The Goddess Shines on America

"The equity changes are as follows."

At sunset, Sophie held the printed document in her hand, handed it to the Bosacks, and said: "On the basis of the original 50%, Alice invested another five million dollars in cash to Cisco Systems, Included in the owner's equity as paid-in capital, and thus her shareholding is increased to 70%, and your two shareholding ratios are reduced to 15% each."

While the couple opened the document with ugly faces, Sophie went on to say: "Furthermore, integrate Cisco Systems' current fixed assets, intangible assets, accounts receivable, bank deposits, and cash on hand, etc., and debit the owner's equity. The paid-in capital of the second-level subject is 8 million U.S. dollars, and the debit capital reserve is 270,000 U.S. dollars. The above is the company's current total assets."

"So, at present, the total value of the shares held by Alice is 5.6 million US dollars, and the shares held by your husband and wife are each worth 1.2 million US dollars. The above is the property distribution of the current shareholders of Cisco Systems. The specific situation is detailed in the document."

As a lawyer, Sophie is also a senior American Certified Public Accountant and a British Chartered Certified Accountant. In fact, at that time, she was working at PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the four major accounting firms in the world, and at the same time, she was studying for a Harvard law graduate student and a Ph.D.

What's more, Sophie managed to do the right thing in work, school, and life. While getting a doctorate, she also became a senior manager in the firm. It can be said that if it wasn't because she happened to be pregnant with Alice at that time, if she survived for another year or two, she might be able to become a partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the annual salary of a million dollars is only a stone's throw away.

It can be said that if she is assigned a small team, even if she is doing an audit report for the headquarters of one of the world's top 100 companies, it will be purely physical work. As for now, it is nothing more than making financial statements for a "little guy" whose total assets are worth tens of millions. There is really no difficulty at all.

In one afternoon, strictly speaking, but two hours, the work was over.

"Oh... I'm really ashamed."

Flipping through the document, Posak shook his head and said with emotion: "Although we knew that the company's prospects would be very good, who would have known that it would develop so fast. It took only a year before and after, and the two of us were really exhausted. I can barely finish my work, if I continue like this, I'm afraid I'll be prematurely old."

Alice looked at Bosac pitifully. He was clearly a man in his early thirties, but after not seeing him for a few weeks, his dark circles had obviously gotten worse. Including Sandy, the hairstyle should not be messy, but the skin has obviously not been taken care of for a long time, and the signs of sleeplessness are very obvious.

"After all, there are only two people in the company at present. After two days to recruit more employees, you will naturally relax."

As she said that, she did glance around suspiciously: "By the way, although our company has a low starting point, we have made a lot of money, right? No recruiting? And the office is so full.”

Sandy glanced at Sophie with some guilt, and saw that she was sorting out the company documents, so she gave Alice a dry smile, and exchanged glances with her husband in secret.

Sandy really didn't want to delegate power.

From the very beginning when the company was established, Sandy wanted to be the "boss". After all, Alice is just a little girl, and her family is not a computer professional at all. equality? Coincidentally, Alice, as a partner, has indeed handed over the management rights to them, so Sandy has always been quite satisfied, and even thinks that this girl is quite interesting.

As for recruiting staff? Although some time ago, Alice did bring the first batch of huge orders to the company, and then with word of mouth from those customers, the business gradually improved, and there was no shortage of funds. But when he thought that, as the boss, he had to pay others, Sandy felt disgusted.

After all, the salary level of programmers is really not low, and the monthly salary of any one person must reach the sum of the two when he was a teacher. It's not that I can't do it anymore, why spend so much money to hire employees, wouldn't it be better to save that money and buy a luxury house and a famous car?

But now, Sandy sometimes looks back and thinks, Alice, this girl, must have foreseen this day long ago, right?

The ideal is wonderful, that is, to escape from a life of debt-ridden poverty. But in the first three months of the entire business, Sandy quickly realized that starting a business is really too hard, so hard that he has no end to work around the clock, and there is not much time to enjoy the rich later life. Even if the company's profits have increased so much recently that they can buy a large mansion in Beverly or Long Island, she doesn't even have the chance to buy the latest Lamborghini for herself.

So to this day, when I saw that Alice was going to become the super major shareholder of the company in one fell swoop according to the earlier agreement, Sandy was really full of strange emotions and didn't know what to say.

With a 70% shareholding ratio, even if she is not the company's management, or even if she is the board of directors, even if she is not the serving chairman, she can decide everything with just one word.

"In terms of financing, you just have to keep looking. It's nothing more than looking for it quickly when you're short of money, and looking slowly when you're not short of money. But you can't let go of the opportunity to raise funds for your company no matter what the circumstances."

When all the dust settled, the night was of course already deep, but no one had any plans to eat yet. Sitting in the largest room in the office, which is equivalent to the "living room", watching a pile of file cabinets and computers around, Alice, mother and daughter, and Sandy started a meeting.

"The five million U.S. dollars I just injected, one million is used as the cost of recruiting employees and expanding the office space. In terms of specific recruitment, I will give priority to recruiting about ten marketing specialists. Heck, that is, salesmen. After all, The market decides everything. Then, the client recruited three or two people, and the rest of the funds, except for the expansion of the office space, should be used to recruit engineers.”

Posak said: "I have been thinking about a question recently. At present, Cisco's products are only this router. Is our product chain too simple? Even the Standard Oil back then, at least divided into gasoline, diesel, and kerosene. Let's sell it?"

Alice's mouth twitched.

Why do these guys, like the Italian chocolatiers, like to use Rockefeller as an example?

Just like the people of later generations open and shut up Bill Gates?

Seems to make sense.

Without even blinking her eyes, Alice said without thinking: "Then adjust the power. Sandy, what is the specific performance of our current router?"

Sandy was stopped by this sudden question: "Performance... Of course, it is easy to connect multiple computers to achieve..."

"There are five computer direct connection entrances, that is, five computers can be connected at the same time. This is enough for a company with less than 50 people, or even a hundred people. You just need to buy a few more. But if there are more people For a company, too many routers will cause management confusion, at least the network speed will be affected... understand what I mean?"

Sandy suddenly realized: "Are you going to increase the number of interfaces in the LAN?"

"That's right, with the continuous popularization of computers, more and more companies will continue to increase the purchase of computers, which has new requirements for the construction of the company's local area network. If you just use a router to directly connect a few computers, use them to share The characteristics of the line will definitely cause a series of problems such as network speed drop.”

"Therefore, it is necessary for us to study a new type of machine. If a router is to realize the connection between computers in a small area, then this new machine must provide exclusive power between any two network nodes in a large area. Signal pathway... what do you think of?"

Sophie just watched silently, as the recorder and witness of the company meeting. After Alice asked another question, both the Bosacks felt very uncomfortable with her fast speaking speed, so before the two of them could come up with something, Alice spoke directly again.

She shrugged and said, "Like... a telephone exchange?"

In this way, Posak said dumbly: "You mean, use the model of a telephone switch to invent a network switch?"

Sandy frowned: "This kind of idea... what principle are you based on?"

It's no wonder that the two professors didn't keep up with the rhythm. After all, Alice spoke too fast, and she was still a prophet after all. When a normal person proposes an idea, who doesn’t start directly with the idea itself? For example, Jobs’ famous willful sentence is: “I don’t want my Apple Lisa to have a fan. As a result, you can figure out how to do it yourself!”

Not to mention the specific measures to make the computer without a fan, Alice's approach is to directly throw out the measures, or the name of the product, completely skipping the process of telling the idea. In this way, no matter how professional the audience is, how can they react within three or two seconds?

"That's right. In terms of imagery, a router is like a street in a residential area. It can accommodate walking, scooters, bicycles, cars, and school buses. The characteristics of routers can accommodate multiple network protocols. That's it. Compared with Build a road for each way, of course, one road is easier after all."

"But the most obvious shortcoming of the streets in residential communities...of course, is the problem of traffic flow. When the scale increases a little, it will become chaotic. And the switchboard is like a highway. Everyone runs on their own roads honestly, without interfering with each other's speed. Quick. The network switch I'm thinking of now is such a device."

Seeing the surprised gazes of the Bosacks in contemplation, Alice bared her big white teeth and showed her mother a bright and proud smile.