Chapter 247: First Encounter with Jobs

Liu Meng has arrived in the fifth day of the casino, walked all over the streets and alleys of the casino, is familiar with every street, sleepless, when he is really tired, leans on the corner to rest, and persevered, at this moment there are seven or eight big blacks behind him, the leader is called Sam, and he walks around religiously behind him.

Since several black people were repaired by Liu Meng, these strong guys actually followed Liu Meng, deliberately robbed him when he stopped, and then were kicked over by a whirlwind leg, but he still enjoyed it, not because he had a masochistic tendency but because he was influenced by Bruce Lee's kung fu movies since he was a child.

Originally, Liu Meng didn't find out the tricks of these black people, in his opinion, these black people all looked similar, their facial features were almost indistinguishable, and they didn't care, how would they know that these guys robbed him repeatedly, and wondered how the public security was so bad that it was so bad that the highest record was robbed eighteen times a day.

After adding a group of small followers, it is not without benefits, when they stopped, Liu Meng taught them a little punch and kick at will, and a few blacks immediately knelt down to apprentice, but Liu Meng served Liu Meng well, when Liu Meng was familiar with the casino, he gave up the idea of naivety and looking forward to meeting unexpectedly, and began to start a down-to-earth search journey, first of all, to launch these black people.

As the people at the bottom of the casino, a huge network has been formed, and there is some connection between each other, which is very helpful for inquiring about a girl. It's just that they just wander the streets, and if it's a person who doesn't go out much, there's no way to do it, and the final result of the investigation is very disappointing. There was no news at all, not even the slightest impression of the girl in the photo.

Liu Meng sighed, looking at Pan'er in the photo in a daze, Sam was very excited, handed over a bottle of water, and comforted: "Master, don't be discouraged." There is no other place in the casino, the United States is so big, but you can't find it like this. It should be done by publishing in newspapers or other public media. ”

After two attempts to no avail, Liu Meng accepted Sam's offer and published a missing person notice in the Washington Post, costing $200,000. But when I got the newspaper. Liu Meng knew that this method was even more unreliable, it only occupied a little space in the most remote place, and people who read the newspaper could hardly find it, how could they find people?

took the newspaper and looked left and right, so angry that Liu Meng threw away the newspaper directly, stepped on it with his feet, and threw 200,000 US dollars into the river and could still hear the sound of water, publishing such a thing. It didn't work at all, just after throwing away the newspaper in anger. Noticing a huge page about Apple and Microsoft, Jobs confronts Gates with a very large avatar titled: Apple's multi-year patent dispute with Microsoft wants to be settled.

Liu Meng thought about it and had a plan in his heart, why not use the smallest way to produce the greatest effect!

As soon as I thought of it, I immediately left the casino and came to Cupertino, Apple's headquarters, which is a high-tech city with a population of only tens of thousands of people, located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in California, west of Santa Clara County.

After Liu Meng arrived, he didn't have time to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the green grass, but went straight to the headquarters of Apple, fortunately, the city was not big and soon came to the headquarters of Apple, in the eighties of the nineteenth century, it was a smash hit, and in the nineties, it began to reunite the godhead, and once became the largest company in the world by market capitalization.

For the history of Apple, Liu Meng is like a few treasures, especially the plan to hug Apple's thick thighs, naturally collecting more complete information, and always admiring Jobs's experience and personal character, Jobs is probably the first one to be expelled by the company he founded and leave in disgrace.

In 1976, Steve Jobs co-founded Apple with his high school friend Steve Wozniak. Subsequently, Apple became one of the leading figures in personal computer products.

In 1983, Steve Jobs poached Scully from Pepsi. To convince Scully to join Apple, Steve Jobs uttered one of his famous quotes at the time: "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to seize the opportunity to change the world?"

After Scully joined Apple, he and Steve Jobs served as co-CEOs of Apple.

In the initial period, the two were indeed able to learn from each other's strengths.

But due to poor Mac sales, the relationship between Mr. Jobs and Mr. Scully grew estranged, and both wanted to use Apple's board of directors to oust each other.

Eventually, Scully gained the upper hand on Apple's board of directors.

On September 16, 1985, just days after Jobs' 30th birthday, he announced his resignation as chairman of the board of directors of Apple due to lack of support.

When Jobs left Apple in 1985, he took more than 10 employees with him and created a new venture, NeXT Computer Corporation.

In the mid-90s, Apple's product lines were in crisis due to the lack of market appeal. Because of this, Scully was forced to leave Apple in 1993. Apple officially announced the acquisition of NeXT in August 1997, and Jobs returned to Apple and returned to the helm.

At that time, Apple's board of directors made a decision to remove Steve Jobs from his position as head of the Macintosh division, but to retain the position of Apple's chairman. It's just that the decision was a merciless blow to Jobs, who was hurt and in extreme pain, and chose to leave Apple directly.

After resigning from Apple, Steve Jobs bought ILM's computer animation effects studio from George Lucas for $10 million in 1986 and established an independent company, Pixar Animation Studios. The company became known as a 3D computer animation company, and in 1995 released the world's first fully 3D stereoscopic animated film, Toy Story. The company was acquired by Disney in 2006, making Jobs Disney's largest individual shareholder.

In 1996, Apple's business was in trouble, and its market share fell from its peak of 16% to 4%. In contrast, Steve Jobs made a name for himself thanks to Toy Story, with a personal worth of $1 billion. But Jobs still came back in the midst of Apple's crisis, and after his return, Jobs made drastic reforms, stopped unreasonable R&D and production, ended years of patent disputes between Microsoft and Apple, and began to develop new products, iMac and OSX operating systems.

The success of the iPod digital music player in the early 2000s, combined with its exclusive iTunes network paid music download system, beat Sony's Walkman series to become the world's No. 1 portable music player, and the subsequent launch of several iPod series products further strengthened Apple's unshakable position in the commercial digital music market.

Even so, Liu Meng understands very well that Jobs's strategies are just for Apple to survive in the storm, and the real opportunity to rise is chosen in the development of the iPhone, in 2004, Apple convened more than 1000 internal employees to form a research and development team, began a project that was classified as highly confidential, each participating employee signed a strict confidentiality agreement, and carried out a large division of labor, only a few people in Jobs knew the whole picture.

Therefore, now in June 2005, there will be no more than 2,000 people in the world who know that the iphone is in research and development, and Liu Meng is undoubtedly the person who knows the details, and he also mentioned that a large-scale layout has been carried out, and a large number of patents applied for through guòPCT have probably not entered the US publication stage, and Jobs has not yet found out, otherwise it is likely to go crazy with such a big desperate and crazy action.

Liu Meng came to the front desk of Apple, it was a very beautiful white girl, with big wavy hair, typical blonde hair and blue eyes, seeing a simple Liu Meng come in, he was still a yellow man, his eyes glanced at him, and said: "Sir, can I help you?

Liu Meng smiled and said fluently in English: "I'm looking for Mr. Jobs, please help inform me." ”

The little girl grew her mouth in surprise, no mistake, this sloppy yellow man actually looked for the CEO, the great Mr. Jobs, this joke is not small, and the exaggerated expression replied: "Ah...... Excuse me, sir, do you have an appointment?"

When Liu Meng arrived in the casino, he almost lived the life of a semi-savage, his beard was unkempt, and he really didn't look like a middle-class elite, no wonder the little girl was surprised like this.

"There is no appointment, but you hand this note to Mr. Jobs, and he will definitely see me. Liu Meng handed over a small note unhurriedly, and he believed that as long as Jobs saw this note, he would immediately arrange a meeting with him.

The little girl even waved her hands, and her plump breasts rose and fell with her movements, but Liu Meng now had no intention of appreciating this turbulent spectacle, looking at her suspiciously, and the little girl exclaimed: "Sir is too good at joking, where can I meet Mr. Jobs, he is not in Cupertino at all recently, but in Los Angeles to prepare for this year's WWDC." ”

Liu Meng suddenly realized, it turned out that WWDC is the abbreviation of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, which is regularly held by Apple in the United States every year.

The main purpose of the conference is for Apple to showcase the latest software and technology to developers.

Arriving in the United States is really a hurry, Liu Meng had to rush to Los Angeles WWDC is press conference site non-stop, hurrying slowly, and finally arrived on June 6, but when he arrived at the venue, he was stopped at the door, there was no invitation, he did not belong to the developer, and he was not allowed to enter. (To be continued......)

PS: God-level Xueba has been uploaded for more than 5 months, and it is basically updated every day, as the first book of the three fats, I have experienced all kinds of joys, sorrows, and sorrows in the process of chasing my dreams, and I often feel tired in my heart.