"What do you think of this little Octopus?"

Under the roar of the motor speedboat's engine, in a short while, the small speedboat, steered by the future world's richest man himself, arrived at the island in the center of the lake...

After parking the speedboat, several people walked towards a small house on an island in the middle of the lake...

"Very good! The power is strong and Bill's driving skills are also very good!"

Walking side by side with Paul behind Bill, who was leading the way, Carter shrugged his shoulders and echoed without thinking. To be honest, Carter is not familiar with yachts, let alone speedboats. Who knows how this small speedboat is...

"Bill bought this when he was in middle school. When I first entered college, trw gave Bill and I and our group of friends some jobs. We could earn thirty thousand dollars a year!"

"You have to know, that was 30,000 US dollars in 1972! God, sometimes I can't even imagine that life back then was more comfortable than we are now!"

"Indeed, an annual salary of thirty thousand US dollars is quite a lot even today!"

Carter nodded with deep understanding.

Ten years have passed, and the income of these two young men ten years ago was three times higher than the annual income of the average middle class today. It is simply...

This feeling is like that of a person whose annual income exceeded 300,000 yuan in 10 years, but back then...

"You were only 19 years old at that time?"

"Yes, I am 19 years old and Bill is 16 years old, almost 17 years old. Hahaha, actually before Microsoft, we had a company, which we did in middle school, called trof-o-data. At that time we did

A system device that can collect and analyze information sent back by urban road traffic monitors, but obviously, the Seattle city government did not accept our product and quotation, and trof-o-data naturally went bankrupt..."

While talking and laughing, a few people walked into the small house...

Food has been placed in the dining room of the small house.

"Sit down! This is a property owned by Grandpa Bill. When we were young, we often came here to secretly gather together. This place holds many memories for us..."

After taking Carter, who looked confused, to his seat, Paul had an indifferent, slightly bitter smile on his face.

"You are the first person to come here besides us. I have thought about it for a long time and I think you should come..."

As if seeing the confusion on Carter's face, Paul explained:

"I plan to quit Microsoft! This is the company that Bill and I have built with the best chance of success, and this is what we are interested in. I know that you have had a little unpleasantness before, but I hope that things are in the past

, just let it pass, from now on, Microsoft will have to rely on you!"

"You should and must unite! In the future, we will unite more capable people, and let's work together to make it bigger and stronger! I leave my Octopus number to you!"

"Is your problem already that serious?"

Hearing that Paul Allen wanted to quit Microsoft, Carter could only be said to be slightly surprised. At the same time, he also had a little urge to withdraw his shares...

As for the current situation between myself and Gates, to be honest, it is not conducive to the development of the company. Especially when the only lubricant and coupling agent between the two, Paul Allen, leaves.

As for the cost of investing in Microsoft, if you withdraw your shares now, you can still make a lot of money. Of course, this will definitely not be as much as you will make in the future...

No, it cannot be said to be withdrawing shares. It should be said that one is limiting one's own management authority and letting history return to its original track...

"I'm not a doctor, so I don't know what will happen specifically. I just heard from the doctor that maybe it's not a big problem, right? But I need to do a long period of chemotherapy, surgery, etc., and I'm afraid it will take a year. I can survive on the operating table.

is one problem, and postoperative recovery and recuperation are another problem."

Paul absentmindedly raised the knife and fork in his hand and gently moved the food on the plate in front of him:

"Anyway, there is no chance of continuing to work for Microsoft and maintain the same intensity of work as before... I don't want to be a useless person who steals high positions and wastes resources."

"Furthermore, if you can work together, I am actually very relieved. In the past cooperation between Bill and me, I was usually responsible for technical updates and management of the technical team, while Bill was responsible for a series of issues such as business and legal affairs. In Steve

After Jeff Ballmer joined, Bill's workload has been reduced a lot, but his strength is actually not here..."

"Bill has a strong computer talent, much better than me!"

Carter glanced at Bill, whose silence is golden, and waited patiently for Paul's next words.

"Haha, do you not believe me? Or do I look more like a technician?"

"Both of them are a little bit. Your image is indeed more in line with my impression of a technician. Slightly fat body, plus a plaid shirt, ha! How did you discover Bill's talent?"

"Is this difficult? His talent is as brilliant as an open-pit gold mine!"

Following the topic given by Carter, Paul laughed and followed. The atmosphere at the dinner table quietly relaxed a little during the singing...

"When we were a group of middle school students, there was a company called Computer Center near Lakeside Middle School. Computers back then were not the same as they are now. At that time, the company used dec computers. At that time, dec had a new model installed.

The system did not have time to be fully tested, so dec signed an agreement with its customers that year."

"If users find bugs or problems while using dec computers and their systems, after the feedback is confirmed, the customers can get one year of free use of dec computers and systems. The computer center allows us to use their computers as an interactive

Otherwise, we need to help them find these bugs."

"Bill found a lot?"

After hearing what Paul said, Carter seemed to understand what the so-called talent display was about...

"Not only are there a lot, we compiled all the problems we found about dec into a report. Guess how many pages the "Dec Problem Report" has?"

"100?"

Carter felt that he reported a very high number, but...

"Three hundred pages!"

Bill silently uttered a few words, then added:

"Start! In fact, I remember it was more than three hundred pages. It has been so long that I have forgotten some things, but I remember that we, the little devils, once forced dec to terminate the agreement signed with the Computer Center Company.

Cooperation with user feedback and usage rights. Because the people of dec found that Computer Center Company can always find problems! In other words, if this kind of cooperation continues, they will not be able to earn even a dollar from Computer Center Company.

Divide the money!”

Carter:???!!

!

A system problem report that is more than 300 pages long was actually created by a group of kids?!

However, just when Carter was so surprised that he could not close his mouth, he heard Paul add:

"Of the more than 300 pages of problem reports, at least 120 pages were found by Bill alone!"

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