Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 143 I'm smiling proudly~
As soon as he got to work the next day, Ethan Jones called Alan Massey into his office and asked about the company's current operating conditions.

For this question, Alan Massey directly showed the company's financial statements to the boss.

"Although the market's demand for the "Pac-Man" arcade machine has become saturated, their sales still rose to a certain extent in the first half of this year. We sold 470 machines, and the revenue in this area was $290 forty-four thousand."

"To date, its total sales are 280 units."

"This number can amaze countless game companies, because they may not be able to sell a fraction of "Pac-Man" in the game they have been working on for a lifetime." Alan Macy gave a small compliment.

Ethan Jones also nodded with a smile, signaling him to continue.

"The results of "Star Wars" launched this year are even better. Thanks to Quanmi's crazy rush, their total sales have exceeded 120 units within two months. Although the current increase in orders has slowed down significantly, this The game generated $[-] million in revenue for the company."

"If production costs, foundry costs, distribution costs and management costs are deducted, the net profit of our Destiny game in the first half of this year can reach 3000 million..."

"Even after deducting the commission from you and the chairman, the net profit is 500 million."

Alan Macy carefully looked at the figures on the report, and seriously stated the status of the company.

This fact makes Ethan Jones very happy.

The company has been in business for half a year, and the profit has exceeded [-]?
Wow!

Video games are indeed a money-absorbing weapon in the legitimate industry!
And the commission that Alan Massey mentioned is actually the research and development cost of the project.

Although there are only a few people in the research and development team of "Pac-Man" and "Star Wars", regardless of whether it is Steve Wozniak who helped twice or the company employee Damio Dean who joined later , They all get a fixed salary from Ethan Jones, and they don't enjoy project sharing.

But this does not mean that the two games can be developed with only tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.As a game designer, every time Destiny Games sells an arcade machine, Ethan will take [-]% of the sales price as a commission, and the same is true for Evelyn, and the reason for her commission is that the project director research and development.

The reason for this is also very simple, the main reason is to ensure that the company's accounts look authentic enough. When the IRS comes to check the accounts, they will not feel that the products of Destiny Games have popped out of stones.

Because once the IRS finds out that the research and development cost of a product that has generated tens of millions of dollars and ignited hundreds of millions of markets is only tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, they will absolutely ruin the accounts of the game of fate, because they are completely There is reason to suspect that Ethan and Evelyn are using this method to evade taxes.

No way, who made the current American tax policy too mentally retarded?
The federal corporate income tax rate is up to 40.00%.

The California corporate income tax rate tops out at [-] percent.

This one seems tall enough, right?

But with the federal personal income tax rate of 70.00%!Compared to the California personal income tax rate of 11.00%!The company tax is as low as grandma's house!

Ethan and Evelyn can indeed give up their development income and do projects for the company free of charge to avoid high taxes and fees, but as long as they give up, the IRS has a reason to investigate.

Developers rely on the identity of the boss not to charge the development fee of the project?
Isn't this a blatant refusal to pay taxes?

In order to avoid people being caught, they symbolically drew five points.

Then proceed with personal tax avoidance.

There is no way, the barrel of the gun is held in the hands of the IRS, so pay a little bit.

Of course, even so, the company's net profit of 500 million is too high.

Last year they diluted a lot of profits by buying land to build staff living quarters, and this year...

How much land can I buy with these 500 million yuan?
I'm afraid they can buy the whole Miabida for them!

But fortunately, Ethan does not have to manage these matters by himself. Aaron Massey will cooperate with external firms to handle everything. The reason why Ethan asked about the company today is because he wants to do something else.

After expressing his gratitude to Alan Massey for his report, he called Julis Noble into the office again, "I will arrange a job for you, you can communicate with the school to see if there is any Experts who study optical storage, collect information on this, and then tell me."

Yes, although Ethan kept saying that he had too many things in his hands and was a little out of control, but since he heard the CD, how could he watch it from the sidelines?
If this project has nothing to do with him, then he will definitely think about it when he gets involved, but when the storage medium of CD can be used in many aspects such as film and television, games, computers, etc., if he does not start , then he will feel that he is a big fool!

Not to mention, Philips is messing with this thing!
When the two sides are competitors and Philips obviously wants to continue to work in the game field, it is better to be preemptive than to be beaten passively, right?
As for the application direction of optical storage, he has already thought about it.

With Sony-san's CD player proofing in front, wouldn't he be able to touch the opponent's head and cross the river!
Copy D-777 in advance...

Eh!Then wouldn't he be invincible?
Okay okay, this is all bullshit.

Ethan knew that the optical disc was not a good product, because it would infringe on the interests of tape drives, and it would also fight with optical storage developers. At that time, they would not be facing opponents like Atari and Mirov Well, multinational companies like Sony, Panasonic, and Philips will definitely roll up their sleeves and end in person, but even if he has many enemies...his enemies also have many enemies!

When the great wisdom of Philips repeatedly jumps across the existing industry...

MCA, who has wasted countless patent hours because of them, can become a teammate!

As long as we can attract the content producer of American music, then the optical disc industry can still play~
Ah no!
His potential teammates are Steven Spielberg and George Lucas!

When the No. [-] IP in North America was nestled beside her...

How can this make the mutton shine?

Of course, planning this thing will never keep up with changes. Building a team to make a product is the most important thing Ethan should do now, and the rest will be discussed later.

After arranging the gold mountain that was unintentionally discovered, Ethan, who was in a good mood, finally had time to deal with the previous unfinished business, and the first one was Vinton Cerf's entrustment.

When I went to Arlington to meet with Vinton Cerf, the professor was very dissatisfied with a start-up company in Santa Clara, and hoped that Ethan and Evelyn could help to investigate.After returning to California, Ethan handed over the job to Julis, asking her to find out about the software development company.If it wasn't for Nintendo's sudden trouble, he might have replied to the professor long ago.

But now, since the urgent matter at hand has been dealt with, he naturally asked Julis about the information about the software company. At that time, he directly asked Julis to fax the collected registration information and information obtained from the on-site inquiry to Vinton Cerf.

With a crisp beep, the green light on the fax machine turned on.

A moment later, a paragraph of text was printed out by the dot matrix printer.

"Okay, I see, thank you Ethan."

The professor's reply made Ethan snap his fingers, and then he went to work on the second thing.

And that was the relocation of the company's headquarters.

At present, there are a total of three departments in the headquarters of Destiny Games. The administrative department led by Julis Noble has 24 employees. They occupy the first floor of the entire company. The financial department led by Alan Macy has seven employees. , they share the second floor of the company with 11 people from the game R&D department led by Damio Dean, and the third floor is the exclusive office for Ethan and Evelyn.

Although the building approved by the old principal before is still enough, the first floor can accommodate ten to 15 people, and the second floor can still be recruited for one point, but if the optical storage laboratory that Ethan wants to build is moved in, then It seems a bit crowded here, so changing the location is imperative.

And under his search, he fell in love with the land to the north of the Stanford Industrial Park.

Since this side has not yet been developed, standing on a high place can even overlook the Santa Cruz Mountains. The comfort of being next to nature makes Ethan very happy.

After he reported his needs in the name of Evelyn, the teachers at the Stanford Entrepreneurship Center quickly (directly) approved (reported).

In just one day, the old headmaster called him over.

"You want the land next to Mountain View? Why? It's all wasteland over there."

"Because the scenery is good." Ethan said honestly, "When I went to Arlington last month, I visited Mr. Wenton's office. The environment there is very beautiful."

"There are mountains, water, gardens, and a large fountain."

Ethan gestured to the old principal.

The old headmaster smiled and nodded at the words that seemed to be a joke, "Okay, Okay, the land to the west is yours. How much do you want? Fifty acres or a hundred acres?"

"Oh... a hundred acres is a lot..."

As soon as Ethan rolled his eyes, the image of his own farm immediately popped up in his mind.

He simply imagined that if he built a headquarters in Thomas's [-]-acre orchard...

Fuck!The picture was so beautiful that he didn't dare to look at it!
"You also know that a hundred acres is big?"

Ethan's words made the old principal glared at him, "Are you guys starting a business?"

"Did you change the headquarters this time because of business expansion? Then you started asking for mountains, water and gardens? Then next time I change places, will I still give you the land in the Santa Cruz Mountains?"

"Our Stanford has 1000 to [-] acres of land there, all of which are ecological reserves."

"If you build your headquarters there, you will definitely go to work listening to the singing of birds, and leave work at sunset."

"Is this okay?" Ethan's eyes widened, his face full of expectation.

'...' The old headmaster froze for a moment, then grabbed the crutch beside him and threw it at Ethan.

Hearing the sound of patter, Ethan dodges, and the crutch falls to the ground.

The two people who were almost three rounds behind in age finally couldn't hold back, and laughed hahaha.

The old headmaster knew that Ethan was talking nonsense.

Ethan also knew that the old man was joking.

After laughing, the old headmaster also brought up the matter, "Oh Ethan, I heard that you have been in contact with the teacher who studies optical storage in the school recently?"

"Yeah." Ethan nodded without hesitation.

"You want to study optical storage?"

"That's it."

"Is there a project?"

"A little immature idea."

Although Ethan didn't mention any useful information in the conversation, for Fred Terman, a professor who has completely participated in the technological explosion, these are actually enough.

He pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and said in a calm tone: "If you are really interested in optical storage, then I suggest you move the company to Palo Alto directly."

"The reason is very simple, because the headquarters of the Stanford Research Institute is there. If you have any research, you can go there directly. The equipment there is definitely the most complete and advanced in the entire west. Moreover, there are many patents for optical storage. If you fancy it, you can buy it directly..."

What the old headmaster said was true.

When he founded the Stanford Research Institute, he defined it as a non-profit scientific research institution. The fundamental purpose of its establishment was to use scientific achievements to promote economic development here.

Driven by this belief, the Institute will undertake research and development projects from government agencies, commercial enterprises and private foundations, and will also directly transfer past research results.

Because of their generosity and generosity, many companies come to select products every year, and the more products are bought, the more companies around Stanford will open.

In fact, when Ethan decided to make the CD, he considered the research institute, because Evelyn told him that the initial perfection of the CD was completed in the Stanford Research Institute, and he even imagined that when the R&D team was formed After that, I went directly to the research institute to buy some fun.

No way, whoever made him rich!
Making up the company's profits can not only reduce the tax payment, but also lay a solid foundation for the long-term development of the enterprise.

And now, the old principal suggested that the company be moved there directly?

It also said that the machines there can be borrowed from others?

Oh - the house in that place is no longer in the Stanford industrial area!

"Is this okay?" Ethan asked with a smile.

"Why not?" The old headmaster shrugged and said, "The better you develop, the more it proves that my original decision was correct. Seeing the praise of the world before my eyes is the most wonderful thing in this life.”

"Money after death isn't money, honor after death isn't honor, right?"

"My teacher closed his eyes amidst the flowers."

"I want, too."

The old principal is 77 years old this year.

Although for the rich, this age is actually in the prime of life, because the excellent medical conditions can ensure that they live an unimaginable age, but Fred Terman has been weak and sick since he was a child, and the tuberculosis he suffered from when he was young makes him even worse. His lungs had fallen to the root of the disease.

He doesn't know how long he will live.

But he knew that he wanted to go as vigorously as the teacher.

On the second day after being called over by the old principal, people from the Stanford Research Institute contacted Ethan, and they provided Ethan with a five-story building, and that...

"This is actually our backup office building."

The deputy director, a middle-aged white man, introduced to Ethan: "Our institute currently has more than 1000 researchers. Of course, we will recruit more in the future, so our building has been under construction."

"This building was only built last year. It was originally intended to be opened after a major project was approved, but since the principal said that you may change from a game company to a technology company, and you will contact us more in the future, how about this building?" I will use it for you first."

"As for the lease term..."

"The headmaster says you're determined."

"It's a dollar a year anyway."

"As long as you don't cancel the company, you can use it all the time."

"Of course, subletting is not allowed."

"Oh, by the way... The building in front of this building is our optical research laboratory. It is very convenient for you to work here."

Ethan smiled and took the key from the other party.

Now he fully understands why hugging a thigh saves ten years of detours.

Of course, as a multi-millionaire, he is not stingy.

On the second day after signing the contract, he asked Alan Massey to donate $100 million each to Stanford University and the Stanford Research Institute in the name of the company and his sister.

200 million this year is a lot.

Its purchasing power can even allow four hundred families to live at a normal level for a year.

But Ethan doesn't care!

If we said that we set up a factory in the Stanford Industrial Park before, it was just a member of the Stanford school-enterprise joint construction plan.

So now, starting a company on the site of the Stanford Research Institute is the real endorsement of the school!

This is not something that 200 million can buy!
When the company opened here, Ethan really wasn't afraid of any Hollywood rules!
Warner and Philips dare to shake people, do the media dare to accept it?

Randomly fish out a professor here, holding either a Lockheed project or a Boeing project, an order from GM or a research sponsored by Dow...

When these giants are all involved here, do those media dare to come?

Hehe ~
Holding the railing of the roof with both hands, Ethan, who looked down at the Research Park from a high position, was in a good mood.

　Thanks to 【Cheer Duck Planting Peanuts】 for the 3800 starting point coins.

　　Note: ① In the 70s, Lao Mi’s personal income tax rate was the highest at 70%, which was lowered by the Great Society Plan in 1964. It was 91% before, and then it was lowered by Lingzong. It was 81% in 50 and 86% in 28. 2%.Woz said that shareholders should also be paid for research and development. He said that when he sold Apple 30, his weekly salary was 777, not including product dividends. He actually didn’t want to take so much money because the tax rate was too high. It's high, but if you don't take it, Dahong Enterprise is really easy to be investigated by the IRS.Because there was no need to use your brain back then, you could save more than 1994 points of taxes and fees just by starting a company. ②D-[-] is the [-]th anniversary commemorative model of Sony CD Walkman, released in [-].

　　
　
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