Chapter 13

Henry waited for a few days, but did not see Ford Brooke give him a letter. Sequoia Capital must not agree to the stock exchange. They think holding Apple shares is more valuable than holding Netscape. Henry doesn't care if he doesn't get in touch with Ford Brooke. Anyway, when he gets to the back, he'll see who asks who! Don't cry and yell to exchange shares at that time. Henry has to pinch it and blackmail Sequoia Capital once.

Noah Ark settled in Silicon Valley, silent, did not disturb any media.

Henry believes that the development of a company is based on products, less talking, more doing and pragmatic innovation. In this way, Noah's ark company only held a small cocktail party internally, which was regarded as a celebration of the establishment of the company! In addition to the company's employees, the attendants included Nicholas Bookstore CEO Geely Hutt, Cisco CEO posack, Sequoia Capital Ford Brooke, and three company chairman Henry Williams!!!

The new CEO of noah ark company is Bob Gallagher, who is also a great man. He has a postdoctoral degree in computer science at Harvard University and a concurrent MBA. He once served as a deputy manager of General Electric Asia. He resigned in February 1986 and soon joined Cisco. In view of his outstanding ability and strong professionalism, Henry decided to entrust him with the important task of being the CEO of Noah Ark.

Bob Gallagher is in his forties. He is a little fat and tall. He doesn't like to wear suits very much. He always wears a gray casual suit. Fortunately, Henry was wise and didn't insist on what the company's employees should wear.

Henry met Ford Brooke at the reception and didn't ask about the stock exchange. Everyone was happy, chatting and farting.

After the reception, Henry called Bob Gallagher to have a candlelight talk with him to discuss the future development of Noah's Ark. Henry is very generous. Although he doesn't know much about servers, he still knows a little about tower servers and blade servers. For the server, the processor is the top priority.

As for processors, which one is better?

Intel should do its part, but most of its processors are developed based on Windows operating system. They "collude with each other" to form the Wintel alliance and manipulate the market. Therefore, the processors are also sold at a high price!!!

Noah Ark server, of course, the best is to have their own processor!

However, the difficulty is too high, the R & D cost is hundreds of millions, Henry has no money to let them burn! Naturally, buying Intel or other IBM processors is a stopgap. The top priority is to design a web server for Noah Ark, which can meet the needs of current users!!!

The technicians from Nicholas bookstore and Cisco were assigned 25 people to Noah Ark, followed by Bob, who recruited 20 people from Stanford University and Silicon Valley, and almost moved a 45 person R & D team. We discuss how to do this web server, choose what kind of processor is the best, the work is in full swing!

But Henry came home. These days, he is very busy. After a two-day break, plagiarism began《 The nine novels in the Harry Potter series have been finished, and now they are all published in the seventh Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Henry is going to write a science fiction novel called Jurassic Park. This novel is a science fiction novel published by Michael Clayton in 1990. Once it was published, it immediately caused a sensation in the United States, and even ranked first in the best seller list of American novels.

When Henry bought Pixar, he was already a member of Hollywood. Naturally, he had to make more preparations.

Besides, film entertainment is indispensable to the Internet industry. As an ambitious and ambitious youth, it is impossible not to lay out the film industry!

Pixar is one of them, and various excellent film and novel copyrights are also one of them.

In addition to Henry's own writing, he may also acquire many famous novel scripts.

Henry works as a "copywriter" at home. From time to time, he pays attention to national affairs and company development. The CEOs of Nicholas bookstore, Cisco, Noah Ark and Pixar report to Henry every week, so even if Henry doesn't go out, he can understand the operation of the company.

Due to the advanced development of Cisco, the Internet has developed at least two years faster than that of previous generations. In particular, the development of American science foundation network has grown stronger and more commercialized under the management of IBM and other major companies, which has deviated from the original purpose of the establishment of American science and technology foundation network. The original purpose of American science foundation network is to exchange scientific research information, but in the hands of capitalists, it will definitely deteriorate! The U.S. authorities immediately took back the management rights of IBM and other companies, and turned to operate on their own. Nevertheless, many large enterprises in the United States have seen profits from it, so many companies have joined hands to develop several professional and commercial backbone networks.

The rise of commercial backbone network means that the Internet is about to enter a period of prosperity. It is not only the Internet of schools, governments, scientific research institutions and companies, but also the Internet of American people! Ordinary people can also connect to the Internet!!! Of course, the investment of commercial backbone network is huge, and it will not be able to develop in a short time. But in some developed areas, the backbone network has been built, and many American people have joined the network.

In January 1987, New York, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and other 13 big cities have joined the backbone network!

The development of network has become a trend. Cisco made great achievements last year. After the annual report comes out, we can see that Cisco's sales in 1986 have reached 50 million US dollars, and a router worth 1000 US dollars is equivalent to selling 50000 routers. It's five times more than the performance in 1985!!! Charles, President of Sequoia Capital, said: "at the beginning, Sequoia Capital should have invested more money!"

Ford Brooke, executive director of Sequoia Capital, sighed: "Henry is a more difficult guy than Bill Gates!"

Henry can't see the eyes and tone of Sequoia Capital. He adheres to the principle of keeping a low profile, and the most important thing is to make a fortune. Although Cisco has become famous, few people know its chairman, Mr. Henry Williams!

Henry rarely appeared in front of the media except for a book signing event in Britain. He's mysterious and nobody knows anything about him.

On January 5, 1987, Jill Hutt, CEO of Nicholas bookstore, suddenly called Henry and told him that the website of "Internet Movie Database" had been built and let him have a look.

The next day, Henry was there.

At the company, led by Geely Hutt and Tom Wilson, the company's chief technology officer, he entered an office and then turned on a computer. Under Henry's gaze, Tom Wilson entered a www. website, and immediately a familiar website appeared in front of Henry. Henry looked at the interface and tested it himself.

All kinds of functions are similar to the previous IMDB.

After the test, Henry nodded with satisfaction: "yes, this website is doing well. By the way, has it been officially released? "

"Not yet." Geely Hutt said.

"Then release it right away. Um... Does Netscape browser have pop-up function Asked Henry.

"Pop up function?" Geely Hutt and Tom Wilson were stunned.

Shit! I don't know about pop-up windows. I didn't say you can't do it?

Henry was speechless.

So he explained to them: "the so-called pop-up window is to pop up a small window through the browser or website for advertising. Like our Netscape browser and Nicholas bookstore website, we can pop up windows to help promote our new website Internet Movie Database! "

Now, two people understand. Geely Hutt and Tom Wilson are full of admiration, amazing admiration! It can be predicted that once the pop-up function is realized, it will play an incomparable role in the publicity work!

"Chairman, this function is easy to realize. I'll develop it later!" Tom Wilson said excitedly.

"Well." Henry nodded, but he still wanted to remind them not to pop up all the time. Like a Chinese Internet tycoon, he finally became a hooligan. "It's OK to develop it, but don't pop up at will. Don't pop up too often. The first time a user opens Netscape, the window pops up, and so does the Nicholas bookstore website. Pop up too often, users will be irritable, affect the user experience, our future development will have a very bad impact! Therefore, we must remember this point! "

"Got it!!"

Henry smiles, even if the company development in addition to loopholes, but also have their own, can turn the tide, set things right!

It took more than four months from September last year to January this year. The preparatory work is very detailed, collecting information, entering information, developing website, etc. if it doesn't make a sound, it will make a sound. IMDB website is to stir Hollywood, is to cause the love of the American network name.

Ten days later, Netscape came to power.

As the only graphics browser in the United States, and as the monopoly window of the Internet in the United States, Internet users basically see a "powerful" pop-up window! It's the first time they see this window. It's novel and interesting. They can't help but click in. After I went in, I saw a new website. This website has pictures and information. It's actually a movie website.

After using it, I found that this website is too powerful. Since the beginning of American movies, all the movies have been recorded. It is worthy of being a movie database. What's more, this movie database actually has a scoring system. It's not only for scoring movies, but also for commenting and communicating below. It's too humanized and deeply loved by people. Some movie lovers have registered accounts to rate their favorite movies and leave comments!

Although Nicholas bookstore can't match the influence of Netscape browser, it also has many users, which can play a role more or less.

Before long, IMDB became popular. However, due to the small number of Internet users, the degree of this fire is also very general. But all the universities in the United States are the main targets of Cisco, and college students are the main consumers of movies and even the potential consumers in the future. So, the influence is quite big! Hollywood's major film companies have different responses to the website, some of which are not satisfied, while others attach great importance to it.

The growth of IMDB will take time!

But history will prove that this will be a very influential website media for Hollywood. With this website, Henry has a certain say in Hollywood!

Among Henry's four companies, his favorite is Pixar, because it's the most fun and free place. Pixar's free creation, the atmosphere of divergent thinking and their sense of innocence make Henry feel much younger. Of course, Henry is a boy of twelve or thirteen years old now, but his heart is uncle. When I come to Pixar, I find it very interesting to watch the lovely cartoon characters in the computer, to watch everyone noisy like a child, and even to imitate the shape and expression of the cartoon characters!

Pixar is now making a short film called Luxo Jr., in which the protagonist is the jumping light that later became the symbol of Pixar. Henry volunteered to voice the jump lights. For Henry's request, we all laughed and said that we should "interview" first. If we can't, "go away". We didn't regard Henry as the boss at all!

We are familiar with each other. We often make jokes, and Henry doesn't mind. The interview is the interview. Of course, the process was much more lively. A large group of people in the studio came to see the excitement. Henry was not afraid at all and carefully matched the music. Not to mention, the final dubbing effect is not bad. The CEO of Pixar, Edwin katem, immediately made the decision and asked Henry to dub the main character's jump light!

Henry has become a dubber with honor!

But how long can an animated short film last? Henry's dubbing work will be finished in one day!

This short film Luxo Jr. is Pixar's first work. We all work together to create a classic and win the prize. In fact, Pixar's short film Luxo Jr. was nominated for the best animated short film Oscar and won the Golden Gate award, the first Jury Award for computer imaging films at the San Francisco International Film Festival!

After the production of Luxo Jr., Henry discussed with them to make the jump light the symbol of the company. So, one day later, the classic Pixar logo appeared, and this logo was painted by Henry himself, and it was agreed by all!

Then came the issue of Luxo Jr.

This problem is really a big problem. The cinema won't show a ten minute animated short film. What about this? Cinemas are profit-making and have no value. Films that can't make money won't be shown. For animated short films with only ten minutes, they don't even watch them.

Henry thought, the key is not famous, "Luxo Jr." fire, maybe the cinema would like to show this film.

In the first step, Henry did a lot of publicity on the IMDB website.

The second step is to send the video to the competition.

Henry wanted to do it. He told IMDB to start publicity work while sending Luxo Jr. to the Oscars（ Vote...)