Rebirth of the Tech Madman

All kinds of startups in Silicon Valley, like crops, are sown by venture investors in spring and autumn, stubbornly undergoing the baptism of the market. For various reasons, a large proportion of them have fallen on the road to wealth.

After the successful ones have accumulated wealth, they often turn around and become venture investors.

No matter how the startup company lives or dies at the micro level, venture investors will not suffer. What he is playing is a "gambling". As long as one or two of the ten companies are listed successfully, they can guarantee a big profit.

For example, Jim Clark, currently an associate professor at Stanford University, founded the Silicon Valley graphics company that dominated the graphics workstation market in the 1980s.

In the 1990s, he was already among the richest and invested 5 million U.S. dollars in Internet pioneer Netscape. As a result, after his success, this fortune became 2 billion U.S. dollars.

Another example is another small group that made Tang Huan pay special attention: Andy Bertorsheim, Vinod Khosla, Sealy Scott McCliny from Stanford University, and Bill Joy from the University of California, Berkeley, In the original space-time ¤↙chang ¤↙wind ¤↙wen ¤↙learning, c■∷t four people co-founded Sun Microsystems, which invented the java language.

Among them, Vinod Khosla, who served as the first president and chief executive officer, left office in 1984. Has become a venture capitalist. Together with Arthur Locke, Don Valentine, and John Durr, they are also called the four giants in the Silicon Valley venture capital industry.

Follow the historical trajectory. He and Sun were founded a few months later, and the business plans of the two groups of people are now on Tang Huan’s desk, but he has been busy putting out fires recently, and he has a good understanding of Sun’s original time and space. I didn't even look at it, and gave an interesting reply directly.

These founders rushed to rush, and there is a reason for it. Regardless of Gein's graphics workstation or sun's general-purpose workstation, the operating system is an extremely important link.

Other people present also have a resounding id on bbs.

It can be said that this speech on the operating system is entirely the result of a collective petition on bbs.

After Tang Huan had greeted these people, he was about to take out the manuscript and start the speech, and they came to him.

The cooperation between the two parties is limited to a few people, and the reporters in front of them are obviously not included.

Tang Huan, who looked as usual, made an apologetic gesture, and then asked his assistant to greet him. Find a place to sit down.

Tang Huan’s speech took his own and Wanxiang/as examples, the former being the macro core. Supports 32-bit series, 16-bit intel8086 series, 8-bit series, intel8080 series, z80 series, and series, with the widest application range; the latter is a hybrid kernel, only supports Yipeng/He, and has not been officially released yet .

These audiences who forced Tang Huan to give a speech on bbs are not ordinary people, especially technical elites like Bill Joy, who have deep thoughts in their heads, and Tang Huan has to come up with some dry goods to deal with.

The people in the "X-Files" program group heard Yunshan Mist, so they dozed off secretly while turning on the equipment to record. When it was over, they quickly added, "In the world of technical genius, ordinary people shouldn’t bother. Pleased to study."

Now that the two founding team members of He and Sun met, Tang Huan called directly over to talk.

Needless to say, once established and Sun, they are both competitors of Fangyuan Computer.

At present, the most powerful general-purpose microprocessor is basically Motorola's.

Jim Clark has adopted it for his own graphics workstation and Andy Bertorsheim for his general workstation. This corresponds directly to the high-end product line of Fangyuan Computer.

If in a few more years, the personal computer market will become tighter, it is estimated that no matter how much Tang Huan puts wings on himself and pretends to be angels, people will not take the initiative to send them to the door.

Jermain, who left from Atari, also used it to develop a new game console platform, which inadvertently matched the second-generation Cassidy game console.

Recently, Tang Huan intervened halfway through, and he succeeded in taking the project team into his own hands.

According to this principle, Tang Huan should eliminate Sun and Sun in the bud before they have risen.

But in fact, this idea doesn't work.

Similar to Hollywood role-achieving actors, Silicon Valley can be described as a hero of the times. No one is indispensable. A large number of elites are gathered here, and their abilities are comparable. It is nothing more than the choice of a lucky person by history.

Killed Microsoft, Kildare just continued to promote cp/m; Killed Intel, companies with compatible architecture microprocessor z80, also have room for development.

In Tang Huan's view, relying on foresight to directly and rudely eliminate known competitors that are still in the budding stage and on the bright side does not mean that the general situation will not conceive new unknown competitors in secret, but rather Waste the advantage of information asymmetry and lower everyone's IQ.

Just like Jobs is currently on the track of Apple and Don Estrich in the original version of ibm, no matter how much he plays, Tang Huan can easily assess the gains and losses, holding competitors in his palms and playing with grandchildren. The trick of the Tathagata palm and somersault is the safest way.

Besides, even if Tang Huan wants to include Sun directly. I hope not too much.

Jim Clark's research direction at Stanford University is geometric pipelines. That is, 3d images are displayed through special software and hardware acceleration. His team already has the results of the geometry engine.

In addition, Jim Clark's growth environment is very difficult, and his desire for wealth is not so easy to satisfy. He has no reason to give up the opportunity to fight for himself when he has a large number of technical followers.

Andy Bertolsheim was inspired by his personal computer during his time at Stanford University. A system was designed, called Workstation.

Naturally, this achievement has also become the capital of entrepreneurship. And its network team is also extremely strong.

Andy Bertolsheim served as the first hardware design engineer; Bill Joy had experience in developing an operating system, the Berkeley software suite, and served as the chief scientist; Vinod Khosla and Scott Mack from Stanford University's mba Rini is in charge of administrative affairs.

In the original time and space, Vinod Khosla stepped down as CEO. After entering the venture capital industry, Scott McCliny took over this position for more than 20 years.

Of course, it was during Scott McCliny’s tenure that Sun spent nearly two decades to reach the peak of the Internet bubble, and then was knocked off the altar in only one year. So that it finally became the inside of the bag.

In any case, Sun has been brilliant in the hands of Scott McCliny after all. Can compete with Microsoft for the industry dominance.

Therefore, the sun's founder team has a very good combination of technology and operation.

More importantly, Stanford University’s high-tech market-oriented entrepreneurial mechanism has taken shape. Jim Clark and Andy Bertorsheim, who have already achieved results, once handed out the business plan, venture investors responded to these Gen Zheng Miaohong's technical team favored them.

It has to be said that compared with Gemina who developed electronic game consoles, and Jobs and Woz, who did not graduate from university, the highly educated and sun founder team, coupled with advanced technological achievements such as workstations, can make investors more productive. sense of trust.

Although Tang Huan is not the only choice of funding sources, as long as he participates in the investment, there is an opportunity to mix sand.

For example, during a meeting with Jim Clark, Tang Huan put himself in and suggested: "From my experience, the sooner the product is released, the better it will be for the company to gain a firm foothold in the market and avoid shareholders who do not understand technology. Point and finger."

Seeing Jim Clark nodded in agreement, Tang Huan smiled slightly, "The microprocessor you are using now, the most mature and stable operating system on the market, absolutely count, and there is no official release of Vientiane/more Excellent, multi-tasking and other features are not a problem. If you adopt it, it will undoubtedly speed up the progress of technology into a commodity."

"I believe in the technical prowess of philosophers." Jim Clark agreed without hesitation, "You will help the center match."

"Of course." Tang Huan laughed.

When all matters were finalized, Jim Clark took the check and left happily, Tang Huan glanced at the corner of his mouth.

To be a competitor of Fangyuan Computer, you have nothing to do, but apart from paying dividends to yourself, you have to spit out some of the benefits you robbed from Fangyuan Computer to the philosophers.

For Sun’s entrepreneurial team, Tang Huan first called Bill Joy alone.

"I invite you to Zheru, you declined in every possible way. It turns out that you had planned for a long time." Tang Huan complained frankly.

"Zheru already has it, but I still want to continue to develop bsd. Andy Bertorsheim's sun workstation just provides such an opportunity, so I can only say sorry." Bill Joy grinned. Up.

Tang Huan and Bill Joy have been in contact for a long time. Apart from the fact that they both belong to the University of California, Berkeley, Tang Huan has also made contributions to Bill Joy’s bsd project, and their id on bbs is even more famous.

Zheru has designed and implemented its own high-end operating system, so naturally he cannot give R&D resources to the bsd derived from it. Tang Huan cannot use this to trick Bill Joy. Because of this, his desire to recruit the other party to his subordinates has fallen. air.

Seeing that this matter was irreversible, Tang Huan could only shook his head regretfully. In the original time and space, Sun's operating system was developed by Bill Joey, which shows his persistence, so forget it.

Andy Bertorsheim, who developed the sun workstation, is a German, and Vinod Khosla, who plans to assume the position of CEO, is an Indian. Therefore, the sun founder team can be described as an international alliance.

When Tang Huan met this team, he recommended his own database ebase to Sun. This is not 100% mixed with sand, but he hopes to expand ebase's market share.

Because with the promotion of various information management systems and the feedback from the marketing department, they have begun to meet with ibm and their counterparts in the same customer repeatedly.

Tang Huan supports both capital and technology. It can be described as thoughtful and thoughtful. Such a nanny-style angel investor is so grateful to the founder team of Hesun. He never thought that he would be infiltrated by others.

This is also normal. Although these elites are ambitiously wanting to pan for gold, they have not yet achieved any results. It is not worthy of others to deliberately calculate~www.wuxiaspot.com~Tang Huan cooperated with the "X File" program team to interview After completing the last wave of public opinion counterattacks, he quickly picked up the itinerary of the trip to the mainland, and let the various teams accompanying them sit on the No. 1 Silicon Valley and fly from San Francisco to Yanjing.

Lin Qingxia's parents were also among the entourage, because Tang Huan had helped them find their long-lost eldest daughter in the country, so she took this opportunity to recognize each other.

Lin Qingxian was not accompanied, after all, this trip was more formal, and her identity was the same as Deng Lijun's, too sensitive, and belonged to one of Baodao's political and propaganda tools.

In this era, Yanjing has not been bothered by smog, and it is in the autumn season. Looking out from the airport, the scenery is pleasing to the eye.

But when people saw the two fighters, they immediately panicked and looked at Tang Huan together.

"Sao'an, don't be impatient, that's the escort." Tang Huanyun waved his hand calmly. (To be continued...)

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