Chapter 262: The Legacy of Wang An Computer

When Wu Haijun visited the United States in 1996, he noticed this company. After all, the third largest player software sign of Microsoft and Apple is still very attractive. However, although the company's founder Robert Grassle is a technical maniac, his business philosophy is too stubborn and out of reality. At that time, Yang Xing and his other fame were far from impressed. However, the two parties reached a cooperation agreement. The superstar computers launched by Nebula Electronics were pre-installed with real player players. Xingdong.com's video on-demand and download also uses authorized real player player technology. At this time, the country also used the slow Internet speed of dial-up Internet access, which was of great practical application value.

Grassle, chairman and president of Real Networks, has a unique vision, but his mind is stubborn. He believes that any real player player that uses must be authorized by the company. This also led to the gradual decline of real player player later. A large number of free playback software with more advanced technology and stronger compatibility appeared one after another, such as the domestic Super Strike and Storm Video, which finally replaced the real player player. In addition to the rise of online video websites later, Real Networks gradually became an insignificant small company. However, it is lucky than Netjing, and it has never collapsed or been acquired. Moreover, the RM and RMVB format videos it developed are still popular in China. The mobile video player that emerged many years later took the ability to play videos in this format as a selling point, which is also considered a Chinese feature.

This time, Yang Xing wanted to take advantage of Microsoft's player to hit the real player, causing the stock price of Real Networks to plummet. When the company's board of directors complained about Grassle, it grabbed the Real Networks board of directors to kick Grassle away and sold the company to Xingdong Network. The negotiations had been going on in secret before, but now it can finally blatantly launch an offensive against Real Networks. The news that Wu Haijun, who was in charge of the negotiations, brought to Yang Xing was very exciting. It seems that Grassle's departure is a foregone conclusion.

There are many similar companies listed on this list, but it seems that the efforts of the United States in recent years have not been in vain and their work is very efficient. Yang Xing smiled and said to Wu Haijun, "Thank you for your hard work. I have worked hard for so long. Now it's time to get a harvest. Since Microsoft's window system has shaking and earth, we will follow them to pick up wheat. I promise you that your hard sweat will not be in vain. As long as the plan here is clear, no matter what success or failure, the beauty of BMW and villas in the villa will definitely be given to you!" Many foreign employees in the United States cheered and applauded, only the female assistant behind Yang Xing's face turned slightly red, thinking that this guy was talking nonsense again.

Of course, Yang Xing is not a joke. His career has now expanded overseas. It is essential for the recruitment of local employees, cultivating their loyalty to the company, generous rewards and a bright future. In addition, he came to the United States this time with the idea of ​​integrating Zhongxing International's business in the United States. The layout of the United States has been basically completed. If several well-known American companies are acquired this time, it will be impossible for Zhongxing International to hide its strength and maintain a low profile. It is better to stand up in a high-profile manner to establish Zhongxing International's international image, then the integration of branches in various overseas countries is indispensable.

The staff here in the United States are excited about being able to officially join Zhongxing International. After all, many of them know that the year-end dividends and option rewards of group employees are recognized as very generous in the industry. Now that the boss has spoken, he must have completed the work well and won’t miss the promise he received. At this time, Wu Haijun came to him and introduced him to a Chinese-American, saying, “This is the John King I talked to you, and the general manager of our Nebula Electronics American Branch in the future. He is now an honorary professor at Stanford University. Has he served as the human resources director of Wang An Computer, and the current Cisco President John Chambers and he was also a colleague!”

Yang Xing had known that this Chinese background was named Wang Pengxiang and his English name John, but he was somewhat interested in this former member of the Wang An family. As the two most successful Chinese entrepreneurs in the IT industry overseas, Wang An, the founder of Wang An Computer in the United States and Huang Renxun, the founder of nVIDIA graphics card manufacturer, are idols in the minds of many overseas Chinese. In this high-tech kingdom of the United States, Wang An Computer once ranked among the top 500 American companies, and Wang An himself became the top of the glory of one of the five richest Americans. At the peak of the company in 1986, it sold 3 billion US dollars, second only to IBM among American computer companies. However, just like IBM, Wang An Computer was in the tide of informationization, and the company was in a hurry and died. In 1992, Wang An Computer slipped into the abyss and declared bankruptcy. A generation of computer kings also passed away in 1990, leaving regrets all over the world.

When Wang An Computer was at its peak, he had 35,000 employees. Many famous managers who later emerged in the IT industry worked for Wang An Computer. The most famous of them was undoubtedly Chambers, the current president of Cisco. Cisco is now ranked third in the U.S. IT industry, and Chambers made an indelible contribution. Wu Haijun was able to win over John King, who is as famous as Chambers, to join him. Seeing him, Yang Xing couldn't help but Lenovo. Wang An Computer went bankrupt in 1992, and the subsequent bankruptcy procedures were overdue until 1994.

Now the Wang family still retains a considerable company's technical heritage. Not to mention the patents they hold, even the large number of employee information that have worked for them is also rare in Yang Xing's eyes. After all, not every employee of Wang'an Computer has Chambers' luck. It is estimated that many people are still busy with three meals a day. If they take over Wang'an Computer's technology and personnel and integrate them into Zhongxing International's North American office, Zhongxing International can undoubtedly take root in the United States faster.

With this idea, he talked with John King very speculatively, and when he talked with John King about his experience of teaching at Stanford University, he accidentally gave him a more important information. Because John King himself was born in the IT industry, Stanford University in the United States is an internationally recognized holy place for studying Internet technology. He is responsible for evaluating the Internet technology developed by many students at Stanford University. Now he has a search quotation called Back Rub.

He was conducting an investigation on the project. Everyone was familiar with Internet technology, so he told everyone casually. Yang Xing felt very familiar with it and had a premonition in his heart that the project was very promising, so he asked him who was developing the project. John King thought for a while and replied: "It should be doctoral students Larry Page, Sergei Brin and Scott Hansen." After Yang Xing finished listening, the California Widdie Wine Garden wine in the wineglass in his hand almost poured out, and it took him a long time to stabilize his trembling hands.

He didn't care about the strange eyes of others and almost shouted: "You immediately send someone to find Larry Page, and said that someone was willing to invest $10 million to complete this search engine plan for him, but the investors only value him, and other Sergey Brins must stand aside!" Everyone was surprised by his disobedience, but his subordinates knew that he would do strange actions intermittently, which often means that he had a sudden idea and had good ideas. However, every time he seemed to be whimsical, he always gained rich benefits in the end, so everyone was familiar with it, and he was still looking forward to what good ideas he would bring to them this time.

Only John King has not fully accepted the strange behavior of the new boss, and is a little confused. "They are studying the popular full-text search engine now, which is indeed very advanced, but now they are only worried about a few thousand yuan of startup funds. Will investing 10 million US dollars in a row scare Page? Will kick Bollinger be bad?" Yang Xing touched his forehead and smiled: "This is not hasty. My StarDong Network is about to develop a suitable search engine. We have inspected several companies and they think it is not good. Now that we have the opportunity to develop a search engine by ourselves, it is the best. If Page can do it, you can join our company. At that time, I hope our own search engine will defeat Yahoo and grab its customers!"

John King was skeptical about this, but Yang Xing was a big boss, and he didn't care about money. He was still happy to find such a generous investor for his student project. It seems that this boss has a keen eye for heroes. I guess his job is easier to do. But he didn't know that Yang Xing turned his back and hugged his stomach, for fear of laughter. He thought that this time, he could kill the most influential Internet giant in the future, "Google", which is the biggest gain of this trip! Only Yang Xing understands now that the search engine called Back Rub will register online under the name "Google" in a few months. In order to enter the Chinese market many years later, the company gave a poetic Chinese name "Google"!

At that time, the various websites that appeared on the Internet had reached an astronomical figure. How to find the answers you need in this vast online world is a simple, fast and accurate search engine to help. In 1990, teachers and students of McGill University in Canada developed the prototype Archie, which was very rough, but was already determined to be the most of the forms of search engines.

In 1994, two Chinese Americans from Stanford University, Jerry Yang and David Filo, co-founded Yahoo!.com. This web page can support simple database search, which is a type of directory search in search engines. It is this simple search engine that established that Yahoo.com became the representative of the Internet in the early 1990s and became the same Internet access company, American Online (AOL), an Internet giant that was as famous as this time.
Chapter completed!