The car stopped in front of the shell villa in Cape Dume's estate, and Simon didn't get out of the car immediately, but said to Sarah next to him, "I'll have someone send you back." ”

Sarah Michelle Gela was stunned and looked at Simon in confusion and disappointment.

Simon gave an order to the driver in the front row, and seeing that the girl quickly turned into a pitiful expression, he reached out and pinched her little chin, and said, "It's not convenient tonight, if you have time, I'll take you to Europe to play." ”

Sarah still didn't quite understand, but grabbed Simon's big hand and shook it, and said, "Then, Simon, we've decided." ”

Simon smiled and nodded, "Of course." ”

The driver opened the car door outside, and when he saw that Simon was about to get out of the car, the girl leaned over a little more and said, "But, Simon, how can I contact you?"

"I'll get in touch with you. ”

Simon got out of the car after speaking, and said to the driver again, just like walking to the villa.

Sarah Michelle Géira was tempted to muster up the courage to chase him out, but before she could do so, the driver closed the door, and she had to sit back down, watching through the window as Simon walked towards the shell villa that often appeared on the pages of newspapers and magazines.

The front driver's polite inquiry interrupted Sarah's stunned distraction.

The girl hurriedly responded, waiting for the car to start, she couldn't see the man, and looked at the manor with some yearning, which was destined to be only glimpsed in the night.

Simon knows that there are some eyes around him all the time, this is California, but Sarah Michelle Gayla is only 15 years old, even if the girl herself is willing, there is no guarantee that she will not be caught by someone in the future to make a fuss and cause some trouble.

There is no shortage of women around at all, and there is no need to plant such a time bomb.

In fact, I have been too busy lately, otherwise I can fly to other states with the girl tonight as usual, the laws are different in the United States, such as Utah or Washington State and many other regions, you can get married at the age of 12.

The three daughters, A, B, and D, are on the East Coast, and the baby-faced Zoe Parks and the eye-catching Isabel Dern are taking care of Simon's daily life on the side of Cape Dume.

Simon entered the villa and Isabel greeted him.

After saying hello, taking Simon's suit and folding it and hugging it on her chest, Isabel said again: "Boss, Alice is back." ”

Although she is still serving as the housekeeper of the Westeros family, Alice Ferguson spends more of her free time in San Francisco because of the Amazon online store.

Zoe and Isabel were recently placed to take care of Simon's living at Cape Dume's estate, and in fact, the housekeeper was grooming her successor after receiving tacit approval.

The Westeros family has reached more than thirty maids in North America alone.

However, after several adjustments, many girls were directly arranged to stay in the city where Simon's property is located, and it was the first batch that could get close to Simon's side.

Glancing at Isabel who didn't know if she was deliberately squeezing her suit to her chest, Simon smiled and asked, "Where is it?"

Isabel straightened her waist slightly under Simon's gaze, but her expression looked unaware, and she pointed in one direction and said, "Over in the living room." ”

The Shell Villa has a special area for the maids, and the bedrooms are usually on the second floor, and the first floor also has their own kitchen, cloakroom, gym and living room. Of course, this is limited to a few girls who can stay with Simons such as ABCD and the housekeeper, and most of the others can only live outside the manor.

Today is April 9th, and some of the operating conditions of Igrete for the first quarter of 1992 should be released.

With this in mind, Simon walked straight to a living room on the east side of the villa's lobby that Isabel was pointing to.

Isabel was slightly stunned when she saw Simon's movements, and hurriedly followed.

Simon rarely took the initiative to go to their rooms in the past.

As soon as he reached the door of the living room, Simon heard a soft chuckle with a sinister voice.

Curious to look in from the doorway, Alice Ferguson sat on the sofa with a laptop in her hand, Zoe Parks snuggled up to her, her arm around the butler's waist, her chin still on her shoulder, and whispered something with a smile on her lips.

A baby-faced girl, Little Bird, is next to a short-haired beauty with a cold temperament.

This picture, well, is beautiful.

It's just that.

Simon couldn't help but feel like he had been pried into the corner.

This is a small vase that I work hard every day to earn money!

Isabel Dunn followed behind Simon, she also heard Zoe's chuckle, carefully glanced past Simon towards the living room, and then saw the man's reaction, and suddenly had a faint sense of gloating.

So that you always look indifferent to us!

Hum.

However, in order to avoid too embarrassing plot progression, Isabel still took the initiative to cough lightly, which was regarded as a reminder.

The living room was brightly lit, but there was only a yellow wall lamp in the hallway, so the housekeeper and the two did not notice Simon's arrival at the first time.

Suddenly heard the voice, looked over together, saw that it was Simon, and Zoe Parks, who was still wrapped around the housekeeper, was the first to react, jumped off the sofa like a frightened kitten and stood up, his eyes flashed left and right in a panic, and then he greeted calmly: "Good evening, boss." ”

The housekeeper looked very calm, and she also got up to say hello, and took the initiative to send Zoe, who was a thief, to prepare coffee for Simon.

Watching the baby-faced girl run out of the room, Simon walked into the living room, sat down on the single sofa next to the housekeeper, crossed his legs, looked at the cold beauty in front of him, and didn't speak, looking like a wicked boss who 'explain it yourself'.

Isabel actually wanted to come in and join in the fun, but, seeing Simon's appearance, the girl had just stepped a few steps through the door and quietly retreated.

The housekeeper sat down on the sofa again, picked up the laptop again with a complacent expression, knocked it a few times, then turned the laptop to Simon, and said, "Boss, the basic revenue data of the first quarter of the online mall has been released, do you want to take a look?"

Simon took the laptop handed by the housekeeper and put it on his lap, looked at the files on the screen, and said, "Aren't you going to explain?"

The housekeeper's tone was still calm: "Boss, you didn't say that you don't allow office love"

Simon frowned slightly and seemed to be trying to recall, before he added: "Okay, it should, I really didn't say it." ”

Seeing that Simon's attention was on the laptop screen, the housekeeper quickly and seriously looked at the expression of the man in front of her, and was roughly relieved.

His own boss obviously doesn't really care about this.

Having worked for Simon for so long, Alice could roughly tell when this young man, who seemed to be forever calm and breezy, was really angry.

However, I suddenly found that for such a long time, this man with indifference in his bones couldn't get angry enough times with one hand.

It was as if there wasn't much in this world that he cared about.

Indeed, at the age of 24, he has reached the peak that most people in this world may not necessarily touch in ten lifetimes, and it is too easy to obtain too many things in this world, so it is naturally difficult to care.

I can't help but think, what if it's me?

After this thought, the housekeeper suddenly realized that perhaps she had just thought wrongly.

It's not that he has too much and doesn't care.

More likely, this man is by nature.

Geniuses tend to be lonely and aloof.

The man in front of him can't even be described as a simple genius.

It's a miracle.

A miracle that makes people have a strong desire to find out: what kind of person is he, how did he do everything now, and where are the limits in the future?

"Ellie, you know what? When a woman has a strong curiosity about a man, she often falls in love with him unconsciously. ”

A voice suddenly sounded in her ears, and the housekeeper came to her senses, and suddenly realized that she had been staring at her boss for an unknown amount of time.

There were two cups of hot coffee on the coffee table in front of me.

Obviously, Zoe had already brought coffee in and had quietly left.

Retracted his gaze in a bit of a panic, and subconsciously retorted: "I won't fall in love with you." ”

Say it and immediately regret it.

This sentence is simply the standard response of the soap opera heroine when she is duplicitous.

Simon smiled and continued to flip through the last page of the earnings report on his laptop.

The Amazon online store opened on January 23 at the beginning of the year, and in the first quarter, it actually only ran for about 70 days.

After the outbreak of first-day orders due to the user's early adopter psychology and advertising effect, the subsequent sales of the online mall began to slowly decline to normal and gradually stabilized.

Now, more than two months later, the single-day orders of the online mall have basically maintained more than 100,000, and the number of specific orders has shown a steady upward trend with the overall increase in the number of Internet users.

After the explosive 1.32 million orders, 1.56 million books and $32.76 million sales on the first day of opening, the online mall completed a total of 9.31 million orders and sold 11.17 million books in the first quarter, with a total sales of $217.26 million.

Simon remembers that Amazon was founded in 1995 and did not achieve annual sales of $600 million until three years later, in 1998.

At this time, the new version of Amazon has completed sales of $210 million in the first quarter of its opening, and it is even expected to exceed $1 billion for the whole year.

In the early 90s, the annual sales of the American book market were about 500 million copies, and according to the data of the first quarter, in just one year, the share of Amazon's online store in the book market is expected to reach 10%, which is definitely a business miracle.

On the other hand, the performance achieved by Amazon's online store actually seems logical.

Different from Jeff Bezos's self-made Amazon in the original time and space, which needs to start from scratch, now relying on the Amazon online store of Igret, almost as soon as it is launched, it has the traffic import of tens of millions of users on the entire World Wide Web platform, which is a huge consumer group of more than 20 million, and they are all high-end groups with the best economic situation and the highest education level in the United States, so they are accustomed to buying books.

In addition to a huge potential user base, the new Amazon mall also has an increasingly complete Ypay online payment system, which is also far from being comparable to the former Amazon.

Even in terms of platform capacity, Amazon could only expand step by step because it started from scratch, from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands to millions of users. This time, the Amazon online mall was able to support 5 million simultaneous visits at the beginning of the platform.

The cloud computing platform that Egrete has started operating and continues to improve has also greatly reduced the operating costs of the online store.

Otherwise, just a huge server expense will be a big burden for the online store.

In terms of the most critical logistics, Simon also used his prophetic advantage to let Amazon establish a close cooperation with the United States Postal Service, the largest logistics network in the United States, according to the impression of the Blockbuster model and some other information, to ensure the user's online shopping experience to the greatest extent.

All in all, the success of Amazon's online store is actually the result of the continuous investment and accumulation of Igrett in the past few years.

You know, in 1991, the total revenue of Igret's film industry in YS services, online advertising, Ystore and Internet Explorer browser sales reached 491 million US dollars, which seems to be a big innovation in the industry.

However, on the other hand, behind Egret's full-year revenue of nearly $500 million was a net loss of $387 million.

In the history of American business, there are few such capitals that dare to spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year in an industry that has completely unclear prospects, and you must know that the entry threshold of the Forbes 400 rich list in the United States in 1991 is only a little more than 300 million US dollars.

Moreover, the loss of 387 million US dollars not only means that Egrett only burned 387 million US dollars in 1991, close to 500 million US dollars in revenue, and basically reinvested in Igret's talent recruitment, technology research and development, publicity and marketing, and infrastructure construction.

Many technology companies that were already familiar at this time, such as Intel, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, etc., only raised hundreds of millions of dollars in financing at the beginning of their development, and then developed step by step.

With Simon's completely cost-free investment, Igrett is a complete leap forward.

Moreover, unlike the early blooming of the Internet industry in the original time and space, it is precisely because of Simon's unsparing investment that the current World Wide Web, even if it has been under the banner of development, can be seen by anyone that this is a platform completely monopolized by Igret.

Westeros is equivalent to throwing money at the same time, and at the same time uniting a large number of technology companies such as Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, and AOL, directly creating a new high-tech industry.

After reading the information, Simon casually glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the laptop, and it was immediately 11 o'clock in the evening.

Glancing beside her, the housekeeper was still sitting upright.

Raising the corners of his mouth and smiling, Simon put down his laptop, got up and walked to the housekeeper, and said in the girl's panicked and slightly unusual flashing eyes, "I suddenly want you to fulfill your original promise." “

After Simon finished speaking, he leaned over, picked up a stiff woman, and left the living room.