Rebirth 79: I opened a bank in the United States

"How do you feel about the Little Octopus?"

Under the roar of motors and speedboats, after a while, the small speedboat steered by the future richest man in the world came to the lake center island.
After parking the small speedboat, several people walked towards a small house on the island in the middle of the lake
"Very good! Great power, and Bill's driving skills are also very good!"

Walking side by side with Paul behind Bill who was leading the way, Carter shrugged his shoulders and echoed it not too carelessly.To be honest, don't talk about speedboats, Yacht Carter is not familiar with them, who knows how this small speedboat is.
"Bill bought this in middle school. When I first entered college, TRW gave me, Bill, and our group of friends some jobs. It can earn [-] dollars a year!"

"You know, that was $1972 in [-]! My God, sometimes I dare not think that life was more comfortable then than we are now!"

"Indeed, an annual salary of US$[-] is not a lot even today!"

Carter nodded appreciatively.

Ten years have passed, and the income of these two young men ten years ago is three times higher than the annual income of the average middle class now.simply.
This kind of feeling is like a person who can break 10 in annual income in [-] years.
"You were only 19 at the time?"

"Yes, I am 19 years old, Bill is 16 years old, almost 17 years old. Hahaha, in fact, before Microsoft, we had a company, we did it in middle school, called Trof-O-Data. At that time we made A system device that can collect and analyze the information sent back by urban road traffic monitors, but obviously, the Seattle city government did not accept our product and offer, and Trof-O-Data naturally went bankrupt.”

Talking and laughing, several people walked into the small house.
In the restaurant in the small house, the food has already been set.

"Sit down! This is a real estate under the name of Grandpa Bill. When we were young, we used to come here for secret gatherings. This place carries many of our memories."

After taking the confused Carter into his seat, Paul kept a faint, slightly bitter smile on his face.

"You are the first person to come here besides us. I have thought about it for a long time, and I think you should come here."

As if seeing the confusion on Carter's face, Paul explained:
"I'm going to quit Microsoft! It's the most successful company that Bill and I have ever built, and that's what we're interested in. I know you guys had a little bit of a bad time, but I hope things in the past , let it pass, from now on, Microsoft will have to rely on you!"

"You should and must unite! In the future, we will unite more capable people and make it bigger and stronger together! My Octopus, please!"

"Is the problem with you already so serious?"

Carter was slightly surprised to hear that Paul Allen wanted to quit Microsoft.At the same time, there is also the urge to withdraw shares.
As far as my current situation with Gates is concerned, to be honest, it is not conducive to the development of the enterprise.Especially when the only slippery agent between the two, the couplant agent Paul Allen, left. …

As for the cost of investing in Microsoft, you can make a lot of money by withdrawing the shares now. Of course, this is definitely not as profitable as in the future.
No, it cannot be said to be a withdrawal of shares. It should be said that I limit my own management authority and let history return to the original track
"I'm not a doctor, so I don't know what will happen. I just heard from the doctor that it might not be a big problem, right? But I have to do chemotherapy for a long time, surgery and so on. The cycle may take a year. I survived the operating table. It is a problem, and postoperative recovery and recuperation are another problem."

Paul absently raised the knife and fork in his hand, and gently moved the food on the dinner plate in front of him:

"Anyway, continuing to work for Microsoft and maintaining the same work intensity as before is definitely a no-go. I don't want to be a useless person who steals high positions and wastes resources."

"Besides, if you can work together, I'm actually very relieved. In my past cooperation with Bill, I was usually responsible for technical updates and management of the technical team, while Bill was responsible for a series of issues such as business and legal affairs. In Steve After Jeff Ballmer joined, Bill’s workload was much smaller, but his strengths are not actually here.”

"Bill has a strong computer talent, much higher than mine!"

Carter glanced at Bill, whose silence was golden, and waited for Paul's next words.

"Haha, do you not believe me? Or do I look more like a technician?"

"There is one thing. Your image is indeed more in line with my impression of a technician. A slightly obese body with a plaid shirt, ha! How did you discover Bill's talent?"

"Is it difficult? His talent is as brilliant as an open-air gold mine!"

Following the topic that Carter handed over, Paul laughed and followed.The atmosphere at the dinner table quietly eased a little during the singing and chorus.
"When we were a group of middle school students, there was a company called Computer Center near Lakeside Middle School. The computers back then were not the same as they are now. At that time, the company used DEC computers. At that time, DEC installed a new The system did not have time to fully test, so DEC signed an agreement with its own customers that year."

"If users find bugs or problems in the process of using DEC computers and their systems, after the feedback is confirmed, customers can get a one-year free use of DEC computers and systems. The computer center allows us to use their computers as an interactive Instead, we need to help them find these bugs."

"Bill found a lot?"

Hearing what Paul said, Carter seemed to understand what the so-called talent display was all about.
"It's not just a lot. We compiled all the problems we found about DEC into a report. Guess how many pages there are in the "DEC Problem Report"?"

"100?"

Carter felt like he was calling a high number, however.
"Three hundred pages!"

Bill spit out a few words silently, and then added:

"Getting started! Actually, I don't remember more than three hundred pages. It's been so long that I've forgotten some things, but I remember that we little brats at one point forced DEC to terminate the contract with Computer Center Corporation about User feedback on the cooperation of sending usage rights. Because DEC people found that Computer Center Company can always find out the problem! That is to say, if they continue this kind of cooperation, they will not be able to earn even a dollar from Computer Center Company. Divide the money!"

Carter:? ? ? !

The more than [-]-page system problem report was actually created by a group of f*cking kids? !
However, when Carter was so surprised that his mouth was still closed, Paul added:
"Of the more than [-] pages of problem reports, at least [-] pages were found by Bill alone!"