Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 22 Hollywood Famous People

Every time Jobs used the great summoning technique to pull Tang Huan into the copy of Apple's office, there were good reasons, and this time was no exception.For Tang Huan's billionaire plan next year, he can only choose to accept it.

Jobs seems to have listened to the suggestion of the graphical user interface, but he did not take immediate action due to ridiculous reasons for being secretly unhappy with Tang Huan. A financing plan that wants to buy $10 million of stock at $100 a share.

Apple's financing activities, in addition to money, must also consider the added value that investors can bring, such as personal connections. Although Xerox is an old company, Jobs really didn't take it seriously.

During the evaluation of whether to accept this investment, an employee named Jeff Raskin in Apple began to try to persuade Jobs to pay attention to Xerox's R & D center PARC in Palo Alto. Unfortunately, Jobs looked at La Skin was not pleasing to the eye, thinking that he was an unbearable theorist. In Jobs's original words, Ruskin was a "terrible idiot", so Ruskin's words were directly ignored by Jobs.

Ruskin, who used to be a professor, is now in charge of a research and development project code-named "Annie". Full functionality of the display and software, and more importantly, a graphical interface.

It was for this reason that Ruskin tried to persuade Jobs to pay attention to PARC, but apparently his efforts failed.However, Ruskin did not give up. He found Bill Atkinson, who had a mentorship with him, and asked the former student to save the country.

In Jobs' world view of "either a genius or an idiot", Atkinson is undoubtedly a subordinate who belongs to the genius side and deserves his appreciation. So Jobs began to pay attention to this suggestion, and thought of Tang Huan. But he can't become his own guy through brainwashing.

"There is no need to hesitate. PARC does have what we need. After visiting, you will definitely not regret it." Tang Huan said solemnly.

In fact, Tang Huan also longed for PARC. Only the various descriptions in his previous life and Simeone’s introduction could not satisfy his curiosity. Like Jobs, take something of value from PARC.

Seeing what Tang Huan said so resolutely, Jobs finally made a decision, picked up the phone and dialed, and said domineeringly: "If you are willing to uncover the mystery of Xerox PARC, I agree with you to invest $100 million."

The other party immediately agreed, but replied that they needed to communicate with PARC, and Jobs hung up the phone impatiently.

The deal was sealed, and Xerox agreed to show Apple its new technology in return for 10 Apple shares at $10 a share.

Tang Huan, who witnessed this process with his own eyes, was overjoyed, but also secretly felt sorry for Xerox, who had been taken advantage of by Xerox. It is true that a year later, with the listing of Apple,
$100 million turned into $1760 million, but in the end it was a wedding dress for Apple.Nima, investing so much resources in PARC, in the end, many research and development results have become the products of other companies to make money.

"Let's go, Don, let's go to the R&D office of Apple's new products to monitor the progress of the project, so that your supporting office software can keep up with them." Jobs issued an invitation.

Tang Huan nodded. According to the original history, Apple's third-generation iPhone was a failure. He really needed to evaluate it at any time, and he couldn't let his Zerone waste too much resources and fall into the pit.

But Tang Huan was obviously wrong. Jobs directly led him to the Lisa project team. Yes, the name of this project was his daughter's name.

The recent lawsuit with his ex-girlfriend Brennan over child support has been settled. Jobs completely eliminated potential personal property risks before the company went public, but it seems that some subtle changes have taken place in his heart. This is how the project was named.

The leader of the Lisa project team is the former HP engineer John Couch, and Atkinson is also in this R&D team, which shows how much Jobs attaches importance to.

Lisa Computer is positioned as a business computer priced at US$2000. Compared with the 8-bit microprocessor used in Apple's second-generation machine, it has improved specifications and uses a 16-bit CPU.

After the tour, Jobs pretended to be relaxed and asked, "What do you think of the Lisa computer?"

Tang Huan nodded, turned around and left the office, and said to Jobs who followed closely, "This is just a well-regulated computer. After you visit PARC, you will know what I said is true."

Hearing this, Jobs' face darkened immediately. Tang Huan didn't bother to pay attention to it, and left here, going directly to the project research and development area of ​​Apple's third-generation machine.

Because Jobs strictly limited the size and shape of the chassis at the beginning and refused to be modified by anyone, it can be seen now that the components on the circuit board of the third-generation Apple machine are very crowded, and the heat dissipation conditions are doomed. The hidden danger of computer failure due to overheating of the board is unavoidable.

Tang Huan shook his head secretly, this guy Jobs is really a disaster.

At present, the internal situation of Apple is roughly like this. The sales of the second-generation Apple are booming, but the research and development of subsequent products seems to be very weak, and because of Jobs' restlessness, the company's management is also chaotic from time to time.

In short, the strong intervention of Tang Huan, a reborn person, only made Apple's second-generation machine's ability to attract money to a higher level, while Apple's general trend still developed along the original historical track.

In this way, after Apple is successfully listed next year and Tang Huan cashes out, Apple will not become an overly strong opponent. In addition to the market value, there is no need to spend energy to pay too much attention to its internal affairs.

After Tang Huan sorted out his relationship with Apple, he was about to leave when Jobs walked over again with a smile on his face like a Sichuan opera changing his face, "Tang, the marketing advertisement you suggested last time is being filmed. ? Xiaosi and Judy Foster are here, as well as the little Canadian girl you recommended, let's go and see the excitement together."

It is not surprising that Jobs is so excited, after all, he is already young and rich, and in the original history, Jobs was a romantic figure when he was young, and he had entangled with singers and writers.

Tang Huan was also aroused, so the two came together in a rare and harmonious relationship.

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Standing outside the shooting site, you can see the two most eye-catching beautiful girls, Brooke Shields and Judy Foster. Celine, a little girl from the countryside, immediately disappeared from everyone.

Jobs winked at Tang Huan, "Hey, buddy, which one do you like?"

Yes, one is a vase, the other is a talented woman, which one should I choose?
However, Tang Huan feels that there is no need to spend too much thought on the choice. No matter which one he uses, he can quickly get in touch with the Hollywood circle and make his mark in the American fashion industry, which is conducive to promoting his own products, just like in his previous life. Rich Jobs did the same for the iPhone.

"Tell me, which one do you like?" Jobs urged.

Tang Huan had discovered long ago that Jobs was smug on the surface, but in fact he was secretly observing and studying him. He had always regarded himself as an opponent.

"You pick first, I'll do whatever you want." Tang Huan smiled lightly, and at the same time slandered, pick a hair, didn't you see that these two girls have family members who act as assistants, standing not far away?The care is so tight, there is no loophole to take advantage of now.

Tang Huan ignored Jobs' uproar, his eyes fell on the camera, and he couldn't help being slightly taken aback. Isn't this James Cameron, who has filmed "Terminator", "Titanic" and "Avatar", how did he come here? Advertised.

But Tang Huan immediately felt relieved. This guy saw Lucas's "Star Wars" the year before last and was deeply shocked. Then he resolutely switched from being a truck driver. I'm all going to pick it up.

Cameron will play a lot of special effects in his films in the future, and has his own special effects team, which has extraordinary significance for his IT product application.

At this time, it was time for a break, Celine was a little cautious during the filming process, and Cameron was giving pointers to his fellow Canadians.

(End of this chapter)