After the meeting, Chen Zhiwen took Wads to one of his offices.

"Sit down, feel free." Chen Zhiwen greeted with a smile.

"Holo." With that, Woz sat down on the couch next to him.

"Come on, have a beer." Chen Zhiwen took out two bottles of beer in the refrigerator, one bottle per person, when it is hot, drinking cold beer or Sprite is the coolest, although it is winter, but as long as the heating is turned on to the fullest, you can also experience the hot summer.

"Thank you." Woz was casual and smiled as he opened the beer bottle.

After taking two sips, Chen Zhiwen said, "Steve. Jobs is still a good friend of yours, right? ”

"Yes." Waz was stunned for a moment and asked, "Boss, what's wrong?" ”

"It's okay, I heard that Steve Jobs recently promoted one of his computers in some Silicon Valley companies in the United States, do you know about this?" Chen Zhiwen said with a chuckle.

"Yes, boss, in fact, the computer in Jobs' hand was made by me." Woxz thought for a moment, hesitated for a moment, and replied.

"Oh, what's going on? Tell me about it? Chen Zhiwen asked "curiously".

"About 4 months ago, Steve Jobs approached me, and he asked me to help him deal with a technical problem, and I also had time at that time, so I helped him deal with it, and then we worked together, and it took a month to make a very simple computer." Wads continued: "At that time, I was just putting together some basic MOS features, and Jobs thought it was a very promising product, so he wanted me to start a business with him, and I didn't say yes at the time, but I asked him to take the prototype away, and he went to the customer, but it took a few months and only sold a few units. ”

"So that's what happened? Do you think that computer can have great potential? Chen Zhiwen asked with a smile.

"I don't know, I think there are some uses, for example, if we use this kind of computer in the terminal of Costco's future warehouse management system, it may be very convenient, but how exactly, I'm not sure, in fact, Jobs thinks it has a lot of potential." Wolds said.

"In those months, he only sold a few units, is he still insisting?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"He's still insisting, Jobs said, that the cost of this computer is too high, because it's what we're assembled, and if we want to reduce the cost, we need to use modern factories for mass production, and the computer needs to be redesigned, because it's something we make at home, and a lot of hardware needs to be upgraded, which requires a lot of money, but we can't get it." Wolds said.

"At home?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

Waz didn't understand what he meant, but he nodded and said, "Yes, it's my house." ”

"Oh, OK, nothing." Chen Zhiwen said, because of the Wads in this life, and the previous has undergone earth-shaking changes, in the previous HP Wads, a monthly salary is only 2000 US dollars, which is a lot in the United States in this era, but he lives in Silicon Valley, and rented a house near HP, the rent is already expensive, plus daily consumption, overdraft habits, basically moonlight, and now, Midea gives him an annual salary of 100,000 US dollars plus bonuses, naturally rich, Wads also bought a house in Los Angeles very early.

Therefore, in this life, the future Apple will no longer be a business in a garage.

Chen Zhiwen then asked: "Then what is Jobs going to do now?" ”

Wolds replied: "He was going to pull the investment, and the other day he went to a former shareholder of Atari and wanted him to invest, but he was refused. ”

"Why don't you look for me?" Chen Zhiwen asked with some curiosity: "He should know your situation, right?" ”

After taking Woz as his subordinate, Chen Zhiwen knew that the most famous Apple might have an accident, so after learning that Jobs had left Atari last year, he arranged for someone to keep an eye on Jobs, and therefore, he learned that about four months ago, Jobs and Wads were relatively close, and they ran to Jobs' house every day.

The private investigator gave a surprising reply, they were gay, because as soon as Woz was off work from the company, Jobs went to his house.

And Chen Zhiwen knows that these two people must be tinkering with something, and the biggest possibility is the computer, because in the whole history, except for Wox becoming rich, nothing else has changed.

As with history, Jobs took samples to many exhibitions and went to many companies to visit and sell his computers, but the results were very dismal, because the price was too high, a thing cost 3,000 US dollars, although it was cheaper than IBM or Wang An's computer, but such a large amount of money, who would buy a computer without any foundation, and the first generation of Apple's computer was really weak in function and did not have much commercial value.

It wasn't until recently that Steve Jobs stopped recommending his own computers to various companies, and Chen Zhiwen knew that he must be thinking about further optimization, that is, preparing to build Apple's second-generation computers, but the cost of this is very high, and it is absolutely necessary to introduce external funds.

"Because I don't know what to say to you, I'm afraid you'll think I have another job." Woz said with some embarrassment.

"It's nothing, you also used your spare time to help Jobs, and you didn't set up a company? Right? Chen Zhiwen smiled and said.

Everything is under his control, whether Wox comes to him or not, it is naturally better to look for him, if he doesn't, then bring it up himself, if it is like this.

"Yes, Boss, you're interested in this computer too?" Woz asked.

"One thing, do you have a sample of this computer at home?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"Yes, it's in my study," Wads said, "and in my study, too, Jobs lived in my house. ”

Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, "That's right, let's go and have a look?" ”。

Jobs lives in the Woz house, and he actually knew for a long time that coming to the United States this time to invest in the future Apple is the most important thing.

A long time ago, Chen Zhiwen once thought about whether to change the history of Apple? The method is also very simple, just build your own personal computer.

But after thinking about it again, Chen Zhiwen decided not to change history, and still let Apple start a business as it did in history, just be an investor himself.

The most fundamental reason for this is that in the early stage of computer development, it can be said that all parties are in a big war, everyone takes their own rules, specifies the shape, mode, standard and so on of the computer, in the absence of a unified standard, although the computer industry is developing rapidly, but the first batch of computers have all been spared, none of them can develop very smoothly to the 80s, even Apple, the company that created this era, also declined because of internal and external reasons.

At the same time, he also has to take into account that he is a Chinese, investing in supermarkets and stocks in the United States, no one will care too much, even if he makes a lot of dollars in the United States by relying on arcade machines, as long as he shares it appropriately, no one will care, and the government will not look at himself more, but personal computers, which are a big industry that has just caused a shock in Silicon Valley and even the United States, 80 years ago, the concept of computer companies was hyped, and Apple went public in 1980, with a market value of $1.8 billion.

You must know that in the United States in 1980, the market value of the beverage giant Coca-Cola was only a little more than $4 billion, and a four-year-old Apple company could be compared to a beverage giant half a century smaller, which is enough to show that the whole United States at that time was pursuing personal computers.

In the 70s and even the early 80s, the largest market for computers was the United States.

Another reason is that Chen Zhiwen didn't know anything about computers in the 70s and even early 80s, and he tended to find the right talent to invest in industries that did not have prophetic advantages, rather than on his own.

The best time is to wait a few more years, when various standards in the computer market appear, and the computer model has become a type he is familiar with, then the United States can enter the market, and at that time, countries around the world will also begin to develop computers, and no one will care about one more beauty.

Their biggest advantage may be the familiarity with various software, such as office three-piece suits, computer games, etc., hardware, is the need for real technology investment, which will naturally be invested in the future, but the prophet gold finger is useless, you need to invest a lot of money in various research and development, and now invest in Apple, and wait a few years to get a lot of returns, just have money to burn money research and development.

Lincoln's stretch sedan quickly traveled through the streets of Los Angeles, this car was given by Henry Morgan, in fact, the price is not expensive, with a high allocation of 50,000 US dollars, but the interior of various luxury decorations, cost another 120,000 US dollars, in terms of safety and comfort basically achieved the ultimate.

In less than half an hour, I arrived at a villa in Malibu, Los Angeles.

At the door at this moment, there is a group of young men with long hair and messy beards sitting in the courtyard basking in the sun, it is Jobs.

(End of chapter)