Jeff Bezos, future founder of Amazon......

As early as browsing the list of employees and seeing his name for the first time, Alice guessed that she had hired the right person. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Later, after skimming through the other party's resume a little, she was even more convinced of this conclusion.

This slightly funny-looking bald guy not only founded Amazon, the world's largest online bookstore, and one of the first companies on the Internet to start e-commerce, but also developed it into the largest online e-commerce company in the United States, which is no ordinary achievement.

He was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 1999, just four years after the company was founded, and when the timeline moved towards 2014, he was among the top 10 richest people in the world with a net worth of more than $30 billion. As the real leader in the industry that gave birth to Jack Ma's idea of creating Alibaba, this pinnacle of life that has soared to 30,000 miles is also just right.

And now, this kid, who just graduated from Princeton University, has actually come to work at Cisco.

When she first learned of this fact, Alice almost didn't laugh out loud.

"Miss Alice?"

At this time, Bezos, who was not yet bald, sat down in the cafeteria restaurant very cautiously: "It's really rare to see you in the company." ”

This is a relatively high-end dining area in the canteen, with curved sofas around oval tables, an elegant environment, but the number of people is even more rare. Because of this, when many people saw Bezos, a newcomer in the workplace who was working in the firewall R&D department, actually sat with Alice, who rarely appeared in the company, many people looked like they had seen the news.

Of course, Alice ignored them: "Jeff, you've been working in our company for two years, and you've been doing a great job. But it's been two years since then, and it's the first two years after graduating, so how are you planning for your future in such a long time?"

It's a rare scene where a girl in high school actually asks a professional about her future plans, but this matter seems extremely natural to Alice. Bezos subconsciously smacked his lips, and immediately realized that it was not very polite, and couldn't help but purse his mouth.

"Actually, when I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut or a physicist. ”

What a great ideal, Alice smiled, and Bezos also took a sip of juice happily: "When I was in middle school, I once wanted to be a business manager, but after I went to college, I became interested in computers. My resume says I graduated from the Department of Computer Science, right?"

Alice was noncommittal, but said ambiguously, "So, your interests change for a while, right?"

"Well, now I'm working at Cisco...... It feels good. Seriously, Alice, I really admire you, those media magazines often talk about your age, but what I've noticed is that before you, no one was thinking about developing any hardware specifically for the popularization of the Internet. ”

Alice smiled and nodded, the general media is okay, and professional magazines such as "Popular Electronics" do not talk about her age. Of course, it's not to question Alice's talent, but to highlight the contrast between those achievements and her age.

"So, I do have some ideas......"

Instead, Bezos said, "I wonder if I can do something earth-shattering, after all, Alice, we don't see each other much, but you always joke that I'm a billionaire or something." It's always saying that, it really makes me cranky!"

After saying that, both of them laughed. Of course, this scene was also seen clearly by the employees in the distance, and the big guys couldn't help but be more curious, and many people didn't even have the heart to eat, and began to talk in a whisper.

"Hey, you said that Bezos kid won't be in a relationship with our boss, right?"

"Falling in love!?Please, there's almost a ten-year difference between them, isn't it?Roger, you're not afraid to get the word out of Mary's ears when you say that, you know she's a little ...... Bezos."

The above two people were just gossiping, but some people were serious and thought: "Is Jeff going to soar? His performance in the past two years has indeed been very good, and Bossak has praised him by name several times in meetings, is this about to be promoted?"

"Firewall R&D team, this is a Pentagon project, and it's really great that Jeff can get in. But the most remarkable thing is Alice, who is directly handed over to the R&D team as a semi-finished product, and those people only need to do the finishing touches. Tut-tut......"

The distant chatter, mixed with normal chit-chat, could still be heard by Alice, but of course she didn't bother to pay attention to the staff's ramblings, just continued to chat with Bezos.

"If you really want to seek further development, I will not stop you, don't worry. ”

First of all, she said: "After all, if you really succeed in starting a business, it will be much more valuable to this society and to me than if you continue to be a programmer at Cisco." Think about it, if you are sincere to the big boss of the company, and if we have any projects that we can work on, one is to cooperate with the previous company boss, and the other is to cooperate with the former company employees, these are all acquaintances, right?"

What he said really made Bezos sincerely frightened and smiled bitterly: "Please, Alice, is there a boss like you? Encourage subordinate employees to leave their jobs and start their own businesses? I've been working at Cisco for two years, aren't you afraid that I will become your competitor?"

Alice snorted and waved her hand disappreciatively: "Lucent Technology has the support of Bell Labs behind it, and the speed of developing new products has not been left behind by me? ”

Seeing that Alice was so sure, Bezos couldn't help but feel curious, and couldn't help asking: "Definitely not Lucent? It's the second in the industry now, right? It won't be Lucent, is it the third ......?"

In the next few words, Alice didn't listen to Bezos's simple rhetorical question.

After lunch, a short time before Sandy arrived at the office, Alice made a phone call home as soon as she returned to the office.

After a while, Sophie, who must have been at home, connected it: "Hello, this is ......"

"Mom, how are our connections in China?"

Because there was something going on in the morning, although it was almost one o'clock in the afternoon, Sophie was still preparing lunch. Originally, her mind was full of all kinds of cooking seasons, but her daughter suddenly asked such a question, which immediately made her confused.

"Connections in China? uh...... Belch...... Do you mean 'Oscar & Hannah'?"

Not sure what Alice's plans were, Sophie stammered, "Do you want to put domestic companies in China?" or are you finally going to make Oscar & Hannah go global?"

Alice also realized that her question was too sudden, and at this moment, she sat comfortably behind her desk in the office, and casually pulled a new generation switch from the desktop: "That's right, Mom, um...... I learned from an employee here at Cisco, uh...... He is also of Chinese descent, and he told me that a relative of a retired military cadre in his hometown in China is now planning to start a switch business. ”

Eight out of ten sentences are nonsense, but Sophie didn't know the composition of Cisco, but listening to her daughter's last sentence, she followed the train of thought and said, "So, you're planning to buy that company, but it shouldn't pose a threat to Cisco...... So Alice, you're up to the idea of the Chinese market?"

is really worthy of being a mother, even if Alice's thinking has always broken through the sky, she still has a good grasp of her daughter's mind. Therefore, when there was such a cheer of "hey, hey" from the other side of the microphone, Sophie could also think that her daughter must have snapped her fingers.

"That's right, Mom, but I'm afraid this business is not suitable for you, so let Dad ask for a leave of absence from school and ask him to accompany me on a trip to China." ”

Of course, this is fine, but Sophie is thinking about another question: "But you have to take a leave of absence from Eton when you start school in ten days?" ”

Of course, Alice knows better than anyone else, she touched her lips, glanced at the world map on the side wall, and nodded vigorously: "That's it, first go to Shanghai, see the development of 'Oscar Hannah', and then go to Shenzhen, according to my employee, his relative went to Shenzhen to work hard." ”

Sophie has heard the term "Shenzhen" a lot, after all, when "Oscar Hannah" was first established, she also personally sat in the Shanghai headquarters for a while. She has heard of the so-called coastal pilot city that was the first to open up: "Shenzhen is good, the climate there is similar to Florida, and now it can be regarded as a cold shelter in the past." ”

"But Alice, is your information reliable? What generation is your employee of Chinese descent? Can he give the exact contact information of that relative?"

Alice was silent for a moment, as she needed to recall the memories of her past life.

According to him, that relative, when he was 83 years old, worked at the Nanhai Petroleum Logistics Service Base in Shenzhen, and recently resigned, so I can get his contact information directly from that company. However, his national pride is very strong, and if I contact him directly as the founder of Cisco, I don't think anything good will come of it, which requires the identity of "Oscar & Hannah". ”

So that's the case, Sophie nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll help you contact Shanghai." (To be continued.) )