Chapter 6

Henry has dropped out of Stanford high school. Now, he is busy with the development of Cisco and cleaning up the property of Nicholas bookstore.

Woolf made up for the embezzlement the next day, and he was afraid that Henry would trouble him. Woolf and others thought Henry would not sell the bookstore, but they were wrong after all. Henry's action was very fast. A week later, he got in touch with three famous bookstores in California, and basically reached a sale intention. When the representatives of the three bookstores came to the headquarters of Nicholas bookstore, Woolf and others were dumbfounded.

"Henry, you have no right to do that!" Woolf yelled at Henry.

"Why not? I am the controlling shareholder and have formally informed you at the board of directors. So it's all in the flow to sell the bookstore. " Henry light way, "of course, my promise that day is still valid, not much, or 5% premium!"

With that, Henry led the representatives of the three booksellers into the reception hall. Woolf and other shareholders looked at each other and followed.

On the negotiation table, Henry has already reached an agreement with the three representatives about the general contents. The three bookstores jointly acquired Nicholas bookstore, but the brand name of "Nicholas bookstore" was not included. The acquisition fund is 20 million US dollars!

Woolf and others knew that they would lose money when they saw the content of the agreement. Originally, the market value of the bookstore was 24 million US dollars, but now it is sold for 20 million US dollars, which is a loss of 4 million US dollars. As for the brand name of the bookstore, it has little value for them, and they don't value it at all. What's more, Henry bought their shares at a premium of 5%!

If the bookstore is sold, they will lose a lot!

"Chairman, this... I'll sell you my shares." A small shareholder told Henry.

"Yes." Henry looked at him meaningfully and then nodded.

"Chairman, I want to sell it, too!"

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The minority shareholders basically said they would sell their shares to Henry, and Hank Woolf was the only one left. Hank Woolf holds 12.5% of the shares and works as the vice president of the bookstore. He is in a high position and is embarrassed to bow to Henry for a moment. Henry looked at him with a playful smile: "Mr. Woolf, it seems that you are not going to sell your shares. Hehe, it's OK. I'll save more money."

Hank Woolf's face almost bled: "no, it's not. I'm going to sell the shares, too! "

"Mr. Woolf is indeed a wise man. He knows the current affairs." Henry laughed and said sarcastically, "well, since you have all decided to sell the shares to me, now transfer all the shares to my name, and I'll ask the finance department to write a check for you!"

"Good, good!" Large and small shareholders have nodded.

An hour later, Woolf and others left the company with satisfaction. Henry looked at their backs and shook his head. If it was not for the sake of avoiding disputes over the brand name of "Nicholas bookstore", he would not buy their shares at a premium. After all, they are shareholders, and the brand name has their share.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Henry signed a contract with three booksellers. Before that, Henry had courted a real talent in the company. He is Geely Hutt, 30 years old. He used to be a group leader in book purchasing at the company. Its ability is very outstanding, social level is very high, especially with the major publishers have contact! Henry attached great importance to this, so he decided to hire him as the company's purchasing manager.

Yes, Henry is going to build a new company following the example of Amazon Bookstore. The name of this company is undoubtedly "Nicholas bookstore"!

Henry's grandfather left him a large legacy, bank deposits, villas and so on. Together with Nicholas bookstore, the total assets reached more than 30 million US dollars. But what's wrong is that the U.S. inheritance tax is hopeless. At least half of the more than 30 million dollars should be paid! Henry paid his taxes honestly and paid $17 million. The more rich the American estate tax is, the fiercer it is.

Henry felt as if he had peeled off since he came out of the tax department!

Nicholas bookstore is also established in San Jose, although the time is not mature, but you can build a team to hone, this little money Henry can afford. What's more, Cisco is in Henry's hands. He knows very well that the advent of the Internet era will be more "ferocious" than the previous life. If he can't grasp this opportunity, he may be eliminated.

At the same time, Henry also moved to San Jose to live with the bossacks, but his main purpose was to get a meal. Henry is very happy with the development of Cisco. According to posack, the first router is expected to be developed in August, which is at least half a year ahead of previous generations. After living in San Jose, Henry taught himself and wrote some novels. West German publishing house always sends people to come to collect the manuscripts. Henry thinks that he can finish Harry Potter while the two companies are not busy, or he won't know if he has time to do it in the future.

Recently, Harry Potter's second "Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets" has topped the best-selling list of American novels for six consecutive weeks, with a total sales of more than 3 million copies, and has driven the sales of the first "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's stone". The West German press was jubilant and wanted to give up Henry as God. When Henry got the contribution fee for the second time, it was more than three million dollars, nearly two million more than the first time. Lerner often joked, "Henry, you write novels every day. I believe that one day, you will become the richest man in the world!"

Henry gave her a white eye and said with a smile, "I'm the richest man in the world, because I have 60% of Cisco shares!"

As soon as Henry finished, Lerner laughed. She absolutely didn't believe what Henry said.

On July 1st, unable to stand the eager and eager "eyes" of West German press, Henry sent Harry Potter's third book, the prisoner of Harry Potter and Azkaban, to West German press. Before long, the newspapers or the media were full of advertisements for Harry Potter's third movie.

"Harry Potter's new book, the third new donkey --" Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban "!"

"A new book by an eleven year old genius writer!"

Yes, Henry is eleven years old. His birthday is on June 19th. Moreover, because Harry Potter is too hot, many fans affectionately call Henry "Harry Potter", among them, there is no lack of the bad guy behind the West German publishing house, who publicizes some of Henry's deeds in Britain. Henry's uncle, Peter's family, however, suffered a lot. They were abused and despised by fans all over the world. Since Harry Potter's first book became popular, the West German Publishing House contacted Henry and signed an authorization contract. The content of the contract is that Henry Williams authorized Penguin publishing house to publish the European paper version of Harry Potter series novels, and the royalties of the manuscripts reached 12%. However, the payment of contribution fee is settled once a year.

Before long, Hollywood also came. It was a small film company. Anyway, the film company that Henry had never heard of even his name wanted the right to adapt the novel.

Henry asked how much they were going to pay?

When the person in charge saw that Henry was young and thought he was a bully, he called out: "one million dollars, the film adaptation right of the whole novel series!"

"Get out of here!" He's a second-hand dealer. He cheated me. He scolded me in his heart.

"Don't be angry, Mr. Williams. It's a good price." The person in charge of a small film company said with a shy smile, "why don't you make a price?"

"I'm sorry, I don't have the idea to sell the copyright of novel film adaptation right now. If there is any, I'll call you!" Henry stood up and gave the order.

Then came a number of Hollywood film companies. Henry refused one by one. He was very clear about the value of Harry Potter's IP. The profit from selling books was only a small part of it. What was more important was the peripheral income after the movie. The premise is that the film must be successful. Therefore, Henry would rather let a powerful film company make a classic for free than make a bad film for a little money!

Special effects are the key to Harry Potter's success.

It's 1985. It's a long time ago.

Near August, Henry can clearly feel the tension inside Cisco. Everyone is hopeful about the success of the new product development, but at the same time, it is hard to avoid the uneasiness. Because they are on a road that no one else has ever walked

Henry also came to the laboratory to "start", but every whim always made the whole R & D team ecstatic.

"This is my student, the most proud student," posak said

On August 5th, Cisco's first router finally came out. Posak asked Henry to name it. Henry thought about it and said, "Cisco 85, August 5, 1985. It's a very meaningful name, isn't it? "

"OK, that's a good name!" As soon as posack heard what Henry said, he was very happy to agree.

So the name of the first Cisco router was decided.

Cisco85.

When things come out, they have to be sold.

Posack said he could go to Stanford to sell.

Henry shook his head. It's a typical way of thinking for technical people. How do capitalists play? Give it to them!

Having never eaten pork or seen a pig run, Henry raised his head and said, "well, Mr. posack's idea is very good, but it's slow to get results. I think we can give it to some famous universities or scientific research institutions for a period of time, and then we can take it back. If they want to continue to use it, they can buy it. Ha ha, but I think that once they use our company's router, they can't do without it! "

"Good Bossack exclaimed excitedly.

But then Lena, the financial officer of the company, poured a basin of cold water on him: "the company doesn't have much capital. In this way, I'm afraid we can't even pay our wages!"

"Well, I'll invest another two million..."

Henry blushed for a moment and felt as if he were evil. If you invest another two million dollars, the bossacks' shares will be diluted. But if the company has no money, it will have to raise money in the end. Who can raise money is not financing? Why should it be cheaper for others? Henry comforted himself.

The bossacks thought about it and finally agreed to Henry's financing request.

In terms of distribution of shares, Henry only needs 10%, which is absolutely the conscience of heaven and earth. Sequoia Capital raised $2.5 million after the development of Cisco, but it took a third of the shares of others. This is simply a "Legend of hungry wolf". This "legend" has been staged by Sequoia Capital for many times

At the beginning of the company, Henry invested one million dollars and got 60% of the shares. Now, before a year, there is only one product. Henry invested two million dollars and got only 10% of the shares. The bossacks only feel that they are taking advantage of Henry and the children, which is very important!!!

The bossacks discussed it and finally decided to give Henry a 25% stake.

No, so much! Henry couldn't help swallowing when he heard the bossacks' decision.

"Mr. bosack, you have given me too many shares!"

"Not much at all!" Posak road.

Henry shook his head. The bossacks are such sincere people and good teachers. They can't take too much advantage of themselves. For one thing, they can't live morally. For another thing, they can't feel happy when Cisco develops in the future. It would be bad if both sides are not happy because of today's incident. If there is a problem in the enterprise management, it will be a big trouble!

If they can't get angry and take the team out to start a business, and get another competitor out, Henry will cry to death!

"Well, you can give me 15%. I'll have a bad conscience if I have more."

Seeing Henry's resolute attitude, the bossacks finally agreed to his way of distribution. At the same time, they also appreciate and like little Henry more and more, and treat him like their own children.

In the end, Henry holds 75% of Cisco's shares, and the possacks 25%.