Hollywood Hunter

Because there are old people and children, we just talked about some very homely topics during the dinner. The homework of the two children, some recent anecdotes in Greenwich City, Mr. President parked the special plane on the runway and blocked other people for more than an hour. .

After eight o'clock, after dinner, Sophia's parents took the initiative to take the two children away.

Simon, Sofia, and Nancy went to a living room of the villa to continue chatting, and the conversation turned to more formal business affairs.

"Forbes" announced the new annual list of the 400 billionaires in the United States. This week, the life of Simon, who was promoted to the world's first 100 billion dollar man, has not changed much, but the media's discussion on this topic is very lively. In particular, the hustle and bustle caused by the launch of the 58list website by Eaglet Portal has not completely dissipated, and the evaluation of Simon on traditional paper media platforms is mostly not too positive.

"The layout of the Westeros system in the Internet industry is simply a more advanced existence than any monopolistic alliance in the past. You are involved in almost every aspect of this new technological revolution, and you have a strong right to speak. The relationship between the Luo system and traditional paper media is beginning to deteriorate. I think what you should be most worried about is the emergence of another "Ada Betar"."

In the living room, two women cuddled on the sofa next to them. Nancy commented on the series of disturbances caused by 58list.

Sophia is French, and obviously he doesn't pay much attention to the anti-monopoly history of the US oil industry, which has been a long time ago, and curiously asked: "Who is Ada Betal?"

Nancy explained: "The author of "The History of Standard Oil Company," she used more than ten consecutive heavyweight reports that year, which directly led to the separation of the Rockefeller business empire."

Simon leaned on the solo sofa next to him with a cup of coffee in his hand and said, "I remember there were a lot of analyses later, "The History of Standard Oil Company" is full of unfactual prejudices. Moreover, after Standard Oil was split, It did not benefit the public. In the following decade or so, the price of oil rose sharply."

"Even if this is true, who cares? Most members of the public are stupid and prone to incitement. They only need to see the so-called justice being done."

Simon nodded: "I agree with this point, so I have been trying my best to let the public see what they want to see recently."

The 58list website turmoil this time, the public opinion orientation that Yigrete Company focuses on publicity is the large amount of free convenience that 58list provides to the public.

Nancy said: "However, power is not really in the hands of the public."

"The Westeros system will spend more on government lobbying this year than you think. Some time ago I also urged Jeff to set up a special lobbying office in Washington."

Nancy looked at Simon a few times: "Are you really only 25 years old this year?"

Many people always have to eat a ditch to grow their wisdom. It seems that a certain guy can arrange many things in advance without any experience.

Simon took a sip of coffee slowly and said quietly, "Actually, I'm 280 years old."

Nancy picked up a small pillow and threw it to Simon, but couldn't help but said to Sophia: "I think he might really be a 280-year-old vampire."

Sophia smiled and asked, "How do you say?"

Nancy put out her little hand and flanked the silk scarf around Sophia's neck: "It's obvious evidence."

Sophia flushed suddenly and opened Nancy’s little hand.

Nancy just teased, instead of chasing him, turning to Simon, "In fact, there is the most important point, Mr. Westeros, interests and interests are the root of all disputes."

"If you are careful enough, many of my layouts in the past few years have alleviated potential conflicts of interest as much as possible."

"Unfortunately, this is far from enough."

"I understand that whether it is the new technology industry or the Hollywood side, I actually hope that companies in the Westeros system will eventually become public holding companies. Of course, the control must be in my hands."

Nancy said, "Then why do you still hold so many in your hand?"

Simon shrugged and said: "I can't let it out all at once. People are greedy. If I am too active, some people will think I am too weak and ask for more."

Nancy tilted her head, thought for a moment, and couldn't help shaking her head: "This is a deadlock."

"Yeah," Simon smiled and said, "So, my next plan is to let them take the initiative to fight."

The Westeros system is now in a capital jungle where the weak and the strong.

Simon Tai took the initiative to throw the food she had stored on the surrounding beasts, which would only attract more predators. Although it is not intended to be against everyone, before sharing food, smashing some tiger heads and legs can also allow many predators who want to come forward to weigh their own strength.

Nancy heard the words: "Don't you worry about things being out of order?"

Simon glanced at Nancy: "Do you think a billionaire is a good bully?"

Nancy curled her lips: "You are already arrogant."

"This is self-confidence," Simon said, raising his wrist and checking his watch, and said rudely to a small woman who was leaning on Sophia: "Should you go back? It just so happens that I can send you a driver. a bit."

Nancy blinked and quickly took Sophia's arm: "I plan to stay here tonight and sleep with Sophie."

Simon took a few glances at the little woman wrapped around Sofia, and said, "I'm already thinking about how to put on your shoes."

"Try it, I'll resign. I have been in contact with headhunters for the past two years."

"Or, let's leave the decision to Sophie?"

"Okay," Nancy said, her small arm on Sophia's arm tightened, looking at her girlfriend: "Sophie, do you choose me or me or me?"

Simon protested: "Is this too shameful?"

Nancy just snorted, her bright eyes continued to look at Sophia, still showing a somewhat pitiful expression.

Sophia blushed and cast a helpless look at Simon.

"Ok."

Knowing that there is no show tonight, Simon put down the coffee cup in his hand, got up and walked over to the two women.

Nancy stayed in a daze, feeling that a man’s upright figure was pressing over, leaned over and provoked Sophia’s chin and kissed it presumptuously. The slight sound of the shame made her shrink back subconsciously and forbeared it for a moment. When he almost couldn't help fleeing, the man finally let go of Sophia and said, "Then, good night."

Sophia's voice was soft: "Well, you, good night."

It wasn't until Simon left for a long time that Nancy finally opened her mouth and took a deep breath, then looked at Sophia condemningly: "You are so indulgent."

As a woman, how can Sophia fail to see the potential spark between Nancy and Simon. This best friend of his own has a strength that is not commensurate with her appearance, and it is often a stronger man who makes her tempted. The guy who just left happens to be such a person.

There was not much space in that little man's heart, so Sophia didn't want anyone to come and share it with herself. However, apart from taking advantage of the trend, she didn't make any plans too deliberately, knowing that this might be counterproductive.

The next day is Saturday, September 11.

Early in the morning, the "New York Times" announced that the U.S. Senate officially confirmed that it would hold a hearing on September 16 regarding fraudulent information, endangering public safety, and disguised low-price dumping involving the 58list website of Eaglet. This will determine whether to conduct further investigations.

Yigrete immediately gave a positive response on its own portal, saying that it will try to cooperate with this hearing.

In the original time and space, the slack and arrogance of Damen students in the congressional hearing on the issue of Microsoft's monopoly directly led to a large-scale Microsoft antitrust investigation that lasted for two years, and Microsoft was once infinitely close to being split.

In the subsequent Facebook privacy breach, Zuckerberg learned the lessons of his classmates back then. He respectfully cooperated with the congressional hearings. A large number of congressmen were very satisfied with Xiaozha’s performance. He originally vowed to punish Facebook by tens of thousands. The billion-dollar hearing turned into a farce in the eyes of discerning people.

Although there are many other influencing factors, it is definitely beneficial to coax the gang of officials in Congress.

After all, everyone is a face-saving person.

The congressional hearing requires the head of the target company to attend. The CEO of 58list is Michael Novarek. However, in order to show the importance of this hearing, Jeff Bezos, President of Eaglet Corporation, voluntarily stated on his Facebook page that he would attend the hearing and answer some questions you may have on the spot. .

Not only is it carefully prepared in advance for possible problems, Eaglet has also invited a dedicated public relations team and government consultants to design all the details of the hearing next week.

However, as for the invitation of Senate Republican leader Bob Dole to hope that Simon would also attend the hearing in person, Igrett euphemistically refused on the grounds that his boss wanted to accompany his pregnant wife.

Congressional hearings are not a decent thing after all.

The face that should be given is given, it is not right to push the nose to face.

Simon flew from New York to San Francisco two days on the weekend to spend a weekend with the female assistant and returned to Los Angeles on Monday.

Janet has already negotiated with Veronica about staying in North America.

Veronica will be based in New York as a special financial advisor to Westeros, and will be responsible for overseeing the financial status of AOL, Verizon Telecom and Nokia.

The three companies are all in a state of rapid growth, because they continue to expand, the capital flows are very active, and the senior management has a lot of autonomy.

In this state, the long-term lack of strict supervision is actually very dangerous. If you don't pay attention, you may see a copy of Enron in Simon's memory.

After the appointment of Veronica's position, the heads of the three companies all personally called Simon to express different degrees of disagreement, but Simon did not make concessions. As long as the three companies are not in the wrong direction, he will not interfere too much in the management of Steve Case and others, but this does not mean that he will completely trust several executives.

On September 16, the congressional hearing on the 58list website was held in Washington as scheduled.

There were actually three parties to the hearing: members of the Senate and Congress, executives from Eaglet Corporation, and delegations from several major newspaper groups in the United States.

In order to avoid being guided by traditional paper media out of context, Eaglet has turned the hearing into a live TV format. The two major network platforms of NBC TV and CNN TV will broadcast the hearing, which is expected to last three hours. .

Originally, FOX and ABC had good relations with the Westeros system, because of their own interests in the paper media field, this time they chose to refuse.

Simon was not surprised.

At the same time, the Eaglet portal will also conduct a comprehensive live broadcast of the hearing with graphics, text and audio.

After more than half a year of technological upgrading, AOL has basically completed the ADSL transformation of its own network, which means that as of September, the basic network speed of more than 26 million World Wide Web users covered by AOL has reached 256Kbps, which is compared with the old dial-up Internet access. The network speed up to 128Kbps has been directly doubled.

In fact, many users have opened a higher speed of 512Kbps, which is enough for web pages to play audio content in real time.

As Simon began to allow the Westeros system to expand savagely, AOL, which has completed the ADSL layout, will also accelerate its industrial layout in other regions of the United States outside the east and west coasts.

Simon watched the hearing that lasted three hours in the Dume Point Manor.

No particular accident occurred during the entire hearing, and Igreat's advantage was very obvious.

Most of the antiques in the Senate obviously still don't know what the Internet means, so Michael Novarek needs to explain many issues himself.

Novarek showed great patience. These basic questions, such as what kind of service 58list provides, what kind of profit the website relies on, and so on, inevitably accounted for most of the hearings.

Although there is no shortage of how 58list will deal with more acute issues such as fraud and false information, with careful preparation in advance, these questions have been resolved by Michael Novarek one by one.

The climax of the hearing may be counted as several newspaper group representatives on 58list website suspected of low-price dumping allegations.

The paper media believes that 58list’s free model is completely destroying the traditional paper media’s tens of billions of dollars worth of classified information advertising industry in a disguised low-price model. This behavior threatens the work of tens of thousands of newspaper practitioners. Moreover, Once the classified information advertising business of traditional newspapers is destroyed, 58list may charge consumers higher fees by using its own market advantages.

Igrett did not give in.

Said that the launch of 58list service actually saved the public a lot of unnecessary expenses.

It may cost a user 30 US dollars to publish a classified information advertisement in a newspaper. However, with this 30 US dollars, users can not only enjoy the free news and information, e-mail, social network, online games and other services of Igreat Company, 58list is just One of them.

Moreover, Eaglet Portal has its own business model, and its main income comes from the advertisements of merchants.

This is also the basis for 58list to provide free services.

In addition, the website will not be able to charge users high fees in the future, because once it does so, other free websites of the same type will inevitably appear, and the accusation made by the representative of the newspaper group simply does not stand.

According to statistics, the hearing lasted three hours, and a member of the Senate basically beaten soy sauce, and the representative of the newspaper group was completely defeated.

The Internet and TV platforms followed more than 50 million users of this hearing in real time, and they even lean towards Eaglet. The newspaper group that wanted to protect its own interests became the villain of this hearing.