how i bought the whole world

Alfonso told me that he will fly to Kuwait tomorrow morning, and then enter Iraq through the border of Kuwait. Kuwait and Iraq are two countries that border each other. The US military attack Iraq is also taking the same path, which is very suitable for Alfonso In this way, he will follow in the footsteps of the US military, and then record the real war.Alfonso also said that the reason why he didn't tell me about this in advance was because he didn't want to give me any chance to keep him. He knew that he would face many dangers along the way, but he didn't feel regretful and hoped that I wouldn't blame him for doing so. It was too late to say it.

I am secretly disappointed about this, because of Alfonso's concealment and his consideration.But of course I wouldn't blame Alfonso. If it were me, I'd probably choose to say goodbye to my friends when we left, lest our meeting would add to the sadness.

Good thing I have Chris and Brandon by my side.

Brandon took the initiative to chat with me, "You are always in a difficult position these days, are you worried about Mr. Vesal?"

"Yeah, I'm a little worried because it's dangerous in Iraq." I sigh. "A person in peace can't imagine how cruel war is. I can't imagine it, so I'm scared. I don't want to hear the bad news of my best friend one day."

Brandon paused, and suddenly changed the subject, "You don't seem to have told me about you and Joshua Smith. At that time, I hadn't worked for you, so I didn't know much about you and him, but Dr. Jonathan mentioned it to me once or twice. He said that Smith is a very dangerous person. If he suspected that you wanted to betray him to the FBI, he might not let you out of the gate. But what did you do at that time? How dare you take such a risk to offend him?"

I was silent for a moment, "Because I need start-up capital, Brandon, I'm full of ideas, but I need money to realize them." I looked up and looked into Brandon's gray-blue pupils, his eyes were calm and Calm, with a reassuring effect, he just looked at me quietly, so I couldn't help pouring out all the words in my heart to him, "At first I had no money and no time, let alone know Tiffany, no Give me a little help, you know how miserable an unemployed man with nothing on the streets of America is... I'm on my own."

This sentence is an answer to Brandon, but it is also an answer to myself. I understand what Brandon means. What happened to Alfonso is something I can't change-I have no power in Hollywood and can't provide for my friend. Any help, so Alfonso is on his own, for which he ventured to Iraq, as I did with Smith, is the best shortcut we can think of, although the nature of the two is very different , but they all need to face danger, and may even sacrifice their lives.However, this is our own choice. Since we have never regretted our choice, we should also show respect for other people's choice.

After that, I seldom brought it up.

Although I still miss the safety of Alfonso on the front line, the days still pass quickly. After a few days, Brandon came to inform me that the first shareholder meeting of imageworld will be held, and I have to go to California, USA tomorrow Silicon Valley, and Brandon will be with me as secretary.

Imageworld does not belong to WF Group, it is a joint venture, and together with R Company, it belongs to Illusion World Group.Illusion World is a social platform group specially established by me. In addition to owning the two most important subsidiaries imageworld and Twitter, it also acquires other small Internet companies, integrates and reorganizes them for commercial use, which involves advertising , games and e-commerce and other fields.And I, Evan Williams, the CEO of Twitter, and Egbert, the owner of Extraordinary Knowledge Asset Management Co., Ltd.The three Bennetts are the main shareholders of the Phantom Group.I have the largest stake, about 30%, and then Evan, about 15%. Imageworld was originally established to curb the development of K.My goal is very clear, imageworld will become the world's largest social photo sharing site, so I deliberately separate it from Twitter.But I didn't have time to be the CEO of imageworld, so I chose Paul who once created the ello social platform.Borg holds this position, but I also make the following stipulation that the board of directors must have absolute voting rights, and as the largest shareholder, I must be the chairman of the board of directors.

I initiated the convening of the general meeting of shareholders this time.I noticed that k is in Mark.Under Zuckerberg's management, the frequent expansion has spread from Boston to New York City, which made me vigilant. In order to ensure that imageworld will be the first photo sharing social networking site, I decided to carry out a series of expansions. Increase the entertainment function and sharing function of imageworld.Under my previous suggestion, Paul Berger has enabled imageworld to realize real-time communication, that is, users who use imageworld can chat with his friends instantly at any time, and at the same time, they can check whether their friends are online.Of course, real-time communication here is not limited to simple text communication, but also includes sharing photos, music, videos and games.

Maintaining a social networking site is not easy, and Twitter alone costs about $2.5 million a year to maintain.This includes renting office buildings, setting up branches, promotion funds and personnel costs.And imageworld's financial report for this quarter shows that its maintenance cost is several times higher than that of twitter, because imageworld has many more functions than twitter, and imageworld integrates more social software than simple twitter The essence of , becoming a social network that integrates entertainment and business.Fortunately, the more we spend, the more we earn. Imageworld's annual profit is close to 7 million, almost catching up with Atlantic's annual profit in the United States.

"Maybe I have to change my mind." After seeing the success of imageworld, Twitter CEO Evan Williams said, "I thought Twitter could only rely on a simple advertising model to make money, but now imageworld's multiple business models have given I have different possibilities, yes, the application app is a very good idea, I heard that Apple has launched such a software platform, maybe we can learn from them.”

"We will build multiple platforms, not just apps." I said to Evan, "I think our main profit directions in the future should be advertising, games and software. Our advertising business management can Continuing the current practice, indicating to each search engine that we agree with them to use our news feed, and then making these search engines pay a large amount of money for this, this is a very mature business model, and there is no need to change, so now we The focus should be on the latter two. We need to acquire some small game companies and software companies to test the waters of the other two models, and develop early versions for users to evaluate. In addition, in order to give customers a better experience, We also need to acquire some service provider companies for background management, so that we can concentrate on the front-end layout.”

"Is this the future plan of imageworld? It seems that it has become the enemy of Twitter now." Evan Williams sighed.

When Twitter was first launched, Twitter users developed extremely rapidly, breaking through millions of users in just a few months.Evan has always been proud of this, and then I let imageworld be born. He quickly found that the growth rate of imageworld users is higher than that of Twitter, although there are still not as many users of imageworld as Twitter, But who will be the boss of the social network in the future is really uncertain.

"imageworld is not the enemy of Twitter. This should be called healthy competition." I smiled, "Just like Procter & Gamble, the benefits of multi-brand effects are not just one star."

"If I didn't also have shares in imageworld, I really don't like to hear this sentence." Evan said to me, he turned and patted the shoulder of imageworld CEO Paul Berger, "I also have a few new ideas, wait for me I will send it to you in detail when I go back, maybe we can also set up a shared database so that Twitter and imageworld users can communicate with each other.”

The meeting ended quickly, but there was still plenty of time left, enough time for me and Brandon to have dinner in Silicon Valley before flying out.Originally, Evan and Paul invited us to join their company dinner together, but I declined in the end, I am not interested in eating buffets, I think I prefer to sit in a restaurant and enjoy the food, rather than a lot of people standing and eating While chatting in twos and threes.

In the end Brandon booked a Chinese restaurant for us for dinner, he called a taxi and took us directly to the city center.

On the way to the restaurant, Brandon said to me, "I thought you'd want to chat with the imageworld people."

"In the past I would, but now I feel a little tired." I honestly said, "Maybe I am too tired from the plane. I just want to have a meal and sleep well."

The corner of Brandon's mouth curved, "I thought you would always be full of energy."

"I'm not a superman." I shrugged my shoulders. This day was really exhausting my mind. I needed a high degree of concentration to grasp the direction of the whole meeting. After all, it was not an easy job to convince every shareholder to agree with my ideas. They always have to fight for their own interests before they are willing to obey.And Illusion World is not WF Group, and my share in it is only 30%. This situation makes it difficult for me to take Illusion World as my "one word".

The city night scene of Silicon Valley flashed through the car window, and I watched the brightly lit world outside with great interest. Silicon Valley is known as the kingdom of emerging technologies. There are many high-rise buildings here, which are not inferior to the prosperity of New York or Boston. Unfortunately, I My attention was only for a short time, and I was quickly attracted by another sight on the window-Brandon's shadow.

He was leaning on the seat beside me, with one hand resting on his chin, and the other casually resting on his knee, looking leisurely and content.Seen from this angle, Brandon's flaxen hair seemed to be shrouded by the light outside the window, flashing a soft luster. He lowered his head slightly, and the hair on his forehead drooped naturally, and then, under the light breeze, Flick down and lift up gently.

A smile stayed on his face, making his profile look incredibly soft. I noticed that Brandon still didn't lose his bangs, but his gray-blue eyes were still eye-catching, even at this moment. They are only half-closed, and they can still clearly see the lazy and comfortable emotions brewing inside.

Suddenly, I thought, "Brandon, I find it's rare for us to spend time together these days."

Brandon looked back at me, "Boss, we meet every day, and we came to Silicon Valley together this morning. I don't understand what you mean when you say it's rare to be together."

"I mean privately, no Chris, no one else, just the two of us," I blurted out.

"..." The other party suddenly lost his voice.

I was stunned, I didn't expect that I would say such a thing, in fact, I didn't mean to humiliate Brandon, I had promised Chris that he would never shoot Brandon casually, and I fully planned to do so Doing this, but somehow, I completely forgot what Chris told me, I broke my promise, because Brandon was sitting next to me, his breath surrounded me, I couldn't restrain myself Impulsive, at that moment I felt that my palms were a little sweaty, and my heart was like a drum beating, even when I faced Gu Anning at the beginning, I didn't feel this way.

Yes, Gu Anning is different from Brandon. Brandon is a very mature man. He is decisive, capable, and full of opinions. If Gu Anning makes my heart beat because of his slenderness and sensitivity, then Brandon is calm. self-sufficient.The two of them are so different, no matter their personalities, identities or appearances, I think I like two completely opposite people because I have schizophrenia.

But how could that feeling of heartbeat be confused?

I couldn't help turning my head to look at Brandon's expression. At this moment, he was staring straight ahead, not knowing what he was thinking... Was he thinking about how to get rid of me?My heart tightened.

I kind of regret what I said just now was too blunt, maybe when Brandon reacts, he will come up and give me a fist, but I'm not sure.

Then Brandon's voice came to me, "Oh," he said.

"What does 'oh' mean?"

He smiled lightly, "That's what it means."