After listening to Carter's arrangement, Gates frowned slightly.

From Carter's description, it was not difficult for Gein to hear one thing: the technical team serves the business.

In other words, once he agrees to this cooperation, or power distribution plan, if he doesn't want to break up, then Carter will have a higher say than himself.

With Bill Gates' temperament, he instinctively resented the feeling of being pressured or even guided by others. But looking at Paul's eyes, Bill swallowed his words again.

As Paul often said, as you get older, you have to learn to be realistic.

Since you are running a company, you often cannot use your own preferences as the standard for doing things. If you want to make money, then technology naturally serves business needs. At this point, Carter occupies the commanding heights of truth.

"Okay. In general, I accept this plan. Then there are a few details."

The conversation lasted until the night went on, and even Paul had to force down two cups of coffee to barely stay awake.

After this conversation, Carter also felt a pressure:

According to negotiations with Gates, Microsoft in the future will roughly become a three-legged structure:

Manager Steve Ballmer has the most contact with employees and is mainly responsible for daily administrative management and executing the goals set by Carter, such as the completion of sales plans; supervision of research and development progress, etc.

Bill Gates and Carter jointly exercise supervision and leadership over Steve Ballmer. However, neither of them participates in the daily management of affairs.

And from this, a new question was born:

"Do you think we need to give Steve some shares?"

Bill, who was in sharp contrast to Paul who was yawning profusely, looked at Carter without any sleepiness and asked.

"Giving must be given, even to Steve. As long as there are capable and outstanding employees in the future, I suggest giving them shares! The so-called employee stock ownership plan is also the lowest cost and unites all employees in the company.

Human methods!”

Carter blurted out this question almost without thinking.

As someone who is used to Internet companies, and even grew up in the shadow of so-called big companies, if you don't do some dividends, stock options, etc., you are simply sorry for your own knowledge!

Compared with offering high fixed salaries, for emerging companies, stock options are also the lowest-cost way to retain talents!

"Then how much do you think we should give? And how should we give it?"

"How much do you want to give? Wait a minute. In terms of method, I think stock options are the best! Or, only dividends are paid. That is to say, the ownership of the stock itself will not be given to employees, but the stock income can be obtained through contracts.

, promising to assign it to him as long as he is on the job and completes the corresponding KPI!"

"As for how much you will give Paul, what are your plans later? I mean, will you come back after you recover from your illness?"

Carter's eyes turned to Paul. If he remembered correctly, Paul just said that he wanted to quit Microsoft's current employee status and quit Microsoft's management. But he didn't seem to say that he wanted to sell his shares.

As the founder, the shares he holds are real.

It’s definitely not the kind of dividends that only give you the right to earn income, but not ownership. A wonderful pie!

This may be a bit unkind, but if Paul no longer participates in Microsoft affairs, then Carter actually wants to take back these shares. At least, you have to explain your share arrangement before he is about to undergo surgery.

Don't worry, if a person dies directly on the operating table, the shares in his hands will be given to his parents in the legal order of inheritance. Then the old guys will come over to criticize his work.

Of course, this concern should be somewhat unnecessary.

"I can't say. I don't know how my recovery will be after the operation, and whether my physical condition will be able to return to normal work by then? How can I give you an answer now?"

Paul twitched the corner of his mouth, seeming to realize that Carter's drunkard's intention was not to drink.

"But you can rest assured that my will has been prepared. If I can't get out of the operating room, 28% of my shares will be equally divided among you for inheritance. If I can come out alive. Well, maybe I will be killed.

If you carry it out."

"I will depend on my physical condition. If I can return to work, then it will be normal; if not, I will reduce my holdings. Of course, I may not reduce all the shares. After all, to make money, it is better to lie down.

Just pick up the money, hahaha! I have made contributions in the past, okay? You can’t even satisfy my little prayer, right?! You must squeeze out every last drop of my blood.”

"Hahahaha, no, no, no! I say this just to have some confidence in my heart, that's all."

Perhaps the best result is to explain your thoughts and bottom lines to each other in a joking way.

In the following time, the few of them did not talk about work. As the beginning of breaking the ice, after learning about Bill and Paul's childhood, or the interesting things in their middle school days, lying in bed at night, Carter also recounted all the things he had experienced in middle school.

The story was slowly told to the two of them.

Compared to Bill's amazing performance in technical fields in middle school, Carter may be another type of extremist.

Whether it was the tension before the recession, or the credit crisis of banks, including some street riots and other messy things. These are areas that these two technical otakus have almost never touched.

People who listen to the story are happy, and Carter's conversation will be interesting.

We were chatting and we didn’t know the time

Carter only remembered that night and fell asleep in a daze.

After waking up the next day, the three returned to the hospital.

Under the doctor's dissatisfied roar, he watched quietly as Paul was injected with anesthesia by the anesthesiologist and sent to the operating room.

"He'll be fine!"

Outside the door of the operating room, the two of them were not as anxious as shown in the movie. Sitting on the bench, Carter noticed Bill's legs that were shaking constantly.

Patting the latter on the shoulder, Carter said softly.

"Yeah, he'll be fine, it's just a tumor, right?"

"That's right, it's just a tumor, not a cut! Hahaha, our butchers in Douglas can cut him with a knife, let alone these professional doctors?"

"What is that?"

"that is."

Carter's eyes glanced at Gates's maliciously.

"Fake?! Are you a pervert? Or...is this a common technique used by those gangs over there?"

"Hahahaha, yes, and also wrong!"

"Cut it off and stuff it into your mouth and kill it. It usually means that the person is having an affair with the gang member's wife. Usually, for someone with delicate skin and tender flesh like you, this kind of uncontrollable problem is more common."

(End of chapter)


Chapter completed!