Giant of the times

Jingle Bell! ! !

Early on Saturday morning, the doorbell rang outside.

When Steve Gary Wozniak's mother heard the bell, she immediately put down what she was doing and went to open the door.

"Hello, who are you looking for?"

Wozniak's mother couldn't help but asked in confusion when she saw that he had a strange face and that he was of yellow race.

Li Zetian replied with a smile: "Hello, my name is Chronos Lee, I'm looking for Steve Gary Wozniak!"

"Please come in!"

"Thanks!"

Wozniak's mother took Li Zetian to the living room, and then shouted upstairs: "Steve, someone is looking for you!"

After a while, technology guru Steve Gary Wozniak appeared.

It was just his appearance that surprised Li Zetian. He was slovenly, with long hair and a big beard, which was exactly how people like hippies nowadays dress.

However, it doesn’t matter what you look like, it’s not a beauty pageant, just your skills are awesome!

Li Zetian stood up from his chair, with a warm smile on his face, and greeted him: "Hello, Wozniak, I am Chronos Lee, an employee of Atari. I heard there that you are A very good electronics engineer, so I came here to visit!”

Wozniak looked very surprised, "Hello, please sit down!"

"Do you have a problem with me?" he asked.

Li Zetian nodded and said straight to the point: "Actually, I came to you to ask you to work in my company!"

First of all, Wozniak didn't know Li Zetian; secondly, he was working well at HP with good remuneration, so he was unwilling to leave. So he refused: "Sorry..."

"Please don't refuse. Wait until I finish speaking before you make a decision!!!" Li Zetian interrupted directly, "I'm going to develop a personal computer that every family can afford, and I need your help. , Wozniak, if you can come to my company, although the salary cannot be compared with HP, I can give you 10% of the shares!" Li Zetian looked into his eyes very sincerely and said.

Regarding the development and future of personal computers, Wozniak often discussed with others in the computer club, but what Li Zetian said could not move him.

"What's the name of your company and how big is it?"

"The company is still being registered, and its name is Apple,"

As for the scale, it is even more embarrassing. Li Zetian is still a bachelor commander and is embarrassed to say it.

When Wozniak heard this, he was stunned for a while, thinking that such a company was simply too unreliable. Not to mention giving away 10% of the shares, even giving away 20% of the shares was a bunch of useless numbers!

"Sorry, Chronos, thank you very much for the invitation, but I am very happy working at HP and have no plans to change jobs!"

Wozniak stood up and looked like he was seeing off a guest.

"You can think about it carefully. What we have done is a great and creative thing. It will become a milestone in the history of computer development!!!" Li Zetian also stood up at this time and said slowly, " I will come to visit you again in the future, and I hope you can agree to my invitation!"

Li Zetian said goodbye and immediately left Wozniak's house.

As soon as Li Zetian left, Wozniak's mother said to her son: "Steve, that man just looked like a liar. You can't be stupid and give up your job at HP to start a business with him!"

"Of course not, mother, haven't I already rejected him?"

"But he still doesn't give up and will definitely come again!"

Indeed, Li Zetian came to visit Wozniak again at 7 o'clock in the evening.

At this time, Wozniak's parents didn't have a good look on him.

Li Zetian looked at Wozniak and asked: "Wozniak, how are you thinking? Do you want to stay at HP for the rest of your life and be an ordinary engineer, or are you willing to work with me to create a great company?" A new era!!!”

"I'm sorry, Chronos, my whole family does not support me joining your company! At the same time, please stop trying to persuade me. I will not leave HP!"

When Li Zetian heard this, his heart was struck by lightning. He came to California this time just to poach Wozniak. But my temple is small and I can’t afford to invite a great god.

Li Zetian left angrily, but he did not give up his determination to develop personal computers!

"Since Wozniak can't be hired, I'll do it myself!!!"

A week later, Apple was successfully registered in California. It was still a subsidiary established in the name of Umbrella, and it was a wholly-owned subsidiary.

Subsequently, Li Zetian resigned from his job at Atari and prepared to concentrate on developing Apple.

He began to look for a suitable place as an office location in San Jose. However, the rent was too expensive, which discouraged Li Zetian. So Li Zetian asked the rental agency if anyone was willing to rent the garage. I never thought that many house owners rent garages.

In fact, the garage culture in the United States has a long history, including Disney garage, HP garage, Henry Ford garage, etc., of course, including Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon in the previous life...

Li Zetian successfully rented a very spacious garage at a monthly rent of US$300. The owner of the house is also a Chinese named Tian Shuai, who is very young, about thirty years old.

Through chatting, Li Zetian learned that he was a top student at Stanford University and received an MBA. After graduation, he joined Enron, one of the world's largest energy, goods and services companies. Four years later, he became a Senior Administrator. However, a week ago, he took the initiative to resign!

In just 4 years, a Chinese can become a senior administrator in a Fortune 500 company as big as Enron, which is enough to show his outstanding ability and unlimited future. But why did he suddenly offer to resign?

This has to make people feel very confused.

Although he did not say why he resigned voluntarily, his words were full of dissatisfaction and disdain for Enron.

Li Zetian had heard a little bit about Enron, but that was all in 2001. In this year, Enron suddenly applied for bankruptcy protection in the New York Bankruptcy Court. The case became the second largest corporate bankruptcy case in American history, but what really happened was What made Enron famous all over the world was the financial fraud scandal that caused this company with hundreds of billions of assets to go bankrupt within a few weeks!

Li Zetian secretly guessed that perhaps after Tian Shuai's position was promoted to a senior administrator, he came into contact with more things in the company. When he discovered that Enron was secretly making false accounts and engaging in high-level corruption, he was unwilling to be accomplices, so he took the initiative to resign. If this is the case, then Tian Shuai’s combination of character and talent makes him a rare talent!

Li Zetian has been looking for a trustworthy and capable person to manage Zhetian Company for him!

Li Zetian wants to develop Zhetian Company into a family office!

Family offices are very unfamiliar to many people, because only the world’s top wealthy families have family offices! ! !

The term family office originated from the great "Domus" (family director) in ancient Rome and the great "Domo" (general steward) in the Middle Ages. Family offices in the modern sense appeared in the mid-19th century, and some people seized the opportunity of the industrial revolution. The tycoons bring together financial experts, legal experts and financial experts. The core content of the study is how to manage and protect their family's wealth and extensive business interests. In this way, a single-family office (Single-Family-Office, SFO) emerged that only served one family. In 1882, John D. Rockefeller established the world's first family office. Subsequently, more and more top overseas wealthy families also adopted this model to manage their wealth, such as Morgan, Murdoch, Bill Gates, and Hilton. , Li Ka-shing and so on. As China develops, more and more people in the mainland have begun to choose to preserve and inherit wealth through family offices, such as SOHO China Pan Shiyi, Longfor Real Estate Wu Yajun, Nine Dragons Paper Zhang Yin, etc.

However, Li Zetian is not completely reassured about Tian Shuai and will conduct a long-term inspection of him in the future.

"If he can be a good CEO of Apple, maybe he can manage Zhetian Company for himself..." Li Zetian looked at Tian Shuai and suddenly had the idea of ​​​​drawing him to Apple!

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