I Am A Trilionaire - Chapter 20
“You have to read these documents first so you can understand the company’s situation.”
With a smile on Henry face, Henry asked Helen to sit down and hand over the company information file to him.
Helen nodded in response, and took the data file carefully.
Henry saw Helen sitting there in a controlled and calm state, so he said: “Your main job in the future is to help me organize my daily documents and remind me of some important things. By the way, your office is on the right side of my office Here. Now, you go to find information now, and we will go out for dinner later. ”
Helen looked to the right, and there was a small room with beautiful decorations with glass windows. Hearing Henry tell she to search for information, she immediately answered, then stood up and prepared to walk.
“Wait!”
Helen paused suddenly, turned and asked, “Chairman, is there anything else needed?”
“This is the cellphone the company gave you. Take it.” Henry handed over the cellphone, which is the latest Motorola model, for three to four thousand dollars. Henry does not have a cellphone, is not comfortable carrying it, he cannot keep it in his pocket and moreover such a cellphone he must hold in his hand at all times. Henry gives cellphone to he private driver if there is someone who wants to contact Henry, he will call his private driver. But it is not very convenient for he to give his driver a task like a secretary, fortunately, now a private secretary is there. If someone has something important let them call their secretary.
Helen was astonished. The company treated him very well because gave she a cellphone after she was hired!
“Thank you, Chairman.”
“Go ahead and get to know the company employees as soon as possible so you are comfortable here,” Henry finished speaking, looking at the file in hand.
This document is about preparing Global Online. Global Online has begun to take shape. The email development team, website development team, news and entertainment editorial department, plus a number of other jobs, recruited a total of 95 people.
Henry positioned the global online service to be an online service, and what could be better than a portal for online services? America Online only provides their service functions and has not yet developed into a portal site. In previous lives, AOL and Yahoo were the two biggest portals of the time.
Indeed, it is rather early to develop a portal today. First, there are fewer Internet users, and second, there are fewer websites. But this did not prevent Henry from turning the global online into a portal. Imagine, compared to portal websites, ordinary websites, who is more prominent and who is more popular among netizens? There is no doubt that it is a portal site, of course.
When the global online portal was built, this portal also provided various online service functions such as e-mail. It’s possible to press AOL!
However, to become a portal website, you need to know which websites have more traffic and are more popular to provide the most accurate service to users. Therefore, it is necessary to develop software to calculate the traffic of each website.
Alexa is a website dedicated to publishing the world ranking website in a previous life. They developed the AlexaToolbar software (Alexa toolbar), which is a tool that is embedded in Microsoft Internet Explorer. It sends a message to Alexa when a user visits each webpage. Return to the set of codes and tell Alexa relevant information about the search. Users will see website ranking information that is searched among all websites in the world on the tool bar.
Therefore, Global Online needs to develop software similar to the Alexa toolbar.
Therefore, before Global Online was officially launched, Henry began to instruct them to develop the Alexa software. After Henry talked to Geely Hutt, it was almost half past five. At this time, most of the company’s employees have stopped their work.
Henry saw that Helen was reading the information seriously, so he walked and shouted, “Helen, stop work now because it’s dinner time, let’s have dinner together.”
“Chairman, I … I can’t eat with you.”
“Why?”
“I have to go home to take care of my mother.”
Henry suddenly realizes how much he forgot about it!
“All right, then you go home first.”
“Thank you, Chairman.” Helen happily said, “Then I’ll go first!”
“Okay. Oh, wait a minute!”
Helen looked at Henry suspiciously.
At this time, Henry pulled out a pile of money from a drawer and handed it to she: “This is the company’s down payment one-third of your salary.”
“Chairman, thank you very much !!!” Helen took the money and cried.
Henry smiled and gave her a tissue: “In that case, you can work hard in the future, don’t let your boss down! Come on, wipe your tears quickly, or if seen by others. They will think I’m bluffing you!”
“Thank you, Chairman!”
“Hurry and go home, your mother might be waiting for you.”
Helen nodded, turned, and left, walking lightly, like a cheerful evergreen tree.
Henry said with a smile, “What a kind girl”
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The following week, Henry and Helen communicated better. Helen is a very hardworking and disciplined person. Although mistakes sometimes occur due to lack of experience, progress is remarkable.
From his conversation, Henry learned that she father left she mother and daughter in the early years and did not know where he was going. She mother worked hard to raise him, and eventually suffered a serious illness and lay in bed all day. Henry gave her an advance in salary of three thousand dollars, basically spent on medical care. She didn’t buy new clothes, cosmetics, or high heels, She was as kind-hearted as Cinderella in the countryside that was Henry’s impression when he first saw her.
However, Helen now had many smiles on her face, and at the same time she was more confident!
The end of 1987 was almost here, and the company had to pay taxes again. Henry thinks of Helen’s mother, and then thinks of tax evasion from charity in the United States. I think: Charity is better than paying taxes! Charity not only avoids taxes, but also gets fame, which has a huge impact on improving the company’s image!
Next, Henry asks Cisco to set up a charity fund. Although the annual financial report has not been released, Henry might estimate that Cisco sales this year exceed 100 million US dollars and must pay a lot of taxes. Henry discusses with Bossack and tells Sequoia Capital. Regardless of whether they agree or not, Henry and Bossack founded the Cisco Charity Foundation. Furthermore, Cisco donated 10 million US dollars.
Henry listed Helen’s mother as the first object of charity. For Henry, helping Helen’s mother was a trivial matter, but for Helen’s family, it was a big help!
Suddenly, Helen ran to Henry’s office crying. Henry saw her crying, was stunned for a moment, and quickly asked: “Why are you crying?”
“Chairman, my mother received help from a particular charity fund. I was so happy I cried,” Helen said excitedly. The documents Henry gave her were only information from the Nicholas Group and other Henry industries. He hasn’t read it yet, but he’ll read it soon!
“Well, because you are happy, you should smile more. Prepare yourself and call Geely Hutt for me.”
“Okay, Chairman.”
Not long after, Geely Hutt arrived.
Helen served a cup of coffee to Geely Hutt, and Geely Hutt took a sip of coffee and smiled: “Ms. Helen’s expertise in making coffee has increased every day.”
Helen blushed, and quickly stepped back.
Henry shook his head wordlessly. Geely Hurt always likes to tease her.
“Geely, when will Global Online be officially launched?”
Geely Hutt said: “Expected by January 1 next year.”
Henry counted it, and now it’s November, which is just over a month. Next, Henry and Geely Hutt discuss some specific problems that will be faced and the direction of future development.
In the afternoon, Henry’s office phone rings, this is a call from Bob Gallagher. For the Noah’s Ark Company, apart from company CEO Bob Gallagher. As for the specific details of the company, Henry did not know much about it. After all this time, there should be good news for web server development.
Henry was a little excited in he heart and hurriedly connected to the telephone, and Bob Gallagher’s strong voice with a hint of excitement came from the other end of the phone!
“Chairman, we have developed a web server !!!”
“Very good !!! You did a very good job!” Henry praised, “Alright, I’ll go now, I want to watch the world’s first web server with my own eyes!”
“Well!”
Henry hangs up and then shouts into Helen’s office: “Helen, let’s go now.”
“Okay, Chairman, I’m coming soon!”
After more than an hour by car, Henry arrived at Noah’s Ark Company. Bob Gallagher and some company management have been waiting for Henry outside.
“Welcome chairman!”
Henry nodded, and then under Bob Gallagher’s leadership, he visited the web server in the laboratory.
This web server is a mini computer, much bigger than an ordinary computer. A unix system is used, and the processor is an Intel 16-bit 8086 processor. The appearance of this server is mounted on a rack. As for blade servers, it cannot be used at this time due to lack of technology. Henry gradually understood the relevant functions of this web server under staff operations and explanations.
The first is that its reliability is greatly enhanced, and a website that uses a web server will not easily crash, secondly, it is easier to manage a website in the background through a web server, finally, it has certain “scalability”, such as a web server that cannot support web site. Large traffic, you can add a new web server to share the pressure!
This server is quite mature and can be brought to market.
Henry was very satisfied, praised everyone at the place, and then gave the name of the server.
“Call it Web Ark One!”
Thus, the name of the world’s first web server was born, and it was called Web Ark One! ! !
In the evening, Henry entertained everyone for dinner at the most expensive hotel in the area.
After the web server exits, the first user is the Nicholas Group Company. As Noah’s Ark’s main shareholder, Nicholas bought a server at an internal price. Bob Gallagher recommends that each web server sell for $ 100,000, an internal price of 60,000, and cost 50,000. The Nicholas Group bought five at a time. Cisco also bought it, but they need less and only buy one!