1991 Starting from the core

A week later, in Su Yuanshan’s office.

Su Yuanshan, Xi Xiaoding and Carter, who had just returned to "report work", were sitting around the coffee table chatting, and laughter could be heard from time to time in the office.

Yidoo5S has been online for one week, and sales have exceeded 5 million including pre-sales.

"Sometimes, success really cannot be judged solely by the product itself, especially a leading product like Yidoo."

Su Yuanshan has participated in a summary meeting at the company today. At the meeting, of course everyone spoke highly of the product design, including system adaptation, especially the launch of Siri, which was a timely help. credit.

However, Yuanxin's summary meeting has always been not just a meeting to summarize products, markets, and marketing strategies, but a summary from the perspective of the entire industry and even the entire social and economic development.

Yidoo5S product itself is naturally eye-catching and excellent enough. But excellence does not mean that it will sell well - from the product itself, Yidoo4 is actually the most beautiful, the most "groundbreaking" in concept and operation, and the "perfect product" that is so excellent that it has won various design awards.

But the final sales volume of Yidoo4, so far, is only a little over 10 million units.

The success of Yidoo5S lies more in the "smartphone" trend. In addition, in order to promote economic recovery and development, developed countries have implemented interest rate reduction policies. At the same time, various consumer loans have also emerged. Coupled with the popularization of 3G mobile Internet and Wifi, the overall upward trend of the entire world economy... this It was a miracle that it sold five million units in just one week.

"Well, isn't there a saying? Now entering the smartphone industry is to make money..." Xi Xiaoding also nodded and smiled with deep understanding.

“Mr.

Xi Xiaoding was slightly startled at first, and then realized that Carter was flattering him in disguise. He shook his head and smiled: "Carter, the launch of Siri is still a bit hasty, and it can only be regarded as the icing on the cake."

"That's different." Su Yuanshan took over the words: "The biggest fear of a new product is that it has no buzz. In addition to innovation, Siri also brings enough buzz. This alone is indispensable. "

"Yes, and according to various reviews on the Internet, Siri is highly recognized and everyone thinks she is very interesting."

As Carter spoke, he briefly introduced the word-of-mouth communication and evaluations from various parties that he had noticed recently, and proposed that in the future, such evaluations would gradually play an increasingly important, or even critical, role in the Internet's word-of-mouth.

Su Yuanshan also acknowledged this.

After chatting for half an hour, Carter stood up and left - he had to go back to the teacher and ask about his son's specific learning situation.

"He said he would most likely be an English teacher, and he also brought Confucius out, talking about preaching and getting a job..." Carter shook his head and smiled: "There is really nothing we can do against him."

"Oh?" Su Yuanshan and Xi Xiaoding smiled at the same time: "Teacher, do you want to teach people and solve their doubts?"

"Yes. It was said by Confucius." Although Carter's Mandarin is still a little tactful now, he has heard that it is no problem. However, it is still troublesome to recognize Chinese characters, and he can only recognize some signatures - because he feels that signatures are more like paintings.

Confucius is a famous person all over the world.

"Haha, then you really have to meet the teacher." Su Yuanshan smiled meaningfully: "This sentence was not said by Confucius, but by Han Zi."

Carter was startled: "Han Zi?"

"Han Yu, okay, you don't know. But your son must know - senior brother, the teacher said it is a compulsory course in high school, right?" Su Yuanshan looked at Xi Xiaoding.

Xi Xiaoding thought for a while and nodded: "I forgot whether it was high school or junior high school. It is a compulsory course anyway."

Carter was a little confused when he heard this, but he could still understand that his son was trying to fool him, so he immediately coughed a few times and left with a wry smile.

…

"It seems that the learning of our foreign employees' children is really a problem...especially those who are halfway through school." Su Yuanshan watched Carter leave and said to Xi Xiaoding with a smile.

Xi Xiaoding nodded: "Well, it seems that the school's Principal Yang made some suggestions last time, planning to set up some kind of orientation class specifically for foreign students and some students who want to be sent abroad... But when it comes to the administrative department, directly Who rejected it?"

"Oh?" Su Yuanshan was surprised: "Why haven't I heard about this?"

"I also heard what my wife said. She has a classmate who is a teacher at the school, and we talk about it regularly. It is said that Principal Yang has found a good relationship, and the Education Bureau has approved the pilot... but it was rejected by the group." Xi Xiaoding laughed. He smiled and said, "I don't know who said no, but I'm a little depressed anyway."

"Haha, that's great!" Su Yuanshan laughed.

Although Yuanxin School is branded as a private school, it also recruits students from the public. But everyone knows... this school is essentially Yuan Xin's "children's school".

Nominally, it is under the dual management of Yuanxin and the Education Bureau, but in fact, due to the special nature of Yuanxin, the Education Bureau has little control over it. And as for Yuanxin, I rarely care about it.

after all. A comprehensive school with a junior high school and a high school, especially a school with extremely strong teachers and students, which ranks with the provincial capital No. 479, its principal is the number one figure everywhere.

There is no need for Yuan Xin to point fingers at the school.

But as a department under the group, and a department similar to "logistics"... Yuanxin School's status within the group is indeed not very good.

In other words, the status of Yuanxin Headquarters Group is too high.

For example, Chen Jing has entered the National Committee this year and is also the vice chairman of the Provincial CPPCC. This is a real deputy provincial level. In addition, Mr. Xi also entered the national RD this year as a D member of the Jiusan Society - these can be regarded as the accurate level treatment given to Yuanxin by the above.

Then the administrative department can directly reject the school's proposal. It is estimated that it is either Chen Jing, CEO Liu Hongyan, or director of the administrative office and senior vice president An Siying - these people are really not low-level. Coming.

"I also say, no is good." Xi Xiaoding nodded with deep approval: "We have spent so much effort to make Yuanxin become the center of the world a little bit. The school is good, and we still want to send it out, and we still do it. Send out special treatment..."

"Yes, yes!" Su Yuanshan nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: "Why don't we just change the principal?"

"...Then don't ask me about this."

"Well...then I'll ask Mr. Chen who received the report."

Su Yuanshan called as soon as he asked, and the call was quickly connected. Faced with Su Yuanshan's question, Chen Jing immediately answered that she was the one who said no directly. Then asked Su Yuanshan why he paid attention to the school.

"All the children of our group are in school. I must pay attention to them, Sister Jing..."

When there are no outsiders and they are talking on the phone, Su Yuanshan always likes to call Sister Chen Jingjing. He paused and chuckled: "It's good, we must resolutely put an end to this kind of spirit of worshiping foreigners and fawning over foreigners!"

"..." Chen Jing seemed speechless for a few seconds on the phone: "We had a small meeting to discuss it at that time. We thought that the school's direction is internationalization, and sending people out is obviously against this direction. But later After thinking about it again, it is true that foreign students cannot keep up with the progress of their studies. Especially those students who have been enlightened abroad..."

"Well, what's your opinion?"

"I can't think of a good solution right now, so I asked Xiao An to handle this matter - and there are also suggestions from the school, saying that they hope to establish an education group and develop independently."

"Develop alone? Bullshit...am I the kind of person who wants to make money from the school? Let the school give up on this and let me teach with peace of mind, while Shao Dong is doing things." After a pause, Su Yuanshan suddenly realized I'm afraid it's not the school that thinks about it, but some people within Yuanxin who think: "Let's make it clear that the school can't be separated, and no one will pay attention. If you have the ability to start your own business and attract investment, if you have the ability, come to me to recruit students." Poach teachers.”

After half a ring, Chen Jing's laughter came from the phone: "You are acting like a rogue."

"Sister Jing, my daughter is studying there...and my son also wants to study there."

"...Well, okay, then I'll have someone send you a notice."

Seeing Su Yuanshan hang up the phone, Xi Xiaoding looked at him with a smile: "How many months has it been? Are you sure it's your son via B-ultrasound?"

"Yeah, sure, seven months."

"Where were you born?"

"Go back to China and come back this month."

"It's a pity... I can't fine you two extra money. Otherwise... in your situation, if I don't fine you a billion or eighty million, is it worthy of your net worth?" Xi Xiaoding shook his head and joked - Su Yuanshan and Ye Rudai are both only children. Under last year's new policy, they can have a second child.

"Hehe, just wait and see, I will have to get rid of this policy sooner or later."

Su Yuanshan smiled and bared his teeth.

However, there was still a hint of worry hidden in his eyes.

*

*

At the end of the month, it was clear that Ye Rudai was pregnant before she returned to the provincial capital.

Fortunately, the remote office system developed by Xinghai has long been mature. In addition, the optical cable dedicated line here at Yuanxin is measured in G and has independent overseas bandwidth. Therefore, whether it is remote office or remote video, it is It is extremely smooth and does not affect her control of the Silicon Valley business at all.

Moreover, due to the rapid expansion of Tieba business and the skyrocketing number of domestic Internet users, her domestic status is also increasing day by day. There is nothing wrong with her being based in China.

"Siri, is there anything good to eat around?"

Ye Rudai was sitting on the sofa in the bedroom, with a movable notebook table in front of her. On the table, in addition to the laptop, there is also a Yidoo5S mobile phone.

At this time, she was conducting voice interaction on her mobile phone.

"I found the following restaurants for you. Do you want me to plan a navigation route for you? If so, please quote the numbers directly."

"Go to number three."

"Planning a route."

"The route planning is complete, please say start navigation."

Ye Rudai was recording in her notebook while interacting via voice. At the same time, she also had a handwritten notebook next to her hand.

At this time, there were two knocks on the bedroom door, and a moment later, Su Yuanshan appeared at the door holding his daughter.

…

The daughter only made love with her mother for a short time before she was attracted by the snacks in grandma's hand. Immediately afterwards, Su Yuanshan closed the door and sat next to Ye Rudai.

He put his arm around his wife's waist and gently touched his bulging belly with the other hand: "Oh, my son is practicing football?"

Ye Rudai glanced down and said helplessly: "He moved as soon as you came back. You must have disturbed him."

"Nonsense, he is waiting for me." Su Yuanshan patted him gently: "Hey, go to bed soon. Mom and dad want to talk about business."

"..."

Withdrawing his hand, Su Yuanshan looked at the notebook - the compiler and simulator were running on it.

"How's the combination going?"

"It's okay, but because our map is called interface data, and Siri and the map itself also need to communicate... the response is a bit slow, and the fault tolerance rate is not high."

Ye Rudai said and looked at Su Yuanshan: "How about we also make an artificial intelligence?"

"..."

Su Yuanshan was speechless. After a moment, he shook his head helplessly.

The work Ye Rudai is doing is the current main task of eso - of course, she has only participated in the team and has been following the technology, rather than being the main force in development.

Producing map software is one of the goals that EOS set long ago.

However...it's easy to say in China, Yuanxin can cooperate directly.

But abroad, it’s not that easy to say.

——Even though eso is an Internet company registered in Silicon Valley, more than 80% of its shares are currently American-funded Internet companies. However, due to the status of its founder and controller and its major shareholder, it is not involved in related industries. , there was still a lot of resistance.

For example, eso has always wanted to promote satellite maps, and has even negotiated an acquisition with KeyHole. But it has always been impossible to do so because of resistance of one kind or another.

It was not until eso was launched that it opened up in the map field, allowing eso maps to call data from various map companies. But it itself does not have surveying and mapping qualifications.

Not to mention Ye Rudai, even the Silicon Valley veterans in ESO were aggrieved by this kind of "treatment".

But no matter what, the map data is finally available.

So the next step, eso's plan is to launch a global navigation function through maps-at the same time, they also cooperate with Pandora and introduce the Siri interface. This enables many functions that can be interacted with by voice.

For example, one sentence to order food, one sentence to navigate, one sentence to find a gas station, a movie theater, etc. These life services were originally provided by the same city network, but now the wealthy eso has directly purchased the original services of Ye Rudai and The intracity network proposed by several domestic Internet giants integrates merchants and services into the map.

"You mean we won't do it?"

"Of course not, I'm just feeling a little emotional. If you can make AI, of course you can." Su Yuanshan chuckled: "But don't you think that if two artificial intelligences are summoned in a mobile phone... that would be a bit retarded. ?”

"..."