Silicon Valley

The company is headquartered in San Jose, Silicon Valley, and Henry drove from his home to the company's headquarters in about an hour.

　　On the day the company was founded, there were only three employees, Henry, Posac and Lerner. Bosac manages technology, Lerner manages, and Henry beats soy sauce. Regarding the development of the company, Henry put forward a lot of suggestions, and clearly put forward a concept of "multi-protocol routing", that is, to design a new type of networking equipment to connect various computer LANs globally to form a unified network.

　　 When Henry proposed this concept, Posac and Lerner were stunned. They just thought of turning Stanford University into a network.

　　 "Teacher Possack, do we have patents related to routers?" Henry asked knowingly, because he knew that although Possack had applied for patents, such patents belonged to Stanford University.

　　 Henry asked, but he stopped the Bossac couple!

　　 The router company does not have a router patent. Can this still be fun? Although Stanford University has authorized Cisco-related router patents in the future, it is still not safe in Henry's view. Historically, Bossack did not give away shares to Stanford University, and Henry did not want to make trouble.

　　 "The router patent should belong to Stanford University. I will tell the leaders that it should be authorized for us to use." Posak thought for a while and said.

　　 "Buy it directly, it saves trouble and is safe!" Henry almost burst into tears, and let you use the patent as soon as you say it, you are really naive.

　　 "Then buy it, it's not worth much anyway," Bosak said.

　　 Henry was speechless.

　　 Then, Henry accompanied the Possacks to Stanford University, first to buy router patents, and second to recruit new employees. Stanford University welcomed the arrival of Possack, and was very happy to sell the router patent to Cisco. Because of this play, not many people have discovered its value.

　　Purchase the patent, the company only spent one hundred thousand dollars!

　　 In terms of recruiting employees, Stanford University has the top computer talents in the world. Relying on the fame of Bossack and Lerner, more than two dozen people signed up in one day. Bosak finally selected five employees from it.

　　 Compared with the previous Cisco, Cisco now has a very high start. It has "sufficient soldiers" and at least five more senior computer talents and one million dollars. In 1986, Cisco officially launched its first router. Today, Cisco's development speed must be faster, and it may be possible to develop router products within half a year. Henry is not worried about technology. With the two great gods, Bosac and Lerner, all problems can be solved. The company's biggest problem is sales.

　　 The smell of wine is also afraid of the deep alley! In order to promote the product, a lot of money must be spent in the sales process.

　　...

　　 The Posacks went to San Jose, and Henry was not taught. So Roger Nicholas was going to send him to school. Under the recommendation of Bossack, Henry went to Stanford High School affiliated to Stanford University. Henry is the youngest student at Stanford High School so far, and he scored very well in the entrance examination.

　　Henry is going to school while making suggestions for the development of Cisco. He seems to be a busy man.

　　 Time flies. After March, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" sold 1.7 million copies. After paying taxes, Henry received a draft fee of 1.2 million US dollars. In addition to returning 1 million US dollars to my grandfather, there is a remaining 200,000 US dollars. During the period, Henry finished writing "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and handed it to West German Publishing House for them to print the book.

　　 The second Harry Potter is even more popular than the first!

　　 first printed 500,000 copies and was quickly robbed. Cisco's development is also on track. Everything went well, but the only bad thing was that Roger Nicholas's health was getting worse and worse.

　　 The old man was in his seventies and lost his beloved daughter more than half a year ago. His mind was hit hard and his body broke down instantly. When the cold winter came, all kinds of problems appeared on the old man's body, Henry had to accompany the old man to take care of him, and talk to him to relieve his boredom. Henry tells Roger Nicholas every day about interesting events in his school, the hot scenes of his new book, and the development of Cisco.

　　 The old man listened quietly every time, with a kind smile on his face. But his body was getting thinner and thinner, skinny and skinny. Looking at the pale face of the old man in the hospital, Henry became inexplicably scared in his heart. He was afraid that the old man would leave. He was afraid of losing a relative who cared about him and loved him. He had gradually become accustomed to the old man's life by his side...

　　 April 1, 1985, it was April Fool's Day, and the old man Roger Nicholas left forever. On this day, Henry cried miserably in the hospital. Hearing the news, the Bossacs rushed to him immediately. In addition to comforting Henry, they also helped with the funeral.

　　 On the day of the funeral, many old friends' former friends came, Henry met them one by one and accepted their comfort. However, when the coffin was about to be put into the grave, Henry could not cry in the end!

　　 Henry's mental state is not very good, and the Bossacs accompanied him back home.

　　 "Henry, the sorrow and change!" Bosak comforted.

　　 Lerner went to the kitchen to prepare dinner for Henry. Henry basically didn't eat anything during the day. Lerner simply made some steak, juice, and bread, and it was quickly delivered to Henry.

　　 "Henry, let's eat something." Lerner hugged Henry with some pity, and said softly.

　　 Tonight, the room is empty.

　　 Henry slept on the bed, looking up at the starry sky, there seemed to be an old man’s face emerging from the starry sky...

　　 After a while, maybe early May, Henry's mood gradually improved. During the period, Henry did not go to school, and stayed at home every day to write "Harry Potter", trying to immerse himself in the novel, forgetting sadness and troubles. Soon, the third Harry Potter book "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" was finished.

　　 After the death of Roger Nicholas, the business of the bookstore suddenly went bad. There are many reasons for this. In addition to the suppression of competitors, the most important thing is that some executives of the bookstore took the opportunity to seek personal gain, bullying Henry's young age and ignorant of management, making the bookstore a mess.

　　 Henry learned of the situation later, and yelled at him.

　　 On May 10, Henry held a board meeting. Grandpa Roger Nicholas’ chain bookstore is called Nicholas Bookstore. Grandpa holds 75% of the shares, and it is now all inherited by Henry. In the conference room, Henry sat at the chief, his face cold. Half an hour later, the shareholders, large and small, arrived, and many people looked at Henry with a playful smile.

Hank Woolf, a middle-aged man in his forties with curly hair, sits in the first position under Henry. He is the second largest shareholder of the bookstore. At this moment, he is lightening his cigarette leisurely, and he does not put Henry as the nominal director at all. Long put it in his eyes: "Children, we are very busy, so hurry up and say something!"

　　 "Huh!" Henry snorted coldly, distributed the copied documents, and said coldly: "Someone in the company misappropriated funds, I think, should you give me an explanation?"

　　 Hank Woolf threw the document on the table and smiled: "What's the explanation? This is the normal capital operation of the company. You are still young, of course you don't understand!"

　　 "Hehe... I don't understand?" Henry sneered, "Okay, then I will ask a professional accounting firm to review the company's financial situation!"

　　 "You!!" Hank Woolf suddenly became angry.

　　 Henry patted the table and said loudly: "I don't care what it was before, in short, before tomorrow, if anyone doesn't return the money that was previously embezzled company property, I will send him to jail!!!"

　　 Henry finished speaking, and many of the shareholders present were chilly.

　　 "In addition, I decided to sell the bookstore chain. At the same time, I will compensate all shareholders. I am willing to purchase your shares at a premium of 5%!"

　　 "What? Are you going to sell the bookstore?!" Everyone was shocked.

"Yes!" Henry nodded, "I have hired a professional accountant to evaluate the company's assets. The market value is 24 million U.S. dollars. You have 25% of the shares in your hands, which is 6 million U.S. dollars. If you are willing to sell it. , We can make a deal now."

　　 The meeting room suddenly became noisy.

　　 Many people criticized Henry as a prodigal son and sold the bookstore that his grandfather worked so hard to run. In fact, in Henry's view, this bookstore is already riddled with problems and cannot sell. After the grandfather fell ill, he was unable to manage the company's business, a lot of bad debts and bad debts, and the major shareholders arbitrarily misappropriated the company's property. Such a company would be considered good if it didn't go bankrupt.

　　 Henry thinks he can't do anything about this mess, he might as well cut the mess with a knife and sell the bookstore!

　　 The pressure of competition in physical stores is very high. Henry only needs to keep the name "Nicholas Bookstore" and all the stores can be sold. Henry believes that he can develop the bookstore created by his grandfather and become the number one in the world! !

　　 The meeting room is still noisy, and there is no end to greed. Henry gave a 5% premium, and they were not satisfied yet, instead demanding more.

　　 "The bookstore is our painstaking effort. At a mere 5% premium, just wanting us to sell our shares is just wishful thinking!!!"

　　 "Yes, we will not sell the shares in our hands!"

　　"..."

　　 Henry said coldly: "Then how much do you plan to ask for?"

　　 The large and small shareholders looked at each other, gathered together to discuss in a low voice, and finally Hank Woolf as a representative said: "At least a 20% premium!!"

　　 "Why don't you grab it!!" Henry breathed, almost couldn't help but slam the door out.

　　 "It's 20%, otherwise we won't sell it!" Hank Woolf seemed to take Henry's favor, and he insisted on the price.

　　 It seemed that the talk was impossible, Henry sneered and stood up, without saying a word, ready to leave. Before leaving the door, Henry turned to Hank Woolf and warned: "Mr. Woolf, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com, please make up the misappropriated one million dollars tomorrow, otherwise, See you in court!!"

　　 "Humph!" Hank Woolf snorted coldly.

"boom!"

　　 The door is closed.

　　 "Wulf, this little guy looks hard to deal with!" said one of the minority shareholders.

　　 "A mere ten-year-old kid, are you still afraid of him?!" Hank Woolf said with disdain.

　　 "Wulf, isn't that little guy really going to sell the bookstore? In that case, wouldn't our shares be worthless?" Another minority shareholder said.

"No!" Woolf thought for a while and said, "That little guy loves his grandpa very much, and he probably won't sell the bookstore his grandpa has worked so hard to create! I think this little guy must deliberately lie to us so that we can handle it. Sell ​​the stock in here to him!"

　　 "Yes, Woolf is right. Hehe, we agreed on the price, he is a kid, and he will definitely give in in the end."

　　 "Haha..."

　　 After Henry left, he called Attorney Will.

　　 "Hello, Attorney Will, this is Henry Williams!"

　　 "Oh, hello, what can I do for you?"

　　 "Lawyer Will, I would like to ask you to help me contact some buyers who want to buy a bookstore. Yes, I am going to sell my grandfather's bookstore!"

"okay!"

　　 Henry hung up the phone, turned around and glanced at the sign of "Nicholas Bookstore" behind him, his face couldn't help showing a very firm and confident expression!

　　 "Nicholas Bookstore" will surely become a symbol of the times! !

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