Zhang Junyi knows that although his current plan is very good, when Paul Allen really resigns from Microsoft due to Hodgkin's disease next year, it is still unknown whether he can really bite a piece of flesh from Paul Allen, but no matter what, now after all, he will soon have this opportunity, so although it is difficult to do so, Zhang Junyi is already very satisfied. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In fact, if Zhang Junyi didn't know what kind of hegemony Microsoft would eventually achieve in the future, he would never offend a future American tycoon because of some petty profits, although the current Paul Allen is not the future Paul Allen, and even his current status is not as good as his current status, but Paul Allen will become what kind of existence Zhang Junyi will be in the future, even if Zhang Junyi is confident that he will not be worse than Paul Allen in the future, but it is still not worth offending such a character.

There really is no such thing as the best of both worlds in the world, and as the saying goes, the other interpretation of blessing and misfortune is not a single line.

Zhang Junyi knew very well that if he did not intervene next year, Paul Allen, who left the board of directors in '84, was cured of a few months of radiation therapy and a bone marrow transplant, and returned to the board of directors in 1990, until November 2000, when Allen officially left the board of directors of Microsoft, but was invited to stay on as a senior strategic adviser. Allen sold 68 million shares of Microsoft and still holds 138 million shares.

In 1983, Paul Allen left Microsoft due to illness, but the illness did not blow him. Paul Allen didn't enjoy the glory of Microsoft, but he enjoyed a steady stream of wealth. Even in the 21st century, his fortune is largely due to the rise of Microsoft stock. Using this wealth, Alan embarked on his investment career.

However, Allen's investment was not all smooth sailing. People commented that his investment seemed to be grabbing a handful of dice and throwing them at random. After leaving Microsoft, Allen has frequently invested heavily in information superhighways, multimedia, cable TV and digital appliances, music, aerospace technology, etc., involving almost all fields of the market. He himself has invested in more than 150 companies and organizations, and is touted by some as one of the most active investors in high technology. It is estimated that Allen has more than 30 investments every year, with an average of about $5 million each. But to Allen's embarrassment, the investments he showed people were rarely successful, and the return on investment was pitiful. The successive failures have also led the media to redefine him: "a billionaire without paying attention", "a failed investor who does what he wants", "the worst manager", and even almost mockingly believe that he has only amassed an inexhaustible fortune because he was lucky enough to co-found Microsoft with Gates in his early years.

Perhaps Paul Allen is not a great manager or operator compared to Gates's brilliance, because his priority is not the business, but his obsession with technology itself. But Paul Allen would never agree with that, and what he wants to tell people is that he is very happy to enjoy the success that has been achieved, which is a different kind of successful investment measured by different success criteria, and he is happy with the fact that he is engaged in unusual or high-risk investments without regard for quarterly income or shareholder returns.

Bill Savouri, a senior manager at the Allen Group, once said that there is an "Allen effect", which is that once Allen invests in a field, it becomes valuable because Allen invests. Some people have speculated that Allen holds hundreds of companies in stock, and these investments seem random, but each has its own roots, and gradually builds into an Allen empire with huge investments in every business activity in the online world.

Maybe that's what Paul Allen is, he has a different management discipline, and he has a different standard of success. It's like the lyrics of a song he wrote himself: "Everything I do may be wrong, but I'll still be scrappy." Whether it's making music, writing programs, or portfolio investing, Alan continues to do what he loves.

Allen founded Vulcan Inc. and serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors. He also bought in companies that provided bandwidth, allowing it to serve tech companies and populate the online world. However, his interest is not to build CNN (news channels), ESPN (sports channels), etc., he hopes to one day integrate viewing, purchase, and communication in the broadband world. So, in 1992, he picked up cable television, but Congress set a price cap that pushed him back. A year later, he personally visited the headquarters of QVC, a shopping cable company, and met Ray Diller, a popular Hollywood bomber who had just acquired the company. After that, Allen converted his Ticketmaster stock into stock in the USA Network Company, which Diller founded. Allen's thinking beyond his peers can also be glimpsed from the setback of American Online's shareholding. At the time, AOL was trying to get users to accept only what it offered, but Allen felt that this strategy was the wrong way, so he suggested to the company's chairman to get him online. After Allen sold the stock, Keith ended up following the path Allen had pointed out.

In 1994, due to an attempt to expand its stake in AOL, the other party used a poison mechanism to deal with it, and Allen sold all the shares of AOL in a fit of rage, which was one of the most stupid decisions in history. In 1988, Paul Allen bought the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers for $70 million, and he also owned the magazine The Sporting News. Later, he spent another $200 million to buy the NFL's Seattle Seahawks.

Allen owns 125 companies, each with its own niche and seemingly random investments, and has gradually built into an empire with huge investments in every business activity in the online world. In terms of online commerce, well-known (websites that sell prescriptions online), Click2learn .com (online training companies), (online retail companies) are just a few of them, CNet is a well-known online news media, Go2Net is a broadband Internet entrance, and High Speed Access is a cable TV infrastructure in rural areas.

For such a character, even if Zhang Junyi is full of confidence in his future, he doesn't want to offend such a genius for no reason, but Microsoft's charm is simply too big for Zhang Junyi, so big that even if he offends Paul Allen for him, even if it is to get a certain amount of Microsoft stock, Bill Gates, another big boss who offends Microsoft in his colleagues, Zhang Junyi will grit his teeth and do things.

Fortunately, there is still nearly half a year left for himself to operate, and even if he can really convince Paul Allen, Zhang Junyi knows that he still has to face the boss of Microsoft's biggest boss, Bill Gates.

Bill Gates, whose full name is William Henry Gates III, is simply Bill or Gates. Born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington, USA.

His father, William Henry Gates, was a well-known local lawyer, and his late mother, Mary Gates, was a director of the University of Washington, a director of the banking system, and president of the United Way International. W. Maxwell was the Governor of the National Bank. Bill grew up with his two older sisters.

It can be said that Bill Gates was definitely born with a golden key in his mouth since he was a child, and even in a country like the United States, where there are many families and tycoons, Bill Gates's background is definitely first-class.

In 1967, Gates was in the sixth grade and a student who did not want to communicate with others. In the fall, Gates enrolled at Lakeside Middle School, a private boys' school, where he was the youngest student in his class but wore size 13 shoes.

In 968, Gates and his Lakeside High School classmate Paul Allen began learning Basic programming with an instruction manual. At that time, the school had a PDP-10 computer, and the annual budget for its use was $3,000. In just a few weeks, Gates and Allen spent the budget. Soon after, the two young boys signed an agreement with the "Computer Center Company". Under the agreement, Gates and Allen reported a software vulnerability in PDP-10 to the CCC, and in return, the CCC provided them with free time to get on the computer.

In 1971, Gates wrote a program for Lakeside Middle School, which included a timetable scheduling software.

In 1972, Gates sold his first computer programming work, a timesheet system, for his high school for $4,200.

In 973, Gates was admitted to Harvard University, and Gates scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT standardized test, and his academic performance was not very good. Although Gates has a good memory, he has a lot of "stinky problems": he often skips class, doesn't like to take showers, and only eats pizza and drinks soda when programming or playing cards. Friends with Steve Ballmer, who lives in the same dormitory. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the BASIC programming language for the first microcomputer, MITS Altair.

In January 1975, in the American issue of Popular Electronics magazine that month, an article about MITS about its Altair 8800 computer was published. Allen showed Gates a picture of the machine. A few days later, Gates called Ed Roberts, the president of MITS, and said that he and Allen had developed the BASIC program for the machine. In fact, they didn't write a single line of code at the time.

On February 1, 1975, after working around the clock, Gates and Allen wrote a program that could run on the Altair 8800 and sold it to MITS for $3,000 but for $180,000 in royalties.

If you want to compare Paul Allen with Bill Gates, Zhang Junyi would rather face three Paul Allen at the same time than face one Bill Gates.

It is no exaggeration to say that under the influence of Bill Gates's elders with each passing day, even if Bill Gates is only in his twenties, his city government and talent are definitely no less than the old fox who has been up and down in the shopping mall for many years.

Not to mention that Bill Gates will dominate the world's richest man for many years to come, and not to mention that it only took 20 years for the chairman of Microsoft to be praised by the Americans as "the person who sits on the top of the world".

Based on the evaluation of some tycoons in his previous life and some anecdotes about Bill Gates, Zhang Junyi sincerely did not want to deal with the most iron-blooded and domineering figure in the Internet field.

Even Paul Allen, Bill Gates' most compatible partner, later attacked Bill Gates' arrogance in public.

Lotus Software founder Kapole commented on Bill Gates, who says he represents the best or the worst of us. This sentence is considered by most of the public to be Kapole's praise of Bill Gates, even in his previous life, Zhang Junyi saw this evaluation and thought so, but in this life, after several years of hard work in the business field, Zhang Junyi interpreted this evaluation to another layer of meaning.

In high school, Gates and Allen practiced their programming skills on a DEC minicomputer owned by a local company called C-Cubed. But because they were students, they weren't able to access as much information as the company's employees, which annoyed them. So, at night, Allen would encourage Gates, who was younger than him, to rummage through the company's dustbin and find something useful inside. Once, they actually found a printed file of the source code of the TOPS-10 operating system, which helped them uncover a lot of secrets.

In high school, Gates and Allen began looking for ways to use C-Cubed's computers for free because of the rising cost of computer access. Somehow, they got the administrator password for the company's computer and used it to steal C-Cubed's accounting files. They hoped to get their hands on one of the free accounts by cracking the files, but were caught and expelled.

From these two things, Zhang Junyi can clearly see that Bill Gates is the kind of person who can do absolutely anything in order to succeed.

One summer, Gates was contracted to write a scheduling program for his high school. He pre-enrolled himself in an English class in which all girls and no other boys were any, and although it was just a small thing, it was a small thing that showed that Bill Gates was a possessive man.

In their junior year of high school, Gates and Allen took a temporary programming contract, and they lived together in an apartment in Southern Washington state. One night, Gates walked through the gate with his plaster leg in tow, one of his legs broken while water skiing. He was supposed to go back to Seattle and wear a plaster cast for six weeks, but after three weeks he removed the cast, got bruises and purple on his legs, and went water skiing again. Alan writes in the book, "Somehow his leg survived."

Although this incident was later taken as a tribute to Bill Gates's willingness to do his best to succeed, from another point of view, a man who can be cruel to himself is definitely quite terrifying.

From these small things, it is not difficult for Zhang Junyi to see that Bill Gates is not so much a hero as Bill Gates is a hero.