Like rival Berkeley, Stanford is one of the top universities in the San Francisco area, and the world-famous Silicon Valley is located on its turf, and the two universities are not far away.

Unlike the liberal and open atmosphere on the campus of Berkeley, the campus of Stanford University is relatively strict and conservative, which can be seen from the formal dress of the audience, perhaps because one is a public university and the other is a private university, Tang Huan is not sure why.

Because of the commercial atmosphere brought by Silicon Valley, the faculty and students of Stanford University seemed to be busy, and after the event, they all left the scene in a hurry.

Tang Huan rubbed his eyebrows, took a long breath, and sighed in his heart that it makes sense that the President of the United States can rely on speeches to attract money after leaving office, this ability really requires real effort, and he still feels tired by relying on so many memories as a backing, maybe he hasn't adapted to Lao Mei's way of showmanship.

With a turn of his eyes, Tang Huan saw a young man who was not a few years older than himself sitting in a daze, so he asked, "Why are you still here, is there any problem?"

The young man smiled, pointed to the Apple computer used for the demonstration, and said with a smile: "Seeing that this spreadsheet calculation software CGrid is so good, I suddenly felt a little emotional. ”

Tang Huan sighed, and said in his heart I just sighed that it was not easy to give a speech, and you sighed that my software is good, and it is quite smart.

After subconsciously taking a closer look at this young man, Tang Huan's heart was shocked, and he seemed to have discovered another major archaeological achievement.

"My name is Charles Simone. Seeing Tang Huan staring at him, this person introduced himself.

"Listening to your accent, it seems to be from Europe. Tang Huan nodded and asked casually.

"I'm a Hungarian who received a degree in Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics in Engineering from the University of Berkeley, and then went on to earn an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where I currently work at Xerox PARC, not far from here. ”

Listening to the other party's eloquent words, Tang Huan confirmed that the Charles Simeone in front of him was the right-hand man of Gates in his previous life, who once spent $25 million to become the fifth senior software engineer in history as a space tourist, and the way such an outstanding person entered Microsoft in 1981 was actually self-recommendation.

It turned out that after Simeone decided to leave PARC, his colleague, Robert Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet and the founder and chairman of 3Com, made a list of suggestions for him to apply for a job, and Microsoft was ranked first, and Gates was able to recruit a big player so easily.

After joining Microsoft, Simeone began to work on the spreadsheet software Multiplan, which is a competitor that Tang Huan has always had in mind.

It's really a godsend, I didn't expect such a heavyweight technical master to let me meet it, Tang Huan's eyes flashed, and he began to think about how to dig the corner of Gates in advance and recruit this person. As for whether Microsoft will suffer a setback in its development because of this cutoff, it is not within his scope of consideration, anyway, he does not have a stake in Microsoft, maybe in the future, when Microsoft can't bear IBM, he can take advantage of the fire to rob and get greater benefits from Gates.

"I've heard about you, there's an amazing project in PARC called the Alto PC, and you wrote the text editor Bravo for the Alto PC. ”

Tang Huan praised the other party with a smile on his face, he is more or less a man of the year now, and as soon as this remark came out, Simone's spirits immediately lifted.

"By the way, is the Alto PC now in the commercialization stage?" asked Tang Huan knowingly.

Simeone shook his head, a little lost on his face, "No." ”

"That's a pity, no matter how great an invention is, it is in vain if it can't serve to change the world. Tang Huan sighed sympathetically, "I heard that many people in PARC have jumped out to start a company, do you have any idea of coming out to work, Zerone very much welcomes outstanding talents like you, as long as you join in, you can get shares of the company, and everyone will develop together." ”

A hint of excitement flashed on Simone's face, but he was still a little hesitant, "Thank you very much for the invitation, can you let me think about it." ”

"Absolutely. Tang Huan smiled heartily, "In this way, if you go to Zerone with me to have a look on the spot, I can guarantee that the company can provide you with more room for growth than PARC." ”

Digging into the wall to grab talents, the emphasis is on fast hands and slow hands, Tang Huan enthusiastically invited Simone into his car.

Historically. Throughout the 80s after joining Microsoft, Simeone's experience was somewhat similar to that of some tragic characters in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Under his auspices, Multiplan was launched in 1982, only to be defeated by Lotus 1-2-3, and in 1985, Word was successfully launched, and finally to be beaten by WordPerfect.

Gates looks gentle and polite on the surface, but he has the title of an iron-blooded and ruthless tyrant within the company, and the product has failed in the market one after another, he has to roar loudly, but it is under this huge pressure that Simeone has worked at Microsoft for more than 20 years, and he can be described as a good cow who works hard and complains.

In fact, Simeone's spreadsheet software and word processing software were very good, and the reason for the poor market performance was mainly because the market competition was too fierce and complex at that time, and there was IBM's fingers.

Take Multiplan as an example, IBM requires a computer with 64K RAM for the sake of strange market considerations, which will inevitably limit performance, while the Lotus 1-2-3 is designed for 256K RAM.

It can also be seen from this that the blue giant has been making its own tricks in the personal computer market, so it made a wedding dress for Microsoft step by step, and was robbed of customers by other compatible computers, and got serious losses in the early nineties, and almost carried out a business spin-off.

Simeone's record of defeat in the 80s can only be said to be a non-war failure, and in addition to being a good at programming, he is also very talented in software management.

If you think about the tens of millions of lines of code in Windows and Office in previous lives, you can see how many programmers were working together, and this successful management system is mainly due to Simeone's design.

Now that there are more and more technicians in Zerone, they are also beginning to face the problem of how to divide labor and collaborate most efficiently.

Compared to when it was first founded, Zerone's office space has expanded several times, and with the energetic staff, it looks like it is actively expanding......

After entering the company, every time he walked through an office area, Tang Huan would first solemnly introduce, "This is Charles Simeone." Then he explained the projects that the area was responsible for.

With such a level of respect, Simeone's face could not hide the look of emotion.

Taking advantage of the information asymmetry of the reborn, Tang Huan can always find the fragile place in the other party's heart when he attracts historical celebrities after archaeological demonstration.

Coming to the United States from Hungary with a completely different ideology, Simeone did not know what kind of difficult process he went through, and his father was affected by it. And the United States is not a paradise for casual charity, Simone at Berkeley, also encountered many problems encountered by immigrant students, as a foreign student can not get a scholarship, there is a proof of computer programming ability but it is not easy to get a job, that is really indescribably sad, no wonder was moved by Tang Huan's heart-attacking skills.

Simeone followed Tang Huan to visit the three major project teams, CGrid, WordEasy and MA, and was immediately amazed by Zerone's technical strength.

"This is a secret project that the company is working on, a relational database that can run on a microcomputer, and I've done a preliminary execution engine that can execute some SQL statements, and you can see how it goes. ”

Looking at the results of Tang Huan's personal demonstration, Simeone was completely stunned, the relational model and the database designed according to this theory are still an extremely lofty field, and an IT giant like IBM has the ability to study it, but he didn't expect to see the actual development results here.

When following Tang Huan through a large office isolated from the previous area, Simeone saw Tang Huan obviously hesitate for a moment, but finally pushed open the door and walked in, "The project here is the company's top secret, I plan to launch a practical product in the field of game consoles or cheap microcomputers, this is the project leader, Dr. Jian Mingren." ”

Simeone shook hands with the Chinese engineer in front of him in a daze, and after walking out of the office, he finally made a decision, let go of his reserve, and said: "Mr. Tang, I am impressed by your ambition and the company's prospects, and I am willing to join your team." ”

When Tang Huan heard this, he laughed heartily, patted Simone on the shoulder and said, "Then you can come to the company as soon as possible to report, responsible for the two major project teams of CGrid and WordEasy, this is your old job." ”

Simeone didn't understand the meaning of the "old business", but when he saw that the boss was so happy after receiving his affirmative answer, he was too embarrassed to get to the bottom of it.

Although the development of personal computers is still in the dawn stage, the entire computer industry has created a large number of outstanding people after decades of upgrading, but these successful old guys, Tang Huan is not qualified to win over, so potential stocks like Simeone are rare treasures, not to mention that this person has worked in Microsoft for 20 years in his previous life, so it is even more commendable to be so loyal.

"Let's go to my office and have a good chat. ”

Tang Huan led Simone to his office, delivered coffee to him, and then began to instill his own technical concepts and brainwash him.

While talking happily, Wang Xuehong walked in to report, "Microsoft's Bill Gates called and wanted to make an appointment to visit you. ”

"What?" Hearing the news, Tang Huan's face changed.

As soon as he dug the corner of Gates in advance, he came to the door?

However, Tang Huan immediately came to his senses, and at this time, Gates didn't know Simeone, so he was too worried.

"Let's wait until tomorrow. By the way, you told the engineers to pay attention to secrecy, this guy Gates is very insidious, and the purpose of coming to us is to steal technology, and he must not be cheap. ”

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