I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 607
[Chapter 602 How much does it cost]
The average number of visitors per day exceeds 5 million. If you say this number, not only Elizabeth, but also most people will not easily believe it, but this is an indisputable fact.
Since the advent of personal computers in the 1980s, North America alone has accumulated tens of millions of users. These are important foundations for the successful promotion of network services. After Clinton took office, he increased the promotion of the information superhighway plan at the government level. .
However, the most important thing is that the graphical interface browser that appeared two years earlier has lowered the threshold for ordinary people to explore the online world. In addition, the content support provided by the Yahoo portal website and online services such as free e-mail, make network services no longer limited. Because of professional computing personnel, it began to expand to the broadest user base, so it has the user scale of Yahoo today.
“If you have to explore the reasons,” Eric replied when he heard Elizabeth’s doubts, “It’s similar to the appearance of television sets in the 1950s and 1960s. People found that they could observe the world through a small box, so they chose to buy them. , Investors see the profits, and they also set up TV stations to provide content, so a very huge industry has gradually formed. The current situation is that computer networks can not only observe the world, but also communicate with the world, and the relevant software and hardware conditions are also It has been accumulated for more than ten years, and once it starts to explode, the expansion will of course be very rapid.”
Elizabeth said: “But the traditional paper media industry cannot be eliminated because of this?”
Eric nodded: “Of course No, it’s just that it won’t be as beautiful as it used to be.”
Elizabeth suddenly smiled and said, “Then what to do now, I’ll tell my old man. Bah-bah. I mean. I told my dad, the newspaper industry It’s going to decline soon, so why don’t we buy it? Do you think he will change his ingrained views just because of your few words?”
Eric spread his hands and said, “Then, wait for Firefly to sort out these assets in the second half of the year. When it comes out for public sale, News Corp. will come to participate in the bidding. In the business, whoever offers the highest price will sell the Firefly to whomever.”
Elizabeth felt that this matter seemed to have no choice but to do so.
Go back and tell the old man what Eric said. Even if it doesn’t affect his final judgment, at least News Corp. will be out of this scruples when bidding, and the bid will not be so aggressive.
“There is one more thing,” the two were about to leave after talking, when Eric stopped Elizabeth again and said, “You should not reveal the scale of Yahoo’s user data.
” The industry is closely watching, but on the one hand, the industry only sees three companies burning money without any output; on the other hand.
These three companies have never publicly released any company data, which is why they have been able to maintain a quiet expansion posture for several consecutive years.
Although many people have realized that the user scale of the three companies is already very large.
But there is no specific data, but it is not enough to stimulate the awakening of too many people.
If the data just now is publicly disclosed, many industry giants will realize what the total user scale of 20 million and the daily average of more than 5 million visitors means. A field with promising investment prospects will attract a large number of competitors to this field at that time.
Elizabeth stopped and asked, “Can’t even my father say it?”
Eric nodded solemnly, and said, “Especially can’t tell your old man.”
Elizabeth hammered Eric angrily. , but still agreed: “I know, but these things should be hidden sooner or later, right?”
Eric clenched his fist confidently, waved it gently, and said: “As long as there is another year of layout time, I will The chips in hand are enough to crush any competitor!”
Portal websites and online mailboxes are relatively easy to copy, but as long as the instant messaging software developed by Steve Mitnick is popularized, and the technology of IE browser is used Some other means such as barriers can be woven into a huge user network, which can suck in all new Internet users like a black hole.
The Matthew effect that the stronger the stronger the weaker the weaker in the Internet industry is very obvious. Once a giant in a certain field is formed, it will be difficult for similar companies to compete with it.
Elizabeth couldn’t help but stared at Eric’s calm and confident profile for a few seconds, felt Eric’s eyes move, and hurriedly avoided, saying: “By the way, you just said let me recommend for you. A Yahoo’s editor-in-chief?”
Eric saw Virginia beckoning to them outside, walked out with Elizabeth, and asked, “Do you have any good candidates?”
“I don’t know if it counts .
You can only judge the good candidates,” Elizabeth said: “You know Vanity Fair, right?”
“Well,” Eric nodded, and then thought of a person: “You don’t mean Tina Brown Well, will she be willing to leave Condé Nast?” The
portal is just emerging, Eric can only choose talents from traditional media, and this person must have a strong enterprising spirit and a non-conservative character, otherwise it will be difficult to accept the Internet media. a whole new field.
Tina Brown has successively led Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and many other magazines to the top through a series of innovations in the original time and space. She should be only in her early 40s now, and there is no shortage of these necessary personalities, and it is the cause of her career. In the peak period, if this woman can really be dug into Yahoo as editor-in-chief, it would be a good choice.
It’s just that Tina Brown left the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair magazine and directly transferred to the editor-in-chief of another “New Yorker” magazine under the Condé Nast Publishing Group.
Elizabeth said: “Tina just resigned from Vanity Fair at the beginning of the year. We are still familiar with her. I saw her at a party two days ago. Hesitating, she is not a person who likes to repeat, if there is a better choice, I think she doesn’t mind trying it.”
Eric said: “Then you can leave a phone call to me later.”
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As night falls , The manor house is brightly lit inside and outside.
Since it’s a birthday party, it’s natural to start blowing out candles.
Everyone tried their best to coax the two little guys who just turned one year old.
Hawaii, who was already able to call her mother, watched the people around her point to the candle on the cake in front of her and encouraged her.
Seems impatient.
In the end, he simply stretched out his little hand and grabbed the candle, which was regarded as extinguishing the candle, causing a burst of laughter.
Little Kevin was so frightened by a circle of strangers that he cried, and finally the candle was blown out by Emma who was eager to try.
After the cake was distributed, the party officially began, the table was filled with self-pick-up dinners, and the guests began to gather in twos and threes, sitting or standing.
Eric walked through the crowd with a glass of red wine to greet the guests.
Continuing the afternoon talk about the movie with Pierre Clarke from Merrill Lynch and others, Joanna suddenly walked up to him and gently tugged at his sleeve.
“Sorry, excuse me,” Eric nodded to a few people, then came aside with Joanna and asked in a low voice, “What’s wrong?”
Joanna just said softly, “Eric, come with me. Just a
moment.”
Eric followed Joanna into the villa for some unknown reason, walked through the hall full of guests and came upstairs, and Joanna pointed to the bedroom.
Said: “Vicky is crying, go and persuade. I don’t know what to say.”
Eric stopped and asked, “What’s the matter, wasn’t it okay just now?”
“About Kevin, “Joanna said: “Xia Xia would speak more than a month ago, but Kevin can’t say anything, and just now…”
Eric almost understood after hearing half of it, and smiled helplessly, Said
: “Go down and entertain the guests, I’ll do it myself.”
Pushing open the bedroom door, Eric walked over and casually crooked when he saw Virginia bending over to change the diaper for the little guy who was rambling on the bed. On the big bed, looking at Virginia’s slightly red eyes, he said, “There’s no need for this, boys develop later than girls, Einstein didn’t speak until he was three years old, and the little guy was only one year old. What are you in a hurry for?”
“Everyone thinks Kevin is stupid, they just don’t talk about it,” Virginia felt a sore nose and seemed to be crying again, handed the little guy to Eric, and said, “You hug me. He, maybe you won’t like him when you grow up.”
“What nonsense,” Eric glared at the woman, put the little guy in his arms, stretched out a finger to tease his son, Kevin stared wide-eyed when he saw the finger dangling above him, grabbed it and put it in his mouth, the few small deciduous teeth that had just grown were itchy.
Seeing the intimacy between the father and son, Virginia felt relieved a little, pulled one over to sit by the bed, and suddenly sighed regretfully: “I should have chosen a caesarean section in the first place, Kevin must have been absent for a long time. Oxygen is like this.”
“Didn’t you say Kevin’s IQ is okay?”
Virginia said, “How can such a small child be accurate.”
Eric realized that the woman who believed in the truth was also wrong. But he bent, so he had to whisper to his son lying beside him: “Baby, learn to talk quickly, if you don’t talk, mom won’t like you anymore.” The
little guy stared at Eric with round eyes. , doesn’t seem to understand Eric’s words, seems to understand again.
Eric looked at his son like this, and tentatively said, “Come on, call Dad to listen, and learn from me, Dad-Dad-”
After a short silence, the little guy in his arms suddenly said Short syllables: “Clap-pop-”
Although the pronunciation is very vague, but in the quiet bedroom, Eric and Virginia can hear clearly, and Virginia suddenly stands up from the chair When he got up, his face showed a look of surprise, and there was no more sadness.
“I’ll just say, this little bastard is definitely pretending to be stupid,” Eric suddenly laughed, turned the little guy over on his little butt and slapped it lightly, saying, “And he’s here waiting to occupy the I’m cheap, and I’m not willing to speak out unless I shout out first.”
Although Eric didn’t exert any strength in his hands, the little guy immediately burst into tears. Virginia hurriedly snatched his son from Eric’s hand, coaxed her with a doting face, and said Unceremoniously, he blasted the ‘culprit’ who made his baby’s pimple cry out of the room.
Eric went downstairs, and Joanna nervously greeted him.
“It’s alright,” Eric told Joanna what had just happened with a smile, and Joanna was relieved: “Now Vicky can finally rest assured.”
“She just cares and messes up,” Erie Ke said with a smile.
Most of the villas were female guests. Eric and Joanna said a few words briefly and were about to leave. Chris’ girlfriend Emily would come over and block Eric’s way.
“You can’t leave me a sentence without a word, I have contacted a lot of models, and now it’s your plan.”
Eric pointed to the outside with a smile: “You are still in the mood to worry about this.
Emily looked troubled, but she couldn’t complain that Eric brought Jeffrey: “Chris will explain to Jeffrey, we just bought ltd, and we are so busy every day that we don’t even have time to sleep.
”
, there’s still time to get married. Don’t change the subject, okay? You encouraged us to buy ltd, so you can’t just leave it behind.”
“I never planned to leave it alone,” Eric said: ” It’s just that I haven’t had time recently, so it’s not like you don’t know this, and even if I tell you my plan, you can’t do it yourself, I have to do it myself, you can only cooperate.”
“What? I can’t do it, so it’s important for you to reveal it first, at least I can prepare it in advance.”
“I plan to direct a Victoria’s Secret annual catwalk show myself.”
Emily was a little disappointed, UU reading www.
sonicmtl.
com retorted: “Is that all? How can I not do this? You didn’t come to New York Fashion Week last year. I personally operated the fashion show in Brighton, and Victoria’s Secret now also has an annual new product release show. ”
“Of course it’s more than that. I want to gather top-tier models from all over the world to walk the catwalk, invite the most popular pop singers to the scene, and turn the fashion show into an all-around media marketing channel through newspaper preheating, magazine publicity, live TV broadcast and online discussions. Fashion carnival, making Victoria’s Secret a popular symbol of global attention.”
Although Eric only revealed a simple idea, Emily was obviously shocked by Eric’s huge idea and almost dropped her jaw and stuttered. “This… how much does this cost?”
“First of all, my personal director fee needs to be at least 10 million US dollars, this is still a discounted price,” Eric made a joke, and then said: “We should What matters is how much money this marketing strategy makes for the company, not how much it spends, which, I guarantee, is absolutely insignificant relative to the expected future earnings.” (To be continued.
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