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In CLEC's FB [James Origins and Today] series, Chapter 7 is no longer readable due to system reasons. Since the previous post can no longer be found, in order to allow everyone to fully trace the content, I will repost Chapter 7 today. By the beginning of 2004, I knew in my heart that the company was on the right track and the stock price was over $100. I knew that my promise to my daughter to return to the United States to be with her would come true. At this time, I was ready to leave Acer and return to Acer.

In CLEC's FB [James Origins and Today] series, Chapter 6 cannot be read due to system reasons. Since the previous post can no longer be found, in order to allow everyone to fully trace the content, I will repost Chapter 6 today. Chapter 6 My four years at Acer Taiwan 02/19/2022 In Acer’s R&D design and manufacturing department When I returned to Taiwan at the end of 1999, I was responsible for reorganizing the R&D and engineering departments. At that time, R&D was leaderless.

How crazy the market was back then! Before 2000, everyone was crazy about buying high-tech stocks, but I still held most of Starbucks. One morning I arrived at the company and found that all the engineers in the company had already arrived. I asked them why they arrived at the company so early today. They said they were going to grab an IPO. At that time, I was confused. What companies could I grab? So this was the starting point of the 2000-year bubble. When a group of people were rushing to buy an IPO, a group of engineers never invested in the IPO.

The first stock in my life The first time I held a stock in my life was Acer's stock. At that time, Acer's stock had just been listed. As long as you worked for one year, you could be allotted two stocks, each with 1,000 shares of Acer stock. At that time, I had no idea about the significance of stocks. I only knew that I could exchange them for cash by selling them. Finally, because I was young and had just started working, I wanted to buy a car, so I sold two Acer stocks (they were still selling at a relatively high point at the time), exchanged them for nearly 230,000 in cash, and bought a Yulon Su

Returning to Taiwan - At the end of 1999, a week before Halloween in the United States, the Taiwanese general manager flew to the United States and made a special trip to the United States to meet me. The first thing he said was to ask me if he could return to Taiwan to help for a year.

The first time I bought Starbucks stock, in the fall of one year, I returned to Taiwan from a business trip in the United States and stayed at the Huaguo Hotel in Taipei. On a weekend morning, I walked alone on Linsen North Road to find a breakfast restaurant. Autumn is the most comfortable climate in Taiwan. Walking on the streets of Taipei in the early morning is indeed very comfortable. Suddenly I saw a coffee shop at the corner. It was very bright and clean. I walked in. Under the autumn sunshine, I felt very warm. I opened the large French door (Taiwan was very popular at that time).