Chapter 176: Looking Forward to 1997
In fact, Netscape is good, 60 million in 95 years, and the total revenue in 96 years has reached nearly 300 million at once, 40 percent of which comes from the revenue of intranet products and services for large enterprises, and 60 percent from the sales of browsers and related software. Infoseek, YAHOO, those latecomers are simply burning money to play, I look at YAHOO's statement, a company with a market value of hundreds of millions of dollars only has millions of advertising revenue in 96 years? The world is crazy......"
The New Year's Concert will be followed by a cocktail reception at the Chebinger Building next door to the Symphony Center, in a salon-style session with three participants from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and local artists, members of Dow's choir, and the celebrities in attendance for tonight's concert.
After listening to Barenboy's thank-you speech and the Symphony Center's manager's brief speech on fundraising for the renovation of the Symphony Center, Song Ya was pestered by a white man from Arthur Andersen, who first complained about the hot Internet sector, and then unsurprisingly turned the topic to the two companies he was going public this year, "I saw a report about A+ Audio last night, do you plan to go public as a whole, or just start the listing of the America Music website?" ”
"What do you think?" Song Ya asked rhetorically.
"Of course, the concept of the Internet is now the wealth code."
The white man laughed and said, "What about 3DFX?" I saw that Compaq was using other products as a selling point to advertise new computers......"
"3DFX's ...... What the? Song Ya asked rhetorically.
"Didn't there be a lot of rumors last year......"
The other side should be referring to a series of rumors of 3DFX's bankruptcy last year, "Oh, it's all gone, and now they're doing a good job." Song Ya smiled and waved her hand.
"So this year's earnings expectations can support investor confidence?"
"Well, it's hard to say, the competition in the hardware field is too fierce."
3DFX has already started to make money, but Song Ya doesn't want to say too much to the other party, at this time, his arm is being grabbed by someone, and he doesn't need to look at it, it must be Xue Linfen, "I'm sorry, I ......" just took the opportunity to say goodbye.
"APLUS, we at Arthur Andersen are in Chicago, why not choose us? To be honest, we are a little frustrated by your comprehensive cooperation with Coopers......" The other party quickly said what he really wanted to say.
"I have gotten along well with Samuel from Coopers for many years......"
It all started when he was pressed to settle the record when he first fought with Motula, when he asked an accountant to help collect evidence, Samur's offer was the most reasonable among the firms, and this kind of partnership generally does not change easily, and the loss of that opportunity by other firms means that it is difficult to be trusted in the future.
And has been with the Chicago consortium of Northern Trust and CNA insurance in depth cooperation, out of the consideration of checks and balances will not hand over the finances to a local accounting firm, Arthur Andersen and their cooperation history has been nearly 100 years, the relationship is intertwined, once the joint hands to make it bad, it is estimated that they do not know how to be pitted.
"Maybe find a small project to test the waters? We will make you satisfied, both in terms of service and charge. The other party proposed.
"Yes, I'll consider it."
Song Ya accepted the other party's business card, Coopers is a bit expensive, and it is not bad to use Arthur Andersen as a reason to take the opportunity to bargain, so that Samuel has a sense of crisis.
"So stay in touch!?"
"Okay."
Successfully getting rid of the other party, Song Ya patted the back of Xue Linfen's hand as a reward, but soon, she was stopped again.
"APLUS, FIND TIME TO DO AN INTERVIEW?"
It's Zoe Barnes of the Chicago Tribune, an old acquaintance.
"No problem, but I remember you didn't go to Washington?"
This woman is now 'on the side' of Underwood, who can often get a handful of Capitol Hill from the party whip, and has just become the chief political correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the White House correspondent this year, and Song Ya hugs her affectionately.
Xue Linfen silently rested her hand on her stomach.
"Yes, it's okay until the 20th, and I'll go over to cover the inauguration then." Zoe Barnes said.
"Uh......"
Not tomorrow, not the day after tomorrow, Song Ya thought for a while, "You can call Ms. Sloan to make an appointment." ”
"OK, I know her."
Zoe Barnes, who is also a workaholic, smiled at Xue Linfen and said hello after receiving a satisfactory answer, and hurried to chase the next target in the drinking party.
"Will this year be as busy as last year?" Xue Linfen asked.
"Not anymore."
Song Ya raised his eyes and looked forward, he has no special plan this year, and the movie also depends on the box office of Blade Warrior before deciding whether to shoot a sequel, if the bail ban cannot be lifted in the middle of the year, then the global tour in the second half of the year will be no more......
The rest, probably before the listing of the American music website and 3DFX, came forward to help build momentum, such as Metropolitan Records, New A+ Records, A+CN and other businesses, most of the work is only to make major decisions, which are carried out by the managers below.
Now it depends on whether Motula's threat can be lifted, in the words of old Mike, he also knows that he will have a big hand, and he will probably be busy with this and the Barn case in the first half of the year, and by the way, he will prepare for the law school exam, and if he can't go abroad in the second half of the year, he will hide on campus again.
In short, in 1997, he planned to settle down well, and use this time to straighten out his high-speed development of various cross-industry businesses, and the newly bought Littleman Publishing House and those print media to see what oil and water could be squeezed out in addition to the new educational film plan, and at the same time quietly wait for the general public to forget about a series of negative public opinion in the second half of last year, and there are already a lot of scattered stocks of apocalypse songs and movies, and by 98 with the theme song of the World Cup, the king will break out again, and the king will return.
Perfect!
By the way, there is also the construction of the new headquarters that oversees A+CN and A+ Records, which will be ...... tomorrow
Tomorrow is the fourth, there are also arrangements, he looked at his watch, it was already late.
“Boy!”
How can it be missing the vice president of Dow, the old man found him, and walked over happily with his choir friends, hugged his shoulders affectionately, and patted his hands behind his back, "Xue Lin." He also knew Xue Linfen, and the news of her giving birth to Robb Jr. helped Dow lightsticks divert a lot of public opinion, "How many months? ”
"Five months." Xue Linfen's face was filled with happiness.
Song Ya shook hands with the others, these people have a very good attitude towards them, although they are all old guys who have retired from major companies in Michigan and Illinois, but the hidden social resources are very unfathomable.
In addition, after being reported by some religious publications, the effectiveness of Baba Yetu gradually began to ferment, and more and more basic religious organizations called to inquire and even whimsically wanted to invite themselves to lead the team to perform in the past. Of course, it was more about asking for sheet music, and he didn't have to pay for the non-profit prostitution to sing in his own church, and he had already asked Linda to meet most of the overly demanding requests to curry favor with the conservative community.
The South African side seems to be willing to help send a formal invitation to visit and perform Baba Yetu by the way, and the fantasy lawyers think that this is a very good reason to apply to the court to lift the ban on leaving the country, of course, if the Vatican can speak......
Thinking far away, Song Ya shook his head.
“APLUS。”
I was chatting with a retired old man from Mellon Bank when a girl's voice sounded from behind, it was Rashida Jones, "Your performance is great......
The girl was a little thinner, her chin was sharper, and she was dressed up, but with a sad face.
This is really obsessed with himself, hehe, dad is still like that......
"Rashida! Your father was discharged from the hospital!? Is he feeling better? Xue Linfen knew what happened that night and later in the hospital, and she asked pretending to be concerned.
"Well, he went home and lived. Can you give me some time to talk to APLUS alone? Just a moment......" Rashida asked cautiously, timidly, glancing at her belly.
Xue Linfen just turned her head to ask Song Ya's opinion, and a wine glass was already stuffed in her hand.
"Yes." Song Ya nodded, "Where are you going?" ”