Gibbons ' entrepreneurial art

This year, 60-Year-old Gibbons will go to the suburbs of San Francisco to paint paintings every weekend. Gibbons, a self-proclaimed "street painter" and a 15-year-old amateur painter, has already been in the house, and many of his works have been collected by the Pacific Arts Union in California. He sees this as an association between artistic creation and entrepreneurship: "You see a scene or a group of people, but you have to know what to draw, what not to paint, and what you need to find something interesting." Like starting a business, you have to invent and create.　　"He never had a character in his painting that was as colourful as his career. One day, during HP, he got a call from friends and Apple founder Steve Jobs, when Apple had fewer than 90 employees, most of them technicians, who wanted to find technical marketers to open the situation, "he thought I was fit to invite me to join." "After weighing it down, Gibbons gave up," I didn't think there was a better chance of working at HP. "But the interaction with Mr. Jobs inspired Gibbons, who had a big flaw in the PC and a serious lack of application software. He came up with an idea, could you provide some simple software for the Apple computer? The idea was supported by John Page, a colleague with expertise in the Database software field, and a gregarious, interpersonal-loving Gibbons found another project management guru, Bedeck (Janelle Bedke), who co-founded Software Publishing Corporation (hereinafter referred to as "SPC"), which is one of the first vendors in the United States to provide software for PCs. In 1994, Gibbons withdrew from the company, with annual sales of more than 300 million dollars.　　Two years later, SPC merged with Allegro New media company. Since the establishment of the company in the past 14 years, SPC's three founding team has always cooperated smoothly, become a legend in the industry. Gibbons argues that one of the big challenges facing the founding partners of the company is a dispute, so at the beginning of the company, he divided the shares into 3, "I have never considered the money, did not consider to control the company, there is no impulse to take the risk, as the founder, is today very few people can do so." "He believes that trust is the cornerstone of the team, in addition, the three-person background differences can also be very good complementary:" The engineer of the background of the Director of Technology research and development, Bedeck in charge of business operations, Gibbons is responsible for marketing, "everyone has their own strengths, which avoids the possible conflict. "In the second year of the company's withdrawal, Gibbons entered Stanford as a teacher and founded the seed-stage venture capital fund, Venture-concept. Because he has always appreciated the support of poker clubs when starting a business," I think I can do this now, You can use a little money to help some young people start a business. "Gibbons ' first investment opportunity soon came, and he heard that his good friend, Sequoia CapitalMichael Moritz, a famous investor, was looking at Stanford's Moritz, a Yahoo Web search company, and went along with him to discover that one of the founders of Jerry Yang was his own student. Later, Gibbons helped Jerry Yang revise his business plan, "they wanted me to invest, so I agreed."　　"It was also the first investment Yahoo had received. Today, Gibbons teaches engineering and computer majors at Stanford University to learn business knowledge, "Students of these technical majors should understand business." "At the same time, he thinks he has a lot to gain from the students who are starting a business," I am constantly learning about new commercial ideas, which forces me to study hard to cope with the students in class. I can't be lazy, it's a good chance to get in touch with new things and get acquainted. ”