The Goddess Shines on America

Jeff Bezos, the future founder of Amazon...

Alice had guessed that she had hired the right person when she saw his name for the first time while browsing the employee list. Later, after browsing the other party's resume for a while, she became more convinced of this conclusion.

This funny-looking bald guy not only founded the world's largest online bookstore, Amazon, but also one of the earliest e-commerce companies on the Internet, and also developed it into the largest online e-commerce company in the United States. This achievement is not ordinary.

He was elected Person of the Year by Time Magazine in 1999, only four years after the establishment of the company. When the timeline moved to 2014, he was ranked among the top ten richest people in the world with a net worth of more than 30 billion US dollars. As the real leader in the industry who gave Ma Yun the idea of ​​​​creating Alibaba, this journey to the top of his life, which has soared to 30,000 miles, is also climbing just right.

And now, this kid who just graduated from Princeton University actually came to work at Cisco.

Alice almost laughed when she first learned of this fact.

"Miss Alice?"

At this time, Bezos, who was not yet bald, sat down in the cafeteria very cautiously: "It's really rare to see you in the company."

This is a relatively high-end dining area in the cafeteria. The curved sofa surrounds the oval dining table. The environment is elegant, but the number of people is even rarer. Because of this, when many people saw Bezos, a newcomer working in the firewall research and development department, sitting with Alice, who rarely appeared in the company, many people looked like they had seen the news .

Of course, Alice ignored them: "Jeff, you have been working in our company for two years, and you have been doing a very good job. But after all, it has been two years, and it is the first two years of graduation, so long How do you plan for your future?"

It's a rare scene where a girl in high school actually asks a professional about her future plans, but it seems very natural to put this matter on Alice. Bezos smacked his lips subconsciously, and immediately realized that it was not polite, so he couldn't help but squeeze his mouth tightly.

"Actually, as a child, I aspired to be an astronaut or a physicist."

What a great ideal, Alice laughed, and Bezos took a sip of the juice happily: "When I was in middle school, I wanted to be a business manager, but after I went to college, I became interested in computers. Yes. My resume says I graduated from the Department of Computer Science, right?"

Alice was noncommittal, but said ambiguously: "So, your interests change from time to time, right?"

"Let's put it this way, working at Cisco now... feels good. Seriously, Alice, I really admire you. Those media magazines often talk about your age, but what I noticed is that you Before, no one thought about developing any hardware specifically for the popularization of the Internet.”

Alice nodded with a smile. The general media is okay, professional magazines like "Popular Electronics" do not miss her age. Of course, it's not to question Alice's talent, but to overemphasize the contrast between those achievements and her age.

"So, I do have some ideas..."

Instead, I heard Bezos say: "I was thinking, can I also do something earth-shattering? After all, Alice, although we don't meet many times, you always treat me as a billionaire." The rich man is a joke. Always say that, it really makes me think about it!"

After speaking, both of them laughed. Of course, this scene was clearly seen by the employees in the distance, and the big guys couldn't help being even more curious. Many people didn't even have the mood to eat, and started talking in low voices.

"Hey, you said that boy Bezos is not dating our boss, is he?"

"Falling in love!? Come on, there's almost ten years of age difference between them, right? Roger, if you say that, you won't be afraid to hear Mary's ears. You know she's a bit..."

The above two people are purely gossip, but there are also people who think seriously: "Could it be that Jeff is going to make a fortune? His performance in the past two years is indeed very good. Bosack has named him in the meeting several times. Are you going to be promoted?"

"The research and development team of the firewall, this is a project given by the Pentagon. It's really amazing that Jeff can get in. But the most remarkable thing is Alice. What is handed over to the research and development team is directly a semi-finished product. Those people only need to do it. Just finish the finishing touches. Tsk tsk tsk..."

Although the distant discussions were mixed with normal small talk, Alice could still hear them clearly, but of course she didn't bother to pay attention to the random thoughts of the employees, and just continued to chat with Bezos.

"If you really want to seek further development, I won't stop you, don't worry."

To give a reassurance first, she said: "After all, if you really succeed in starting a business, whether it is for this society or for me, the value will be much greater than if you continue to be a programmer at Cisco. Think about it , if you sincerely love the big boss of a company, and if we have any projects that we can cooperate with, one is to cooperate with the former company boss, and the other is to cooperate with the former company employees, these are all acquaintances, right?"

What he said really made Bezos tremble with trepidation and wry smile: "Please, Alice, is there a boss like you who encourages subordinates to leave and start a business? I have worked at Cisco for two full years. Nian, are you not afraid that I will become your competitor?"

Alice snorted and waved her hands disapprovingly: "Lucent Technology is backed by Bell Labs, and the speed of developing new products has been outpaced by me? You can rest assured about this, Jeff, even if Cisco has competitors, It will never be Lucent's."

Seeing what Alice said with such certainty, Bezos was inevitably curious, and couldn't help but ask, "It definitely won't be Lucent? Is it the second in the industry right now? It won't be Lucent, could it be the third?" of……"

Alice didn't listen to the next few words because of Bezos' simple rhetorical question.

After lunch, there was still a short time before Sandy arrived at the company. After returning to the office, Alice immediately called home.

After a while, Sophie, who must be at home, connected it: "Hi, this is..."

"Mom, how are our contacts in China?"

Because there was something to do in the morning, even though it was almost one o'clock in the afternoon, Sophie was still preparing lunch. Originally, my mind was full of thinking about various cooking times, but my daughter suddenly asked such a question, which immediately made her confused.

"Connections in China? Uh... uh... you mean 'Oscar \u0026amp; Hannah'?"

Sophie couldn't figure out what Alice's plan was, so Sophie could only stammered: "Do you want to develop domestic enterprises in China? Or are you finally planning to let 'Oscar \u0026amp; Hannah' go global?"

Alice also realized that she asked the question too suddenly. At this moment, she sat comfortably behind the desk in the office, and picked up a piece of information about the new generation of switches from the desk: "That's it, Mom, um... …I learned from an employee here at Cisco that, uh…he is also of Chinese descent, and he told me that a relative of a retired military cadre in his hometown in China is now planning to start a switch business.”

Eight out of ten sentences were nonsense, but Sophie didn't know the composition of Cisco's personnel, but after hearing her daughter's last sentence, she followed her train of thought and said, "So, are you planning to acquire that company? But it It should not pose a threat to Cisco... So Alice, do you have an idea for the Chinese market?"

She really deserves to be a mother. Even though Alice's thinking has always broken through the sky, she still has a good grasp of her daughter's mind. Therefore, when there was such a cheer of "Ouch, hello" from the other side of the microphone, Sophie could also imagine that her daughter must have snapped her fingers.

"That's right, Mom, but I'm afraid this business is not suitable for you to come forward. Let Dad ask the school for a leave of absence and ask him to accompany me to China."

This is of course no problem, but Sophie is thinking about another question: "But you will start school in ten days, and you also want to ask Eton for leave? Then you have to work hard to earn credits when you return to school."

Which is more important, of course, Alice knows better than anyone else, she touched her lips, glanced at the world map on one side of the wall, and nodded vigorously: "That's it, let's go to Shanghai first, and see the 'Oscar- Hannah's development, and then go to Shenzhen, according to my employee, his relative went to Shenzhen to work hard."

Sophie has heard of the term Shenzhen a lot. After all, when Oscar-Hannah was first established, she was also in charge of the Shanghai headquarters for a long time. She had already heard about the so-called coastal pilot city that was the first to open up: "Shenzhen is good. The climate there is similar to that of Florida, and now it can be regarded as shelter from the cold."

"But Alice, is your news reliable? Which generation of Chinese is your employee? Can he give the exact contact information of that relative?"

Alice was silent for a moment, because she needed to recall the memory of her previous life.

"According to him, that relative worked at the Shenzhen Nanhai Petroleum Logistics Service Base in 1983 and recently resigned, so I can get his contact information directly from that company. However, his national pride is very strong , if I contact him directly as the founder of Cisco, I don't think there will be any good results, so I need to use the identity of 'Oscar \u0026amp; Hannah'."

So that's the case, Sophie nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll help you contact Shanghai."