Chapter 97 Poaching

Li Zetian glanced at the project plan and couldn't help but be stunned.

Zhang Hao smiled proudly and said: "How about it? You're surprised, right? Haha, speaking of which, my inspiration still comes from the Walkman. The Walkman is a portable audio player, so I thought, why can't a personal computer be made into a portable computer? "

When Li Zetian heard this, he smiled and said, "I'm not too surprised!"

"Not surprised? Mr. Li, are you not surprised by this idea? I came up with this after many days of hard thinking. I think portable personal computers will definitely have a big market in the future!"

"The idea is correct, but at present, the hardware conditions do not meet the requirements!"

After speaking, Li Zetian took out a design drawing from the drawer, "If the technology had met the requirements, I would have taken out this design drawing a long time ago!"

Zhang Hao looked at the design drawings with astonishment and shock on his face.

He just proposed an idea, and Li Zetian had already completed the drawing design!

This is a clamshell personal computer with a shell design. The front part is the keyboard and display screen, and the back part is connected to the host computer. Of course, this design is the best that Li Zetian can think of. The notebook host after the 21st century is placed directly under the keyboard, but the current hardware is too large, and the host can only be connected to the back.

Zhang Hao sighed slightly and said: "I thought I was the only one who thought of the design of a portable personal computer. It turns out that Mr. Li, you have already thought of it and even designed the drawings!"

Li Zetian patted Zhang Hao on the shoulder and said, "You are very good if you can think of me together!"

When Zhang Hao heard this, he immediately became happy again. What does it mean that he has the same idea as the super genius Mr. Li? It shows that I am also a genius, hahaha...

"Mr. Li, is the small word MacBook on the design drawing the name of this portable personal computer?"

"Yes!" Li Zetian said, "The Mac computer that Steve Jobs is developing is a desktop computer, while the MacBook is a laptop computer, which is what you call a portable personal computer!"

"Laptop? Well, this is a very vivid metaphor!"

Zhang Hao paused and asked, "Then when will we develop MacBook?"

"In a few more years!"

Li Zetian thought that if the operating system and software were put into the memory ROM of a laptop, the capacity would obviously not be enough. The current ROM is only a few tens of KB, and it is extremely expensive. Therefore, more storage media is needed. Unfortunately, the hard drive is very large, so this is not considered. Early laptops all used floppy drives, and they were 3.5-inch floppy drives. However, it was not until 1976 that a 5.25-inch floppy drive was developed, which was larger than the thick "Xinhua Dictionary". Such a laptop is no smaller than a desktop computer. Can it still be a laptop?

In 1980, Sony took the lead in launching a smaller, larger-capacity 3.5-inch floppy drive and floppy disk. Since then, 3.5-inch floppy disks and drives have become popular and become a standard feature of PCs. This absolute monopoly lasted for more than ten years. It was not until the emergence of CD-ROM and USB storage devices that floppy disk sales began to gradually decline.

As a top technician, Zhang Hao naturally understood what Li Zetian was worried about, so he said: "Mr. Li, we can devote ourselves to developing smaller software drivers! On the one hand, it can create revenue for Apple, and on the other hand, it can Contribute to the development of MacBook!!!”

Li Zetian nodded thoughtfully, "Well, that's a good idea! Well, let's start building Apple's disk department now!!!"

Zhang Hao laughed and said: "Mr. Li, let Wozniak be responsible for the Apple-lll project alone, and I will be responsible for developing the floppy drive and MacBook."

Li Zetian said: "You can be in charge of the MacBook. I already have a candidate for the floppy drive!"

"Have you already chosen someone? Who is this person?" Zhang Hao asked curiously.

"Hey, Alan Shugart of IBM, the inventor of the floppy disk and the hard drive!!!"

"Uh, Mr. Li, are you sure you can recruit such a talent to Apple?"

"Alan Shugart was not a lonely person. Although he worked at IBM, he founded Shugart Associates with his friends in 1973. The company was a specialized floppy disk manufacturing company, but it was eliminated in 1974. Fired by the company's board of directors. I believe that as long as the benefits are big enough, he will be attracted!"

Li Zetian even knew that Alan Shugart later chose to leave IBM and founded the famous Seagate Technology Company!

"Mr.li, I didn't expect that you had already investigated him so clearly!"

Li Zetian smiled slightly and said: "Success is not that simple! Didn't someone say, one minute on stage, ten years of hard work off stage. If you want to succeed, you must work hard! Okay, I will personally take action later, Hire the "Father of Disk" into our Apple company!!!"

"Yeah!" Zhang Hao couldn't help but nodded excitedly after hearing this. Apple is getting more and more talented people, which is very proud.

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Li Zetian has compiled a lot of information about Alan Shugart, so he is very confident about poaching this time!

That night, Li Zetian personally called Alan Shugart.

"Are you Alan Shugart?"

"Yes, are you...?"

"I am Chronos Li, founder of Apple!"

Alan Shugart was startled when he heard this and said nothing for a long time. He secretly thought, why would the founder of Apple call me?

"Hello, Mr. Li, what do you want from me?"

"Shgart, have you ever thought about jumping to Apple?"

"I'm sorry, Mr. Li, I didn't think about it!"

"Haha, don't be too busy to refuse! Please listen to me and tell me my conditions! Apple is planning to establish a subsidiary company specializing in disk drive development-Seagate Technology. If you can switch jobs from IBM, I can Give you an annual salary of $50,000..."

When Alan Shugart heard this, he felt nervous. The annual salary of 50,000 US dollars was a sky-high salary. It was more than twice as high as his salary at IBM!

Before Alan Shugart could recover, Li Zetian continued, "In addition, there is also 5% of the shares of Seagate Technology. If you can bring a group of very skilled engineers from IBM, I will also I can give you shares ranging from 1% to 2%. The more people I bring here, the more shares I will have! I can promise these people that their salary will be at least 20% higher than at IBM!"

Alan Shugart said nothing and was in hesitation at this moment.

"Mr. Li, I want to consider this matter carefully."

"No problem, I'll wait for you!"

After saying this, the two ended the call.

As a result, Alan Shugart thought about it all night and lost sleep.

Li Zetian did not fully count on Alan Shugart. He personally called outstanding disk development engineers from Sony, DEC and other companies one by one. He also promised high salaries and shares, but the number was lower than Alan Shugart. a lot of.

There is no airtight wall in the world. Some engineers rejected Li Zetian's request and then told them about poaching. Soon, everyone in the industry knew that Apple was going to enter the disk field.

Alan Shugart did not hesitate long. He called Li Zetian on the third day, but he made a request: increase his shares!

"Mr.li, if you give me 10% of the shares of Seagate Technology, I am willing to join the company, and I can bring at least 10 IBM disk development engineers over!"

"The 10 disk development engineers are not just cheating, right?"

"I swear in the name of God, absolutely not. They are all excellent engineers! If you don't believe it, you can test their abilities yourself!"

"Yes, I will!"

Li Zetian said, "I agree to your request!!!"

10% of the shares will be diluted in the future. If Alan Shugart's shares are too small, he will definitely not work wholeheartedly. If the horse runs well and the horse does not eat grass, how can it be so good? matter.

A week later, a collective job-hopping incident broke out at IBM.

Alan Shugart took 10 disk development engineers to Seagate Technology, a subsidiary of Apple. At the same time, other companies also had job-hopping incidents.

IBM was immediately furious.

"Apple is so deceptive!"

"Chairman, what do you think we should do!!"

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