Chapter 45: Jobs Returns!
The industry was surprised by Apple-l PC sales, and even IBM was concerned. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 However, as we all know, the bigger the company, the slower the response, IBM has not decided to get involved in the industry, while some small computer companies have already taken action.
The competition will be fiercer and fiercer!
But Li Zetian is not afraid of competition, and is sure that he can definitely surpass other companies by relying on his past life memory and technology.
At this time, Li Zetian learned the news that Jobs had returned from India.
In fact, Li Zetian has been paying attention to the situation of Atari, not only because Jobs was an employee there, but more importantly, Atari is also one of Apple's competitors.
At 9 o'clock in the evening, Li Zetian made a phone call to Wozniak.
"Hello Wozniak, I'm Chronos. ”
"Hello Chronos, is there something wrong with me?"
"I want to ask you for a favor!" Li Zetian said.
"Apple-l has a problem again?"
"No, I want you to help me get Steve Jobs to Apple, I want to meet him!"
"Steve Jobs?do you know him?!" Wozniak wondered.
"I've heard of it, but I haven't seen it. Li Zetian said, indeed, he had only seen the video of his press conference on the Internet in his previous life, and he really didn't see him face-to-face.
Li Zetian suddenly felt as if he had a bad taste, and wanted to collect the business elites or business leaders in his previous life like collecting stamps, such as Bill Gates and Paul Allen of Microsoft, Steve Jobs and Steve Gary Wozniak of Apple, Jack Ma of Alibaba, Pony Ma of Tencent, Robin Li of Baidu, Lei Jun of Xiaomi, Elon Musk of Tesla, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle's Ellison, and many more......
Then a big guy conference was held, looking at the full house, Li Zetian was satisfied in his heart.
Wozniak thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll help you make an appointment with him......"
"Well, thank you very much!"
……
The next day, Wozniak and Jobs arrived at Apple together.
Jobs had just returned from India and had a bald head, and when he heard that he was still being tempered by an Indian monk, he cut off a bald head in a daze.
When Jobs saw Li Zetian, he was very surprised, although Wozniak had already introduced Li Zetian's situation to him on the way here, but he was still shocked when he saw the real person.
The founder of the famous Apple company is so young!!
"You two may be seated!"
Li Zetian looked at Steve Jobs and asked with a smile, "You are Steve Jobs, I'm Chronos Lee, the founder of Apple." Actually, I also worked at Atari for a while, and I heard about you there!"
Jobs couldn't help but smile awkwardly, he thought that the deeds Li Zetian heard must be all bad deeds, because he was an arrogant and eccentric guy, and most of the employees of Atari hated him, so much so that he was assigned to work the night shift at night when there were few people!
Li Zetian continued at this time: "I think there are two kinds of people in this world, one is a genius and a maverick, and the other is an ordinary person. I think Jobs, you are the first kind of person I am talking about - genius!! so I specially asked Wozniak to invite you to meet at Apple, the purpose of which is to invite you to work at Apple!"
Li Zetian paused, looked at Jobs, and said sincerely and seriously: "Steve Jobs, quit your job at Atari Corporation, there is a bigger stage waiting for you!!"
During this time, the Wine Computer Club had been discussing Apple and Apple-l personal computers, and Jobs was also an active discussant at the club, and he decided that Apple was the company he wanted when he first saw Apple-l when he saw it. I never thought that today's Apple founder actually invited himself to join this company!!
Jobs couldn't hide his excitement and immediately agreed: "No problem, I'll go to Atari to resign now!!"
As he spoke, he immediately stood up and couldn't wait to go outside.
Li Zetian was stunned, looked at the figure of Jobs, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "I'll go, you're actually more anxious than me......"
At this time, Li Zetian's eyes glanced at Wozniak, and said slowly: "Wozniak, even Steve Jobs is going to join Apple, do you still have to hesitate?"
Wozniak was silent for a minute, Li Zetian invited him many times, full of sincerity, more than Liu Bei visited the thatched house three times, Wozniak said not moved, it was fake.
"Chronos, I've decided to join Apple!!" Wozniak said in a deep voice.
"Welcome to your joining, Wozniak!!" Li Zetian was overjoyed when he heard this, stretched out his hand and hugged him, then patted him on the shoulder, and said: "With your joining, Apple is like a tiger!!
On the same day, Wozniak submitted his resignation to Hewlett-Packard, and Steve Jobs submitted his resignation to Atari.
In order to retain them in the future, Li Zetian promised that they could get more options than ordinary employees in the future!
There is a saying: "Maxima often exists, but Bole does not often have!"
Jobs never expected that as soon as he arrived at Apple, he was appreciated by the founder, not only as a product manager, but also as an option reward in the future.
"Do a good job, Jobs, don't live up to my expectations of you!!" Li Zetian patted Jobs on the shoulder.
"Don't worry, Mr.li, I will definitely lead the team to make the best work!"
"Hmm!" Li Zetian nodded, thinking, Mac computers can be handed over to Jobs to develop, which will involve the development of graphics operating systems, mice, etc., the pursuit of perfectionism Jobs is the best candidate, this will probably take several years. As for the second-generation personal computer Apple-ll, Wozniak and Zhang Enthalpy are responsible for solving it!
The addition of Jobs and Wozniak made Li Zetian feel that Apple had suddenly become stronger, and at the same time, it also gave him a lot of confidence!
Hiring!
Dilate!
Rise up!
Apple has embarked on a massive recruitment campaign!
Li Zetian spent money to rent the entire office building next to it and became the new headquarters, and the original red low house became Apple's "skunk factory" - Mac Lab, allowing Jobs to lead the team to develop Mac computers!!
Skunk Works, originally the officially recognized nickname of Lockheed Martin's advanced development project, led a group of enterprising professional engineers with enterprise management and humanized management methods, developed the most confidential and advanced weapons products in the United States defense science and technology with incomparable creativity, and was also known for its rapid and effective cost control, thus becoming a benchmark for large companies engaged in high-tech industries around the world to emulate and learn.
Under the birth of this organizational innovation model, Xerox's Polo-Alto Laboratory, AT&T's Bell Labs in the United States, the "Manhattan Project", IBM's "Chess Project", and BMW's "i Project" have sprung up, which are typical representatives of commercial skunk factories.
Therefore, Li Zetian is ready to learn from Lockheed Martin and establish Apple's "Skunk Factory" -- Mac Lab, which is dedicated to the development of Mac computers!!
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