It's another year.

Zhang Chen stood in front of the window, the moon on the horizon was only a thin bend, yes, the day after tomorrow would be the first day of the Lunar New Year, and there would be no moon on the night of the first day of the new year.

It's been almost a whole year since I was reborn, and I still remember the morning when I woke up on the second day of the Lunar New Year.

Zhang Chen didn't know why he was reborn, and at the beginning of his rebirth, he also tried to find the purpose of his rebirth.

In his previous life, Zhang Chen basically had no special regrets to make up for, except for his cousin who jumped off the building and committed suicide when he met someone.

There is no system to give you instructions on why you are born again, and there is no Lord God to tell you what the task is.

Will it be the time to be reborn in the previous life, and when you wake up, you find that it is just a dream, and you are still lying in a house that is empty except for yourself, and you are still asleep?

Zhang Chen didn't know why he was reborn, but he was not a sad person, and he never asked himself why he was reborn. Since he has been reborn, then live well, this is Zhang Chen's only thought.

The net is drunk and drunk, washing your feet and going to bed, which regardless of the slanting sun outside the window.

Now that his capital empire has begun to take shape, the capital chain problems that have plagued him before should be solved after Alien expands its production capacity and iCom is introduced to the market.

Moreover, with the support of the big tree of Traveler Group, there is no need to worry too much about financing problems in a short period of time, and the low-interest loan of 300 million US dollars is enough to hold on until the Internet bubble bursts.

Now there is another problem, which is the operating system of iCom.

In the short term, iCom can only use Microsoft's operating system first, but Zhang Chen has a small ambition, that is, Matrix has its own operating system.

First, it can realize the overall strategy of hardware + software, and secondly, it can also prepare for the mobile operating system in the future mobile Internet era.

Apple's software + hardware strategy has proven to be the most profitable one, and the premise is that the product must be leading enough, whether it is software or hardware.

In terms of hardware, Zhang Chen has the advantages brought by rebirth, and the integration of hardware systems is what Bob Mansfield is best at, but in terms of systems, it is still quite difficult to develop a closed system that can be comparable to Apple OSX.

You know, the predecessor of OSX was based on the NeXTstep system that Steve Jobs had been developing since the eighties, and it was not officially released until 2001, and it was super slow and had a poor market reputation.

It is because of Apple's feelings and iMac's super high appearance, coupled with the ability to install dual systems, that iMac can survive after the launch of G4 in 2002, when the public has received a flood of bad reviews about the osx system.

But even so, the G4, as the most beautiful generation of iMac, was replaced by the G5 in just two years of life, and it is impossible to say that it has not been dragged down by osx.

Therefore, Zhang Chen will not do things that he is not sure of, and the main operating system of iCom will still be indos95 version 2 (i.e. in97) in the short term.

But Zhang Chen wanted to put a small easter egg in the computer and install another operating system in the form of a virtual machine, which could make the kernel based on the BSD version of unix or linux, just as an experience feature.

Subsequently, Zhang Chen prepared to take shares in major software companies and gain a certain voice in these companies. When the time is ripe and their operating systems are ready, major software vendors can launch software versions for new operating systems at the same time.

The best time is when the dot-com bubble bursts. At this time, Microsoft's antitrust lawsuit had just been lost, and it was too busy to take care of itself. Coupled with the huge losses caused by the bursting of the dot-com bubble to major companies, it was the right time for Matrix to launch its own operating system.

There are still two years, two years, and this system must be developed.

Zhang Chen decided to let Matrix buy a small company called Artemis.

Artemis has only three people, and the technical director is called Andy Rubin. The small company is currently developing an ebTV product, but with the current speed of the internet, how can ebTV be successful?

In his previous life, Zhang Chen read Andy Rubin's biography, in which he boasted about Andy Rubin, under his leadership, Artemis became profitable within a few months, with hundreds of thousands of users and sales of more than 100 million US dollars.

At that time, Zhang Chen thought it was strange: How could such a bullish company be acquired by Microsoft for a few million dollars? Microsoft had to come up with at least hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and a few stocks to acquire it.

And it's written in the book, when developing Android, Andy Rubin was a poor jingle, and it was not too much to say that he was penniless and almost asked for food. If this company is really so successful, how can Andy Rubin, as the founding father, be soft on just taking options? Let alone sell Android to Google.

So after being reborn, Zhang Chen found an opportunity to inquire about this company, and after getting the news, he couldn't help crying and laughing.

It is true that there are hundreds of thousands of users, but this is only an online sign in support of ebTV, indicating potential customers who are interested in buying after the product is launched. Andy Rubin, on the other hand, is not in charge of Artemis' business at all, nor is he the CEO of the company, but like an ordinary geek, he is immersed in technology, the launch date of the product has been delayed again and again, and skipping tickets has become a daily routine.

Although Artemis has obtained dozens of patents for communication systems under the research and development of Andy Rubin, none of the products have a fart use.

Artemis' investors are about to cry without tears, and they have invested more than 800,000 US dollars in it, but they have not seen any output so far.

It can be seen how much moisture is in the biographies of celebrities.

But no matter how big it is, there is no doubt that Andy Rubin is an absolute powerhouse in the field of operating systems.

To be able to develop a monster like Android on its own, it must be a monster in itself.

And this monster is the CEO that Zhang Chen found for Matrix.

From the establishment of Matrix and the recruitment of Jonathan Ivey, Zhang Chen intended to build Matrix into a company dominated by geek culture. In this company, everything is absolutely dominated by R&D and design, and other departments must unconditionally cooperate with R&D and design.

Andy Rubin is the most successful and purest geek, even purer than Larry Page and Zuckerberg.

The most ironic thing is that in this geek-filled company, the one who has the least geek spirit is Zhang Chen.

At the end of the day, Zhang Chen is a businessman, and he wants Matrix to be full of geek spirit because the more geeky a company is, the more likely it is to become a monopoly company through technology.

Monopoly is the most profitable business in the world.

Through monopoly, we can obtain high profits to feed back R&D and design, be more advanced in technology, create greater products, and monopolize the market.

It's a virtuous circle.

In the Chinese New Year's Eve, although he did not go to Matrix to supervise the work, he still had to see Andy Rubin at home, Zhang Chen smiled bitterly and shook his head.

On a winter morning in San Francisco, it was bleak and cold, and in this weather, Andy Rubin wore a gray sweatshirt, and as soon as he got out of the car, he was so cold that he shivered.

"Hell it, I should have stayed in Cayman. Andy Rubin muttered, "Hopefully the salary offered by Matrix will pay for last month's credit card." ”

Andy Rubin locked the car and looked at the house number, "It should be here, yes, what's on the door and window? It can't be witchcraft, right?"

It's finally over.,It's too busy today.,It's almost two o'clock to change the second change.,It's late.,But it's finally more.。

Good night.

(End of chapter)