Time Travel: 2014

Lin Hui asked in confusion: "Oh, why?"

Huang Jing explained: "Don't you know yet? Because Adrian Perica is your senior."

Adrian Perica? Senior?

what's the situation? ? ?

Lin Hui really didn't know the inside story, so he asked doubtfully: "My senior? How do you tell me?"

Huang Jing said: "Yes, Adrian Perica is your senior.

When you were chatting with the twin sisters that day, didn’t you mention that you went to study at MIT?

And Adrian Perica also graduated from MIT.

Although he studied for an MBA at MIT, of course he is your senior in a sense.

This person also often considers himself a member of MIT. He has a pretty good personality and has always been supportive of the underachievers of MIT.

In the past few mergers and acquisitions, he was said by some people inside Apple to be too inclined to take care of the underachievers of MIT...

But this person still goes his own way,

Speaking of which, I really envy you for getting your MIT degree without any fuss.

As long as you enter MIT, you are basically connected to most people in the IT circle in the United States.

Even if there is no direct relationship, it is easy to establish a relationship.

With a little bit of management, it becomes a super network of people..."

Lin Feng said sadly, is it okay if the boss and I are schoolmates?

Huang Jing and Lin Huilu chatted for a long time.

If it is true as Huang Jing analyzed, then this matter is indeed stable.

Having said that, it involves such a transaction worth tens of millions of dollars.

Do you want cash or stocks?

However, it does not matter whether the transaction is in the form of cash or stocks.

One thing Lin Hui knew very well was that he was about to take off.

And this is inseparable from the little bit of momentum gained before.

As the saying goes, "The wind starts at the end of Qingping, and the waves form between the gentle waves."

Lin Hui probably had preliminary online contact with the Apple acquisition team on the afternoon of the 24th.

Lin Hui's previous expectations regarding the acquisition of shortcut instructions had some deviations.

Apple’s acquisition plan for the Quick Command software:

Although Apple has plans to launch the shortcut command software as soon as possible.

However, Apple does not plan to launch the shortcut software at the WWDC Global Developers Conference in early June.

Apple plans to launch the shortcut command software in the new machine that will be officially released in mid-September.

Well, although mid-September and early June are only two and a half months.

But as one of the largest technology companies in the world at this time, Apple.

It can be said that it takes two and a half months to fully understand the technology involved in shortcut instructions without any effort.

As a result, Lin Hui has almost no room to raise prices.

However, despite this, Apple's first-round offer was still a bit beyond Lin Hui's expectations.

An offer of $60 million!

Lin Hui felt overwhelmed when he heard this quote.

For some reason, Lin Hui suddenly remembered the scene in a certain anime where a wealthy man approached a rabbit to buy missiles.

Lin Hui is naturally the rabbit, while Apple plays the role of a wealthy dog.

To be honest, Apple's offer made a lot of the rhetoric Lin Hui had prepared useless.

Lin Hui's original expectation for the transfer of the Quick Command software was about US$40 million after tax.

The software itself is worth approximately US$30 million, and the market compensation is US$10 million.

The so-called market compensation is because after all, the software Lin Hui created before was not released online and was directly transferred to Apple.

Under such circumstances, it seems unreasonable not to compensate Lin Hui.

In fact, if Lin Hui could earn 40 million US dollars after tax, he would be very satisfied, but after all, the shortcut command software in his previous life only sold for 30 million US dollars.

Now Apple has directly quoted a price of US$60 million after tax.

Ah, this, Lin Hui won't be able to deal with this directly.

Through further contact, Lin Hui learned about Apple’s ideas.

There is a reason why Apple offered an offer of $60 million.

Apple believes that the shortcut software itself created by Lin Hui is worth US$30 million, the software creativity is US$20 million, and the software market compensation is US$10 million.

Can creativity still be sold for money?

Creativity does sell money.

But under normal circumstances, abstract "creative ideas" are rarely sold separately.

Generally, products based on creativity are sold.

Isn’t software the embodiment of creativity?

What does it mean to separate “creativity”?

Wait, saying that software is the embodiment of creativity seems to be an overstatement.

After all, some software has no creativity at all.

After thinking about it carefully, Lin Hui felt more and more that it was reasonable to measure the value of "software" and "creativity" separately.

And this approach can also avoid some potential disputes.

After all, in reality, the actual developers of some software and the creators of the software are two different groups of people.

In previous lives involving such disputes, the role played by software creators was often buried.

After some ferrying, Lin Hui discovered that this was not Apple's unique rule.

This time and space is common for measuring the value of "software" and "ideas" separately.

There are even websites dedicated to selling "creative ideas" in this time and space.

Of course, the so-called selling of “creative ideas” here refers to the selling of “original creative ideas”.

After learning about this situation, Lin Hui suddenly seemed to have opened the door to a new world.

I have to say that this simply provides Lin Hui with a brand new means of monetization.

When ideas can be sold, doesn't it mean that Lin Hui can monetize some projects that are inconvenient for him to directly sell ideas?

Moreover, Lin Hui noticed that many creative ideas can be sold anonymously.

This was undoubtedly very attractive to Lin Hui, so Lin Hui silently wrote it down.

It involves the software shortcut commands.

If Lin Hui chooses to sell his creativity.

That means after signing the corresponding contract.

The idea of ​​the shortcut software is no longer owned by Lin Hui, but by Apple.

Lin Hui is not allowed to claim that he came up with the idea of ​​the Shortcut Command software in various public occasions.

Lin Hui thought it was nothing. The idea of ​​the shortcut command software was not originally his idea.

Lin Hui just made a cameo appearance as a porter from another time and space.

Even selling the idea would not be difficult for Lin Hui to accept.

Despite what he thought in his heart, Lin Hui still looked calm when facing the staff sent by Apple to contact Lin Hui.

The two sides have gone through several rounds of tug-of-war, and Apple's rhetoric is a little different each time.

But the core content of Lin Hui's expression has never changed.

Thousands of words condensed into one sentence:

——The shortcut command software is my hard work! Need more money! !