Walking along the smooth road to Apple's work campus, the enthusiastic black security guard reads the invitation and happily lets him go, indicating the location of the parking lot. Chen Bo curiously watched the work area, the whole work area is full of technology and humanities factors, library, gym, café, board game room, the wall is full of Jobs' aphorisms, as well as some of the company's past history. Everywhere there is the Apple logo, a huge poster of the iMac, and an introduction to the OS.

Employees who get together in twos and threes and are constantly discussing differences about work, and there are also engineers who are leisurely relaxing and decompressing. It's more like an academic university than a wealthy company doing hardware development.

Compared to the old, conservative corporate culture in China, it is more like a new continent. Chen Bo has not been to the United States, but it is the first time he has been to a technology company in the United States. How the company will go and how to build it in the future is not only about the development of the business and the amount of profit. It is also necessary to have the company's own unique corporate culture in order to achieve sustainable development. The growth of only pursuing profits is always just a low-end company, and it is a standard for a successful enterprise to spread its own culture and achieve more talents.

Chen Bo walked around with interest, and most of the people greeted him and smiled, and they would not look at him coldly. That is until a professionally dressed blonde woman stops him because he has walked to the meeting area. According to the company's regulations, it is impossible to enter without wearing a work permit.

Chen Bo can't say that he came to visit Apple, don't treat it as a commercial spy or something, but it shouldn't be, many companies will be open and allowed to visit. But to apply, or have the staff take you in and visit some places that are not very important.

The blonde receptionist took him to Apple's reception room, where someone from the negotiation team was waiting, but fortunately it did not exceed the agreed time, otherwise it would be very detrimental to the negotiation to give the other party a bad impression of being unpunctual.

Although Chen Bo's English is not a professional background, he is engaged in the industry and has a strong sense of language. There is no big problem in communication, and he has watched American blockbusters a lot, but he is still easy to use American colloquialism.

The team leader in charge of the negotiation is a middle-aged Indian man with a big beard, but this uncle's accent is a bit heavy, Chen Bo doesn't know if his name is "Neha" or what, anyway, the English accent of Indians and Japanese is definitely notoriously obscure, and it would be good to understand a few English words.

Let's call him Neha, this uncle looked enthusiastic and said with a whoop. Fortunately, his deputy was a pure American guy Freddie saw that Chen Bo seemed to understand whether he understood or not, so he repeated the explanation, and Chen Bo finally understood what he meant. It's nothing more than a welcome to America's pretty West Coast, the tech city of Silicon Valley and Apple. It seems that the people of the capitalist countries are not unreasonable, and they will talk to you about work as soon as they come up.

A Chinese and an Indian, with the help of an American translator, began to communicate happily.

The two sides exchanged views on the cultures of China and India and the beautiful scenery of the west coast in a friendly and warm environment. Mr. Neha, an old friend of Chen Bo's in India, took the initiative to invite him to taste the most authentic curry on the West Coast of the United States, and Chen Bo also invited him to go to San Francisco's Chinatown to taste the boiled pork slices.

Of course, it's pork slices, if it's beef slices, these Indians can fall out with the suzerainty because of butter bullets, not to mention this old Chinese friend who rubs all day long. The two chatted from the gossip in Los Angeles to the Bollywood cabaret show, and they were almost chatting, when suddenly there was background music, and a group of people began to dance and sing.

Time flies by slowly, and it's time to get off work in a blink of an eye. Everyone shook hands and waved goodbye, reluctantly, and agreed to hold a cordial and friendly bilateral meeting again the next day.

The other party can really calm down and never enter into the formal issue. Chen Bo said in his heart, it seems that he is also a veteran who is proficient in negotiation psychology, and he should have made sufficient preparations, so it depends on who can't stand it first and takes the initiative to jump out.

After all, you all flew all the way from Huaxia, and you were alone. It's like a dick begging for food. First eat and drink well, you will be offered to you in everything, and your sharpness will be sharpened, and you will not be able to sink first, and you will not be able to endure your temperament. Hit a hard price, and you will easily accept the offer made by the other party.

Chen Bo is not a stunned young man who has just entered society, so he can naturally see the negotiation strategy of the other party. You're not in a hurry, are you, then let you hurry up first, and want to play me like a monkey? There are no doors.

Apple didn't pick the door, and arranged a good hotel for Chen Bo, with an excellent view, and when you open the window, you can see the valley garden outside, and the snow on the top of Santa Clara not far away.

A nondescript cottage somewhere in Silicon Valley, with a simple sign at the door indicating the nature of the house, "Depp Law Firm."

Chen Bo walked into the dimly lit room, and the whole room looked lifeless. The white woman at the reception was drowsy, presumably chatting with Zhou Gong. Oh, she is an American woman, she may not know Zhou Gong, she may dream of a roast goose for Christmas, or a handsome guy she liked when she was young.

Chen Bo knocked lightly on the table, and couldn't bear to wake up the eldest sister from her dream.

When the white woman opened her eyes, she saw a young man with yellow skin and black hair appear in front of her, startled, clutching her chest and panting.

"I'm sorry, is Mr. Depp working here?"

"Oh, Depp. Yes, Mr. Depp is working here, please wait. The white woman was a little startled, and said incoherently. Then he fumbled with a pair of glasses from the table and put them on, then got out of the desk at the reception and ran quickly to the office at the end of the corridor, shouting "Mr. Depp, Mr. Depp." There are guests coming. ”

Then he ran out again and said to Chen Bo, "I'm sorry, sir." Please wait a moment. ”

"What about Mr. Depp?" Chen Bo was a little puzzled why she didn't bring herself over.

"Mr. Depp is a good man, but it's a pity that that ruined him." The white woman sighed softly, "Mr. Depp now borrows alcohol every day to kill his sorrows, and gradually he has no business." ”

As he spoke, he wiped a handful of tears from the corners of his eyes, "He is a good boss, no matter how difficult it is, he never owes me a salary." If this law firm fails, I'll have to make a living again. ”

"Elus, what are you talking about me behind my back?" At the end of the hallway, a pale face poked out, a messy beard, and hair was almost knotted.

"Mr. Depp?" Chen Bo asked.

"Ah, I am. Japanese? The down-and-out Depp asked rhetorically?

"No, I'm from Huaxia." Chen Bo said with a frown.

"Ha, it's good that it's not a damn Japanese. Come, please come in, we can have two drinks......" Depp staggered and stretched out his hand to invite Chen Bo into his office, with a big tongue in his mouth. It seems that drunk people, regardless of gender, age and nationality, are all bear-like, but I don't know if they are like this when they are drunk.

The house was more like a grocery store, with messy bottles thrown everywhere. There's not even a place to stand, let alone a place to sit. Depp grabbed the wine bottle and poured wine into a dirty wine glass, and then was pushed away by Chen Bo!

"Mr. Depp, I'm here to hire you to be my legal adviser, not to ask you for a drink! If that's the case for you, then there's no need to talk about it anymore. Chen Bo scolded.

Depp, who was holding a wine bottle and pouring wine into his mouth, suddenly had some clarity in his eyes, and then rushed to the bathroom and smeared a few handfuls of cold water fiercely.

When I went back to the office, my whole state of mind changed dramatically. But Chen Bo was still not satisfied, so he tore off a note, quickly wrote his address and phone number and threw it to him, "Come to me when you wake up, this is a case about Apple, you will definitely not be disappointed." ”

With that, he walked out, and before walking past the reception, he did not forget to thank the lovely Elus.

"The business that came so hard, how did it go, it's really going to close now. Hey......" Eluss looked at Chen Bo's back as she left, muttering in her mouth and wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes.

The next day, Chen Bo came to Apple again, but there was still no substantial progress. Old Neha was still talking about Indian customs that he didn't understand, and how angry the girls from a club in San Francisco were. Fortunately, there are no women here, otherwise a lawsuit accusing him of discrimination against women is not uncommon in the United States.

When he dragged his tired body back to the hotel, Depp was already waiting in the lobby.

He was dressed in a stiff suit, which was clearly ironed, and the beard and hair on his cheeks were carefully combed. In this way, it looks like a professional lawyer, and the one I saw yesterday is completely a homeless man.

Especially the glint in his blue eyeballs, which is no longer dull and loveless.

In the small café in the hotel, the two sat opposite each other, and Depp's manners were polite.

Chen Bo said, "I am very satisfied with your current state, although I don't know what you have experienced. But if a person gives up on himself, it is no different from death, and the happiest person is not your relatives, but your opponents. ”

"I will repay my employer with my most professional legal knowledge and professional attitude." Deppy replied succinctly and forcefully.

"Two things, I'm not talking nonsense. First, I want to register a company in the Cayman Islands. Second, I want you to be my lawyer to negotiate a trademark licensing case with Apple, is there a problem? ”

"No problem, Cayman company registration is simple, 50,000 US dollars of registered capital, a small annual management fee. Give me the documents and you will be able to get all the formalities in two weeks. "Depp explained the registration process very professionally.

Cayman, an island nation located in the Caribbean Sea, is a well-known offshore financial center and tax haven affiliated with the United Kingdom, and almost all multinational corporations and Internet companies will register their companies in this place. In order to facilitate financing and foreign listing, of course, it will also use the policies within the conditions to reasonably avoid some taxes.

The British Virgin Kingdom, Bermuda, Belize and South Pacific Samoa are all well-known offshore countries with a well-developed financial sector without any foreign exchange controls and without revealing any information about the company.