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In addition to the general direction, Westeros continues to deploy in some seemingly small new technology industries.

C girl Claire, after showing Simon her business plan, soon established a card camera company with the senior engineer who left Kodak.

At the same time, Claire also contacted a graphics processing software company that was established just over a year ago.

The developer of the software is named Thomas Knoll. Knoll first developed a graphics editing software for processing black and white images in 1987 using an Apple computer, named Display. After two years of continuous research and development, the software’s The name was also changed to Photoshop, and it began to be used in the fields of scanners and digital typesetting.

After Simon got the news, he directly instructed James Raybould to buy out the software.

However, the Knoll brothers did not agree to sell the software, but they also hope to cooperate with Westeros Corporation.

After several consultations between the two parties, Westeros invested 80 US dollars and obtained 50% of the shares of the company established by the Noel brothers.At the same time, the Knoll brothers will continue to master the development of Photoshop software.

Simon does not want the professional-level image processing software in his memory to be reduced to the existence of Meitu Xiuxiu, so he instructed the Noel brothers to develop two softwares at the same time. It is sold in online software stores, and the other is a simplified free version of Photoshop, which is specially provided to Claire's card camera company as a supporting software.

San Francisco.

Inside the mountain mansion in Woodside.

The time was March 3th, and Simon came to Silicon Valley again yesterday to attend the monthly meeting of several companies in Eaglet.

The female assistant didn't squeeze herself any more last night. Simon got up early and went for a morning run in the Woodside Mountains as usual.

At eight o'clock, back at the villa, Jennifer has already prepared breakfast.

The two sat down in the dining room, and Jennifer ate breakfast and casually talked about work: "I think that if Ygritte continues to develop like this, sooner or later it will encounter anti-monopoly obstacles. Now you want to build hardware Ecological chain, which will directly touch the interests of traditional technology giants such as Intel and IBM."

Simon glanced at the newspaper at hand, picked up the cutlery and said with a smile, "Think carefully about my personnel layout for Ygritte."

Jennifer thought for a moment with her head tilted for some unknown reason, and quickly caught something, and said, "Butz is in charge of the software business, and Bezos is in charge of the network business. Also, next, Ferguson may be in charge of e-commerce. Well, you Have you made up your mind to split Ygritte from the beginning?"

"If it's possible not to split, of course it's best not to split," Simon nodded and said, "However, this possibility is very low. Major operators in North America have now started to enter the ISP business, which means that the Internet industry The expansion speed will be further accelerated. Eaglet is only because it is still losing money on a large scale, and many people cannot see the commercial potential contained in it. In addition, this company is involved in a completely emerging technology industry and will not invade traditional giants The interests of the industry have not encountered too many obstacles. However, when the industry expands to a sufficient scale of output value, we cannot expect this state to continue.”

Splitting Igret was indeed Simon's idea from the very beginning, because the industrial value of Igret's involvement in the field is too great.

Moreover, Simon did this mainly because of Ygritte's own development considerations. He didn't want Ygritte to suffer from serious big company disease early on because he had too many resources.The Internet era has just begun, and there are still too many challenges ahead. If you don’t think about making progress and keep going, no matter how many resources you have, you will only encounter the fate of being eliminated in the future.

The two were chatting when Simon's personal mobile phone rang suddenly.

He answered casually, and before he had time to speak, a series of small screams came from the opposite side: "Ahhh..."

This is Janet's voice.

Simon showed a helpless expression, and came again.

Just as she was about to comfort her, Janet excitedly continued on the other side of the phone: "Honey, yes, yes, I'm pregnant, come back soon."

Simon froze for a moment, confirmed that he had heard correctly, and subconsciously stood up.

Jennifer looked over suspiciously.

Simon stood across the table and chatted softly with Janet for a while, promising that he would be back to Los Angeles immediately, and then hung up the phone.

Jennifer understood the conversation between Simon and Janet.

Knowing that Simon has been tormented by Janet because of the child's affairs during this period, Janet finally got her wish before her 31st birthday. Although she felt a little bit uneasy, the female assistant put down the tableware and said: "In this case, we now Just go back."

Chapter 405 Yes (Revised)

Accompanied by various inspections, notified relatives and friends, arranged diet and rest during pregnancy... I was busy from Tuesday to Friday, and of course I continued to stay at home on Saturday and Sunday.

The commotion was so great that the media inevitably got wind of it.

The news was officially announced on the Ygritte portal: the first child of the Westeros family is about to be born.

So there was another round of congratulations and blessings from all parties.

Discussions in the media are also very lively.

Some people analyze the difference between the first heir of Simon Westeros between boys and girls, some people discuss how much wealth this child may inherit in the future, some people guess what name the Westeros couple will give this child, so All kinds, and so on.

Anthony Johnston also flew his family from Melbourne to Los Angeles on Friday to visit his newly pregnant sister on behalf of the family.

After confirming that she was 1000% pregnant, Janet also quietly donated [-] million US dollars to several children's charities such as UNICEF in the name of the Simon Janet Westeros Foundation.In Janet's words, this is accumulating blessings for the little guy in her stomach, hoping that the child will be healthy and safe in the future.

Westerners regard charity as one of their social obligations, and some utilitarianism is also to obtain corresponding social fame, and there is no concept of "a family with good deeds must have lasting celebrations".

Simon felt that Janet had this idea probably because she has been insisting on learning Chinese in recent years. The woman's Chinese level has reached the level where she can directly read the traditional version of "Dream of Red Mansions".

Since he is an oriental person in his heart, Simon will naturally not object to Janet's approach.

Because of the successful pregnancy of the baby, Janet also celebrated her 31st birthday, which she had always wanted to forget.However, they only invited some close relatives and friends to enjoy a birthday dinner at Dumei Manor, which was far less lively than Simon's birthday party last month.

After the birthday dinner, the Anthony family, who lived in Los Angeles for a week, returned to Australia, and Simon finally started working again.

Janet went straight to maternity leave.

Not working.

Just over three weeks pregnant and going on maternity leave...

Pregnant women are the biggest.

Who dares to object?

Fortunately, Janet has always upheld a mentality that the superior works hard for others. Most of the time, she only grasps one general direction in the operation of Cersei Capital, and most of the work is safely handed over to the heads of the three subsidiaries.Therefore, the departure of the woman will basically not have much impact on the operation of Cersei Capital.

Of course, Janet is going to take maternity leave early, but it is impossible for Simon to completely let go of Cersei Capital.

Now Cersei Capital, Cersei Fund Management Company, Apollo Management Company and Black Rock Asset Management Company, manage a total of more than 210 billion US dollars in funds.Among them, the scale of the former two is about 30 billion US dollars, while the capital scale of Black Rock Asset Management, which mainly operates low-risk stocks, bonds and fixed income investments, has reached 150 billion US dollars.

Although the heads of the three subsidiaries have been carefully selected and all have the top investment talents on Wall Street, no one can guarantee whether these professional managers will do anything extraordinary once they have excessive power and lack strict supervision. matter.

There are too many cases where Wall Street fund managers make their own claims and invest without authorization, causing huge losses to the company.

In Simon's memory, Salomon Brothers, which was comparable to Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in this era, probably collapsed later this year due to the exposure of the fund manager's illegal bond bidding scandal, and finally completely collapsed a few years later. Disappeared among the ranks of Wall Street investment banking giants.

Janet's previous work at Cersei Capital was half of controlling the direction and half of financial supervision.

After Janet left, Cersei Capital quickly reorganized and established an investment committee.Simon, James Raybould and the three heads of the three subsidiaries joined as members of the investment committee.

Simon took on the task of controlling the overall situation, and James was in charge of financial supervision.

Cersei Capital's subsequent investments above the corresponding scale must be approved by the five-member investment committee before they can be implemented.Of course, as the controlling shareholder of Cersei Capital, Simon still holds a veto.

However, Simon's inner idea is actually to not interfere with the management of Cersei Capital as much as possible.

Unless it is a project that is doomed to failure in memory, he will not deliberately obstruct the decision of the fund managers of the three subsidiaries. A qualified boss must be able to tolerate the failure of his subordinates.The main purpose of setting up the investment committee is to prevent the three subsidiaries from becoming a wild horse after Janet lets go.

In fact, Janet has never been so enthusiastic about the operation of Cersei Capital. Now that she is pregnant with a child, she will definitely focus more on the little guy in the future.As long as the operation of the investment committee is effective, this system can be maintained in the future.

This year's Easter is March 3, and the Easter schedule will start on March 31.

Daenerys Entertainment will release two films this Easter, the documentaries "True and Brave" and "Kids in the Cornfield 3" about Madonna's Blonde Ambitious concert last year.

If you count Universal Pictures, there is also a "Crazy Night" with John Hughes as the producer.

"Crazy Night" tells the story of a supermarket clerk and a rich girl who ran away from home and encountered two thieves during the vigil in the supermarket. The film was also filmed last year, and the similar plot is just due to the style of John Hughes' consistent mass-produced works.

Simon did not report much expectations for the box office of this film that he had never heard of, but the heroine of the film was quite eye-catching. It was Jennifer Connelly in "Once Upon a Time in America". The actress is 21 this year. At the age of [-], he is at the absolute peak of his appearance.

The time has entered late March, and it is not too far away from the summer vacation.

Simon is starting to focus more on a series of Daenerys entertainment-related films these days.

The next summer file, the four films in the core schedule from June to July, "Batman: The Dark Knight", "Terminator 6", "The Fugitive" and "A Few Good Men", are all foreign cooperation films, respectively produced by Warner , Fox, Warner and MGM.

In addition to the four mainstream commercial films, Daenerys Entertainment independently released only three niche independent films of Gaomen Films.

Because it is expected to take over MCA this year, this is actually Simon's deliberate arrangement.

The distribution team of Daenerys Entertainment will complete the takeover and integration of Universal Pictures through the release of this summer file.

However, to Simon's disappointment, Universal Pictures' four films this summer, "Backfire", "Jungle Fever", "Problem Boy 2" and "Cosmopolitan", obviously do not have the potential to sell well.

Looking at the 1991 film list of Universal Pictures, probably only "Cape Fear" and "Fried Green Tomatoes", which were tentatively scheduled at the end of the year, had a good box office. However, the North American box office of these two films still did not exceed [-] million in memory.In other words, Universal Pictures should not have a movie with a box office of over [-] million this year.

The ups and downs in the performance of Hollywood studios can be seen from this.

Therefore, it once again set off how cutting-edge Daenerys Entertainment has been in Hollywood in recent years.

In order to avoid or reduce the losses caused by Universal Pictures' 1991 film business as much as possible, Daenerys Entertainment cut off the production and distribution plans of Universal's 7 films during this period.However, because most of the projects are already in the substantive production stage, many have not yet been completed, and the number of films left in the end still reaches 16.

For Daenerys Entertainment, the three labels have confirmed that they will release 1991 films in 23.

Adding the two items together, the new Daenerys Entertainment will launch a total of 1991 films in 39.

Fortunately, Simon had planned ahead of time.

Of Daenerys Entertainment’s 23 films, 11 of them are from High Gate Films. Although niche independent films and literary films have repeatedly created box office miracles in recent years, the overall pattern is still limited, so they will not affect mainstream commercial films. The system has too much impact.

After the re-planning, 16 of Universal Pictures' 6 films are also under the banner of Gaomen Pictures.

Taken together, the number of films released by Gaomen Films in 1991 will reach 17, all of which are independent and literary films.

In addition, the number of films assigned by New World Pictures is 11, mainly of the thriller horror and vulgar comedy genres.

The final number of mainstream commercial films is also 11, including films such as "Batman: The Dark Knight" that were cooperated with foreign companies, as well as films such as "Toy Story" that Daenerys Pictures released independently.

The three distinct distribution systems will become the main structure of Daenerys Entertainment's future film business.

For each distribution system, the scale of films produced will be equivalent to that of a mainstream studio.

Although Daenerys Entertainment still maintains an open attitude towards external cooperation, such a structural adjustment of its film business clearly carries a strong aggressiveness.

After all, traditional large studios usually release only a dozen or twenty films a year, and rarely more than 30 films.After the adjustment of Daenerys Entertainment's film business structure, the annual film release scale will reach as many as 40. Given the basically fixed capacity of the North American film market, doing so will naturally squeeze the living space of other Hollywood studios. .

Simon will not be restrained because other Hollywood studios feel the pressure. In the past few years, he has given enough easing chips.Next, Simon plans to personally promote the further integration of major Hollywood studios, reducing the number of Hollywood media giants to five or even less in advance.

In this process, traditional large studios will definitely be annexed and disappear. With the removal of restrictions on horizontal integration in the media field, media giants will gain more monopoly resources.It will become more difficult for latecomers to succeed in Hollywood.

Point Dume Manor.

Today is March 3, Friday, and before I know it, another week has passed.

With Janet pregnant, Simon leaves work at 5 a.m. almost every day these days.

As soon as he entered the Shell Villa, Simon saw that the hall was filled with a wide variety of children's products, such as baby carriages, milk powder, plush toys, Lego blocks, piles of clothes, piles of small shoes... It was like a children's product flea market.

Walking through the 'flea market', Simon finds the woman on the sofa by the glass curtain wall who is holding a remote control to control the toy truck on the ground.

Excited look.

The toy truck slammed into Simon's feet twice, and a woman's dumb and charming voice sounded: "Beep beep, dad is blocking the way of the car, dad, get out of the way."

Simon didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he walked over and slapped the buttocks of the woman who was lying on the sofa with only one head sticking out: "I bought so many things, there are mines at home."

Janet naturally couldn't understand the stalk in Simon's words, but it didn't prevent her from responding confidently: "Yes."

Simon froze for a moment.

Ok.

This home really has mines.

He walked around the sofa and sat down, hugged the woman on his lap, grabbed the remote control in her hand, and the toy truck started running on the clean ground again.

Ok.

Pretty fun.

Janet saw Simon quickly 'put into it', and reached out to grab the remote control in dissatisfaction: "This is for the baby."

Simon dodged: "Don't grab it, the baby will have to wait for a few years, let the baby's father play for a while."

Janet's head rested on Simon's lap, and her little paws stretched out to snatch it a few more times, but to no avail, she had to give up, but she couldn't help laughing.

After laughing for a while, Jennifer gently stroked her belly and asked, "Simon, what do you think our little guy's name should be?"

Simon said, "What do you think?"

"I want you to wake up."

"I'm not very good at naming things."

"Yeah, Seattle or something," Janet laughed again, patted Simon, and said, "My child doesn't have such a strange name."

Simon also smiled, and said, "Why would Jenny tell you this?"

"Hum hum."

Janet didn't explain, just hummed a few times triumphantly.

Simon thought for a while and said, "If it's a boy, let's call it Melbourne. For a girl, well, it's also called Melbourne."