Hollywood Hunter

Simon was chatting with the female assistant, and Sophia came from not far away.

Noting the worry in Sophia’s expression, Simon asked, "Something went wrong?"

Sophia stood beside Simon and nodded: "The editor-in-chief of the French version of "Vogue" Colombe Pringle and I had an appointment to attend this party. In the evening, I suddenly said that there was something we couldn't come. "Paris-Match" magazine The party just called and the 8-page special issue originally negotiated was cancelled."

There was music in the hall at this time.

The catwalk on the runway began. This is a performance catwalk, with Audrey Hepburn's "Roman Holiday" as the theme, and the "Roman Holiday" actor Gregory Parker, who will be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Cannes Film Festival, was also specially invited to attend.

Simon looked at the gorgeous adorned wine and the green lights not far away, and asked, "Anything else?"

"Claudia Schiffer, Linda Evangolinsta, Naomi Campbell, Christy Trillington and others have all declined our invitation to the party. Moreover, this party is not the most important , I am worried that we may not be able to invite these models to participate in the catwalk during the September fashion week."

Simon heard Sophia talk about these conditions, but was not surprised.

The ‘cake’ of the luxury industry is also limited. Gucci has regrouped aggressively in recent months, and other luxury brands will naturally feel threatened.

Gucci’s recovery in North America has not encountered any obstacles because of Daenerys Entertainment’s support, but in France, where luxury brands gather, Dior, Chanel, Hermes, and Louis Vuitton will obviously not allow Gucci, an outsider, to be on its own territory. Call the wind and call the rain.

He beckoned the passing waiter to come over, and gave two glasses of red wine to the two women beside him. Simon took a glass himself before continuing to Sophia: "So, what are you going to do?"

Sophia took a sip of the red wine, thought about it, and said, "If it's just the situation in France, it's not a big problem."

"You do the media thing yourself. As for the fashion week in September, I just saw Cindy Crawford and Helena Christensen. If the supermodels you mentioned are not willing to participate in our catwalks, then It is impossible for all models to be unwilling to find other people. Moreover, it is nothing more than to increase the exposure rate. At that time, we can invite more celebrities. The effect is the same. This is our advantage."

The catwalk is over, followed by a charity auction.

The auction item is a batch of the latest Gucci satchels carried by the model just now. The donation will be donated to a charity organization dedicated to solving the problem of African famine. Simon has never heard of the name of this organization, and feels that the direction is right, so he used 20 Ten thousand US dollars photographed an elegant white satchel.

The charity auction is over, and the party tonight is coming to an end.

Although some French media temporarily cancelled their cooperation with Gucci, many European media reported the Gucci night event early the next morning.

Simon is well aware of the mission of his mascot. If he only shows up at the party and does not bring any benefits to the guests who come to him specifically, others will not appear again next time. Therefore, news appeared in some entertainment media that Simon Westero and a certain star had a good time at the Gucci Night Party, and the two parties might cooperate.

It's not just a gimmick to let out such wind.

When filming "Batman" in Melbourne, Simon faintly had similar thoughts.

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

If Daenerys Entertainment can invest in the production of a batch of overseas films every year, it can not only quickly enrich its own film library resources, but also gain the favor of European, Australian and even Asian filmmakers. Moreover, mastering a large number of film projects implicates the career prospects of many filmmakers, and at the same time can bring a hidden power to Daenerys Entertainment.

Moreover, compared to those movie investors who have lost their money in the end, Simon II's prophetic advantage can also ensure that he relatively accurately selects projects that are enough to bring profit.

Daenerys Entertainment is still in the accumulation stage, and Simon is not eager about it. However, the Australian branch's investment in Peter Jackson's new film, and if it can sign a few more directors this time, it is actually equivalent to planning for these ideas in advance.

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

Geneva is the second largest city in Switzerland. The European Institute for Particle Physics (CERN), which is jointly invested by more than 20 countries, is located here. Tim Berners Lee was a computer engineer at the Institute at this time.

Coincidentally, Simon had the idea of ​​looking for Tim Berners Lee, which happened to step on a very precise point in time.

According to information obtained by Simon, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a project plan to the CERN executives for the first time in March this year, suggesting that computers in all laboratories in the institute should be connected through hypertext technology. When completed, it can even be further expanded to the whole world.

Tim Berners Lee’s plan was supported by many people, but because CERN is an institute of particle physics, the senior management did not approve the project. However, Li did not give up. After two months of re-preparing the plan, he was about to resubmit his proposal, and Simon approached the door.

Simon first found him through a paper on Hypertext Markup Language published by Tim Berners Lee.

After arriving in Europe, Jennifer and Tim Berners-Lee made an appointment to meet the schedule, and the revised planning book in the hands of the other party was directly transferred to Simon.

Speaking of sadness, Tim Berners Lee, who is respected by the industry as the father of the Internet, has spent a few months in his planning book. Most of his budget is just to purchase a NeXT computer worth $6,500. Yes, it is the high-performance personal computer that Jobs developed specifically for universities and research institutions after leaving Apple.

The downtown area of ​​Geneva surrounds the vast southern end of Lake Geneva.

As the most livable city in Europe, Simon naturally did not miss Geneva in the process of buying real estate. His residence here is located on the beautiful Lake Geneva in the northern suburbs of the city. It covers an area of ​​more than 3 acres and has a private jetty.

Arriving to Geneva in the weekend morning, Simon was talking to Tim Berners Lee about various ideas about the Internet for three full days.

May 23, Tuesday.

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

In the living room at this time, there are all kinds of books and materials, as well as two open computers. Although the arrangement of these objects is not messy, it seems incompatible with the surrounding luxurious decoration.

Jennifer was by the sofa looking after a printer that kept spitting out documents.

Sophia noticed Jennifer's figure and roughly understood why the basic order could be maintained in the living room.

Walking over to say hello to the female assistant, Simon also saw her coming, but only gestured with his eyes, and continued to discuss with the middle-aged man.

"The creation of such a website can be used to list the directory of websites that have joined the Internet, so that users can see the content of the Internet more intuitively. In addition, we can also provide forum services through this website for users to communicate directly. Of course, we will also More service content can be added, such as search, communication, etc."

"According to your idea, Simon, we must continue to promote commercialization, otherwise we will not be able to support the operation of such a website. We have been discussing this issue for three days, and I do not resist commercialization, but if so, it will definitely be Competitors join in and create different standards, leading to the fragmentation of the Internet, which is inconsistent with our goal of connecting the world."

"Anyone with a little vision can see that the fragmentation of the network is not in everyone's interests. Even if the situation you said happens, the parties will eventually compromise. And, Tim, I think we are completely Have the ability to prevent this from happening because we have no competitors now. This is like building a road. If many people realize a goal and start building roads together, for their own interests, there will definitely be many different roads. However, we are the only ones who want to build this road now. If we can fix the road before others can react and provide a considerable degree of free access, I believe those who are willing to spend money and laboriously to build another road should not many."

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Sophia listened to the conversation between Simon and Simon with some understanding, and curiously picked up a copy of the information Jennifer had just compiled.

Looking down, this is a development plan for a literal scripting language. After reading a few pages patiently, I roughly understand that this scripting language is used to increase the dynamic functions of HTML web pages.

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

Simon and Lee continued to discuss for more than an hour, until the whiteboard was full of notes, and it was close to the evening before they stopped.

Sofia was formally introduced. Tim Berners-Lee took a thick document compiled by Jennifer and left the lakeside villa. After three days of discussion, he and Simon had confirmed a lot of things and agreed. Simon quit his job to North America to oversee the operation of the new company to be established.

Ygritte.

This is the name of a network technology company that Simon will soon establish.

Ygritte, Ygritte.

Or, Simon thinks it is more pleasing to the eye to translate it as ‘Igreat’.

Following Daenerys, Melisandre and Cersei, Igrit will also become the fourth ‘woman’ under Westeros.

Simon has even thought of a slogan similar to Google's ‘Don’t-be-evil’ for this company.

That's right.

‘You-Know-Nothing! ’

Such a super panacea slogan, in the future, there is absolutely no need to shy away from the slogan just because you want to do evil.

As for the meaning, when the Eagle Corporation rises, people full of romantic fantasies can always come up with various reasonable interpretations. Simon will certainly not make it clear that this is just a dull red-haired female savage accusing her lover.

In the determined plan, Simon’s Westeros Company will invest 10 million U.S. dollars and hold 90% of Eaglet’s shares. As the person in charge of this company, Simon will give Tim Berners Lee shares for 10%. Calculated in accordance with the investment ratio, this 10% share ratio is worth millions of dollars.

In fact, as long as Eaglet is able to achieve Simon’s expected goal, although Tim Berners Lee’s shares will be diluted in the subsequent financing process, it will definitely be a very large sum in the future. Of wealth.

According to the plan discussed in the previous three days, Tim Berners Lee will quit his job at CERN and rush to San Francisco to preside over the establishment and operation of Igreat.

Simon hoped that Eaglet could be established in Los Angeles, but he did not leave his job. With its back from Silicon Valley, this company can more easily obtain the technical and talent support it wants.

The first step after the establishment of Eaglet is 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 as Qualcomm's layout in the 3G era .

Simon does not intend to build patent barriers to collect money from Qualcomm, at least in the early days of Internet development, he did not have this idea. The establishment of patent barriers is just to be able to grasp the initiative as much as possible after the rise of the Internet era.

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

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 it may be divided into two types, the normal free version and the professional paid version, depending on the situation.

To obtain profit through the sale of software to maintain the operation of Igreat, this is also the business model that Tim Berners Lee recognized during the discussion between the two, and it is restricted by the limitations of the times. Tim Berners Lee Obviously, he couldn't expect that the project of creating a website directory that Simon casually mentioned was the top priority in his plan.

In the original time and space, the most well-known ‘website directory’ in the early days of the Internet development was called Yahoo. During the peak of the Internet bubble, its market value exceeded US$100 billion.

Moreover, compared to Yahoo, which has declined rapidly after the Internet 1.0 era, Simon has set a sustainable development path for the Ygritte portal. Instant messaging, e-mail, search engine. The development potential of these services is not in the world. Probably better than Simon.

Even if Eaglet is stuck in the disease of a large company and cannot flexibly transform in the future, Simon, who can clearly judge the development trend of the industry, can set aside this company to realize Westeros' ‘transformation’ in the Internet industry through other investments.