The Goddess Shines on America

In fact, the investment in Bush Oil is really simple. Alice only needs to throw in five million yuan in favors.

Although the Bush family has a high status in the political world, and the two presidents in the White House have made them one of the top political families in the United States, it has little direct relationship with the business world. As far as Alice knew, until around the time of the Rio Olympics, the total assets of this huge family were only 60 million US dollars.

Yes, only $60 million.

Although in the political world, they can be said to call the wind and rain, they have met all celebrities, and even have countless stories to tell with local tyrants in the Middle East. But if it really comes down to family property, $60 million for an American political family is already a rare and huge amount of money.

This is actually the same as the arms dealers. Whether it's Lockheed, Boeing, or General Dynamics, even if the market value and annual profit figures are added together, it's barely enough to make up a market value of 300 billion for Facebook. There is not much money, but the nature of the enterprise is there, so the hard power and influence are far from what a Silicon Valley unicorn can match.

Therefore, although the five million US dollars is only a fraction of the monthly dividends of Microsoft, which is getting bigger and bigger, to Alice, it is definitely a helping hand for the oil companies that Bush Jr. is losing money. timely rain. As far as Alice is concerned, exchanging a mere five million dollars for a huge favor from the Bush family is a huge bargain.

It was night, and Alice went to bed in the guest room of Bush's house. Tomorrow morning, she had to go to Capitol Hill, where she was introduced to a New York State Congressman, and then went to Manhattan Wall Street to find relevant financial companies. This is all work, if she is not a student now, she would have a secretary to arrange the schedule, so it is necessary to take a rest early, even if it is a superficial rest.

Well, superficial rest.

Alice, who is full of energy, will not waste one-third of a day playing an ordinary person.

In the bedroom at night, the moonlight spilled into the room from the bright window, and the large empty bed shone with silver light. The antique European-style decoration gives people a sense of historical precipitation, even a small desk is beautifully made, not to mention the extremely fancy dressing table in the distance.

Although Alice is a girl, she is not sitting at the dressing table.

Just kidding, it's midnight, the mirror in front of the dressing table, which girl dares to sit in front of it?

So Alice is sitting at a desk, guarding a fax machine, a computer, and a lamp.

Holding a stack of newly printed documents in his hands, they are still hot, and they came from Cisco.

Unlike Microsoft, Cisco is a company established by Alice, and it is getting bigger and bigger, and its development speed is getting faster and faster. , it is too important.

A new business has been raging inside the company for a long time, and that is the cooperation with Lucent Technologies.

The company wants to cooperate with Cisco to develop network card modules and more efficient optical modules.

Honestly, pretty boring content.

Of course, Alice knows what a network card module is. To put it bluntly, it is a circuit module with related functions on an external network card.

The network card module, sound card module, and graphics card module are respectively installed on the external network card, sound card, and graphics card. It is because of their existence that the network card is called a network card, and the sound card is called a sound card, and so on. It's just that with the continuous enhancement of onboard technology, more and more network cards and sound cards have been integrated into the motherboard. Except for some professional fields, only the graphics card is still connected externally.

This is indeed a very critical technology, because the network transmission rate is not only related to the bandwidth laid by the operator, but also how much speed the computer itself can accommodate. If the optical fiber loan is 100 megabytes, but the capacity of the network card is only 10 megabytes, then the Blu-ray movie will still take tens of hours to load into the computer.

Of course, it is much easier to upgrade the network card module than to increase the speed of laying an optical fiber network, and it is also mentioned that it can be easily integrated into the motherboard. So regarding networking, netizens in the 21st century only need to scrape together and buy enough motherboards, and the rest of their energy is left to complain about the operators.

As for the optical module...

To put it simply, the function of the optical module is photoelectric conversion. The transmitting end converts the electrical signal into an optical signal. After transmission through the optical fiber, the receiving end converts the optical signal into an electrical signal. It is an integral part of the physical layer in the network structure. It is used by routers and switches, but because of its weak presence, most ordinary users have not even heard of it.

This is normal, because the optical module is just a basic component, and no one will buy this product alone. Ordinary home users will buy routers, and ordinary companies will buy switches, but who will take them apart and study what each small device is called?

That is, large server base stations, and large computer rooms of large companies, such as the cloud storage field, cause the need to directly strengthen the network effect, so that some hot-swappable and non-hot-swappable external optical module components are purchased separately. play a role in strengthening the network.

But it is understandable that this component, which is hardly known to ordinary people, is indeed one of the cornerstones of the Internet hardware industry. It is absolutely understandable to say that the global Internet in the entire information age is built on countless optical modules. The corresponding relationship is like the Three Gorges Project to the national water conservancy, the Three Gorges Dam to the Three Gorges Project, and concrete technology to the Three Gorges Dam generally.

Therefore, Lucent proposed such a cooperation proposal, which of course Alice was happy to see. It is impossible for Cisco to completely establish its status as the founder of the Internet just by selling routers, switches and firewalls. More "skeleton commodities" are definitely new blood that it urgently needs to add.

Only, it's really boring.

Because it's too basic.

Let Alice, who is used to selling the "Three Gorges Project" and building the "Three Gorges Dam", suddenly research how to make better concrete, which is too infrastructure...

"Hey...Leave Bosac and the others to do this kind of shit. I'm not interested."

Alice curled her lips. Now Cisco has almost a thousand employees. How can they all be engaged in post-maintenance, and they have to give the R\u0026D department some hard nuts, right?

Well, yes, as of July of this year, Cisco has hired close to a thousand employees.

The company's new site has been selected, and it is still in San Jose, with an area that can accommodate two Yankee Stadiums. After the second site selection, the company's headquarters will not move again in the next 20 to 30 years, so Elle Silk must be built in the style of an entire science park.

It's just that she is a little short of money at the moment, so the construction has not yet started. Considering the overcrowding of the old building, she has already rented another seven or eight-story office building next door. This can be regarded as the second building of the headquarters, or as a temporary office area, because this situation will definitely not last.

"call……"

After making this decision in her heart, Alice, who was sitting at the table, exhaled a long breath, and glanced at DreamWorks' July financial statement with her hands aside, her mind began to turn again.

Well, it has nothing to do with DreamWorks, she has no plans to make a movie anytime soon.

Still Cisco.

IPOs are underway.

IPO is the initial public offering, that is, the company goes public, and the preliminary work is very complicated.

The company responsible for the IPO had already been selected, and that was Sissy's father, the Wall Street firm Mr. Lawrence worked for before he resigned and came to Los Angeles. The relevant details were all handled by Sophie, and Alice didn't care much. My mother had a bunch of top certificates in the industry in her pocket. How could there be no reason not to make full use of such a high-level and free labor force?

However, Alice reminded me thousands of times, don’t worry, don’t worry, work must be kept improving, we are not bad time, we can wait for November or even December to be listed, just in time for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Of course, Sophie fully conveyed Alice's exhortation, and she also highly agreed, although she didn't know her daughter's real reason.

"Well, and then this one."

Skimming through a financial statement sent by Electronic Arts, Alice focused on an extremely important document.

With continuous small investments for more than a year, she has dispersed her holdings in major stock exchanges around the world.

Long before Sophie and her father got married, she had a glorious history of investing in stocks to manage money and make a small profit. As a daughter, Alice certainly had the same habit. Every day, every week, every month, the quantity does not need to be too much, one thousand, three thousand, five thousand, ten thousand, buy it piecemeal, and sell it when the time is right. Although it is not worth mentioning compared with the annual dividends of Microsoft and Cisco, it is still a considerable number when it is really accumulated.

Eighty-seven million.

Thanks to this favorable development throughout the summer of 1987, if Alice sold all the odd stocks on hand, she could immediately get this much short cash-except for Apple, which is very weak now, but she has been Maintain a regular commitment behavior.

Of course, being able to earn so much money is inseparable from her excellent stock trading ability. Anyone with a few contacts and a little money can get a listed company's historical stock price fluctuation records and a thick stack of evaluation reports. Analyzing the next development of the situation from this massive amount of data, this kind of complex calculation based on a series of basic sciences such as statistics, probability theory, and even the uncertainty principle in quantum theory, is enough to easily burn any person in the world. It's a supercomputer, but it can't help Alice's clever little head.

But for the little employee who edited this fax, Alice was going to snicker and say sorry.

Because, this is not an easy task, hundreds of stock names are listed vertically, and the printed document is a thick and small stack.

But who told her to be an important customer of Citibank?