It took three days before and after, Chen Zier obtained the technology patent of multi-touch from two university professors, and Tony came forward on behalf of Shengshi Investment, and the whole process was relatively smooth.

As for funding follow-up research, Chen Zier was not stingy, and this technology needs to be continuously improved. Of course, the funding is not given in vain, and the improved technology is naturally owned by Shengshi.

Subsequently, Chen Zier rented a house in Palo Alto City, and there are many of them, all of which are rented by entrepreneurs.

E-song, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shengshi Investment, was established here, with an initial investment of US$300,000, with Chen Zier owning 96% of the shares and Tony owning 4% of the shares.

Chairman & CEO: Chen Zier: Head of Hardware: Tony James.

Employees: 0

The company's goal is to develop a digital music player, but it is the ultimate goal, and it always has to give employees a little bit of motivation.

The priority now is to recruit more engineers.

Before the iPod got the micro hard drive, the best MP3 sales on the market were still flash-based storage.

In this regard, James is a specialist, and Chen Zier doesn't know much, but he knows that the two MP3s of Shihan and Imperial Alliance are selling well, and they can work in that direction within one to two years.

……

In this way, Tony became the 'spokesperson' of Shengshi Investment in the United States, but he did not obtain the shares of Shengshi Investment, and Chen Zier was relatively 'stingy' about his company's shares, which are currently only owned by three people other than him, and they all have two conditions at the same time: trust and ability.

Tony had just arrived, and neither of those conditions was met.

But he works hard, both in recruitment and in R&D.

And when Chen Zier was trying to recall the details of the iPod, Tony's name gave him an inspiration.

Tony, Portal-Player......

He patted his head and realized that he had overlooked a very important person: Tony Fadell!

The unknown father of iPod!

In fact...... This person should be more critical than the portal player!

He's a truly genius engineer behind the iPod, and Tony Fadell had already created a hard drive-based MP3 player before Apple's head of hardware, Rubinstein, invited him over!

And this person also has an idea: handheld music player + online music store!

Chen Zier had seen this name in the chapter of the iPod development process of "The Biography of Steve Jobs": Tony Fadell.

He couldn't remember the man's history, his characteristics, or the company he founded, yes, Fadel had started a small company trying to form a company with his own creativity as its core business, and worked with Portal Player to develop a music player.

But what's that little company called? Is it now established?

I can't remember it at all, and all Chen can remember is that Fadell had no choice but to sell his ideas after spending all the money of investors.

After a long period of hard work, I finally waited for Jobs to see people and adopt his ideas, so I had the later iPod.

Before that, Apple had been thinking about how to increase the sales of its own computers, they didn't think much about digital music, they were just a computer company with only a small market share.

So Tony Fadell...... Very important.

He immediately approached Tony James and asked, "You know there's a guy with a new idea in digital music called Tony Faddell?"

James exaggerated, "Boss, have you ever heard of Fadel? We used to be colleagues in Magic Company!"

Tony Fadell also worked at Magic Company?

Chen Zier roared angrily in his heart: Thief God, finally let me have the luck to meet a celebrity!

Although there are no opportunities for other traversers to encounter directly, it is okay to take a detour!

I don't care!

So he immediately asked Tony to meet this Tony Fadell, the father of the iPod!

Tony said, "Fadell is a busy guy right now, he's a hot guy at Philips. ”

Philips?

Chen Zier paused, then it seems that he is not starting his own business now, as for the hot?

If it's really so smooth, why is he leaving his job to start a business?

……

……

Faddell was a typical Caucasian with blue eyes, and he looked a little handsome.

He's a restless dreamer.

He worked for Magic Company, Philips Company, Apple Inc., and finally left Apple to start his own business again.

Because he has a flexible mind and always has new ideas, he doesn't work for Steve Jobs or Apple, he works for his own creativity, ideas, interests.

But it doesn't matter, don't be delusional about finding loyalty in Silicon Valley, as long as he realizes the idea of a handheld player + online music store, then he has value.

Tony also told Fadell about the current situation: there is an Oriental who is willing to pay for the digital music player of your imagination.

Fadell was a little skeptical, but digital music was really what he was interested in, so Tony asked him out.

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The three met in the house rented by Chen Zier.

Fadel was amazed at his youthful ...... And what they're doing.

Chen Zier stretched out his hand and said enthusiastically, "Welcome, Mr. Fadell!"

Tony joked with him next to him, "Hey, man, I'm an entrepreneur now, do you know what my position is?

Fadel raised an eyebrow and responded humorously, "I have to be happy for your 'huge' achievement." ”

"Of course, you absolutely have to. ”

"I will," said Fadell, "but you have to let me know what I am here for today." ”

Chen Zier found a whiteboard, grabbed a black pen, and prepared to start his performance, "Sehan and Dimeng have both developed two handheld music players. People call them products that can replace the Sony Walkman. ”

He wrote down the names of the two products.

"But they're all flash-based storage, and they can't fit a few songs. It is expensive and has obvious drawbacks. ”

"On the other hand, consumers' demand and desire for music and players is huge. Imagine how enjoyable it would be to have such a thoughtful device that can provide your favorite music at any time when exercising, walking and eating. ”

"In the past, the Walkman was too big and inconvenient to carry, but now the Imperial League and Shihan have made it smaller, but it can't put a few songs...... That is to say......"

Fadel's eyes narrowed when he heard this.

Chen Zier said confidently: "A music player that is really close to perfection and can completely conquer consumers has not yet appeared! This is the opportunity I see, a huge opportunity!"

Tony excitedly said, "That's this Fadel! I like this idea!"

Fadel had already had this in mind, and he certainly understood the future described by the young man.

Chen Zier continued, "The music player in my mind should be like this: first of all, it must be beautiful, cool, and make people drool when they see it, and secondly, it is not very big, it may be smaller than a cigarette case, in addition to this, we have to give it a strong battery, so that it can play for hours; of course, a hard disk is also indispensable, we want to help consumers sweep the trouble of 'can't put down songs' into the garbage heap!"

Fadell touched his chin and nodded, "Very good idea, but how to do it, you know, there are a lot of technical problems that need to be solved here." ”

"So we need you, Fadell, you're a genius engineer," Tony said. ”

Chen Zier also smiled slightly, "Tony is right, we need you." In the same way, you need a partner, don't you?"

Quitting his job and starting his own business was a big decision, and Fadell had to think about it.

Before leaving, he asked Chen Zier: "Do you think such a perfect product can really appear in a few years?"

Chen Zier shrugged, "Who knows? Just a few years ago, people could only use DOS commands to operate computers. Doing easy things won't succeed, Fadell. ”

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Two days later, Fadell made the decision of his own style.

He is a very entrepreneurial person.

He started his career in both high school and college.

After that, he also left Magic and Philips to start his own business. Unfortunately, the dot-com bubble burst, so the company went out of business, and then was recruited by Steve Jobs to Apple.

He was also an executive at Apple, and before the iPhone, the iPod was Apple's flagship product, and he served as the vice president of the iPod R&D department!

You can say that you are a winner in life, right? Fame, fortune and money are all there.

Hey, that's such a successful career experience, he left Apple and went to engage in smart home!

How much courage is that?!

With his success at Apple, there is absolutely no problem in leaving to work as an executive in another company, but he still has to start his own business.

This is not an easy decision, because starting a business is very likely to fail, and it is not that he has not failed, it should be said that he has not been very successful!

Chen Zier couldn't remember this person's experience, otherwise he wouldn't have to worry at all during the two days he waited for Fadel to consider.

It was still early in the morning, and Tony Fadell called Chen Zier.

"I love that idea, I love it so much, I can't help but imagine how fascinating it is! I'm going to create it, I'm going to give it life!"

Chen Zier hid on the other end of the phone and stole fun, who did he find?

He said to Fadel: "You're here, you're the CEO!"

In fact, not only did Fadell come, he brought two like-minded engineers from his own department!

This is also quite normal in Silicon Valley, like the magic company he worked at before, founded by an engineer born out of Apple's Mac department.

They're all going to get shares, hiring in Silicon Valley, it's an 'unspoken rule', you won't have an engineer working for you without equity. Fadel had high hopes for 10 percent, and the other two had 2 percent each.

Tony James is excited to work with Fadel, and even more excited that no entrepreneur has ever had the same amount of money as they did in the early days.

It was not easy for a high-quality company like Google to contact a rich person like the founder of Sun Company to get $100,000.