Chapter 208: Roses
Before absolute strength, it is difficult to grow a company by eating alone.
Su Mu also needs all employees to work together with him, so that some executives and outstanding employees can get shares of the company, and have a sense of identity with the company, which is a good way to stimulate them to go all out, after all, the more valuable the company is, the more valuable the shares in their hands will be.
Unlike Penguin and BuyFun, Firefly is a new company, and Su Mu has great confidence in its development, so he hopes that James will better help him and use the experience he has accumulated during the development of Spider Email to recreate the successful model.
Since the establishment of the World Federation of Communication Networks, more than 100 companies and more than 10 countries have recently agreed to accept CNC and use the hypertext link protocol as a channel to communicate various networks.
There are also opposition, such as some people operating local area networks to try to make money, and some countries feel that they should develop their own own Internet, so they oppose joining the alliance and trying to develop on their own.
In this regard, the experts of the CNC Union Working Group did not express too much concern, as long as the vast majority of local area networks and countries are communicated, in terms of the speed of hypertext link transmission, soon those small local area networks will lose the soil for survival, and most of them will eventually accept it obediently.
It is expected that from March this year, the domain name registration function will be opened, and before that, the alliance will not generate even a penny of profits, all of which will be open for free, and Su Mu will pay them a budget of two million dollars by phone in Hawaii for the last two months of development, mainly personnel expenses.
The client spreads spontaneously, every computer involved in the network is part of the server, the main server is built by Oracle, and the later improvement of the client's function requires him to go to the programmer, and the purely academic alliance does not spend much money, because there is a service that can make money by selling domain names in ten years, and Su Mu does not need to invest too much money.
At five o'clock, I set off with my bodyguards, and it was already six o'clock when I rushed to the airport.
In this era, the display screen was not used to record flight information, and there was a big sign at the exit of the station, on which were movable metal polyhedra, which could be moved, just like the things that rotated in the middle of a slot machine.
Every two minutes, Su Mu stood in front of it and waited for a while, found the flight Lily was taking, and the back showed that it arrived on time, and there were more than ten minutes, so he simply stood by the exit and waited.
At this moment, there was a little girl, with fair and pink skin, who looked to be only six or seven years old, with a small flower basket in her hand, stopped in front of Su Mu, took a rose and raised her head, and asked him, "Sir, do you want to buy flowers?" For sixty cents, the roses grown in my garden are more beautiful than other places, and they are suitable for your girlfriend. ”
The appearance is pleasing, since there is a garden where roses can be planted in winter, it means that the conditions at home are not bad, Su Mu squatted down and smiled: "What about your family, it is not safe to be alone at the airport, it is indeed a very beautiful rose, why do you think of selling them?"
"The teacher gave us holiday homework, so that we could earn fifty dollars for ourselves, and we couldn't ask for it directly from our family, and my friend went to help the neighbor walk the dog to earn money, and I was afraid of dogs, so I came out to sell flowers. ”
She seemed to be a little afraid of strangers, spoke in a small voice, pointed to a sexy woman not far away, and continued to tell Su Mu: "That's my mother. ”
Following her fingers, the young woman waved and smiled at Su Mu, not at all helping her daughter, happy to see her alone with others.
Su Mu understands that the significance of the school's assignment of this kind of homework is to exercise the children's sense of independence, and to shape a good concept of money, so that they know from an early age that it is not easy to make money, and they need to earn money through their own efforts.
Thinking that it should be a good school, at least the level of their teachers is excellent, thinking back to their school when they were young, the teacher only asked Su Mu to do homework, as if learning was the most important thing.
Looking at it now, it is not, "how to behave" and "what kind of person you want to be", these two points are the most important for children.
Nodding hello to the lady, Su Mu then asked the little girl, "Is your business good, how many flowers are sold today?"
"When it first opened today, my mother didn't have time to come with me before, and she asked a few people, but only two people were willing to buy it, and some people treated me very badly. ”
Maybe she was disliked, and the little girl was depressed.
Su Mu comforted: "Roses represent love, you should go to two young people, a man and a woman, and then sell flowers to them, if the price is set at fifty cents, I think many people will be willing to spend a dollar to buy two bouquets, otherwise there will be an extra forty cents change, for the travelers who are in a hurry, the most afraid of delaying time, such as me, give you a dollar, sell me two flowers, okay?"
Stunned by him, the little girl hesitated for a moment, but still squatted down, carefully selected the two most beautiful roses from the flower basket and gave them to Su Mu, and Su Mu had no change on him, so he took twenty dollars to buy a bottle of mineral water at the convenience store and paid her one dollar in change.
Su Mu bought flowers worth one hundred and twenty cents for one dollar, and the little girl successfully sold two flowers, completed a small part of the holiday task again, and gained experience in selling flowers, which was a fair deal.
Doing business with her is more comfortable than usual.
Holding the two roses, Su Mu continued to stand in place and wait, and after the little girl politely thanked her, she carried the flower basket to others to sell it again.
Occasionally looking at her, I could see that an adult ignored her, and hurried past her without even thinking of a look at the rose, despite the little girl being talking.
There are also people like themselves, who are interested in asking her what she is, and then selecting flowers in the flower basket, which can be regarded as supporting her first "career" in life.
Seeing that she successfully sold four flowers, Su Mu smiled quite happily, thinking of herself, reflecting on what she had lost after growing up, and found that she seemed to have been in the eye of money recently, bound by money, but not as free and easy as when she didn't start a business a few years ago, and gradually became what she hated before.
When I think about hypertext link technology, I start to think about how much money it can bring me, and when I buy the Empire State Building, I also think about promotions, making money, etc., and even the emotions between me and Lily, there are other things.
Imagine if Lily's godfather was not Bush Sr., if she hadn't broadened her horizons because of her outstanding family background, and if she was just an ordinary girl born in an ordinary family, it would be hard for Su Mu to imagine whether he would be with her decisively.
However, with a good family background and a wide range of horizons, which allowed them to have something to talk about and similar views on the same matters, Su Mu reflected on himself and found that he liked Lily quite a lot, and there were not too many other things mixed in, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.
What if her family used to be a wealthy family in the United States? Su Mu herself is confident that she will become super-rich and reach the pinnacle of human society!
didn't covet Lily's family's wealth and connections, so it can only be said that the time for the two to meet was just right.
Soon.
News came on the radio that her flight had landed, and Sumu was waiting outside the crowd for Lily to appear.
I haven't seen her for half a month, and I'm starting to miss her a little, faster than expected, and when I saw Lily come out and stand there looking for herself, Su Mu smiled, waved and shouted, "The most beautiful girl!"
Many women heard the words and looked over, they thought they were calling themselves, Lily smiled happily, walked briskly, saw Su Mu handed over roses, no packaging, and only two bunches, complained: "Whose garden did you steal the flowers? Even if you wrap them in newspaper, it's too perfunctory to receive roses for the first time, isn't it?"
When he spoke, he grabbed Su Mu's arm, confirming that he had been in a relationship for a while, and his movements were skillful and smooth.
Su Mu said to her: "The meaning is different, there is a little girl from the flower basket, selected the two most beautiful flowers, both in your hands. ”
"yes, that's something to cherish. ”
"I'm going to have a backpack to carry here?" I thought I'd have to wait a long time, but I've been busy all afternoon, and if I have time tomorrow, I'll take you on a tour around here, straight back to Menlo Park or stay in San Francisco for the night?"
"I've been to San Francisco several times, wondering what Silicon Valley is like for a few years. ”
Lily sniffed the roses and spoke again: "I'm going to go home in two days, just buy what you need, you don't have much time to pack up for me in the afternoon, have you been busy lately." ”
"Sort of, today I rented a two-story office building, tomorrow the employees of the Firefly company will come to work, are arranging people to clean, and there is also to arrange interviews, my assistant, the company's management, always feel that the company is messy now, and want to hire a senior professional manager with a high salary, the kind that has experience in the management of large companies. ”
Nodding as if she didn't understand, Lily said, "You don't have to worry about me, I'll take care of myself, and I'm here to help you choose a suitable house."
Also, I wanted to see what companies were worth investing in, so I entrusted the Da Vinci paintings that my grandfather left me to Sotheby's to help with the auction, and if things went well, I would get a sum of money. ”
"Leonardo da Vinci?"
Su Mu exclaimed and said: "Wow! You said that you inherited a painting, but you didn't say that it was actually his painting, I believe it must be very popular, what else to choose, invest in my company!"
Lily was more sensible, and asked with a smile: "Aren't you worried that if we break up, your situation will be very awkward? ”
Speechless, Su Mu pretended to be sad and said, "It's over, you actually thought about breaking up, where did I not do well enough to make you so unconfident in our relationship?"
"It's already great, it's a qualified boyfriend, but who knows in the future, if a pretty girl like Kate comes along and makes you smit, where will you remember me. ”
“…… Said not to be jealous, it seems that you are still jealous, and it happened that we met to help her, we are not even friends, and we have not been in touch since Kate left Hawaii. ”
"Leon, do you want her to contact you?"
“……”
Su Mu spread his hands helplessly and said, "Okay, my fault, can you forgive me with a big meal?"
"If something is delicious, consider it. ”
Lily's EQ is high enough to not ask about this, and the joke is up to the point, and she won't continue to say more......