Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 329 Hold the Competitors in the Palm of Your Hand
All kinds of start-up companies in Silicon Valley, like crops, are sown by venture investors in spring and harvested in autumn, and have been baptized by the market one after another. A large proportion of them have fallen on the road to wealth due to various reasons.

And the successful ones, after accumulating wealth, often turn around and transform into venture capitalists.

No matter how the start-up companies live or die on the micro level, venture capitalists will not suffer losses. What they play is a "gamble". On the macro level, as long as one or two of the ten companies are successfully listed, they can guarantee a huge profit.

For example, James Clark, who is currently an associate professor at Stanford University, founded Silicon Graphics, Inc., which dominated the graphics workstation market in the 1980s, in the original time and space.

By the 1990s, he had become one of the richest people and invested US$500 million in Internet pioneer Netscape, which turned into US$20 billion after its successful IPO.

Another example is another small group that Tang Huan paid special attention to: Andy Bechtolsheim from Stanford University——Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla——Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy——Scott McNealy , and Bill Joy from the University of California, Berkeley——Bill Joy, four people in the original time and space jointly founded Sun Microsystems, which invented the JAVA language——Sun Microsystems.

Among them, Vinod Khosla, who served as the first president and chief executive officer, also became a venture capitalist after resigning in 1984. He was also called Silicon Valley Venture Capital along with Arthur Rock, Don Valentine, and John Doerr. The four giants of the world.

According to the historical development, SGI and SUN were founded several months later, and the business plans of these two groups of people are now on Tang Huan's desk. Originally, he knew the situation in time and space well, so he didn't even look at it, and directly gave an interested reply.

These founders came here in a hurry, and there is a reason for it. Gein, regardless of SGI's graphics workstation or SUN's general workstation, the operating system is an extremely important link.

The other people present also had resounding IDs on the BBS.

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

After Tang Huan greeted these people, just as he was about to take out his script and start giving a speech, people from CNN approached him.

The cooperation between the two parties is limited to a few people who know it, and the reporter in front of him is obviously not included.

Tang Huan, who looked normal, made an apologetic gesture, and then asked his assistant to greet him, and found a seat to sit down.

唐焕的演讲是拿自家的FreeDOS和万象/AllOS做为例子的，前者为宏内核，支持32位的MC68000系列、16位的Intel 8086系列、8位的MOS6502系列、Intel 8080系列、Z80系列、MC6800系列，适用范围最广；后者则为混合内核，只支持易鹏/Holder和MC68000，并且还没有正式对外发布。

The audience who forced Tang Huan to give a speech on the BBS were not ordinary people, especially technical elites like Bill Joy, who were thinking deeply about the issues in their heads, and Tang Huan had to come up with some dry goods to deal with.

The people in the "X-Files" program group were overwhelmed by the mist, so they turned on the equipment to record and dozed off secretly. When it was over, they quickly added a sentence, "In the world of technical geniuses, ordinary people still don't need to work hard. It's a pleasure to study."

Now that he met people from the two founding teams of SGI and SUN, Tang Huan called them directly to have a chat.

Needless to say, once established, SGI and SUN will be competitors of Fangyuan Computer.

At present, the most powerful general-purpose microprocessor is basically Motorola's MC68000.

Jim Clark used the MC68000 for his graphics workstation, and Andy Bechtolsheim for his general-purpose workstation, which directly corresponds to the high-end product line of Fangyuan Computer.

If the personal computer market becomes more entrenched in a few years, no matter how much Tang Huan gives himself wings and aura to pretend to be an angel, people will not take the initiative to come to his door.

Jamina, who ran away from Atari, also used MC68000 to develop a new game console platform Amiga, which inadvertently corresponded to the second-generation Xiaobawang game console.

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

According to this principle, Tang Huan should take advantage of SGI and SUN's rise, and directly eliminate them in the bud.

But in fact, this idea does not work.

Similar to how actors become actors in Hollywood, Silicon Valley can be said to be a hero made by the times. No one is indispensable. A large number of elites gather here, and their abilities are comparable.

After killing Microsoft, Kildare just continued to promote CP/M; after killing Intel, Zilog, which has a microprocessor Z80 with a compatible architecture, also has room for development.

In Tang Huan's view, relying on foresight to directly and brutally eliminate known competitors who are still in their infancy and on the bright side does not mean that the general trend will not breed unknown new competitors in secret, but rather A waste of information asymmetry advantage, lowering everyone's IQ.

Just like the original version of Jobs at Apple and Don Estridge at IBM, no matter how tricky he is, Tang Huan can easily assess the gains and losses, hold competitors in his hands, and play with Monkey King If you come to somersault tricks in your palm, this is the way with the highest safety factor.

Besides, even if Tang Huan wanted to directly incorporate SGI and SUN, he had little hope.

Jim Clark's research direction at Stanford University is Geometry Pipelines-geometric pipelines, that is, to display 3D images through special software and hardware acceleration, and his team has already achieved the results of geometric engines.

In addition, Jim Clark grew up in a very difficult environment, 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.

While at Stanford, Andy Bechtolsheim was inspired by PARC's personal computer, the Xerox Alto.Using MC68000 to design a system called Stanford University Network Workstation - SUN workstation.

Naturally, this achievement has also become capital for entrepreneurship, and its network team is even more powerful.

Andy Bechtolsheim served as the first hardware design engineer; Bill Joy had experience in developing the operating system Berkeley Software Distribution——BSD, the Berkeley software suite, and served as the chief scientist; Vinodkos, who was born in Stanford University MBA La and Scott McCreary, in charge of administration.

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

Of course, during the tenure of Scott McCreney, it took Sun nearly 20 years to reach its peak in the Internet bubble, and then it took only one year to be knocked down from the altar, so that it finally became ORACLE. of the capsule.

In any case, after all, SUN has been brilliant in the hands of Scott McCreney, and can compete with Microsoft for the industry hegemony.

Therefore, the founder team of SUN is quite well matched in terms of technology and operation.

More importantly, Stanford University's high-tech market-oriented entrepreneurial mechanism has long been established. Jim Clark and Andy Bettlesheim, who have already achieved results, handed over their business plans, and venture investors started to take notice. These well-established technical teams are highly favored.

It has to be said that compared with Jemina, who developed electronic game consoles, and Jobs and Woz, who did not graduate from college, the highly educated SGI and SUN founder teams, combined with advanced technological achievements such as workstations, are more attractive to investors. Create a sense of trust.

Although Tang Huan is not the only source of funds to choose, as long as he participates in the investment, there will be plenty of opportunities to mix sand.

For example, when meeting with Jim Clark, Tang Huan put himself in the position and suggested: "Based on my experience, the sooner a product is launched, the better for the company to gain a firm foothold in the market and avoid shareholders who don't understand technology. Pointing fingers."

Seeing that Jim Clark nodded in agreement, Tang Huan smiled slightly, "The microprocessor MC68000 you are using now is the most mature and stable operating system on the market. FreeDOS is definitely the most mature and stable operating system on the market, and the Vientiane/ AllOS is even better, and features such as multi-tasking support are not a problem. If you adopt it, it will undoubtedly greatly speed up the progress of technology becoming a commodity."
"I believe in Zheru's technical strength." Jim Clark agreed without hesitation, "You will help the center to make a bridge."

"Of course." Tang Huan laughed.

After all matters were finalized and Jim Clark took the check and left excitedly, the corners of Tang Huan's mouth twitched slightly.

It is natural for SGI to be a competitor of Fangyuan Computer, but in addition to paying dividends to itself, it has to give some of the benefits it has snatched from Fangyuan Computer to Zheru.

For SUN's entrepreneurial team, Tang Huan first called Bill Joy alone.

"I invited you to Zheru, but you refused in every possible way. It turns out that you have already planned." Tang Huan complained openly.

"Zheru already has AllOS, but I still want to continue to develop BSD. Andy Bechtolsheim's SUN workstation just provides such an opportunity, so I can only say sorry." Bill Joy said carelessly. laughed.

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 contributed to Bill Joy's BSD project, and the IDs of the two on the BBS are equally well-known.

Zheru has designed and implemented his own high-end operating system AllOS, so naturally he cannot give R&D resources to BSD derived from UNIX. It is impossible for Tang Huan to use this to coax Bill Joy. It was empty.

Seeing that this matter was irreversible, Tang Huan could only shake his head regretfully. In the original time and space, Solaris, Sun's operating system, was developed from Bill Joy's BSD Unix. It can be seen that he is persistent, so forget it.

Andy Bettlesheim, who developed the SUN workstation, is a West German, and Vinod Khosla, who plans to serve as CEO, is an Indian. Therefore, the SUN founding team can be said to be an international alliance.

When Tang Huan met with this team, he recommended his own database EBase to SUN. This is not a [-]% sandstorm, but he hopes to expand the market share of EBase.

Because with the promotion of various information management systems, the marketing department reported that they have begun to meet with their counterparts from IBM and ORACLE at the same customer.

Tang Huan supports both capital and technology, which can be said to be thoughtful. The founder team of SGI and SUN are very grateful for such a nanny-style angel investor, and they never thought that they would be infiltrated by others.

This is also normal, although these elites are ambitious to seek gold, but after all, they have not made any achievements, so they take it for granted that they position themselves, and it is not worth others' deliberate calculations.

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Tang Huan cooperated with CNN's "X-Files" program team to conduct interviews to complete the last wave of public opinion counterattacks, and then quickly picked up the itinerary of the trip to the mainland, letting the accompanying teams take their places and sit on Silicon Valley One , from San Francisco to Yanjing.

Lin Qingxia's parents were also among the entourage, because Tang Huan had already used his relationship to help them find their eldest daughter who had been lost for many years in China, so they just took this opportunity to get to know each other.

Lin Qingxia didn't accompany her around. After all, this trip was relatively formal, and her identity, like Deng Lijun, was too sensitive, and she was one of the political propaganda tools of Baodao.

In this era, Yanjing was not plagued by smog, and it was in the season of crisp autumn. Looking out of the window, the scenery is pleasing to the eye.

But when people saw the two fighter planes, they immediately panicked and looked at Tang Huan with unison.

"Be safe and don't be impatient, it's the escort." Tang Huanyun waved his hand calmly.

(End of this chapter)