The presidential election has entered the voting stage, and Su Mu is very skeptical that he can still catch a ride with Mr. George W. Bush, depending on the situation, or Lily would not have specifically mentioned that her godfather is ready to meet her.

Whatever Lily thought, he could sense that the old classmate wanted to help him.

The campaign team does not lack its own money, and it may not be able to speak well in the Chinese circle, and since they told him that they should meet Vice President Bush in advance, it is mostly out of good intentions.

Su Mu didn't think that a politician who was about to become president would dare to pit himself at such a critical moment, and he felt that it would be okay to meet him.

I hadn't thought about running a network before, especially an official one, and I had just been reminded by Miss Lily that it was time for him to think about it.

In the past, doing business was just a small fight, and 500 million US dollars is the threshold, and it is not difficult to change from 10 million US dollars to 100 million US dollars, and it is not difficult to change from 100 million to 500 million, but it is not easy to climb up.

It's ridiculous to say that when Su Mu had so much money, the threshold for the super-rich had quietly been raised to about one billion dollars, and wealth was accelerating.

Wal-Mart is already worth nearly $30 billion, the number of stores is as high as 800, and it will probably exceed 1,000 by the beginning of next year, and Mr. Sam Walton has a fortune of more than $16 billion, which can grow by millions of dollars every day, sometimes by hundreds of millions a day.

Four years ago, $500 million was worth the top 50 richest people in the world, but now it is outside the top 100, and companies face strong competition.

Microsoft and other new companies are eating into the email market share held by spider software technology companies.

The competition between Qugou Supermarket and Wal-Mart has lagged behind step by step, and the development speed has not been as rapid as expected, so that after Sumu has attracted financing, he is considering the issue of listing.

Penguin, which is also facing dozens of strong competitors, such as HP, IBM, Apple, etc., has almost carved up the market, and it has no technical advantage.

Since the second half of this year, Su Mu's good luck seems to be running out, even if he vaguely knows the future direction of the world's development, he is facing countless strong enemies, and it can be seen from the situation of Wang An Computer, Apple and other companies that it will decline rapidly if it does not move forward.

Dozens of companies are seen every day in the Silicon Valley area, and dozens of companies fail, including many cases of industry giants crashing down, so much so that he recently fell asleep with a sense of crisis every day.

The idea of asking James to develop a software again arose under this circumstance, and Su Mu, who was already satisfied with his wealth, was unwilling to stop there......

Sitting in a café and really just drinking coffee, eating desserts, and chatting, Su Mu's life was anything but colorful, and he seemed unknown compared to a bunch of tech tycoons who were famous in the Silicon Valley area.

In just a few words, the story of what has happened in the past few years can be summed up, one by one, increasing the number of supermarkets, maintaining Spider servers, purchasing parts from major manufacturers to assemble computers, and finding ways to sell them, nothing more than that.

On the contrary, Lily, on the other hand, seems to have a more colorful life, serving as the president of the student council at Brown University, interning at the Bank of America in her freshman year, and traveling to Europe in her sophomore year, spending two months traveling around the world, and is in her junior year this year.

I haven't been to school for the last four months, and I've been walking around with Vice President Bush to help with some trivial matters, and I'm ready to graduate from Brown next year.

There are still so many friends, Su Mu rarely sits with a certain girl to drink coffee and chat, and he listens very carefully at the moment, occasionally interjecting a few words, always asking the point, and letting Lily continue.

I feel a little envious in my heart, there is a kind of university called someone else's university, Su Mu seems to be just burying his head in his studies at Yale, graduating faster than Lily, and even preparing his master's thesis, but she has not had a wonderful time, clubs, travel and the like, she has not participated in anything.

Hearing her ask about Silicon Valley and the Internet, she said: "Recently, a lot of new technologies have appeared every day, and computers have become more powerful, and I used to have a vague idea, but now I am more sure that the Internet is a strong driving force for economic development for at least another 30 years." ”

"It's not just the Internet, it's more like everything, I think in the future, everything can be solved on the Internet, except for eating, sleeping, or going to the toilet, I have a few entrepreneurial ideas recently, whether I can succeed in the future, buy a private jet like Mr. Gates, it depends on whether they can succeed." ”

Lily took a sip of coffee and said with a smile, "You can also afford a private jet now." ”

"But that means I have to sell some of my shares, I only have more than three million dollars in my account, and I'm already planning to give up on continuing to run the supermarket, and my two partners have similar thoughts, the market is divided up by a large group of peers, and there is not much room for growth, and I plan to arrange for the listing to continue to sell my shares at the right price, leaving only a small part to continue investing. ”

Su Mu talked about business, and immediately came to her spirits, and then told her: "Compared with the retail industry, the next wave of Internet development seems to have more business opportunities, and if there is no money, there is no strength to compete with other companies." ”

"There are only more than three million ...... Are you beating me? Even if I don't have so much money in my trust fund account, it would take me forty years to earn that much, provided I don't eat or drink!"

Miss Lily, who was hit by him, raised her eyebrows and made an angry expression, and then laughed again: "Since you think you should do it, then do it, you can already make your own decisions about your life, even if you fail, it doesn't matter, you can come again, right? I have met many outstanding peers, but their achievements are not as high as yours, I mean business achievements." ”

"Wow, thanks for the compliment, I'll think it through before making a decision. ”

"Leon, do you remember when you were in Castellar?

At the time, you didn't like to talk and talked a lot to your friends, but now you seem to be a different person, and you are more confident, and you didn't say that you wanted to buy a private jet or anything like that, which is cool. ”

"At that time, I was not rich, I didn't even dare to buy a sports car, how could I think about a private jet, I was still more interesting when I was a child, and when I grew up, my life became boring. Lily, you have also changed a lot, you were beautiful when you were a child, and now you are even more beautiful, the quark in our class has a crush on you, but unfortunately you never want to deal with him. ”

After listening to Su Mu's words, Lily thought for a while before remembering the Chinese named Quark, and said in surprise: "It's the one with pimples?" Well, I don't know at all, he didn't tell me about it." ”

"Haha, we Chinese really don't like to express emotions directly. ”

"What a bad thing, you liked Kate back then, and finally confessed to her?" asked Lily casually.

was mentioned as his first love in his youth, Su Mu suddenly found that he hadn't thought about Kate for a long time, and could only recall what she looked like a few years ago.

Shaking his head and speaking: "No, I'm more cowardly than Quark, I haven't heard from her for several years, it's all in the past." ”

"I met her in New York last year, Kate wasn't a star, she was studying at the School of Visual Arts in New York, she knew her before, and we talked for a while......"