The Goddess Shines on America

After the meeting, Alice did not leave the company immediately, and it was rare to ask the principal for leave to return to the United States, how could it be just to attend a press conference. So after a simple meeting with the executives, Alice came to the chairman's office where few people stepped into her, and began to get busy with some specific tasks.

"Mannes," Alice said after staring at the list of employees and making a phone call to a certain team in the technology department, "send Jeff Bezos, the employee in your team, to the chairman's room on the fifth floor."

After hanging up the call, Alice sat alone behind the large desk and made another call.

Didi's voice sounded calmly, and after a while, a voice that I hadn't heard for a long time sounded: "Miss Alice, I haven't heard from you for a long time, what can I do for you?"

There was a map of San Jose on the desk, and Alice stared at an open space on it and said, "I will inspect the construction site around three o'clock this afternoon, please give me a verbal report first, about my company's new headquarters Building, where is the progress of the project?"

"God bless, Miss Alice," said the builder, like many people who had more dealings with Alice, by her first name instead of the surname that sounded strongly racial: "We Just started the formaldehyde deodorization process, and in about a month, your employees can move to this super huge new office building!"

"I hope this matter can be done before the New Year comes," Alice said, counting the days of listing: "All the windows are open, the exhaust fans are in use, the workers can wear gas masks, and now let's start the furniture arrangement. "

"Oh, this is not an easy job, you have to pay me some extra money, after all, renting those equipment..."

"Money is not a problem, just do it."

It didn't take long to make the call, and a moment later, Alice dialed yet another person: "Hey, Tripp!"

The distance between San Jose and Redwood City, San Francisco is not far, and the routine of the two must be exactly the same: "Have you had lunch, tell me, how many steaks did you eat today?"

During the conversation, there was a knock on the office door, and Alice said "Come in", and then continued to chat with the owner of Electronic Arts, which was acquired by herself. At the same time, Jeff Bezos has also entered the room and sat down in the chair Alice pointed him to.

"You said, the second part of Shadow Beast Warrior? No problem, no problem." The ghost knows what kind of game it is, anyway, Alice is not interested in the computer game world at this time: "But since we are talking about warriors, I Recently, I have a new idea, I will go to the company later, let's have a good chat. That's right, that's it, then let's talk again, goodbye."

After solving another matter in a few words, she hung up the phone, stood up, pointed to the reception area and said, "Come on Jeff, let's sit here."

Bezos got up, with a somewhat apprehensive expression on his face: "Boss, you came here specifically to find me..."

"I don't know if you still remember, but we first met in a bookstore," Alice said with a smile, "Don't tell me, you've forgotten all about "Jurassic Park"."

Bezos suddenly blushed: "How could I forget? To be honest, looking back now, I still think it's amazing. I actually praised this book in front of the author himself, and now you are my boss." .Even when I first interviewed at Cisco, you showed up at the door."

Reminiscing about the past is a great way to get closer, although since Bezos joined Cisco, he has rarely had the opportunity to chat with Alice. This is not the case for Alice, she has long been paying special attention to this young man in his early twenties, and now that the company is about to go public, there are some things that have been brewing in her heart, and it is indeed time to talk about them.

"Tell me about your plans for the future, Jeff." Alice said, "You have been working at Cisco since you graduated, and you have seen it grow from a small company to a public company, from more than a hundred people to a thousand. Programmer, you must have great ideas, right?"

"That's true." Bezos nodded with a wry smile, and looked out the window. From this direction, he could just see the company's current second headquarters building. The area is not smaller than the current one, but it was only rented nearly a year ago. That's all. The company's expansion is extremely fast and the office space is limited, but even if the high rent is paid, why can't the higher income not be able to pay?

"You are nothing short of a miracle, Miss Alice." He said, "I was honored to participate in two of Cisco's most important research groups, and now I am assigned to this DLS series technology team. It can be said that I was completely in the first place." Watch your knowledge and skills online. It's really, really good, and I also watched the latest interview..."

"Jeff," Alice said emphatically, "I'm asking what do you think of your future development."

It is much more difficult to answer this question than to praise the boss. Bezos rolled his eyes and said softly: "I have always been interested in computers, so after I was admitted to Princeton with electrical engineering, I was also admitted to the Department of Computer Science." Bachelor’s degree. Our company’s emphasis on high-end technology really makes me feel like I have found a home. In fact, many members of the technical department have discussions on weekdays, and I am very much looking forward to what new ideas you will come up with.”

Bezos swears to God, he definitely said it from the heart.

Think about it, there are three in total. Alice has thrown out three technologies in the past three years, just a router, a switch, and a firewall. However, a direct finished product, a product development with complete technical information, and a semi-finished product development that the technical department takes over, which one has not brought huge profits to the company?

Bezos is a member of the technology department. Who knows the profit margin of the product better than them? As for the firewall, the real cost of the hardware part is really insignificant, and the soft cost is nothing more than the salary and bonus of the research team members, which is a very flexible thing-then what is the selling price of this firewall?

"Then you plan to keep developing in the company?" Alice asked tentatively, looking at the young man who could be her big brother with a smile: "Don't you have any other ideas?"

"You mean job-hopping and starting a business?" Bezos is not an idiot, and he naturally knows what Alice means. His face tightened immediately, but soon he relaxed a lot: "Miss Alice, I'm really confused Now, if you talk about this kind of topic, you should talk to other executives of the company, right? I am just an ordinary employee now, so it is necessary to be so... concerned?"

Of course it is necessary.

Alice secretly smiled in her heart. Of course, the reason cannot be said, but if Bezos is really allowed to continue working at Cisco, when the time comes, when she can take advantage of the opportunity to establish a super-large e-commerce company, where should she go to find the best solution? The right CEO?

"If you want to hone your skills in other industries," Alice decided to directly change the topic to the point: "I would suggest that you work in a bank. You know, banks are not just financial analysts. In terms of servers, they will be very helpful. A guy with three years of Cisco experience is welcome to join."

"Then, it must be very easy for you to develop rapidly in the bank with your superb computer skills and excellent mathematical foundation. You know, if you can really get mixed up to the point of taking charge of the entire bank's computer system, then But it is definitely better than simply being an elite technician at Cisco."

Alice's words were quite sincere and realistic, but Bezos knew it clearly. He is aware of his own situation. Although he has studied computer technology in college, his level is still much lower than that of Stanford's computer science majors. The most obvious example is not being able to be a team leader for three years. It's not that he is not good enough, but that the current team leader's programming site is too good.

Therefore, if I really go to the banking system to develop as Alice said, I may indeed have better results.

But now it sounds so awkward, why does it feel so awkward?

"...Boss, are you sure this isn't trying to dissuade me?"

The flustered Bezos couldn't help thinking, is it because the company is going to be listed that the company is going to lay off employees! ?

He really guessed the truth, because Alice spends most of her time in school and has a bunch of other careers on weekdays, ghosts have time to care about Cisco's employee recruitment. Posak watched the company grow day by day, the market expanded rapidly, and Alice's research projects were thrown away one after another. The total number of 600 programmers was completely the accumulation of talents in advance. Fortunately, the company's profits are indeed huge, and there is no need to worry about no salary, but there are indeed some redundant staff, and it is time to lay off some staff.

"It's been three years..." Alice blinked, as if she was about to seduce her: "You have been working at Cisco for nearly three years right after you graduated, don't you think you would go to other places for a living? ?”

This sentence really speaks to Bezos's heart. To be reasonable, is it really necessary for a young man of twenty-five years to stick to the development of a company from the moment he graduates? As Alice said, it has been nearly three years, and he is not a native of California, so who stipulates that he cannot move his butt and leave! ?

"It seems that you already have your own ideas."

So, Alice said very satisfied: "Leave a contact number, buddy, don't look at my age, I also have a part-time job as an investor, in case you want to start a business anytime, come to me anytime."

As she said that, before Bezos could act first, she took the initiative to take out her pocket and handed over a business card.