Rebirth 79: I opened a bank in the United States

Chapter 288 Hold Your Thighs Steady!
"No, Goodman, you are wrong! The power of the crowd is far greater than you think!"

Little Carter, who was born under the red flag and grew up in the spring breeze, answered Goodman in this way.The latter just shrugged noncommittally, obviously not taking Carter's words to heart.

And similarly, Carter, who couldn't find too many good solutions for a while, had to choose to compromise.When following Goodman's plan, the other side purchases better raw materials and better brand equipment in an attempt to convince the public with product quality.Let everyone feel that the money is well spent, and then spend money to support themselves, or call it, to facilitate their own money!
This approach was not less ridiculed by Goodman at the beginning:

"This kind of compromise is unacceptable. Once they form a group and you let them see the trend of compromise. The greed of that group will expand to an unimaginable level in an instant! You give them a little bit cheaper, They just want one yuan cheaper! One yuan cheaper, but one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand."

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"Hey! Brother, great news! Great news, order! It's done! We got it!"

"You can't imagine how much Gates and the others sold the authorization law. Forty-five thousand dollars! A total of forty-five thousand dollars!! Have you got the copyright of QDOS? If you don't get it, we will delay the payment a little bit until you get it After you get it, 2 of it will be yours! In this way, if we subtract the [-] for *** and [-] for you, we can still earn [-], and you can also earn [-] , everyone is happy!"

"I got it, the full copyright of QDOS is in my hands. Also, congratulations!"

With his elbows propped on the large pine wood desk, Carter held a cigar in one hand and the phone in the other, and he replied weakly.

"Hahaha, good, great! In this way, our brothers have made money. Hey, let me tell you, this time, we made a lot of money! In addition to the QDOS licensing fee, IBM gave 31. There is another 16 US dollars , the language used to develop the 43-bit architecture, and [-] consulting fees and testing fees. A total of [-] US dollars in sky-high orders!"

In Paul Allen's voice, the excitement and joy were so strong that they melted away.To use a vulgar word to describe it, this person feels that he has made money, and then he is crazy about it
"Also, we still retain the independent copyright of QDOS. In other words, we can still develop and sell QDOS. No, no, this name has to be changed. The previous broken name can no longer be used, so it is called Disk Operating System! Disk operating system, it just so happens that it is also directly oriented to hardware control, it is perfect!"

"It's developed based on the 8086 chip, so it's called 86-DOS! The internal name is 86-DOS, and the sales name is MS-DOS, Microsoft's disk operating system! What do you think?"

"Well, very good and powerful!"

Carter, who was still immersed in the influence of the Owens incident, took a sip of his cigar and responded absently.

It was supposed to be cigarettes, but for some reason, Carter always felt as if he was holding a cigar to make himself appear colder and more ruthless.Just like Godfather Corleone, I'm an emotional let-down.
"Hey hey, I think it's good too! There's no better name than this! Wait, why don't you wonder how we got such a good contract? You have no idea what happened that day in Boca Raton !"

"What happened? I'm curious."

"Hey! You are too careless, what's the matter with you? Did something happen? I feel like you are in a bad mood. I... Did I call at the wrong time? Aurel, be quiet! Champagne It will be released later."

"It's okay, it's okay, you continue to celebrate, it's time to celebrate!"

The cheers and laughter from the handset never stopped from the moment Paul's phone was connected.Having just won a large order, the young people of Microsoft had fun and vented their agitation. Carter could understand it very well.

Seeing Paul seemed to interrupt Microsoft's celebration party, he did not hesitate to spoil everyone's interest, but also to care about himself.Carter was a little moved in his heart, so he quickly raised his spirits and responded seriously:
"I just heard something. Is it Newell's voice? He just said: 'Baby Mary's Company'?"

"Something must have happened to you, man! That's Steve's voice, how could you mishear his voice after all the time you've been in the same office."

Paul's voice changed from the previous hippie to a serious and serious voice:

"If you need help with anything, you can tell me. Although our ability is limited, we will help you, including Gates, including Ballmer, and, um, we should have a little ability now .”

"It's mainly Gates's. He...I actually just found out today that his mother and Mr. Opel, the president of IBM, were former colleagues. Just now Ballmer was joking with Gates. He said that he was in Boca Raton. When negotiating with IBM, when they proposed a contract of intent, that is, after writing requirements such as retaining independent copyrights into the contract, Sams said that he could not make the decision.”

"So I faxed the sample contract to IBM headquarters, and asked Mr. Estridge, oh, he was the general manager of the IBM personal computer project, and he happened to be at the headquarters at the time. Mr. Sams was the director of software development, and he was only in charge of the software part. That is Please, Mr. Estridge, take the contract to Mr. Opel, the president, and ask him for an idea. That's when."

"According to Ballmer, after Mr. Sams received the reply letter from IBM headquarters, he looked at Gates strangely as soon as he returned to the conference room. Then he asked Gates and Mr. Opel if they knew each other, because Mr. Stritch called and told Sams that when he took the contract to the president's office, Mr. Opel looked at the contract and said, "Oh, is this the company of Mary Gates' son?" Then, this The contract is approved."

"Now Gates has an extra nickname, called Mary Gates boy, referred to as Mary boy or Mary baby"

So bah!I see!

Paul's words solved a long-standing doubt in Carter's heart.I remember seeing in a novel that many people seemed to say that Gates' mother was a member of IBM's board of directors, and it was because of this relationship that Microsoft, a small company that could be said to be unknown at the time, got a large amount of money from IBM. Order.

However, in the process of my own contact, it seems that except for the fact that Sams went straight to Microsoft at the beginning, it seems strange that I haven't seen his mother's figure or action in other places.

"Why don't you just talk to your mother and open a back door?"

This question, when he was in Bellevue, almost choked Carter.I wanted to ask countless times, but I didn't have the nerve to ask. I thought it was Big Brother Bill who advocated independence, but he didn't give in to his family.
After a long time, what happened? !
It's not that his mother doesn't want to help directly, but that he can't help directly.Former colleagues belong to colleagues, but that is not the reason for you to directly dictate the business problems of other companies!

Fortunately, Microsoft itself is more competitive, and it has generally been negotiated, and then at the last moment.The favor of Gates' mother made up for the finishing touch, and really kicked Microsoft into the goal of taking off!
When he heard this, the little stone in Carter's heart finally fell to the ground:

Microsoft!Steady!
This thick leg of the richest man, I can completely embrace it! !
(End of this chapter)