Rebirth of the Tech Madman

All kinds of start-up companies in Silicon Valley, like crops, are sown by venture capitalists in spring and 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, Jim Clark, who is currently an associate professor at Stanford University, originally founded the Silicon Valley graphics company that dominated the graphics workstation market in the 1980s.

By the 1990s, he had already joined the ranks of the rich and invested US$5 million in Internet pioneer Netscape, which turned into US$2 billion after its success.

Another example is another small group that Tang Huan paid special attention to: Andy Bechtolsheim from Stanford University, Vinod Khosla, Sealy Scott McIlney, and Bill Joy from the University of California, Berkeley, Originally, time and space ¤↙Changfeng ¤↙¤↙literature, four people in c■∷t co-founded Sun Microsystems, which invented the java language.

Among them, Vinod Khosla, who served as the first president and CEO, stepped down in 1984. Also became a venture capitalist. Together with Arthur Rock, Don Valentine, and John Doerr, they are called the four giants in the venture capital circle of Silicon Valley.

Follow the historical trajectory. He and Sun were founded several months later, and the business plans of these two groups of people are now on Tang Huan's desk. However, he has been busy with putting out fires recently, and he knows the situation of He Sun in the original time and space like the palm of his hand. I didn't even look at it, and gave an interested reply directly.

These founders rushed here for a reason. Regardless of Gein's graphics workstation or Sun's general-purpose 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 bbs.

After Tang Huan greeted these people, just as he was about to take out the script and start giving a speech, the people from the office came over.

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. Find a place to sit down.

Tang Huan’s speech took his own He Vientiane/ as an example,

The former is a macro kernel. Support 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/ and, and has not been officially released .

The audience who forced Tang Huan to give a speech on 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 secretly dozed off while turning on the recording equipment, and when it was over, they quickly added a sentence, In the world of technical geniuses, ordinary people still don't need to work hard. Kindly went to research.

Now that people from the two founding teams of He and Sun met, Tang Huan called over directly to have a chat.

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

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

Jim Clark for his own graphics workstation, and Andy Bechtolsheim for his general-purpose workstation, both adopted it by coincidence, which directly corresponds to the high-end product line of Fangyuan Computer.

If in a few years, the personal computer market becomes more fortified, no matter how much Tang Huan puts wings on himself and pretends to be an angel, people will not take the initiative to send him to his door.

Jemina, who left Atari, also used it to develop a new game console platform, 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 He Sun's rise, and directly wipe it out in the bud, and it will be over once and for all.

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, companies with a microprocessor z80 with a compatible architecture also have 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 Jobs is currently at Apple and Don Estridge is on the track of the original version of IBM, no matter how he plays tricks, Tang Huan can easily assess the gains and losses, hold competitors in his palm, and play Monkey King Tathagata's somersault trick is the safest method.

Besides, even if Tang Huan wanted to incorporate Sun directly. Not much hope either.

Jim Clark's research at Stanford University is in geometric pipelines. That is to display 3D images through special software and hardware acceleration. His team already has results for Geometry Engine.

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.

Andy Bechtolsheim was inspired by personal computers during his time at Stanford University. A system was designed, called a workstation.

Naturally, this achievement also became the capital of entrepreneurship. And its network team is equally powerful.

Andy Bechtolsheim served as the first hardware design engineer; Bill Joy had experience in developing the operating system, that is, the Berkeley software suite, and served as the chief scientist; Vinod Khosla and Scott Mack, both MBAs from Stanford University Lini, in charge of administrative affairs.

In the original time and space, after Vinod Khosla resigned 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 two decades to reach its peak in the Internet bubble, and then it took only one year to be knocked down from the altar. So much so that in the end it became the stuff in the bag.

In any case, after all, Sun was brilliant in the hands of Scott McCreary. Can compete with Microsoft for the industry hegemony.

Therefore, the founding 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 taken shape. Jim Clark and Andy Bechtolsheim, who have already achieved results, handed over their business plans, and venture capitalists responded to them. Genzhengmiaohong's technical team is very popular.

It has to be said that compared with Jemina, who developed video game consoles, and Jobs and Woz, who did not graduate from college, the highly educated Sun founder team, combined with advanced technological achievements such as workstations, can make investors more excited. 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 approvingly, Tang Huan smiled slightly, The microprocessor you are using now must be the most mature and stable operating system on the market, and the Vientiane/more Excellent, multitasking and other feature 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, Tang Huan glanced slightly at the corner of his mouth.

To be a competitor of Fangyuan Computer, there is nothing wrong with it, but in addition to paying dividends to yourself, you have to give some of the benefits you 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 it, 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 grinned up.

Tang Huan and Bill Joy had been in contact for a long time. Apart from the fact that they both belonged to the University of California, Berkeley, Tang Huan also contributed a lot to Bill Joy's bsd project, and their ids on bbs were equally famous.

Zheru designed and implemented his own high-end operating system, so naturally he could not give R\u0026D resources to the bsd it was derived from. It was impossible for Tang Huan to use this to coax Bill Joy. null.

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

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

When Tang Huan met with the team, he recommended his own database, ebase, to Sun. This was not a 100% shaming, but he hoped to expand ebase's market share.

Because with the promotion of various information management systems, the marketing department reported that they have begun to meet with the same customer with IBM and other colleagues.

Tang Huan supported both capital and technology, which can be said to be thoughtful. He Sun's founder team was very grateful for such a nanny-style angel investor, and he did not expect to be infiltrated by others.

This is also normal, although these elites are ambitious to seek gold, but after all, they haven't made any achievements yet, so it's not worth others' deliberate calculations.

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Tang Huan cooperated with the X-Files program team to conduct interviews to complete the last wave of public opinion counterattacks, then quickly picked up the itinerary of the trip to the mainland, let the accompanying teams take their places, and sat on Silicon Valley One. 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 from the airport, the scenery was pleasing to the eye.

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

Don't be impatient, it's the escort. Tang Huanyun waved his hand calmly. (to be continued...)

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