Life at the Top

Ecen if Jasper had not gifted Hoofmorn University such an unrefusable present, Mr. Marshman would still have welcomed Jasper grandly on behalf of Old Master Law’s introduction and Jasper’s strengths.

However, such a grand greeting would only be out of common respect.

After all, Old Master Law had put in a word, and Jasper was no longer the nobody he once was.

As the owner of JW Capital and its subsidiaries, Jasper was quite a formidable man.

However, Jasper did not want a courteous greeting for the sake of respect.

Jasper hoped to establish an even deeper relationship with Hoofmorn University so that it could become a place that nurtured JW’s future talents.

“Mr. Marshman, Department Chiefs, since we’ve already brought up the matter, then allow me to go straight to the point.”

In the small meeting room in Hoofmorn University’s administrative building, Jasper cleared his throat in front of a group of professors and cleared his thoughts before he started slowly.

“You are all experts in your academic fields, so I won’t make a fool out of myself by introducing what the stepper does and how important it is. I trust that all of you know it better than I do.

“Its importance is the reason why the West has imposed a major blockade on this technical project, preventing it from reaching our shores for the past few decades.

“But does this mean we’ll have to sit and wait for the West to overpower us just because they’ve sealed off the technology?

“No!

“Coincidentally, my JW company has business in just such a field.

own team and try to achieve a breakthrough on the stepper’s manufacturing technology. This will need more than an astronomical amount of funds, but also the technical support from the best research team in the

came

and had also published the most research findings on the stepper. This is why Hoofmorn University will be the

already expected the contents of Jasper’s speech, they still found themselves excited by the man’s

we are very willing

at least tens

the time, money, and effort will be for naught if we fail. This isn’t something

this was a professor of Hoofmorn University’s digital information

news if someone was willing to fund their research, the issue was with just how large the research project would be. Not only was this

To be

firm gaze swept over everyone in the meeting room before he continued decisively, “I’ll invest at least 20 billion within one year. In

20 billion!

was in an

the room was an academic expert, they were still financially normal people who lived on a monthly salary. They might have made

That’s enough to fill this meeting room, isn’t it?” Someone

flew about, Patrick turned to look at Jasper and asked, “Jasper, are you coming up with this funding yourself,

“JW will shoulder the full burden of the project. There will not be any other sources of funding, so I will be the only one in

funding will be

you have to think carefully. This is 20 billion.

it fails, then JW will face the risk of

frank with all of you. JW’s currently has a very tight cash flow, and while it won’t affect day-to-day operations of the business, suddenly taking up such an important research project will surely place

pondered over his next words for a moment before he continued, “But as far as I’m concerned, companies are like men, and there are some things we should and should not do. No matter how difficult, if it’s something that should be done, then I’ll get it done as soon as possible. The current predicament JW is facing is an experience it has to undergo in order

time, perhaps once your company’s financial situation is stable