Hollywood Hunter

The car stopped in front of the Shell Villa at the Dume Point Manor. Simon didn't mean to get off the car immediately, but said to Sarah beside him: "I'll send you back."

Sarah Michelle Gellar was stunned, and her eyes looked at Simon with some doubts and disappointments.

Simon said to the driver in the front row. Seeing that the girl quickly turned into a pitiful expression, she stretched out her hand and squeezed her small chin, and smiled: "Tonight is not very convenient. If you have time, I will take you to Europe. ."

Sarah still didn't quite understand, but she grabbed the big hand that Simon wanted to take back and shook it. She raised her face and said, "Then, Simon, we are settled."

Simon smiled and nodded: "Of course."

The driver opened the car door outside, and saw that Simon was about to get off the car, and the girl leaned inwardly again: "But, Simon, how can I contact you?"

"I will contact you."

Simon finished speaking and got off the bus, and then asked the driver to walk towards the villa.

Sarah Michelle Gellar wanted to muster the courage to chase out, but the driver closed the car door before she moved. She had to sit back and watched Simon walk through the car window to the building that often appeared on newspaper and magazine pages. Shell villa on the top.

The front-row driver's polite questioning interrupted Sarah's panic.

The girl hurriedly responded. When the car started, she couldn't see the man, and looked at this manor that was destined to be only a glimpse of the night.

Simon knows that he has countless eyes staring at him all the time. This is California. Sarah Michelle Gellar is only 15 years old. Even if the girl herself is willing, it is hard to guarantee that she will not be caught in the future. Some disturbances came out.

There is no shortage of women around, there is no need to plant such an untimely bomb.

In fact, it’s too busy recently, otherwise I can take the girl to other states tonight as I did before. The laws of each state in the United States are different. In many areas, such as Utah or Washington, girls can get married at the age of 12.

The three women A, B, and D are taking care of Janet on the east coast. At Dume’s Pointe, the baby-faced Zoe Parks and the eye-catching Isabel Dunn are in charge of Simon’s daily life.

Simon entered the villa and Isabel greeted him.

After greeted him, folded the suit that took Simon and folded it on his chest, Isabel said: "Boss, Alice is back."

Although she is still serving as the housekeeper of Westeros, Alice Ferguson spends more free time in San Francisco because of the Amazon online store.

Zoe and Isabel have recently been arranged to take care of Simon's living at the Dome Point Manor. In fact, they are also the housekeepers who are cultivating their successors after getting acquiescence.

The Westeros family is just the maid team on the North American side and has reached more than 30 people.

However, after several adjustments, many girls were directly arranged to reside in the city where Simon's property was located, and it was the first batch that could approach the Simons.

Taking a look at Isabel, wondering if she squeezed her suit against her chest on purpose, Simon smiled and asked, "Where is it?"

Isabel straightened her waist slightly under Simon's gaze, but her expression looked imperceptible. She pointed in a direction and said, "Over there in the living room."

There is an activity area specially arranged for the maids in Shell Villa. Generally, the bedroom is on the second floor, and there are also exclusive rooms such as kitchen, cloakroom, gym and living room for them on the first floor.

Of course, this treatment is limited to ABCD and the housekeeper who can stay with Simon and his wife. Most of the others can only live outside the manor even in Los Angeles.

Today is April 9, and some operating data for the first quarter of 1992 should have been released.

Thinking of this, Simon walked straight to a living room on the east side of the villa hall pointed to by Isabel.

Seeing Simon moving, Isabel was slightly stunned, and hurriedly followed.

Simon had rarely taken the initiative to go to their room in the past.

As soon as he came to the door of the living room, Simon heard a chuckle with a little aversion.

Standing at the door and looking in, Alice Ferguson sat on the sofa holding a laptop, Zoe Parks nestled beside her, arms around the waist of the housekeeper, her chin knocked on her shoulders, her mouth was smiling The ground said something lowly.

A baby-faced girl, Xiao Niao Yiren, is next to a cold-tempered beauty with short hair.

This picture is, well, beautiful.

just.

Simon couldn't help but feel the feeling of being pryed into the corner.

This is a small vase that I work hard every day to make money!

Isabel Dunn followed Simon. She also heard Zoe's chuckle. Carefully crossed Simon and looked at the living room, and then looked at the host’s reaction, she suddenly felt a little bit of fortune and misfortune. .

Let you always look indifferent to us!

Humph.

However, in order to avoid the awkwardness of the plot, Isabel took the initiative to give a light cough as a reminder.

The light in the living room is bright, but there are only yellow wall lamps in the corridor, so the two butlers did not immediately notice Simon's arrival.

Suddenly hearing the sound, the two women looked over together.

Seeing that it was Simon, Zoe Parks, who was still entangled in the housekeeper, was the first to react. He jumped off the sofa and stood up like a frightened kitten. His eyes flashed to the left and right in a panic, and he said hello calmly: " Good evening, boss."

But the housekeeper was very calm, and she got up and said hello, and she took the initiative to send Zoe, who was a guilty conscience, to prepare coffee for Simon.

Seeing the baby-faced girl running out of the room, Simon walked into the living room, sat down on the single sofa next to the housekeeper, raised his legs, looked at the cold beauty in front of him, did not speak, and said, "Explain yourself." Looks like an evil boss.

Isabel actually wanted to come in and join in the fun.

However, seeing Simon's appearance, the girl had just stepped into the door a few steps, and then quietly retreated.

The housekeeper sat down on the sofa again, holding up the laptop again with a calm expression, and after a few taps, she handed the laptop to Simon, saying: "Boss, the basic revenue data of the online mall for the first quarter have been preliminary statistics. Finished, do you want to take a look?"

Simon took the laptop handed by the housekeeper and put it on his lap, looked at the document on the screen, and said, "Aren't you going to explain it?"

The housekeeper's tone remained calm: "Boss, you never said that office love is not allowed."

Simon frowned slightly as if trying to remember, then said again: "Well, I should, I really didn't say it."

Seeing that Simon's attention was focused on the laptop screen, the housekeeper quickly and seriously looked at the expression of the man in front of her, and then she felt relieved.

Own boss, obviously does not really care about these.

After working for Simon for so long, Alice can roughly tell when this young man who seems to be always calm and calm is really angry.

However, it was suddenly discovered that for so long, this man with indifferent bones, the number of times he was angry, almost missed one hand.

It seems that there are not many things worthy of his attention in this world.

Indeed, at the age of 24, he has reached the pinnacle that most people in the world will not necessarily reach in ten lifetimes. It is too easy to get everything you want, and it is naturally hard to care.

Can't help but think, what if it's yourself?

After having this idea, the housekeeper suddenly realized that perhaps her idea just now was not accurate.

It's not that he has too much and doesn't care.

More likely, this man's nature is like this.

Geniuses are often lonely and indifferent.

The man in front of him could not even be described as a simple genius.

It is totally a miracle.

A miracle that is easy for people to have a strong desire to find the bottom: what kind of person is he, how did he do everything now, and where is the limit in the future?

"Allie, do you know? When a woman has a strong curiosity about a man, she often falls in love with him unknowingly."

Suddenly a voice came from her ear, and the housekeeper woke up and suddenly realized that she had been staring at her boss for a long time.

There are two cups of hot coffee on the coffee table in front of you.

Obviously, Zoe had already brought coffee in and had already left quietly.

Some panic withdrawn his gaze, and subconsciously retorted: "I will not fall in love with you."

I regret it immediately.

This sentence is simply the standard response of the soap opera heroine's duplicity.

Simon smiled and continued to look at the financial report data on the laptop.

The Amazon online store opened on January 23 at the beginning of the year. In the first quarter, it actually only operated for about 70 days.

After the first day of orders exploded due to the early adopters psychology and extensive promotion and marketing, the online store's subsequent sales began to decline rapidly.

Compared with the astonishing 1.32 million book purchase orders on the first day, the average daily order volume of the online shopping mall after stable operation is only between 50,000 and 100,000.

This sharp drop in sales figures is actually expected.

In the shopping carnivals such as Double Eleven in Simon's memory, the single-day order volume can often reach more than ten times the usual.

On the first day of its opening, the Westeros system has spared no effort in marketing, which is equivalent to a small shopping carnival.

Subsequent orders have shrunk significantly, which is the normal state of the initial development of e-commerce.

Even so, throughout the first quarter, the cumulative number of orders on Amazon's online store reached 5.03 million, 6.19 million books were sold, and sales reached $135.71 million.

In Simon's memory, Amazon was founded in 1995, and it did not achieve annual sales of $600 million until 1998, three years later.

At the moment, the new version of Amazon completed sales of 135 million US dollars in the first quarter of opening. With the continuous growth of performance in the subsequent quarters, it is no problem that the annual revenue exceeds 600 million US dollars.

In the early 1990s, the annual sales volume of the American book market was around 500 million.

According to the sales data of the first quarter, in just one year, Amazon's online store's share of the book market is expected to exceed 5%. Such a performance growth rate has made the entire physical book retail industry a rival.

On the other hand, the amazing sales performance achieved by Amazon's online shopping mall actually seems logical.

Different from the original time and space Jeff Bezos needs to start from scratch Amazon, now relying on Igreat’s Amazon online store, almost as soon as it goes online, it has the traffic import of tens of millions of users on the entire World Wide Web platform. This is a huge consumer group with a scale of more than 20 million, and they are all high-end consumer groups with the best economic situation in the United States and the highest education level, so they also have reading habits and often buy books.

In addition to the large-scale high-quality user base, the brand-new Amazon mall also has an increasingly sophisticated Ypay online payment system, which is far from comparable to the previous Amazon.

Even in terms of platform capacity, Amazon once started from scratch and could only expand its scale step by step, from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands to millions of users.

This time, the Amazon online store, the platform was able to support 5 million simultaneous visits at the beginning of the platform.

Moreover, because of the use of cloud computing technology, Amazon was able to support simultaneous access to 5 million users in a single segment during the first day of opening. At the same time, when user traffic fell behind, it was able to flexibly reduce server resources to the corresponding level. Scale, so significant cost savings.

Some of the technology companies in the industry that have peeked into it seem to be simply breathtaking.

Computing resources have always been an indispensable and very expensive cost for information high-tech companies.

If the Amazon online store does not use cloud computing technology, just the huge server cost will become a big burden for the store. In order to adapt to the peak traffic, the large expansion of server equipment will also cause a lot of waste of computing resources during cold hours.

In another key logistics aspect, Simon also used his own prophetic advantage based on his impression of the Blockbuster model and many other information to allow Amazon to establish a close cooperative relationship with the United States’ largest logistics network, the United States Postal Service, to the greatest extent Ensure the user's online shopping experience.

All in all, the success of Amazon's online shopping mall should actually be regarded as the result of the continuous large-scale investment in the accumulation of the next accumulation of accumulation for several years after the establishment of the company.

You know, in the previous year 1991, Eaglet’s total operating income in YWS services, online advertising, Ystore and IE browser sales reached 491 million US dollars, which is also a big innovation in the industry. .

However, on the other hand, behind Eaglet’s annual revenue of nearly US$500 million, there was a net loss of US$387 million.

In the history of American business, there is very little capital that dared to burn hundreds of millions of dollars every year in an industry with no clear prospects. You know, the entry threshold for the 1991 Forbes 400 list of the richest people in the United States is only a little over $300 million.

Moreover, the loss of US$387 million does not only mean that Eaglet only burned US$387 million in 1991, close to US$500 million in revenue, and basically reinvested in Eaglet’s talent employment, Technology research and development, publicity and marketing, and data center construction, etc.

Many technology companies that were already familiar at this time, such as Intel, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, etc., had just raised hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars in the initial stage of development, and then developed and expanded step by step.

With the investment of Simon at no cost, Eaglet is a leap-forward development with ultra-high growth.

Moreover, different from the early blooming of flowers in the Internet industry in the original time and space, it is precisely because of Simon's spare no effort to invest. The current World Wide Web, even if it has always been under the banner of open sharing, can be seen by anyone. The company's basically monopolized network platform.

In the past few years, Westeros has created a brand-new high-tech industry directly by uniting a large number of technology companies such as Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, and AOL, and sparing no effort to spend money.

After reading the information, Simon casually glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the laptop. It was almost eleven o'clock in the night.

Glancing at her side, the housekeeper is still sitting in distress.

Picking up the corners of his mouth and laughing, Simon put down the laptop, got up and walked to the housekeeper, and said in the girl's flustered eyes with a slightly different meaning: "I suddenly want you to fulfill the original promise."

After Simon finished speaking, like a robber, he stepped forward and directly picked up a stiff woman, turned and walked out of the living room.