Chapter 75: First Sight of Gates

In a blink of an eye, it was Stanford University's anniversary.

In the early morning of October 1, 1984, Su Mu put his father Su Dingcai on the Greyhound bus back to Los Angeles, and then rode his bicycle to Stanford University.

It has been nearly a month since I came to Menlo Park Private High School in Silicon Valley.

During this period, Su Mu did not go back, and it took about twelve hours on the way back and forth, and if he went home on Friday, he had to rush back on Sunday morning, which was too troublesome.

Old man Su didn't worry about his grandson, worried that he would be bullied on campus, and worried that he didn't make friends, he didn't have time to go to work, Su Mu was motion sick, and he couldn't take a long-distance bus, so the heavy responsibility of visiting Su Mu was handed over to Su Dingcai.

The Su family's small restaurant has not been open for business in the past two days, and Su Dingcai came the morning before yesterday, bringing a large bag of various foods, Su Mu's mother was worried that her son would not eat well, so she bought a lot of cooked food for her husband to bring.

Su Mu was informed in advance, and after arriving at Menlo Park County and getting off the bus, Su Ding was taken into a "horribly luxurious" villa by his son in a daze, and stayed on the floor for two days, which was his exact words.

He has never enjoyed anything in his life, and in the last two days, he has lived in a house of hundreds of thousands of dollars and a Ferrari sports car of more than 100,000 dollars.

Directly caused his mentality to swell, before going home today, he stood on the side of the road and stared at the big villa where his son lived, and after looking at it for a while, he probably felt that his house was too broken, so he sighed before leaving.

Poor are used to living a good life suddenly, and they are about to mix back again, and their mentality is unbalanced......

I just came here two days ago, and I heard that the rent was five hundred dollars a month, and this honest and ordinary father just blamed Su Mu for not telling the family about it, for fear that he would save money and starve himself, and said that he didn't have to work part-time now, and he would talk about it when he went to college in the future.

got in the car and went back, Su Dingcai only brought ten dollars with him as travel expenses, and gave the remaining more than nine hundred dollars to his son, and asked Su Mu to go home once a month to get the money to pay rent and living expenses.

has been mixed at the bottom of Chinatown for most of his life, Su Dingcai is honest and honest, and he still has a brain.

He thinks that his son can learn from the advantages of living with the students of Stanford University, and in addition, if he has a good relationship with Li Zhekai, it will not be difficult to eat in the future, and maybe he will be able to make some money from the relationship.

As a father, where would he not expect his son to live well, Su Dingcai understands that in his life, at most, this is the case, I hope Su Mu can be more shrewd, and tell Su Mu his thoughts last night, reminding him to pay attention to managing contacts.

Su Mu couldn't cry or laugh because of this, he was just a roommate, he never thought of hugging his thighs, not to mention that Li Zhekai eats instant noodles every day, he is poorer than the poor, and he doesn't even drive Ferrari often recently, mostly because he has no money to maintain parts.

The Ferrari's voice was much muffled, even if Su Mu didn't understand cars, he knew what was wrong, and then thought of Li Zhekai's bad mood in recent days, it was easy to guess that he had no money, so Su Mu also bought a pizza to "help him".

But my father was serious, so last night Su Mu agreed to come down as a deaf ear, as for hugging his thighs and the like, he couldn't pull down that face, even if he knew that he had a future, he was not willing to do it......

The classmates thought the course was very difficult, but Su Mu didn't think so.

For most of the month, he has completed the 10th and 11th grade courses.

School is more boring than expected, I have nothing to do but read books, and I am preparing to buy second-hand textbooks for the twelfth grade from the hands of senior students, and then I can try to enter the university.

As early as the admissions time, the Menlo Park private middle school knew that Su Mu was very smart, and after he told the teacher his idea, the teacher supported him to prepare for the ACT or SAT test early.

If you score more than 20 points on the ACT test, you can enter a private university at the average level in the United States, and Su Mu's teacher suggested that it is best to wait until you can score about 28 points before trying to choose a university, because a score of 28 can almost enter Stanford, considering that Su Mu is young and more competitive than other students.

Private high school tuition is expensive, and the tuition fee of top private universities is even higher, taking Stanford University as an example, it is generally around 20,000 US dollars, and there is too much pressure to compete for scholarships, which is the main reason why Su Mu is entangled.

The idea of entering college early has been lingering in his mind since it was born, and now it is a complete waste of time to continue to study the courses he has already understood.

More than half a month ago, after taking the time to read the textbooks left in the room by the students of Stanford University, Su Mu almost understood the working principle of the computer, and he had not really used the computer to operate, but he felt that it was not difficult for him to write a few small programs.

The difficult ones will not, the people who will not be difficult, just figured out a little skin, many things are not fully understood, there are not many professional programming books in this era, coupled with the rapid progress of technology, so that Su Mu is eager to enter Stanford to study, to ask why he wants to enter Stanford, mainly because the computer professional courses of other universities in this era are not as good as Stanford, even Harvard, Cambridge, MIT and other famous schools are no exception.

If you want to enter Stanford, it is best to go to this school first, for most of the month, Su Mu has not been to that private university, most of the teachers in Menlo Park graduated from Stanford, even the principal is no exception, today the school is on holiday, just free.

The money in his pocket kept decreasing, and Su Mu was very worried when he thought about it.

With hundreds or thousands of dollars of entrepreneurial success stories, in recent years, it has been appearing in the Silicon Valley area, often hearing about who has become a millionaire, who has become a multimillionaire, and there are also people who have a hard time, such as Steve Jobs, since IBM also sold private computers, Apple's computer prices are not dominant, the market share has been declining, and recently it is in conflict with the board of directors.

After understanding why the founders were facing eviction from the company, he learned a lesson: if you want to own a company, you can't relax at all when it comes to equity.

The development of computers and the Internet has fallen into a bottleneck period in recent years, and the public opinion in Silicon Valley is very pessimistic, thinking that computers are not essential.

The good news is that the Fun Shopping Supermarket is going well, and the renovation is putting the finishing touches on it, and if it weren't for the recent rainy season in Los Angeles, it would have all been done last week, and it would probably be open in November.

Riding a bicycle, cars kept passing by him.

At this moment, Su Mu unexpectedly saw a face he had seen in the newspaper on the side of the road near Stanford University, the other party had yellowish hair and ******, and was bending over with his head down, looking for something in the grass.

"Bill Gates. Su Mu remembered the name clearly.

Gates, who had a successful career at the age of twenty-nine, now looks like a cool bad boy......