The establishment of Snapdragon Software Company was very hasty. When Du Qiu and Chen Dayou left Beijing, none of the six employees completed the resignation procedures, so they did not find a formal office building to rent an office. Instead, through Zhou Yuan's relationship, they rented an idle commercial housing near the Asian Games Village at a friendly price, as a temporary office location.

The house is about 110 square meters, with four bedrooms and one living room. After simple decoration, a cleaning lady comes to clean it every day. Although the environment is a bit simple, it is quite tidy and has all the living facilities. All six employees are technical homes. As long as the computer and network equipment are fine, the rest are not caring, so they stayed in it for two months and had no complaints.

On the morning of April 26, not long after 7 o'clock, Xiao Wu arrived at the office. Seeing that everyone else had not arrived yet, he used an electric kettle to make a cup of instant coffee for himself, then turned on the computer, and while gnawing on the bread he bought on the way he came, he checked his achievements over the past month: a database software that had not been completed.

Xiao Wu's name is Wu Xia, which has a very good homophonic meaning, but the literal meaning is not good. In addition, there are a few small freckles on her face, so she hates this name very much. When dating people, she calls herself Xiao Wu, and over time it becomes a habit.

Among the six employees of Snapdragon Software Company, Xiao Wu is the youngest. He graduated from Beijing University in 1991. After graduation, he went to work in a state-owned bank. He happened to catch up with the trend of major domestic banks building data centers in the 1990s. After three years of experience, he has rich experience in databases and has a lot of experience.

Like Zhou Yuan, Xiao Wu was optimistic about Du Qiu's potential and changed jobs because although the bank's salary was not high, the benefits and bonus were very generous. A monthly salary of over 10,000 yuan could not impress her. Chen Dayou's favors could not impress her, because she was two separate from this fat man and was just a general friend. What impressed her was Du Qiu's ability and vision.

Xiao Wu is from Pengcheng, which is the most active special zone in China's economy. Her parents work in the banking system. Under the influence of the eyes, they are exposed to various financial and investment concepts. After joining the work, they often communicate with technicians from American IT companies such as IBM or Oracle. From them, they heard many Silicon Valley entrepreneurial legends, and were fascinated and envious. Therefore, when Chen Dayou showed off everywhere with the iView browser, she saw the business opportunities at a glance, so she took the initiative to go to the hotel to have an interview with Du Qiu. Then, without even notifying her parents, she resolutely resigned and changed jobs.

Before going to the United States on March 24, Du Qiu assigned a task to each employee. The task content was very empty, just one sentence: write a software you want to write, and you can do anything.

After completing the resignation procedures, Xiao Wu immediately decided to write a lightweight database software. She used Oracle when she worked in the bank. Oracle has powerful performance and rich functions, but it is too bloated and expensive, and is not suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises.

Unlike the other people in the company, Xiao Wu did not only come into contact with the Internet in 1994. As early as 1992, she started to come into contact with the Internet when she was sent to the United States for training. The rapid development of the Internet in recent years shocked her. At the same time, she also keenly discovered business opportunities, because giants such as IBM and Oracle have focused on large enterprises and ignored the existence of small and medium-sized enterprises. Small and medium-sized enterprises are the main force on the Internet. If a lightweight database that is easy to create, there will be endless business opportunities.

Before starting, Xiao Wu used an email to consult Du Qiu, who was far away in the United States. Du Qiu admired her vision and ideas very much, and sent a very long email back, providing many novel and practical suggestions and ideas, which opened her eyes and admired her.

Today is the day when Du Qiu came to work in the company for the first time and also the day to accept everyone's works. Therefore, Xiao Wu came to the office early to check his work results. However, the more he checked, the more he became more anxious. Before yesterday, she always felt that her work in the past two months was very effective. Both the programming efficiency and the code quality were much higher than when she worked in the bank before. However, when she checked again, she felt a little guilty and short-sighed, feeling that she was inefficient. She only completed less than one-third of the content in two months, and the writing was messy and terrible.

Just as Xiao Wu was complaining, the security door outside opened. Qin Mu, Zhou Yuan and Li Jianhua walked in together. When he saw her, he said hello and said, "Xiao Wu, it's so early today. Didn't you come to work by stepping on the spot?"

"The boss wants to check it out. Do you dare not come early?"

Xiao Wu is the youngest employee, Li Jianhua is the oldest employee and the only person who is moved by his salary. He is one year older than Qin Mu and also works in Founder Group. Because he can't speak and has a stubborn temper, he is not favored by his leaders. After taking the blame a few times, he was thrown into a idle department and was so stuffy that he was so upset. Therefore, when he heard that he had a job with a monthly salary of tens of thousands, he immediately ran over with Qin Mu.

Li Jianhua's ability is actually not very good, but he is studying something that Du Qiu attaches great importance to, so he made a decision to sign the contract on the spot after the interview - he is writing a smart pinyin input method.

In 1995, there were not many people or companies in China who valued the pinyin input method, and most of them were studying Wubi or other input methods because the efficiency of pinyin typing was too low. However, as a time travel party, Du Qiu knew very well that the pinyin input method was the future development trend. First, because the threshold was low, there was no need to memorize the roots, and as long as you understand the pinyin, you would use it, which was very friendly to ordinary users; second, because with the improvement of computer hardware and the popularization of the Internet, the vocabulary library increased a lot, and the pinyin began to become intelligent and the efficiency was greatly improved. The combination of the two quickly stood out and became the mainstream.

Input method is a must-have software in every Chinese computer and is a place where military strategists are fighting for. In 2016, not only almost all domestic IT giants were involved, but even foreign giants such as Microsoft and Google did not miss this field, because this thing is too important. You can use it to pop up the box to make money by sending advertisements, and you can use it to collect user information and usage habits. It can be called a sword without a sharp edge.

Du Qiu has input methods in his laptop and smartphone. It can be said that he is using it every day, but he has never paid attention to this technology. Therefore, he met a talent who knows how to write input methods, so he would not let it go, so he recruited Li Jianhua.

When Li Jianhua was working at Founder Group, he had already written a prototype of the input method. After Du Qiu went to the United States, he downloaded it on his computer to try it out. Although he did not understand the technology of the input method, he had a lot of experience in using it. He sent some emails on how to improve it from time to time. Therefore, Li Jianhua made rapid progress and knew that Du Qiu was satisfied with his work and relaxed. He poured a cup of tea and sat slowly in front of the computer. While surfing the Internet, he chatted with Zhou Yuan, who was not under task pressure.

Qin Muze, like Xiao Wu, was a little uneasy. He used to work in the research and development department of Founder Book Edition. Founder Book Edition is a book layout system for publishing houses. It has dominated the domestic publishing industry since the 1980s. It has rich functions, but it is not suitable for ordinary users. Therefore, after he heard that Xiao Wu wanted to write a lightweight database software, he also became interested and decided to simplify the professional Founder Book Edition and write a word processing software for ordinary commercial users.

After hearing this, Du Qiu also wrote a very long email like Xiao Wu, and gave a lot of opinions and suggestions. One of the most important ones is that it is necessary to realize the "what you see is what you get" type-making function.

In 1995, mainstream word processing software in China, such as Founder Book Edition and WPS, also used control character typesetting. For example, to change the font, font size, line spacing, character spacing, etc., various control characters need to be inserted in front of the text. However, no matter what control characters are inserted, the effect will not be displayed on the screen. If you want to see what it actually looks like, you have to use a print preview, which is very troublesome.

"What you see is what you get" refers to what you see on the computer screen and what you print it out. This concept was proposed by Xerox as early as the 1970s, but it was not until the early 1990s that it was truly realized and became popular abroad. Founder Group also had attempts in this area, but it was not successful. Qin Mu struggled for two months and only achieved some effects, with many bugs, so he was quite worried.

After more than ten minutes, the last two employees also came. These two graduated from Qingcheng University, one was named Xu Yongrui and the other was named He Lixing. Their personalities and behavior were clearly different from those of Qin Mu and others, with a huge contrast.

Xu Yongrui used to work in a foreign company. In 1994, he resigned and became a freelancer. He did what he had and played without what he had. He lived a very casual life. In two months, he tinkered with a lot of things, including picture viewing software, reading software, card games, chess games, and even gadgets like calculators and electronic alarm clocks. None of them were original, but they improved the original things a lot.

He Lixing used to work in a research institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His temperament was the opposite of Xu Rui. In the past two months, he only did one thing, which was to write a driver for a graphics card in C language. This kind of work was very boring, but he enjoyed it and did it with relish.
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