At the meeting, John Doerr called on all high-tech companies to hold a big march to get everyone's opinion in the state legislature.

Zhang Chen looked at it coldly, and the political participation of Americans is indeed relatively high, especially in a region with a very high average education level like Silicon Valley.

Many entrepreneurs at the scene are even students of Berkeley and Stanford, especially Berkeley, who has been marching every day, and now with this excuse, he is even more excited.

Zhang Chen also donated $2,000 to fund the parade, and others also donated various amounts.

The biggest donor was Netscape's Mark Anderson, who donated a full $50,000.

Since Microsoft bundled IE in indos, Netscape's market share has continued to decline, and even the stock has been declining. Now there are shareholders who bought Netscape shares at a high price and are starting to sue Mark Anderson for making the wrong decision to sell the company to Microsoft early, so that shareholders suffer losses.

Zhang Chen sneered in his heart, this battle between Microsoft and Netscape is completely a lose-lose war. Netscape was finally completely down by Microsoft, and Microsoft was not happy, for an illusory vision of network computers, in vain on the burden of monopoly, was investigated by the U.S. Department of Commerce, and was finally ruled to be a monopoly, requiring a huge fine, and the entire company was almost spun off.

Microsoft's defeat directly caused the bursting of the Internet bubble.

From Zhang Chen's standpoint, he is certainly on the side of Silicon Valley. The bigger the bubble is blown up, the more benefits he has, and the more violently the bubble bursts, the lower the cost will be when he buys the bottom.

In addition to donations, Zhang Chen also took the initiative to promise that all employees of Tinder Source would participate in the parade according to their personal wishes.

Zhang Chen contacted Wu Ying, and Starcom will also mobilize more than 50 employees in Silicon Valley to participate.

Tindersource is now gradually able to form a small group in Silicon Valley, Starcom and Ebay are the leaders in Tinder's investment projects, and there are other large and small companies that have received capital injection from Tinder, such as double click.

These small companies, which are now not well-known, are growing rapidly, and many of them have already received a lot of attention in the capital markets, and many expect them to become the stars of Silicon Valley.

Therefore, when Zhang Chen stood with these people, the entire Silicon Valley suddenly discovered that this small investment company called Tinder Source may be the most worthy of investment.

Zhang Chen's surroundings suddenly became warm, including both John Doerr and Moretz, who invested in old fritters, as well as some Silicon Valley companies in urgent need of financing, and in just half an hour, Zhang Chen received a lot of business cards.

Moretz's pursuit of Zhang Chen is very explicit, the two have cooperated with ICQ before, Sequoia's $20 million investment, in just four months, has doubled to $120 million, which is also very rare in Moretz's brilliant investment career.

In front of Zhang Chen, Moretz praised Zhang Chen as the most talented investor he has ever met, and one of the people with the deepest understanding of the high-tech industry.

John Durr was originally Andy Grove's old subordinate, he was born in Intel, almost became the second-in-command of Intel, and was known as Intel's second workaholic.

When John Doerr saw that Moretz took Zhang Chen to find Andy Grove to sell it, he groaned for a while, and also walked over and exchanged pleasantries with a few people.

In the eyes of others, Zhang Chen was able to talk and laugh with these people, and those who didn't know him hurriedly asked who this Chinese teenager was, and being able to talk and laugh with these people almost became a proof of entering the upper circle of Silicon Valley.

Andy Grove, who is in his sixties, is already full of silver hair, but he seems to be in good spirits, and more than 20 years ago, he was already very good friends with Don Valentine, the founder of Sequoia.

As the CEO of Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, Andy Grove is arguably one of the most powerful people on the planet. More than half of the world's computer CPUs are designed, produced and manufactured by Intel. In addition to CPUs for personal PCs, Intel also has a high market share in chip manufacturing in other functional areas.

Moreover, Intel is also the high-tech company that holds the most CPU-related patents in the world, and almost all key patents are in Intel's hands.

Zhang Chen smiled and shook hands with Andy Grove, "Dear Mr. Grove, in Huaxia, I also have a PC company, which was just established this year, but I have also bought nearly 20,000 Intel CPUs, which can be regarded as your customer." ”

Andy Grove laughed, "20,000 pieces, that's a big customer, how is our service in Huaxia? Did it cause you any trouble?"

Zhang Chen smiled: "It's a pity, up to now, I still deal with your dealers, it's really good to know you, if Intel can authorize us to be a member of the Intel dealer team, with the help of our rapidly developing sales channels, Intel will have a better development in China." ”

Andy Grove paused for a moment and said with a smile: "Huaxia is indeed a very important market for Intel, and now we have more than a dozen partners in Huaxia, but we will continue to work hard in the Huaxia market in the future, and we do need more partners to join our channels." What's the name of your PC company in Huaxia?"

"Aliens, we are a company that was just launched in March of this year. Zhang Chen explained.

Andy Grove froze for a moment, "You just started in March of this year, which means that you sold 20,000 PCs in less than a year ago?"

Zhang Chen said with a smile: "As of November 30, the sales data is 21,352 units, and we have 9 branches in 8 cities in China. ”

Andy Grove said incredulously, "Oh my God, it's incredible, how is this possible? When Dell started, it didn't grow so fast. ”

Zhang Chen smiled slightly: "Andy, this is Huaxia, a market with a population of nearly 1.2 billion, and the market potential is six times that of the United States, so it is not surprising that anything happens." ”

Andy Grove really didn't pay too much attention to the Chinese market before, although Intel set up its first office in Kyoto in 85 years, and broke ground on a chip packaging factory in Shanghai the year before last, but the Chinese market is not big after all, and these investments are also small fights in advance layout.

Since last year, the growth rate of the Huaxia market has been really strong, and the growth rate of Intel's shipments in Huaxia has reached 150%, but even so, a newly created brand has sold more than 20,000 computers in less than ten months, which is really incredible.

In any field, people with strength will be respected accordingly.

Andy Grove did not doubt the reliability of Zhang Chen's words at all, and on such occasions, no one would boast about their performance. If it had, it would become the laughing stock of the whole Silicon Valley.

Note: If memory serves, 13 years later, Qualcomm holds the most relevant patents, yes, it is Qualcomm of mobile phone chips.

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