giants of the era

Chapter 31 Family Office! ! !
Jingle Bell! ! !
Early Saturday morning, the doorbell rang outside.

When Steve Gary Wozniak's mother heard the bell, she stopped what she was doing and went to answer the door.

"Hello, who are you looking for?"

Seeing the strange face and the yellow race, Wozniak's mother asked in doubt.

Li Zetian replied with a smile: "Hello, my name is Chronos Lee, and I'm looking for Steve Gary Wozniak!"

"Please come in!"

"Thank you!"

Wozniak's mother brought Li Zetian to the living room, and then shouted upstairs: "Steve, someone is looking for you!"

After a while, the technology guru Steve Gary Wozniak appeared.

It's just that his appearance surprised Li Zetian. He was slovenly, with long hair and a big beard. He was completely dressed like a hippie nowadays.

However, it doesn't matter how you look, it's not a beauty pageant, as long as you have good skills!
Li Zetian stood up from his chair, with a warm smile on his face, he greeted him: "Hi, Wozniak, I'm Chronos Lee, an employee of Atari, I heard you are A very good electronics engineer, so come and visit!"

Wozniak looked very surprised, "Hello, please sit down!"

"Is there anything you want from me?" he asked.

Li Zetian nodded, and said straight to the point: "Actually, I came to you to invite you to work in my company!"

First of all, Wozniak didn't know Li Zetian; secondly, he worked well in Hewlett-Packard and was paid well, so he didn't want to leave.So he refused, "Sorry..."

"Please don't refuse, wait until I finish speaking before you make a decision!!!" Li Zetian interrupted directly, "I am going to develop a personal computer that every family can afford, and I need your help , Wozniak, if you can come to my company, although the salary cannot be compared with HP, but I can give you 10% of the shares!" Li Zetian looked into his eyes very sincerely and said.

Regarding the development and future of personal computers, Wozniak often discussed with others in the computer club, and what Li Zetian said did not impress him.

"What's the name of your company and how big is it?"

"The company is still in the process of registration, and the name is Apple Corporation,"

As for the scale, it is even more embarrassing. Li Zetian is still a bachelor commander, so he is too embarrassed to say it.

When Wozniak heard this, he was stunned for a while, thinking that such a company is simply too unreliable, not to mention giving away 10% of the shares, even giving away 20% of the shares is a bunch of useless figures!

"Sorry, Chronos, thank you very much for your invitation, but I am very happy working at HP now, and I don't intend to change jobs!"

Wozniak stood up and made a gesture of seeing off the guests.

"You can think again carefully. What we have done is a great and creative thing, and it will become a milestone in the history of computer development!!!" Li Zetian also stood up at this time, and said slowly, " I will visit you again in the future, and I hope you can agree to my invitation!"

Li Zetian said goodbye, and then left Wozniak's house.

As soon as Li Zetian left, Wozniak's mother said to her son, "Steve, that man just now looked like a liar. You can't be a fool and give up your job at HP to start a business with him!"

"Of course not, mother, haven't I already rejected him?"

"But he still doesn't give up, and will definitely come again!"

Indeed, Li Zetian came to visit Wozniak again at 7 o'clock in the evening.

At this time, Wozniak's parents did not look good on him.

Li Zetian looked at Wozniak and asked: "Wozniak, what are you thinking? Do you want to stay in Hewlett-Packard for the rest of your life as an ordinary engineer, or are you willing to create a great future with me?" A new era of !!!”

"Sorry, Chronos, my whole family does not support me going to your company! Also please stop trying to persuade me, I will not leave HP!"

Li Zetian was struck by lightning when he heard the words. He came to California this time to poach Wozniak.But my own temple is small, so I can't invite great gods at all.

Li Zetian left angrily, but he did not give up his determination to develop personal computers!
"Since Wozniak can't be invited, I will do it myself!!!"

A week later, Apple successfully registered in California, and it is still a subsidiary established in the name of Umbrella, and it is a wholly-owned subsidiary.

Subsequently, Li Zetian quit his job at Atari and prepared to concentrate on developing Apple.

He began to look for a suitable place in San Jose as an office location, but the rent was too expensive, which discouraged Li Zetian.Therefore, Li Zetian asked the rental intermediary company if anyone would like to rent a taxi.I never thought that there are really many home owners taxi garages.

In fact, the garage culture in the United States has a long history, such as Disney Garage, HP Garage, Henry Ford Garage, etc. Of course, it also includes Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon in previous lives...

Li Zetian successfully rented a very spacious garage at a monthly rent of 300 US dollars. The owner of the house is also a Chinese named Tian Shuai, who is very young, about 30 years old.

Through chatting, Li Zetian learned that he was a top student at Stanford University and obtained an MBA degree in business administration. After graduation, he entered Enron Corporation, one of the largest energy, commodity and service companies in the world. Four years later, he became a senior administrator.However, a week ago, he offered to resign!
In just four years, a Chinese can get a senior manager in a Fortune 4 company as big as Enron, which is enough to show that he has outstanding ability and a bright future, but why did he suddenly resign voluntarily?

This has to make people feel very puzzled.

Although he didn't say why he took the initiative to resign, his words were full of dissatisfaction and disdain for Enron.

Li Zetian had heard a little about Enron, but that was all in 2001 in his previous life. In this year, Enron suddenly filed for bankruptcy protection in the New York Bankruptcy Court. This case became the second largest bankruptcy case in American history. What made Enron famous all over the world was the financial fraud scandal that made this company with hundreds of billions of assets go bankrupt within a few weeks!

Li Zetian secretly speculated that maybe after Tian Shuai was promoted to a senior manager, he had access to more things in the company. When he found out that Enron Company secretly made false accounts and high-level corruption, he was unwilling to join forces, so he offered to resign.If this is the case, then Tian Shuai's personality and talent are combined, and he is a rare talent!
Li Zetian has been looking for a trustworthy and capable person to manage Zhetian Company for him!

Li Zetian wants to develop Zhetian Company into a family office!

Family offices are very unfamiliar to many people, because only the world's top rich families will have family offices! ! !

The term family office originated from the big "Domus" (family director) in ancient Rome and the big "Domo" (general steward) in the Middle Ages. The family office in the modern sense appeared in the middle of the 19th century. Some seized the opportunity of the industrial revolution The tycoon brings together financial experts, legal experts and financial experts, and the core content of the research is how to manage and protect their family's wealth and extensive business interests.In this way, a single-family office (Single-Family-Office, SFO) that only serves one family emerged. In 1882, John D. Rockefeller established the world's first family office, and then more and more overseas top rich families also adopted this mode of wealth management, such as Morgan, Murdoch, Bill Gates, Hilton , Li Ka-shing and so on.After China developed, more and more people in the mainland began to choose to preserve and inherit their wealth through family offices, such as SOHO China Pan Shiyi, Longfor Real Estate Wu Yajun, Nine Dragons Paper Zhang Yin and so on.

However, Li Zetian is not completely relieved of Tian Shuai, and will conduct a long-term investigation on him in the future.

"If he can be the CEO of Apple, maybe he can manage Zhetian Company for himself..." Li Zetian looked at Tian Shuai, and suddenly had the idea of ​​pulling him to Apple!

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