The Olympics
Eva was very happy when Jake returned home and even more so when she received Tom Cruise's autograph, she was very proud to know that her son would be in a movie with Tom Cruise.
She didn't have to wait long to see, Jake showed her the camcorder footage, the picture quality was much lower than the cinema, but Eva was happy to see her son performing with Tom Cruise.
Of course Jake explained that if this was put into the movie he wouldn't appear with Tom Cruise in the scene, yet she didn't care, it was cool enough to see her son playing a great actor.
Over the next few weeks Jake spent his training, he was focused on winning for sure at the Olympics, the school also ended after a few weeks and Jake didn't attend prom as he said he wouldn't.
He wasn't a party-keeper, and besides the people in his room and some people on the basketball and football team, he had no one he knew at this ball, and even if he does, it wouldn't hurt everyone's ball.
Everyone closest to Jake who studied with him got great grades and went to the universities that took the test, of course, he still had to know if they would be accepted by the universities.
Basketball and football teams would have the help of the school as promised to them when they all transferred to Elite school, of course not everyone would receive a scholarship.
But just the opportunity to go to university would be something many young people would fight for, so everyone was pleased, having entered the elite school that had a good reputation helped all students get a chance at university.
Jake had a party at his house after the prom and called all his classmates, his teammates in basketball and football, everyone who was invited to the party showed up and was surprised to see Jake's mansion.
Few students outside the basketball team knew that Jake was rich, many were prejudiced and also thought that Jake was poor for getting into the school through a scholarship, but now they realized how foolish they were, Jake never needed a scholarship with how he had as much money as he was smart.
That was a happy day when they would meet maybe for the last time, some let it slip that Jake would attend the Olympics and everyone promised they would watch and cheer for Jake, Jake thought he was lucky not to say he had participated in the Tom Cruise movie.
At the end of the party Jake stayed with only his closest friends, he talked much more with his basketball teammates, after all even though Jake intended to keep in touch with them was not something that could be guaranteed.
He also wanted to keep in touch with his teammates he had before moving to Elite school, but now he couldn't find anyone else to talk to, Jake didn't even know if they entered a university or started work.
That's why Jake had the idea of having a party like this, he didn't like the ball and so he had to create a similar event to have good memories of all his friends after everyone left only Joseph had been left behind.
Joseph would later go to Princeton University to pursue a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, and Liza wanted to help Joseph after college if she was to marry him, but as they were not even engaged she decided to do journalism at Columbia University.
So they would be separated for 4 years while studying, that would be a good test to know if they would really love each other even after 4 years without being able to spend much time together, Jake would also have to separate from his best friend.
But their friendship was harder to break, after all, Jake would still always keep in touch with Matthew and Oliver, plus he would have 5 percent of the company stock that Joseph would have to take on in the future.
Even though Jake felt emotional about having to part with a friend who stayed with him for 7 years, after those years apart Jake wanted them to remain, friends, Joseph felt the same way.
"Our school time is over, isn't it?"
"At least high school is over, we still have university and a few more years to study and say it's really over."
"Are you going to be okay staying so long away from Liza?"
"I will miss her, fortunately, we can see each other several times in those 4 years, after that we will be ready to think about marriage."
"Study well over the next few years and you'll be ready to take over your grandfather's company."
"I will, luckily I'll still have you to help me when the time comes."
"You can count on me."
"I hope you succeed in college basketball at the university you are going to, and also in the Olympics this year if you have time to get a girlfriend for you too."
They continued talking for some time and Joseph left later, so Jake knew it was official, high school was over, in a few days Jake would have to go to the Olympic Village and after that to the university in North Caroline.
When Jake had to go to college he would have to separate from his mother too, it was hard for Jake to do that, luckily Eva would still have Anna and the restaurant not to be alone in those years.
Jake had to think about how to get new friends at university, luckily he knew he wouldn't suffer any bias for being a scholarship holder, and if he did well at the Olympics and basketball he would be easier to find new friends too.
It was still a few weeks before the opening ceremony of the Olympics, so Jake continued with the training and stayed with his mother while he waited; he could go to the Olympic Village in Atlanta, Georgia in a few days.
But he would be in no hurry to go there, after all, Jake would compete only at the end of the Olympics, Jake didn't have many people he would like to meet at those Olympics, he didn't follow those competitions very much in his past life and much less before this year He was very young.
So Jake started to become a fan of some athletes only after a few years, and some of the athletes he was a fan of were even from other countries who took major US medals in various Olympics.
Michael Phelps whom he liked best would not be in the Olympics this year yet, Jake greatly admired Michael Phelps because he knew he was one of the best Olympians of all time.
In fact, Jake started thinking about competing in various competitions and trying to win several medals because Michael Phelps started it, of course, this is almost impossible for Jake to beat his idol in athletics, he could win 10 medals for Olympics if he didn't try other things than running.
So Jake wasn't very greedy about it, after all, Jake had basketball too and Michael Phelps didn't have that, if he could win more than 10 gold medals he would be very happy about authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
After spending a few more weeks at home training and staying with his friends Jake went to the Olympic village in early July 1996, he arrived at the place and went unnoticed by the other athletes.
After all, not even the youngest he was, Jake was glad not to be recognized and found the place where he would be for the next 2 months, after arriving at the Olympic village Jake did not intend to leave until near opening day.
Jake decided to go early to settle in with the place and the weather and also to get away from the reporters, he had decided that he would leave these next months to rest well and be ready for the day of the competition.
After a few weeks of rest Jake had gone out a few times to talk to other athletes, luckily he could speak other languages and thus talk to many athletes from various countries.
Jake met some people he knew would win competitions or be medalists after he got Photographic Memory skill he could remember many things he had forgotten in his past life in detail.
So he worked especially hard to remember who had gotten good positions at the 1996 Olympics, he talked to Antonella Bellutti from Italy, Laura Flessel-Colovic and Marie-Jose Pérec from France.
Marie-José Pérec won two gold medals at these women's and women's 200m and 400m Olympics, so Jake had especially more to talk to her, these athletes from other countries were happy to talk to Jake in their languages even while in the United States.
Jake also spoke to the German athlete Isabell Werth of whom he was a fan too, he took all his language skills to talk to these people, of course, Jake also spoke to American athletes that he was a fan.
Jake also spoke to Michael Johnson who would win two gold medals in the 200 and 400-meter races, and also spoke to Amy Van Dyken who was a talented swimmer who would win 4 gold medals at these Olympics.
Jake was very fond of her for her talent and took the opportunity to give her some tips to take care of herself after a few years, Jake remembered that she would have an ATV accident in over 17 years, but he couldn't say something like that clearly.
Even though it was hard for that to change anything, unfortunately, the system had prevented Jake from interfering with any accident that had nothing to do with his life directly.
So Jake had to accept, he really wanted to warn the world of many accidents that would cause many deaths, so he was sad to be stopped, but already expected it when he returned in time.
In fact, Jake had already changed the future a lot with all the things he was doing, at these Olympics he knew that there would be a terrorist attack that would kill a person, but he couldn't interfere with that.
After a few more weeks the opening day of the Olympics finally arrived, Jake was getting anxious to wait so long, he received the clothes he would have to wear at the opening ceremony and went to prepare to enjoy the show and parade with the other athletes.
The opening ceremony of the 1996 Summer Olympics took place in the evening on Friday 19 July in the Centennial Olympic Stadium.
This was the hundredth Olympics to be held in the modern age, a milestone that would also be the first time Jake would compete.
Jake was very nervous as the opening took place, nor could his Jake's Emotion Control skill take away the excitement and pride he felt as he watched the opening of the Olympics that was held in his country.
Seeing this only increased the desire to win a gold medal in the marathon, Jake remembered seeing the opening of these Olympics on television, he thought it was very beautiful and just complained about taking too long.
But being in the stadium personally watching everything happening, he understood that it was a much more wonderful spectacle than watching it on television, the other athletes also seemed to be feeling the same emotion as him.
After a while, it was time for the parade of the countries to participate in these Olympics, as the host country the United States would be the last country to parade and so Jake would have to expect all over 10,000 athletes from 196 countries competing in 26 sports pass before your turn came.
Of course, probably not everyone was present at this opening ceremony, Jake personally would never think of missing such an event, when he paraded with the American athletes Jake felt much more proud.
After Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic cauldron and the opening ceremony was over, even if Jake could participate in other Olympics he could not forget that moment.
Then in the next few weeks, Jake followed the swimming and gymnastics events that he enjoyed most, and then also followed the events he knew the United States would win a authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
Later when the athletic events started Jake never left Centennial Olympic Stadium where he had competitions where he was most interested and could learn many things as well.
Jake didn't even watch the television and just follow everything he could personally, he knew that the United States would be first in the medal table with 101 medals including 44 gold medals.
So the Olympics passed quickly, on the day of the accident Jake couldn't even sleep thinking he could have prevented this accident, as the system knew it was his fault that helped Jake erase that feeling from him.
Jake was a little afraid after learning that the system could only erase his memories and feelings at will but soon calmed down thinking that if the system wanted to do him any harm he didn't even have to give him a second chance to live.
Jake felt very good to see the American athletes and their idols from other countries winning the medals, he managed to gain some friendship from Amy Van Dyken and Isabell Werth from Germany.
They both found Jake very kind and charismatic when he said they were great athletes, Jake told Amy that she would win several medals at this Olympics and next after she won when he was watching she was quite happy about it.
For Isabell Werth, Jake said this was just the beginning and she would still be one of the great athletes in Germany and the world for the next 20 years, which made her happy after winning the medals.
Everyone liked compliments and Jake was speaking with sincerity and calm, not to mention that not many athletes respected them at these Olympics before Jake, in a few more years they would be recognized for being great athletes, but not yet.
So finally came the day when Jake would compete, it was the end of these Olympics and some athletes even left the Olympic Village at that point, Jake was happy that his mother and friends were watching and cheering for him.
The friends he made at this Olympics were also rooting for him, Amy would be happy that Jake won another medal for the United States and Isabell had no hope that the German athletes would win and was also rooting for Jake.
The marathon was on Sunday, August 4, 1996. The race started at 07.55 local times to avoid excessively hot and humid conditions, Jake didn't care much about the temperature or the weather.
After training for over a year and training over 3 months running 60 km a day just to be fully prepared Jake was not worried about anything else that day, he knew that only he himself could hinder the victory of this Olympics.
Many did not think so, but American commentators felt that Jake was certainly a favorite for this marathon, after all, he had three great results in the marathons he has completed so far.
It showed that if he was in good shape Jake could end up winning the marathon and winning the forty-fifth gold medal for his country, who knew Jake during the Olympics and his old friends knew that Jake was very confident of winning this marathon.
This was known as the most disputed marathon in the history of the Olympics, but that didn't make Jake afraid it was even better for him, for the first 30 kilometers he could keep up a slower pace and in the final kilometers leave everyone behind.
Jake was just worried about getting knocked out by other athletes, so he would have to run carefully so that didn't happen as in training he could run 60 km he was not afraid of not finishing the race.
At the beginning of the race, Jake did exactly what he planned, he managed to be much calmer after getting the Emotion Control skill that he used several times to calm down after he received.
At the 1996 Olympics he saw in his past life he knew that South Africa's Josia Thugwane had won and South Korea's Lee Bong-Ju was second, this time they would be second and third if Jake won.
In the first 10 km of the race, Jake was always in the top 20 and never in first, he kept a much lower running pace than he usually did so he was also getting tired much less than usual.
"I think Jake may be able to win this race for our country, he may be young at just 17, but he has already raced high in two major marathons and took first place in this year's qualifiers."
"I also think he is certainly a favorite to win, the problem is that as the sports media said he is very young and an Olympic competition has a lot more pressure than a normal race."
"Jake is really a young genius who besides competing for a marathon medal still plays basketball very well, he won the high school national basketball championship again this year."
"In addition to winning the championship he also won the MVP award in the two years, he also has a record of more than 20 consecutive triple-double games and in this year's national championship final game he made a quintuple double in the game to ensure the victory for your team."
"I think he should give up basketball and focus only on athletics, he's already one of the biggest marathon names in the world even though he's so young, but in basketball, he's just in the beginning, he has college before he even tried the NBA. "
"It looks like he doesn't think about giving up, he goes to the University of North Carolina basketball team, so clearly he went there to win titles."
"He's pretty smart having one of the best grades in the whole country, so I think he knows what he does."
NBC commentators, as well as the others, did not think that Jake could really win at this early marathon all athletes were less than 30 seconds away from the first place so everyone could win.
But after a few km of the marathon, some would start falling behind and others would open a good lead, so they thought Jake would be left behind after a few more km of competition.
They were commenting to the American public so it was normal for them to say that Jake who was the best runner in the country could win even thinking otherwise, not to mention that they had no recorded interviews with Jake unlike the other athletes because they thought that He could not win.
After 20 km of the race, many were still very close to the first place and some stayed behind just as the commentators thought, but Jake was still in the front and didn't even look tired in the race.
When everyone passed the 30 km marathon Jake was one of the first to realize why he had the system to show him the time, just as he planned he began to take advantage of the other runners ahead.
"See, this is the first time Jake has been in the lead since the start of the marathon, he seems to want to take advantage of the other runners, do you think this could be his racing strategy?"
"I think it's quite possible, he has been growing in experience and performance since the first marathon he won in Chicago, in New York he was much faster than in his first marathon and ended up hurting himself by straining himself, but in that year he was first with a good time in qualifying for the Olympics."
"Now that you have spoken he has a test time in Chicago of 2 hours and 9 minutes, in New York his time was 2 hours, 11 minutes and 45 seconds because he got injured and his time before that was for the world record."
"In this year's marathon he had a time of 2 hours and 8 minutes and 30 seconds and in this race, he seems to be much slower than he usually runs."
A marathon is a competition that takes more than 2 hours to complete, so commentators have to prepare a lot of interesting things to talk about beyond the race, so they end up saying a lot of things they don't even believe in just to get the audience excited.
So they said Jake was among the first to say that he could win even though he didn't really believe it could happen now they took advantage that Jake came first and started to take advantage to show that he could be planning this and going for the win himself who didn't believe it.
But after taking Jake's data from previous marathons they realized that this time they might be right, Jake was actually known for always taking advantage at the start of the race or after 30 kilometers of a marathon.
And he was really getting faster in the last marathons, so they really started to believe that this was Jake's strategy to be the winner of this marathon that was so balanced from the start after all the commentators were Americans too.
This cheered not only the commentators but also all Americans watching the race, the United States had taken first place in the medal table for the first time after many years, many athletes stood out in this Olympics.
This was the last competition and everyone wanted an American to win to close this gold-key Olympics, and Jake was the hope of all Americans if he were just an ordinary athlete they would not be very hopeful, but he was a winner two marathons, so they believed him.
After another 5 km of marathon Jake opened a big advantage of second-place that was still close to third and fourth place, Josia thought he could really win this marathon and become a hero of his country.
After that, he would be respected as an athlete and was in great shape to run today, but he realized that unless Jake got hurt or tired he could no longer dream of first place.
Lee Bong-Ju of Korea also thought the same of Josia, he thought it would be difficult to pass competitors who were on the same level as him and were all running close, but he wanted to win another medal for Asia.
But he also realized that he couldn't get past Jake in this marathon even if he gave everything he had after Jake went through km 40 he had a huge lead for second place.
"It looks like it's already decided, after entering the stadium with this huge advantage for second place Jake comes to win this gold medal for our country."
"Jake really seems to be another of our athletics pillars for the next few years, he was winning this 17-year-old Olympics, it will be his third marathon victory."
"That's true, at this age he could still compete in 6 more Olympics until he can't run anymore, so he's another big hope of medal for our so strong athletics."
"In recent years African athletes have begun to stand out more and more in sports, especially in long-distance races, it's good to see an American athlete being able to compete with them."
NBC commentators had forgotten that they didn't believe in Jake before the marathon, now they as well as everyone knew the young man would win this marathon.
In the final meters of the race, Jake was no longer even worried about competitors, from the system dashboard he could see the time he was doing in this marathon, so according to his memories of his past life, Jake knew he had a big advantage for him. the second.
After the middle of the race, Jake calmed down completely and just focused on his running pace and breathing so he finished this first marathon easily and managed to win the gold medal he wanted so badly.
Jake finished the marathon in 2 hours and 9 minutes, it was a worse time than he did earlier this year, but he ran this marathon to win safely, after a few moments he was very happy to have won as he wanted and had trained so much for authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
Jake looked at the people at the stadium who were applauding him a lot and he was very happy and waved to the audience calmly, after a few minutes the second and third place came together to win the silver and bronze medal.
"Really amazing feat of Jake winning this marathon and getting this gold medal in the end, he seems to have done it easily and celebrated quietly with the crowd at the stadium, it looks like he really was prepared and confident for the win."
"True, I sincerely hoped that this final would be decided in seconds and it was very exciting as was the run for second place, but Jake was clearly much better than all the competitors and deserved to win this gold medal."
Jake managed to hold on, but in fact, he was very thrilled, it was a unique feeling to win these Olympics, he felt a lot of pride and satisfaction after winning, now he understood why many athletes cried after competitions ended.
Jake greeted the athletes who came in second and third and then waited on the track not knowing what to do, Jake did not know that he had won the approval of commentators and fans for greeting the other competitors.
Also, everyone could see that Jake didn't even look tired and was breathing normally after winning and the other athletes were exhausted and trying to recover this clearly showed Jake's advantage over other competitors.
After a while, the medals were handed over and Jake received the gold medal with an audience of thousands in the stadium and millions of people in the world, all were waiting to see the closing ceremony.
When they saw Jake received the medal everyone at the stadium cheered him again, the friends he had made at these Olympics also applauded Jake a lot and were surprised to see him win, even though Jake looked confident before he was not arrogant at any time.
Then there was the closing ceremony and so the end of these Atlanta Olympics in 1996, Jake was happy with the gold medal but was not satisfied with it, he knew it was just the beginning and that in the next Olympics he hoped to win. 3 more gold medals besides this one at least.
Jake said goodbye to his friends at this Olympics and went to meet Eva who had waited for him after the closing ceremony, Jake was thinking of leaving with her as soon as the Olympics were over.
The NBC film crew looked for Jake after the marathon and after the closing ceremony, but Jake wasn't interested in talking to them now, they might have interviewed him before but disregarded him.
Now Jake thought it was fair that he wouldn't do any interviews either, next time maybe, mainly because he wanted to leave home soon to be with his mother before going to college that would be very soon.
But even though he didn't appear in any interview after getting a gold medal, Jake was now much more famous than before, now he was on par with some lesser-known actors in the movies.
This big showing that was the Atlanta Olympics for Jake helped, even more, to identify with Jake's commercials earlier this year and even remember Jake's commercial for Tiffany and Clara's companies.
So besides Jake, the ones who got the most out of it were their sponsors who now had companies known internationally, when the internet became more popular in a few years these companies would gain even more prominence with what Jake did.
Director Crowe was also attending these Olympics, he was very happy and surprised to see Jake get this gold medal, even though he called Jake for his movie because he would compete in the Olympics.
The director didn't expect Jake to win so he felt very lucky after that happened, on filming he realized that Jake was a great actor that could be used in his other films, and with Jake getting this gold medal would be a great advertisement for the movie to have a gold medalist.
Jake came home with his mother and no one realized that, even though he was well known after winning this Olympics his house was totally safe, Jake decided to buy this mansion in this place with good security just thinking that something like this could happen.
When Jake needed to pass the address to someone he would pass the address of his old house, so only his friends knew where he lived and could not visit Jake without going through security.
Few also knew that Eva was Jake's mother, so it was only good to raise the reputation of her restaurant, Jake had already provided the security guards who had always accompanied Eva since moving to the new home.
Jake had only a few days to enjoy at home before going to college, just as he had said goodbye to almost all his friends so he no longer needed to spend a lot of time saying goodbye.
The other day Jake passed the restaurant at a time when they were preparing for dinner time and so there was no one there when Jake arrived the first person he met as always was Lola.
Lola was feeling very sad because she thought she would no longer have a chance to be with Jake if she couldn't make it by now, after all now Jake was going to college and so it would be very difficult for them to see each other.
If it was hard for her to conquer Jake before, now it was even harder Lola cried for a few days when she was home and took care that her father didn't notice anything, only Eva and Anna knew what was going through her heart.
They both tried to help Lola get closer to Jake, but they realized that Jake didn't seem to really like Lola, if Jake was like other men he would surely pretend to like Lola to date her, after all, Lola was very pretty.
Lola could be happy about this for a while longer would suffer much more in the future and Anna and Eva would be disappointed with Jake if he did so they didn't interfere with Jake's decision when they realized that he was just being honest with Lola.
Jake didn't tell anyone he wasn't thinking about dating anyone right now because he still felt his heart closed after what happened to Jenny, nor did he tell anyone he thought about dating Lola if she still liked him after a few years.
After all, if he did that was like leaving Lola stuck with him for those years waiting for something that might not happen, it was something Jake decided only for himself.
"Hi, Lola, how are you?"
"I'm fine Jake, congratulations on getting this gold medal at the Olympics, I was very happy for you."
"Thank you, I was very happy about it, I trained a lot for several months to get this gold medal, I'm glad I did it."
"When do you plan to go to university, Jake?"
"I'm going for a little over a week, but I'll be back whenever I can, by the end of the year I'll be here for sure."
"I hope everything works out for you there, both with classes and basketball."
Jake just said he'd come back whenever he could just to comfort Lola for some reason if Jake was really a 17-year-old he'd never stop dating a girl like Lola who was beautiful and affectionate.
But Jake had a mindset of over 45 now, so he knew that if he did that he would be a scoundrel and would end up hurting Lola even more now, in fact, what kept Jake from trying to stay with Lola the most was that she was Pure of heart.
He didn't love Jenny either, but she was a girl who wouldn't be heartbroken even if Jake broke up with her, so he tried to have a relationship with her, of course, he wasn't just playing with Jenny and was really thinking about taking the relationship of them the serious.
He didn't expect it to be Jenny who would eventually break his heart, so Jake didn't want to do the same to Lola, he quickly went out to meet his mother and Anna so as not to embarrass Lola who was almost crying.
"Hi mom, hi Anna."
"Jake, I didn't know you would come here, congratulations on winning that gold medal, I was very proud of you, if you were in another country or even another city I'm sure you would ride the fire truck, you're in Miami, the people here are used to champions."
"Hahaha I'd say I was lucky then, I didn't want to be ashamed of that, I know it's an honor for some, but I'd be very embarrassed to do that."
"My son is too shy to do something like that, but he looked like a proud peacock waving and celebrating with the stadium of thousands after winning the marathon."
"Of course I would be proud of it, I trained a lot to win such a victory."
"You didn't bring me any autographs from Tom Cruise, Jake, you should get one for me too besides your mother."
"You didn't ask for me, I can give you an autograph instead, it's not worth that much, but it's a mix of an actor's autograph and a gold medal winner at the Olympics."
"So give me your autograph, that's what I really wanted."
After that Jake talked to Anna and Eva a bit more and left the restaurant, Anna wasn't that sad about Jake going to college, after all, she knew Jake would come back whenever he could, and a city like Miami wouldn't be home forever of Jake, Jake would be someone who would travel across the country after joining the NBA.
The other day Jake wanted to talk to his sponsors, but Oliver called Jake to his house, he said Matthew would be there too, so Jake decided to say goodbye first of both, he knew he would still have to see Matthew a lot because of the company, but Oliver he wouldn't see that much.
"Hi Jake, sorry for calling you suddenly, I don't know if you were busy with anything."
"No problem Oliver, I'd come here after any way to say goodbye before I go to university."
"I thought you wouldn't come here, Joseph already went to New Jersey to see the university, I just wanted to say goodbye to you and thank you for helping Joseph so much in those years, if it wasn't for you, he wouldn't get this vacancy at Princeton."
"He's my friend, of course, I would help him out, besides, he's smart and would get this vacancy on his own with a little more effort."
"Glad to hear it, my dad is there in the office, you can go talk to him."
So Jake went to see Matthew in the office, Jake believed he could still see Oliver many times in these upcoming semesters while Oliver still lived in Miami, after all, Oliver always helped Jake a lot when he could.
"Hi Matthew, Oliver said you wanted to talk to me."
"Jake, first congratulations on winning this gold medal, I watched that marathon and was very happy to see you win."
"Thank you."
"I called you here to talk about the company, with you at university it will be difficult for us to talk about the company easily like that."
"Whenever you have something important to talk to me you can talk to Emily or to myself, I can come here or you go to college."
"I know that I mean I can't talk about things that aren't that important, so it's always good to hear your advice about the company's products."
"I invested some of that profit last year on factory improvements and building a new factory, and I hired a few more employees and definitely hired those who were temporary last year."Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
"I also increased the salary of those working on digital camera technology development and to shrink and refine the camera to be placed on cell phones in the future as you suggested."
"Part of that money I left for product inventory and part of that I invested in advertising and new product developments, the camera we were expecting is ready and much better than what we're selling now."
"So early next year we will put this new digital camera on the market, and in the coming years we will start trying to talk to some mobile companies to partner with."
To others, it might seem funny that Matthew who was the oldest and owner of more than 75 percent of the company was reporting the company's progress to Jake who was much younger and had only 5 percent of the shares that were given by Matthew himself.
But Matthew didn't think it was wrong, Jake had saved the company and made their value so high in recent years, so Matthew believed everything Jake said until something could go wrong.
Jake also knew that Matthew was very competent and so the company can improve so much with just a few councils he gave Matthew, it was always important to invest in technology and product development.
How Jake helped the technicians who were developing the technology by guiding them on the right track, Matthew's new digital camera was already far superior to other competitors and different from the camera currently on the market.
"I think you are doing everything right Matthew, but tell the techs to continue and develop this new digital camera, we have almost 6 months for it, this camera that we are currently selling has served to open the doors of the market and put the name of your company to the international market."
"But the next digital camera that your company puts on the market will have to be far superior to all competing companies, so that will be the pillar for you to negotiate with the mobile companies over the coming years for a partnership agreement."
"Unfortunately, I did some research and I think it will be difficult in the next few years to partner with computer companies, Apple has already developed their own digital camera and a contract with Microsoft could end up bad for your company."
After improving memory Jake realized that it would be much harder than he thought to partner with a cellphone or laptop company, the companies that started putting cameras into laptops after 2000 were the ones that had started producing cameras before.
Even smartphone companies at first didn't care so much about camera quality, they just cared about having a basic camera on their cell phones, so Jake knew it could be problematic for Matthew's company to find a suitable partner.
Not to mention that although Jake helped Matthew's company he didn't want to change the future, so Jake would have to have a partnership that would be worth it to Matthew's company like Samsung or Apple.
Matthew also understood that it would be difficult to exploit a new market and they would have to have a good business partner to secure a good future for the company, so for now, they would have to keep focusing on digital camera sales.
"So you think we have to keep investing in this technology even if we don't know if it can work?"
"The technology is sure to work, the problem is just finding a handset company that has good sales and that won't betray us by starting to develop its own technology while having an exclusive contract with your company."
That was really the biggest problem Jake had with the new technology, it could easily be stolen and researched, so they had to have a partnership that would guarantee the company billions of dollars and thus finance their company's future technology development forever being in the lead.
Jake had the advantage of knowing the market by 2019 so unless they are not able to create the technology Jake knows it shouldn't be too much of a problem to stay ahead of the rest of the market.
Matthew also trusted Jake a lot, so he would continue to invest a lot in this technology, in the future they could at most sell what they developed to recover the money invested.
Not to mention that developing this technology also helped Matthew's company to better develop the technology of his new digital cameras, so none of this was lost, nor would Matthew have to spend much on an investment after the initial investment he had already made.
"I had an idea, Matthew, your company is currently focused only on digital camera sales which made a lot of profit last year, but what do you think about taking advantage of this ready-made technology you developed to start selling a webcam?"
Matthew was a businessman who always wanted to know everything about the tech industry, so he knew what a webcam was, he had a QuickCam in his office himself.
But he didn't have such a broad view of the market and hadn't even thought he was developing a webcam-like technology, in fact, Jake had given him several insights into a technology that was ahead of QuickCam.
"It's okay if you don't understand how Matthew can be done, just have one of the technology developers we were investing in for cell phones to do reverse engineer and disassemble QuickCam, so they immediately understood how to produce and file a patent if their company hasn't done it yet."
Jake knew that a webcam would be one of technology's best inventions for years to come, so it was much easier for Matthew to dominate this market and do even better than Apple that would try to dominate this market in a few years.
Jake knew, of course, that webcam sales could not come in even a portion of digital camera sales, but it was only for webcam sales to fund future development for smartphones.
Matthew understood this and agreed to do so and had this technology immediately researched, so Matthew's company would have more products to sell, after which Jake left Oliver's house and prepared to visit his sponsors.
Since the technology that was better than the current webcam was ready, Matthew had only to worry about the cost of production if it would be much lower because Matthew had an excellent factory for production.
When he got home, Jake began to think about the things he had said to Matthew, after he gained his fourth job skills. Jake's memory improved a lot and he remembered one of the technologies he could leverage after his time back.
Jake didn't write famous movies of the future as his own because that would be a big change in the future of cinema and it would also be like stealing a person, but he just didn't start a tech company before 2000 to take advantage of this great time for investments in the movie because he had neither financial capital nor the ability to run a business.
But he remembered a great idea that just needed a bit of technology development and a patent to make Jake very rich in the future, so he couldn't see why he didn't take that chance.
So Jake talked to some people who worked as developers of Matthew's product technologies and asked them to recommend to him a group of university geniuses they attended for Jake to hire them.
Jake just wanted to start a small tech company to develop this technology and didn't need to hire these people for long if they didn't want to if they wanted to keep working for him, Jake didn't mind paying a good salary for a few years.
After a few days, Jake asked Emily to register a technology company in his name, Emily didn't ask the reason and just did what Jake asked, she really needed to talk to him about the yield on the company's stock investments.
Jake didn't mind buying a building for the new company, after all, he would ask the young people to develop the technology at their own university, after all, Jake only imported the patent.
After a few days 3 men showed up to talk to Jake, they were doing Ph.D. at Stanford, Jake thought it was very coincidental that they studied at the same place the google founders would study.
The three seemed curious about the work, they knew that Jake, although younger than them, was very rich and intelligent, after all the friends who called them said that Jake was the one who gave the ideas for the technologies they developed.
So the three who were very close friends decided to accept if it was a well-paid job like their friends at Matthew's company, the most responsible of the three was named Charlie and he was going to talk to Jake about the job.
"Hi Jake, my name is Charlie and I will represent my friends in this conversation, we want to know which technology you want me to develop for you and what is the salary."
"Well Charlie, I want you to work for me at least until after the technology is developed, you'll get the same as your friends at Matthew's company for as long as you work for me."
"Once the product is developed until it is enough for me to be able to file several patents on it, we'll see if you want to continue working for me or if you want the freedom to work elsewhere."
Charlie and his friends thought it was really best for them, so after they finished Ph.D. at Stanford they could decide if they wanted to stay employed or want to go to another company, the salary their friends earned from Matthew's company was great for them too.
Jake was pleased when he saw that Charlie and his friends liked the proposal he made so he first showed what the rewards were before telling them what restrictions they would have.
"When the patents I want are authorized I will give you a bonus, but if you agree to work for me you will have to sign some confidentiality and intellectual property agreement agreements."
The three of them didn't get bored because they needed to sign a contract for that, but they understood what the contracts meant and figured out what they had to create was very important for Jake to create these authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
Jake was just being cautious, he really had a lawyer as an assistant and wouldn't waste much time creating those contracts that would guarantee his rights, Jake was very pleased when he saw that they accepted.
After that Jake asked Emily to have someone bring the contracts for them to sign as soon as she could so Emily saw that Jake must be doing something important and set the investment firm aside to take Jake's requests quickly.
"The technology I want you to develop actually already exists, so I believe it will be much easier for you, I want a product that this technology can be used with, the technology is Multi-touch."
In fact, they didn't know this technology and so Jake explained what the technology was and what he wanted to be created from it in detail, the three of them were impressed with Jake's knowledge and insight into explaining a product that didn't even exist.
So they could understand why Jake could help his friends develop Matthew's technologies and products faster, after all, having a clear picture of a product of a technology that already existed was so much easier.
Unfortunately, unlike Jake's idea for this patent to be created, Charlie said they needed somewhere to work and more money to buy the components that needed to be created.
So Jake understood that he was being very naive after all even though he wasn't trying to create a smartphone he was trying to create the technology that was the fundamental part of the smartphone.
Jake was also smart and just explained how the touchscreen worked and not what it could be used for, so it could stimulate their interest and not tell the most important application of the product.
Jake was also thinking that if the three of them did a good job he could keep them in business by developing a prototype smartphone and android operating system that was the future of technology.
But he was not in a hurry because he knew it would be many years before this technology was fully developed and patented, the android operating system could be a good contribution for Jake to buy Google in the future.
Even though he had many plans Jake had to wait for the things he started now to be done before thinking so far into the future, Charlie and his friends stayed in Miami while they waited for Emily to organize the necessary things.
Meanwhile Jake talked to Charlie about where they could open a place so they could develop Multi-touch technology more easily, after all, Jake said he wants to see it in at most 1 year ready to apply for the patent.
After a few days, Emily arrived with the contracts ready and also with the company registration that Jake asked her to create while Charlie was studying the contract Jake went with Emily to another room because Emily wanted to show him the results of those months of investment.
Jake wasn't that excited because he already knew the future, but Emily was thrilled to see that the money invested had almost doubled with the stock price increase, it was normal for her to get excited, after all, she would receive 1 percent of everything Jake earn after these shares are sold.
Jake said Emily would have to meet him at the university from now on if she wanted to talk business, and Emily understood that the least important things could be said over the phone.
Charlie and his friends had already read and signed the contracts and so were officially hired by Jake after Emily left Jake began to fully explain the product he wanted to see and what functions the touchscreen would have to perform.
So they finally began to see Jake's ideas and visions and surprisingly found the idea viable and were excited, but they said that for the patent to come out they would have to plug the screen into something to be more valid.
This was a bit more complicated in their view, but Jake quickly worked out what a smartphone would look like, so to get the patent he just asked for a calculator and could write some texts.
After all, the biggest problem with creating a smartphone was making the connections with the signal, the battery, the memory, and the internet, so just using the touchscreen to make small texts and a calculator would allow Jake to get the patent on the touchscreen and Multi-touch.
Charlie and his friends were impressed by Jake's imagination and intelligence, probably in the future, they would say that the world's first smartphone prototype had been imagined by Jake in 1996, but cannot be created by the limitations of technology.
Jake was excited to see if his patent would be approved, even though in the future the original patent creators and Apple could exploit a patent loophole it was impossible to use this technology without paying Jake anything.
They decided to start the company in Silicon Valley in Palo Alto, California, even though it was never one of the technology giants just because of the patent they would create would make them worthy of having a company in this place with so many companies.
Not to mention that in the future Jake would often have to go to this place if he could invest in big business in the next few years as he planned, it would also be much easier to try to find the components needed to build a prototype smartphone.
So Jake thought it better to start a business there now, after many years it would be much more expensive to buy a property when big companies came up, so Jake told Charlie to find a good place and then Jake would send Emily to buy the property.
It was necessary to be quick and decisive in this kind of business, even more, when Jake already knew it could work, yet he impressed Charlie for being so decisive.
After resolving all of this, Jake had a few days to go to college, so he first called John and Alan to talk to the same restaurant they always met, Jake had to talk to them because he hadn't warned them that could have sponsors at the university.
These companies had signed a 4-year contract with Jake, so it was still just under 3 years before this contract ended, but John and Alan had already asked him to record the commercial earlier this year because if Jake couldn't have university sponsors this The contract had a clause that could be canceled.
The contract with Tiffany and Clara was longer and was still over 4 years old, Jake had told them that he was trying to continue this contract at university too, but they didn't believe in Jake after all no one ever got it before.
At lunchtime, they met at the restaurant and John and Alan didn't seem sad even though the Jake deal would end this was because they also earned so much more than they thought even though they didn't pay long after Jake won that gold medal in the Olympics.
"Hi Jake, congratulations on winning that gold medal, everyone at the company is very happy for you and us too."
"Thank you, John."
"It really was surprising to me too, Jake, congratulations, we were so glad we made that sponsorship deal with you."
"Thanks too, Alan, so I get to the point, I got a deal with the university and the college basketball organization so I can continue my sponsorship at the university."Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
John and Alan heard this and had no reaction in a few seconds, they thought Jake was lying or playing with them, but knowing Jake's character and the fact that he had a reputation for caring, they knew Jake wouldn't play with something serious like this.
"Are you serious Jake? This is very hard to believe."
"Yes, this is a problem for thousands of athletes in tens of years and you say you just got a deal with them?"
"Even though it's hard to believe it's the truth, I've been talking to them about it since last year, and now that I'm sure of it I'm communicating to you."
"How did you get this, Jake?"
"I wouldn't like to go into too much detail about this, but we have some restrictions, in no basketball team game or activity I can do any advertising, just not basketball related."
So John and Alan were confused for a while, but soon understood what Jake was saying, but they could still have their marks on Jake's uniform when he competed in marathons and could still do television commercials.
They were both very happy and surprised by this news, so they could enjoy the fact that Jake had a gold medal in the Olympics that had just ended a little longer.
Soon they thought of a problem they had to solve if Jake could have sponsors while on the basketball team and after winning a marathon gold medal for sure, many other companies would like to hire Jake.
So their company would have to think about how much to increase the amount they paid Jake to make sure they had a contract with him at least until college, so they would have to think about how much more they could pay Jake at that time.
In fact Jake had another deal with the university, he could not have any new sponsors at the time he was at university playing on the basketball team, nor could he renew any contract with the companies he sponsored him now.
But Jake didn't tell John and Alan because they were just his business partners and not close friends like Tiffany and Clara that he would do his best to help, of course, Jake figured they would think of increasing the amount they paid for sponsorship him now.
The university said nothing against it in the restrictions and Jake also felt that now it deserved to receive much more, after the end of the year he would appear in a major Hollywood movie, he was also the only sponsored college basketball player.
What's more, he was now an Olympic gold medalist, so even big companies like Nike and Adidas would want to pay a few million to someone like Jake who can reach several different consumer groups.
Not to mention that Jake wanted to use John and Alan's companies to show their advertising value to big companies as soon as he joined the NBA, after saying everything he needed for them, John and Alan left saying they needed to talk to their companies to know how much they could pay the most for sponsorship.
After talking to them Jake arranged with Tiffany and Clara to talk, but only Tiffany said she would talk to him, it seemed that Clara was busy and Tiffany would represent both companies.
Jake also knew that Clara was in a lot of trouble and Tiffany who had shares in Clara's company was really well suited to represent both companies, probably both of them were also waiting for Jake to talk about terminating the contract.
It had been months since Jake had been talking to Tiffany in person, they had been talking a lot over the phone, but Jake had been busy over the last few months with preparations for the Olympics and it had been a long time since he had spoken to Clara in person.
"Hi Jake, congratulations on winning the gold medal, Clara and I are very happy for you."
"Thanks, Tiffany, how are you?"
"Well, I recover quickly for these things, the companies are doing very well too, we hope this year we can make a lot more money after you won this gold medal, it will surely have more effect than any advertising campaign that other companies do."
Tiffany's company was the one that made the most of it, after all, they had a product line that was natural sports drinks, Jake also knew that they were very tasty despite having no sugar in the ingredients of the drink.
So all audiences could consume Tiffany's product, then it was John's company that made the most profit, but that was because in addition to the energy drink being widely consumed worldwide they had invested more with the commercials and their company was much older and reputable in the market.
Otherwise, it would be Clara's company that was trying hard not to increase market value and still make a profit, this year it was impossible for Clara to achieve this without some investigation into sabotaging the company, but surely the company would still profit a lot this year.
That would make Clara gain more than lose from it since as long as she could regain the stock she could still develop the company much more easily, in the end, it was Tiffany who made the most of it.
Her company is valued at 260 million this year in 1996, but with the repercussion of Jake's gold medal increasing further in the next few years, Clara's company would also value even more in the coming years.
"So Jake, you called me here to talk about your sponsorship, didn't you? We understand that you are going to university now and you will no longer be able to get any sponsorship, even if you could still our companies pay a lot less than you deserve to receive."
"I want you to know that even without this sponsorship agreement we will still be friends anyway, Clara also said the same, we want you to be very successful at university."
Before Jake could say anything Tiffany said what she thought from her heart, after all, she really thought they were paying too little for Jake if for the other situation they would think about paying more for Jake, but the company was in development and was now stagnant without being able to invest.
Not to mention that anyway after Jake entered college their company would have to terminate that contract anyway after all a star-like Jake would get millions a year from each sponsor at least a year.
Jake knew that too, but he still believed that Tiffany's company and Clara's company were above all his friend companies, so he would keep these sponsorships as long as he could even receive little just to help his friends.
"Calm down Tiffany, you didn't even wait for me to say what I meant, do you remember what I had told you that I would try to negotiate with the university and the committee?"
"I remember, of course, but this is impossible, I know you wanted to comply with our contracts, but they would make no exception to anyone."
"They made an exception for me, I will continue with all my sponsorship contracts even playing basketball at the university."
Unlike Alan and John, Tiffany knew Jake wouldn't lie about such a thing, so she was just surprised and happy about it, Jake told her all the restrictions just as he told John and Alan, but when she asked how he got Jake explained this time.
"How did you get this, Jake?"
"As I said to you, I have a lot of restrictions even though I have achieved this, and I used as a request to maintain my sponsorship contracts the fact that I am also an athlete and I won some marathons last year."
"And what does it have to do?"
"I said my sponsorship was because I'm an athlete who competes in marathons and not basketball, and I also used the fact that I was trying to get into the Olympics this year."
That was Jake's secret, and Tiffany understood why the university made an exception for Jake, for anyone getting the same treatment as Jake and having a sponsorship while playing college basketball was competing in another sport.
It could have even higher standards, such as having to win one international competition and qualify well in others, after Jake actually qualified for the Olympics and still won Jake knew it was impossible for the university to change its mind.
So Tiffany was delighted to still be able to keep a sponsorship deal with Jake and Clara would also be very happy when she heard about it, at university Jake had entered the story before he even started playing for the basketball team.