In the evening, Bill Gates treated them to dinner.
Li Zetian brought Yu Jingqiu along to fleece the rich guy together.
After dinner, Paul Allen prepared to return to Boston.
Li Zetian saw him off and said meaningfully: “Work hard, Paul.
I will come looking for you in the future!”
Paul Allen smiled and said: “Okay, I look forward to you dropping out!”
“Oh, Paul, stop bringing up dropping out.
Look, my girlfriend is not happy about it!”
Yu Jingqiu smiled but didn’t speak.
Paul Allen laughed heartily and waved goodbye to everyone.
“Bill, Steve, you guys head back to the dorm first.
I’ll walk Susan back.”
“Alright, we’ll get going then.”
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer responded and walked away first.
Yu Jingqiu asked: “Is that Paul Allen very impressive?” She could tell that Li Zetian, who had an inherent arrogance in his bones, valued Paul Allen very much.
“Yes, extremely impressive.
He is a talent!” Li Zetian nodded, then added, “He’s a genius engineer!”
“Oh!”
Li Zetian was very happy.
More and more talents were gathering around him.
Opening a company isn’t something one can do fighting alone; you must have a strong team.
Bill Gates goes without saying; he’s awesome at technology, awesome at managing a company, and can hold his own.
Paul Allen is awesome at technology and can serve as Chief Technology Officer.
Steve Ballmer is exceptionally talented, socially adept, and can assist Bill Gates in managing the company and handling external affairs.
In the future, the companies under Li Zetian’s name wouldn’t just be Microsoft.
He couldn’t personally attend to everything.
Knowing people and assigning them to the right jobs is what an excellent entrepreneur should do.
In order to retain a talent like Bill Gates, even if he had to give up 10%-20% of the shares, Li Zetian was willing.
Additionally, Bill Gates had a powerful family background.
Not to mention other things, his mother was a regent of the University of Washington, the first female director of First Interstate BancSystem, and during her tenure as chair of the executive committee of United Way of America, she worked with IBM CEO John Akers and had a very good relationship.
The reason Microsoft was able to cooperate with IBM was because Bill Gates’ mother acted as the matchmaker!
Of course, the BASIC compiler developed by Microsoft had become the industry standard, which was also a vital point why IBM favored Microsoft. This chapter was copied from novelping dot com without permission.
A few days later it was April 1st.
On this day, Intel finally released the 8080 processor.
When Li Zetian saw the news, he was so thrilled.
That afternoon, he called Intel to buy one.
“Hello, this is Intel Corporation!”
“Hello, I want to buy an Intel-8080 microprocessor!” Li Zetian said.
“May I ask which company you are from?
Our company’s Intel-8080 microprocessors are not sold to individuals, only to enterprises!”
Fuck you, being so pretentious!!!
Hearing this, Li Zetian couldn’t help but complain in his heart.
He did indeed establish a company.
The registered Chinese name was Zhetian Company, and the registered English name was Umbrella (overseas registrations must use English names), which was the famous Umbrella Corporation people from his previous life were familiar with!!!
Umbrella Company, or Zhetian Company, would be the parent company of all of Li Zetian’s future companies.
He would hold 100% of the shares, and because it was an offshore company, others wouldn’t know who the shareholder behind it was.
Li Zetian was currently using the school dorm phone to call Intel, which could easily expose his identity.
Since the other party didn’t do business with individuals, he directly hung up the phone and thought of other ways.
Actually, Intel couldn’t be blamed.
Because chips at that time were too expensive, usually only enterprises could afford them.
Intel was a manufacturer specializing in enterprise-level chips and couldn’t possibly open individual business specifically for a few people.
Back then, when Steve Wozniak designed the Apple I computer, because it was not easy to buy the Intel-8080 microprocessor, and the Intel-8080 was too expensive (just the enterprise wholesale price was $375), he chose the much cheaper MOS-6502.
The MOS-6502 was a product developed by Motorola’s genius engineer Chuck Peddle after he led six engineers to jump ship to MOS Technology.
Chuck Peddle felt the Motorola 6800 processor was too expensive and suggested the company develop a cheap processor.
However, the management felt that since the 6800 was so profitable, why create a cheap CPU to compete for their own market, and naturally rejected Peddle’s suggestion.
The result was that in the second half of 1975, the MOS-6502 was born, priced at only $25, which was 1/7 of the Motorola 6800 and 1/15 of the Intel 8080.
Although the MOS-6502 was cheap, it was also a very excellent 8-bit microprocessor with a maximum supported memory of 64KB.
Its clock speed was the same as the 6800, both 1MHz, but because the 6502 had an instruction pipeline, its performance was significantly superior to the 6800.
With the MOS-6502 being so cheap, how could the Motorola 6800 and Intel 8080 play happily?
They had to drastically slash prices.
Of course, Li Zetian wanted to use the MOS-6502 to make the Apple computer, but others hadn’t produced it yet, which was very frustrating, so he had to use the Intel-8080 first.
First, use the Intel-8080 to develop the simple-function Apple I personal computer.
As long as it was released ahead of the Altair 8800, Apple I would definitely make Apple a legend in the industry with the gimmick of being the world’s first personal computer, and thus make a fortune.
There was no need to bring out all the new technologies and features at once.
Otherwise, what highlights would future product upgrades have?
Wait until the MOS-6502 is released in 1975, then use it to develop Apple’s historic classic, the Apple II.
At the same time, acquire MOS Technology.
You must know that Nintendo’s Famicom (NES) used the MOS-6502 microprocessor.
Li Zetian would sooner or later enter the gaming industry; he was a man determined to destroy Nintendo and Sony!!!
Just as Li Zetian hung up the phone and was feeling a bit depressed, Yu Jingqiu brought a person to Li Zetian’s dorm.
This person was also Chinese, in his twenties or thirties, of medium build, wearing glasses.
Yu Jingqiu introduced: “This is my cousin — Tang Jiawei.
He wants to discuss something with you!”
“Hello, nice to meet you.
I am Li Zetian!”
Since he was Yu Jingqiu’s cousin, Li Zetian naturally couldn’t neglect him and greeted him warmly.
“Hello.
To tell you the truth, I came this time to ask you to agree to one thing!” Tang Jiawei said straight to the point.
“Have a seat first, we can talk slowly.
If it’s something I can help with, I am naturally willing to be of service.”
Li Zetian invited him to sit on the sofa and poured him a glass of water.
Tang Jiawei said: “I watched you sing that song on New Year’s Eve — ‘My Chinese Heart’.
I think it is a song full of patriotic feelings!”
“Thank you for your praise, but please get straight to the point!” Li Zetian smiled.
“Mhm, then I’ll be straightforward.
I want to get your permission to authorize this song to be used as my school’s song!!!”
“School song?” Li Zetian was taken aback, then asked: “What school?”
“I want to establish a school that teaches speaking Chinese and writing Chinese characters!”
Speaking of this, Tang Jiawei couldn’t help but sigh.
“You know, there are many ethnic Chinese in the US now, but they can’t even speak the most basic Chinese, nor write the most basic Chinese characters.
I feel I need to do something!!!
Even though we are in a foreign land, we Chinese cannot forget our origins, our roots, or the language of our own country!!!”
Hearing this, Li Zetian couldn’t help but shake all over!