I Am A Trilionaire - Chapter 5

The company is headquartered in San Jose, Silicon Valley, and Henry drives from the house to the company headquarters in about an hour.

On the day the company was founded, there were only three employees, Henry, Posac and Lerner. Bossack manages technology, Lerner manages, Henry gives advice or development. Regarding the company’s development, Henry made many suggestions, and clearly put forward the concept of “multi-protocol routing”, namely to design new types of network equipment to connect various local area network computers to form an integrated network.

When Henry proposed this concept, Bosack and Lerner were stunned.

“Master Bosack, do we have a patent related to a router?” Henry asked attentively, because he knew that although Bosack filed for patents, this kind of patent was a work patent and belonged to Stanford University.

Henry asks, but confuses Bossack!

The router company doesn’t have a router patent, is this really weird? Even though Stanford University has authorized Cisco-related router patents in the future, it is still not safe in Henry’s view. Historically, Bossack also gave shares to Stanford University, and Henry did not want this to be a problem in the future.

“The router patent must belong to Stanford University. I will let the leaders ask for permission for us to use it.” Bossack thought for a while and said.

“Buy immediately, this will save the problem and be safe!” Henry almost cried, let Stanford University get a stake huh, you really are naive.

“Then buy it, but it doesn’t have much value anyway,” Bosack said.

Henry is silent.

Next, Henry accompanied Bosack to Stanford University, first buying a router patent, and secondly to recruit new employees. Stanford University welcomed the arrival of Bosack and was very pleased to sell router patents to Cisco. Because this router is not many people understand the true value.

The company only spent a hundred thousand dollars to buy patents!

In terms of recruiting employees, Stanford University has the best computer talent in the world. Relying on Bossack and Lerner’s fame, more than two dozen people signed up in one day. Bossack finally chose five employees from there.

Compared to previous Cisco, Cisco now has a very high start. He has “financially adequate” and at least five senior computer talents and one million dollars. In 1986, Cisco officially launched its first router. Today, Cisco’s development speed must be faster, and it is possible to develop router products in half a year. Henry is not worried about technology, with two great gods, Bosack and Lerner, all problems can be solved. The company’s biggest problem is sales.

The aroma of wine will not be smelled at the very deep aisle! To promote a product, a lot of money must be spent in the sales process.

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Bossack goes to San Jose, and Henry is not taught. So Roger Nicholas will send him to school. Under Bossack’s recommendation, Henry went to Stanford High School. Henry is the youngest student at Stanford High School so far, and he scored very well on the entrance examination.

Henry goes to school while making suggestions for Cisco development, and he seems busy.

Time passed, after March, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” sold 1.7 million copies. After paying taxes, Henry received $ 1.2 million in mandatory fees. Aside from returning 1 million US dollars to grandfather, there are still 200,000 US dollars left. During that period, Henry completed “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” and handed it over to the West Germany Publishing House so they printed the book.

The second Harry Potter is even more popular than the first!

Printing the first 500,000 copies quickly sold out. Cisco development is also according to plan. Everything is going well, but the only bad thing is Roger Nicholas’s health is getting worse.

The old man was in his seventies and lost his beloved daughter more than half a year ago. His mind was hit hard and his body shattered instantly. When winter comes, all kinds of problems arise in the old man’s body, Henry must accompany the old man to take care of him, and talk to him to get rid of his boredom. Henry tells Roger Nicholas every day about interesting events at his school, hot scenes from his new book, and the development of Cisco.

The old man listened calmly at all times, with a friendly smile on his face. But his body was getting thinner, thinner and thinner. Henry looked at the old man’s pale face in the hospital, and became afraid in his heart. He was afraid of the old man leaving, he was afraid of losing relatives who cared for him and loved him. Slowly he became accustomed to the life of the old man by his side …

April 1, 1985, it was April Fool’s Day, and Old Man Roger Nicholas left forever. On this day, Henry cried sadly at the hospital. Hearing the news, Bossack and Lerner immediately approached them. Aside from entertaining Henry, they also helped with the funeral.

On the day of the funeral, many former old friends arrived, Henry met them one by one and accepted their condolences. However, when the coffin was about to be put into the tomb, Henry finally could not help crying!

Henry’s mental state is not very good, and Bossack accompanied him home.

“Henry, sadness won’t change anything!” Bosack cheer up.

Lerner went to the kitchen to prepare dinner for Henry because Henry didn’t eat anything during the day. Lerner made steak, juice, and bread and then immediately delivered it to Henry.

“Henry, eat it.” Lerner embraced Henry with pity, and said softly.

Tonight, the house is empty.

Henry sleeps in bed, staring at the starry sky, there seems to be an old man’s face emerging from the starry sky …

After a while, around early May, Henry’s mood gradually improved. During that period, Henry did not go to school, and stayed home every day to write “Harry Potter”, trying to immerse himself in the novel, forgetting sadness and problems. Soon, Harry Potter’s third book “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” is finished.

After the death of Roger Nicholas, the bookstore business suddenly deteriorated. There are many reasons for this. Besides the suppression of competitors, the most important thing is that some bookstore executives took the opportunity to seek personal gain, intimidating Henry too young and not knowing how to operate, and making the bookstore a mess.

Henry then discovers the situation and shouts.

On May 10, Henry held a board meeting. Grandfather Roger Nicholas’s bookstore chain is called the Nicholas Bookstore. Grandfather holds a 75% stake, and now everything is inherited by Henry. In the conference room, Henry sat on his head, his face cold. Half an hour later, shareholders, big and small, arrived, and many people looked at Henry with a funny smile.

Hank Woolf, a middle-aged man in his forties with curly hair, sat in first place under Henry. He was the second largest shareholder in the bookstore. At this time, he lightened his cigarettes casually, and he only regarded Henry as a boy knew nothing in his eyes: “Children, we are very busy. If you have something to say!”

“Hmph!” Henry snorted coldly, distributed the copied documents, and said coldly, “Someone in the company is misusing funds, I think, should you give me an explanation?”

Hank Woolf threw the document on the table and smiled, “What is the explanation? This is a normal operation of the company. You are young, of course you don’t understand!”

“Haha … I don’t understand?” Henry snickered, “Okay, then I’ll ask a professional accountant to review the company’s financial situation!”

“You !!!” Hank Woolf suddenly became angry.

Henry pats the table and says loudly, “I don’t care what it was before, in short, before tomorrow, if anyone doesn’t return the money you’ve used using company finances, I’ll send you to jail !!!”

After Henry finished speaking, there was a cold behind many of the shareholders present.

“Besides, I decided to sell the bookstore chain. At the same time, I would compensate all shareholders. I am willing to buy your shares at a premium of 5%!”

“What? You want to sell a bookstore? !!!” Everyone is shocked.

“Yes!” Henry nodded, “I have hired a professional accountant to evaluate the company’s assets. The market value is 24 million US dollars. You own 25% of shares, which is 6 million US dollars. If you are willing to sell it, we can make a deal now.”

The meeting room suddenly becomes noisy.

Many people criticized Henry as a foolish child and sold a bookstore whose grandfather worked hard to get up every day. In fact, in Henry’s view, this bookshop is already full of problems, and it won’t work. After grandfather fell ill, he could not manage the company’s business, a lot of money was embezzled, and major shareholders arbitrarily misappropriated company property. Such companies will be considered bankrupt.

Henry thinks he can’t do anything about this mess, he might as well cut up the mess and sell the bookstore!

The pressure of competition in bookstores is very high. As long as Henry maintains one “Nicholas Bookstore”, all other stores can be sold. Henry believes that he can develop a bookstore made by his grandfather and make it the first in the world! ! !

The meeting room is still noisy, and greed is endless. Henry gives a 5% premium, and they are not satisfied, instead demanding more.

“Bookstore is our earnest effort. Only with a premium of 5%, only wants us to sell our shares just wishful thinking !!!”

“Yes, we will not sell the shares in our hands!”

Henry said coldly, “Then, how much do you plan to ask for?”

The big and small shareholders looked at each other, gathered to discuss in a low voice, and finally Hank Woolf as the representative said: “At least 20% premium !!!”

“Why don’t you take it !!!” Henry airs, almost can’t help but slam the door.

“It’s only 20%, otherwise we won’t sell it!” Hank Woolf seemed to take Henry and insisted on the price.

It seemed that conversation was impossible, Henry snickered and stood up, without saying a word, ready to leave. Before leaving the door, Henry turned and warned Hank Woolf: “Mr. Woolf, can you make a million dollars that are abused tomorrow, if not, see you in court !!!”

“Humph!” Hank Woolf gave a cold snort.

The door is closed.

“Wulf, this little man is so arrogant!” Said one minority shareholder.

“Ten-year-old boy, are you still afraid of him ?!” Hank Woolf said in disgust.

“Wulf, isn’t that little man really going to sell the bookstore? In that case, aren’t our shares worthless?” Said the other minority shareholders.

“Not!” Woolf thought for a moment and said, “The little guy loves his grandfather very much, and he probably won’t sell the bookstore that his grandfather has worked so hard to create! I think this little man has to deliberately lie to us so we can handle him. Sell shares in here for her! ”

“Yes, Woolf is right. Hehe, we have determined the price. He is still small and will definitely give up in the end.”

“Ha ha…”

After Henry left, he called Lawyer Will.

“Hello, Lawyer Will, this is Henry Williams!”

“Oh, hello, can I help you with anything?”

“Lawyer Will, I want to ask you to help me contact some buyers who want to buy a bookstore. Yes, I will sell my grandfather’s bookstore!”

“well!”

Henry hangs up, turns around and glances at the “Nicholas Bookstore” sign behind him, his face can’t help but show a very firm and confident expression!