(The new book "The God of Technology" has been released)

In 1993, of course, Gu Ao could not have used it to attack Apple.

After all, he has a big family and a big business, and he already has three companies with a market value of at least 10 billion US dollars once listed.

Xiangji Electric, Tiankun and Wang An. According to Wang An’s latest performance, if you compare horizontally, the popularity of computer stocks in 1993 will exceed US$20 billion. Tiankun is also similar, mainly because Tiankun’s PS game console stock has exceeded 100 million units, which is at least twice as awesome than other major manufacturers in the same period in the original time and space history, so the valuation of US$20 billion is still stable. Xiangji Electric is temporarily lower, worth about 10 billion.

Gu Ao's shares in the above companies range from 40 to 70%, so the personal wealth brought by these three companies alone is close to US$30 billion. If all three companies are listed, Gu Ao will be the second richest man in the United States, second only to Buffett. (Bill Gates will have to wait a few years before Microsoft continues to soar because of WINDOWS, before surpassing Buffett to become the world's richest man. After all, Buffett has benefited from his early debut and is an older generation of rich people. He was very rich in the 1960s and has steadily snowballed for more than 30 years by the mid-1990s)

Of course, if there are a few years later, Gu Ao probably is the richest in the world. After all, Microsoft is based on the title of "open operating system". When this round of Internet fanaticism that lasted for several years, the market was more confident in them, so Microsoft's market value exceeded one trillion US dollars in 1999. Later, it was only so many in 2019, and it only fluctuated a few waves in 20 years.

The first burst of the Internet bubble in this life may be two years earlier. After all, the birth of the Internet was nearly two years earlier, and it can last until about 1998. So Gu Ao estimated that until the bubble burst in 1998, Gates' benefit in obtaining favorable benefits through the confidence of the capital market would definitely be greater than Gu Ao.

At most, Gu Ao and Gates could surpass Buffett at 95/96.

At that time, Gu Ao would still be the second richest person in the world in a low-key manner. Even if the historical inertia is really big enough, even guys like Zhiyuan, will have the opportunity to travel to the top three rich lists on the rich list and pretend to threaten Gu Ao's position. (In history, Yahoo's boss was very arrogant before the bursting of the Internet bubble. If the stock price continued to move according to the fanatical trend at the time, many people thought he would surpass Gates. But in the end it proved that the bubble was just a flash in the pan. Internet stocks from 99 to 2000 were too crazy and too empty)

Gu Ao has a very clear estimate and positioning of himself. He has to wait until the Internet bubble burst in 1998 to reorganize it a little before he can surpass Gates and officially sit on the throne of the world's richest man.

After all, companies like Wang An, Tiankun and Xiangji Electric are more hardware-oriented than Microsoft, and are more heavily in assets and products. When the bubble bursts, their stock price falls and their value evaporates less than Microsoft. Gu Ao can only overtake by reducing write-downs less than Gates.

If anything goes on, it is impossible for anyone to pull him down. Even if according to the original history, Jeff Bezos was able to replace him for 20 years at Gates, Bezos obviously is not qualified to be a farmer in this life.

He will not come down if he goes up. From 1999 to this world, the richest man will be Gu Ao, unless Gu Ao will withdraw from the world one day.

How could such a person with a big family and a big business be used to deal with the slim and mustard disease like Jobs?

Is Jobs worthy?

So for most of the time in 1993, while dealing with apples, Gu Ao also had to drink the first sip of water in the Internet industry and eat crabs.

In terms of software, better browsers, website navigation, and online data search tools (not talking about "search engines", it is to distinguish them from later Google and Duniang, but in fact, these products should have been called search engines in the early days)

With Gu Ao's guidance, Wang'an's company has to occupy a pit in some way. It may not necessarily polish out the largest product in the industry, but with the help of its own platform, it must have the best user experience.

At the same time, Gu Ao also courageously split an application software company from Wang An, increased the holding ratio of China, introduced many domestic partners, and made Alibaba the second largest shareholder of the new company, focusing on becoming a third-party independent software provider—

In a nutshell, the application software manufactured by this software company in the future will not be limited to supplying computers for Wang'an system, but users who use Microsoft's WINDOWS system computers can also use the products of this new software company.

When the company name was first split, it was called Wang'an Software. Later, it was renamed Ali Software, but the name was not important.

When Gu Aogang did this, many of Wang An's elders didn't understand and resisted. How could they cooperate with their opponents?

But Gu Ao knew that the trend of WINDOWS operating system occupies more than 80% of the global user base of personal computers is unstoppable. Even if Wang An in this life has a much stronger strength than Apple in the same period in history, he could not withstand the huge gap between openness and closure.

Therefore, it is better to enter Microsoft's ecosystem and compete with Microsoft for some free exposure business - as long as Wang An's most core competitiveness exclusive software is in his hands.

Just operate a PS game console platform like you in later generations, and you can't rely solely on exclusive access to Nintendo. Sometimes there are globally popular works, but you still have to communicate with other platforms.

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The software business is not yet stated, and the root server installation resources that Gu Ao seized were gradually realized at the beginning of this year.

In March 1993, after Gu Ao settled many business arrangements in the United States, he flew back to China.

The two sets of root servers he invested in will be located in China to build a data center.

Considering the distribution of netizens from the north and south, Gu Ao initially decided to leave a data center around the capital and then a data center in Hujiang in the south. This basically means future netizens across the country.

As for the staff around him, he suggested that the one in the south was placed in Guangdong or the Special Administrative Region, it was not a mistake in terms of geographical terms, but Gu Ao rejected it.

Gu Ao's inner thought was that after 1994, he would take Motorola's share of the pit and put it in the Special Administrative Region or Xiangjiang - Gu Ao's investment in Ren Zhengyi's Xia Wei Communications is in the south. In the future, the Special Administrative Region will have an absolute advantage over other domestic economic zones in terms of communication technology industry layout.

So it is better to put the quota that was obtained as the name of the mobile Internet access root server and put it to the south.

Gu Ao has some other consideration for this arrangement, because he is afraid that this third unit will be given to Motorola at the beginning. Even if Motorola doesn't want it in the future and secretly exchanges interests for Gu Ao, if Gu Ao moves back to the mainland, it may attract a rebound from Britain and the United States.

So if you leave a backhand in the Special Administrative Region, the rebound will be easier to solve - if foreigners are not fighting fiercely, they will be placed in the Special Administrative Region. If foreigners are looking for trouble very fiercely, they will be placed in the Xiangjiang River, separated by a river, or even in the Shajiao Development Zone on the south bank of the Bian River, which is near the Xiangji Power Industrial Park.

Until 1997, after all, Xiangjiang was nominally not handed over by the Brittanians. Gu Ao set up a root server there in 1995, and the Americans could explain it. It was not considered "the share of the American company Motorola was used to invest in foreigners."

In March, Gu Ao was welcomed and received in the capital and commended him not very fiercely. It was mainly in March 1993. The domestic industry and relevant competent departments did not know how awesome the "Internet" would be in the future. These contributions are all waiting for history to ferment.

The gratitude Gu Ao received is temporarily equivalent to "persuading Boeing or Airbus to set up the assembly plant in China", and the popularity it received is almost the same.

He needs to be an unsung hero for a year or two, and only after the concept of the Internet becomes popular among the whole people will anyone realize how great he has done.

The matter in the capital was busy for two months. It was not until May that Gu Ao returned home in glory and went to Qiantang and Hujiang to inspect the location selection.

This time, the courtesy he received was far more than when he was in the capital.

First of all, two months later, the application and popularity of the Internet have also increased, and the South has become more economically open and willing to use its brains to make new things.

On the other hand, people in the capital always felt that no matter what good things were, as long as China had them, they would definitely put the first one there, so that they would not be grateful. At that time, most people didn’t know how precious this thing was. They didn’t know that “even if there were only 13 of this thing in the world theoretically, if Gu Ao did not intervene, there would be no one in China and they could only make mirror roots in the future.” Without comparison, there would be no gratitude.

But when you arrive in Hujiang or even Qiantang, the situation is different. These places rely on your own efforts, and no one will think that the pie falling from the sky should belong to their own.

Even if many management departments don’t know anything at the beginning, they heard that there are only 9 of this thing in the world this year, and theoretically there are only 13 in the future. In addition to the one in Beijing, only Japan has one in Tokyo, and there is no fourth in the other in Asia.

How high is that? Which city has won the Internet root server address? Isn’t it equivalent to being the “third city in Asia”? What a big signboard, it is also very valuable to attract investment and enhance the city’s overall competitiveness!

Those who want to serve Gu Ao with comfort can line up from the estuary of the Yangtze River to Guazhou Du.

However, Gu Ao's choice was obviously beyond the expectations of most people, or his planning concept exceeded at least one generation of people who asked him to plead for love.
Chapter completed!