giants of the era

Chapter 45 Jobs Returns!
The industry was amazed at the sales of the Apple-[-] personal computer, and even IBM was concerned.However, as everyone knows, the bigger the company, the slower the response. IBM has not decided to get involved in this industry, but some small computer companies have already taken action.

The competition will become more and more intense!
But Li Zetian is not afraid of competition, and he is sure that he can surpass other companies by relying on his previous life memory and technology.

At this time, Li Zetian got the news that Jobs had returned from India.

In fact, Li Zetian has been paying attention to the situation of Atari, not only because Jobs is an employee there, but more importantly, Atari is also one of Apple's competitors.

At 9 o'clock in the evening, Li Zetian called Wozniak.

"Hi, Wozniak, I'm Chronos."

"Hello, Chronos, what can I do for you?"

"I want to ask you for a favor!" Li Zetian said.

"Apple-l is having trouble again?"

"No, I want you to help me invite Steve Jobs to Apple, I want to meet him!"

"Steve Jobs? You know him?!" Wozniak wondered.

"I've heard of it, but I haven't seen it." Li Zetian said. Indeed, in his previous life, he had only watched the video of his press conference on the Internet, and he had never seen him face to face.

Li Zetian suddenly felt that he seemed to have a bad taste. He wanted to collect business elites or business leaders from his previous life like collecting stamps, such as Bill Gates and Paul Allen from Microsoft, and Steve Jobs from Apple. And Steve Gary Wozniak, Alibaba's Jack Ma, Tencent's Ma Huateng, Baidu's Robin Li, Xiaomi's Lei Jun, Tesla's Musk, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Ellison of Oracle, etc…

Then there was a meeting of big bosses, and Li Zetian felt very satisfied when he saw the crowd.

Wozniak thought for a while and said, "Okay, I'll help you date him..."

"Well, then thank you very much!"

……

The next day, Wozniak and Jobs came to Apple together.

Jobs had just returned from India, and he had a bald head cut. It is said that he was beheaded by an Indian monk, so he did it in a daze.

When Jobs saw Li Zetian, he was very surprised. Although Wozniak had introduced Li Zetian to him on the way here, he was still shocked when he saw the real person.

The founder of the famous Apple company is so young! ! !
"You two, please sit down!"

Li Zetian looked at Jobs and smiled and asked, "You are Steve Jobs, right? I am Chronos Lee, the founder of Apple. Actually, I also worked for Atari for a while before, and I heard about it there. Some of your deeds!"

Jobs couldn't help but smiled awkwardly. He thought that the deeds Li Zetian heard must be all bad deeds, because he was a arrogant and eccentric guy. Most of the Atari employees hated him so much that he was assigned to a small I work the night shift at night!

Li Zetian continued at this time: "I think there are two kinds of people in this world, one is a genius, maverick; the other is an ordinary person. I think, Jobs, you are the first kind of person I mentioned-genius !!! Therefore, I specifically asked Wozniak to invite you to meet at Apple, the purpose of which is to invite you to work at Apple!"

Li Zetian paused, looked at Jobs, and said sincerely and seriously: "Steve Jobs, quit your job at Atari, there is a bigger stage waiting for you!!!"

During this period of time, the Vintage Computer Club has been discussing Apple and Apple-l personal computers. Jobs is also an active discussant in the club. The pursuit of perfection, when he saw Apple-l for the first time, he believed that Apple was his The company I am looking forward to.I never thought that today, the founder of Apple personally invited himself to join this company! ! !
Jobs couldn't hide his excitement, and immediately agreed: "No problem, I will go to Atari to resign now!!!"

As he said that, he immediately stood up and couldn't wait to go outside.

Li Zetian was stunned for a moment, looking at Jobs' figure, he couldn't help sighing in his heart, "I'm going, you are actually more anxious than me..."

At this time, Li Zetian glanced at Wozniak, and said slowly: "Wozniak, even Steve Jobs is going to join Apple, do you still hesitate?"

Wozniak was silent for a minute. Li Zetian invited him many times with full sincerity, more times than Liu Bei visited the thatched cottage. Wozniak said he was not moved, that was a lie.

"Chronos, I decided to join Apple!!!" Wozniak said in a deep voice.

"Welcome to join, Wozniak!!!" Li Zetian was overjoyed when he heard the words, reached out to hug him, then patted his back, and said: "With your joining, Apple is even more powerful!! !"

On the same day, Wozniak submitted his resignation to Hewlett-Packard, and Jobs submitted his resignation to Atari.

In order to keep them in the future, Li Zetian promised that they would get more stock options than ordinary employees in the future!

There is a saying: "A thousand-mile horse often exists, but a bole does not often exist!"

Jobs never expected that as soon as he arrived at Apple, he would be appreciated by the founder. Not only would he become a product manager, but he would also be rewarded with stock options in the future. Jobs was very moved when he was excited!

"Work hard, Jobs, don't disappoint my expectations of you!!!" Li Zetian patted Jobs on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, Mr.li, I will definitely lead the team to make the best work!"

"Well!" Li Zetian nodded, thinking that the Mac computer can be handed over to Jobs to develop, which will involve the development of graphics operating system, mouse, etc. Jobs, who pursues perfectionism, is extremely picky, and values ​​user experience, is obviously the best. Candidates for the person in charge, this may take several years.As for the second-generation personal computer Apple-ll, Wozniak and Zhang Hao can solve it!
The joining of Jobs and Wozniak made Li Zetian feel that Apple has suddenly become stronger and stronger, and it also greatly increased his confidence!

hiring!

expansion!

Stand up!

Apple has started a massive hiring drive!

Li Zetian spent money to rent the entire office building next to it to become the new headquarters. As for the original small red house, it became Apple's "skunk factory" - the Mac laboratory, allowing Jobs to lead the team to develop the Mac. computer! ! !

Skunk Works was originally the officially recognized nickname of Lockheed Martin's advanced development project. With corporate management and humanized management, it led a group of aggressive professional engineers to develop the center of American defense technology with unparalleled creativity. The most secret and most advanced weapon products are famous all over the world for their rapid and effective cost control, thus becoming a benchmark for large companies engaged in high-tech industries all over the world to emulate.

Under the impetus of this organizational innovation model, Xerox's Polo-Alto laboratory, AT& , "Manhattan Project", IBM's "Chess Project", BMW's "i Project" and so on have sprung up. These are typical representatives of commercial skunkworks.

Therefore, Li Zetian is going to learn from Lockheed Martin and establish Apple's "skunk factory"-Mac laboratory, dedicated to the development of Mac computers! ! !

PS: It's the third watch, ask for tickets, set a small goal tomorrow, the fourth watch
　PS: It's the third watch, ask for tickets, set a small goal tomorrow, the fourth watch
　　
　
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