While Tommy and his brothers were in a meeting, several Lotus founders and executives were sitting in the conference room at Lotus headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, looking at the SSD-2 software running on their computers.

This software overlaps with their Lotus 1-2-3 only in the spreadsheet function, and the other function is electronic documents, which the Lotus software does not have.

"The most over-the-top part of this software is that it is compatible with our file format without our permission, which means that if a person uses Lotus to create and save a Lotus spreadsheet file with the suffix WKS, and copies it on a floppy disk to another computer that does not have Lotus software installed, but has this shit installed, that shit can open our files." Jim Manz, Vice President and CBO (Chief Commercial Officer) of Lotus, said to Mitch Kapoor, the company's founder, president and CEO:

"For this kind of behavior, just like I did before, send a weak lawyer's letter, fuel the other party's arrogance, and push him to quickly put the software into the market, instead of testing, I have made people keep an eye on that company, as long as they are on sale, the first time to use the power of lawyers and public relations, force the other party to stop development, hand over data, lose money and go bankrupt, we just grab it, and then declare it belongs to us, and use those convenient functions that you are full of praise for in the next update of our software."

Mitch Kapoor, dressed in casual clothes, clenched his hands into fists and gagged his mouth, staring at the computer screen on the conference table at this time, and only spoke after more than ten seconds, but did not respond to Jim Manz, but looked at the company's co-founder and alumnus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at this time the company's chief technology officer, Jonathan Sachs:

"Is the data out of your team's testing?"

"It will take a few days for more accurate data, but judging by the approximate data, if two people do the same work with these two software, the efficiency of using that software can be increased by at least 15%, and just auto-populating this item can save a lot of time." Jonathan Sachs looked at Mitch:

"That software doesn't seem to emphasize professionalism, it only emphasizes efficiency and ease of use, it doesn't have the complex functions of those professional software, that is, simple document entry, spreadsheet entry, and the efficiency and ease of getting started on the existing basis to achieve the ultimate, a few of the functions are even we just received customer feedback, ready to develop the project, there is no large-scale testing, but a few or a dozen programmers are impossible to design such a function that considers the user's feelings, I have been thinking, How did this Actor software company do it? ”

“15%…… 15%, do you know what that means? If a piece of software can increase the hourly productivity of a company's employees by 7%, the company owner will not hesitate to choose it. Jim Manz continued to speak at this point: "Put pressure, don't think about it anymore, use the power of PR, find a lawyer, put the other party to death, and swallow them is the best solution." ”

Unlike Mitch and Jonathan, he, the chief business officer, was invited by Mitch to join after the company made money, because he needed a professional who graduated from the School of International and Public Relations to be responsible for the company's transaction decision-making and management, he didn't understand and didn't care about how the software was developed, but he felt Mitch's shock, and that software can improve efficiency, he didn't know programming, but he understood capitalists, and rich people don't waste any time, so he gave what he thought was the most efficient solution.

The other party is just a nameless small company, in his opinion, as long as you use money to smash the past, you can easily let the other party close down, today's Lotus, is not what it was a year and a half ago, it is now the third largest software company in the United States, with abundant cash flow, second only to Microsoft and MicroPort, as for the reason for lagging behind, because Lotus currently has only one software on sale, and the first two companies have been operating for many years, Jim believes that over time, according to Mickey's genius idea, it is only a matter of time before it surpasses Microsoft and MicroPort.

"But there is no sale in the world, I have already done what I said, we sent a lawyer's letter, and now we are just thinking, can we buy it, not so drastic, gently solve it, I am curious about what kind of student can develop this software." Mickey looked at Jim, who was a little fierce in tone, and smiled, "Maybe we can invite him to join Lotus, and he can contribute more brilliant ideas to Lotus." ”

Jonathan nodded in agreement: "I also think so, if we can work together and merge that small company into Lotus, maybe in a few years, we will have a new CTO to bring innovation to the company, and I will be able to relax." ”

"What did you decide?" Jim's eyes widened, and it looked like he was the president of the company.

"I'm getting Jonathan to fly to California and talk to him." Mickey said to Jim: "The other person is also a technology developer, he is the same kind of person as us, and we will cherish each other because we both understand the magic of 0 and 1." ”

“No！” Jim Manz said in an accentuated tone: "Don't go to private contact, this is a matter at the company level, put away the sympathy of programmers like you, Mitch, you let me manage this promising company, I am grateful, so for the sake of your importance to me, I must say, solve it as soon as possible, your private contact, will make the other party immediately understand that they have made a potential thing, and then quickly find an investor in Silicon Valley where there are more investors than stray dogs, after you know that there are investors, What does it represent? On behalf of them, they can have money to burn, and in the face of our offensive, form a team of lawyers to pull with us, and at the same time send the product to the market, which will make us passive! You're not the programmers you were typing code in your garage a year and a half ago, you're billionaires now, it's no longer a game for the Computer Society, the Actor is our potential rival, swallow it or ruin it! That's what a company owner should do. ”

Seeing that the two founders were ready to do the same as before, and when they saw the genius developers, they felt sorry for each other, and the first time they were not ready to kill each other, but to take money out to help each other develop, Jim Manz finally couldn't help it and broke out dissatisfied.

"Jim, in the past six months, Lotus has become a bastard in many people's mouths, like Microsoft, do you know why?" Mickey sighed, and instead of blaming Jim for his excitement, he spoke:

"Because in just half a year, we've shut down dozens of individual software studios, according to the means you said, so people call us bastards."

"That's my honor, for the sake of Lotus, I'm willing to kill more stupid people who always want to copy and learn from us!" Jim took out a cigar, toasted it on the fire, and said:

"The insults in those mouths will only make me stronger with Lotus, I will earn more money and irritate those who can only curse incompetently, which is why you invited me to come."

"Jim ......"

"If you insist, I'll quit and go back to McKinsey & Company to work for Mitch, and you have to trust my business judgment as much as I believe you're a computer genius, and don't give your opponent any chance." Jim took a cigar in his mouth and looked resolutely at Mickey, who was about to speak:

As Jehovah says to all living beings in the Bible: Do not put your hand on it, but smote it with a stone or shoot with an arrow, neither man nor animal shall live." This is God's way of teaching beings to deal with their opponents and not to go against God's will. ”

The second is more presented~~ I saw that some readers said that they were blocked yesterday and worried, rest assured, it's not a description of the illegal and criminal underworld, it's just an emotional drama with action, I think it's fun, but the review may feel that the action and characters can't be designed like that, I won't write about those sensitive topics, rest assured, finishing the book is my first goal.

(End of chapter)