federal level. However, it is not a matter of time to abolish the original bill.
This time, at least, sigram's acquisition of paramount communications is inevitable.
Domay point manor.
It's September 29, Wednesday.
Simon was invited by Robert rem, President of Paramount Pictures, to attend the reception at Beverly Hills' home tonight and left early at more than nine o'clock in the evening.
When she got home, Janet had no rest and was discussing something with girl a in a living room of the villa.
Simon sat down next to Janet and asked the little guy. Janet said that the child was asleep and that girl b was looking after her, so she looked curiously at the document in the woman's hand.
Janet handed the folder directly to Simon and said, "what about the list you've just sorted out?"
Simon took over the folder, on which was a thick stack of resume materials. He flipped through it at will. They were all 18 to 22-year-old college girls, from North America, Australia and Europe, and they were also the top students from famous universities all over the world.
The most convenient ABCD is gradually leaving her post, and Janet recently began to look for a new batch of maid candidates.
Simon originally thought that there was no need to look for girls who were too smart. However, judging from the "accidents" of the girls brought out by the housekeeper Alice, the smarter girls are more reliable. The smarter people often know what to do and what not to do.
Looking over, Simon said, "I think it's better to choose younger ones to start from scratch. They're a little older."
Janet moved her body, nestled up to Simon and looked at the resume on the file: "I know it's better to cultivate from childhood, but how do you plan to find a little girl? You can't buy it directly, can you? It's easy to get into trouble. "
Simon raised his arm around Janet to make her more comfortable. He looked at the paper on his knee with one hand and thought about it. He said, "it's easy to choose from Latin America or Eastern Europe."
Janet was still a little puzzled: "huh?"
Simon said: "you know, in Latin America and Eastern Europe, there are model scouts everywhere who choose girls with excellent conditions to offer to major agencies. We just need to choose the people we want from this channel."
Janet put her head on Simon's shoulder. "Is that what you want?"
Simon said with a smile, "yes, you can't use it."
Janet pretended to grunt a few times and said to girl a, who had been sitting quietly beside her: "a, well, let B do this. It's her last job before she left."
Alison nodded to make a note.
Janet turned again, motioned to the folder on Simon's knee and said, "what about these?"
"Choose a few and try to cultivate them."
Simon said, continued to turn a few pages, suddenly attracted by a data.
This is a girl who just entered the computer department of Stanford University this year. Her name is Marissa Mayer. Once again, I took a look at the photo in the top right corner of my resume. Yes, it's Marissa Mayer in my memory.
Now that the information can be sent to Mr. and Mrs. Simon, their work intention has been negotiated in advance.
Simon didn't expect that the famous Silicon Valley executive in his memory would want to get the job.
However, in this case, Simon is not polite, directly extracted Mayer's information, said: "this is good."
Simon didn't hide his preference in front of Janet, and Janet didn't care. He looked at the information curiously and said, "it's only a freshman, but two years is enough. In fact, it doesn't matter whether she gets a Stanford degree or not."
Simon nodded, continued to look, and found no other familiar names, so he discussed with Janet to select seven from a total of more than 60 resumes, including Marissa Mayer, and gathered two groups of four again. After targeted training, half of them may be filtered out in the future, and the remaining four.
A. That's how B, C and D were chosen.
In addition to the scattered ABCD, there are also Indian girl aliya and Zoe parks and Isabel Dunn from the housekeeper Alice's team. These are the most intimate maids. In addition, some of the girls in charge of Simon's many properties in North America and Europe are basically not around Simon and his wife.According to the frequency of ABCD's departure, when these girls retire, Marissa Mayer and others will be able to take over the former's position.
Later, it's probably the girls from Latin America and Eastern Europe.
In fact, Stanford also has a goblin, Simon's third Jennie, Jennifer berry. However, little Jane's position is Simon's another female assistant, and it will take another two years.
After discussing this matter, she sent girl a to have a rest. The couple went to see the sleeping little guy together and went upstairs to have a rest.
The next morning, she was held in her arms by Janet and didn't get up until more than eight o'clock.
On the contrary, the little guy wakes up early and plays in the manor accompanied by girl B. He is very independent.
After breakfast, Simon accompanied Janet to the Westeros family hospital for routine pregnancy check-up, followed by a pregnant women's class, and returned to domay point manor for lunch at noon.
In fact, the two Jennie's pregnancy schedules are so simple and boring. After all, they are not real vacations. They are pregnant with a baby in their stomach, and many things can't be done at all. The female assistants are more restricted, and they can't even appear in public.
After lunch, Janet and the little guy went for a nap, but Simon didn't feel sleepy.
Taking advantage of the warm afternoon sun, I went to the open-air swimming pool near the sea of the villa for a swim. After leaving the pool, girl b handed me the towel. Simon simply wiped it, went to the deck chair beside the pool, sat down, picked up the juice on the table beside, motioned girl b to come, and asked, "how are you doing with your financial information platform?"
Girl b sat down in the reclining chair on Simon's left side, subconsciously looked at her boss's strong body, without any trace, and said, "the software development team has been established. Goldman Sachs, Morgan and cersei capital have agreed to cooperate. Yahoo Finance has also agreed to provide us with news content. Recently, I am talking with some traditional financial media "Negotiation and cooperation."
Simon smiles and says, "is this a problem?"
B girl nodded.
The 58list website launched by igritte has just offended the traditional print media. It's definitely not easy to reach an agreement with such old financial media as Thomson, Reuters, Wall Street Journal and business week. What's more, these companies have their own partners and interests in financial information.
"Step by step," Simon continued, "in fact, your idea of" bad money expels good money "is very good. It doesn't mean that we should provide poor quality services, but that we should understand the gap between ourselves and the old financial information platform, which is very important. Many people fail because they don't understand their position. "
Girl B wants to create a financial information company similar to the one of Bloomberg, which is a very promising idea.
In the next 20 years, the financial industry in the United States will become more and more developed, and the demand for professional financial information will also increase significantly.
For example, at the present stage, the global sales volume of the terminal is only about 15000 units, with an annual revenue of about $200 million.
In Simon's memory, the annual sales volume of the company's terminal reached 300000 at its peak, which is 20 times of the current market scale. Relying on only one company, Michael Blumberg gained more than 50 billion US dollars. Therefore, it can be seen that the professional financial information platform has great potential.
Relying on the resources of the Westeros system, even if B girl's financial information platform can't completely beat that of Bloomberg, as long as it can gain a firm foothold in this industry and share a certain market share, the scale of the enterprise in the future will definitely reach tens of billions of dollars.
Founded in 1981, the company has accumulated ten years. If B girl's company wants to catch up with this company, it will not be able to achieve it overnight.
Therefore, Becky made a plan code named "bad money expels good money".
Specifically, we should first create a primary financial information platform, and the customer positioning is also oriented to a wider range of entry-level users. At the same time, it gradually takes advantage of the low price to occupy the market share of the terminal and other existing stock market equipment, and finally achieves the effect of "bad money driving out good money". Moreover, after continuous accumulation, the company itself will evolve from "bad money" to "good money".
The wave of new technology will trigger a wave of all-round stock speculation in the next few years.
At that time, not only the professional users of Wall Street, but also many ordinary people will have a demand for financial information platform, and the expensive price of the Peng Bo terminal can not be borne by anyone, which also gives the best development opportunity for the company founded by B girl.
With that in mind, Simon asked, "by the way, is the name of the company ready?"
Girl b nodded and said, "alpha."
Simon Leng next, the name, as if, where heard.
Yeah.
Google parent company!
"How could such a name come into being?"
"This is my company and a's. Ellie gave me a lot of advice in the project planning stage. Her $10 million vase fund is also going to invest in it, and will continue to help me in private."A. B, alpha, that's right.
After thinking about it, Simon asked, "how do you spell it?"
Girl b did it quickly.
Simon found that there was a difference between the two names.
The name of Google's parent company is alphabet. In the end, the letter "a" is missing. The company with two girls, a and B, is alphabet. It's a very complete spelling.
Confirming that it was just a small coincidence, Simon nodded and said with a smile, "nice name."
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Bill Gates felt that today's meeting with Simon was a complete mistake.
If this young man had not been born, he would have been the richest man in the Federation. Unfortunately, his $10.5 billion fortune on this year's Forbes list, compared with the $120 billion of young people in front of him, can only be looked up to.
The feeling when they get along with each other makes gates think of the contact with jobs in the early development of Microsoft.
At that time, jobs was already a new business star with a fortune of over 100 million, and Microsoft was only the office software supplier of apple. Because of the differences between apple and Microsoft, he and jobs had quarreled more than once.
Or, to be more precise, he was completely reprimanded by jobs at that time.
Now jobs has no light, and the rise of Microsoft is unstoppable.
However, gates found himself head unconsciously appeared a more disgusting guy than jobs.
This young man won't yell at jobs like he used to. He won't even show any emotion in the face of his anger. For gates, this is a more serious contempt.
It seems that the other side is completely standing on another level, looking down at all living beings.
In fact, Bill Gates is not willing to admit it.
The meeting broke up in a bad mood.
About Linux and ie, Simon's conditions are basically that the other party has already made a plan to pay attention to. This meeting did not bring him any room to turn around.
When Bill Gates left, he was already worried.
IE will run on Windows platform after all. It's not difficult to grasp it.
Simon doesn't care what his classmates think. His current attitude is to look on coldly. The specific game is operated by the senior executives of many of his enterprises.
It's actually like raising poisonous insects.
No matter which side wins, the westero system will have a large share of interests in it.
What's more, Simon can probably imagine what kind of tricks gates will play, but if he is in a hurry, igritte's team may really launch a free Linux desktop operating system.
The rise of windows is ahead of time because of the rise of the Internet wave, but there is still a certain gap from the complete monopoly.
Now the free Linux desktop operating system is not without the opportunity to redefine the market structure of the operating system. In the past, Android came from behind when Apple's IOS was launched. The key problem is the software ecology of the operating system. At the present stage, Microsoft also has no absolute advantage. Igritte just has the corresponding strength to coordinate various software manufacturers to develop software for Linux.
Of course, this is definitely a strategy of losing both sides.
The igritte team won't do it unless it has to.
Hit Microsoft hard, Simon, the second largest shareholder will also suffer serious losses.
Returning to Los Angeles on Monday, the heaviest news was that Canada's sigram Group officially announced its acquisition of paramount communications.
Prior to this, the two companies have been secretly negotiating for more than three months.
In fact, it's not too secret.
In recent months, rumors about sigram group's upcoming acquisition of paramount communications have been constantly in the press. Paramount communications's share price has increased by more than 25% compared with the end of May, and its recent market value has reached $5.9 billion.
Now that the news is public, the two sides have basically reached an agreement.
Sigram will buy paramount communications for $66 A share, with a total value of about $8 billion, all in cash. At the same time, sigram group will also bear $1.2 billion debt of paramount communications, with a total transaction amount of $9.2 billion.
On the day of the announcement, Paramount's share price rose again by 11%.
Over the next period of time, as long as there are no other bidders, the deal will be formally concluded after the paramount board votes and the federal authorities approve it.
In the view of many people, the possibility of bidders is already very low.
Compared with the initial negotiation, sigma group's offer of $66 per share is equivalent to a 70% premium. The most important point is that the transaction is completely paid in cash, such as QVC of Barry Diller or Viacom of Sam Redstone. Even if it intends to acquire paramount, it can't offer such a price at all.
With the announcement of the news, the focus of the federal media discussion is again on whether the media industry should be deregulated as soon as possible.
Because of the ban that public television networks are not allowed to merge with large content producers, in recent years, the three old federal television networks, which are strong enough to integrate with major Hollywood film companies, have been unable to participate in the acquisition of Hollywood studios. As a result, Colombia and MGM have successively fallen into the hands of foreign investors, and Universal Pictures has almost been acquired by Panasonic.
Now, another old Hollywood studio, paramount communications, will also become a subsidiary of overseas capital.The New York Times believes that similar acquisitions have threatened the cultural industry in the United States, and the federal government should prohibit sigram from acquiring paramount.
Such an appeal is hardly effective.
Since Sony is able to complete the acquisition of Columbia Pictures and Australian capital has taken MGM, according to the existing law, the federal government has no reason to prevent sigram group from merging paramount communications.
Unless media control is immediately deregulated and three powerful public television network groups are allowed to join the acquisition.
The media giants' lobbying for lifting the industry control ban has been going on, which has become a consensus at the top of the federal level. However, it is not a matter of time to abolish the original bill.
This time, at least, sigram's acquisition of paramount communications is inevitable.
Domay point manor.
It's September 29, Wednesday.
Simon was invited by Robert rem, President of Paramount Pictures, to attend the reception at Beverly Hills' home tonight and left early at more than nine o'clock in the evening.
When she got home, Janet had no rest and was discussing something with girl a in a living room of the villa.
Simon sat down next to Janet and asked the little guy. Janet said that the child was asleep and that girl b was looking after her, so she looked curiously at the document in the woman's hand.
Janet handed the folder directly to Simon and said, "what about the list you've just sorted out?"
Simon took over the folder, on which was a thick stack of resume materials. He flipped through it at will. They were all 18 to 22-year-old college girls, from North America, Australia and Europe, and they were also the top students from famous universities all over the world.
The most convenient ABCD is gradually leaving her post, and Janet recently began to look for a new batch of maid candidates.
Simon originally thought that there was no need to look for girls who were too smart. However, judging from the "accidents" of the girls brought out by the housekeeper Alice, the smarter girls are more reliable. The smarter people often know what to do and what not to do.
Looking over, Simon said, "I think it's better to choose younger ones to start from scratch. They're a little older."
Janet moved her body, nestled up to Simon and looked at the resume on the file: "I know it's better to cultivate from childhood, but how do you plan to find a little girl? You can't buy it directly, can you? It's easy to get into trouble. "
Simon raised his arm around Janet to make her more comfortable. He looked at the paper on his knee with one hand and thought about it. He said, "it's easy to choose from Latin America or Eastern Europe."
Janet was still a little puzzled: "huh?"
Simon said: "you know, in Latin America and Eastern Europe, there are model scouts everywhere who choose girls with excellent conditions to offer to major agencies. We just need to choose the people we want from this channel."
Janet put her head on Simon's shoulder. "Is that what you want?"
Simon said with a smile, "yes, you can't use it."
Janet pretended to grunt a few times and said to girl a, who had been sitting quietly beside her: "a, well, let B do this. It's her last job before she left."
Alison nodded to make a note.
Janet turned again, motioned to the folder on Simon's knee and said, "what about these?"
"Choose a few and try to cultivate them."
Simon said, continued to turn a few pages, suddenly attracted by a data.
This is a girl who just entered the computer department of Stanford University this year. Her name is Marissa Mayer. Once again, I took a look at the photo in the top right corner of my resume. Yes, it's Marissa Mayer in my memory.
Now that the information can be sent to Mr. and Mrs. Simon, their work intention has been negotiated in advance.
Simon didn't expect that the famous Silicon Valley executive in his memory would want to get the job.
However, in this case, Simon is not polite, directly extracted Mayer's information, said: "this is good."
Simon didn't hide his preference in front of Janet, and Janet didn't care. He looked at the information curiously and said, "it's only a freshman, but two years is enough. In fact, it doesn't matter whether she gets a Stanford degree or not."
Simon nodded, continued to look, and found no other familiar names, so he discussed with Janet to select seven from a total of more than 60 resumes, including Marissa Mayer, and gathered two groups of four again. After targeted training, half of them may be filtered out in the future, and the remaining four.
A. That's how B, C and D were chosen.
In addition to the scattered ABCD, there are also Indian girl aliya and Zoe parks and Isabel Dunn from the housekeeper Alice's team. These are the most intimate maids. In addition, some of the girls in charge of Simon's many properties in North America and Europe are basically not around Simon and his wife.According to the frequency of ABCD's departure, when these girls retire, Marissa Mayer and others will be able to take over the former's position.
Later, it's probably the girls from Latin America and Eastern Europe.
In fact, Stanford also has a goblin, Simon's third Jennie, Jennifer berry. However, little Jane's position is Simon's another female assistant, and it will take another two years.
After discussing this matter, she sent girl a to have a rest. The couple went to see the sleeping little guy together and went upstairs to have a rest.
The next morning, she was held in her arms by Janet and didn't get up until more than eight o'clock.
On the contrary, the little guy wakes up early and plays in the manor accompanied by girl B. He is very independent.
After breakfast, Simon accompanied Janet to the Westeros family hospital for routine pregnancy check-up, followed by a pregnant women's class, and returned to domay point manor for lunch at noon.
In fact, the two Jennie's pregnancy schedules are so simple and boring. After all, they are not real vacations. They are pregnant with a baby in their stomach, and many things can't be done at all. The female assistants are more restricted, and they can't even appear in public.
After lunch, Janet and the little guy went for a nap, but Simon didn't feel sleepy.
Taking advantage of the warm afternoon sun, I went to the open-air swimming pool near the sea of the villa for a swim. After leaving the pool, girl b handed me the towel. Simon simply wiped it, went to the deck chair beside the pool, sat down, picked up the juice on the table beside, motioned girl b to come, and asked, "how are you doing with your financial information platform?"
Girl b sat down in the reclining chair on Simon's left side, subconsciously looked at her boss's strong body, without any trace, and said, "the software development team has been established. Goldman Sachs, Morgan and cersei capital have agreed to cooperate. Yahoo Finance has also agreed to provide us with news content. Recently, I am talking with some traditional financial media "Negotiation and cooperation."
Simon smiles and says, "is this a problem?"
B girl nodded.
The 58list website launched by igritte has just offended the traditional print media. It's definitely not easy to reach an agreement with such old financial media as Thomson, Reuters, Wall Street Journal and business week. What's more, these companies have their own partners and interests in financial information.
"Step by step," Simon continued, "in fact, your idea of" bad money expels good money "is very good. It doesn't mean that we should provide poor quality services, but that we should understand the gap between ourselves and the old financial information platform, which is very important. Many people fail because they don't understand their position. "
Girl B wants to create a financial information company similar to the one of Bloomberg, which is a very promising idea.
In the next 20 years, the financial industry in the United States will become more and more developed, and the demand for professional financial information will also increase significantly.
For example, at the present stage, the global sales volume of the terminal is only about 15000 units, with an annual revenue of about $200 million.
In Simon's memory, the annual sales volume of the company's terminal reached 300000 at its peak, which is 20 times of the current market scale. Relying on only one company, Michael Blumberg gained more than 50 billion US dollars. Therefore, it can be seen that the professional financial information platform has great potential.
Relying on the resources of the Westeros system, even if B girl's financial information platform can't completely beat that of Bloomberg, as long as it can gain a firm foothold in this industry and share a certain market share, the scale of the enterprise in the future will definitely reach tens of billions of dollars.
Founded in 1981, the company has accumulated ten years. If B girl's company wants to catch up with this company, it will not be able to achieve it overnight.
Therefore, Becky made a plan code named "bad money expels good money".
Specifically, we should first create a primary financial information platform, and the customer positioning is also oriented to a wider range of entry-level users. At the same time, it gradually takes advantage of the low price to occupy the market share of the terminal and other existing stock market equipment, and finally achieves the effect of "bad money driving out good money". Moreover, after continuous accumulation, the company itself will evolve from "bad money" to "good money".
The wave of new technology will trigger a wave of all-round stock speculation in the next few years.
At that time, not only the professional users of Wall Street, but also many ordinary people will have a demand for financial information platform, and the expensive price of the Peng Bo terminal can not be borne by anyone, which also gives the best development opportunity for the company founded by B girl.
With that in mind, Simon asked, "by the way, is the name of the company ready?"
Girl b nodded and said, "alpha."
Simon Leng next, the name, as if, where heard.
Yeah.
Google parent company!
"How could such a name come into being?"
"This is my company and a's. Ellie gave me a lot of advice in the project planning stage. Her $10 million vase fund is also going to invest in it, and will continue to help me in private."A. B, alpha, that's right.
After thinking about it, Simon asked, "how do you spell it?"
Girl b did it quickly.
Simon found that there was a difference between the two names.
The name of Google's parent company is alphabet. In the end, the letter "a" is missing. The company with two girls, a and B, is alphabet. It's a very complete spelling.
Confirming that it was just a small coincidence, Simon nodded and said with a smile, "nice name."
Bill Gates felt that today's meeting with Simon was a complete mistake. If this young man had not been born, he would have been the richest man in the Federation. Unfortunately, his $10.5 billion fortune on this year's Forbes list, compared with the $120 billion of young people in front of him, can only be looked up to. The feeling when they get along with each other makes gates think of the contact with jobs in the early development of Microsoft. At that time, jobs was already a new business star with a fortune of over 100 million, and Microsoft was only the office software supplier of apple. Because of the differences between apple and Microsoft, he and jobs had quarreled more than once. Or, to be more precise, he was completely reprimanded by jobs at that time. Now jobs has no light, and the rise of Microsoft is unstoppable. However, gates found himself head unconsciously appeared a more disgusting guy than jobs. This young man won't yell at jobs like he used to. He won't even show any emotion in the face of his anger. For gates, this is a more serious contempt. It seems that the other side is completely standing on another level, looking down at all living beings. In fact, Bill Gates is not willing to admit it. The meeting broke up in a bad mood. About Linux and ie, Simon's conditions are basically that the other party has already made a plan to pay attention to. This meeting did not bring him any room to turn around. When Bill Gates left, he was already worried. IE will run on Windows platform after all. It's not difficult to grasp it. Simon doesn't care what his classmates think. His current attitude is to look on coldly. The specific game is operated by the senior executives of many of his enterprises. It's actually like raising poisonous insects. No matter which side wins, the westero system will have a large share of interests in it. What's more, Simon can probably imagine what kind of tricks gates will play, but if he is in a hurry, igritte's team may really launch a free Linux desktop operating system. The rise of windows is ahead of time because of the rise of the Internet wave, but there is still a certain gap from the complete monopoly. Now the free Linux desktop operating system is not without the opportunity to redefine the market structure of the operating system. In the past, Android came from behind when Apple's IOS was launched. The key problem is the software ecology of the operating system. At the present stage, Microsoft also has no absolute advantage. Igritte just has the corresponding strength to coordinate various software manufacturers to develop software for Linux. Of course, this is definitely a strategy of losing both sides. The igritte team won't do it unless it has to. Hit Microsoft hard, Simon, the second largest shareholder will also suffer serious losses. Returning to Los Angeles on Monday, the heaviest news was that Canada's sigram Group officially announced its acquisition of paramount communications. Prior to this, the two companies have been secretly negotiating for more than three months. In fact, it's not too secret. In recent months, rumors about sigram group's upcoming acquisition of paramount communications have been constantly in the press. Paramount communications's share price has increased by more than 25% compared with the end of May, and its recent market value has reached $5.9 billion. Now that the news is public, the two sides have basically reached an agreement. Sigram will buy paramount communications for $66 A share, with a total value of about $8 billion, all in cash. At the same time, sigram group will also bear $1.2 billion debt of paramount communications, with a total transaction amount of $9.2 billion. On the day of the announcement, Paramount's share price rose again by 11%. Over the next period of time, as long as there are no other bidders, the deal will be formally concluded after the paramount board votes and the federal authorities approve it. In the view of many people, the possibility of bidders is already very low. Compared with the initial negotiation, sigma group's offer of $66 per share is equivalent to a 70% premium. The most important point is that the transaction is completely paid in cash, such as QVC of Barry Diller or Viacom of Sam Redstone. Even if it intends to acquire paramount, it can't offer such a price at all. With the announcement of the news, the focus of the federal media discussion is again on whether the media industry should be deregulated as soon as possible. Because of the ban that public television networks are not allowed to merge with large content producers, in recent years, the three old federal television networks, which are strong enough to integrate with major Hollywood film companies, have been unable to participate in the acquisition of Hollywood studios. As a result, Colombia and MGM have successively fallen into the hands of foreign investors, and Universal Pictures has almost been acquired by Panasonic. Now, another old Hollywood studio, paramount communications, will also become a subsidiary of overseas capital.The New York Times believes that similar acquisitions have threatened the cultural industry in the United States, and the federal government should prohibit sigram from acquiring paramount. Such an appeal is hardly effective. Since Sony is able to complete the acquisition of Columbia Pictures and Australian capital has taken MGM, according to the existing law, the federal government has no reason to prevent sigram group from merging paramount communications. Unless media control is immediately deregulated and three powerful public television network groups are allowed to join the acquisition. The media giants' lobbying for lifting the industry control ban has been going on, which has become a consensus at the top of the federal level. However, it is not a matter of time to abolish the original bill. This time, at least, sigram's acquisition of paramount communications is inevitable. Domay point manor. It's September 29, Wednesday. Simon was invited by Robert rem, President of Paramount Pictures, to attend the reception at Beverly Hills' home tonight and left early at more than nine o'clock in the evening. When she got home, Janet had no rest and was discussing something with girl a in a living room of the villa. Simon sat down next to Janet and asked the little guy. Janet said that the child was asleep and that girl b was looking after her, so she looked curiously at the document in the woman's hand. Janet handed the folder directly to Simon and said, "what about the list you've just sorted out?" Simon took over the folder, on which was a thick stack of resume materials. He flipped through it at will. They were all 18 to 22-year-old college girls, from North America, Australia and Europe, and they were also the top students from famous universities all over the world. The most convenient ABCD is gradually leaving her post, and Janet recently began to look for a new batch of maid candidates. Simon originally thought that there was no need to look for girls who were too smart. However, judging from the "accidents" of the girls brought out by the housekeeper Alice, the smarter girls are more reliable. The smarter people often know what to do and what not to do. Looking over, Simon said, "I think it's better to choose younger ones to start from scratch. They're a little older." Janet moved her body, nestled up to Simon and looked at the resume on the file: "I know it's better to cultivate from childhood, but how do you plan to find a little girl? You can't buy it directly, can you? It's easy to get into trouble. " Simon raised his arm around Janet to make her more comfortable. He looked at the paper on his knee with one hand and thought about it. He said, "it's easy to choose from Latin America or Eastern Europe." Janet was still a little puzzled: "huh?" Simon said: "you know, in Latin America and Eastern Europe, there are model scouts everywhere who choose girls with excellent conditions to offer to major agencies. We just need to choose the people we want from this channel." Janet put her head on Simon's shoulder. "Is that what you want?" Simon said with a smile, "yes, you can't use it." Janet pretended to grunt a few times and said to girl a, who had been sitting quietly beside her: "a, well, let B do this. It's her last job before she left." Alison nodded to make a note. Janet turned again, motioned to the folder on Simon's knee and said, "what about these?" "Choose a few and try to cultivate them." Simon said, continued to turn a few pages, suddenly attracted by a data. This is a girl who just entered the computer department of Stanford University this year. Her name is Marissa Mayer. Once again, I took a look at the photo in the top right corner of my resume. Yes, it's Marissa Mayer in my memory. Now that the information can be sent to Mr. and Mrs. Simon, their work intention has been negotiated in advance. Simon didn't expect that the famous Silicon Valley executive in his memory would want to get the job. However, in this case, Simon is not polite, directly extracted Mayer's information, said: "this is good." Simon didn't hide his preference in front of Janet, and Janet didn't care. He looked at the information curiously and said, "it's only a freshman, but two years is enough. In fact, it doesn't matter whether she gets a Stanford degree or not." Simon nodded, continued to look, and found no other familiar names, so he discussed with Janet to select seven from a total of more than 60 resumes, including Marissa Mayer, and gathered two groups of four again. After targeted training, half of them may be filtered out in the future, and the remaining four. A. That's how B, C and D were chosen. In addition to the scattered ABCD, there are also Indian girl aliya and Zoe parks and Isabel Dunn from the housekeeper Alice's team. These are the most intimate maids. In addition, some of the girls in charge of Simon's many properties in North America and Europe are basically not around Simon and his wife.According to the frequency of ABCD's departure, when these girls retire, Marissa Mayer and others will be able to take over the former's position. Later, it's probably the girls from Latin America and Eastern Europe. In fact, Stanford also has a goblin, Simon's third Jennie, Jennifer berry. However, little Jane's position is Simon's another female assistant, and it will take another two years. After discussing this matter, she sent girl a to have a rest. The couple went to see the sleeping little guy together and went upstairs to have a rest. The next morning, she was held in her arms by Janet and didn't get up until more than eight o'clock. On the contrary, the little guy wakes up early and plays in the manor accompanied by girl B. He is very independent. After breakfast, Simon accompanied Janet to the Westeros family hospital for routine pregnancy check-up, followed by a pregnant women's class, and returned to domay point manor for lunch at noon. In fact, the two Jennie's pregnancy schedules are so simple and boring. After all, they are not real vacations. They are pregnant with a baby in their stomach, and many things can't be done at all. The female assistants are more restricted, and they can't even appear in public. After lunch, Janet and the little guy went for a nap, but Simon didn't feel sleepy. Taking advantage of the warm afternoon sun, I went to the open-air swimming pool near the sea of the villa for a swim. After leaving the pool, girl b handed me the towel. Simon simply wiped it, went to the deck chair beside the pool, sat down, picked up the juice on the table beside, motioned girl b to come, and asked, "how are you doing with your financial information platform?" Girl b sat down in the reclining chair on Simon's left side, subconsciously looked at her boss's strong body, without any trace, and said, "the software development team has been established. Goldman Sachs, Morgan and cersei capital have agreed to cooperate. Yahoo Finance has also agreed to provide us with news content. Recently, I am talking with some traditional financial media "Negotiation and cooperation." Simon smiles and says, "is this a problem?" B girl nodded. The 58list website launched by igritte has just offended the traditional print media. It's definitely not easy to reach an agreement with such old financial media as Thomson, Reuters, Wall Street Journal and business week. What's more, these companies have their own partners and interests in financial information. "Step by step," Simon continued, "in fact, your idea of" bad money expels good money "is very good. It doesn't mean that we should provide poor quality services, but that we should understand the gap between ourselves and the old financial information platform, which is very important. Many people fail because they don't understand their position. " Girl B wants to create a financial information company similar to the one of Bloomberg, which is a very promising idea. In the next 20 years, the financial industry in the United States will become more and more developed, and the demand for professional financial information will also increase significantly. For example, at the present stage, the global sales volume of the terminal is only about 15000 units, with an annual revenue of about $200 million. In Simon's memory, the annual sales volume of the company's terminal reached 300000 at its peak, which is 20 times of the current market scale. Relying on only one company, Michael Blumberg gained more than 50 billion US dollars. Therefore, it can be seen that the professional financial information platform has great potential. Relying on the resources of the Westeros system, even if B girl's financial information platform can't completely beat that of Bloomberg, as long as it can gain a firm foothold in this industry and share a certain market share, the scale of the enterprise in the future will definitely reach tens of billions of dollars. Founded in 1981, the company has accumulated ten years. If B girl's company wants to catch up with this company, it will not be able to achieve it overnight. Therefore, Becky made a plan code named "bad money expels good money". Specifically, we should first create a primary financial information platform, and the customer positioning is also oriented to a wider range of entry-level users. At the same time, it gradually takes advantage of the low price to occupy the market share of the terminal and other existing stock market equipment, and finally achieves the effect of "bad money driving out good money". Moreover, after continuous accumulation, the company itself will evolve from "bad money" to "good money". The wave of new technology will trigger a wave of all-round stock speculation in the next few years. At that time, not only the professional users of Wall Street, but also many ordinary people will have a demand for financial information platform, and the expensive price of the Peng Bo terminal can not be borne by anyone, which also gives the best development opportunity for the company founded by B girl. With that in mind, Simon asked, "by the way, is the name of the company ready?" Girl b nodded and said, "alpha." Simon Leng next, the name, as if, where heard. Yeah. Google parent company! "How could such a name come into being?" "This is my company and a's. Ellie gave me a lot of advice in the project planning stage. Her $10 million vase fund is also going to invest in it, and will continue to help me in private."A. B, alpha, that's right. After thinking about it, Simon asked, "how do you spell it?" Girl b did it quickly. Simon found that there was a difference between the two names. The name of Google's parent company is alphabet. In the end, the letter "a" is missing. The company with two girls, a and B, is alphabet. It's a very complete spelling. Confirming that it was just a small coincidence, Simon nodded and said with a smile, "nice name."
