Chapter 42: The cheap ones are rotten
"Jason, the Stanford Daily really helped you make a call advertisement, and they praised you to the sky, saying that you were willing to sacrifice yourself to make money through unconventional part-time jobs in order to subsidize the company, so did you give the fuck money to the company?"
In his garage, Tommy watched an interview with Actor in the Stanford Daily and shouted to Jason, who was lying on the table frantically making up his homework:
"You have worked as a partner in the Actor company for so long, and you have not handed over the money earned by your part-time cowherd to the company, this is a sign of irresponsibility, I will take you and this newspaper to court sooner or later, you are cheating."
Jason didn't raise his head to write his homework, and scolded in his mouth: "Tommy, you'd better rejoice, if it weren't for your stupid* to give me 20,000 yuan, I guarantee that you must be worse than your Italian tyrant named Mussolini!" ”
It wasn't until the homework was completed that he raised his head and breathed a sigh of relief, and then moved his neck and asked, "Speaking of which, Tommy, should the startup be in a hurry to divide the money first as soon as it makes some money?" I mean, you shouldn't invest your money like those companies? And the money you gave me is very strange, and you actually asked Mark to give me the money. ”
"If the company just makes money, a few of us will split it, and this kind of news will not be friendly to us, so I asked Holly to set up a women's rights organization and donate it to her in the name of Actor Company to support women, so that Actor Company will continue to support charities such as women's employment as soon as it makes money, instead of sharing the proceeds privately, right?"
"As for your money, Holly's organization asked Mark to contact the one-day film company where he used to work, and went through a lot of accounts under the pretext of buying movies that hurt women and destroying them or whatever, in short, the process is complicated, you only need to know one thing, your 20,000 yuan was not given to you by the Actor, understand? You've earned it in the name of making movies part-time, man, you're now a member of the Actors Guild of California, so don't worry, you've already paid taxes on that money, use it as you please. Tommy looked at the newspaper in his hand and said:
"Why did we start our business? Make money, do you earn it now? Of course, so take a sum of money first, Holly, Susan, and Mark have worked hard with us for so long, and if the company makes money and tells them that you can't get a share of the fart, the income will continue to be used for the company's development, and you will continue to work for the Actor, what would you do if it were the three of them? Maybe I'll find the money to crash me! As long as 80,000 yuan, each of you gets 20,000 yuan, and you can smile all over your face, which is worth it for me. ”
"I'm a actor in the Little Movie Actors Guild of California? The actors who make that kind of movie still have fucking unions? Hearing Tommy's words, Jason no longer paid attention to other issues, staring at Tommy with wide eyes, and at the same time his hand was already grabbing the baseball bat on the corner of the table!
"You just said it's 20,000 ......dollars," Tommy jumped up from his seat for the first time, confronted Jason with a bat across the desk, and said in his mouth.
Jason waved his bat lightly like a baseball player warming up, glaring at Tommy viciously: "Twenty thousand dollars can only make me ignore you and the Stanford Daily, not enough for me to ignore this, I ......"
"Another party, the kind of party you like, how about it?" Tommy's hands kept making soothing movements, and his mouth raised the price.
Hearing the party, Jason was a little moved, Tommy's bastard held a party, which made the SSD brothers full of praise, but this bastard hadn't held a party for a long time because of his business: "Are you sure?" The kind I like? Not the fucking computer science department where a bunch of nerds sit in front of a computer and play marbles and drink juice? ”
"Sure, a dozen senior girls, each with big numbers, you're going to love it." Tommy said affirmatively, "I swear I'll make you understand what Elysium is." ”
"You know that if I find out that you are lying to me, I can always send you to Mussolini, right?" Jason pointed a baseball bat at Tommy, his face grim and menacing.
Tommy saw Sophia get out of his car, holding a stack of papers, and said to Jason, "Of course, so take your breath and put down your weapons, and don't let Sophia misunderstand you, she's the only person in this company who doesn't know your exciting news." ”
"Good evening, Jason." Sophia held the file in both hands, closed the car door with her free hand, and directly chose to raise her leg and kick back, kicking the car door back, and at the same time smiled and greeted Jason, who put down the bat and pretended to be nothing.
Jason adjusted his breathing and smiled at Sophia, "Good evening, Sophia." ”
"I remember when I lent you that car, I said to you, Sophia, that car was a college gift from my dad and brother, I love it, so try to avoid any damage to it, your performance just now clearly proves that you forgot my advice." Tommy sat back in his seat and said disgruntled to Sophia.
Sophia put the thick stack of materials in her hand on Tommy's desk, and asked Tommy Hawke, who was reading the Stanford Daily Actor interview with relish:
"It's like you forgot to pay me, Tommy, are you sure that after Holly and Jason excitedly told me that your software sold nearly 5,000 units in a week, they still insisted that the company had no money and continued to owe me my pitiful eighty dollars a week?"
Tommy rolled his eyes and glanced at Sophia: "Yes, I'm sure the company doesn't have any money right now, what are these?" ”
"All the law firms in the U.S. that have obtained precedents are what you need before." Sophia patted the document lightly with her hand and said.
Tommy paused for a moment before he reacted: "My Miss Sophia, this is what I needed four days ago, and you only handed it to me now?" ”
"So, do you have any grievances? Tommy Hawke classmate who owes me a salary? I'm working part-time and I still need to finish my studies. Sophia folded her arms and stared at Tommy condescendingly, her eyes behind black-rimmed glasses glinting dangerously.
"No, of course not...... Tommy took out more than forty pieces of change from his pocket and handed them to Sophia with both hands: "There are about forty-three pieces here, all for you." ”
Sophia subconsciously took the bills, a little surprised: "Wow, are you sure you're not kidding?" Are you really going to pay? To be honest, I've lost all hope for this myself. ”
"8633667, you call this to help order a few Italian pizzas, and ask the delivery man to deliver them to buy some magazines and newspapers at the newsstand on the way, and you say Tommy from garage 9, and he knows what to buy, and then you will give him the money." Tommy looked at Sophia fixedly, and said with a serious face, "And I just happened to be concentrating on reading these materials." ”
Sophia turned her head, as if looking for a drink that could be poured in the bastard's face, and said, "Are you serious?" Think of me as your secretary? ”
"I guess you need this." Jason enthusiastically handed over his baseball bat to Sophia for the first time, and said in an excited tone: "The school police have just patrolled and will come back in about fifteen minutes, and my eyes are just uncomfortable, and I can't see anything." ”
Sophia didn't pick up the bat, but smiled sweetly at Jason, "You're so sweet, Jason." ”
"Thank you, I feel the same way." Jason was praised by the beauty and said happily.
In the next second, Sophia turned to face Tommy and said, "So it's true that Holly said when she chatted with me that you went to be a cowherd?" No wonder, coaxing those old women should be hard, right? You have given too much to this company, you should be the boss of this company. ”
Jason's expression was suddenly glazed.
Sophia ignored the petrified Jason and looked at Tommy: "You want me to order for you......"
"Davis Polk, are you familiar?" Tommy's face was already full of sanctimony at this time, and he looked at Sophia seriously, and suddenly asked.
Sophia was immediately attracted by the name that came out of Tommy's mouth: "I study law, how can I not be familiar with this law firm, all law students in the whole of America know this name and are eager to join them, you...... How do you know the name? ”
"I didn't receive the information you should have given me four days ago, so I had to ask Eric from SSD to introduce me to the members of the White Shoe Brotherhood of Law School, and I got some information about some well-known law firms from there, and then found some information about this law firm." Tommy said to Sophia, "I'd like to ask them to help me with this little business." ”
The Davis Polk Law Firm in their mouths is a veteran law firm in the United States, with the title of White Shoe Firm.
The term "white shoes" refers to companies that have been established in the industry for a long time, have a strong track record, have a good reputation, and are professionally leading, and are often used to describe law firms and Wall Street financial firms or accounting firms.
Sophia frowned slightly when she heard Tommy talking about business, and gave her own advice:
"Even if Actor sells 5,000 sets of software now, and is not in a hurry to file taxes for the time being, he only has a fund of 100,000 yuan, and even if you sell 10,000 sets and have 300,000 yuan, are you sure that law firm will only charge 300,000 yuan to help you? The remuneration they received for a single lawsuit for U.S. Steel was enough for the firm to support more than 700 lawyers for three years...... Tommy, don't think about those old white-shoe law firms, those firms cost two or three times the cost of the average law firm, you can't think about some Stanford alumni law firms? They might even be able to give you some discounts. ”
"My dad said that any tool, as long as the price is low, is rotten." Tommy shook his head slightly, rejecting Sophia's offer.
Hearing Tommy compare Stanford Law School alumni to, Sophia accentuated, "Hey! What about your software? Much less expensive than other software. ”
"So OSS is shit, and the newspapers call me a bastard."
"Then why don't you go to Skadden, which is ranked No. 1 in the United States, why choose Davis Polk, who ranks sixteenth?"
"Because I think Davis Polk might be willing to take my business?"
“Why?”
Tommy picked up the cigarette case and lit a cigarette, picked up a document on the table and handed it to Sophia:
"Davis Polk has a female lawyer named Delia Case, this is the second female partner born in the top 20 law firms in the United States in the past ten years, and the first female partner in the 130 years since Davis Polk was founded, after she became a partner, but there is no masterpiece that can make her go further, the gimmick of women's equality and technology equality, the possibility of judging precedents, I think she may have a great chance to be impressed, think about it, my dear Miss Sophia, You're about to be able to work with you female lawyers' idols, it's all my effort, I'm helping you create a ...... to get up close and personal with your idols."
"Put away your foolish face in Florida, brainwashing doesn't work for anyone, Tommy, remind you again, I'm a law major." Sophia took the information and flipped through it, interrupting Tommy's flickering.
Tommy holding a cigarette: "So what? ”
"I'm really going to see Delia Case?" Sophia quickly read the information and asked Tommy.
Tommy smiled gracefully at Sophia and said, "Holly is helping me to contact Davis Polk's Northern California office, if the other party is interested, he will contact me sooner or later, and I just need Miss Sophia, that is, you to accompany me." ”
Sophia dropped the information and silently walked to the landline phone: "What's the damn ordering number?" ”
"8633667, thank you." Tommy sat up straight, ready to continue his busyness, and before he began, he glanced at Jason, who was still petrified:
"Brother, are you sure you still need a party? As far as I know, Holly didn't just tell Sophia about it, many women's organizations at Stanford already know your name, and they have helped you get a nice title. ”
"What's the name?" Jason's eyes rolled as he looked at Tommy.
"Middle-aged and Older Women Caregivers at Stanford University."
The first update, nearly 4,000 words, this will roll down the second more ~~
(End of chapter)