The open source software seminar held by O'Reilly Media was held on March 26 in San Jose, the capital of Silicon Valley, and there was no direct flight between Beijing and San Jose, so it was necessary to go to San Francisco first, and then drive there, there was a 16-hour time difference between Beijing and San Francisco, and Du Qiu and his party set off at 9 p.m. on March 24, and after nearly 12 hours of flight, they arrived on March 24, and it was only 5 p.m. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Many of Chen Dayou's classmates at that time won scholarships to study in the United States, some returned to China after graduation, but some stayed in the United States, including a female classmate named Wei Zhiqin, who worked for a computer information service company in San Jose, and she not only helped arrange accommodation, but also drove over to pick up the airport herself.

Wei Zhiqin is a short and chubby girl, a bit like Wang Huihui, but her makeup is very neutral, with ultra-short hair that is not much longer than the board inch, wearing a pair of red glasses, after meeting, she punched Chen Dayou like a man, and said with emotion: "Alas, Chen Handsome Brother, I haven't seen you for five or six years, why are you so fat, in vain, I didn't love you back then!"

Chen Dayou seemed to have a good relationship with her, and opened his arms and said, "Come on, come on, I'll let you throw yourself into your arms and give it a hug to dissipate the desire that has been suppressed for many years." ”

"Get out! The old lady has read countless people in the United States, and now she even has children, and she is not interested in a fat pig like you. After Wei Zhiqin and Chen Dayou teased each other a few words, they said hello to Du Qiu and Jiang Danfeng, and asked aggressively: "I heard that you brought a nuclear bomb to the United States?"

This woman is really bold and open-mouthed......

If you stay after 911, you might be caught by airport security immediately......

Wei Zhiqin drove a wide and long dark green convertible to pick up the airport, and when he saw the car, Du Qiu and Chen Dayou unanimously said the name of a movie, but Du Qiu said the Chinese name "The Last Road Crazy Flower", and Chen Dayou said the English name "Thelma-& amp; amp; amp;-louise》。

"Crazy Flowers of the End" is directed by Ridley Scott, starring Gina Davis and Susan Sarandon, with a soundtrack by Hans Zimmer, which tells the story of two women who go out on a trip in a convertible car, but meet a pervert on the road, and after killing the pervert, in order to escape from the police, the story of escaping in the road and the desert, is a classic movie with excellent plot, picture and music, and the dark green convertible Thunderbird in the movie is very impressive.

"You can also see this movie in China?"

"You can't watch it in the cinema, but you can't watch the videotape. Chen Dayou touched the body with his fingers and said: "Qinzi, although you were not beautiful before, but you have long hair and fluttering, and you speak kindly, very feminine, how did you become such a ghost in the United States, don't tell me that you are a feminist now? ”

After Jiang Danfeng got off the plane, he became a little restrained, and at this time he was even more confused, Du Qiu explained concisely when he saw this: ""Crazy Flower of the End" is a very feminist movie, this car is the same as the heroine in the movie, it has symbolic meaning. ”

Jiang Danfeng sighed, his expression relaxed a lot, Wei Zhiqin glanced at Du Qiu with some approval, and said while opening the trunk: "Do you think I want to be such a man or a woman? The gender ratio in the computer industry is seriously imbalanced, and Americans are not subtle, if I don't pretend to be a feminist, I will often be harassed in all kinds of ways, only by dressing up like this, those stupid nerds will not be messing with me." ”

"If you don't have a good time in the United States, you might as well go back to China to develop. ”

"I'll talk about that later. ”

The 1966 Thunderbird is a four-seater convertible sports car, Chen Dayou took the passenger seat, let Du Qiu and Jiang Danfeng sit in the back, the temperature in California in March is moderate, dry and rainless, speeding along the highway in the sunset, quite a bit of romantic and wild taste, Jiang Danfeng quickly liked this feeling, looking left and right with great interest, Du Qiu asked about the matter: "Sister Zhiqin, did you help me register those website domain names?"

"Registered, iView, iCode, imail, iTalk, Iseek, these five, right?"

"Yes, thank you, Sister Zhiqin. ”

"Nothing, no effort. Wei Zhiqin glanced up at the rearview mirror and asked, "What are you going to do when you register for these five websites?"

"iView is for browsers, iCode is for code management, and the others are put aside for later. ”

Du Qiu since the javascript changed to iscript,Obsessive-compulsive disorder,Ready to change all products to names starting with the letter "i",The browser he originally wanted to plagiarize IE directly,As a result, someone found that Microsoft had registered,So he changed the browser to iview,Take the meaning of the network scenery,As for the other three,It's a long-term plan for the future,At present, it's just the domain name first,To prevent being preemptively registered。

Wei Zhiqin did not arrange the three of them in a hotel, but took them to a friend's house, the friend's whole family had traveled to Europe, the house was empty, there was a lot of space, three floors up and down, there was a lawn in front and a swimming pool in the back, which was the style of a wealthy American middle-class family that is common in Hollywood movies.

"Don't sleep in the master bedroom, don't cook Chinese food, don't rummage things, the rest is casual, it's more comfortable than staying in a hotel." After Wei Zhiqin took the three of them to visit the house, he pointed to a few cardboard boxes in the living room and said: "This is the new computer I bought according to your requirements, you can install it yourself, and the account and password for surfing the Internet and the phone number for ordering takeout are all pasted on the refrigerator." Kiki is home alone, I'm not too relieved, I'll go back first, and we'll have dinner together tomorrow and get together. ”

"Thank you for your kindness, I'll visit you again tomorrow. ”

"Bring more gifts, the more expensive the better, I'm a poor ghost now, waiting to be fed. ”

Du Qiu asked Jiang Danfeng to pack his luggage and order takeout, while Chen Dayou assembled the two computers together, and then logged in to the network, downloaded the browser installer and source code from the company server that had just been built in China, and conducted the last test before the public release.

The flight of more than ten hours was very tiring, Jiang Danfeng ordered two boxes of pizza, and after eating, the three of them quickly rested, and after a night, they rented a car and went to Mountain View City for a walk, while making a pilgrimage to the birthplace of Silicon Valley culture, while choosing the office location of the American branch.

In 1955, the father of transistors, Nobel laureate William Shockley founded Shockley Laboratory in Mountain View, two years later, 8 generals defected and established Fairchild Semiconductor, Fairchild Semiconductor split again in the 60s, and established Intel, AMD, Sequoia Capital and other important enterprises or investment companies in the IT industry, in 2014, there were good people who made a relationship chart, and found that there are a total of 92 listed companies in Silicon Valley that have a relationship with Fairchild, Apple, Google, Giants such as Oracle, Yahoo, and eBay are almost all included, with a total market capitalization of $2.1 trillion.

Mountain View is a satellite city of San Jose, with a small area of only 31.7 square kilometers and a population of only 50,000 or 60,000, but it gathers famous companies such as Intuit, SGI, Symantec and Netscape.

"Du Qiu, why don't we go to the inside of Netscape today?"

"Still don't want it, we're here to kick the gym, it's easy to misunderstand when we go to peep so blatantly, and we will officially visit after attending the seminar tomorrow." Du Qiu took a few photos in front of the office building where Netscape's headquarters is located, and proposed, "Let's go to Intuit's headquarters." ”

"Intuit? That's personal finance software, it has nothing to do with the Internet, what are you going to do with them?"

"Isn't it rumored that Microsoft is going to buy them for $2 billion? Maybe it will disappear in a few days. Du Qiu fiddled with the camera and said in a casual tone: "2 billion US dollars can catch up with a super-large state-owned enterprise in China, go take a few photos as a souvenir." ”

In the 80s and 90s, Microsoft was strong, wielding the dragon slaying knife of the operating system, galloping across and destroying countless opponents, but there was only one seemingly weak competitor that could not handle it, and that was Intuit.

Intuit is a personal finance and financial software, in the late 80s, there were only 50 employees, annual sales of less than 20 million US dollars, and Microsoft has 4000 employees, annual sales of up to 800 million US dollars, at that time Microsoft took Office to win lotus1-2-3 Yu Wei into the field of financial software, the result was a defeat by Intuit, can not be absorbed is Microsoft's consistent behavior, so at the end of 1994 announced that it spent $2 billion to acquire Intuit, which has a market value of only $1 billion, but this decision has been concerned by the US Department of Justice, they believe that this is monopolistic behaviorAs a result, the acquisition plan has been tossed for months, but it has not been completed, and it is still being ripped off.

This matter was a hot topic in the IT industry from the end of 1994 to the beginning of 1995, and even some domestic technology media reported it. ”

Du Qiu went to the door of Netscape to take pictures, it was a real pilgrimage, because Netscape is equivalent to the Chu Overlord in the Internet industry, majestic and unstoppable, but he soon died in a very tragic form, and went to the door of Intuit to take pictures, the purpose is similar to taking pictures at the door of Wanguo Securities in Pujiang last month, just because he can make money from it- Under pressure from the U.S. Department of Justice, Microsoft will announce in April that it will abandon its acquisition of Intuit, not only canceling the acquisition, but also losing tens of millions of dollars.

Six employees will spend 60,000 yuan per month on salary, rent, water, electricity, equipment, etc., and the company only has 1.5 million yuan of funds......

There are only two ways to make money, one is to give up the shares to find someone to raise money, and the other is to speculate to make money yourself, and then make additional investments......