Chapter 687 of the text is a headache for the founder of Cisco

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Cisco rented an office room in a commercial building in the center of the city, and at ten o'clock Lin Johnson appeared at the door on time, and the liaison secretary was anxiously waiting for him.

When he saw Lin Qiangsheng's secretary, he immediately stepped forward and said, "Mr. Lin, Mr. and Mrs. Bosak have arrived, and Mr. John Mowglich, they are all in the conference room!" ”

Lin Qiangsheng nodded and asked, "How is Lerna's love, did you lose your temper or something?" ”

The female secretary said fearfully: "When she came this morning, she scolded us loudly, and it seems that the relationship is a little bad!" ”

Lin Qiangsheng paused, nodded, but thought in his heart: "This woman has such a bad temper before she reaches menopause, it seems that it is better to let her leave Cisco!" ”

The female secretary followed behind Lin Qiangsheng and whispered, "Lerna is too much, she doesn't respect you and Mr. Mowglich at all!" With her, none of us know how to work anymore, and Lerna will always lose her temper inexplicably and make a lot of excessive demands! ”

Lin Qiangsheng sighed secretly, the Bosak couple has become a hated store in the company, and they must do their best to let them leave Cisco, and he can give them a generous purchase money, which is enough for them to live the life of a rich man.

Cisco's founders, Sandra Lalerna and Leonard Bossak, were originally married to work in the computer department at Stanford University. The newlyweds are in love, and in order to send e-love letters while at work, they decide to solve the network problem themselves.

Bossak's workplace uses a personal computer, while the School of Management, where Lerna works, uses a DEC mini-computer, and the two computers use completely different operating systems and language programs. Although Xerox has provided the Ethernet network developed in its Parc room to Stanford University, their devices can only be networked in the same computer system.

To solve this problem, Bosak and Lerna managed to pull a cable between the two units, where their offices were more than 400 meters apart, and installed a router to handle the number of transmissions between network systems.

Although the two were not the inventors of the router, they were able to use this technology skillfully to successfully build a network system on the campus of Stanford University that could connect a large number of computers. As a result, it was warmly welcomed by colleagues and quickly spread at Stanford University.

Since the couple was well aware of the commercial value of this technology, they proposed to the university to promote the router's networking technology to the outside world. Let more people benefit from it.

However, the university is not interested in this kind of profit-making concept, because the development goals of the university are different from the profit-making goals of enterprises, and the university is basically based on knowledge innovation and talent cultivation, and does not want to be polluted by commercial interests, and maintains a free, open and knowledge-innovative space environment. is the most important mission of the university.

Although universities have lightly licensed many technology patents, making manufacturers very profitable, and even the original technology inventors on campus have not benefited much, Stanford believes that this should be a normal phenomenon. Because most of the university authorities and their research faculty are not motivated to make a profit when they engage in technological research, they are not entrepreneurs in essence.

So Bossak and Lerna decided to do the project themselves, and they patented the router's hardware and software from the Stanford Technology Licensing Center, and left in 1984 to form a company that promoted networking technology, which they named CISO because of its location near San Francisco. Cisco was born!

Stanford's scientific and technological research achievements have given birth to countless well-known companies, such as Hewlett-Packard's entrepreneurship fund, which comes from the enthusiastic sponsorship of his students by professors in the Department of Electrical Engineering, and the founders of Nike, Google, Yahoo, Logitech, Tesla Motors, FIE Wave OK, Fireo, Electronic Arts, Sun Microsystems, Female Idia, Silicon Valley Graphics and eBay are all from Stanford University.

The couple, perhaps inspired by many of their predecessors, or perhaps normal in a business-rich society, decided to start the company out of the blue.

Posak and Lerna set up their company's offices and factories at their parents' home in the early days of their business, bought a large second-hand computer, kept it in their garage, and applied for a number of credit cards. The two borrowed credit cards to meet their financial needs at the beginning of their careers.

While the couple was working on the first batch of products, Lin Qiangsheng sent someone to find them and express their support for their project, but in fact, the Bossaks were still unknown at this time. But Stanford was able to get in touch with them easily.

With the couple running out of money and the garage company being hampered by a lack of funds, Lerna even had to work part-time at other companies in exchange for cash income, while Bossak stayed at home and worked on technology every day. They also knew that Cisco would need to seek outside funding and assistance or it would struggle to survive.

That's it, Cisco doesn't have any products yet. With only the network technology and some ideas of the two founders, he received an angel investment of $1.5 million, and Lin Johnson exchanged $1.5 million for a 65% stake in Cisco, while also obtaining control of the company.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Johnson hired John Mowglich, who historically put Cisco on the right track and laid the foundation, as CEO. Before that, Mowglich was not an unknown person, having served as president of Grid Computer Corporation (G-Day Dsystem).

Under Mowglich's leadership, Cisco quickly became a real company. They first moved out of the garage, rented a new office space, formed a management team, and set up a technology development department.

The Bossaks no longer have to borrow to run the company, with the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) headed by Bossak and Lerna leading the customer service department.

Cisco, which was on the right track, immediately invested in the first product project, and the network link equipment with wider coverage and more efficient coverage was developed in less than a month, and soon put into mass production after testing.

Their products were first popularized in many companies owned by Johnson & Johnson, such as Eastern Star Semiconductor and Compaq and Dell, and the large-scale application of the products not only brought huge profits to Cisco, but also made a great live advertisement for their network system equipment!

After that, Mowgli invested more in advertising, and now Cisco's network equipment has been promoted in many universities in North America, because Compaq and Dell's main sales target is college students, so Cisco has easily tackled many universities.

And large companies and many research institutions also quickly came to the door, Cisco products are the network link technology they really need, in the era of computer popularization in the United States, such products are extremely needed.

Cisco's rapid growth has also quickly become one of the most dazzling companies in Stanford, and it has become famous in Silicon Valley in less than a year, and its soaring popularity has also attracted many investment companies to come to the door and want a piece of the pie.

This situation also strengthened Lin Qiangsheng's confidence to continue to invest in Cisco, and he has successively invested another $20 million in this company, looking forward to its success as in history!

However, Cisco also has some problems to be solved, and the Bossaks are from technical backgrounds and have just come out of the university pyramid, so it is inevitable that there will be some unrealistic ideas and immature actions in them.

And the most frustrating thing is that the Bosses also brought some friends and relatives into the company, these people talk about their dreams and pursuits all day long in the company, but they sneer at normal business activities, and they also point fingers at other employees, so that the current Cisco is completely like a small workshop that does not enter the stream, not at all like the kind of large company that will enter the world's top 500!

Today, Lin Qiangsheng has to make Bosak and Lerna retreat no matter what, and he doesn't want to do things in a bad way, but the two have really caused a lot of interference to the company's operation, Internet technology is changing with each passing day, and now Cisco has succeeded ahead of history in history, so it must be easier for the imitators! (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please visit wènhttp://mnet

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