February is a special time.

For students, this is a whole month for play; for adults, it is another time that requires normal work; especially for executives of large enterprises, finance departments and even accounting firms, it is time for them to formulate their annual reports for the previous year, and look forward to the development of this year, which is even more exhausting.

All of this has been integrated for Alice.

After returning from Japan after a lot of hardships, she was about to start school, but not only needed to accept interviews from Fortune magazine, but also routinely reviewed each of its companies. But at this time, her father suddenly became interested in writing novels, and she rashly expressed her proposal for cooperative creation. Now, it's a typical example of herself finding something for herself.

Of course, the priority of one's own affairs is always to the back. After analyzing the priority of its various industries, Alice first came to Cisco's headquarters in San Jose.

"In one sentence, it is prosperous, but it is almost exhausting."

Professor Posack, who was responsible for greeting her at San Jose Airport, parked the car in front of the building while continuing the topic along the way: "You know, we have only been in actual acceptance of the firewall project, after all, only a few months, and you are anxious to ask us to make the best products, and we are short of staff."

"Well, I have to admit that I didn't think about it when I first chose the house."

Alice walked out of the car. It was sunny and the weather was fine. Looking up, the sunlight from the east happened to be slanted by the roof of the company, and a flock of doves passed by over the sky.

"Leon, let's take a look at my account book later. How much is the company's bank deposit now?"

The two walked towards the entrance of the main entrance, and Posack said, "It's more than 13 million, and most of the profits are purchased in large quantities as you suggest. By the way, Alice..."

Just as he walked into the lobby, Posack cut off the newly lit cigarette in confusion: "Why do you insist on buying stocks around the world? The only one in the United States is the New York Stock Exchange, then London, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. It's also a loss that you bought all the bull stocks and hired a professional investment team?"

"Uh, that's right...of course, it's because the world is in great shape now."

Alice's eyes rolled in a weird way. Suddenly, she happened to see a young man with thick hair but must have a bald future: "Oh, isn't that Jeff!?"

A good sentence changed the subject, and she immediately waved to the company's employees, Jeff Bezos.

Seeing that he was discovered by the company's boss, Bezos was obviously shocked, causing the coffee cup in his hand to spill.

"Oh, damn it! Oh, of course, boss, am I talking about you, Brad, can you give me a piece of paper?"

Alice said suspiciously: "What are you nervous? No, hey, Brad, it's past nine o'clock now?"

The young man at the front desk responded, "Yes, Miss Alice."

This title is also what Alice asks employees to do on weekdays. Although it does not conform to the grammar, "Miss Alice" is really much better than "Miss Wang".

“Ahhh~”

After getting the answer I wanted, Alice smirked sly, narrowed her eyes and looked at Bezos: "Leon, I saw that we caught a small animal, and Bezos who didn't stick to his post during working hours~"

Posack just chuckled, while Bezos quickly put the paper cup on the front desk, and while wiping his hands in a panic, he explained hurriedly: "I was busy until twelve o'clock last night, and it was almost one in the morning when I lay in bed. Alice, you arranged the flexible work system, don't look at me like that."

Since she is a good employee who works hard until the early morning, Alice will certainly not joke anymore. She patted Bezos on the shoulder and said, "Thank you for your hard work. I remember you were in the switch R&D team last year, right? So what about now?"

"He just took over the firewall."

Posack responded. As the director of the technology department and knew that Alice rarely involved in the micro-operation of the company, he immediately explained: "Jeff performed very well when he was developing switches, and your new project was very urgent, so I immediately pulled him to the new project team and served as the team leader."

"Yes, very good."

Alice nodded, then patted Bezos on the shoulder: "Excellent employees need rewards, so that's it, Jeff, let's have lunch together at noon today, let's talk about your hairstyle changes."

"Hair, hair style changes?"

Not only Bezos, Posack was puzzled by the side, but Alice tilted her head slightly, stared at Bezos' head, and smiled: "No one told you that bald head is more suitable for you?"

Immediately, Bezos, who was standing there in a cute position, Alice strode forward and came to the elevator entrance first. It was not until the elevator door opened that Posack finally arrived.

When he sat in the office, it was time to work, Posack immediately sent him to the information. Alice sat on the reception sofa, but did not rush to browse the documents, but first scanned the chairman's office, which rarely could be used.

From a big data perspective, Silicon Valley people are mainly composed of idealists. Many people drive ordinary broken trucks to work, but their businesses are having an impact on the world. It is precisely because of the cheap establishment of Silicon Valley companies and "garage companies" are emerging one after another, so for most Silicon Valley people, their office environment can be described in one word.

Dirty, messy, bad.

However, Alice's arrival has brought a clear stream to the industry. Looking at this Cisco Building, the height of five or six floors accommodates hundreds of employees. Although she had been complaining about not having space to recruit new people a year ago, it was just because Alice used more space to create a good working atmosphere.

So, the chairman's office she is currently staying at is certainly not a ruthless space like most Silicon Valley tech teenagers.

The entire wall is opened into glass windows, allowing warm sunlight to spread into the house. Since it is the top floor of the entire building and faces a vast lake, it can naturally ensure its character.

Furthermore, Alice's solid wood desk was specially customized by a merchant, and the length just crossed the entire office. Of course, she still left a space for herself to walk in, but the space was so narrow that except for her slim figure, no adult man could get in.

On a wide and long desk, computers and family photo frames are essential, but the most eye-catching is a multi-functional water dispenser worth 2,000 US dollars.

The Japanese products are trustworthy, and the extremely novel direct drinking water disinfection system caused a sensation when it was introduced to the US market. Therefore, it is not surprising that it is present. The coffee machine worth two thousand dollars next to it has no sense of existence. Who said it is a local American product?

But compared to the purple clay tea set next to you, when visitors first walked into Alice's office, the first thing that caught their attention was the entire row of bookcases.

It is obvious that no matter how high-end bookcase is, if there is nothing inside, it will not attract the slightest attention of others.

The dense collection of famous works is enough to easily scare all uneducated people and make all intellectuals ecstatic. Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations", Karl Marx's "Capital", Freud's "Analysis of Dreams", Stavrianos's "General History of the World", many classic works that are familiar to people but may not witness the true appearance are all placed here with well-packaged large works, and any one is enough for people to study carefully!

But at this time, Alice certainly wouldn't sit in the little world behind her desk.

After all, the black leather single computer chair is perfectly ergonomic, which is a proof that Japanese companies erode the personal space of famous American companies Ceo, and has earned 8,000 US dollars from her pocket. Good kids cannot let Japanese make money at will, so they must sit less!

Well, before browsing these files, find a water dispenser to have a drink.

"Bank deposits...so, Leon."

After looking at the account book, Alice touched her eyebrows and said, "As soon as I went back to the UK to go to school, I will definitely get the new company address, but it will take some time to build the building. In this way, you first find an office building nearby and rent five or six floors for enrollment. Although the rent in San Jose is getting more and more expensive, it is still more than five or six months."

"This expansion will stabilize the total number of employees of the company at 1,000. Moreover, after all, we are a company with a monthly profit of 30 million. If it continues to develop at this rate, it will probably take less than two years, and it will be two thousand people, so this time we must choose a Dadi Pi to build a new building."

Of course, Posack was more happy to expand the company. He looked at his watch and said, "No problem. In addition, Sandy's plane should also arrive in San Jose. It happened that the three of us were here. Alice, should you talk about the listing?

Listing of a company is something that everyone in every company dreams of. Today, Cisco has maintained its leading position in the new industry since the beginning, and its annual profits can reach more than 200 million US dollars. No one will be surprised by the word listing.

"It's time to go public."

Alice patted her head: "It's...February 1987, right Leon."

Posack didn't know what Alice was thinking, so he nodded and smiled, "You wouldn't want to say that this is a historic moment, right?"

"That's not. I'm just counting the days. After the entire IPO project, it will be almost the same at the end of the year... At the earliest, it will be launched in November."

As she said that, she looked at her watch and said, "Sandy's plane should be... OK. It seems that this topic will be discussed until the afternoon. I have a dinner party at noon~"
Chapter completed!