Jennifer's private jet is the Learjet 35 from Bombardier Aerospace, which is an 8-seater small business jet with a long, pointed nose painted with black circles, a bit like the big bad wolf nose in Disney cartoons, Du Qiu thought it was quite cute and asked, "How much does this thing cost?"

"About $3 million, it's not expensive. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info" Jennifer looked like a super tyrant and said disgustedly: "This is an aircraft developed in the 70s, it is narrow and old, and when I open my own company in the future, I must buy a bigger one, such as Larry Ellison's Gulfstream, I like it very much, and I can have a party in it." ”

Larry Ellison is the founder of Oracle, an IT industry leader and super-rich man on a par with Bill Gates, and it is said that his family has three private jets and five luxury yachts. ”

"Autumn, I heard that you Chinese like to talk about 'Kansai', my 'Kansai' has a lot, if you cooperate with me, there will be many benefits." ”

"That's called a relationship, not Kansai. Du Qiu smiled and explained: "Relationship refers to connections, and you Americans are also very particular about this, but your connections are too luxurious, and I can't afford to spend it." ”

The plane was ready to take off before the two arrived at the airport, Du Qiu was improvised, there was no other luggage except for the laptop, and it took off soon after getting on the plane, and when the flight was stable, he went to the cockpit with great interest to visit for more than ten minutes, and then returned to the cabin, took a bottle of drink from the freezer, sat on the beeswax-colored leather seat, and said: "Jennifer, thank you for your hospitality, let me experience my life dream years in advance." ”

"What dreams?"

"Sitting in a private jet and alone with a beautiful woman. Du Qiu turned his fingers in the air in a circle and laughed: "Of course, in my dream, the plane is mine, and the beautiful woman dances around me in a bikini." ”

"It's a pity it's my plane. Jennifer, who was tying her hair, laughed, looked at him with sapphire-like eyes, and teased: "You look in good shape, now I order you to dance in front of me in shorts, and if you dance well, even if you don't reach a cooperation, I can send you back to Seattle." ”

Du Qiu really danced, holding a drink bottle, like a robot, his neck, shoulders, and wrists moved around in a stiff but rhythmic way, and after moving for more than ten seconds, he stood up in a slow and uniform posture, raised his hand and stepped forward, moving forward and backward, simulating walking in slow motion, as if he was caught in a snail in the swamp of time, and the plane in a state of high-speed navigation contrasted with each other, giving people a feeling of time disorder, funny and bizarre.

"Wonderful, very nice. Jennifer watched him perform with an appreciative smile and approvingly: "Autumn, you are really an incredible person, unlike all the Chinese I have seen before." ”

Du Qiu imitated the mechanical dance danced by the Japanese dance group "World Order", which was established in 2009, this kind of dance is won by creativity, and the technical difficulty is not high, but he will be a little bit, and when he hears the words, he will accept the magic power, sit back in the chair, and ask, "What's the difference?"

"You're confident, very confident, and I've only seen that confidence in one person. ”

"Mr. Gates?"

"No, Bill is actually a guy who doesn't have confidence, my mom says he's a shy big boy. Jennifer gracefully crossed her legs, turned sideways to face him, and revealed, "It's Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, and he's the most confident person I've ever met." ”

In 1995, Steve Jobs had not returned to Apple, his business was in a bad situation, and Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy, so the reputation was far from being compared with 20 years later, Du Qiu didn't expect Jennifer to even know this great god, and was a little curious, and asked: "Why do you say that?"

"Jobs was convinced that everything he did was right, and if it went wrong, it must be someone else's problem. Bill, on the other hand, was always unconfident, and he even poached people from some bankrupt companies to become executives at Microsoft, in case no one had the experience to deal with the company in crisis. ”

Marin Eller also said that several of Microsoft's vice presidents were poached from bankrupt companies, and in 1992, he was just getting his eyebrows on the development of the browser, and was disrupted by a bankrupt vice president who parachuted in, so he hated Bill Gates's behavior and felt that his brain was burned out.

People who can become legends must have something extraordinary, how Jobs was in 1995, Du Qiu does not know, but referring to his famous quote in the future, "Consumers don't know what they need, until we come up with our own products, they find out, this is what I want", Jennifer judged his character very accurately.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are the two most influential giants in the IT industry, one is prepared for danger in times of peace, steady and steady, step by step, the other is self-confident, innovative, trend-leading, personality and style are completely opposite, in the same era, both cooperate with each other and hostile to each other, from the 70s to the 21st century, which has been twists and turns, ups and downs, can be called the IT industry Chu and Han competition, Yu Liang coexists, it is really a wonderful thing.

Du Qiu felt that Jennifer was comparing him to Jobs, a little too exalted, and asked unconfidently, "Where am I confident?"

"When I was studying at Harvard, I invited some of my classmates to take this plane for vacation, and some of them were Chinese, who were very reserved. Jennifer stroked the armrest of the leather chair and said, "They are obviously curious, but they don't dare to move, and they don't even dare to move for hours." ”

"I think you're mistaken, it's not that they're not confident, it's because they don't have money, and they're afraid that they won't be able to compensate for breaking things. Du Qiu took a sip of the drink, screwed the lid hard, and said with a smile: "You see, I'm very afraid of soiling the seat, and I'm even careful to drink water." ”

"It's not about money, those Chinese are very boring, they don't even speak naturally, you are funny, you can do whatever you want, this is the gap in confidence." Jennifer posed as a psychiatrist and said: "Tim Draper believes that the most important thing for a startup to succeed is whether the founder has confidence, if he doesn't even have self-confidence, then no matter how good the technology is, it is impossible to succeed." Actually, the web creation software you are talking about, there is already a startup in Silicon Valley that is developing it, and it has also made a beta version, and the reason why I chose to take you to meet Tim instead of them is because you are more confident than those people. ”

"I just had a small talk with you at the bar, how do you know I'm confident?"

"When I was a reporter at Red Herring, no one ever turned down an interview with me, and you were the only one. The corners of Jennifer's mouth turned up, showing a rare woman's coquettishness, and said, "You and others give me different feelings." ”

Could it be that this girl's family background is too superior, and under the influence of rebellious psychology, she has become a trembling m?

Du Qiu was a little crying and laughing, and asked, "What is the name of that company in Silicon Valley?"

"The company is called Vermeer, and the product they develop is called Frontpage. ”

Isn't this Ghost Li meeting Li Kui......

The prototype of idesign is Frontpage......

That's right, the thing that Du Qiu took out as a pathfinder is the idesign web production software that Xu Yongrui is developing.

idesign is the least important and the least promising product of Snapdragon, because it is only an emergency tool in the initial stage of Internet development, for those who have just come into contact with the Internet rookie use, when the Internet enters the mature period, this kind of software loses the market, because the rookie can directly apply for a free personal homepage on social networking sites, and in the hands of professional web designers, the web page made by this software is inefficient, poor quality, code readability and maintainability are a mess, and it is simply useless.

In the original time and space, Microsoft spent a lot of effort in the 90s to promote the web page production software frontpage, for a while the limelight even caught up with word and excel, becoming a must-learn technology for computer enthusiasts, but by 2003 it stopped updating, abandoned as if it were a piece of fashion, another popular web page production software dreamweaver was also acquired by adobe in 2005, the influence is fading, and after 2010, there are few professionals who use it to develop web pages.

In short, idesign belongs to a specific product of a specific era, like a grenade, which can determine the outcome of a skirmish, but cannot determine the outcome of a battle, so Du Qiu was not in a hurry to develop it after the release of the iview browser, but went to New York to spend a while drinking, and later lost it directly to Xu Yongrui.

There is little point in this open source thing, so it is better to simply take it out and test the waters, set up a company in the United States, make it a closed-source software for a fee, and take advantage of the rise of the Internet bubble to go public on the NASDAQ and make a quick buck. (To be continued.) )