America's Big Hero

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"Come back to me!" Veins sprouted from old David's forehead.

The people in the secretariat outside the door all lowered their heads, as if they didn't exist.

"Then you agreed to transfer it to me?" Sean turned his head back, grinning, there was not a trace of tears on his face.

"This is really not good. It's not just Rockefeller's assets. You can change it." Old David looked hopeless, and seeing Sean about to open the door again, he immediately said loudly: "Listen to me!"

Sean put his hand on the doorknob and looked at old man David warily.

"It's useless if you want to swallow this bank. Xiao En Bank has expanded several times in less than a year, and its bank outlets have expanded by more than six times. It is already a large financial institution with over [-] employees. company."

"Now your internal problems are very serious, the personnel are chaotic, the management is out of touch, the communication is not smooth, and the various regions and divisions are fighting for power and profit. If you continue to expand blindly, you will have problems!"

"So?" Sean was unmoved, "What I want is not to ask questions, but to solve them!"

"I will give you a group of banking management talents to stabilize the company. This is more beneficial than you taking over the family's bank."

The current Sean Bank is like a fat man who has eaten out of anger, bloated, obese, and slow to move. He has to exercise for a period of time, lose weight and gain muscle before he can take another step.

There is no way to do this. Sean Bank has only been developing for a long time, and there is not enough talent reserve. This is a common problem that all fast-growing companies must encounter.

For those truly mature companies, even if they have enough people, they will keep recruiting people as a talent reserve, so as to avoid the shortage of talents when the company expands, or fall into a state where no one is available after being poached.

This is an internal game between the company and management.

"It's the family poaching me, not me trying to seize the family bank!" Xiao En corrected with a serious face: "This is the compensation given to me by the family, figure it out!"

"Okay, okay, compensation, compensation." Old man David stretched out his hand and surrendered. Rockefeller has been rooted in the United States for more than a hundred years, with a complete system and sufficient personnel reserves. It is good to give some out.

Always being suppressed by the people above, without an upward channel, there will be problems.

This is something that benefits both sides.

Coming out of old man David's office, Sean snapped his fingers at Torrey in the corridor.

Torre walked in with a blank expression, reached out to open the bag in his hand, took out the gift box inside, and placed one on the table for each member of the family secretariat according to their names.

The people in the secretariat immediately smiled at Sean, this kind of aboveboard gift is acceptable.

Open the small gift box, inside is a bank card and a piece of paper with a password written on it.

Sean Bank's credit card has a credit limit of 5, and 1 U.S. dollars has been deposited in it.

Sean's gifts are always so simple, direct, rough, but touching.

Leaving from the family office and getting in the car, Sean immediately showed a smile. He had already planned to hire a group of professionals, and Shen Bi had mentioned this matter to him earlier.

Shen Bi couldn't do it for large-scale recruiting.

The only thing that matters is the vessel and the name, not a fake person. —— "Zuo Zhuan: The Second Year of Cheng Gong"

However, this matter really stumped Sean. It wasn't just one or two people, he just had to go to a headhunting company to poach people. The scale was too big, and the HR department alone couldn't handle it.

Immediately to expand business to the Asian region, it must be the kind of professional talent who can fight and win.

Only then did this scene happen.

Of course, asking people directly is not acceptable. The meaning of "inviting" people from the family to save lives is completely different from "sending" people from the family to make amends.

Sean was relieved to have settled this urgent task.

Returning to Deer Island, a crowd of expecting babies, those who had already given birth, and Yingying Yanyan, who had received news in advance and were expecting to conceive, pounced on them. Xiao En fell directly into the gentle village, and had to pull it out for three days before pulling it out!

The whole person lost weight.

Only children want it all, adults know how to control it...

Four days later, on the West Coast, Microsoft headquarters in Seattle.

In the living room, Sean was drinking black tea, and sitting opposite was a young man, the future world's richest man, Bill.

In fact, Sean felt a little regretful at this time, because the two things he originally wanted to do hadn't been completed.

First, look at the legendary garage. After meeting Bill and chatting for a while, I found out that the garage is in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Second, he wanted to meet Paul Allen, a playboy with a wide range of hobbies who liked to hold silver parties. He felt that the two must have a lot in common. As a result, Paul left the board of directors due to illness in 84.

(I don’t know if it was due to illness, but I returned in 90 and left Microsoft again in 2000. If I speculate with the greatest malice...)

Sean, who was too regretful, soon got to the point with workaholic Bill.

At this time, Microsoft was not the company with the highest market value in the world, and Bill was not the richest man.

83年的微软营收才一个亿，85年才发行Microsoft Windows1.0，拥有微软45％股权的比尔87年才刚刚资产过亿。

Of course, this is already the first billionaire in the global personal computer industry.

However, it has just exceeded [-] million, which means nothing to Sean.

"Make a statistical system for the credit card machine?" Bill looked at Sean with flickering eyes.

"Yes, the credit card machine can be viewed after being connected to a monitor, and it can also be connected to a printer to print out. How about it? Is there a problem?" Sean said with a smile.

"Of course no problem!" Bill agreed without hesitation, and it was really not difficult.

"Okay, now we can talk about why I hand over this not-so-difficult data system to Microsoft." Sean leaned back on the sofa and looked at Bill with a smile, "The current installed capacity is 60, this is just the beginning, as major banks start to join the credit card field, this number will explode."

"And after the fiber optic cable connects Europe and Asia, this number will explode even further."

"In the future, the expected installed capacity will not be less than 1 million." Xiao En spread his hands with a smile.

"Microsoft is the best PC system..."

"Don't mention this to me. It doesn't make much sense. Let's not talk about Oracle. If I just buy a software company, I can develop 1000% of it by spending 100 million yuan." Sean interrupted Bill.

"However, being developed and being able to be applied are two different concepts. Developing the system has never been the biggest problem, but dealing with system errors is the problem." Bill said seriously.

"I have so many machines, and it only takes a few months to test out most of the system bugs." Sean said with a curl of his lips: "It's not a complicated system, you don't think I don't know anything about computers Bar."

There was a smile on the corner of Sean's mouth, "Dear Bill, I, Sean, are not those old men who don't know anything about informatization, data, and networking."

"I am the first person in the world to develop a large-scale commercial network!"

"At present, 80% of AT&T network business access services come from my credit card business!"

Bill pursed his lips, his cheeks were bulging, it was broken, and he met a sensible person! !

Chapter 434: The future value will be hundreds of billions...

Question: A brand new industry has emerged, and everyone doesn't understand it, and they can't even see where the profit point is. How to make money at this time?

Answer: Fudge, continue to flick!

Of course, this kind of statement is too low in emotional intelligence, and it should be called telling about the future of money.

So what is this industry?

Answer: The software industry.

A series of virtual codes that may be deleted at any time, you can never hold them in your hands, you can only observe them through the screen.

Therefore, in the early days of the software industry, the bigwigs in the real industry that have been developed for hundreds of years are really keeping a respectful distance.

It’s too vain, and it doesn’t feel safe at all. It’s hard for them to agree with the software because of the habits they have formed for a long time.

The question that is often asked is, what should I do if there is a power outage?

They are willing to use it, but they are not willing to invest heavily, which can be seen from the proportion of Microsoft's shares after listing.

Before the listing, Bill accounted for 64% of the shares, and after the listing dilution, there are still 45%. At that time, the major consortiums really did not focus on the software industry, which gave the new rich class a chance to rise.

However, this also blocked the way for those who came later, and the major consortiums never gave opportunities to the bigwigs in the Internet era.

Of course, it's the same everywhere, from a grassroots background, but still wants to be in power, and wants to be tender and beautiful.

It is useful to start a business, so why do you need to be reincarnated?

What is social division of labor?

Your job is to sow the land well, but the water for a good harvest is too deep for you to grasp, and you have to leave it to the landlord to grasp!

cough cough...

Seeing Sean with a half-smile on his face, Bill slowly frowned.

Before Sean came, Bill had already been notified, and he took the recently popular credit card machine to study it carefully, so he was ready.

Originally, I thought that after Sean came, I would have a good time and explain how many new functions Microsoft can bring to the credit card machine.

To be honest, Bill is really imaginative.

Just playing with the credit card machine, I thought of many functions.

Originally, he thought that he would have another chance to start explaining what Microsoft could bring to Sean's credit card machine and earn a lot of money.

Then, through publicity, the stock market surged again, and the result...

In sales, the most fucking annoying thing is to understand people! !

"Mr. Sean, in fact, I think the credit card machine still has a lot of functions to be developed." Bill took a deep breath, he is not someone who gives up so easily.

"Of course, I know." Sean nodded, opened the humidor he carried with him, and gestured to Bill.

Bill said bye-bye that he didn't need it.

While trimming his cigar, Sean said slowly: "For example, in a supermarket, with a monitor and a barcode scanner, you only need to scan each product, and the system will automatically calculate the total amount, and then swipe the card. .”

"The credit card machine can also be equipped with a miniature thermal printer, which can print out the card swiping slip, which can be kept for the guests, and also allows the guests to see what they have spent and how much they have spent, at a glance."

"Finally, for the supermarket itself, a database can also be established to carry out statistics on product sales, making logistics management much easier."

Bill: "..."

Looking at Sean with wide-eyed eyes, Bill's expression was stiff.

You've said it all, what else should I say?

"For example, it can be applied to restaurants, fast food restaurants, coffee shops, etc., and connect two small printers, one in the back kitchen and one in the service desk." Sean picked up the roasted cigar and put it in his mouth deeply. He took a puff and spit out a big mouthful of smoke.

Bill took off his glasses and wiped them, looking carefully at Sean's face hidden behind the smoke, which was vaguely visible, mysterious and evil.

"In this way, after the customer swipes the card, the service desk and the back kitchen will immediately know which table has ordered what order, and there is no need for manual communication, which is convenient and fast, reduces mistakes and improves efficiency."

"There are many similar functions, so I won't list them one by one."

"But..." Sean looked at Bill with a smile, "The biggest problem before you is how to make this business into Microsoft's, and then hype it up, increase the stock price, and increase investor confidence."

"After all, it wasn't difficult for me to find someone to make the system, like, how much did the guy who sold you the DOS system cost?"

"I think it was $5, and wow, what a deal, even the software guys themselves don't think these things are worth much."

"I don't know if he has spent all his money now, or is he still in this business?"

Bill looked blank: You will have no friends like this.

What should I do if I suddenly find that I have no chips in my hand?

"It's really fun chatting with Mr. Sean." Bill was Bill, and soon his face was filled with a smile, and he said with emotion: "Mr. When doing business, it always takes a lot of effort to repeatedly explain what software is, what functions it has, and what convenience it can bring to customers."

"There is always a subtle resistance and disapproval of software. They don't think the codes in those hard drives are really worth that much money."

Sean just looked at Bill quietly, what the fuck you said was true, I almost believed it!

"So?" Sean asked with a smile.

"$1!" Bill raised a finger. "To reach a cooperation with Mr. Sean, our Microsoft philosophy is: use software to change lives."

"Mr. Sean's credit card machine business is very promising and in line with our company's business philosophy, so I decided that the installation cost of each credit card machine is only 1 US dollar, and I will be responsible for software updates and maintenance for the next 3 years! "

Sean laughed at once, and what he said was the same as the fucking truth.

The various patents of credit card machines can be retained for 20 years, and Xiao En estimates that the market for credit card machines will not be less than tens of millions in the future.

In fact, Sean seriously underestimated, and Microsoft's operating income in 83 was only $1 million.

Last year's revenue was less than 3 million.

If the deal is negotiated at this price, Microsoft's revenue can increase by 20%.

This is not counting the dividends brought by the stock price.

Xiao En smiled, and suddenly his face became serious, "I refuse!"

Bill: "..."

How the hell can we negotiate properly? Today is the worst day, bar none.