Silicon Valley

The company's headquarters is located in San Jose, Silicon Valley, and Henry's drive from home to the company's headquarters is only about an hour.

When the company was founded, there were only three employees, Henry, Posac and Lerner. Posac tube technology, Lerner in management, Henry in soy sauce. Regarding the development of the company, Henry made 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 all computer local area networks together to form a unified network.

When Henry came up with the concept, Posack and Lerner were stunned, and they only thought of turning Stanford into a network.

"Mr. Posac, do we have any patents related to routers?" Henry asked knowingly, because he knew that although Posac applied for a patent, this kind of patent was a job patent and belonged to Stanford University.

Henry asked this question, but he stopped the Posac couple!

The router company doesn't have router patents, how can it go on? Although Stanford University has authorized Cisco-related router patents in the future, it is still unsafe in Henry's view. Historically, Bosak has given many shares to Stanford University, and Henry did not want to cause trouble.

"The router patent should belong to Stanford University. I will tell the leaders that it should be licensed to us." Posak said after thinking for a while.

"Buy it directly, it's easy and safe!" Henry was about to burst into tears. He was so naive that he would let you use the patent as soon as he said it.

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

Henry was suddenly speechless.

Afterwards, Henry accompanied the Posaks to Stanford University, both to buy router patents and to recruit new employees. Stanford University welcomed Posak's arrival, and was very happy to sell the router patent to Cisco. Because not many people have found its value in this kind of play.

The company only spent a hundred thousand dollars to buy the patent!

When it comes to recruiting employees, Stanford's computer talent ranks among the best in the world. Relying on the fame of Posac and Lerner, more than two dozen people signed up enthusiastically in one day. Posack eventually selected five employees.

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

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

...

The Bosacs went to San Jose, and Henry was left with no one to teach. So Roger Nicholas was going to send him to school. On Posack's recommendation, Henry went to Stanford High School. Henry is by far the youngest student at Stanford High School and has done very well in the entrance exam.

Henry is a busy man while going to school and making plans for Cisco's development.

Time flies, and after three months, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" sold 1.7 million copies, and after paying taxes, Henry received $1.2 million in royalties. In addition to returning $1 million to grandpa, there is $200,000 left. During this period, Henry finished writing "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and handed it over to the West German Press for them to print the book.

The second Harry Potter book is even hotter than the first!

The first print of 500,000 copies was quickly sold out. Cisco's development is also on the right 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 70s. He lost his beloved daughter more than half a year ago. His mind was hit hard, and his body collapsed instantly. When the cold winter came, all kinds of problems on the old man appeared. Henry had to accompany the old man to take care of him and talk to him to relieve his boredom. Henry told Roger Nicholas every day about interesting events in his school, about the hot scene of his new book, and about the development of Cisco.

The old man listened quietly every time, always with a kind smile on his face. But his body is getting thinner and thinner, as thin as skin and bones. Henry looked at the pale face of the old man in the hospital, and felt inexplicably afraid in his heart. He was afraid of the old man leaving, and he was afraid of losing a relative who cared and loved him. He had gradually gotten used to the days when the old man was by his side...

On April 1, 1985, which was April Fool's Day, the old man Roger Nicholas left forever. On this day, Henry cried miserably in the hospital. Upon hearing the news, the Bosacs came immediately, and in addition to comforting Henry, they also helped with the funeral.

On the day of the funeral, many former friends of the old man came. Henry met them one by one and accepted their comfort. However, when the coffin was about to be put into the tomb, Henry finally burst into tears!

Henry's mental state was not very good, and the Bosacs accompanied him home.

"Henry, condolences!" Posac comforted.

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

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

Tonight, the house is empty.

Henry slept on the bed, looking up at the starry sky, the face of an old man seemed to emerge from the starry sky...

After a while, around the beginning of May, Henry's mood gradually improved. During this period, Henry did not go to school, and stayed at home to write "Harry Potter" every day, trying to immerse himself in the novel as much as possible, forgetting his 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 bookstore business suddenly went downhill. There are many reasons for this. In addition to the suppression of competitors, the more important thing is that some executives of the bookstore took the opportunity to seek personal gain, and bullied Henry who was too young and did not understand business operations, making the bookstore a mess.

Henry later learned about the situation and cursed angrily.

On May 10, Henry held a board meeting. The chain of bookstores owned by grandfather Roger Nicholas is called Nicholas Bookstore, and his grandfather holds up to 75% of the shares, which are now all inherited by Henry. In the conference room, Henry sat in the chief with a cold face. Half an hour later, the big and small shareholders gathered, and many people looked at Henry with a playful smile.

Hank Woolf, a middle-aged man in his forties with curly hair, was sitting in the first place next to Henry. He was the second largest shareholder of the bookstore. He was lighting his cigarettes leisurely, and he didn't care about Henry, the nominal director. Chang put it in his eyes: "Children, we are very busy, if you have anything to say, hurry up!"

"Humph!" Henry snorted coldly, handed out the copied documents, and said coldly, "Someone in the company misappropriated funds indiscriminately, I think, should you give me an explanation?"

Hank Woolf threw the document on the table and smiled: "What is 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'll ask a professional accounting firm to review the company's financial situation!"

"You!!!" Hank Woolf suddenly became furious.

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

After Henry finished speaking, there was a chill behind many shareholders present.

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

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

"That's right!" Henry nodded, "I have hired a professional accountant to evaluate the company's assets, and the market value is 24 million US dollars. You have a total of 25% of the shares, which is 6 million US dollars. If you are willing to sell , we can close the deal now.”

The meeting room suddenly became noisy.

Many people called Henry a prodigal and sold the bookstore that his grandfather worked so hard to run. In fact, in Henry's view, the bookstore is already riddled with holes and cannot be sold without it. Since my grandfather fell ill, I was unable to manage the company's business at all, with a lot of bad debts and bad debts, and major shareholders misappropriated the company's property at will.

Henry felt that he was a little helpless about this mess, so he might as well cut the mess and sell the bookstore!

The competition pressure of physical stores is very high. As long as Henry keeps the name "Nicholas Bookstore", all the storefronts can be sold. Henry believes that he will definitely be able to develop the bookstore created by his grandfather and become the number one in the world! ! !

The meeting room is still noisy, and greed knows no bounds. Henry gave a 5% premium, and they were not satisfied, but asked for more.

"The bookstore is our hard work. It is just wishful thinking to want us to sell our shares at a mere 5% premium!!!"

"Yes, we will not sell our shares!"

"..."

Henry said coldly, "Then how much are you going to ask for?"

The big and small shareholders looked at each other, got together and discussed in a low voice, and finally Hank Woolf as the representative said: "At least a 20% premium!!!"

"Why don't you go grab it!!!" Henry said angrily, almost slamming out the door.

"Just 20%, or we won't sell it!" Hank Woolf seemed to be convinced of Henry and insisted on the price.

It seemed that it was impossible to talk, Henry sneered and stood up without saying a word, ready to leave. Before walking away from the door, Henry turned to Hank Woolf and warned: "Mr. Woolf, please make up for the one million dollars embezzled from the company tomorrow, otherwise, see you in court!!!"

"Humph!" Hank Woolf snorted coldly.

"boom!"

The door was closed.

"Wolf, this little guy doesn't seem to be easy to deal with!" said one of the minority shareholders.

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

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

"No!" Woolf thought for a while and said, "That little guy loves his grandfather so much that he shouldn't sell the bookstore that his grandfather worked so hard to create! I think this little guy must have deliberately lied to us so that we can take control Sell ​​the stock in here to him!"

"Yes, Woolf is right. Hehe, we insisted on this price, he is a child, and he will definitely admit defeat in the end."

"Ha ha……"

After Henry left, he called Will lawyer.

"Hello, Attorney Will, I'm Henry Williams!"

"Oh, hello, is there anything I can do for you?"

"Lawyer Will, I want you to help me contact a few buyers who want to buy a bookstore. Yes, I'm going to sell my grandfather's bookstore!"

"OK, all right!"

Henry hung up the phone, turned around and glanced at the sign of "Nicholas Bookstore" behind him, with a very firm and confident expression on his face!

"Nicholas Bookstore" is bound to become a sign of the times! ! !