Coquettish Rebirth

Aunt Anne, who can interrupt casually, is not actually Olson's "beautiful wife and beautiful family". In fact, she was a senior secretary of Dec Company in the late 70s.For so many years, she has been working with Olsen, so after Olsen was kicked out of the board of directors, she also came out to work with the old man.

This Olsen is really a mad scientist. He doesn't even look down on the hierarchical system used by most companies on the planet, and pays attention to absolute equality-at least absolute equality in the superficial sense.So in his small company, basically as long as people have the right to speak.Therefore, during a meeting, it is normal for an experienced secretary to intervene to express himself.

However, even if Olsen created such a so-called absolute equality system, if he didn't nod, it would be useless for others to persuade him, and he would refuse to agree.In desperation, Anderson, an old buddy who had been with Olsen for decades and a technical expert, nodded to Annie.Then Aunt Anne picked up the phone in front of Olson and called Olsen's wife.

Soon, the call got through, and the sound of birds chirping came from the microphone. It sounded as if the person on the other end of the phone was teaching the parrot to talk. "Hey, is that Oliki? I'm Anna, and your Olsen is being disobedient again..." As she spoke, Aunt Anna was like an aunt in a kindergarten calling the parents of a bad child to complain. All the disobediences of the old man Olsen were told to the woman named Oliki on the other end of the phone.

Soon, after the complaint is over.Anna handed the phone to Olsen.Then I saw the stubborn old man Olsen reluctantly answered the phone, "Hey, honey, don't listen to what they say..." Who knew that the stubborn old man who couldn't do it before suddenly used a very gentle The voice said to Oliki. "No... how could my product be overdone, how could it be too small... okay, okay. But... okay, okay, then I'll give it a try, okay?"

In just a few words, Oliki on the other end of the phone actually convinced Olsen, a diehard.If Jia Hongjian saw this.He must have widened his eyes!But Anna, Anderson and others at the scene didn't find it strange at all!

It turned out that Oliki was Olsen's wife. Both of them were descendants of Nordic nationality, and Olsen was Norwegian.So the hard-tempered ones are like the permafrost in Norway.And his wife Oliki is a Finn.But she had no violent temper.On the contrary, he is very gentle and considerate. Although he doesn't talk much, he is very patient.At the same time, he is also good at persuading Olsen with tenderness.It's fun to say, this Olson met his wife because he used to be a tenant of a neighbor's house when he was young, and he happened to be this Olike's roommate in college!

Anderson even remembers meeting a bank manager back in the '50s when he was trying to start a business with crazy ex-marine and mit Master Olsen.Back then, there was no venture capital investment, so you still had to find a bank to get a loan.Then the manager of the bank reviewed their information, and after the interview, he insisted on meeting Olsen and his wife Anderson.According to the manager, entrepreneurs who focus on their work are likely to go astray.

This kind of deviation may be a technical choice or a psychological one.So he wants to see if the wives of these two people can patiently enlighten the two people, and if they are willing to act as the logistics minister behind the two of them when the two are concentrating on their work, and give them Do a good job in various "services".As a result, after the bank manager met with Oliki and Anderson's wife, it took only 5 minutes to sign the review result and agree to the bank's loan to them.That's it, Olson and Anderson had $7 to start a business!

Next, a team of 80 people worked together, and after two or three days of hard work, they successfully designed a machine that was n circles larger than the original diskless working machine that was the size of a book.From the drawings, this new machine is about the size of a small household trash can, with a length of about 20 cm, a depth of about 20 cm, and a height of 30 cm. The entire chassis is square and looks like a small trash. box.

The size of such a "trash bin" is much larger than the previous one, and it can even be said that it is not a problem to throw two or three of the previous book-sized working machines into it!Then, they simply made a solid-sized model out of steel plates. Although there were no hard drives or motherboards installed in it, the entire size could already be displayed.After they polished the chassis a little to make the whole chassis look bright, they took the chassis and blueprints, and then drove to Boston with the ugly-faced Olsen.

When they arrived in Boston, the group first came to mit, the alma mater of their team of 80 people. It is strange to say that the 80 people who followed Olsen were all from mit!Maybe this also has something to do with Olsen and Anderson coming from mit.

They first came to the principal's office, and after greeting the principal for a while, they put the sample in their hands on the table. "Mr. Johnson, this is our latest design and development product model. It has made some changes to the previous product's appearance and some corresponding internal changes. What do you think?"

Principal Johnson looked at the trash can-like computer case in front of him, and immediately turned around to look at the gadget.After looking at it for a long time, he said happily, "Well, this one is much better than the previous one. Although it is only partly smaller than the horizontal case, it doesn't take up much space on the table, and it looks more solid. It is not easy to damage... How much does this thing cost you? How much is the price and design?"

As soon as Johnson asked this question, Anderson understood that there was something going on!But before he spoke, Olson next to him was a little "sick". Seeing Olsen interrupted suddenly, he asked Principal Johnson, "Do you really think that this big thing is better than the chassis we designed before?" Okay? Are you serious?" <The size of the LCD screen of the monitor has been reduced a lot, and the power consumption has also been reduced. As a result, consumers are not saying that this thing is too expensive, but that this thing is too small!This is simply unacceptable!

But who knows that Johnson sighed at this time, "Olsen, do you know that it is because of your temper that when you came to sell products by yourself before, I didn't tell you why I didn't Love your last product...that thing is so small, it looks so delicate! Even you are using thin aluminum plate, less than 3mm! Something so thin, I can bend it with my hands! I'm just the principal, not the chairman. When I purchase this kind of thing, I still have to report to the board of directors for them to have a look. They are different from me. They don't understand computers. What will they think when I agree to spend more than ordinary computers, but buy back such a bunch of things that can be bent by hand?"

After hearing Johnson tell the truth, Olsen was speechless.At this time, Anderson hurriedly pressed Olsen, and then took the conversation and changed the topic, "The price of our product can be controlled at about 1000 US dollars as much as possible. It is the same as the previous one. It is also a diskless working machine. It only installs A 1G hard disk is used to install the system, and the others are used to match the server port...Of course, this price includes a 15-inch monitor..."

Just as Anderson finished speaking, Johnson immediately made a decision, "If the price is this, then I can place an order. This time your design is very good, go back and continue to work hard, and come to me after the design is finished." After talking to Anderson , Johnson turned his head and looked at Olson, "Hey, buddy, we were classmates at the time anyway. Let me advise you here, you should change your temper. If you always design products from the perspective of engineers, it is true. Not all of them can be sold..."

Olsen looked up at Johnson, who also had gray hair, stood up without speaking, turned and left.Seeing that Olson was gone, Anderson and others hurriedly got up to say goodbye to Johnson, and then went out to chase Olson.As a result, when they chased to the door, they saw Olsen standing at the door of some room in the corridor of the office building and looking in through the window.After they followed up, they followed Olsen's line of sight and looked in, only to see that the room Olsen was looking at turned out to be Mit's so-called computer room, where many young students were using computers freely.

Although mit is a well-known and very good university, not all the students in this school are rich.Some poor students come in with loans or scholarships, and they may not be able to buy expensive and up-to-date computers, so they use the school's public computers in the computer room.Anderson found that in this computer room, on the computer screens of many students, it could be seen at a glance that they were searching for something with the Sherlock Holmes engine.

"Hey..." Olsen sighed, "Anderson, after you go back, you can contact the Chinese from Jia, it seems that we may really need a partner to help us grasp the product design... Even Bill Gates said that that kid seems to be the best product manager on the planet, he not only understands technology but also understands the market... I want to see how powerful this little guy is!" (To be continued...)