I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 611

[Chapter 606 IES]

Steve Mitnick said: “Yes, but he said that this plan is too expensive, and you will never agree to it. ▼ ● But I think the most important thing you need now is money, right?”

“Indeed There is no shortage of money,” Eric said with a smile. Although the Firefly Group has just issued a huge bond of 100 million US dollars, as long as Eric needs money, I believe that all banks in the United States will not refuse to provide Eric with huge loans: “But What we lack is time, the computer operating system has been developed for more than ten years, and there are many mature operating systems on the market. Moreover, compared with opening a brand-new operating system, bypassing our software patents to open a new operating system A new web browser is obviously easier. Now that we have achieved an unparalleled dominance in this area, it would not be wise to give up our dominance and move to other industries.”

In fact, Eric The most important reason I can’t say it without saying it is that Microsoft will launch an epoch-making operating system next year. The in95 line also means that Microsoft will unify the operating system, and then launch another operating system. , it will definitely become a chicken rib.

If the time can be advanced five years, Eric will definitely agree to Steve Mitnick’s plan without hesitation, using the advantages of browser software to open a network-based operating system.

Netscape, which developed the first successful graphical interface browser in the original time and space, once proposed an operating system plan based on the Netscape browser, and this plan was also dead because of the rise of in95. Later, Google I also planned to open a free operating system based on Google Chrome, but after the news was released, there was also no following. It can be seen that after in95, it is impossible to shake Microsoft’s status in the era.

Steve Mitnick nodded disappointedly: “It seems, what you said makes sense.”

Eric smiled. Although Steve Mitnick was a technical genius, he was still somewhat idealistic. but.

n∈n∈net, such people are more pure, just like the two founders of Google in the original time and space, Eric can conclude that at least Steve Mitnick will focus more on technical research, And will not go to great lengths to make money.

actually.

Eric feels that the more people who focus on one thing, the more they can get.

“Actually, you should be able to guess,” Eric waited for a while, then took the initiative to say: “I am here this time to integrate all three companies. The establishment of Yahoo Network Company, iehe will also officially change its name to Yahoo Browser. And Yahoo Mail, Steve, are you interested in being the bsp of this company; “No no no, Eric,” Steve Mitnick shook his head immediately: “You put me on the computer screen. Sitting for a lifetime is fine, but I’d go crazy if you asked me to sit in an office or a conference room every day doing the same messy stuff as my company executives.

After a pause, Steve Mitnick added: “You’d better let Ian come, he’s obviously better at running a company.”

Maybe I can be the (CTO) of Yahoo.

Eric was a little surprised, and then smiled: ”

I always thought you were quite similar to another Steve I knew, but now it seems that the two of you are completely two types of people.

”

The other Steve, of

course, is Steve Jobs. Jobs is a very controlling person, and the guy in front of him is more inclined to be a technical maniac who doesn’t listen to the outside world.

“You mean Steve husband. Jobs, right?

“Mitnick passed a white commercial car with the steering wheel, followed closely behind the two cars in front, and said with a memory: “I bought one when I was at Penn, and it was really great at that time. PC, Graphical User Platform.

The innovative multimedia functions, as well as the 8mhz processor speed, were far away from the ibm personal computer at that time, but unfortunately after Steve Jobs left.

■ These years Apple has not launched any good things.

”

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More than half an hour later, the three cars stopped in front of a white six-story office building near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the other side of the Charles River. Ternick, a computer genius who only has technology in his heart, is in charge of Yahoo’s mind. Although Steve Mitnick has a very high IQ, he has no intention of running a company at all. Forcing it will only be counterproductive.

In addition to the bottom floor of the office building, there are several stores.

The top five floors are all occupied by three companies, and the three companies currently have nearly 900 employees.

Under the leadership of Steve Mitnick’s three supervisors, Eric began to greet the staff in the open workspaces on each floor.

Walking into the office area on the second floor, although the space of this office building is very large, the average density of less than 200 employees on each floor is not much, but with a large number of office appliances, personal computers and other equipment, it looks messy and crowded a lot.

However, seeing Eric, the big boss behind the scenes, all the employees were very interested. Some bold female employees also found a camera and excitedly pulled Eric to take a series of photos.

All the way to a lounge on the top floor, Eric sat down at the round table, smiled and said to the other people: “When I went to the Pixar studio for the first time, all the employees of Pixar also gathered together. In a very dilapidated and crowded office building, but now Pixar has its own 16-acre exclusive office park in Emeryville, San Francisco. I believe that the future of the company in your hands is far greater than that of Pixar, so all this It’s all just temporary.” The

three companies have been burning money for several years, and they basically don’t have much income. Of course, Steve Mitnick and others don’t dare to expect a better office environment, and since the three companies are getting more and more The greater the development potential, the less they care about such trivial matters as the office environment.

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Ian Grenier, who is in charge of browser development, said: “Eric, I think this place is already great. So, let’s take a look at the opening results of ies. It’s in my office. The idea of this kind of browser literal translation language is really genius, and once ies is released, I don’t think anyone will be able to surpass ie’s status in the browser field.”

Jeff Locke and Steve Mitnick heard Ian Gee When Neil mentioned ies, he showed eager expressions.

Eric smiled and glanced at Tina Brown, who was dazed, shook his head and smiled: “I don’t need it for the time being, everyone has worked for me for more than two years. Always show it, you know where Boston can accommodate it. Will nine hundred people kick off the party together?”

This time, it was the turn of the three big men to show a blank look. Tina Brown realized that she hadn’t signed an employment contract yet, so Eric deliberately diverted this topic that seemed to involve company secrets.

I don’t mind either.

As the most famous Vanity Fair party planner after the Oscars, Tina Brown is obviously the most experienced in this kind of thing, and smiled: “Eric, if you want to arrange a party of 900 people at one time, it is best to hold an open-air party. The party. The venue can only be selected in the nearby park. I happen to know the phone number of the owner of the largest party company in Boston. They can contact the corresponding party venue as an agent, but if you want it tonight, please contact the party venue urgently to arrange All kinds of drinks, food and other facilities need to be charged.”

Eric smiled: “Then please contact me, Tina.”

Tina Brown smiled and said: “Okay, as you wish. Boss.” After speaking, he looked at the three of Ian Grenier: “Can you lend me the phone?”

“Come with me, ma’am.▼” Ian Grenier took the initiative to get up and took Tina with him . Brown walked into an office.

After arranging an evening staff meeting and having lunch together, Eric and Tina Brown returned to the reserved hotel together.

In the afternoon, I found a coffee shop, and Eric showed Tina Brown some documents that he had prepared, including the equity incentive contract.

After making sure she had no doubts, Tina Brown finally signed an agreement to officially join Yahoo as content editor.

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through the glass window of the hotel suite, I look downstairs at Massachusetts Avenue, which connects MIT and Harvard. On both sides of the street are buildings of extremely uneven heights and ages that drive obsessive-compulsive patients crazy. A metropolis with a population of tens of millions gathered if you are not careful.

The entire Boston area has a total population of less than 5 million in a radius of hundreds of kilometers, and the resident population in the urban area is only 600,000. Perhaps because of this, the municipal planning is so ‘calm’.

There was a strong smell of chaos.

As the boss, at a party in Boston Common across the Charles River last night, facing the enthusiastic employees of No. 900, even though they were very careful, they were still drunk and dragged back to the hotel.

His mind was still a little swollen, Eric looked at the city of Cambridge shrouded in the morning sun in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, and stretched his body a little while thinking.

Just walked out of the room to eat at the restaurant.

Seeing Eric walk into the restaurant, Tina Brown, who was sitting by the window seat, nodded to him, and when Eric walked over, she gestured to her breakfast that she had almost finished, and said with a smile: “Try the Boston Baked Beans. Now restaurants rarely offer this kind of food. I didn’t expect it to be here.”

Boston has a nickname that is ten times more adorable than New York’s Big Apple, called Bean City. , which originated from the dish called Boston Baked Beans in front of Tina Brown.

Eric is not a Westerner accustomed to sweets. He is not sensitive to this kind of food stuffed with syrup. He sat down opposite Tina Brown and just randomly ordered a sandwich and a glass of juice.

Tina Brown asked the waiter to remove her cutlery, sat patiently across from reading a newspaper today, waited for Eric to finish breakfast, and said, “Eric, I hope to take over Yahoo’s business as soon as possible. The editorial team, in addition, the offices of the three companies I saw yesterday were really scattered, and it was difficult for me to concentrate on working in that environment. I called and consulted some real estate agents yesterday, and there is an office building on the same street Because the original company went bankrupt, the two floors were just vacant, and I hope to be able to rent them there.”

Eric nodded with a smile: “I said, after you join, these are things within your authority. But There are still many things that you need to know together recently, so there is no need to be in such a hurry, when I leave Boston, you can let go of your hands and feet.”

“A lot of things…” Tina Brown repeated, smiling. : “For example, about that ies yesterday?”

“Yeah, but this is just one part of it,” Eric said: “The so-called ies is the code name of a computer language that the IE browser team and two other companies have been developing since the end of last year. The full name is, this is the A brand new scripting language that is different from traditional programming languages. In simple terms, such as IE browser software, this software is mainly written in C language, but the C language code written by programmers cannot be recognized by the computer. It needs to be compiled with special software and converted into a language that the computer can recognize and execute. The new ies scripting language omits the compilation link, and web programmers can directly write this language into the web page code, and then the ie browser directly executes Translation.” The

scripting language was a design idea proposed by Eric to Ian Gernier and several others according to the idea developed by Netscape Browser Company in his memory. For Ian Gernier, Jeff Locke and Shi For the top computer technicians like Tiff Mitnick, some vague suggestions from Eric are enough for them to design the new ies scripting language by analogy.

Although Tina Brown didn’t know much about computer knowledge, she still understood Eric’s explanation, but she was still a little puzzled: “Eric, what is the function of this scripting language?”

“The main function of this scripting language, UU Reading www.sonicmtl.com, is to make the original static and unchanged web pages realize dynamic changes. To give a simple example, such as web advertisements, the current Yahoo web page can only simply put a Fixed advertisements are embedded in various web pages with different content. Although it is also possible to manually adjust the advertisement content of different pages, it is unrealistic to achieve complete manual operation in the face of millions of web pages in the future. With the ies scripting language, we can more accurately place corresponding advertisements on webpages with different content, through dynamic code recognition, movie information webpages can automatically place movie advertisements, and sports news webpages appear sports goods advertisements.” said At this point, Eric took a sip of the juice, left Tina Brown some time to think about the technical blindness, and continued: “Of course, these are not the most important, the most important point, the ies scripting language will be freely available to Web developers, this language is also very easy to learn for people with technical foundations. In one to two years, it is impossible for another scripting language to appear in the same industry. This plan is in line with the $100 million I told you. The Yahoo Angel Fund, which subsidizes the content website exhibition, and the rapid promotion of two years is enough to establish the standard format of ies in the web page. We hold the patents of ies and ie browser, so in the future, all websites designed through the ies script language , it can only be recognized by the IE browser, I think, you should be able to realize what this means?” (To be continued.)

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