"Are you ready?"

"Alright. ”

"Jump!"

Du Qiu jumped out of the cramped cabin of Cessna 172, jumped into the air at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, spread his limbs, the wind whistling in his ears, and fell rapidly between the boundless sky and the vast earth, experiencing unprecedented excitement and freedom in a state of weightlessness that makes people palpitate.

After about two or three seconds, the descent rate stabilized, the sense of weightlessness disappeared, Du Qiu regained his balance, overlooking the mottled earth in the white clouds, only felt that the world was magnificent, and life was wonderful.

"Wow...... Wow wow......"

With a vague scream, a bald man tied to the coach to play tandem skydiving overtook Du Qiu from the side, and then two other skydiving instructors also caught up, and the three fell down side by side, and after about a minute or so, under the prompting of the coach, Du Qiu opened the parachute, and was suddenly pulled up, from a rapid fall to fluttering, and began to enjoy the fun of gliding in the air.

On November 3rd, when Du Qiu was researching private jet information, he accidentally saw a promotional poster of skydiving, so he found a skydiving club in Seattle and tried it, and the result was out of control, and he fell in love with the sport, which was his seventh attempt in two days, and he had some experience, and after manipulating the rope under the guidance of the coach, he successfully landed at the designated place after tossing for a while.

The bald man who had landed in advance waited for Du Qiu to stand firm, then clenched his fists and said to him: "Autumn, don't bring me here in the future, I hate the sky!"

"Marlin, don't you think it's exciting?"

"It's exciting to fight sharks in the ocean, this? It's suicide!"

"Alright then, next time we'll go to sea together. ”

This balding man's name is Marin Eller, a Microsoft veteran whom Du Qiu met when he came to Seattle in June to write Internet Explorer, and joined Microsoft as early as 1982.

As early as 1992, Marin Eller had the idea of developing a browser and scripting language, but unfortunately it was rejected by the high-level, in 1994 he thought that video compression technology was very promising, and studied it alone for a few months, and after making the results, he showed it to Bill Gates, Bill Gates admired this technology very much, and arranged a senior vice president to be responsible for follow-up research and development, but Marin Eller had an old feud with this vice president, so he was kicked away and stuffed into the IE browser research and development team as a mascot, and met Du Qiu by accident, and soon became friends。

After the release of Indos 95, Marin Eller left Microsoft just when his contract expired, and partnered with Du Qiu to open a company specializing in audio and video compression technology, which now has 10 employees, and the development is progressing well, and the product is expected to be released next month.

Marin Eller hated his baldness, he usually wore a beret regardless of the cold or heat, and he couldn't wear it when he skydived just now, which made him very uncomfortable, so he went to the locker room first, put on his hat, and then came to the lounge of the skydiving club with Du Qiu, asked for a cup of coffee, and sat on the sofa by the floor-to-ceiling window to chat.

"Autumn, I heard you went to Bellevue yesterday?"

"Yes. Du Qiu took a sip of coffee and asked, "There is an online bookstore called Amazon, and I invested a sum of money in it." ”

I used to buy a few books on this site with a great discount, and there is a link to it on iCard. Marin Eller seemed to feel uncomfortable wearing the hat and said as he adjusted: "If I were you, I would buy it wholly." ”

"You're bullish on Amazon?"

"Amazon doesn't matter, I'm bullish on the e-commerce industry, and the combination of browsers and shopping sites creates a good chemistry. Marin-Eller does have a good eye, saying: "The Internet has only digitized the real world, it has not changed the essence of business, and the browser is like a billboard on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue that can bring a lot of traffic to any shopping site." ”

"I agree with you, but it's not easy to do a good job of shopping websites, and I don't have time to toss this, so I only invest in wealth and don't participate in specific operations. ”

At this time, a white man about 40 years old, not tall, unattractive, and honest-looking walked over from outside, stood beside Du Qiu, bent down and whispered, "Sir, both AudioNet and CDNo have accepted our investment. ”

"Got it, thank you. ”

After the Internet conference in August, Du Qiu recruited Bai Jie as a business assistant in China, and Aiko Komatsu as a business assistant in Dongying.

Afterwards, Jennifer gave Du Qiupu a few ways in which billionaires manage their lives and assets in developed capitalist countries, and let him know for the first time that in addition to the private banks that often appear in movies, there are also full-service "Family-Office", which is the so-called family office.

There are two types of family offices, one is a single family office that only serves one family, and the other is a multi-family office that serves multiple families.

For example, when investing in Amazon yesterday, if Du Qiu went to talk in person, he might pay $2 million to get 20% of the shares, and let Theia's investment consultant go to talk, and $800,000 would get 20% of the shares......

Another example is AudioNet and CDNo, Du Qiu didn't even know where the offices of these two websites were, but he saw them on the Internet, and felt that the products they operated met his needs, and they were full of gimmicks, which were very suitable for cutting leeks at the peak of the Internet bubble, so he entrusted Theia to help him invest, and it was done in one day.

"Marin, AudioNet is a website that provides broadcasting services on the Internet, and CDNo is a website that sells music products on the Internet, and when our audio compression format is completed, we can use them to promote it. ”

"These two websites, like Amazon, are both investing a sum of money and taking a 20% stake?"

"Yes. ”

"Autumn, I don't understand what you're doing, you can use the money you invested to start your own website. Marin Eller was unimpressed by Du Qiu's investment and said: "You are now the king of the Internet, and they are not qualified to compete with you." ”

"It's so tiring and I like to take it easy. Du Qiu raised his coffee cup and said: "If I do everything by myself, I will definitely be scolded by consumers for dictatorship, besieged by peers, and suppressed by the government like Microsoft in the future." ”

"That's right. ”

The two chatted for more than ten minutes, drank coffee and left the lounge, ready to go home, on the way to the parking lot, Marin-Eller said: "Autumn, I know you are very concerned about Microsoft's movements on the Internet, and there is a very boring gossip that may be useful to you. ”

"What's the news?"

Yesterday morning, Bill re-sent the "Internet Wave" memo he had written in May. With a very obvious mocking expression on his face, Marin-Eller said: "In addition to internal management, he also sent to some media reporters declaring that Microsoft is now the backbone of the Internet wave. ”

In May, Bill Gates was so shocked that he emailed a memo to all senior Microsoft executives called "The Internet Wave", asking all departments to transition to the Internet, and also forcibly integrating MSN and Internet Explorer browsers into the soon-to-be-completed indos 95, which almost made this epoch-making product difficult to deliver.

The "Internet Wave" memo was the cause of the cooperation between Microsoft and Snapdragon, Du Qiu saw it on Marin Eller's computer when he wrote IE in June, and he was very impressed by it, saying: "This memo is very well written, and it is nothing to resend it once, right?"

"Of course, it's nothing to resend the memo. Marin Eller took a step next to Du Qiu and said: "Every time Microsoft makes a strategic deployment, it will set up corresponding groups, such as the electronics group, the office software group, etc., but after Bill reissued the memo, he told John Ludwig that there is no need to set up a special Internet group, it is capricious, and I don't know what he is thinking." ”

John Ludwig is the head of Microsoft's Internet R&D department, Du Qiu has met with this person, knowing that his status within Microsoft is not high, not even a senior vice president, and now listening to Marin Eller say this, I think this gossip is very useful, but I don't know what it is for a while, so I decided to relay it to Chen Dayou, this guy is quite talented in figuring out the opponent's mentality.

When leaving the skydiving club, Du Qiu looked back at a few small planes on the tarmac, and said to Theia's personal consultant, who had been following him like a transparent person: "There is no single-engine fixed-wing aircraft I want on the market now, I plan to buy or invest in an aircraft factory to build it myself, you can help me find out if there is a suitable one." ”

"Okay. ”