Chapter 97: The Father of Hard Disks
"The financial personnel of the new company are all dispersed and enter the new company to be responsible for the financial department, which is responsible for the company's assistant to the president, and the assistant to the president is responsible for the president. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info" Ye Kai made his final concluding remarks.
At this point, after Ye Kai arranged the person in charge of the new company that had already been decided, he looked at Shugart, who had a disc face and short hair, Shugarte wore brown eyes, and he couldn't see the look in his eyes clearly, but the look on his face was relatively gray, and it seemed that he must be very disappointed in his heart, and he might be ready to leave this company.
After all, he also knew that hard drives could not be installed on PCs in a short period of time, and Atari's previous computers had been struggling in the PC market and showed no signs of entering the enterprise market.
And when he first entered the company, Bushnell did have this consideration, that is, to wait for Atari's computers to temporarily emerge in the personal computer market, and then enter the enterprise market. However, Atari Computer had a very small market share under the siege of computer companies led by Apple Computer, and Bushnell was forced to leave the company due to a mistake in decision-making.
After all, from the perspective of personal computers, it is not realistic to install an incomparably large hard disk compared to a floppy disk drive. Well, the fact that the hard drive sector was undone is a flea on the bald head, obviously.
Especially when I heard Ye Kai say: "Today's meeting is over here, the person in charge will convey the content of today's meeting to stabilize the mood of the employees, and Alyssa will arrange the accommodation of the three new employees first, and then be responsible for contacting the company's previous law firm to start the registration of the new company." Also, Mr. Shugart is invited to stay and the others may adjourn. ”
The other leaders all glanced at Shugart with different expressions, and left the conference room in silence, and the last person to leave closed the door of the conference room.
"Hello, Mr. Shugart." Ye Kai said. "I'm the head of the parent company sent to this company, I'm interested in your department, and I hope you can give a brief introduction to yourself."
Asking Shugart to simply introduce himself is actually an excuse, because Ye Kai wants to know if the person in front of him is Shugart, who was called the "father of hard disks" by the industry in his previous life.
Shugart, the "father of hard disks" in his previous life, joined IBM as a field engineer after graduating with a bachelor's degree in engineering and physics. During his 18 years on the job, he was responsible for IBM's development projects, including the development of the first hard disk drive.
In 1967, IBM launched the world's first floppy disk, with a diameter of 32 inches, which was later reduced to 16 inches, and was developed by Shugart. In 1973, he founded the Shugart Associates, which produced floppy disk drives, and a year later he was fired by the venture capitalists who invested in the company.
For the next six years, he became a homeless man and worked as a consultant. And shifted his interest from high-tech to low-tech: he bought a bar with friends, bought a fishing boat, and became a professional fisherman.
In 1978, Apple became the first PC manufacturer to produce a built-in floppy drive. Shugart made a comeback and co-founded Shugart Technologies, Inc., which was later renamed Seagate Technology Limited.
Founded in 1979, Seagate Inc. is the world's largest manufacturer of hard drives, disks and read/write heads, headquartered in Scott Valley, California. Seagate is a global leader in the design, manufacture and sale of hard disk drives for enterprise, desktop, mobile and consumer electronics.
In 1980, the 5.25-inch floppy drive was the first in the industry to be introduced. It was the first company to manufacture a 5.25-inch hard drive specifically for desktop computers.
Although Seagate seemed like a small step at the time, the reality was that the advent of the Seagate hard drive revolutionized the entire PC world, and the world has changed dramatically ever since.
Suddenly, people were able to access data quickly and easily like never before, and there was a wealth of information that would eventually drive things like the Internet.
The entire computer landscape has changed dramatically, so much so that today computers and digital information have become a part of our daily lives. For decades, Seagate has developed the technology and manufactured products to make it all happen.
Reality is the future, and the world as people understand it is a world based on information. Every time people connect to the Internet, press send, trade stocks online, use ATMs, watch TV, or even watch a Hollywood movie using computer effects, everyone who uses it creates, obtains and/or shares vast amounts of digital information, and that's storage technology, and it's at the heart of what Seagate does, making it all possible.
Therefore, with this 5.25-inch hard drive, IBM became a big customer of Seagate, but in 1985 IBM cut off business, and the new company, which had just been renamed Seagate, immediately lost nearly half of its business and was on the verge of bankruptcy. At the same time, he had a disagreement with Conner, as a result of which Conner left angrily and founded Conner Peripherals, which immediately became Shugart's number one competitor.
Over the next few years, Seagate and Conner were in a lively race to develop hard drives, while other competitors were losing out. Shugart has aligned its strategy to shift its focus from market share and cost control to technology first, making Seagate the premier enabler of new technologies in this space.
This strategy makes full use of the company's vertical unified management. In 1996, Seagate bought Conner for $1.1 billion in stock, making Seagate the world's largest hard drive producer. Seagate became a major company with annual revenues of $7 billion and a market share of 30%. In the years that followed, Seagate continued to grow through mergers until it became the world's largest and best hard drive manufacturer.
After the 90s in the previous life, hard disks have become the standard configuration of personal computers, which is an industry with an annual output value of tens of billions of dollars, and it is also an industry that Ye Kai wants to enter. However, this industry not only needs huge investment, but also needs professional talents to continuously carry out technological innovation, and there are also thick barriers to patented technology.
If this Shuga is the same Shugart, patent barriers and technological innovation will not be a problem, then it will become a logical thing to officially enter the industry.
So, is this Shugart the one that Ye Kai hopes?