Huayu for engineering students

Chapter 380 Fans of God X
Richard, who comes from a businessman family, is one of those who started working hard. He and his good friend John are both computer science graduates from Stanford University. In their last year at school, they happened to catch up with the establishment of the GIT Stanford mirror.

As a result, two engineering geeks became loyal fans of GIT. In order to browse quickly, the two of them even learned some Chinese, at least to understand a general understanding of commonly used computer-related vocabulary.

Both of them are also enthusiastic people. When they were in school, they were attracted by the newly released Hollywood movie Terminator [-] and developed a strong interest in three-dimensional multimedia. Then they discovered that there was actually a complete set of operating interfaces on GIT. [-]D modeling software products.

There are also very useful products for rendering, mapping, image processing, audio processing, video processing, synthesis, cutout, and editing. It is simply a complete product collection.

But these products are all in Chinese, and so are the instructions. They are either in Chinese or have no instructions at all.In addition, the projects are independent of each other. If you want to connect these things, various complex file formats are enough to stop laymen.

The two immediately became interested in this, and contacted several classmates and friends, and started the integration work together.

They first established a working platform using the tools provided in the development language environment, and then used powerful intermediate content management products to do the transition, allowing users to use the mouse to drag and drop between multiple products.

It's a simple idea, but it cleverly allows laypeople to start working on their own using these different products.

They did not choose open source for this creative product, but chose another approach. This is a similar approach that has been done by others, which is to select the stable versions needed, then package and test them, and finally form a stable version that can be sold externally. , and provide after-sales service products.

For this reason, the two obtained their first business investment from their families, started their own company, and officially launched it on the market.The two of them just put aside the graduation defense that they were supposed to attend, and directly dropped out of school to start a business.

Dropping out of school to start a business is nothing new in Chou Country. It even formed a trend in the 90s and [-]s, so much so that it even affected the country. In the past few years, Mizuki University has had many people drop out of school and start a business.

The founder of Oracle once publicly laughed at the graduates at Stanford's graduation ceremony, saying that the reason why I am so successful is because I dropped out early and you have no chance.

That's all from Chou Country, but domestic ones, that's it. If he fails to start a business, Chou Country University can always go back and finish his studies. Didn't you see that O'Neal went to graduate school while playing basketball?

In China, if you drop out of school, you have really dropped out. Unless you take the exam again, there is no way out. You say you are studying blindly.

John parked the car and looked at the "UniMov" nameplate hanging on the door of the two-story building that Richard and he rented. He felt a little sad that the building was no longer sufficient.

Of course, this place will not last long. They are already looking for a new office location. The main reason for retaining the environment here is for the convenience of financing.

Investors in Ugly Country have a very positive view of start-up companies working in garages and other places, with pizza boxes thrown everywhere and chaotic environments. It can even be said to be a plus point, indicating that these entrepreneurs do not spend money randomly. They are all focusing on technology.

Their careers are booming. The sales of tens of thousands of software licenses and various services have made the two of them millionaires at a young age, adding two more entrepreneurial pioneers to Silicon Valley.

Even though they only have a dozen people working in a private building, their growth rate is extraordinary.

In just a few months, they went from two people working alone to a star company with more than a dozen people and monthly sales exceeding one million. This is a myth-like existence in the nearby entrepreneurial circles.

This is Los Altos, the place closest to Stanford. It is a center for young people to start their own businesses. Apple was founded in a garage here.

There is a joke that there is an investor squatting on every tree here, staring at the startup companies below. Once they find any clues, they will swarm in.

Famous universities such as Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, provide this area with a steady stream of fresh blood, including entrepreneurial pioneers and smart brains from all over the world to support them in going further.

Richard and John are naturally looking for investment. Their weakness is that their products are based on open source products. Whether this business model will be accepted is somewhat uncertain for investors. Investors are still unsure. among various considerations.

After all, the time is too short. They are the first to try it out, and they may even be the first to come out looking for investment. Although several companies have expressed interest in them, no one has invested real money yet.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the fact that they already have marketing and are starting to make profits. Profitable companies are not so eager to invest. Unless it needs to expand rapidly, introducing investment will not necessarily bring good results.

This is not yet the Internet era, and investors are quite cautious when they are desperately burning money.

Until the establishment of Yahoo this year, it only took two years from venture capital investment to listing. The myth-like deeds inspired countless investors, which triggered the largest first wave of investment boom before the end of the century.

Richard, who pays more attention to technology, took two engineers, Caiden and Leo, to China a few days ago, hoping to increase support for them. At least the bugs they fixed can enter the stable version sequence faster.

Although they can also package it themselves for users to use first, being able to enter the official stable version can ensure subsequent maintenance.If you always work alone, you will have to part ways later, because it is easy to cause conflicts with others when you work.

These commercial companies that make their own distributions are actually important contributors to open source products, because they can always get first-hand feedback and can fix defects in the code in a timely manner.

If their contribution is high enough, they may become the dominant person in the code, the one who can determine the release.Of course, Richard and John's company is far from that level.

Therefore, Richard rushed to China with his team in a hurry, half of it was for negotiation, and the other half was for pilgrimage. Let alone him, in the technical world of Chou Country, the geek who wanted to see the great god XW was definitely not there few.

John, the more business-oriented of the two, is looking after the house in Chou Country. Their company's business does not stop and wait for people. It is very busy every day.

Richard needs a visa to go to China, but he only has to wait a month.The procedure is not complicated, and there are very few Chinese people coming to China these days, so there is almost no need to queue.

There are also agency companies that can help with various procedures. China is a mysterious and terrifying existence in the hearts of Chinese people, so there are many Chinese acting as agents, and there are naturally not a few companies that handle visas.

Richard applied for a tourist visa, as did all three of them. One of the engineers, Leo, was Chinese from Lijiapo and could serve as a translator.

The main reason for finding a Chinese person is that there is too much information on GIT that cannot be translated into English. Many of the latest updates and comments are hastily written in Chinese and then sent out.Now, there is even a group of engineers on GIT who understand Chinese and programming, but their level is not that high, specializing in translation work, and they can get a lot of contribution points.

Therefore, when Richard and John were building a team, they deliberately recruited engineers who could speak Chinese. They relied on this to make money and had to wait for others to translate everything. The day lily was really cold.

Their company is already quite influential in the market, but if they want to continue to rapidly expand markets around the world, they need to invest, build a technical team, build a R&D team, and most importantly, build a service team.

They have long understood that the service team is the key to making money with open source products. How to quickly solve user problems and how to communicate with a group of non-professionals is the key to victory.

After entering the company, John threw down his coat. The climate in California is not very cold. In winter, just wear a thicker coat. The room is air-conditioned and very warm.

As soon as he sat down at his desk, before he could even get up to pour a cup of coffee, the phone on the desk rang.

"John, do you know, I met Richard.

"XW?" John was confused, obviously he couldn't get any useful information from Richard's confused words.

"Yes, that's him. Do you know who he is? By the way, he got engaged yesterday. Do you know who his fiancée is?" Richard spoke at the speed of a machine gun, obviously he has not yet recovered from yesterday's excitement. come over.

"Isn't he XW?" John was even more confused. Although he also admired XW, he had never seen Richard behave like this before, so he was probably not crazy.

"Haha, don't you know, he is the mysterious X in the music industry, the producer of the rock music we listen to all day long. Haha, the two mysterious "

Well, gossip is common all over the world, regardless of China or Chou country.

As a geek, Richard regards XW as his idol.As a fan, he also regards the mysterious producer X as his idol.

When he found out that the two mysterious

Yes, he is really a fan of the two of them. He even plays the rock-style Golden Butterfly, a collaboration between Wang Fei and Wang Xu, on his CD, which was produced by Imperial Recording Studio.

This singer is not particularly popular in ugly countries. Although her records do sell well and she has a lot of songs requested by MTV, who makes her Asian?

The two of them noticed that this Chinese singer group was recommended by Leo, who was from Lijiapo.The Lijiapo people knew Wang Fei better than two ugly white men could.

Leo has been a fan of Wang Fei for a long time. He has always listened to Wang Fei's Chinese songs. When Wang Fei landed in Ugly Country and released an English album, he was ecstatic.

Leo bought the latest version almost immediately, and even later released a high-resolution version of Fever Kingdee, and he supported it all the way.

Engineering students in Ugly Country are generally very boring and rarely promote their hobbies to others. It was only when John and others asked him what he was listening to that he recommended it. Unexpectedly, it would be so simple. His own idol promoted two fans.

Similarly, Leo did not expect that during this technical pilgrimage to China, he would actually meet a music idol. The two idols became one. There is no more wonderful experience than this.

Three people went together, and it turned out that two of them were die-hard fans and brought CDs with them.The third person who was embarrassed when signing autographs was Caiden. Although Caiden had heard Wang Fei's songs, he was not that obsessed with it, and he didn't carry the CD with him.

Fortunately, Wang Fei was so generous that she signed a CD of her own and gave it to him. She also gave Richard and Leo each a copy of her first album, which was also a version re-recorded by Kingdee and Imperial Capital Recording Studio. Signed by two people.

There are very few fans who carry their CDs with them wherever they go, and they should be cherished.

Richard and Leo laughed and scolded Caiden for making too much money and getting a CD for nothing, which made Caiden even more embarrassed.

However, Caiden was really going to ask for an autograph. He originally planned to ask Wang Xu for an autograph because he brought a book.That's right, the English version of "The Matrix" written by Wang Xu was officially released years ago.

Many student GEEKs who follow GIT have bought this book. This book was re-corrected by Wang Xu and re-translated into English by a professional translator.

This version not only fixes some bugs in the online GIT version, but also makes the text more localized due to the introduction of professional translations. Coupled with some hand-drawn illustrations by Wang Xu, it is worth the money.

The Chinese version is serialized in the magazine "Science Fiction World". It has more than [-] words and has to be serialized for several issues. Anyway, it is not finished yet. Instead, the English version has been published directly.

This book was on the bestseller list as soon as it was released in Chou Country, selling 10 copies in just one month. If it hadn't been released at the end of the year, it would have been possible to compete for the annual bestseller.

A science fiction novel with such first-month sales naturally has considerable potential. Now the publishing house in Chou Country is already preparing for more publicity, and since Wang Xu has already started the production of the movie, so he and Wang Xu New Line will have some joint publicity methods.

I just didn't expect that Caiden actually brought the novel to ask for an autograph. This was the first time that Wang Xu signed this book. Well, the hundreds of signed copies that the publishing house wanted to sign didn't count. That was a gimmick by the publishing house. What is used must also be sold on the market.

Who made Wang Xu say from the beginning that he had no time to go to the Ugly Chinese version signing event, so he had to use this method.

"Listen to me, this is not why I called you anxiously. I suddenly had an idea. What do you think about us selling some shares to XW?"

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(See you tomorrow, may I write more smoothly)
(End of this chapter)