The Goddess Shines on America

"Just wait?"

Regarding Alice's affirmative attitude, Sissy glanced at her sideways, with unquestionable contempt on her face: "You think writing a novel is so easy? Of course, it must be easy to adapt Snow White. Are you going to do that?" What are you doing?"

"A novel."

However, Alice said very calmly: "I can submit a novel manuscript to Bantam next weekend. I haven't considered the number of words yet, but 100,000 words is no problem."

"...You just make it up."

But if an ordinary girl suddenly said such a thing, no one would believe it. Although Sissy knew that Alice was very smart, it was all about the computer field. Does it even have anything to do with literature?

"Someone told me a minute ago that I hadn't even heard of Penguin Publishing Company, and now tell me that I want to write a novel of more than 100,000 words in a week? How about a hundred thousand words?"

"You think I can't do it?"

"can you do it?"

Outside the gate of the mansion No. 15, two girls stopped here, staring at each other with their big round eyes, as if they were not convinced by each other.

"Hey, you two, it's time to go home!"

Finally, Sergey, who had been watching from a distance, couldn't bear it any longer. He strode away from the police car and walked towards Alice and the others: "Since the party is over, let's go home quickly, please let me go to bed early, okay?" ?”

Seeing that it was Sergey, Alice withdrew her eyes and grinned at him: "Thanks for your hard work, officer, did you find any serial killers worthy of everyone's screams tonight?"

In this sentence, Alice sincerely used ingenious grammar to bring the name of a certain movie into her sentence. After all, late-night parties are a good opportunity for characters like Jason and Freddy to show up, aren't they?

"Of course it's gone, so you're lucky. Alice, I know what you mean, right? Haha, go home and sleep!"

After watching Alice enter the house, and then taking painstaking efforts to send Sissy back to Mansion No. 7, and watching the girl walk back to the party, Sergey stood beside the police car and sighed sincerely.

At the same time, Alice did go home honestly.

But she didn't sleep soundly.

To write a novel, Sissy's provocation really gave Alice infinite motivation.

The mysteries of the brain are difficult for human beings to explore in their lifetime. No matter how smart and knowledgeable a human being is, even if his brain has been developed, even if he lives in a future world with extremely advanced biotechnology, it is impossible for him to thoroughly study the brain.

After all, whether it's his own thinking, or using the researched equipment to assist in the research, isn't it the first step achieved by the human brain?

Can Almighty God create a rock that he cannot lift by himself?

As for how much her brain is developed, Alice herself is just estimating, probably 20%.

So for her, writing a work that she had read in her previous life was not difficult at all.

It can be said that, even if it was just the fallen leaves blown by the wind during a certain walk in the previous life, as long as Alice is willing, she can recall all the details at the beginning, that is, the process of "how the rheumatism blows the fallen leaves". Although it was just a glance from the corner of the eye while walking, it still occupied an insignificant space in the memory after all.

But before actually writing, she still has a lot of things to think about first.

It was already late at night, and after coaxing Hannah to go to bed, Alice sat alone at the writing desk, thinking about her current situation.

"So, what's the current situation..."

Looking at the Apple 'Lisa' computer on the desk that looks like a microwave, Alice's brain began to move.

In the past few years, due to undoubted reasons, she spent a lot of effort to persuade her parents to buy a large amount of Apple stock. At that time, she was only eight years old, which can be regarded as her first venture into the mall.

After all, in today's era without the Internet, in the days before the era of information explosion, it is impossible for her to fully understand whether the historical trajectory of this world is the same as in her previous life, and Apple's stock can be regarded as an experiment.

Thanks to Alice's good eloquence, her parents are both upper-middle-class middle-class with outstanding vision, and because James is still of Chinese descent, his family has a lot of savings, so he just has spare money to speculate in stocks.

Her adventure proved to be worthwhile, it turned out. On December 12, 1980, local time in the United States, Apple Inc. was listed on Nasdaq at 22 yuan per share. In less than an hour, all 4.6 million shares were snapped up, and the market closed at 29 US dollars per share on the day, with a market value of 1.778 billion US dollars.

When James took advantage of the opening of the market, after buying a full 1,000 shares of Apple, the cost was only 22,000, and he made a net profit of 9,000 U.S. dollars that day!

"Currently, the whole family has earned 870,000 yuan from Apple stocks. If this fund is cashed out, it is definitely enough to set up a company. The Cisco system has just been established, but it will not use much money in a short time. After all, they are 86 When I found a venture capitalist in 2010, I only invested 2.5 million shares, and it’s still early.”

Faced with a company whose peak market capitalization will reach nearly 500 billion US dollars, Alice certainly has countless plans brewing, and at least half of her energy is actually used to deceive the Bosacks.

Facing the founders who would have been kicked out of their company in history, Alice was not afraid of being condemned by conscience when she set up a situation for them!

"It took two years to find seventy-three venture capitalists, and then I won the favor of Sequoia Capital. In two years, too many things can happen. If you calculate it this way, it should be more than 30 for Bosack to find. That is... next March, right?"

As long as she thinks about what will happen in March next year, Alice can't help but smile at the corner of her mouth.

40% technology shares, this is indeed the price she negotiated with the Bosacks.

But it's based on a bet.

That is, whether the couple can get financing from thirty venture capital companies.

Anyone who knows Internet companies knows that almost all the initial capital of this kind of company comes from venture capital, and it is impossible to operate the project based on the company's initial profits. One-third of the venture capital in the United States is concentrated in Silicon Valley. This phenomenon is not caused by human drivers, but the inevitable consequences of economic development!

Thirty venture capitalists, if Bosack still can't get financing by then, Alice will invest another 30% of the shares with funds.

In fact, it is a very insidious move, although in the eyes of the couple, this bet seems to be a piece of paper.

Thirty, how could it be impossible to find it! ?

Most people would definitely think so, but after witnessing the details of Apple's listing, Alice's confidence in the bet is absolutely unparalleled.

I'm sorry, but you really can't find it. You will search for more than 70 people at an average speed of ten days, and you will get Mr. Don Valentine's financing of 2.5 million US dollars and his management team.

After all, Silicon Valley at that time was full of companies, just like Hollywood, companies were established every day, and companies closed every day. For a company registered in the founder's living room and the size is only three or two people, the venture capital firms would not waste money foolishly, let alone the Bosacks are clumsy scientific researchers?

If Don Valentine hadn't looked down on Jobs' "garage company" and lost the opportunity to invest in Apple, he would never have financed Cisco!

Thirty venture capitalists can't find it, so let me be the angel.

So, for Alice, who has a hundred confidence in the direction of history, this bet is really too insignificant...

"Really, the wheel of history is starting to turn."

Thinking in her heart, Alice stood up slowly, stood in front of her desk, looked at the bright moonlight outside the window, and muttered to herself.

"Since Cisco has been registered in this way, it is reasonable for it to grow and develop. I am no longer just a small investor who earns hundreds of thousands of dollars from Apple stock. A big event has been made, and the first What about two?"

In fact, the computer is still turned on now, but it is not the Apple one, but the IBM machine using the DOS system. At this time, Microsoft has not yet developed the Office operating system, but if Bill Gates came to this bedroom now, he would be shocked.

"Microsoft-office-word1984" on the screen is a product he has never heard of. Although the first word is definitely the registered name of Microsoft, but with Gates' memory, he certainly knows that his company has never developed such a product. .

Word processing software!

If Gates is allowed to come here at this time, operate Alice's mouse, and perform a minimize operation, he will further collapse and find that a rudimentary window interface system has already been built with the most basic shell!

But at this moment, Alice didn't focus her eyes on the computer at all, she just looked at the ceiling and kept talking to herself.

"If I were really asked to write, I could indeed create many classic works in an instant. Although the market value is far lower than that of Apple and Cisco, this is an achievement in the literary world. It has two properties. Well, the wise investor Alice - Wang is also a popular writer?"