“I keep wanting him more and more the more I see him.”
“To think that the server overload was actually fixed… Actually I didn’t believe it, but now that the results are out, I can’t not believe it. What do you think?”
“Stolen, eh……”
He felt like he would lose him if he couldn’t grab him now.
As he was a person with chief-level skills, Steve looked through YongHo’s skills right away.
“Isn’t he famous for not showing his source to anyone at all? But if he referred to that Jeff Done’s source, then doesn’t that mean that he stole it?”
The conversation between Kenneth and Steve was eventually buried under the crowd’s whispers.
YongHo’s session had started.
It was as if looking at a lecture hall of a university. A rostrum was placed at the very front, and with that in the middle, fan-shaped stairs spread out.
More people had gathered than what he had thought.
And YongHo changed the screen.
Red.
Two opposite colors.
The difference between before and after YongHo’s module was applied.
YongHo’s session seemed like it would end safely like this.
“Thank you, I’ll receive any questions.”
The supporting person walked here and there with the microphone.
“Hmhm…… For me, I don’t want to ask any technological question, but a fundamental one. Is the technology that Mr. YongHo introduced to us truly developed by you?”
“From what I’ve heard, you’ve taken Jeff Done’s source. Please forgive me, since I’m only asking since it might become a problem when it is actually applied to the company.”
Before YongHo even finished speaking, people started whispering here and there.
There was no room for excuses.
Copying was illegal, and was a crime.
“Jeff Done permitted it? Jeff Done, the Jeff Done that we know?”
The more he did, the stranger the atmosphere of the venue flowed.
“Jeff Done, the person that anyone would choose when talking about who the best programmer is. However, he is also a proper noun of pickiness, and is also basically a representative of the closed-source faction. Such a person allowed you to see the source? Do you really want us to believe in your words?”
As Kenneth had said, Jeff Done didn’t share any of his sources on the internet.
It wasn’t that he hated open-source, but he never shared his own source.
Moreover, he even gave permission to use the source?
Just as when YongHo was about to sort his thoughts out, Steve stepped in.
This line was from a chief-level personnel of the company. And the method he talked about could receive approval from anyone.
Without even asking YongHo for his opinion, Steve continued speaking.
Steve called, and the phone ringing sounds came out through the connected speaker.
Ring ring.
(T/N: I think a “Hello?” is missing)
It seemed the number had been correct as Jeff’s voice came out.
However, it was Steve that was calling him.
Unlike the normally soft Steve (T/N: Wut?) Jeff’s voice was picky, just like the rumors.
Jeff didn’t even talk a lot. He wanted to end the call as soon as he received it. Since Steve knew that Jeff would definitely do so, he hurriedly continued speaking.
Steve suddenly made YongHo a friend of Jeff. Never did YongHo say that he was close to Jeff.
“I have no such person. Done?”
Even so, Jeff didn’t hesitate whatsoever.
It was fortunate that English had no ‘polite’ form of speech.
Since he felt like the call would end at any moment, Steve hurriedly called out to Jeff again.
“Get him on the phone.”
With the phone, Steve himself went to YongHo at the front.
YongHo curtly said on the phone.
Jay, it was Jeff’s nickname.
YongHo didn’t use that name much normally, but now, he felt like he must do so.
Jeff’s words resounded across the hall.
He sounded as picky as ever, but YongHo was more delighted than anything right now.
YongHo explained the situation to Jeff, without leaving any facts out.
Jeff’s last phrase nailed it.
Numerous programmers gathered towards YongHo.
However, they soon had no choice but to make way.
The CEO of the company had come, so there was no way anyone would block the path.
“Oh, thank you very much.”
He was younger and more handsome than he had expected.
Chief Executive Officer, a.k.a. CEO of the company.
“Mr. YongHo’s achievements were so strong, to the point that we are now thinking a lot about you.”
“Capability is followed by the treatment befitting it.”
America was somewhere where one could get fired the very next day without any signs.
Sometimes in Silicon Valley, there were cases where someone who entered as an intern would become a CEO the next day after being invested in.
There was no set ‘cast’ either.
“……”
YongHo swallowed dry saliva.
Not only had he been promoted into a senior level personnel in less than a year, if this project went well, he was ‘promised’ not ‘considered’ to be promoted to the chief level.
His friends, who were listening from behind from the beginning, all stepped up.
“YongHo, congratz. I knew it would become like this. Don’t move houses just because you got promoted, okay?”
“Should I treat you like my superiors now?”
Even until then, YongHo was not prepared to receive their greetings properly.
Only after he received the document for his raise in salary the next morning did he start to feel that it was all real.
Two hundred and seventy thousand US dollars.
This was his new salary.
In Korean won, it was about 200 million won.
Of course, stuff like annual salary was private, so people couldn’t speak about it to others.
However, he thought he should at least thank that person.
YongHo’s two hands were full of snacks.
Only because there was his source could he solve the server overload and receive such treatment.
“I’m here.”
Perhaps because he had been here too often, no one found YongHo being here a strange thing.
Jeff was as picky as ever.
Today, it seemed that he didn’t even have the time to shave, as a prickly beard could be seen on his chin.
“You’re not even one of us, and what treat?”
If he didn’t like someone, then he wouldn’t even talk to that person.
Yu SoHyun also tried to get close to YongHo, but he was already surrounded by many people.
She couldn’t see any gaps to get closer to him. (T/N: Poor SoHyun T^T)