In addition to the British, Harvard University was already recognized as the best university in the world at this time.

The Harvard University Library is also the largest library with the largest collection of books in the world.

Harvard Library is also well-known around the world, and the preaches in the library have become the motto of many students.

Even when it was spread to China, some poisonous chicken soup also used Harvard Library as an example, saying that the Harvard Library was brightly lit at 4:30 in the morning.

But from this we can also see that the Harvard Library is indeed very well-known.

Lei Yunrong has not said that he has been famous for a long time, but he really wants to see how the Harvard Library looks.

The first feeling that Harvard Library gave Lei Yunrong was that it was big, and this was indeed a place where people could be quiet, with a strong aroma of books.

In addition to the famous preachings, many portraits of well-known alumni were also hung on the walls.

However, Lei Yunrong did not come here to visit Harvard Library this time, but to meet Dan Brecklin. Visiting the library was just a by the way to satisfy his curiosity.

Looking at the man sitting in front of him, with dark eyes, eagle nose and a typical Jewish face, Lei Yunrong was very polite to shake hands with the man who was later called "the father of spreadsheets" and said:

"Alan Ray, from Xiangjiang, just call me Allen, I'm very happy to meet you."

"Dan Breckling, my friends call me Dan, I'm very happy to know you!" Brecklingling was not very good at speaking, and she was a little shy in her words.

Dan Brycklin didn't play games very much, so he knew nothing about Honor Electronics and Lei Yunrong, so Lei Yunrong's identity had no effect in front of him.

However, Lei Yunrong has the ability to make money, and if he has money, many things are easy to do, so he successfully made an appointment with Dan Brecklin to meet. In order to make people feel at ease, Lei Yunrong also placed the meeting place in the Harvard Library. At this time, Brecklin was studying for a master's degree at Harvard.

"Dan, I'm very presumptuous to disturb you, but I'm here to find you this time, and there's something going on."

"You say something about Mr. Allen."

Dan Brycklin was also a little curious, not knowing that this wealthy man from Xiangjiang actually found his mentor in order to see him.

That's right, after Brecklin knew that Lei Yunrong was going to see him, he also went to know Lei Yunrong and Honor Electronics. Although he didn't know too much, relying on Honor Electronics' sales data, he could know that Lei Yunrong is a rich man.

But I am not a game player, I don’t know what he is going to do to him.

Lei Yunrong looked at this shy and even a little shy big boy and had to sigh that he was not good at appearance.

Dan Brecklin is a typical high-IQ creature. After graduating from high school, he successfully entered the MIT to study mathematics. However, after studying for a year and a half, he found that he was more interested in computers, so he switched to computer majors.

After graduating from university, he joined Dec and developed the world's first word processing software, WPS-8.

Later, Brecklin resigned from Dec and prepared to continue his studies. So after a year of preparation, he successfully entered Harvard Business School to study for a master's degree in business administration.

Because he needed to write financial analysis programs with the school's small computer when taking elective financial analysis classes, he developed the idea of ​​writing a general financial form software by himself.

This is the origin of the financial form software "visual computing".

Historically, the "visual computing" software has been on sale since the beginning of this year and has quickly conquered many financial managers in just a few months. Although it costs as much as $150 per copy, it can still sell nearly a thousand copies every month.

Because when Dan Breckling first wrote this software, he used to borrow an Apple computer from his classmates and wrote it in the basic language on the Apple computer, "visual computing" can only be compatible with Apple's Apple computers.

The popularity of "visual computing" has also driven the sales of Apple's personal computers simultaneously. If there is no accident in history, Apple's personal computer sales this year were twice that of last year, and a large part of the contribution will be counted on the "visual computing" software.

However, at present, Dan Brecklin has just developed the "visual computing" software and has just been sold for a while. It is the time when the reputation is fermenting, and it has not yet shown the potential for a big fire.

Lei Yunrong has carefully analyzed this "visual computing" software before. It already has the basic characteristics of a spreadsheet and turns the entire computer screen into part of a large virtual table. It is already a relatively good software in this era.

However, in Lei Yunrong's view, "visual computing" can only be regarded as a very basic table software with very limited functions.

Lei Yunrong set up a detailed programming technical specification outline for Hermann and Hopper's R&D laboratories. Based on this, they wrote that the performance of Honor Electronics' first version of the spreadsheet software is much better than that of "visual computing".

"Dan, I have used the 'visual computing' software you wrote before, which is indeed very good!" Lei Yunrong said a kind and applauded word, which opened the conversation between the two sides.

"Thank you for your compliment! I didn't expect that Mr. Allen knew about the 'visual computing' software from far away in Hong Kong."

"Of course, we Honor Electronics wants to become an electronics company with influence around the world. We are always paying attention to the latest technologies and innovations that are emerging in the world. Just so happens that we paid attention to the 'visual computing' software when you were just released. I have to say, Dan, you are such a genius."

"Thank you! Actually, the entire software is not done by me. I am only responsible for the overall design of the software's framework and functions. The specific programming is done by my classmate Bob Frankston." Brecklin was unwilling to take all the credits on himself, and told the truth.

Of course, Lei Yunrong knew that this software was completed by the two of them, but it is undeniable that Dan Brecklin played a major role in it, otherwise the title of "Father of Spreadsheets" would not be worn on his head.

"I asked you out this time to represent my company, Honor Electronics Company from Xiangjiang, and I want to officially acquire your 'visual computing' software!" Lei Yunrong did not beat around the bush and explained his purpose directly.

"Mr. Allen, although I don't play games, I have heard of the reputation of Honor Electronics. Aren't you the ones who develop games? Are you still developing computer software now?"

In Dan Brecklin's view, his "visual computing" software and arcade games are simply incompatible.

"Dan, I told you before that Honor Electronics wants to become an electronics company with influence around the world. Of course, it is impossible to only sell arcade products."

"We, Honor Electronics, are preparing to enter the personal computer industry. Next year, we will launch our first personal computer product, so we hope to buy out the copyright of 'visual computing' so that this excellent software can only be released on our computers." Lei Yunrong explained with a smile.

"So that's it. It seems that Mr. Allen has made sufficient preparations for the launch of the first personal computer."

"There is no way. There are already many computers on the market, and there are also very popular Apple series computers launched by Apple. If our Honor Computer wants to become famous and be popular in the market, of course we need to make more preparations."

"Oh!" Dan Brecklin nodded, indicating that he had understood what Lei Yunrong meant. Then his bright black eyes stared at Lei Yunrong and asked the most critical question:

"How much are you going to bid?"

"I think this is a reasonable price for one hundred thousand US dollars." Lei Yunrong said tentatively.

"no!" Dan Breklin immediately shook his head, "You don't have much sincerity at this price."

"Then how much do you think the 'visible computing' software is worth?"

"A penny can't be lost if six hundred thousand dollars!" Dan Breckling said with the wise and decisive nature of the Jews.

Sure enough, Dan Blecklin looked shy, but was equally smart. He was not as simple as Wayne Ratliff, so Lei Yunrong had nothing to slouch in his price cut.

Lei Yunrong did not directly and easily agree to the other party’s quotation, but raised his quotation bit by bit.

He thought that "visual computing" is not popular yet, and Dan Brecklin should not have the confidence to insist on $600,000.

But Lei Yunrong was obviously wrong. Dan Brecklin may have seen his desire for "visual computing" software, and seemed to have been determined to take him.

Fifty thousand! Two hundred thousand! Three hundred thousand! Four hundred thousand!

Lei Yunrong has been increasing the price, but Dan Brecklin has never wanted to let go.

Lei Yunrong also realized that he seemed a little too impatient and exposed his needs. He took a deep breath and said firmly:

"A half a million US dollars, this is my final price. If you don't agree, I can only give up."

Looking at Lei Yunrong's eyes, Dan Brecklin knew that this might be his bottom line, so he simply said:

"make a deal!"

When Lei Yunrong heard Dan Brecklin agreeing, he felt relieved. If he still insisted on $600,000, Lei Yunrong would also agree in the end. However, it seems that although he is smart, he is still relatively young now.

"Dan, I am worthy of being a top student at Harvard Business School. I actually spent $500,000 to buy your software."

Lei Yunrong spread his hands and showed a very helpless expression.

"Mr. Allen, I believe that my software will definitely have a huge boost to your future release of personal computers, and this is not expensive."

Although the "visual computing" software is still in the fermentation stage of reputation, its sales are getting better and better. So far this month, more than 200 copies have been sold, each serving of 150 US dollars, and the monthly sales are 30,000 US dollars, and 500,000 US dollars is equivalent to about a year of sales. What's more, this is just the current sales volume, and the subsequent monthly sales will definitely get higher and higher, so in Brecklin's opinion, it is really not expensive.

"Okay, I hope it's a great value for money!" Lei Yunrong shook hands with Dan Brecklin.

Lei Yunrong wanted to go back to prepare for the copyright buyout contract. The two brought their respective lawyers in the afternoon and then signed a formal transfer contract.

Although Dan Breckling and his classmate Bob Frankston were also excellent, Lei Yunrong did not invite them.

It’s not that they think they are too smart, but that such a pride in heaven may not look down on the small temple of Honor Electronics. What’s more, Honor Electronics’ Silicon Valley laboratory has not been established yet, and it is even more impossible for others to join, so Lei Yunrong did not bring shame on himself.

Watching Dan Brecklin leave, Lei Yunrong smiled at the corner of his mouth.

The "visual computing" software is actually not very useful to Honor Electronics. The company is already developing faster and more complete table software.

Historically, Apple's Mark Curla also saw the value of "visual computing" software at a glance. When he came to the door to acquire it, Dan Blecklin offered a price of one million US dollars, but Mark Curla's reserve price was 800,000 US dollars, so he felt that it was not worth giving up the acquisition.

When Honor Electronics’ personal computer is launched, Lei Yunrong wants Apple people to know that Apple computers are no longer the best personal computer, and the apple they will be released next year is a big pit and has been proven to be a failed product by the market.

At that time, Honor Computer will definitely take advantage of some of the market.

Spending 500,000 US dollars to harm others and not benefit oneself, Lei Yunrong said there was no pressure.

Money is so willful!

In the afternoon, with the cooperation of lawyers from both parties, Lei Yunrong and Dan Bleeklin successfully signed a software copyright transfer agreement.

To achieve the main purpose of this trip to Boston, Lei Yunrong did not wait long and took the earliest flight back to San Francisco. In Boston, I don’t know if it was a psychological effect, but it made him feel a little uncomfortable anyway.

Shortly after returning to San Francisco, Lei Yunrong heard good news that Wayne Ratliff promised to join Honor Electronics.

This made Lei Yunrong feel better, but because the procedures for Honor Electronics’ Silicon Valley R&D laboratory have not yet been completed and even the office space has not been found, he asked Wayne Ratliff to take a few days off to accompany his parents and come to join the company in a week.

However, just when Lei Yunrong was in a good mood, a bad news came.

"Lei Sheng, the colleague who was sent to DRI company to negotiate just reported that the negotiation progress between them and the other party was very unsatisfactory, and the other party refused to provide patent authorization!" Lu Yujuan came to report.

Lei Yunrong frowned. He didn't expect that the simplest thing he thought had happened, but he didn't take it seriously:

"Call our colleagues back, I have another way."

"I really asked them back?" Lu Yujuan asked in a little surprise.

"Don't worry, the mountain man has his own trick!" Lei Yunrong kept a secret and smiled mysteriously.
Chapter completed!