"Kaphan, come over and let me introduce you to our company's No. 1 investor, Master Jia Lei. After signing an investment agreement with Jia Lei, Jeff Bezos introduced the only employee in his company to Jia Lei.

"Oh my God, Jeff, you've finally found an investor, and if you don't get any more investment, I'm afraid I'll have to spend money on the company's stock." Kaphan said happily after seeing Jia Lei and his group.

"Oh, as an employee of the company, do you still have to spend money to buy the company's shares? I remember that Internet companies all have to give employees options, you can get the company's shares without spending money, right?" Jia Lei asked puzzledly, this is almost the current rule of Internet companies in country M.

"That's what a normal company does! I'm a co-founder of this online bookstore, so of course I have to do my part for this company.

And I promised Jeff that he had to buy $5,000 in shares in the company before he could join the company, and then I saw that the company's economic conditions were too difficult and bought another $20,000 in shares, so I am now a shareholder of the company. Kaphan and Jia Lei explained.

"But your current working environment is so bad and the workload is so large, even if you are a shareholder of the company, the company should pay you salaries and options, right?" Jia Lei asked with a frown, he didn't like people who deducted employees' salaries.

"Hehe...... I have options for the company, but my salary is not based on the salary of an Internet company!" Kaphan couldn't help but laugh at this.

"Kaphan, don't complain about your salary, isn't I, the chairman, just like you, only get half of my salary a year?

Besides, you're not the only one who has invested in the company, McKenzie and I have paid for the company's stock, and my parents have decided to give us an additional $100,000 in investment.

We are now in the early stages of entrepreneurship and we have to spend money everywhere, and you should understand my difficulty and get through this with the company. You have to believe that we can change this era!" said Jeff Bezos excitedly, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with cutting back on wages and reducing the company's costs in the early days of the business.

"I didn't say you did it wrong, if I really didn't approve of you doing this, I wouldn't have stayed!

When you invited me to join the company, everything was still unknown, so I didn't think about anything and followed you here to start a business.

I can adapt to the fact that you work in the garage with doors and desks, and I can't get used to receiving half of the $64,000 salary that year.

I came all the way from a bustling big city to accept this low-paying job because I wanted to take the risk of changing an era with you, otherwise with my experience working in the Ministry of State of Country M, people would hire me everywhere with a high salary. Kaphan said.

If he wants, he can always find a job in Silicon Valley with an annual salary of hundreds of thousands!

"Kaphan, I know you've been under so much pressure lately that you're complaining, but I don't want you to show the pressure on your job to investors, which will make them lose confidence in us. Jeff Bay Soss glanced at Jia Lei and frowned and said, he was afraid that Jia Lei would think that the employees in his company were disobedient.

I am the only technician in the whole company who is responsible for making the website and writing the code, and I not only have to design the website you want according to your ideas, but also help you enter nearly 1 million book title entries to let customers buy products.

And the online shopping app you are asking for has never been developed before, and it takes me enough time to write it, and you always feel like you're pushing me over there. I'm not a robot, I can't be a two-person ......," Kaphan complained, Jeff Bezos' temper tantrum was the only thing he couldn't stand it.

"Alright, you two don't quarrel! there are guests here, so you two don't quarrel over your own work philosophy. It should have been a joy that we got our first investment today, so why don't we go and celebrate?"

Jeff Bezos's temper has always been not very good, and every time it comes to this, it is McKenzie who proposes to be a peacemaker, otherwise Kaphan would have been angry with Jeff Bezos.

"Well, I also think that this good day should be celebrated, so let's take a day off. Jeff Bezos nodded in agreement, only then realizing that he had gone too far.

Shel Kaphan came to him with a full car of belongings, he was the earliest technical director of Amazon, not to mention that Kaphan had developed the predecessor of the network developed by the Ministry of State of M, ARPANET, and was an indispensable technical talent in the company.

Shel Kaphan is not only a computer genius but also a well-known figure in the Internet industry, as he developed the first PC player software, and the company's popularity would have increased a lot if he had it.

Shel Kaphan has worked for a number of companies in the Bay Area, including Apple and Kaleida Labs, a partnership with IBM, and Bezos approached him when Shel Kaphan was temporarily out of work after the lab closed.

Shel Kaphan's lab was unemployed after the closure of the lab, perhaps because of Bezos's charisma and the prospects he described for the project, so Kaphan resolutely gave up a high-paying position at another company to work for the poor Jeff Bezos.

The most important thing is that Kaphan himself has worked in the bookstore system, so he is definitely a technical person who is proficient in both the Internet and bookstores, and is an indispensable person for the establishment of Amazon's online bookstore.

"Since this is the first time we have met, let me invite you, and it will be my gift to everyone. Jia Lei said with a smile, as if he didn't see the company of only three people arguing just now.

"Then I'll thank you in advance, this time we can finally have a big meal. Mackenzie laughed as the atmosphere in the room finally came alive with her ease.

"In that case, let's go!" said Pete happily, and of course he was happy that Jia Lei could invest in his friend's project.

*****

"Boss, Jeff, he's always been so grumpy, please don't mind, he's good at everything, but he's a little grumpy. After returning to the hotel, Pete immediately apologized for his friends and Jia Lei, he knew that Jia Lei didn't like people with a character like Bezos.

"It's okay! Anyway, I'm just investing and not going to work for their company, and Jeff Bezos's personality has nothing to do with me.

Your friend's personality is a bit harsh for the employee, but he's the smartest boss, and if I'm going to pick a project to invest in, he's the kind of guy Jeff Bezos is the best fit.

Because only people like him can make a lot of money!" Jia Lei said nonchalantly, he didn't seem to care at all about Jeff Bezos's performance of squeezing Shel Kaphan in front of him.

In fact, Jia Lei knew in his previous life that the first employee of many top international Internet companies did not end well, and the most famous should be the two top employees of Google and Amazon.

For example, Google's number one employee was Silverstein, the then head of technical development who was responsible for Google's application software programming, and the idea of a search engine from Google's two founders at that time aroused his interest, and then the top employee of Google took the initiative to contact the other two founders.

Later, when Google's two founders were looking to start the company, Silverstein joined the company with no salary, just like Kaphan, and he joined Google in 1998, when Google didn't even have a name.

In the early days of Google, the three of them lived in a "graduate school" style, staying up late in Brin's dorm room to program and work out the most basic framework of Google software, and the three of them lived in the same room because they had no money.

Later, with the rapid development of Google, the number one employee of Silverstein became less and less vocal in the company, and it became more and more difficult to meet and communicate with the two founders.

Silverstein, as an engineering man with low emotional intelligence, just quietly stayed in the company and continued to do technical work, and did not participate in the management of Google, so until he resigned, he still held the position of technical director of Google.

Later, Silverstein eventually left Google to work as a teacher at Khan Acedemy, an educational organization. He said he didn't have much contact with Google's founder, but he still had a "friendly" relationship.

It's a pity that Kaphan, Amazon's first employee, is not as shy as Silverstein, and Jeff Bezos is notoriously short-tempered and oppressive of employees in Internet companies, and Amazon's employees have held many strikes around the world.

Kaphan's first employee at Amazon had a similar experience to Google's number one employee, Silverstein.

Kaphan was initially optimistic about Amazon's potential, and when he joined the company, he spent minimal money on his rented house because he felt that he could go back to the south as long as he had the system in place. But when he met Bezos, he was shocked by Jeff Bezos's ambition, and he stayed without hesitation.

Mr. Bezos found Kaphan through a friend who wanted to wait a few days to get a job at an internet company in Silicon Valley.

One of the things that attracted him most about Bezos's online bookstore was that Kaphan himself loved books and had worked in brick-and-mortar bookstores, so the two hit it off.

Prior to Kaphan's move to Bezos, Shel Kaphan worked in the transportation department at Global Overview, an automated library where Kaphan was responsible for cashiering, subscriptions, packaging and cataloging for customers, a process that seemed like that of an online bookstore.

Because Kaphan has enough ability and fame to support his later days, he is not worried about whether Jeff Bezos's company will collapse in the future, he only wants to do something interesting when he joins and takes a stake in Amazon, because he feels that the online store is a project that should not be missed.

And Amazon's technical foundation was built by Kaphan, and when Jia Lei met him, he was the only technician and employee of Amazon.

Because the entire company only had Kaphan software code to build the website, he had to work long hours and work overtime almost every weekend, and Amazon's early years were tense and very stressful, so he would often argue with Jeff Bezos.

Later, with the rapid growth of Amazon, Kaphan and Jeff Bezos were both bosses, employees and friends, and their relationship changed.

In the beginning, Kaphan was able to have friendly conversations with Bezos face-to-face, but the two had less and less time to talk about business.

Kaphan later said on television that he was frustrated in his final years at Amazon because the company had hired someone else to take his place, and that he had become CTO but had lost control of his system, as if his own son had been taken from him.

Eventually, Kaphan had a big fight with Jeff Bezos in 1999, and in the end, Mackenzie came forward to invite Kaphan to dinner when he was resentful of Jeff Bezos and Amazon, and then persuaded him to quit Amazon's founding team and find another job.

And Mackenzie was also very humane in raising start-up capital for Kavin after he left the management team, and later Kaphan set up his own website and served as a shareholder of Amazon.

Although the founders of these two Internet companies were eventually replaced by newcomers and had to leave the company, they still got their own shares and wealth.

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