Not long after, Bobby came out, changed into casual clothes: "Would you like something to drink? I have coffee here, but it's instant."
Luke: "No, let's sit down and talk."
After the two sat down on the sofa in the living room, Luke got straight to the point: "I'm back from a business trip. I'll arrange a formal job for you while I have some free time today."
As he spoke, he pulled out a stack of documents from his backpack and said, "You can take your time to look at these later. I can tell you what they are. These are the patent documents I applied for. As for what the patents are, look at this."
Luke took out a mobile phone. Although it was still a feature phone, he had enlarged the screen. After all, this was a test product for display, so there was nothing wrong with a larger size.
He opened a software and motioned Bobby to come over and take a look.
Bobby watched him operate it for a moment, and asked uncertainly: "Is this a map?"
Luke nodded. "Yes. With the GPS positioning function of the mobile phone, this can be used as a national or even world map. The prerequisite is that there is enough map data stored in the mobile phone."
Bobby was confused: "What's the use of this?"
Luke hummed and said, "Sell it to Google, but I'm too lazy to make this thing, so just sell it for the money."
Bobby: "Google... I think it's a search engine? They want that?"
Luke haha, briefly explained the usefulness of this navigation map for Google.
Bobby nodded to show that he understood: "So, what's the price?"
Luke thought for a moment and said, "If we want to buy it out, the bottom line should be 500 million US dollars, to make it an even number."
Bobby: … What the hell, did you say an extra zero
Of course, there was a reason why Luke said this.
In his previous life, he casually read some reports on Google's mergers and acquisitions. Although he didn't care about Google, he was also surprised by the huge amount of money involved in those acquisitions.
Among them, Google acquired Motorola Mobility for US$12.5 billion in the previous life, and sold it to China's Lenovo for US$2.9 billion a few years later. This is why he knew that Google was willing to spend money. (Note: However, Google retained a large number of Motorola's patented technologies)
Luke didn't know how much money Google spent on the navigation map app.
But given Google's deep pockets and the broad prospects for maps after the advent of smartphones, it's not an exaggeration to ask for 500 million US dollars.
If it doesn't work, then it doesn't work.
At most, you can come up with some other technologies of little value and sell them.
Before, Luke knew the development trends of many things, but he lacked the necessary ability and funds, so he could not make a fortune.
Now that he has purchased Tony Stark's four basic abilities, it shouldn't be easy for him to make some money.
Sell this technology first to see if we can raise enough funds at one time.
Five hundred million US dollars is enough for Luke to spend for a long time.
He is not Tony Stark, so his need for technology is not that high, and he doesn't need to spend money as fast.
Luke kept the phone and the program and let Bobby use them for demonstration, and took out another $10,000 as travel expenses for the next few months.
Is giving cash illegal? That’s right.
Luke kept Bobby not really expecting him to be a good public relations manager, but he just wanted to make good use of him because he had too much free time.
He even encouraged Bobby to think about how much money he could get from selling navigation map technology for 500 million U.S. dollars. That would be 5 million U.S. dollars.
With this money, Bobby can instantly transform from an ordinary person with an annual salary of $100,000 into a wealthy person.
Of course Bobby could only smile bitterly: That would require the navigation map technology to sell for 500 million!
But with this hope, it would be a lie to say that I am not tempted.
Although Bobby didn't believe it, he still had some expectations. 500 million US dollars was too much, but 100 million US dollars was just a drop in the bucket for Google.
Luke is not afraid of companies like Google messing around, because the patented technology is there!
In order to form a basic patent technology barrier with a large number of patented technologies, he spent nearly $100,000 just on patent registration fees, and the law firm he commissioned also earned tens of thousands of dollars.
Therefore, the villa where Luke lives now has been mortgaged.
Google is only planning for the long term, a lucrative business, and it is easy for it to temporarily loosen up its finances.
For example, it seems like he has an uncle in Las Vegas.
California and Nevada are adjacent to each other, and Los Angeles is only 430 kilometers away from Las Vegas, which takes only 4 hours by car and one hour by plane.
However, there was still a lot of money from the mortgage, so Luke was not in a hurry.
It was already noon, and Luke drove to USC.
The further south you go from USC, the worse the public security becomes, with gangs everywhere and countless crimes.
After driving around for a while and having lunch at a fast food restaurant, Luke left here and returned home at four in the afternoon.
The place he was looking at was not a secret. It was just a gathering point for the WD-36 gang. Members of this gang liked to tattoo the number WD or 36 on their bodies. The main business of this gang was illegal drugs.
The reason why Luke tracked them down was simple, because they were the sellers of weeds provided to Miss Ginny.
How did Miss Ginny, who lives in Beverly Hills, find this gang of traffickers? The reason is even simpler, because she is a student at the University of Southern California.
She is very rich and has security protection, so she dares to let the gangs here deliver the goods to her door.
Luke had already obtained basic information about the WD-36 gang from Dustin and Elsa during the last Katie murder case. Combined with his own investigation, he had roughly figured out the scope of the gang's activities.
Now that he has storage space, he can do a lot of things.
After returning home, he opened the refrigerator and looked for ingredients first.
There were indeed no ingredients for breakfast, but there were plenty of ingredients for dinner in the refrigerator, and Selena would not eat these raw meats.
The seasoning was also left untouched, so the main course for dinner was ready.
He dug out a seldom-used barbecue grill, moved it to the back yard, and put several large pieces of meat on it.
This kind of American country barbecue can be stewed for five or six hours. In order to save time, he deliberately cuts the meat into smaller pieces. It is better to forget the practice of just throwing five or ten kilograms of meat in to grill.
After finishing this, Luke started to surf the Internet to check flights to Las Vegas, calculate the round-trip itinerary, and see how to maximize the use of time.
Then look for big hotels in Las Vegas, those with entertainment halls, and those with good reputations.
Not only can these hotels afford his losses, but they can also ensure that he won't be targeted for no apparent reason after winning a large sum of money. There are many desperate people who will take risks for money there.
There are also such entertainment venues in downtown Los Angeles, but Luke is a policeman here.
But in Las Vegas he is just a civilian, and no matter how much money he wins there, it is legal.