"If you want to do this, it will definitely take a long time, your approach is actually right, it must be commercialized first, if there is no commercial value, then how to civilian, unless you only want it to be used for entertainment, then you can avoid the competition of commercial computers." Chen Zhiwen continued.

"No, the PC is very useful and must not be turned into a gaming device." Jobs hurriedly shook his head and said.

"The idea is right, then you need to keep working hard." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, although even in the later generations, the main role of mobile phones and computers is entertainment, but it is absolutely impossible to only have entertainment.

Jobs' eyes lit up and he asked, "Mr. Chen, I don't know, are you willing to invest in my company?" ”

"It's not about investing, it's about making the right product, something that can be truly a personal computer product." Chen Zhiwen said.

Jobs asked, "So what does Mr. Chen mean, let's make the right product, and you can invest it?" ”

"It's not, it's okay to invest today, but you have to set up a company, you just said Apple's name, and then you need a perfect development plan, R&D plan, goals, etc., to have a modern company's development route, and then to recruit people, Watts is a part-time job, and you need to go out to find business, so it's too slow." Chen Zhiwen said unhurriedly.

Since it was decided not to grab Apple's slogan of "the first to propose personal computers", it is natural to choose to invest, and since there is investment, it is natural to help them, at least in the initial stage to develop faster, so that theoretically, you can go public earlier, and you can get returns earlier.

"Okay, then I'll go to register the company tomorrow, no, this afternoon." Jobs smiled happily.

"Have you ever thought about how much money you'll need?" Chen Zhiwen then asked.

"At least $500,000." Jobs thought for a moment and said, "No matter what type of computer, you have to rely on mass production to reduce costs, just like in the automotive industry, and that requires a lot of money, plus the cost of developing new computers and publicity." ”

"It's pretty much the same, it's estimated that $500,000 isn't necessarily enough, but let's invest so much first." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, in fact, Jobs is not very computer savvy, compared to Woz, Bill Gates and others, he is more like Larry, the founder of Oracle. Ellison, this kind of person is not more powerful, but has a keen sense of the market, and then has a very good talent to promote the project.

"Is your own internal shareholding ratio determined?" Chen Zhiwen then asked.

Jobs replied: "We haven't registered the company yet, because we wanted to wait until we find stable customers before registering the company, but we have all figured out the share ratio, I and Wads are 50% each, and if Mr. Chen invests, the three of us will be 33.3% each, how about it?" ”

"Three people in the same proportion?" Chen Zhiwen smiled in his heart, but still said: "Okay, after you register the company, I will transfer the funds into the account, and in addition, you need to find a suitable management talent to manage the company." ”

Woz is technology, Jobs is a market sensitive and good at developing the market, for a start-up company, the only thing lacking is an excellent management talent, this person is in place, then the framework of the whole company can be built, in the early stage of development, this may not be important, but as long as it reaches a certain scale, it is necessary.

"Okay, we'll discuss it together then." Jobs said very excitedly that with hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment, his career plan can finally develop normally.

Although the original Apple computer is very historical, its own use value is not very high, Chen Zhiwen is naturally not interested in this, and said: "If you develop a suitable new computer in the future, I will let Costco buy it in large quantities, which will be beneficial to you and me." ”

Costco definitely needs to be gradually electronic, although the current electronic technology is relatively low-level, but it is also much stronger than manual data, as long as the electronic management system can be used to further reduce logistics costs, storage costs, labor costs, that will be a very effective new way of development, Costco can also rely on high-quality cash flow to expand more rapidly.

"That's great." Jobs said with a smile that he had obtained another big customer in the future, which was a stroke of genius for Apple.

After looking at the study for a while, Chen Zhiwen and Wads came to the balcony on the second floor, today's sun is not bad, although it is a little cold, but it can bear it.

"Eric, doesn't seem like a good idea for me to do two jobs at the same time?" Woxz said with some embarrassment.

"It's nothing, Midea's side, you also know it's not very busy, and there are no new games to develop at the moment, Costco's supermarket management system development plan, you just guide, database processing, is not your strong point, hardware development is, you can arrange your time reasonably, if Apple needs you, you can come over, besides, I am also a shareholder of Apple, you make Apple's computer, I can also benefit from it." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said.

For the computer age, his prophet is very useful, but it is also a computer 85 years later, not an ancient computer like today, he does not know any problems, technology and market changes, etc., besides, this era itself is also the beginning of a number of giants competing for the personal computer market, and falling into it will only give him a headache.

Rather than this, it is better to use your own capital now to properly buy shares in some famous brands, such as the current Apple, as long as it is a few years later, it can get hundreds of millions of dollars in returns, and when Apple is in crisis, Dell should also start a business.

And the computer itself, is only a small part of the computer industry chain, desktop control system, all kinds of office software, entertainment software, signal equipment is the bigger head of the 80s, want to profit from it is actually very simple, wait for these giants to appear and then find a way to buy shares, and then wait for them to go public and then buy stocks in the secondary market.

The premise of all this is that the golden finger of the prophet is still useful, and the beginning of the entire computer industry chain is when Apple began to put forward the concept of personal computers, so no matter what, Chen Zhiwen will not compete for this reputation, because once he gets his hands on it, history will change, completely changed.

Let's not talk about the various side effects, and don't say whether we can beat HP, IBM and other giants in the future, it is very likely that the outcome is that all new companies such as Weisoft, Cisco, and Dell will not appear again, then the loss will be too great, and most of the technology goldfingers in the 80s will fail.

It is also for this reason that Chen Zhiwen knew that the graphical interface system was the best reason for the popularization of personal computers, but he did not tell Jobs and others that what he needed was that history should develop as much as possible according to the original line, and he would make a profit through investment in the process, and promote it appropriately.

Woz nodded and said, "That's fine." ”

"I said a long time ago, you will become a millionaire, maybe soon you will become a billionaire." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said.

He is not a stingy person, Costco team, he divides shares once a year, basically about 2%, which is what they deserve, for, Watts, in fact, it is the same, giving shares is not a problem, but in his plan, he just needs Watts to start a business for Apple again, so that Chen Zhiwen can also profit from it, and at the same time, Watts can also get hundreds of millions of dollars in returns, which is also deserved by capable people.

And if Chen Zhiwen gives him so much money, it is really unlikely, even if Midea monopolizes the arcade market in the next few years, it can make hundreds of millions of dollars at most, then it is best to take advantage of the development of the market in history, grasp the direction by yourself, and let the market pay benefits to your employees for yourself. Even the employees in Hong Kong, Chen Zhiwen also encouraged and supported interest-free loans to let them buy houses, and the market gave them bonuses, which is still very fragrant.

"Apple's future is so good?" Woz asked.

"Apple's future is not certain, but personal computers must be, whether you can catch it or not depends on your ability." Chen Zhiwen said with a light smile.

For the trillion-dollar market, it is naturally impossible to say that there is no interest, but he needs to stabilize the advantages of his prophet, and cannot change the history of recent years too much, and wait until the computer market is rolled into his familiar interface in Apple, IBM, HP and other new companies, and the United States will naturally kill it, not to mention others, just investing in Apple now, the hundreds of millions of dollars in return that can be obtained in a few years are enough for him to develop new technologies and large-scale publicity.

And in the terminal retail market, the current Costco and Walmart are still weak, but in a few years, it will be completely different.

"Steve Jobs is very capable, and I think he will succeed." Woz nodded.

"He does have the ability, but you are not bad, one of our three parties provides funds, one provides technology, one provides market, and this is still a new market that has not appeared, it is indeed not difficult to succeed." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said: "It's Christmas soon, and after the year, your main job is to make Apple's new computer first, and the supermarket management system, you just need to help recruit the right talents, and they won't set the ability of interviewers." ”

"Supermarket management system, will it be Costco or beautiful in the future?" Wadsz then asked.

"Considered beautiful, this system is not difficult in technology, mainly according to the actual situation of continuous optimization, it takes a long time, so now through Costco to gain relevant experience, and when it matures, Midea can make a set of management systems suitable for global supermarkets based on these experiences, which is also a very good market, but the development time will be in years, so there is no hurry for this meeting." Chen Zhiwen said.

Enterprise management system, that is, the most famous ERP in later generations, is the top software of Oracle, a software can easily cost millions of dollars, but the effect on all kinds of enterprises is very good, that is, the research and development time is too long, but also very resource-consuming, in the era of all kinds of technology has not reached the requirements of Chen Zhiwen's brain, Midea to spend a little energy on this kind of data is also a good choice, especially to borrow Costco's platform, which does not cost money, but also can save costs for Costco, killing two birds with one stone.

"Understood, then I'll have to recruit enough people." Woz nodded and said, although he doesn't understand management and marketing, he understands technology, and maybe he is not very proficient in databases, but he still knows how many people are needed, after all, he has worked at HP for a few years.

"There is no need to save in recruitment, you can recruit as much as you need, and Apple is the same, so that someone can develop a new computer as soon as possible." Chen Zhiwen said.

(End of chapter)