The quotation of other companies is a ruler used to measure the actual value of patents and companies, and this set of theories is not fully applicable in the Internet industry.

No one knows how much a patent will be worth in the future, some of which are currently worth a fortune, suddenly become worthless, and some seem useless, but suddenly one day become a knife hanging over the heads of many companies, bringing hundreds of millions of terrifying profits.

Being able to implant the browser into the indos operating system is naturally a great thing, all the early promotion problems are all solved, and millions of users can appear at the beginning, as long as the browser is not too bad, almost invincible.

Half of the company's shares and patent ownership were exchanged for a grant to the vast majority of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs

The coveted good opportunity is very beneficial to Su Mu from the current point of view.

The brain is spinning fast, and the gains and losses are being considered, and the benefits are needless to say, the browser that has not yet completed all the development will firmly occupy the first place in the same category as soon as it appears, and Microsoft has such a terrifying influence.

The disadvantages are also obvious, patents and the company itself, which may bring huge benefits in the future, will be divided into half of the profits to Microsoft, Su Mu is a shareholder of Microsoft, but after all, he only occupies a small part of the shares.

He thought to himself that if he didn't cooperate with Microsoft, would he be sure to become a giant in this industry, at present, it is indeed possible, but it will be a lot of trouble, and he tends to cooperate with Microsoft, but how to distribute the benefits is the key, and opened his mouth to say his offer: "Ten percent of the company's shares, twenty percent of the patent ownership, if you are willing to accept it, we can sit down and talk about the specific situation." ”

Before coming to Silicon Valley, Bill Gates discussed two options with Microsoft executives, one is a direct acquisition, seeing Su Mu's direct refusal, he didn't even have the intention of talking, Gates decisively gave up the idea of continuing to increase the price, so as not to be seen by him how much Microsoft attaches importance to this browser.

The other option is to cooperate and get the browser in a mutually beneficial way, and before Microsoft has not had a precedent for implanting third-party software, mainly because it is so optimistic about its role that Gates made an exception and tried to buy some shares.

Then he said to Su Mu: "Fifty percent, plus three million dollars in cash." ”

"Twenty percent, Microsoft needs to pay me $80 million in cash. Su Mu doesn't know where his psychological bottom line is, but if Microsoft wants to use the implantation method, he will obediently hand over 50% of the shares and patent ownership, which is absolutely impossible.

I have a lot of confidence in this browser, the success of the CNC browser has proven a lot, and it is undoubtedly a lot better than the humble browser, using new technology, and what gives Su Mu confidence is those patents.

Gates smiled and asked Su Mu in surprise: "If you have 10 percent more shares, the price is 80 million US dollars higher, do you think this program is worth 80 million US dollars? It has not really been put into use, and we can only guess its function from the public patent documents."

Agree to cooperate with Microsoft for 80 million US dollars, it seems that you are actually willing, and we can find a place to sit down and talk after a while, but your offer is too high for me to accept. ”

"I was going to sell my Spider email to Microsoft for about $5 million, and now it's worth about $100 million, and now the number of users is growing. I think the value of this browser is far more than so much in the future, and Microsoft is the one who takes advantage of 20% of the shares. ”

Su Mu didn't think that Gates was mocking himself, and continued: "You and my offer is too different, I will not give in, if you can't agree to my request, then there is no need to waste time to talk, this is my current idea, wait until the browser is officially put into use, if the user response is good, my expectations will be further improved." ”

Gates thinks about it carefully, he can't accept such a high price, and 10% of the shares are obviously not in the interests of Microsoft, even if he develops it himself, anyway, users can load the program by themselves, and there is no need to rush it.

"Sue, I understand what you mean, give me time to think about it, if there is still an idea of cooperation, I will inform you when the time comes. ”

Hearing Gates's words, Su Mu guessed that this cooperation was probably going to be cold, and he was inevitably a little disappointed, but considering the future development prospects, he didn't feel that he had to cooperate with Microsoft.

Nodding back, "Okay, you know my phone number......"

The valuation of 800 million US dollars really scared Gates and Paul Allen, and they walked cleanly, in their eyes, the prospect is just a prospect, for a product that has not even completed development, they will not pay so much money anyway, and promise Su Mu's "blackmail".

Paul Allen asked, "Confidence or arrogance?"

"It's both, we didn't do it when we were young, the difference is that we're successful, his product isn't necessarily, I met Sue a few years ago, quite a capable little guy. ”

"Gates, you're not really going to agree to his request, do you? I think he's shamelessly blackmailing us, knowing that the company wants a browser to improve the Indos operating system, and it's likely that he already knows the content of our last meeting!"

There was some hesitation, but Gates finally shook his head and said, "I plan to take a step back and cooperate with him before we develop our own product, and the company has nothing to lose, but to get a better user experience, and make 80 million dollars." ”

This refers to the ten percent shares, CNC browser has appeared, but it is different from the browser that Galaxy is developing, before it is actually put into use, except for some people in the company, no one knows what its market will be, Paul Allen shook his head: "It doesn't have to be with him, maybe we can find a replacement, so many companies in Silicon Valley, there are always people developing similar products." ”

"But then, was he blackmailed with the patent? Maybe we should think about how to get the patent license from him......"

Su Mu didn't look down on Gates's offer, his psychological price exceeded Gates's expectations, and it was normal that he failed to reach a cooperation, if it was possible, in fact, he wanted to use ten percent of the shares in exchange for the opportunity for rapid development, but it didn't matter if he couldn't cooperate.

When everyone has almost finished talking, gather in front of the podium to listen to Gates's speech, the agreement not to poach each other has been drawn up in advance, just waiting to sign it, not that from now on, people from the other company's company cannot be hired, but they can no longer maliciously pry into the corner of the wall on a large scale as before.

Lily had already arrived at Menlo Park, right at Su Mu's house, and fearing that she would not be able to withstand her family, rejected Knight's offer to go drinking with her, and left the venue to go home first.

Tonight was a worthwhile trip, letting Su Mu know that Galaxy was far more valued by others than he imagined.

Bee chat software began to be put on the market, the point of sale is those Penguin computer retail stores that are gradually spreading all over the United States, there is no hope to make money from it, it is good not to lose money, if nothing else, it will not be long before the initial results can be achieved, James is about to arrange people to go to various colleges and universities to do publicity, the first is Stanford University.

Lily is about to graduate from Brown University and has no plans to pursue a master's degree in the near future, so Su Mu takes her on a trip to Palm Springs, which happens to be too busy during this time, so let's relax for a few days.

On the morning of the 10th, Professor David, who teaches programming principles, was concentrating on the lecture when he suddenly found that many students in the class were typing with their heads down, laughing from time to time, and looking at each other.

He wondered what was going on, so he deliberately walked off the podium with his textbooks, and looked at the computer desktops of those students, all of whom had a small bee icon, and immediately glared: "Installing messy things again, what if the virus appears again? What are you just doing, concentrate on listening to the class!"

The old man is not very good-tempered, and computer viruses have appeared in this era, and last year a worm caused problems in about 60,000 computers, and forced former President Ronald Reagan to sign the "Computer Security Act".

The student who was glared at by the old man, worried that the professor would remember that he was in trouble, hurriedly explained: "I just bought a very interesting program, which is the company that developed Spider Mail, I think it is very interesting, and I can't help but want to understand how it works, sorry sir." ”

The attitude of admitting mistakes is quite good, Professor David is not really angry, and he is a little interested: "Oh, open it and show me, what type of program?"

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