giants of the era

Chapter 32 Continuing to fool Wozniak

In the early days, Jobs' character was too irritable. He was not good at being the CEO of the company. He was kicked out by the board of directors in 1985. After 10 years of training and growth, he became one of the top CEOs in the world.But for now, Jobs can be an excellent product manager. His pursuit of perfection, superhuman energy and innovative ability are exactly what Li Zetian hopes.

Right now there is a ready-made talent who is suitable to be a CEO. Of course, Li Zetian wants to recruit him into his company.However, after what happened with Wozniak, Li Zetian knew that it is not enough to just talk about dreams to win the other party, but he must show some real materials, and let the other party see the future development prospects! ! !

At first, Li Zetian thought that as long as he was a technical geek with a fanatical interest in personal computer development, he would definitely join in when he heard that he was going to develop a personal computer!However, Li Zetian was wrong. Wozniak liked HP's work very much. This made Li Zetian suddenly think that at the beginning of Apple's establishment, Wozniak was also unwilling to resign. After repeated persuasion by Mike Markkula, he finally chose to resign.

Jobs played with Wozniak since they were young, and it was difficult to persuade Wozniak, let alone a stranger?
However, if Wozniak is paid to help him develop an Apple-l personal computer in his spare time, he should be absolutely willing!
Li Zetian thought about it, and couldn't help laughing, "Well, if you don't get the shares, just get the salary. You can't blame me for not giving you a chance, but I have been to your house twice..."

On the second day after renting the garage, Li Zetian bought all the electronic components needed for development!At the same time, his own luggage was also brought over, and he will sleep directly in the garage from now on.That night, Li Zetian came to Wozniak's house again.

Jingle Bell.

"It's you again!!" Wozniak's mother frowned.

"Yes, it's me again!" Li Zetian said with a faint smile, "Don't worry, I'm not here this time to persuade Steve to quit!"

"Come in!" Wozniak's mother said reluctantly.

"thanks……"

"Steve! Steve! That Chinese man is looking for you again!"

After entering the house, Wozniak's mother shouted directly downstairs with a loud voice.

Soon, Steve Gary Wozniak came into the living room.

"Chronos," he said, raising his voice a few decibels, "Didn't I already tell you clearly, I told you not to come to me, I won't quit!"

Steve's tone seemed impolite, but Li Zetian was not angry, and said with a smile: "I am not asking you to leave HP this time. I just want to ask, are you willing to earn some extra money after work? "

Wozniak was stunned, he could make money without leaving HP, why not do it?Not to mention that he was also interested in developing personal computers!
Li Zetian continued at this time: "I can give you a salary of 20 dollars per hour!"

After hearing this, Wozniak was shocked. Now he can only earn 80 dollars a day at HP, which is already an excellent treatment!
"Mr. Li, are you sure you'll pay me $20 an hour?" Who doesn't like money? Wozniak had a falling out with Jobs because of money. Now that the other party is willing to give him such a high salary, Immediately, even the name changed.

"Of course!"

"I can come and work at your place for 3 hours at night after I get off from HP, and I can work all day on Saturday and Sunday!"

"No problem! Although the company's headquarters is not very big, if you are tired from working all night at night, you can just sleep there and rest." Li Zetian smiled, and deliberately told him about the whole night, encouraging him to work all night, and then go to Hewlett-Packard to take a nap during the day , When I came to the garage at night, my energy became strong again.

"Then, when will the salary be paid?"

"How would you like paying your bill on Sunday night?"

"no problem!"

"This is the contract," Li Zetian took out a contract document from his bag.

Just as Wozniak was about to reach out to pick it up, Li Zetian took the contract away again and said, "Don't worry, you must sign a non-disclosure agreement before signing the contract. Tell anyone!" As he spoke, Li Zetian took out another document and placed it on the table.

Wozniak nodded and said: "No problem, don't worry, I am a person with professional ethics and will not reveal your company's business secrets!"

After speaking, Wozniak picked up the pen, read the non-disclosure agreement for a while, and then signed his name.

Li Zetian nodded in satisfaction, handed him the labor contract, and said, "Check the contract first to see if there are any problems. If not, sign it!"

Wozniak read the contract several times, and there was nothing wrong with it, so he signed it.

The contract was in duplicate, and each of them took one.

Li Zetian asked, "When can you come to work?"

"Today is Sunday, I'll make some preparations, and I can go to work there tomorrow night...By the way, I don't know where the company is yet?"

Li Zetian said the address and phone number of the garage, and Wozniak quickly wrote them down in his notebook.

"Then I'll say goodbye!"

"I'll send it to you!"

Wozniak sent Li Zetian to the gate, and when he turned around, his mother was watching him, "Is he here again to persuade you to quit?" Mrs. Wozniak asked.

"No, just let me do things for him in my free time, $20 an hour!!!"

"Such a high salary!!!" Mrs. Wozniak was surprised when she heard this, and murmured, "If this is the case, Chronos Lee is still a good person. If he comes to our house next time, we can let him Try the cake I baked!"

Many years later, Mrs. Wozniak regretted it very much. 10% of Apple's shares and 20 dollars per hour were placed in front of her son Steve. Steve chose the latter. This played a big role in that she insisted that her son not leave HP or go to Apple...

PS: I opened the website in the afternoon and saw that the book reviews were popular again. Thanks to yang3303 for the 7073 red rewards, which made Baisha codewords more motivated. Huanchen, Xuehuafeiwu, and others supported me. There are too many people to list them one by one. I will remember those who often donate and vote.Another chapter tonight.

　PS: I opened the website in the afternoon and saw that the book reviews were popular again. Thanks to yang3303 for the 7073 red rewards, which made Baisha codewords more motivated. Huanchen, Xuehuafeiwu, and others supported me. There are too many people to list them one by one. I will remember those who often donate and vote.Another chapter tonight.

　　
　
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