may 9.

  The blonde's rosy cheeks were vibrant like two red apples, plemented by her slightly wavy hair, juxtaposed against Billy's fresh work attire without a tie.

  -I don't want you to involve Winona in the movie, - Gwyh remarked.

  -I 't cel; the movie produ is already nearly underway. We've fast-tracked all the details to start shooting in June. She already signed off on it quickly, and I 't go against the producers, - Billy replied.

  The furrowed brows and slight pout of the woman, who was pletely dismissed by the way things were portrayed, reminded her of how they used tthen their retionship, known by producers, friends, and the film circle they used to gather in. The reserved look and the diminishing of each other iings, adding their personalities, which ofteo private versations, were entirely characteristic of aime. It would lead them to be a strong pair of friends who would overe a struggle, a script that divided the retionship, like public statements.

  -Business is business, precisely. Winona is a plus for the movie. Her face is publicity, along with Biohey are the actresses I need. If I sustaiionship and hope they support the movie with their image, it's a win for me, - Billy ented.

  -But... it seems like you're making a movie just for her, - Gwyh ented.

  -The movie was another business. Saul Zaents, along with the writer, made a statement that they would sell the film rights to 'The Lord of the Rings' if we made the 'Lord of the Rings' movie. Steve Parks, my acquisitions and purchasing director, now he sales department, was clear and expressed that he wouldn't sell without our movie. Hollywood's dream is always to seek iment, and well, I want the cht to 'The Lord of the Rings,' -Billy said bluntly, tinuing with his work, pletely ign the resentful look from the blonde. Billy felt her gaze strongly.

  -I'm sorry, okay, but I 't step back. Your behavior is childish, - Billy ented.

  -When you sleep with that tart, I hope my childish behavior still echoes in your words, - Gwyh said, crossing her arms at the foolish way her thoughts were minimized.

  -You found a movie for both of us! - Billy asked.

  -Not yet. My dad is reviewing the scripts, but I 't find anything outstanding, and I think you must find something great for me, as for you, - the blonde ented.

  -I'll look for something that fits. I 't promise anything; my agent usually reviews scripts for me and chooses them, as I'm one of the few represented, - Billy said.

  The capricious woman watched Billy's process. No one had ever been so indifferent to her; it was an indifference she once wao suppress, wao spit at the women who crawled to men. But now she was stuck with a workaholic who had all the lights to have many women at his feet, eveemptation that Billy was cheating crossed her mind every day.

  Without paying attention to what had happened, she tried to rex. It's never good to be the intense woman, the blohought.

  Billy worked on the cartoons; the deliveries of his series tio resonate. He now had in mind to produce separate volumes of Digimon, The Boys, 300, and Resident Evil.

  300 is a ic, with four long issues piled into one volume of different stories about the history of Greece, from the birth of Spartan and Athenian nations, the Persian Wars, to the wars between Spartans and Athenians, ending with betrayals and twists of fate, cluding with the downfall of Greece against Maia.

  -You're impossible when you work; you've been w for a long time, dear, - Gwyh said.

  -I'll be done in half an hour. We go for dinner. I have my apartment; it was delivered st month, and it's likely that in the following days, you stroll around San Jose. I have two cars, the gray van my grandparents and father gave me, and the armored car I use to transport myself around the ti, - Billy ented.

  -That sounds great, taking a stroll in San Jose. I heard there are nice pces in San Francisco, - Gwyh said

  ***

  At Microsoft's offices, Bill Gates was seated with crossed legs and a slightly slouched posture. -That's what she mentiohat they have enough pns to anchor different panies, - he ented.

  -They do, - said Paul Allen, who met with Bill at least twice a month.

  -It's a plete and undeserved ck of respect, his attitude, - Paul Allen tinued, rubbing his forehead, something he did every time something bothered him greatly.

  -He's just a precocious twenty-year-old, Paul. At his age, I was in college with doubts about the dire of my career - Bill Gates remarked.

  This earned a heavy sigh from Paul Allen. Not far away, all the directors were listening in respectful sileo the versatioweewo big bosses, with some nostalgia in their memories for the young man who promised to make a game for Microsoft in 1995, which turned out to be a total success. The same young man who sat and spoke with the power of a businessman, with the arrogahat none would have in front of their respective bosses who imitated sleeping tigers.

  -The fax came ily, - Billy Gates responded. - Anne has been holding back Billy since your st meeting. They've given us an ultimatum. Even the young dy has some teeth. She expihat they're willing to sell their Hotmail servid all its services for 300 million dolrs. They'll receive shares and money, as long as the shares don't exceed 40% of the price. She sent privileged information again. Billy Carson will take 2% of the pany. -

  Braim Chard ahe papers.

  -Yeah, we've had numerous versations. She sent the statistics along with their steps, which have led them to where they are. Hotmail has been buildiionships with multiple anizations since 1994, including various charities. Simirly, they've made es with uies worldwide. They have strong business retionships with Stanford, and Stanford has accepted a lot of iment money from them. In February 1995, the feature was ordered for all of the Uates. A few days ago, they stabilized their work worldwide aablished nguages in seven nguages: Spanish, English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, and Indian. However, their tracts from February to May have increased by 1300%, - Braim Chard paused briefly, a pause that was visible to everyone in the room.

  -This phase is called the first phase of Hotmail. As I talked to Ahey're pnning to unch a national and European advertising campaign, diversifying the pany's services as their third phase. Anne implied that the price fust 1995 will double; however, she cims that the merger with Microsoft is not a loss, - Braim ented.

  Bill Gates' posture ged from the old man to the straight-backed businessman. Paul Allen's eyes widened as he listened; with the development pn and other statistics, they began to uand Billy, a man of bets. Why sell so quickly? Wouldn't it be better to wait and sell? Another deception?

  -It must be a trick, - Paul Allen ented.

  -I agree, it's a bluff, - Bill Gates ented.

  It was totally what he expected! The plementation of the service, the MSN chat, which was so famous in the 2000s, was a chat that would use Hotmail emails as IP sources to ect people. For now, everything was in its infancy, but the business side would i in aeam of ten people to create said chat, spreading across the Uates, and the multiple patents, designs, and market positioning were not the only pany there; they flirted with teology panies. IBM, and Sun Microsystems, had certaiionships, with panies specializing in software development, but the ones with the best opportunities were AOL, NBd Intel.

  -But we mustn't and wait. We start dug our researails, - Paul Allen ented.

  peting against a reinated person is a problem that not just anyone face. The way everything was starting to resolve and the way information tends to be the greatest asset in some panies.

  -This kid is a plete headache, - murmured Bill Gates, noting a versation he had with Steve Jobs about the blunt way of doing business and his wise-guy way of trasting people, with different tributions about the pany's future due to his dedus or the emergence of different panies. Microsoft's analysis was simple; the kid had an innate ability for storytelling and graphic models, which had earned him growth iertai industry, but in other panies, it depended on like-minded people.

  ***

  "Is it your new Iron Giant movie? - Gwyh asked.

  -It is, it's my new movie. There was a big sale, - Billy ented, happy to see that revenues had doubled, The Iron Giant was treated differently some time ago, as it was a failure and only remained a popur star in culture.

  -They did well; I didn't know you had released a movie since your pany, - Gwyh ented.

  -Yeah, in March, it's been a month, iers, and box office revenue surpassed 80 million dolrs, enough to cover expenses, make a profit, and expand globally, along with other peripheral earnings, - Billy ehe cost was 34 million, so the total profit of 50 million could be the baseline cost to step into the Star Wars business. Notice has been given, and a rge vil was bought in Italy to imitate the p Naboo, a total of 65 acres, in a secluded vil, with a beautiful river, imitating the cultural ndscape in Billy's name. If some things be built, it help for the multiple movies and series he wants to make.

  -Wow, you made a lot of money! What are you going to do with the profits? - she questioned.

  -I, pay off some debts, and prepare for the June sales. We're releasing A Bug's Life; we use it to leverage my ongoing series. I want to create a el for kids by the end of the year, - Billy ented.

  -Will there be a worldwide premiere? - Gwyh asked.

  -Yes, we'll grant rights to some pahat will pay pertages of profits and other values for distribution. Our distribution has a good pertage in Europe and part of Asia, but that's not enough to bet on a movie that doesn't reaillion. It's better to agree on shares and rights sales, - Billy ented.

  -It sounds painfully plicated, - the blonde remarked.

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