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Roy walked out of the office and passed by Debra's desk and asked, "Have you made an appointment with Jobs?"

The rotten food chain planned to short the shares of dry forest paper, and under the interlocking exposure, the dry forest stocks fell below the bottom limit and were delisted in embarrassment. This successful sniping increased Roy's net income by 1.64 billion.

Roy is now in extremely good financial condition, and with this abundant capital, it will be more than enough to buy Apple if he makes two or three such big deals.

He now finally has the strength, the confidence, and the leisure to reach out to Apple's top management and try to negotiate the acquisition. The first person to meet next is naturally the well-deserved legendary entrepreneur - Jobs.

Roy respects Jobs very much in his heart, and it can be said that he grew up listening to Jobs' business stories. At this moment, he has been waiting for a long time, and he is a little excited to think about it.

Debra was stunned for a moment, Huo Di stood up, hung his head, and sincerely apologized: "I'm sorry, I forgot about this before." ”

Roy couldn't help but be angry, how could he forget it? It's not once or twice, Debra has been procrastinating, being late, making small mistakes, and sometimes forgetful. Can this still be a pleasant cooperation?

Roy pointed to her face and almost blurted out a national curse.

He glanced at Alice, who was working next to him, and saw that there were other colleagues not far from the office area, in order to take care of the other party's face, he forced back the swear words, and was about to vomit blood in depression.

If it is in the eyes of outsiders, see this scene: the boss is angry, and Debra is well-behaved, obedient, sincere and serious. I will definitely feel that the unscrupulous boss is bullying the innocent and lovely girl again.

Debra is super good at admitting mistakes, Roy also sees it, and even thinks that if he criticizes the other party a few words, he may feel guilty in his heart. This strange confusion brought all his good mood for the day to collapse.

"Let's go find Alice and hand over the work. Roy sighed softly.

"Roy, I'm sorry. "Lake Debra's big blue eyes blinked, and mist had appeared in the eye sockets, which was as beautiful as the lake and fog, which made people fascinated and couldn't help but care.

"You...... Don't do that, okay...... It's not about firing you, giving you a month of paid vacation, and let's all be quiet. ”

……

Roy shrugged his head and leaned back in the boss's chair, wandering the world, and every time something involved in emotion, he could easily disturb his shrewd brain.

If each has strengths and weaknesses, then Roy's lack of roots is probably feelings.

Alice knocked on the door and came in, and reported: "Boss, the financial problems disclosed by the S1 group of the carrion chain recently are not very operable, in view of the huge sensation caused by Ganlin Paper, many listed companies have also taken countermeasures, and they may not be able to find the next sniper target in a short time." ”

Roy calmed down for a few minutes, and smiled helplessly: "This kind of business definitely doesn't happen every day." There are many companies with financial problems, but there are not many companies that have big problems and hide their business status. Let them not be anxious and calm down. ”

Alice still hesitated, and after considering the words, she said: "I have heard some bad news, and other fund companies in the market have begun to imitate our model, actively looking for predators, and want to get a piece of the pie. ”

Roy sighed, there are really a lot of smart financial speculators, he thinks that the secrecy work has been done well enough, but he didn't expect to be analyzed so quickly, and now there are so many competitors in the market, it is a little unrealistic to make a fortune from this.

But the current situation is that he still has to make a few more orders, and without four or five billion cash flow, what can he use to buy Apple?

"No hurry, let me think. Roy smiled and comforted: "Alice, you are in it, do you think that our game is very simple and easy to imitate? Hehe, in fact, otherwise, if you work hard, you may have gains, but if you want to become a first-class master, you must go through a thousand tempered eliminations." ”

Historically, there have been many companies like Rotten Eaters, but there are very few that are truly as legendary as Muddy Waters and Citron. It can be seen that although this kind of routine is simple, the practical details in it are still very challenging to compete.

Roy knew that he was not an all-powerful god, so he broke down every step in place, relying on the wisdom of everyone to reduce decision-making errors, especially the super elite talent Leo, who was small and precise in the hedging operation, which undoubtedly helped Roy reduce a lot of risks.

Alice was convinced, listened to Roy's analysis, and strengthened certain beliefs.

"Alice, I'm asking you a digression. Do you think I'm a failure as a boss?"

Alice smiled and joked rarely, "If you are a failed boss, I am afraid that there are few people in the world who dare to say that they are successful." ”

"If I'm a boss who is about the same, why hasn't Debra's work ability improved? You know, she's been with me since the beginning, haven't my good work habits affected her? Alice, you know what? I'm really frustrated, very conflicted. "Well, something must have happened, and what it is, I can't tell.

"Maybe it's Debra's own problem, not everyone in this world can change, and besides, human talent is a factor that can't be ignored," Alice guessed.

Roy shook his head, he could sit in this high position now, and he didn't see things as innocently as Alice.

He especially agrees with a sentence: the benevolent person is like shooting, the shooter is right and then the shot, the hair is not hit, and the one who does not complain about himself is just asking for himself.

In other words, don't blame others for failing to shoot an arrow, but find the reason from yourself.

He now has to develop a problem-solving ability, relying on cognitive differences to distance himself from ordinary people.

Thinking of his ancestral teachings, Roy suddenly had a flash of inspiration and laughed: "Our money has fallen - it is the Chinese ......"

Alice took a step forward and listened quietly, the more she listened, the more attentive she became, and finally she couldn't help but admire, her fighting spirit was high, and she strode out to arrange the task.

According to Roy's prediction, after the next few big deals are completed, the money to buy Apple will be more than enough.

When I met Jobs, I was more confident.

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At a café, Alyssa is invited to sit face-to-face with Roy.

On the one hand, this time Roy wants to formally apologize, the last time people kindly asked him to come to her house as a guest, but he was inspired during the conversation and directly missed the appointment on the way.

Judging from this incident, Alyssa is really a quality girl, and she has a very high tolerance for Roy's jump, and she sent him to the airport.

On the other hand, Roy is ready to entrust the business of acquiring Apple to Alisa's company, in addition to repaying this favor, the main reason is that after calculating the cost, he found that the cost of his company to build such a team is too high, and it is better to outsource this project to save money and worry.

"Oh my God, Roy, are you sure you want to buy Apple? That's a big company with a market capitalization of three billion. Alyssa stared at each other, trying to find a flaw in Roy's joke.

Roy leaned back freely, made a very helpless gesture, and said with a smile: "Why, do you think I look like such a boring man?

"Wow, I don't know how to describe my feelings, it's really shocking, you're ...... Already...... It's so high. ”

Roy hid a smug, gentlemanly smile, "I'll take that as a compliment from you." ”

"Whatever you want. Alyssa finally made sure that Roy was not entertaining her, and recalled the history of Apple in her mind, and sighed a lot, "Your vision is still so unique, Apple, but the first to use graphical interface technology on computers, it is indeed very legendary." ”

"The greatest 'plagiarism' of the 80s, right?" Roy had a heart, Jobs, a man of God, was the best at using other people's things in his own products, and after simple transformation, he made products beyond imagination.

Alyssa smiled: "Hehe, not only that, but also 'plagiarized' the artifact of the mouse." ”

In the early days of Apple, after the success of Apple's second generation, it immediately began to develop three generations of products, but the third generation not only did not succeed, but also gave up halfway, because a major event happened in the history of personal computers.

At that time, Apple was more than three years old and was in the process of a second round of funding. There was a company called Xerox that wanted to participate in Apple's financing, so Jobs said, "If you show me what the Xerox R&D Center is doing, I'll let you invest $1 million." ”

Xerox's R&D center is now a bit similar to Google X Labs, mainly to develop some more advanced black technologies. Jobs knew they had a lot of good stuff and wanted to see it.

After Xerox agreed, Jobs took a group of colleagues to visit. In the beginning, the people at the research center were reluctant to show Apple their research results, so they fooled Jobs with some innocuous products, such as the ORD document processor software that was being developed at the time. But Mr. Jobs and his colleagues quit, having read the papers and patents of Xerox's research center and knew they were trying to cover it up.

So Jobs called Xerox headquarters to put pressure on them to open up the full results. In the end, the people in the research center had to reluctantly show them their core things.

This thing is the well-known graphical interactive interface, called GUI (graphiterface) in English. To put it simply, the first computer system was a black screen, and you could control it with various text commands. But the graphical interface is the kind of system we use now, there are icons to click, there are folders, etc., and Xerox has actually developed a small device called a "mouse".

At that time, Jobs was shocked, thinking that this was the future of the personal computer, and Xerox himself sat in a gold mine and didn't know it, it was too stupid.

Steve Jobs's stealing of a school can be said to have forever changed the history of personal computers, and later became the greatest plagiarism in the history of business.

Roy felt in his heart, Alyssa was really involved in a wide range of things, and there was almost nothing she didn't know about in the business field. Being a comrade-in-arms with this kind of person is quite reliable.

The two then briefly exchanged the acquisition process, determined the general direction, and left.

Alyssa didn't take a few steps, and suddenly thought that there was a small detail that she forgot to confirm, she turned back to Roy, only to see that Roy did not go directly to the parking lot after going out, but went to the second floor of this office building.

Curious, she followed, walked through the first floor of the hall, walked up the wide spiral staircase, then turned left and right, and stopped.

After separating from Alyssa, Roy walked in a daze, found the office of the star upstairs, knocked on the door and entered.

Alyssa stopped in front of Roy's disappeared door along the clean and bright corridor, looking at the sign above, and suddenly her heart suddenly realized that many details that she couldn't understand suddenly became clear.

She felt a little more pity when she thought of Roy again.

Xerox's most famous products are photocopiers and printers, and the company is still there.