After more than ten days of repeated discussions and negotiations, Snapdragon and Defengjie finally reached an investment consensus. One party independent of IDE and established a subsidiary called Ath1on in Silicon Valley, with a valuation of US$40,000, while the other party invested US$80,000, accounting for 20% of the shares. Jennifer came to Seattle to pick up Du Qiu this time to show sincerity and specially invited him to sign an agreement in Silicon Valley.??

As for Jenny Kiyomizu, it is said that she just took a plane home. Two years ago, she was just a motorcycle repairman in San Jose. One evening, she was riding a motorcycle and taking her girlfriend out for a ride, and was discovered by a scout. Then she became famous with her unique neutral temperament and became a supermodel.

Most people who have a male and female appearance and a female appearance have unique temperaments and unique characteristics. If Du Qiu was a scout, she would also find Jenny Qingshui. Her appearance has nothing to do with the beauty in the traditional sense, but her facial features, temperament and behavior can be impressive and unforgettable at first sight. For example, the movie I watched before traveling through time, I even forgot my name, but I can still recognize this face after more than ten years.

Jennie Shimizu is generous and lively. In the saying goes, she is a typical tomboy. Xu Yongrui is curious about her. After getting on the plane, they chatted nonstop. Jennifer talked with Du Qiu about business. Xu Yongrui was unwilling to work in the United States. Du Qiu signed the contract and was about to return to China. Therefore, the two parties agreed to let Jennifer, who has an MBA degree, serve as a temporary BSP in Long Company; "Charlie Jackson, born in 1948, is 47 years old, and has a dual master's degree in Near Eastern Culture Studies and Linguistics. From 1972 to 1976, he served in the US Navy Team 6. In 1984, he founded the private 1i-beah software company, which was acquired in 1990, and in 1993, he founded Futureave Software Company with Jonathan Guy. The company's main product is a software that uses an electronic pen to draw on a computer, but it is not successful."

Du Qiu took the character profile from Jennifer, looked at the photos above, and smiled and joked: "Is the news accurate this time?"

"Auto, I'm sorry for the last mistake. Please don't mention it again, okay?"

"I'm just a joke, I won't mention it anymore."

Last time she took a private jet to Silicon Valley, Jennifer said that a startup called vermeer was working on frontpage. In fact, the news was when she was a reporter at Red Herring magazine. She happened to hear her colleagues say that. She only knew the general and did not know the details. Du Qiu only knew that frontpage was a product acquired by Microsoft, but she didn't know where it was acquired. She also thought vermeer was a small company, so she asked Chen Dayou to investigate to see if she could acquire it for her own use. It didn't matter if she didn't investigate, and she was shocked when she was investigated.

Vermeer is indeed a startup company. It was founded in 1994, but it is very strong. The founder is very famous. He is named Charles Ferguson. He is already 40 years old. He is a postdoctoral fellow at MIT. He not only provides strategic consultation for the management of major companies such as Apple, Motorola, and Texas Instruments, but also serves government departments such as the White House, the Department of Defense, and the Trade Representative Office. The company has received investments from several venture capital companies with a valuation of tens of millions of dollars, which is not something Snapdragon can acquire.

Jennifer had just changed from a reporter to an investment banking manager at that time, and had not yet fully entered the state. He could only be considered an unintentional mistake after saying it casually. Du Qiu teased a little and let it go, pointing to another person's name on the file, and asked: "Where is this Jonathan Guy's information?"

"Jonathan Guy, born in 1967, is 28 years old, a computer genius. He graduated from Harveymd College. When he was a high school student in 1985, he worked for Charlie Jackson's private 1i-beah. The two are very close." Jennifer did not have a profile of this person, but just said verbally: "He has relatively few shares in Futureave and is focused on technical work and is not interested in management. If you want to acquire, you only need to talk to Charlie Jackson."

Du Qiu scratched Jonathan Guy's name with his fingers and asked, "Does there any other employees in this company?"

"In addition to Charlie Jackson and Jonathan Guy, there are three others, one vice president of marketing, one programmer, and one painter." Jennifer spread his hands and asked, "Aut doesn't know why you wanted to acquire this company. Handwriting input sounds beautiful, but there is no market. Go, Apple and Microsoft's products are not successful, and futureave is the same, with almost no sales."

"I don't want their handwriting drawing software, what I want is the company's technology in vector drawing."

“What is a vector drawing?”

"In computer graphics, geometric elements based on mathematical equations such as dots, straight lines or polygons are used to represent images called vectors and bitmaps represented by pixels..." Du Qiu introduced the basic concepts and erected the file and displayed: "Jennifer, you regard this piece of paper as a web page, such as Defengjie's homepage. If there is a video on it in addition to text and pictures, showing the company's management structure or investment process, do you think it would be better?"

"Of course."

"The Internet is too slow now. Traditional videos are too large and it is difficult to open on a web page, so the best choice is to make the video into vector animation." Du Qiu clicked on the company name on the file and said: "I plan to combine the vector drawing technology of this company with T to make a product that specializes in vector animation, and cooperate with Ide private gn to make the web page more colorful. I plan to call this new product f1ash."

That's right, what Du Qiu wants to acquire now is the famous F1 Fruit he won't take action. This small company called futureave will be acquired by EIA next year and then rename the product to f1ash.

Don’t talk much about the importance of f1ash. Every netizen knows that the trend of vector animation was set off at the beginning of the century, changed the online video playback pattern around 2oo6 years, and created the era of web games around 2oo8 years. The momentum did not begin to decline until the emergence of html5.

In the original time and space, when Du Qiu first started to come into contact with the Internet, when f1ash animation was popular all over the country, works such as "Rock on the New Long March", "Northeastern People Are Living Lei Feng", "Little Little" and other works all caused a sensation. Naturally, he could not avoid the vulgarity. He followed the trend and learned to do a lot of animation MVs, thus remembering a person's name, Jonathan Guy, the father of f1ash.

The f1ash animation was gone when Du Qiu was in high school. The name has long been forgotten after traveling through time. Just like Jenny Qingshui, it is hidden deep in her brain and doesn't pay attention to it at all. Only when she encounters it will suddenly remember it. He can remember to acquire f1ash, just like rea1p1ayer, both from Marin Eller's big mouth.

In 1989, a company called Go in Silicon Valley developed a handwriting input system, which aroused the interest of many users and the media. They all believed that handwriting input would replace the keyboard and optimistically predicted that by 1995, the market for handwriting input system would exceed 100 million US dollars, so many companies invested heavily in this field, including Microsoft, the person in charge of this project at that time was Marin Eller.

Marin Eller made a fool of himself and sent an undercover agent to take a micro camera to listen to Go's technical speech, secretly photographed the technology they demonstrated, and then copied it and made a similar product. He used the advantage of the operating system to sell it to hardware manufacturers such as HP, Ne, and Toshiba. He only spent 40,000 US dollars to defeat Go, which cost 750,000 US dollars to develop the product.

However, the efficiency of handwriting input is too low, far from being compared with keyboards. In the early 1990s, touch screen technology was not mature. Without smartphones and tablets, handwriting input application range was very small and sales were not ideal. By 1995, let alone a billion-dollar market, oo-10,000 US dollars might not be available. Therefore, many companies suffered a big loss, but compared with Apple and ibm, Microsoft was the one with the least losses.

Marin Eller was very proud of his brilliant achievements back then, so he has always been paying attention to this field. He has a 9-year-old daughter who usually likes to draw. When he celebrated his birthday in early July, he bought a set of handwritten painting software produced by Futureave as a gift. Du Qiu saw it. During the chat, he heard Jonathan Guy's name, and combined with Microsoft and drawing software, he suddenly remembered f1ash.

Although f1ash was made by a small company, it was attracted by Microsoft as soon as it filled the market gap. It was used to make an animation video of how to use msn network and put it on the official website to display it. The effect was very ideal. So I wanted to acquire it, but it was first published by EIA for US$50,000. It was rumored that Microsoft wanted to retake EIA in anger, but it was plagued by antitrust lawsuits and did not dare to take action. I had to copy a similar product itself. Unfortunately, it was not competitive with f1ash and there was no wave.
Chapter completed!