Chapter 25: The Insidious and Talented Alice

"Just wait, right?"

Regarding Alice's affirmative attitude, Sissi glanced at her with undoubted disdain: "Do you think writing a novel is so simple? Of course, it would be easy to adapt Snow White, do you want to do that? ”

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However, Alice said very calmly: "I can submit a manuscript of a novel to Bantam next weekend, and the word count has not been considered, but 100,000 words is no problem." ”

“…… Just make it up. ”

But if an ordinary girl suddenly says such a thing, no one will believe it, although Sissi knows that Alice is very smart, but it's all in the computer field, does it have anything to do with literature?

"Someone told me a minute ago that they hadn't even heard of Penguin Publishing, and now they told me that they were going to write a novel of more than 100,000 words in a week? Why don't you just be more powerful and make up 300,000 words? ”

"Do you think I can't do it?"

"Can you do it?"

Outside the door of Mansion No. 15, two young girls stopped here, both staring at each other with big round eyes, looking like no one was convinced.

"Hey, you two, it's time to go home!"

Finally, Sergei, who had been observing from a distance, couldn't help it, strode out of the police car, and walked towards Alice and the others: "Since the party is over, let's go home quickly, please let me go to bed early, okay?" ”

Seeing that it was Sergei, Alice withdrew her eyes and grinned at him: "Good work, officer, did you find a serial murderer tonight that deserves everyone's screams?" ”

In this sentence, Alice sincerely uses clever grammar to bring the name of a certain movie into her sentence. After all, late-night parties are a great opportunity for characters like Jason and Freddy to make their debuts, isn't it?

"Of course not, you can rejoice. Alice, I know what you mean, "Moonlight Panic", yes? Haha, hurry up and go home and sleep! ”

Watching Alice enter the house, and then taking pains to send Sissi back to Mansion Seven, watching the girl walk back to the party, Sergei stood next to the police car and sighed heartily.

At the same time, Alice did go home honestly.

But she didn't sleep honestly.

Writing a long novel, Sissi's provocation does give Alice endless motivation.

The mysteries of the brain are difficult for human beings to explore in their lifetime. No matter how intelligent and knowledgeable a human being is, even if his brain domain has been developed, even if he lives in a future world where biotechnology is extremely advanced, it is impossible for him to study his brain thoroughly.

After all, whether it is his own thinking or using the tools he has researched to assist in research, doesn't it also rely on the human brain to achieve the first step?

Can God Almighty make a stone that He can't lift himself?

As for the extent of her brain development, Alice herself is only an estimate, about 20%.

So for her, it is really not difficult to write a work that she has read in her previous life.

It can be said that even if it was just a walk in her previous life, the wind swept by the wind and the leaves, as long as Alice was willing, she could recall all the details of the beginning, that is, the process of "how rheumatism blows the fallen leaves". Although it was only a glance at the time of the walk, it still occupied an insignificant space in the memory.

But before she actually writes, she still has a lot to think about.

It was late at night, and after coaxing Hannah to bed, Alice sat alone at her desk, thinking about her current situation.

"So, what's going on at the moment......"

Looking at the microwave-like Apple 'Lisa' computer on the desk, Alice's brain began to move.

A few years ago, for unquestionable reasons, she spent a lot of effort to convince her parents to buy a large number of shares in Apple, when she was only eight years old, which can be regarded as her first adventure into the mall.

After all, in today's era without the Internet, in the days before the arrival of this information explosion era, it is impossible for her to fully understand whether the historical trajectory of the world is the same as that of previous lives, and Apple's stock can be regarded as an experiment.

It's also thanks to Alice's good eloquence, her parents are both upper-middle-class middle-class people with outstanding foresight, and because James is still Chinese, the family has a lot of savings, and there is just spare money to speculate in stocks.

Her adventures proved to be worthwhile. On December 12, 1980, local time in the United States, Apple was listed on the NASDAQ at 22 yuan per share. In less than an hour, $4.6 million of shares were sold out, closing the day at $29 per share, with a market capitalization of $1.778 billion.

When James took advantage of the opening of the market, after buying a full 1,000 shares of Apple at once, the cost was only 22,000, and he made a net profit of 9,000 dollars on the same day!

"At present, the whole family earns 870,000 yuan from Apple stocks, and if this money is cashed out, it will definitely be enough to set up a company. The Cisco system has just been established, but it won't use much money in a short period of time, after all, they only invested 2.5 million when they found venture capital in 86, which is still early. “

In the face of a company with a peak market value of nearly 500 billion US dollars, Alice certainly has countless plans in the making, and at least half of the energy is actually used to trap the Bossacks.

In the face of the founders who would have been kicked out of their own company in history, Alice was really not afraid of being condemned by her conscience when she set up a game for them!

"It took two years to find 73 venture capitalists before I was favored by Sequoia Capital. Two years, there are too many things that can happen, so if you count it this way, it should be the thirtieth house that Posack has found...... March next year, right? ”

Just thinking about what will happen in March next year, the corners of Alice's mouth can't help but smile.

40% of the technology is a stake, which is indeed the price she negotiated with the Bossacks.

But it's based on a bet.

That is, whether the couple can get financing in 30 venture capital firms.

Anyone who knows Internet companies knows that the initial capital of such companies is almost all from venture capital, and the company's initial profits alone cannot run the project. One-third of the venture capital in the United States is concentrated in Silicon Valley, a phenomenon that is not driven by people, but an inevitable consequence of economic development!

Thirty venture capitalists, and if Bossak doesn't get financing by then, Alice will invest another 30 percent of the shares.

In fact, it was a very insidious move, although in the eyes of the couple, the bet seemed to be equivalent to a piece of waste paper.

Thirty, how could you not find it!?

The average person would definitely think so, but after witnessing the details of Apple's listing, Alice's confidence in the bet is absolutely unmatched.

I'm sorry, but you really can't find it, and you'll be looking for more than 70 on average in 10 days to get $2.5 million in funding from Mr. Don Valentine and his management team.

After all, Silicon Valley was full of companies at that time, just like Hollywood, with companies being founded every day and companies closing every day. For a company that is no more than three or two people registered in the founder's living room, the VC firms would not be stupid to waste money, let alone the Bossaks are still clumsy researchers?

If it weren't for Don Valentine's despise on Jobs' "garage company", and as a result, he lost the opportunity to invest in Apple, and he would never have been able to finance Cisco!

Thirty venture capitalists, can't find it, then let me be the angel.

Therefore, for Alice, who has a hundred confidence in the direction of history, this bet is really too obscene......

"Really, the wheels of history are beginning to roll."

Thinking of this, Alice slowly stood up, stood in front of her desk, looked at the bright moonlight outside the window, and muttered to herself.

"Now that Cisco is registered, it is only natural that it will grow and grow, and I am no longer just a small shareholder who makes hundreds of thousands of dollars from Apple stock. One big thing has already been done, but what about the second? ”

In fact, the computer is still turned on, but not Apple's, but an IBM machine with a DOS system. At this time, Microsoft had not yet developed the Office operating system, but if Bill Gates came to this bedroom now, he would have to be shocked.

The "Microsoft-office-word1984" on the screen was completely unheard of by him, and although the first word was definitely Microsoft's registered name, with Gates' memory, he certainly knew that his company had not developed such a product at all.

Word processor!

If Gates were to come here at this time, operating Alice's mouse, and performing a minimization operation, he would have further collapsed and found that a rudimentary window interface system had been built into the most basic shell!

However, at this time, Alice did not focus on the computer at all, just looked at the ceiling, and kept talking to herself.

"If I really had to write it, I could indeed create many classic works in an instant, although it is far from the market value of Apple and Cisco, but this is an achievement in the literary world, two natures. Well, the wise investor Alice Wong is also a popular author? ”