Although Apple doesn't have much money, in order to recruit talents for the Mac Lab, Li Zetian did not hesitate to extend evil hands to DEC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Xerox and many others, poaching people with high salaries! Meanwhile, head to Stanford to recruit a group of young computer students!
In addition, the Apple-l project is about to begin preparations.
With the growing scale of Apple, Li Zetian had to manage Microsoft again, and he was at a loss for a while. At this time, he thought of Tian Shuai and wanted to invite him to be the CEO of Apple.
On the evening of December 1, Li Zetian personally visited Tian Shuai at his house.
After the door opened, Tian Shuai saw that it was Li Zetian, and his expression was very surprised.
"Chronos, why are you here?!"
"Hehe, won't you invite me in for a cup of coffee?" Li Zetian laughed.
"come in!"
Tian Shuai invited Li Zetian into the house and then came to the living room.
"You sit first, I'll make a cup of coffee."
"OK, thanks!"
After a while, the coffee was brewed.
Li Zetian took the coffee, took a sip, then looked at Tian Shuai and said, "Let's get straight to the point, the purpose of my visit this time is to invite you to be the CEO of Apple!!!"
Tian Shuai has just been promoted to the general manager of Exxon Production Research, a subsidiary of Exxon Corporation in the United States. He has a bright future. Li Zetian called him to change jobs at this time, naturally very hesitant.
Although Apple sold nearly 3,000 Apple-Ls, total sales totaled less than $6 million.
And Exxon is an international company with sales of billions of dollars!
Comparing Apple and Exxon, they are nothing short of nothing!
Seeing his hesitation, Li Zetian couldn't help asking, "Tian Shuai, do you want to sell oil for the rest of your life, or do you want to follow me to change the world?"
Tian Shuai was shocked when he heard this!
He was silent for a while, then slowly raised his head to look at Li Zetian, and said in a very firm tone: "Mr.li, I have decided to join Apple!!!"
Hearing this, Li Zetian showed a smile, stretched out his right hand, and said, "Welcome to join!!!"
So three days later, Tian Shuai resigned from Exxon Production Research and officially joined Apple as CEO.
Immediately afterwards, Li Zetian established a board of directors and served as chairman. Zhang Yan, Tian Shuai, Steve Jobs, and Steve Gary Wozniak were all executive directors of the board.
As soon as Tian Shuai took office, he took advantage of what he had learned and advanced management experience in Fortune 500 companies to make drastic improvements to Apple, making Apple more formalized and more like an international company! !
After half a month, Apple has a new look, and each department operates freely and performs its own duties.
The financial director, personnel director, etc. have all invited professionals to serve, and Li Zetian only serves as the chief engineer of Apple.
At this time, Mac Labs recruited a total of 35 people, all of whom are elite talents.
Li Zetian felt that people were almost enough and decided to develop a Mac computer.
On December 20, Li Zetian asked the members of the Mac lab to sign a non-disclosure agreement and then held a meeting.
In the conference room, Li Zetian looked around the crowd and said loudly: "The purpose of Apple's establishment of the Mac laboratory is to hope that the Mac laboratory can become another 'weasel factory' and create the most advanced products for the company! Next, I will Let everyone know what the Mac Labs is going to do!"
puff!
The slide projector is on!
A design drawing appeared on the screen. It was the Macintosh computer launched by Apple in January 1984 in the previous life. However, the shape has been slightly changed. It is not square, but arcs with four corners, and the display screen is also larger. In addition, the mouse has two left and right click buttons and a wheel in the middle.
Li Zetian introduced: "This is the computer I designed the Mac! The main unit and the monitor are one piece, let alone the keyboard, everyone must be wondering what this thing is!" Li Zetian pointed at the mouse and said, "This is called a mouse. , is an indicator tool. Hold the mouse with the right hand to control its movement, and the left and right buttons can be used to click files and other functions. The middle wheel can move the page up and down. You must be very confused, what is the mouse used for? , it seems that the operating system we use doesn't need these things at all! Okay, next, let's look at the most important thing about the Mac computer - the graphical user operating system!!!"
After speaking, the slide projector flashed, and then, a new pattern appeared on the big screen, which was the interface of the graphical user operating system.
When they saw this interface, everyone cried out with a "wow"!
At this time, the slide projector is still playing new patterns all the time, showing the usage of a complete set of graphical interface operating systems!
During this process, everyone has been shocked!
When the slideshow was over, everyone still felt like they didn't know what to do!
"Okay, this is the Mac computer I designed!!!" Li Zetian said lightly.
When everyone heard the words, they fell into the ground for Li Zetian!
In the conference room, there was no sound for a long time, and everyone looked up at Li Zetian who was standing in front of the screen.
Oh god, what kind of genius did it take to design such a perfect product? ! ! !
Some female employees couldn't help admiring Li Zetian, and their eyes were full of this fiery infatuation.
Seeing that they were all in a daze, Li Zetian couldn't help but "cough" twice and said, "How do you feel?"
“Flawless!!!”
“Incomparable!!!”
"A computer that even God could not have designed!!!"
"… "
Li Zetian nodded with a smile, and said, "The Mac computer is good, but it is very difficult to develop it!"
Jobs stood up at this time and solemnly promised Li Zetian: "Mr.li, please rest assured, I firmly believe that we can definitely develop a Mac computer!!!" Such an excellent product is simply a great honor! ! !
"Yes, we will definitely develop the Mac computer!"
"… "
The members of Mac Labs echoed, everyone was full of excitement and fighting spirit!
Li Zetian nodded with satisfaction and announced, "Starting today, the Mac computer project is officially launched!"
clap clap clap! ! ! !
The crowd applauded vigorously!
The applause continued for a long time, and everyone's palms clapped without stopping.
Li Zetian smiled slightly, pretended to be forced, and announced the end of the meeting.
After leaving the Mac Labs, things are pretty much done at Apple. Li Zetian was about to leave for Harvard University. It's almost Christmas, and Bill Gates has not promised Li Zetian to join Microsoft. Therefore, Li Zetian decided to persuade him in person before the winter vacation at Harvard University! ! !
Without Bill Gates, Microsoft might have had a hard time getting on the big boat of IBM...
PS: There are very few recommendations today, and the small goals of the four chapters cannot be achieved.