Chapter 675: The New Neighbor Next Door
Jude Law ......
Standing under the boarding ladder of Gulfstream 4SP, Song Ya hesitantly said to his wife: "I don't know, although the director is secretly supporting him, he should not be able to compete with Jared Leto, Leto has fame and box office appeal among the youth group in the United States, this alone can add a lot of points to the senior management of Bowell and Disney, Hollywood always tends to use people who have been proven by the market, after all, it is a male protagonist produced by 20 million, and Linton cannot ignore the opinions of the parent company and distributor." ”
"Edward Norton? The play is better useless, the people are not handsome enough, and the character does not recruit Johnny Carson They like it. ”
"Of course Christian Bale is also very handsome, and the play is not bad, I heard that he deliberately lost weight for this audition, but he is already an actor who can be the male protagonist in other projects, and the salary is the most expensive, Linton's guy likes to cut the budget very hard, and most of the scenes in the cat and mouse game are concentrated in the range of the male protagonist who is about seventeen years old, and he looks a little mature......"
After the audition, both of them were very busy, and it was time to separate for the time being, "But don't let the Star Dream Tear Stain crew go to Jude Law now, you must wait until the results are here." Official announcement? That's not necessary, just wait for Yeremov's notice, and he will get things done. ”
"You know I'm nervous about this debut ......"
Mariah Carey reluctantly hugged him, "I really don't want you to leave me, even if it's for a day." ”
"I don't want to ...... either"
Song Ya was a little moved, "Okay, I'm just going to San Francisco to do business." ”
The preparations for the distillery are nearing completion, starting with a vodka that will be launched with a start-up capital of A+ Clothing's garment joint venture in China, which will be exchanged for some shares of A+ Wine's joint venture distillery in Northeast China, followed by a loan from a local bank and imported brewing equipment purchased by Song Ya for 5 million meters.
"I wish us success."
Song Ya signed a legal document with the two major professional managers of San Francisco and his subordinate Riser and Scott, and the matter was officially decided.
There were no reporters, except for the accounting and legal staff, who were basically their own people in the Songya business empire, and the finished product of Grey Goose Vodka was still very early, and the wine in the glass that everyone raised together was from Martell Silver Cognac in Seagram.
"Good luck."
Everyone laughed and drank booze.
"Is there anything else going on with A+ Apparel?"
Song Ya asked Scott as he glanced at Damon Dash, who was boxing Tony and the others outside the office, the black kid on the street who was known as the most cunning street kid in Brooklyn, New York, had already started running errands after him, and Reeser and the A+ wine executives poached from Seagram looked down on him, so he was in a bit of an awkward position now.
"Everything is going well, we are recently recruiting tellers all over the country, and in addition to regular employees, I would also like to emulate GAP's use of short-term part-time students and idle people."
After the cooperation was negotiated, the conflict between Scott and Rieser came to an end, and he said excitedly: "This can effectively reduce our operating costs." ”
"Okay, just don't be too aggressive."
Song Ya nodded, GAP and McDonald's stores all over the country in various industries chain enterprises like to hire temporary part-time students, adults part-time or even parolees, a large proportion of students in the United States will work in these enterprises before leaving the society, which can indeed reduce costs, of course, it is easy to have problems if the management can't keep up.
"Don't worry, boss."
Scott was ambitious, and he patented the two-piece suit, which was invented by employees of the Huaguo Garment Factory, and is waiting to be a blockbuster this year.
"You're a professional."
Song Ya didn't want to dictate his specific work, especially after he had just reluctantly given A+ Liquor a large amount of soft girl coins in cash, only to exchange it for the shares of the distillery that were still in the air.
"And then? What else? He asked Linda.
"Netscape's Jim Clark invites you to attend a reception before the official release of Netscape." Linda looked at the schedule and said, "Then if time permits, you can go to Delaina." ”
"Okay, I see, let's go."
The group went to the headquarters of Netscape, where there are many big names today, Morgan Stanley's executives, and software industry executives such as SUN (Sun Microelectronics), etc., Mark Anderson's department has won the collective recognition of Silicon Valley and the software industry with programming technology, and is now a big celebrity.
"APLUS, COME, STAND BY ME."
Jim Clark and they were taking a group photo, and when they saw Song Ya, who had just arrived, they greeted very affectionately and loudly, "We need you haha!" ”
Song Ya didn't know if the other party was alluding to his own good luck, or because all the people present wanted to make the photo look more diverse, "I'm honored." ”
As a minority shareholder, he naturally doesn't mind standing up for his business, and used to take pictures with Jim Clark and Mark Anderson shoulder to shoulder.
"APLUS, LET'S TALK?"
After the photo shoot, the drinking party began, and the most common species in Silicon Valley were unsociable programmers, many of whom gathered in front of the cold dining table to eat and chat about code.
Morgan Stanley's people pulled Netscape's new president over and took the initiative to come over, "Quatson, this is Bucksd." ”
"Hello, Mr. Quatson."
Song Ya knew that this was the Wall Street tycoon who underwrote Netscape's IPO (initial public offering...... I don't know if it's a big guy anymore, he doesn't know much about Wall Street and Morgan Stanley for the time being, "Hello, Mr. Bucksd." He quietly paid attention to the president, "I heard your speech a few days ago, and it was very exciting. ”
"Really? Do you agree with me? Bacsd looked at Song Ya with interest.
"Well, I don't quite understand, but you're attacking Bill Gates' window futurism and thinking that the Internet represents the future? I'd like to hear it in detail. Song Ya smiled: "Mr. Gates is my idol, and I also make some money on Microsoft stock." Ballmer seems to be upset with your statement. ”
"Haha, is there anything Microsoft made on its own? Nothing, even MSDOS is bought by others, they all rely on IBM, if it weren't for the fact that Gates's mother was an IBM executive......"
Bacsd is a madman, and of course how much of his remarks are true and how much of his intentions are deliberately based on touching the giants of the porcelain industry, but he is really crazy, "I don't even bother to contradict Ballmer's crappy third-rate salesman." ”
Song Ya laughed, Ballmer is a top Harvard student with a perfect SAT score, "This is the first time I've heard this kind of evaluation." ”
"He's just an idiot."
Bucksd scolded Microsoft and talked about it with a spicy and witty language, and he should be a good marketing player.
Song Ya and Quartson smiled and waited for him to finish, "The official version of Netscape Browser is priced at $45, how do you expect the sales to be?" After all, it's not much different from the free public version......"
Quarter is mainly concerned about software sales, and Wall Street is still more concerned about corporate profitability, "if the market responds well, it will be a shot in the arm before we go public, and vice ......versa."
"It's going to be good.,Rest assured,The market share of our browser is there.,As long as a certain percentage of users are willing to spend money to buy the official version, the sales can also see millions of ......"
Bacsd boasted, "45 knives, just...... APLUS YOUR MONEY FOR TWO ALBUMS. ”
"Well, three, my album is currently selling for less than $20 or $19.99 in the future." Song Ya replied very honestly.
"Haha, yes, yes."
Bacsd complimented.
Song Ya felt that the tech executives present kept looking at her, and then exchanged words with the people around her, "What's wrong with them?" He asked.
"It's nothing, maybe I'm not used to having a hip-hop star appear as a shareholder of a software company."
Quarter Tson casually explained, "Where is your DTS listing?" Is it true that the IPO is dominated by Goldman Sachs? ”
"Uh, I don't know if it's inconvenient to say."
If you don't know Wall Street, you also know that Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are in competition, "Personally, I feel a little slower than here, and Mr. Jim Clark always tells me that it's as slow as a snail over there." ”
"Haha, it's true that the audio industry is relatively niche."
Quatson laughed, "And there's a time bomb on the DTS, right?" ”
"Yes, IBM, Microsoft, HP, Compaq, Apple formed a special group to evaluate the SD camp and the rival DVD camp that DTS is in, although I don't know what this is about them, but combined with the recent auto trade war with the book, maybe the winner will be next month, I heard that they will give a formal conclusion next month."
Song Ya replied truthfully,Now the car trade war between the United States and the book is very intense.,And there are book companies in both the SD and DVD camp leaders.,It's strange that the United States companies don't take the opportunity to get a handful.。
"What if it's bad for DTS?" Quatson asked, "The odds are better for the DVD standard, right?" ”
"I don't know."
Song Ya took a sip of wine, he actually knew that if SD lost, DTS and Goldman Sachs were going to put the main direction of the IPO on acquisitions, and explain to investors that the money raised would be used to acquire some companies with patents within the DVD standard, which was a strategy of last resort.
"Delay, we have a new neighbor? Who owns the office building under construction next door? ”
After leaving the reception, Song Ya rushed to Sunnyvale's Amerika Music website, where DeLai was taking care of the installation of expensive hardware equipment for the upcoming pop music section and related discussion board features.
"YAHOO, AN ONLINE YELLOW PAGES AND SEARCH SITE."
DeLay replied: "There seems to be a Chinese in the boss." ”
"Really? YAHOO? What's this weird name......"
Song Ya asked him to open the Yahoo page for herself, and it was indeed full of traditional yellow pages such as corporate website entrances, but a long search box that took up the visual center of the page from other search sites such as infoseek triggered the same familiarity as discovering a mosaic browser.
"Does this company welcome angel investors?" Song Ya asked casually as he typed words into the search box.
"Angel wheel? Everyone has finished the A round, and they are all big enterprises. DeLay smiled, "They're very favored." ”
"Really? When? Song Ya felt a little regretful in her heart.
"The A round seems to be in place last month, you are busy with the wedding, and I don't bother you with these things." DeLay replied.
Song Ya slowly closed his eyes, looked up to the sky and sighed, "Alas, how many opportunities did I miss in order to get married......"
"Huh?"
"Uh, nothing."