Chapter 78: Stanford Day
Su Mu doesn't have anything now, even programming skills are still half-baked, and he hasn't really practiced it on a computer.
After talking to the young Bill Gates himself for so long, he was completely unable to offer substantial bargaining chips, whether it was buying Microsoft shares or selling programs to Microsoft, all of which remained in words.
If Su Mu had 10 million US dollars, or more than 10 million US dollars, he might really be able to get a small part of Microsoft shares from Gates at a market value of 200 million US dollars and a premium, and it was still 1984, when network technology was not developed, and people did not pay much attention to Microsoft.
In addition, although Microsoft's estimated market capitalization is more than $100 million, Gates and Paul Allen, who owns 40 percent of the company's shares, have not made much money, and the main wealth is still concentrated on paper, and the company's prospects are optimistic, but Microsoft needs a lot of money for research and development, and they are most likely willing to sell some of their shares if possible.
Thinking about it from another angle, if Su Mu has 10 million US dollars now, maybe he will be like an ordinary rich person, and he will start to enjoy life without progress, and no one can say for sure in the future.
There is still more than a year before Microsoft goes public, and he still has the opportunity to share the cake, after separating from Gates at the gate of Stanford University, Su Mu was thinking about how to make money, don't count on Qugou Supermarket, even if this company is profitable, the speed of making money will not be too fast.
At present, the opportunity to make a fortune quickly is mainly concentrated in Silicon Valley, which continues to create myths, and may come up with an idea on the first day and attract tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars, in financing on the second day......
While thinking about how to make money, he almost hit someone while riding a bicycle, and after Su Mu said sorry to the other party, he simply got out of the car and walked.
In 1891, Leland Stanford, a railroad tycoon who served as governor of California, and his wife jointly funded $20 million to build the university, and the university was named after their son Leland Stanford Jr., who died of typhoid fever, so the full name of Stanford University should be "Leland Stanford Jr."
For half a century after its founding, the school was a tepid "second-rate university in the Far West" and only became famous after the 70s, when Stanford leased 1,000 acres of land at very low prices to companies set up by the business community or alumni who then worked with the university to provide a variety of research projects and student internships.
Unexpectedly, high-tech enterprises in the industrial park appeared one after another, and soon beyond the scope of land that Stanford could provide, and then began to develop and expand outward, forming the Silicon Valley area where California has cutting-edge science and technology and countless talents, in this era, the development of Silicon Valley has begun to take shape, and its reputation has spread all over the world, and countries around the world are staring at Silicon Valley, paying attention to the development of computers and the Internet, and Stanford, as the core of Silicon Valley, is also developing rapidly.
The first time he came to the campus of Stanford University, Su Mu just thought that the campus was very beautiful and very large, with carved patterns on the round arches, many green grasses on the campus, and red roofs of buildings.
He still thinks that Harvard University is better and more famous, but he likes the campus environment here and thinks that it should be great to study at this school.
There are a lot of people on campus today, and there are people parading to celebrate the school anniversary, not a whole decade or a hundred years of school celebration, the scale is not large, it is more like an opportunity for alumni and people in the Silicon Valley area to communicate and talk, circles and connections are needed everywhere, and the meaning of the school celebration is not just to celebrate.
guessed that there should be many rich people and politicians around, but the vast majority of Su Mu didn't know each other, and there was no need to know each other for the time being, after all, they were not people in a circle, and when they got to status, they would naturally know each other.
For example, chatting with Bill Gates just now seemed to be quite pleasant, but Su Mu understood that he was treated as a child by the other party, and he was still a very self-conscious child......
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On the campus of Stanford University.
Li Zhekai was walking with Daniel James, and a white girl followed Li Zhekai, teasing him as if to flatter.
Don't look at this guy's recent days, the woman's relationship has always been very good, a few nights in a row a few days ago, Su Mu thought that someone was decorating and nailed the wall, because the sounds were "knock", "knock", "knock".
Later, I saw a girl come out of his room, and I figured out this problem that plagued my sleep, Su Mu is not very old, but many classmates around him have already had experience in men and women, even if it is Daniel, who has a strange personality, has experienced "second base", he hasn't, recently often in school, there are several senior female students who often tease him, Su Mu just feels a headache, he has not fallen to the point of starvation.
There are not many silly girls, and money worship is also prevalent in the United States.
Li Zhekai has no money now, but many people know that his father has a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, and the alumni who also came from Xiangjiang to study have long spread the word about it, plus he usually drives a Ferrari to school, and many girls in the school are eyeing him.
Speaking of which, it may be due to family reasons, only teaching him how to do business, not how to get along with others, resulting in Li Zhekai's personality is very strange, for those girls who come upside down, most of the time they don't refuse, and they are completely playboys.
In the midst of thousands of flowers, the leaves do not stick to the body, and the phrase "put on your pants and turn your face and don't recognize people" is what he said, and for this reason, the girl smashed the glass of the house.
didn't recognize the room, and smashed the window of Su Mu's room, which can be regarded as an unwarranted disaster.
Living together for so long, Su Mu already knows a little about his character, he is a very good person, he usually goes to McDonald's to work part-time, and he also found a job as a caddie on the golf course on weekends, and his family has cut off his pocket money, only responsible for tuition, and he can't live if he doesn't earn it himself.
Occasionally, if you don't understand the content of the book, you can ask Li Zhekai, and he will help explain, but unfortunately his academic performance is not good, and when he is asked what he can't do, he will occasionally be annoyed and angry.
This made Su Mu both envious and miserable, happiness is not necessarily related to money, but misfortune is mostly related to money, Su Mu, who is poor, does not worry about eating, drinking, and living, and his family provides for him, but he is the son of a billionaire, working hard all day for life.
I didn't feel sorry for Li Zhekai, because Su Mu knew that as long as he survived this time, his good days would come.
His future needs to be struggling, with no one to help him pave the way, and he doesn't want to go home to take over the family business — the small restaurants in Chinatown still have few customers.
When he met Su Mu on campus, Li Zhekai raised his eyebrows in surprise, the two were separated by a narrow road, he stopped and shouted: "Hey, Su Mu, why are you here?"
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