Quiet thoughts

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Debt, economic decline, immigration; hippies, anti-government, freedom.
At the end of the 1980s, a wave of change encompassed a country boy from the Rust Belt.
As the gate for upward mobility was on the verge of closing, he struggled to move forward.
College, Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship; HP, Apple, Microsoft.
To become part of the 1%, or even 0.1%, he sacrificed a lot, but also gained a lot.
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American History 1988

Palo Alto, in a common office building in Silicon Valley, one of the meeting rooms was a scene of bustling activity.


Durell, in a rush, made this anxious question the first thing he asked as he entered, making the nervous Mitch Kapur stop pacing.


"Oh, God, you're finally here!" Kapur tossed a stack of documents in front of Durell, "These are the speech materials I prepared."


Durell didn't even look at them before pushing them aside, "First tell me how much money you need to make that damn stylus notebook computer?"


Kapur and Kaplan exchanged looks, "Including development, production, and subsequent promotion, roughly around 5 million US dollars."


The moment they finished, the meeting room fell into a quiet so intense Kapur and Kaplan held their breath and sneakily glanced towards Durell.


However, against all odds, Durell didn't explode with rage, "What's the current valuation of Go Company?"


Chapter 188: Opponent or Teammate?