American Entertainment 1982

Liberty Avenue, Stanford University, sunny morning.

"Tommy! Can you sign your autobiography for me?" A brown-skinned girl with a bright smile waved a book in her hand, trotted to the two of them, and handed Tommy the pen and paper she was carrying. Books, asked with a smile.

Tommy took the book and pen from the other party and said, "Of course, it's my honor."

"Can I ask quietly, where can I buy the little movie you participated in?" When Tommy unscrewed the pen cap, the girl bit her lip for a moment, and finally asked Tommy in a low voice.

This made Jason, who was walking towards the garage with Tommy next to him, stare: "Girl! Did you see some pirated news?"

While speaking, Jason arched his right arm: "I, Jason White, made the movie, look at my biceps! Look at my biceps! I'm the actor, I got the most Good actor, you should come to me for an autograph."

"Sorry, I thought it was Tommy." The girl sighed regretfully when she heard Jason's words.

Tommy smiled and signed his name on the title page of the autobiography "I Should Die Now" handed over by the girl, which will be released soon after the verdict, and then returned it with both hands, and said with a warm smile: "Thank you for buying this This book, miss."

The girl ignored Jason's nagging complaints. After receiving Tommy's signature, she turned around happily and left. Looking at the figure of the other party going away, Jason White turned his head and asked Tommy unhappily:

"Obviously I saved the Actor Company by selling my peerless beauty, why do these women either look sorry that you are not going to make a small movie when they hear the news, or directly regard this as the most important turning point event in the Actor Company's entrepreneurial history? on your head?"

"Maybe it's because..." Tommy noticed Jason's gradually murderous face, and carefully considered that the distance he was away from Jason at this time was not enough to get rid of the bastard's violent beating, and said against his will: "Ladies, you are worried." Your big clubs scare them, after all you look like a bodybuilder, and the only man at Stanford who can live off his body is you, Daddy Jason."

Jason nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, son, this answer has saved you, and at the same time solved a difficult problem in my mind that bothered me just now."

"What problem?" Tommy Hawke asked Jason with a sigh of relief.

Jason hugged Tommy's shoulders, and said lightly:

"It's nothing, I was just thinking, if the answer that came out of your mouth just now is not satisfactory to me, which technique in American wrestling should I use to end you, is a jaw-crushing blow that knocks out all your teeth , or use a guillotine to directly tear off your head."

When the two walked to Garage No. 9, most of the items in the garage had been emptied, leaving only a few unpacked boxes. In the empty garage, Holly, Susan, Mark, Sophia and Actor's part-time customer service team The person in charge, Gary Goode, was sitting on these boxes and was laughing and chatting. When he saw the pair of Stanford roommates walking in with their shoulders crossed, they stopped talking and looked at them.

In other words, looking at Tommy Hawk, even Jason let go of his arm around Tommy's shoulder and looked at Tommy.

Actor has already rented a larger office space in Silicon Valley, and the staff has rapidly expanded to more than 70 people, and is still recruiting continuously. This garage is no longer enough to carry Actor's rapidly expanding dream.

Today, it will be completely emptied and the keys returned to Stanford.

"Time seems to have suddenly become precious, right?" Tommy looked at the garage, kicked the packing box a few times with his feet, turned his head and said to several people in a low voice:

"Jason, Holly took leave of absence, Susan was busy with community college, Mark was handling the Hope human resources company, and Sophia was recently busy serving as Ms. Delia Keith's visiting professor at Stanford Law School. Assistant, everyone has a bright future, everyone has changed, only me, the carefree, innocent and innocent college student Tommy."

Jason took out his cigarette and lowered his head to light it, then looked at Susan, Holly and Mark who were looking at him with inquiring eyes, and finally shook his head:

"I couldn't convince him to drop out of school, man, he made me puke the hell out of it, because he said he was going to go on to Stanford and change his life with knowledge, who can't hold back the urge to puke on hearing that bullshit , you can try again, anyway, I can’t do it.”

"Aside from Actor's shares, just the money you earn from publishing books, you already have close to a million in your bank account, Tommy, you can now take a course at Stanford on how to get rich quickly." Holly sighed, Said to Tommy, "You must have other reasons for insisting on finishing your studies, right?"

Tommy Hawke is now a bona fide millionaire and didn't get a penny from Actor, but this guy kept it from everyone and had Delia secretly contact a publishing house she knew early on, planning to publish a book, Even secretly looking for a ghostwriter to write a good manuscript.

So on the second day after Actor won the lawsuit, a new book called "I Should Die Now" appeared in the bookstore. Let's just say they privately joked that the book had an alternate title, "Jesus' Road to Redemption in Modern America."

A book is priced at 25 dollars, and the author gets 15%. If the subsequent sales increase, the share ratio will also increase. Calculated on the basis of 15%, that is to say, for every book sold, Tommy can get 3 dollars , and then people saw that in addition to selling software on TV, books can also be sold. This guy went to various TV direct sales programs to sell the inspirational stories he found someone to write, and sold them to those who were eager to follow Tommy's copy. Successful people have sold nearly 300,000 copies, earning a lot of money, and at the same time helping themselves to the title of best-selling author.

"This time I'm not discussing my insistence on completing my studies. This issue is not worth discussing." Tommy didn't answer Holly's doubts, but looked at the few people in front of him:

"Today, as the CEO of Actor Company, I am announcing some internal decisions of the company for the last time. I have communicated with the two board members, Mr. Benjamin Rosen and Jerry Hughes, and he has no objection, so he It doesn't matter if you're not there, first thing, the company's chairman and CEO are taken over by Holly Keener, Jason needs to focus on other issues, because he is the initiator of EFF, there are also many things to deal with there, Can't take care of Actor company, so like me, only keep the board position, but no longer participate in day-to-day management."

Holly Keener took over the Actor Company, everyone has already been mentally prepared before, but Tommy didn't make an official announcement. Compared with Tommy Hawke who is always talking, Holly is indeed the busiest in the company. She wants to realize everything Tommy said and every boast he made, and she has always served as the spokesperson for Actor Company to communicate with all walks of life. She is the person in charge of Actor Company, and no one thinks that Unexpectedly, this beautiful blonde girl won it through hard work and ability.

"Tommy, I am very grateful for your trust in me, but I think you should stay on for a while, so that I can learn more comprehensive thinking by your side, I..." Although Tommy had already said to her , Actor Company will be handed over to her, but when this moment comes, Holly will still be nervous, and when facing Tommy, she will be subconsciously unconfident.

After all, Tommy Hawke was too dazzling before, who would have thought of those unconstrained and unconstrained means to break through the limits of various imaginations?

Actor Company was placed in the eye of the storm from the day it was born, until it finally killed its opponents. Tommy Hawke is a calm and experienced captain, firmly holding the rudder of Actor Company's small boat in the stormy sea, and calmly sailing through the wind and waves , stand proudly at the forefront.

From having nothing, to now getting a total investment of 30 million from two big companies, Compaq and AT\u0026amp;T, accounting for 20% of the shares, which means that the valuation of Actor has reached 150 million, and the follow-up is obvious will grow.

Lotus, which was defeated by Tommy, was only valued at 1.2 billion based on its real software sales. Actor did nothing but piled up more than 600,000 users by giving away plagiarized software for free. Winning the Lotus company in court has already been valued at 150 million, and this is all done by Tommy Hawk, whether it is himself or Jason, although he has done a lot of work, he has never I thought that the return is so amazing, the market value is over 100 million, and my original 30% stake in Actor is now worth tens of millions, although it has been diluted with investment, and the value will only increase with each dilution of investment in the future.

Taking over the Actor company by myself, it is impossible to make a more eye-catching performance than Tommy. The most shining moment of the Actor company, with Tommy Hawk opting out of the company's daily management, will never be reproduced.

"Have confidence in yourself, Holly, besides, I have talked with you about some ideas for future development before. If you encounter any problems that you think need to be discussed or are difficult to deal with, you can call me privately and make an appointment with me, and buy them in advance. A box of Trojan, I would like to give you some advice, thinking is not learned, but honed through continuous thinking and experimentation." Tommy walked up to Holly, reached out and touched her delicately made-up face and said:

"You always have to learn to think about comprehensive issues yourself. This is a good opportunity. You can use the investment from Compaq and AT\u0026amp;T to improve yourself while developing the company. This is a precious opportunity, even if It's Harvard Business School, you can't learn this knowledge, you can waste money, but don't waste opportunities, if it's not for our deep friendship, you fucking pay me, you don't have such opportunities, understand?"

"Understood." Holly looked Tommy in the eyes and nodded.

"Good." Tommy turned around and said to the others:

"The second question is the income issue. Everyone has worked so hard for so long. Except for Mark and Susan who received a salary of 200 yuan a week, no one else has received a formal salary in the company. The main reason is that we have no money, but Now that the turmoil is over, and Actors are no longer short of money, it is time to turn the company’s banknotes into their own banknotes.”

When it comes to income, everyone looks at Tommy, and Tommy first looks at Jason and Holly:

"Shareholders also need to be paid if they work. I have specifically asked about the salary of shareholders of several other companies when they are working for reference. Thousands of pocket money, Mr. Steve Ballmer, a minority shareholder of Microsoft, has a weekly salary of two thousand yuan, and Mr. Benjamin Rosen only receives a pitiful salary of 200,000 yuan a year from Compaq, so Holly, as the CEO Officer, with a salary of 200,000 yuan per year, Jason, just arrange for him to take a position in Actor Company other than shareholder, receive 150,000 yuan a year, and help him buy a medical insurance that includes frigidity treatment, I'm afraid Fifty thousand is not enough to pay for his treatment, so let it be."

"What about you?" But Holly immediately realized that there was a problem, and that was that the bastard didn't make a salary for himself.

Tommy shook his head at Holly: "I don't need to get a salary, a symbolic weekly salary of one yuan is enough, but I must guarantee my other benefits, such as helping me buy medical insurance including dentists, regular medical examinations in senior private hospitals, etc. , and the highest-yielding pension, as long as you don’t forget to remit the dividends that I share as a shareholder to my account on a quarterly basis, the manuscript fee is enough for my university expenses, and you all know that I don’t care about money.”

"Yeah, your ordinary medical insurance plus pension is enough for the company to hire five programmers." Holly rolled her eyes.

Tommy walked up to Gary Goode. This bitch in front of him had done a lot of work for Jason before, and later led the customer service team as a part-timer, providing various telephone consultations for a huge user group. Seeing Tommy Mi looked at himself, and Gary smiled: "Do I also have a high salary? I mean I was paid part-time before."

"You think too much, you don't." Tommy first destroyed Gary's poor fantasy with one sentence, and then asked, "You're an egalitarian, aren't you?"

"That's right, otherwise why would I join the Stanford Women's Equality Organization?" Gary Goode didn't understand why Tommy asked such a question, but he still said.

Tommy nodded: "Very well, in order to thank you and the customer service team for their efforts, if you are willing to take a break from school, the company can give you an expatriate job, maybe go to Europe, maybe Asia, to help more people of other skin colors and countries People, the company will also consider giving you some incentive rewards, and Holly will talk to you after the details.”

Gary Goode looked at Holly puzzled, and Holly gestured to him to talk to him later.

Tommy thought for a while and said to Holly: "Susan and Mark are strictly not employees of Actor Company. They are members of Hope Human Resources Company. Let's talk about their income later. Other employees of Actor Company do not need me Teach me, Holly? Follow the example of Microsoft, outsource everything, ask Delia to help draft the contract, make the design as cumbersome and obscure as possible, hand over unimportant staff to Mark’s human resources company to be responsible for recruitment, and always remember to save company costs , we do charity, but not a charity."

Tommy lit a cigarette, took a puff, and then continued: "Don't let the employees eat too much. If they are too full, they will think about issues that have nothing to do with work, such as rights, trade unions, and industry development. The bullshit they worry about, of course, don’t really starve them. Employees who worry about credit card repayment every day can’t serve the company wholeheartedly. Keeping them in a state of seventy percent full forever is bad for their health and work enthusiasm. There are benefits."

While offering himself a high salary, while reminding himself to save the company's costs, such a contradiction may only be said by Tommy Hawke, and he is so confident.

"That's it, Actor's arrangement is like this." Tommy asked Jason, Holly and Gary: "Any other questions?"

Seeing that the three of them shook their heads, Tommy walked up to Mark in a black jumper, and stretched out his hand to lift the other's hood: "How are you doing, Mark?"

"Insignificant compared to the big things you do." Mark said to Tommy with a smile on his face.

"Insignificant, you may feel that the human resources company is now insignificant compared to Actor's company, and you are yelling at me in your heart, look at the good things Tommy is doing, Jason, Holly gets a lot of money, and every one of us You only earn a little!" Tommy let out a puff of smoke, stared at Mark and said:

"I want you to know that you are now the head of the human resources department of many companies, understand? Before you just helped those companies find some cheap tea and water. Next, I want you to work while you work. Try to understand that there is a job called headhunting in this world, you are a natural at this job, just like you did when you scouted actors for small movies before the fuck, you collect money and use various means to help companies that pay you to scout Come to those computer geniuses, you will find that it is so damn easy to make money after pimping is changed to a taller name! Making money is very easy, as long as you work hard, you are earning less now because Holly and Jason have already used their academic qualifications. You have proved your ability, but you have not yet, you can only perform better once in exchange for a higher treatment once, this is the reality of America."

"I will work hard." Mark nodded seriously: "I will find out what kind of job headhunting is."

"Very good, remember what I said? I want you to never go to those crap again. I want you to wear designer suits and luxury sports cars." Tommy smiled and took out a car key and patted it in Mark's hand. In the surprised eyes of the other party, he smiled and said:

"Parked outside your residence, the latest two-seater Lotus sports car, priced at 40,000 yuan, was bought for you in the name of the company with Hope's profits and some blank paper expenses. The boss of Hope's human resources company should have his own car."

Mark excitedly looked at his sports car key, then at Tommy, trying to get himself to say something, but he couldn't say it.

"Don't get excited, this is the reward you deserve. If you perform poorly, I will clean you up as simply as I give you a sports car now." Tommy patted the other party's shoulder and said to Holly:

"Holly, go back and transfer some of your shares in Hope to Mark to give Mark some motivation. You don't have the energy to take care of it anyway."

Then Tommy walked up to Susan. Compared with when she was working at Hope, Susan changed her outfit again. Her long hair was tied into a high ponytail, she was dressed in loose and comfortable casual clothes, and she was playing with a pen in her hand. , the whole person sat there, looking more sunny, and the youthful vitality she should have at her age.

"A post-dated check for 20,000 yuan." Tommy took out a check from his arms and handed it to Susan.

Susan looked at Tommy with a puzzled face, and Tommy nodded: "Put it away."

Susan took the check and asked: "But you have already paid for my community college tuition. I don't need the money. Currently, Hope's part-time job is enough to cover my school expenses."

"I also helped you with Stanford tuition and other expenses. Let's just say, girl, I have a price for helping you pay for community college. It's an investment. If you get a transcription notice from Stanford , I will add an A to your life report card, and if it is a public university like the University of California, it will be a B. As for the transcription notices from other garbage universities, you don’t need to notify me. Congratulations, cash this check, and then It will disappear from my sight forever, because there are too many wastes in the world who don't work hard, and I can't find a reason to congratulate this world for one more waste." Tommy looked at this woman who always believed in herself and grew up in the mud :

"If you feel that climbing is too tiring, then take out this check and take a look. It will tell you that if you fucking lie down until graduation, the rest of your life is only worth 20,000 yuan."

Susan shook the check in her hand, shrugged cutely, and directly tore it into pieces: "I won't give it a chance to look at me, remember to exchange a new check, Papa Tommy."

Tommy touched Susan's head affectionately: "Good Girl, then remember, if you don't work hard, you will be worthless with these check fragments, I know you will not let me down, because I met After you, you never let me down and every performance deserves an A."

"Sophia will definitely not be a good lawyer. Lawyers shouldn't have such emotional behaviors as tears." Tommy finally walked in front of Sophia. Sophia's eyes were already red when Tommy was speaking to others, and she took off her glasses Constantly wiping away tears.

Hearing Tommy's words, she smiled a little choked up: "I'm just...just a little sad, I know we will see you again, but...but it won't be the same as before, I think of Jason and Holly sitting together Bickering at the desk over there, I also remember Susan sometimes changing clothes boldly..."

She tried to make herself laugh, and wiped away the tears with her fingers: "It's all Tommy's fault... If he is willing to drop out of school and continue to manage the Actor company, he can handle everything in an orderly manner, everyone And to be around him and see each other every day, instead of being...separated like this... It's very sad, I can't believe I've been working in this garage for so long, I thought it would be a relief not to have to work, not to be so tired anymore, but when it really didn't require me to be busy...I instead...missed those days when I worked so hard for Actor."

Jason, Holly, Mark, and Susan were all a little sad when they saw Sophia's reaction. Although Jason and Holly both work in Silicon Valley, and the distance between EFF's office and Actor's company is only three kilometers away, even if they see each other often , I am afraid that the scene of a few people talking and behaving unscrupulously in the garage will not be reproduced.

Susan moved into the student dormitory of Dalport Community College, leaving Mark alone in the apartment they rented together. The two may still see each other often at work, but they will not be together every day as they used to Walk back to the residence, sit on the sofa, call to order some takeaway, and watch a movie together.

No one has changed, but life has been completely different. Sophia thought for a long time and could only blame Tommy for all this, because Tommy has the ability to handle everything. As long as he is willing to continue to devote time and energy, everyone Will gather around him and act for his every decision, but he refuses, and distributes these things to these people in front of him, completely tearing them apart.

He is just a jerk, looking at Tommy smiling in front of him, Sophia thought sadly.

Why can't everyone work happily together like before, fighting for the last cup of coffee and the last piece of pizza regardless of gender...

Tommy took out a tissue and handed it to Sophia, and said with a smile: "You should be happy, Sophia, these guys have vacations, make an appointment every year, get together for a few days, it's better than getting tired of being together all day, and you You and your friends need to keep growing, and keep yourself and your friends in the same class, so that you can be friends for life, and I can always proudly tell the world that at this moment, everyone in this garage is me friends, not poor chickens living under my Tommy Hawk wings."

Sophia took a breath, and took the tissue from Tommy: "I'm just a little sad, thank you, Tommy, this tissue made me feel for the first time that you are also a polite human being."

"During such a sad moment, don't forget to attack me. I taught you badly." Tommy smiled happily: "By the way, you will walk with me later."

Then he turned around, looked at the other people, and opened his arms: "Come on, some of us rich people will do it ourselves, move the things out, and officially close the No. 9 garage, waiting for its next tenant."

A few members of the Actor company, who are worth a lot of money at the moment, just moved the packing boxes out of the garage so embarrassingly and laboriously. After they all moved out, a group of people stood in a row and looked at the completely empty garage.

Tommy eventually pulled down the garage door himself, locked the door, and handed the key to Holly, who would return it to Stanford administration.

"Work hard for your own life, everyone! I will cheer for you while studying at Stanford University. If you have nothing to do, don't contact me. The courses at Stanford University are very heavy." Tommy looked around at the crowd, and after saying this, Then he grabbed Sophia's wrist and walked towards the school.

Sophia was forcibly taken away by Tommy's wrist. While struggling, she asked him puzzledly: "But I haven't said goodbye to everyone, Tommy, it's very impolite!"

"Goodbye? For these guys, I don't need to look back, I know they raised their middle fingers." Tommy said with a smile without looking back.

Sophia turned her head curiously. Sure enough, apart from Gary Goode, Holly, Jason, Mark, and Susan, they raised their middle fingers in the direction where the two left.

"They did, but why? Didn't you just say a dirty word?" Sophia asked Tommy after seeing this scene.

Tommy said: "Because they have to work hard for my life at the same time, the harder they work, the more money I make, but I am the person who makes the most money, I am not going to do anything, I just want to shout a few words by the side. Come on, I think, that's why they gave me the middle finger."

"Tommy! You are a fucking bastard!" Holly looked at the back of Tommy Hawk who was going away, and suddenly shouted loudly. After shouting, tears flowed out first: "I can't believe it. Actor has no attachments."

Jason exhaled, and comforted Holly from the side: "You have already given the answer, because he is a jerk."

"God and the world have witnessed!" Hearing Holly's shout, Tommy didn't look back, but raised his left middle finger high and shouted:

"Actor! The birth of a group of bastards!"

It wasn't until walking back to the campus that Sophia adjusted her emotions and asked Tommy, "Where are you taking me, Tommy?"

"Are the beds in your dorm comfortable?" Tommy asked Sophia.

Sophia frowned, stopped in place and glared at Tommy: "Tommy~~ You can't keep making such vulgar jokes on women that you think you're charming but don't respect women enough."

"I'm not going to sleep with you, Sophia, I now have a lot of female readers who are willing to have some affairs with me, as long as I agree, I can now help the United States create a new population of newborns in a state." Tommy put his hands on his head Finally, facing the sun without stopping, he continued to walk forward, saying as he walked:

"I just wanted to say that I've slept on my pillow countless times on red-eye flights, this time, it's your turn to be the pillow, and I'm going to get a good night's sleep."

One word from this bastard made Sophia instantly recall those images of him and herself every time they took a red-eye flight, helping her put on the blindfold, and then lent her shoulders to make a pillow for her.

"Do you think I'll get a breast augmentation, and then you'll sleep better if you lie on it?" Sophia imitated Tommy's tone, and said this loudly to Tommy's back with tears in her eyes. She felt a little embarrassed Crude joke.

"When you came back from breast augmentation, I became as restless as before. Wouldn't it be worse." Under the sun, Tommy turned around, looked at Sophia, and waved tiredly:

"So, why don't you go to bed first, I'm sleepy, and I need a long enough sleep."

Sophia walked over and walked forward side by side with Tommy: "What about after waking up?"

"Of course I will continue to be busy. I stayed at the university not only for the graduation certificate, but also for another reason, that is, the value of the SSD has not been drained." Tommy walked towards the dormitory, and said in his mouth:

"Actor's work is over, but my fraternity life is just beginning."

Eight thousand words today~