Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Chapter 16 Dug the corner of Gates

Like its rival Berkeley, Stanford University is also the top university in the San Francisco area. The world-famous Silicon Valley was developed on its territory, and the two universities are not far away.

Unlike the free and open atmosphere on the Berkeley campus, Stanford University’s campus is relatively rigorous and conservative. This can be seen from the formality of the audience in the audience, perhaps because one is a public university and the other is a private university. , Tang Huan can’t say why.

Because of the commercial atmosphere brought by Silicon Valley, the teachers and students of Stanford University seemed to be very busy. After the event, they all hurriedly left the scene.

Tang Huan rubbed his eyebrows and took a long sigh of relief, feeling that it is reasonable for the US president to rely on speeches to attract money after he resigns. This skill does require real effort. With so much memory as the backing, he still feels tired, maybe Haven’t gotten used to the old American way of making a show.

Turning his eyes, Tang Huan saw a young man who was not a few years older than himself sitting in a daze, so he asked: “Why are you still here? Is there any problem?”

The young man smiled, pointing to the Apple computer used as a demonstration and said with a smile: “Seeing that this spreadsheet calculation software CGrid is so good, I suddenly felt a little moved.”

Tang Huan gave a cry, and said that I just finished the speech with feeling that it was not easy, so you felt that my software was good, and it was very good.

After subconsciously taking a closer look at the young man, Tang Huan’s heart was shocked, and he seemed to have discovered another major archeological achievement.

“My name is Charles Simeone.” Seeing Tang Huan staring at him, this person introduced himself.

“Listening to your accent, it seems to be from the European side.” Tang Huan nodded and asked casually.

“I am a Hungarian. After getting a degree in applied engineering mathematics and mathematical statistics at Berkeley, I went to Stanford University and obtained a master’s and doctorate in computer science. I currently work at Xerox PARC, which is not far from here.”

Listening to the other side’s whisper, Tang Huan confirmed that the Charles Simeone in front of him was the right-hand man of Gates in the previous life. He once spent 25 million US dollars to become the fifth senior software engineer in the history of space tourists. The way a prominent figure entered Microsoft in 1981 turned out to be a self-recommendation.

It turned out that after Simeone decided to leave PARC, his colleague, Ethernet inventor, company founder and chairman Robert Metcalf, made a list of job suggestions for him, among which Microsoft was ranked first. , Gates so easily recruited a general.

After entering Microsoft, Simeone began to take charge of the spreadsheet software Multiplan project. This product is exactly the dangerous competitor that Tang Huan has always been concerned about.

is really a godsend. I didn’t expect such a heavyweight technical expert to meet him. Tang Huan’s eyes were shining brightly, and he began to figure out how to dig Gates’ corner in advance to recruit this person. As for whether Microsoft will suffer development frustration due to this cut-off, it is not within his consideration. Anyway, he does not have any shares in Microsoft. Maybe in the future, when Microsoft cannot hold IBM, he will be able to take advantage of the fire and rob Gates. Get greater benefits.

“I have heard of your deeds. There is an amazing project in PARC called Alto Personal Computer. You wrote the text editor Bravo for Alto Computer.”

Tang Huan praised the other party with a smile on his face. He is more or less a man of the world now. As soon as this remark came out, Simeone immediately refreshed his spirit.

“By the way, has the Alto personal computer now entered the commercialization stage?” Tang Huan asked knowingly.

Simeone shook his head, his face a little disappointed, “No.”

“That’s a pity. No matter how great an invention is, it can’t serve to change the world. It’s in vain.” Tang Huan sighed sympathetically, “I heard that many people in PARC have jumped out to start companies. Have you ever come out to work? Ideas, Zerone welcomes outstanding talents like you very much. As long as you join in, you can get shares in the company and you can develop together.”

A hint of excitement flashed across Simeone’s face, but he was still a little hesitant, “Thank you very much for your invitation. Can you let me think about it.”

“Of course it can.” Tang Huan smiled heartily, “In this way, you and I will go to Zerone to see it on the spot. I can guarantee that the company can provide you with more room for growth than PARC.”

digging into the wall to grab talents, what is important is to have quick hands and slow hands. Tang Huan enthusiastically invited Simeone into his car.

in history. Throughout the 1980s after joining Microsoft, Simeone’s experience was somewhat similar to some tragedies in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Under his auspices, Multiplan was successfully launched in 1982, but it was overwhelmed by Lotus1-2-3. In 1985, Word was successfully launched and was finally beaten by WordPerfect.

On the surface, Gates looks gentle and polite, but within the company he has the title of iron-blooded and cold-hearted tyrant. The product has lost a streak in the market. He is going to roar loudly, but under this tremendous pressure, Simeone did it at Microsoft. For more than 20 years, he can be described as a good bull who works hard and has no complaints. With these advantages, how can Tang Huan not be moved.

In fact, Simeone’s spreadsheet software and word processing software are very good. The reason why the market performance is not satisfactory is mainly because the market competition was too fierce and complicated at the time, and there was IBM’s fingertips.

Take Multiplan as an example. Because of the weird market considerations, IBM requires the design target to be a computer with 64K memory. As a result, the performance is bound to be limited. Lotus 1-2-3 is designed for 256K memory, and Simeone is the first. After seeing this competitor’s product for the first time, I immediately realized the bad dish.

It can also be seen that the Blue Giant has been making fainting tricks in the personal computer market. It was only then that he made a wedding dress for Microsoft step by step. It was robbed of customers by other compatible computers and got it in the early 1990s. The loss was serious and the business was almost split.

Simeone’s record of defeat in the 1980s can only be said to be a non-war, and besides having a good set of programming skills, this person is also very talented in software management.

If you think about the tens of millions of lines of code in Windows and Office in the previous life, you can know how many programmers are working collaboratively, and this set of successful management system is mainly derived from the design of Simeone.

Now that there are more and more technical personnel in Zerone, they are also beginning to face the problem of how to divide labor and collaborate with the highest efficiency. If Simone is included in the team, Tang Huanke will be much easier.

Compared with the time when it was first established, Zerone’s office area has been expanded several times, and with energetic employees, it looks like it is actively expanding. .

After entering the company, every time he walked through an office area, Tang Huan would first solemnly introduce, “This is Charles Simeone.” Then he explained the projects in this area.

Having received such respect, Simeone’s face was unabashedly touched.

Taking advantage of the information asymmetry of the rebirth, Tang Huan can always find the fragile heart of the other person when he draws in historical celebrities after archeological demonstrations.

Coming to the United States from Hungary, which has a completely different ideology, Simeone did not know what difficult process he went through. His father was affected by it. The United States is not a paradise for casual charity. At Berkeley, Simeone also encountered many problems encountered by immigrant students. As a foreign student, he could not get scholarships, and he could not get a job easily if he had the certificate of computer programming ability. It’s so sad, it’s no wonder that I was moved by Tang Huan’s heart attack.

Simeone followed Tang Huan to visit the three major project teams, CGrid, WordEasy and MA, and he was immediately impressed by Zerone’s technical strength.

“Here is a secret project that the company is developing, a relational database that can run on a microcomputer. I have initially completed an execution engine that can execute some SQL statements. Let’s see how it works.”

Seeing the results demonstrated by Tang Huan personally, Simeone was completely stunned. The relational model and the database designed according to this theory are still an extremely large field, and IT giants like IBM are capable of researching. I thought of seeing the actual development results here.

When following Tang Huan through a large office isolated from the previous area, Simeone saw Tang Huan obviously hesitating for a while, but finally opened the door and walked in, “The project here is the company’s top secret, I plan to In the field of game consoles or cheap microcomputers, a practical product is launched. This is the project leader, Dr. Jian Mingren.”

Simone faintly shook hands with the Chinese engineer in front of him. After he walked out of the office, he finally made a decision, put aside his restraint, and said: “Mr. Tang, I am impressed by your ambition and the company’s prospects, I Willing to join your team. UUwww.uukanshu.com”

Tang Huan laughed, patted Simeone’s shoulder and said, “Then you can report to the company as soon as possible. You are responsible for the two major project teams of CGrid and WordEasy. This is your old line of business.”

Simeone didn’t understand the meaning of “his old business”, but saw that the boss was so happy after getting his affirmative answer, he was not embarrassed to ask the bottom line.

Although the development of personal computers is still in the dawning stage, after decades of upgrading, the entire computer industry has created a large number of outstanding people, but these successful old guys, Tang Huan is not qualified to win, so like Potential stocks like Simeone are rare treasures, not to mention that this person has worked at Microsoft for 20 years in his previous life. Such loyalty is even more commendable.

“Go, go to my office and have a good chat.”

Tang Huan led Simeone to his office, delivered coffee by himself, and then began to instill his own technical ideas and brainwash him.

While talking and talking, Wang Xuehong walked in and reported, “Microsoft’s Bill Gates called and wanted to make an appointment to visit you.”

“What?” Tang Huan’s expression changed when he heard the news.

Just as soon as he dug Gates’s corner in advance, he came to the door?

But Tang Huan immediately woke up. At this time, Gates didn’t know Simeone yet, so he worried too much.

“Then arrange it until tomorrow. By the way, you urge the engineers to pay attention to confidentiality. This guy Gates is very sinister. The purpose of coming to us is to learn technology stealthily. He must not be cheap.”