The Goddess Shines on America

The turmoil in the outside world does not have much direct contact with Alice for the time being, because she has other affairs to deal with, but she has no time to stare at the curiosity of some bank manager and explain it. At this moment, seeing that it was time for Eaton to start school again, she had to take care of some local business before leaving for the UK.

Of course, before the final completion of the Alice Building, her core office can still only be her bedroom. Fortunately, her family expanded her room as early as before she was twelve years old, otherwise there would not be enough bookcases to store materials for her.

"Alice?"

In the middle of the night, the door opened, and Sophie walked in with a cup of milk tea: "Are you still busy?"

"Hmm, there are still several places that need to be revised regarding the blueprint of the new building." At this moment, Alice was fiddling with the computer: "Is dad back?"

"Not yet. I guess the supermarket is crowded tonight. It's the weekend after all." Sophie put the milk tea on the desk: "Are you sure you just don't drink coffee? It's too late to stay up all night by yourself, isn't it too much?"

With a sip, Alice drank a third of the milk tea: "Milk tea also has a refreshing effect, and there will be more opportunities to work long hours in the future. If I always rely on coffee to refresh me now, I will not be an addict in the future." huh?"

After entering the bedroom, she didn't intend to go out immediately, Sophie smiled lightly and looked at what her daughter was doing: "Yeah, when I was still working in an accounting firm, I was really busy day and night, especially in the first three months of each year. months, it's just... Oh, by the way, Ellie, what kind of software are you using?"

Sophie had noticed it a long time ago. After all, it took more than a day or two for her daughter to design this building, and she is not only fully computer-operated, but also using a product that is not like other IT companies can have.

"Oh, this is AutoCAD." The girl grinned: "The automatic computer-aided design software developed by Autodesk in 1982 is used for two-dimensional drawing, detailed drawing, design documentation and basic three-dimensional design. I'm~"

Sophie blinked: "Owned to you? What do you mean? I remember that you bought a company that makes graphic design software, and now you bought the same type of company? What? What happened? Why don’t I know?”

"Oh~ That's the remote investment I made directly in the UK~" Alice tapped the mouse briskly and fiddled with the building model, but if someone looked in the mirror, they would find that she looked a little guilty: "It's also a small company Well, if you say buy it, you will buy it..."

To say that she is guilty, Alice does have reasons for being guilty. You know, her own mother is a serious lawyer who holds several advanced accounting certificates. If her daughter buys a company, it's nothing more than an ordinary mother. How can there be any reason to ignore her on purpose?

"Awesome~" Sophie smiled softly, and took the milk tea on the table away with a whoosh: "Alice, it seems that my daughter has really grown up, and she has done something to keep her mother from knowing." business?"

"Hey, hello, hello!" Alice immediately turned the chair: "Your head can be bleeding, and you can't throw away the milk tea! Return the cup to me!"

Sophie immediately took three steps back, still holding the glass of water she brewed for her daughter, leaning against the bookcase, and drank it by herself.

"Wow~ Mom~ I hate it~ That's my milk tea!" Seeing that her own milk tea was actually drunk by her mother, Alice suddenly pursed her mouth and acted coquettishly!

Sophie squinted at the sky, still holding the cup gracefully and calmly: "My daughter has grown up, and she has started a business that she can't let her mother know about. It seems that this milk tea is no longer necessary, and it will be directly changed to Cafe."

"Ah~ okay, okay, it's just a small company, mom, you look like this~"

Alice acted coquettishly, hugged her mother's waist with a silly smile, and kissed Sophie on the cheek: "Give me the milk tea, I can't drink it anymore~"

The warm scene in my bedroom is enough to embarrass many outsiders. Fortunately, Alice is not the great female president of the United States. If this happens in a semi-public place, the younger brothers of the Secret Service will definitely feel uncomfortable.

"Oh, does my baby, Weiwei, want to drink milk tea?" Sophie was still teasing her, holding her cup high and said, "Then she must tell her mother, when and why did she suddenly I bought another small company, and it’s still in the same field as Adobe, what do you think?”

"I promise, I promise I can't do it!" Anyway, Alice asked for the milk tea back. It's so pitiful that my mother snatched half of what she had just taken a sip of. This is not a big cup, the loss is too big, the loss is too big.

"Well, to put it simply, I want to establish a comprehensive image software company."

It is easy to explain, as there is a clear example in front of me, the 3D structure diagram of the Alice Building being designed is displayed on the flat-screen monitor, and all the details are clear at a glance.

"Adobe, which I acquired earlier, was established in the same year as Autodesk, both in 1982." She said: "The reason for the acquisition is because of the company's encoding product called PostScript. This encoding It is especially suitable for printing images and text, which is a typical page description language, which can not only be as readable as program code, but also represent vector graphics that can be enlarged and reduced arbitrarily.”

"To the point," Sophie interrupted her: "Mom, I'm not a computer researcher, don't commit occupational diseases."

Alice stuck out her tongue: "Anyway, this company is obviously going to make graphic image processing software, so I bought it. Then the founder of the company did not live up to my expectations. Isn't it a while ago? He launched I bought Illustrator 1.0, a very good vector graphics processing software, which is selling well.”

Whether it's vector or anything else, Sophie really doesn't understand it very well. To be honest, she still wonders even now, her husband is a professor of history, and she is a lawyer and an accountant, both of which are completely unattainable professions, how could she give birth to a daughter who is a computer genius?

To be reasonable, Bill Gates also has the mother of an IBM executive!

"Then there is this Autodesk company," Alice continued, "Although it was established in the same year as Adobe, it was already listed in 1985, and it issued 1.6 million shares at a price as high as $11!"

Sophie nodded, looking down at her lovely daughter: "So, you bought a listed company without telling me at all?"

Well, I'm still angry about not disclosing the information.

"Hmm, cough~" Alice rubbed her nose and said, "And as of last year, their flagship product, AutoCAD, has sold 100,000 copies, and successfully issued 2.5 million shares on the second board market. Now It’s time for booming development.”

After that, Sophie could guess much better. The other party had achieved this result as of last year, and it was at the end of last year that a huge stock market crash swept the world, and most of the Nasdaq stocks were hit hard. If Alice took advantage of this time to buy a large amount of the other party's stock, she could indeed buy it easily.

"So, this company's business is this 3D graphics software?"

"It should be said that Autodesk can already be regarded as the world's leading design software and digital content creation company. After all, there are not many companies in this industry these days, and it is still listed."

"Then, obviously, 3D mapping software. Just like what I'm doing now, it's just a software that can be used in architectural design, land resource development, production, utilities, communications, media, and even entertainment at the same time. The market It’s pretty big.”

"Obviously, Autodesk is an engineering design-oriented company, and it's a well-established listed company. The little guy at Adobe has just invented the first product, and it's still early before it goes public. So I am also worried now, if these two companies are really merged, how can it be better?"

Since it is a big capitalist at a higher level, there is really no need for two companies of the same type to be an eyesore. When it comes to the term business merger, Sophie is of course very familiar with it. Asset liquidation and financial statement integration are all easy tasks. So as her own daughter, since Alice said she was worried, of course it would not be at this level.

What will the great Alice worry about?

Sophie smiled: "You want to keep the Adobe name, right?"

"Oh yeah~ mom is mom."

Alice grinned: "As far as business management is concerned, Autodesk has developed to the current level. It can be listed on the market with just one AutoCAD, which shows that the guy's business strategy is really good. You know, the industrial The field of design is really wide, and it requires a lot of professionalism. There are too many markets for the production of precipitation maps such as civil engineering, bridge design, and 3D contour maps. These can also be used to develop specific versions. Like AutoCAD-Map-3D or AutoCAD-Raster-Design or...

"Alice, occupational disease."

"Oh, in general, Autodesk can rely on this one thing to eat for a lifetime. But Adobe, because it started with a unique programming language, has great potential for product diversity. Just say it Now that the vector graphics editing software is being launched, can it also be composed of pixel images? There are even interactive vector graphics and web animations? Even various audio and video editing..."

"It's always like..." Sophie hurriedly interrupted the daughter who came up from Science and Engineering Fan: "You just don't know how to name it after the merger?"

When the mother's words were right, Alice was taken aback.

"Oh, yes, that's it! Mom, you're awesome!"

"Hmph, you are too stupid."