2003, late March.

Los Angeles time, 9:30 a.m.

"When it comes to Twitter's software architecture, all of you here have more say than I do. But what I want to say is that software architecture is not the whole story in this area. ”

"Compared with the software architecture, I am more required to be able to be one era ahead of the blog in terms of website interface, UI, human-computer interaction with customers, as well as network latency and upload and download speed!"

In the bright and spacious conference room, the IT elites in plaid shirts and jeans all looked at Yin Kana sitting at the head of the conference table with serious faces and listened carefully to her speech.

She wore a blond hair and a black and white black-and-white wool suit with a scoop neck trim and pink satin trim, and the placket was hung up so that the two plackets could cover the pair of round awe underneath the matching black V-neck undershirt.

Yin Kana knows better than anyone how eye-catching her figure is, and when facing daily work, she will choose quite decent suits for her clothing matching, so that her hot body is not so prominent, making her more authoritative and leading.

The moist mouth opened lightly, and the corners of her mouth pulled slightly to the side when she spoke, this can't be helped, this is a genetic problem, only her sweet and crisp voice echoed in the entire conference room, for the group of IT elites who control the company, Yin Kana feels that it is too simple.

Compared with YKM and her father's real estate company, most of these middle and high-level executives are programmed apes to manage and control.

According to the data of the U.S. web portal statistics website, in the past three years, a total of 52,140 interactive forums and portals have been closed. In contrast, only 500 new ones have opened. We have to think about how to make our website and software more accessible to our customers in the shadow of the bursting NASDAQ bubble. ”

"It's important, it's about whether or not our Twitter company can survive. It's about whether you can get such a good salary and such a good treatment. Look out your window, there's Beverly Hills. No one is closer than you. ”

"So ......"

Pedaling――

After the meeting ended, Yin Kana stepped on seven-point heels and walked to her office with flying steps, and the female secretary behind her ran a few steps to help her push open the door.

As soon as Yin Kana entered the office, she kicked off the high heels on her feet with great skill, and said to the secretary standing at the door: "Quick, get me something to eat first." ”

"It's been ready for a long time, here's your breakfast - Kentucky hot dogs."

The female secretary hurriedly walked to the side of the rest area, opened a box, took out a hot dog and a cup of Pepsi and delivered it to Yin Kana, who was sitting in the boss's chair.

"Oh my God, Kath, you're taking these high-calorie foods again...... Well, well, fill your stomach first. Call...... Turn on the TV for me and watch the morning news. ”

With a hint of a smile on the corner of her mouth, the female secretary turned on the TV with her remote control and turned her back to Yin Kana, looking for the AMC Bloomberg TV channel, "Found it, it just happened to be business news time." ”

The female secretary smiled and turned to her boss and said, but the picture was so beautiful, not that she was not right-minded, but that it was too evil.

Yin Kana's white little hand held a big hot dog roasted in red and red, and she had already bitten off the hot dog's head, and then chewed with an intoxicated face.

The white salad dressing sticks to her mouth and is used by her... Rolled into his mouth, there are still some ...... at the corners of his mouth

Oh my God, this picture is so beautiful that I can't bear to look at it directly!

Could it be that eating too much of Mr. Smith has become instinctive?

"Kath, what's wrong with you? Why are you looking at me like that? Yin Kana looked at the dumbfounded secretary who was swallowing saliva with some frowns, and asked with some curiosity.

"Huh? No, nothing...... The show has been found, boss, I'll go get you some tissues. The female secretary, who was already completely evil, diverted the topic in a little panic and was a little nervous.

Yin Kana, who is a little unclear, continues to eat her delicious hot dog from top to bottom, and if she knows what her secretary is doing in her heart now, she will definitely be.

But from the shape of the hand to the point of opening the mouth, and the salad dressing being rolled, everything is so natural.

It's basically a subconscious reaction, it's all so familiar, it shows that someone's teaching is simply outrageous.

Seeing that the TV was indeed the recent news related to Yum Catering, Yin Kana couldn't help but smile and narrowed her crescent eyes.

Ha, it seems to be true. His own man is attacking the world's largest restaurant chain!

This kind of news can make her so happy because she knows that in the afternoon, her man will fly to Los Angeles to meet her.

She knew better than anyone that she would basically not have much free time in the next few days.

Fortunately, there is a Paris who can help with the burden, otherwise I might not have been able to come to work!

But now Yin Kana is more concerned and cares about her man's invasion of Yum Restaurant to the first few steps.

Yes, her man is plotting to get Yum Eats in his pocket.

Yum's predecessor, Taikang Global Catering, is a business unit of PepsiCo in the United States.

It was spun off from PepsiCo on October 7, 1997 and became an independent public company.

It is licensed to use brands such as KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and more worldwide.

In 1998, when the restaurant company, which owns famous brands such as KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, was independently listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Yum Global Restaurant Group, the world's largest restaurant group, was officially established.

None of the shareholders or members of the company could have imagined that in just the past two years, Yum Global Restaurant Group has been operating and growing with great success.

Today, Yum is the world's largest restaurant group, with more than 35,000 chain stores and 1 million employees in more than 100 countries and territories around the world.

It owns world-renowned catering brands such as KFC, Pizza Hut, Pizza Hut Home Delivery, Taco Bell, etc., and ranks first in the world in the fields of cooked chicken, pizza, Mexican-style food, seafood and dessert catering.

At the beginning of the month, when Yin Kana was talking to Abel on the phone, she overheard Abel say that he was about to get his hands on Yum Catering.

Then she found out that since the beginning of this month, Smith Media and many media have been cracking down on Yum Catering and causing all kinds of trouble.

Yin Kana guessed that while doing this, her man must have been raising chips at a low price in the capital market.

She planned to wait for Abel to come over in the evening, and she would be sure to ask how many steps she had taken, and when she would be able to turn the world's No. 1 restaurant chain into Smith's stuff.

……

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When Yin Kana was still in a meeting, Abel was also in a meeting in New York.

In the Smith Building, in the conference room of Smith Capital, Abel was relaxed in the boss's chair, holding a signature pen in his hand, and was in a good mood to play with it, listening to his subordinates' implementation of Yum Restaurant's acquisition plan.

"In the past two weeks, we've been using the media to attack KFC on their signature fried chicken. This savings can save about $0.8 per fried chicken on average. ”

But this cost-saving approach has led to a lack of consistency in the taste of KFC's signature fried chicken. Sometimes it's delicious, sometimes it's not, so customers are already complaining. ”

"Then the Pizza Hut, which is second most important to Yum. Pizza Hut was caught secretly storing the overnight pizza embryo until the second day three times in a row. This caused questions from customers and the media, caused a lot of reaction on the Internet, and also forced Pizza Hut to stand up and explain that the number of visitors to Pizza Hut is still showing negative growth. ”

"Under the attack of our public opinion,"

"Yum Catering's current share price has reached $15, the blow effect is significant, if we let Washington start the public opinion offensive that Yum and Huaxia are too close at this time, it is likely to drive a sell-off panic, and the stock price will continue to plummet."

Abel stopped playing with the pen, raised his head and looked around, and said with a smile: "Remember, when we successfully won Yum Restaurant, its greatest value is that this brand is different from other American restaurant brands. It is very good at adapting measures to local conditions, and is willing to "follow the local customs" to meet the different tastes of different ethnic groups in different countries. This is why it has been successful abroad. ”

Why did only McDonald's and KFC stand firm in China?

Especially when KFC is not mainstream at all in the United States and can't even rank in the top five. It can be on par with McDonald's in China?

Just because it is very good at playing local, where it develops, it specializes in developing local characteristics. Unlike other American brands, they think that the whole world is American, and they are like that everywhere.

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As a result, except for a preconceived McDonald's, the others did not mix well abroad.

On the contrary, KFC, relying on the trick of following the local customs, is not very good in the United States, but it mixes well overseas.

Even Pizza Hut, other brands of Yum Restaurants, are also okay to mix abroad.

It is these factors that make Parkson Catering surpass McDonald's and rank first in the world among restaurant groups.

Catering is an important part of Abel's business blueprint, and he needs to have the catering industry, which often has tens of thousands of chain stores and hundreds of thousands of employees in the United States, with hundreds of thousands of upstream and downstream industries.

A McDonald's or KFC can affect the jobs of at least one or two million people in the United States.

Like Parkson Catering, the number of employees that can be affected by so many brands together is at least more than 5 million.

The impact on Washington and the states may not even be lost to the National Rifle Association.

The point is that Abel also has a long-term plan, and he intends to develop himself to the peak of his power in the United States after the subprime mortgage crisis.

Through these ubiquitous restaurants, plus those supermarket chains, convenience stores and the like, to promote his financial hegemony.

In parallel time and space, when this kind of financial hegemony was in full swing in China, the United States did not pay attention to it at all because of the old stubborn forces.

Now, Abel wants to go one step further on his own, after the subprime mortgage crisis!

Let's try to promote a wave that will take him to the next level if you can.

So now, before the subprime mortgage crisis comes, you need to do a little bit more preparation.

The acquisition of Parkson Restaurants, as well as the subsequent invasion of Starbucks, Domino's Pizza, Burger King, Subway, and even Coca-Cola, are all the foreshadowing and preparation he intends to make for his future financial hegemony.

That's why at the beginning of the month, he asked Britney not to sign with KFC for the time being.

Because behind Parkson stands Pepsi, along with many other consortium tycoons.

Even if Abel launches a public opinion offensive, it will be difficult to take it down all at once in a short period of time.

The strategy can last more than two months or more, and during this time, the media will go crazy to smear Yum Restaurant. If Britney had been the spokesperson for the other party during this time, she would have been affected by these things anyway.

It would be better to simply default and pay a few million dollars. Anyway, if you take it later, Abel can earn it back as long as she says it.

After the meeting, it was about the time when Yoon Kana was eating a hot dog and was infinitely associated with her secretary.

Abel went back to the office, cleaned up a bit, and went out the door.

Amanda had some resentment about this, and she finally stayed with him for half a month. This time he was going to California again, and she was left behind.

On the contrary, her little cousin, Lydia, can follow the past on a business trip just like last time......

This makes Amanda unhappy, and naturally makes Lydia very happy.

Lydia, who has been adjusted for almost half a year, can actually let Abel enjoy it at will.

It's just that he has some bad taste, and he is not in a hurry to eat it immediately, and wants to make Lydia more "delicious".

Now, sitting in the back compartment of the Cadillac monster, beside Abel, Lydia is thinking in her heart - this time she will go to California, and she will be eaten by the boss no matter what. If you really can't do it, then ...... Then I'll take the initiative to eat him!

In the car bound for JFK, Lydia was fantasizing.

Abel was holding a thin laptop, but he was browsing Ah San's news thousands of miles away.

Because of Abel's request and remarks, Smith Capital, which had already settled down there to start cooperation with the Ambani brothers, successively passed on various local situations back to the U.S. headquarters.

Like now, Abel's attention was attracted by the information and the name on the news.

This information is about the state of Gujarat, which was hit by a massive explosion at the end of last year due to sectarian conflicts, with thousands of casualties, and the incident caused a sensation throughout the country.

This has nothing to do with Abel, so he doesn't care how much the third brother dies. What kept him on notice was that the leader of Gujarat at this time was named Narendra Damoddas Dimo.

Because of this incident, Di Mo, who originally had a promising future, was a little dark at this time in the third brother's Zhengzhi.

Looking at the notebook, the picture of this middle-aged third brother with a beard on his face.

Abel was a little hesitant, should he directly press this guy to death, or support him? If you die, it won't be too simple for Abel now.

He just needs to tell Ambani that the richest man in the third brother can make this guy never turn over now.

In terms of support, this is the most self-motivated and ambitious one in the future. It's a guy who's more difficult to control.

But if it can be controlled, the plan of the Americans in the third brother must be very smooth.

Can you keep such a dog? What a nerve-wracking question.