Chapter 12

Although Henry came to negotiate in the name of Nicholas bookstore, in fact, it was Henry who paid instead of Nicholas bookstore. Although the two companies are the same boss, it is necessary to set up a separate company in order to have clear property rights and avoid confusion. When the Nicholas group is set up in the future and Pixar is under the group, there will be no problem.

After the successful acquisition of Pixar, the first thing is to move. Henry in order to take care of Pixar's employees, the company's headquarters did not move quickly, is still in Emory Ville, California. After they settled down, Henry transferred the money to Lucas' account and told them to do well. Henry didn't limit or ask them to do anything, but let them give full play to their intelligence and do whatever they want!

A bound Pixar or Pixar?

Anyone who has seen Pixar's office will be surprised that it is not an office at all, but a leisure center. Toys, game machines, fish farming and other wonderful things! There's no difference between big and small in the company. It's equal. When we talk about it at ordinary times, even if the sweeping mother suddenly gets inspiration, she can insert a few words and win the applause!

We work together, play a wild imagination, and finally every animation is a classic!!!

Although Henry is very confident about Pixar, the water in Hollywood is very deep. Henry doesn't want Pixar to drown after he goes in.

In the past, Pixar Animation Studio was very difficult at the beginning. At that time, although jobs was driven out of apple, his dream of computer was never broken in his heart. He invested most of his money in his new computer company. As a result, Pixar Animation Studio didn't have the money for technology research and development, and didn't have the money to make the animation films that he wanted to make. In the end, in order to survive, he had to take a lot of small orders and wasted a long time. If not for Pixar's holding Disney's thigh later, I'm afraid he would have been killed by jobs!

Since it has been involved in the film and television, it is necessary to be more ruthless and deeper!

Henry then went to Nicholas bookstore to discuss with CEO Geely Hutt and the company's chief technology officer Tom Wilson. Tom Wilson, 30 or 40 years old, graduated from Stanford University and worked as a senior software engineer in IBM. He was recruited by Henry as a high-tech engineer. When the three came to the meeting room, Henry said what he thought.

"I hope you can make a website about movies, which is called Internet Movie Database, or IMBD for short. All the ideas about setting up a website are in this document. Take a good look at them, and then consider whether they are executable! " Henry said while giving them the printed documents to browse.

MDB design is very detailed, the information includes the film's many information, actors, length, content introduction, rating, comments, and fans can rate the film! And we must make this scoring system the most popular and reliable scoring system of the public!

Geely Hutt and Tom Wilson read it very carefully. After reading it, they had to admire Henry.

"Chairman, the design of this website is perfect, I think it is very feasible!" Tom Wilson said positively.

"I think once this website comes out, we will have a certain say in Hollywood! Chairman, your creativity is really wonderful Geely Hutt, as CEO, naturally thinks more deeply. He knows that Henry has acquired a computer animation department and named it Pixar Animation Studio. Obviously, his goal is to enter Hollywood!

"That's good. You can make a website according to my design as soon as possible!" Henry ordered, then paused and said to them, "well, this website will be under the banner of Nicholas bookstore in the future!"

"Yes!" Jilly and Tom are very happy to hear that the IMBD website is going to be put up under the banner of Nicholas bookstore. This will greatly expand the influence of Nicholas bookstore!

Henry left Nicholas bookstore and went to Cisco.

In 1990, the first web server appeared in the world. Now the concept of server is not clear. In Henry's opinion, it is too low-end to use an ordinary computer as a server. It's inefficient, not to mention that it's often in trouble. With the development of the network, a large number of traffic impact, a good server is particularly important!

Now the rise of the network not long, people have not yet realized the importance of the server!

Henry plans to set up a new company by himself from Cisco and Nicholas bookstore. The server needs not only hardware, but also software. This is the best cooperation between the two countries. Nicholas bookstore, which is wholly owned by Henry, can be decided in a word, while Cisco and Henry still need to discuss with the big and small shareholders of Cisco.

Autocracy is not a good leader!

Because Henry is learning how to be a great leader

Before he came to Cisco, Henry called Ford Brooke and told him to come to the company to discuss the matter. Ford Brooke has a seat on Cisco's board as Sequoia Capital representative. Therefore, he should be informed of such an important matter as the joint establishment of a new company. When Henry came to Cisco, posack was doing research in the laboratory, and Henry sent for him to come to the conference room.

Soon after, the bossacks and Ford Brooke came to the conference room. They had doubts on their faces, wondering why Henry had asked them to have a meeting.

After everyone sat down, Henry said, "today we are going to talk about the important development of Cisco in the future. As we all know, with the rise of the Internet, online service has gradually become a trend. Nowadays, Nicholas bookstore is a typical representative! But at the same time, this kind of online service website will face a huge problem now, that is, the website system often breaks down!!! There are two main reasons for the crash: one is the increase in the number of users, and the other is the problem of the system itself. Because the system can not bear such a large amount of traffic, resulting in system crash. But there are two main factors affecting the system itself, one is hardware, the other is software. Therefore, how to make a stable system, so as to ensure that the site will not collapse, in the current point of view, it is particularly important

Henry stopped to let them digest, and then said, "first of all, I'm going to put forward a new concept here. This new concept is called" server ". In short, it refers to a special computer that provides some kind of service! Its structure includes processor, hard disk, memory, system bus and so on, which is similar to the general computer architecture. However, the requirements of processing power, stability, reliability, security, scalability and manageability are much higher than ordinary computers. According to the types of services provided, they are divided into web server, database server, application server and so on. This will be a huge project! "

As soon as Henry finished speaking, several people present were shocked.

Ford Brooke's eyes were shining, and he looked very "* *" and quickly said: "Henry, we Sequoia Capital must join in this matter!"

Henry ignored him and said with a smile, "because this project needs software and hardware support, I want to set up a new company by Nicholas bookstore and Cisco to develop servers."

"That's a good thing. Of course we support it!" Posak nodded in agreement, and Lerner agreed.

Ford Brooke naturally agreed, but he also wanted to invest in the new company. But Henry temporarily rejected his request, saying: "if necessary, I will agree to Sequoia Capital's financing plan!"

Ford Brooke got a little comfort from this reply. He also knew that Henry could not let Sequoia Capital come in and take advantage of the company when it was newly established, but fortunately, everyone had a good relationship. Henry gave a guarantee and promised to let Sequoia Capital Finance in the future.

Then, people began to discuss how to set up the new company. Nicholas bookstore and Cisco both pay for half of the shares, but considering that this project is proposed by Henry, as an advocate, Henry gets an additional 1% of the shares, so Cisco and Nicholas Bookstore each take 49.5% of the shares! Although Nicholas bookstore is completely controlled by Henry, there should be a clear distinction between individuals and companies. 1% belongs to Henry, and 49.5% belongs to Nicholas bookstore.

After the meeting, Ford Brooke quietly approached Henry and pulled him aside with a smile.

Henry was stunned and asked, "what's the matter with you, Ford? What can I do for you?"

"Ha ha..." Ford Brooke laughs, looks like peddling some small movie discs on the street, and whispers, "well, do you want to invest in Nicholas bookstore?"

Henry gave him a white look and said, "what's the matter? You Sequoia Capital took advantage of Cisco and targeted my Nicholas Bookstore again? "

"Ha ha, I can't say that. How to call taking advantage? That's mutual benefit! " Ford Brooke said with a smile, "as for that we are aiming at Nicholas Bookstore again, there is no way. Who said that you are such a genius, especially your Netscape browser, which is so creative! Graphics browser, at a glance, simple, practical and convenient, now we are using it!!! We Sequoia Capital analysts unanimously believe that the Netscape browser will become a gateway to the Internet world in the future, which has great development potential! "

Paralyzed, it turned out that I took a fancy to Netscape browser. I thought I took a fancy to the e-commerce website of Nicholas bookstore! Alas, can browser and Internet compare with Alibaba? It's terrible to be ignorant! Henry had a deep contempt for

"So you want to invest in Netscape?" Henry asked carelessly.

"Yes, yes!" Ford Brooke saw that Henry's attitude seemed to be loose, so he immediately nodded.

Henry also pinched up, considering whether or not Sequoia Capital Shares. It seems to be a bit weak to hold shares by oneself alone. Obviously, we need several suitable strategic partners in the future, and Sequoia Capital can be regarded as one of them.

"Nicholas bookstore will split Netscape into a subsidiary." Henry thought about it and said.

Ford Brooke's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"But there is one condition." Henry's next sentence made Ford Brooke nervous.

"What conditions do you say?" Ford Brooke asked cautiously. He has seen the power of Henry. He is definitely a shrewd man who doesn't play according to the routine!!!

Sure enough, Henry's terms immediately put Ford Brooke in a dilemma.

"Exchange shares"!!! Apple shares for netscape shares Henry said faintly.

"Apple has begun to go downhill. Since IBM began to enter the personal computer market, Apple has suffered a strong impact and its performance has declined significantly. Even Steve Jobs, the founder of apple, has been implicated and driven out of the company. John Scully, the new CEO who took over the position of Steve Jobs, made a lot of blunders. He actually signed a contract to allow Microsoft to use part of Apple's graphical interface technology by agreeing to Microsoft's production of software (such as word and excel) for apple! I dare say that this contract will be the worst contract Apple has ever had! After Microsoft gets Apple's graphical interface technology, it will definitely push a system similar to Apple's interface. Apple is undoubtedly digging its own grave

"One is the sunset, the other is the sunrise. Mr. Brooke, who would you choose? "

Ford Brooke's face was dignified. Henry made apple's situation very clear. Apple is old and has long lost its glory. Now Apple's stock has been falling, like a knife in Sequoia Capital, painful and urgent. However, despite the decline of apple, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, far from being comparable to Netscape browser!

Ford Brooke couldn't make up his mind about the stock exchange, so he told Henry to go back and discuss it with the board members. Henry agreed with a smile, let them think slowly, not in a hurry. Of course, Henry is not in a hurry, because he knows that Apple's performance will continue to decline. After Microsoft launched the windows 2.0.3 operating system in 1988, which uses a graphic logo similar to the Mac, Apple will have to cry!

If Microsoft doesn't have the patent of graphical interface, its Windows system can't achieve great success. In fact, Henry is also greedy for the operating system, but others have long been full of patent barriers, many things simply can not get around, otherwise Microsoft will not be so bullish in the future!!!

Henry didn't know how Ford Brooke discussed when he returned to Sequoia Capital. Henry is busy opening a new company. First of all, what's the name of the new company? Henry thought about it and called it "Noah's Ark", which seems to be a very popular name!

When the end comes, Noah's Ark carries the future of mankind!

Henry felt that the noah ark company he established was also carrying the future of the Internet! If a company is related to the Internet, there must be a server. Hundreds of millions of data will be stored and run in the server. We can imagine how important and great it is. It is the Noah's Ark of the Internet!

A few days later, Henry sent someone to register the company and set up his headquarters in Silicon Valley. Because there are too many high-tech companies here, it is the only choice to promote the company's product server（ Man, remember to collect and recommend books.)