Large cities are seriously polluted and congested, making it difficult to attract outstanding talents who like to live in the suburbs.

The small town is remote, with good greening and low operating costs, so when IT companies start their business, they all aimed at wild places like Silicon Valley.

Over time, it has led to the Silicon Valley myth.

Now that the population of Silicon Valley has increased dramatically, housing prices have also soared. Real estate worth only $10,000 or 20,000 in the early 1980s now needs more than ten times the price to buy. The high prices make it difficult for these small companies to survive. Some of them only rented a garage to try to imitate Jobs's "garage legend."

After the economic crisis in the 1980s, the pace of economic recovery in the United States was slow, with an unemployment rate as high as 8%. The national government and many local governments were in high debt and were even on the verge of bankruptcy. The lives of American people were significantly affected, but the average annual salary of industry elites in Silicon Valley reached 30,000 US dollars, which is an unimaginable number worldwide.

Today, Silicon Valley is being swept by the information industry hurricane, and computer-related companies of all sizes can see one of them not far away.

Han Xuan looked through the car window and looked at this world-renowned place. He accidentally found a strange and familiar company trademark on the billboard. He suddenly remembered that there was awesome company here, embarking on its path of cheating, and its development trend was comparable to that of Facebook in the future.

The company is named Sun-Microsystems, Sun Microsystems. It was founded in 1982. It has achieved rapid profitability in just half a year and has been listed on Nasdaq in 4 years, which is the fastest in history.

Sun was the first computer company that entered the Chinese market and directly cooperated with the government, "Sun Micro System" and "Sun Micro System". This name is well-known to people who have experienced the 1990s. When Han Xuan was a child, he had a computer like this at home. He had almost forgotten the specific operation function, but he knew the trademark clearly.

In the 1990s, compared with Windows, Sun's $200 USD Solaris system was technically better. More importantly, Solaris was the most complete system on the market at that time and was more suitable for enterprises than Windows.

Most American technology companies now choose Sun's hardware and operating systems. With Solaris crazyly spreading to the market, Sun has become the only hardware empire that can directly pinch Microsoft's 7-inch hardware.

At its peak, this company could even capture Microsoft on the left and Apple on the right.

In early 1996, Sun's stock market value reached its peak, while Apple's stock fell to freezing point. Sun began to negotiate with Apple and was willing to acquire Apple for a total price of 3.89 billion US dollars. Unfortunately, an Apple investment banker came forward to oppose it at the meeting. He put forward many harsh conditions, forcing Sun to eventually give up the acquisition.

In addition to nearly acquiring Apple, another legend of Sun is the battle with Microsoft's operating system.

Sun first started by selling workstations and servers. In 1985, Sun successfully developed Sparc's streamlined instruction CPU, which greatly improved the performance of workstations. In addition, its Unix-based server system can directly fight against traditional small computers such as HP and DEC.

After winning the first battle with hardware, Sun has the opportunity to compete with Microsoft, which is a Windows system.

It took Sun nearly twenty years from entrepreneurship to prosperity, but it only took a year to overthrow it. Sun's operating system should have made greater achievements in the enterprise-level market, perhaps because the hardware and operating systems were so easy to sell at that time. McNelly, the founder of Stanford University, was only concerned about selling these things to large and medium-sized enterprises and building a hardware empire.

But he ignored that Microsoft and Intel are relying on free and selling services, eroding the small business and microcomputer user market and secretly fighting guerrilla warfare.

"There are only two businesses in the world who call their customers 'users', one is a drug dealer and the other is software." This is what Sun founder Scott McNeley said to Microsoft in the past few years. He was a bit extreme and compared selling software with selling drugs.

What he means is that people need to constantly purchase upgraded versions of Microsoft software, which will gradually cause people to fall into temptation and cannot extricate themselves. At that time, Han Xuan has watched it on TV more than once.

In 2000, the US Internet bubble came, and countless companies of all sizes were shut down. Sun's sales were bleak, from a profit of $900 million a year ago to a loss of $500 million. A few years later, Sun was acquired by Oracle for $7.4 billion, and its market value of more than 200 billion disappeared in the trend of Internet history.

“A magical place.”

Holding his hand on the edge of the car window, Han Xuan murmured to himself, finding that Anya was asleep, afraid that she would catch a cold and close the window. On the on-board radio station, the female singer's hoarse voice came out, the sun was hanging in the west sky, and the water birds flew by alone.

Later, Han Xuan saw several companies that he had an impression of him, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart that it might be a Feng Shui treasure land here.

Lopez has never been here, and no one knows the other bodyguards, and he can still make mistakes when he looks at the conspicuous landmark. After a long round of asking the newsstand owner, he realized that because Stanford is too big, there is no school gate or wall...

Stanford University covers an area of ​​8,180 acres, about 57 Brown University, equivalent to one-third of the entire Flathead National Forest Park. Excluding the 64 branches of the State University of New York, just counting the school area, Stanford University's campus area ranks second in the United States, only below Duke University.

The university was founded in 1885. The then-King of California Railroad, the former governor of California, decided to donate money to establish Stanford University in order to commemorate his son who died of illness while traveling in Italy, and used its 8,180 acres of farms used to train high-quality horse racing as the school campus. Until now, people still call Stanford a "farm".

Therefore, at Stanford University, bicycles are a must-have means of transportation for students. In addition, there are buses. Just walking with your legs, maybe you are still walking halfway after class.

Stanford University is regarded as the "Haver University on the West Coast". It has an area of ​​more than 8,000 acres. The school cannot use it anyway. So in 1959, the dean of the School of Technology, Temen proposed a concept: to rent a thousand acres to the industrial and commercial community or graduates for a long time to establish a company.

They then cooperate with the school to provide various research projects and student internship opportunities. This is the prototype of the early formation of Silicon Valley, and the former site of HP is located in it.

With the rise of the high-tech belt on the West Coast of the United States, various computer companies, including the century-old darling Microsoft, have set up camp here, and Stanford University's status has become increasingly important.

Alumni donate countless funds every year, and the wealth earned by cooperating with other companies, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the richest university in the world. Therefore, Stanford's campus is beautifully built and is not bad compared to tourist attractions.

When Han Xuan heard this, he remembered to come over and play and see this place that Brown students envied.

They knew that Stanford was under their feet, but they got lost again...
Chapter completed!