Silicon Valley

　　 In the evening, Roger Nicholas hosted a banquet for Henry, inviting friends and neighbors to attend.

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, everyone is welcome to this banquet! Now, I will solemnly introduce someone to you!" Roger Nicholas said after a pause, pointing to Henry standing next to him, "He My name is Henry Williams, my grandson of Roger Nicholas!!"

　　 Happiness! !

　　 Everyone happily clapped their hands to celebrate the reunion of Roger Nicholas' grandparents.

　　 Roger Nicholas raised his hand to signal everyone to stop, and Attorney Will handed him a pair of documents. Roger Nicholas held up the document and declared loudly: "Today I have made a will. After my death, all the property will be inherited by Henry Williams!!"

　　 "Grandpa!" Henry couldn't help being stunned when he heard this, his mouth was slightly open, and he couldn't speak for a while.

Roger Nicholas touched Henry's head and smiled: "Good boy, it was all grandpa's fault before. If grandpa hadn't driven your mother away, you wouldn't have suffered so many disasters!" The old man said, no Kee sighed, "Now Grandpa wants to make up for you..."

　　 "It's not my grandfather's fault, this is God's test of us, after the storm, it will be a rainbow!"

　　 Roger Nicholas smiled: "Haha, yes, this is God's test of us!"

　　 Seeing Henry speaks so well, the surrounding guests nodded their heads and praised him for being smart!

　　 Roger Nicholas immediately announced the start of the banquet.

　　 And Roger Nicholas held this banquet in addition to introducing Henry to others, but also has a purpose. He knew that his grandson had written a novel, but he was frequently frustrated in publishing. As the owner of a well-known bookstore in California, I naturally know many publishers. Therefore, he deliberately invited some high-level American publishing industry to attend tonight, and planned to lobby for his grandson Henry at the banquet.

　　 Henry met many people at the banquet. What surprised him most was that the neighbors who lived next door were actually Leonard Posack and Sandra Lerner, a teacher couple from Stanford. The two men broke off. As a senior network engineer, the founder of Cisco could not have known each other (although he could only hear his name but not his name). Henry admired it and started talking with the two.

　　 At this time, Roger Nicholas was holding a copy of the novel manuscript for review by ten publishers.

　　 "Roger, we are old friends too. This book is in immature writing and cannot be published by our publishing house."

　　 "Yes, Roger, this book is really not good."

　　 "The content of the novel is too simple and has no sense of art."

　　"..."

　　 Roger Nicholas has a slightly ugly face: "Everyone, you must know that the author who wrote this book is only ten years old now! I think if it is published, this is a very good gimmick, isn't it?!"

　　 Everyone still hesitated, but there was no denial.

　　 After the banquet, the Possacks bid farewell to Roger Nicholas and praised Henry: "Mr. Nicholas, your grandson has a talent for learning computers, he is the smartest kid I have ever seen!"

　　 "Thank you for your compliment!" Seeing them complimenting his grandson, Roger Nicholas was overjoyed and responded with a smile on his face.

　　 Henry said: "Grandpa, I want to learn computer science from Uncle Posack. Are you optimistic?"

　　 Roger Nicholas smiled and said, "Of course I have no problem. I just don't know if Mr. Boss agrees?"

　　 Leonard Possack happily said: "Of course no problem, I am very happy to accept a genius as a student!!"

　　 Henry was suddenly happy, thinking about when Cisco was founded? Um, it seems to be at the end of this year...

　　 In the evening, Roger Nicholas told Henry that he has shown the manuscript to ten publishers, and it is very likely that there will be publishers willing to publish the book.

　　 Henry hugged the old man and thanked him: "Thank you, Grandpa!"

　　 The old man smiled with a look of kindness.

　　 The next day, Henry went to Possack’s house with some meeting gifts. For Henry's arrival, the Posac family was very welcome.

　　 The Possacks teach at Stanford, so naturally they don’t have much time to teach Henry. So Bosak gave Henry a rough lecture on computer knowledge, and then gave him a few books for him to teach himself. A few days later, Bossack was shocked. He asked Henry to take the test, but he didn't expect Henry to get it right. There are some advanced content involved, and Henry can also answer it not badly. Boss had to feel that Henry was a genius. For this reason, Bossac taught more carefully. Henry even sleeps in Boss’s house at night.

　　 And during this period, good things happened again and again.

　　 Finally there is a publisher willing to publish Henry's novel. This publishing house is called West German Publishing House. Although it is not very large and has influence only in the western states, for Henry, it is the first step to success. Subsequently, Henry negotiated with the publisher. Because Henry always insisted that he could only authorize the paper publishing rights of the West German Publishing House in the United States, and it was only the first book in the Harry Potter series, he only received 6% of the royalties. .

　　 A week or two later, almost in mid-October, West German Publishing House published 10,000 copies of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", priced at $10 each. In the beginning, the market reaction was mediocre. However, a month later, the book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" suddenly became popular. The main reason is that many children like this book very much.

　　 Due to the fire, the publishing house urgently printed 20,000 copies of Harry Potter, but they didn’t want to be sold out immediately, so West German Publishing House had to continue to reprint it!

　　 "Los Angeles Times", "New York Times", "Washington Post" and other major newspapers have reported this matter. Ten-year-old best-selling author Henry Williamson rose to fame! Many reporters follow up the interview and strive to dig out first-hand information.

　　 People are afraid of being famous for pigs, and they are afraid of being strong, or that they need to be famous early, Henry has a deep feeling about these two points. It is difficult to have both to be famous without being harassed by the outside world. But after being famous, it is a real benefit, at least the novel sells better. The West German Publishing House hurriedly adjusted Henry's royalties from 6% to 10%.

　　 West German Publishing House takes into account the continued cooperation with Henry in the future, otherwise the second part of "Harry Potter" is likely to go to his home. The "Harry Potter" series obviously has the potential for fire, which means that West German Publishing House can make more money, and at the same time, West German Publishing House can rely on the influence of "Harry Potter" Strengthen its development and strengthen its distribution capabilities, and the benefits it can get are far more than the money earned by a book! !

　　 At the end of November, the Bossacks resigned. When Henry heard the news, his heart jumped, because he knew that a future Internet giant was about to be born.

　　 Three days later.

　　 "Henry, your Aunt Lerner and I are going to start a high-tech company." Bossack said that evening.

　　 Many years have passed, Henry still clearly remembered that night the sky was full of stars, and the moon was like water, but there was a ripple in his heart. When he left that night, he said a word to Bosak, which Henry is unforgettable to this day: "Teacher Boss, let us create a bigger situation together!!!"

　　 Posak nodded and agreed to Henry's request.

　　 So Henry returned home happily.

　　 "Grandpa, Mr. Boss is going to start a company, and I want to be a partner with him." After Henry met Roger Nicholas, he immediately told him of his important decision.

　　 Roger Nicholas first stood on the side of the businessman, pondered for a while, considering the pros and cons, and then he asked about the establishment of the company. Henry may know what kind of company Cisco is better than the Possacks, so he gave Grandpa a detailed analysis of the company's development prospects, talking about routers, talking about the Internet and so on. But in the end, Henry's grandfather seemed to be more confused as he listened, but his face became more and more smiling. Because he found that his grandson was very interested in starting a company, and he had obviously considered a lot of things. With this enthusiasm, he should support himself, even if the final loss is worth it!

　　 "Henry, grandpa supports you!" Roger Nicholas smiled kindly.

Yay! !

　　 Henry was happy, with the support of his grandfather, funding is not a problem. Henry has no money now, and the manuscript fee is settled once a quarter. For Henry to get the money, he will have to wait until March next year.

　　 "Grandpa, can you pay me a million dollars first and pay you back when I get the draft fee!" Henry looked at Roger Nicholas expectantly.

　　 "What are you going to pay, Grandpa's money is not your money!!" Roger Nicholas tapped Henry on the head lightly and smiled.

Henry touched his head and smiled embarrassedly at his grandfather, but still insisted on his decision: "Grandpa, this is not a question of money or not, but a matter of principle. I want to rely on my own ability to start a business, and then I can achieve success Feeling! Grandpa doesn’t want me to be a mediocre, rich second generation who only knows how to eat the old, right?"

　　 "Okay!!" Roger Nicholas was very happy when he heard this.

　　 Henry immediately wrote an IOU, and then handed it to his grandfather: "This is my IOU. I will pay you back when the contribution fee is received next year!!"

"Okay!" Roger Nicholas took Henry's IOU with a smile, and saw the IOU read "On the evening of December 3, 1984, Henry Williams borrowed one million from his beloved grandfather, Mr. Roger Nicholas." US dollars."

　　 Roger Nicholas collected the IOU at will. He didn't plan to make Henry pay back. But this simple IOU was bid for $10 million in an auction a few years later, shocking the world! ! After Roger Nicholas received the IOU, he wrote a check to Henry. Although Henry was only ten years old, he was extremely sensible, and Roger was relieved when he handed the check to him.

　　 The next day, Henry took the check to Mr. Bosak’s house.

　　 "Mr. Possack, what is your initial capital for starting the company?" Henry asked.

　　 "Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars," Bosak said. Americans like to spend in advance, so most people don't have a lot of deposits. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com Posack family has three cars worth three to four hundred thousand dollars, and their villa is worth more than one million dollars. Speaking of which, the Bossacks are still a wealthy man.

　　 But two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is a drop in the bucket for starting a high-tech company. Historically, Bosak took the villa mortgage. Later, it immediately accepted financing from Sequoia Capital, and the company developed.

　　 "Teacher Bossack, I borrowed one million dollars from my grandpa for next year's manuscript fee!" Henry said, and took out the check.

　　 Both Posack and Lerner were stunned, and they didn't expect me to spend so much money at once.

"Teacher Possack, I invested one million dollars. How about we each own 50% of the shares?" Henry looked at Possack and Lerner, feeling a little nervous, worried that he had too many shares, and the two disagreed with this. Allocation. Who knows, Bossack shook his head and said: "No, you should be the largest shareholder with so much money. We only need 40% and let you own 60% of the shares."

　　 Henry was shocked instantly.

　　 Honest people, true and sincere! No wonder the couple will sell Cisco at the price of cabbage in the future! Well, although I am taking advantage of it now, I will not let you repeat the same mistakes again. In the future, I can safely be regarded as a global billionaire.

　　 Henry agreed to this method of distribution of shares.

In the next few days, Possac, Lerner, and Henry went to register a company. Possac preferred to name the company "San Francisco", but the law did not allow the company to be registered under the name of the city, so it finally took The last five letters of SanFrancisco—cisco, which is Cisco!

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