Startups of all kinds in Silicon Valley, like crops, are sown by venture capitalists in spring and autumn, and they have been baptized by the market one by one, and a large proportion of them have fallen on the road to wealth for various reasons.

And after accumulating wealth, the successful ones often turn around and become venture capitalists.

No matter how the micro start-up company lives and dies, the venture capitalist will not suffer, he is playing a "bet" word, as long as one or two of the ten companies on the macro are successfully listed, they can guarantee a lot of money.

For example, James Clark, who is currently an associate professor at Stanford University, founded Silicon Graphics, Inc., a Silicon Valley graphics company known as SGI, which dominated the graphics workstation market in the 1980s.

By the 1990s, he had become one of the richest people and invested $5 million in Netscape, a pioneer of the Internet, which turned into $2 billion after its successful IPO.

Another example is another small group that Tang Huan paid special attention to: Andy Bechtolsheim from Stanford University - Andy Bertolsheim, Vinod Khosla - Vinod Khosla - Vinod Khosla - Scott McNealy, Scott McRiney, and Bill Joy from the University of California, Berkeley - Bill Joy, originally four people from the time and space co-founded SunMicrosystems, which invented the JAVA language. Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Among them, Vinod Kosla served as the first president and CEO, after stepping down in 1984. He also became a venture capitalist. Together with Arthur Locke, Don Valentine, and John Doerr, they are known as the four giants of Silicon Valley's venture capital community.

Follow the historical trajectory. SGI and SUN were founded a few months later, and the business plans of these two groups are now on Tang Huan's desk, but he has been busy putting out fires recently, and he knows everything about the situation of SGI and SUN in the original time and space, so he didn't read it, and directly gave an interested reply.

These founders came in a hurry, and for good reason. Whether it is SGI's graphics workstation or SUN's general-purpose workstation, the operating system is an extremely important link.

The other people present also have loud IDs on BBS.

It can be said that this speech about the operating system is entirely the result of a collective petition on the BBS.

After Tang Huan finished greeting these people, he was just about to take out the script and start the speech, when someone from CNN came over.

The cooperation between the two sides is limited to a few people, and the journalist in front of him is obviously not included.

Tang Huan, who looked as usual, made an apologetic gesture, and then asked the assistant to greet the other party. I found a place to sit down.

Tang Huan's speech was based on his own FreeDOS and Vientiane/AllOS as examples, the former is the macro kernel. It supports 32-bit MC68000 series, 16-bit Intel 8086 series, 8-bit MOS6502 series, Intel8080 series, Z80 series, and MC6800 series, which have the widest range of applications, while the latter is a hybrid core, which only supports Yi Peng/Holder and MC68000, and has not yet been officially released to the public.

These listeners who forced Tang Huan to give a speech on BBS were not ordinary people, especially technical elites like Bill Joy, who had a lot of deep thinking in their heads, and Tang Huan had to come up with a little dry goods to deal with.

The people in the "X-Files" program team heard the clouds, so they secretly dozed off while turning on the equipment to record, and when it was over, they quickly added with emotion, "In the world of technical genius, ordinary people still don't have to work thanklessly to study." ”

Since he met with the two founding team members of SGI and SUN, Tang Huan directly called over to talk.

Needless to say, once SGI and SUN are established, they are both competitors of Fangyuan Computer.

At present, the most powerful general-purpose microprocessor is basically Motorola's MC68000.

Jim Clark for his graphics workstation and Andy Bertolsheim for his general-purpose workstation both adopted MC68000, which directly corresponds to the high-end product line of Fangyuan computer.

If in a few years, the personal computer market camp will become more and more barrieratic, it is estimated that no matter how Tang Huan inserts his wings and pretends to be an angel with a halo, people will not take the initiative to send it to the door.

Jay Mainer, who ran away from Atari, also used MC68000 to develop a new game console platform, Amiga, which inadvertently corresponded to the second-generation Xiaobawang game console.

Recently, Tang Huan intervened halfway, and he successfully took this project team into his own hands.

According to this principle, Tang Huan should take advantage of the fact that SGI and SUN have not yet risen, and directly eliminate them in the bud.

But in fact, this idea doesn't work.

Similar to Hollywood role achievement actors, Silicon Valley can be said to be a hero created by the times, no one is indispensable, a large number of elites gather here, and their abilities are comparable, it is nothing more than to see which lucky one history chooses.

After killing Microsoft, Kildare is just continuing to promote CP/M, and after killing Intel, Zilog, which has a compatible architecture microprocessor Z80, also has room for development.

In Tang Huan's view, relying on foresight and foresight, directly and brutally eliminating the known competitors who are still in the embryonic stage and on the bright side does not mean that the general trend will not secretly breed unknown new competitors, but rather a waste of information asymmetric advantages and lower everyone's IQ.

Just like the current track of Steve Jobs in Apple and Don Estlic in IBM, no matter how tricky he is, Tang Huan can easily assess the gains and losses of interests, pinch competitors in the palm of his hand, and play the trick of Sun Monkey turning his head in the palm of Rulai's hand, which is the safest way.

Besides, even if Tang Huan wants to directly incorporate SGI and SUN. There is not much hope either.

Jim Clark's research at Stanford University focused on GeometryPipelines. That is, the 3D image is displayed by means of special software and hardware acceleration. His team already has the results of the Geometry Engine.

Coupled with the fact that Jim Clark grew up in a difficult environment and his thirst for wealth was not so easily satisfied, there was no reason for him to give up the opportunity to fight for himself when he had a large number of technical followers.

Andy Bertolsheim was inspired by PARC's personal computer, Xerox Alto, during his time at Stanford University. A system was designed using MC68000 called Stanford University Network Workstation – SUN Workstation.

Naturally, this result has also become the capital of entrepreneurship. And the team in the network is also incredibly strong.

Andy Bertolsheim served as first hardware design engineer, Bill Joy served as chief scientist with experience developing the operating system BerkeleySoftwareDistribution, BSD, or Berkeley Software Suite, and Vinod Khosla and Scott McRiney, MBAs from Stanford University, were in charge of administration.

After Vinod Cosla stepped down as CEO and entered the venture capital industry, Scott McRiney took over the position for more than two decades.

Of course, it took nearly two decades for SUN to reach the peak of the dot-com bubble during Scott McRinney's tenure, and then it took only one year to fall from the altar. SO MUCH SO THAT IN THE END, IT BECAME ORACLE'S BAG.

Regardless, SUN had a glorious time in the hands of Scott McRinney. It can compete with Microsoft for the hegemony of the industry.

As a result, the SUN founder team is quite well matched in terms of technology and operations.

More importantly, Stanford's high-tech market-oriented entrepreneurship mechanism has taken shape, and as soon as Jim Clark and Andy Bertolsheim have already produced results, venture capitalists have favored these well-established technical teams as soon as they handed them out.

It has to be said that compared with Jay Miner, who developed video game consoles, and Steve Jobs and Woz, who did not graduate from college, the highly educated SGI and SUN founder teams, combined with advanced technological achievements such as workstations, can generate a sense of trust among investors.

Although Tang Huan is not the only source of funds, as long as he participates in the investment, there is an opportunity to mix sand.

For example, when meeting with Jim Clark, Tang Huan put himself in the shoes of the people who have come before: "In my experience, the sooner the product is launched, the better it is for the company to gain a firm foothold in the market and avoid those shareholders who don't understand technology." ”

Seeing that Jim Clark nodded thoughtfully, Tang Huan smiled slightly, "The microprocessor you are using now MC68000, the most mature and stable operating system on the market, is definitely FreeDOS, and the Vientiane/AllOS that has not yet been officially released is even better, and the feature support such as multitasking is not a problem." If you adopt it, it will undoubtedly greatly accelerate the progress of turning the technology into a commodity. ”

"I believe in Teru's technical prowess. Without thinking, Jim Clark agreed, "You'll help the center." ”

"Of course. Tang Huan laughed.

After the affairs were finalized, Jim Clark took the check and left happily, and Tang Huan glanced at the corner of his mouth.

It is inevitable that the SGI will be a competitor of Fangyuan Computer, but in addition to giving itself dividends, it must also spit out some of the benefits it has stolen from Fangyuan Computer to Zheru.

For SUN's entrepreneurial team, Tang Huan first called Bill Joy alone.

"I invited you to Zheru, and you excused yourself in every possible way, it turned out that you had a plan for a long time. Tang Huan complained openly and honestly.

"Zheru already has AllOS, but I still want to continue to develop BSD, and Andy Bertolsheim's SUN workstation provides just that opportunity, so I can only say sorry. Bill Joey grinned.

Tang Huan and Bill Joy have been in contact for a long time, in addition to the fact that they both belong to the University of California, Berkeley, Tang Huan has also contributed to Bill Joy's BSD project, and their IDs on BBS are equally famous.

Zheru has designed and implemented his own high-end operating system, AllOS, and naturally cannot give R&D resources to BSD, which is derived from UNIX, Tang Huan cannot use this to coax Bill Joy, because of this, his desire to recruit the other party to his command has failed.

Seeing that this matter was irreparable, Tang Huan could only shake his head regretfully, in the original time and space, SUN's operating system Solaris was developed from Bill Joey's BSDUnix, which shows his persistence, so forget it.

Andy Bertolsheim, who developed the SUN workstation, is German, and Vinod Khosla, who plans to take on the role of CEO, is an Indian, so the team of founders of SUN is an international alliance.

When Tang Huan met with the team, he recommended his own database EBase to SUN, which was not 100% mixed with sand, but hoped to expand the market share of EBase.

BECAUSE WITH THE PROMOTION OF VARIOUS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, THE MARKETING DEPARTMENT HAS REPORTED THAT THEY HAVE BEGUN TO MEET WITH THEIR PEERS IN IBM AND ORACLE AT THE SAME CUSTOMER REPEATEDLY.

Tang Huan supports both capital and technology, which can be described as thoughtful, and such a nanny-style angel investor style makes the founding team of SGI and SUN grateful, and they did not expect that they were infiltrated by others.

This is also normal, although these elites are ambitious to pan for gold, but after all, they have not yet made achievements, and it is not worth the calculations of others.

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Tang Huan cooperated with CNN's "X-Files" program team to do an interview, and after completing the last wave of public opinion counterattack, he quickly picked up the itinerary of the mainland trip, let the accompanying teams take their places, and sat on Silicon Valley No. 1 to fly from San Francisco to Yanjing.

Lin Qingbian's parents were also among the entourage, because Tang Huan had already entrusted a relationship to help them find their long-lost eldest daughter in China, and they just took this opportunity to recognize each other.

Lin Qingbian did not accompany her, after all, this trip was more formal, and her identity was the same as Deng Lijun, she was too sensitive, and she belonged to one of the political propaganda tools of Baodao.

In this era, Yanjing has not been plagued by haze, and it is in the crisp season of autumn, and the scenery is pleasing to the eye when you look out from the airport.

However, when people saw the two fighters, they immediately panicked and looked at Tang Huan in unison.

"Don't be impatient, that's an escort. Tang Huanyun waved his hand lightly. (To be continued......)