What the rest of her peers in the film industry think has nothing to do with Alice, her daily life is just to go to and from school as usual. As soon as the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info passed in March, the heat brought by "Ghost Shadow" dissipated, and she had already sprinkled hundreds of millions of yuan of box office revenue into the bottomless pit of the clothing market, so to speak, there was nothing for a while.

Of course, it can't be said that at the very least, Microsoft's side has indeed been popular because of the movie. Anyway, this is also a super hit with 200 million US dollars in revenue in the domestic market alone and the overseas box office is gradually heating up, and the movies that have been watched are almost the same as one or two hundred million, how many of them have seen Alice's advertisement?

"When it is sold with the DOS system, it is completely heaven and earth!"

Therefore, it is not surprising that Gates will personally call to thank him, and he is even so excited that he can't even say anything: "Many companies in Britain, Italy, Germany, and France have called us and named us to buy them! Yesterday alone, we signed 452 orders, the day before yesterday it was 341, and the day before yesterday it was 675, and the sales in a single day are tens of thousands!"

It's really good...... Listening to Gates' incoherent exclamations, Alice thought so.

Single-day sales...... Tens of thousands, what is this?

Although the profit margins are ridiculously high......

You know, a Cisco router costs $2,000, and the price is only $100. Microsoft has to sell 20 copies of their system, which is equivalent to Cisco selling a router here.

However, who said that the current market situation is like this? Although the graphical user interface is excellent, the current Microsoft is not without other competitors, and the current number of application software is also limited, and other users do not have to pay a penny for the DOS system to use it well.

Buying you is to give you face, because I think it is really convenient to use, it is the icing on the cake, but that's all. After all, compared to the really popular 95 system, the highlight is really just the graphical user interface.

But routers are different, which can directly reduce the cost of LAN construction by three or four times, and also free up space for an extra computer. Although ninety percent of the $2,000 is pure net profit, the direct effect of saving huge costs for users is directly there......

Just like Alice had calculated, if it weren't for the future price war, even if she raised the price to a full $4,000, the orders would still be endless!

Speaking of which, it wasn't until Bossak hung up the phone again that Alice, who had been busy with other things, remembered that the agreed deadline for thirty venture capitalists had actually arrived.

Yes, it's April 1st of '85, and according to the couple's original errand speed, that is, the hard work of 73 families in 86, it's almost the same as making up 30 families on this day.

So, early the next morning after receiving the call, Alice and Sophie flew directly to the San Jose airport, just in time for lunch, and sat in the dining room of the Posack couple's mansion near Stanford University.

At the spacious dining table, the couple prepared a sumptuous lunch for the noon guests, but although the expressions on their faces were vague, they clearly expressed one meaning, that is, they wanted to end the meal quickly.

"This is the company's financial statements for March, you can take a look. ”

Sandy handed over the report to Sophie and a copy to Alice, adding, "How about putting the ledger in the company, how about going to see it after lunch?"

Sophie nodded in agreement, and Alice looked at the report seriously.

Main business income: 828,700

Net profit: 694,370

Liabilities:―

Recalling February's financial statements, Alice said: "Although it is already countless times higher than other industries, it is an indisputable fact that profit margins are falling, what costs have risen?"

Posak pulled off his glasses and smiled, "CPU, the contract I signed with Sandy with Intel expired, and they refused to sell the goods at the original price, increasing the price by 10%. Since you were still in China at the time, we had to renew it directly, but it was only for three months, which means that we could bargain with them again in June. ”

Alice nodded, didn't say anything more, and flipped through the list of clients. Sandy takes her clients very seriously, and looking at the list materials, she sorts all the information into strict standards that even a library can't do better.

"Los Angeles has 8 percent, San Francisco has 17 percent, San Diego has 4 percent, and then Las Vegas has 12 percent...... Sandy, how is this share calculated?"

"We flipped through the Yellow Pages of the companies in our city and counted the number of registered companies and the distribution of industries, which is the proportion of companies that have purchased Cisco products to the number of companies in the Yellow Pages. ”

Sandy replied proudly, for she saw Alice's satisfied smile. At this time, she actually had a strange feeling in her heart, obviously the other party was just a little girl about thirteen years old, but when she opened her mouth as a thirty-year-old university professor, she couldn't help but report like a regular subordinate.

And the most amazing thing is that after realizing her attitude in an instant, Sandy actually felt a little unbelievable that her low profile in reporting work seemed to be a very normal thing.

Not noticing the surprise in Sandy's eyes, Alice said: "Good job, but since we have expanded the market so fast, we must have appeared in the same industry, right?" In the past few months, we have sold tens of thousands of routers to major companies, scientific research institutions and universities, and everyone else is not stupid, and we are about to be impacted." ”

Bossack tapped his fingers on the table, his eyes twinkling in contemplation, but in order to wait for his newly opened mouth to say something, after reading the financial statements, Sophie said: "At the moment there are only two of you employees in the company, although this is very cost-effective, but now that the business is getting bigger and bigger, it is time to recruit new employees." ”

Invisibly, this sentence positioned the two of Bossak as employees, but Sophie's speed of speech was fast, and before the two could think more about that word, her follow-up speeches had followed.

"Alice's words are reasonable, so we need to set up a marketing department as soon as possible, and try to investigate all potential competitors while trying to expand the product market. Therefore, it is time for the technical and customer service departments to be established, and when there are more customers, all kinds of related inquiries will also increase, and it is time for us to set up the enterprise structure. ”

Posack nodded and agreed: "Indeed, although the shipping process has been directly shipped by the manufacturer according to Alice's concept, we are indeed a little unable to handle a large number of orders every day. If you want to recruit people, it is enough for the technical department to recruit five people, after all, we only have this product at the moment. ”

Alice waved her hand and said, "In terms of team building, let's talk about it when we get to the company site in a while, this is a very complicated problem." Eat first, patronize and chat, my steak is almost cold!"

In this way, the lunch ended hastily in the different moods of the four people, and Bosak immediately drove the car and took Alice's mother and daughter to the current Cisco company location.

An office area near the San Francisco area, I found an office here as a registered address, and that's it. The current Cisco company is still ahead of the tens of thousands of employees in 20 years, and as she stepped into the office, Alice looked around, the room was not necessarily as large as her home, and the space was almost full.

"Since we have to hire again, the office will definitely have to be renewed. ”

Alice paced around the room, slowly looking around, several rooms were full of filing cabinets, and the largest room was used to study hardware assembly, so to speak, it was already the limit to allow the two of them to work, at most one person, otherwise the oppressive feeling of the environment was enough to make everyone collapse.

Bosak muttered and followed, it had been almost a year since the company was founded. It is true that the company's income level is steadily increasing, but more and more business is no longer something that the couple can handle alone.

Who would have thought that just after Alice handed over the first batch of orders, the rest of the business would snowball here? Almost since then, almost all of the couple's time has been spent on handling business, dealing with various manufacturers, interviewing customers, and so busy with all kinds of matters that they can only spare a little time to raise money for the company, that is, visiting the venture capital manager.

And after they visited those venture capitalists again and again, they ushered in one failure after another, and even now, Bossak is completely unable to understand why he can't convince them.

Alice, of course, didn't use mind-reading, but with the atmosphere along the way, she certainly knew what was going on in the couple's mind.

Taking out the order summary from the general manager's office, based on the clear information above, Alice can easily draw conclusions.

Since she quietly asked Lawrence to network and publish small advertisements in several major financial media outlets, such as the Wall Street Journal, the number of orders that have flocked to Cisco is by no means comparable to the word of mouth of professors at several universities.

Looking at the instant coffee bags accumulated in the trash can, and then looking at the deep sense of happiness contained in the tired expressions of the Bossacks, Alice shiny and shiny showing her snow-white teeth.

The reason is simple.

After exhausting the original founder into a dog, of course, they wished that someone would share the blame for them.

The only problem is that once this responsibility is separated, if you want to take it back, it will be far away.