Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

San Francisco, U.S.

Santa Clara Valley, also known as Silicon Valley, is so famous that many people don’t know its original name.

Gu Siwei is here now, sitting happily in a grilled steak restaurant, enjoying a meal, holding a grilled steak with both hands, and his mouth is full of oil as he eats.

Gu Siwei originally thought that Chinese food had reached the ceiling, but after eating this steak, Gu Siwei felt that the United States was really not a food desert. Not to mention anything else, just the roast beef in front of him, Gu Siwei was quite satisfied. Really It's delicious, plump and juicy. After one bite, the aroma directly fills your mouth.

I have been to the United States many times, and every time Gu Siwei feels like he was in China decades later, eating French fries, fried chicken, or at most a roadside shop.

There is also steak, but that steak, hey, forget it, let’s not talk about it, it doesn’t taste very good, but today’s grilled steak really surprised Gu Siwei.

"boss!"

Ma Youpeng hurried in from outside, and after entering, he sat opposite Gu Siwei.

"Youpeng, come and try the steak here. It's really good. Americans can't cook anything else. The steak here is so delicious..." Gu Siwei pushed the steak plate in front of Ma Youpeng.

This is not what Gu Siwei has eaten before, but all the meals ordered are together. Everyone can just take what they want to eat. An ordinary restaurant is not a particularly high-end place. Americans are not that particular in the first place. It is natural here. It's more relaxed. Some people say that Chinese people are noisy wherever they go, but Gu Siwei feels that the Americans here are not much better.

"Boss, our U.S. patents have been approved... Both games have been approved. The intellectual property lawyers here are really efficient."

Ma Youpeng first told Gu Siwei the good news he had just received.

The patents that Gu Siwei wants to apply for are almost all global, and they have to be passed by one country after another. Of course, the most important thing is the United States. The first country to conquer the West is also the United States. For example, the first mini-game designed by Gu Siwei this time One of the applicants is the United States, and I am looking for an intellectual property lawyer who specializes in applying for this.

Okay, you can just copy it, that is, the pinball game. Gu Siwei had already asked Ma Youpeng to apply for a patent, and of course it also included several trademarks and so on.

The trademark hasn't come down yet, but the design patent for the game has. One is to play pinball, which is more suitable for current hardware. In essence, it is not much different from the pong game, but it is more playable.

Another one is the famous "Tetris". Gu Siwei doesn't know if this thing can be realized with current hardware, but it is definitely necessary to register at this time, because I don't know when this thing was invented.

In short, strike first and gain the upper hand, strike later and suffer disaster.

"Well, thank you for your hard work," Gu Siwei said.

"Boss, Joe Hawkins will be here soon. He is about ten minutes away from here," Ma Youpeng said.

Gu Siwei hummed, replied that it was still early, and motioned for him to continue eating.

It's not the agreed time yet. Based on Gu Siwei's understanding of Americans, even if they are early, they can't be a few minutes earlier. If the Spaniards are replaced and the appointment is to arrive at ten o'clock, then it will be considered punctual if someone shows up at ten thirty. Eleven It's normal to order people to come. Even if someone shows up, even if it's two hours late, it's considered normal.

As soon as Ma Youpeng took the steak and was about to take a bite, he remembered something again and put the steak down.

Gu Siwei saw it and smiled and said: "Eat quickly. If you have anything to do, wait until after you finish eating. Don't worry, the sky won't fall."

Gu Siwei admires Ma Youpeng's work attitude, but appreciation is appreciation. Gu Siwei is really worried about being so desperate. He is afraid that this person will die young, which will be troublesome. Where can Gu Siwei find such a person again? Go to someone who can use it easily.

Ma Youpeng smiled after hearing this and began to eat the steak.

"It's really good. The gravy is very rich. Only a good restaurant can be found in a good location. If this was placed downstairs of the company, I don't know how popular it would be," Ma Youpeng said.

Gu Siwei laughed loudly after hearing this: "Stop thinking about the company and concentrate on eating."

As he said this, Gu Siwei motioned to the secretary who came in with Ma Youpeng to eat too.

Ma Youpeng eats very slowly and finishes his meal in less than five minutes.

After eating, he wiped his mouth with a tissue and talked about the company with Gu Siwei.

This time I came here not only to interview Joe Hawkins and others, but also to form EA.

It is quite easy to set up an EA. Gu Siwei has a lot of money in his pocket. He came to Silicon Valley to start a business with US dollars. Is anyone in trouble?

There are difficulties and there are no difficulties.

There is no difficulty in having money in your pocket, and you can get the office space you like with a wave of your hand and get the money directly.

Gu Siwei doesn’t consider what the current housing prices are. Anyway, it’s impossible to lose money buying a house at this time. Although Silicon Valley is famous now, it is not the Silicon Valley of the future. No matter how you look at it, housing prices at this time are unlikely to take off. At this time The IT industry is not as violent as it will be in the future.

It has only been two years since the name Silicon Valley was proposed. How can housing prices be so high at this time?

Also, at this time, there was no trace of the personal electronics consumer market at all. Now most of the companies here are big companies like IBM, and there are only a few in total.

At this time, the advantage of Silicon Valley is the nearby university resources, such as Stanford, University of California, Berkeley, and a number of other schools.

At this time, Silicon Valley was not the same Silicon Valley where innovative companies gathered in Zhongshan.

So Gu Siwei, who ran over here, took a look and said, "Hey guys, the housing prices in Silicon Valley are actually not as good as those in downtown San Francisco. Do Americans have such disrespect for the real estate industry in Silicon Valley?"

What else is there to say, buy it!

So in the two days since he came to the United States, Gu Siwei bought a luxury house with a big wave of his hand.

I forgot to mention that there is no trace of the mansion yet. To be precise, Gu Siwei bought a piece of land, not far from Stanford University, and bought a piece of land of about nine acres on the outskirts of the town of Menlo Park. At the moment it is still a semi-wild land that can be used to build houses.

As for how big or how big a house you want to build, the Americans don't care about you. As long as you can afford to pay the property tax, they won't have any problem with you building a palace on this land.

The house hasn't been built yet, but Gu Siwei is dead.

The next step is the office location. Gu Siwei originally brought only a little money and planned to rent an office building and arrange it for EA. But when he got here, he saw that it was not possible. The real estate here in Silicon Valley had to be developed, so he decided to buy it temporarily. land.

Once Gu Siwei made the decision, Ma Youpeng was so busy that he had to allocate funds from the Hong Kong market and negotiate with the seller.

For now, only three plots have been secured, one of which has a house on it. However, it is not an office building, but an old factory. It covers a quite large area. It is a T-shaped building with an overall floor It is about nine meters high, and the first floor is about 800 square meters.

There are two small ancillary buildings next to it, but these two are very small. Each one is similar to a small villa, with more than 200 square meters on the first floor and about 400 square meters on the second floor.

This is Gu Siwei's EA office. It has already started to be renovated. Gu Siwei is not going to make it too complicated. Old America + entrepreneurship should be rough.

So paint the walls, put up a floor of desks, cover the floor with carpet, and install lights above your head, and it’s all set.

At most, the most is to install air conditioning, and happily make money for Lao Gu in the summer.

Now that we have an office, the remaining difficulty is to recruit people. The first person to be hired is Joe Hawkins, the EA manager that Ma Youpeng has always recommended.

This person has quite a lot of work experience. Putting aside other industries, it is a bit nonsense to say that someone in their twenties has rich experience, but in the emerging technology industry, especially in this era, people like Joe Hawkins are really considered industry leaders. old man.

There was also a professional manager recommended by a headhunting company named Ron Hayek.

This person is not an IT person and has no background in the IT industry, but he has good sales results. I don’t know if he is really good or not.

Why Ron Hayek?

First, Gu Siwei didn't believe in the so-called character at all. It was impossible for him to let Joe Hawkins control EA alone. If this was the case, he had no intention of rebelling, and he would have the power.

The second is that Gu Siwei doesn’t really believe that a person who is good at technology can also run a business well. Of course, there are such people, such as Gang Leader Qiao and Musk, but such people can have How much, even if there is, Gu Siwei has no way to use him. He is a dragon, how can he stay in Gu Siwei's pool.

With the two parties decentralizing power, each focusing on their own, coupled with a complete financial system, Gu Siwei believes that most things will be in order. Of course, as the boss, Gu Siwei cannot let go.

Therefore, another trick that Gu Siwei came up with is that the copyright of all games does not belong to EA, but to DreamWorks, and DreamWorks is a company controlled by Marvel, Dabidou Technology, and Google Real Estate.

As for Marvel, the equity is more complicated and the sources of capital are more. On the surface, Gu Siwei only holds 11%, but no one would think that after he lost 11%, others can control Marvel.

Ma Youpeng and Gu Siwei talked about his preliminary plan. The plan was naturally to build a new office building in Silicon Valley. Not all companies are big companies and can buy land and build office buildings, so Gu Siwei I fell in love with the office leasing industry.

Gu Siwei was listening and thinking. Occasionally, when he turned around, he saw Ma Youpeng's secretary picking beans on the plate with a fork.

For some reason, an idea flashed in Gu Siwei's mind, and he remembered another mini game - Pacman!

Suddenly Gu Siwei slapped his forehead: "Oh, why didn't I think of this?"

All of a sudden, Ma Youpeng and the secretary were both shocked.