The average number of visitors per day is more than 5 million, and this number is not only Elizabeth, but I believe most people will not easily believe it, but this is already an indisputable fact.

Since the advent of the personal computer in the 80s, there have been tens of millions of users in North America alone, which have been an important basis for the successful promotion of network services.

However, the most important thing is that the graphical interface browser that appeared two years in advance lowered the threshold for ordinary people to explore the online world, coupled with the content support provided by the Yahoo portal and online services such as free e-mail, so that the network service is no longer limited to professional computing personnel, and began to expand to the broadest user base, so that Yahoo has the user scale it has today.

"If you have to find out why," replied Elizabeth, "it's like the advent of television in the fifties and sixties, when people discovered that they could see the world through a small box, and they chose to buy it, and investors saw that it was profitable, and they set up television stations to provide content, and it gradually became a very large industry." 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 have been accumulated for more than ten years. ”

Elizabeth said: "But the traditional paper media industry can't be eliminated because of this, right?"

Eric nodded, "Of course not, but it won't be as beautiful as it used to be." ”

Elizabeth smiled suddenly and said, "Then what to do now, I'll tell my old man." Phew. I mean. I told my dad that the newspaper industry was about to decline, so we should not buy it? Do you think he will change his ingrained views because of a few words from you?"

Eric spread his hands and said: "Then, when Firefly sorts out this part of the assets for public sale in the second half of the year, News Corp will come to participate in the bidding. ”

Elizabeth felt that this was the only way to go. Go back and tell the old man what Eric said, even if it doesn't affect his final judgment, but at least News Corp will not bid so aggressively out of scruples in this regard.

"One more thing," the two were about to leave, when Eric called out to Elizabeth and said, "Don't reveal anything about the scale of Yahoo user data." ”

Although Yahoo, IE and Hotmail have been closely watched by the industry since they were first launched, on the one hand, the industry has only seen three companies burning money and not producing anything; These three companies have never publicly released any company data, which has allowed them to maintain a quiet expansion posture for several years in a row. 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 been publicly revealed, many industry giants will realize what the total user scale of 20 million and the average number of daily visitors of more than 5 million mean, such a large user base, even if there is no profit prospect for the time being, is definitely a field with broad investment prospects, and it will attract a large number of competitors to this field at that time.

Elizabeth stopped and asked, "Can't even my dad say it?"

Eric nodded solemnly and said, "I can't tell your old man in particular." ”

Elizabeth hammered Eric angrily, but still agreed: "I know, but these things should not be hidden sooner or later, right?"

Eric confidently clenched his fist, waved it lightly, and said, "As long as I have another year of layout time, the chips in my hand are enough to crush any competitor!"

Portals and online mailboxes are relatively easy to copy, but as long as the instant messaging software developed by Steve Mitnick is popularized, combined with some other means such as the technical barriers of Internet Explorer, weaving into a huge user network, it can suck in all new Internet users like a black hole.

The Matthew effect of the stronger the stronger and weaker the Internet industry is very obvious, and once a behemoth in a certain field is formed, it is difficult for similar companies to compete with it.

Elizabeth couldn't help but stare at Eric's calm and confident side face for a few seconds, and felt Eric's eyes move, so she quickly dodged and said, "By the way, you just said that I would recommend a Yahoo editor-in-chief for you?"

Eric saw Virginia waving to them outside, walked out with Elizabeth, and asked, "Do you have any good candidates?"

"I don't know if it's a good candidate, you can only judge it yourself," Elizabeth said, "You know Vanity Fair, right?"

"Hmm," Eric nodded, then remembered someone, "You don't mean Tina Brown, would she be willing to leave Condé Nast?"

Portals are just emerging, and Eric can only choose talents from traditional media, and this person must have a strong entrepreneurial spirit and a non-conservative character, otherwise it is difficult to accept the new field of Internet media. Tina Brown has led Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and many other magazines through a series of innovations in the original time and space to re-enter the peak, and now she should be only in her early forties, these needs are not lacking in personality, and it is the peak of her career, if you can really poach this woman to Yahoo as editor-in-chief, it is also a good choice.

It's just that in my memory, Tina Brown left the position of editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair magazine and went directly to the editor-in-chief of another "New Yorker" magazine under Condé Nast Publishing Group.

Elizabeth said: "Tina just left Vanity Fair at the beginning of the year, we are familiar with it, I met her at a party two days ago, Condé Nast plans to let her transfer to the editor-in-chief of The New Yorker, but Tina is still hesitating, she is not a person who likes to repeat, if there is a better option, I don't think she would mind trying." ”

Eric said, "Then you can leave me a phone call later." ”

……

As night falls, the inside and outside of the manor villa are lit up.

Since it's a birthday party, it naturally starts with blowing out the candles. Everyone tried their best to coax the two little ones who had just turned one year old. Hawaii, who was already able to call his mother, looked at the people around him and pointed to the candle on the cake in front of him. 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 directly frightened by a circle of strangers and cried, but in the end, the candle was blown out by Emma, who was eager to try.

After the cake is divided, the party officially begins, the table is filled with self-pick-up dinners, and the guests begin to gather in twos and threes, sitting or standing.

Eric weaves through the crowd with a glass of red wine in hand, greeting the guests. While continuing the afternoon conversation about movies with Pierre Clark and others from Merrill Lynch, Joanna suddenly walked up to him and gently tugged at his sleeve.

"Sorry for the mistake," Eric nodded to the group, then stepped aside with Joanna and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

Joanna just whispered, "Eric, come with me." ”

Somewhat confused, Eric followed Joanna into the villa, through the hall full of guests to the upper floor, where Joanna pointed to the bedroom. said: "Vicky is crying, you go and persuade it." I don't know what to say. ”

Eric stopped and asked, "What's going on, wasn't it okay just now?"

"About Kevin," Joanna said, "Xia Xia could have spoken more than a month ago, but Kevin didn't say anything, and he just ......"

Eric almost understood half of it, smiled helplessly, and said, "You go down to entertain the guests, I'll do it myself." ”

Pushing open the bedroom door and seeing Virginia bending over to change the diaper of the little guy lying on the bed, Eric walked over and leaned on the big bed at will, looked at Virginia's slightly red eyes, and said: "There's no need for this, boys develop later than girls, Einstein is still three years old before he can speak, and the little guy is only one year old, what are you anxious about?"

"Everyone thinks Kevin is stupid, they just don't say it," Virginia felt a sour nose and seemed to be crying again, handed the little guy to Eric, and said, "Hug him, maybe you won't like him when you grow up." ”

"What a stupid thing to say," Eric glared at the woman, put the little one in the crook of his arm, stretched out a finger to tease his son, stared at Kevin with wide eyes, saw the finger dangling in the air, grabbed it and sent it to his mouth, and the few small baby teeth that had just grown were tickling.

Virginia looked at the intimate appearance of the father and son, relaxed slightly, pulled one over and sat on the edge of the bed, and suddenly sighed regretfully: "I should have chosen to have a caesarean section in the first place, Kevin must have been like this because of a long lack of oxygen." ”

"Didn't you give Kevin an IQ test and say it's okay?"

Virginia said: "How can such a young child be accurate. ”

Eric realized that the woman who confessed to death couldn't turn a corner, so he had to whisper to his son lying beside him: "Baby, learn to talk quickly, if you don't speak, your mother won't like you." ”

The little guy stared at Eric with round eyes, as if he didn't understand Eric's words, as if he understood again.

Eric looked at his son like this, and said tentatively, "Come, call Daddy to listen first, follow me, Daddy-Dad-"

After a short silence, the little guy in his arms suddenly uttered a short syllable: "Pa-pa-pa-"

Although the pronunciation was very vague, in the quiet bedroom, Eric and Virginia could hear it clearly, and Virginia suddenly stood up from her chair, with a look of surprise on her face, and there was no longer the sadness she had just had.

"I'll just say, this little bastard is definitely playing dumb," Eric laughed suddenly, turning the little guy over and gently squeezing it on his little buttocks, "and he's waiting here to take advantage of me, and I'm going to shout before I can say anything." ”

Although Eric didn't have any strength in his hands, the little guy immediately started crying, and Virginia hurriedly snatched her son from Eric's hands, coaxed her with a pampered face, and unceremoniously blasted the 'culprit' who made her baby bump out of the room.

Eric went downstairs, and Joanna nervously greeted her.

"It's okay," Eric smiled and told Joanna what had just happened, and Joanna breathed a sigh of relief, "Now Vicky can finally rest assured." ”

"She's just concerned about it," Eric said with a laugh.

Most of the guests in the villa are women, and Eric and Joanna have a few brief words before leaving, and Chris's girlfriend Emily will come over and block Eric's way.

"You can't just throw me a word and don't follow up, I've already contacted a lot of models, and now I'm going to have your plan. ”

Eric smiled and pointed outside, "You're still in the mood to worry about this. ”

Emily looked annoyed, but she couldn't complain that Eric had brought Jeffrey: "Chris will explain to Jeffrey, we just bought LTD, and we are so busy that we don't even have time to sleep every day, so we can still afford to get married." Don't change the subject, it's okay, but you instigated us to buy LTD in the first place, and you can't just leave it alone. ”

"I never intended to leave it alone," Eric said, "It's just that I haven't had time lately, and you don't know about it, and even if I tell you my plan, you can't do it yourself, and I have to do it myself, so you can only cooperate." ”

"If there is anything I can't do, you need to reveal it first, at least I can prepare in advance. ”

"I'm going to direct a Victoria's Secret annual catwalk myself. ”

Emily was a little disappointed and 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 has an annual new product release show." ”

"Of course, there is more than that, I want to gather A-list 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 a fashion carnival through a full range of media marketing channels such as newspaper warm-up, magazine promotion, live TV broadcast and online discussions, so that Victoria's Secret will become a global pop symbol. ”

Although Eric only revealed a simple idea, Emily was visibly shocked by Eric's huge idea, and her jaw almost dropped, and she stammered, "This ...... How much does it cost?"

"First of all, I need at least $10 million for my personal directing fee, and that's a discount," Eric joked, adding, "We should be looking at how much money this marketing strategy will make for the company, not how much it will cost, and I promise that it will be absolutely insignificant relative to the expected revenue in the future." (To be continued.) )