At 130 p.m. on August 25, in the conference room of a high-end hotel in Los Angeles, John Walker, who had been sitting in a quiet for a long time, welcomed one of the people he was going to meet today.

"Hello, Mr. Warnock." Walker stood up and smiled, "This is a wonderful meeting. Our names are so similar."

"That's right, Mr. Walker, and we're all called John." John Warnock, who had just walked into the door, laughed. Both of them were successful people in their forties, and the companies they founded were so similar. Today, they met together for wonderful reasons. It really makes people amazed at the wonders of the world.

"Where is Miss Wang?" Warnock looked around the room: "Our future boss is late?"

"She just used the car phone to notify that there was a series of car accidents in the city and that she would arrive a little later." Walker patted Warnock on the shoulder, and two people who were very likely to confuse their names took their seats first.

Warnock stroked his beard and said, "Car phone number, it seems that Miss Wang has purchased a luxury car?"

Walker poured a cup of coffee for his friend: "That's a writer at DreamWorks Roger Lawrence. The girl herself just bought a Bugatti. Oh John, you heard it right, she bought a Bugatti."

"It is common sense to buy supercars at this age." Warnock said with a smile and swept around.

Warnock, the founder of the listed company Autodesk, is established by Walker. Their surnames are similar and their names are the same. Although the latter's company is not large, they are both successful people of the same class, but now they have come here with the same identity.

Walker spoke first: "It seems that our little boss has a great ambition, Mr. Warnock, why did you think of selling Autodeck?"

The direct reason is of course that the stocks that fell sharply as early as the "87 Stock Market Crash" were acquired in large quantities, so when I opened my mouth, Warnock sighed another reason.

"Tired," he said, "I have always liked to live a peaceful life. I bought a few acres of land on the banks of the Mississippi River, built a cottage, and fished with my wife. This is better than anything else. But look, can the current development of the company allow me to retire successfully?"

It was a shameful thing. After all, for Walker, he worked hard for six years but still had not listed Adobe. The other party's company had its shares split last year. The so-called people were so angry that it was so popular that Walker couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Then," Warnock looked at his watch and said, "The city center is only so large, I guess Miss Wang will be able to...ah, what am I talking about?"

The door opened again, and a standard high school girl walked into the conference room.

"Sorry for letting you wait for a long time." The delicate lady's suit, trousers and plain shirt made her hair even more rare. She was dressed up in a subtle way, but after careful consideration, she didn't feel too mature. Alice greeted the two with a gentle smile.

"Ah, our boss is here!" Warnock smiled and stood up to welcome him. Walker immediately stood up and stretched out his hand. Both men were old enough to be girls' fathers, and Warnock's beards gave people a sense of old age. But facing the high school girl entering the house, none of them could show off.

"It's all a damn car accident. I actually hit twelve cars in one breath! How long have you both been here? Have you ever encountered them?"

"On the way I came, I saw a lot of ambulances running over." Walker, who arrived later, was concerned about the situation: "Are there many injured people?"

"Seven or eight people have, and the TV station's people are here, and you probably will see it on TV tonight." So this topic can be stopped now. Alice took the tea handed over by Walker. After all, she is the current general manager of the company that she has acquired for nearly a year. This current second largest shareholder of Adobe, of course, knows her preference for drinks.

"Then two," she took a sip of tea and said, "I believe you all know, what is the main topic of today's meeting?"

Merger of the two companies.

This decision was within expectations of everyone.

The construction plan of Alice Building has recently become the latest series in the Los Angeles Times. Not long ago, the official announced a new decision, that the size of the building will rise from the original 528 meters to 632 meters in one go. This is really not a trivial matter. In the entire cycle, some people from all walks of life have expressed their opinions on this in newspapers, and even many media on the East Coast have reported relevant information.

After all, nowadays, there are no 500-meter-high skyscrapers in the world, let alone 600-meter-level. Although Manhattan was crazy about such buildings in the 1930s, after fifty years, especially after experiencing the Great Depression that year, everyone realized that a simple skyscraper group had no direct relationship with economic prosperity. In comparison, Silicon Valley, where low-rise buildings are everywhere, is the best counterexample.

Therefore, the construction of this new skyscraper was really beyond the expectations of too many people, especially the owner of the building was Alice Wang, a typical Silicon Valley star. Therefore, people have made countless speculations about the actual use of this building. Considering that Alice had long claimed that it was a self-use building, the relocation of its various companies became the most preferred event.

Furthermore, companies like Adobe and Autodesk, which have different specific fields but are both computer graphics industries, mergers will definitely be the general trend. After all, Alice, a high school student capitalist, has too great development potential in the future. If it has a series of countless company lists, it will not be easy to manage.

"When it comes to mergers, we need to analyze the current situation of our two companies." One is a successful listed company, and the other is a small company with huge potential. Both founders are not young people like Gates, but are veteran programmers who can be Alice's father. How to deal with this matter really needs to be carefully considered.

"You two are amazing seniors, and they are all old people who have witnessed the development of our entire IT industry with their own eyes. Of course I will not forget this." In any case, let's put forward the respectful attitude first.

"Mr. Warnock, who worked as a system programmer in the company that produced the world's first large commercial computer, was still far from PC and the Internet. And to be honest, I know that the program you wrote in 1975 years, "pervade can automatically check the directory when the game starts, and then copy it to any directory that has not been copied, or cover the existing old version of the game. Although your purpose was to promote the game at the time, it must be said that you really set a precedent for the concept of computer viruses."

This implicit sarcastic praise was only the same people laughed, but Warnock and Walker were of course the same people. But seeing the new boss suddenly telling about his experience more than ten years ago, Warnock, the perpetrator, was still very surprised when they arrived. After all, they had never said this when they met before!

Well, yes, the merger issue discussed today, of course, both companies have been bought by Alice.

"In addition, John Walker, who graduated from Utah State University, has a bachelor's degree in science, a master's degree in mathematics, and a doctorate in computer science in electronic engineering. Academic master's degree in becoming an entrepreneur is the most typical feature of our IT industry. In 1976, you worked on the San Francisco branch of computer graphics company Evans & Sutherland to develop an interpreter for explaining the large 3D graphics database in New York Harbor. It was this experience, coupled with some later careers and some inspiration from Apple computers, that allowed you to create a company like Adobe. It can be said that you are also walking a very standard high-speed development path."

"So, both companies have great potential... Yes, Mr. Warnock, please be honest, although Autodesk is now a listed company, it is still early to its glorious days. Adobe has a senior talent like Mr. Walker, and the explosion of accumulated strength is just around the corner."

“So when it comes to company mergers, this is my idea.”

A good series of introductions before also allowed the founders of the two companies to understand each other's backgrounds. Seeing the rising star between them as scheduled, Alice also knew that it was time to talk about something serious.

"The name of the new company is just a simple combination method. Autodesk&adobe, a&a... Is this order possible?"

The listed companies are already ahead of Adobe, which has only launched a product this year, so Walker certainly can't say anything against it.

"The new company A&a is of course integrated in finance and management. All we need to do is to reintegrate the financial statements and relist. However, the original employees of your two companies are still doing the original projects. The financial and macro-management systems are integrated, but in specific business areas, we still have the original two product lines."

Alice raised her finger and said, "One is the autocad series. As a professional three-dimensional engineering drawing software, it never has to worry about the lack of a market. Moreover, based on the professionalism of engineering construction, we also have specific versions that can be made, and the price is high."

"One is the Adobe series, PostscNipt, the programming language, can make us a leader in the field of graphic design and even the future online media. Continuous version updates of the same software will allow us to have a super huge industrial chain. This is the case with autocad. So although enterprises are merged at the macro level, internally, we are just like two companies using one office."

The last words were quite funny, and both middle-aged men laughed happily. Warnock thought of more. He couldn't help but glance out the window. Although the floors here were shorter, in terms of direction, the Alice Building was about to rise up.

"Then Miss Wang," as a senior programmer who developed autocad himself, he couldn't help asking, "Can you let me see your masterpiece?"
Chapter completed!