Hollywood Hunter

Simon and Aaliyah came to the restaurant downstairs, and the girls had already brought dinner to the table.

The waitresses of the Weijia have basically received cooking training, and the dazzling array of food on the table is full of color, fragrance, and taste. The seven girls with different temperaments added a bit of beauty to the dinner.

Greeting everyone, Simon sat down casually in the middle of the long dining table.

The seven girls looked modest and polite, but from the subsequent seating, one could see the fighting among them.

This is the main dining room of the villa. A total of 10 people can sit on either side of the long dining table.

After Simon took a seat, Jennifer Bray, the youngest and youngest in the restaurant, leaned on the small seller and sat down on the man's right hand very unceremoniously. Girl A seemed to be considerate to help the man share the meal, but she was already occupied unconsciously. The left position.

Seeing this situation, the remaining 5 girls all chose to sit opposite Simon.

Yasmin Gary grabbed the position facing Simon. Girl C and Najia were next to the waist, and Alia and D, who were a step back, could only sit on the edge.

The atmosphere in the restaurant became active again after the slightly weird game of grabbing seats was over.

Simon smiled and listened to the ladies introducing which dishes were made by himself, and then added a few foods to his plate. Then he asked the waist essence on the opposite side: "How are you doing in Japan these days?"

When Simon asked, Yasmin said: "I went to see the cherry blossoms with Najia. The Japanese cherry blossoms are so beautiful this season, like heaven, and I took a lot of photos. Simon, I will show you after dinner."

Simon nodded, remembering that it was the cherry blossom season in Japan, and noticed the hope in the face of Aaliyah on the opposite side, and smiled: "If you have time recently, you can go to Japan to see the cherry blossoms. It will last until mid-April."

The little Jenny next to her turned her face in anticipation: "Simon, can you go with us?"

Simon could only shake his head: "There is no time."

Girl C regretfully said: "I don't have time, boss, I just talked about photos in IELTS. D is currently looking for a project, a web album, and it is very suitable for cooperation with my company. What do you think?"

Simon looked at Deborah, who was the last maid in ABCD, and asked with a smile, "Tell me carefully."

Many girls in the restaurant wanted to remind that it was dinner time, but since the man opened his mouth, everyone could only look at it curiously.

Deborah didn't expect Claire to mention this directly at the dinner table. Seeing Simon looked at herself, she quickly sorted out her thoughts and said, "Actually, Facebook already has an album function, but relatively speaking, it is just a support for Facebook. I did a survey in advance and found that many users prefer to post photos instead of interacting with others through text on Facebook. Therefore, I think it should be very promising to build a pure photo publishing website."

Simon listened patiently to Deborah's statement and asked, "What about the business model, how do you plan to use this website to make money?"

Girl D said: "Of course it's advertising. Compared with text links, I believe that the effect of image ads should be better. As an image display website, embedding image ads will also be very convenient."

Simon asked again: "Do you think the current digital camera user base is enough to support a pure photo display website?"

Deborah blinked and said, "C’s company shipped 1.69 million iCam units in the first quarter, and there will be 8-10 million units throughout the year. The entire digital camera market shipped in 1994. The most conservative estimate is that there are 15 million units. With the accumulation of the past few years, the potential user scale is expected to exceed 20 million by the end of this year. It is already very large. Moreover, it is not only users who have digital cameras that will visit this store. website."

Simon knew the data mentioned by Lady D, but he always subconsciously compared it with the 1 billion 2 billion users of the same type of website.

Start this project now, really launch and develop, at least until the end of the year. By then, the number of global digital camera users will reach 20 million, which is indeed very impressive.

You know, at this stage, the total number of global users of the Facebook social network under Eaglet’s company is only about 53 million. Even if it can quickly achieve a breakthrough of 100 million or more in the next two years, it is far from the total number of users in Simon’s memory. Compared with Facebook, which has a scale of more than 2 billion.

However, even Facebook's current user base has already impressed many Internet companies.

If D Girl’s idea can be successful, the potential user base already possessed at this stage is fully activated, coupled with pure browsing users who do not publish photos, the scale of the website will also be very considerable.

Speaking of it, although the detailed planning is not yet clear, the creativity of Lady D is obviously close to the Instagram (photo wall) in Simon’s memory. As the most successful website in the mobile Internet era, Instagram also has a user base of more than 1 billion. The operation is also very good, which can be described as one of the most successful mergers and acquisitions under Facebook.

Thinking of Instagram, Simon inevitably gave birth to D girl’s creativity that might be too advanced. Just like AOL’s predecessor planned to use the Internet for game and music subscription business in the early days of its establishment, this creativity was obviously too advanced in the early 1980s. .

Even though he thought so, Simon did not intend to veto it.

Lady D’s creativity is right, and the business model of profiting through image advertising is also right. Moreover, the investment in this creativity is far lower than that of e-commerce and other businesses that require a large amount of money to burn.

After thinking about it for a moment, Simon said: "This website is called Instagram."

Girl D was overjoyed first, and then wondered: "What does Instagram mean?"

Simon said: "InstantTelegram."

InstantTelegram, instant telegram.

Simon explained that, all the girls here understand that this is another innovative vocabulary, which probably means sharing photos with your peers like an instant telegram. Silicon Valley Internet companies are now very popular original vocabulary, but it is not unconventional, mainly in the second In the 1990s, the English vocabulary that can be thought of in human history has basically been registered into various companies.

Just like Apple, it had to fight for many years with another ‘Apple Record’ for a name. Once Yahoo, the exact registered trademark was actually ‘Yahoo! ’, there is an exclamation point behind it, because the simple word ‘Yahoo’ has been registered in advance.

When Claire founded Tinkerbell, he struggled with the trademark ‘Tinkerbell’.

Since it was Simon's name personally, Lady D didn't intend to object at all, nodded, and couldn't help but confirm: "Boss, do you agree?"

Simon nodded and added: "I don't care if I mess up."

Girl D showed a nice smile on her fair face and said, "No, I plan to cooperate with C and promote it together."

In fact, Simon is not too worried.

The ABCD that Janet chose at the beginning were all very good girls themselves. Having stayed at Westeros's house these years, under the influence of her ears and eyes, her personal connections are far superior to those rookie entrepreneurs who have just stepped out of school.

Of course, if the foundation is established, which step can be taken in the future depends on the execution of Lady D.

The world has never lacked commercial creativity. Even at this stage, the Internet platform may already have the same type of pure photo sharing website. The key is to see who can stand out in the end.

Thinking about this, Simon motioned to the waist and legs on the opposite side, and said to Girl D: "In fact, if you want to start this website, the ones who need to build a good relationship are IELTS. If the entire Victoria's Secret Army can be stationed on Instagram, This website will definitely have millions of users in a short time."

The power of star effect is very powerful.

The Victoria's Secret Army at this stage not only has a very high popularity, but is definitely the most seductive group of big goblins in the world.

Yasmin and Najia have been listening to Simon and Lady D’s dialogue. At this moment, when Simon said, Yao Jing’s eyes flashed, turned to look at Lady D, and looked at the opposite man, and suddenly said: "Simon, Can I also invest some money on this website?"

Naja Allman reacted at this moment and subconsciously said: "I want to try too."

Girl C laughed and joined the fun: "I want to invest too, boss."

Little Jenny leaned over and rubbed against Simon: "There is still me, and me."

Simon raised his hand and knocked on the goblin's forehead: "Don't join in the fun."

"Hehe."

Simon retracted his hand, picked up the cutlery again and cut the black pepper steak on the plate, and said: "You can discuss it yourself, as long as D agrees. The initial investment of Instagram may only cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Vase Fund will not participate this time. Up."

In fact, all the girls here are very clear that if Instagram wants to develop quickly, it is fundamentally inseparable from Simon's support. After all, if there is no resource tilt of the Igreat portal, it is not easy for Instagram to become famous.

Girl D is actually the most observant girl in ABCD. Seeing Simon say this, she thought about it, and quickly said to the other girls in the restaurant: "US$200,000 per person. Give you 5% of the shares. I want to take it myself. 70%."

The waist essence and leg essence obviously don't know the market, and they are a little confused. Claire couldn't help it, and rolled his eyes: "Are you too dark?"

For the six girls in the restaurant, 200,000 dollars per person is 1.2 million dollars, which is enough for Instagram to recruit a team to complete the preliminary website design and start operations. A certain lion’s girl only needs to pay 30% of the shares. Moreover, although the probability is very small, once it fails, Girl D will not lose a penny.

For many start-ups in Silicon Valley, the first angel investment is often only a dozen or two hundred thousand dollars.

Girl D is not guilty at all, insisting: "It's already very cheap, and I still need to recruit people. Now in Silicon Valley, it is difficult for start-ups to recruit the top engineers without giving some shares. Give up at least 10% again."

Aaliyah, who has been speaking less since dinner, suddenly said: "D, maybe I can try to find some excellent software engineers. Indians shouldn't need shares, but getting a visa may be more troublesome."

Yasmin, who was subconsciously hostile to Aaliyah, almost blurted out, "Do Indians use computers?" However, realizing that Simon was sitting opposite, he stopped the words.

Everyone didn't know what Aaliyah and Simon had just discussed upstairs, but they were all confused.

Seeing the appearance of the girls, Simon smiled to protect the Indian girls: "This, Aaliyah should be able to do it, it is really cheap, and the ability is not bad."

Although the overall level of the Indian software industry is very low, there is no shortage of top-notch talents anywhere. This can be seen from the proportion of Indian senior executives in Silicon Valley. At this stage, as long as these people can come to work in the United States, at least in the short term, they will not ask for too much. With the resources and contacts of the Westeros system, it is easy to get a few work visas.

Seeing Simon said so, of course Lady D has no objection.

The girls continued to bargain where you came and went, and under Deborah's insistence, each person could only get 5%.

In fact, 200,000 US dollars is not a big money for the girls here. Even if it is Jenny, the girl can get 100,000 US dollars in living expenses from Simon every year in the past few years. Helping Claire on weekdays is not for nothing, and it can be easily borrowed at the least. This payment.

Thinking of this, Simon looked at the girl next to him: "Aren't you going to graduate early this year, please help D first."

Jennifer Berry entered the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University in 1991. It only took two years for the girl to complete most of the courses. Although this year is a junior, she will be able to graduate with a degree after her defense next month.

The little girl had just joined in the excitement enthusiastically. Hearing what Simon said, she suddenly looked over pitifully, like a cat who has only been abandoned by her master: "Simon, I want to work by your side."

If it wasn't for getting to the man as soon as possible, she didn't need to work so hard.

Simon smiled and touched the girl's head: "You know the latest thing, but you are also in the gossip newspaper."

"I do not care."

"The main reason is that you can't come over to grab A's job, and you're still so young. First help D work for two years, then come to me again."

"Two years, you said."

"I promise."

"Hook hook."

"Um, stop making trouble, or just add another year."

"..."

It was almost a laugh, and a brand new Internet project was finalized.

Even though the seven girls on the scene did not lack expectations, they did not expect that they had invested in a project where they had fun this dinner, and how far they would develop in the future.

Dinner was over, it was already over eight o'clock.

Aaliyah and the three girls, A and D, finished the tableware and went to a living room next to the villa’s living room. They only saw the little Jenny cat lying in Simon’s arms on the sofa. The little girl still has a little girl. The advantage of being 20 years old, little Jenny, who is only 155cm tall, is like a little Luoli of twelve or thirteen years old, and even in front of Simon, she can pretend that she is a coquettish. This is why everyone calls her little fairy in private.

There is a TV in the living room, but no one is paying attention to it.

When the three girls came in, Yasmin and Najia were trying on the kimonos they brought back from Japan. The pink kimonos studded with cherry blossoms are very beautiful. The two girls are also the top clothes racks. Unfortunately, the effect after wearing them is not good. Unhappy.

Claire saw the three of them coming in and took Alison to try it together, the effect was slightly better.

Finally the girls finally reacted.

Drag Little Jenny away from Simon, carefully wrap and dress up. Although the kimono size chosen by Yasmin and Najia is not suitable for Little Jenny, this is not a problem for the waist and legs who usually deal with clothes. , Fold and tighten it skillfully, and it fits quickly.

In the end, the girls helped Little Jenny reorganize her haircut and put on makeup like a doll. A kimono luoli that is so exquisite that people want to take a bite at a glance is presented to everyone.

Obviously, kimono is still more suitable for petite women.

Girl D enthusiastically brought an iCam to help Little Jenny take a lot of photos, saying that she planned to post it on her website in the future, and then the seven girls took turns taking pictures, and finally pulled Simon to act as a photographer.

With such playfulness, when the time was approaching ten o'clock in the middle of the night, the atmosphere in the villa gradually became enchanting.

There is no plan to really have one man and seven women.

Although the seven girls will not refuse individually, it is not so easy to get together.

Seeing the time was almost the same, rushing a group of thoughtful fairies to rest individually, Simon finally took Yasmin and Najia to the bedroom upstairs.