Becoming the richest man starts with making complaints

Having acquired the sense of smell for the first time, my system was full of curiosity. I sniffed around the kitchen like a dog and couldn't stop at all.

After she smelled everything in the kitchen, even the rags, Cao Shen had already finished eating.

System excitedly returned to the living room with lemonade, only to see three empty lunch boxes!

【Host! 】

The system held three lunch boxes and turned them over and over to smell them.

【Why didn't you wait for me? ! ! 】

A wail of grief.

Cao Shen wiped his mouth with a tissue:

"You can't eat it anyway, the lunch box tastes the same."

Standing up and walking towards the notebook, he looked back:

"By the way, remember to throw away the lunch box and clear the table after a while."

System: You are ruthless, you are cold-blooded, you are cruel! Not even a taste left for me!

The system sat down on the chair and looked at the three empty boxes aggrievedly:

Do you want to eat so cleanly...

Cao Shen drank lemonade, looked through the "Life Cyber" created by Jack Chen, and began to think about his proposal.

Looking at it, Cao Shen laughed. Isn't this a low-end version of Facebook?

Jack Chen studied for a Ph.D. in computer science in the United States. Two years ago, he created a campus running app called "Life Cyber." It was originally a web version. Last year, he made a mobile version and used Cao Shen's instant messaging module.

Life Cyber ​​is now out of campuses abroad and is a popular social product with about 30 million users.

But this project was done by Jack Chen and two classmates, and now there are differences in the development direction of the product.

Jack Chen advocates not considering the issue of profitability first, but improving the user experience and using all the money for promotion.

The other two people advocated starting to monetize advertising, but Chen Jieke believed that the number of users is not yet large enough and the user stickiness to the product is not that high. Starting advertising so early would be harmful to the user experience, and he firmly opposed it.

Those who advocate selling ads for monetization believe that competition among social products is fierce now. If you don’t create your own products, you will have to rely on financing. If the financing does not go smoothly, the company will simply close down.

Both parties were reasonable, so the matter was shelved for a while, and the three of them started working on a new round of financing.

But there are two sets of stories prepared for investors, one is to burn money to buy users, and the other is to start monetizing ads to see which path investors prefer.

I just recently got a term sheet, and the investor chose to realize this story.

This time Jack Chen was very passive. At first he still chose to compromise, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was not the direction he wanted.

In addition, the three people come from three countries, Dongguo, Miguo and Insan. There are cultural differences in daily communication. In fact, cooperation has always been quite stumbling.

So Jack Chen wanted to quit, and the other two people also agreed to buy Jack Chen's shares at a 30% discount, allowing him to take the money and leave.

Ever since he first used Cao Shen's instant messaging module, he has been paying special attention to the news of Tongcao Technology. Every time Cao Shen releases a product, he is more active than watching the Spring Festival Gala.

From the instant messaging module, to the website editor, to the 18-ban games, to the image processing APP, to the cloud disk, to the YouXin APP, to the UUA game engine, and then to the open source cloud architecture. (っ◔◡◔)っ

Chen Jack gradually became Cao Shen's brainless fan.

The reason why he didn't even think about competing for 30 million users was because he had someone in mind!

From the first time I used the instant messaging open source module to want to invest in Cao Shen, to later I was thinking about being acquired by Cao Shen, and now I just want to leave with Mr. Cao without wanting anything.

After a year, Jack Chen couldn't help himself.

Therefore, when he made up his mind to throw away his shares and leave, he felt unprecedentedly relaxed and excited. With great anxiety, I wrote this email to Cao Shen.

"If Mr. Cao can authorize me to act as the agent for YouXin APP in the United States, I, Jack Chen, will definitely go through fire and water, and my life will be ruined."

This was the concluding sentence of Jack Chen's email. He never imagined that one day he would write such a perfect sentence, but it happened that this sentence best expressed his feelings.

So, is Youshin going to “go overseas”?

Cao Shen looked at Jack Chen's letters that were spread across several screens and tapped the table with his fingers.

Mr. Cao really didn't have time to think about Youxin's "going to sea".

But it can also be seen from the content of the letter that Jack Chen is also a talent. Youxin’s strategy, tactics, and costs of “going overseas”...

Everything is written down, no matter how small it is.

And judging from the fact that Jack Chen can reach 30 million users in two years, this guy's actual combat ability is still pretty good.

It’s good to let Youxin “go overseas” as a global product.

However, I also want Facebook!

So Cao Shen planned to invest and invest in Life Cyber's new round of financing. The price offered by investors in this new round of financing was US$400 million, which was not too expensive.

Facebook spent US$1 billion to acquire Instagram in 2012, and the number of users was almost 30 million, but the acquisition definitely came with a premium.

Although I have this idea, investment is not a matter of patting my head. How is Jack Chen and the team? Interviews and due diligence are still needed. In addition, financial, legal and business due diligence must also be carried out.

But Cao Shen obviously didn't plan to fly to the United States.

In addition, there is another special situation. Life Cyber ​​is still an American company, and its main users are Americans. When it becomes bigger in the future, not to mention users from other countries, even users at home games in the United States will have huge user data.

And Youxin is a Dongguo company, and the relationship between the United States and Dongguo is very delicate.

If Uxin becomes a shareholder behind a company that owns huge amounts of American people's data, it is estimated that even if the United States does not stumble, it will definitely find trouble.

Even Facebook has been troubled by the United States. Well, although Facebook is not completely an American company, it has a large number of foreign shareholders. To be precise, it is a public company.

But after all, the headquarters is in the United States, but still because the data is sensitive, the CEO has attended many hearings.

As for Jack Chen, he has already been naturalized in the United States, so it should not be a big problem.

Jack Chen is also an orphan. He was adopted by an American Jewish couple who worked in the East in his early years, so he adopted his place of origin. However, he completed his undergraduate studies in Dongguo before returning to the United States with his adoptive parents to continue his studies.

Therefore, if you want to invest, it is best for Cao Shen and Youxin to hide behind their backs to avoid future troubles. Cao Shen wants the data of Americans and even humans around the world, but Cao Shen does not want the troubles of the United States.

Cao Shen plans to ask Boss Xiao tomorrow how to operate this matter specifically, and also ask Boss Xiao for help in making adjustments. After all, he has many skills.

After making up his mind, Cao Shen started to work on another important matter.

Tongcao Technology's cloud computing framework and containers were released on the 15th day of the first lunar month, so it's almost four months ago. Everyone should have a preliminary understanding of this set of things and have questions or insights.

Cao Shen already established a cloud computing team last year. Although the system's cloud computing products were only given later, these people have already been instilled with advanced cloud computing ideas by Cao Shen.

Therefore, they mastered this architecture and container technology faster than others.

It's time for them to shine.

Cao Shen plans to send his group of people out for free training starting next week to help companies that use this architecture and container technology produce products as soon as possible.

The reason why we waited four months was to give people time to learn to digest.

Just like a teacher giving a lecture, you can’t just ask: as soon as the books for the new semester are distributed:

Students, do you have any questions? The teacher will answer your questions now.

I haven’t read the book yet, so I might have a thread problem.

For a technology to be popularized, the best shortcut is to allow the people who promote it to make money.

Let people who use this technology solve real problems.

Therefore, Cao Shen wanted to send Buddha to the west. Hands-on, free training.

Although, in Cao Shen's view, public cloud is the future.

However, there are still many industries that have special requirements for cloud computing functions, performance, cost, security, etc. due to their special business logic.

Although the future public cloud can solve these problems, it requires IT engineers who understand the cloud on the user side.

At this stage, from the talent side, this condition is not yet met, and there is a transition process.

Therefore, there is still a need for suppliers to provide private clouds to help customers complete cloud deployment.

Industries such as finance, government, large energy companies, and education all need to provide customized private cloud products and services.

Cao Shen needs a subordinate to do cloud deployment in various industries and provide technical and market education.

Therefore, he needs to "empower" his subordinates.

Let’s work together to make this cake bigger and share the profits at the same time.

Of course, if Cao Shen wants to eat alone, it's not a big problem, he just needs to spend more energy.

However, that is not conducive to allowing a wider range of people to master cloud computing technology, and it also violates the original intention of Cao Shen's technology to be open source.

Making money has never been important.

Progress is commendable.

In order to provide good service to the people of Tongcao Technology, Cao Shen spent a lot of time in the middle of the night thinking about how to formulate performance appraisal standards.

Customer reviews? No, Tongcao Technology is the source of mastery of technology. If these people act arrogantly, customers will have to give praise in order to solve the problem.

Number of people to be trained? No, people are inherently bad. If you set this target, people will dare to collect people to make up for the loss.

Number of training clients? If it still doesn’t work, then isn’t it time to recruit customers? Only focusing on quantity will deprive customers who are truly interested in using this technology of the best service.

…

After thinking about it for most of the night, Cao Shen finally decided that the first year would be assessed based on the number and difficulty of problems solved.

Moreover, every solution to the problem is placed on an open source website so that more users who are not directly trained can refer to it.

After the introduction of this policy, it directly caused the people of Tongcao Technology to squat in the client's company all day long, with repeaters like:

Do you have any more questions?

What questions do your customers still have?

Is there really no problem? How about we test it again?

Let's try increasing the amount of data?

Try it under extreme circumstances?

At the same time, this group of people spend all day thinking about what new technologies can be incorporated and what areas can be optimized.

After all, new technologies and optimizations will always bring new problems.

As a result, the cloud computing technology in the entire East Kingdom has developed extremely fast, and even Cao Shen did not expect it.

The next day, Cao Shen called Boss Xiao early in the morning to talk about Life Cyber.

Sure enough, just as Cao Shen had judged, Boss Xiao also suggested investing in a roundabout way.

"There is no problem with the due diligence. We have a team in the United States that can help you take a look. As for the issue of overseas investment, I will call you shortly."

Five minutes later, Cao Shen received a call from Boss Xiao, but the number was obviously not a mobile phone number or a landline number.

This is an encrypted communication channel...

"Cao Shen, I have an overseas investment company, Ocra Capital. You can invest through this company."

Ocra Capital! The boss behind it turned out to be Xiao Gang!

Cao Shen was very surprised. This investment institution in the UAE is very famous and has specialized in investing in high-tech industries in the United States, Russia and Israel for nearly twenty years.

Semiconductors, materials, biotechnology, communications, medical medicine...

Ocar Capital is involved in these high-tech industries, and of course there are also Internet projects, such as the world's largest online search, GuDi...

Everyone thought this was a super wealthy investment institution from the Petroleum Federation. Cao Shen never expected that the boss behind it was Xiao Gang!

Looking at the caller number again, Cao Shen had a bold idea:

Could it be that Boss Xiao is the one who eats according to orders?

But Boss Xiao didn't say anything about this, so naturally Cao Shen couldn't ask.

"By investing through OC, we can privately sign a holding agreement. Life Cyber's shares and related rights belong to you and can be used as a certificate when necessary." Xiao Gang said.

"Okay, no problem, thank you very much. I will tell Jack Chen then to introduce OC to invest in him." Cao Shen said.

"Okay, you can hide completely in the back, and I'll let the OC people do the due diligence. That's fine too," Xiao Gang said.

"Okay, Boss Xiao, I'll leave this to you. If you think the project is good, we can invest together!" Cao Shendao felt that there was still a chance if he could move the project to death.

"Okay, you take the majority, and I'll tell you a little bit about it. Then I want to thank you for introducing me to a good project." Boss Xiao laughed.

Early on Monday morning, Cao Shen saw the most exciting news of the day.

"The Return of the King, Zhang Da, the former founder of TT Technology, acquires "Taobao Pay""

Then, before noon, the second piece of news came out.

""Taobao" invests 100 million yuan in "Hungry Wow""

Cao Shen looked at the computer screen and smiled. Sure enough, he was here.

Switch from high-frequency payment scenarios like takeout to payment!

It seems that I will be able to eat all kinds of delicious takeaways soon, hahahaha! thank you!

I was enjoying my future gourmet life when the call came.

At first glance, Zhang Fei!

Comrade Zhang Fei, the former director of the Science and Technology Commission, was later promoted to a certain department and has always been a pleasure to work with.

Cao Shen answered the phone.

"Mr. Cao, have you been busy lately?" Zhang Fei greeted with a smile.

Something happened at the cliff!

"How dare you say that you are busy in front of the big boss? If you are not busy, you are not busy. If you have anything to do, please give me orders!"

"Hehehe, I always feel so comfortable talking to Mr. Cao." Putting aside his abilities, Cao Shen is a very smart guy, and Zhang Fei likes to deal with him very much.

Zhang Fei continued: "That's right, the holiday is just over a month away, so I just wanted to check with you if you have any good ideas for this year."

Zhang Fei was promoted, but his tone became more polite. On the one hand, Mr. Cao's status is not what it used to be, and on the other hand, Zhang Fei is naturally very good at being a good person if he can rise step by step.

Cao Shen understood that at this time last year, he held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the incubator.

Although Zhang Fei is promoted, he is still in charge of technology entrepreneurship. Last year he had a gift, and this year he has been promoted, so it must be more.

But although Zhang Fei's political achievements were good this year, he really didn't come up with anything particularly eye-catching and innovative, so he couldn't do another ribbon-cutting.

Then, he thought about his lucky star, and he didn't necessarily have to do something, but Mr. Cao had many ideas, so he asked him to get some ideas.

"Big leader, I was just about to tell you." Cao Shen said with a smile.

"Hey, what you said must be a good thing! Tell me, Lao Zhang, I'm all ears!" Zhang Fei smiled even happier on the other end of the phone.

"I have a new technology that I would like to study together with our officials. It can be regarded as a gift."

"That's a great relationship! High technology! We care about this the most. Cao Shen, you have nothing to say about your technical ability! Support it, we will definitely support it!

Last time, we took your cloud computing project very seriously internally and praised it highly. We also said that we would award you with the first prize of the Scientific and Technological Progress Achievement Award, which will be awarded next month!

What did you develop this time? "

"Blockchain!" Cao Shen said.