Rebirth of America, this is my time

Mr. Jones, thank you very much for taking time out of your busy schedule to meet with me.

Oh, you don't have to be so polite. Please sit down.

Thanks.

I read your resume and I'm very interested in your life experience. Were you born in 1956? Are you twenty-one this year? Wow, you are one year younger than me? But now you have grown from Graduated from Harvard? And also got a double degree in applied mathematics and economics?”

Oh, Mr. Jones, you are over-praising me. Compared with your achievements, I am just a kid who can read a little bit. Yes! I took two degrees from Harvard in four years and just graduated this summer. I He also served as captain of the Harvard football team and served as an editor for the literary society, responsible for the newspapers Harvard Crimson and Harvard Advocate...

Wow~ This is really a very rich college life.

Yeah~ I think so too...

I want to know, why did you choose our company? Are you applying for the position of secretary? With your experience, it shouldn't be difficult to find a management trainee position in some big companies, right?

You are right. I had already received an offer from Procter \u0026 Gamble before coming here, but after I heard that Destiny Games was recruiting, I gave up decisively because I had witnessed Pac-Man engulfing the campus when I was studying at Harvard. scene, your game seems to have a different kind of magic. At that time, I wanted to explore the place where the legend was born. And I also had plans to study at Stanford. I went to Harvard because my father liked it. Compared with Harvard , I actually prefer the young Stanford. To be honest, I plan to apply for Stanford’s MBA after working for a while. I think that compared to P\u0026G, the work experience of Destiny Game may be more accepted by the teachers here. ?Besides, I also like Hollywood...

Oh - you're right. Ethan laughed.

At this moment, he was leaning on the sofa, and sitting opposite him was a bald man wearing a blue T-shirt. This guy's face was very expressive, and his facial features could even be squeezed together when he spoke, making him look very funny. Not only that, he also has the confidence of a proud American.

For these reasons alone, Ethan liked him quite a bit.

But before officially accepting him, Ethan had one last question.

Since you came from Harvard, you should know the famous people in your school?

Do you know Bill Gates?

The one who provided the BASIC software for the Altair 8080?

When these words appeared, the big boy sitting opposite Ethan was stunned.

The confused reaction was caught by Ethan, he stood up with a smile and extended his right hand towards the other party.

It seems you know, right?

That school friend of yours did a great job.

Steve Ballmer, welcome to the game of destiny.

That's right!

The bald man who can make Ethan stunned is the future Clippers owner, Steve Ballmer!

After seeing his resume, Ethan was stunned because he couldn't understand why the guy who helped Bill Gates build a trillion-dollar business came to apply for him?

You know, Harvard is more than three thousand miles away from Stanford!

It takes a whole day to fly!

After Ethan read the resume submitted by Ballmer, he realized that he was actually attracted to the bald man because this guy was Jewish.

Ballmer grew up in a Hebrew school. Just from the description on his resume, you can see his feelings for his own race. He also has a cousin who lives in Hollywood and is the director of NBC TV's Regular cast member on Saturday Night Live. This relationship made Ballmer very interested in Hollywood and wanted to become a director in the industry. So after graduation, this summer, he came to Hollywood, hoping to use the literary qualities he showed at Harvard to seek a job. How to get started as a screenwriter.

But unfortunately, there is no shortage of stories in Hollywood, and his attempt to enter the industry failed.

After wasting several months trying to find a way to get into the industry, and to avoid starving to death, he wanted to find a job to make ends meet, so he cast a wide net and sent in his resume. Finally, Procter \u0026 Gamble offered him an olive branch.

Just when he was about to go to Cincinnati to work, the recruitment notice of Destiny Game attracted his attention. Based on the idea that he could work anywhere, the climate in California was milder, and the boss was a tycoon, he directly let P\u0026G's pigeons go. , starting from Los Angeles and driving to Palo Alto.

Seeing this bizarre journey of chasing dreams made Ethan grin. Although he understood that this guy was probably here because of his relationship with Spielberg, he still decided to accept the bald Ballmer. , not for anything else, just because this guy is funny.

As for whether this guy will join Microsoft like he did in his previous life?

Ah--

It’s not that he, Ethan, is arrogant.

Compared with the Destiny game, Microsoft today is just a little Karami.

After Steve Ballmer completed the entry procedures, Ethan assigned him a job and asked him to collect external information every day according to the four categories of current affairs, technology, finance, and entertainment. Although Ethan did not explain the focus of his work or tell Ballmer the specific companies he wanted to track, the guy who could get two Harvard degrees in four years thought about it for a while and came up with a priority.

At nine o'clock in the morning on the second day of work, he had already walked into Ethan's office with the compiled newspaper and reported to him the latest situation he had collected.

Boss, in terms of current affairs, there are two news that should interest you... The first news is related to our vital interests. This month, the European Patent Office will be officially established. From then on, patent applications in many European countries will be This department has unified responsibility...The second news is that President Jimmy officially signed the Community Reinvestment Act...

The European Patent Office is an intergovernmental cooperation organization established this year in accordance with the European Patent Convention. It is headquartered in Munich and covers 19 countries including the UK, France and Germany. The purpose of its establishment is to facilitate companies and individuals to apply for their own invention patents on the European continent, promote the commercialization and promotion of inventions with a simplified process, and promote the economic development of the European region.

The Community Reinvestment Act is a federal law in America that aims to encourage banks and savings institutions to provide credit services to low- and moderate-income communities. President Jimmy’s goal is to eliminate red lines in issuing real estate loans as much as possible. This will provide more Americans with a place to live, but many opponents say that lowering mortgage standards may allow financial institutions to lend indiscriminately and trigger a series of financial crises.

These two points are not very attractive to Ethan.

After expressing his understanding, he waved his hand.

“In terms of technology, there are three companies that I am focusing on today.”

The first company is Motorola. Since their chairman blessed MOS at the end of 1975, they strategically gave up their layout in the civilian chip field and devoted themselves wholeheartedly to their mobile phone business. , but recently, they have restarted their research institute in Phoenix. Judging from the current market response, they seem to have seen the huge potential of civilian chips, are unwilling to give up potential profits, and want to return to this market...

The second company is AMD. At the beginning of this year, they announced that they would cooperate with Siemens. After several months of negotiations, they finally finalized a specific cooperation plan. Siemens will purchase 20% of AMD's shares to To ensure that they can regain their competitive advantage in the chip field...

The third company is Intel. After releasing its third-quarter financial report, their stock price rose slightly without clear highlights. This market reaction is very strange...

Ethan had heard a little bit about Motorola because he had direct contact with Motorola's Chairman Galvin and knew that they looked down on the personal chip business.

And now, they actually want to turn around?

late!

He really didn't know anything about AMD. Is this guy actually related to Siemens? Is it possible that Siemens in this era also wants to manufacture central processing units?

As for Intel's strange reaction, he was even less informed.

He has had no contact with this company since time travel.

When cheap chips were everywhere, he really ignored this future chip giant.

However, the age of ignorance has passed, and now he has opened his ears.

Continue to keep an eye on these three families. I want to know their every move. He ordered.

Okay. Steve Ballmer pulled out the pen pinned to his jacket pocket.

I marked it on my notepad.

Then, continue to report——

There are no bright spots in finance at the moment. Our Dow Jones index is still falling, but Warren Buffett has been very popular recently. His article about inflation published in May this year has once again become the talk of the media. Of course , Mrs. Graham’s encouragement is indispensable, after all, now the whole country knows that Mrs. Graham likes him, right?”

Fortune magazine published an article How Inflation Deceives Stock Investors written by Warren Buffett in May this year, detailing the impact of inflation on the stock market and explaining his own views on the stock market. Perspectives on compound interest.

As soon as the article was published, it attracted extensive discussion among financial professionals. However, unfortunately, before the public could hear the insightful views, the article was washed away by the voice of public opinion.

The reason is also very simple, Star Wars is coming.

In the face of Star Wars, any voice of reason is small, and in this case, Warren Buffett can only retreat to the edge of public opinion with hatred. But as the topic of the times declined and the economy continued to slump, his articles were picked up and talked about by people who wanted to do something good. Unfortunately, after talking for a while, people began to pay unfocused attention to Warren Buffett. Gossip.

Because all of America knows that Warren Buffett is not a stock god at all. He is just a pretty boy who was spotted by Katharine Graham, the head of the Washington Post.

Catherine's father is the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve and the first President of the World Bank, Eugene Meyer. Her great-grandmother is from the Kuhn-Buhler family, and her grandmother is from the Newmark family of the great rabbi of Los Angeles. People, the Washington Post is just a toy of the princess, and the most glorious thing the princess did with it was to report the Tingzong eavesdropping incident under pressure.

Because there was no stone hammer at the beginning, the Washington Post was naturally suppressed by the generals. When the stock price plummeted, Warren Buffett, a country bumpkin from Omaha, bought its shares crazily, putting down his entire net worth. He directly raised his sign, and after he spent all the money in his hand, the Washington Post coincidentally released the hammer, and the stock price skyrocketed.

In just half a month, Warren Buffett netted tens of millions.

If it was just these, he would definitely be investigated because it might involve insider trading. But after he became rich, Mrs. Graham invited him to join the company's board of directors, personally took her to various high-class dinners, and attended In front of everyone, he threw the key to his house to him.

With Mrs. Graham’s protection, no one dared to cause trouble for Buffett. The most shocking thing is that at the beginning of this year, Mrs. Graham also published a letter. It was a letter written to her by Buffett’s wife Susan. In the letter, Susan stated that she allowed her to date her husband, and she believed that the two people truly loved each other... After that, Buffett even publicly lived in Mrs. Graham's New York home, and when reporters interviewed him Why did he stay out all night? Lao Ba said that he was just studying bridge skills with his wife.

When these things happened, Warren Buffett's character was immediately ruined in the eyes of Americans! But no one cares about all this, because everyone wants to hug the rich woman’s lap!

Compared with his financial management skills, people are more concerned about how to hang the rich woman!

This……

Well, this counts as financial news.

But don't report such things that everyone knows about in the future.

Ethan made his own instructions.

Okay. Steve Ballmer nodded obediently, and then said: Boss, the entertainment news is very simple. In the next few months, an eye-catching movie will be released in Hollywood. That is your friend's work, Close Encounters of the Third Kind...

Yes, after ten months of hard work, 1977 is almost over.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind would have been released in the summer if it hadn't been to help George Lucas recut Star Wars, but it's because Steven Spielberg took advantage of his privilege that Close Encounters of the Third Kind will be scheduled for Thanksgiving at the end of the year.

To be honest, Spielberg's behavior is extremely bad to investors. If Close Encounters of the Third Kind were to be released, he would definitely be stepped into the ground by investors, but it's a pity...

Star Wars explodes.

This makes investors feel like eating shit.

But this was not important to Ethan. He attended the premiere of Close Encounters of the Third Kind as scheduled, and then boasted to reporters, If it is said that George Lucas prompted the development of the Star Wars game was born, then Close Encounters of the Third Kind is the inspiration for the game. This movie will definitely satisfy the curiosity of all Americans, because Steven Spielberg uses his lens to tell the public about a story that lasts for decades. Years of alien stories.”

It will be the box office champion in the second half of this year!

What? You asked me why I didn't say it was this year?

Because the box office champion in the first half of the year was Star Wars!

As long as I add enough attributes, then they will all be champions, right?

Ethan opened his arms and took Xiao Si and Xiao Lu into his arms.

Duan Shui's master-like words also made the two of them laugh.

Amid Ethan's wild words, Close Encounters of the Third Kind also officially set sail. It made more than two million at the box office in its first weekend, and another three million in the next week. It dropped in the third week, but it still took off. The total box office in the first month exceeded 10 million.

As a movie with an investment cost of close to 20 million, this first-month result has already made a steady profit, but compared with Star Wars, it is still a little behind.

However, movies like Star Wars are hard to come by, right?

The dividends of the times will only favor the first one to eat crabs, and the remaining followers?

They don't deserve fame.

But even if Steven Spielberg regains his fame, the slow box office revenue still makes Hollywood giants very dissatisfied. Even if Christmas is approaching, they are still having meetings.

disney——

Is that guy Sidney still holding on?

He just refused to force Steven Spielberg and Ethan Jones to communicate about our cooperation? Ron Miller, Walt Disney's son-in-law, asked his own question.

Yes. Tatum nodded.

Sidney says he can't order Steven Spielberg around.

He said they were not in a superior-subordinate relationship.

Uh-huh... Ron Miller said with an expression on his face.

Is the relationship between the two of them Schrödinger's cat?

When Sidney himself needs Steven Spielberg, they have a leadership relationship, right? Once outsiders talk about it, then they are close comrades-in-arms?

After making a mockery, Ron Miller said: Forget it, leave them alone.

Let's make our own video games!

Paramount——

“But how do we deal with the patent issues involved in video games?”

Michael Eisner gives Barry Diller a quizzical look.

Barry Diller laughed and said, This is your business, right?

Whether it's learning from Ethan Jones and getting the license directly from the patentee, Ralph Bell, or doing like Atari and buying the license from Mirova, that's fine.

I have only one request.

That's cheap.

I heard Ethan Jones' license from Ralph Bell was only a few hundred thousand?

Our Paramount price can be more expensive than his, but it must be cheaper than Atari's.

As for what you do, I don't care.

MGM——

Boss, I understand, we will do it ourselves.

After receiving a call from boss Kirk Kerkorian, MGM President Daniel Melnyk wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, I will find a way to solve the patent issue.

Okay, don't worry, we at MGM will be involved in any business that makes money quickly!

Warner Communications——

Yes, yes, that is the latest investigation report.

Okay, okay, you're welcome.

You have helped me before, and I, Steve Ross, will always remember it.

Yeah, yeah, if it happens, I will definitely come to New York to attend your celebration party.

Crack- Steve Ross hung up the phone.

Then he clasped his hands together and leaned on the tip of his nose.

Ethan, the man in Hollywood, didn't know it, because at this moment he was preparing to welcome the arrival of 1978. By signing his name on the salary slips and bonus slips made by the Human Resources Department, Aaron Massey could give him a salary based on this. Employees in the company have been given year-end bonuses.

He is not stingy either. Even a guy who has been working for two months can get a red envelope of one month's salary more.

And just when Ethan was about to clean up the small stuff, stop all the projects in the company, and let the big guys work on it next year, the bald Steve Ballmer suddenly broke into his office.

Boss, something happened.

‘…’

Ethan's hand shook and he looked at the bald head with anxious eyes, What's wrong?

He was a little scared at the moment, because it had only been two months since Julis Noble left! He has only enjoyed peace for more than sixty days! And then it's going to thin out again? ? ?

Steve Ballmer raised the newspaper in his hand and said: The Wall Street Journal published an article that New York investment company Venrock has been in contact with Apple Computer Company and has investment intentions.

“WTF???”

The news made Ethan jump.

‘Fuck! ’

‘This special code is not a scam at all! ’

‘Someone with a special code is stealing the house! ’

Note: ① Steve Ballmer’s cousin has won an Emmy Award, her name is Gilda Radner, and she is indeed Jewish. ②The Kuhn-Loeb family is engaged in banking. They were one of the most influential banks in the United States in the 20th century and direct competitors of Morgan. They merged with Lehman in 1977 and were acquired by American Express in 1984. ③Jacob Newmark of the Newmark family is one of the most influential Jewish scholars in the twentieth century. He is known as a giant in American Jewish scholarship. ④The fact that Lao Ba made a class jump in front of his face was well known in the media at that time. In other words, Mrs. Graham herself had no intention of hiding it.

PS, regarding the date of the canal treaty, I got the date from the canal history information of our Ministry of Commerce. It says that on September 7, 1977, the United States was forced to sign a new BNM Canal Treaty with BNM (also (called the Treaty of Torrijos-Carter) and the Treaty Concerning the Permanent Neutrality and Operation of the BNM Canal. ’, as for why the Du Niang Encyclopedia says September 17th? I don't know this either.