reborn in america

While Adam was standing in the backstage of the "American Idol" finals, preparing for a surprise, Carol, who was tens of kilometers away in the office of the general manager of the Eden Office Building in Silicon Valley, was still sitting on his seat dealing with piles of documents , due to a successful IPO not long ago, the company has officially become a member of the listed company, and the company's valuation exceeded one billion US dollars that day, shocking the entire Wall Street.

Afterwards, Netscape's upward trend is still obvious. Due to the market's expectations, the unknown name of Internet companies, and the market share of more than 30%, with tens of millions of installed users, so in this month, nearly In two months, Eden's stock price continued to rise, and the market value of Eden Company exceeded [-] billion U.S. dollars, making it the brightest star in the stock market.

Ever since, in the recent period of time, the entire market has given supreme glory to the sudden rise of Eden Company. It is even exaggerated to say that it is going to be praised to the sky. Already ecstatic up.

But maybe it was because of Adam's constant nagging that Carol felt more worried when the market was doing well.But in fact, his sense of worry is not out of thin air. Although Eden is almost crushing in terms of market share at this time, it is not without risks and competition. Several companies are actively developing, and they cannot be underestimated.

But the most deadly or critical thing is that in order to be listed, Eden must provide profitability, but judging from today's online market, it is difficult to make a difference, so Eden's profit point can only be placed offline, that is to say, Eden The main thing is to sell and install floppy disks to make profits, but this also brings great disadvantages. You must know that Eden was able to beat the pack, get the biggest piece of meat, and monopolize the market, not relying on floppy disks sold, but relying on the freely available version 1.0 of Eden.

Although with the advancement of technology, the Eden 3.0 version has greatly improved many performances, but the floppy disk fee is a threshold after all. Compared with the Eden browser, there are still many free browsers on the market. Although there is no great threat to Eden on the technical level, the main reason is that they lack financial support and have no way to pursue technically. If a browser appears on the market, it only needs a few percent of the technical level. , With their free method, Eden can be forced into a mess, and if Eden loses this profit, it will inevitably lead to a decline in the stock market, which will greatly reduce the market value.

Fortunately, in addition to facing ordinary users, Eden may encounter unpredictable risks, but facing the enterprise versions of browsers from major companies, Eden’s revenue is growing steadily or even rapidly, according to Carroll’s forecast Maybe next year, there will be an earnings crossover.

However, thinking about next year, Carroll had to passively think of Microsoft. In fact, in the early 90s, although Microsoft occupied a major market share, it still had to face the threat of Apple and open source operating software. His only Apple's advantage is its strong compatibility. Relying on IBM, which occupies 1994% of the PC market, the operating software developed by Apple can only be used on the computers it sells, so as the sales volume drops to [-]%. Below, it is unable to compete with Microsoft in terms of market share, so Microsoft's operating software occupies a favorable position in the market. By [-], there were already tens of millions of PCs.

As for the other open source Linux, although it is highly praised by technical geeks, as users become more and more civilians, most of them still prefer Microsoft, which is easier to operate and use. Coupled with a series of extremely convenient software from Microsoft, Microsoft The annual revenue has reached [-] billion US dollars, and its market value has reached [-] billion. Therefore, although relying on new concepts and the favor of the market, Eden has made rapid progress in stock price and market value, and even a lot of media declared that "the era of Microsoft is over." .

But Adam and Carol are very sober, they still have a long way to go!Therefore, instead of being overjoyed by the great success of the IPO, Carol relaxed himself, but instead worked harder.

Recently, he is communicating with Smith Taylor, who is now in charge of the development of Nirvana Company, discussing whether to officially enter the chat room business. A chat room only has an average of 30 people, which is a bit tasteless. At least compared to the unicorn BBS with more than one million registered online users, it is comparable to the difference between an ant and an elephant. Instead of working hard on the chat room, it may be possible to develop Other BBSs recruit users with different preferences to increase bonding.

Therefore, he asked the people below to collect a large amount of information on chat rooms and BBS, and studied it carefully while drinking black coffee.

"Bang bang bang" suddenly there was a knock on the door.

"Come in." Carol was taken aback for a moment, put down the document in his hand, and said in the direction of the door.

After opening the door, his assistant Strachey came in: "General manager, the time for the final of "American Idol" is coming, you asked me to remind you specially."

When Carol heard what he said, he turned his head and looked at the wall, only to see that the time was already past 50:[-], and it was already time. In fact, he was not interested in the so-called chasing dreams and idols, but purely to support Adam. After all, this time The program is related to the success or failure of Adam's PD TV station. What's more, the most important thing is that after the finals of "American Idol", it will be the first TV series that Adam worked hard to shoot. Therefore, although he still has a lot of work on hand, he still has to Putting it aside for the time being, nothing is more important than Adam, and this can be regarded as the criterion in his heart. As long as it is Adam's work, no matter whether he likes the subject matter or content, he will read it seriously.

He turned on the TV on the office wall and tuned to PD TV. Not long after, the finals of "American Idol" officially started. He leaned on the seat, playing with a pen in his hand, and watched the exciting scenes on the TV. Only Adam The scene of shaking hands with David made him feel slightly refreshed.

Just when Carol was distracted thinking about the information he had just read, suddenly the music sounded, and on the TV screen, a figure was sitting on the piano seat, slowly falling with the piano, although the picture was a little far away, only a blurred profile image, but Carol stood up immediately: "Adam! How did he get on stage?"

For Adam's sudden behavior, Carol was not prepared at all, and was shocked all of a sudden, and then he was a little worried about the stability of the hanging piano, until Adam fell to the ground and walked to the stage with the microphone. It was only before that I really looked at him seriously and listened to his singing.

"

because of all of me

love everything about you

your curves and corners

and your perfect imperfections

give me your all

i will give my all

You are the end of the journey and the beginning

Even if I lose everything, having you by my side is enough

because i give you my all

You also give me the whole world

"

When Adam sang this passage affectionately to the camera, Carol thought of their first embrace, first kiss, first possession many years ago, and many, many beautiful things engraved in the depths of memory along the way. He watched Adam standing in front of him, Brett, Michelle and Catherine, reading his first novel, that was the first time he saw Adam so seriously, that soft face, sexy lips The line, under the warm lighting and the aroma of coffee, has an intoxicating charm.

And the author's car was galloping on the wide American road together. Although he knew that Adam didn't like this kind of absurd trip, but because his traveling partner was Carol Anderson, even if he met on the road Wind and rain, scorching sun, even if he is sick and tired, he is still willing to accompany him to complete that ridiculous journey.

Although it has been a few years since now, they are no longer the same as they were back then, but that memory is still fresh and beautiful, and he can't forget that on a certain morning, Adam, who didn't want to get up because he was too tired the night before, was buried under the quilt I didn't want to get up, and finally pulled him to sleep until the afternoon, and because I didn't want to drive at midnight, I ended up spending a day in that dilapidated motel crazily.

It's just that they don't know when, the two of them seem to be estranged, no one deliberately, and there is no conflict, just like a piece of cake placed on the table, as time goes by, it will deteriorate without knowing it.

However, today when he looked at the young Adam on the stage who was no longer as young as before, but still retained the sincerity and love of the past, all the throbbing in the past suddenly revived and returned to his soul. He seemed to feel the frenzied beating of his heart again, although he didn't know if he could continue this throbbing, but at this moment his emotion did return to the original pure and passionate feeling.

After watching Adam finish singing, his lips trembled, and he silently said to the air: "Carl, you are everything to me."

He couldn't help but whispered: "You are the same, Adam, without you, I don't know what I would be like today."

The author has something to say: Thank you for your support. Although the road is bumpy, I will still work hard.