Chapter 639? Being Cheated

Squeak, squeak, the sea breeze in the morning made every antique wooden door in the villa scream. Song Ya was woken up by this toothache sound, kissed the face of Mariah Carey who was asleep and still had a smile on her mouth, and put on Get dressed and get up.

"Does this place need to be repaired?"

Linda and Mariah Carey's female assistants are making coffee at the bar next to the open kitchen, Hayden is reading a newspaper, the patio door facing the sea is opened, and the white floor-to-ceiling curtains are catching the wind, blowing up like big balloons , hunting sound.

"Look, it's starting to rust."

Song Ya pointed to some wrought iron structural parts in the house, "There is also a door, which is always ringing, like a woman crying."

"Look at you, if you like these old works of art, they need to be maintained all year round."

Hayden folded the newspaper and handed it over.

'The FTC launched an antitrust probe of several major record labels...'

On the news, there was a picture of Daniel surrounded by his entourage, pushing aside the siege of reporters, which should have happened before he came to the celebratory dinner last night.

"This guy..." Song Ya threw the newspaper into the trash can casually, "Can we help him?"

Although I am very angry with Daniel now, I have no other choice but to continue to support him.

"No, wait, this kind of lawsuit will go on for a long time, after all, the outside world thinks that the FTC is too aggressive in claiming to seek billions in fines. Donovan and I just talked on the phone, except for Polygram's five major records. The company will take it seriously, according to the current situation of the recording industry, even if it is shared, everyone will not be able to pay the money. Of course, Daniel is under the greatest pressure, and no one knows how the capital will react."

"We can't afford to use our energy for them, and our political connections aren't good enough for this kind of thing," Hayden said.

"Um."

Song Ya took the coffee from Linda, "By the way, who did you say was the previous owner of this house yesterday?"

"The Maxwell family, former owners of the Mirror Group, were the British media tycoon who owed hundreds of millions of pounds in huge debts and then died at sea for no apparent reason in 1991."

Hayden said: "The two sons who inherited the Mirror Group will be sued in court this year, and they are eager to sell. This is one of the holiday villas. It has not been maintained since 1992. Only a gardener is hired on a regular basis. Take care."

"Oh, I know, that legendary old Jewish man named Robert? It is rumored that he is a multi-faceted spy..."

Song Ya became interested, and visited here again carefully, because the house was built on a cliff, the main building was not big, with an area of ​​more than 3,000 square feet, and only four bedrooms, but every piece of furniture and furnishings was old and beautiful, and many Haydens also I don't know how many years and where the works of art came from, just like those Asan wood carvings that were robbed by the British and bought all the way to the United States, but they are generally lacking in maintenance, and the paint on them is mottled.

"Do you want someone to repair it? Do you want to restore the old ones, or replace them with new ones?" Hayden followed behind and said, "Actually, it's cheaper to replace them with new ones. If you keep it as it is, you need to hire more people."

"Let me discuss it with Mimi first."

Song Ya didn't make up his mind. He liked the decoration style here, but it would definitely cost money to repair. He was enjoying the wood rattan fossils dug from the Amazon basin,

Now it has been made into a shelf, with a beautiful milky white like ivory, "I'm going back to Chicago today, and after the exam week, I will go to New York to concentrate on preparing for the wedding. Here...put it here first, after all, she and I are not the same." Will stay forever."

"In the second half of the year, she will definitely join the filming of Star Dream Tears." Hayden reminded: "She is very serious about getting electrocuted for the first time."

"I know, let's talk about it after the wedding."

"Jimmy." Linda handed over the phone.

"Uh, boss, are you also in Los Angeles?" Jimmy's voice came from the other end, with a timid tone.

"Yes, what's the matter?" Song Ya asked.

"I have something to report to you... can we meet?"

"Okay, come here." Song Ya called Linda.

"Jimmy, where are you? Okay, get on California Avenue, we're at... yes, not far from Ponitdume State Beach..."

Linda directed Jimmy to bring the car to the villa.

"What's the matter? Jimmy." Song Ya knew there was bad news when he saw his trembling face.

"Well……"

Jimmy stood in the middle of the living room, hands at his sides, and glanced at Linda and Hayden.

"Tell me, do you have any secrets that you can't let your own people know?" Song Ya said quietly, "Tell me quickly."

"Well, there seems to be something wrong with 3DFX..." Jimmy said.

"What's the problem? If you have something to say, let's finish it at once." 3DFX Song Ya invested five million dollars, and finally got... no, 20% of the shares.

"They simply won't be able to produce usable chips this year..." Jimmy replied.

"WTF?"

Song Ya's black question mark, "You...you wait, they can't produce a usable chip this year? What do you mean? I saw the demonstration effect of his chip at the Computer Show last year."

"The demo of the fighting game?"

"yes……"

Song Ya still remembered the 3D graphics technology that surpassed the level of the audience, and all the colleagues present at that time turned black.

"That demo is fake," Jimmy said.

"Fake? Impossible, I saw it with my own eyes..."

"It's fake, boss...they only made one piece of software at that time, which is the technology called a graphics engine, and the effect can only be achieved by running on SGI's professional graphics workstation." Jimmy replied.

Song Ya opened her mouth and was stunned for a long time, "No, no, it's still impossible, the SGI graphics workstation is very big, I didn't see it at the time..."

"They hid the SGI graphics workstation under the demo table, directly connected to the monitor on the stage..."

"..."

Really fooled? Song Ya remembered the warning that the innovative Boss Hu had given him at that time, saying that the level of the 3DFX guys would never be too much higher than that of the industry, and the people from NV Company and Diamond Company had been shouting 'this is impossible', so...

"How do you know this?" He still wanted to struggle one last time.

"The three founders of 3DFX revealed to themselves that they proudly boasted to the technology media that they had obtained a total of tens of millions of venture capital through this trick, and they got five million from you alone..." Jimmy said.

"Oh! M-FXXK!"

After finally confirming and confirming that she was deceived by those three second-rate liars, Song Ya was so angry that she dropped the coffee cup in her hand to the ground. Why did bad news keep coming out as soon as March entered? No wonder that guy Jim Clark, as the former founder of SGI and the boss who once led the three guys in 3DFX, didn't invest money in it himself.

"Honey, what's the matter?"

Mariah Carey and the female assistant came out of the bedroom, looked at the broken porcelain all over the floor, and walked to him worriedly.

"It's nothing... I was a little excited just now. Linda, clean up this place."

Song Ya comforted her.

"Although I don't understand the IT industry, can I sue those guys?" Hayden asked.

"The situation at that time, you don't know, investors are rushing to vote, I...the investment agreement we signed has no relevant binding clauses, otherwise they would not sign..."

Jimmy is like a child who has done something wrong, with his head down, his hands are pinching each other unconsciously, "My fault, boss, you said before to give me one last chance, I screwed up, so..."

"You idiot!"

Song Ya also knew that he was not to be blamed, it was still the same problem, it was a skill to be able to deceive people within the scope of the law, so the three founders of 3DFX would now openly brag about "little tricks" as talking points, and it was all their own fault At that time, after seeing the demo effect, he excitedly urged Jimmy to finish the investment as soon as possible. He didn't even care about the reaction of the innovative Mr. Hu and other industry insiders at the time. He secretly laughed at them for being jealous of their peers. Gotta snap! What the hell, "but it's not your fault this time."

"What do we do now?" Jimmy asked.

"Let's go to San Jose."

Song Ya forced herself to calm down, and thought about it carefully, "Linda, call Tony and the silencer, since the 3DFX crooks have taken so much money from me, they have to make the product for me no matter what. Come out, or else...or I won't make it easy for them!"