Chapter 38
Bao Zixuan takes classes seriously every day at MIT. With his previous life experience and thesis bonus, his popularity is getting higher and higher. Even many girls have the idea of dating him. But he has no time, except for classes, he spends all his time writing black cloud office software. With his unremitting efforts, the black cloud version of word and excel can finally be deduced into the market.
Bao Zixuan arranged for Larry Brown to apply for a patent at the same time as the research and development was successful. If Microsoft wants to use it in the future, it will be embarrassing. Bao Zixuan priced both software at $50. It's $80 when customers order two bundled together. After Bao Zixuan's personal programming and the continuous testing and optimization of the company's software department, the word and excel can reach the level of 90 years after the market, and there is no problem in commercial use.
Thanks to the success of the last dealer conference, the Black Cloud North America branch is now quite famous, so it has recruited a lot of computer elites to join, including employees who have worked part-time at Apple and Microsoft. Bao Zixuan called on him. Hashimoto Hiroshi took the following software engineers to Apple and Microsoft respectively.
In the past, Hashimoto Hiroshi and others were just for the pre-war. Their purpose was to make these two companies interested in software. The real purpose was that Bao Zixuan wanted the original shares of these two companies.
Hashimoto Hiroshi first came to Apple in California, and came to Jobs' office after being introduced by his subordinates. At this time, Apple has just launched the second-generation computer for less than half a year, but it is also said that it is basically impossible to get Apple's original shares later. Hashimoto Hiroshi wondered why the boss valued this company so much. Nothing here!
Under the operation of the engineer, after seeing the good performance of the Heiyun office software on Apple's second-generation computer, Jobs thought that these two software must be implanted into Apple's computer, so that there will be a large number of enterprise orders. . Apple Computers is not just a toy like people say.
Jobs: "Black Cloud's software performance is pretty good, but I don't know how to sell it at the price."
Hashimoto Hiroshi: "The price is $50 each, and the package price of two is $80."
Jobs: "This price is too expensive. I don't know how much it will cost Apple to install these two softwares when it is installed."
Hashimoto Hiroshi: "The authorization given to me by our president is $65."
Jobs: "That's still too expensive, so our profits are too low."
Hashimoto Hiroshi: "There is another solution, that is, our Black Cloud Company invests in Apple. We have the software, capital and huge Asian market you need. If Mr. Jobs agrees, our president will come to California with Apple. Negotiations, or you can go to Black Cloud in Boston, that's not a problem."
Jobs: "I don't know what your company's valuation is for Apple. I want to convince my partner."
Hashimoto Hiroshi: "$10 million."
Jobs: "Okay, I see. My partner and I will contact you after communicating. I wonder if these two softwares can stay and let us test their performance in detail."
Hashimoto Hiroshi: "Of course, this life is for Apple."
After the first round of negotiations between Hashimoto Hiroshi and Apple was completed, when he was about to go to Microsoft in Seattle, Black Cloud software has been quietly listed in the computer market, but the scale is not very large now, and the popularity of computers in this era is still Not that widespread, so it didn't make much of a splash.
But within MIT, Bao Zixuan's plan was to be recognized by the college's computer science major. Bao Zixuan, who was already a celebrity in the academy, quickly passed Joseph Kane and took the Black Cloud Office software to the Computer Department for system testing. The result of the test was that Professor Harry Roland from the Computer Department asked Joseph to bring Bao Zixuan directly to him. 's laboratory.
Professor Harry Rowland is 56 years old and participated in the development of the world's first computer, although only as a student at that time. But it has a lofty status in the entire computer industry.
Bao Zixuan came to the computer lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Looking at this great figure who could be ranked in the top 20 in computer history, he felt a little dazed for a while.
Harry-Roland: "Hello, young man, I have heard of your deeds. You are already at the forefront of this era in modern theoretical mechanical physics. The computer software has such a solid foundation. The two business software you have written can solve the financial calculation and storage of modern companies very well. It is no exaggeration to say that your two software can save at least 100 million tons a year on the earth. Paper. You are planting 700 million trees for the earth every year and saving 10 billion cubic meters of water every year, which is a matter for the benefit of all mankind. I am happy that such a great software was born at MIT At the same time, I feel sad that the students who write such excellent software are studying mechanical manufacturing, not computer majors. It seems that the computer major of the college will recruit more outstanding young people to come!"
Bao Zixuan never thought that a small piece of software could be so highly regarded by Professor Harry Rowland. Rise to the height of benefiting mankind, this is the thinking of MIT! If you are modest, you still have to say modestly: "You have passed the prize, I didn't think so much."
Harry-Rowland: "I would like to recommend your software to the American Computer Society for certification, but I have a question. As far as I know, you have never studied systematic financial knowledge. How did you come up with the idea of writing financial office software? I have to know why you created this great piece of software."
Bao Zixuan: "Because of my mother, Professor Roland, I grew up in a Hong Kong child in a single-parent family. My father passed away before I was born. Since I was a child, only my mother raised me, and I have no other relatives. , My mother is a professional accountant. He could have gone to work in a big company, but in order to take better care of me, he chose to undertake accounting and tax issues for more than a dozen small companies at home. The company is not very standardized, they often send the account books at night, and the account must be checked and handed over to them tomorrow~www.mtlnovel.com~ For this reason, my mother often settles accounts late at night, sometimes even overnight. When I first saw that computers could do calculations, my dream was that computers could be used to program programs so that more people like my mother would never have to work until late."
Joseph Kane did not expect this usually optimistic big boy to have such a tragic childhood, and he was not knocked down by difficulties, but did his best through his own efforts.
Americans like heroes, especially the story of a mother who was willing to give up many opportunities for her son and just cultivate her son into a talent.
Harry-Roland: "I understand why you can write such excellent software. You have a dedication to doing things, and at the same time you have a great mother. Can you ask what your mother is doing now!"
Bao Zixuan: "She used my father's insurance compensation and the money she made over the years to open a pastry shop. Now I don't want him to work too hard, because I also opened my own company in Xiangjiang. The company's benefits are very good at present. , but she is not a person who can relax, and basically goes to the store to see it every day."
Harry-Roland: "I think of the black cloud icon on the software. I didn't expect that the game my grandson likes to play was actually developed by you." Hahahaha
Bao Zixuan: "It's true that I founded the Black Cloud Games Company, but I didn't expect your grandson to like it."
Harry-Roland: "Bao, I will recommend your software to the Computer Society, and I also hope that you will study for my PhD in computer science. Computers cannot go far with software alone."
Bao Zixuan: "I will seriously consider it, Professor."
After the two chatted for a while, Bao Zixuan left the Harry-Roland laboratory.