The company's headquarters are located in San Jose, Silicon Valley, and Henry is only about an hour's drive from his home.

On the day the company was founded, there were only three employees: Henry, Bossak and Lerner. Bossak tube technique, Lerner engaged in management, Henry played soy sauce. Regarding the development of the company, Henry put forward a lot of suggestions, and clearly put forward a concept of "multi-protocol routing", that is, to design a new type of networking equipment to connect various computer LANs together to form a unified network.

When Henry came up with the concept, Bossak and Lerner were stunned, and they too just thought of turning Stanford into a network.

"Mr. Bosak, do we have a patent related to routers?" asked Henry knowingly, because he knew that although Bossak had applied for a patent, this patent was a job patent and belonged to Stanford University.

Henry asked, but stopped Mr. and Mrs. Bosak!

Although Stanford University has authorized Cisco's related router patents in the future, it is still not safe in Henry's view. Historically, Bossak has given away shares to Stanford University, and Henry didn't want to get into trouble.

"The router patent should belong to Stanford University, and I went to tell the leaders that it should be licensed to us. Posack thought for a moment and said.

"Buy it directly, it's easy and safe!" Henry was about to burst into tears, and he said that he would let you use the patent, you are really naïve.

"Then buy it, it's not worth much anyway. Bossak said.

Henry was speechless.

Later, Henry accompanied the Bosses to Stanford University, both to buy a patent for the router and to recruit new employees. Stanford University welcomed Bossak's arrival and happily sold the router patent to Cisco. Because not many people have discovered its value yet.

The company only spent $100,000 on the purchase of the patent!

When it comes to recruiting employees, Stanford University has some of the best computer talent in the world. Relying on the fame of Bossak and Lerner, at the end of the day, more than two dozen people enthusiastically signed up. Posac ended up selecting five employees from among them.

Compared with Cisco in the previous life, the current Cisco has a very high start, "enough soldiers", at least five more senior computer talents and one million US dollars. In 1986, Cisco officially launched its first router, and now, Cisco is certainly developing faster, and it may be possible to develop a router product in half a year. Henry is not worried about technology, with the two great gods of Bossak and Lerner, all problems can be solved. The company's biggest problem is sales.

In order to promote products, the sales process will inevitably cost a lot of money.

……

The Bosses went to San Jose, and Henry had no one to teach. So, Roger Nicholas was ready to send him to school. On Bossak's recommendation, Henry went to Stanford University's High School. Henry was the youngest student at Stanford High School to date, and he did very well on the entrance exam.

Henry is a busy man while going to school and at the same time making suggestions for the development of Cisco.

Time flies, and after March, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" sold 1.7 million copies, and after paying taxes, Henry received $1.2 million in manuscript fees. In addition to returning $1 million to my grandfather, there is $200,000 left. During this time, Henry finished writing Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and gave it to West German publishing for them to print and publish.

The second part of Harry Potter is even more popular than the first!

The first printing of 500,000 copies was quickly sold out. Cisco's growth is also on track. Everything is going well, but the only bad thing is that Roger Nicholas's health is getting worse and worse.

The old man was in his seventies, and he lost his beloved daughter more than half a year ago, and his heart was hit hard, and his body collapsed instantly. As soon as the cold winter came, all kinds of problems appeared in the old man, and Henry had to accompany the old man to take care of him and talk to him more to relieve his boredom. Every day, Henry tells Roger Nicholas about the anecdotes that happened at his school, the popularity of his new book, and the development of Cisco.

The old man listened quietly every time, always with a kind smile on his face. But his body became thinner and thinner, as thin as skin and bones. Henry looked at the old man's pale face in the hospital, and he was inexplicably scared in his heart, he was afraid that the old man would leave, he was afraid of losing a relative who cared for him and loved him, he had gradually become accustomed to the old man's days by his side......

On April 1, 1985, April Fool's Day, Roger Nicholas passed away forever. On this day, Henry cried miserably in the hospital. When Mr. and Mrs. Bosak heard the news, they rushed to the scene and helped with the funeral, in addition to comforting Henry.

On the day of the funeral, many of the old man's former friends came, and Henry met them one by one and accepted their comfort. However, when the coffin was about to be placed in the grave, Henry finally wept silently!

Henry's mental state was not very good, and the Bosss accompanied him home.

"Henry, mourn and change!" said Bosak.

Lerner went to the kitchen to prepare dinner for Henry, who had barely eaten during the day. Lerner simply got some steak, juice, and bread, and quickly delivered it to Henry.

"Henry, eat something. Lerner hugged Henry with some pity and said softly.

Tonight, the house was empty.

Henry slept in his bed, looking up at the starry sky, and the face of an old man seemed to emerge from the starry sky......

After some time, around the beginning of May, Henry's mood gradually improved. During this period, Henry did not go to school, and stayed at home every day to write "Harry Potter", trying to immerse himself in the novel and forget his sorrows and troubles. Soon, the third Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, was completed.

After the death of Roger Nicholas, the bookstore's business suddenly went from bad to worse. There are many reasons for this, in addition to the suppression of competitors, the most important thing is that some executives of the bookstore took the opportunity to seek personal gain, bullied Henry for being too young and did not know how to operate, and made the bookstore a miasma.

When Henry learned of the situation later, he angrily cursed.

On May 10, Henry held a meeting of the Board of Directors. Grandpa Roger Nicholas's bookstore chain is called Nicholas Books, and his grandfather holds up to 75% of the shares, and now all of them are inherited by Henry. In the conference room, Henry sat in the chief, his face cold. Half an hour later, the big and small shareholders arrived, and many people looked at Henry with a playful smile.

Hank Woolf, a middle-aged man in his forties with curly hair, sat in the first position under Henry, he was the second largest shareholder of the bookstore, and was leisurely lighting a cigarette at the moment, not taking Henry, the nominal chairman, into account: "Children, we are very busy, if there is something to say!"

"Hmph!" Henry snorted coldly, distributed the copied documents, and said coldly: "Someone in the company has misappropriated funds, I think, should you give me an explanation?"

Hank Woolf threw the papers on the table and said with a smile: "What explanation? This is the normal capital operation of the company, you are still young, of course you don't understand!"

"Huh...... I don't understand?" Henry sneered, "Okay, then I'll ask a professional accounting firm to review the company's finances!"

"You're !!," Hank Woolf was furious.

Henry slapped the table and said loudly: "I don't care what happened before, in short, before tomorrow, if anyone doesn't return the money that embezzled the company's property before, I will put him in prison!!"

After Henry finished speaking, many of the shareholders present felt a chill behind them.

"Also, I decided to sell the bookstore chain. At the same time, I will also compensate all shareholders, and I am willing to buy your shares at a premium of 5%!"

"What? you're going to sell the bookstore?!!" everyone was shocked.

"That's right!" Henry nodded, "I have hired a professional accountant to conduct an asset appraisal of the company's assets, with a market value of two or four million dollars." You have a total of 25% of the shares, which is $6 million. If you're willing to sell, we can close the deal now. ”

The conference room suddenly became noisy.

Many people scolded Henry for being a loser and wanted to sell the bookstore that his grandfather had worked so hard to run. In fact, in Henry's opinion, the bookstore is so damaged that it can't be sold without it. Since my grandfather fell ill, he was unable to take care of the company's business, there were a lot of bad debts, and there were major shareholders who misappropriated the company's property at will.

Henry thinks he's a little helpless about this mess, so he might as well cut through the mess and sell the bookstore!

As long as Henry retains the name "Nicholas Bookstore" and sells all the storefronts, Henry believes that he will be able to develop the bookstore founded by his grandfather and become the world's number one!!

The room was still noisy, and there was no end to greed. Henry gave a 5% premium, and they were not satisfied, but asked for more.

"The bookstore is our brainchild, and it is wishful thinking to let us sell our shares at a premium of 5%!!"

"That's right, we're not going to sell our shares!"

“……”

Henry said coldly, "Then how much are you going to want?"

The big and small shareholders looked at each other, got together and discussed in whispers, and finally Hank Woolf, as the representative, said: "At least 20% premium!!"

"Why don't you go and grab !!," Henry said angrily, almost slamming the door out.

"Just 20%, otherwise we won't sell it!" said Hank Woolf, who seemed to settle on Henry's price.

It seemed that it could not be negotiated, Henry stood up with a sneer, did not say a word, and prepared to leave. Before walking away from the door, Henry turned to Hank Woolf and warned, "Mr. Woolf, please make up the million dollars you have embezzled from the company tomorrow, or the court will see you !!."

"Humph!" Hank Woolf snorted coldly.

"Bang!"

The door is closed.

"Woolf, this little guy doesn't look easy to deal with!" said one of the minority shareholders.

"Ten year old, you're still afraid of him?!" said Hank Woolf dismissively.

"Woolf, that little guy isn't really going to sell the bookstore, is he?

"No!" said Woolf, after a moment's thought, "that little guy loves his grandfather so much, and probably won't sell the bookstore that his grandfather has worked so hard to build!

"Yes, Woolf was right. Hehe, we insist on this price, he is a child, and he will definitely admit defeat in the end. ”

"Haha......"

After Henry left, he made a phone call to Attorney Will.

"Hello, Lawyer Will, I'm Henry Williams!"

"Oh hello, is there anything I can do for you?"

"Lawyer Will, I would like to ask you to help me connect with several buyers who want to buy a bookstore. Yes, I'm going to sell my grandfather's bookstore!"

"Well, okay!"

Henry hung up the phone, turned around and glanced at the sign of "Nicholas Bookstore" behind him, and couldn't help but show a very determined and confident expression on his face!

"Nicholas Bookstore" is bound to become a sign of the times!!