Simon patiently listened to Charlotte Brinita, took the coffee in front of him and leaned on the sofa to take a sip, shook his head and said: "What you said makes sense, Xia Li, but I still have no interest in investing in Europe's Internet industry, and besides, the Westeros system will not completely ignore Europe, but for this investment, our own team is enough, and we don't need to cooperate with you." ”

It has been proven that due to market capacity, language differences, and other reasons, there has never been a large Internet giant in Europe.

Simon might be able to change history if he was willing to go to great lengths, but in his current position, there is no reason to do so.

As for the troubles that may be encountered in the future, Simon remembers many similar cases, Apple, Google, Facebook were found by the EU antitrust organizations in turn, and the cumulative fines were tens of billions of euros.

In order to gain a voice in the family business over the years, Charlotte Brenita has experienced many rejections, and Simon's words did not disappoint her. It's already a success to be able to meet Westeros today, and even if it's empty-handed, just casually talking about having coffee with Simon Westeros on some suitable occasion in the future can bring her unexpected benefits.

Charlotte Brinita did not give up easily, and said: "Mr. Westeros, the financial investment environment in Switzerland is very different from other regions, and you must know this, just like Melisandre, who is registered in Switzerland, and in addition, we have the advantage of secrecy that is difficult to match in other countries, which is the advantage of Switzerland as a whole. So, I believe we definitely have an opportunity to work together. ”

When Simon heard this, he remembered something, looked up at the woman next to him, and asked, "Do you know anything about China, and how do you think about the country's economy?"

Simon turned a little abruptly, but Charlotte Brinita didn't stumble too much, did her homework in advance, and knew that the Westeros system attaches great importance to investment in China, and said: " China's economic growth in recent years has been very fast, however, I am not too optimistic about the long-term prospects of this country, because China's economic foundation is very weak, at this stage only thanks to the cheap demographic dividend, which is not irreplaceable, just like your layout in Ukraine, in contrast, the current human resource cost in Ukraine is cheaper than China, and it is very close to Europe, with incomparable geographical advantages. ”

Simon was noncommittal to Brienita's answer and said, "In this way, if you want to cooperate with me and learn more about China in the future, it's best to go a few times in person." ”

Charlotte Brenita is now the president of the venture capital department of Brinita Asset Management, and her focus in recent years will also be in the field of new technology.

However, when Simon said this, she immediately nodded in agreement.

Charlotte Brenita's ultimate goal is to take control of the family business, so she doesn't mind venturing into other areas of investment in China if necessary. As long as she can connect with Westeros, she also believes that the investors behind the family business will not mind letting her cross the border.

In Westeros' plan to attack the global Internet industry, Simon does not plan to support any local Internet giants in Europe, but China is different.

This time, it was just another random hidden chess piece.

After all, in the future, a large number of China's Internet giants will be standing behind the scenes of the Westeros system, which is really a bit unsightly. If it is a group of shell capital in North America, a group of shell capital in Australia, a group of shell capital in Southeast Asia, and a group of shell capital in Switzerland in front of us, even if it is still vaguely able to go back to the Westeros system, at least on the surface.

Simon could also see that the woman in front of him was not too interested in China, but she didn't force it, the opportunity was given, and if she couldn't grasp it, it would not be her own business, so he changed the topic and asked: "In addition to subscribing to Igret's shares and investing in Instagram, do you have any other projects here, tell me?"

"I've been working on computer games lately, and I'm planning to invest in a few related game studios, and Igrett's Steam Marketplace has significantly lowered the barrier to entry for solo studio game releases, and computer games are generally cheaper to develop, as well as success stories like Happy Farm. ”

"That's a good direction," Simon nodded, and said, "However, if you pay enough attention to the industry dynamics, you should be able to feel that Egrett has been raising the threshold for listing on the Steam store, and the same is true for Facebook's game platform, so it is not just a game developed by a solo studio in the future." I recently read a meeting memo from Igrett about the game business, and the rule of running a game in the future, whether it's Steam or Facebook, is to put out a classic game with 10 million users rather than 1,000 inferior games with only 10,000 users. So, if you're just going to play tickets, or speculate, I advise you to dispel that idea. Well...... In fact, it is not necessarily, the threshold of game stores on platforms such as Microsoft is still very low. ”

The threshold for the development of Igret's game store is very low, and many solo game studios and even individual developers can upload games and earn a lot of money.

However, with the case of the 'Atari Collapse' in the past, Igrat's side will not repeat the mistakes of the past.

As the Steam store and Facebook social games attract more and more players, the Igrete team is also constantly raising the threshold for game listing review, and recently put forward the guideline that Simon just mentioned, which would rather have 10 million than 1000 1000, which will inevitably turn away a large number of small developers with poor strength and inferior games of poor quality.

There may inevitably be one or two dark horses in these games that cannot be put on the shelves, but overall, it can ensure the long-term development of the Steam store and Facebook game platform to the greatest extent.

There is another effect to this.

It is to drive a large number of inferior games to other game platforms with low thresholds.

It is an inevitable means for online game publishers to lower the threshold to attract content in the early stage, but when the industry begins to standardize, especially when there is already a leader, a large number of inferior games flooding the platform will only make these second- and third-tier publishers be eliminated from the market more quickly.

The original 'Atari crash' was because of the inferior games that flooded the Atari console platform.

"Thank you for the reminder, Mr. Westeros, I'll take note. ”

Charlotte Brinita replied seriously, although she does not plan to focus on the game field for a long time, but at the same time she does not have any intention of playing tickets and speculation, her plan is actually to buy a few start-up game studios, invest in developing one or two high-quality games, and seek to sell the studio for cash while the game is successful.

This is also a common process in venture capital.

Select a group of studios, and as long as one project is successful in the next few years of operation, the overall return will be good.

Of course, if a studio can put out a phenomenal game, like Nintendo's Super Mario or Facebook's Happy Farm, Charlotte Brenita will definitely hold the studio for the long term.

It's just that there is no need to elaborate on these to the man in front of you.

The two continued to talk for a while, and Girl A came in to remind Simon that it was close to noon, so he got up and said to Brinita, "I have a manor nearby, let's go over for lunch together." ”

Charlotte Brinita almost thought that Westeros was going to send her off, but when the man said so, of course she agreed.

Said to be nearby, the group left the military theme park area and drove for about half an hour to reach the destination.

This is located in the north of Rivni more than 30 kilometers between the mountains and forests of a hot spring manor, the manor is surrounded by snow and trees, not to mention the surrounding several kilometers have been Simon quietly circled private woodland, just within the fence of the manor covers an area of 10 acres, the internal building of the manor is still the American country resort style, the overall pattern but absorb some of the design concepts of the oriental garden, so it is not as open as the usual Western manor, with the main building for the westernization design of the pavilions and pavilions make the manor appear to be scattered, because it is located on the hot spring spring, geothermal warmth, the manor interior is verdantThere are even blooming flowers along the banks of the streams and ponds dotted around the estate.

Even though she had lived in a wealthy family since she was a child, Charlotte Brenita was still slightly distracted by the shock of her eyes.

Such a paradise is not something that can be built with money.

Until she found that Simon Westeros had also temporarily stopped and waited for her, Charlotte Brinita hurriedly took another step and smiled apologetically at the man.

Lunch is ready.

When she was seated in the restaurant, Charlotte Brenita initially thought it was just her and Simon, but she didn't expect that there were seven people sitting at the long table, Simon, Girl A, three small shallots, and a tall woman. The man was surrounded by three small shallots, and she sat across from Girl A and the tall girl who introduced herself as Eve.

The atmosphere of the meal is quite warm, most of the time it is three small shallots talking to the man opposite, Charlotte Brinita does not know Russian, let alone Ukrainian, fortunately, the man opposite and the A girl next to her often take the initiative to change to English to talk to her, but there is no cold scene.

Quietly looking at the other Wei family maids who were not bad looking, and then looking at the girls sitting next to her, Charlotte Brinita also unexpectedly realized something.

The mood inexplicably began to feel a little apprehensive.

Or.

Maybe, probably, maybe, and a little bit of anticipation.

Although the 35-year-old has been married for many years, since she still agreed to this meeting under Grace's obvious hints, she has actually made some preparations.

This is Simon Westeros, after all.

Men will rate women, and in the same way, women will rate men.

Charlotte Brenita is confident that she can reach more than 90 points, and a young man standing high in the clouds is not too much if the perfect score is 100 points.

Sleeping with each other, she is the one who takes advantage.

At the end of lunch, Catherine and the three girls took the initiative to pull Westeros to go to the hot springs, and the man casually invited her to join her, and after a little hesitation, he agreed.

Really hesitant.

It's not that I don't want to, but if it's the 'lineup' at lunchtime, it's really, a bit chaotic.

Fortunately.

Nothing happened in the end.

But.

It's not that nothing happened, but she became the one who was invited out of the scene, leaving only three small green apples in the indoor hot spring bath.

Again, a bit of a setback.

There are also some rebellious thoughts.

Since he was not sent away, he insisted on not taking the initiative to leave.

The A girl has not been enthusiastic about her from beginning to end, but she knows the importance of the other party by Westeros' side, you know, a few days ago, on the Forbes American 400 rich list, A, B, C, D four girls, but there are two on the list, and so on, many things can be imagined.

It's not the first time I've encountered this kind of coldness, although I'm very proud in my bones, but as long as it's good for me, Charlotte Brinita doesn't mind putting down her body at all, and finally succeeds in getting the contact information of Girl A in the evening, even if it's just a work email, it's enough.

I thought we would spend the night here, but after dinner, we set off again in the dark of night and rushed back to the city of Rivni.

I paid special attention.

The faces of the three originally green little apples all turned red, as if they had suddenly matured, and they were inexplicably a little envious.

It was already past eight o'clock in the evening when I returned to the city.

I didn't quite understand why I was tossing so much, and it was definitely more comfortable to stay in the hot spring manor than in the city, until the convoy split into two, and Simon's seat drove into a brightly lit area northwest of Rivni City, and the car stopped, and I realized that the man had other arrangements.

Seeing Simon get out of the car and return Charlotte Brinita, who was able to sit next to him, left the Mercedes Benz with him, which was a crowded street entrance.

Didn't understand what a man was going to do.

However, when she found that the three little apples and Lady A had left with the other cars, and that she was the only woman following Westeros, Charlotte Brinita was still a little happy, and took the initiative to come to the man's side and asked softly, "Simon, what are we going to do?"

After getting acquainted with it, he quietly changed his name.

Simon gestured in the direction of the lively street and said, "Commercial Street, let's go and have a look." ”

Charlotte Brinita was still a little confused, but she didn't ask much, and took the initiative to follow the man into this crowded street, and looked left and right curiously. It's just that she quickly lost interest, and on both sides of the street are just ordinary restaurants and clothing, electrical appliances, food and other types of stores, and the grades are very low, compared with the commercial streets she once visited, it can be described as shabby.

However, after graduating from the best London business school in Europe, I gradually discovered the difference in this street.

In the cold night when it has reached minus 10 degrees, it is too prosperous here, and the flow of people is definitely several times that of those famous commercial streets in memory. To be sure, at least one thing, any of the shops on this street, at least for the owners of those shops, are very profitable.

This shopping street is actually built by the Westeros system.