Chapter 86 Wait until the eighth day of the ninth month after autumn, and I will kill all the flower

Chapter 86 Wait until the eighth day of the ninth month after autumn, and I will kill all the flower

Facing Wendy's speechless gaze, Bai Ye coughed twice and said:

"It's silly to say that it's not just black and white, it's also gray!"

"Don't listen to the nonsense of some leading parties. The United States has just changed some things in a different way. For example, the current occupant of the White House can have peace of mind, but when his term expires, if he writes an autobiography, booksellers can give him the copyright. Cost $60 million..."

Well, the manuscript fee for Old Bush's memoir is nearly 10 million US dollars, and the manuscript fee for Zipperton's two memoirs is nearly 29 million US dollars. There is also something even higher, that is Ao Guanhai’s memoir. The copyright alone was sold for 60 million US dollars. Who would believe it if there is nothing fishy about it?

"In addition, whether you are a military or civilian official, after you retire, you can find a company to work as a consultant. When you come to the contract, you can get the money by tilting it. During the military operations in Afghanistan, the fresh water consumed by the US military was shipped from Australia by their own company. We got a contract worth over a billion dollars for pure natural mineral water. Who can say this is corruption?"

Wendy nodded thoughtfully:

"It seems that the United States is very familiar with transforming some black areas into gray areas, so that there is no greed, only personal ability. Can the American people really endure such chaos?"

Bai Ye meditated for a while and recited a poem:

"Wait until the eighth day of the ninth month after autumn, when the flowers bloom, hundreds of flowers will bloom. The fragrant array will penetrate DC, and the whole city will be filled with golden armor."

——Washington, the capital of the United States, is referred to as DC.

"As long as the United States can maintain its position as the world's hegemon and its economy can continue to grow at a high speed, many contradictions can be covered up. But if the United States' economic growth slows down and its position as the world's hegemon falls, it is estimated that the American version of Huang Chao will soon be It’s coming out.”

…

After Wendy got off work, the two went to have dinner together, and then went to see Wendy's house together.

She was much more excited when observing the scene in person than when looking at the photos.

For the appearance of the building, the designer designed it in a form similar to a pile of squares. The exterior facade has no decoration and is surrounded by regular square windows of 3.3 meters * 3.3 meters, which looks both elegant and modern. It looks cute from the outside, but looking out from the inside is like looking at New York through picture frames.

Each bedroom is spacious and bright, decorated in white tones, with simple furnishings and plenty of white space.

The bathtubs are placed in front of the windows, offering a bird's-eye view of Central Park and Midtown Manhattan. Living in this kind of house is a real winner in life.

"I really want to move in early and see what it feels like!"

Wendy smiled happily.

"Don't worry, it will be quick." Bai Ye chuckled: "But I love you so much, why don't you give me some reward?"

"The reward...is there, but..." Wendy blinked: "Let's talk about it when we get home!"

Ever since.

Back home, under Bai Ye's expectant gaze, Wendy put on a navy-style jk uniform, which was full of vitality and excitement, making her look many years younger.

The blue collar is matched with a bow, which is fresh and age-defying. The waist-length short top echoes the blue short pleated skirt, making the whole look coordinated and unified. Paired with black shoes, it is romantic and pure.

"How about this reward?" Wendy raised her head slightly and said, "I knew you, a bad guy, would do everything possible to trick people, so I specially selected it..."

"It's just okay..." Bai Ye sucked and said, "Is there anything better?"

"You made this calculation. I heard it across the Atlantic Ocean. I only bought this one and lost the rest. If you don't like it, forget it."

Wendy rolled her eyes.

Bai Ye's eyes showed a hint of disappointment, but he quickly regained his composure:

"There's no other way, then I'll have to do it reluctantly!"

Well, what should I say...

Luo Wei is worthy of being Brother Run, and his woman is really Run!

Wendy herself is a girl with a cute style. Wearing a navy-style JK uniform, Bai Ye has an unstoppable liking for her.

So when Wendy went to work the next day, she limped along the road, feeling lucky that she had bought a house and that the day to escape from the sea of ​​misery was not far away.

After sending Wendy to work, Bai Ye came to snap, and Andy was also here.

Snapchat has been put into the market. In addition to the plan given by Bai Ye, Andy and the technical experts are also discussing to add some new things to make the product more perfect.

After Bai Ye read it, he nodded. This did not destroy the nature of Snapchat's private social interaction.

To put it bluntly, Snapchat actually provides a safe platform for young people to send indecent photos to each other, because these messages will not leave traces online, and parents have nowhere to check. Of course, it also satisfies those users who want to send business secrets or sensitive information.

"How many users are there now?"

Bai Ye asked while flipping through the financial reports.

Andy replied: "More than 50,000 people."

"Watt?" Bai Ye was disappointed: "That's it?"

You know, giant companies such as Google receive tens of millions of visits every day, Facebook has more than one billion registered users, and its Snapchat users number 50,000...

It feels so embarrassing to even say it!

"Bai Ye, if you haven't founded an Internet company before, don't mess around!" Andy said with a dark face: "This result is actually pretty good. After all, how long has this company been founded? How long has this software been online? This is already It’s the result of using a lot of money to promote and attract traffic, otherwise, it might be even less.”

"The product quality of the Snapchat software is considered to be excellent. As long as it develops step by step, if nothing happens, it will definitely be able to occupy a place on the Internet. Don't just look at the small number of Snapchat users now, wait until the Snapchat brand effect is formed. The number of users will explode exponentially, and the cost of renting a server every day will be enough to make you wonder why there are so many users."

"knew."

Bai Ye nodded, expressing understanding.

The early stages of Internet companies are arduous and cost-intensive. It is difficult to get ahead without going through a lot of blood and fire.

At the beginning, there were tens of thousands of Internet companies in Silicon Valley, and only a dozen giants remained.

"Andy, what do you think we start another OF website?"

Bai Ye's imagination was wide open and he briefly told Andy about the planning of the OF website.

Because OF is actually a further step forward from Snapchat, and OF is really awesome, with a user base of more than 150 million. In September 2022, in a world where the emerging metaverse is completely barren and the traditional Internet is in decline, OF The company's performance has broken through the sky. The company's total net income is US$932 million. Considering that the company's core employees may be less than 200 in total, this income is terrible.

This platform is aimed at the fan economy. Anyone can upload pictures, videos and other content on this platform, and fans can pay to purchase these contents. The platform will extract 20% of the handling fee, and 80% will be reserved for the content uploader. How to put it...it's a bit like Weibo with a looser management.

Compared with other similar platforms, OF eliminates the cumbersome steps of user docking and content distribution. 80% of the revenue is collected by creators, and it also builds a direct communication and contact bridge between creators and users.

Bai Ye feels that OF and Snapchat can complement each other.

"Bai Ye, are you serious?" Andy looked at him speechlessly and said, "Do you think Osborne's goodwill is too good, so you can't wait to destroy it? If Snapchat is still playing around, , your idea is to throw yourself into the mire and wallow in it, and you won’t be able to wash it out in the future.”

"Your idea is actually a very good idea, but it is only suitable for those who are originally wallowing in the quagmire. In order to cross the class and do some large-scale things, it is understandable. But you can't! You are already the top in the United States. You are a chaebol, there is no need to do such a thing just for a little money."

"Uh... okay." Bai Ye smiled sarcastically: "It seems that I thought about things too simply."

In fact, America is a society. If you say it is open, it is really open. If you say it is conservative, it is really conservative.

Most of the media in the United States are just rooted in the soil of liberalism, and they will show a lot of exaggeration for the sake of profit. In fact, the United States is not as open as we imagined, because the United States is a Christian country, and the conservative forces in all walks of life in the country are also very strong.

Hearing what Andy said, Bai Ye himself remembered that in later generations, OF himself was promoting de-astringency because JPMorgan Chase, a major commercial bank in the United States, imposed sanctions on OF and them.

JPMorgan has been particularly aggressive in closing accounts of heart workers or any business that supports heart workers.

Websites like OF are an eyesore in the eyes of the mainstream. They lack banking partners and often suffer sanctions, warnings,

In a sense, the creative environment of websites such as OF is the freest. Netizens can upload content no matter how private it is, and this also provides the driving force for the rapid rise of the platform.

But when the mainstream wants to mess with you, no matter how brilliant the website was, it will be thrown to the ground in the blink of an eye.

"forget it."

Even if a website like OF can be brilliant for a while, it is destined to be dusted, so it is better not to touch it.

Run Snapchat with peace of mind.

Although Bai Ye thinks that the scale of Snapchat is a bit small, when the operation grows and Bai Ye has enough cash flow, he will directly buy Twitter and merge the two parties to create an Internet media giant that can do serious business, which is better.

"Of course..." Andy pondered for a while and then said: "Snapchat has nothing to do with OF on the surface, but no one cares about what you want to do secretly..."

"Well……"

Of course Bai Ye could hear that Andy was hinting to him.

After all, OF is also a company with unicorn potential. Andy can certainly see its value. It is US$1 billion. Rather than letting others earn it, it is better to earn it himself.

She works on Wall Street, so she definitely doesn't have any moral obsession or anything like that. She only cares about whether a project can really make money.

"Okay, let me try to see if I can find a black glove over there in the UK to build this website."

Bai Ye immediately thought of Tim Stokley, the founder of OF, and maybe he could be put in charge of this project again, just like Bai Ye poached Evan Spiegel to be in charge of Snapchat.

At that time, Bai Ye can completely use overseas secret funds to invest in the establishment of OF, let Tim Stockley use it as a shield, get a handful of quick money, run away immediately, and dump this thing to someone who is willing to take over. .

"Let's not talk about anything else, let's get down to business." Andy said: "Due to the high publicity in the early stage and the novel concept of Snapchat itself, this software already has tens of thousands of users. Don't look at the small number of tens of thousands. In fact, There are really many, and our company’s management is discussing purchasing enterprise-level software services and more servers from Oracle.”

"How much is it?"

Bai Ye asked subconsciously.

Andy said lightly: "More than ten million dollars."

"I'll go, it costs so much money?" Bai Ye said in exasperation, "Then I'm really curious. Without my $100 million in capital, how can ordinary people buy servers and large enterprises when they start an Internet company? The supporting facilities?”

"So 99.9999% of Internet companies founded by individuals are dead." Andy said: "Only a very lucky few among a very small number can meet the attention of venture capital companies, get opportunities, and then be supported along the way. Get on the fast track until you soar into the sky. And even for those people you see relying on the Internet to counterattack, the identity and background are not all blank slates. Many parents who are not awesome also have awesome relatives. For example... do you think the proportion of Jews among venture capital companies and Silicon Valley tycoons is particularly high?"

"It's really..."

Bai Ye touched his chin and thought for a while.

Oracle founder Larry Ellison, Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg are all Jewish.

Bai Ye suddenly thought of a hell joke about the Jews, and asked with a smile:

"Andy, what is the most flammable thing in the world?"

"ah?"

"That must be... oil!"

Andy: "..."

Speaking of the Jews, the first thing people will think of is that they were once an unfortunate nation that had no fixed abode, were driven out and killed, and wandered all over the world. At the same time, they were also the smartest and most diligent nation in the world.

But when everyone knows that Germans pay 500,000 marks for a piece of bread, then the Jews are no longer innocent.

And if you think about it carefully, if a nation is really the smartest and most diligent, how can it make itself the enemy of the whole world?

To put it bluntly, even if the Jews are smart, they are just smart.

The rise of the Jews since the new century, in Bai Ye's personal view, is not that the Jews are too awesome, but that the Angsa people who dominate the United States need to push some people out as targets. The Jews have never held the real power in the United States, they just have It's just money, and when the Angsa people want to steal the money...hehe!

At the same time, the largest importer of laundry detergent to China in modern history was the Sassoon family among the Jews...

After discussing the details of Snap's development with Andy, Bai Ye walked out of her office and told the employees a piece of good news - because the employees had worked overtime during this period to develop and launch Snapchat, all employees would be rewarded with a month's salary bonus.

Instantly.

The employees cheered.

Those who come out to work must be looking forward to getting more wages.

Corporate culture, humanistic care, and treating employees as brothers are all false. If we can pay more, employees will work harder.

"You rarely have time to come to this company. If you don't give some rewards or something, not many employees will remember you."

Andy joked as the two sat in the elevator after get off work and were on their way to the parking lot.

The reward plan has been worked out. If Bai Ye doesn't come, she will announce it. If Bai Ye comes, it must be Bai Ye who will announce it to add some prestige to him as the chairman.

"Just forget it, as long as you don't forget me."

Bai Ye smiled.

The two found a restaurant and had lunch.

The Singapore-style seafood pasta is a bit spicy and quite unique. It also adds a lot of minced garlic. The sauce is sour and sweet. The portion is satisfying. It contains fresh shrimps and squid rings. It tastes really good.

Pan-fried seabass mashed potato stew with sweet and sour sauce basil oil, half a seabass with skin fried on both sides. The fish meat is white, tender and juicy, suitable for lighter tastes. Below is the mashed potatoes, which have a dense texture and can be paired with sweet. The sauce is even more flavorful.

Garlic bread, the presentation is very simple, the texture is crispy, not soft or hard, and it tastes delicious.

The fried chicken wings are served with secret sauce. The chicken wings are very fragrant and tasty, with a bit of sweet and sour taste. They are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. They burst with juice when you take a bite.

After eating, Bai Ye and Andy returned to the snap.

Andy was too obsessed with work, keeping herself busy like a spinning top all day long. Even Bai Ye, the boss, couldn't stand it anymore, so he teased Andy and asked her to rest more. Learn to combine work and rest.

It's just that Andy is too stubborn and doesn't listen to anything Bai Ye says, so Bai Ye can only tease Andy a few times with sincerity.

After a while, Andy tidied up his clothes, glared at Bai Ye fiercely, and continued to work.

Bai Ye chuckled.

He took out his mobile phone and checked Twitter, Facebook and other software in Andy's office.

Not long after, Bai Ye suddenly frowned.

Because he seemed to have seen strange rumors about Spider-Man.

Well, after returning from Afghanistan, Bai Ye hadn't had time to see Parker yet, so she didn't know what he was like now.

Bai Ye paid more attention to Spider-Man topics.

Suddenly.

Bai Ye saw a clearer photo of Spider-Man.

"watt?"

Bai Ye's eyes widened with shock on his face.

Because the picture of Spider-Man is in a white spider suit, and judging from the body shape, it cannot be the blue kid from Parker, but a girl with a very good figure.

emmmmmmm……

"Fuck!"

Bai Ye directly uttered a curse word:

"Could it be that this world is not Parker Spider-Man, but Gwen Spider-Woman?"