Li Ping'an and another employee drove to the airport to pick them up.

Instead of taking the same plane, Mr. Helberg went straight to Los Angeles, where he was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the supermarket until a successor was found.

On the way back to Menlo Park, Li Ping'an asked Su Mu: "How did you go to Hawaii?" Blake is not in the company, and production has just resumed today, and many dealers are waiting to ask for goods, and the inventory in the warehouse cannot last for a few days. ”

"Where's Blake?"

Su Mu sat in the back row, lying down lazily and comfortably, and continued: "Could it be that I got the year-end bonus last year and forgot to come to work when I played? The new generation of computer production lines has not yet been busy, and if we continue like this, our products will soon fall behind, and the backwardness of the personal computer industry means decline." ”

"I contacted her in the morning, and she was still in Santorini, Greece, and it seems that she had a boyfriend, and Blake is not young, you profiteer, don't work hard to squeeze her time, I told her that it would be okay to come back a few days later. ”

"Hey, good people have been done by you, usually I don't let her find a good man to marry, Blake himself doesn't have this idea, what can I do. ”

Su Mu took a bottle of water, opened it and took a few sips, and said to Li Ping'an when he screwed the bottle cap: "I have a hunch that our Penguin Company may make a lot of money this year, and by the second half of the year, the sales of personal computers will probably increase significantly!"

"Did your grandfather find someone to help you calculate this year's fortune?"

“…… What kind of fortune telling, look at how much more network resources, you can guess that the number of users will definitely increase, now personal computers are no longer ornaments, they can easily check many files. ”

"So you're showing off, you're a genius, aren't you?"

Su Mu was speechless, he couldn't talk anymore this day, and he could always detect the strong smell of gunpowder from Li Ping'an's mouth.

"I'm telling you the right thing, I took the wrong medicine this morning?"

Turning his head with a resentful face, Li Ping'an told him: "I didn't go on a blind date a few days ago, the girl introduced by my mother's friend, she is more interested in you, and she has been asking me about you all the time, so she asked me if I can introduce her to you!"

Li Ping'an's blind date actually took a fancy to him, what could Su Mu say, and asked weakly: "Do I know her, what does this matter to me?"

"Billionaire, handsome, and on the headlines of the New York Times, how famous you are in our Chinese circle!"

"If it's because I'm handsome, then I'm sorry, but if she agrees to a blind date for money, it's better to forget it. Su Mu joked: "You also have money now, and I can't look down on you to count her blind." ”

Didn't really get angry, just aggrieved to the point of jealousy.

Li Ping'an decisively agreed: "I think so too, a young girl is so blind, and she actually likes you, it's really pitiful." I've gone to the gym to get a card, so let's go work out?"

Yale University is not busy, and papers can be written anywhere, Su Mu plans to deal with business matters this year, and said: "Go when you have time, play in Hawaii for a few days, you are tired and hurt, it's time to exercise your muscles." ”

“…… Forget about the muscles, my goal is to lose 180 pounds, and last winter's clothes, this year I can't wear them. ”

……

The airport is not far from Menlo Park, and when he arrived at the familiar Dune Road, Su Mu asked Li Ping'an: "Do you know a real estate agent?"

Next, I have to live with the bodyguards, Li Zhekai went back to Xiangjiang to learn business with his father, James and George both worked in my company, it was not suitable to continue to share a house, I wanted to buy a house nearby. ”

"I don't know, I want to buy a house, and I'm worried that there won't be a real estate agent to come to the door? You go buy one, it's not going to move Spider and Firefly from here, it's better to be close to both companies, Menlo Park is very good, I've been familiar with it for so long, and it's close to Penguin. ”

Su Mu said with a smile: "Actually, I want to go to Santa Clara in the south, buy a large piece of land directly, build a building and move these companies there, but unfortunately the money has to be used on the knife edge, and now every penny spent can be used to invest and make more money."

Let's talk about it later, these days I first know where there are office buildings, and the programmers and managers who were just recruited last year are coming to work tomorrow, but I'm not ready yet. ”

"We don't have a few floors upstairs for rent, so we don't have to run around. ”

They were taking the elevator upstairs, Penguin's office building had just been built in 1983, and the surrounding facilities were quite perfect, Su Mu thought this was a good proposal, and said, "I have the phone number of its management company, I'll ask later......

The Christmas and New Year holidays in the United States are consecutive holidays, and the holidays last for more than ten days.

Penguin company has not officially gone to work today, the holiday period belongs to the peak period of computer sales, there have always been people on duty, through the telephone sales of products, at the beginning of the Penguin computer did not have a physical store, with express transport companies to connect the company and customers.

Today, Penguin has six brand stores, hundreds of franchise stores, and chain home appliance sellers such as Best Buy are also selling Penguin computers, and they are still in the early stage of the development of accumulating brand reputation, exchanging low profits for high sales.

After-sales service personnel and operators go to work first, and the factory is also preparing to restart.

Because of newspaper publicity, Su Mu became a celebrity in Silicon Valley.

The young co-founder of an Internet company upstairs met him in the elevator, greeted him warmly, and said, "Sue, long time no see, where did you go on vacation?"

"Hawaii, I'm about to peel off the sun, Mr. Bart, are your product sales starting to improve?"

"It's the same as before, I'm about to change my company, are you interested in taking over?" asked the young man named Bart.

This guy is a legend, he came to Silicon Valley a few years ago with 10 million dollars, trying to make smart watches, kill traditional mechanical watches such as Patek Philippe, Rolex, Audemars Piguet, etc., and say that electronic watches are the future.

The idea is very good, but it's a pity that it's too advanced, and it has been losing money year after year for several years, and the underwear is going to be lost, Su Mu is not interested at all, and politely refuses to say:

"I'm struggling to manage my current company, and I don't plan to get involved in other businesses in the near future, if your company makes mobile phones, I'm willing to give it a try, and the time is displayed on the phone, who still wears a watch." ”

The wealth of Silicon Valley is only superficial, but in reality there is a shortage of money here, and there is a lack of people to invest in it.

It is no exaggeration to say that if an angel investor releases the news that he wants to invest millions or tens of millions of dollars, dozens or hundreds of ideas will be sent to him on the same day, and he can acquire a large number of shares in the startup company with very little money.

"You should take a look at our company's patents first, maybe you will be interested, as long as half a million dollars, the company is yours!"

The elevator stopped, Su Mu came to the floor where the penguin company was located, and said sideways: "Give me your patents first, maybe I will be willing to buy ......"