Chapter 686 [Tesla's Fans]
Although Google is often seen as the product of two computer geniuses, Brin and Page, Google is actually the creation of Larry Page, and Sergey Brin is just a helper. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Lu Chong went to Stanford University this time, and he only needed to convince Larry Page, and Sergey Brin would be able to solve it.
Before meeting Larry Page, Lu Chong made up Nikola Tesla's biography.
Why make up for Nikola Tesla, because this great god is the idol who has the greatest influence on Larry Page!
Tesla was a Croatian immigrant born in 1856. He invented the way most of the electricity is generated in the world today, and he also conceived and created wireless communications. But in the last decade before his death, he struggled to earn a pension and feed pigeons, unable to convince investors to finance his latest idea. Until his death, he was convinced that he could invent a weapon to end all wars, invent a way for electricity to cross oceans wirelessly, and plan to harvest energy from space. When he died, he was alone and in debt.
Tesla was a smart man, he could speak eight languages, he had a good memory, he was able to put together a whole invention in his head, but when it came to business, he was extremely bad.
In 1885, he told his boss, Thomas Edison, that he could improve the car and the generator. Edison said, "If you do it, give you $50,000." Tesla kept his promise, but Edison gave him a $10 raise.
Tesla resigned in anger and formed its own company, Tesla Electric Lighting & Production. But soon after, he disagreed with investors about the direction of the company and was fired. The following year, Tesla was forced to dig trenches to make a living.
In 1900, he persuaded JPMorgan to invest $150,000 in another company, but the money ran out in 1901. Tesla has been writing to JPMorgan Chase for the rest of his life, asking for more financial support, but he has never received a penny again.
In 1944, the year after Tesla's death, New York Herald Leader reporter John Joseph O'Neal wrote a biography of the inventor that concluded: "Of the thousands of people who met him in the last thirty years of his life, it is likely that no more than 10 knew who he was." Even though the media headlines Tesla and his latest scientific predictions every other year, no one connects them to this tall, thin, outdated man who feeds pigeons every day. He's one of those weird people who can make life better for people in the city in different ways. ”
Forty-one years after the article was published, in 1985, a 12-year-old Michigan boy cried after reading Tesla's biography.
He's Larry Page.
Paige's parents, both computer science professors at Michigan State University, grew up in a cluttered house with computers and electronics, as well as tech magazines stacked everywhere, and the dedication of Paige's parents, an atmosphere that fostered Page's creativity and inventiveness.
From the moment he gambled on Tesla's biography, Page realized that "it's not enough to just create something, you have to bring it to the world so that everyone can benefit from it." "It's not enough to conceive of an innovative technological future, it's not enough to have a big idea, it needs to be commercialized. If Page wanted to become an inventor, he had to start a successful company.
Tesla's story also teaches Paige to beware of bosses like Thomas Edison in the world, who will use your desire to achieve your dreams to serve their own worldly purposes.
Of course, Tesla also has a big fan, that is, PayPal (the largest online payment company), SpaceX Space Exploration Technology Company, environmental electric car company Tesla (Tesla) and SolarCity CEO and CEO of SpaceX SpaceX Technology Company, Elon Musk, product designer of the environmentally friendly electric car company Tesla (Tesla), the most Iron Man man on the planet.
As an undergraduate at Michigan State University, Ripage began wondering about the future of transportation, and he became interested in it. He was part of the university's solar car team as an undergraduate, and he once suggested that Michigan State University should have a rapid transit system, a monorail.
At the age of 23, Larry Page woke up from a dream and suddenly had the question of whether he could "download the entire web"? Then he started figuring out how to design a URL that would be accessible through their links. With the help of their friend Sergey, they worked together to develop a search engine called Backrub.
In September 1997, they registered the domain name Google in the hope of collecting all the information in the world. At the time, Larry Page was a 22-year-old graduate student at Stanford University, just five years after he came up with an idea in the middle of the night. Based on the idea, he could download the entire Internet and see the links on different pages, which would allow him to see information from all over the world in a whole new way.
By 1997, BackRub was rebranded as Google, and it grew well, with millions of users and a number of well-known investors.
Later, Google replaced Apple as the world's largest publicly traded company by market capitalization.
At that time, Lu Chong found the dormitory of Larry Page and Sergei Brin, knocked on the door and no one answered.
Lu Chong saw that it was already lunchtime, so he went to a restaurant near them to eat, and was ready to go to them after eating.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I entered the restaurant, I saw Larry Page and Sergey Brin, they were eating in the restaurant, and while they were eating, they were discussing a key issue of the Backrub search engine, and the discussion was foaming at the mouth.
It was easy for Lu Chong to find them, because although they were much younger now than when they became famous, their images were not much different, and Lu Chong remembered the image on the photos of their lives, and he could see the two of them from the crowd at a glance.
As they were chatting, Lu Chong didn't rush forward, but ordered five hamburgers and ate them at the table next to them.
According to the script designed by Lu Chong, he waited to see that they were finished chatting and ready to leave, so he feasted and ate his burger, and he couldn't wait until they were finished eating to leave, and his burger hadn't finished yet.
But in fact, he didn't follow his script, when Sergey Brin and Larry Page were chatting, they inadvertently saw Lu Chong, and was immediately attracted by Lu Chong's posture of gobbling up five hamburgers by himself, and took another look, and suddenly found that this person was very familiar, so he patted Larry Page: "Look at it, is the Chinese man next to us the wonder boy of the Chinese basketball team that day?" ”