Chapter 357 (2/2)

As for the competition and differences between Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz, Simon didn't interfere too much.

Proper internal competition is also beneficial to the development of enterprises.

Moreover, it is not time for the software sector to subsidize portals. If it comes to that day, Simon will not connive at Carol Bartz's caprice.

In addition, at the end of July, AOL officially opened 100 Internet cafes.

The excellent publicity and marketing in the early stage, the leisure environment inside the Internet cafe and the public's curiosity about the Internet have attracted a large number of customers at one time.

However, as initially estimated, the 100 Internet cafes are basically unprofitable.

The fee is $3 an hour. Each Internet bar has 20 computers, and the business hours are from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. after calculation, even if an Internet bar is fully loaded, the theoretical monthly income is only $28800. In fact, half of it is good.

As it happens, the average breakeven point of each Internet bar is $15000.

If you want to make a profit, you can only rely on drinks and snacks or sell a little more peripheral food as originally expected.

Although the 100 Internet cafes have little hope of making profits, AOL has no intention of giving up this business.

After all, Simon's ultimate goal is to promote world wide web technology.

In the plan, after a period of exploration and operation, AOL plans to expand the Internet bar industry by means of authorized franchise. The franchisees only need to pay a certain franchise fee to AOL to obtain a full set of technical and program support. They can also adopt a relatively flexible operation mode to appropriately increase the number of computers, increase the online price or development amount It's easy to make a profit in other businesses.

Los Angeles.

In Simon's absence, Denise's entertainment is still as lively as a little animal in spring.

The financial data of the first half of 1990 has been completed. Although the management has not released detailed data, both the internal and external media of the company have found out a rough picture.

In the first six months of this year, just an unexpected box office hit ”pretty girl” made a lot of money for danielis entertainment.

However, ”pretty girl” is enough to prop up a film company's annual performance. In the first half of the year, it brought less than one tenth of the pretax profit of danilisi entertainment in the first two quarters, with the box office of more than 160 million US dollars.Only Batman: the moment of war, which was a box office hit at the end of last year, made Denise's entertainment a lot in the box office and the surrounding areas in the first half of the year.

In addition, since the end of 1988, Denise entertainment has accumulated a large number of blockbuster films, such as scream series, death poetry club, rain man, sixth sense of the supernatural, bodyguard, flying over innocence, etc. in the first half of 1990, Denise entertainment continued to bring a large amount of revenue to overseas theaters, video market and TV broadcasting platforms.

A series of popular reality shows and other TV series produced by danielis TV company are also bringing stable income to the company.

More than that, Nancy Brill's consumer entertainment division, including the games and music businesses, has made a lot of money because of a series of projects produced by the company.

Among them, Blizzard studio released the fighting version of Ninja Turtle video game in March, although it did not reach the best-selling level of last year's role-playing version of the game, but within three months, the cumulative sales volume of the game cassette also exceeded 1 million boxes, and the total sales volume is expected to exceed 2 million boxes.

Because of Nintendo's ex gratia quota, five games can be released every year according to the ex gratia standard. In addition to the fighting version of Ninja Turtles, Blizzard studio will launch a role-playing version of Ninja Turtles sequel in the second half of the year. EA company, which dannilis entertainment shares in, will also provide another three games to enter Nintendo's host platform.

Taken together, only in the first half of 1990, Denise Entertainment's net profit after tax had reached $573 million. With the success of summer films such as ghost and Ninja Turtle, the annual net profit figure can at least double.

After the financial report came out, Amy Pascal was even in a trance.

She was officially signed in March 1987, and the contract ended in March 1991, a total of four years.

Based on the company's first half results and her original salary terms, the combined rewards, cash and stock awards she will receive this year are likely to exceed $100 million.

100 million dollars.

If someone had told her a few years ago that she could become a billionaire, Amy would have felt that they were talking nonsense.

Hollywood executives, in addition to the top Steve Roth, Lou wassalman and a few others who have been in high positions for a long time and have made the enterprise large enough. Others, in fact, the salary is not high, everyone is busy, just making a hard money.

Even Steve Roth's total salary last year was only $36 million, which has been criticized as a sieve by the media and shareholders.

When you are really in Hollywood, you all know that the most profitable thing in this industry is just a handful of top stars.

As for the senior executives in the circle, although they seem to have a lot of power, they are also constrained. Most of the time, they are not only annoyed by investors, but also try every means to accommodate stars, which is not as beautiful as the outside world imagined.

However, she, Amy Pascal, a woman, can make $100 million a year in an industry where women are widely discriminated against and materialized.

In a trance, Amy even occasionally thought about how to spend such a large sum of money?

Between the vigorous expansion of the westero system, the last days of July 1990 passed silently.

In the last week of July, the situation in the Middle East, which has reached its peak, is getting worse.

Under the pretext of Kuwait's ”stealing” of Iraq's oil, after demanding that Kuwait cancel its debts and provide huge reparations, Iraq's most elite tank and armored division of the Republican Guard has been stationed at the border of Iraq and Kuwait.

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak took the initiative to visit Iraq to speak for Kuwait, but he left after meeting a rebuff.

The Middle East countries, which also felt the threat, held a large-scale joint military exercise with the US Persian Gulf fleet on July 24 in an attempt to intimidate Saddam Hussein. Meanwhile, international crude oil prices soared in the last week of July.

In just one week, it has soared from the original low of $13 to near the high of $20.

Cersei capital cleared all short contracts on Monday, July 23, but it was swallowed by the rising crude oil price.

In the last week of July, the price of crude oil soared, and the long position with huge losses turned from loss to profit in just a few days, followed by amazing profits.