Reborn in Hong Kong: The Tycoon Grows Up

Putting fate in the hands of outsiders is definitely not the style of Mr. Bao. To forge iron, you need to be strong yourself. No one can count on the current situation in Xiangjiang. Then we can only work on Fucaira. Although you have been very careful, when the interests of Americans are touched, they will still find ways to deal with you.

Bao Zixuan said with a smile: "Everyone knows what Bill Gates wants to do. He just wants to take a reassurance and negotiate the price with the underwriter. Although the current stock price has been basically determined, if there is a better situation before going public, Once the news is released, institutions and investors will naturally rush to buy it.”

"Then we will give him this reassurance. After all, I am also one of Microsoft's major shareholders."

Hearing that Bao Zixuan didn't refuse, John Chambers knew what he meant. But the boss didn't say it clearly, so he couldn't make any wild guesses.

When he arrived at the Hilton Hotel, he saw four people waiting for him. Although they all knew each other, it was the first time for two of them to meet, so they felt embarrassed to rush up to them. And as the founder of the company, Bill Gates still has to introduce each other to several people.

I really can't fault Bao Zixuan as an investor. It never interferes in the specific operations of the company, not even the board of directors participates. At most, one representative will be sent to deal with it; but when money is needed to increase capital and expand shares, the other party will have the money ready with just a phone call, and there will never be any delay.

The most important thing is that Heiyun Group develops new software, as long as Microsoft needs it; it is always licensed at a low price, and there is really no fault in the support. I would like to ask where such investors can be found; at least Bill Gates, who has been running the company for ten years, has never heard of it.

Bao Zixuan smiled and said: "Bill, congratulations, although I am a shareholder, the company is run by you. Finally being able to go public can be said to have helped us make a lot of money; as a shareholder, we cannot be stingy."

"You four are the core figures of the company, and I should express your gratitude." After saying that, he handed over the four keys and continued: "There are four Ferrari sports cars parked downstairs. They are my gifts to you."

There are two people here, but they can receive gifts for the first time when they see Bao Zixuan; and it is the Ferrari sports car that men dream of, which is too generous!

Bill Gates was not too surprised. He already knew it before coming here. And I also consulted his opinion before finally choosing a Ferrari sports car.

Bill Gates smiled and said: "Steve, Charles, I told you that I will give you a surprise. Before, you were a little worried about the company's stock price. Now that we are here in the United States, it should be the turn of the Wall Street gang to have a headache." "

It can be said that the title of the richest man in Xiangjiang Bao is famous all over the world. If even he can't handle it, it will probably be in vain for several young people.

Bill Gates continued: "Let me introduce to you, Paul Allen. You already know him. This is Steve Ballmer, our company's vice president; this is Charles Simonyi, the head of the technology department. "

Hearing these two names, Bao Zixuan really didn't know what to say. They are all future super talents, one is one of the top ten super rich people in the world, and the other is one of the greatest programmers in history.

Steve Ballmer, born on March 24, 1956; Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 and served successively as executive vice president of sales support and president of Microsoft Corporation. He was the first business manager hired by Bill Gates. Ballmer grew up in Detroit. He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and economics. Ballmer's father is Swiss and his mother is Russian Jewish. His father, Fred Ballmer, came to the United States from Switzerland after World War II and worked as a translator for the presiding judge of the War Crimes Tribunal. He later worked as a bookkeeper at General Motors and finally worked as an accountant at Ford Motor Company.

In 1974, when the 18-year-old Ballmer was a sophomore at Harvard, he met Bill Gates, later the founder of Microsoft and the world's richest man. In 1980, it was on the Stanford campus that Bill Gates approached Ballmer and persuaded Ballmer to join Microsoft, which was still in its incubation period.

As for the reason why Steve Ballmer is more famous in later generations, not only because he is the former CEO of Microsoft; more importantly, he purchased the Los Angeles Clippers. This team is in the same city as the Zijin Dynasty and shares the same stadium with no sense of presence.

His financial resources are talked about in the NBA, with an offer of US$2 billion; a one-time payment without any loans, which shows his arrogance.

Charles Simonyi, born in Budapest, Hungary, formerly known as Simonyi Karoli, is a software development expert and the inventor of Hungarian nomenclature. The product development director of Microsoft Corporation and one of the early core personnel of Microsoft.

Most genius programmers are very smart but very introverted in childhood. They are not interested in the rules of the adult world. Instead, they live in their own closed world, accompanied by science and technology. Simone's childhood was a little different. Simonyi spent his childhood in Budapest, Hungary in the late 1950s, where his father was a professor of electrical engineering. His father always encouraged Simeone to have the courage to express his opinions and communicate with others. My father, a professor of electrical engineering, has always believed that problem solving is an integral part of personal growth. This view had a great impact on Simonyi's growth, because the main job of computer programming is to solve problems.

Simone had already been exposed to computers and programming in high school, thanks to his father's status as a professor. This kid got the opportunity to work as an assistant to a computer engineer. You must know that there were only five computers in Hungary at that time.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Simeone completed his first program and first professional program at the high school level. The first program Simone wrote was to fill in the magic square so that the sums of the numbers in each row, column, and diagonal were equal. His first professional program was a compiler for a very simple, high-level language similar to FORTRAN. Simonyi sold the compiler to the government as an innovation and received a large sum of money; but he did not spend a penny because he left Hungary soon after.

After graduating from high school, at a trade fair in Budapest, Simonyi met several Danes working in computers. After learning enough about their company's new machine, Simonyi asked one of them to bring to Denmark a small program he had written to show their supervisor that the program could accurately report back which part of a long expression the machine was analyzing at any given moment. Company executives liked the program and offered Simone a job. Simeone left Hungary just like that.

After programming in Denmark for a year and a half, Simone used his salary, plus the bonus he had received from the government, to study at the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in engineering mathematics. While in school, Simone worked as a programmer at the Berkeley Computer Center, earning money to pay for his tuition.

In November 1980, Simeone had an in-depth discussion with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Although Gates was very young at the time, his views on computers were very visionary. Simone only talked to them for 5 minutes before deciding to work at Microsoft.

It is said that when this boy left Hungary, he caused great harm to his father, and he was definitely a deceiver. You must know that Hungary is a Warsaw Pact country, while Denmark is an out-and-out Western developed country. He dared to do this during the Cold War, and it was so blatant; it seems that no one else except him really did it.

Moreover, this kid will personally fund two missions to space in the future; this shows that the brain circuits of geniuses are indeed different from others.

Bill Gates continued: "Mr. Bao Zixuan is also our major shareholder of Microsoft. He is one of the board members you have never seen since you have been in the company for six years."

Everyone is young, the eldest Charles Simeone is only 37 years old; Paul Allen is 33 years old, Bill Gates is 31 years old; Steve Ballmer is 30 years old, and the richest man is only 28 years old. And they all have backgrounds in prestigious schools, so it can be said that communication is very convenient.

After Bao Zixuan shook hands with the two people, he said with a smile: "I am a hands-off shopkeeper, and my time and energy are relatively limited. Therefore, the future development of Microsoft requires you to continue to work hard."

"I went to Italy this time and I just bought a Ferrari sports car. I thought I would come over to express my congratulations and give some gifts. Bill said that you like driving, so don't be polite. As long as you wait until Microsoft goes on the market, you will find that whatever you buy seems to have changed. It couldn’t be simpler.”

Hearing Bao Zixuan say this, everyone laughed.