Tang Huanjue felt that he seemed to be suffering from some kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder, which was manifested in the fact that he always wanted to arrange a person with a head and a face in various positions of his team.

However, so far, there has not been much progress, and there is only one general who is really included in the account.

As for Wang Xuehong, Wang Xueling, and Jian Mingren, they are backed by the Nuoda family and are destined to start their own careers, and what Tang Huan is looking for is mainly that level of connections, and now that the three of them have revealed their identities, they are even more embarrassed to call and use them uncontrollably.

Fortunately, through a headhunting company, Tang Huan finally discovered a wizard in the operation of the company who is definitely a potential stock.

John Chambers, born in Charleston, West Virginia, is currently working in the marketing department of IBM, and because he is not comfortable with IBM's rigid work style, he is actively interviewing and looking for a new position.

After Tang Huan met Chambers with anticipation and confirmed his resume, he finally determined that this was the president and CEO of Cisco Systems in the original time and space.

Throughout its history, Chambers has worked for three notable companies.

In 1976, Chambers came to California with a bachelor's degree in business management, a bachelor's degree in law, and an MBA in finance and management, where he worked for IBM for seven years.

In 1983, Chambers joined Ang Wong Computer as Head of Sales and Marketing, and later rose to Senior Vice President, Americas & Asia Pacific, where he worked for eight years.

In 1991, Chambers was hired by Cisco and began to build a legend.

In 2000, Cisco was second only to GE and Intel in terms of market capitalization, and also surpassed Microsoft for the first time as the most valuable company in the world. It took Microsoft almost 25 years to climb to this position, while Cisco only took 16 years.

In fact, Tang Huan knew a lot about the little demon who was born in the fifties and the general in the forties, but he didn't just wave his hand to recruit his subordinates.

For example, Jeff Immelt, who was born in 1956 and became the chairman and CEO of General Electric, was the president of a prominent brotherhood during his college years and should now pursue an MBA at Harvard Business School. People mix so well that it's impossible to come to a small company like Zerone.

Another example is the future CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, born in 1956, met Bill Gates when he was a sophomore at Harvard, and became a close friend.

Therefore, Tang Huan attaches great importance to Chambers, and after some exchanges, he found that this person is indeed very talented in sales and customer service, and when paired with Simeone, who is engaged in technology, he can share a lot of things for himself.

Chambers was very interested in the energetic Zerone, and Tang Huan had a very happy conversation, since the two sides were very sincere cooperation, so they hit it off, Chambers officially joined Zerone, and Tang Huan acted decisively, immediately announced that Chambers was the vice president in charge of operations, and before that, Simeone had held the position of vice president in charge of technology.

Tang Huan was very satisfied with the headhunter's recommendation work, rewarded the other party with an extra sum of money, and asked them to pay attention to American Express to confirm whether there was a person named Louis Gerstner, which was undoubtedly Tang Huan's next target.

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On the west coast of the United States, Monterey County, California, Pacific Jungle Town, a small Victorian building with a view of the waves of Monterey Bay, is the sales operating system CP? The headquarters of M's Digital Research Company.

For various reasons, the schedule has been changed again and again, and now Tang Huan has finally implemented the plan and visited here in person.

Standing downstairs, Tang Huan looked around, what a beautiful environment, I have to say that compared to the Dragon Country, which is also known for its vast land and vast resources but has many desert plateaus in the west, there are more places suitable for human habitation in the United States.

Most of the people who come in and out of here are dressed very casually, barefoot, in shorts, dressed as hippies, and even a few children running by, and the office atmosphere feels a little funny.

At this time, there was a cry of a baby in the building, and Tang Huan, who was just about to take a step, couldn't help but have a black line on his forehead, which really made people wonder if this Nima was the location of a high-tech company.

Fortunately, Tang Huan quickly found the target of the trip, the real pioneer of personal computer software development, the bearded Gary Kildare.

Kildare was born in Seattle in the northwestern United States, and he and Gates are fellow villagers, and the two had a good relationship, and once drove a sports car together on the highway.

After the Vietnam War began, Kildare enlisted in the Army and taught computer science at the Naval Graduate School in Monterey until 1972, when his naval service ended. During this time, Kildare mastered a great deal of computer technology.

It was also in this year that Kildare came into contact with Intel's microprocessor 4004 and conducted in-depth research, and Intel was impressed by Kildare's emerging ideas and subsequently hired him as a part-time consultant.

In 1973, Intel's 8008 microprocessor was successfully developed, and Kildare developed an assembler called PL/M for it.

After that, Kildare replaced paper tape with disks, and successfully developed the disk operating system CP/M, and business slowly followed.

Because the hardware architecture of personal computers from different manufacturers is different, so it is necessary to customize and modify the CP/M for each customer individually, and in order to reduce these boring tasks, Kildare invented an interface that separates the hardware layer from the software layer - BIOS.

In 1976, at the instigation of his wife, Dorothy, Kildare left Naval Graduate School to officially start a digital research company. And it is run by Dorothy.

In 1977, IMSAI's Seymour Rubinstein directed a classic business negotiation to purchase a volume license for the CP/M operating system for $25,000.

As more PCs with Intel CPUs were used and CP/M sales rose, the Kildares had enough money to hire staff and move their offices to their current location.

It's just that the company's management really doesn't dare to be complimentary, and you can't do it like this when you play with personality, no wonder it was calculated by Gates later, Tang Hu shook his head secretly.

Kildare is indeed a man of great affableness, as legend has it all, and is more of a scholar than a calculating businessman.

After the pleasantries, Kildare smiled and said, "I've heard Rubinstein mention you." ”

When Tang Huan heard this, his heart sank, "Seymour Rubinstein of MicroPro? ”

"Yes, it's him, he just came here two days ago." Kildare nodded, and said unabashedly: "Rubinstein believes that your software has caused Apple computers to crowd out the CP/M computer market and harm everyone's interests, so he hopes to join forces with me to fight the threat from you." ”

Paralyzed, this Rubinstein is really an old traitor, and he can't bear the competitiveness of his products, so he began to play vertical and horizontal business methods to deal with himself.

It seems that after being obstructed by Rubinstein, this trip will be in vain, and it will be even more impossible to reach a cooperation intention.

Although he was annoyed, Tang Huan still wanted to communicate openly and honestly with Kildare.

Rubinstein's argument is based on the premise that the PC market is saturated. But obviously, this is a joke, the development of personal computers is in the ascendant, even if hundreds of thousands of computers are invested, the market can easily absorb them. Therefore, those of us who make software have too much space to survive, and there is no conflict of interest competing for market share, but we should strengthen cooperation to promote the prosperity of this industry. In addition, CP/M is an important platform for CGrid and WordEasy, and everyone is a partner, how can it be an opponent. As for which kind of computer sells well, the key depends on the research and development capabilities of those computer manufacturers. Of course, it is undeniable that Rubinstein's WordStar has indeed been competing for WordEasy orders through a low-price strategy recently. ”

Kildare nodded, "What you said also makes sense, in fact, I'm not interested in what you say about how to operate, I just know that if you do a good job, users will naturally like it." ”

"What a bookseller." Although Tang Huan thought so in his heart, he expressed his approval on the surface.

As he spoke, a young man with glasses walked in.

"My student, Gordon Eubanks, is Tang Huan, who developed CGrid." Kildare is in the middle.

It turned out that this was the genius Eubanks who developed another kind of BASIC, and this person went on to achieve a lot of success, and he was the co-founder of Symantec, a well-known security solution provider, and Norton is a product of the company.

"You are the person Rubinstein wants to target in some anti-Tang coalition." Eubanks looked at Tang Huan curiously.

"The anti-Don coalition? What happened to that? Hearing such lethal words, Tang Huan couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine.

"We're going to go surfing, if you want to know, either wait for us to come back, or go with us." Like a naughty child, Kildare got up and walked out without hesitation.

Tang Huan couldn't help but smile bitterly, Nima, he came here in formal clothes, but he was really nervous about the so-called anti-Tang alliance, the name was too scary, so he could only follow him.

The feeling of surfing on the sea is indeed very wonderful, no wonder so many people, especially the rich, are obsessed with this sport, and the gains and losses in Tang Huan's previous heart have disappeared unconsciously.

Isn't all kinds of conspiracies the norm in the mall?

IBM has staged a good show of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", an IBM, in response to the attack of GE, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, Bourrogh, CDC, Univac. In previous lives, Microsoft also ridiculed Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and other competitors for the NOICE Group.

What happened later, IBM and Microsoft are still living a very prosperous life.

Compared to these big scenes, Rubinstein's little tricks are not enough to see.

"Let the storm come harder." Facing the rushing waves, Tang Huan roared wildly.

Seeing that Tang Huan was having such a good time, Kildare and Eubanks also shouted.

After returning to land, Kildare did not break his promise, and as far as he knew, he told Rubinstein about some of his recent movements, and it was said that he had brought in a financial software company called Peachtree to deal with CGrid.

Tang Huan looked at Kildare's posture, the most optimistic situation was to stand aside and hug his shoulders to watch the excitement, the words of cooperation with each other were no longer spoken, he simply stopped wasting time and left.

However, Tang Huan also guessed in his heart who would be the next target of the anti-Tang IT alliance that Rubinstein tossed.