Chapter 474 Opening Ceremony and Old Xu's Anger
Before flying to San Francisco to attend the incubator's opening ceremony, Li Xiaofan also took a look at the old almanac on the Internet:
September 20, 1996, the eighth day of the eighth lunar month, Bingzi year, rat, Dingyou month, Gengshen day.
Suitable for: moving, moving into a new home.
The opening date of the "Y-Lab" entrepreneurship incubator seems to be a good choice, an auspicious day.
On the plane, Li Xiaofan flipped through the Straits Times of the day and found that the situation in the Middle East was still as turbulent as ever:
On September 6, Palestinian demonstrators clashed with Israeli troops in Hebron, and the Israeli authorities announced a military blockade of the city. On the 18th, Palestinian Authority Chairman Arafat and Israeli Defense Minister Mordechai met in Erez on the Hebron issue, but the meeting was unsuccessful. The Israeli authorities imposed a comprehensive blockade on the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
On September 19, after arriving in San Francisco, Li Xiaofan wrote an email to Arik Vardy, the founder of ICQ project Mirabilis Technology Company in Tel Aviv, inviting them to settle in his "Y-Lab" entrepreneurial incubator in Silicon Valley.
On September 20, the opening ceremony of the "Y-Lab" entrepreneurial incubator was simple and grand. Several heavyweight guests attended, including Yahoo's Jerry Yang and David Filo, Sequoia Capital's Moritz, Nvidia's leather swordsman Huang Renxun, Dr. Chen Datong of OmniVision Technologies, World Electronics Engineers Association Multi-Chip Module International Conference Chairman and University of California Santa Cruz Professor Dai Weimin, idea lab entrepreneurial incubator founder Bill Gross, and representatives from Morgan Stanley, IDG, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Softbank and other heavyweight investment institutions.
According to the local Chinese tradition, a lion dance performance was also held for the opening ceremony. Tang Zixin helped to invite a professional lion dance team from Chinatown.
Lion dance is an excellent folk art in China. Chinatown has maintained this tradition. During festivals or celebrations, people come to add to the fun by dancing lions.
Lions are made of colorful cloth strips. Each lion is played by two people, one dancing the head and the other dancing the tail. The actors dress up as lions and perform various lion movements to the music of gongs and drums. During the performance, the lion dancers use various moves to show southern martial arts, which is very masculine.
The meaning of the lion dance performance at the opening ceremony The awakening lion belongs to the southern lion among the Chinese lion dances. The awakening lion is considered to be an auspicious object that can drive away evil and avoid harm. Every festival, major event or opening ceremony ceremony must have the awakening lion to add to the fun. It has been prosperous and passed down from generation to generation.
Watching the lively lion dance performance, Li Xiaofan recalled the scene of his rebirth last year. He also woke up to the noisy sound of gongs and drums...
After the lively lion dance performance, the signing ceremony of the first batch of projects entering the "Y-Lab" entrepreneurial incubator was held, including the Stanza EDA project of Dr. Yu Zhiping and others, the WebEx project of Zhu Min, the Hotmail project of Shabir Bhatia, the Marvell project of Dai Weili, the Ultima Interconnect Technology project of Dai Weili's elder brother Dai Weimin and the Silicon Perspective project of his second brother Dai Weijin... and a number of high-tech and Internet projects, many of which are future unicorn projects with huge returns in the future. More importantly, many of the project technologies are closely related to the "Huaxia Chip" plan led by Academician Ni in the future.
Of course, there is also the Global Link information website project of Elon Musk, the richest man in the previous life.
When Li Xiaofan looked at Elon Musk signing on the stage, he smiled in his heart: Brother, it's really hard to say who will be the richest man in the world in the future!
Gu Qijun took advantage of his background as a graduate of Tsinghua University and recruited a group of top Tsinghua students who came to Stanford to join the operation and management of the "Y-Lab" entrepreneurship incubator, some full-time and some part-time.
In terms of work structure, Gu Qijun reports to Lin Muchu, assistant to the president.
Lin Muchu is very experienced in the operation and management, investment promotion and brand promotion of high-tech parks. These experiences can still be applied to smaller incubators, which also makes Gu Qijun admire Lin Muchu's professionalism.
In the current Silicon Valley, this kind of purely commercial entrepreneurship incubator built outside the campus is still a relatively new thing, especially built next to Stanford University. This "Y-Lab" entrepreneurship incubator is very eye-catching.
Coupled with the promotion of Yahoo, the "Y-Lab" entrepreneurship incubator has become popular all of a sudden, and there is an endless stream of projects coming to consult and sending emails to apply for admission to the incubator.
On the morning of the second day after the successful opening ceremony of the "Y-Lab" startup incubator, Li Xiaofan went to the headquarters of Avant! Pioneer in Fremont to visit the company's chairman and president Xu Jianguo.
"Mr. Xu, have you been working too hard recently and not sleeping well?"
This time, the old Xu Li Xiaofan met in the office seemed to be a little depressed. Because Li Xiaofan was also a friend who had drunk alcohol, he did not hide it.
"Hey, it's all because of that young prosecutor. I'm so annoyed!"
Old Xu threw a copy of today's Wall Street Journal to Li Xiaofan.
On one of the prominent pages, there were several reports on the legal dispute between Avant! Pioneer and Cadence. These reports seemed to favor Xu’s rivals, Cadence and prosecutor Julius Finkelstein. No wonder Xu was so angry.
One of the reports was about what Santa Clara County deputy prosecutor Julius Finkelstein, a computer science graduate from Stanford University, said at a recent court hearing.
This Julius Finkelstein is a tough figure sent by the prosecutors. It was he who led people to the door of Avant! late last year to conduct a thorough search.
The article said that at the end of last year, Julius Finkelstein led a raid on the headquarters of Avant! Pioneer Company. The information they collected from the offices of the company’s founder Wu Zili and others showed that five years ago, Avant! Pioneer Company’s earliest After the founders Wu Zili, Liao Yuren, Zhuo Yunzhong, and Cai Mengyan resigned from Cadence, they completed 47,000 lines of code in just 19 days. The database technology behind these codes is the foundation of EDA placement and routing software.
Julius Finkelstein said that an ordinary programmer, when in good condition, can only write an average of 100 lines of code per day. They suspected that Wu Zili, Liao Yuren, Zhuo Yunzhong, Cai Mengyan and others copied Cadence's Symbad database …
Julius Finkelstein angrily told the court: "This is no ordinary business dispute, but a complete case of theft!"
But in Lao Xu's view, Cadence and prosecutor Julius Finkelstein were abusing the legal system.
He said excitedly: "The earliest founders of our Avant! pioneer company were top programmers in the industry, and they used open source code at the time. Entrepreneurship gave them passion, and they were like being pumped day and night. Writing a program, they completed 47,000 lines of code in 19 days. This should be said to be a miracle in the industry! Moreover, these people had just resigned from Cadence, so it was inevitable that they had some things from their old employer in their heads, and they quoted a little bit. It’s human nature, it’s normal!”
"This is typical corporate terrorism. Some large companies become complacent. When their technology is surpassed by small companies and they are unable to win in the market, they resort to legal and smear tactics!"
Li Xiaofan understood Lao Xu's excitement very well. The ArcCell program launched by Avant! Pioneer last year was later evaluated by experts hired by Cadence. Only a few thousand lines of code out of 1.45 million lines were suspected of infringement. Most of the rest of the code is the hard work of programmers from Avant! Pioneer Company!
In order to go public last year and in order to improve performance, I "copied" some data management work from Cadence in a hurry. Unexpectedly, Cadence found a fatal loophole and caught a new trend, becoming a fatal "copy". Homework” ironclad evidence.
If there is even a small stain on a piece of white paper, the white paper will no longer be "clean".
From the perspective of a third party, Li Xiaofan can understand the anger of Cadence and prosecutor Julius Finkelstein towards the "plagiarists". He can also understand the anger of Lao Xu: "I just copied something like this." "Diandian, 99% of the rest is our own blood-vomiting masterpiece"!
Li Xiaofan was secretly happy: the more the conflict between them intensified, the more beneficial it would be to his plan.
Sure enough, Lao Xu said to Li Xiaofan: "Director Li, let's implement the cooperation plan as soon as possible!"