Chapter 464： Three ideas

Eric and Steve Case, you came to me for a day, until you didn't reach too many agreements after work, and you can only continue talking the next day.

Because Chris invited himself to dinner at home, after work, Eric sent a follower and sat in Chris's car.

"I don't think that there are more than 1.5 million Internet users in North America. I thought I had to wait for a while." After Chris started the car, Eric said with some emotion that he planned to wait for Clinton to take the stage and start the plan. Some of the projects, after seeing some data about AOL today, still feel that the project should be sooner rather than later.

Although the number of 1.5 million is completely incomparable with the hundreds of millions of Internet users in the future, it is already a very impressive number in the era when this personal computer is still not popular. Moreover, when the number of users is relatively small, the layout is advanced, and when the number of Internet users breaks out, it can even reach the level of creating industry standards.

Eric vaguely remembers a sentence, it seems that it is a first-class enterprise to set standards, second-rate enterprises rely on brands, third-tier enterprises to sell technology, and four-stream enterprises to make products. These four sentences are like an industry pyramid. The more you get at the top of the pyramid, the higher the benefits you get. Take the smart phones of the original time and space. Apple and Samsung, which have a full set of technical standards, have a profit from smart phones. Ninety percent of the domestic mobile phone manufacturers who always clamor for Apple in configuration can only get 1% of the benefits, because the chips they use are American, the screen is Japanese, and the camera is South Korea. of. Occasionally, an unseen ‘Austenitic 304 stainless steel’ **** was created, which was originally a common tableware that people often had around them.

Chris didn't know Eric's psychological activities and heard Eric's words. Asked: "What are you waiting for?"

"I have some thoughts in my heart. I was going to wait for the network to develop for a while and then implement it. Now it seems that I have to wait, the sooner the better."

Chris snorted and leaned against the roadside, letting a red BMW convertible rushing past, obviously absent-minded.

"You moved?" Eric looked at the signpost outside. He remembered that Chris and Emily were still living in Midtown Manhattan, but now they are already in Central Park.

“We bought an apartment in the Upper East Side some time ago. It is on 72nd Street, Third Avenue.”

"Exactly, I also have a villa near that. I bought it with Drew last year. I haven't lived yet." Eric said, suddenly thinking of something, asked: "You are not going to get married?"

Chris shook his head: "Emily wants to wait another two years, she is not going to get married before she is thirty."

Eric's mind is still relatively sensitive. The road to Chris, who was still a talkative talker, suddenly fell a lot. He quickly guessed that it might be related to this dinner.

Chris parked the car in the parking lot of a high-rise apartment. The two men got on the elevator and quickly reached the floor where Chris's new home was located.

Emily, who is dressed at home, opens the door. Enthusiastically embraced Eric: "Eric, I am very happy to see you again."

"Me too," Eric released Emily. Smiled: "But I didn't bring red wine."

"It's okay, please come in," Emily let Eric into the apartment, not only thoughtfully helping Eric to hang the windbreaker, but also personally took a pair of slippers for Eric.

Eric thought that the young couple seemed to be a bit abnormal. Emily has always been very cheerful and enthusiastic. But today seems to be overdone.

"Eric, you should sit down first. Dinner will be good soon," Emily said after helping Eric to pour coffee. She gave Chris another look: "Chris, can you come over and help me?" ”

Chris was helplessly approaching the kitchen.

Eric just looked at the direction of the kitchen and did not show more curiosity. Instead, he picked up the remote control on the coffee table and turned on the TV. Anyway, if there is anything in the two, I will definitely say it myself.

In the kitchen, Emily brought insulated gloves, opened the oven and looked at it, closed the lid, and whispered, "Do you tell him?"

Chris spreads his hand: "This is too embarrassing. What do you want me to say?"

"How can it be embarrassing, this is a very normal thing," Emily glanced at her boyfriend angrily: "You... you just don't want to help me."

"If I don't want to help you, I won't invite Eric to come over, let's talk about the rest," Chris said, picking up the kitchen knife and trying to help Emily cut the onion.

Emily screamed and robbed the kitchen knife: "Well, I said to myself, I don't have to help you."

......

"That night, I really scared me. Especially when the last farm tractor hit the TV screen, I really thought that the TV was broken. Eric, how did this happen?" At dinner, Emily recalled about the trailer of the "Tornado" screen some time ago, some little excited asked.

“It’s just a simple visual effect,” Eric said. The principle is simple. There is not much triumph in the tone. After all, the current 3D movie effect can reach this level, and the visual effect will be even more shocking. However, the current 3D film technology is not mature enough. The current 3D glasses will cause serious visual fatigue for a long time, so most of the 3D technology can only be used on short films.

Emily looked forward to ask: "I remember that the "Tornado" release time is June 5th, it will take a long time, will the firefly be screened in advance?"

"Of course, I will let people send you two tickets at the time," Eric replied with a smile.

Emily said thank you. Then, the atmosphere in the restaurant fell into a short pause. After a moment, Emily finally got the courage and said: "Eric, now, that... the firefly investment company still has a lot of hands. Big money?"

Eric looked at Chris, who bowed his head and pretended to drink soup. He smiled and said: "This Chris should be clearer than me?"

I heard this sentence. Chris was stunned and quickly pulled out a few paper towels and turned around.

Eric almost understood it and simply put down the knife and fork in his hand. Seriously said: "Emily, there is nothing to say directly, we don't need these guests between us, so it will seem strange to us."

In this sentence, Emily is somewhat embarrassed: "In fact, it is our clothing company..."

"Oh, I remembered," Eric immediately showed a stunned look. He quickly remembered the scene when he saw Chris and Emily at Jeffrey's home for the first time on Thanksgiving two years ago, when Chris was still working at Morgan Stanley. It was just responsible for the listing of the clothing company of the Emily family, because Emily’s father falsely reported the information of the clothing company, which led to the listing of Huang: "I remember last year I told you if you make money in the futures market. I will invest in your clothing company. I am sorry, I almost forgot about it. How much money do you need now?"

Emily blinked at her boyfriend and carefully extended a finger: "One...100 million?"

Chris immediately turned his head and Emily immediately changed his mouth: "In fact, 60 million is also ok."

Eric knows that Chris’s character is that it’s too serious, and that it’s serious, it’s old-fashioned. Although he has a lot of money in the hands of fireflies, he feels that it is not professional enough to invest in his girlfriend's family business, so it will flash the look.

After the acquisition of Disney. Eric’s $8 billion in funds from the Gulf War last year left about 1.5 billion. After the acquisition of Disney, the money from the Firefly Films itself was self-sufficient. Therefore, he intended to use this Money makes other investments.

"Like this," Eric thought for a moment. I smiled and said: "I will stay in New York in recent days. You take the time to prepare a piece of material for me. After I have seen it, I decided to invest 60 million or 100 million, OK?"

"Of course, no problem," Emily said with a hint of excitement, almost wanting to get up immediately, to get the information she had prepared, but she quickly realized that the current situation is not suitable for this.

After dinner, Eric rejected the suggestion that Chris and Emily stayed, and Chris had sent Eric downstairs, and they walked side by side on the bustling streets of comics.

"I always feel that I am very fortunate. If I didn't happen to meet Jeffrey and met you again, I probably wouldn't have the current achievements. I have no relatives in this world. I have always been Jeffrey as an elder. Look," Eric looked at the neon signs on the side of the road, and he sighed with some embarrassment. He remembered a few years ago, he made all the bets on the whim and wanted to make "The Little Devil", if not just met Jeffrey. And his shooting team, a small rookie who first entered Hollywood, even if he can pull up a grass team, may not be able to make the perfect movie of his memory.

Chris knows why Eric suddenly said this. Chris didn't feel that his father and son were Eric's great benefactors. He had always been very self-aware. Similarly, if he didn't meet Eric, he didn't know his father. Can you get back on it, even if the cold war between their father and son does not know how long it will last. What's more, now he manages more than two billion dollars in assets, and if he does not choose to resign, he will continue to work at Morgan Stanley and be able to independently operate investment projects of the same size, at least Ten years of struggle: "In fact, we are very lucky."

Eric smiled: "Yes."

Chris put his hands in his trench coat pocket and said, "Yes, you can rest assured that this investment, Emily's father has retired. Now Emily is in charge of the clothing company. It has developed well in the past two years. If it wasn't for the case two years ago, it would be a breeze for the company to re-list."

"The specific investment amount will be discussed with Emily, such as going back in a bed, in bed," Eric made a joke.

"Or you pay attention, I try not to intervene," Chris smiled. "Yes, when you came back today, you said that you already have some thoughts about computer networks in your heart?"

"I don't think you remember this."

"Well, you don't yell at me, what kind of thoughts are you talking about?"

Eric looked around and pointed to a coffee shop on the side of the road: "If you are not in a hurry to go back, let's go in and talk for a while, the villa I bought is in front, but it's a bit deserted, just Before today, I informed the next housekeeping company to clean up."

Chris nodded, and the two walked side by side into the coffee shop on the side of the road, called two cups of coffee, and made it down the window.

Eric sorted out his thoughts and said: "Unfortunately there is no laptop here, or it is more convenient to talk about it. Should you study the computer information during this time?"

"Well, you just say it, I should be able to understand," Chris said.

"Actually, all my thoughts are based on the technology that is widely used in computer networks. However, as I said before, I personally think that this is a trend of the times, and it is very likely, and even if it is really gambling. I will not lose too much."

Chris echoed: "In fact, I feel that your judgment is very reasonable now. A few days ago, I found Emily looking at the costume design on Apple's laptop, and those designs are designed with software. This was even unthinkable a few years ago, and now the price of personal computers is not too expensive. Ordinary people can buy one for a month or two, if computer hardware can keep high speed now. If it grows, the popularity of personal computers will be sooner or later."

"Well, I still go back to the computer network. I have three ideas at the moment," Eric paused. He added: "This is what I thought about in the daily use of computers. And, I plan to separate them. It became the three ideas for the operation of the three companies. First, it was a vision for a graphical interface browser."

"Graphic interface browser?" Chris repeated Eric's vocabulary.

"It's a graphical version of ... browsing web tools," Eric thought for a moment and explained: "You can see this comparison. The Internet tools we use now are similar to the dos operating system a few years ago. Need complicated instructions to run, very inconvenient, and the graphical interface browser I envisioned is to present the current Internet tools in a simple graphical interface situation, like Microsoft's Windows Windows operating system, you know, in the window Before the advent of the system, the personal computer was often used by more professional technicians. After the Windows system appeared, even ordinary people could use a personal computer. The graphical interface browser I envisioned was an ordinary person. You can also easily browse the 'Windows Tools' of your computer network." (To be continued)