Stanford University's Liberty Avenue, sunny morning.

"Tommy! Can you help me sign your autobiography? A smiling brown-skinned girl brandished a book in her hand, trotted up to the two of them, handed Tommy the pen and books she was carrying, and asked with a smile.

Tommy took the book and pen from the other party and said, "Of course, it's my pleasure." ”

"Can I quietly ask, where can I buy that little movie that you participated in?" As Tommy unscrews the cap, the girl bites her lip for a moment, and finally asks Tommy in a low voice.

This made Jason, who was walking with Tommy next to him and walking towards the garage, glare: "Girl! Did you see any piracy news? ”

As he spoke, Jason arched his right arm: "It's me Jason White who made the movie, look at my biceps!" Look at my biceps! I'm the actor, I got the Best Actor, you should come to me for an autograph. ”

"I'm sorry, I thought it was Tommy." The girl sighed regretfully when she heard Jason's words.

Tommy smiled and signed his name on the title page of the autobiography "I Should Die Immediately", which was handed over by the girl, and then returned it to the other party with both hands, and said with a warm smile: "Thank you for buying this book, miss." ”

The girl ignored Jason's chattering complaints, and after receiving Tommy's autograph, she happily turned away, looking at the other party's distant figure, Jason White turned her head to Tommy unhappily and asked:

"Obviously, I sold my peerless face to save the Actor company, why do these women either regret that it wasn't you who made a small movie after learning the news, or directly count this most important turning point in the entrepreneurial history of the Actor company on your head?"

"Maybe it's because ......" Tommy paid attention to Jason's gradually murderous face, and carefully considered that the distance he was from Jason at this time was not enough to get rid of this bastard's violent beating, and said against his will: "Ladies are worried that your plus-size clubs are scaring them, after all, your body looks like it can compete in bodybuilding competitions, and the only man at Stanford University who is qualified to eat by his body is you, Jason Daddy." ”

Jason nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, son, this answer saved you, and at the same time solved a problem that bothered me just now." ”

"What's the problem?" Tommy Hawk asked Jason with a sigh of relief.

Jason put his arm around Tommy's shoulders and said lightly:

"It's nothing, I was just thinking about what kind of American wrestling technique I should use to finish you if you didn't come out of your mouth just now with an answer that I was happy with, whether it was a jaw smashing blow to knock out your mouth full of teeth, or a guillotine to rip off your head."

When the two of them walked to garage 9, most of the contents of the garage had been emptied, and only a few packing boxes had not been removed, and in the empty garage, Holly, Susan, Mark, Sophia, and Gary Good, the part-time customer service team leader of Actor, were sitting on these boxes and were laughing and chatting, and when they saw the Stanford roommates walking in with their shoulders together, they all stopped talking and looked at the two.

Or rather, looking at Tommy Hawke, even Jason let go of the hand that was holding Tommy's shoulder and looked at Tommy.

With Actor renting a larger office space in Silicon Valley, a rapidly swelling staff of over 70 and a steady stream of recruits, the garage is no longer enough to hold the Actor's rapidly expanding dreams.

Today, it will be completely emptied, and the keys will be returned to Stanford University.

"Time seems to be precious all of a sudden, right?" Tommy looked at the garage, lightly kicked the box a few times, turned his head and said to a few people:

"Jason, Holly took a leave of absence, Susan was busy with community college, Mark was in charge of that Hope staffing company, Sophia was recently busy working as an assistant to Ms. Delia Case as a visiting professor at Stanford Law School, all have a bright future, everyone has changed, it's just me, or Tommy, the carefree, innocent college student."

Jason took out his cigarette and lowered his head to light it, then looked at Susan, Holly and Mark, who were looking at him with inquiry, and finally shook his head:

"I couldn't convince him to take a leave of absence, guys, he made me throw up because he said he was going to continue his studies at Stanford University and use his knowledge to change his fate, and whoever hears this kind of can hold back the urge to vomit, can try again, I can't do it anyway."

"Aside from the shares in Actor, just the money you make from publishing books, you already have almost a million in your bank account, Tommy, you can now take a course at Stanford, how to get rich fast." Holly sighed and said to Tommy, "You must have some other reason to keep going through your studies, right?" ”

Tommy Hawke is now a millionaire with a real value and doesn't take a penny from Actor, but this guy hides from everyone, and early on asks Delia to quietly contact the publishing house she knows, plans to publish the book, and even secretly finds a ghostwriter to write the manuscript for the book.

So the day after Actor won the lawsuit, there was a new book in the bookstore called "I Should Die", which told about Tommy Hawke's childhood, teenagers, and how he was admitted to Stanford University, the original purpose of founding Actor, etc., so to speak, they privately joked that the book had another title, "Jesus' Road to Salvation in Modern America".

A book costs twenty-five dollars, the author takes 15%, and the subsequent sales increase, and this account sharing ratio will also increase, calculated according to 15%, that is to say, for every book sold, Tommy can get three dollars, and then people will see that in addition to software can be sold on TV, books can also be used, this guy went to various TV direct sales programs to sell inspirational stories written by himself, and sold them to people who were eager to emulate Tommy's success, and sold nearly 300,000 copies, making a lot of money at the same time. By the way, I helped myself with the title of best-selling author again.

"This is not to discuss the issue of my persistence in completing my studies, this issue has no value for discussion." Tommy didn't answer Holly's doubts, but looked at the few people in front of him:

"Today, for the last time I'm announcing some of the company's internal decisions in my capacity as CEO of Actor, I've spoken to two board members, Mr. Benjamin Rosen and Jerry Hughes, and he doesn't object, so it doesn't matter if he's not there, first thing, the chairman of the company, the CEO is taken over by Holly Keener, Jason needs to focus on other issues because he's the initiator of the EFF and there's a lot of things to deal with over there, and I can't juggle Actor either, so it's the same as me, retaining only the board position, but no longer participating in the day-to-day management. ”

Holly Keener took over the Actor company, everyone has been mentally prepared before, but Tommy didn't officially announce it, compared to Tommy Hawk, who always moves his mouth, Holly is indeed the busiest person in the company, she wants to say everything Tommy says, every boast of it, and has been serving as the spokesperson for the Actor company to communicate with all walks of life, she is the head of the Actor company, no one is surprised, this is this blonde girl won by hard work and ability.

"Tommy, I appreciate your trust in me, but I think you should stay for a while so that I can learn more holistic thinking from you, I ......" Although Tommy had already told her that the Actor Company would hand her responsibility, when this moment really came, Holly would still be nervous, and she would subconsciously feel unconfident when facing Tommy.

After all, Tommy Hawk was too dazzling before, who would have thought that those whimsical means to break through the limits of all kinds of imagination?

From the day Actor was born in the eye of the storm, to the time when he finally took out his opponents, Tommy Hawk was a calm and old captain, who firmly held the rudder of the Actor company in the stormy seas, and calmly navigated the wind and waves.

From nothing, to now with a total investment of 30 million yuan from Compaq and AT&T, accounting for 20% of the shares, this means that the valuation of Actor has reached 150 million, and it is obvious that it will grow in the future.

The Lotus company, which was defeated by Tommy, was only valued at 1.2 billion by relying on the amount of real software sales, and the Actor company did nothing, but only piled up more than 600,000 users by giving away the copied software for free plus beating Lotus in court, it was already valued at 150 million, and this was all done by Tommy Hawke, whether it was himself, or Jason, although he did a lot of work, he never thought that the return was so amazing, with a market value of over 100 million, Although his original 30% stake in the Actor company has been diluted with the investment, it is already worth tens of millions, and with each investment dilution in the future, the value will only be more.

Taking over the Actor Company by himself, it is simply impossible to make a more dazzling performance than Tommy, and the most shining moments of the Actor Company will never be repeated again with Tommy Hawke choosing to leave the day-to-day management of the company.

"Have confidence in yourself, Holly, not to mention that I have talked to you about some ideas for future development before, if you encounter any problems that you feel need to discuss or are difficult to deal with, you can call me privately to ask me, buy a box of Trojan in advance, I am willing to give you some advice, thinking is not learned, it is honed by continuous thinking and trying." Tommy walked up to Holly, reached out and touched the other party's delicate face and said:

"You always have to learn to think about the whole picture for yourself, this is a great opportunity, you can spend the investment of Compaq, AT&T, grow the company, and improve yourself, this is a valuable opportunity, even Harvard Business School, you can't learn this knowledge, you can waste money, but don't waste the opportunity, if it wasn't for our deep friendship, you would not have paid me, you wouldn't have this kind of opportunity, understand?"

"Understood." Holly looked Tommy in the eye and nodded.

“Good。” Tommy turned to the others and said:

"The second question, the income problem, everyone has worked hard for so long, except for Mark and Susan, who have received a salary of two hundred dollars a week, no one else has received a formal salary in the company, mainly because we have no money, but now that the turmoil has passed, and Actor is no longer short of money, it's time to turn the banknotes in the company into their own money."

Speaking of income, everyone looked at Tommy, and Tommy first looked at Jason and Holly:

"Shareholders also need to receive a salary if they work, I have specifically asked the shareholders of several other companies about their salaries at work, for reference, Mr. Seymour Rubenstein of Minimally Invasive said that he gave himself 5,000 yuan a week of pocket money, Mr. Steve Ballmer, a minority shareholder of Microsoft, received a salary of 2,000 yuan a week, and Mr. Benjamin Rosen only received a pitiful salary of 200,000 yuan a year at Compaq, so, Holly, as CEO, received a salary of 200,000 yuan a year, Jason, Arrange for him to have a position in the Actor company other than a shareholder, receive 150,000 a year, and help him buy a medical insurance that can include frigidity treatment, I'm afraid that 150,000 yuan will not be enough for his treatment costs, so be it. ”

"What about you?" But Holly immediately realized that there was a problem, and that was that the bastard didn't pay a salary for himself.

Tommy shook his head at Holly: "I don't need to receive a salary, a symbolic one-dollar weekly salary is fine, but I need to ensure that I have other benefits, such as helping me buy medical insurance including dentists, regular medical check-ups in high-end private hospitals, and the highest income pension, as long as I don't forget to remit my dividends as a shareholder to my account on a quarterly basis, and the manuscript fee is enough for my college expenses, you know, I am not a person who cares about money." ”

"Yes, your ordinary medical insurance plus pension is enough for the company to hire five programmers." Holly rolled her eyes.

Tommy walked up to Gary Goode, this somewhat mother-in-law guy in front of him, who had done a lot of work for Jason before, and later led the customer service team in a part-time capacity, providing various telephone consultations for a huge user group, and when he saw Tommy looking at him, Gary smiled: "Do I also have a high salary?" I mean, I used to get a part-time salary. ”

"You think too much, you don't." Tommy's words first destroy Gary's pitiful illusions, and then ask, "You're an egalitarian, aren't you?" ”

"That's right, otherwise why would I join Stanford Women's Efirm?" Gary Goode didn't understand why Tommy was asking, but said anyway.

Tommy nodded: "Very good, in order to thank you and the customer service team for your efforts, if you are willing to take a leave of absence, the company can give you an expatriate job, maybe go to Europe, maybe Asia, to help more people of other colors and countries, the company will also consider giving you some incentive rewards, and Holly will talk to you after the details." ”

Gary Goode looked at Holly in confusion, and Holly gestured to him to talk later.

Tommy thought for a moment and said to Holly: "Susan and Mark are strictly not employees of Actor, they are members of Hope's human resources company, and they will talk about their income later, and the other employees of Actor, don't you need me to teach them, Holly?" Follow Microsoft's example, all outsourced, the contract was drafted by Delia, the design was as cumbersome and obscure as possible, and the unimportant staff was handed over to Mark's human resources company to be recruited, always remembering to save company costs, we do charity, but not charity. ”

Tommy lit a cigarette and took a puff before continuing: "Don't let employees eat too much, if they eat too much, they will think about issues that are not related to work, such as rights, unions, industry development, this kind of that is not their turn to worry about, of course, don't really starve them, every day the employees who worry about credit card repayment can not serve the company wholeheartedly, to let them always be in a state of seven points full, which is good for their body and work motivation." ”

While paying himself a high salary, while reminding himself to save the company's costs, such a contradiction may be what Tommy Hawk can say, and so justified.

"That's it, that's what Actor Corporation has arranged." Tommy asks Jason, Holly, and Gary, "Any other questions?" ”

Seeing that all three of them shook their heads, Tommy walked up to Mark in a black jumper and reached out to lift the other's hood: "How's it going, Mark?" ”

"It's nothing compared to the big things you do." Mark said with a smile on Tommy's face.

"It's insignificant, you may think that the HR company is insignificant compared to the Actor company now, and you are scolding me in your heart, look at the good things Tommy bastard has done, Jason, Holly gets a lot of money, and I only make a little bit every month!" Tommy spat out a puff of smoke, stared at Mark and said:

"I want you to know that you're the head of the human resources department at a lot of companies, you know? Before, you only helped those companies find some cheap goods to serve tea and water, and then, I want you to work while trying to understand that there is a profession called headhunting in this world, you are a natural good hand at doing this job, like you did before the you dig up actors for small movies, collect money and then use all kinds of means to help the companies that pay you to poach those computer geniuses, you will find that after pimping a high-level term, it is really easy to make money! It's easy to make money, as long as you work hard, you earn less now, because Holly and Jason have proven their ability with their academic qualifications, and you haven't, you can only perform better once at a time, in exchange for a higher treatment, this is the reality of America. ”

"I'll try." Mark nodded seriously: "I'll go and figure out what kind of profession headhunter is." ”

"Very well, remember what I said? I want you to never go to those things again, I want you to wear designer suits, luxury sports cars. Tommy smiled and took out a car key and slapped it in Mark's hand, and said with a smile in the surprised gaze of the other party:

"Park outside the door of your residence, the latest two-seater Lotus sports car, priced at 40,000 yuan, with the profits of Hope company and some blank paper expenses, buy it for you in the name of the company, the boss of Hope human resources company should have his own car."

Mark excitedly looked at his sports car keys and then at Tommy, trying to get himself to say something, but he couldn't get the words out of his mouth.

"Don't get excited, this is what you deserve, and if you perform badly, I'll just clean you up like I do now with a sports car." Tommy patted the other man on the shoulder and said to Holly:

"Holly, go back and transfer some of your shares in Hope to Mark, give Mark some motivation, you don't have the energy to take care of it anyway."

Then Tommy walked up to Susan, who had changed her outfit from when she was working at Hope, with her long hair tied up in a high ponytail, a loose and comfortable casual outfit, a pen in her hand, and she sat there, looking a little more sunny and youthful at her age.

"A post-dated check with $20,000 written on it." Tommy pulls a check from his bosom and hands it to Susan.

Susan looked at Tommy with a puzzled face, and Tommy nodded, "Put it away." ”

Susan took the check and asked, "But you've already helped me pay for my community college tuition, I don't need the money, and Hope's part-time job is enough to cover my school expenses." ”

"I've also helped you get Stanford tuition and other expenses, so let's put it this way, girl, there's a price for me to pay for your community college, it's an investment, if you get a transcription notice from Stanford, I'll add an A to your life transcript, if it's a public university like the University of California, it's a B, and as for the transcription notice from other junk universities, you don't need to notify me Congratulations, exchange this check, and disappear from my sight forever, Because there is so much waste in the world that I don't work hard, I can't find a reason to congratulate the world on having another waste. Tommy looked at the woman who always believed in herself and grew up in the mud:

"If you feel too tired to climb up, take out this check and look at it, and it will tell you that if you lie down until you graduate, the rest of your life is only worth 20,000 yuan."

Susan shook the check in her hand, shrugged cutely, and tore it apart: "I won't give it a chance to look at me, remember to exchange a new check, Daddy Tommy." ”

Tommy affectionately touched Susan's head: "GoodGirl, then remember, if you don't work hard, you will have a virtue with these check fragments, worthless, I know you will not let me down, because since I met you, you have never let me down, every performance is worth an A." ”

"Sophia will definitely not be a good lawyer, and a lawyer should not have such an emotional act as tears." Tommy finally walks up to Sophia, who has red eyes as early as Tommy is speaking to the others, and takes off her glasses to wipe away her tears.

Hearing Tommy's words, she choked up and laughed, "I just ...... It's just a little sad, and I know you'll see you again, but ...... But it won't be the same as it used to be, and I remember Jason and Holly sitting at their desks arguing over there, and I remember Susan sometimes changing clothes in a bold way......"

She struggled to make herself laugh, wiping her fingers from the tears that flowed, "It's all Tommy's bastard's fault...... If he's willing to take a break from school and continue to run the Actor company, he'll be able to handle everything in order, and everyone can get around him and see each other every day, not like ...... Let everyone ...... like this Separately...... It's a very sad feeling, I can't believe that I've been working in this garage for so long, I thought it would be a relief not to have to work, not to be so tiring anymore, but when it really doesn't need me to be busy anymore...... Instead, I ...... Nostalgic for those days of hard work for Actor Inc. ”

Jason, Holly, Mark, and Susan were all a little sad to see Sophia's reaction, although Jason and Holly are both working in Silicon Valley, and EFF's office is only three kilometers away from Actor, but even if they meet often, I am afraid they will not reproduce the picture of a few people talking and behaving unscrupulously in the garage.

Susan moved into a dormitory at Dalport Community College, leaving Mark alone in the apartment they had shared, and the two might see each other often at work, but they wouldn't walk back to their apartment together every day, sit on the couch, make a phone call, order takeout, and watch a movie together.

Everyone has not changed, but life has been completely different, Sophia thought for a long time, and can only blame Tommy for all this, because Tommy has the ability to handle everything, as long as he is willing to continue to devote time and energy, everyone will gather around him and act for his every decision, but he refuses, and divides these things among the people in front of him, completely breaking them up.

He's just a bastard, looking at Tommy smiling in front of him, Sophia thought sadly.

Why can't everyone work happily together like before, fighting for the last cup of coffee and the last piece of pizza for both men and women......

Tommy took out a tissue and handed it to Sophia, and said with a smile: "You have to be happier, Sophia, these guys all have holidays, make an appointment every year, get together for a few days, it will be better than getting tired of being together all day, and you and your friends need to keep growing, so that you and your friends can always be in the same class, so that you can be friends for life, and I can always proudly tell the world that at this moment, everyone in this garage is my friends, And not the poor chicks who live under the shelter of my Tommy Hawke's wings. ”

Sophia inhaled and took the tissue from Tommy, "I'm just a little sad, thank you, Tommy, for the first time that you feel like you're a polite human being." ”

"At such a sad moment, you don't forget to attack me, you were taught bad by me." Tommy laughed happily, "By the way, you have to come with me later." ”

Then he turned around, looked at the other people, and opened his arms: "Come on, a few of us rich people will take matters into our own hands, move things out, officially close garage 9, and wait for its next tenant." ”

A few members of the Actor Company, who were worth a lot of money at the moment, struggled to move the packing boxes out of the garage, and after all of them were moved out, the group stood in a row and looked at the completely empty garage.

Tommy eventually pulled down the garage shutter with his own hands, locked it, and threw the key to Holly, who would return it to the Stanford University administration.

"Fight for your life, guys! I will cheer for you while studying at Stanford University, don't contact me if you have nothing to do, Stanford University is very heavy. Tommy looked around at the crowd and said this, then grabbed Sophia's wrist and walked in the direction of the school.

Sophia was forcibly taken away by Tommy's wrist, and asked him puzzled as she struggled, "But I haven't said goodbye to everyone yet, Tommy, it's rude!" ”

"Goodbye? I don't have to look back at these guys to know they have a middle finger up. Tommy said with a smile without looking back.

Sophia turned around curiously, and sure enough, except for Gary Good, Holly, Jason, Mark, and Susan, the four of them were raising their middle fingers high in the direction where the two were leaving.

"They do, but why? Didn't you just say a dirty word? Sophia asked Tommy when she saw this.

"Because they have to work hard for my life at the same time, and the harder they fight, the more money I make, but I, the person who makes the most money, is not ready to do anything, I just want to shout a few cheers on the side, and I think that's why they send me off with their middle fingers," Tommy said. ”

"Tommy! You're a fucking asshole! Holly looked at the back of Tommy Hawk in the distance, and suddenly shouted loudly, but after shouting, tears flowed first: "I can't believe it, he has no attachment to the Actor." ”

Jason exhaled and comforted Holly from the side, "You've got the answer, because he's a jerk." ”

"God and the world have testified!" Hearing Holly's shout, Tommy didn't look back, but raised his left middle finger high and shouted:

“Actor！ A bunch of bastards are born! ”

It wasn't until she walked back to campus that Sophia adjusted her mood and asked Tommy, "Where are you taking me, Tommy?" ”

"Is the bed in your dorm room comfortable?" Tommy asked Sophia.

Sophia frowned, stopped in place and glared at Tommy: "Tommy~~ You can't always make this kind of vulgar joke to women who think they are charming but don't respect women enough." ”

"I'm not going to sleep with you, Sophia, I have a lot of female readers who are willing to have some affair with me, and if I agree, I can help the United States create a state of newborn population right now." Tommy put his hands behind his head, and did not stop in the sun, and continued to walk forward, saying as he went:

"I just wanted to say that I've fallen asleep countless times on red-eye flights, and this time, it's your turn to be the pillow, and I'm going to get a good night's sleep."

This bastard's words made Sophia instantly recall the pictures of him and herself intimately putting on an eye mask for herself every time she took a red-eye flight, and then lent her shoulder to make a pillow.

"Do you think it would be better for me to go for a breast augmentation and then you would sleep better when you lay on it?" Sophia learned Tommy's tone, laughing with tears in her eyes, and said out loud to Tommy's back this vulgar joke that she found a little embarrassing.

"Wouldn't it be worse if you went to breast augmentation and came back, and I became as sleepy as before." In the sun, Tommy turned to look at Sophia, and beckoned with a tired face:

"So, why don't you go to bed first, I'm sleepy and need a long enough sleep."

Sophia walked over and walked side by side with Tommy: "What about when you wake up?" ”

"Of course, I stayed at the university not only for the diploma, but also for another reason, which is that the value of SSDs has not been squeezed out." Tommy walked in the direction of the dormitory and said:

"Actor's work is over, but my days at the fraternity are just beginning."

Eight thousand words today~

(End of chapter)