Chapter 446 (1/2)

At the end of the press conference, the application store and online payment functions of igrit portal were officially opened.

Simon's afternoon schedule is mainly about e-commerce.

It's just that the software and game content resources of ystore at the present stage will eventually become thinner.

In order to promote the application of ypay tool, igritte also cooperated with Compaq to launch an online purchase discount.

This is also the reason why compaq's executives specially promoted its ”Internet computer” at the press conference.

Users can get a discount of up to US $300 by using a special credit card or activating their own ypay account through a point card and placing an online order to buy several types of Compaq computers.

Of course, when ordering online, users still have to pick up goods from offline stores.

In addition, AOL has also opened the ypay payment channel, so that users can directly pay the network fees of AOL account online. Moreover, users can also get a certain degree of discount by doing so.

These two supplements can greatly promote the enthusiasm of users to use ypay tools.

But that is not enough.

As a result, igrit decided to start another e-commerce plan ahead of time. For this reason, igritte has registered a subsidiary brand in advance - Amazon.

Due to the need to coordinate supply, warehousing, logistics and other issues, ypay also needs a certain test time. Amazon online mall did not release the two products at the same time, but planned to open in January next year.

Although westero has a strong advantage in audio-visual entertainment.

However, this time, Amazon online mall will still focus on book sales in the early stage of development, which is also a decision made by Simon after careful consideration and referring to a lot of information in his memory.

At present, e-commerce is still in its infancy. It is not even budding. Apart from Simon, other people have no similar cases to refer to. Therefore, we need to take a steady development path.

Selling books through the Internet has great advantages over other commodities.

On the one hand, at this stage, most of the users who access the Internet belong to the social elite group of the middle and upper classes. These people have a higher level of education and are more inclined to buy books for daily reading, which has a consumption base.

On the other hand, online shopping malls can provide far more books than physical bookstores. Even the largest physical bookstores can only provide tens of thousands of books, while online shopping malls can provide hundreds of thousands of books for users to choose from.

Plans for Amazon's online mall were discussed until five o'clock in the afternoon.

In a conference room at igritte's headquarters, other executives scattered, and Simon finally called out Tim Berners Lee, Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz.

Instead of sitting down at the table, Simon leaned against the edge of the table and looked at the projection screen in the conference room. ”There are still some things to discuss with you. I'm afraid you'll be late for work.”

Even if Simon didn't stop them, it was hard for them to get off work on time.

When the female assistant operates on the computer connected to the projector for a moment, a tree diagram of igrit's current business products appears on the screen.

Tim Berners Lee and the three of them looked at it together.

This tree chart is different from the three people's daily ideas. If the company is divided according to the ”mountain top” of Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz, the second level of the tree chart should be two branches.

In front of us, there are three branches at the second level: network services, portal websites and e-commerce.

Further down, there are more branches of portal websites, including e-mail, news and information, online games, online forums, search engines, and social blogs. The other two secondary branches have also derived a number of sub branches.

Tim Berners Lee, Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz first thought of Simon's cool housekeeper, Alice Ferguson, when they saw Simon suddenly show them this tree.

The development of the ystore system has always been the personal responsibility of the housekeeper.

In fact, Alice Ferguson has been in San Francisco in recent days. Of course, she also attended today's press conference. However, this time, she did not go on stage to personally promote the project she was responsible for, but Jeff Bezos came forward.

Originally, Simon thought that he was going to officially push Alice Ferguson to the top. However, Simon asked about another thing: ”Tim, Jeff and Carly, about this picture in front of you, what would you do if you gave up part of your business?”

After more than a year of rapid expansion, compared with most of the Internet companies in the same industry that have just started, igrit can be described as ”giant”.

Simon remembers that Yahoo had only 150 employees before and after it went public in 1995.By contrast, the number of employees of igritte company has exceeded 2300 at the present stage. Not only San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, Boston, Chicago and other cities have owned igritte's branches. In addition, igritte has begun to make layout in overseas markets such as Britain, Japan, Australia, etc.

On the tree diagram of the projection screen, the three branches and the sub branches at the next level are all in charge of the specific project teams of more than 2000 employees of igritte.

Because the ambition of igritte's team, only these 2300 people, is still unable to meet the expansion needs of igritte, so the company has been continuously absorbing relevant talents.

When they heard Simon's question, they were all stunned.

Does Simon think that igritte's scale is too bloated?