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Chapter 25, the sinister and talented Alice

"Just wait?"

Regarding Alice's affirmative attitude, Sissi glanced at her with no doubt contempt: "Do you think writing a novel is so simple? Of course, it would be very easy to adapt Snow White. What do you want to do that?"

"Fiction."

However, Alice said calmly: "I can submit a novel manuscript to the Bantam next weekend. The number of words has not been considered yet, but there is no problem with 100,000 words."

"...you make up."

No one would believe any ordinary girl suddenly says such a thing. Although Xixi knows that Alice is smart, it is all about the computer field. Does it have anything to do with literature?

"A minute ago, someone told me that I had never even heard of Penguin Publishing Company. Now I will tell me that I will write a novel of more than 100,000 words in a week? You might as well be more powerful. How about getting 300,000 words?"

"Do you think I can't do it?"

"Can you do it?"

Outside the door of Mansion No. 15, two girls stopped here, staring at each other with big round eyes, looking like they were not convinced by each other.

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

Finally, Sergey, who had been observing from a distance, couldn't help but leave the police car and walked towards Alice and the others: "Since the party is over, go home quickly. Please let me go to bed early, okay?"

Seeing that the person coming was Sergey, Alice then withdrew her eyes and grinned at him: "Thank you for your hard work, officer, have you found a serial murderer worthy of everyone's screaming tonight?"

In this sentence, Alice sincerely used clever grammar to bring the name of a certain movie into her sentence. After all, late-night parties are indeed a good opportunity for characters such as Jason and Freddy to appear, right?

"Of course there is no more, so you'll be glad. Alice, I know what you mean, "Moonlight Panic" is right? Haha, hurry up and go home to sleep!"

Watching Alice enter the house first, then she would never give up Sissi back to Mansion No. 7. Watching the girl walk back to the party, Sergei stood next to the police car and sighed sincerely.

At the same time, Alice did go home honestly.

But she didn't sleep honestly.

After writing a novel, Sissi's provocation indeed gave Alice endless motivation.

The mystery of the brain is difficult for humans to explore throughout their lives. No matter how smart or knowledgeable a human is, even his brain has been developed, and even if he lives in a future world with extremely advanced biotechnology, he cannot completely study the brain clearly.

After all, whether it is his own thinking or the equipment he has developed to assist in research, isn’t it all about realizing the first step with the human brain?

Can the omnipotent God create a stone that he cannot lift himself?

Alice herself only estimates how much brain development is, about 20%.

So for her, it is really not difficult to write a work that she has read in her previous life.

It can be said that even if it was just a walk in a previous life, the wind swept the fallen leaves by the wind blowing by the afterglow, as long as Alice was willing, she could recall all the details of the original, namely the process of "how to blow the fallen leaves by rheumatism". Although it was just a glance during the walk, it still occupied a trivial space in memory.

But before she actually started writing, she still had many things to consider first.

It was already late at night. After coaxing Hannah to lie down on the bed, Alice sat alone at the writing desk and calculated her current situation.

"So, what's the situation right now..."

Looking at the microwave-like Apple Lisa computer on the writing desk, Alice's brain began to move.

A few years ago, for unquestionable reasons, she spent a lot of effort to convince her parents to buy a large number of Apple stocks. At that time, she was only eight years old, which could be regarded as an adventure she had initially entered the mall.

After all, in today's era without the Internet, in the days before the information explosion era, she could not fully understand whether the historical trajectory of this world was the same as in the previous life, and Apple's stock was also an experiment.

Thanks to Alice's good eloquence and her parents are both middle- and upper-middle-class people with outstanding vision. Moreover, because James is still a Chinese, his family has a lot of savings and he has free money to trade stocks.

As a result, her adventure was of great value. On December 12, 1980, local time in the United States, Apple listed on Nasdaq at 22 yuan per share. In less than an hour, all the $4.6 million shares were sold out, closing at $29 per share that day, with a market value of $1.778 billion.

When James took advantage of the opening, he bought a total of 1,000 Apple shares, and the cost was only 22,000 yuan, and he made a net profit of 9,000 US dollars that day!

"Currently, the money my family made on Apple stocks is 870,000 yuan. If this money is cashed out, it will definitely be enough to set up a company. The Cisco system has just been established, but it is not enough to use much money in a short period of time. After all, they only invested 2.5 million yuan when they found venture capital in 1986, and it's still early."

Faced with a company with a peak market value of nearly $500 billion, Alice certainly has countless plans to brew it, and at least half of this energy is actually used to cheat the Posacks.

Facing the founder of his own company who would have been kicked out of his company in history, Alice was really not afraid of being condemned by conscience when setting up a plan for them!

"I found seventy-three venture capital companies in two years, and then I got the favor of Sequoia Capital. In two years, there are too many things that can happen. If this is the case, Posack found the 30th company, which should be... next March, right?"

As long as Alice thinks about what will happen in March next year, she can't help but smile.

40% of the technology investment is indeed the price she and Posacks negotiated.

But this is based on a bet.

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

Anyone who knows Internet companies knows that almost all the initial funds of such companies are dependent on venture capital, and projects cannot be operated simply based on the initial profits of the company. One-third of the amount of venture capital in the United States is concentrated in Silicon Valley. This phenomenon is not caused by artificial driving, but by economic development!

Thirty venture capital firms, if Posack still cannot get financing by then, Alice will invest 30% of the shares with the funds.

In fact, it was a very sinister move, although in the eyes of the couple, the bet seemed to be equal to a piece of waste paper.

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

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

Sorry, you really can't find it. You will find more than 70 companies at an average rate of ten days before you get Mr. Don Valentine's $2.5 million in financing and his management team.

After all, Silicon Valley was full of enterprises at that time, just like Hollywood, with companies established every day and companies closed down every day. For a company registered in the founder's living room, which is only three two people in size, venture capital companies would not be stupid enough to waste money, let alone the Posacks and his wife are stupid researchers?

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

If you can’t find thirty venture capital companies, then I will be the angel.

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

"It's true that the wheels of history are starting to roll."

As she thought about it, Alice slowly stood up, stood at her desk, looking at the bright moonlight outside the window, and muttering to herself.

"Since Cisco is registered like this, it is reasonable to have its growth and growth. I am no longer just a small shareholder who earns hundreds of thousands of dollars on Apple stocks. One big thing has been done, what about the second one?"

In fact, the computer is still on, but not Apple's one, but IBM computers that use DOS system. Microsoft has not yet developed the Office operating system, but if Bill Gates comes to this bedroom now, he will be shocked.

The "Microsoft-office-word1984" on the screen is completely unheard of. Although the first word is definitely Microsoft's registered name, with Gates' memory, of course he knew that his company had not developed such a product at all.

Word processing software!

If Gates came here at this time, operating Alice's mouse and performing a minimization operation, he would further collapse and find that a prototype window interface system had already been built with the most basic shell!

But at this time, Alice did not focus her eyes on the computer at all, but just looked at the ceiling and kept muttering to herself.
Chapter completed!
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