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Chapter 30 Persuasion(1/2)

Carly Tyri's mind rang out until after get off work.

A game company in California called Mars Entertainment wants to hire herself to run a new company that specializes in publishing games. Yes, making herself the CEO of this company is a challenge she has never had before and an opportunity she dreams of.

Although the video games are not very prosperous now, Carly Tyri has heard of the name of Mars Entertainment. In fact, no matter which new company can get nearly $100 million in orders with one product in a month, it will be well known.

What's more, the game called "American Cube" designed by this company has become popular in the United States, and Washington is of course no exception.

In fact, in Carly's heart, she had just ended a marriage that had lasted for seven years. She had no children. She now had nothing, no bonds, and no concerns. She also wanted to leave Washington and go to the West Coast to change jobs to relax.

But are you really going to leave the place where you have lived for seven years?

Carly is not sure, and she also believes that she has good development prospects at ATT. ATT, the world's largest company, has more than one million employees and has footprints across states. Such a company is far from comparable to a newly emerging Silicon Valley company.

Hesitantly, she walked to a telephone booth on the side of the road, threw in coins, and dialed a familiar number.

This is her best friend at ATT and her boss in the office. She gave her a lot of guidance and encouragement when she first arrived at ATT.

"Hello?"

After beating three times, the phone was connected and a gentle female voice came from the microphone.

"Carol, it's me, Carly." Carly hesitated whether to tell the truth to her friend. After all, she was going to leave the company, and she was her boss. But when she thought that asking such an important question on the phone seemed too rude, she changed her attention. She paused and said, "Can you come out for a cup of coffee? I have some private matters to ask you for help."

The female voices on the other side of the phone agreed without hesitation. They made an appointment to meet and arrived in half an hour.

This is a coffee shop called "Forest", not far from ATT Washington headquarters, and the decoration style is very elegant.

Carly just sat inside for more than ten minutes, then saw his friend Carol Sprell hurriedly coming through the window.

Carol Sprell is a middle-aged woman in her forties. She is very rigorous and rigid, but she is a good person and has a good reputation among her colleagues.

She was wearing a black professional outfit with an anxious look on her face and her steps were in a hurry. As soon as she entered the coffee shop, she saw Carly Tyri’s position and immediately walked over quickly.

"What's wrong with you?" Before she sat down, her voice rang. Her tone was very anxious and caring. She knew that Carly had just divorced and she was afraid that the other party would not be able to think about it and do something stupid, although she knew that with the other party's personality, the possibility of doing something stupid would not exceed one in ten thousand.

"It's not what you think." Carly could only show a helpless expression and explain, "There is a company that wants to find me to be their CEO."

After hearing this, Carol grew up in surprise. She looked at Carly Tyri in disbelief. Although she believed that her friend's future was limitless, she never expected that a company would like to see her talents so soon - after all, she was just an ordinary middle-level member in ATT.

"Which company is it? It's not a small company that is not famous, right?" Carol's face showed a worried look and immediately asked impatiently.

"It's a small company, but it's not a famous small company, it's the Mars Entertainment that does "American Cube". You scolded them last week." Carly Terry explained with a smile. Carol's son just went to middle school. Last week, Carol discovered that he had skipped school and went to the arcade hall to play games, and he played "American Cube".

"Is it them?" Carol's voice suddenly increased octave, and a look of disgust appeared on her face. She had no good impression of the company that indulged her son and designed the "American Cube".

But her friends were asking her for advice, and she could not judge based on her likes and dislikes.

"They are a game company. Although the first game they made was excellent, it was just a game company. Carly, you know, the prospects for video games are not very optimistic now." Carol thought seriously for a while before patiently saying to Carly Terry.

After listening to her friend's words, Carly Tyri also fell into deep thought. In fact, this was also the main reason why she hesitated.

Although she had a premonition from the popularity of "American Cubes", the future electronic game industry is likely to have great potential, but this is just her own speculation. After all, the mainstream now, even those Wall Street investors are not optimistic about the future prospects of the electronic game industry.

But the other party really offered a condition that she was difficult for her to refuse, hired her as CEO, and even if her job satisfies the other party, she would also give her partners treatment.

In other words, she is no longer a worker, but is truly working for herself.

Before she was a graduate student, she felt that she could not become a CEO at all. She felt that the position was very sacred. Every decision had to determine the future of countless employees. She felt that she could not bear such a great responsibility at all.

But when she was in graduate school, she was fortunate to become classmates with the presidents and CEOs of many companies, including those big companies that she had heard of. Through getting along, she felt that some of the people in it were indeed much better than themselves, but there were also many people who were not as good as themselves at all.

So, this gave Carly Fiorina an idea, why are those who are not as good as themselves, but I can't?

This question was like a poisonous snake that tangled her heart hard.

In fact, she is also a person full of passion, dreams and ambitions. She almost never gives up when it comes to achieving her goal. She can enter the 'President Club' without hesitation for her business - a strip club that is only circulated in the upper class.

She could even go up to the rostrum to take off her stockings at a banquet, and then shout loudly at those who looked at herself strangely because she was a woman: Now we are the same.

Moreover, her abilities are indeed extremely outstanding and she has all the qualities necessary to succeed.

Carly Terry saw a different ambition from this small company called Mars Entertainment. A small company that just released a game. The first thing that comes to mind after success is to establish its own distribution network. This is not a money-saving thing. To build a distribution network covering the whole of the United States, it may not be enough to spend all the money they earn this time.

She likes this kind of enterprise full of ambitions, ideals, and pursuit of enterprising spirit, which makes her feel a vigorous vitality and a strong and irresistible vitality.

And ATT...yes, in Carly's eyes, it is a staggering old woman with rigid systems and mixed structures, but challenging these difficulties is also a very fulfilling thing in her eyes. In fact, he did it well not long ago and even received a commendation from the headquarters.

On one hand, there is an unseen future, which may be glorious or bleak, but on the other hand, there is a clear career path. You may be able to reach the position of CEO and president of ATT, because there has been no such precedent in the history of ATT for more than 100 years, allowing a woman to be their helmsman.

Carly has difficulty making her own decision.

Carroll also discovered this. From a emotional point of view, she didn't want Carly to leave ATT. In her mind, a small company on the West Coast could not be compared with ATT, which has a glorious history. You must know that ATT is the oldest member of Dow Jones Industrial Stock.

She thought about it, but she didn't come up with any better excuses to convince her friends, so she said bluntly: "If you really want to go, then you should talk to your future boss, look at his opinion, and let you know whether he is worth your work for him."

"You're right." Hearing Carol's words also made Carly Tyri determined that he had to meet with the boss of Mars Entertainment. If he could convince himself, then he would follow him to the West Coast. If he couldn't, he would be honest at ATT.

Jester received a notice from the headhunter that Carly Tyri wanted to meet with him and talk about the future of the distribution company he was talking about.

This made Jester a little overjoyed, but it also made him feel worried that he would not convince this woman with great opinion and talent in speech. Although she is only thirty years old now and her career is just beginning, she is not the legendary CEO who was rated as a steely person by Us Weekly.

But Jester still had a deep impression of this woman. He still remembers the anecdotes he learned when he was reading the other party's autobiography "Brave Choice".

When she was an ATT salesperson, she went to Korea to do business. When faced with the spirits, socializing, and flattering that her male colleagues had to deal with, Carly handled them with ease. At first, she was afraid that the Korean staff who were negligent in their gender would be negligent and praised her afterwards.

Carly recalls, "They changed almost all the adjectives, the 'beautiful', 'beautiful', and 'demeaning' disappeared in the end..."

Maybe many people have never heard of Carly Tyri's name, but Carly Fiolina's name should be well known - the only female CEO in the Fortune 500, was selected into the world's fifty most powerful women three times by Fortune magazine and ranked first twice.

However, she has just divorced her first husband and has not yet married Frank Ferina, the later vice president of ATT. So she has not changed to the surname "Fiorina" known to the future generations, but has changed back to her original surname - Terry, whose father is Joseph Terry.

These are the experiences of the other party that Jester learned from her autobiography of "Brave Choice". This is Carly's profound analysis of her life experiences over the past few decades. In other words, in fact, to a certain extent, Jester, who has read her autobiography, even knows her own heart more than she herself.

Jester spoke to Carly Tyri at the first time. He had never seen a photo of Carly Tyri when he was young. He saw the other person in his fifties, but he could still feel the temperament from the other person's capable short blonde hair, firm and confident eyes, and a tough and knife-cut face.

She was beautiful or not when she was young, but her temperament must be outstanding and stands out.

And Jester also believes that women with outstanding temperament will never be ugly.

From Carly's voice on the phone, Jester couldn't hear her tough and decisive personality, her voice was soft and comfortable, like a familiar person chatting, giving people a feeling of intimacy.

After making an appointment to meet, Jester hung up the phone and booked a direct flight ticket from Pan Am Air to Washington. The earliest one was 4:30 am tomorrow. Then Jester silently calculated that it would take about five hours to get from Los Angeles to the East Coast, and it would almost be possible to arrive before noon.

If nothing unexpected happens, he probably can't miss the meeting with Carly Tyri, which also made Jester feel a little relieved. After booking the air ticket, he had to drive to Los Angeles immediately, and he had to think carefully about how to convince Carly Tyri.

It was not an easy task, and in Jester's memory, unless it was decided by Carly Tyri, she had no precedent for being convinced.

Compared to Carly Tyri, Margaret Whitman was much more convincing. Her job in Bain consulting was not very satisfying. This was not a job she liked very much. If it weren't for his husband's internship at the University of California, she wouldn't have followed her husband to California and leave the marketing job she liked at Procter & Gamble.

So when Jester found her, explained her purpose to her, and was willing to pay twice the salary she consulted at Bain, and let her continue to work on her favorite marketing job, she almost thought for a moment and agreed.

In fact, this is also thanks to the reputation of Mars Entertainment and "American Cubes" in California. As the most eye-catching new company in California this year, it is also engaged in the development of electronic game not optimistic about by everyone. In just over a month, it received a full $100 million order, which is enough for them to be known to everyone.

Margaret Whitman, a Harvard student and future legendary CEO of EBAY, has certainly heard rumors about this company, and even heard that the company's owner and the creator of the game that was popular in the United States are the same person, a student who is only nineteen years old and still studying at UCLA.

In fact, it was when Margaret was met by Jester that the other party's confidence in the future of video games that the other party portrayed her as a promise to join.

Margaret is now just a twenty-six-year-old young man. She has also experienced the rise, prosperity, and decline of Atari, and has witnessed the rise of countless emerging companies in Silicon Valley. Countless people may have made millions of dollars in just one idea.

She thought, why can't she? Her education is no lower than anyone else, and her ability is no worse than anyone else. Maybe this time it is an opportunity.

When Jester met Carly Tyri at a coffee shop in Washington with two panda eyes, the other party almost burst into laughter.

At the first glance at Jester, Carly's dark gray pupils still flashed with a look of surprise. Although she had learned before that the founder of Mars Entertainment was very young, she still didn't expect the other party to be so young.

Almost as big as her younger brother.

Although Jester is tall and looks extremely strong, his slightly immature face has deeply betrayed him.

"Didn't sleep well yesterday?" Carly Tyri called Jester a cup of coffee, and then asked with some concern.

This reminded Jester of her sister before her rebirth. Carly Tyri was not very beautiful, but she had a sharp temperament that was rarely seen in women. She was like a sword. She just sat there and couldn't help but attract other people's attention.

Including Jester.

"I came here in the early morning." Jester faced Carly Tyri, a language master who inherited her talent as a lawyer and had a very high language skills, always showed a sense of restraint, but was brought into the other party's rhythm by a simple sentence.

In fact, Jester didn't think about how to convince Carly Tyri's wording. The more he understood the other party, the more he felt that the other party was not influenced by outsiders' opinions.

Neither of the two sides entered the subject of this meeting at the beginning, but just talked about trivial matters. Jester had seen rumors about Carly Tyri's sharp words before, but the real conversation with her was completely different.

Carly Tyri's talent in language always seems to make people feel that the other person is a friend who is very similar. Under the guidance of the other person, Jester is not so restrained, and even tells two jokes from time to time to liven up the atmosphere.

When Carly Tyri was observing Jester, Jester was also thinking about how to convince the other party, but after thinking about it, he could never think of any suitable words. He could use it to say that the woman in front of him could think of it. Since she was willing to meet her, it meant that she had a premonition that the career of electronic games might have made great achievements, otherwise the other party would not even see him.

Finally, Carly Terry took the lead in starting the topic.

"So, young Mr. Chairman, I really want to know that the headhunter company should provide you with many lists, and most of them have much glorious qualifications than me. So why would you choose a woman like me who is not famous, but not qualified, or experienced?" Carly Tyri's voice was soft and pleasant, and the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, revealing a smile.

"Can I say I'm young?" Of course, Jester couldn't tell the truth. I came from later generations and knew how outstanding your abilities were and how brilliant your future would be. He could only think a little, so that his words would not have so many loopholes and convincing people.

"In fact, on those lists, you are the second youngest. I don't like working with those who have half of your body buried in the soil. I think a young company should have a young temperament, especially if we are engaged in electronic games that are not favored by others. Without a momentum that is no better than me, it is impossible to succeed."

As he said that, Jester looked up at Carly Tyri, shrugged slightly, and said in an extremely serious tone: "Maybe my words will make you angry, but in fact, if you were so old, I might not have looked for you."

After hearing Jester's words, Carly Tyri's eyes did not show any angry expression, but looked at Jester with a strange look. She smiled and then began her second question: "Then, I don't believe that you just appointed me as the CEO of your distribution company because of my age, right? Why not find the one who is younger than me?"

Jester smiled. After the first question, he also recovered a little bit of confidence and kept organizing his words in his mind: "In fact, the younger one than you has agreed to come to this company that has not even issued a vacant shell - because I haven't registered yet, just like you, is also a woman. She graduated from Haval University Business School. Before, she was excellent in marketing when she was at Procter & Gamble. As for why she chose you to be the CEO of my new company, because you performed very well at ATT not long ago."

A work experience not long ago, especially her outstanding performance when leading a certain department, and her department has become the star team of the entire group. This is indeed the most proud work of Carly Terry in her career, but because she ended her seven-year marriage with her husband during this period, she is always unwilling to look back on this experience.

This marriage also gave her an enlightenment. A woman, especially a competitive and competitive woman who dares not admit defeat, always wants to be the best woman. She either doesn’t get married or find a husband who is better than herself in all aspects. Otherwise, what she waits for is deception, betrayal, pain and tears.

Thinking of this, Carly Tyri's eyes fell apart and flashed.
To be continued...
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