"Du Qiu!"

At San Francisco International Airport, after Chen Dayou saw Du Qiu, he gave him an unusually warm hug, this guy was at the Institute of Quantum Physics, combing his old-school big back hair, wearing a gray down jacket, full of clichés, and gloomy, as if he was about to retire as an agency cadre, and now he is combing his fashionable partial hair, wearing a gorgeous and exaggerated Versace, energetic, high-spirited, like a playboy who spends money, and the change is so big that Du Qiu suspects that he has been worn by people's souls.

"I'm finally willing to come to the United States, and if I don't come, I'll really fly to Dongying and kidnap you. ”

"Brother Chen, this outfit is very chic and stylish. ”

"Not as chic as you......"

After chatting with Du Qiu for a few words, Chen Dayou turned his attention to Jennifer, looked at her unscrupulously, and laughed in English: "Beauty, do you want me to send you home?"

Jennifer was completely immune to his lust-lost gaze and replied in Chinese that she had been using a lot lately: "Thank you, you're welcome." ”

Although these two sentences in Chinese are not correct and round, they are not absurd, and they have reached a level that most Chinese can understand, Chen Dayou was taken aback, and came to Du Qiu's side and whispered: "You are awesome, you really know how to adjust." ”

"She learned it herself, and it has nothing to do with me. Du Qiu dragged his luggage and walked outside, and changed the subject: "I heard Uncle Chen say that you bought a villa near Stanford University?"

"Yes, my mother has to buy it, it's expensive, and she has a loan of more than $1 million, so I'm counting on you to help with it. ”

"How is the schedule of the meeting organized by 3C?"

"Starting next Monday and ending on Wednesday, I've printed out the schedule for each day, and you can see it for yourself when you get home. ”

Du Qiu's visit to the United States this time has two main purposes, one is to split Snapdragon's browser business for financing, and the other is to participate in the eb technology standardization conference organized by the World Wide Web Consortium (3C) to seize the initiative in formulating standards, which will not only create obstacles for future competitors, but also seek benefits for future programmers.

In the original time and space, in the late 90s, Netscape and Microsoft dismantled each other during the browser wars, causing a lot of very disgusting compatibility problems, which were endlessly toxic, and still caused headaches for front-end programmers until 20 years later, if Du Qiu could unify the web design standards in 1995, the gratitude brought by this achievement alone would be enough to become a god.

Chen Dayou rented a Cadillac extended luxury courtesy car that was common in Hollywood movies in the 90s to pick up the airport, because Jennifer was there, it was inconvenient to talk about financing, Du Qiu inquired about the EB standardization meeting and asked, "When is Tim Berners-Lee coming to Mountain View?"

"Yesterday has arrived. Chen Dayou took three bottles of beer from the car refrigerator and said as he handed them out, "Steve Keys has also arrived, and they are all looking forward to meeting you." ”

Steve Keys was AOL's CEO and one of the hottest IT stars of 1995, but Du Qiu showed little interest in him and asked, "What about Bert Pers?"

"He arrived last week, has already completed the onboarding procedures, and is now a regular employee of our company. ”

"Good. ”

Designing a web page requires three basic technologies: HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, Tim Berners-Lee created HTML, Du Qiu copied JavaScript, and CSS is only in its infancy, and the basic concept was proposed by Bert Persia and Haken Wim Lay in 1994, but there is no mature design yet.

After Du Qiu tinkered with the iVie browser in March, he contacted Bert Persia in Europe by email, used part of the CSS 2.0 released in 1998 as bait, and after a few months of hooking up, he finally got him from Europe to the United States and joined Snapdragon.

Another CSS creator, Haken Wim Lay, used to be a colleague of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with Tim Berners-Lee, and has already joined the 3C and is responsible for formulating and promoting Internet standards, so Du Qiu did not move him, and if Snapdragon holds the right to set JavaScript and CSS standards in his hands, it is easy to cause uneasiness and hostility from other enterprises, which is not conducive to future promotion.

"What does Netscape think about setting standards?"

"What can you think? Whatever you bring up, they agree. Chen Dayou took a sip of beer and recalled proudly: "When we went to Netscape for the first time a few months ago, you said that you wanted to formulate an Internet version of the Napoleonic Code, Mark Anderson agreed, but in fact he didn't pay attention to it, and only sent two employees as part-time liaisons, and he couldn't contact him once in ten days and half a month, but now it's different, they have formed a team of more than 20 people to study your proposal." ”

"Who did Microsoft send?"

"Microsoft didn't pay much attention to this meeting, and only sent a technician named Thomas Layton over and said that he knew you well?"

"It's very familiar. Du Qiu was happy that his delaying plan was perfectly realized, and he was also a little complacent, and said with a smile: "When I was writing Internet Explorer in Seattle, I had a great time working with Thomas, and he should support my proposal." ”

Jennifer watched coldly, seeing that the two were talking and laughing, and didn't take Microsoft in their eyes at all, she couldn't help but take out the question that she had asked Du Qiu several times before, but never got an answer, and asked Chen Dayou: "Dylan, IE browser is rapidly seizing the market, Netscape's stock price has fallen for 8 consecutive trading days, and its market value has shrunk by nearly 30%, aren't you worried about Snapdragon's financing plan?"

In the original time and space, Netscape in 1995 had no competitors and was unlimitedly in the stock market, with an issue of $28 and an opening price of $72, and then continued to climb to $174 at the end of the year, staging a rare miracle of wealth in financial history.

But in this time and space, with the competition of Snapdragon, Netscape's issue price is only $22, and although it still rushed above $70 at the opening, it has no momentum to continue to soar, and has been hovering between $70-80, and has not even broken through $90.

After the release of indos 95 on August 24, the media and users were satisfied with the built-in IE 1.0 browser, believing that it was easy to use, stable and efficient, and not inferior to Netscape's Navigator, which led to Microsoft's stock price rising sharply, while Netscape's stock price continued to decline, falling by 30% in just a few days, and its market value shrank from more than 3 billion to more than 2 billion.

The Silicon Valley venture capital community has always used Netscape's market value as a benchmark to measure Snapdragon's valuation, believing that the difference between the two is ten times, and if Netscape shrinks, Snapdragon will also shrink, so Jennifer has this question.

"Jennifer, it's a very clever move for you to go to China to play a beauty trick on Du Qiu, but you have been away from Silicon Valley for too long, and you have become slow to judge the direction of investment. ”

"I've only been gone for 20 days. ”

"The wind in Silicon Valley changes every day, and 20 days is enough for a hurricane. Chen Dayou rammed a few words of nonsense, and then explained: "In the past, Netscape led and Snapdragon followed, but now Snapdragon leads and Netscape follows, the form has changed, and the valuation will also change." ”

"Really?" Jennifer asked, incredulous, "Snapdragon's market share is only one-third of Netscape's, and it has also been hit by Microsoft, why is it leading?"

"Jennifer, you must know that although IE nominally belongs to Microsoft, before August 24 next year, the source code belongs to Snapdragon, and only this genius has the right to modify it. Chen Dayou pointed at Du Qiu and said: "He is the father of iScript, and now he holds the two trump cards of iVie and IE, so he asks Netscape to do what Netscape does, Netscape has to do it, otherwise after Microsoft gets the source code of IE next year, Netscape will be dead." ”

Jennifer thought of the standardization meeting that the two had just discussed, and instantly enlightened and understood-before getting the source code of the Internet Explorer, Microsoft has no right to speak in the Internet field, and Netscape must take advantage of this year's window period to fully cooperate with Du Qiu to formulate and promote various standards, so as to raise the technical threshold and create a moat, only in this way can it be possible to defeat Microsoft in the future.

On the other hand, in order not to be thrown away by Netscape, Microsoft will also strive for Du Qiu, so that Snapdragon will become the focus of contention between the two sides, and with a unique value, the previous evaluation criteria will naturally become invalid.

"So, is it true that Microsoft offered $500 million to buy Snapdragon a few days ago?"

"Maybe it's true, maybe it's fake, who knows. Chen Dayou knocked on Erlang's leg, dangled the beer can, looked like he was holding a wisdom bead, and laughed: "Jennifer, information is the source of wealth, if you want to spy on intelligence, you have to pay the price first, I like Du Qiu the most, ...... beauty tricks"

Jennifer has always looked down on Chen Dayou's clumsy pickling methods, and she was even more unhappy at this time, so she didn't wait for him to finish speaking, she took out her mobile phone from her bag and dialed a call, and after chatting for a few minutes, she sneered: "Microsoft's senior management is busy celebrating the indos 95 sale now, and they are not interested in dealing with you at all." ”

Du Qiu, who had been watching from the wall, smiled, lowered his head and spread his hands, made a classical gentleman's gesture of thanks, and said, "Jenny, you have helped a lot, thank you." ”

Chen Dayou hit the snake with the stick, and also said with a nickname: "Jenny, not everyone can keep in touch with Microsoft's senior management at any time, especially Netscape. ”

Jennifer found out that she was being used, she was a little annoyed, glared at Du Qiu hatefully, and then pointed at Chen Dayou and said, "Autumn can call me Jenny, you can't, because you are not my friend." ”

She has always been a noble and glamorous workplace elite image, but at this time she seems to be a middle school girl who has not been deeply involved in the world, and she has a unique style, not only Chen Dayou is amazed, Du Qiu is also excited, and feels that this chick has a taste of life that she did not have before, no longer a delicate but boring Barbie doll, but a sexy stunner with flesh and blood.