Chapter 44, Bezos, New York
The hometown where he was born, there was a Microsoft company in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is something that Jeff Bezos is honored.
At the age of 14, Bezos was determined to be an astronaut or physicist. His garage had engineering experiments or scientific experiments he had done. At the age of 16, he could install windmills and use arc welding machines.
However, when Bezos entered Princeton University where Einstein taught in his later years, his interest turned to computers. After all, it was a period of earth-shaking changes in the computer industry. He was deeply aware of the development prospects of this industry and devoted himself to the study of two degrees of electrical engineering and computer science.
However, even though he had shown such a potential as a science and engineering genius since he was a child, Bezos knew from his heart that he was actually a literary youth who loved reading. Before entering university, one of his biggest hobbies was to ride a bicycle into the Gobi Desert in New Mexico, and then look up at the sky with a slightly melancholy angle of 45 degrees.
Seeing the arrival of college summer vacation, Bezos's literary and teenage disease in his bones couldn't help but start again. So he notified his family by phone, and immediately put on light clothes, carrying only a large blue one-meter-high travel bag, as a backpacker, carrying only a few hundred dollars in cash, and taking a trip that he could go on without hesitation.
Then, he came to New York.
Manhattan is much hotter than his hometown in midsummer. The heat island effect of the big city makes Bezos unable to stop eating ice cream. His backpack stayed in the hotel. While licking a youthful vanilla-flavored cone, he strolled on the crowded streets. After a while, he passed by a bookstore.
Bezos looked at Yi Labao at the door curiously. On this half-person-high propaganda poster, a dinosaur painted in black shadows roared sideways, alone in a green jungle species, and a wild breath suddenly came to his face.
“Jurassic Park?”
He asked a curiously Asian girl next to him: "Is the bookstore promoting new books?"
"Oh, yes, the classic work of the genius new writer Alice Wang is definitely not to be missed."
The girl smiled cheerfully at him, and Bezos immediately discovered that this was a very beautiful Asian girl. The other party's black hair was hanging down to his waist but had no splits. The face with distinct facial features was exquisite and full of beauty, especially the big blue eyes, which seemed to be able to speak, shining with a moving light.
"Have you read it? Oh, I mean, have you read it in? How is this book?"
Bezos glanced out a little and couldn't figure out the specific age of the girl. If she was still young, she was not short and her overall development was obviously good; but if she was already a high school student, she was childish but was still quite obvious, and she was not a baby-faced girl.
What made Bezos feel a little embarrassed was that the girl's cup was really big. Since the top was obviously produced for younger girls, after wearing this shirt, it could not suppress the two pairs of towering mountains.
No, it should be, to make the already majestic mountain peaks more obvious.
"Of course it's very exciting! Just go in and take a look. Jurassic Park, the protagonist has resurrected the dinosaurs with cloning technology! Now is the time to promote the new book. The launch date should be from the end of August to the beginning of September. You can consider ordering in advance. Anyway, a book is not expensive~"
With a dinosaur and a cloning technique, Bezos' interest was indeed mobilized, so he immediately walked into the bookstore.
"Huhu, it seems that it is still very popular."
Standing in front of this top bookstore in Manhattan, Alice proudly put her hands on her hips and looked up at the name of the bookstore.
After a month of preliminary preparation and market research, the main round of publicity for "Jurassic Park" finally began. At this time, in the bookstore, a three-row newspaper rack was rented by a bantam, specifically used to place her Virgo brochure.
"Hey, Alice, the cone you want!"
Coming across the sidewalk from across the road, Sissi walked towards Alice with a McDonald's vanilla cone.
It is now the end of June, and San Anto is on holiday. As sixth-grade students, Alice and Sissi graduated from elementary school.
Yes, girls can get rid of the entire name of elementary school students and then be promoted to a middle school girl in the seventh grade. What made Sissi feel a little strange is that when she learned that she had finally become a middle school student, Alice seemed to have a different kind of excitement, as if she had a strange obsession with the eighth grade, and kept muttering some inexplicable things.
In the second year of high school, according to Alice's Japanese pronunciation, it sounded very sensible, but Sissi couldn't learn it because her tongue couldn't be straight, just as it was difficult for Japanese people to roll their tongues.
Of course, the lives of the two will not change much. After all, the entire Culver City junior and senior high schools are connected together, and it is only a five-minute walk from Lincoln High School to San Anto. Therefore, even if you become a middle school student, you just move the get off the bus for a little half-minute drive, and nothing can affect you.
So now, after finally saying goodbye to the hard life of a student and ushering in the nearly three-month summer vacation, at Alice's request, Sissi came to New York with her to watch the new book promotion activity of "Jurassic Park" in person!
"Yeah, McDonald's' production must be a fine product. Look, Xixi, let's go in and have a look?"
Speaking of which, when she met Bezos just now, Alice had just crossed the road. At this moment, after taking the cone handed over by Sissi, she put her arms around the other person's arm and then walked in with great strides.
The bookstore is full of customers wandering around, and there are many people gathered on the first floor. Because it is summer vacation, many parents have brought their children to the bookstore to stroll around, which makes this area look extremely noisy.
Of course, Bezos was also in the bookstore, and he also noticed that the girl who was so big just now and her good sister came in and wandered around. From a distance, he waved to Alice.
"Wow, Bichi, what's going on!"
Seeing a handsome college young man waved to each other with Alice, Sissi was shocked: "We have only been separated for less than five minutes, and you have seduced an old man from college!?"
"Just say hello, what seduction... Hello, what does Bichi mean? Do you want me to scratch you??"
Sissi avoided Alice's claws very agilely and rushed into the crowd quickly. She was able to pass by the flowers without touching her body. Seeing this, Alice chased after her like a wind and disappeared into the crowd instantly.
Of course, Bezos couldn't hear what the two girls were saying. Seeing that they disappeared from their sight, he turned his attention back to his eyes. In front of the new book promotion booth, more than a dozen young people were discussing excitedly together.
"Hey man, do you think dinosaurs can be resurrected?"
"Idiot, since it's all science fiction novels, what's strange about resurrecting dinosaurs? Didn't there be cute ETs on the earth some time ago?"
"You are an idiot!? I'm talking about the possibility in reality! The brochure says that scientists use cloning technology, but what should we do with the raw materials? Could it be that we have to "Back to the Future" again?"
"I care more about the word 'park', and the plot commentary on the brochure does not mention this. Is it an abstract generalization?"
Bezos did not rush to participate in the discussion, but read it carefully with the brochure. This is a simple three-fold page. In the most eye-catching position, a line of golden sentences cannot be ignored by anyone.
"The genius's debut work, the wonderful ideas of Chinese female writers, and the wonderful science fiction world constructed by Alice King, wander in the mysterious Jurassic Park!"
"Alice-Wang is indeed a name I've never heard of."
A mature man's voice suddenly sounded beside Bezos. He turned his head and looked at him, but saw a man in his thirties standing beside him, smiling and reading the brochure.
Bezos felt that the man looked familiar: "Sir, have we ever met there?"
He looked at the man's clothes carefully, and the other party was wearing a black shirt and light blue jeans, looking energetic.
"Oh...I promise we haven't added it, man, or I'll definitely remember you!"
The man's voice was quite loud, but then he changed the subject and said, "By the way, man, do you think this book will be good?"
Bezos said without hesitation: "It will definitely be very exciting. I have been to many new book promotional meetings, and they are all new writers. Few people can get a whole three newspaper shelves in this bookstore. This is not a treatment that ordinary people can get!"
The man looked out the window. On the busiest street in Manhattan, there was so much noise that people could not see the busier road.
"What you said makes sense, man, it seems that you are also a reading enthusiast. Do you often come to bookstores?"
The more Bezos looked at him, the more he felt that the man in front of him looked familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere not long ago. Suddenly, a light of inspiration flashed over his head, and Bezos suddenly realized.
"Ah...oh my god, you're Jobs!?"
He said in surprise: "Mr. Steve Jobs of Apple?"
"Well... it's exactly."
The man raised his eyebrows in surprise: "May I ask you...?"
Neither politely, Bezos left the brochure of "Jurassic Park" and held his hand hard: "Hello, Mr. Jobs, my name is Jeff, Jeff Bezos, Princeton's college student, I am your most loyal fan!"
At this moment, Bezos really shouldn't describe his excitement. As he is studying computer science because of his ambition, Apple's Jobs's name is really well-known!
“Well~”
Just then, a girl's voice sounded behind Bezos.
Although his voice was sweet, Bezos shivered suddenly in a flash.
"I don't care about Mr. Amazon being a fan of Mr. Apple, but... please don't throw away the flyers casually? The boss will be angry..."
Chapter completed!