Eric heard Chris's words and smiled, "All I care about now is when he will be able to make Hotmail's online email service?" ”

"It will take at least half a year," Chris said, as if remembering something, operating the mouse to click on a program on the laptop in front of him, and said: "Eric, maybe you should take a look at this, this is the email client Microsoft-Mail launched by Microsoft on the 3.1 system." ”

Eric took a brief look and quickly realized that this mailbox client in the Microsoft office application should be the predecessor of the famous Outlook, and in the original time and space, Outlook was an office product launched by Microsoft after acquiring the Hotmail online mailbox service and integrating it with its own mailbox client.

However, now this Microsoft-Mail is also only a peer-to-peer LAN mailbox client, which can only be used on a fixed computer, and has no online mailbox function: "Don't worry, Chris, this application poses no threat to us, our Hotmail is aimed at all network users, and Microsoft's application is more limited to business office, and ordinary people basically do not use it." ”

Chris also knew that what Eric said was the truth, so he only casually mentioned it.

The main reason why Eric is so relieved is that all the current software giants are not aware of the huge development prospects of the Internet, so Firefly has enough time to lay out. As for Microsoft, although the launch of Windows 3.1 has received a good response, Microsoft's operating system has still not reached the mainstream state. It would take three years before Windows 95, which had brought Microsoft to operating system supremacy, would not be released until three years away.

The two chatted unknowingly in the study for an afternoon. The women never came to disturb them. It wasn't until they both noticed that it was getting dark outside the window that Chris decided to leave.

As he was about to leave, Chris suddenly stopped again and said, "Eric, one more thing I almost forgot to mention is that after a series of investments, the company still has about $1 billion in cash, which can only generate 6% of the annual income in the money market fund. Personally, I would like to see the company make a bigger investment. ”

"In my opinion, it's not a lot of money," Eric said after listening to Chris's words, "It's only a billion dollars, and if we diversify our investments, we often don't have enough say, so we might as well not do it, and I haven't found a big project worth investing in yet." ”

Chris laughed, "It's not much, the whole of America." There aren't too many companies with more than a billion dollars in liquidity. ”

Eric nodded, but remembered the Apple from his previous life. He remembers reading in an article that Apple's cash flow was once as high as more than $200 billion, even exceeding Disney's market value, and that Jobs has been implementing a debt-free business model at Apple since he took power for the second time.

And it is Jobs's stubborn business model that makes Apple's business strategy extremely flexible without the constraints of shareholders and creditors, Apple wants to make MacBook, so it does, wants to make an IPod, so it does, wants to do an iPhone, so it does it, and at the same time, it also achieves Apple's hegemony as the world's largest market capitalization after 20 years.

Eric doesn't know that he has much talent for running a company, but as a person who has traveled through the Cottage Kingdom and is lucky enough to have a memory bank of his past life, it will definitely be okay for Eric to confidently imitate the path of others. If Firefly Pictures is allowed to go public or issue a large number of bonds, although it can bring enough benefits to the company, it will also make the company's business strategy have to be subordinated to investors. However, Eric knows that many of the decisions he makes from memory will be difficult for many people to understand, and if he can't control the company's absolute control, then many strategies will be difficult to implement, and perhaps after a bit of arguing with investors, many opportunities have disappeared.

"Don't worry, Chris, I have a sense of proportion, but I remember I told you that if you have a project you are optimistic about, you can also invest, you are not my housekeeper, but the CEO of Firefly Investments."

Chris shrugged his shoulders and smiled: "As long as you know it in your heart, to be honest, since the original Cisco, I think your investment vision is definitely much better than mine, and Dad said the same." The amount of money we invested in Cisco is at least tripling this year. ”

Eric could see the doubts in Chris's eyes, he was just a high school graduate, and Chris must have been full of questions about how he picked Cisco, how he could make a movie, etc., but these things, Eric was destined to be impossible to confess to Chris.

There was a few knocks on the door of the study, and after receiving a response, Virginia came in and asked, "Eric, it's six o'clock now, and I'm going to ask you what you have for dinner?" ”

"No, Miss Madsen, Emily and I are leaving at once, we have another appointment to attend in the evening," Chris shook his head quickly.

Eric opened his mouth to save it, but Chris turned out to be really something, so he didn't insist.

After eating, Eric took the initiative to tell the two women about the content of the afternoon chat with Chris, and after listening to Eric's words, Virginia and Joanna glanced at each other, and Virginia spoke: "Eric, you have been in New York for several days, there must be a lot of things to do in Los Angeles, you should go back tomorrow." ”

Eric didn't refuse, but said, "What about you, come back to Los Angeles with me, I'm not at ease with you staying alone in New York." ”

Virginia smiled and said, "We're not children, besides, there are servants, you just need to call us often." ”

"I really don't understand why you don't want to come back to Los Angeles with me," Eric shook his head again.

Virginia gave Eric a blank look. "You know it." ”

Eric immediately raised his hands: "Okay. I give up. ”

"Huh." Joanna and Virginia laughed together, the reason why they were reluctant to go back to Los Angeles with Eric was actually very simple, because Eric had too many women in Los Angeles, and the two of them were pregnant together, and if they returned to Los Angeles, there would definitely be unnecessary trouble, and the women wanted to be safe with each other. The safest thing to do is to keep a certain distance.

The next day, Eric explained a lot of things to the two women, and then boarded a flight to Los Angeles, where he had been out for three months since July, and Eric could almost imagine the mountains of things that awaited him.

A few hours later, as the plane landed at Los Angeles Airport, Eric walked out of the airport hall and was greeted by a petite figure in a pink hoodie, kissing him as usual.

"Alright. Drew, I'm going to shout indecent again. Eric laughed and dragged Nizi off her body, letting the girl take her arm and walk towards the car.

"People miss you, I originally wanted to go to Hawaii, who knew that you went to France again, and finally went to New York, hmph, you almost forgot about me, right?"

Eric got into the car with Drew, reached out and pinched the girl's baby face affectionately: "Why do I hear such a strong sour smell?" ”

Drew reached out and slapped Eric's hand away from his face, and a small look floated diagonally, as if you were explaining yourself.

"You know everything, what else do you want me to say?" Eric couldn't help but smile and reach over.

"Hate," Drew raised his hand again, but pulled Eric's big hand over and put it in front of him, "So, are they really pregnant, or are they pregnant together?" ”

Eric nodded, "I'm afraid so." ”

"And what are you going to do?" Drew asked, a little nervously.

"Of course I was born and then raised them, you can't make me an irresponsible man, right?"

Drew gave Eric a roll of the eyes, then held out two little fingers, "But, that's two, two at a time." ”

"This doesn't seem like a serious problem, right, and I can't afford it?" Eric wondered.

Drew didn't know what to say, and a sullen expression flashed across his face.

Eric patted the girl's head soothingly: "Don't be a little grumpy, you have two more brothers and sisters, isn't it good?" ”

When Drew heard this, he was slightly stunned, then smiled and hugged his chest and hummed twice: "Brother and sister, hum, Eric, you are so evil." ”

Eric just subconsciously regarded Drew as a child, the two got along for a few years, Eric never felt that Drew had grown up, so the sentence just now blurted out, looking at the appearance of Xiao Nizi at this time, Eric realized the ambiguity in the words just now, and quickly corrected: "Okay, it's not a younger brother or sister, it's a little nephew or little niece, you have to be an aunt." ”

"Hmph, I've heard it just now, don't you think it's too late to say that?"

"Then let's not talk about that, what about your two little henchmen?" Eric said with a smile.

Drew was dissatisfied: "You are all my little followers, not my daughters, I don't have to take them with me all the time." ”

Eric felt that the girl had definitely drunk a bottle of old vinegar and a dozen guns today, and was full of anger, realizing that it was useless to say anything, so Eric simply leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes to recuperate.

There was a moment of silence in the carriage, and the windows swept past the buildings, and soon came to the coastal highway to Malibu.

After a while, a small soft body leaned over and lay in Eric's arms, whispering like a cat, "Eric, I miss you." ”

Eric gently hugged the girl: "I know, I miss you too." ”

"Really?"

"Why don't you ask it yourself," Erekla pressed over one of the girl's small hands, pressing it to her heart.

After not coming back for three months, and walking into the villa of Jianjiao Manor again, Eric even had a faint feeling in his heart as if he was in a different world, and the villa was still the same as when he left, and there seemed to be no change in the villa under the care of Xiao Nizi.

Drew directs the driver to bring Eric's luggage in and then kicks them out.

"Eric, you go and rest first, I'll help you pack your bags, and I'll call you at dinner," Drew said as he flipped through Erik's luggage.

"Okay, there's a gift I brought back from France, you can pick one."

"Hmph, it's all mine," Drew exclaimed, having seen a pile of gift boxes in his suitcase, with some amusement.

Eric smiled, didn't answer, and walked to the bedroom alone.

When he woke up, it was already eight o'clock in the evening, and Eric went downstairs, saw a busy little figure in the kitchen, and walked over.

"I didn't learn it for a long time, so I had to call someone to bring it ready," Drew explained, with some embarrassment, seeing Eric's sniffling.

As soon as Eric came in, he already smelled a smell of burning, and he didn't know what the girl had burned, so when he heard this explanation, he stepped forward: "Or I'll come, what's in here?" ”

"Pizza, that's all we can eat at night." Drew was a little embarrassed.

"Pizza is fine, is there juice?"

"There's orange juice, I just squeezed it," Drew pointed to the juicer.

The two of them were briefly busy, and soon sat down in the living room.

Eric ate his dinner, silently listening to the girl's report on the situation in Los Angeles.

"The Detective Plane Head" has been roughly cut, but Liz is not satisfied with the publicity plan given by the Firefly. Lynn quarreled, "The girl is like a traitor to the whistleblower."

Eric smiled and said, "How do I think you must have instigated it?" ”

"No," the girl immediately retorted, but obviously not too confident: "Okay, I did say a few words, but with Michael. Lynn's quarrel was definitely Liz's alone. ”

"Michael didn't tell me about it, so it must have been resolved, and what happened?" Eric asked directly.

"The same scale of publicity as "Speed of Life and Death", but "Detective Plane Head" is placed in the Christmas file, with 2,000 screens."

Eric thought about it and nodded, a group of chicks didn't make anything outrageous, and the scale of this announcement has been released, and the scale is very reasonable.

With the box office potential shown by the summer file "Strange Heroes in Disguise", "Detective Plane Head" is indeed worthy of such a scale of publicity. Moreover, the head of the detective plane should indeed be placed in the Christmas schedule.

With the box office potential shown by the summer file "Strange Heroes in Disguise", "Detective Plane Head" is indeed worthy of such a scale of publicity. Moreover, the head of the detective plane should indeed be placed in the Christmas schedule. (To be continued......)