how i bought the whole world

I laughed, "What a sharp eye. Well, last night I spent the night at Brandon's house because I was too drunk to drive. Fortunately, Brandon kindly took me in, otherwise I would have to sleep on the street."

Chris gave me a tangled look, "That is to say, when I called you this morning, you were still at Brandon's house? You still woke up together and came to work together?"

"And had breakfast together," I added. "Brandon is a pretty good crafter, by the way. He also has a dog, guess what?"

"Did you get drunk last night and didn't mess with him?"

"I said I wanted to sleep with him, but I was pinched in the face by him, does it count?"

I looked down at the document I needed to sign while I was talking. I thought Chris would find it funny too, but after waiting for a long time before I heard him speak again, I couldn't help but raise my head. Chris had a strange expression on his face. "What's wrong?"

Chris looked at me, "Uh, William." He hesitated, "Have you noticed that there is something wrong with your attitude towards Brandon?"

"No?" I was confused, "What's wrong?"

"You keep saying those ambiguous things to him."

"I'm just verbal." I shrugged my shoulders, "I can't help teasing Brandon who always makes faces at me. Sometimes I don't know whether he is the boss or I am the boss. Don't look at his respectful tone every time he speaks, but you know he definitely doesn't think so in his heart."

"But you don't treat everyone else like that."

I sighed, "Dear Chris, what I want to say is straightforward, you know I will never be angry with you."

Chris sat on my desk very disrespectfully, with his hands in his trouser pockets and his toes on the ground, "William, I'm here to talk to you as a friend. You don't realize that you've never been right. Did Yitzhak and Robert talk like this? You always encouraged Yitzhak and believed in him, like a trustworthy brother. Of course, you are older than him, and it is him who meets Yitzhak When you are most frustrated, there is nothing wrong with you getting along like this, and you are the same with Robert. You never joke with him, you never go to his house as a guest, let alone sleep in his house when you are drunk. He said, 'Robert, I believe in you. Together we will create a great future.' You acted like a good boss, no, actually you acted like a good boss to everyone, never made a point. Untimely move, that's how you are, we all know that."

"What's wrong with that?" I wondered.

"No problem, but." Chris changed the subject and emphasized, "You don't treat Brandon that way."

I paused. "...for example?"

"You are very casual with him." Chris chose a vague word to answer me.

Casual, good.I rolled my eyes, "Come on, Chris, Brandon is my secretary, do you understand the secretary?" I said, "The secretary has a lot of control over the fact that they go to the dry cleaner I used to go to get my clothes, give me Book the dinners I like, arrange vacations where I want to go, of course they are not like ordinary employees, Brandon needs to know the real me, because I am all he needs to be responsible for, why should I make a mistake? I'm already tired enough to cause trouble for myself by acting like a young and mature person."

Chris squinted at me for a moment, as if assessing how sincere I was when I said it, and I turned my face up to show him, when suddenly he asked, "What's the name of Brandon's dog."

"Jude Law," I said.

"Look," Chris pointed out, "you don't care what other people's dogs call."

I shook my head helplessly, "Okay, Chris, you really think too much. I just happen to know what Brandon's dog's name is. Who would name a dog Jude Law? Does he like that star very much?" ?”

Chris raised his finger at me sternly, "No, no, this method is too clumsy, don't change the subject."

I shrugged, "Okay, so what answer do you want to know, Chris? Is this a good answer: I never eat edge grass, because Brandon is too important to me, I can't risk losing him just for "How many times did you go to bed or something?"

"That's the truth." Chris nodded.

I exhale. "You win, Chris."

"I'm your good friend, and I understand you." Chris said earnestly. "In order to prevent you from making mistakes, I want to tell you seriously that Brandon knows a lot about us. He knows your finances, your family, and all your future plans. If you haven't figured out how to deal with this matter Before, please don’t show any intention to destroy your relationship, I don’t want me to stand in court and fight for you when you turn against each other.”

"Why do we have to turn against each other?" I was not convinced.

"Do you expect you to love each other, and then I will sign a pre-nuptial property agreement for you?"

I shivered, "No no, we didn't get there. I didn't even think about—"

Chris pursed his lips and looked at me.

I shut up. "I get it. Chris, trust me, I do."

I admit that I like to tease Brandon very much and watch him secretly slander me, but I never thought about our real development. Now I just want to do a good job of the company and expand the e-commerce platform , To build a software company, I have no intention of focusing on a relationship at all.

And Brandon is not gay at all.

Chris hit me knowingly, "Well, remember what you said, William."

He patted me on the shoulder and left the office. I watched his back and drank the coffee in the cup depressed.My head started to hurt again. In fact, my head has been aching since this morning. I shouldn’t have drunk so much wine yesterday. Myself.Brandon was right, it was childish.

But at this time, the person involved came to show me his presence.

"Boss. You should see this." Brandon strode into my office. He didn't knock on the door because I allowed him to enter my office without asking in case of emergency. This time he used his right. vividly.

"It's very important and requires you to make a decision now."

"Uh, Brandon." I rubbed my forehead, "I'm a little uncomfortable right now, and I want to be alone."

He ignored my words with his eyes, handed me a stack of documents, and pulled the blackboard shelf out of the cabinet by the way, "There is no time for you to rest, your investment team faxed this to me just now, and it was placed on the first page. He raised his head and glanced at me, "You know what this means. It means that this document is very important, otherwise they would not have sent the document at this time."

I cheered up a bit, Brandon took out a whiteboard and a marker, and stapled the document on the shelf, he used the marker to draw a circle on the name of the acquisition company, "The name of this company is android, and the founder is Andy Robin. He established this mobile phone research and development company in June last year. The whole team has a total of 6 people and is conducting research on mobile phone systems. However, they are currently facing the difficulties of lack of funds and insufficient manpower. Andy If Rubin wants to continue their project, he must get investment, but no one is optimistic about him, and no one wants to give him money, so he has the intention of selling Android company."

"A company that has been established for less than 8 months." I glanced at the documents listlessly, "I have seen a lot, what makes you think I have to buy it."

In the United States, such small new technology companies are blooming everywhere. They often have one or two patents in their hands, but they are not very usable, cannot be promoted, and cannot be used for commercial use. Therefore, they can only hope to be acquired to get rid of the fate of bankruptcy. , Every day, countless such companies send letters to William Field Electronic Studio to apply for acquisitions. I don't know why Brandon and the others value Android.

"Listen, boss." Brandon propped his hands on my desk. "Andy Robin developed the operating system for the smartphone platform, and you said that's what you want."

I was shocked and sat up straight all at once.

Smartphones, this is the field I wanted to get involved in very early on. Since Ericsson developed the first smartphone in 01, enabling their customers to connect to the wap Internet, I realized that this is a huge piece, waiting for others to layer it. cake.Think about it, how long do Americans spend sitting in front of a computer a day, two hours?three hours?Maybe after deducting work, their time on the computer is not enough to drink a cup of tea, and how much time do they spend walking, taking the subway and drinking in bars?This is an immeasurably huge number. In bars or on the subway, it is impossible for them to carry a computer, but they can carry a mobile phone, and it is even possible to keep their mobile phones with them 24 hours a day.So if mobile phones can realize intelligent entertainment and connect to the Internet, we don’t need to worry about their insufficient time online, because they can access our e-commerce platform through their mobile phones at any time.

"Interesting." I became a little interested, "But why is it so urgent?"

"Because Google also wants to acquire it, boss." Brandon said, "Although Google has not made a statement yet, we still have to make a decision before they do. After all, we are not as powerful as Google now. If Google intervenes We will be very passive in the negotiation of the Android acquisition."

Brandon and I pored over the file, Andy.Robin is not an ordinary person. He used to work in two robot companies, and later went to Apple to do research and development work. Andy was not a peaceful person. When he first arrived at Apple, he transformed their company's internal phone system. Forged the CEO at the time to call the financial department, claiming to give Andy and Andy's colleagues a special stock award, which caused Apple's information department to get into trouble.He worked at Apple for about a year before breaking away from Apple along with Apple's device division to form a new R&D company, and then they invented the famous AP - Andy Rubin's first operating system for smartphones , but this system declared the project a failure because its performance was too advanced and the hardware equipment could not keep up with the software.

After the failure of the new company, Andy and others opened a company called is to study Internet TV. This time he succeeded and attracted Microsoft to acquire the company. He also worked in Microsoft for two years, but once again Making a mistake, he invented a robot that can move and monitor within Microsoft anytime, anywhere, which attracted hackers and made Microsoft's security team very angry with him.

After leaving Microsoft, Andy founded Danger Company and developed a system called sidekick, which is also a smartphone system. Since then, his smartphone concept has a preliminary model, which is what we want to acquire today. The android system lays the foundation.

"Looks like a thorn," Brandon told me.