Chapter 63: O-OS

"You want to start a company?" Kate asked. She was seated on a lounge chair with a glass of wine in her hands. She took a few sips and then looked back at him.

"You have had a lot of ideas that worked, so I cannot even begin to say your plan will not work at all. The question is, do you believe you have what it takes to make the world stop and use your products rather than the products that they have been using before?" She asked calmly.

Leon smiled, a bright smile that said it all. He was sure that he had what it took.

"Of course I have it. I already have everything that I could possibly need, and you can come over tomorrow and take a look at it," Leon replied calmly.

She was shocked by how confident he sounded.

"Then explain to me what you plan to do?"

"Well, I plan to start by taking over the smartphone business worldwide," Leon stated with a confidence that caused her to stop drinking from her glass. She looked at him, waiting to hear that he was joking, but it did not seem like he was joking at all.

"You have to be kidding. Do you know what you have to do to become the number one company?" She asked.

"More or less. I have to dominate the existing company, Plum Tech," he said casually.

"Yeah, and Plum Tech has been in the business for more than fifty years. They basically have a monopoly over phones," Kate explained.

"They do, but at one point in their journey, they considered a particular phone brand a competitor, the Logic Phone Company. But Logic did not survive it and had to be relegated to second forever," Leon said.

"Logic is simply surviving because of people with nostalgia. They have not topped or threatened to top at all. Their valuation at this point is a hundred million to get majority shares of the company and everything they control.

But no one wants to buy it because no sensible rich person believes that they could overthrow Plum," she explained.

"Exactly, which means Logic might be willing to hand over everything that they have for fifty million if we bargain well. I also read that they have refused to sell to any person who wanted to use their company for anything other than phones. It’s the decision of the owner, Lewis Von Helton."

"Seems you did a lot of reading on the issue," Kate said. "So I’m guessing that you plan to take it for Oroboros because you want to make phones and you believe that will be enough for them to sell. But you have also forgotten the part where it is stated that he will only sell to someone with a plan good enough to dominate Plum, something that you know is extremely hard."

"Yeah, I read that as well, and I’m willing to tell you that I have things that will dominate Plum," Leon said with confidence.

"Alright then, lay it on me. What do you have in mind that makes you feel you can dominate?"

"Well, first will be the O-OS, our special operating system that will be the base for it all, but made from a set of programming languages and engines that only I have access to, which means something no one has ever seen before."

"You want to develop a new operating system? Do you know how easy it will be to have bugs in such a system? One wrong code and the whole thing will be wasted, and millions will have to be thrown into it. Even with your wealth, this is a crazy endeavour, trying to create an OS that destroys that of Plum."

"I have that planned out already, and when you come to see it, you’ll be quite shocked with what I have. My operating system will have a lot more, being able to show the greatest leap in progress that phone tech has ever had.

Then there will be the fact that your phone can be something you can actually rely on, an AI that is beyond what has ever been created, a partner and more. But all those are pitches that will not sell the phone the best.

I plan to ensure that a lot of new things are introduced, like a phone that can be easily used to contact the outside world from inside the gates."

When he said that, she froze. "What the hell did you say?" She asked eagerly.

"Yeah, there will be no need for high-level gear to be able to communicate inside the gates. The phone will not be obstructed by mana when in the gate because it will be able to harness and use a special mode called mana communication, where mana surrounding the phone will be transformed into a method of carrying information, and our towers will be able to convert it right back into a cell network that the phone outside can pick up.

For that, I’ll need a lot of infrastructure built, but I assure you that I have all of it prepped and ready," Leon said with a smile still on his face.

She stared at him for a few seconds, wondering if this was a fairy tale or if Leon had drunk or smoked something.

She took a deep breath. "I cannot deny the fact that your pitch has actually blown my mind out of the water. I want to find out what you really have prepared, so I’ll come in tomorrow and see what you have on the ground.

Trusting you has managed to make me a lot richer. I’m not going to stop trusting you now."

"Good, because you have to be my first business partner," Leon said.

They said their goodbyes and cut the call. Leon leaned back into his chair.

"Haha, hahahah!" He broke into laughter and stared at all the monitors and computers he had set up, each one running a similar program at the same time.

O-OS