The Goddess Shines on America

Chapter 25: , The insidious and talented Alice

   "Just wait?"

With regard to Alice’s affirmative attitude, Cici glanced at her sideways, with a face of unquestionable contempt: "Do you think writing a novel is so easy? Of course, it would be easy to adapt Snow White. You want to do that. Why?"

   "A novel."

   However, Alice said calmly: "I can submit a manuscript of a novel to Bantam next weekend. The number of words has not been considered, but 100,000 words are no problem."

   "...you can make up."

   When an ordinary girl suddenly said such a thing, no one would believe it. Although Cici knew that Alice was smart, it was all in the computer field. Does it have anything to do with literature?

"Someone told me a minute ago that I hadn't even heard of Penguin Publishing Company. Now tell me that I want to write a novel of more than 100,000 words in a week? You should be more powerful and make up for three. How about a hundred thousand words?"

   "Do you think I can't do it?"

"can you do it?"

   Outside the door of Mansion No. 15, two young girls stopped here, staring at each other with round and round eyes, as if no one was convinced.

   "Hey, you two, it's time to go home!"

Finally, Sergey, who had been observing from a distance, couldn't help it. He left the police car in strides and walked towards Alice and the others: "Since the party is over, please go home quickly. Please also let me go to bed early. ?"

   Seeing that the person is Sergey, Alice retracted her eyeballs and grinned at him: "Thank you, police officer, have you found a serial murderer worthy of everyone's screams tonight?"

   In this sentence, Alice really used clever grammar to bring the name of a certain movie into her sentence. After all, the late-night party is indeed a good opportunity for characters such as Jason and Freddy to appear on the stage, isn't it?

   "Of course it's not there, so please be grateful. Alice, I know what you mean, "Moonlight Panic", right? Haha, go home and sleep!"

   First watched Alice enter the house, and then took the pains to send Cici back to Mansion No. 7, watching the girl walk back to the party, Sergey stood by the police car and sighed heartily.

   At the same time, Alice did go home honestly.

   But she didn't sleep honestly.

   wrote a novel, Cici's provocation really gave Alice infinite motivation.

   The mystery of the brain is difficult for human beings to explore even in a lifetime. No matter how smart a human is, how rich his knowledge is, and even his brain has been developed, even if he lives in a future world with extremely advanced biotechnology, he cannot thoroughly study his brain.

   After all, whether it's his own thinking or the aid of research equipment, isn't it the first step of the human brain?

   Almighty God, can he make a rock that he can't lift himself?

   As for the extent of her brain development, Alice herself is only an estimate, probably 20%.

   So for her, there is no difficulty in writing a work that she has read in her previous life.

   It can be said that even if it was just a walk in the previous life, the wind swept the leaves, as long as Alice wanted, she could recall all the details of the original, that is, the process of "how rheumatism blows the leaves". Although it was just a glimpse of a walk, it still occupies a negligible space in memory.

   But before she actually writes, she still has many things to consider.

   It was late at night, and after coaxing Hannah to go to bed, Alice sat alone at the writing desk, calculating for her current situation.

   "So, what's the situation now..."

   Looking at the Apple "Lisa" computer on the writing desk that looked like a microwave oven, Alice's brain started to move.

   A few years ago, for undoubted reasons, she spent a lot of effort to convince her parents to buy a large number of shares in Apple. At that time, she was only eight years old, which can be regarded as her first adventure in the market.

   After all, in today’s era without the Internet, in the days before the information explosion, she cannot fully understand whether the historical trajectory of this world is the same as that of the previous life. Apple’s stock is also considered an experiment.

   is also due to Alice's eloquence, and his parents are both middle and upper middle class with great foresight, and because James is still of Chinese descent, he has a lot of savings at home, and it happens to have spare money to trade in stocks.

   It turns out that her adventure is worthwhile. On December 12, 1980, local time in the United States, Apple was listed on the Nasdaq at 22 yuan per share. In less than an hour, 4.6 million U.S. dollars of shares were all sold out. The market closed at 29 U.S. dollars per share on the same day, and the market value reached 1.778 billion U.S. dollars.

   When James took advantage of the opening of the market, after buying a full 1,000 shares of Apple, the cost was only 22,000, and he made a net profit of 9,000 U.S. dollars that day!

"At present, the whole family earns 870,000 yuan from Apple stocks. If this money is cashed out, it will definitely be enough to set up a company. The Cisco system has just been established, but not much money is needed in a short period of time. After all, they are 86 It was only 2.5 million shares when I found a venture capital in the year, and it’s still early.

   Facing a company with a peak market value of nearly 500 billion U.S. dollars, Alice certainly has countless plans brewing in it, and at least half of this energy is actually used to pit the Bosacks.

   Faced with founders who would have been kicked out of her company in history, Alice was really not afraid of being condemned by her conscience when she set up a strategy for them!

"I found 73 venture capital firms in two years, and then I got the favor of Sequoia Capital. In two years, there are so many things that can happen. If you count it, Bossack found the 30th firm that should That is... in March next year, right?"

   As long as she thinks of what will happen in March next year, the corners of Alice's mouth can't help smiling.

   40% of the technology shares, this is indeed the price she and the Bossacks negotiated.

   But this is based on a gambling contract.

   That is, whether the couple can obtain financing from 30 venture capital companies.

   Anyone who knows Internet companies knows that almost all of the initial capital of such companies depends on venture capital, and the initial profits of the company alone cannot operate the project. One-third of the total amount of venture capital in the United States is concentrated in Silicon Valley. This phenomenon is not driven by humans, but an inevitable consequence of economic development!

   Thirty venture capitalists, if Bossack can't get financing by then, Alice will invest another 30% of the capital.

   is actually a very insidious move, although in the eyes of the couple, this bet seems to be a waste of paper.

   30 homes, how could I not find it! ?

   Most people would certainly think so, but after witnessing the details of Apple’s listing, Alice’s confidence in the betting is absolutely unparalleled.

   Sorry, you really can't find it. You will find more than seventy households at an average rate of ten days, before you get Mr. Don Valentine's 2.5 million US dollars in financing and his management team.

   After all, Silicon Valley was full of companies at the time. Just like Hollywood, companies were established every day, and companies went bankrupt every day. For a company registered in the living room of its founders that is not more than three or two people in size, venture capital firms would not waste money stupidly. What's more, the Bossacks are still clumsy scientific researchers?

  If Don Valentine hadn't looked down on Jobs' "Garage Company" and had lost the opportunity to invest in Apple, and had a long memory, he would never have financed Cisco!

   Thirty venture capitalists can't find it, so let me be an angel.

   So, for Alice who has a hundred confidence in the direction of history, this bet is really too trivial...

   "Really, the wheels of UU reading www.uukanshu.com history are starting to roll."

  As she thought of her heart, Alice slowly stood up, stood in front of her desk, and muttered to herself while looking at the bright moonlight outside the window.

"Since Cisco is registered in this way, its development and growth is reasonable. I am no longer just a small investor who earns hundreds of thousands of dollars from Apple stocks. A major event has already been made. What about the two?"

   In fact, the computer is still turned on, but it is not the Apple one, but the IBM machine using the DOS system. At this time, Microsoft has not yet developed the Office operating system, but if Bill Gates is asked to come to this bedroom now, he must be shocked.

The "Microsoft-office-word1984" on the screen is a completely unheard product. Although the first word is definitely Microsoft's registered name, it is correct, but with Gates' memory, he certainly knows that his company has not developed such a product at all. .

   word processing software!

   If Gates is allowed to come here at this time, operate Alice’s mouse, and perform a minimize operation, he will further collapse and find that a rudimentary window interface system has been built into the most basic shell!

   But at this time, Alice did not focus her eyes on the computer at all, she just looked at the ceiling and kept talking to herself.

"If you really let me write, you can indeed create many classic works in an instant. Although the market value of Apple and Cisco is far behind, this is an achievement in the literary world, two properties. Well, the wise investor Alice -Wang is also a personal personality writer?"

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