Reborn 2005: The Internet Myth

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the three candidate CEOs came to the company and entered Wang Zheng's office together under the leadership of Catherine.

They are Ben Collins, Jeff Wolf, and Jim White.

Wang Zheng has no impression of these three people, but they have one thing in common, they are all technical talents.

Ben Collins is not a CEO, but his last job was the project leader of the open source operating system Redhat.

Jim is the one with the best resume. He is currently the COO of Delta Airlines, has a double bachelor's degree in computer science and economics, and a Harvard MBA degree.

Jeff Wolf serves as COO of another open source operating system, Ubuntu.

Because the future emergence of Hongmeng system will be widely publicized by the media and many Linux distribution systems will be compared, Wang Zheng knows something about Debian and Ubuntu.

These two companies will do quite well in the future.

The current main task of Altron Company is development. The requirements for administrative management are not too high. Instead, they require some technical capabilities to avoid administrative management from interfering with the development progress.

So Wang Zheng chose a group interview. He wanted to see what these three people thought about administrative management so that he could make a choice.

Wang Zheng stood up to welcome the three of them, and then sat down casually on a small round table.

"My name is Justin Fehr, founder of Ultron."

After the three of them introduced themselves, Wang Zheng, as the interviewer, did not directly enter the interview session, but chatted casually.

"Everyone, have you ever used Huorong? Is it safe? What are your opinions?"

All three people nodded and said they have used it. White said: "It is a great security software. If it is not free, I think it can create higher value."

Wolf retorted: "I don't think so. If Huorong Security is not free, it will be difficult to be competitive in the market."

Collins agrees with Wolf: "Yes. McAfee and Symantec are so powerful. They are almost everywhere. I think free is a good idea. And cloud antivirus, my God, the more people use it, the more people use it.

The more powerful you become, that’s great!”

White shrugged: "Maybe you are right, but I don't think this is how it should be."

Wang Zheng was more interested in his point of view: "As you know, my purpose in establishing Ultron is to create a new operating system. Win is too bad, with viruses, pop-ups, and junk ads."

Collins nodded and said, "Yes, I wanted to buy a basin, but I bought a leaking sieve."

White also agreed and expressed his own opinion: "But the win system is too simple. We should also make a simple and easy-to-use system instead of the Linux command line."

"Linux can also make beautiful interfaces." Wolf said: "It's just that no one develops applications for it. They only use it to run services."

The four of them chatted for about ten minutes, and finally came to the conflicting issue of "open source" and "closed source".

Wang Zheng had been observing the conversations of these three people and gradually made a decision.

Then he clapped his hands and said with a smile: "You three, why don't you listen to me? We can choose in both directions about what I want to do."

All three people nodded and looked at Wang Zheng seriously.

"I want to make a free operating system and have limited open source."

"It should have the ability to regulate developers, allow users to use safe and efficient software, and also allow developers to receive adequate compensation."

"It should be adaptable to all electronic products, including but not limited to PCs, Macs, servers, and handheld consoles. We need to make a universal operating system and maintain a unified standard."

"We should provide more excellent services and make this the focus of profitability."

"Three gentlemen, Altron will be a technology-driven service company that provides services to everyone who works, entertains, and studies on this platform."

"I'm ready for a new system kernel, a new programming language, and a new compiler. Who among you is willing to help me get rid of Microsoft's terrible win system?"

When the three of them looked at Wang Zheng's confident look, no one thought that the young man in front of them was talking nonsense. There was no one who was not crazy in terms of skills.

His ideal may be out of reach, but who dares to say that he will not be the next Bill Gates?

Jim White first applauded and said: "Justin, I believe you can do it. I hope to serve Ultron until I am defeated by Microsoft, or defeat Microsoft!"

"Thank you, Mr. White." Wang Zheng stood up and shook hands with Jim White, saying that he had chosen him as CEO.

Then he looked at Ben Collins, who looked slightly annoyed, and said with a smile: "Mr. Collins, I think your philosophy is very consistent with Ultron. If you are willing, I can provide you with the position of Chief Information Officer CIO."

Collins was stunned for a moment, then stood up and shook hands, "Of course, I think Ultron will become a great company."

Finally, there was Jeff Wolf. Wang Zheng had no choice but to say to him regretfully: "I'm sorry, Mr. Wolf. In view of the company's development direction, I'm afraid I can't provide you with a position. I'm sorry."

"It doesn't matter." Wolf smiled: "I will continue to watch Ultron and wish you success."

During the chat, Jeff Wolf insisted on the completely open source and free strategy of Linux.

But Wang Zheng doesn’t want to be the next Gu Ge, but the first Ultron.

Jeff was older and it was not easy to change his thinking, so he had to give up.

As for White and Collins, one has better academic qualifications and resume, while the other is more inclined to technical management. At the same time, they strongly agree with Wang Zheng’s philosophy.

Senior talents are a double choice. Collins's willingness to give up CEO and become CIO is also a disguised compromise, which only shows that he is very optimistic about Ultron and Wang Zheng.

Wang Zheng clapped his hands, attracted the attention of Jim White and Ben Collins, opened the notebook on the desk, pointed at the screen and said: "White, Collins, come and take a look at our new system."

What is running on the screen is the Hongmeng system that has been streamlined to the extreme. A window called "Char Language Development Kit" operates on the interface.

Char language is the English name of Cangjie language.

Then he took three printed documents on the table and handed them to Jim and Ben, and said: "This is the development language guide of Ultron. Next we will hire a CTO. The topic is to learn the Cangjie language as soon as possible and use it to try to write A program.”

"Every computer outside can be used. I'll leave this interview to you."

Jim and Collins understood that this was their first task and also a test, so they left the office together.

Cangjie language is still derived from C and assembly language, and is easy to use and very friendly.

A master who knows programming can master it in a few hours. Not to mention that Cangjie development tools are advanced visual programming, and the efficiency will be greatly improved.

That's why Wang Zhengcai came up with this question to select the most suitable chief technology officer.