Sandy Weir, the half-hundred-year-old man in front of him, is the financial predator who can almost be equated with the word 'transaction' in later generations? Jack Welch hailed him as 'his experience is as incredible as a myth, he is a man who can make money from air!' The owner of Citigroup, the head of Wall Street?

Almost single-handedly led the Traveler Group from a small company of seven million to an adult profit of more than $20 billion, which can be compared to the financial giants of Big Motor, Goldman Sachs, and Citigroup.

To this day, Jester still remembers the case of the century when the Travelers Group merged with Citibank to form Citigroup, a huge thing that shocked the world's jaws.

In those years, Sandy Weir was the god of Wall Street, looking down on it for the rest of his life.

Jester suppressed the shock in his heart, he didn't know how his grandfather met Sandy Weir, as far as he knew, his grandfather had been living on the West Coast since he came to the United States, while Sandy Weir lived on the East Coast.

Jester's grandfather seemed to see his doubts, so he smiled and said, "Don't you know? I went to Cornell University for a year in the '50s, and Sandy and I were roommates, and that's when we met. ”

Sandy Weir, who was originally full of sadness, couldn't help but have a nostalgic look on his face when he heard Grandpa Jester's words: "At that time, Lee was the oldest student in the school, and he was a yellow race, you know, McCarthyism was prevalent at that time, and racism was too, not only blacks, Asians, but also those Jews from Eastern Europe were not very popular, Lee was in his forties at the time, and he was powerful, and he was different from those other Asians who did not dare to resist, I got the idea to date him one day when I saw him throw a varsity quarterback who was a head taller than him into an icy pool. ”

"Maybe it's God's arrangement, but when I transferred from the College of Engineering to the School of Political Science, I also changed dormitories, and I actually shared a room with your grandfather, and because of this, I became obsessed with your grandfather's cooking, and I like to eat Chinese food made by your grandfather."

Jester looked at his grandfather in amazement, he didn't have any memories of his grandfather being a Cornell graduate.

"At that time, your grandmother was sick, and your uncle was still young at that time, and he couldn't hold up alone, so I had to stop my studies and go back to San Francisco, and it has been more than 30 years......" Jester's grandfather also began to reminisce about the eventful years of the past, "Later, after Sandy had a successful career, he would come to me when he had time to come to the West Coast, if not for anything else, just to satisfy his appetite." ”

Hearing this, Sandy Weir shook his head, and his face showed the previous look of defeat, and said with some self-deprecation: "What kind of career am I successful? People have achieved nothing for more than half a hundred, and they even have to face the fate of being swept away. ”

"Sandy, don't think about the unhappy things, it's all your own speculation......" Jester's grandfather began to enlighten again.

"Sweep the floor?"

Jester's face showed a look of doubt, he had read Sandy Weir's information before, but not deliberately, like this kind of predator whose every move can affect the trend of a country, it is impossible for him not to pay attention to it, because there is news about him anytime and anywhere.

He remembers that Sandy Weir was promoted to the president of the Amex Group in '83, this position looks very high, but the Amex Group is the CEO responsibility system, and the president does not have much real power, and then he was forced to resign in '85, and then fell into the days of not working for more than ten months, which was almost the darkest day of Sandy Weir's life, he felt that he was abandoned by the whole world, and he even had the idea of wanting to live the rest of his life without a hitch.

It might have been a good ending for many people, living the life of a rich man with tens of millions of dollars from selling Amex shares, which may be suitable for others - like some who have no suitors, but definitely not for Sandy Weir, a careerist who is always full of dreams, passion and endless energy.

The day he walked out of the slums of Brooklyn, he vowed that he would succeed and that he would not tolerate failure.

However, Jester remembers that he was swept away by Yuntong next year, not now, he should still be the president of Yuntong Group, one of the most likely successors to the next CEO of Yuntong, and a hot figure on Wall Street.

Jester then slowly pieced together a slightly complete infographic from the information revealed from his grandfather's conversation with him.

In short, Sandy Weir felt that he had been framed.

He had just screwed up a big business that he had given to him - he had failed to get a fund called Firefighter out of trouble after being hampered at every turn, and then there was gossip about his impeachment in the company, the exact process that Jester didn't understand, but he kept hearing a name called Gerstner from Sandy Weir's resentful swearing.

Jester had also heard of this name, and in fact anyone who studied computer science in later generations would have heard it if they had a little knowledge of the history of computers.

He is not a famous computer expert, nor is he a genius who invented some advanced algorithms or languages, but he is much more difficult, professional and great, because he saved one of the most influential computer companies in the world, the blue giant IBM.

He is Louis Gerstner, who is widely regarded as the greatest CEO and chairman of the board of directors in IBM's history.

Known as one of the best managers in the world, like Jack Welch.

And his case of saving the Big Blue is the same as the case of Jack Welch saving GE, which is something that every business student will inevitably learn.

Of course, IBM is at their peak now, and both mainframe and personal machine businesses are thriving, and they certainly don't need anyone to save them.

Like Sandy Weir, Gerstner is far from the fame and status of later generations.

It just so happened that Gerstner was also working at Amex at this time, and the biggest hero of the creation of the Amex Centurion Card was to take over the power of the Amex Group from Robinson Sr., and Sandy Weir thought so.

Unfortunately, neither of the two second- and third-in-line powers in the Amex Group has been able to accomplish this goal.

First, Sandy Weir will be excluded from the Amex Group next year, then Gerstner will also leave in '87, and the person who finally ascended to the throne of Amex is unexpected, the little-known Stanford Wiltier.

It was only then that Sandy Weir came to his senses and broke off with his best friend at Shelson.

Then, it was these two people who were swept away by Yuntong who started a gorgeous and unusual performance, leaving a strong mark in history.

One started as a small $7 million company and went on the path to become the greatest banker Wall Street has ever seen, while the other became the savior of IBM.

Jester saw Sandy Weir, who had been enlightened by his grandfather for a long time, and his face had weakened a lot, and he also showed a few smiles from time to time while talking and laughing.

He knew that the current Sandy Weir was not completely dead, and he still wanted to make a final fight before the final annual financial report came out, as long as he could bring the firefighter fund out of trouble, he still had a chance, but after a year, he probably wouldn't think so.

No one will dislike their lack of money, and since there is such an opportunity, Jester has no intention of letting go of the idea of holding such a super bull golden thigh that has left a strong mark in history, but now is far from the time.

He wanted to work with Sandy Weir as a partner, not as an elder to a junior.

For example, Sandy Weir has such a strong desire to control a person, and he can never be anyone's subordinate - he has followed him for sixteen years, and Jamie Damon, who is regarded as a nephew, can not hesitate to give up in the struggle for power.

But when he was completely desperate and wanted to start all over again, Jester knew that this was his chance.

He will not try to control this terrifying crocodile, no one in this world can control him - he will not even ignore the federal laws, he will only follow him, and the seven million dollar commercial credit company that followed him will evolve into a world-class financial giant and make an astonishing profit.

But this must make enough impression on him, otherwise when he wants to make a comeback in two years, how can he think of himself.

Jester thought.

It may be that Jester's grandfather also wants to boast about Jester's excellence, so he tells Sandy Weir about what Jester has done recently.

When he heard Jester making video games, a look of disdain flashed in his eyes, and he just wanted to say a word to persuade Jester not to continue making video games, and Sandy Weir, the senior executive of the Amex Group, knew very well how many people and how much money had been buried with Atari in the recent period.

It can be said that in the eyes of those investors on Wall Street now, the video game industry may be the least favored by them.

But when he heard that Jester had received the first $60 million order and the second additional $30 million in the first month of the first game, the future head of Citigroup stood up from his seat in surprise.

He looked at Jester in disbelief, and a report that he had just read not long ago was about the extremely popular arcade machine "American Cubes" that was now sold on the market, and some people on Wall Street also believed that video games were likely to be revived with the popularity of "American Cubes", and Mars Entertainment was very likely to replicate Atari's success.

But Sandy Weir scoffed at the remark.

He bluntly commented that maybe the arcade market will have a certain recovery, but as long as home video game consoles cannot regain their former glory, then video games are an industry with no investment value.

For now, home video game consoles are still as backwater as ever, and Atari's game consoles are still being cleared at low prices.

Naturally, Jester didn't know this, and if he did, he couldn't help but admire Sandy Weir's precise vision.

The man, who had never done it before, saw the essence of the video game industry - home consoles were at the heart of the game.

In fact, the impact of arcade on Atari is relatively small, and arcade can survive because an arcade machine has to pass the level of the arcade store owner, and those shoddy games are not cared for, and the arcade store owner naturally can't go into that kind of machine to lose money.

And players who have not been harmed by shoddy arcade games will naturally not have the same irreconcilable hostility to arcade machines as home consoles.

"Your company is called Mars Entertainment? The same game company that produced American Cubes? "Sandy Weir has an excellent memory, and he actually only glanced at the report on "American Cubes" for a moment or two, but the general core of the content will not be forgotten as if it had been memorized and engraved in his mind.

"Yes." Jester was also a little surprised that Sandy Weir would know the name of his company.

"I've seen reports about your company's game, and analysts at Amex say it's worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Also, my little daughter likes this game made by you very much, so in order to prevent her from going to those arcade ghosts every day, I had to spend 10,000 dollars to get one, and since I moved it home, everyone in my family has become fans of it. ”

Sandy Weir explained with a smile, and then his voice changed, and he said with a serious expression of appreciation to Jester: "I heard about your promotion at the beginning, you are very bold and confident, it seems that you are sure that your game will be a great success, self-confidence is an extremely rare quality, and I also heard that you negotiated with the Schwell Group, the whole process is full of thirst for profit, which makes me see - you have the talent to become a top financier." ”

Then he stretched out a hand to Jester, and there was still that extremely appreciative expression on his face: "Jace, as an elder, I want to ask you a question, are you interested in coming to Wall Street to be a financier?" ”

Then Jester was a little speechless, it seems that the current Sandy Weir just thinks that even if he can't be the head of Yuntong this time, he can still go to a lot of places with his qualifications to leave Yuntong, but he never imagined that from next year, he will start a life of unemployment for more than ten months, for a person like him who claims to be a top financier, unemployment is a more terrible thing than death, because unemployment represents the entire industry has lost the trust you should have.

If it weren't for the article that Fortune magazine wrote for him, I am afraid he would not even have had a chance to make a comeback with the help of a commercial credit company.

And it is true that working in the financial industry is not Jester's interest, although he knows that this business is a hundred times more profitable than making money, but he knows nothing about this business, looking at the powerful palm that Sandy Weir stretched out in front of him, Jester pondered the wording of refusal.

Jester only does what he is good at, and then gives the people he is not good at to the people who are good at it.

He also stretched out his palm and shook Sandy Weir's hand, after all, Sandy Weir was his elder, and it was not a matter for the other party to stretch out his hand so awkwardly.

"Grandpa Sandy."

Jester felt that since Sandy Weir and his grandfather were on the same level, even though the age difference between the two sides was huge, he should call each other grandpa.

Then he continued: "I make video games because I like them, I like the feeling of making them, I like the pleasure of completing them, the sense of accomplishment that others approve of, and as for the success of American Cubes, it was also an accident for me, it was just an immature attempt on my part, my dream is to make the best video games, to be able to revive the industry again, to make games popular again, if nothing else, this is my dream." ”

Sandy Weir didn't show a look of disappointment on his face, but looked at Jester with more appreciation.

"Every young person is qualified to pursue their dreams, and I was the same - but my original dream was to become a top engineer like Frank Gower, but after I studied at Cornell University's best engineering school in the United States, I was not that kind of material at all, and the physics and mathematics made my head spin, so I switched to a major that was useless and only knew how to play tricks, and my biggest gain here was to meet your grandfather, my best friend."

It may have been that Grandpa Jester's persuasion had worked just now, and Sandy Weir's expression had returned to his usual expression, instead of the decadent look on Jester's face when he first entered the room, on the contrary, he became full of confidence, maybe it was because he was in a better mood, or maybe he saw that Jester was a talent that rarely satisfied him, and he began to give enthusiastic speeches.

“…… Jace, I heard you just finished your sophomore year at UCLA and studied electrical engineering? It's a good major, but you should also study philosophy and history, which are especially important for a businessman, and luckily you didn't study business, and I agree with Jim Rogers about this, this major is useless...... Well, if you don't think video games are getting better after graduating from college and there's nothing better to do, you can go to New York and I'll show you a world you've never seen before, where you're going to enjoy the wonderful feeling of being in control. ”

"Thank you!" Jester was so sincere that he could hear the kindness of an elder in his words, and of course, he had heard what Jim Rogers used to say to his students when he was teaching at Columbia School of Economics.

"It's better to study history and philosophy than to go to business school; Work as a waiter and travel to the Far East. When Rogers taught at Columbia School of Economics, he always told all the students, "You shouldn't come to economics school, it's a waste of time, because you can spend about $100,000 during your study because you have an opportunity cost, and this money is better used to invest in business than to go to school, and although you may make money or lose money, it is better than sitting in a classroom for two or three years and listening to those "senior professors" who have never done business talk about what you need to learn." ”

Jester doesn't want to comment too much on this, even though Jim Rogers is the best analyst in the world.

And as Sandy Weir said before, Jester is going to find him after two years.

But it's not to follow him into the financial industry, but to catch a giant ship that no one can foresee.

And at that time, it was the moment when Sandy Weir was at the lowest point in his life and was preparing to make a comeback, wouldn't it be too stupid to join in?

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