Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 196
"Dear teachers, classmates, and guests, good afternoon everyone..."

On the third Saturday in June [-], in Stanford's stadium, Evelyn, wearing a black academic cap and a dark blue master's suit, was standing on a temporarily decorated podium to give a speech.

Sitting on the lawn below was a dark crowd.

The outermost circle is this year's graduates. The gathering formed according to the college makes the tassels hanging naturally along the brim of the hat a rainbow.

The phalanx in the middle is composed of teachers from various colleges, departments, and majors. The biggest highlight of this phalanx is that you can see a bright golden red at a glance.

If it is said that the clear-cut arrangement allows people to directly identify their identities, then the front-end lineup is very complicated, because the ones who can sit here are either the president and provost of Stanford, or the deans of various colleges, not outstanding graduates. Representative, that is the special guest.

To put it bluntly, if you pick one out here, they are all guys with a certain reputation in academia or society, and Ethan Jones...

"Cough cough cough-"

"I'm not talented, so I just got into it."

To be honest, Ethan never expected that his position to observe the ceremony would be in the first row!
When this fact appeared, he was immediately flattered!

After all, he had studied seriously in his previous life, and when one acquires some knowledge, one will realize how insignificant one's accumulation is in the sea of ​​learning.Those bosses who can make certain achievements based on their personal abilities are indeed worthy of respect.

This ranking has nothing to do with money.

But when the old principal Fred Terman appeared with a cane and sat down beside him...

Eh!
Ethan was no longer panicked!
Because the guy next to him beat him with a cane before!

This kind of treatment is not for everyone, right?
How can he prove that Ethan Jones still has a certain status in the academic field, right?

Hehe ~
Well, no skin.

When he followed Evelyn to the school, the first thing he saw were the big men sitting in the first row. There was the current principal, who was a historian, and the current dean, who was a biological Scientists, as well as various well-known professors, they all greeted Ethan friendly and had a chat.

After all, Destiny Games is the first company to achieve real success after Stanford proposed the school-enterprise co-construction plan, and it is also the first company to bring positive feedback to the school. Donate to help the school solve the employment problem of students.

When countless firsts appear, those who are the first to eat crabs will naturally receive real preferential treatment from the school.What?Someone said HP? ...that can only blame HP for being too early.

When HP was successful, Fred Terman hadn't come up with a co-construction plan.

After the old man came up with the co-construction plan, Stanford has not managed a single enterprise in more than 20 years.

The fact that you've been doing it for 20 years and getting nowhere actually hurts, but now...

It's raining~
People at Stanford swept an industry with Stanford's help!
This success cheers them up!
Let them continue to walk along this road with confidence!
"Oh Ethan—why are you in a daze?"

While Ethan was thinking wildly, a joking voice entered his ears, "Did Evelyn's speech move you so much? It's okay, cry if you want—"

Fred Terman's whisper brought back Ethan's thoughts, and then he heard the words of the girl on the stage clearly, "I am honored to be this year's outstanding graduate representative, standing here to tell everyone about the school's I would like to thank my family for our education and help, without their support and encouragement, I might not be able to achieve what I am now..."

"...Especially my younger brother Ethan Jones, if he hadn't pulled me to start a business and kept showing me genius-like inspirations one after another, then I would definitely not be able to use the knowledge taught in school to the world as I am now. Bring more joy..."

"...And he also came to the scene today to share the joy of graduation with me..."

Having said that, the girl on the stage raised her left hand and pointed towards Ethan.

That undisguised statement made Ethan stand up quickly, and waved to the crowd behind him.

The interaction elicited screams.

Vaguely, Ethan even heard an exclamation——

"Wow~ he's so handsome!"

'thanks, thanks. 'Ethan responded inwardly.

"No, I'm just overwhelmed by the enthusiasm here."

After sitting down again, Ethan answered the old principal's question.

Since he didn't mean to hide, all the elders who heard his words laughed.

The dean of the law school even said: "Oh Ethan, your wording is wrong."

"Barbara once told me that she sent you an invitation to study in law school. Although you are busy and don't have time, this invitation is valid for a long time, right? In this case, we are a family .Since we are all a family, everyone's joy for you is the embodiment of love!"

Don't let Bilian's logic make the old men around laugh out of wrinkle.

But Ethan folded his hands helplessly, admitting his mistake.

"Oh—Yeah~ It's my inappropriate words."

"Then you took some time to register your student status?" the dean of the law school asked with a smile.

The dean of the School of Engineering also turned his head and bowed his head, "Yes, Ethan, if you register as a student this year, you will be able to graduate with your sister in two years."

In fact, Ethan has always felt that his talent overshadowed his handsomeness.

If not, why do these guys always want him to go to school?

When we met and chatted before, these guys asked him if he planned to pursue further studies. Even if his previous standardized test scores had expired and he had no academic performance at all, it didn’t matter. After all, American university admissions is about the subjective will of the school. If the school thinks you can do it, you can do it.

If it was Ethan in his previous life, he would have agreed in a hurry, because this admission invitation is worth tens of millions!But now...he still declined.

It's not that enrolling in school will delay the business in hand. To put it bluntly, after he nods in agreement, the school will definitely issue him a certificate with his eyes closed, but the identity of graduating from high school without receiving higher education is more in line with what America promotes American dream.

If you are pursuing an official career or studying academics, academic qualifications are definitely important.

But if you're in business...

The coat of the American dream is better to wear.

And these people said they graduated with Evelyn...

That's because Evelyn still has a PhD.

The reason for the girl to make this decision is also very simple. Fred Terman, who retired in [-], was not used to the boring life of retirement. Make a little final contribution to education.

Because the old man is in poor health, he only brought one doctoral student this time.

"Okay, okay, Ethan doesn't have time now, so don't force him."

The deans' jokes made the old man use his cane, and said, "It's a graduation ceremony, not a closed-door tea party, so be serious? Okay?"

The old man's words made everyone stop laughing.

Everyone's attention also made Ethan turn his body to thank him, and his hospitality made the old man wave his hands, "Everyone is just joking." After explaining, he said: "Robert called me, He said what you want is too complicated."

"He's confident he can get what you want, but he needs a little time."

The Robert that the old principal talked about was the General Electric tycoon Robert Horry who undertook the optical storage research project of the Destiny game. In the past ten months, he has asked for 200 million research funds from the Destiny game and successfully burned it. Light.

Although Ethan knew that doing scientific research would cost money, this speed was indeed too fast.

Perhaps it was because the old man knew that there might be something wrong with his research, so he called Fred Terman directly to explain.

And when the old headmaster acted as a middleman, Ethan naturally wouldn't delve into the details.

"It's okay, I'm not in a hurry."

Ethan said: "I also know that what I want is a bit ahead of schedule, so I have to wait patiently. And I've been very busy recently, even if he took out the things, I don't have the energy to push..."

These words made Fred Terman turn his head to look at Ethan, shook his head and said, "Oh Ethan—although I like your attitude very much, you can't be too polite to them."

"Just tell the truth." Ethan shrugged.

With such an attitude, the old headmaster couldn't stop nodding, stared at Ethan's cheek for a while, and then turned his gaze to the podium again. Since Ethan gave him face, then the matter will be over.

"One more thing." The old principal changed the subject, "Starting from the fall semester, we at Stanford will officially purchase apples as teaching aids."

"Lawrence called me directly about this matter, and then he said, this is your request, and he just complied. At the same time, he also hoped that I could help him settle some schools."

"I took a look at the Apple products he recommended, and that boy Stephen did a good job."

"That disk..."

"It's better than IBM to be honest."

When Ethan was in charge of the wave of the video game era, Apple Computer also reported success again and again. After Wenlock hired Pepsi's Roger Corian for them, Steve Wozniak this The five and a quarter floppy disk Disk II developed by the little fat man finally came out.

Ethan held a new product conference on May 35th, and they introduced their products to the world on June 250st. When each floppy disk has [-] tracks on one side, each track has [-] sectors. area, each sector has [-] six bytes of data after appearing...

The single-sided 140KB, double-sided 280KB capacity directly ignited the market!
Because the emergence of this thing can free the computers on the market from endless code operations!
When data storage, which was originally a headache, became a very simple thing...

Even if the price of this thing is as high as 495 US dollars, there are still countless guys who know the goods and buy it!
This situation also made Wenlock start to fulfill his promise, and planned to use Rockefeller's influence to sell Apple to all schools in North America, and the first target they wanted to conquer was Stanford. As for the reason why they chose here... Well It is estimated that it is the bad taste of Lawrence Rockefeller.

"He called you himself?" Ethan was speechless.

"Yes." The old headmaster nodded.

"Oh—this man—" Ethan curled his lips, and said, "If you helped me do Apple's entry into the education market, then why should I accept his investment?"

"He uses my resources to help me do what I want to do?"

"MFxxk..."

Ethan suddenly felt that he was a big wronged species!
If he had known that Lawrence Rockefeller played like this, he would not have let this guy aboard!

But the old principal shook his head and said with a smile: "Although I will help, it is Lawrence who really solves this problem. The market for teaching supplies is not as simple as you think. Large-scale procurement in public schools must be supervised. The procurement of private schools needs to be explained to the board of directors. Even if I help, it will only allow other schools to report the project procurement. As for where the money for the procurement will come from? This matter will have to be resolved by the Rockefeller family's education foundation... "

Following the old principal's whispered narration, Ethan finally understood the doorway in education procurement.

No matter what kind of school it is, their annual funds are limited, and it is impossible to purchase the same teaching equipment at once. The simplified process has four steps.

The first step is to find a device on the market that has a good educational function;

The second step is that the Development Committee and the Education Committee under the name of the board of directors propose the purchase and fill in the report form;
The third step is to submit to high-level approval, because this kind of procurement is usually an unplanned item, so the process is very long;
The fourth step is to start the procurement if the approval is passed, or to terminate the project if the approval is not passed.

If it is a serious business, merchants who want to enter the education market can only wait.

However, if Fred Terman and Lawrence Rockefeller shot at the same time, they could directly erase all the waiting time. Fred Terman had the right to let Stanford directly purchase any equipment as teaching aids. Privileges given for contributions made by the school.

When Stanford bypasses all the procedures and purchases directly, their behavior can be followed by other schools and go directly to the first step, and the second step declaration form can also be filled out quickly under the guidance of Fred Terman. As for Steps three and four... that's what Lawrence Rockefeller is about.

Pay directly to help the school buy.

The education fund of the Rockefeller family donates countless donations to various colleges and universities every year. Part of the funds are freely used by the colleges and universities, and the other part of the funds can be used for designated purposes.

When Lawrence Rockefeller said, 100 out of the 50 million Rockefeller donated to you this year is a special use fund for computer science...

The third and fourth steps in the procurement process of universities and colleges can be directly erased.

It's earmarked!
And this kind of hooliganism can allow Apple to quickly gain an amazing market share!

As for whether this approach will make Rockefeller lose money?
This is simply too much to worry about.

Because charitable foundations in the United States have an annual donation ratio requirement, the minimum is 5.00% of the total assets, even if there is no agreement on special funds, they still have to donate.

Under such circumstances, using the money that must be donated to pay for their own business is what many rich people are doing, but when this kind of thing is in the hands of Rockefeller...

Those with power and money can directly change the structure of an industry.

For other companies, this method violates the principle of fair competition in the market.

but--

Rockefeller was fine as long as he didn't make it clear that the school had to buy apples when he donated.

And this kind of thing...

"Many schools rely on donations to survive. Not only will they not oppose Lawrence in this kind of matter, but they will also do what Lawrence requested very beautifully."

The old headmaster said with emotion: "So—you just have to work hard—"

"This year we will help you become the number one in the market, next year we will consolidate and increase profits, and the year after that we will be able to go public directly. Although Apple is not directly related to Stanford, the relationship between Stephen, HP and Lockheed will always exist... Isn't it?"

"Hahaha——" This rhetorical question made Ethan laugh out loud.

"Yes." He admitted with a nod.

"Thank you."

"Hmm~" the old headmaster shrugged.

"Ethan~ What are you laughing at? Am I making an embarrassment?" While Ethan was chatting with the old principal, Evelyn had already returned from his speech, and when she got off the podium, she heard Ethan laughing there.

"No..." Ethan shook his head quickly, and said, "We're chatting."

"Chat? Didn't you listen to my speech?" The girl raised her eyebrows.

"I've heard it..." How could Ethan admit it.

"Why are you laughing after hearing that?" Evelyn continued to ask.

"..."

This endless loop made Ethan turn his head to look at the old principal.

"Cough—I'm getting old, I want to go to the bathroom—"

The old principal ignored him, stomped on his crutches, and asked the entourage to help him away.

Such behavior made Ethan's eyes widen.

He really didn't expect that he was still talking to the guy who was joking with him just now!

And Evelyn's eyes were even wider than his.

Staring at Ethan for two seconds, he sat down unhappily.

The process of Stanford’s postgraduate graduation ceremony is not much different from other universities. The principal announces the commencement of the graduation ceremony, guests and speakers take the stage to give speeches, and then the degree certificates are issued.

The dean of each college will come to the stage to announce the list of graduates of their own college, and those whose names are called will come to the stage, and then the principal will officially confer degrees on them and straighten their tassels.

After everyone has received their certificates, the principal will give a concluding speech, thanking everyone for choosing the school and wishing everyone greater success in their future life.

After he announced the end of the graduation ceremony, the participants in the ceremony would leave in an orderly manner, and then each college would carry out some different activities according to its own preferences and preparations.

For example, Evelyn's engineering school is putting on a ghostly concert this time.

Although Ethan has experienced these things in his previous life, it is quite interesting to watch it again as a bystander, especially when some engineering students are singing and dancing on the stage, his limbs are uncoordinated and his neck is very stiff. .

Of course, he still clapped when Evelyn sang a Barbra Streisand song.

It's a pity that even if he clapped loudly again, Evelyn still gave him a hygienic eye.

What caught Ethan's attention the most was the dance of a chubby boy from the Engineering College.

After the opening, his right hand pointed at the sky at an angle of 45 degrees, and he posed a very handsome pose.

Then, like a circle, he pointed his left finger at the people in the stands, put his right hand on his hips, and kept twisting his crotch there following the rhythm of the music.

The slightly old-fashioned disco action made everyone on the scene laugh.

At first, Ethan just thought that this guy danced for fun, but after someone screamed 'John Travolta', Ethan realized that the dance in front of him was very familiar.

The next second, he turned to Evelyn beside him and asked, "Would you like to go to the movies?"

"What?" The thoughtless words made Evelyn a little dazed.

""Grease"." Ethan announced the name of the movie.

(End of this chapter)