The Goddess Shines on America

After the motivational meeting for the employees, it's time for the shareholder meeting.

Of course, to put it very lofty, in fact, it is just the three of Alice and the Bosack couple.

After all, Cisco is not a listed company yet, and hasn't experienced the financing that can be done without it.

"How did you get this kind of order!?"

At the desk, Sandy wore his eyes, carefully flipping through the fax sent from Washington DC: "Our country is a federal system and the separation of powers, those state governments, municipal governments, and various departments in DC Department, why are you suddenly so, so, so united...?"

"It's not IBM's business."

Alice herself thinks why her smile is so gloating now: "The hacking of the stock exchange to maliciously tamper with the data has succeeded, and those government officials may not have a sense of crisis? Believe me, Sandy, this order is just an opening It’s just a heads up, and it won’t be long before all government departments in the United States will come to us for orders~”

"Yeah, what a coincidence..."

Posak sighed from the side, and didn't even have time to drink the morning mocha: "IBM and Nasdaq both bought our products, but we are the industry leader, and even the biggest competitor, Lucent, sells The amount is at least 30% worse than ours. It is only natural that Washington will concentrate on purchasing our products.”

"In this way, the size of the company will expand."

Sandy put down the order and looked at Alice with piercing eyes: "Did Leonardo tell you what I think? Alice, it's time for the company to expand now. I think we should increase the customer service department." And the human resources of the sales department, as long as there are enough engineers."

Alice didn't answer Sandy's suggestion in the first instant, but glanced at her with interest first.

If it is said that Bosack himself is a pure technical nerd, then Sandy is indeed talented in business. As for the reason...

"It's not a question of expanding human resources."

Alice shook her head, but she didn't wait for Sandy to say so, she said first: "It's that we should change the business policy of the company."

This is not a trivial matter, and Sandy's volume was raised: "How to change?"

"Simple and customer-oriented."

Alice easily plagiarized an idea that belonged to Sandy, although from her point of view, it was not plagiarism...

"The problem of human resources you mentioned belongs to the category of specific measures, and the measures should be guided by policies. Customer-oriented, developing new products to meet customer needs, this is the way the company will go next. "

"That's right, that's what I mean!"

Sandy looked at Alice in surprise. How many times has this happened? How many times have some of her hazy thoughts been directly summed up by Alice?

"Customer oriented... yeah, that's what we're supposed to do, Leon, what do you think?"

So, the two female creatures in the room looked at a certain male together.

"But isn't that too philistine?"

However, Posak's eyebrows flashed with disgust: "In the development of Internet hardware, what we have done is a great achievement that will change the way of life of all mankind. Customer-oriented things are not the business of ordinary commercial companies." idea?"

it is as expected.

Alice shook her head with a wry smile.

So, science men are the easiest to get into a dead end.

At this point, they are often more terrifying than liberal arts students.

"Technology is technology, Leonardo."

Alice sighed softly: "But we are starting a company now. A company, no matter what product it sells, no matter how much impact this product will have on people in any range, it is built on the basis of sales. based on."

"You know, Marx once said that practice is the best way to test the truth. It is not impossible for a researcher to develop technology behind closed doors, but can that researcher be sure that his technology is what everyone needs? If he studies hard In the end, the product is not needed by everyone, but it is just the researcher's wishful thinking that everyone needs it, so the so-called changing and influencing the world, isn't it impossible to talk about it?"

Seeing that Bosac was in a state of contemplation, Alice picked up the plane and said, "You haven't read superhero comics, have you? Some super criminals, their original intention is to benefit mankind, but how do they actually do it?" ?”

"Teach people to love peace by means of nuclear flattening the world; or use robot armies to raise all human beings in captivity, so as to prevent them from killing each other; The way of human beings, let everyone live a good life in their dreams, so as to avoid killing in reality..."

Seeing the choked look of the couple, Alice smiled: "See? Isn't this all the wishful thinking of the technical geeks? Maybe the purpose is good, but they don't care whether the audience needs it or not, it's just wishful thinking They use what they think is the right way to sabotage. Then when they are killed by the Messenger of Justice, they often say with Zhang Zhong's face, dear, why can't you understand me!?"

"...a total idiot, right?"

I have to say that this explanation is really novel.

In other words, is it worthy of the opinions given by middle school students?

"It does make sense, although your examples...hehe."

After a moment of silence, Bosack shook his head with a wry smile and said, "I have to admit that in terms of doing business, I am indeed far inferior to you, even Sandy. Since both of you want to take a customer-oriented approach, You can try it."

Sandy said thoughtfully: "Speaking of which, it seems that there are not many companies in the entire IT industry doing this. Just look at those Apple computers, aren't they all the wishful thinking of Jobs' designs? It is very expensive, but the performance is not much worse, but the design is very good. His paranoid psychology of perfectionism really represents the psychology of many people in Silicon Valley."

About Apple...

Alice rolled her eyes.

That was the existence she had avoided mentioning to everyone for a long time.

After all, Apple's market value in the later period was too high, and before Jobs returned, its market value was too low. What if you talk about Apple's development with others at every turn, and if you accidentally talk too much, those people will follow suit and buy stocks at a low price?

You know, in the past few years, Alice has never stopped buying Apple stocks.

Long before Jobs left Apple, the family just accumulated hundreds of thousands of assets through its stock, and filled in all the dividends. It wasn't until it finally started to go downhill that Alice sold all these shares in a desperate manner, seeking the final high price before its downturn.

However, the decline is a long process after all, and there is still a price difference to earn~

No way, why did Apple later exaggerate? The peak market value of 800 billion U.S. dollars, even under the influence of inflation, did not surpass Microsoft in 1999. Those were 800 billion!

Many people in the financial industry have already memorized its historical stock price fluctuations by heart, and Alice has benefited from her brain in this life, even if she didn't recite it deliberately in her previous life, it is enough for her to recall every detail.

Compulsive memory ability comparable to that of Index in the Catalog of Prohibited Books. Although Alice has a more developed brain and can perform selective forgetting intelligently, as long as she wants to recall, no one can stop her.

Buy at a low price and sell at a high price. For her, who remembers Apple's daily K-line clearly over the years, this kind of game really shouldn't be too fun.

Then, bring your attention back to the present.

After some discussions, Cisco's next business policy was determined. As for the specific implementation steps, with Sandy's enthusiastic initiative, Alice, the honorary chairman, was of course happy to relax.

"Wait until you're eighteen~"

Flipping through the order in her hand, Alice smacked her lips and said, "Recruitment of new employees...according to the capacity limit of the headquarters building, 200 employees is enough under the premise of ensuring a comfortable working environment. But... Sandy, besides this order, we have a lot of other business, right?"

Sandy nodded and said, "With your article and "Time" magazine, the average daily growth rate of the company's orders has increased by 15 percent recently. However, IBM's intrusion has also made many companies think about the network. Going to the extreme, some people immediately increased the purchase of routers to strengthen the construction of the company's LAN, some old customers did not move, but there were also many people..."

"Refunded?"

Alice waved her hand disapprovingly: "It must be a small business, right?"

Seeing Sandy nodding, she smiled and said, "That's their own fools. If we do this, what we lose is only an insignificant small order, but they have really delayed their own development."

"However, the expansion of business is inevitable. It is estimated that two hundred people will not last a year. In this way, you will continue to be responsible for the daily operation of the company. I will choose a new office building when I have time. It is not far away, just Then just settle down in San Jose."

Bosac narrowed his eyes and said with satisfaction: "The scale of 200 people, if it is expanded on a large scale, it must be listed. Listed companies...Alice, you have to buy a large vacant lot, the area is small If not, be careful not to keep up with the development."

"That's natural. In fact, I have already chosen a piece of land."

Alice leaned back on the chair more comfortably: "But that's all a matter of turning back, I still have a lot of work to do~"

As she spoke, she looked at the world map on the office wall.