Microsoft headquarters is located in a small town called Redmond in Seattle, covering a very large area, there are dozens of office buildings, most of them are relatively low, only three or four floors, sparsely hidden among the trees, there is no towering building, there is no majestic and domineering gate, not like a famous business giant, more like a large residential community, so that Qin Mu and Chen Dawei and others are amazed, the feeling and the imaginary scene is too different, the three views have been subverted. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Why don't we build a software park like this?"

"Qin Tou, do you think we will meet Mr. Gates on the road?"

"Hey, these drinks are all free!"

The appearance of Microsoft's headquarters, Du Qiu had seen photos and videos on the Internet before the crossing, so he was not too surprised, but he was also very excited, but the excitement was different from Qin Mu and others, not the kind of fanaticism that fans finally arrived at the Holy Land, but because it was a good place to learn from teachers and fight monsters and level up!

In 2016, Du Qiu was just a relatively good programmer, far from being a cow, using martial arts characters as an analogy, at the beginning of the crossing, he was equivalent to reading the "Nine Yin True Scripture", but Guo Jing, who had not yet practiced his internal skills, had the best knowledge in the world, but the actual combat was very average, and the experience was not rich enough, he could only be regarded as a second-rate master in the rivers and lakes.

Because of this, when Du Qiu tinkered with the iView browser in February, he completely copied the JavaScript language from his laptop, and didn't even make any changes.

But now the situation has changed a lot, just like Jiang Danfeng's ability and mentality have improved a lot after some training, Du Qiu is the same, and he is even better.

With the blessing of the buff golden finger, Du Qiu's physical recovery is very fast, ordinary people can only do three or four hours of high-intensity mental activity a day, he can do seven or eight hours, and with the vision and thinking beyond the times for more than 20 years, he knows how to go to the chaff, knows which technologies are worth studying, and which technologies are not worth studying, so the learning efficiency is extremely high, just like Duan Yu who knows the Northern Shengong, what to learn, what to learn, in the month that he stayed in the warehouse of the institute, he studied with He Lixing and Xiao Wu and others every day, and his ability increased at a visible rate, which was much higher than the level of the meeting just passed。

Although He Lixing and Xiao Wu have a good level, after all, there are only two people, who are first-class talents in China, but not necessarily in the world, Microsoft is different, it can be described as full of talents, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, there are countless big bulls in it, as long as you catch a few, you don't have to worry about not being able to learn......

By the time the cooperation ends, even if it can't be reborn, at least it will progress by leaps and bounds, evolving from a "fake and shoddy bull" who bullies fresh graduates to a "real bull" who sees no one......

Sunday, June 25, 3 p.m., Lake Washington.

Seattle is the largest city in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, close to the mountains and the sea, 41.16% of the area under its jurisdiction is water, there are many lakes, Lake Washington is the largest of them, with an area of nearly 90 square kilometers, beautiful scenery, is a famous tourist attraction, in addition to many chic luxury villas, there are many private marinas, and even seaplanes.

Du Qiu wore a swimming cap, in a freestyle posture, swam in the lake for about an hour, and then landed on the shore from a pontoon, took off his swimming cap, and walked towards a nearby café.

Zhao Hongfei, who was resting under the parasol, picked up the towel and shirt on the back of the chair, took a few steps forward and handed it to Du Qiu, and said: "Mr. Du, your physical strength is too good, you can swim for so long, Dawei and I can't swim for more than ten minutes." ”

"Just practice more. Du Qiu took the towel and saw that the other two deck chairs under the parasol were empty, so he asked, "What about Xu Yongrui and Mr. Eller?"

"Mr. Eller went to buy beer. Zhao Hongfei pointed to a small boat not far from the lake, and said with some envy: "Xu Tou and Blanche went boating together." ”

This guy can even hook up with American demi-......

What a humanoid hormone divergence......

In order to get Microsoft, Du Qiu was a treat, a storyteller, a demagogue, and a campaign in the newspaper, which can be said to have done everything he could, and finally reached a cooperation agreement, but after arriving in the United States, after more than ten days of observation, he found that he was frightened by Microsoft's prestige and the great achievements of Windows95 and IE in the future, and some overreacted, in fact, Microsoft's internal management is very complex, there are dozens of projects running at the same time, and the browser is not ranked at all, and it is not the focus of Microsoft's attention, Bill Gates even said such a sentence in an interview a few days ago: The browser is nothing more than a little program like a fly.

In other words, even if it didn't take those careful thoughts, Microsoft would agree to cooperate nine times out of ten, Brad Silverberg was in a hurry to go to China to find Du Qiu, not because he attached great importance to the browser, but because he urgently needed this thing, just like a player installed a game masterpiece, only to find that a file was missing, it couldn't run, and naturally he was very anxious, and the search all over the world knelt down to beg for this file, and when he found it, he would immediately forget about it and not take it to heart.

So when Du Qiu and others arrived in Seattle, Microsoft only sent 10 employees to form a research and development team with them, among these 10 people, 6 of them were guys who had been working on the Spyglass browser before, the other 3 were thorns in other departments, and one was a project manager, a veteran of a company that had failed in the power struggle.

This veteran is named Marin Eller, who joined Microsoft as early as 1982, and was once one of the main developers, very capable but with a very bad temper, so he stayed up for more than ten years and was only a middle manager, his most famous story is that when he first joined Microsoft, he found that the basic language compiler was flawed, so he wrote an improved version, and then showed it to Bill Gates, and said in public that the guy who wrote the compiler before was a bullshit idiot, and made Bill Gates disgraced, because the compiler was written by Gates himself……

Marin Eller has a short temper and a stubborn personality, but his ability and vision are first-class, belonging to the world-class bull level, as early as 1992, he began to study browsers and scripting languages, and it didn't take long for the department to be disbanded, he was sent to study the handwriting input system, and after completion, he went to study the smart home, and wanted to engage in a way that can remotely control computers, televisions, Home network system for refrigerators and other electrical appliances, but it didn't take long for the department to be disbanded, so he turned to video compression technology and planned to make a video playback software.

A few months ago, Marin Ekler proposed to Bill Gates to develop a media card that could play compressed videos on a computer so that he could watch TV shows even on a slow Internet connection, and Bill Gates was very interested, but handed over the project to another vice president, who relied on his connections and recruited a friend from outside to be the director, who felt that Marin Eller was too old and threatened his position, so he kicked him out and assigned him to the browser development team。

Du Qiu came to Microsoft for the purpose of stealing teachers to learn art, so he put his figure very low, with honesty, seriousness, Open-minded communication with Microsoft employees, as long as it is a reasonable request, try to meet it, Marin Eller has a stubborn temper, but is not an unreasonable person, plus there is iview as the foundation, the development of the browser is going very smoothly, so the atmosphere of the entire R&D team is very harmonious, and they get along more happily, and they quickly get acquainted with each other in more than ten days, so they took advantage of this weekend to ask a few familiar team members to go to Lake Washington to play and take a break.

After wiping the water droplets on his body with a towel, Du Qiu put on a light blue shirt, sat down on the recliner, picked up the cold drink on the coffee table and was about to drink it, Chen Dawei ran from under another parasol, took his mobile phone and said, "Brother Qiu, my third brother is looking for you." ”

After Du Qiu arrived in the United States, he bought a straight Ericsson mobile phone, the shape is very old-fashioned, purely for nostalgia, he took the phone, fed it, and listened to Chen Dayou say: "Du Qiu, the negotiation is done, 1 million US dollars, plus a one-year free promotion agreement, take 20% of the shares." ”

"20% is a bit less. ”

"No way, we entered a little late, they got a $1 million investment from Sequoia Capital in April, and they became famous in Silicon Valley, and the valuation was much higher. Chen Dayou's voice sounded a little tired, and he said: "Yahoo is now valued at $7 million, and if we didn't have the iView browser to help them promote it, they wouldn't have gotten a 20% stake at all." ”

That's right, the two are talking about Snapdragon's stake in Yahoo at a cost of $1 million!

Although Yang Zhiyuan and David Ferro founded Yahoo as early as 1994, they really founded the company in April 1995, a month later than Snapdragon, but at that time, Du Qiu only had a total of hundreds of thousands of yuan in his hands, and he was unable to invest at all, until he signed a cooperation agreement with Microsoft and got the advance payment of 1 million US dollars, so he had the capital to invest in shares.

Yahoo's development momentum is very strong, in April Sequoia Capital investment, the valuation was only 4 million US dollars, now only 2 months later, the valuation has risen to 7 million US dollars, and by the end of the year, when Son comes to invest, the valuation will rise to 40 million US dollars, and when it goes public in March next year, the market value will be as high as 850 million US dollars, and the market value in 2000 will be as high as 125 billion US dollars.

$1 million, $170 million in a year, $25 billion in five years......

Lying in the biggest bubble in the history of human finance, it's hard not to fly...... (To be continued.) )