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They don't doubt Westeros' vision.

In fact, Simon is not very clear about the size of the GPU chip market, but GPU chips will be very important in the future, whether it is the era of PCs or smartphones.

In addition, under the premise of already having sufficient technology accumulation, if ATI can get the support of the two giants Microsoft and Intel this time, it will not be easy to be overtaken by Nvidia, which came from behind.

Of course, Simon doesn't intend to put all his eggs in one basket.

In addition to ATI, Westeros is also in contact with some other graphics card chip companies recently, but the accumulation of these companies is not as deep as that of ATI. It is unlikely that they will launch PC-level graphics chips within two or three years. Only ATI can reach this level early next year. a goal.

However, after the development of PC-level chips is completed, if you want to promote them, you must have the corresponding OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) support.

Microsoft and Intel have a strong influence in front of OEM manufacturers such as Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and Dell. If ATI is attached to these two companies, it will undoubtedly make the promotion of PC-level graphics chips more effective.

Both Bill Gates and Andy Grove understood that although Simon discussed with them in a suggested tone, the young man had clearly made up his mind.If the two do not cooperate, Westeros Corporation may have to formally propose relevant proposals on the boards of directors of the two companies as a major shareholder.

Whether it is Bill Gates or Andy Grove, they are the founders of Microsoft and Intel. Of course, they do not want outsiders to meddle in their companies, but they are definitely not the kind who cannot accept correct advice. people.

Solemnly agreed to discuss this matter seriously later, and everyone chatted about other things.

The reception at noon could not last too long. At one o'clock in the afternoon, guests began to leave one after another.

Simon sent Andy Grove and Da Damen away, and returned to the reception hall. Claire Gein, a C girl who hadn't had a chance to say hello just now, came over, followed by a petite little girl, but Another Jennifer, the little girl who rushed to the stage of Madonna's concert, was already studying computer science at Stanford University, Jennifer Bray.

After saying hello to girl C, Simon looked at the little girl next to her who looked like a big underage loli, and had the urge to reach out and touch her head, and said with a smile: "Jenny, how are you doing?"

Probably because women have a natural sixth sense, Jennifer shrank her neck delicately, her beautiful eyes were full of anticipation

Moreover, the little girl seemed no longer as restrained in front of Simon as she was before, as if she had known a good friend for a long time, and said in a familiar tone: "I'm helping Claire with something."

Miss C explained: "Jenny is working as my assistant recently, so I just need to exercise in advance."

Simon glanced at Claire, then turned to the little girl and said, "Don't you need to go to class?"

Seeing that the smile on Simon's face seemed to be restrained, Jennifer Bree shook her head quickly: "No, it's all after school."

In fact, Simon didn't have any idea that studies are too important. He just asked casually, and when he noticed the little girl's nervousness, he smiled again and said, "Pay attention to arrange your time. Although I don't think college courses are very important, you should study There are still things to learn.”

Jennifer Bray nodded immediately, like a chicken pecking rice: "I will."

I really want to touch my head.

Then, the little girl in front of her shrank her neck again.

As if it had been touched.

Girl C next to her was keenly aware of these details, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

After a brief chat, and seeing that the time was about the same, Simon met up with several executives from Igret and left the Marriott Hotel together.

The reception in the hall did not end immediately, and Hui sent Simon and others away in a large group of people. Miss C took Jennifer Bray back to the hall, looked at the little girl, and raised her hand to rub the girl's beautiful blonde hair. on the head.

Jennifer Bray blinked after being let go by Miss C rubbing her head, and asked with a puzzled look, "C, what's wrong?"

Girl C pinched the girl's delicate face again, and said with a smile, "Little fairy."

The disguise was exposed, and Jennifer Bray stopped pretending, and couldn't help but look at the direction Simon was leaving, and looked around, and suddenly asked in a low voice: "C, have you slept with the boss, that? ?”

Miss C nodded without hesitation: "Of course, BOSS is very powerful in bed, you will know in the future."

The little girl looked at Miss C, blinked her eyes a few times, shook her head in disappointment and said, "Forget it, it's useless to ask you."

Claire raised her hand and tapped the little girl's head: "You are stupid, okay, men like silly girls."

Jennifer Bree tilted her head, unable to avoid Claire's knock, and retorted: "Simon doesn't like it."

Claire raised her eyebrows slightly: "How do you know?"

The little girl took it for granted, "I just know."

Chapter 446 Amazon (2) (Revised)

At the end of the press conference, the two major functions of the Igret Portal's app store and online payment were officially opened.

Simon's afternoon work schedule is mostly about e-commerce.

It's just that Ystore's current software and game content resources will eventually appear thinner.

In order to promote the application of the Ypay tool, Eaglet also cooperates with Compaq this time to launch an online purchase discount activity.

This is also the reason why Compaq executives took the stage at the press conference to promote the "Internet computer" it developed.

By applying for a special credit card or activating their Ypay account through a point card, users can get a maximum discount of 300 US dollars when they place an online order to buy several types of computers dedicated to Compaq.

Of course, when placing an order online, the user still has to pick up the order in an offline store.

In addition, AOL has also opened up the Ypay payment channel, and users can directly pay the network fees of AOL accounts online.Moreover, users can also get a certain degree of discount by doing so.

These two major additions to Ystore can greatly promote users' enthusiasm for using Ypay tools.

But this is still not enough.

Therefore, Eaglet decided to start another e-commerce plan ahead of schedule.For this purpose, Igret has registered a subsidiary brand-Amazon in advance.

Because of the need to coordinate supply, warehousing, logistics and other issues, Ypay also needs a certain amount of testing time. The Amazon online shopping mall is not released at the same time as the two products this time, but plans to start business in January next year.

Although Westeros has a strong advantage in audio-visual entertainment.

However, this time, the Amazon online shopping mall will still focus on book sales in the early stage of development. This is also a decision Simon made after careful consideration and referring to a lot of information in his memory.

At present, e-commerce is still in the early stage of seeding, not even a budding one. Apart from Simon, there are no other cases of the same type that can be used as a reference. Therefore, it is necessary to take a steady development path.

Selling books through the Internet has great advantages over other commodities.

On the one hand, most of the users who access the Internet at this stage belong to the upper-middle-class social elite group. These people have a higher level of education and are more inclined to buy books for daily reading, which has a consumption base.

On the other hand, online shopping malls can also provide far more types of books than physical bookstores. Even the largest physical bookstores can only provide tens of thousands of books, while online shopping malls can provide hundreds of thousands of books for users. choose.

Discussions about plans for Amazon's online store lasted until five o'clock in the afternoon.

In a conference room at Eaglet’s headquarters, other executives dispersed, and Simon finally called out Tim Berners-Lee, Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz.

Simon did not sit down at the conference table, but leaned against the edge of the table and looked at the projection screen in the conference room and said to the three of them: "There are still some things to discuss with you, I am afraid everyone will be late from get off work."

Even if they were not stopped by Simon, it would be difficult for the three of them to get off work on time during this period.

The female assistant worked on the computer connected to the projector for a while, and a tree diagram of Eaglet's current business products appeared on the screen.

The three of Tim Berners-Lee looked over together.

This tree diagram is different from the daily vision of the three people. Inside Eaglet, if it is divided according to the "mountains" of Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz, the tree diagram is the second Level should be two branches.

In the tree diagram in front of me, there are three branches at the second level, which are network services, portal websites, and e-commerce.

Further down the three sub-branches, there are more branches of the portal website, including six items of e-mail, news information, online games, online forums, search engines, and social blogs. The other two secondary branches also derive multiple sub-branches.

When Simon suddenly showed them this tree diagram, the first thing Tim Berners-Lee, Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz thought of was Simon's cool-tempered housekeeper Ellie Si Ferguson.

The development of the Ystore system has always been the responsibility of the housekeeper herself.

Alice Ferguson has actually been in San Francisco for the past few days. Of course, she also attended today's press conference. However, this time, she did not go on stage to personally promote the project she was responsible for, but Jeff Bezos came forward.

Originally, I thought that Simon was going to officially push Alice Ferguson to the top, but what Simon asked was something else: "Tim, Jeff, and Carly, regarding the picture in front of me, if I ask you to give up For a part of the business, how would you choose?"

After more than a year of rapid expansion, Eaglet can be described as a 'behemoth' compared to most of the Internet companies that have just started in the same industry.

As far as Simon can remember, Yahoo had only 1995 employees before and after it went public in 150.

In comparison, Eagletec currently has more than 2300 employees. Not only San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, Boston, Chicago and other cities already have branches of Eagletec. In addition, Iraqi Greet has already started to expand in overseas markets such as the UK, Japan, and Australia.

On the tree diagram of the projection screen, the three major branches and the sub-branches at the next level are all in charge of Igret's workforce of more than 2000 people who are divided into specific project teams.

Because of the ambition of Eaglet's team, only these more than 2300 people still cannot meet the expansion needs of Eaglet, so the company has been continuously absorbing relevant talents.

Hearing Simon's question, all three were stunned.

Does Simon think Ygritte's scale is too bloated?

After thinking about it for a moment, Jeff Bezos took the lead and said: "Simon, I think Igret's various businesses at this stage have great prospects for development and do not need to be streamlined."

Simon also nodded directly, and said: "Of course, in the short term, Igret will only continue to expand, because the Internet industry is a completely uncultivated wasteland, and we can plant whatever seeds we can think of on this land as we like. ...However, you should know that too much energy is scattered, and the result is often that nothing can be done well. Therefore, I hope everyone will focus on it now."

After Simon finished speaking, he gestured to the projection screen and said, "Think about it carefully."

There was another moment of silence, and Tim Berners-Lee said this time: "Simon, I think it is difficult to give up various businesses at this stage even in the future, even if it is to be divided, it is just one point. The three major businesses of the company are completely covered in one account system. Users can use almost all services such as space leasing, email, online games, online forums, online payments, and application stores through email accounts. At the same time, according to the company's marketing team The analysis, these services, all have very good business prospects."

Carol Bartz also said at this time: "Even if we really can't take care of everything, we are confident that most of the services will be the best."

"Okay, I'll tell you the result of my choice directly, and you should think about it in private." Simon straightened up from the edge of the conference table and took two steps forward, looking at the projection screen in front of him and said: "I remember I said it before, Eaglet’s positioning should be a technology company, not a media company that produces content. Because with the expected user scale of the Internet industry, no one can satisfy everyone’s differentiated content with the power of one company need."

All three of them nodded slightly. They all remembered what Simon said in the memo, and they thought it was very reasonable.

However, because of the most eye-catching relationship with the portal website, many media now position Eagle as an Internet media company, and the concept of Internet media has gradually been hyped up.

Simon knew what the three of them were thinking, and said: "The Eaglet Portal is just a guide website to guide users to obtain content in the early stage of the industry's development. Once users are familiar with the Internet, they will no longer rely on the portal website, and even resist the recommendation of the portal website. Give them fixed content, so what we should do is to establish a corresponding platform, let others produce the content that users need on this platform, and we get corresponding service fees through platform channels. YWS can provide space platform for enterprise users ; Online payment can provide a payment platform for the entire Internet e-commerce transaction; search engine can provide a content retrieval platform for Internet sites that have begun to explode; online shopping mall can provide a trading platform for physical items such as books, clothing, daily necessities, and electronic products; Social blogs can provide Internet users with a platform to express themselves. Therefore, these five major items are the areas we should focus on.”

After Simon finished speaking, the three of them looked at the tree diagram in front of them again, and found that if Simon's thinking was followed, many of Ygritte's current businesses would be marginalized or even abandoned.

For example, the news information that supports the largest part of the traffic on the Ygritte portal.

Such as very active Internet forums.

It is even a very popular e-mail service under Eagletec.

A moment later, Jeff Bezos asked, "Simon, where's the App Store?"

"The app store will be merged into the physical mall in the future, and because of the 30% commission rate of the app store, although we have an advantage now, there will definitely be competitors of the same type in the future. Large software or game manufacturers may also be more They tend to sell products on their own official websites and avoid our commission. The physical mall is different. Few brands build an online mall to sell their own products, and most merchants are unlikely to have such strength. The sales platform we provide from payment to logistics integration has a strong moat advantage."

"The payment system is a big problem," Carol Bartz said: "Simon, ordinary software or game manufacturers, also cannot support a payment system, they must look for a universal payment tool, our Ypay just can By doing that, we can also use that advantage to force them to move to the app store."

Simon shook his head and said: "This will only lead to the emergence of a second payment tool. You must know the AIM alliance that Apple, IBM and Motorola recently established."

Tim Berners-Lee said: "Simon, didn't you look down on the AIM alliance at the noon reception?"

"Of course I'm not, but that doesn't mean our future competitors will be as unpromising as AIM."

Jeff Bezos looked again at the tree diagram on the projection screen for a moment, and said, "Simon, what should we do next?"

Simon glanced at Bezos appreciatively, admiring the executive's pragmatic attitude, and said: "Focus, since you have decided to make these services the focus of Eaglet's future development, you must focus. And , I can explain one point now, because Eaglet is involved in too many Internet businesses, whether it is voluntary or forced, this company will need to be split up in the future. In this case, I am more inclined to take the initiative to split up in a step-by-step manner Minute."

When Tim Berners-Lee heard this, he couldn't help but look at Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz.

If Ygritte wants to split, he must first dismantle the two departments they are in charge of.

The business that the two are in charge of is also the easiest part to split under Eaglet because of their different customer groups.

Simon also smiled and followed Li's gaze to look at the past separately, saying: "That's right, the first step is to complete the split of basic services and network services, and this will be done before Eaglet's IPO."

All three were a little surprised, and Carol Bartz subconsciously said, "Before the IPO?"

"Yes," Simon nodded, and said again: "But don't worry, unless you voluntarily, your contract will not change. Even after the split of Ygritte, according to the original agreement, you can get two companies due equity rewards.”

With Eaglet's continuous expansion, especially after Cisco and America Online went public one after another and broke through the market value of tens of billions of dollars, the three of them also had a strong premonition that the five-year forecast that Simon re-drawn for them last year A reward agreement that can bring them 5% equity in Igret each may mean a very large amount of wealth in the future.

Just based on the volume of Cisco and AOL, 5% of the equity will be 5 million US dollars.

In this era, there are not many people in the world who can become billionaires as executives.

Moreover, all three believe that Ygritte's potential is likely to be more than tens of billions of dollars.

Simon is more aware of Eaglet's development prospects, but with a 5% stake in Eaglet, it will be easy for the three of them to become tens of billionaires at the peak of the new technology wave in the future.

Of course, Simon is happy to see this happen.

With the continuous development and growth of the Westeros system, Simon is now even a little inclined to personally create a large group of billionaires and tens of billionaires.

Even, the entire Westeros system, the treatment of its employees should be far better than other companies in the same industry.

Doing so can not only cultivate the sense of superiority and cohesion of the employees of the Westeros system, but the superior treatment can also increase the executive power of the enterprise team of the Westeros system, and ultimately create a powerful super business empire.

The three continued to discuss for nearly an hour, and Simon finally said: "Jenny will leave a document for you later, I hope that from now on, everyone will make adjustments within Ygritte according to the plan I just mentioned. If you have any ideas in time, you can communicate with me by phone or email at any time."

Chapter 447 First Week Data (Revised)

Along with Eaglet's two major new product launches on October 10th, there is actually a whole set of marketing plans involving various media platforms such as the Internet, TV, and newspapers.

On the following Wednesday, Igret also officially announced a data.

The number of users accessing the World Wide Web in the United States officially exceeded the 1000 million mark.

Internet users are usually based on family units, and 1000 million World Wide Web access users, of course, are more than simply 1000 million people.