Bringing Vani Samon to his home was just a by-product, and what made Hong Tao happiest was not that he could have the opportunity to complete his deal with Yuri, but that through Guò's data collection and research in the past few days, he had discovered several things that were very important to him, and if all these things were true, then Hong Tao felt that his chance to make a fortune had come again.

First of all, he didn't find any information about the webcam in the list of patents related to computer peripherals. He remembered reading an article about it in his previous life, this thing was designed by a group of college students in Cambridge, England, and their original intention was very funny, just to see if there was coffee in the coffee pot downstairs, so that they could not run for nothing, a standard group of lazy people.

This thing should not be available until the mid-to-late nineties, so Hong Tao still has two or three years to develop a webcam. Although this thing is not like a mouse, every machine must be necessary, but the sales volume should not be small, the most important thing is that the difficulty of research and development is not too great, at least Hong Tao thinks it can still be tried. If it succeeds, the product line of the company will be enriched, and before the development of the USB bus, it will not only rely on an optical mouse to support the façade.

Secondly, he also saw the name of a university in many articles about computers, and many times. This forced him to get to know the university in detail, and then he felt as if he had found another program where he could make a fortune comfortably. Once this project is put into operation, the mouse of the ** national company is nothing, and its income can even be comparable to the name of its own offshore company, astronomical!

It's called Langley Stanford Jr., and it's called Venture Capital!

Let's start with Stanford University. The university is located right in Stanford, California. It is one of the world's top universities and research institutes.

What is the top of the list?

Financially speaking, in 1991, the school's centennial, many alumni returned to their alma mater in just one day. He has donated more than $12 billion to schools, which is unique in the world!

In terms of influence, the world-famous Silicon Valley is actually based on the industrial park created by Stanford University. Relying on a good atmosphere, abundant funds and perfect legal services, those students who came out of Stanford University started from a small shack with their whimsical ideas and became the main force in promoting the development of the computer industry. Americans have done the statistics. There are as many as 30,000 companies influenced by Stanford University alone. More than half of the world's computer giants have their corporate headquarters around this school.

Academically, it has produced dozens of billionaires, more than a dozen astronauts, more than 50 Nobel laureates, and countless members of the U.S. Congress and prominent political figures.

So why is Langley Stanford University so good? The school has a long history, a strong faculty, and sufficient funds...... Hong Tao checked the information for a long time. The final conclusion is that these can only be effects, not causes. The real reason is that the founder of this school left a very, very wise set of rules, much like the American Constitution of the year, a set of rules was established, which laid a solid foundation for the subsequent glory.

The founder's name was Amassa Leland Stanford, one of the top 10 plutocrats of the American Gilded Age, the first governor of California, an ally of President Lincoln, and the president of the Central Pacific Railroad.

In 1881, his only son, Leland Stanford Jr., died of typhoid fever. The elder Stanford was 60 years old at the time. The white-haired man sent the black-haired man and was still an only child, which made the Stanfords very sad. So they decided to transfer their ** to their son to other young people. But by what means, school should be the best way to go, and the elder Stanford said to his wife, I want all the children in California to be our children.

So the following year, the Stanfords spent $20 million in a small town called Palo Alto, California. Bought a piece of land. How big is this land? It's about the size of two Macaus, 20 million dollars. Twenty million in 1882! And then they spent another five million dollars. A private university was built on the land and named after his son, Langley Stanford Jr.

In addition to leaving a fund for running a school for this school, the old Stanford also left a more precious thing for the school, that is, rules! In his fund for running a school, it is clearly stipulated that no matter what happens in the future, the school's land is not allowed to be sold, not an inch is allowed! It is precisely because of this hard and fast rule, and the US government has also used the law to protect this regulation, that there was Stanford, a world-famous school, and only then did there be the Stanford Industrial Park, which allowed the computer industry to take off. That's why the world has come out of the industrial age and into another great era.

In addition to this dead rule, the elder Stanfords left several other hard rules on the school fund: to guide students to find the ideals they want to pursue after graduation and to make them hear the call of their hearts for the meaning of life, to prohibit a sectarian directive in school, but still to give spiritual education, and to inform students that it is the responsibility of human beings to obey the rules set by the Almighty Creator, and to give fairness and equal resources and treatment to both sexes.

But what worries Hong Tao is that it is difficult for this kind of school and this kind of rule to take root in his motherland. Even if Hong Tao has 200 billion US dollars now, he is willing to get a school fund and make a 100 will, but he will not be able to build a Chinese Stanford. Not to mention a hundred-year-old university, it is estimated that even a middle school will not last for fifty years. And whether it is his school-running fund or school investment, within ten years, it will evaporate cleanly, let alone the land of the school.

The tech gap between China and the United States is not in money, but in education. Without a general environment for cultivating talents, no matter how much money is spent, it will never be able to catch up with a country that advocates knowledge and science. What we are talking about here is to cultivate talents who can think and be full of creativity, not from the filling line to produce senior staff who only know how to take the civil service examination and go to large ministries and commissions, large central enterprises and large foreign enterprises to spend their lives.

This is also the point of the problem, interest is the mother of the power of creation. If you just have the attitude of coping with and getting the job done on a topic, then you can't talk about creating a task at all. With the advent of the Internet era, the Internet has made it possible to create many inventions that were impossible to accomplish by one person, and it allows every grassroots to show your ingenuity or your difference. As long as you can get people to accept your invention, to identify with your creation, even if it's just to think you're cool, then you've succeeded. The reason why the Internet is a cross-era product is not that it can create anything, but that it can allow everyone to start creating a product. Those humble garages and the young people who instantly let the world remember their young faces are the best notes.

There are many examples of how this interest has led to the creation of zào, such as Ray Tomlinson's accidental invention of e-mail because he wanted to communicate with his friends online, Pierre Omidia's accidental establishment of the world's first auction site eBay in order to help his girlfriend collect candy boxes, and a group of lazy people at Cambridge University who accidentally built the first webcam in order to see if there was coffee in the coffee pot without going downstairs...... It was this series of carelessness that created the colorful online world in later generations, or a great era.

In fact, many things in the world are like this, when you concentrate on a topic that you think is very powerful, the subject is often done nothing, but a little auxiliary tool you come up with for this topic makes you soar. In the words of the ancient Chinese, this is the lost east, the harvest of mulberry elm, and then the popular point is that there is a heart to carry flowers and flowers do not bloom, and there is no intention to plant willows and willows.

Of course, Hong Tao is not willing to let himself miss the opening ceremony of this great era, he not only wants to participate in this opening ceremony, but also wants to make a difference at the opening ceremony, even if he only goes up to show his face and has a line, he will be firmly engraved on the monument of history by future generations. Later generations will not respect or not say that anyway, according to our Chinese, it can be regarded as a person who has left a name!

"The name Hontostan is not appropriate, it doesn't feel like the Internet age, Ait Hong!hahahaha...... I have an English name, Ait Hong!" Hong Tao even thought of his name for becoming famous all over the world in the future, but now there is a very important problem to be solved, that is, how to get the admission ticket to the Internet feast, without this thing, he would have given a hundred names in vain.

Since you want to enter the Internet feast, you can't avoid Silicon Valley. If the industrial age began in the UK, then the Internet age began in Silicon Valley. Speaking of Silicon Valley, it is just a collective term, and the heart of the area is Stanford University, which in the fifties of the twentieth century, in order to raise funds for the university, turned a part of the nearby land owned by the university into the world's first campus industrial park.

The decision to lease the land in the industrial park by Frederick Terman, the vice-chancellor at the time, also provided a lot of conveniences, such as the fact that the companies in the park could allow their employees to come to the university for further training and training. With the plane tree, the golden phoenix will come sooner or later, and soon, seven high-tech companies led by Hewlett-Packard will settle in the Stanford industrial park and begin to lay eggs. By the 80s, more than 200 hectares of land in the park had been carved up by more than 90 technology companies, and 250,000 employees worked there. (To be continued)

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