It's no coincidence that Michael Eisner and Michael Ovitz are planning to enter Silicon Valley, or that the Communications Weathering Act was drafted a year ahead of schedule.

With the Internet penetration rate of the United States, which far exceeds that of other countries in the world at this stage, it is not at all necessary to say that this country has entered the information age.

In the new era, the focus of attention at both the general public and the government level has changed.

Since the end of last year, several giants jointly launched the 'Information Age' marketing plan, not only in January of the first year, but also in February 1995, some of the most eye-catching news in the American media are still related to new technologies.

Simon took the time to meet with Eisner and Ovitz the following weekend and went straight to finalizing a $5 million start-up capital in Igret's venture capital division to acquire a 20 percent stake in the duo's work on the workplace networking site.

Also this weekend, Microsoft announced that it would officially release the Windows 95 operating system a month later, on March 10, five months earlier than in history, and in fact, the Windows 95 test system has been circulating around the world in various ways last year.

Microsoft has added the groundbreaking Start menu to Simon's Windows 3.2 system last year, and has received very positive user feedback.

However, the latest Windows95 system, not only the operating system is more simple and easy to use, but also in the network, external connection, image support and other aspects have been upgraded in an all-round way, and most importantly, Windows95 has also launched a more powerful 32-bit system, which allows Microsoft to further throw the biggest competitor Apple far away, and never ride the dust.

Because the market is generally optimistic about Microsoft's Windows 95 system, on February 13, the first trading day after the news was released, Microsoft's stock price rose 1.9% on the same day, and the closing market value reached $128.1 billion.

In comparison, Apple's market capitalization has fallen from a peak of more than $7 billion a few years ago to $2.8 billion at the close of trading on February 13, a drop of more than 60%.

Because Simon took Pixar ahead of schedule, the animation studio's aura of success has nothing to do with Steve Jobs, missing this aura, and this time, when Apple is declining, no one thinks of inviting Jobs, who has also failed in business in recent years, to return to Apple to take charge of the overall situation.

Simon has already laid out a lot of things, and he doesn't plan to meddle in this matter this time.

Simon is not unwary of Microsoft's strong rise.

In recent years, the resistance of the students to the Westeros system is very obvious, this time the release of Windows95, the other party still did not allow IE to become the preset browser of this operating system, and the Egrett company also did not have any relaxation in Microsoft's desire to obtain browser patent licensing.

Not only that, because Microsoft directly imitated the model of the Igrete online software store and directly added its own desktop software store in the new system, the two sides will inevitably have a lawsuit to fight next.

Because of the openness of the Windows system, of course, compared to the openness of Apple's operating system in memory, Simon has never regarded the software store business as the core of Igret. Because with the gradual improvement of the network environment, users can directly obtain the corresponding software from the official homepage in the future, and similarly, some software developers must also hope to sell software directly to users for the sake of profit, bypassing the software store like Egrett that requires a commission.

The students of the gate should not be blind to this.

Suddenly using a software store to disrupt the situation, probably can't stand the fact that Microsoft, which gradually dominates the field of PC operating systems, is excluded from the core industry of the Internet.

Due to the increasing friction between the two sides, Igret's Linux system team has also been quietly developing a PC version of this free operating system, just waiting for the official release at the right time.

Next, Simon had only one obstacle to solve, the patent issue.

With the employees who entered this market early, Microsoft has applied for a large number of software patents in the operating system, forming a solid patent barrier, which is actually the reason why other operating systems cannot rise.

However, no matter how early Microsoft is, it is no longer than Apple.

This is well known.

Therefore, as long as Apple is won, Simon can obtain many operating system patents that are enough to compete with Microsoft, and many of them are still quite core patents, and at that time, whether in the field of desktop operating systems or future mobile operating systems, Simon no longer needs to worry about Microsoft's patent barriers.

The news of the upcoming release of Windows 95 has greatly stimulated Microsoft's stock price, and on Igret's side, the relevant information is even more important.

As the IPO progresses, as it did before Daenerys Entertainment went public last year, Egrett will also cash in equity awards for executives and incentives or subscription plans for all employees in the near future.

Compared with last year's Daenerys Entertainment, the valuation of Igrett has been basically determined to reach the level of 100 billion US dollars with the release of various news.

Not to mention anything else, just the public exposure of the total 17% equity award share of Tim Berners Lee, Jeff Bezos, Carol Butts and Alice Ferguson, four giants under Igret, has reached $17 billion based on a valuation of $100 billion.

Among them, if the equity awards of Tim Berners Lee are fully cashed out, the value of the shares before the listing will theoretically reach $5 billion, which is enough to directly squeeze into the top ten ranks of the Forbes American 400 list.

You must know that in last year's Forbes American 400 rich list, although Simon's personal wealth is unbeatable, in fact, there are only 6 people on the entire list with a personal wealth of more than 5 billion US dollars, and after 6 people, personal wealth has fallen below 5 billion US dollars, tied for the fifth Walton family from 9th to 13th on the list, and the personal wealth figure is only 4.3 billion US dollars.

Now a lot of media is speculating whether Simon will fully fulfill the promise of equity awards for several executives, even if Westeros' personal wealth has broken through the sky, the amount of the reward is still too large after all. Moreover, according to the contracts of several executives, the cash-out period has not yet arrived, and the contract stipulates that it will not be cashed out until next year.

If Simon doesn't want to give these executives too much, he actually has a lot of room to operate.

Of course, if this is done, the turmoil at Igrete is inevitable, and may even lead to the collective resignation of several core executives, and then start a lawsuit war, which will suddenly throw the high-speed technology train out of control.

What's more, even if the Big Four are done, other management and employees who have made a lot of contributions to the development of Eaglet in recent years cannot be too stingy.

The share of the Big Four has reached 17%, Goldman Sachs and Morgan hold 10%, and the rumored IPO will sell shares as high as 20%, so that Simon's equity is only 53% left, if too many employees are given, even if absolute control over Egrett can be maintained through a dual-class share structure, but after the listing, Simon's shareholding in Igrett will inevitably fall below 50%.

The loss of actual absolute control of the equity share will inevitably bring variables to the absolute control of the Westeros system over Igret.

Malibu, Cape Dume Estate.

The time is February 13th.

After lunch, several owners of the Shell Villa were packing their belongings.

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day.

Simon planned to take the two Jennies to Miami, Florida this time, and there was no room for the little ones for the intimate moments of mom and dad, so Veronica came over to help with the children.

After one of her identities was revealed last year, Veronica has been seen less and less at Cape Dume.

Simon probably knew that this should be a deliberate arrangement by Janet.

The couple also had a very tacit understanding of this matter and did not discuss it in any way.

The residence in Miami had already sent someone to tidy up yesterday, and there was everything there, and the three of them traveled, but in fact, there was not much luggage to bring.

At half past one in the afternoon, Veronica held little Nick in one hand, Melbourne in the other, and Seattle, who was holding a little hand by an Indian girl but seemed to be a little absent-minded about her parents about to leave, to bid farewell to the three of them.

Everyone said goodbye, and the female assistant who had not been separated from the little guy after giving birth to the child the year before last explained carefully, and then got into the car with Simon and Janet.

This Valentine's Day vacation, if there is nothing special for the time being, will last until next Monday, in addition to Miami, I also plan to go to the Bahamas and other places to have a visit.

The retinue is also immense.

In addition to Simon and his wife, there are 50 open-faced bodyguards and secret agents who go together, and there is another team of more than 20 female guards and maids.

Simon didn't feel like he was in a big deal.

Even though there have been many shocks in the past year, because Simon is too dazzling, the world's hostility towards him and the corresponding actions have never been broken. Less than a month and a half into the beginning of this year, there have been three break-ins at the Cape Dumei estate for various reasons, an average of one every two weeks.

Several drastic actions last year were mainly aimed at revealing some of his positions to the outside world, and Simon could not always take drastic measures against these current offenders, so he could only deal with them in a low-key manner, and some of them were handed over directly to the FBI.

Out of some instinctive caution, Simon had hoped that the three would have shared at least two private jets, but both Jennies objected and boarded the Boeing 767 together.

Boeing 767 front cabin.

After the plane took off smoothly, in the cozy small living room on the lower level of the front cabin, waiting for the accompanying Zoe and Isabel to bring coffee and leave, Janet immediately took out a box of videotapes and stuffed them into the projector, and the wall-mounted TV soon appeared in the ballet solo picture, accompanied by the song "Bach's Last Day".

Grabbing the remote control and squeezing to the reclining sofa by the hanging window, Janet pointed to the TV screen and began to complain to Jennifer on the other side: "Look at you, it is said that this goblin has gone crazy because of this dance, even if Simon asks her to die, she probably won't hesitate, Jenny, you also have a song "Blizzard", what about me, I don't have anything." ”

As he spoke, he had already grabbed the big hand of the man next to him, opened his small mouth in dissatisfaction and bit it hard.

Simon was looking at the Eagle stock ownership plan that James Raybould had turned, but his right hand was bitten by Janetra, so he had to put the information aside, let the woman grind her teeth for a while, and said with a smile: "You just treat this dance music as if it was for you." ”

Janet didn't let go, and a whimper came out of her mouth: "It's so perfunctory, I don't want it." ”

The female assistant on the other side just smiled and watched the excitement, in fact, she also wanted to bite, but she was always more reserved and ladylike than Janet, and waited for a moment before she said: "Then let Simon compose a song for you this time, it's not a difficult thing for him." ”

Simon shook his right hand, finally got rid of Janet's row of small teeth, and argued: "Don't you have it, "Wild Bees Flying, everyone knows it." ”

Janet said, "That's not original. ”

Simon smiled half-truths and said, "Actually, these are not original, the ghosts around me told me." ”

The female assistant's eyes flashed slightly when she heard Simon say this.

Janet didn't mind at all, put her arm around Simon and said, "Anyway, it's useless for those ghosts to ask for this, you are giving me a song, it must sound good." ”

Simon nodded: "Okay, I'll think about it, and I'll talk about it when I get to Miami." ”

Janet 'got to inch in': "I also want you to shoot the music video for me personally." ”

Simon readily agreed: "No problem, the next few days should be enough." ”

Seeing Simon agree, Janet became satisfied, and seemed to remember the man's words just now: "Honey, are there ghosts on our plane?"

Simon pretended to look left and right for a moment, and then pointed to a corner, "Now, there's one there, smiling at you." ”

"Ah......h

"Uh, female. ”

"Is it pretty?"

"General. ”

"That's good, let's love love in front of her, and be jealous of her. ”

“......”

"Huh. ”

Jennifer on the other side looked at the two laughing, and there was some envy in her eyes, and she suddenly remembered a Chinese poem that the man had said.

If life is only as it first seems.

Over the years, many things have changed, even the two people around them are unavoidable, but the intimacy between them is the same as the first time they met.

This kind of feeling is actually a bit strange.

Men have more and more women outside, but every time she appears next to them, she can feel that he is not alienated from them at all, maybe this is the advantage of men, they can love many women at the same time and sincerely, but they can only love him.

Thinking about it, I couldn't help but smile.

I haven't changed.

For so many years, in the end, she is still his big girl who warms the bed.

Since he still loved them, Janet's feelings for him had never cooled, and she felt that she could do it naturally.

In her bones, she is a very good and strong girl.

Although, it was already destined to lose to another Jenny.

You can't lose more.

So he pasted it on the man next to him and listened quietly to the various small talks between the two, which was enough. As if sensing her emotion, a large hand reached over and wrapped his face around her shoulder, and pressed his face to his shoulder, seeing Janet expressing dissatisfaction, and rarely demonstrated to her.

Janet gritted her little white teeth and tried to pounce on her, when there was a sudden violent tremor in the cabin.

With a little scream, Janet shrank beside the man like a cat, but there was no fear in her eyes, but with some strange little excitement: "Simon, are we going to die?"

Simon hugged the two women tightly from left to right, and said with a smile: "It's just airflow." ”

The cockpit captain's announcement was heard over the loudspeaker.

Sure enough, it was an air current, reminding everyone in the cabin to sit firmly and be careful of bumps.

The tremor lasted for more than a minute.

Being held by a man, Jennifer was also a little scared, but when she noticed Janet's gaze on the other side, for some reason, the female assistant suddenly had some strange expectations.

I don't know if it's a pity or not, but the tremor finally stopped.

The three of them then didn't speak again for a long time, as if they were all reminiscing about the danger just now.

Although he had proposed a three-person split ride beforehand, Simon found that he didn't have much fear when he really encountered something. Being a human being in two lives is an unexpected gift from God, and after so many years, there are no regrets. Moreover, a lot of things have been arranged in advance, and there are no worries.

Simon certainly didn't have the kind of self-destructive tendencies that Janet had deep in his bones, and when he arrived in Miami, he quickly made another decision to purchase two more Boeing 767s.

For a variety of reasons, it is not appropriate to buy a large Boeing 747 as originally envisaged, but it is okay to add two more 767s. Simon's consideration is also very simple, in the future, he and two Jennies can be on the same plane, but definitely not the whole family.

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