It was Luo Qianjin who still drove and took everyone to Silicon Valley.
Red Hat is leasing the office space of a logistics company on Sand Hill Road (Fengsha Road), with a total area of about 100 acres. Red Hat is leasing the outermost three-story building with an annual rent of US$60,000.
Silicon Valley is located south of the San Francisco Bay Area in the metropolitan area of northern California, USA. It is the nickname of the Santa Clara Valley where high-tech industries gather.
Fengsha Road is next to Stanford University, and it only takes about ten minutes to walk there. It is not far from the University of California, Berkeley, and it only takes more than 20 minutes to drive.
More than a dozen employees from Red Hat stood downstairs to greet everyone, clapped a few times and dispersed, going about their own business.
Linus, the Finnish genius, waved his hand happily, revealing the conspicuous Rolex Ghost King watch on his wrist. It seemed that he was showing off to his colleagues.
Wang Yaocheng greeted him happily, and the two of them looked very close.
The chairman's office is located on the third floor, adjacent to the office of deputy general manager Huo Jiaguang.
When going upstairs
Wang Yaocheng asked Luo Qianjin while walking;
"The place here is large and the location is very good. The key is that it is very close to Stanford University. Have you inquired with the owners about the price? Are they willing to sell the property rights?"
"The asking price here is 6.5 million US dollars. I think these people are crazy. It's just some warehouses and a few buildings, but they are offering such a high price. They may think that we are cheaters.
According to the surrounding land prices, 3 to 3.6 million U.S. dollars is enough. House prices in the United States are not high, especially for large warehouses like this.
Therefore, we are investigating other places, and there are currently several locations that are good and the asking prices are not high.”
Luo Qianjin pushed open the door of the office. The decoration inside was in a minimalist style. It looked very clean and elegant, with a post-modern style.
Wang Yaocheng nodded with satisfaction;
"Mr. Huo, please take someone to talk to the owners here. I think they should quote a reasonable price. In this case, I think they are suspected of racial discrimination."
After thinking for a moment, Wang Yaocheng turned around and asked, "Go forward, who is the owner here?"
"Chairman, the boss here is Indochin Asan."
"Holy shit! Then there's no need to mention racial discrimination, you can do it yourself."
Wang Yaocheng couldn't help but cursed and walked into the office angrily.
afternoon
Chairman's office.
Wang Yaocheng is exchanging his ideas with Linus, the technical leader, and is preparing to develop a browser software similar to the Netscape browser that appeared in history.
"...
I require this browser software to be smoothly compatible with mainstream operating systems, whether it is Microsoft, Windows or Linux operating systems, it can run smoothly.
We can call this software product scape navigator, which is Netscape Navigator.
The technical requirements are that the software runs stably, supports good web page standards, minimizes various minor problems and downtime vulnerabilities, and greatly facilitates personal computer users to surf the Internet.
For example, each website has a digital credibility evaluation, including whether the website is authentic and not a fake trap used to deceive people.
And whether the website secretly loads spyware or other malicious programs on users' computers.
If it is a dangerous website, Netscape Navigator will open a warning window. Users can still enter the dangerous website, but they must bear the risk.
…”
Faced with the field in which he is good at, Finnish genius Linus thought carefully and said;
"This is a genius idea. It is not difficult to achieve this goal. If I am alone..."
Wang Yaocheng interrupted him; "No, no, no, you are the project leader. You are responsible for planning the technical implementation direction of the project, writing key source code files, and leaving other detailed work to the company's employees. That's what they do."
"That……
It will take me about seven to eight days to complete the entire envisioned structure.
If everyone in the company works together, we can launch a preliminary trial version file in about three months, and after looking for bugs and loopholes, it will be almost ready in another month or two."
"Next week I will give you 20 more people. You can let them do anything."
"Then it only takes me a month and I can complete all the work."
"Okay, that's it."
With Linus, the Finnish genius, controlling the technology, Wang Yaocheng feels that happiness is something he doesn't need. This is the ability of a great person.
As long as you express your idea, he can help you realize it.
Network software companies need more ideas, especially ideas that suit market needs. This is the most valuable wealth.
When ideas are truly realized, a few talented students can often come up with the first version in their dormitory, and it won't be that difficult.
In later generations, many famous Internet companies came to be in this way, including Microsoft, Netscape, Yahoo, Google, and Facebook. They all evolved from a great idea.
And why are those IT elites called coders?
Because in addition to genius ideas, realizing genius creativity requires a lot of hard and trivial labor.
In addition to the software architects who control the project, all that is left to realize genius ideas is the arduous work of writing code. This is what most IT elites have to do.
For example, the Finnish genius Linus, after writing more than 10,000 lines of code, planned out the general framework and soul of the Linux operating system.
Just like the lowest level skeleton soldier, it can walk and move, has arms and legs, but is limited to the most basic functions.
Through the unremitting efforts of Red Hat, the code uploaded by the Linux operating system has exceeded 350,000 lines, which is equivalent to adding flesh, blood and organs to the skeleton soldier, making his operations and actions more flexible and more effective.
In later generations, the code of the Linux operating system exceeded 10 million lines. It was equivalent to adding skin, eyes and hair to the skeleton soldiers, equipping them with horses, even armor, and sharp weapons, and transforming them into armored knights. The power was naturally incomparable.
All this heavy work requires the hard work of a large number of IT elites day after day, year after year, adding bit by bit and improving bit by bit, so IT elites are jokingly called coders.
"But I want to state that if you add a digital credibility evaluation of each website, it will greatly increase the burden on the enterprise server, because a large amount of data is stored on the enterprise server and will be used by every user who browses the Internet.
, resulting in a sharp increase in visits.
Such a large-scale investment costs tens of millions of dollars and is extremely power-consuming to run, making the company's operating costs unbearably high."
Wang Yaocheng said: "Otherwise, we should keep this idea for now and improve it through patches and plug-ins in the future."
Linus said nonchalantly; "Yes, it's not difficult to implement."
"Then it's settled."
Looking at Linus's leaving figure, Wang Yaocheng felt a surge of enthusiasm in his heart. This was not touching, but a warm current of happiness, coming from the evil capitalists.
A person with a high technical level like Linus would be offered an annual salary of at least one million at Microsoft. When the Internet age is turbulent, such a hot expert will have an annual salary of tens of millions and enjoy large technology investments.
What can Linus have now?
I set an annual salary of more than 30,000 US dollars in Finland, and only took less than 6,000 US dollars for two months before I followed him to Silicon Valley in the United States. All Red Hat paid was a mere US$10,000 in moving expenses and three ordinary air tickets.
Linus's family of three now all work in Red Hat. His father is responsible for doing chores and other trivial matters in the external relations department, and also serves as a driver. His mother is in the logistics department. Together with Luo Qianjin, there are two people in total, one is a leader and the other is a soldier.
Linus is the head of the technical department, and his annual salary has been increased to 60,000 US dollars. The total salary of the whole family is only 110,000 US dollars. They are very satisfied with this treatment.