I Am A Trilionaire - Chapter 4

In the evening, Roger Nicholas hosted a banquet for Henry, inviting friends and neighbors to attend.

“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, everyone welcome to this banquet! Now, I will introduce someone with a happy heart to you!” Roger Nicholas said after a pause, pointing to Henry standing beside him, “He is Henry Williams my grandson !!!”

Happiness! ! !

The crowd applauded happily to celebrate Roger Nicholas’ reunion.

Roger Nicholas raised his hand to signal everyone to stop, and Lawyer Will handed him a pair of documents. Roger Nicholas held up the document and declared loudly, “Today I have made a will. After my death, all property will be inherited by Henry Williams !!!”

“Grandfather!” Henry couldn’t help feeling shocked when he heard this, his mouth was slightly open, and he was silent for a few moments.

Roger Nicholas touched Henry’s head and smiled: “Good boy, that was all the grandfather’s fault before. If grandfather didn’t drive your mother away, you wouldn’t suffer so much disaster!” The old man said, Roger Nicholas sighed, “Now Grandfather wants to redeem you …”

“It’s not Grandfather’s fault, it’s God’s test on us. After the storm there will be a beautiful rainbow!”

Roger Nicholas smiled and said, “Haha, yes, this is God’s test for us!”

When the guests around him saw Henry speak very well, they could only nod their heads and praise him for his extraordinary intelligence!

Roger Nicholas immediately announced the start of the banquet.

In addition to introducing Henry to others, Roger Nicholas had another purpose for holding this banquet. He knows that his grandson has written a novel, but he is often frustrated in his publishing problems. As the owner of a famous bookstore in California, I certainly know a lot of publishers. Therefore, he deliberately invited several senior executives in the American publishing industry to attend tonight, and planned to introduce his grandson Henry to a banquet.

Henry met many people at a banquet. What surprised him most was that the neighbors who lived next to him were actually Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, the teacher couple from Stanford. when the man was known as a senior network engineer, it was impossible for him not to know the founder of Cisco (even though he only heard his name but not his appearance). Henry admires her and starts talking to both of them.

At the moment, Roger Nicholas is holding a copy of a manuscript of the novel for review by ten publishers.

“Roger, we are old friends too. This book is still immature and cannot be published by our publishers.”

“Yes, Roger, this book is really not good.”

“The contents of the novel are not very good and have no art.”

“…”

Roger Nicholas’s face was rather ugly: “Everyone, you should know that the writer who wrote this book is only ten years old now! I think, if published, this would be a very good trick, right? !!!”

Everyone hesitated, but there was no rejection.

After dinner, Bossacks said goodbye to Roger Nicholas and praised Henry: “Mr. Nicholas, your grandson has a talent for computer learning, he is the smartest child I have ever seen!”

“Thank you for your complement!” Seeing them compliment their grandchildren, Roger Nicholas was very happy and responded with a smile on his face.

Henry said, “Grandfather, I want to ask Uncle Bossack to be my teacher in learning computers. Will you allow it?”

Roger Nicholas smiled and said, “Of course I’m fine. I just don’t know if Mr. Bossack agrees?”

Leonard Bossack happily said: “Of course it doesn’t matter, I’m very happy to accept a genius as a student !!!”

Henry is very excited, thinking about when was Cisco established? Uh, looks like it’s the end of this year …

In the evening, Roger Nicholas told Henry that he had shown the manuscript to ten publishers, and it was possible that several publishers were willing to publish the book.

Henry hugs the old man and thanks him, “Thank you, Grandfather!”

The old man smiled with a friendly look.

The next day, Henry goes to Bossack’s house with some presents. For Henry’s arrival, the Posack family welcomed him.

Bossacs and his wife teach at Stanford, so naturally they did not have much time to teach Henry. So Bossack gave Henry a basic lesson in computer knowledge, and then gave him several books for him to study on his own. A few days later, Bossack was shocked, he asked a question to test Henry, but he did not expect Henry to answer correctly. There is some advanced content involved, and Henry can also answer it not bad. Bossacks must evaluate Henry is a genius. For this reason, Bossack teaches more carefully. Henry even sleeps at Boss’s house at night.

But during this period, good things happened repeatedly.

Finally the publisher wants to publish Henry’s novel. This publishing house is called West Germany Publisher House. Although it is not too large and has only a few influences in western countries, for Henry, this is the first step to success. Furthermore, Henry negotiated with the publisher, because Henry always insisted that he could only authorize the publishing rights of novels from West Germany House Publishing in the United States, and that was only the first book in the Harry Potter series, he only received 6% of royalties. .

One or two weeks later, almost in mid-October, the West German Publisher House released 10,000 copies of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, each valued at $ 10. Initially, the market reaction was mediocre. However, a month later, the book “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” suddenly became popular. The main reason is that many children love this book.

Because of the fire, the publisher immediately printed 20,000 copies of Harry Potter, but immediately sold out. The West German Publisher Home must keep printing!

“Los Angeles Times”, “New York Times”, “Washington Post” and other major newspapers have reported this problem. Ten-year-old best-selling author Henry Williamson gained fame! Many journalists follow up on interviews and try to dig up information directly.

People are afraid to become famous suddenly, the weak are afraid to be strong, or become famous all of a sudden, Henry has deep feelings about both. It is very difficult to have both to become famous without being harassed by the outside world. But being famous is a real benefit, at least novels sell better. The West German Publisher House quickly adjusted Henry’s royalties from 6% to 10%.

The West German Publisher House is calculating the continued collaboration with Henry in the future, otherwise the second book “Harry Potter” will likely go to his house. The “Harry Potter” series clearly has well-known potential, which means that the West German Publisher House can make more money, and at the same time, the West German Publishing House can rely on the influence of “Harry Potter” to develop and grow stronger and increase its publishing capacity, the benefits it can get are far more than the money obtained from a book! ! !

In late November, the Bossack family resigned. When Henry heard the news, his heart pounded, because he knew that the future internet giant would be born soon.

Three days later.

“Henry, Aunt Lerner and I will start a high-tech company,” Bossack said that night.

Years later, Henry still remembered vividly that night, the sky was filled with stars, and the moon was like water, but there were ripples in his heart. When he left that night, he said a word to Bossack, which Henry had forgotten to this day: “Teacher Bossack, let’s create a very big company together !!!”

The post nodded and agreed to Henry’s request.

So Henry returned home happily.

“Grandfather, Mr. Boss is going to start a company, and I want to become a partner with him,” Henry immediately told him about his important decision after meeting Roger Nicholas.

Roger Nicholas stood up and pondered for a moment, weighing the pros and cons, and then he asked a few questions about the start of the company. Henry might know what kind of company Cisco is better than Possack now, so he gave Grandfather a detailed analysis of the company’s development prospects, talking about routers, talking about the Internet and so on. But in the end, Henry’s grandfather looked very confused when he listened, but his face became more and more smiling. Because he found that his grandson was very interested in starting a company, and he had obviously considered a lot of things. With this enthusiasm, he must support himself, even if the losses that come are not in vain!

“Henry, grandfather supports you!” Roger Nicholas smiled kindly.

Yay! ! !

Henry is very happy, with the support of his grandfather, funding is not a problem. Henry is now out of money, and the manuscript costs are settled once a quarter. For Henry to get money, he must wait until March next year.

“Grandfather, can you lend me a million dollars first and return it to you when I make a profit!” Henry looked at Roger Nicholas hopefully.

“No need to pay it back, your grandfather’s money !!!” Roger Nicholas lightly patted Henry’s head and smiled.

Henry touched his head and smiled shyly at his grandfather, but still insisted on his decision: “Grandfather, this is not a matter of money or not, but a matter of principle. I want to rely on my own ability to start a business to achieve success. Grandpa doesn’t want me to be someone I wasteful because spoiled by grandfather, right? ”

“Very nice !!!” Roger Nicholas was very happy when he heard this.

Henry immediately wrote IOU, and then handed it to Grandfather: “This is my IOU. I will pay you back next year when contribution fees are received !!!”

“Okay!” Roger Nicholas accepted IOU Henry with a smile, and watched IOU read “On the night of December 3, 1984, Henry Williams borrowed one million US dollars from his favorite grandfather, Mr. Roger Nicholas.”

Roger Nicholas collects IOU as he pleases, he does not plan to make Henry pay it back. But this simple IOU worth $ 10 million a few years later will shock the world! ! ! After Roger Nicholas received his IOU, he wrote a check to Henry. Even though Henry was only ten years old, he was very reasonable, and Roger gave him a check with confidence.

The next day, Henry brings a check to Mr. Bosack’s house.

“Ms. Bossack, what is your initial capital for the company?” Henry asked.

“Two hundred fifty thousand dollars,” Bosak said. Americans like to spend money up front, so the average person doesn’t have a lot of savings. The Possacks have three cars worth three to four hundred thousand dollars, and their villa is worth more than one million dollars. By the way, Bossacks is still a rich man.

But two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is a drop in a bucket to start a high-tech company. Historically, Bosak took a villa mortgage. Then, he immediately received financing from Sequoia Capital, and the company expanded.

“Teacher Bossack, I borrowed one million dollars from my grandfather at the cost of the contribution next year!” Said Henry, and issued a check.

Both Bosack and Lerner were astonished, and they did not expect that he could bring lots of money at once.

“Bossack Master, I invested a million dollars. What if we each owned 50% of the shares?” Henry looks at Bossack and Lerner. He was a little nervous, worried he had too much stock. Both of them disagree. Who knows, Bossack shakes his head and says, “No, you have to be the biggest shareholder with so much money you invested. We only need 40% and let you have 60%.”

Henry was immediately stunned.

Honest, true and sincere! No wonder this couple will sell Cisco at a low price in the future! Well, even though I am taking advantage of that now, but with me, I will not let you repeat the same mistakes, and you can be considered a global rich person in the future.

Henry agreed to the method of distribution of these shares.

Within the next few days, Bossack, Lerner, and Henry went to register a company. Bossack prefers to call the company “San Francisco”, but the law does not allow the company to be registered in the name of the city, so the last five letters of SanFrancisco-cisco, Cisco!