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"But even so, I was still bored, so I thought of Audrey Hepburn's My Fair Lady." Rowan's words stunned Sheryl Sandberg.
"Are you talking about the movie where Audrey Hepburn transforms from a flower girl into an elegant lady of upper society?" Sheryl Sandberg's eyes sparkled with a star-chasing gleam.
"Haha, so you like Hepburn." Rowan laughed.
"Of course, she is an elegant goddess of her generation." Sheryl Sandberg raised her eyebrows and said proudly.
"Anyway, I thought, wouldn't it be interesting if Hepburn's role was replaced by that rich nobleman?" Rowan said with a wicked smile.
"But wouldn't that be deceiving those women and also deceiving the audience?" Sheryl Sandberg asked worriedly.
"We should be thankful that we were born in the great America, where no one will be convicted for speech. As long as there are no Hoover and McCarthy." Rowan's words made Sheryl Sandberg laugh.
These two people are extremely evil figures in American history. The former is the founder of the FBI. He used the intelligence gathering capabilities of the FBI throughout his life to master a large number of dark secrets of the powerful and the upper class at that time, which led to him doing whatever he wanted and no one dared to touch him. Even President Roosevelt, who was at the peak of his power at the time, could do nothing about him.
McCarthyism was the pronoun for tyranny in the United States in the 1950s.
"Besides, I'm an artist. Isn't it my job to satirize the ugliness of society?" Rowan winked mischievously. "And didn't Mark Twain also have similar satirical content in his book The Million Pound Bank Note?"
"A poor boy became the darling of the British upper class just because he had a one million pound note that could not be exchanged. All the noble ladies flocked to him." Rowan recounted the content of Mark Twain's masterpiece. "And I just put Mark Twain's content on TV. What's the big deal?"
"Okay, you have a point." Sheryl Sandberg shrugged helplessly.
Rowan smiled and continued, "Among these shows, Survivor has finished filming in Indonesia and is currently in the process of post-editing. As for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, it must be broadcast live and interact with the audience in real time, so it will officially start airing next month. But the preparatory work has been almost completed."
"As for 'Prince Jon' and 'Big Brother', I plan to start production at the end of the year and broadcast them next year." Sheryl Sandberg understood what Rowan said immediately.
"Do you want to keep Fire Lion TV hot and have enough time coverage on a quarterly basis?" Although Sheryl Sandberg was asking Rowan, her tone was quite confident.
"That's right. After all, there are only half a year left this year. 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' and 'Survivor' can just cover half a year. Any more would be bad. I don't want my shows to snatch attention and ratings from each other." Rowan shrugged.
"So that's all for Fire Lion TV, right?" Sheryl Sandberg asked after turning to the last page.
"Haha, it seems you are looking forward to the Internet." Rowan laughed jokingly.
"Of course, I never hide my preferences." Sheryl Sandberg replied with a confident smile.
"Okay, let's talk about the Internet next." Rowan pulled out the third document of the day.
Sheryl Sandberg eagerly took it and opened it.
"If there is any place in the world that is closest to changing the world, it must be Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley originally focused on hardware development, similar to the achievements of RB in semiconductor integrated circuits. The name Silicon Valley comes from the main material of semiconductors - silicon." Rowan's voice was unhurried, as if carrying a strange melody, which slowly calmed Sheryl Sandberg's mood.
"Since the rise of IBM, Oracle and Microsoft, the second generation of software-centric Silicon Valley companies has grown stronger. Windows 98, which Microsoft is about to launch at the end of this month, can be said to be the most promising operating system to dominate the personal computer market," Rowan said confidently.
Shirley couldn't help but nod her head while listening to this. Although people outside were still unclear about the prospects of the electronic IT industry, as the director of the Treasury Office that managed the entire US economy, Shirley was very clear about the development trend of the IT industry. Moreover, the Clinton administration had always taken it as its mission to build the infrastructure of the IT network for the third technological revolution.
Providing tax cuts and subsidies to companies that lay down nationwide fiber-optic networks so that they can lay down faster and more stable information channels, invent new information transmission technologies, and so on, have always been top priorities of the Clinton administration's economic policies.
"But the future of Silicon Valley is neither in hardware nor in software," said Rowan.
"Internet!" "Internet." Rowan and Shirley said in unison. They smiled at each other and couldn't help but feel a sense of mutual appreciation.
"The largest and most promising Internet companies now are AOL and Yahoo!, but they are not the direction of future development," Rowan said clearly.
"Isn't it?" Shirley asked in surprise. "I remember that Yahoo's traffic was the highest among all Internet companies, and it was overwhelmingly high. Last year, USA Today magazine rated it as the most content-rich, most entertaining, most user-attracting, and easiest-to-use comprehensive portal."
"Yahoo was a product of the early days of the Internet, but that doesn't mean it will be the future development direction," Rowan explained with a smile.
"In the early stages?" Shirley keenly sensed the deeper meaning in Rowan's words.
"The essence of Yahoo is the Yellow Pages of the early Internet era," Rowan concluded simply and clearly. The Yellow Pages is an index of telephone numbers of all businesses and government departments in a city that provide business and services publicly in the United States.
"All users are still confused about the Internet, so content guides like Yahoo will be very popular. But it's like the training wheels you use when you first learn to ride a bicycle. Once you really learn how to ride a bicycle, will you still use training wheels?" Sid asked with a smile.
His words immediately caused Shirley to think deeply.
"Just like the birth of television, although people now seem a little confused by the complex operation and excessive content of the Internet, once people become familiar with the Internet environment, portals like Yahoo and MSN that can only provide the same old content will lose their appeal to users. I call this stage the Internet 1.0 era," Sid concluded.
"So what's next?" Shirley asked excitedly. Although she had always wanted to get involved in the Internet industry, she had never looked at the entire industry from a holistic perspective. So Sid's words gave Shirley a sense of enlightenment.
"After the accumulation of the 1.0 era, the content of the Internet will become richer. On this basis, unlike the stereotyped portal websites, the Internet .0 era that meets the rich and colorful personalized needs of users will begin." Sid's words made Shirley's eyes light up.
"Are there any specific cases?" she asked curiously.
"Have you heard of eBay and Amazon?" Rowan asked with a smile. "Unlike Yahoo and Microsoft, which want to cover everything, eBay, which specializes in second-hand goods auctions, and Amazon, which sells books, are representatives of specialized and segmented Internet .0 era companies."
"So are we going to acquire Amazon?" Sheryl Sandberg asked back.