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There are quite a few people who successfully started their own business in the era of personal computer gold rush and then left the company they set up. Among them, the most well-known of the public may be Jobs, who was swept out by Apple Computer.

Unlike Jobs' tragic departure, Mitchell Carpole, the founder of Lotus Software and the designer of the spreadsheet software Lotus 1-2-3, is a sudden retreat.

Gain, by 1986, he realized clearly that his CEO was no longer adapting to the increasingly strong Lotus Software Company.

It has to be said that some people like the freedom and scattering of "small workshops", while others can display their strengths in a well-organized "big factory".

After Mitchell Carpol abdicated and gave up the wise, he did not persistently set up NeXT and fought against his old boss like Jobs. Instead, like Woz, relying on his accumulated wealth and following his interests, he would do whatever he wanted.

But even if people like them are "idle", their influence cannot be underestimated.

Take Mitchell Carpool for example. In 1990, he donated money to establish an organization aimed at safeguarding the Internet's civil rights - the Electronic Outpost Foundation.

To put it bluntly, the existence of computer underground worlds like hackers has a gap in concept with the government. Once a matter of fact is made, the FBI, the US Secret Service, etc. will almost never follow the law and follow the rules of the law, and then it will often lead to unclear human rights violations.

Mitchell Carpool had personal experiences like this, so when another brother-in-law, John Perry Barlow, complained about similar situations that happened to him in the online community, he immediately felt deeply connected with the other party's like-mindedness, and then, John Gilmore, the fifth employee of Sun Microsystems, founded, jointly invested and founded the Electronic Outpost Foundation.

Since its establishment, this Electronic Outpost Foundation has caused quite a lot of trouble, and has fought two face-to-face lawsuits with the US Secret Service and the US government.

Because it is a non-profit organization, the funding of the Electronic Outpost Foundation mainly relies on donations - in addition to Mitchell Carpool and John Gilmore, there are also IT celebrities like Watz.

It is obvious that compared to the ambition to protect rights, this amount of donations is far from enough.

In particular, the things that the Electronic Outpost Foundation does are very sensitive and are not so easy to attract donations.

On that night, Mitchell Carpool, John Perry Barlow, John Gilmore and others talked about this in the chat room.

John Perry Barlow mentioned something in confusion, "Someone asked me if I accept a Bitcoin donation - who is familiar with this thing?"

With the qualifications of the fifth employee of Sun Microsystems, John Gilmore, who was rich enough to retire early. According to his own interests, he did whatever he wanted, took the lead in answering: "This is an open source electronic currency that has just emerged. It appeared almost at the same time as the P2P download software that appeared overnight in the P2P network. I have already studied its technical white paper, which is quite interesting!"

"The speed of the spread of P2P network can be compared with computer viruses, and so many applications have been created in an instant." Mitchell Carpool sighed and asked, "Who invented this Bitcoin?"

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The following is the anti-D part, updated tomorrow, and ignore it directly.

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Looking at the new .com domain names that registered in one go, with more than their sons, Tang Huan couldn't help but feel funny, because there were Yahoo.com and Amazon.com, among them, such as Yahoo - yahoo.com and Amazon.com. Although the pioneers of operating entities have been established, the business value and prospects still need to be seen, and the .com domain names he registered have not yet been able to take care of.

The richest man, who is a stake in the .com domain name of Xiao Xiami, is suspected of being unkind. In fact, he did not intentionally. After drawing a circle, his subordinates will implement it in detail. We can only blame people such as Jerry Yang and Jeff Bezos for being slow in action. Otherwise, the company has not yet established a company, or the company has not evolved to this name.

Tang Huan, who participated in the angel investment activity at least once every quarter, has long known the website information recruitment service running by a computer running a computer with a network, just under his nose, "Jerry's_Guide_to_the_World_Wide_Web", or "Jerry's Network Guide".

Its founder is also graduate students David Ferro and Jerry Yang, who are doing private work behind their backs.

As Tang Huan expected at the COMDEX Las Vegas Fall Exhibition last year, the number of websites on the World Wide Web this year has increased by more than ten times, reaching more than 10,000 - if this trend continues, it will exceed 100,000 next year, and it will be natural.

The Wanwei Web without authorization fees has soared the number of websites, but it also inevitably brings confusion to Internet users' access - how can people find the part they are interested in during the information explosion?

It is estimated that David Ferro and Jerry Yang's bosses are so generous that they have the time to organize the indexes of these websites for other Internet users to use. They then step on the drum beats of the times by chance. With great popularity, the number of clicks will exceed 1 million.

So, "Jerry's Internet Guide" was changed to the catchy "Yahoo", and in order to distinguish it from the registered trademark of existing products such as barbecue sauce and knives, an exclamation mark was added to the back, which became "Yahoo!", but I forgot to spend $100 to register "yahoo.com".

It has to be said that smart people often have secrets and miscellaneous things, or when people are poor and have short ambitions.

It is not difficult to imagine that Yahoo now has no value in terms of technology, it is just a software "database" that can be customized and can update website index information at any time.

It is no exaggeration to say that the richest man, who has too much capital, is not a matter of looking down on or replacing him with Yahoo, whether he looks down on him or replaces him.

However, he still looked at the seedling quietly, growing with natural ecology and instinct. Because the valuable thing about Yahoo is that it inherently contains a new feasible operating model.

Although the richest man has American Online, the American Online model cannot represent the entire Internet and the World Wide Web.

Although American Online is not as qualified as competitors in the online service field, it is definitely not a problem to be older than Yahoo's previous generation. It was distinguished from the ARPA network in 1983, with the fact that TCP/IP began to become a common protocol.

Due to the lack of resources in the era of Internet pioneering, the operating model of such online services has tried to provide all Internet access content from the beginning, and rented network lines on a large scale, and even built their own network lines, becoming Internet_Service_Provider - an Internet service provider, namely ISP.

Compared with the "hard" mode of American Online, which puts access users in circles, Yahoo represents a "soft" path, that is, because network resources have begun to explode information, it provides the navigation function of the portal website.

Yahoo's main job is to put up a server, maintain its own "website database", and provide an attractive navigation page that occupies access points for the Internet with countless websites without having to rent a line, and control access users in its own website.

To put it more generously or even more politically correct, Yahoo represents freedom and openness, and truly explains the spiritual essence of the Internet.

Of course, this does not mean that the path of the United States Online is wrong, Yahoo's path is right - different stages of the Internet have led to different path choices and operating characteristics. If you copy it, it will only be a dead end.

Moreover, the front row of Yahoo’s website navigation directory is still the mainstream at this stage, so there must be its position.

Under Tang Huan's guidance, the speed at which the United States Online embraces the World Wide Web is many times faster than the competitors of online services, and its path has always been "correct".

But it is impossible to make American Online a more "correct" step and switch to a portal model. Not to mention that the portal model has just emerged, it is impossible to give up the existing content resources of American Online. The online service model has been "correct" to penetrate its genes, and it can only fine-tune its navigation direction with the development of the Internet.

In this case, the extremely new Yahoo is valued to the richest man - it can not only satisfy the layout of not putting eggs in one basket, but also greatly reduce the cost of mastering the portal model.

As for the value of the two graduate students, David Ferro and Jerry Yang, it is similar to James Cameron who is dedicated to filming "Titanic" simply. This persistence in his bones is not easy to find.

You should know that by relying on the power of two people, you can do private work and organize the information of thousands of websites into an index service, but a physical work without enthusiasm will definitely not work.

Tang Huan opened the Yahoo page on his computer and couldn't help but smile—the server placed in David Ferro and Jerry Yang's apartment was probably overwhelmed and was about to go on strike.

Meng Jing, a little cousin who was sorting out information, saw Tang Huan's scheming and complacent expression, and rolled her eyes, "Brother, you have registered so many .com domain names, aren't you afraid that others will say they are bullying the small ones?"

"Silly girl, with these domain names, we can invisibly avoid any fish in the layout." Tang Huan laughed, "When someone comes to ask about the domain name transfer, it is equivalent to a program event triggering, and I don't know how much effort it saves."

Meng Jing nodded suddenly, "Then you have recited the name of Yahoo several times, are you planning to catch this fish that missed the net?"

"Yahoo is not a fish that misses the net, but a fish in my pond." Tang Huan replied playfully: "By the way, Yahoo's clicks are almost over 1 million. It is estimated that the two poor graduate students, David Ferro and Jerry Yang, should have ideas about the commercial value of their works. You can find our alumni immediately and don't let other venture capital take the lead; after this time, arrange for everyone to meet."

"I know." Meng Jing agreed, and then handed over a document. "This year's COMDEX Las Vegas Fall Exhibition is really a rare competition. Not to mention that Sony's Playstation is added in the field of home TV game consoles, just Polestar, a browser software of Zheru Software Company, has a new competitor."

Tang Huan looked at the file and said calmly: "I know that Jim Clark, who left Silicon Valley Graphics, has invested $4 million to establish a small startup company, the browser market. There are not many of them, but not many of them."

"You have repeatedly emphasized to us that competition on the Internet platform is free is a killer move." Meng Jing reminded: "Compared with Polestar's commercial software and the name of promotion, it is temporarily free. Now Netscape_Navigator - Netscape Navigator, once launched the official version of 1.0, it has positioned it as a shared software without hesitation, and it is really free. It is in full force and is not comparable to other competitors."

"Polestar has a leading technology and a first-mover advantage in market share. I am not afraid of Netscape_Navigator's disruption at all." Tang Huan waved his hand with a relaxed expression. "Netscape_Navigator wants to seize market share with free and clean methods. Then I can also use multiple sets of software products to package promotions and secretly subsidize them to spend money to buy others to use Polestar."

Meng Jing smiled and said, "Brother, you have to pay attention. Although Zheru Software was split out and reached an antitrust settlement with the Federal Ministry of Justice, there are still people watching - they are doing too domineeringly and are prone to falling behind."
Chapter completed!