Silicon Valley

Henry waited for a few days and did not see Ford Brook giving him a letter of approval. Presumably Sequoia Capital did not agree to the exchange. They think holding Apple shares is more valuable than holding Netscape browser. Henry didn't care if Ford Brook didn't contact him, anyway, he went to the back to see who begged who! Don't come, crying and shouting to exchange shares, Henry has to pinch and blackmail Sequoia Capital once.

Noah's Ark Company settled in Silicon Valley, silently, without disturbing any media.

Henry believes in speaking with products, speaking less and doing more, and pragmatic innovation is the foundation of a company's development. That's it, Noah's Ark Company only held a small reception inside, which is a celebration of the establishment of the company! In addition to the company's employees, the attendees also included Nicholas Bookstore CEO Gilly Hurt, Cisco CEO Bosak, Sequoia Capital Ford Brook, and Mr. Henry Williams, chairman of the three companies! ! !

The new CEO of Noah's Ark is called Bob Gallagher. This guy is also a remarkable person. He is a postdoctoral fellow in computer science at Harvard University in the United States, and has a concurrent MBA. He once served as a deputy manager in the Asian branch of General Electric Company. He resigned in February 1986 and joined Cisco shortly thereafter. In view of this person's outstanding ability and strong professionalism, Henry decided to entrust him with the important task and let him serve as the CEO of Noah's Ark Company.

Bob Gallagher is in his forties, slightly fat, tall, and doesn't like wearing suits very much. He usually wears a gray casual suit. But fortunately, Henry was wise and did not force the employees of the company what clothes to wear.

Henry met Ford Brook at the reception, and he didn't ask about the exchange of shares. Everyone was happy, eating, chatting and spanking.

After the reception, Henry called Bob Gallagher to talk with him at night and discuss how Noah's Ark should develop in the future. Henry has taught him everything. Although he doesn't know much about servers, he still knows a little bit about tower servers and blade servers. For servers, the processor is the top priority.

As for the processor, which one is stronger?

Intel should do its part, but most of Intel's processors are developed based on the Windows operating system. The two of them "coup themselves" and formed the wintel alliance to manipulate the market, so this processor is also sold at a thief expensive! ! !

Noah's Ark is a server, of course, it is best to have its own processor!

However, the difficulty is too high, the research and development costs are in the hundreds of millions, and Henry has no money for them to burn! Naturally, buying processors from Intel or others from IBM became a stopgap measure. The most urgent task is to design a web server for Noah's Ark to meet the needs of current users! ! !

Technicians from Nicholas Bookstore and Cisco were assigned a total of 25 people in Noah's Ark. Bob later recruited 20 people from Stanford University and Silicon Valley, and moved a research and development team of 45 people. We discussed what to do with this web server, what kind of processor to choose is the best, and the work is in full swing!

Henry returned home. These days, he is too busy. After two days of rest, plagiarism began. Nine novels in the Harry Potter series have been written, and all are now in the seventh book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Henry is going to write a science fiction novel, the name is "Jurassic Park". This novel is a science fiction novel published by Michael Crichton in 1990. Once published, it immediately caused a sensation in the United States, and it ranked first in the best-selling list of American novels.

Henry bought Pixar, and he was already a member of Hollywood. Naturally, he had to make more preparations.

Besides, film entertainment is indispensable in the Internet industry. As an ambitious and aspiring youth, it is impossible not to deploy the film industry!

Pixar is one of them, as is a variety of excellent film and novel copyrights.

In addition to Henry's own writing, he may have acquired many well-known novel scripts.

Henry works at home as a copywriter, and from time to time he pays attention to national affairs and the development of the company. The CEOs of Nicholas Bookstore, Cisco, Noah's Ark, and Pixar have to report to Henry every week, so Henry can understand the operation of the company even if he doesn't go out.

Due to Cisco's advanced development, the development speed of the Internet has been at least two years longer than that of the previous life, especially the development of the US Science Foundation. Under the operation of several large companies such as IBM, it has become more and more powerful, but it has also become more commercialized and has deviated. This is the purpose of the establishment of the US Science and Technology Fund Network at the beginning. The original purpose of the US Science Foundation Network is to exchange scientific research information, but in the hands of capitalists, it will definitely deteriorate! U.S. authorities immediately took back the management rights of companies such as IBM, and turned to their own operations. But despite this, many large companies in the United States have seen profits from it, so many companies have joined together and jointly developed several professional and commercialized backbone networks.

The rise of the commercial backbone network means that the Internet is about to enter a prosperous period. It is no longer just the Internet of schools, governments, scientific research institutions, and companies, but the Internet of the American people! Ordinary people can also connect to the Internet! ! ! Of course, the investment in the commercial backbone network is huge, and it will not be flourishing in a short period of time. However, in some developed areas, backbone networks have been built, and many local Americans have joined the network.

In January 1987, 13 major cities including New York, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago have joined the backbone network!

The development of the network has become a trend. Cisco made great achievements last year. After the annual report is released, it can be seen that Cisco's sales in 1986 have reached 50 million US dollars, and a router of 1,000 US dollars has sold five million routers. 5 times more than the performance in 1985! ! ! Sequoia Capital President Charles said: "Sequoia Capital should have invested a little more money!!!"

Sequoia Capital executive director Ford Brook sighed: "Henry is a tougher guy than Bill Gates!!!"

Henry couldn't see Sequoia Capital's resentful eyes and tone. He insists that low-key is king, and making a fortune in silence is the most important thing. Despite Cisco's reputation, not many people know Cisco's chairman, Mr. Henry Williams!

Except for a book signing event in the UK, Henry rarely appeared in front of the media. He is mysterious and unknown to outsiders.

On January 5, 1987, the CEO of Nicholas Bookstore, Gilly Hurt, suddenly called Henry and told him that the "Internet Movie Database" website had been established and let him go to see it.

The next day, Henry rushed over.

Came to the company, led by Gilly Hurt and the company's chief technology officer Tom Wilson, entered an office, and then turned on a computer. Under Henry's gaze, Tom Wilson entered a URL for . , and immediately a familiar website appeared in front of Henry. Henry looked at the interface, and then tested the function himself.

Various functions are similar to the IMDB of the previous life.

After the test, Henry nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, this website is doing a good job. By the way, has it been officially released?"

"Not yet," said Gilly Hurt.

"Then release it right away. Hmm... Does the Netscape browser have a pop-up function?" Henry asked.

"Pop-up function?" Gilly Hurt and Tom Wilson were stunned.

Depend on! You don't even know about such a powerful "sharp weapon" as pop-up windows. Didn't I say you can't do it?

Henry was speechless.

So, I explained to them: "The so-called pop-up window is a small window that pops up through a browser or website to advertise. For example, our Netscape browser and Nicholas Bookstore website can pop-up windows. Help us promote it. Our new website Internet Movie Archive!!!"

Now, the two understood in seconds. Gilly Hurt and Tom Wilson were full of admiration, astonishingly admirable! It is foreseeable that once the pop-up window function is realized, it will have an unparalleled effect on publicity work!

"Chairman, this function is easy to implement, I will develop it later!!!" Tom Wilson said excitedly.

"Yeah." Henry nodded, but he still had to remind them not to keep popping up the windows randomly, like a certain Internet tycoon in China, and eventually become a hooligan, "It's okay to develop it, but don't pop up the windows randomly, don't do it as often. Too frequent. When users open Netscape browser for the first time, a window pops up, and the same is true for the Nicholas Bookstore website. If the pop-up window is too frequent, users will be irritable, affecting user experience, and will have a very bad impact on our future development. So, this point must be remembered!"

"Understood!!!"

Henry smiled, even if the company's development is in addition to the leaks, there is still himself, who can turn the tide and set things right!

It took more than four months from the official establishment of the IMDB website in September last year to January this year. The preparatory work is very detailed, collecting data, entering data, developing websites, etc. IMDB website is to make a sensation in Hollywood, is to arouse the love of the national screen name.

Ten days later, the Netscape browser came into its own.

As the only graphical browser in the United States, as the monopoly window of the Internet in the United States, basically all netizens using the Internet have seen a "powerful" pop-up window! It was the first time they had seen this window. It was novel and interesting, and they couldn't help but click inside. After entering, I saw a new website. This website has pictures and information. It is actually a movie website.

After using it, I found that this website is too powerful. From the beginning of American movies to the present, movies have been recorded, and it is worthy of being a movie database. What's even more rare is that this movie database actually has a rating system, not only for rating movies, but also for comments and exchanges below. This is really too humane and deeply loved by people. Some movie lovers have signed up for accounts, rated their favorite movies, and left comments!

Although Nicholas Bookstore is not as influential as the Netscape browser, it also has a lot of users, and it can be used to some extent.

It didn't take long for the IMDB website to become popular. But since there are very few netizens, the degree of this fire is also very general. However, universities in the United States are the main targets of Cisco, and college students are the main consumers of movies and even potential consumers in the future, so the influence is still quite large! The major Hollywood studios reacted differently to the site, with some not paying attention to it, while others taking it seriously.

It will take time for IMDB to grow!

But history will prove that this will be a very influential website media in Hollywood. With this website, Henry has a certain say in Hollywood!

Among Henry's four companies, his favorite is Pixar, because it is the most fun and unrestrained. Pixar's free creation, the atmosphere of divergent thinking and their innocence made Henry feel much younger. Of course, Henry is now a teenager of twelve or thirteen years old, but his heart is an uncle. When I came to Pixar, I found it very interesting to see the cute anime characters on the computer, to watch everyone making noises like children, and even imitating the shapes and expressions of the anime characters!

The short film Pixar is currently working on is called "LuxoJr.", and the protagonist in the film is the jumping light that later became a symbol of Pixar. Henry volunteered and said he wanted to dub the dancing lights. Everyone laughed at Henry's request, saying that they had to "interview" first, or "get out" if they couldn't do it. They didn't think of Henry as a boss at all!

Everyone is familiar, jokes are often made, Henry doesn't mind, just interview. Of course, this process was much more lively. A large group of people in the studio came to watch the fun. Henry was not timid at all, and dubbed it seriously. Not to mention, the final voice acting is not bad. Pixar's CEO Edwin Cartham immediately made a decision and asked Henry to dub the protagonist's dancing lights!

Henry is honored to be a voice actor!

But how long can an animated short film, the dubbing work of Kung Fu Henry is completed in one day!

This short film "LuxoJr." is Pixar's first work. Everyone is united in it. They carefully crafted this film, and strived to create a classic, and even rushed to win awards. In fact, Pixar's short film "LuxoJr." in the previous life was nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film and won the First Jury Award for Computer Imaging at the San Francisco International Film Festival - the Golden Gate Award!

After the production of "LuxoJr." was completed, Henry discussed with them to make the jumping lights a symbol of the company. So, a day later, the Pixar classic factory logo of later generations appeared, and this logo was drawn by Henry himself, and it was unanimously agreed by everyone!

Then, there was the issue of the release of LuxoJr.

This problem is really a big one. Even a ten-minute animated short film will not be shown in the cinema. How to do this? Movie theaters are mercenary and have no value. Movies that cannot make money will not be shown. For animated short films with only ten minutes, they are afraid they will not even watch them.

Henry thought about it, the key is still not being famous, "LuxoJr." is popular, maybe the movie theater is willing to show it.

In the first step, Henry made a big promotion on the IMDB website.

The second step is to send the short film to the competition.

Henry thought of it and did it. While instructing the IMDB website to start the promotion work, he sent "LuxoJr." to the Oscars. (vote……)

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