In fact, the investment in Bush oil is really simple, and Alice only needs to throw a favor of five million yuan. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the Bush family has a high status in the political world, and the two presidents in the White House have made them one of the top political families in the United States, it has little to do with the business world. As far as Alice knows, until around the time of the Rio Olympics, the total assets of this huge family were only $60 million.

Yes, only 60 million dollars.

Although in the political circles, they can be called the wind and rain, they have met all celebrities, and even have countless stories to tell with the local tyrants in the Middle East. But if it really comes to the family property, $60 million is already a rare amount of money for American political families.

In fact, this is the same as the arms dealers. Whether it's Lockheed, Boeing, or General Dynamics, even if you add up the market capitalization and annual profit figures, it is barely enough to make up a Facebook's market value of 300 billion. There's not a lot of money, but the nature of the business is there, so the hard power and influence are far from comparable to a Silicon Valley unicorn.

Therefore, although this $5 million is only a fraction of Microsoft's monthly dividend for Alice, which is getting bigger and bigger, it is definitely a timely rain for Bush Jr.'s oil company, which is losing money. And for Alice, exchanging a mere $5 million for a huge favor from the Bush family is a super big deal.

That night, Alice slept in the Bush guest room, and the next morning she would go to Capitol Hill to be introduced to a New York State congressman, and then to Manhattan Wall Street to find a financial company. It's all work, and if she weren't a student now, she would have had a secretary to arrange the schedule, so it's necessary to take a break early, even if it's a superficial break.

Well, a superficial break.

The energetic Alice will not waste a third of her day playing an ordinary person.

In the bedroom at night, the moonlight poured in through the bright window, and the large empty bed shone with silver light. The antique European décor gives a sense of historical precipitation, even a small desk is beautifully made, not to mention the extremely fancy dresser in the distance.

Alice, though she was a girl, didn't sit at the dresser.

Just kidding, it's the middle of the night, in front of the dresser, what girl would dare to sit in front of it?

So Alice was sitting at her desk, guarding a fax machine, a computer, and a lamp.

A stack of freshly printed documents in my hand, still hot, came from Cisco.

Unlike Microsoft, Cisco is a company that Alice has built single-handedly, and it is getting bigger and bigger, and it is growing faster and faster, and it is much more important than the "ah-teasing" company that has just been thrown aside after its own investment.

A new business that has been making trouble within the company for a long time is the cooperation with Lucent Technologies.

The company wanted to work with Cisco to develop a network card module and a more efficient optical module.

Honestly, boring content.

Of course, Alice knows what the network card module is, figuratively speaking, it is a circuit module with relevant functions on the external network card.

Network card module, sound card module, graphics card module, respectively installed on the external network card, sound card and graphics card, it is precisely because of their existence that the network card is called the network card, the sound card is called the sound card, and so on. However, with the continuous strengthening of onboard technology, more and more network cards and sound cards have been integrated into the motherboard, except for some professional fields, only the graphics card still uses external connection as always.

This is indeed a critical technology, because the network transmission rate is not only related to the bandwidth laid by the operator, but also the speed that the computer itself can hold. If the fiber optic loan is 100 megabits, and the carrying capacity of the network card is only 10 megabytes, then the Blu-ray movie will still have to take dozens of hours to install in the computer.

Of course, it is much easier to upgrade the NIC module than to speed up the laying of optical networks, and it is even easier to integrate it into the motherboard. So when it comes to networking, netizens in the 21st century only need to buy a motherboard that is enough, and the rest of their energy is left to complain about the operator.

As for the optical module......

To put it simply, the function of the optical module is photoelectric conversion, the transmitter converts the electrical signal into an optical signal, and after transmission through the optical fiber, the receiver converts the optical signal into an electrical signal. It is an integral part of the physical layer in the network structure, routers and switches can be used, but because its presence is weak, most ordinary users have not even heard of it.

This is normal, because the optical module is just a basic component, and no one will buy this commodity separately. Ordinary home users will buy routers, and ordinary companies will buy switches, but who will take them apart and study what each small device is called?

That is, large server base stations, large computer rooms of large companies, and cloud storage, which cause the need to directly strengthen the network effect, so that some hot-swappable and non-hot-swappable external optical module components will be purchased separately to strengthen the network.

But it is understandable that this component, which is almost unknown to ordinary people, is indeed one of the cornerstones of the Internet hardware industry. It is absolutely understandable to say that the global Internet in the entire information age is built on countless optical modules, and its correspondence is just like the Three Gorges Project is to the national water conservancy, the Three Gorges Dam is to the Three Gorges Project, and the concrete technology is to the Three Gorges Dam.

Therefore, Lucent put forward this kind of cooperation proposal, of course, Alice is happy to see. Cisco can't completely establish its position as the founder of the Internet just by selling routers, switches, and firewalls, and more "skeleton products" are definitely the new blood it is urgently needing.

It's just, it's really boring.

Because it's too infrastructure.

Alice, who is accustomed to selling the "Three Gorges Project" and building the "Three Gorges Dam", suddenly studied how to make better concrete, which is also too infrastructure......

"Huh...... I'll leave this kind of to Bosak and them to do it themselves, I'm not interested. ”

Alice pouted, now Cisco has almost a thousand employees, how can they all do post-maintenance, and they have to give the R&D department some hard bones to gnaw, right?

Well, yes, as of July of this year, Cisco has recruited almost a thousand employees.

The company's new location, still in San Jose, will fit two Yankee Stadiums, and after this second location, the company's headquarters will not move for the next two or three decades, so it is necessary for Alice to build it in the style of an entire science park.

It's just that there is a bit of a shortage of money at present, so the project has not yet started, considering that the old building is really overcrowded, she has rented another seven or eight story office building next door. This can be considered either the second building of the headquarters or a temporary office area, as this situation will certainly not last.

"Hoo ......"

After making this decision in her heart, Alice, who was sitting at the table, exhaled a long breath, shook her hand and glanced at DreamWorks' July financial statements, and her mind began to spin again.

Well, it has nothing to do with DreamWorks, she has no plans to make a movie anytime soon.

It's still Cisco's.

The IPO is ongoing.

An IPO is an initial public offering, that is, a company goes public, and the preliminary work is very complicated.

The company responsible for the IPO has been chosen, and that is Sissy's father, the same Wall Street firm that Mr. Lawrence worked for before he resigned and came to Los Angeles. The relevant details are handled by Sophie, Alice doesn't care much, her mother has a bunch of top certificates in her pocket, how can there be reason not to make full use of such a high-level and free labor?

However, Alice is a thousand instructions, not in a hurry, not in a hurry, work to keep improving, we are not short of time, we can wait for November or even December to go public, just together with Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Sophie, of course, fully conveyed Alice's advice, and she highly agreed, although she did not know the real reason for her daughter.

"Well, and then there's this one. ”

Skimming through a financial statement sent by Electronic Arts, Alice focused on an extremely important document.

With more than a year of continuous small investments, she has diversified her holdings on major stock exchanges around the world.

Long before Sophie and her father got married, she had a glorious history of making money by trading stocks and making a fortune, and Alice, as a daughter, of course, has the same habits. Every day, every week, every month, the quantity is not too much, 1,000, 3,000, 5,000, 10,000, buy it piecemeal, and sell it when the time is good. Although it is not worth mentioning compared with the annual dividend of Microsoft Cisco, it is still a considerable amount of money when it really accumulates.

Eighty-seven million.

Thanks to this good development throughout the summer of 1987, if Alice had sold off all the odd shares she had, she would have immediately gained such a short amount of cash - except for Apple's, which she had been investing regularly, although it was very weak now.

Of course, being able to make so much money is inseparable from her excellent stock trading ability. As long as you have a little network and spend a little money, anyone can get a historical stock price fluctuation record of a listed company, and a thick pile of evaluation reports. Analyzing the next development of the situation from this massive amount of data, this kind of complex calculations based on a series of basic sciences such as statistics, probability theory, and even the uncertainty principle in quantum theory are enough to easily burn any supercomputer in the world, but it is not difficult for Alice's smart little brain.

But to the little clerk who edited the fax, Alice had to snicker and say sorry.

Because, this is not an easy task, hundreds of stock names are listed vertically, and the printed documents are enough to have a thick pile of small piles.

But who called her a key Citibank customer? )