Rebirth of the Tech Madman

"Can there be such a perfect solution?" Benjamin Rosen's eyes lit up. He has been on Wall Street for 20 years. He has too much experience with the harsh conditions required for speculation. Could it be that he is really an excellent one in front of him? Opportunity.

"Of course." Rod Kenyon replied confidently, "And there is an additional benefit of doing so, that is, up to now, the platform still has no compatible computers, but various products of the Fangyuan computer standard are already on the market. It is booming everywhere. After we become the first compatible manufacturer, ibm's attitude is likely to be more relaxed because of this."

"It makes sense." Benjamin Rosen asked eagerly, "What do you plan on the specific product?"

"The strategy is very simple, and we are still the number one platform. Now portable personal computers are very popular. First, they created a precedent, and then a competitor emerged. Even Fangyuan Computer has launched such products, and we design And manufacturing standard portable personal computers.” Rod Kennion introduced as he took out a report and handed it to Benjamin Rosen with piercing eyes.

Compaq, a small entrepreneurial team, has very rich experience in the workplace. It does everything in a straightforward manner and has traces to follow. It is not comparable to Steve Jobs, who did not even know what the planning book was, and invested in Apple everywhere.

After reading the document, Benjamin Rosen pondered for a moment, "Now Fangyuan Computer is leading almost everywhere, what do you think of the platform's prospects?"

Rod Kenyon seemed to have considered this question long ago and answered without thinking. "In terms of ibm's strength, even if it is at a disadvantage in the market, it will not be defeated soon. There is no problem at all for a few years."

Having said that, Rod Kenyon looked around at everyone present. With a playful smile, "ibm has always had a problem, that is, the cost of doing things is high and the steering is slow, and the portable products that have not been seen are a proof. We only need to get ahead of ibm, and the launch cost and performance have advantages over it. Compatible products will do. As for other issues, the sky will collapse and we will stand tall."

The others laughed knowingly. One after another said: "As long as we use this once-in-a-lifetime gap to develop, even if we embrace the Fangyuan computer standard platform in the future, we will also have bargaining capital, and at least some negotiation on licensing fees."

Benjamin Rosen picked up the file in front of him again and quickly scanned it, considering several important links. Then he said: "Since you have a clear goal, let go and do it. By the way, do you still need me to help you?"

"We need a senior intellectual property lawyer." Rod Kennion made a request. "We will use a black box method to imitate all the functions. Every step is completed, the lawyer must confirm it."

"No problem." Benjamin Rosen readily agreed, "I will specifically raise targeted funds to deal with possible intellectual property disputes with ibm."

It can be seen from this statement. Benjamin Rosen's support for Compaq's entrepreneurial team has spared no effort.

"How long will it take you to get the prototype?" Benjamin Rosen asked again.

"We have made sufficient technical preparations to make Compaq's portable personal computer catch up with the dex at the end of November. Meet the users." Rod Kennion's tone was full of confidence.

"I look forward to Compaq's wonderful performance." Benjamin Rosen was very satisfied. "Let's do this first, I have something to do and I won't stay any longer."

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As a venture capitalist, Benjamin Rosen has more than one project to focus on. His next stop is Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Follow the address. Benjamin Rosen finally found the humble office with the "rp" sign before entering the door. He also deliberately bent over and wiped the dust on the leather shoes with a paper towel.

However, Benjamin Rosen quickly found out. I don't need to be so particular about it. Although there are only two people in the office, it's messy, and it's like an engineer.

The two people sitting in front of each other, Mitchel Kapoor and Jonathan Saatchi, are the founders of this Lotus software company. Like Compaq, it was established this year.

The leader of Compaq Computer's entrepreneurial team was Rod Kennion, who was born in 1945, and the leader of Lotus Software Corporation was Mitchel Kapoor in 1950.

Mitchel Kapoor’s family is pretty good. His father is a small business owner. He was admitted to Yale University in 1967, specializing in psychology, linguistics and computer science.

Like his peers at that time, Mitchel Kapol belonged to a typical "Beat Generation", and he did not lose any tricks he should try.

After graduating from Yale University in 1971, Mitchel Kapoor worked as a radio host and a comic actor. It can be described as a wandering work and aimless life.

At this stage, Mitchel Kapol was very interested in nothingness, so after four years of wandering, he always felt that he still had some shortcomings, so he went to Switzerland to participate in a training called "transcendental meditation".

This course includes 14 hours of sitting and meditation every day, and learning the ability to make people float in the air. Of course, this supernatural ability failed to cultivate successfully in the end.

After returning to the United States, Mitchel Kapoor wanted to find out who he was, so he was admitted to the university to study for a master's degree in psychology, and graduated with a degree in 1978.

Next, Mitchel Kapoor entered a psychiatric institution to work as a waiter. The nature of his job was mentally equivalent to "potty dumping."

This period is naturally very boring, but fortunately, his interest in computers helped Mitchel Kapol spend most of his time. And his programming skills have made great progress, and then make him enter the rp work.

According to Tang Huan's successful track, Don Estelitch created the "troika" of the electronic form word processing database business software. Among them, the electronic form selected the electronic form software of the rp company.

ibm and rp reached an agreement, just like Tang Huan's pre-installation. Dan Bricklin's can be pre-installed on it.

Obviously, rp, like Microsoft, has embraced the blue giant's thighs, and the company's performance has improved significantly.

Mitchel Kapol, who understood the philosophical question of "who he is", did a great job at rp.

He compiled two sets of software and d, which are very popular. According to the agreement, you can get a 33% commission from the sales.

But rp wanted to change this contract and decided to buy all the copyrights of these two sets of software.

After negotiation, Mitchel Kapol received a $1.2 million buyout fee. And left rp, planning to start his own company and become the boss.

As an investor in rp, Benjamin Rosen naturally noticed this development, and Mitchel Kapoor also needed external help, so the two sides made a rap.

In fact, Benjamin Rosen’s vision is indeed right. Mitchel Kapoor belongs to the type of talent of Jobs, although he has been a fool for so many years. But it hasn't really "crashed", and it is beginning to make its mark in the field of personal computers.

Now, Benjamin Rosen is on Mitchel Kapoor's stage. Seeing the result he was looking forward to, a brand-new spreadsheet software, in addition to the general electronic trial calculation design, can also visually display the data through charts and support the function of the database.

"Because this software integrates the three functions of the electronic trial drawing database, so I named it." Mitchel Kapoor said proudly.

Because of the experience of the previous years. Mitchel Kapol, who still has an obsession with nothingness, regards the lotus flower as a thing with special meaning in religion. Used as the name of the company and product.

"This design can be considered original." Benjamin Rosen asked enthusiastically.

"Not exactly." An embarrassment flashed across Mitchel Kapol's face. But I chose to tell the truth, "Zheru’s has already had these functions, but this type of software can only be bought by large customers who can afford it. It is rare to see it on ordinary personal computers. During the work of rp, when I went to customers to promote products, I inadvertently saw and was inspired."

"Well, wouldn't that be a big selling point in the market in the future." Benjamin Rosenxing was a little disappointed.

"Of course not." Mitchel Kapoor resolutely corrected, "Although there are a lot of spreadsheet software on the platform, but none of them can achieve such a function. As for the version of the Zheru platform, it is just a kind of It's just a sign that declares its existence, and its function can't be compared with the Fangyuan computer platform version at all."

Speaking of this, Mitchel Kapol emphasized his tone, "So, on this platform, it is the first software with this kind of feature set, which is definitely a big selling point."

"It's the number one on the platform again..." Benjamin Rosen, who thought of Compaq, couldn't help but smile.

"Current software companies, such as Gary Kildare’s Digital Research Company, Bill Gates’ Microsoft Company, Dan Bricklin’s RP Company, Seymour Rubinstein’s Al Company, etc., are doing their best Supporting as many hardware platforms as possible, and even the leftover leftovers leftover by the philosophers on the Fangyuan computer platform will become their goal."

Unlike Rod Kennion from the startup team of Compaq Computer, Mitchell Kapoor provided Benjamin Rosen with various documents including business plans. He only had a three-inch tongue.

"But my Lotus software has to do the opposite and concentrate on supporting only the platform."

Before Benjamin Rosen asked about the reason for this choice, Mitchel Kapoll continued to explain, "The most direct benefit of doing this is that the program code does not need to consider too many cross-hardware platform compatibility factors and adopts the C language. Such high-level programming languages. Using assembly language to compile, even if it contains many complex functions, its operating efficiency far exceeds that of similar products on the platform~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Mitchel Kapoor triumphed A quick finger, "More importantly, I noticed a major trend in the development of personal computer hardware specifications. The memory capacity continues to increase. It is not unusual for the memory capacity of commercial microcomputers to reach 256kb or higher. "

Speaking of this, Mitchel Kapol seemed to think of something about Coca-Cola and laughed. "But many software companies seem to have not noticed this, and have not optimized the program code. Support on the platform The three major spreadsheet software: That's it. The most funny thing is that Microsoft's initiative to limit the running memory of the program to a maximum of 256kb, I really don't understand what Bill Gates thinks."

"In this way, compared to other similar products on the platform, it is not only powerful and fast, but also performs better on a personal computer with a large 256kb memory." Benjamin Rosen confirmed with interest that these are extremely attractive. Product characteristics.

"That's it, it can be said to be a masterpiece. I have all of their functions, and they can't run as fast as me. How can I compete with me?" Mitchel Kapol made a bold gesture. To be continued

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