Silicon Valley

"You look at these materials first, so that you can understand the situation of the company."

Henry smiled, asked Helen Wheeler to sit down, and handed her a document.

Helen Wheeler nodded in response, and carefully took over the information file.

Seeing that she was sitting there uneasy, Henry said, "In the future, your main job is to help me organize my daily documents and remind me of some important things. By the way, your office is on the right side of my office, and you can always be on call. There. Well, you go to browse the information now, and then we go out to dinner together."

Helen looked to the right, and there was a small room with exquisite and elegant decoration, separated by glass windows. Hearing Henry instructing her to browse the information, she immediately responded, then stood up and prepared to walk over.

"Wait a moment!"

Helen suddenly stopped in her footsteps, turned around and asked, "Chairman, what do you need to tell me?"

"This is the mobile phone that the company assigned you, you should take it first." Henry handed over a "brick" mobile phone, the latest model from Motorola, which cost three or four thousand dollars. Henry didn't have a mobile phone himself. It was very inconvenient to take this thing out. It couldn't fit in his pocket. He had to hold it in his hand all the time. Henry provided his full-time driver with a mobile phone. If anyone wanted to contact Henry, they would call the driver. However, this is not very convenient. Fortunately, a personal secretary has been recruited now. If you have something to look for yourself, let them call the secretary.

Helen was taken aback, the company's treatment was so good, and she was equipped with a mobile phone as soon as she went to work!

"Thank you, Chairman."

"Go, get acquainted with the company as soon as possible." Henry finished, looking down at the document.

This document is about the establishment of Global Online, which has begun to take shape. The e-mail development team, the website development team, the news and entertainment editorial department, and other jobs, have recruited a total of 95 people.

Henry's positioning for Global Online is an online service, and what is more powerful than a portal website? America Online, which simply provides their service functions, has not yet developed to the level of a portal. In the previous life, AOL and Yahoo were the two largest portals at that time.

Indeed, it is a bit early to develop a portal at this time. First, there are fewer netizens, and secondly, there are fewer websites. But this does not prevent Henry from turning the global online into a portal. Just imagine, compared to an ordinary website and a portal website, who is more prominent and who is more popular with netizens? Without a doubt, of course the portal.

While Global Online is a portal website, it also provides various online service functions such as e-mail, which can completely beat AOL!

However, to be a portal website, you need to know which websites have more traffic and are more popular, so as to better provide users with the most accurate services. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a software to count the traffic of each website.

Alexa is a website dedicated to publishing website world rankings in the past life. They developed a software AlexaToolbar (Alexa Toolbar), which is a tool embedded in Microsoft's IE browser, which sends Alexa messages when users visit each web page. Return a code to tell Alexa about the visit. On the toolbar, users will see the ranking information of the websites they browse among all websites in the world.

Therefore, it is necessary for Global Online to develop a software similar to the Alexa toolbar.

So, before Global Online was officially launched, Henry began to tell them to develop an Alexa software. After Henry explained to Gilly Hurt, it was almost half past five. At this moment, most of the company's employees had already left work.

Seeing that Helen was reading and reciting the materials seriously, Henry walked over and shouted, "Helen, it's time for get off work, let's go to dinner together."

"Chairman, I... I can't accompany you to dinner."

"What's wrong?"

"I have to go home to take care of my mother."

Henry suddenly realized, how could he forget this!

"Well, then you go home first."

"Thank you, Chairman." Helen said happily, "Then I'll take my leave first!"

"Okay. Oh, wait a minute!"

Helen looked at Henry suspiciously.

At this moment, Henry took out a stack of money from the drawer and handed it to her: "This is the company's advance payment of one-third of your salary."

"Chairman, thank you so much!!!" Helen took the money and couldn't help crying.

Henry smiled and handed you a tissue: "Then you can work hard in the future, and don't let the boss down! Come on, quickly wipe your tears, or you will be seen by others. They will say that I 'bully' the newcomer secretary!"

"Thank you, Chairman!"

"Go home quickly, your mother may be in a hurry."

Helen nodded, turned and left, walking lightly, like a cheerful lark.

Henry shook his head and said with a smile: "I still have the mentality of an uncle, does the girl control it?"

...

In the following week, Henry and Helen got along relatively well. Helen was a very hard-working person and worked very hard. The progress is remarkable, although sometimes mistakes are made due to inexperience.

Henry learned from her conversation that her father abandoned his wife and daughter in his early years and did not know where to go, and his mother raised her with hard work, and finally got a serious illness and was bedridden all day. Henry gave her a salary advance of three thousand dollars, which was basically spent on medical expenses. She didn't buy new clothes, she didn't buy cosmetics, she didn't wear high heels, she was just like Henry when he first met her, pure and innocent like Cinderella in the country.

It's just that Helen now has a lot of smiles on her face, and she is also a lot more confident!

The end of 1987 was approaching, and the company had to pay taxes again. Henry thought about Helen's mother, and then thought about the United States to do charity to avoid taxes. Thought: Doing charity is better than paying taxes! Doing charity is not only tax avoidance, but also famous, which has a great effect on improving the corporate image!

Subsequently, Henry asked Cisco to set up a charitable fund. Although the annual financial report has not yet come out, Henry roughly estimated that Cisco's sales this year exceeded 100 million US dollars, and it must pay a lot of taxes. Henry negotiated with the Posac couple, only notified Sequoia Capital, and regardless of whether they agreed or not, the Cisco Charity Foundation was established. Subsequently, Cisco donated 10 million US dollars to go in.

Henry pushed the boat and listed Helen's mother as the first charity object. For Henry, helping Helen's mother is a trivial matter, but for the Helen family, it is a great favor!

Suddenly one day, Helen ran to Henry's office crying. Henry was stunned when he saw her pear blossoms with rain, and hurriedly asked, "Why are you crying?"

"Chairman, my mother got help from a certain charity fund. I was so happy that I cried." Helen said excitedly. The documents Henry gave him were only the information of Nicholas Group, Henry's other properties, She hasn't touched it yet, but soon she will!

"Okay, since you're happy, you should smile more. Get ready and help me call Gilly Hurt in."

"Okay, Chairman."

It didn't take long for Gilly Hurt to arrive.

Helen gave Gilly Hurt a cup of coffee, and Gilly Hurtmin took a sip and said with a smile, "Miss Helen's coffee-making skills are increasing every day."

Helen's face flushed, and she quickly retreated.

Henry shook his head speechlessly, this Gilly Hurt always likes to joke.

"Geely, when will Global Online be officially launched?"

Gilly Hurt said: "It is expected to be January 1 next year."

Henry calculated that it was already November, just over a month. Afterwards, Henry and Gilly Hurt discussed some specific problems encountered and the direction of future development.

In the afternoon, Henry's office phone rang. It was from Bob Gallagher. For Noah's Ark Company, Henry is a sheep-herding management, although the company's CEO Bob Gallagher, as for the specific details of the company, Henry does not know much. After so long, there should also be good news for the development of web servers.

Henry was a little excited, and quickly answered the phone, Bob Gallagher's powerful voice with a hint of excitement came from the other end of the phone!

"Chairman, we have developed a web server!!!!"

"Very good!!! You guys are doing very well!" Henry praised, "Well, I'll go over right now, I'm going to witness the world's first web server with my own eyes!"

"OK!"

Henry hung up the phone, then called to Helen's office: "Helen, let's go out now."

"Okay, Chairman, I'll come right away!"

After more than an hour by car, I arrived at Noah's Ark Company. Bob Gallagher and some of the company's management were already outside to greet Henry.

"Welcome Chairman!"

Henry nodded, and then led by Bob Gallagher, visited the web server in the lab.

This web server is a small computer, much larger than an ordinary computer. The unix system is used, and the processor is Intel's 16-bit processor 8086. The server's shape is rack-mounted. As for the blade server, because the technology has not been conquered, it cannot be used for the time being. Under the operation and explanation of the staff, Henry gradually understood the relevant functions of this web server.

First of all, the reliability is greatly enhanced, and the website using the web server will not easily crash; secondly, it is easier to manage the website in the background through the web server; finally, it also has a certain "scalability", for example, a web server cannot support the website's Huge traffic, you can add new web servers to divide the pressure!

This server is quite mature enough to be brought to market.

Henry was very satisfied, praised everyone on the spot, and then named the server.

"Just call it Web Ark One!"

Thus, the name of the world's first web server was born, it is called Web Ark One! ! !

In the evening, Henry invited everyone to have dinner at the most expensive hotel in the area.

After the web server came out, the first user was Nicholas Group Company. As a major shareholder of Noah's Ark, Nicholas's price for purchasing the server was naturally the internal price. Bob Gallagher suggested selling each web server for $100,000, with an internal price of $60,000 and a cost of $50,000. Nicholas Group bought five in one go. Cisco also bought it, but they needed less and only bought one! (Please help to vote...)

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