"Paul Allen, I've heard of you, you're a genius engineer, it's nice to meet you, we come from a capital company, my name is Xia Yu, and they're my subordinates. ”

Xia Yu stopped his subordinates from coming forward, took a step forward, stretched out his hand and said to Paul Allen with a smile.

For Paul Allen, Xia Yu is very clear that as the co-founder of Microsoft, the later Paul Allen has assets of more than 20 billion US dollars, but because of the failure to fight the disease, he finally left all the assets to his sister.

In his previous life, Microsoft was branded as Bill Gates, and the public did not know much about Paul Allen, at most he was the co-founder of Microsoft.

But as everyone knows, if it weren't for Paul Allen instigating Bill Gates to drop out, Microsoft might have appeared, but it would definitely not be the Microsoft of the previous life.

And in Microsoft, Paul Allen's talent is stronger than Bill Gates', and in terms of technology, Paul Allen is mainly the main one, and he is Bill Gates's mentor and friend.

It could be said that Paul Allen is to Microsoft what Steve Wozniak is to Apple.

Both are the real heroes behind the company's technical roots, but the limelight has almost been stolen by Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, who are in charge of business affairs in the foreground.

Therefore, for Microsoft at this time, Xia Yu valued Paul Allen more than the richest man in the world in later generations.

Without Paul Allen, there would be no achievements of Microsoft now, and without him, there would be no Microsoft DOS system in later generations, after all, this system was found by Paul Allen and bought it.

"Capital Company?"

Although Xia Yu did not say the name of the company, just the four words of capital company made Paul Allen's heart feel excited, and his heartbeat gradually accelerated.

As a software company, he is eager to be valued by capital, and then use the power of capital to accelerate the company's rise.

However, Microsoft has been developing for five years, and no capital company has come to the door before that.

Now one suddenly appears, is it ......

Fortunately, Paul Allen still knew the current occasion, he interrupted the infinite reverie in his mind, and immediately warmly welcomed Xia Yu and others into the conference room, and immediately notified Bill Gates who was in the studio when he took the cup.

Therefore, less than a minute after Xia Yu sat down, he saw twenty-four-year-old Bill Gates come in with Paul Allen, and greeted Xia Yu and the others enthusiastically and confidently.

"Hello, Mr. Xia, welcome to me, I'm Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft. ”

"Hello, Mr. Gates. ”

After all, Bill Gates is the child of a lawyer and a business elite, who is much taller than Paul Allen and has seen the world, although he is three years younger than Paul Allen and is not as technically capable as Paul Allen.

But when it comes to business communication, he is much better than Paul Allen.

So after chatting for a while, Bill Gates smiled and asked Xia Yu: "Mr. Xia, may I ask you to come to our company, is there something wrong?"

Xia Yu glanced at him, smiled and said, "Don't worry about this, before that, can you introduce us to your company?"

"Of course no problem, why don't you finish this cup of coffee before we go?" Bill Gates was looking forward to it, but he was able to stay calm, knowing that the more critical the time, the more he could not lose his temper, so he glanced at the coffee that had just been served on the table, and asked with a smile.

Xia Yu couldn't help but glance at him, smiled lightly, and said with a slight bow: "Yes, I also want to know about your company's past." ”

"Okay, so I'll start with the creation of the company, what do you think?"

"Of course, please!"

......

As soon as Xia Yu's words fell, Bill Gates smiled slightly, and began to tell about Microsoft's past, halfway he thought of something interesting, and sang and harmonized with Paul Allen, telling Microsoft's past with humorous words.

At this time, Microsoft has not yet transformed, it is just a small company, the interests are not too big, and the relationship between Bill Gates and Paul Allen is still very harmonious.

Looking at the tacit understanding between the two, Xia Yu felt a strange feeling in his heart, especially when he saw Bill Gates's seemingly sincere appearance and Paul Allen's straightforward character, he couldn't help but lament for Paul Allen in his heart.

Bill Gates, who grew up in an elite family of business and law, naturally values interests more than Paul Allen.

Obviously, in the early days of Microsoft, Paul Allen paid more than Bill Gates, but when the equity was officially divided, Bill Gates took up sixty percent of the equity, and even Bill Gates stepped by step, and wanted to redivide the equity several times, or issue additional shares to dilute Paul Allen's equity.

An engineer is an engineer, and there are shortcomings in calculation and profit gain and loss.

Unconsciously, the coffee was almost drunk, and Bill Gates and Paul Allen also introduced the basic situation of Microsoft almost well, and Xia Yu proposed to take a closer look at the specific business level of Microsoft.

Subsequently, Bill Gates and Paul Allen took Xia Yu to walk around Microsoft, focusing on the studio, and Paul Allen introduced Microsoft's achievements in the BASIC interpreter to Xia Yu and others.

During the whole process, Xia Yu kept smiling, and communicated with Paul Allen from time to time, and after a lot of professional terms came out of Xia Yu's mouth, Paul Allen and Bill Gates' expressions changed, realizing that Xia Yu was also a professional, and they couldn't deceive him, so they were more cautious in introducing it, and didn't dare to make false introductions, so as not to be embarrassed if they were exposed.

After walking around, Xia Yu had a comprehensive understanding of Microsoft at that time.

There is no doubt that Microsoft at this time was indeed a small software company, with a total of just over 20 employees.

The only thing that can be done is the achievement in the field of BASIC interpreter.

When everyone returned to the office again, Xia Yu looked at Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who were slightly expectant and apprehensive in their eyes, and he smiled secretly, sure enough, they were only two young people, one was only twenty-seven years old, and the other was only twenty-four years old.

Xia Yu didn't intend to drag them along, his face was straight, and he said bluntly: "Mr. Allen, Mr. Gates, I have learned about the situation of Microsoft just now, and now we should talk about it officially." ”

Paul Allen's face was solemn, and he nodded and said, "Yes, Mr. Xia, please speak!"

Xia Yu's eyes swept over the faces of the two, and said slowly: "Microsoft has a certain value, because you have made some achievements in the BASIC interpreter market, but the value is also limited, after all, the capacity of the BASIC interpreter market has been fixed there, and the ceiling of the market determines the growth ceiling of your company's business today." ”

Bill Gates and Paul Allen's hearts sank, but they had to acquiesce that what Xia Yu said was the truth.

Now that Xia Yu is saying this, it is nothing more than to reduce the price.

I only heard Xia Yu continue: "But in the process of visiting just now, I saw something different, that is, your attitude towards technology, there is no doubt that you are outstanding technical elites, so compared with Microsoft's achievements in the BASIC interpreter market, I value you technical talents more." ”

"So I decided to buy Microsoft as a wholly owned company. ”

As soon as these words came out, Bill Gates and Paul Allen immediately changed color, and Bill Gates almost looked like he was about to veto.

Xia Yu raised his voice and said again: "But I will inject capital into the company, and take out twenty percent of the options, according to your contribution to the company, reward you in the future, I believe that with the ability of the two of you, you can get a lot of equity." ”

Bill Gates and Paul Allen glanced at each other, Bill Gates looked resolute, Paul Allen pondered for a moment, and bowed slightly.

Then I saw Bill Gates resolutely say to Xia Yu: "I'm sorry, Mr. Xia, Microsoft carries our dreams, we will not sell it, we only accept venture capital." ”

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