When Orff suddenly turned around and frowned, "Kase?"

"Olf, long time no see." The person who was called Case by Orlf turned to look at Zhou Shuo and said, "This is Mr. Zhou Shuo, hello, I am Case, CEO of American Online."

"Hello, Mr. Case." Zhou Shuo nodded to him and greeted him.

Zhou Shuo was not surprised that Case appeared here at all. Since Orff, the president of Compuserve, had already appeared, it would be strange that there was no movement in America Online.

The full name of the founder of AOL is Steve Case. This is a pure businessman and is not interested in technology. This is also the reason why his AOL can surpass Compuserve. Orff pays too much attention to technology, but his sense of business is not as sharp as that of Case.

"Kase, it's probably impolite to suddenly interrupt someone else's conversation." Orff stood up and looked at him gloomy.

"You said you needed to consider it." Case shrugged innocently and said, "We American Online do not need to consider it. We can agree to Mr. Zhou's request immediately."

Orff gritted his teeth and said, "Our Compuserve company has not refused yet. Please wait patiently."

"The opportunity must not be lost and no longer comes. There is no saying that there is no queue for business negotiations." Keys didn't care about Orff's black face and sat next to Zhou Shuo.

He stretched out his hand and said to Zhou Shuo: "How is Mr. Zhou's meaning? As long as you can guarantee that you will not authorize patents to other companies in the United States, we can set up a joint venture with you for the compression algorithm chips you produce. We can eat all of them."

Zhou Shuo looked up at Orff, and his expression was constantly changing. Obviously this was a critical moment. As long as Zhou Shuo nodded, Compuserve might face the crisis of being swept out of the ISP service provider. However, giving up his own technical efforts will be difficult. This is why Orff will lose to Case. He always looks at problems from a technical perspective, while Case is from a business perspective.

He gritted his teeth and looked at Case hard and said, "Our Compuserve company also agrees with Mr. Zhou's cooperation plan."

He could not disagree. Before Case appeared, his purpose was to regain the position of the leader of the ISP service provider. But he did not expect that Case would agree so happily. If the patent was obtained by American Online, it would be a major crisis of life and death in Compuserve.

For Case, AOL is already the leader of the American ISP service provider. His purpose is very clear, that is, to maintain its current industry position and continue to increase its market share. He does not have to seize every opportunity like Orff to take risks. As long as he does not make mistakes, as the US Internet market expands, he will naturally enjoy the advantages of the industry leader.

Specifically for Zhou Shuo's compression algorithm patent, if it is, it will protect the market advantage of American Online. If not, it will face the pressure of Compuserve to catch up. Naturally, there is no need to think too much about how to choose. It doesn't matter if you don't master this patent, but the key is to build Orff's ambitions.

"So, who do Mr. Zhou want to cooperate with?" Keith looked at Zhou Shuo and asked with a smile.

"To be honest, this choice is really difficult." Zhou Shuo smiled bitterly: "Both are the top tycoons in the United States' Internet, and I can't afford to be guilty of either of them."

For Zhou Shuo, although it is fast and easy to make money by compressing algorithm patents, it is not a promising project. His focus in the United States is always on Liuer IM. If he offended any of the two major ISP service providers in the United States because of this matter, it would be a disaster for Liuer IM.

If there is no way to get the best of both worlds, he can only divide the chips to both of them. But in this way, the patent licensing fee will inevitably be greatly reduced.

"You don't have to be guilty of any of them. I have a plan that everyone will be satisfied with."

Zhou Shuo raised his head in surprise. The five people who spoke were not the ones present. A tall and majestic black man walked over quickly with agile steps.

"Malcolm?" Orff and Kesschitz called.

"Hello, my name is Malcolm, the head of the network department of Sprint Telecom Company in the United States." The visitor showed his white teeth confidently and smiled at Zhou Shuo.

Zhou Shuo couldn't help but shudder. Since he came to the United States, this was the first time he had met a black man with his own rap effect. He thought that those who spoke naturally with tones in the movie were all special skills of Hollywood stars, but it seems that some people are born with this talent.

Sprint Telecom, Zhou Shuo was looking for information about it. Its predecessor was Brown Telecom Company founded by American Cleyson L. Brown in 1899, and later renamed Sprint Telecom Company in the 1980s. By 1995, Sprint Telecom Company had firmly ranked as the second largest telephone network service provider in the United States.

On the digital network, they even went further than SBC. As early as 1990, the digital network with fiber as the backbone - the Splint Network.

Now, the Sprint Network is of course part of the international Internet. Sprint Telecom is also actively planning to move forward to the ranks of ISP service providers.

"Hello, I'm Zhou Shuo." Zhou Shuo stretched out his hand, held his big hand like his palm fan, and smiled unnaturally.

Judging from the situation where he walked towards him as soon as he entered the door, and combined with the fact that Case had already known the content of his conversation with Orff as soon as he arrived.

Zhou Shuo knew that he really didn't know how many pairs of eyes and ears were staring at him. If he hadn't held a patent stick in his hand, he would have to be eaten by these local natives...

"Mr. Orff, don't you mind squeezing?" Malcolm came uninvited, squeezed his big butt and sat down opposite Zhou Shuo.

Malcolm didn't even look at Orff's purple face and asked Zhou Shuo: "For Mr. Zhou's difficult choice, our Sprint Telecom Company has a perfect solution. I wonder if you are interested?"

Zhou Shuo did not agree with it, so he nodded quickly and said, "Mr. Malcolm, just say it."

"It's better to go back to the original plan, and the patent authorizes a joint venture to produce." Malcolm reached out to stop Zhou Shuo's rebuttal, and then said: "Your concern is that the partners of the joint venture will not promote your technology and become the industry standard. This is very simple. One company cannot do it, but there are three companies here! Our Sprint Telecom Company has the second largest telephone network and the largest optical fiber digital network in the United States, and American Online and Compuserve are the first and second largest ISP service providers in the United States. Isn't what we set up to be the industry standard?"

Zhou Shuo suddenly felt enlightened!

Yes, although there are only six people squeezed out on both sides of this small dining table, it can influence the power of the entire American Internet!

As long as Orff, Case and Malcolm meet and nod, this technology will be promoted. Isn’t this the so-called industry standard?

"Since this company is a joint venture between four parties, how do each company distribute the chips produced?" Zhou Shuo asked immediately.

"It's better to buy the authorized shares of their own companies. The number of chips that the joint ventures will produce when they buy as many patents as they like." Malcolm said happily.

Zhou Shuo thought about it, nodded vigorously and said, "No, it's really a good idea."

This is to break a layer of window paper. Malcolm said the next plan, and Zhou Shuo also had an idea in his mind.

"The chips produced by the company must be distributed uniformly according to the share ratio. When introducing new investments, technical shares must be recalculated, and new investors must jointly agree with all shareholders."

As soon as Zhou Shuo said this, even Malcolm was shocked. Although there were only two sentences, these two requirements were too detrimental.

The first thing is to allocate chips according to the proportion, which means that each company needs to invest huge amounts of money in the competition. But the more the three companies invest, the more Zhou Shuo, who invests in technology, will make invisibly.

It is a good idea to recalculate technology stocks during the financing process, but new investments require all shareholders to agree, which reduces the power of major shareholders a lot.

Once these two points were released, Zhou Shuo was basically invincible in the joint venture.

Case didn't expect to gain much from this. He only wanted to maintain the industry's first position. He nodded and replied: "No problem, American Online fully agrees."

Orff and Malcolm looked at each other, and Sprint Telecom didn't ask for much, just wanted to get a kick in the ISP market. Then Malcolm nodded simply and said, "Sprint Telecom also agreed with this proposal."

The most frustrated among the three was Orff. He came with the hope of revitalizing the former glory of Compuserve, but he didn't want to only gain a piece of idiotic rib that was tasteless and pity for abandoning.

But since Case and Malcolm both agreed, he naturally could not refuse. So Orff nodded with difficulty and said bitterly: "Okay, Compuserve also agrees."

Zhou Shuo couldn't help but pull up the corners of his mouth, comforting the three of them and said, "Please rest assured, I believe that your investment today will soon be rewarded thousands of times."
Chapter completed!