America 1979

Chapter 98 Geniuses Should Not Be Troubled by the World
As a faculty member of this school, Leonardo Bosack really felt aggrieved.After obtaining a master's degree in computer science last year, he stayed in the school smoothly, but one of the achievements made during the master's degree, the multi-protocol router, was banned by the school from selling. The reason was that Stanford is a non-profit organization, and the school cannot make money with commodities and objects.

"You can't say the same about the school administrators. They also have their own reasons. We used the school's computers during the invention of our router, so naturally we have to obey the school's arrangements."

Although the words of the handsome young man in front of him won Bosac's heart, but he was not an acquaintance, so he kept his previous statement that he mainly complained and did not wantonly slander the school's ignorance.

"I heard about this from my teammates. I was overwhelmed by your spirit when I first heard about this story. Personally, I also like computers very much. This is an artifact that improves human efficiency thousands of times. Any progress that is beneficial to the development of computers and related equipment should not be interrupted by the world. It is even more touching to hear that you came up with this idea in the process of communicating with your wife. Only sincere emotions can promote source of technological progress."

Bosac waved his hand, wanting to say something but couldn't.

His own salary is not very high, and he always wanted to use multi-protocol routers to earn some money to subsidize his family, but the unreasonable school directly rejected this win-win request.

"Oh, life is bound to suffer." Bosac sighed, "Class will start soon, if students are interested, we can talk after class."

Bill looked solemn, but his heart was full of joy.

It is basically certain that this person is one of the two unlucky founders of Cisco.This company was founded in the 80s, and its market value exceeded 90 million when it was first listed in the [-]s, and then it has been soaring all the way, reaching its peak in [-].

It really gave Bill a good time to persuade the young professor to go out and start a business, and at the same time accept Mr. Ferrari's angel round investment.

In the next class, Posak introduced the Apple II and the IBM-PC running the DOS system as planned.

Although the former has been on the market for nearly five years, and the latter has a sales history of more than two years, they are still the two most influential computers. Apple III, which was released in 80, did not sell well and was only mentioned by him.

After class, Bill asked Martin Kent to leave first, and he wanted to have an in-depth exchange with Bosack.

"How about going to the bar for a drink?"

Mr. Ferrari proposed.

It was only early nine o'clock at this time, and it was not too late. Bosack nodded in agreement, and the two took the assistant professor's car to a nearby bar.

"The blue box, as I call the workstation we designed, I developed the motherboard, the software was written by our classmate, William Iger... Dr. Andy Bechtolsheim also participated in our work, the actual In fact, he was the main designer of the workstation."

Finally, there was someone who listened to him, and he was also a popular player on the rugby school team. After two glasses of wine, Bosack began to tell the story from beginning to end.

"Why don't you leave school and start your own company? I still have a certain understanding of the hardware industry. Your router market is huge and belongs to the blue ocean industry. As long as you enter early, you can occupy a large market share..."

While echoing Bosack, Bill is also instilling the idea of ​​letting them go out and start a business.

"You put it lightly, how do we support our family? My wife and I have only been married for two years. Without my salary, we can't even pay off the interest on our student loans."

Bosack's hairline is so high that even in the dim light of the bar, his forehead is too bright.

"How can a genius be bothered by these mundane things? Can a small student loan stop the progress of mankind?" Bill pretended to be heartbroken, and then proposed, "I have some money, and I will invest in you Founding a company, although only a few million dollars, is far from enough to support a start-up company to go public, but it is enough to last until the second or third round of investment.”

When he was away from home, the face was given by himself, and Bill slightly exaggerated the amount of his assets.

Posac turned his head to look at Bill, whom he had just met. His eyes lit up for a moment and then dimmed again. It wasn't that he didn't want to get rid of his current life, but that the words he heard seemed too beautiful, and he had to choose a good sleeping position and a good pillow in his dreams. conditions of.

"Although starting a business is one of my backup options, the current situation is still unclear. Although the school prohibits us from selling blue boxes, Dr. Andy is also working hard to apply. Using the school's resources to commercialize the blue box is the first choice. .”

Bosack declined Bill's proposal.

"It seems that you have not been defeated by the dark society, and you still have illusions about decaying institutions. This is a period that everyone who has lived in an ivory tower for a long time must go through. When you are mad by the same old antiques, you Maybe you will think of the benefits of my friend."

Although in name Bosac has much more knowledge and experience than Mr. Ferrari, but Bill put on an appearance of someone who has experienced it.

"It's still the same sentence, I always support you and your wife's dream of pursuing new technologies. As long as you figure it out and want to start a business outside but have no money to start it, you can come to the school's football stadium to find me, or call Ye directly. Coach Fudge, he'll take your messages for me."

He Chun Chun exhorted.

Bosack sighed, "If I get to that point, I will consider this option, sir, thank you very much."

Rugby players are big cash flow cows. If an NFL professional player is willing to invest in a small start-up company, it will indeed allow the start-up company to survive the second or third round of investment or directly make a profit.Although the current Bill is not yet, it will only be a year or two.

Posak decided to take one step at a time and wait until the school completely banned him from commercializing this UNIX-based network workstation before finding someone to invest in and start a company.

……

Before Bosack's start-up news came, another person approached Bill through Bosack's introduction.

"Hey, Mr. 88, I heard from Leonardo that you plan to invest in several companies. Some of our classmates want to start a small business that sells graphics workstations. Are you interested in hearing our stories?"

In Yevgeny's office, a man who identified himself as Andy Bechtolsheim phoned Bill with an investment offer.

Mr. Ferrari heard about Andy from Bosac. He is a Ph.D. student who will graduate in May and June. It seems that he is going to do a lot of work after graduation.

Although he had never heard of this person in his previous life, this project was worth a look.If it can overlap with some things in his memory, it is not impossible to invest a sum of money.

"Of course I'm interested, why don't we make an appointment to talk in detail?"

PS: Ask for a recommendation ticket and ask for a monthly ticket.

(End of this chapter)