Chapter 1499 A Gift for the Great People

It's definitely not Bao's richest man's style to hand over his fate to outsiders. It takes one's own strength to strike iron, and no one can count on Xiangjiang's current situation. Then we can only work hard from Fujairah. Although you have been very careful, when the interests of the Americans are touched, they will still try to deal with you.

Bao Zixuan said with a smile: "Everyone knows what Bill Gates wants to do. He just wants to negotiate the price with the underwriter after taking a reassurance. Although the current stock price has been basically determined, if there is a better deal before the listing Once the news is released, institutions and investors will naturally rush to buy.”

"Then we will give him peace of mind, after all, I am also one of the major shareholders of Microsoft."

Hearing that Bao Zixuan didn't refuse, John Chambers knew what it meant. But the boss didn't say it clearly, so he couldn't make wild guesses.

When he came to the Hilton Hotel, he saw four people already waiting for him. Although they all knew each other, it was the first time for two of them to meet, so it was embarrassing to go up hastily. And as the founder of the company, Bill Gates still has to introduce several people to each other.

For Bao Zixuan, an investor, he really couldn't find any faults. Never interfere with the specific operation of the company, even the board of directors do not participate. At most, one representative will be sent over to deal with it; but when money is needed to increase capital and share, the other party will prepare the money with a phone call, and will never procrastinate.

The most important thing is that Black Cloud Group develops new software, as long as Microsoft needs it; it always authorizes it at a low price, and there is really no problem in terms of support. Just ask, where can I find such an investor; at least Bill Gates, who has been running the company for ten years, has never heard of it.

Bao Zixuan said with a smile: "Bill; congratulations, although I am a shareholder, the company is run by you. Finally being able to go public can be said to have helped us earn a lot of money; as a shareholder, we can't be stingy."

"The four of you are the core figures of the company. I should express it." After speaking, he handed over 4 keys and said at the same time, "There are 4 Ferrari sports cars parked downstairs, which are my presents to you all."

There are two people here who saw Bao Zixuan for the first time, and they were able to receive a gift; moreover, it was the Ferrari sports car that men dreamed of, which is too generous!

Bill Gates was not too surprised, he already knew it before coming here. Moreover, he was also consulted before choosing a Ferrari sports car in the end.

Bill Gates said with a smile: "Steve, Charles; I've told you that I will definitely surprise you. Before, you were a little worried about the company's stock price. Now that you're here in the United States, it should be the turn of the Wall Street people to have a headache. "

The title of the richest man in Xiangjiang Bao can be said to be famous all over the world. If even he can't handle it, it is estimated that a few young people will be in vain.

Bill Gates went on to say: "Let me introduce to you, Paul Allen, you already know, this is Steve Ballmer, our vice president; this is Charles Simeone, head of the technology department. "

Hearing these two names, Bao Zixuan really didn't know what to say. They are all future super talents, one is the top ten super rich in the world, and the other is one of the greatest programmers in history.

Steve Ballmer, born on March 24, 1956; Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980, and served successively as Executive Vice President of Sales Support and President of Microsoft Corporation. He was the first business manager hired by Bill Gates. Ballmer grew up in Detroit. He graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Mathematics and Economics. Ballmer's father is Swiss and his mother is Russian-Jewish. His father, Fred Ballmer, who came to the United States from Switzerland after World War II, worked as a translator for the presiding judge of the war crimes court, then worked as a bookkeeper at General Motors, and finally worked as an accountant at Ford Motor Company.

In 1974, 18-year-old Ballmer met Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the richest man in the world, when he was a sophomore at Harvard. In 1980, on the Stanford campus, Bill Gates approached Ballmer and persuaded him to join Microsoft, which was still in the incubation period.

As for the reason why Steve Ballmer is more famous in later generations, not only because he is the former CEO of Microsoft; more importantly, he bought the Los Angeles Clippers. This is a team with no sense of presence in the same city as the Zijin Dynasty and sharing a stadium.

His financial resources are talked about in the NBA, and the offer of 2 billion US dollars; a one-time payment without any loan, which shows his arrogance.

Charles Simeone, born in Budapest, Hungary, formerly known as Simeone Karoli, is an expert in software development and the inventor of Hungarian nomenclature. Director of Product Development at Microsoft Corporation, one of the early core staff of Microsoft.

Most talented programmers were very smart but introverted in childhood. They were not interested in the rules of the adult world, but lived in their own closed small world, accompanied by science and technology. Simeone's childhood was a little different. Simeone's childhood was spent in Budapest, Hungary in the late 1950s. His father was a professor of electrical engineering. His father has always encouraged Simeone to be brave enough to express his views and communicate with others. Father of a professor of electrical engineering; has always believed that solving problems is an integral part of personal growth. This view had a great influence on Simeone's growth, because the main job of computer programming is to solve problems.

Simeone has already started to get in touch with computers and programming in high school, thanks to his father's professorship. This kid got a chance to work as an assistant to a computer engineer. You must know that there were only five computers in Hungary at that time.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Simeone completed his first program and first professional program in high school. The first program Simonyi wrote was to fill the magic square so that the sums of the numbers in each row, column, and diagonal are equal. And his first professional program was a compiler for a very simple, FORTRAN-like high-level language. Simeone sold the compiler as an innovation to the government for a fortune; he didn't spend any of it, because he left Hungary shortly afterwards.

After high school, at a trade fair in Budapest, Simeone met several Danes who worked with computers. After getting to know their company's new machines well enough, Simonyi asked one of them to bring to Denmark a small program he had written to show their supervisors that would give him exactly what part of a long expression the machine was analyzing at any given moment. Company executives liked the program and offered Simeone a job. Simeone left Hungary just like that.

After a year and a half of programming in Denmark, Simeone used his salary, plus a previous government bonus, to study engineering mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. While in school, Simeone entered the Berkeley Computer Center as a programmer, and the income was used to pay tuition.

In November 1980, Simeone had in-depth discussions with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Although Gates was very young at the time, he had a very visionary view of computers. Simeone only talked to them for 5 minutes before deciding to work for Microsoft.

It is said that when this kid left Hungary, he caused his father a lot of trouble, and he was definitely a cheater. You must know that Hungary is a Warsaw Pact country~lightnovelpub.net~ and Denmark is an out-and-out Western developed country. He dared to do this during the Cold War, and it was a blatant past; it seems that there is really no one else except him.

Moreover, this kid will invest in a private capacity in the future, and go to space twice; it can be seen that the brain circuit of a genius is indeed different from other people.

Bill Gates continued: "Mr. Bao Zixuan is also a major shareholder of our Microsoft. You have been in the company for six years, and you have never seen one of the board members."

Everyone is young, the oldest Charles Simeone is only 37 years old; Paul Allen is 33 years old, Bill Gates is 31 years old; Steve Ballmer is 30 years old, and the richest man is only 28 years old. And they all have prestigious school backgrounds, so it can be said that it is very convenient to communicate.

After Bao Zixuan shook hands with the two people, he said with a smile, "I am a hands-off shopkeeper, and my time and energy are relatively limited. Therefore, the future development of Microsoft requires you to continue to work hard."

"I went to Italy this time, and I just bought a Ferrari sports car. I wanted to come over to express my congratulations and give some gifts. Bill said that you like to drive, so please don't be polite. As long as you wait until Microsoft goes public, you will find that everything you buy seems to be in the market." Simple."

Hearing what Bao Zixuan said, everyone laughed.

(end of this chapter)