Chapter 31: It's all about accumulating strength
"I'm sorry for what Jason did to you, that punch looks like it's okay now, right?" Tommy handed Mark Warren a can of beer, smiled and asked, "Jason said you're as shy as a little girl, and you like to walk with your head down." ”
Mark took the beer and looked at Tommy's dorm room with his eyes: "That's right, he didn't tell you why I'm so shy?" ”
"Nope." Tommy opened a can of beer and poured it himself.
"I'm a local, I've made that kind of movie, you know? I was in front of the camera* about a dozen women smuggled from Mexico and El Salvador, and I was short of money, but then I started to panic. Mark Warren took a big sip of his beer, and then took a sip of wine:
"Every day I have all kinds of images in my head that make me feel terrified, such as walking down the street and suddenly a relative comes up to me and pats me on the shoulder, my dear nephew Mark, you have a really good film! Or after my father's funeral, my mom told me with tears in her eyes the reason for my father's death: Your dad wanted to learn some new tricks and bought a new movie, guess what? Our son was inside teaching him how to be a Mexican, and then he was so angry that he had a heart attack and died on the spot. ”
Tommy smiled and lit a cigarette and nodded at Mark, "So why did you do this in the first place?" ”
"What else can I do at this age, of course it's a woman, I have a girlfriend, very beautiful, it's my classmate, I wanted to buy her a necklace, and then I was attracted by the advertisement, tricked into going to the set, and I used Saturday and Sunday to shoot for two days, and the money I earned was enough for me to buy the necklace she liked, and on Sunday night, I gave it to my girlfriend, and she was touched by the surprise." Mark said with a rich expression, walked over and took the cigarette case from Tommy's hand, and skillfully lit it in his mouth:
"But in the end, we broke up because she was going to have a fight with me that night, play some excitement, and thank me for the surprise I gave her, but the moment she took off her clothes, I rushed into the bathroom and threw up."
Tommy looked surprised: "Wow, that's a sad story. ”
"Listen, Tommy, I'm grateful that you look up to me, give me a job, I'll try to do it well, and I'll make sure to learn those computers, and I want to go to work in those serious companies, and I'll have my hair combed and wear a suit, so that maybe even if I'm walking down the street, they'll at most think that the movie is a little similar to me, and I'm studious and have a stable job, and I'm absolutely not going to do that kind of thing." Mark lowered his head and took a sip of his wine, then said earnestly to Tommy.
Tommy shook his head: "Man, I'm very happy with your attitude, then you can act." ”
"It's for me to look for ...... on Funker," Mark asked as he wanted to speak.
"It's so inefficient, I think you're guts, so you can do something more out of the ordinary, you know, it's not easy to get a stake in the company, it's even harder to get a share of the money, you have to pay more to get that money, think about what you can get from your university, and what do we need? These are the questions that people like you should be thinking about, cheap prostitute? Brother, I will never let you deal with those rotten things again, I want to make you make money as soon as possible, so that you can get out of the panic, no longer worry about being discovered, you can smash the money in those people's faces, tell them, you are a tech talent, and then slander, your lawyer can force their whole family to jump off the rooftop. Tommy interrupted Mark, walked up to him, and reached out to put his hand on the back of the head, with an encouraging smile on his face:
"Use your brain, what do we need, Mark, think about this problem, and solve it, I will ask a few orders for four hundred yuan, the kind of high-level call girls with the level of models, let them have exquisite skills, and help you heal the shadow left by Mexican women first."
Mark stared into Tommy's eyes and nodded a little dazedly.
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"It feels like we're getting farther and farther away from the software companies." Jason took a puff of his cigarette, looked at the few partial lines that had just been installed in the garage, shook his head and said to Holly: "You know, I was going to call my old man and say that I was a partner in a technology company and surprise him, but now I have decided to give up this decision, I am afraid that he will visit me on a whim and find out that I am actually working in some scam company or entertainment company or something." ”
Holly shrugged: "I didn't tell my family either, my main job after starting a software business is to fish for all kinds of kaizi. ”
"Any company has a role in fishing for Kaiko, Holly."
Tommy walked quickly to his computer with two floppy disks, turned on the floppy disks and put them in, and when he heard Jason and Holly's words, he responded perfunctorily: "Good morning, what are you talking about?" ”
"It's nothing, I was just chatting with Holly to discuss that our software company hasn't sold software yet, but we recruited Susan and Mark first, and Stanford is full of talent, but you have the discernment to pick up the two of them from the outside like garbage." Jason turned his chair to face Tommy, and said, "And we have no idea why you chose them." ”
Tommy didn't raise his head and said: "Because they are cheap, think about it, I can let them get a weekly salary of one or two hundred yuan a week to work for me for a long time, and what about the bastards from Stanford?" Not to mention that each has to occupy enough shares or options, if you find that the company is profitable, you have to talk to me about salary increases for more than three days, does education matter? Of course, it's important that connections and resources are closely tied to academic qualifications, so we are trying to get into university, but our subordinates don't need these now, they can be obedient, right? ”
Tommy Hawk looked up at Jason: "Or which of you would like to give up your stake and let me recruit a few real Stanford talents?" ”
"I'm going to find out how much TV commercials are charged, and I'm not going to be in this kind of meeting, so Jason, you and Tommy talk slowly." Holly grimaced at Jason before turning and leaving the garage.
Jason spat out, "Your roommate dad is here to help you, not to make money, I'm just worried that money is going to corrupt you, Tommy." ”
"So what? Foolish*. Tommy pulled up the contents of the floppy disk, glanced at Jason with a smile, and then looked intently at the computer screen.
"I'm willing to sacrifice everything for you, son, you can give me more shares, let money accelerate the corrosion of me, so as to ensure that you continue to be simple, kind, and keep your true self in front of money, don't worry about me, I can hold on." Jason said to Tommy with open hands.
"No, my dear roommate Jason, I'm touched that you're willing to sacrifice yourself for me, and to show my gratitude, I'm going to adjust your work, and you can look forward to it now." Tommy said as he stared at the document displayed on the screen.
Seeing Tommy's focused expression, Jason asked curiously, "What's that?" Where did you get any military secrets? ”
"No, Mark's junk community college student profile, which he got his hands on under the pretext of helping to enter the computer, is a copy for the company, do you know what that means? We now have more than five thousand phone numbers. ”
"You're a crime!" Jason jumped up from his seat in fright, walked quickly in front of Tommy, looked at the data on the screen, lowered his voice and glared at his eyes, and said, "You're crazy!" Tommy! If you get out, you'll be sent to jail! ”
"Man, don't worry, if you leak out, Mark will also go to jail, and the kind of garbage school in the community college, sixty percent of the faculty and staff are part-time, the entire community college has more than 5,000 students, but there are only seventy full-time teachers, and the remaining two hundred or so are part-time, and most of the administrative affairs rely on student volunteers to help, so it's not surprising that any leak happens, not to mention that we don't spread or commit crimes, just call those students' homes, Fool those community college guys into believing that they can become high-tech talents just by learning our software, and then we will send them to Silicon Valley to be ordinary clerks. Tommy looked at the information and said in a calm tone.
Jason was already frightened and changed color, and said in an excited tone: "Tommy, you can't fucking let Actor develop software, advertise in computer magazines, visit software dealers to help sell, write various business plans and send them to the offices of investment companies, etc., why do you do this, all this is not fucking normal!" I don't want you to fail in your business, and then I can only write to St. Quentin Prison to greet you, care if your ass is still intact in prison, and send you some topical drugs! Foolish*! ”
"Like a normal company? Advertising in computer magazines? Visiting a software reseller? Send a proposal to an investment company? Jason, you still don't understand, this company has been abnormal since the day it was founded, and the two main features of this software are borrowed from the best-selling software of two large software companies, respectively, and it was decided from the beginning that it couldn't be normal! ”
"Advertising in a computer magazine? That's their turf, pay a reporter to write a review? The reporter charged you 1,000 yuan, wrote a text praising us, and tomorrow he will receive 5,000 yuan from the other party, scolding us to the point of blood, the most important thing, the other party will definitely launch an accusation, you saw the lawyer's letter, right? As long as it is officially released, it is a dead period, and investors will spend money to get involved in this pit when their heads are in water? Of course not, the money of the smart people is the hardest to get. Tommy saw that Jason was a little excited, so he simply stopped his movements, leaned back in his chair and looked directly at Jason and said:
"Got it? According to the thinking of a normal company, we can't do it, who the cares about a software company whose core function is plagiarism? So you need to change the method, if you want to get the investors' money, you must first show them what we are capable of, for example, at least you have to hold on for at least one fucking round when the two major companies attack you, and all the bullshit you think has nothing to do with software at the moment is to accumulate strength in order to really start a war with them! Do you and Holly think that selling software to a group of prostitutes, a group of unemployed women, and then using a human resources company to make a small amount of money can hold it up? No fucking kidding, when those bastards do their jobs, you'll find out that I've done a myriad of fucking things just to keep the Actor from being trampled to death by two elephants on the first turn. ”
"What would have happened if we hadn't been trampled to death?" Jason sat back in his place weakly and asked Tommy.
Tommy spread his hands, "If they don't trample on us, we're going to let them know that they're in a dark forest and are exposing themselves like stupid*." ”
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