Quiet thoughts

```
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.
```

American History 1988

Although the board of directors had already decided to establish the consumer division and unanimously approved the request to set up the "Toktok" project,


the actual product might not be seen until next year, as the formation of the new division would take time, and even the simplest product development required a few months' cycle...


Taking all these factors into consideration, one year was already quite fast.


This was because Byte Company was young enough to make major decisions with astonishingly high efficiency.


A single board meeting essentially set the general direction, not to mention that Byte Company's scale was already aiming for tens of billions of US Dollars.


If this were IBM, just discussing this decision could take a year.


Dean planned to personally follow up on the consumer division matters later.


In the face of the internet wave surging towards them, Byte Company couldn't just defend its own patch of land.


Chapter 295: Poaching