Microsoft's headquarters is located in a town called Re in Seattle. It covers a very large area. There are dozens of office buildings, most of which are relatively low, with only three or four floors. It is sparsely hidden among the trees. There is no towering building or a mighty and domineering gate. It is not like a famous commercial giant, but more like a large residential community. It amazes Qin Mu, Chen Dawei and others. It feels that the gap between it and the imagined scene is too big, and its three views have been subverted.

"Why should our software park be built like this?"

"Qintou, do you think we will meet Mr. Gates on the road?"

"Hey, these drinks are all free!"

Du Qiu looked at the Microsoft headquarters before traveling through time, so he was not surprised, but he was also very excited, but he was different from Qin Mu and others. It was not the kind of fanaticism that fans finally arrived at the holy land, but because this is a good place to learn skills and level up with monsters!

In 2o16, Du Qiu was just a relatively good programmer and was far from being a great man. If you use martial arts characters to make analogies, at the beginning of time travel, he was equivalent to reading the "Nine Yin Scriptures", but Guo Jing, who had not yet mastered his internal skills, had a great experience in the world, but his actual combat was average, and his experience was not rich enough. He could only be considered a second-rate expert in the world. If he did not consider the gaps in the times, he was actually similar to Xu Yongrui. He was both of his wide interests and ability, and he was not as clever and agile as Xiao Wu, and he was not as solid and meticulous as he did.

Because of this, when Du Qiu was fiddling with the IVE browser in February, he copied the javt language from his laptop and didn't even make any changes. In fact, due to historical problems, some javt designs were not satisfactory and could be improved from scratch. However, he was not in a good mood at that time and was afraid that it would be broken, so he brought out all the good and bad.

However, the situation has changed a lot now, just like Jiang Danfeng's ability and mentality have improved a lot after some training, Du Qiu is the same, and he is even better.

With the blessing of the buff golden finger, Du Qiu's physical strength recovered very quickly. Ordinary people can only perform three or four hours of high-intensity mental activities a day. He can perform seven or eight hours. He can cooperate with his vision and thinking for more than 20 years, knowing how to remove the drought and preserve the essence, knowing which technologies are worth studying and which technologies are not worth studying, so his learning efficiency is extremely high. Just like Duan Yu, who learned the Beiming Divine Arts, he learned what he learned and what he learned. During the month he stayed in the institute's warehouse, he studied with He Lixing, Xiao Wu and others every day. His ability increased in a visible way, which was much higher than when he had just traveled.

Although He Lixing and Xiao Wu are of good quality, after all, there are only two people. They are first-class talents in China, but not internationally. Microsoft is different. It can be described as a full range of talents, hidden dragons, and there are countless big bulls in it. As long as you catch a few, you will not have to worry about not being able to learn skills...

When the cooperation is over, even if it cannot be transformed, it will at least make rapid progress. From the "fake and shoddy bull" who bully fresh graduates, the "real bull" who is truly a "big bull" who is not false...

Sunday, June 25, at 3 p.m., Lake Washington.

Seattle is the largest city in the Northwest Pacific region of the United States, backed by mountains and seas. 41.16% of the area in the jurisdiction is water and there are many lakes. Lake Washington is the largest one, with an area of ​​nearly 90 square kilometers and beautiful scenery. It is a famous tourist destination. In addition to many luxurious villas with unique shapes, the lakeside also has many private yacht marinas and even seaplanes.

Du Qiu wore a swimming cap and swam in the lake in a freestyle posture for about an hour. Then he climbed the shore from a floating bridge, took off his swimming cap, and walked towards a nearby cafe. He was wearing only a pair of swimming trunks, and was full of body, with no trace of fat, which attracted the attention of many people. Two golden girls who passed by were even enthusiastically throwing a kiss to him.

Zhao Hongfei, who was resting under the parasol, picked up the towel and shirt on the back of the chair, stepped forward and handed it to Du Qiu, and said, "Mr. Du, you are in good health. You can swim for so long, Dawei and I can't swim for more than ten minutes."

"Just practice more." Du Qiu took the towel and saw that the other two lounge chairs were empty under the parasol, so he asked, "Where are Xu Yongrui and Mr. Eller?"

"Mr. Eller went to buy beer." Zhao Hongfei pointed to a small boat not far from the lake and said with some envy: "Xu Tou and Blanche went boating together."

This guy can even hook up with half-old American women...

It's really a personal hormone diffuser...

In order to deal with Microsoft, Du Qiu treated her to a guest, told stories, bewitched Du Jiabin, and created momentum in the newspaper. She tried her best and tried her best to finally reach a cooperation agreement. However, after arriving in the United States, after more than ten days of observation, she was frightened by Microsoft's reputation and the future achievements of 95 and IE. She was a little overreacted. In fact, Microsoft's internal management is very complicated. There are dozens of projects operating at the same time, and the browser cannot be ranked at all, which is not the focus of Microsoft's attention. Bill Gates even said this in an interview a few days ago: The browser is just a fly-like mini program.

In other words, even if it didn't take any thoughts, Microsoft would most likely agree to the cooperation. Brad Silverberg rushed to China to find Du Qiu at that time, not because he attached great importance to the browser, but because he needed this thing in urgent need. It was like a player installed a game masterpiece, but now he was missing a file and couldn't run it. Naturally, he was extremely anxious. He searched all over the world and begged for this file. When he found it, he would immediately leave it behind and not take it to heart.

So when Du Qiu and others arrived in Seattle, Microsoft only sent 10 employees to form a research team with them. Among these 10 people, 6 were guys who had been studying the spyg1ass browser before, the other 3 were thorns that other departments didn't want, and the other was a project manager, who was a company veteran who failed in power struggles.

This veteran was named Marin Eller. He joined Microsoft as early as 1982. He was once one of the main developers. He had strong abilities but had a bad temper. So he was still a middle-level manager for more than ten years. His most famous story was that when he first joined Microsoft, he now had defects in the private language compiler, so he wrote an improved version and showed it to Bill Gates. He said in public that the guy who wrote the compiler in the past was a bullshit idiot, and made Bill Gates dirty because the compiler was written by Gates himself...

Marin Eller has a bad temper and a stubborn personality, but his abilities and vision are first-class. He is a world-class big shot. He started to study browsers and script languages ​​as early as 1992. As a result, the department was disbanded not long after. He was sent to study handwriting input systems. After completion, he went to study smart homes and wanted to create a home network system that can remotely control computers, TVs, refrigerators and other appliances. However, the department was disbanded soon. So he turned to research video compression technology and planned to make a video playback software.

A few months ago, Marin Eller proposed to Bill Gates to develop a media card that can play compressed videos after being installed on the computer, so that TV shows can be watched while the Internet is slow. Bill Gates is very interested in this, but he handed over the project to another vice president. The vice president relied on his connections and hired a friend from outside to be a supervisor. The supervisor thought that Marin Eller was too old and threatened his position, so he kicked him away and assigned him to the browser research team.

Du Qiu came to Microsoft to learn skills, so he kept his figure low and communicated with Microsoft employees with a frank, serious and open attitude. As long as it was reasonable, he tried to meet the requirements. Marin Eller had a stubborn temper, but was not an unreasonable person. With IVE as the foundation, the browser's opening work progressed smoothly. Therefore, the atmosphere of the entire research team was very harmonious and they got along happily. After more than ten days, they quickly got familiar with each other. So he took advantage of this weekend to invite a few familiar team members to play in Lake Washington and have a rest.

After wiping the water droplets on his body with a towel, Du Qiu put on a light blue shirt, sat down on the lounge chair, picked up the cold drink on the coffee table and was about to drink it. Chen Dawei ran over under another parasol, took his cell phone and said, "Brother Qiu, my third brother is looking for you."

After Du Qiu arrived in the United States, he bought a straight Ericsson phone. The shape was very old-fashioned. He took the phone and fed it. He heard Chen Dayou say, "Du Qiu, the negotiation is completed, $10,000, plus a one-year free promotion agreement, and get 20% of the shares."

“2o% is a little less.”

"There's no way, we're a little late. They got a $10,000 investment from Sequoia Capital in April, which became famous in Silicon Valley and had a much higher valuation." Chen Dayou's voice sounded a little tired and said, "Yahoo is now worth $70,000. If we hadn't had the ivie browser to help them promote, we wouldn't have gotten 20% of the shares."

That's right, the two are talking about Snapdragon investing in Yahoo for $10,000!

Although Jerry Yang and David Ferro founded Yahoo as early as 1994, they actually founded the company in April 1995, a month later than Snapdragon. However, Du Qiu had only a total of hundreds of thousands of yuan in his hands and had no ability to invest. It was not until after signing a cooperation agreement with Microsoft that he received the prepaid 10,000 US dollars, that he had the capital to invest.

Yahoo's momentum is very strong. When Sequoia Capital invested in April, its valuation was only 40,000 US dollars. Now, two months have passed, and its valuation has risen to 70,000 US dollars. By the end of the year, when Masayoshi Son comes to invest, its valuation will rise to 40,000 US dollars. When it goes public in March next year, its market value will reach 850,000 US dollars, and by 20,000 US dollars.

10,000 US dollars, it will become 170 million US dollars in one year, and 5 years will become 2.5 billion US dollars in five years...

Lying in the biggest bubble in the history of human finance, it is hard not to fly... (To be continued.)8
Chapter completed!