However, Zhang Zhonghua has not considered how much land he needs until now. Moreover, the area of Silicon Valley is not really large in the traditional sense. In fact, land is very cheap now. Zhang Zhonghua can buy large tracts of land casually if he is willing.
However, he considered that if the enclosure was too big, it might affect the development of Silicon Valley. If the enclosure was too small, he felt a little unwilling to do so. Chou Country is privately owned, and private property is sacred and inviolable.
The salary of ordinary workers in Ugly Country now exceeds US$300, while college graduates’ starting salary for working in a company is basically US$500, and computer talents’ starting salary is US$800.
Compared with the wages in London, they are not that high. However, there is only one London in the world. Although the sun has set, the afterglow is still there. There are not many places in the world where the average salary is higher than that in London.
Of course, New York is much higher than London.
“I plan to acquire 1,000 acres of land in Santa Clara and plan to invest a total of US$50 million to establish the company headquarters.
Moreover, my company has reached a new cooperation with IBM and will increase investment in Santa Clara County in the future."
Zhang Zhonghua simply introduced to Rudy Hoffman, "There are too many details and you don't understand. In short, you only need to understand one thing. I have money and I want to invest, and it is 50 million US dollars in Santa Clara."
Just enclose the land.
1,000 acres of land is neither too big nor too small. The office buildings, test fields, and factories built there are all three floors at most. Currently, there are no companies in Silicon Valley with more than five floors.
Rudy Hoffman was shocked and excited by Zhang Zhonghua's generosity. Not to mention the land purchase price of 1,000 yuan, the new company would have to pay taxes in Santa Clara. There was another company under his rule.
big company.
He decided in his heart that he must meet Zhang Zhonghua's request and provide convenience, and he must not let the 50 million investment go away.
"No problem, there are many large areas of land in Santa Clara. Is there anything Mr. Zhang Zhonghua is interested in?"
Rudy Hoffman asked.
"Well, it's right over at Redwood Beach. I asked someone to inspect this place. It's still an orchard there. It seems to be easier to take over the land there."
Redwood Beach is the future Oracle headquarters, and opposite is the Intel headquarters. Now that it has its own YH database, there is no need for this Oracle to appear in the future.
After almost ten years, computer chips and memories will be almost developed. By then, yh Software Company will be able to develop a second-generation database and continue to develop new software, making yh a software giant.
However, in the short term, Zhang Zhonghua has no plans to enter the computer hardware industry. This is the core industry of the country. Zhang Zhonghua will not challenge the core industry of the country in the country. Even if the computer is developed, it will only be located on Hong Kong Island.
If you want to enter the computer hardware industry in China, you still have to wait a few years.
Later, Toshiba's storage, chips, lithography machines, etc. in the semiconductor industry were inferior to Ugly's technology companies in many aspects. They were so good that they were so good. However, they were forced to disband in 1986. At the end of the 20th century, Ugly was
Just so domineering.
"The Redwood Beach area is indeed very suitable. Our county government will help you get the orchard.
There is the Stanford Research Park in Santa Clara, which temporarily provides office space. Once the company is established, it can be moved here directly.
We in Santa Clara will provide you with sufficient convenience and strive to build the company and factory as soon as possible."
Rudy Hoffman agreed readily.
"Okay, thank you very much to County Magistrate Rudy Hoffman. How much money will it take to purchase the land where the orchard is located?"
Zhang Zhonghua chatted with Santa Clara County Mayor Rudy Hoffman for an hour and then left, leaving only a Swiss bank check for US$11 million. It didn't matter if it was a small amount, as much should be given to Santa Clara County.
A little benefit.
Finally, a piece of land has been circled here in Silicon Valley. Compared with the companies that will come out of workshops and garages in the future, the start is very different.
After Zhang Zhonghua left the Santa Clara County Government with his security guards, he drove to the industrial park of Stanford University. He had to find an office space and set up YH Software Company first.
If we wait until the ix system launch conference begins to find an office location, it will be too late. We need to start training relevant talents now. It will take at least two or three months to learn new computer languages.
Stanford University is located in Palo Alto, in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area. The industrial park of Stanford University is in Palo Alto, which is only a ten-minute drive away.
"Boss, the place here is not big. It is surrounded by mountains on both sides and looks like a valley."
Zhang Long said.
"The place is indeed not big, but the environment here is still relatively good. The mountains to the west just block the typhoons coming from the Pacific Ocean, so it is very suitable for human habitation."
Zhang Long is right, this is a valley. The name Silicon Valley was first proposed in 1971. Intel and AMD have not yet been established, so of course it cannot be called Silicon Valley.
Silicon Valley in the traditional sense originally only included the Santa Clara Valley, which is mainly located in Santa Clara County in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, including a valley of about 25 miles from Palo Alto City under the county to the county capital of San Jose;
Later, it gradually expanded to include Santa Clara County, some cities in San Mateo County in the southwest San Francisco Bay Area, and some cities in Alameda County in the east San Francisco Bay Area.
Of course, Silicon Valley is not the name of an administrative division. There is no place named Silicon Valley on the map.
When talking about Stanford Industrial Area, we have to talk about Stanford University.
In the late 1940s, Stanford University faced a major problem: the school was too big and the land utilization rate was very low. How to make the university's land profitable so that it could use the income to hire some world-class professors and enhance the school's academic reputation?
, and move towards world-class universities.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! But there were regulations on donating the land, and the land could not be sold at all. Fred Terman and President Sterling agreed to use Stanford's land to establish an industry-university university.
High-tech industrial zone.
In 1951, under his promotion, Stanford University set aside about 579 acres of part of the campus land near Palo Alto to establish the Stanford Industrial Park, where it built research institutes, laboratories, office buildings, etc.
The world's first university industrial zone was born, making money by leasing land to Stanford University.
Stanford University Industrial Park, there are many small companies in the park, HP also came out of here, driving the development of the park.
Every year, countless young people with dreams come to the park to start businesses, and they all hope to become a Fortune 500 company like HP. After all, who doesn’t aspire to become a billionaire?
Zhang Zhonghua came to the office center of the industrial park and met the person in charge of the park, Stanford University, who was in charge of the Stanford Industrial Park.
Zhang Zhonghua still had a little regret not being able to meet Fred Terman, the father of the electronic revolution and Silicon Valley, this time.
"Hello professor, my name is Zhang Zhonghua, and I would like to rent an office on the Stanford campus."
Zhang Zhonghua said politely.
"Hello Zhang Zhonghua, welcome to the Stanford University Park, not to mention your database software. Now we at Stanford are using your yh database and teaching materials. Your rental office in the Stanford Industrial Park is an honor for our Stanford Industrial Park
, then may I ask how much office space you need?”
Zhang Zhonghua is now a super rich man, so he should have a temporary office here. He won't be able to set up a company in half a year.
Moreover, if Zhang Zhonghua's company is established here, it should attract many professors and graduate students from nearby universities. For students and professors majoring in computer science, being able to participate in the development and maintenance of databases is also something to be proud of.
"The office doesn't need to be big, it just needs to be able to accommodate 500 employees. I developed a server system and a computer language that requires a lot of talent to maintain."
Zhang Zhonghua introduced the nature of the company and briefly talked about the cooperation with IBM. It is necessary to pull the tiger's skin and raise the banner. Although his name is still very useful, it is far less good than IBM's.
Yes, IBM is the super giant.
The person in charge was deeply shocked after hearing what Zhang Zhonghua said. He developed a banking system specifically for his own bank. He found that the current computer language and system were not good enough, so he invented the ix system. It was like a ghost.
The person in charge of the Stanford Industrial Park was astonished by Zhang Zhonghua. He felt that Zhang Zhonghua was a god born for computer programs.
Now there is another computer language in the world. There seem to be too many computer languages. There have been quite a few computer languages released in the past few years.
Students majoring in computer science are probably going to have to add another course. What a bunch of poor kids.
"Of course there is no problem. Stanford Industrial Park can meet all your needs. There are many independent three-story buildings in the park that meet your requirements.
The supporting facilities are very convenient, and there are sales offices for various office products nearby, where you can purchase most of the equipment the company needs.
Mr. Zhang Zhonghua, let me help you choose an office first..."
The person in charge introduced the park's supporting facilities to Zhang Zhonghua. All major brand computer companies have specialty stores, not to mention printers and the like. Even Lou's office desks and chairs are sold.
The person in charge was obviously being modest when he said that most of the equipment can be purchased.
Zhang Zhonghua followed the person in charge around the park. The Stanford Industrial Park was similar to the later Internet Industrial Park. It was non-standard and convenient, and there were not many procedures.
In the end, Zhang Zhonghua chose a three-story company with an office area of about 2,500 square meters and 500 people, which was enough to meet the needs. Of course, the rent was neither expensive nor cheap.
Zhang Zhonghua finalized the office matters and started walking around the park. There were many cafes and restaurants for eating.
At noon, Zhang Zhonghua led a group of people into the Maidao Lao restaurant. This was the first time he had walked into Maidao Lao after returning to this era and coming to Chou Country for so long.
Today's Maidao Lao restaurants don't offer much food, they are all the usual French fries, fish sandwiches, Big Macs, hot apple pie, etc. Of course, Maidao Lao has also copied many CFC snacks.
Nowadays, the burger restaurants in Chou Country mainly include Burger Chef, Burger King, KFC, etc. There are about 150 to 200 stores. The renovation speed cannot keep up and they have begun to authorize franchise stores;
The burger giant Knife Lao has already been listed on the market and has begun its rapid expansion. It is estimated that it will cover the whole country in the next two years, and then enter the European and Japanese markets, and start a one-on-one solo with CFC who is waiting for work.
However, according to the results of the investigation conducted by Zhang Zhonghua, although the turnover and profit of a single store of Daolao Restaurant are quite high, they are still far less than those in Japan and the United Kingdom.
After all, the territory of Ugly Country is too large, and the residents live too scattered, so the number of people covered by each store is limited.
"Boss, the Big Mac burger that Ma Daolao launched last year is a complete copycat of our group's Big Mac set meal!"
Zhang Long discovered the problem as soon as he came in and said to Zhang Zhonghua angrily.
Zhang Long's words made Zhang Zhonghua very embarrassed. In fact, most of the burgers in the CFC restaurant are the product of the combination of Dao Lao and KFC. This one was copied by him.
But now that Zhang Zhonghua’s cfc is released first, it’s a knife seller who copied him!!!
However, CFC Restaurant did launch the Big Mac set meal in the UK first, and there is no patent on this thing, so there is no way to sue.
"However, McDonald's fish sandwich is too unpalatable, and this hot apple pie is not as delicious as our egg tarts, so the labor of selling the knife is nothing to worry about."
Zhang Zhonghua said with a smile.
After Zhang Zhonghua and everyone had lunch, they went to the IBM store. He couldn't figure out the computer development program and had to purchase an IBM industrial machine.
Zhang Zhonghua negotiated with the store manager for half an hour and ordered two IBM 360 system top-end computers, as well as some medium-sized and small industrial machines.
The database software is definitely free and the system money is saved a lot, but the compression software does cost money.
"Boss, IBM is too shady. A set of compression software is sold for $250."
Zhang Long said depressedly.
He felt that this compression software was developed by the boss himself, and now he still had to spend money to buy it.
"A computer costs 3 million U.S. dollars, and ordinary computers also start with U.S. dollars. The compression software is nothing, and the compression software has been sold to IBM, so we will spend money to buy it."
At Zhang Zhonghua's call, the Yuhuang Electrical Appliances Branch in Los Angeles quickly sent three administrative staff to help Zhang Zhonghua handle various matters.
With the help of these three people, Zhang Zhonghua, who was busy setting up the company, immediately felt a lot more relaxed. He left the purchase of office equipment to these three people.
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At the same time, IBM engineers came to YH Software Company to start building a network. Dec Company's PDP small computer must be connected to an industrial computer before it can be used. If we only rely on the configuration of PDP-8, it is better not to waste everyone's time.
