Chapter 100 Spending Money Like Water
"Why... do you want to lend me money?" Hearing that Su Yun was going to lend money to their family for Li Fu's surgery, Rui Fan suppressed his excitement and anxiety and asked.
From the banknotes scattered all over the floor, it was known that Su Yun was definitely not short of money. Rui Fan had no doubt that she could afford the surgery, but why was she so kind to lend him such a large sum of money when they first met?
Can a child from a wealthy family be so kind? Can he ever encounter such a good thing?
Facing the doubt raised by Ruifan, Su Yun was speechless for a moment: You can't say that you want to repay your brother for the many ugly emoticons he contributed in the future, right?
When Su Yun was thinking about this, she couldn't help but take another look at the baby in his arms: the little Riff, now named "Leaf", was the same Joaquin Phoenix who later played the role of the little clown brilliantly.
Fortunately, the elder brother is very talented and the younger brother is also hardworking. The parents have these two outstanding sons and three other obedient children, so they don’t have to worry about anything.
Su Yun pondered for a moment and thought of an excuse: "I am an actor, so I plan to ask my agent to help me set up a foundation to help children, so that I can reasonably avoid some of the excessively high taxes."
After hearing this explanation, Rui Fan nodded in sudden realization: Although he didn't quite understand the issue of paying taxes at his age, his mother was the assistant of an 18th-tier contracted actor, and she would occasionally tell her at home that those actors would use charity foundations to reasonably avoid taxes, which was basically the unspoken rule for people with high incomes.
Of course, the main problem in the United States is that the issue of taxation covers too wide a range. Not only the rich, but almost everyone is afraid of the IRS.
"I like you two, so I'm going to give you a discount. If you don't want to, forget it." As an emerging "capitalist", Su Yun is well aware of the principle of playing hard to get.
"Of course I am willing! I will tell my parents as soon as they come home in the evening!" Rui Fan immediately expressed his attitude.
After all, the younger ones are the easiest to kidnap.
Su Yun looked at him with more and more satisfaction: She made many friends and made preliminary contributions as if they were charity, wasn't it all for future development?
Although these actions cannot be considered great kindness, they did provide a helping hand when these people needed it.
This is the first step to building friendship.
Even if their contact will fade in the future due to their respective lifestyles, as long as they are not completely ungrateful, they will be grateful for her help at this moment - then it will be much easier to ask them to film a movie or make a guest appearance in the future.
It's not like they are being asked to work like slaves to repay a favor, but because of their friendship in the past, they are being asked to help play a role. Moreover, they are not being asked to work for free, but are being paid accordingly...If the script and story are good, this is not just about repaying a favor by building up a friendship, but is another way of introducing a favor for work.
Isn't this how a society based on human relationships builds connections with each other?
When Su Yun returned to the room in a happy mood, Ovitz also brought her good news.
"I have talked with their agent Piero several times, and Alain Delon has already relented a little." Ovitz gestured to Su Yun with a pen and paper, "I think you probably understand that for actors with outstanding looks, other aspects are always easily overlooked by people subconsciously."
"So he urgently needs some characters with distinct personalities to cover up his appearance and prove himself. The filming of Zorro, which he just finished some time ago, gave him a taste of the sweetness of being able to freely express himself and enjoy the role. This time, he is determined to get your script."
"I know, and without him, I basically can't shoot this script now." This kind of literary story script that looks likely to be a box office hit and has a plot that is easy to be misunderstood, with Su Yun's current status and resources, it would be difficult to get the consent of Warner or Jiahe.
She does have a lot of time to polish this filming plan, but it is rare that she has met a male lead who is popular and suitable for the role. If she misses this opportunity, there will be so many variables in the future, who knows if there will be any accidents?
Relying on the advantages of being a child star, she has risen too fast in the past two years. Therefore, the disadvantages of being a child star are also revealed at this moment: the foundation is not stable, and taking risks is a point that is absolutely difficult to touch.
However, if a child star wants to gain a firm foothold, her age may no longer be suitable. What Alain Delon has is precisely the company resources and personal connections that she currently lacks, as well as a sufficiently stable position in the film industry.
After following Ovitz's advice, Su Yun finally figured out the problem and lowered her high-handed attitude.
Alain Delon, on the advice of his agent Piero, watched the films of those nominated by Su Yun. After confirming that her casting was indeed good, he secretly replied that they could continue discussions.
With the efforts of the agents of both parties, like an old father persuading a naughty child, a first draft of the contract for "Leon: The Professional" was finally drawn up during the third meeting.
Taking advantage of this gap, Su Yun went to California without stopping and attended the first meeting of the Home Brew Computer Club that she had always dreamed of.
Su Yun decisively brought along her newly assembled Altair 8800 and the Game&Watch she had brought from Nintendo headquarters. As expected, these two new gadgets, a personal computer that was still quite advanced at the time and a handheld game console that had not yet been released to the market, immediately attracted the attention of the entire audience.
"This..." has a lot in common with the cream soda computer he designed five years ago!
Holding the technical specification document of the imitation Intel 8008 microprocessor in his hand, the honest Wozniak was overwhelmed with emotion but did not dare to speak out.
"Woz, do you have anything to say? Why don't you say it?" The technical world has always put the most accomplished people first. Even though Su Yun was the shortest in the audience, she was still respected by the attendees.
"He doesn't talk much, so let me tell you - a few years ago, Wozniak tried to use a small number of chips to assemble a personal computer, and he succeeded in assembling a personal computer with basic functions, named 'Cream Soda'." Compared to Wozniak's silence, his partner Steve Jobs was much more cheerful, "But when the 'Cream Soda' was being interviewed, a reporter accidentally stepped on the power cord of the newspaper, causing a short circuit and smoking, and it became 'Cream Soda Water', ending its short life like this."
"So you have a new idea?" Su Yun looked at Wozniak.
After being poked in the waist by Jobs secretly, Wozniak gritted his teeth and nodded, "Yes, after seeing your two superb works, I have a new idea!"
"Very good, let's go somewhere else to discuss it in detail." Su Yun suppressed her excitement and brought the two future big guys, who were still penniless, to the small living room of the hotel room where she was staying.
Looking carefully at the simple schematic diagram drawn by Wozniak, which already had the prototype of the personal computer of later generations, Su Yun couldn't help feeling happy: in this era when computers were still full of various light bulbs and switches, Wozniak's schematic diagram clearly had the intention of combining the computer, screen and keyboard.
To put it more simply, it is the standard computer set consisting of a host computer, a display screen, and a keyboard.
Seeing the satisfaction in Su Yun's eyes, Jobs struck while the iron was hot: "We can set up a sales channel to make it easier for computer enthusiasts to assemble their own computers!"
"Is this really possible?" Wozniak expressed reservations.
"Even if we lose money, at least we can own a company in our lifetime!" Jobs seemed to be comforting his partner, but his eyes were always glancing at Su Yun. "Besides, we haven't even tried yet, how do we know it won't succeed?"
"I am indeed very interested in your project..." Su Yun understood the meaning of the song and continued, "How much do you want?"
The two young men discussed in low voices for a while: "100,000... no, 350,000 US dollars!"
After some bargaining, Su Yun successfully reached a verbal agreement with the two to invest US$340,000 in exchange for 34% of the shares of their future company.
You have to get the other party to sign a contract with you as soon as possible!
The three of them thought they had gotten a great bargain and their minds were racing.
The next afternoon, Ovitz hurried over from Manhattan. Looking at the contract that Su Yun had asked him to draft, he felt that it was similar to the one he had drafted at that time...
"Do you really think this Apple company is a good choice?" Ovitz couldn't help asking.
"Please trust my judgment." Su Yun held a red apple in her hand, her face full of joy: These two future bosses were also bad at naming. They named their homemade computer "Cream Soda" while drinking cream soda water, and they decided on the names of Apple Inc. and Apple Computer while eating apples from the hotel fruit basket last night...
Compared to the later popular online saying that the name Apple came from the influence of Turing or because of Newton and the law of gravity, this down-to-earth truth made Su Yun laugh and cry.
Jobs was very satisfied with his naming, saying that he came up with this name in a flash of inspiration. On the one hand, it weakened the sharpness of the electronic product and made it more approachable than those special nouns or word combinations; on the other hand, it ranked higher in the phone book than Atari, where he was working at the time...
Although Ovitz always felt that Su Yun was deceived and cheated into spending too much money, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and help both parties sign the cooperation contract after his persuasion was futile.
I thought that Su Yun's lavish spending was enough, but before he even sat down in his chair, the phone on the coffee table in the living room rang again.
Thinking of Su Yun going to the party again tonight, Ovitz's heart suddenly skipped a beat.
"Hey, I met two very interesting young people tonight. The Basic interpreter they designed is awesome! It can be used in my newly purchased computer company..." After picking up the phone, Su Yun's happy and excited voice came from the other end.
Ovitz felt something was wrong the more he listened: "Are you saying that the young man who designed this dropped out of Harvard?!"
My God, what kind of magic do these things have? Wozniak, a top student at Berkeley, California, dropped out of school for them, and a young man named Bill Gates even dropped out of Harvard just to play with them!
That's Harvard!
And! Most importantly! Why is his artist Su Yun also keen on these things? !
They are willing to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in them!
Due to the limitations of the times, even a legendary figure like Ovitz still felt that Su Yun's two investments were not only a scam but also a stupid one...