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For students, it's a whole month to play, for adults, it's a time to work, and especially for executives of large corporations, finance departments, and even accounting firms, it's a tiring time to make their annual reports and look ahead to the year's big plans.

And all this is even more comprehensive for Alice.

After returning from Japan, she saw that school was about to start, but she not only had to be interviewed by Fortune magazine, but also routinely scrutinize each of its companies. At this time, my father suddenly became interested in writing novels, and he hastily said the proposal to cooperate in creation.

Of course, the priority of her own affairs always has to be lowered, and after analyzing the priorities of her various industries, Alice first came to Cisco's corporate headquarters in San Jose.

In a word, it is thriving, but it is about to exhaust people to death. ”

Professor Posack, who was in charge of meeting her at the San Jose airport, parked his car in front of the building at this time, and continued the conversation along the way: "You know, we have only been accepting the firewall project for a few months, after all, and you are in a hurry to make the best product, and there is a shortage of manpower." ”

"Well, I'll admit that I didn't think a lot about it when I first chose a house. ”

Alice stepped out of the car, it was sunny and fine, and when she looked up, the sun from the east was slanting through the roof of the company, and a flock of pigeons was passing over.

"Leon, wait a minute, show me the ledger, what is the company's bank balance now?"

The two of them walked towards the main entrance, and Posack said, "More than 13 million, most of the profits are as you suggested, go to buy a large number of stocks." That's right, Alice......"

As he walked into the lobby, Bosak snuffed off his freshly lit cigarette in confusion: "Why do you insist on buying stocks on a global scale? Only the New York Stock Exchange in the United States, then London, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, and all the stocks you bought are bull stocks, and you hired a professional investment team?"

"Uh, that's it...... Because, of course, the global situation is very good right now. ”

Alice's eyes rolled strangely, and suddenly, she happened to see a young man with thick hair, but who was bound to be dying: "Yo, isn't that Jeff!?"

After a good sentence to change the subject, she immediately beckoned to the company's employee, Jeff Bezos.

Seeing that he was actually discovered by the company's top boss, Bezos was obviously taken aback, and the coffee cup in his hand was spilled.

"Oh, damn it! Oh, of course boss, I'm not talking about you, Brad, can you give me a piece of paper?"

Alice said suspiciously, "What are you nervous about? No, hey, Brad, it's past nine o'clock, right?"

The young man at the front desk responded, "Yes, Miss Alice." ”

This kind of salutation is also what Alice asks her employees to do on weekdays. Although it doesn't quite conform to the grammar, "Miss Alice" is really much better than "Miss Wang".

"Aha~"

After getting the answer she wanted, Alice laughed slyly and squinted her eyes at Bezos: "Leon, I saw what kind of little animal we caught, what about Bezos who didn't stick to his post during work hours~"

Posack just chuckled, and Bezos hurriedly put the paper cup on the front desk, and while wiping his hands in a panic, he hurriedly explained: "I was busy until twelve o'clock last night, and it was one o'clock in the morning when I lay in bed." Alice, you arranged the flexible working system, don't look at me like that. ”

Since she is a good employee who works hard until the early hours of the night, of course Alice will not joke anymore, she patted Bezos on the shoulder and said: "Hard work, I remember that you were in the R&D team of the switch last year, right?" And now?"

"He's just taken over Firewall. ”

Bossak answered, as the head of the technical department, and knew that Alice was rarely involved in the company's micro-operations, he immediately explained: "Jeff performed very well in the development of the switch, and you were in a hurry for this new project, so I dragged him to the new project team as soon as possible, and also served as the team leader." ”

"yes, very good. ”

Alice nodded, then patted Bezos on the shoulder: "Excellent employees need to be rewarded, so let's have lunch together at noon today, and let's talk casually about your hairstyle changes." ”

"Hairstyle, hairstyle change?"

Not only Bezos, but Bosack was puzzled on the side, only to see Alice tilt her head slightly, staring at Bezos's head, and smiled: "No one told you, is a bald head more suitable for you?"

Immediately, leaving Bezos standing in place, Alice strode forward and came to the elevator first, and it was not until the door opened that Bosak finally arrived.

Sitting in the office, it was time to work, and the documents were immediately sent by Posack. Alice sat down on the reception couch, not rushing through the papers, but first scanned the chairman's office, which was rarely used.

From a big data perspective, Silicon Valley people are mainly idealists, many of whom come to work in ordinary broken trucks, but run businesses that have an impact on the world. And because Silicon Valley companies are cheap to set up and "garage companies" are emerging, for most Silicon Valley people, their office environment can really be described in one word.

Dirty, messy, poor.

However, Alice's arrival can be regarded as a breath of fresh air for the industry. Looking at the Cisco building, the height of the fifth or sixth floor accommodates hundreds of employees, although she has been complaining about the lack of space to hire new people for a long time, and that is only because Alice has devoted more space to creating a good working atmosphere.

So, the chairman's office she is staying in now is certainly not going to be a boring space like most Silicon Valley tech nerds.

The entire wall is opened into glass windows to allow warm sunlight to flood in, and as this is the top floor of the building, facing an expansive lake, it naturally guarantees privacy.

In addition, Alice's solid wood desk is also specially customized by the merchant, and the length is just across the entire office. Of course, she still has a space for herself to walk into, but the space is so narrow that except for her slender figure, I am afraid that no adult man can get into it at all.

A wide, long desk, a computer and a family photo frame are essential, but the most striking thing is a multi-purpose water dispenser worth $2,000.

The trusty and innovative direct drinking water disinfection system produced by Nissan, which caused a sensation when it was introduced to the U.S. market. So, it's no wonder that it's there, but the coffee machine next door, which is also worth $2,000, has no sense of existence, who calls it a local product.

But compared to the purple clay pot tea set on the side, when visitors first walked into Alice's office, the first thing that caught their attention was the entire row of bookcases.

Obviously, no matter how high-end the bookcase is, if it is empty, it will not attract the slightest attention from others.

The dense collection of celebrity writings is enough to easily frighten all the uneducated and make all intellectuals ecstatic. Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations", Karl Marx's "Capital", Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams", Stavrianos's "General History of the World", and many well-known classics that people may not have seen the real face of, are all placed here in well-packaged tomes, any one of which is enough for people to read carefully!

But at this point, of course, Alice won't be sitting in the little world behind her desk.

After all, the black leather computer chair was perfectly ergonomic, a testament to the Japanese company's encroachment on the personal space of the CEO of a famous American company, and he made $8,000 out of her pocket. Good boy, you can't just let the Japanese make money, so be sure to sit less!

Well, before browsing through these documents, find a water dispenser for a saliva.

"Bank Deposits...... So be it, Leon. ”

Looking at the account book, Alice touched her eyebrows and said, "Before I go back to school in the UK, I will definitely get the new location of the company, but it will take a while to build the building." So, you start by looking for an office building nearby and renting five or six floors to expand your staff, and while rents in San Jose are getting more expensive, five or six months is more than enough. ”

"With this expansion, the total number of employees in the company will be stabilized at 1,000. Moreover, how can we say that it is also an enterprise with a monthly profit of 30 million, and if it continues to develop at this rate, it is estimated that it will take less than two years to have 2,000 people, so this time we must choose a land to build a new building. ”

Bossak couldn't be more than happy to let the company expand, he looked at his watch and said, "No problem." Also, Sandy's plane is supposed to be in San Jose, and it just so happens that all three of us are here, Alice, would you like to talk about going public?"

The company's listing is the dream of everyone in every company, and now Cisco has maintained its position as a new industry leader from the beginning, and now its annual profit can reach more than 200 million US dollars. The word listing, no one will be surprised that it is proposed.

"It's time to go public. ”

Alice patted her head: "It's ...... February 1987, right, Leon. “

Bossak didn't know what was going on in Alice's mind, but nodded and smiled, "You don't want to say that this is a historic moment, right?"

"That's not it, I'm just counting the days, the whole IPO project is down, and the end of the year...... At the earliest, it will be released in November at the end of the year. ”

As she spoke, she looked at her watch and said, "Sandy's business trip, her plane should be ...... Okay, it seems that this topic will be talked about in the afternoon, and I still have dinner at noon~" (To be continued.) )