Chapter 254: Giants
"I can dream about the future, but only you have the power to make it happen. John looked at the crowd and said with confidence. "I believe that when all of you unite and use the power of knowledge and technology to change people's lives little by little, the world will be changed.
And the only thing I can do is create a platform for you to use your talents and make a difference in the world.
I'm going to get you together and set up a new tech lab to study how to use computers, the Internet, and artificial intelligence...... and all other scientific and technological means to change people's lives and make people's lives more convenient, faster, more reasonable and safer in the future.
Of course, as long as the technology you develop is adopted by any company in the group, the company will pay the corresponding patent fee to the laboratory, and you will also receive the corresponding share award of the laboratory, which means that in this new laboratory, you are not an employee, but the boss. β
"Is this true?"
"I like this idea!"
"When will this lab start?"
As soon as John's voice fell, everyone in the conference room began to discuss, full of expectations for this laboratory, although they came from various laboratories, but the treatment was similar, and they could only receive a good salary, if John's laboratory could really be implemented, it would mean that their income would increase a lot, even if it was impossible to become a billionaire.
And John, the initiator, was secretly happy when he saw everyone's reaction, why can he see these people in high-tech companies such as Microsoft, Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Amazon in the future, they are all poached by high salaries.
In this life, John naturally doesn't want to see such a thing happen, talent is the most important resource in any era, so in order to retain and attract talents, he is ready to corporatize the laboratory, trap these people with shares, and squeeze the last drop of value out of these people.
At that time, once these people are trapped in shares, not only will they desperately develop new technologies to obtain shares, but it will also be difficult for other companies to poach them, even if they poach a few occasionally, it is not important researchers, because the more skilled people contribute, the more shares.
And John seems to have paid a lot of shares, but in fact he is the person who benefits the most, he only needs to gather these people to set up a laboratory, and then invest some R&D funds in the early stage, but he can finally use the results of these people's research and development to open a company, think about the technology giants in the future, which one is not a market value of tens of trillions, so at best, he only gave 10% of the tens of trillions of dollars to these people, and he himself got 90%, just ask the world is there a more profitable investment than thisοΌ
Looking at the eagerness of the crowd, John made some explanations.
"I will report this laboratory to the group and try to set it up as soon as possible. β
This matter still requires the consent of the elder Morgan, and John has no right to mobilize the laboratory personnel of the three companies at once, but he believes that as long as the benefits are told to the elder Morgan, the elder Morgan should not object.
"Now the lab has not yet been established, but its first project has appeared. John took the opportunity to state his purpose for coming to Thomas Watson's lab.
"That is to develop a set of banking application system architecture for JPMorgan Bank, which should include the bank's core system, credit system, bill system, financial system, and card system...... Front-end system.
In addition to ATMP, POSP, and third-party related systems, I need you to develop an online banking system.
I'm not a technician, so I'm not going to talk about the technology, I'm just going to talk about the effect it needs to achieve.
We all know that nowadays we need to mail a check to a certain person, or go to the bank counter to do it.
It is sometimes inconvenient to go to the bank counter to handle it, and mailing the check often takes too long due to the post office, and you need to go to the bank to cash the check after receiving it, which is both time-consuming and cumbersome.
In the future, if we want to send money to a certain person, we don't need to mail a check, nor do we need to fill out the remittance form at the bank counter, we only need to turn on the computer, enter the online banking, open your account, click on the remittance, enter the payee's account number, the amount, and you can put the money into the account of any person we want to remittance, and the payee only needs 60 minutes at most to receive the money. β
In today's era when computers are just becoming popular, John's online banking system is a very advanced initiative that will definitely make a splash in the banking industry once it is launched, and it will also attract many customers, especially companies and individuals who often need to process remittances.
"Boss! The system is not technically a problem to develop, but we don't understand the banking business. As John finished speaking, a middle-aged man with a beard in the crowd stood up. They are technicians, and they can only solve technical things, and they are not familiar with banking business, and they have no way of knowing what kind of system the bank needs and what kind of business it handles. It's like the construction team needs design drawings before construction.
"Don't worry about that, I'll send some people from Morgan Bank to help you when the time comes. John looked at the middle-aged man with the beard and smiled. "I only have two requirements for this system, safe and convenient. β
"Boss, you can rest assured that there will be no problems with safety. The middle-aged man with a beard assured.
"Well, with you leading the team in charge of this system, I will definitely rest assured in terms of safety. John nodded, joking that if the systems developed by the world's top hackers were all overcome, would he still be qualified to take on the title?
Joe once borrowed a phrase from Newton and said that the reason why he has achieved what he is today is because he stands on the shoulders of giants, and the giant he is talking about is this middle-aged man with a beard - Dennis Rich. He is known as the father of the C language, the father of UNIX.
His contributions to the tech world cannot be overstated, and it is on his shoulders that many tech gurus have created Apple, Microsoft, Windows, Android, iOS, JavaScript, C++... Wait, it's fair to say that if it weren't for him, everyone might still be playing binary.
Professor Martin of the Department of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology once commented: If Steve Jobs is the king of visualization products, then Dennis Ritchie is the monarch of the invisible kingdom.
Yes, of all the IT products you can see, as long as you have a microscope, you can see its contribution to the world.