Big cities are heavily polluted and congested, making it difficult to attract talented people who prefer to live in the suburbs.

The small town is remote, the greenery is very good, and the company's operating costs are low, so when IT companies start their businesses, they invariably aim at a wild place like Silicon Valley.

Over time, the myth of Silicon Valley was created.

Now that the population of Silicon Valley has skyrocketed, housing prices have soared, and properties worth only $10,000 or 20,000 in the early 80s now require more than ten times the price to buy, and the high prices make it not easy for these small companies to survive, and some only rent a garage in an attempt to imitate Jobs's "garage legend".

After the economic crisis of the 80s, the economic recovery of the United States was slow, the unemployment rate was as high as 8%, the national government and many local governments were in high debt, and even on the verge of bankruptcy, and the lives of the American people were significantly affected, but the average annual salary of the industry elite in Silicon Valley reached 30,000 US dollars, which is unimaginable in the world.

Today's Silicon Valley is being swept by the hurricane of the information industry, and computer-related companies, large and small, can be seen not far away.

Han Xuan looked at this world-renowned place through the car window, and accidentally found a strange and familiar company logo on the billboard, and suddenly remembered that a company with a great glitter was here, and embarked on its opening road, and the development trend was comparable to that of Facebook in the future.

The name of this company is Sun-Microsystems, Sun Microelectronics Company, founded in 1982, only half a year after a rapid profit, four years has been listed on the NASDAQ, which can be called the fastest in history.

Sun is also the first computer company to enter the Chinese market and directly cooperate with the government, "Sun Microsystem", "Sun Microsystem", this name is thunderous for people who have experienced the nineties, Han Xuan had a computer like this at home when he was a child, and the specific operation function is almost forgotten, but he knows the trademark clearly.

In the 90s, Sun's $200 or $300 Solaris system was technically superior to windows, and more importantly, Solaris was the most complete system on the market at the time, and it was more suitable for enterprise use than windows.

Most U.S. technology companies have now chosen Sun's hardware and operating system, and with Solaris frantically rolling out to the market, Sun has become the only hardware empire that can directly pinch Microsoft's 7-inch hardware.

At its peak, the company was even able to beat Microsoft on the left and Apple on the right.

At the beginning of 1996, when Sun's stock market value was at its peak and Apple's stock fell to freezing point, Sun began to negotiate with Apple to buy Apple for a total price of $3.89 billion.

In addition to the near acquisition of Apple, another of Sun's legends is the OS war with Microsoft.

In 1985, Sun successfully developed the Sparc CPU, which greatly improved the performance of workstations, and its Unix-based server system could directly compete with traditional small computers such as HP and DEC.

After winning the first battle with hardware, Sun had a chance to compete with Microsoft, which made Windows systems.

From entrepreneurship to prosperity, it took Sun nearly 20 years, and it only took a year to overturn, Sun's operating system should have done more in the enterprise market, perhaps because the hardware and operating system at that time were too easy to sell, and McNeely, the founder of Stanford University, only cared about selling these things to large and medium-sized enterprises to build a hardware empire.

But he ignores that Microsoft and Intel are encroaching on the market of small businesses and microcomputer users by relying on free and selling services, and secretly fighting guerrilla warfare.

"There are only two businesses in the world that call their customers 'users', one is a drug dealer and the other is software. This is the remark of Sun founder Scott McNeely who satirized Microsoft a few years ago, and he was somewhat extreme, comparing selling software to selling drugs.

What he meant was the need for people to constantly buy upgraded versions of Microsoft's software, which would gradually make people fall into temptation and can't extricate themselves, which was a sensation in the media at the time, and Han Xuan had seen it on TV more than once.

In 2000, the U.S. Internet bubble came, large and small enterprises shut down countless times, Sun's sales were bleak, from a profit of 900 million US dollars a year ago, instantly turned into a loss of 500 million US dollars, a few years later Sun was acquired by Oracle for 7.4 billion US dollars, and the market value of more than 200 billion disappeared in the tide of Internet history.

"Magical place. ”

With his hands on the edge of the car window, Han Xuan muttered to himself, finding that Anya had fallen asleep, and he closed the window for fear that she would catch a cold, and in the car radio, the hoarse voice of the female singer came out, the sun hung in the western sky, and the waterfowl flew by alone.

Later, Han Xuan also saw several companies that he had an impression of, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, maybe there might really be some feng shui treasure here.

Lopez has never been here, and no one knows the road like the other bodyguards, and he can still go wrong when he looks at the conspicuous landmarks, and after going around a long circle and asking the newsstand owner, he knows that because Stanford is too big, there is no school gate and fence

Stanford University covers an area of 8,180 acres, about the size of 57 Brown universities, equivalent to one-third of the entire Flathead National Forest, and excluding the terrifying 64 branch campuses of the State University of New York, Stanford University is the second largest campus in the United States in terms of school area, only below Duke University.

The university was founded in 1885 when Leland Stanford, the California Railroad magnate and former governor of California, decided to donate money to establish Stanford University in memory of his son, who died of illness during his travels in Italy, and set aside his 8,180 acres of farm for the training of high-quality racehorses as the campus of the school, which is still called "The Farm" to this day.

So, at Stanford, bicycles are a must-have for students, and in addition to buses, you can walk on your legs and maybe you're still walking halfway through class.

Stanford University was regarded as the "Harvard University of the West Bank", with an area of more than 8,000 acres, and the school could not use it up as much as it wanted, so in 1959 the dean of the School of Engineering proposed an idea: to lease 1,000 acres to the business community or alumni for a long time at a very low, symbolic land rent to set up companies.

They then partnered with the university to provide a variety of research projects and student internship opportunities, which was the beginning of Silicon Valley, and the former Hewlett-Packard company was located in it.

With the rise of the high-tech belt on the West Coast of the United States, various computer companies, including Microsoft, the darling of the century, have set up camp here, and the position of Stanford University has become more and more important.

Alumni donate countless funds every year, and with the wealth earned from working with other companies, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the richest university in the world, so the campus of Stanford is very beautiful, and it is not bad compared to tourist attractions.

When Han Xuan heard this, he remembered to come over and play, and look at this place that was envied by Brown students.

Knowing that Stanford was under their feet, they got lost again