Chapter 675? The New Neighbor Next Door

"Jude Law……"

Standing under the boarding ladder of Gulfstream 4sp, Song Ya said hesitantly 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 is well-known and well-known among American teenagers. Box office appeal, this alone can add a lot of points to Bowei and Disney executives. Hollywood always tends to use people who have been proven by the market. After all, it is a male lead produced with 20 million yuan. Linton can’t ignore the parent company. And the opinion of the issuer."

"Edward Norton? The drama is useless at best, he is not handsome enough, and his personality is not attractive to Johnny Carson and the others."

"Of course Christian Bale is also 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 lead in other projects. The salary is the most expensive. That guy Linton I like to cut the budget to death, and most of the scenes in the game of cat and mouse are concentrated in the male protagonist's seventeen-year-old range, he looks a little mature..."

The audition is over, both of them are very busy, and it's time to say goodbye, "But don't let the Xingmeng Tears crew go to Jude Law now, you must wait until the results come out here. Official announcement? That's not necessary, wait for Ye Just let Lemov call, and he'll get it done."

"You know I'm nervous about this debut novel..."

Mariah Carey hugged him reluctantly, "I really don't want you to leave me, even for a day."

"I don't want to either..."

Song Ya was a little moved, "Okay, I just went to San Francisco to do business."

The preparatory work of the winery is almost complete. First, only one vodka will be launched. The start-up capital comes from the soft girl currency cash from a+ Apparel's joint venture garment factory in China. Some shares in the joint venture winery will be followed by loans from local banks and imported brewing equipment purchased by Song Ya for 5 million yuan.

"Wish us success."

In San Francisco, Song Ya signed a legal document with his two professional managers, Reese and Scott, to formalize the matter.

There were no reporters, and except for accountants and legal personnel, everyone present was basically from the Songya business empire. The finished product of Gray Goose Vodka was still very early. Honor Cognac.

"Good luck."

Everyone laughed and drank.

"Is there anything else going on here at a+ Clothing?"

Song Ya asked Scout, and glanced at Damon Dash, who was bumping fists with Tony and others outside the office. This street boy known as the most cunning in Brooklyn, New York, had already started running errands behind him. He's looked down upon by Riser and the A+ wine execs he poached from Seagram, so it's a bit of an awkward position.

"Everything is going well. We are currently recruiting tellers all over the country. In addition to regular employees, I also want to imitate Gap's use of short-term students and idlers."

After the cooperation was negotiated, the conflict between Scott and Reese came to an end. He said excitedly: "This can effectively reduce our operating costs."

"Well, just don't be too aggressive."

Song Ya nodded. Chain companies in various industries like Gap and McDonald's with stores all over the country like to hire students who work part-time, adult part-time jobs and even parole prisoners. A large proportion of students in the United States have worked in these companies before they leave the society. Indeed It can reduce costs. Of course, if the management cannot keep up, it is easy to cause problems.

"Don't worry, boss."

Scout is ambitious, and he has applied for a patent for the two-piece suit invented by the employees of the Huaguo Garment Factory, which is waiting to become a blockbuster this year.

"You are a professional."

Song Ya didn't want to dictate his specific work, especially after he had just reluctantly paid a large amount of soft sister currency cash to a+ wine industry, only to exchange for the shares of the winery that was still in the sky.

"And then? What else?" he asked Linda.

"Jim Clark of Netscape invited you to a reception before the official release of the Netscape browser." Linda looked at the schedule and said, "Then you can go to Delaney if time permits.

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"Okay, I see, let's go then."

A group of people went to the headquarters of Netscape. Today, many big shots came here, including senior executives from Morgan Stanley, as well as senior executives from the software industry such as Sun (Sun Microelectronics). The department led by Mark Anderson won the Silicon Valley And the collective affirmation of the software industry is now a big hit.

"Aplus, come, stand beside me."

Jim Clark and the others were taking a group photo, and when they saw Song Ya who had just arrived, he greeted them affectionately, "We need you haha!"

Song Ya didn't know if the other party was alluding to his own good luck, or because all the white people present wanted to make the photos look more diverse, "I'm very honored."

As a minority shareholder, he naturally doesn't mind standing up for his business. In the past, he hugged Jim Clark and Mark Anderson and took pictures together.

"Aplus, talk?"

After the photos were taken, the reception began. The most common species in Silicon Valley was programmers who were not good at interpersonal communication. Many people gathered in front of the buffet table, chatting about codes while eating.

The people from Morgan Stanley pulled the new president of Netscape over to get to know him, "Quatson, this is Baxter."

"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 he is a big shot, he doesn't know much about Wall Street and Morgan Stanley for the time being, "Hello, Bacchus Mr. De." He paid close attention to the president, "I heard your speech a few days ago, it was very exciting."

"Really? Do you agree with me?" Baxter looked at Song Ya with interest.

"Uh, I don't quite understand, but you attack Bill Gates' Windows futurism and think that the Internet represents the future? I want to hear it in detail." Song Ya smiled and said, "Mr. Gates is my idol. Made some money online too. Ballmer doesn't seem too happy about your speech."

"Haha, does Microsoft make anything by itself? Nothing, even msdos is bought by others, they all rely on IBM to start their business, if Gates' mother is an executive of IBM..."

Baxter is a madman. Of course, it is doubtful how much of what he said is true and how much he wants to say on purpose, but he is indeed crazy, "I don't even bother to refute Ballmer's crappy third-rate salesman. .”

Song Ya laughed. Ballmer is a top Harvard student with full SAT scores. "It's the first time I've heard such an evaluation."

"He's just an idiot."

Baxter scolded Microsoft endlessly, and his words were sharp and witty, so he should be a good marketing player.

Song Ya and Quarterson smiled and waited for him to finish, "The official version of Netscape Browser is priced at $45, what do you expect the sales to be? After all, it is not much different from the free public version..."

Quarterson is mainly concerned about software sales. At present, Wall Street still values ​​corporate profitability. "If the market responds well, this will be a shot in the arm before we go public. Otherwise..."

"It will be very good, don't worry, 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 volume can also reach millions..."

Baxter boasted, "Forty-five dollars is just... aplus for your two albums."

"Uh, three, my album is currently sold for less than 20 dollars, or the best collection will sell for 19.99 dollars in the future." Song Ya answered honestly.

"Haha, yes, yes."

Baxter complimented.

Song Ya felt that the technology executives present kept looking at him, and then whispered to the people around him, "What's wrong with them?" He asked.

"It's nothing, maybe I'm not used to hip-hop stars appearing as shareholders of software companies."

Quarterson explained casually, "How far has your dts listing entered? IPO is led by Goldman Sachs, right?"

"Uh, I don't know if it's convenient for Fang to say."

Even if you don’t know much about Wall Street, you know that Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are in a competitive relationship. “Personally, I feel a little slower than this side. Mr. Jim Clark always told me that the side is as slow as a snail.”

"Haha, indeed, the audio industry is relatively small."

Quatson laughed and said, "And there's a time bomb on DTS's head, right?"

"Yes, IBM, Microsoft, HP, Compaq, and Apple have formed a special group to evaluate the SD camp and the rival DVD camp where DTS is located. Although I don't know what it has to do with them, but combined with the recent auto trade with Benzi Maybe the winner will be next month, and I heard that they will give a formal conclusion next month."

Song Ya answered truthfully that the auto trade war between the United States and Benzi is very fierce now, and there are notebook companies in the leaders of both the sd and dvd camps.

"What if it's bad for dts?" Quatson asked, "does dvd standard have a better chance of winning?"

"That's not clear to me."

Song Ya took a sip of wine, he actually knew that if sd loses, dts and Goldman Sachs are going to focus on the acquisition of ipo, and explain to investors that the money raised will be used to acquire patents within the dvd standard Some companies in China, it can be regarded as a last resort strategy.

"Delay, we have a new neighbor? Which company does the office building under construction next door belong to?"

After leaving the reception, Song Ya rushed to the American music website in Sunnyvale. Delay was taking care of the installation of expensive hardware equipment, which were all prepared for the upcoming pop music section and related discussion forum functions.

"yahoo, an online yellow pages and search site."

Delay replied: "There seems to be a Chinese in the boss."

"Really? Yahoo? What kind of weird name..."

Song Ya asked him to open the yahoo page for him. It was indeed full of traditional yellow page information such as corporate website entrances, but a long search box that occupied the visual center of the page was different from other search sites such as infoseek. Mosaic browser-like familiarity.

"Does this company welcome angel investors?" Song Ya asked while typing words in the search box.

"Angel round? They have finished investing in the A round, and they are all big companies." DeLay smiled, "They are very promising."

"Really? When?" Song Ya felt a little regretful.

"It seems like it was only last month that the A round was in place. You are busy with the wedding, and I don't bother you with these things." Delay replied.

Song Ya slowly closed her eyes, looked up to the sky and sighed, "Oh, how many opportunities have I missed in order to get married..."

"Um?"

"Uh, nothing."