Chapter 629 (1/2)
For Simon, there is almost no difference between weekdays and weekends.
Simon spent a full day Saturday at Denise east coast headquarters in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, dealing with a series of major TV projects this year.
The six main creators of friends have already been determined. Except for the actor of Monica, the other five remain original. The trial set of the series has also been completed. Because of Denise Entertainment's reputation in the television industry in recent years, several major television networks have expressed concern about friends.
The recent ”story of the emergency room” is still in the early stage of casting. It is expected that after signing a contract with the TV network in May, it will start to produce a trial broadcast set, which will be released in summer. If there is no accident, it can be released in autumn.
Two old hit dramas ”Seinfeld” and ”Desperate Housewives” are very mature, and Simon doesn't need to be involved in the production of the new season.
In addition to the above four main plays, there are six other TV series projects that are either renewed or newly launched. Simon doesn't pay special attention because of his limited energy.
In terms of reality TV, the first four reality TV series, who will be a millionaire, survivor, big brother and wife, will stop production after the spring show. Who will be a millionaire and survivor will continue to launch the next season, but the ratings are far lower than six years ago.
In contrast, the ”wife” series has maintained considerable vitality after being transferred to the USA television network. Not only the original ”Beverly's wife” continues, but in recent years, three new series ”New York wife”, ”Atlanta wife” and ”Miami wife” have been launched one after another.
Due to the termination of big brother, the spare production team will launch two new reality shows this year, one is about the travel adventure climber, the other is the culinary competition best housewife, the latter has been confirmed to be broadcast on USA television network, the former is still in negotiations with the public television network.
Simon wasn't involved in the planning of the two new reality shows, so the two series are completely original that he didn't remember.
He accepted the invitation of the Salzberg family behind the New York Times Group for a dinner in advance. The dinner was held in Hampton, east of Long Island. Simon finished his day's work around 6:30. In order to save time, he took a helicopter to fly to the easternmost end of Long Island 150 kilometers away from Manhattan.
As the most well-known affluent area on the east coast, the Westeros also have their own property in East Hampton.
More than half an hour later, two bell helicopters with Simon and his entourage landed in a manor near the sea in the south of East Hampton. Aliya has taken people to clean and inspect the villa in advance. Simon will stay here after the party in the evening.
When the helicopter stops, Simon comes down from one of them, turns around and carefully takes the girl b down. Becky is airsick. After landing, she can only hold Simon firmly, but she doesn't spit out. Girl a behind is no problem, but looking at Becky being hugged by Simon's waist, there is also some expectation in his eyes. Simon smiles and goes forward, holding the girl's soft waist in his hands, and then follows her.
As for Simon's group of four bodyguards on the back of the helicopter, they didn't need to pay attention.
Finally, looking at the two bell helicopters, Simon took the two women to the manor villa and said to girl a: ”please contact Sikorsky company to see if you can order four helicopters according to the White House Navy one standard.”
Many of Simon's apartments on the East and west coasts are far away from his office, so it is undoubtedly the most time-saving way to take a helicopter when necessary. For example, this time, it takes at least two hours to drive from Manhattan to East Hampton, and it takes less than 40 minutes to take the bell helicopter, which is not fast enough.
For Simon now, the cost of any mode of travel is not as expensive as his own time.
Simon doesn't like the safety or comfort of ordinary helicopters, just like the two bels. Although they are the most luxurious top models, the noise is still very loud, and the comfort is even more general. Otherwise, girl b won't get airsick. The vases beside Simon are in good health.
In my memory, Navy-1 helicopter, which serves for the White House or some American politicians, has no such disadvantages. Passengers can talk or even have a meeting in the cabin with little noise, and its safety, comfort and other parameters have reached the top level.
Sikose's Black Hawk helicopter is banned from sale to many overseas countries, but it does not include the United States or some other iron allies. Simon has seen the civilian Black Hawk version as an ordinary means of transportation more than once in recent years.
Simon is not sure whether there are other restrictions on the sale of presidential grade helicopters, but he is not interested in those military equipment that involve secrets. At that time, he will be slightly castrated, as long as it does not damage the safety and comfort performance, it is still acceptable.
Girl a had no objection to Simon's orders, but said, ”in this case, we need to hire a special helicopter driving and maintenance team.”
Simon just nodded to know.At present, the Westeros have no shortage of exclusive private aircraft teams, and it's nothing to add a helicopter team. Maybe the frequency of the four helicopters on the East and west coasts will be far less than that of private aircraft, but whatever.
It's getting dark.
Simon took a bath in the villa, changed his clothes, and rushed to the Salzburg mansion with the same well-dressed B girl.
Because it's a dinner party and there are not many guests, you don't need girl a as a social assistant.
The main purpose of bringing girl b is to help her expand her network in the media. Alpha, a financial information company founded by girl a and B, has been steadily advancing.
Because it is intended to exist as a rival to the company, both Simon and Janet are very interested in this project and spare no effort to give all kinds of support, except the most basic funds, Alpha's software R & D team and information operation team are the elites that Simon and his wife recruited from igritte, cersei capital and other financial giants on Wall Street.
Alpha is expected to officially launch its own financial information software around October this year. In the short term, its customers are mainly a large number of small fund managers or individual stock speculators from various states in the United States. These people can't afford the expensive expenses of about $15000 per year on the terminal, so they are still using the old stocks that can't keep up with the times Ticket market terminal.
Alpha's financial information software, which has been named ”aliya”, will not only provide advanced financial information services similar to those of the terminal, but also plan to sell for only about one tenth of the price of the terminal.
The name of ”alias” was taken casually by Simon when she saw the Indian girl next to her when she asked occasionally.
The key point is that it's very easy to remember.
Many business case studies have shown that a product with a simple and easy to remember name can play an unexpected role in its marketing promotion.
Compared with the number of high-end institutional customers with less than 20000 devices at the present stage, the U.S. stock market has re entered the bull market stage in recent years, and the technology stock market has become more and more popular. However, the demand for the latest financial information software in the U.S. has reached dozens or even hundreds of times of that in the U.S.
Perhaps the profit margin of alias for relatively low-end customers is not as high as that of the terminal, but as long as it can take the lead in its own field, and only by virtue of its huge potential user base, the company's future scale will not be much worse than that of the terminal.
Alpha's ultimate plan is to use a business model similar to ”bad money drives out good money” to occupy the low-end market with its own financial information service which is not comparable to that of the terminal in the short term, and then to counter attack the high-end market of the terminal through continuous improvement of its own services, so as to achieve the goal of unifying the financial information service field.
Of course, this is just the ideal vision.
With more than ten years of experience in the field of financial information, the company of alpha, founded by B-girl, can not wait until it hits the high end. Once it is found that there is broad potential in the low-end market by the company or other financial information companies, it may have to be suppressed by these deep-rooted and established companies If this happens, alpha may face the severe challenge of whether it can survive in its own locked field.
Therefore, for alpha, Simon will give the greatest support, but will not hold absolute expectations.
The key still depends on B girl's own efforts.
The size of the dinner was not large. There were only more than ten guests, but they were all dignified people from the east coast.