When Du Qiu bought the car, it was already nightfall, and the streets were full of lights, and he came to Menlo Park, where Silicon Valley venture capital companies gathered, and found Jennifer in front of a high-end supermarket.

"Autumn, I love your taste in cars, perfect car, although a bit expensive, but really the best choice for traveling. ”

Du Qiu bought a Bentley Azure convertible sports car that had just been released in 1995, which cost more than $350,000, which is $80,000 more expensive than the famous supercar Lamborghini Diablo.

"Jenny, I also like your taste in clothing. ”

Jennifer usually holds her hair all the time, wears concise and delicate business-style clothes, and has a cold style that does not eat fireworks, but at this time she is wearing long hair, wearing a loose long knitted cardigan and distressed washed jeans, carrying two large shopping bags, fresh and sexy, gentle and seductive, a soft and amiable young woman from a good family, Du Qiu was amazed, stared at it for a few seconds before jumping out of the car, took the shopping bag from his hand, opened the co-pilot's door, bent down and said: "Beauty, please here." ”

Jennifer was very satisfied with his gentlemanly performance, got into the car with a smile, and said: "It's a little late now, let's leave for Los Angeles tomorrow, you invited me to eat a lot of food in China and Dongying, and I will make steak for you to eat tonight." ”

"You know how to cook?"

"Of course, but only salads and steaks. ”

"Well, the steak is not bad either. Du Qiu put the shopping bag on the back seat of the car, started the car, and asked, "Where do you live?"

"It's nearby. ”

Jennifer lives in an apartment of only about 90 square meters, which is similar to Rachel's in "Friends", with two bedrooms and a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom. ”

"I don't have your talent, I don't have Dylan's luck, I've only been working for two years, how can I have the money to buy a villa, even this house is rented. ”

"Come on, when I came to Monlo Park in May, you drove a Ferrari. ”

"It was Tim Draper's, and I just borrowed it, like my mom's private jet. Jennifer took out two boxes of steaks from her shopping bag and beckoned, "It will take a little time for the steak to thaw, my laptop is in the bedroom, if you want to use it, go get it yourself." ”

Du Qiu tossed around the computer for more than a month, and he didn't want to touch it for the time being, so he sat down on the sofa in the living room, picked up a few fashion magazines on the coffee table and flipped through them, the room fell into a brief silence, except for the sound of Jennifer washing vegetables and chopping vegetables, there was no other sound.

After about two or three minutes, Jennifer said, "There are a lot of Netscape posts online that want to buy Yahoo, you know?"

"I heard. ”

"Is iVie going to bid to compete?"

"Nope. Du Qiu was hesitant when he first received the news from Son, but now he has made a decision, saying, "Yahoo is a seductive beauty, but it is not suitable for iVie." ”

"Why?"

"iVie is a technology-driven company and Yahoo is a content-driven company. Du Qiu flipped a page of the magazine and explained: "The Internet is a new industry, all companies are on the same starting line, whoever is leading in technology will have an advantage, but content creation is a traditional industry that has existed for hundreds of years. Competition from premium content providers such as ESPN, Yahoo must invest a lot of money in training its own team of reporters and editors if it wants to grow and grow, and iVie has too little money to support them, and after the acquisition, it may destroy both companies. ”

"$200 million is too little?"

"Add two more zeros, it's barely enough. Du Qiu smiled and said, "And I don't think Yang Zhiyuan will sell Yahoo." ”

"I think so, too, if he wants to sell, he will sell it to Netscape and AOL at the beginning of this year. Jennifer analyzed as she tossed the salad: "Your and Dlyan's success will stimulate him to be more determined in his belief in running the company." ”

"Maybe. ”

Du Qiu and Jennifer have a strange relationship, although they have always gotten along as friends, they don't care about each other's lives, interests and emotions at all, and when they stay together, there is no other topic to talk about except for work, business and the occasional flirtatious teasing.

This time was no exception, after chatting with Yahoo, the room fell silent again, and it was not until Du Qiu finished reading several magazines that he broke the silence again and said: "Jennifer, is there a suitable COO candidate for iVie in De Fengjie's database?"

In addition to giving money, Silicon Valley's venture capital companies also help startups improve management and recruit talents, COO is the abbreviation of chief operating officer, assisting the CEO to manage the company's daily operations, if you use the domestic officialdom analogy, about equivalent to the executive vice mayor, is a very important position.

Jennifer was a little surprised, turned her head and asked, "You want to recruit a COO so quickly, do you distrust Dylan?"

"It's not that he doesn't trust, it's that Dylan is only good at strategic planning, not good at day-to-day management, and when there are too many employees and projects, he is blind. Du Qiu also glanced back at her and said, "Jenny, I think you are more suitable for media public relations than venture capital, or come to iVie to be the chief media officer." ”

Jennifer laughed and teased, "In your father's words, are you crossing the river and tearing down the bridge?"

"Crossing the river and demolishing the bridge means that after you helped me, I kicked you away. Now I offer you a better paying job, which should be called Thanksgiving. Du Qiu explained the two idioms and said: "You don't have to worry about Dylan, although he is lustful, he is very measured, and he will not create obstacles for you at work." ”

"Autumn, in the decades-long history of Silicon Valley, apart from you, only Dylan has been able to establish a strong image in just a few months, making many investors know him and remember him. Jennifer stood by the stove, waved a spatula and said, "Dylan is very cunning and very good at manipulating public opinion, so iVie doesn't need a media officer, it's enough to have him." ”

Du Qiu was slightly stunned, thinking about it carefully, it is really like this, in a company, particularly strong or particularly successful people will shine like the sun, covering up the light of their peers, such as Apple, many people know Jobs, but they don't know Wozniak, such as Microsoft, many people know Bill Gates, but they don't know Paul Allen, but in iVie, Chen Dayou is neither strong enough nor successful enough, but his popularity is almost the same as Du Qiu, everyone in Silicon Valley knows it, everyone knows it.

"How did he do it?"

"Dylan deliberately goes against you in terms of how he dresses, how he behaves, and how he does things, creating the illusion of opposing twins, and when people talk about you, they will compare him, like Coca-Cola and Pepsi. ”

I see, no wonder he likes to wear pompous clothes, make sensational speeches, and do amazing things......

Isn't this Liu Bei's trick to deal with Cao Cao in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"......

After the conversation box was opened this time, the two chatted for a long time, and it lasted until Jennifer made the steak and served it to the table, and then stopped discussing the business dynamics of several recent hot companies in Silicon Valley and changed it to a relaxed life topic.

"Jenny, you're probably a fan of Friends, right?"

"Why do you say that?"

"This round dining table is the same as Monica's on TV. ”

"You guessed it. Jennifer cut a small piece of steak, forked it up with a fork, held it up in front of Du Qiu, and said, "You are the first man to eat the steak I made with my own hands, try it." ”

This was a little ambiguous, and his actions were even more ambiguous, but Du Qiu didn't feel embarrassed or unnatural at all, leaned over slightly, bit off the steak on the fork, chewed it slowly, and then praised: "It's delicious." ”

"When I was in high school, my family hired an Argentinian chef at a very high level, and I learned from her. Jennifer had a hint of wrench in her voice, but it quickly disappeared, and she raised her goblet with a smile on her face and said, "Cheers to today's financing." ”

"Cheers to tomorrow's riches. ”

After that, the two began to eat dinner, at first there was talking and laughing, then there was a match, and finally it was simply quiet, but there was a stranger atmosphere in the room that was getting stronger and stronger, making the restless heart beat faster and faster, making the boiling blood hotter and hotter, Jennifer soon stopped eating, but Du Qiu ate faster and faster.

"Autumn, aren't you excited?"

"How do you know I'm not excited?"

"Feng told me that when you're excited, you're like a beast in heat. Jennifer magically scooped something out of the salad bowl with a spoon that shouldn't be on the table, and said, "To protect myself, I just bought two boxes of this at the supermarket." ”

A few seconds later, there was a mess on the couch, a few dozen minutes later, a mess in the living room, and a few hours later, the whole room was in shambles......

……

Du Qiu's biological clock remained very stable after crossing, and he would wake up automatically at 6 o'clock in the morning every day, but this time he slept until more than 9 o'clock, no way, he was too excited last night, and he played very crazy, even if he had a golden finger by his side, he was a little unbearable, and he felt the backache that he had not seen for a long time.

After washing, Du Qiu made a simple breakfast with the few ingredients left in the refrigerator, brought it to the bedroom, and was about to wake up Jennifer, but she didn't expect that she had already woken up, lazily wrapped in the quilt, sat up with some difficulty, and complained: "Autumn, Feng is wrong, you don't look like a beast when you're excited, you're a beast." ”

Du Qiu heard her mention Jiang Danfeng repeatedly, and a bad feeling appeared in his heart, and asked, "Why did she tell you this?"

"In your hometown, your dad forbade you to sleep with Feng, while I could. Jennifer pulled her blonde hair back with both hands, and with a smug smile on her face, she said, "Have you forgotten? I like attractive people, both men and women." ”

Du Qiu was dumbfounded, and subconsciously touched the top of his head - there is a custom of listening to newcomers in the corner of the hometown - Jiang Danfeng and Du Qiugang are friends, and they are not the daughter-in-law of the Du family, Du Cunzhi let the two sleep separately in order not to let people chew the root of their tongues, but they didn't expect to be taken advantage of by Jennifer and took advantage of it.

"Don't worry, sex for me is just leisure entertainment, just like in the movies, I will love the characters in the movies, but I will never fall in love or marry the characters in the movies. Jennifer spoke amazingly, looked at Du Qiu with a pair of beautiful eyes, and said: "Autumn, you are a dream character in a great movie, I hope you can enjoy it again and again in the future." ”

Du Qiu was speechless, so he had to shake his head, put the dinner plate on the bed, and said, "Eat breakfast, if we can't leave here before 12 o'clock, then we won't be able to leave for the next few days." ”