In fact, the investment in Bush Oil is really simple. Alice only needs to throw away a favor of 5 million yuan.

Although the Bush family has a high status in politics and the two presidents' entry into the White House made them one of the top political families in the United States, it has little direct relationship with the business world. As far as Alice knows, until around the Rio Olympics, the total assets of this huge family were only 60 million US dollars.

Yes, it's only $60 million.

Although in politics, they can call it wind and rain, and they all know celebrities and even have countless stories that they have to tell with the rich people in the Middle East. But if they really want to implement the property, 60 million US dollars for American political families is already a rare huge sum of money.

This is actually the same as arms dealers. Whether it is Lockheed, Boeing, or General Dynamics, even if the market value and annual profit are added together, it is barely enough to make up a face-to-face Book's market value of 300 billion. The money is not much, but the nature of the company is there, so hard power and influence are far from comparable to a Silicon Valley unicorn.

So, although the five million dollars are just one-something of Microsoft's monthly dividends for Alice, for the oil company where Bush is losing money, it is definitely a timely help. For Alice, using just five million dollars to exchange for a huge favor from the Bush family is a super huge deal.

That night, Alice went to bed in the Bush's guest room. She had to go to Capitol Hill tomorrow morning and was introduced to a New York State Representative and would go to Wall Street, Manhattan to find relevant financial companies. This was all work. If she weren't a student now, she would have had a secretary to arrange the itinerary, so it was necessary to take a break early, even if it was an apparent rest.

Well, the surface rest.

Only the energetic Alice would not waste one-third of her day playing an ordinary person.

In the bedroom at night, the moonlight shines into the room from the bright window, and the spacious bed is shining with silver. The antique European decoration gives people a sense of historical precipitation, even a small desk is made of beautiful, not to mention the extremely fancy dressing table in the distance.

Although Alice was a girl, she didn't sit in front of the dressing table.

Just kidding, it's midnight, the mirror in front of the dressing table, which girl dares to sit in front of it?

So Alice was sitting at the desk, guarding a fax machine, a computer and a desk lamp.

A pile of newly printed documents was held in my hand, and it was still hot, coming from Cisco.

Unlike Microsoft, Cisco is a company built by Alice, and it is growing bigger and faster, and it is developing faster and faster. It is much more important than the "ah funny" company that has just been invested by itself.

A new business has been making trouble within the company for a long time, that is, cooperation with Lucent Technology.

The company wants to cooperate with Cisco to develop network card modules and more efficient optical modules.

Honestly, very boring content.

Of course, Alice knows what the network card module is. To put it figuratively, it is a circuit module with related functions on the external network card.

Network card modules, sound card modules, and graphics card modules are installed on external network cards, sound cards and graphics cards respectively. It is precisely because of their existence that network cards are called network cards, sound cards are called sound cards, and so on. However, with the continuous strengthening of onboard technology, more and more network cards and sound cards are integrated into the motherboard. In addition to some professional fields, only graphics cards still use external methods as always.

This is indeed a very critical technology, because the network transmission rate is not only related to the bandwidth of the operator's store, but how much speed the computer itself can accommodate is even more critical. If the fiber loan is 100 megabytes and the network card bears a capacity of only 10 megabytes, then Blu-ray movies still need dozens of hours to be installed in the computer.

Of course, compared to the speedup of laying fiber optic networks, it is much easier to upgrade the network card module, and it is even easier to integrate it into the motherboard. Therefore, regarding the Internet connection, netizens in the 21st century only need to buy a sufficient motherboard, and the remaining energy is left to complain about the operator.

As for the optical module...

Simply put, the function of an optical module is photoelectric conversion. The transmitting end converts the electrical signal into an optical signal. After being transmitted through optical fiber, the receiving end converts the optical signal into an electrical signal. It is an integral part of the physical layer in the network structure, and it can be used by routers and switches. It is just because its presence is weak, so most ordinary users have never even heard of it.

This is normal, because optical modules are just basic components, and no one will buy such products separately. Ordinary household users will buy routers, ordinary companies will buy switches, but who will disassemble them and study what each small device is called in different categories?

That is, large server base stations and large computer rooms of large companies, such as cloud storage, which require direct strengthening of network effects before buying some hot-swap and non-hot-swap external optical module components separately to enhance the network.

But it is understandable that this component, which is almost unknown to ordinary people, is indeed one of the cornerstones of the Internet hardware industry. It is absolutely understandable to say that the global Internet in the entire information age is built on countless optical modules. The corresponding relationship is like the Three Gorges Project for national water conservancy, the Three Gorges Dam for the Three Gorges Project, and the concrete process for the Three Gorges Dam.

Therefore, Lucent proposed such a cooperation proposal, of course, Alice was happy to see. Cisco could not have completely established its position as the founder of the Internet by selling routers, switches and firewalls. More "skeleton-type products" are definitely the fresh blood it urgently needs to add.

It's just that, it's really boring.

Because it's too infrastructure.

Alice, who is used to selling the "Three Gorges Project" and building the "Three Gorges Dam", suddenly began to study how to make better concrete, which is too infrastructure construction...

"Hey... I'll leave this kind of mess to Posack and the others, I'm not interested."

Alice curled her lips. Cisco now has almost a thousand employees. How can they all do post-maintenance? It also has to give the R&D department some tough tricks, right?

Well, yes, as of July this year, Cisco has recruited nearly a thousand employees.

The company's new location has been selected, and it is still in San Jose, which covers an area of ​​two Yankee Stadiums. After the second location, the company's headquarters will not be moved in the next 20 or 30 years, so it is necessary for Alice to build it in the style of an entire science park.

But she is a little short of money at the moment, so the project has not started yet. Considering that the old building is so crowded, she has rented a seven or eight-story office building next door. This can be regarded as the second building of the headquarters or a temporary office area, because this situation will definitely not last long.

"call……"

After making this decision in his heart, Alice, who was sitting at the table, breathed a long breath, glanced at DreamWorks' July financial statements, and her mind began to turn around again.

Well, it has nothing to do with DreamWorks, she has no plans to make a movie in a short period of time.

Still from Cisco.

iPo is in progress.

iPo is the initial public offering, that is, the company goes public, and the preliminary work is very complicated.

The company responsible for the ipo has been selected, which is Sissi's father, the Wall Street company that Mr. Lawrence resigned and came to Los Angeles before he joined the Wall Street company. The relevant details were handled by Sophie, and Alice didn't care much about it. Her mother had a lot of top-notch certificates in her pocket. How could such a high-end and free labor be insufficiently utilized?

However, Alice has repeatedly told me not to worry, not to worry, to keep improving our work, we don’t have time to wait for November or even December to go public, just in time with gratitude and Christmas.

Of course, Sophie fully conveyed Alice's advice, and she also highly agreed with it, although she did not know the real reason for her daughter.

"Well, then this one."

Flashing through a financial statement sent by Electrical Arts, Alice focused on an extremely important document.

With more than a year of continuous small investment, she has scattered shares in major stock exchanges around the world.

Before Sophie got married to her father, she had a glorious history of relying on stock trading and making a small profit. As her daughter, Alice also had the same habit. Every day, every week, and every month, there was no need to buy it in scattered ways, and sell it when the opportunity was good. Although it was not worth mentioning compared to Microsoft Cisco's annual dividend, it was still a considerable number when it really accumulated.

Eighty-seven million.

Thanks to the good development throughout the summer of 1987, if Alice sells all the stocks in hand, she can immediately get such short cash. Except for Apple, although it is not very powerful now, she has been maintaining regular investment.

Of course, being able to make so much money is inseparable from her excellent stock trading ability. As long as you have a little connection and spend a little money, anyone can get a historical stock price fluctuation record of a listed company and a thick stack of evaluation reports. Analyzing the next development of the situation from this massive data, this complex calculation based on statistics, probability theory, and even the uncertainty principle in quantum theory is enough to easily burn down any supercomputer in the world, but it is impossible to conquer Alice's smart little head.

However, for the young employee who edited the fax, Alice would smile and say sorry.

Because this is not easy, hundreds of stock names are listed vertically, and the printed documents are a thick stack.

But who said she was an important client of Citibank?
Chapter completed!