"Helen, what's the matter?" Henry took the mobile phone handed over by Sean and spoke.
"Chairman, Dell CEO Michael Dell called just now, and he said that Dell is going to be officially listed on the Nasdaq on August 1st!"
"Okay, I know!"
Henry hung up the phone, turned to Sean Houston and said, "Drive!"
"Mr. Williams, where are you going?"
"Come back home!"
After half an hour, Henry returned home.
The night darkened, Henry took a bath and lay on the bed in his pajamas. Although it was eleven or twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, Henry still couldn't sleep. He felt annoyed when he thought of what happened today. He got up, turned on the computer, browsed the website at random, and suddenly found a post in the bbs forum of Stanford University, titled "FTP file retrieval software Isearch".
After Henry opened it, he looked at it and was shocked at that time!
This FTP file search software Isearch is a search software developed by several Stanford University students. It is a searchable list of FTP file names. Users must enter the exact file name to search, and then Isearch will tell the user which FTP address is available. Download this file. Henry was shocked because although Isearch is not a search engine yet, from the perspective of its working principle, it is the ancestor of all search engines!
Global Online has no search function yet, and design similar to search box has not yet started! Global Online now simply hangs up some websites with relatively large traffic!
Henry read this post very carefully, and silently wrote down the contact information of the person who posted it.
The next day, Henry went to Stanford University. For Stanford University, Henry was very familiar with him, he didn't need to ask for directions, he just looked for the address, and found the person he was looking for after thirty minutes.
The two college students who developed the Isearch software are both junior students of the Department of Computer Science, but these two people are not in the same class, but they came together because of a computer project in the school, and both of them are not simple, they belong to the school. Man of the wind!
One is Bill Joyce and the other is Luke Stowe. Bill Joyce was a little shy and didn't talk much, but Luke Stowe was very talkative. Henry learned through chatting that Bill Joyce is a mathematical genius, extremely sensitive to numbers and proficient in algorithms, and Luke Joyce is a computer genius with an extremely high level of programming. For such talents, Henry directly told them his intentions.
"Bill, Luke, I am going to set up an Internet search company, and would like to ask you two to help me!"
Bill and Luke don't know Henry's identity. Through conversations, they only know that he is very knowledgeable in computers, and his search is very emotional. They are like fellows! It's just that Henry is too young to start a company at all, and it is difficult to see the company's hopes of profitability only by the search function. In view of these two issues, Bill and Luke therefore did not immediately agree.
"Henry, I advise you not to open such a company, I am afraid it will go bankrupt soon!" Luke shook his head and said.
"It's okay, I'm not afraid of bankruptcy. What's more, the company will not go bankrupt. Maybe it will become a super company that attracts the world's attention in the future!" Henry said with a smile.
Bill and Luke looked at each other and shook their heads, obviously not optimistic about the future of the search company. It's no wonder that the same mathematics and computer geniuses, why googl founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin can become legends! Talent is very important, interest is very important, but vision and unwavering determination are also very important!
Henry smiled, took out two business cards and handed them to them. At this moment, what Henry needs to give them most is confidence!
There are not too many bells and whistles on the business card, just a line of words "Nicholas Group, Cisco, Noah's Ark Chairman Henry Williams"! There are also some chairman's names, Henry did not print on the business card, such as the chairman of Pixar Animation Studios, the chairman of West German Publishing House.
Since he became a shareholder of West German Publishing House, Henry did not get the printing fee from West German Publishing House. Instead, he injected capital into West German Publishing House. Now Henry's shareholding ratio in West German Publishing House has reached 65%. Absolutely holding! In the new round of board elections, Henry was elected chairman of the board with an absolute advantage! As for the ceo position, it is still held by the original Edward Joe.
The "Harry Potter" series of novels are over. Penguin Publishing has paid Henry up to 30 million US dollars in royalties, and "Jurassic Park" also brought Henry 8 million US dollars!
Henry has a total of 60 million U.S. dollars in deposit funds!
60 million dollars, enough Henry to develop the search company.
Bill Joyce and Luke Stowe were shocked when they saw Henry's business card! These three companies are famous, one is the Internet giant, the other is the network equipment giant, and the other is the server giant. Whichever one is taken out alone is very famous, and Henry Williams is actually the chairman of these three companies. This is really too good. Exaggerated! !
But before they could react from the shock, Henry said: "The name of the new company is Isearch, and I will invest 5 million US dollars as the initial capital. If you join, I will give you 5% of the shares. As a reward, if the company develops well, stock options will be given in the future. Whether you are willing to participate, the right to choose is yours."
Although Henry promised to give them 5% of the shares, if the company later raises funds, it will further dilute its shares. Henry's shares will increase again... But if they can compare with the Google founder, Henry doesn't mind giving them more shares.
Bill Joyce and Luke Stowe didn't hesitate at all, they agreed immediately. One is that Henry's name is too loud, and the other is that Henry's conditions for them are also really good. They can't think of any reason to refuse.
"We are willing to join!!" Bill Joyce and Luke Storch said.
Henry smiled, UU reading www.uukanshu.com would be a shame if he couldn't settle the two college students by himself.
Not long after, Bill Joyce and Luke Stoch, two of the Stanford Computer Department figures, dropped out of school and started a business. They founded a company called Isearch in Silicon Valley. The initial scale of the company was small, with only ten people, all of whom were Stanford University students. At the beginning of the establishment of the new company, Henry said: "Our only goal is to lead the Internet search industry!!"
"Everyone knows that Bill Joyce and Luke Stowe made a software called Isearch before. The main function of this software is to retrieve FTP file names and download them. But what we want to do is a search engine, this search engine It can automatically collect information from the Internet, and after sorting it out, it will provide users with a system for querying. Therefore, the main difficulty of doing this search engine is how to collect information from the Internet. The second is how to organize information to obtain high-quality information. . Our search engine must be accurate, fast, and provide users with the most needed information!"
Henry picked up a pen and drew a picture on the blackboard and said: "The Internet is like a spider web. We want to develop a program that can crawl freely on the spider web. The content is read, and these web pages are captured in the system for analysis and put into the database. As for the name of this program, it is called web crawler! Therefore, our current first task is to develop web crawlers!"