103. Remorse
Bill Gates passed away, and Ho-young bit the people around him for a while.
Ho-young, lost in thought for a moment and looking back at himself today, summed up his move today with a single word.
“You were stupid.”
He suddenly began to feel ashamed of what happened today.
“I was not cool. If I had thought calmly, even if Windows 95 were to come out right now, it would have been evaluated as an imitation of Kronos.”
Almost the first time I heard about it after returning to the past, and the fame of Bill Gates and Windows.
These two things clouded Hoyeong’s judgment.
He calmly thought about the reason he was shaken today.
In fact, Steve Jobs was also a great person to Bill Gates, but when I met him at Next, he wasn’t so swayed.
Rather, it was as if he was a huge fan of Steve Jobs, and he took shares in Pixar and later Apple, and furthermore, in the future Disney.
“Ahaha…”
Thinking about it, Hoyoung immediately burst out laughing.
“Bill Gates was not arrogant. It was me who was really arrogant.”
Hoyeong’s laughter was a self-deprecating laugh.
First, he looked down on Bill Gates.
Starting with Dell, and most recently, AMD’s Harper.
If you think about it, they were amazing people that you only saw on TV or on the Internet in your previous life.
(Of course, it is an undeniable fact that Ho-young would have been able to meet them if he wanted to meet them in his previous life, but the fact that they are great people does not change.)
In this life, Ho-young negotiated with them, took away the rights they should have had, and secretly had the idea that they were all inferior to him.
“And that arrogance made me ugly today.”
Hoyeong’s tone was self-blaming, but her expression wasn’t so dark.
No, it was rather a good expression.
“Whoops. You should consider it fortunate that it ended at this level.”
In fact, he had practically lost nothing today.
Rather, it was as if Microsoft had an opportunity to earn an unimaginable profit of 8.5% of sales from the future operating system.
Hoyoung jumped out of her seat and stood up.
Then, he patted his cheek with both hands.
“great. There is no such thing as vigilance in the future. Whoever you meet, in any situation, more thoroughly and completely.”
His cheeks were tingling when he hit them with his palm, but he felt his spirits snap.
He learned a lot from his meeting with Bill Gates.
Now he was in a situation where he was in a kind of mannerism with repeated success and growth.
However, with today’s work, he promised that he would not be inert anymore.
And once again he thought about his goal.
“Jo Nam-sik…!”
He called Jo Nam-sik’s name and gnashed his teeth.
The victory he wanted was not simply taking away what Jo Nam-shik had.
He wanted to completely subdue Cho Nam-shik.
To simply make a lot of money and swallow up the fame electrons?
Just that much wasn’t enough for his last name.
Hoyoung went out of the living room where he was sitting alone, thinking about the reason he wanted to earn money.
“Director. Are you out?”
Mi-ru stood in front of the door as if she should be standing here, and greeted Ho-yeong with pleasure.
“yes. You waited a long time, right?”
“no.”
“Whoops. Thank you. Shall we go back to Korea soon?”
“yes. I will prepare.”
“All right. Today, I’m going back to my dorm. ah! Before that, meet Eric one more time.”
“All right.”
Hoyoung moved to the place where Eric worked in the accounting department.
“Eric. Are you busy?”
“no. boss. What are you doing? Didn’t I see you before?”
Eric wondered why Hoyeong had come back despite hearing about the investment status in the morning.
“yes. It’s not difficult, and I’m here to ask you a favor.”
“Tell me anything.”
“How much money have we invested in NASDAQ?”
“Does the boss only count the money I bought on the NASDAQ market, not the direct investments?”
Hoyoung nodded happily.
“yes. Please do so.”
After a while, Eric whistled.
“Yeah. It’s great too.”
“How much?”
“Right now, it’s about 300 million dollars by simple calculation.”
“good. Then, convert the investment amount into cash and send it in Korean currency.”
“You mean the full $300 million?”
“yes.”
“How long do you sell?”
Hoyoung thought for a moment and said.
“Two weeks.”
“Two weeks? If the market is released that way all at once, a price drop is unavoidable.”
“yes. A slight drop in price is okay. Eric will defend it to the best of his ability.”
Seeing Eric’s flustered expression, Hoyeong smiled humorously.
“I believe I can do it. Then please.”
“I will try my best.”
After talking with Eric, Hoyoung stopped by Smith to inform him that he was going back, then went back to the hotel and buried himself in bed.
It had been a long time since I felt so tired.
Hoyoung lay face down on the bed and fell asleep.
Hoyeong’s sleeping face looked relieved.
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“Puhaha. Bill Gates, I didn’t see it that way, but he really is a petty person.”
“Jjojan? ha ha ha. Please see me as having good business skills.”
“Do you think we will sign this contract now?”
“Sure.”
“This contract does not apply retroactively to operating systems that have already been built.”
Bill Gates did not want to pay for Windows 3.1, which is currently on sale, as a condition of payment of sales.
“Obviously, when we chatted yesterday, I clearly referred to the operating system as being ‘made from scratch’.”
Watching Bill Gates speak with a determined expression, Hoyoung smiled.
If he signed this contract, he would not be able to make a profit right away, and he would receive a share of the profits after several years, but Ho-young didn’t care.
“All right. I know.”
In response to Hoyoung’s answer, Gates naturally looked at Smith.
As Bill Gates knows, the CEO of H&H was Smith.
He thought it was Ho-young who decided to sign the contract, but it was Smith who actually signed it.
Contrary to what he thought, however, Hoyoung picked up a pen and started signing the contract.
“uh···? now?”
“haha. I will sign the contract myself today.”
Hoyoung returned the signed contract to Bill Gates, and Bill Gates confirmed Hoyoung’s signature.
In the signature column, the name Gaia Investment CEO Yoon Ho-young was clearly written.
“Gaia Investment?”
“yes. He is a major shareholder in H&H America. Although there is a separate CEO, I, the representative of Gaia Investment, the largest shareholder of H&H America, may sign the contract according to the company’s bylaws.”
“her···. heh heh heh Was Gaia Investment, which was shrouded in a veil, really Hoyoung’s company?”
Instead of answering, Hoyoung smiled.
“no wonder! I tried to find out who the owner was, but I couldn’t find out. Since I am not from Korea, it is natural that I was unable to read related information.”
“Did you do a background investigation on my company?”
“Rather than a background investigation, I was curious who owned the company.”
Bill Gates replied with a smile on his face.
Hoyoung let him go.
“So, is Gaia Investment coming to the fore now?”
“It will be.”
“Mr. Yoon. You?”
Hoyoung nodded and answered instead.
He thought that it would be difficult to work if the world’s attention was focused so far, so he tried to hide his identity as much as possible.
But from now on, he decided to change his mind.
“All right. Good luck. Then the contract is completed, and I will go back now. Your flight time is running out.”
“yes. Take a look.”
Bill Gates got up coolly and left the H&H America headquarters.
On the way to the airport from H&H America.
Bill Gates told Jimmy.
“Jimmy. Did you deliver what you ordered yesterday?”
“yes. As you said, the Windows CE project has been put on hold for now, and the Windows 95 project has been put on hold.”
“Good job. But that shouldn’t be the end.”
“What do you mean?”
Bill Gates had a very serious face, unlike the smiley face he had just a moment ago.
“I have a feeling that no matter how well we make Windows 95, we will not be able to get out of the same level as Chronos 2.”
“Is that so?”
“So, we must make a better operating system than Chronos 2.”
“All right.”
Jimmy answered coolly, and Bill Gates was able to head to the airport with a much lighter mind.
‘You’ve become a latecomer. It’s been a long time since I’ve been chased, but chasing is a feeling I feel after a long time.’
Bill Gates felt strangely excited.
Over the years, he has had very few competitors.
But the moment he met Ho-young, it seemed like he had found a competitor he hadn’t thought about for years.
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A few days later, Hoyoung returned to Korea.
As soon as I returned to Korea, I stopped by Anam Industrial.
This is because Park Byung-jin said that the wafer development was almost completed and asked to come to the Anam Industrial Research Center.
“Brother! Did you have a good time in America?”
“Thanks for your concern, I went well. older brother. Any good news?”
“Finally, we succeeded in developing an 8-inch wafer.”
“Congratulations. great? It is working much faster than originally planned.”
Park Byeong-jin chuckled, as if Ho-yeong’s praise made him feel good.
“That’s all because our Anam researchers are outstanding.”
“you’re right. It is also the company I invested in.”
“It is finished with patent registration. Perhaps tomorrow, when the development success is officially announced, all semiconductor companies in Korea… no! Semiconductor companies around the world will covet our technology.
Hoyoung also smiled happily and agreed with his words.
“you’re right. Brother, you have been through a lot. But you can’t be satisfied here.”
“I knew you would say that if you were my younger brother. You mean that research to increase the wafer size should continue?”
“you’re right.”
“Actually, while developing the 8-inch wafer this time, we thought that this was not the limit of what we could do. As soon as this wafer is in place, I will go back to research.”
“This is a wise decision.”
Park Byung-jin grabbed Ho-young’s hand.
“This is all thanks to my brother. Are you really a genius when you see it like this?”
“ha ha ha. It is overrated.”
“Then would you like to see our development process and prototype production?”
“I don’t think there is a need for that.”
“why?”
“Actually, I am a stranger to semiconductors, so I have no idea what goes where. Anyway, I’m going to look at it.”
Park Byung-jin made an absurd expression.
“You didn’t know anything about semiconductors, so you directed us to do this?”
“haha. I know it in theory.”
“Yes, my brother is really a genius. He is a genius.”
Park Byung-jin followed Ho-yeong for a long time after that, calling him a genius at the end of every word, and stopped when Ho-young was about to get a little annoyed.
and again a few days later.
Hoyoung, who has been at Hermes Telecom for the first time in a while, receives a phone call from Park Byungjin.
– Brother! As my brother said, I got a call today.
“okay. Is it true that the call came from the place I said?”
– right. Undoubtedly, Myungsung Electronics called me asking for a meeting.
Hoyoung thought everything was as he intended.
