Chapter 21: The Age of a Hundred Flowers
It's a good time, and success isn't impossible as long as you give enough.
At least that's the case in Silicon Valley, where Big Blue and HP hold high-end customers, leaving the low-end market to other companies.
It's actually a big pie, with far more users than mainframes. As the state of the software improves, more and more users are also paying attention to computers.
The involvement of government agencies and large corporations has also led to a surge in the number of computer users.
Using computer codewords, the efficiency is naturally higher than that of a typewriter, and it is also very easy to modify, and most importantly, this file format is compatible, and you can also modify it on other systems.
With the help of this thing, home office is also possible. For those who work in writing, there is no need to work overtime at the company, and many jobs can be done from home.
For accounting and warehouse managers, the software is simply too efficient. Accuracy is also not comparable to traditional methods.
What? You say databases and ERP.
This thing is no longer very tall, and large enterprises are reluctant to buy it. Small and medium-sized enterprises should save some effort.
With some government procurement projects on the ground, Apple has finally ushered in a competitor.
This is not only the case in the United States, but also the small partners in Europe are obviously not willing to be lonely. Everybody wants to cut a piece out of this emerging market.
"Tom, how's the European language part?"
"Boss, there's still a week at most, and the test can start right away. It's just that Asia is not so fast. ”
"Tsk, this thing is really troublesome, but Tom, you better hurry, Hanka is troublesome, but it is very versatile. How much money you make is secondary. What do I need? You should be very clear that what I need is a lead, and you need to make that very clear to everybody in the company. ”
"Okay, boss, I'll pick up the pace. ”
"I really can't do it, I have other plans to implement if I recruit some more people. ”
"Then let's recruit some people, there are really not enough people now. ”
"Okay, you go and inform HR, bring the report up, and I'll sign it. ”
"Okay, boss"
Tom is the CEO he poached, and the CEO candidate has made the outside world lose its attention.
He wasn't in the IT industry at all, he was a marketing manager at an advertising agency, and he didn't know how he got into William White's eyes.
The most difficult thing for an enterprise to control is actually the direction of development. Since William White is not worried about this, the focus is naturally on marketing, and if other companies do this, it will be miserable, and they will definitely fight to death.
For the increasingly lively IT industry, Wall Street said that it needs to be cautious, and the expansion of the number of users is an indisputable fact, but the competition is also more intense. Who will win? It's still an unknown question.
At this time, they found that the White software was as stable as Mount Tai and did not encounter any decent competition, and everyone seemed to choose to forget.
This is really weird, the current US imperialists have no discipline, as long as they see that there is money to be made, they will immediately rush to the top.
The market in the United States is really wonderful, monopolies are almost everywhere, there is no opportunity at all in the traditional industry, if you don't want to be swallowed up, it's better to do something new.
The birth of Silicon Valley has a historical background. Like Hollywood, everyone escapes, and it is a dead end near New York, and the consortium and those families will swallow all the bones you have left.
Taxes in San Francisco are not low, and IT companies would rather pay more taxes than go to New York, because the consortium forces are concentrated in New York, and they may be swallowed up anytime and anywhere.
San Francisco and California are much better, and the only strong one here is the Texas consortium, which is relatively young, has very limited control, and has no ability to cover the sky with one hand.
As a new consortium, you have to beware of other people's crushing anytime and anywhere. Their style of action is relatively mild, and they are definitely not as greedy as other conglomerates.
Over time, White Software began to enter the European market, much to the surprise of a group of Wall Street elites.
In their opinion, this thing is too simplistic, and it is a bit too much to say that it has no value. But it's probably not worth much money.
Of course, this group of guys did not give it in vain, and it quickly became clear. It's not that people have high morality, and they don't want to counterfeit their things. There are too many patent traps in this, and rashly investing a lot of money is simply not worth the loss.
It's just a patent, wouldn't it be nice to go around it?
When they asked the question, people looked at his expression like he was looking at an idiot, and he really didn't bother to say it to these bastards.
It's not easy to get around, we professionals can't help it, you idiots will say.
Haven't you noticed that there is no willingness in European countries to develop and develop, and people are still buying White software.
William White is a bastard, he has already prepared a group of legal advisers, if you don't have any strength, it is estimated that the product has not been listed, and your company will go bankrupt.
After a moment of sluggishness, they realized that they had made a mistake, the value of the White software was underestimated, and 20 million dollars was not a joke at all, which was a complete humiliation, no wonder there was no reply.
Although the office package can't be made, isn't there other software?
Around what else can be done with computers, the whole Silicon Valley has begun to open up its minds, and all kinds of software have begun to increase. As long as your brain hole is big enough, there will always be VCs willing to throw money at it.
William White became famous, not because of the billions of family properties he inherited, and the money did not belong to him for the time being.
His story is so inspiring that he can't use the money his parents left him. If he had paid a huge inheritance tax, he might have owed a lot of money.
William White's success is more dependent on personal efforts, and what the family left him may be more likely to be a burden.
There is a reason why the people think so, the Hunt family is so inferior, and they actually take advantage of the danger of others.
William White inherited two pieces of property, and in the eyes of the general public, the oil company was clearly more valuable. Don't you see how expensive gasoline is now?
This company is now considered a government trusteeship, and it goes without saying how bad the situation is. The farm is even more terrible, and almost all the farmers are about to go bankrupt.
Faced with such a situation, William White still did not give up, and now it seems that he has a good chance to get back what belongs to him.
There are rich family grievances in this story, there is self-improvement, and there may be revenge in the future.
Thinking that this guy is still a writer, the people are still looking forward to it, these things may become novels, it is estimated that the Hunter family must have a headache, it would be good not to be hacked.
As long as the name Hunter is in the novel, it is definitely the most obscene, and thinking of this terrible consequence, the old guy in the Hunt family also has some scalp tingling.
They tried to reconcile, but the other party ignored them and directly ignored their so-called goodwill.