Jingle Bell! ! !
Early Saturday morning, the doorbell rang.
When Steve Gary Wozniak's mother heard the bell, she put down her work and went to open the door.
"Hello, who are you looking for?"
At first sight, it was a raw face, and it was a yellow race, Wozniak's mother couldn't help but ask in doubt.
Li Zetian replied with a smile: "Hello, my name is Chronos Lee, I'm looking for Steve Gary Wozniak!"
"Please come in!"
"thanks!"
Wozniak's mother took Li Zetian to the living room, and then shouted loudly upstairs: "Steve, someone is looking for you!"
After a while, the tech god Steve Gary Wozniak appeared.
It was just his appearance that surprised Li Zetian. He was disheveled, with long hair and a big beard. He was completely dressed like a hippie nowadays.
However, it doesn't matter how you look, it's not a beauty pageant, it's just a matter of skill!
Li Zetian stood up from the chair with a warm smile on his face, and greeted him: "Hello, Wozniak, I'm Chronos·Lee, an employee of Atari Corporation, I heard there that you are A very good electrical engineer, so came to visit!"
Wozniak looked surprised, "Hello, please take a seat!"
"Are you looking for me?" he asked.
Li Zetian nodded and said straight to the point: "Actually, I came to you to invite you to work in my company!"
First of all, Wozniak didn't know Li Zetian; secondly, he worked well at Hewlett-Packard Company, and the treatment was good, so he was not willing to leave. So he refused: "Sorry..."
"Please don't refuse first, wait for me to finish, then you can make a decision!!!" Li Zetian interrupted directly, "I am going to develop a personal computer that every family can afford, and I need your help. , Wozniak, if you can come to my company, although the salary cannot be compared with HP, I can give you 10% of the shares!" Li Zetian looked into his eyes very sincerely and said.
Regarding the development and future of personal computers, Wozniak discussed with others in the computer club a lot, but what Li Zetian said could not impress him.
"What's the name of your company and how big is it?"
"The company is still being registered and its name is Apple Inc.,"
As for the scale, it is even more embarrassing. Li Zetian is still a bachelor commander, so he is too embarrassed to say it.
Hearing this, Wozniak was stunned for a while, thinking that such a company is too unreliable, not to mention giving 10% of the shares, even giving 20% of the shares is a bunch of useless numbers!
"Sorry, Chronos, thank you very much for your invitation, but I'm very happy working at Hewlett-Packard now and don't plan to quit!"
Wozniak stood up and made an appearance of seeing off a guest.
"You can think about it carefully, what we have done is a great and creative thing, and it will become a milestone in the history of computer development!!!" Li Zetian also stood up at this time and said slowly, " I will visit you again in the future, and I hope you will agree to my invitation!"
Li Zetian said goodbye and left the Wozniak house immediately.
As soon as Li Zetian left, Wozniak's mother said to her son, "Steve, that man just looked like a liar, you can't be stupid, give up your HP job, and follow him to start a business!"
"Of course not, mother, haven't I rejected him?"
"But he still doesn't give up and will definitely come again!"
Indeed, Li Zetian came to visit Wozniak again at 7 o'clock in the evening.
At this time, Wozniak's parents did not look good on him.
Li Zetian looked at Wozniak and asked, "Wozniak, how are you thinking? Do you want to stay at Hewlett-Packard for the rest of your life to be an ordinary engineer, or would you like to create a great company with me? A new era!!!"
"I'm sorry, Chronos, my whole family doesn't support me going to your company! And please don't try to persuade me again, I won't leave HP!"
When Li Zetian heard the words, his heart felt like a lightning strike. He came to California this time to poach Wozniak. But my own temple is small, and I can't ask the Great God at all.
Li Zetian left angrily, but he did not give up his determination to develop personal computers!
"Since Wozniak can't be invited, then I'll do it myself!!!"
A week later, Apple was successfully registered in California, still a subsidiary established in the name of Umbrella, and a wholly owned subsidiary.
Later, Li Zetian quit his job at Atari and prepared to concentrate on developing Apple.
He began to look for a suitable place as an office in San Jose, but the rent was too expensive, which discouraged Li Zetian. So, Li Zetian asked the rental agency company if anyone would like to take a taxi. I never thought that there are really many taxi garages for house owners.
In fact, American garage culture has a long history, Disney garage, Hewlett-Packard garage, Henry Ford garage, etc. Of course, it also includes Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon...
Li Zetian successfully rented a very spacious garage for $300 per month. The owner of the house is also a Chinese, called Tian Shuai, very young, about 30 years old.
Through the chat, Li Zetian learned that he was a top student at Stanford University and obtained an MBA degree. After graduation, he entered the American Enron Corporation, one of the largest energy, commodity and service companies in the world. Four years later, he became a Senior administrator. However, a week ago, he offered to resign!
In just 4 years, a Chinese can be a senior administrator in a Fortune 500 company as big as Enron, which is enough to show that he has outstanding ability and a promising future, but why did he suddenly offer to resign
This has to be very confusing.
Although he did not say why he voluntarily resigned, his words were full of dissatisfaction and disdain for Enron.
Li Zetian had heard a little about Enron, but it all happened in 2001. In this year, Enron suddenly applied for bankruptcy protection in the New York Bankruptcy Court. This case became the second largest bankruptcy case in American history, but it really made Enron became famous all over the world, but it was the financial fraud scandal that made this company with hundreds of billions of assets go bankrupt in a few weeks!
Li Zetian secretly guessed that Tian Shuai might have more exposure to the company after he was promoted to a senior administrator. When he found out that Enron was secretly making false accounts and high-level corruption, he was unwilling to join forces, so he offered to resign. If this is the case, then Tian Shuai's character and talent are combined, and he is a rare talent!
Li Zetian has been looking for a trustworthy and capable person to manage Zhetian Company for him!
Li Zetian wants to develop Zhetian Company into a family office!
Family offices are very unfamiliar to many people, because only the world's top rich families will have family offices! ! !
The word family office first originated from the big "Domus" (family supervisor) in ancient Rome and the big "Domo" (chief steward) in the Middle Ages. The family office in the modern sense appeared in the middle of the 19th century, and some people seized the opportunity of the industrial revolution. The Tycoon brings together financial experts, legal experts and financial experts to study how to manage and protect their family's wealth and broad business interests. In this way, there is a single-family office (Single-Family-Office, SFO) that serves only one family. In 1882, John D. Rockefeller established the world's first family office, and more and more overseas top rich families have also adopted this model to manage their wealth, such as Morgan, Murdoch, Bill Gates, Hilton. , Li Ka-shing, etc. When China develops, more and more people in the mainland also choose to preserve and inherit their wealth through family offices, such as SOHO China Pan Shiyi, Longfor Real Estate Wu Yajun, Nine Dragons Paper Zhang Yin, etc.
However, Li Zetian was not completely at ease with Tian Shuai, and will conduct a long-term inspection of him in the future.
"If he can be a good CEO of Apple, maybe he can manage the company for himself..." Li Zetian looked at Tian Shuai, and suddenly had the idea of pulling him to Apple!
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