After more than ten days of repeated discussions and negotiations, Snapdragon and DFJ finally reached an investment consensus, one party made idesign independent, set up a subsidiary in Silicon Valley called athlon in English, Chinese called Athlon, with a valuation of $4 million, and the other party invested $800,000, accounting for 20% of the shares. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

As for Jenny Shimizu, it is said that she just took a plane home, two years ago she was just a motorcycle mechanic in San Jose, and one evening when she was riding a motorcycle and taking her girlfriend out for a ride, she was discovered by a talent scout, and then quickly became popular with her unique neutral temperament and became a supermodel.

Boys, girls and girls are mostly unique in temperament and unique, if Du Qiu is a talent scout, he will also discover Jenny Shimizu, her appearance is completely untouched with beauty in the traditional sense, but her facial features, temperament and manners can be impressive, unforgettable at first sight, such as the movie I watched before the crossing, I even forgot the name, but I can still recognize this face after more than ten years.

Jenny Shimizu has a bold and lively personality, as the saying goes, a typical tomboy, Xu Yongrui is more curious about her, and the two chatted non-stop after getting on the plane, and Jennifer talked about business with Du Qiu - Xu Yongrui was reluctant to work in the United States, and Du Qiu was about to return to China after signing the contract, so the two parties agreed to let Jennifer, who has an MBA degree, serve as the interim CEO of Athlon.

Charlie Jackson, born in 1948, 47, has a double master's degree in Near Eastern Cultural Studies and Linguistics from UCLA, served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1972 to 1976, founded Silicon-Beach Software in 1984, which was acquired in 1990, and co-founded FutureWave Software with Jonathan Gaye in 1993. ”

Du Qiu took the character file from Jennifer's hand, looked at the photo on it, and joked with a smile: "Is the news accurate this time?"

"Autumn, I'm sorry for the mistake last time, please don't mention it again, okay?"

"I'm just kidding, I'm not going to mention it later. ”

The last time she went to Silicon Valley on a private jet, Jennifer said that there was a startup called Vermeer working on Frontpage, and in fact she was working on Red Herring When I was a reporter for the magazine, I happened to hear what my colleagues said, I only knew about it, and I didn't know the details, Du Qiu only knew that frontpage was a product acquired by Microsoft, but he didn't know where to buy it, and he thought Vermeer was a small company, so he asked Chen Dayou to investigate to see if he could buy it for his own use.

Vermeer is indeed a start-up company, founded in 1994, but the strength is very strong, the founder is very famous, named Charles Ferguson, is 40 years old, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, not only for Apple, Motorola, Texas Instruments and other large companies to provide strategic consulting, but also for the White House, the Department of Defense and the Office of the Trade Representative and other government departments, the company has received investment from several venture capital companies, valued at tens of millions of dollars, not at all Snapdragon can be acquired.

Jennifer had just changed from a reporter to an investment bank manager at the time, and she hadn't fully entered the state, so if she said it casually, it could only be regarded as an unintentional mistake, Du Qiu let it go after a little ridicule, pointed to another name on the file, and asked, "What about this Jonathan Gay's information?"

Jonathan Gaye, born in 1967, is a 28-year-old computer genius who graduated from Harvey Mudd College and worked for Charlie Jackson's Silicon-Beach in 1985 as a high school student, and the two are close. Jennifer didn't have a file on this person, but dictated: "He has a relatively small stake in Futurewave, and he is focused on technical work, not interested in management, and if you want to buy, you just need to talk to Charlie Jackson." ”

Du Qiu scratched his finger on Jonathan Gay's name and asked, "Are there any other employees in this company?"

"In addition to Charlie Jackson and Jonathan Gaye, there are three people, a VP of marketing, a programmer, and a painter. Jennifer spread her hands and asked, "Autumn, I don't know why you want to buy this company, handwriting sounds wonderful, but there is no market, Go, Apple and Microsoft products are not successful, and Futurewave is the same, there is almost no sales." ”

"I didn't want their handwriting software, I wanted the company's technology in vector drawing. ”

"What is vector drawing?"

"In computer graphics, the use of points, lines or polygons and other geometric elements based on mathematical equations to represent images is called vector graphics, and bitmaps represented by pixels ......" Du Qiu introduced the basic concepts, put up the file and displayed: "Jennifer, you think this piece of paper is a web page, such as the homepage of DFJ, if there is a video on it in addition to text and pictures, showing the company's management structure or investment process, do you think it would be better?"

"Of course. ”

"Nowadays, the Internet speed is too slow, and traditional videos are too large to open on the web, so the best option is to make the video into a vector animation. Du Qiu clicked on the name of the company on the file and said: "I plan to combine this company's vector drawing technology with iscript to make a product specializing in vector animation, and cooperate with idesign to make the web page more colorful, this new product, I plan to call it flash." ”

That's right, what Du Qiu wants to buy now is the famous Flash, if he doesn't make a move, this small company called FutureWave will be acquired by Macromedia next year, and then change the name of the product to Flash.

Needless to say, every netizen knows that the trend of vector animation was set off at the beginning of the 21st century, changed the online video playback landscape around 2006, and created the era of web games around 2008, and it was not until the advent of HTML5 that the momentum began to wane.

In the original time and space, when Du Qiu first started to contact the Internet, it was when flash animation swept the country, "Rock on the New Long March Road", "Northeast People Are Living Lei Feng", "Little" and other works have caused a sensation, and he is naturally not exempt from vulgarity, and he has learned to make a lot of animation MVs, thus remembering a person's name - Jonathan Guy, the father of flash.

Flash animation ebbed when Du Qiu was in high school, and the name had long been forgotten after the crossing, just like Jenny Shimizu, hidden in the depths of the brain, and usually don't pay attention to it at all, only when he meets it, he will suddenly remember, he can think of it to buy flash, just like realplayer, it's a big mouth from Marin Eller.

In 1989, a company called go in Silicon Valley developed a handwriting input system, which aroused the interest of many users and media, they all believed that handwriting input would replace the keyboard, and optimistically predicted that by 1995, the market for handwriting input systems would exceed $3 billion, so many companies invested heavily in this field, including Microsoft, and the person in charge of the project at that time was Marin Eller.

Marin Eller played a trick and sent an undercover agent with a miniature camera to listen to Go's technical presentation, secretly filmed the technology they demonstrated, and then made a similar product based on the gourd, using the dominant position of the Windows operating system to sell to hardware manufacturers such as HP, NEC, and Toshiba, and defeated GO Company, which cost $75 million to develop a product, for only $4 million.

It's just that the efficiency of handwriting input is too low, far from being compared with the keyboard, in the early 90s, touch screen technology is not mature, there are no smartphones and tablets, the application range of handwriting input is very small, and the sales are not ideal, by 1995, not to mention the market of 3 billion US dollars, 30 million US dollars may not be there, so many companies have lost a lot of money, but compared to Apple and IBM, Microsoft is the least loss.

Marin Eller is very proud of the brilliant achievements of the year, so he has been paying attention to this field, he has a 9-year-old daughter, usually and likes to draw, in early July for his birthday, he bought a set of handwritten drawing software produced by Futurewave as a gift, was seen by Du Qiu, heard Jonathan Gay's name in small talk, combined with Microsoft and drawing software, and immediately remembered flash.

Although flash comes from the hands of a small company, but because it fills the gap in the market, it was taken by Microsoft as soon as it was released, and it was used to make an animated video on how to use the MSN network, and put it on the official website to show, the effect is very ideal, so I wanted to acquire it, but it was taken by Macromedia with $500,000 to get the first place, and it was rumored that Microsoft wanted to swallow up Macromedia in a rage, but the anti-monopoly lawsuit was entangled, and I didn't dare to do it, so I had to copy a similar product myself, but unfortunately the competition was not Flash, and there were no waves。

Although the Frontpage was lost, if you can eat Flash smoothly, this trip to the United States can be regarded as a happy ending. (To be continued.) )