how i bought the whole world

I was very angry.

But I didn't show it. I stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of Philomena's office and looked up at the scenery outside the window. Brandon came in and poured me a cup of coffee, "You're in a bad mood, is it because you're too tired?" ?Come and have some coffee, it will refresh you a little bit."

"And you too, Brandon," I said, "you've been on a dozen-hour plane ride with me, and then you've been in a three-hour meeting with me, and if I'm tired, you're only more tired than I am. .”

He shrugged, "I have a very hard-working boss, so I can only risk my life to accompany the gentleman."

I smiled at him, "You clearly know why I'm in a bad mood."

"Well, I'm just here to plead for Philomena." Brandon said, "I know you must be very angry now, but Philomena is more angry than you, think about it, she is in front of you You can imagine how she feels when she loses such an ugly face. You must know that she has been doing very well here in the Asian branch. This time it is just a coincidence. Maybe you have to be more tolerant, which will help you win over People's hearts."

"I have never denied Philomena's efforts." I replied, "But it is also true that she did not supervise well. How did the investigation go? Philomena said why?"

"An employee watched porn on a company laptop and got a virus."

"I'm not surprised." I sneered, "We obviously have the strongest firewall, but our employees can't stay inside obediently. They always do something to attract attention, which is ridiculously stupid." I turned my head suddenly, She said to the strong woman who knocked on the door and came in with a dignified look, "Tell me Philomena, is there a clause in the company's regulations that does not allow employees to use the company's computer for personal use?"

"Yes." She looked ugly, "I'm sorry Mr. Field..."

I cut her off, "I don't need an apology, did you find that guy and fire him?"

"The one who uses this computer is Charlie. Watson, he is the project team leader of the planning department. He is very capable of working and is also responsible for many projects. He has explained the situation to me just now. He is the one who brought the company's computer back. home, and then watched some unhealthy things on the computer, I plan to demote him."

"Demotion? I want you to fire him!" I said sternly, "Philomina, I don't care how talented or important the other party is to the company, as long as someone uses the company computer to log in to an external dangerous website, he should Going to the street to eat fallen leaves, I will never tolerate this."

"I considered firing him, but he has three kids and a family to support."

"I'm not doing charity!" I was furious, "Listen Philomena, I trust you very much, you have performed very well before this, give me the results you submitted, your vision for the future, you One year's profit has proved to me that my decision to choose you to come to Asia was correct, why don't you let me continue with this idea?"

She looked serious.

I let out a light breath, "Who is the one who solved the trouble? I want to meet him."

When the situation got out of hand just now, a very young boy rushed out first. "Let me see, Miss Garcia." He stared at the computer screen for a while, then took out a laptop and docked it with the problematic laptop, and worked quickly with his fingers on it, "Small problem, there is a Trojan horse program, it is a A small virus that steals traffic is easy to clean up."

I am very impressed with this boy. He looks ordinary, short in stature, but has a pair of very powerful hands, with white and slender fingers, and his movements are fast. He only operated on the computer for a few minutes, but he couldn't turn it off in Philomena's hands The dropped program just stopped working - if he hadn't reacted in time, then we would have had a very embarrassing moment facing these pictures.

Philomena thought for a while, "Jared Adams, he is an employee of our technical department, and he is also the representative of the technical department at this meeting."

"Tell him to meet me at my hotel the next day." I put my coat back on. "Brandon, let's go back and let Philomena handle the rest. Philomena." I turned to her again , "Remember, I trust you."

The other party nodded, bit his lip and said, "Thank you, Mr. Field, I won't let you down again."

The celebration banquet is over, I went back to the hotel with unwavering mood, ate something casually and fell asleep, when I woke up from the room, it was already night, Brandon was sitting in the living room watching TV, I walked out room, yawned sleepily, "Brandon, you didn't rest?"

"Of course I've rested, Mr. Field." He stood up. "Dinner is here. May I warm it up for you?"

"No." I said, "I don't want to eat now, please chat with me."

Brandon insisted that I have dinner before talking, he took the lunch box to the kitchen to heat up, we stayed in a suite at the Ritz Carlton, the best hotel in Singapore with all the kitchen utensils, Bran Den doesn't know how to do housework, but it seems that the microwave can still be used.

"Are you still in a bad mood?"

I shot him a look. "Laughing at me, Brandon?"

"You are like this, I don't need to laugh at you."

I smiled lightly.

"I don't know, Brandon, you're hard to please, but it's not my problem today, Philomena let me know how vulnerable my company is, even though we have the best security, the best surveillance System, the best computer genius, our control of our information is still full of loopholes, what if the secret is leaked this time, what if Charlie. What the hackers do, I can't even imagine that."

This is exactly what I am worried about. These days, almost everyone's computer is running naked, and 80% of the world's computers are not protected.And I can't guarantee that every employee abides by the company's regulations. There will always be one or two of them who want to risk their lives. I can't hold others accountable after the loss occurs. It's too late.

"Then what are you going to do? You asked Philomena to notify the staff named Jared to come over. You don't intend to research a virus-killing software yourself."

"Why not?" I asked back, "I'll introduce Jared to Yitzhak, let them form a new planning team, and then tell me how much I want a professional anti-virus software possibility."

Brandon raised his eyebrows, "Actually, we can use paid software such as Kaspersky or Trend Micro, which are very functional and practical, and there is no need to develop a special one ourselves."

"Kaspersky and Trend Micro are both American companies. I don't know if they will open a back door for me in the future." I said, "WFEC is now positioned as a large multinational company, and it is destined not to only develop in the United States. If we Conflict with other interest groups in the United States, I can't guarantee whether these software updates will lay a trap, if this matter is not resolved, I will not be able to sleep in the future."

Yitzhak called me the next day, and he told me that if you want to develop a professional defense and antivirus software, I am afraid that you need a team to update the virus database all the time, and you also need to build models, design details, and test applications. It takes the size of a small software company, and it's not that easy to do.But I don't care, I just ask him to give others and money, can he fulfill my request.

Yitzhak thought for a while, "If you insist, of course we can set up a research and development team, but it may be a bit difficult to expect to pay back, unless we develop into a paid download model like other antivirus software companies, and then ask the company to promote it, maybe we can Recover part of the cost."

I thought about it for a while, and suddenly had a brand new idea, "No, I'm not going to make money from it, I'm going to make it free software."

Yitzhak understood my way of collecting popularity for free, and he smiled, "Boss, maybe I'm going to throw cold water on you this time. Computer users nowadays don't have a great understanding of the concept of viruses. Their computers are the largest They also have a hard disk of pornography, so they don’t realize that viruses are harmful to them, and they don’t feel the need to download special antivirus software, even if it’s free, so Kaspersky is now the largest antivirus software company The customers are companies, not individuals, only companies use antivirus software to protect their information, and only companies realize the importance of defense, and they don’t take the free package, paying makes them feel safer.”

"Yizhak, I don't know about anti-virus software, I don't know about viruses, but I know about computers, I just tell you a few troubles I have, I hate that I am always plagued by rogue software when I download, and I hate my computer After using it for a few months, it runs slower and slower. If you have a way to solve these troubles, and it’s free, why don’t I download a software? If you say that they don’t know much about antivirus software, then let’s put it another way, Just ask anyone on the street if you hate bundling ads, and they'll tell you that they hate those rogue ads, and some will even say that if there is a way to clean up these crap ads, they would rather pay a tip for it." I cunningly changed a concept, "So we just need to change the name in the promotional area, whether it is anti-virus software or cleaning tools, we are the winners."

Yitzhak doesn't understand marketing, but he understands that customer development is never my concern, "What about value-added services?" he asked, "If you plan to offer free downloads, then value-added services are what we have to consider One, maybe you plan to carry out manual remote antivirus? For example, tell customers that if the free service can’t solve your problem for you, you can try to use our charging project, and we will manually solve the virus for you.”

I replied: "It's a cute idea, but I don't think I want to hire a lot of so-called experts to serve people remotely in my company. I think the main profit of the software is advertising-not bundling advertising. , refers to an application platform. When our customer base grows, we will design a software platform to provide some safe, unbundled genuine software downloads, including paid and unpaid software. We will score and write reviews for these software , recommendation, if you want to get the recommended software, you have to be prepared to pay us."