My Age of Investment

Dongshan villa home.

Xia Jingxing and two middle-aged men in their forties were sitting in the pavilion in the backyard of their house, drinking tea and chatting happily. They had a hearty laugh from time to time.

Looking at the wild ducks playing in the lake behind him and the forest in the distance, Wang Jian said with a smile: "Mr. Xia, the scenery of your residence is really good! Lakes, valleys, forest parks, all are included."

Xia Jingxing smiled, "If Dr. Wang likes the quiet environment here, when you join Fuxing Industrial Group, the company will give you a set."

Wang Jian quickly waved his hands, "You can't do it!"

Soon he came to his senses and smiled wryly, "Mr. Xia, let me think about it again."

"What are you thinking about! MSN is in decline now, Gates goes to this small island for vacation every day, and doesn't care about the business in China at all.

Now it's Ballmer's turn to take power at Microsoft. The old man is not like Gates. Research and development projects and funding will be cut. "

Looking at Xia Jingxing who commented on Gates for a while and Ballmer for a while, Wang Jian and Shen Xiangyang beside him could only smile lightly.

The two of them, one is the dean of Microsoft Asia Research Institute, and the other is the executive vice president.

In front of their two subordinates, Xia Jingxing casually commented on the company's big boss and second boss, telling them how to handle the conversation well.

"Didn't you notice? Microsoft is getting old, and it's getting worse and worse."

Xia Jingxing sighed, and said in a rather regretful tone: "Gates no longer cares about the specific work of Microsoft, and retreats to the second line. He puts most of his energy on the Gates Melinda Foundation and the family office waterfall investment." body.

Over the years, Gates has continued to reduce his holdings of Microsoft stock and invest money in foundations and waterfall investments.

When I say this, I don't mean to belittle Gates, but he is old now, and he has been the richest man in the world for many years, a position that no one can shake, as if all the work is no longer challenging for him.

He has been fighting in the mall for 30 years, and it is time to rest, enjoy life, and think about how to pass on the family wealth in an orderly manner. "

Seeing that the two technical men kept silent, Xia Jingxing immediately changed his strategy, stopped talking about Gates, and changed the subject: "Let me talk about the cloud computing and artificial intelligence project that Fuxing Industrial Group will launch soon!

In fact, as early as a few years ago, I started to pay attention to cloud computing. If it weren't for the lack of financial resources at that time, I might have started the research and development of cloud computing projects a few years ago. "

When it comes to cloud computing, the reticent Wang Jian immediately became excited. He asked: "Mr. Xia, now the outside world is questioning whether cloud computing can really be done. Are you so confident?"

Looking at the curiosity on Wang Jian's face, Xia Jingxing said calmly: "The germ of cloud computing theory - public computing services, was first proposed by Professor John McCarthy, winner of the Turing Award and the father of artificial intelligence in 1961.

He said at the time: If the computer I imagined to support simultaneous use by multiple people can come true, then computing may one day be organized as a public service like the telephone...it will be the basis of a new and important industry.

His theory draws on the traditional power plant model.

To put it simply, computing resources are regarded as an energy resource like electricity. Users can use computing resources anytime, anywhere, and pay according to usage, just like plugging a light bulb into a socket.

More than forty years later, his theory has actually been verified. "

Seeing the puzzled eyes of the two, Xia Jingxing did not explain, but asked, "I wonder if you have heard of Salesforce?"

Shen Xiangyang nodded immediately, "I heard that the founder jumped out of Oracle to start a business. The company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange a few years ago. The development momentum is very strong, and the business model is also very innovative."

Xia Jingxing smiled and said, "Yes, Salesforce is translated as the software marketing team, or soft camp for short, and it is also called the software terminator in the industry.

Interestingly, they do not sell software services in the traditional way, but perfectly integrate software with the Internet to provide on-demand software services.

Users only need to pay a fee similar to rent every month to freely use various services on the website. These services involve all aspects of customer relationship management, from ordinary contact management to product catalogs, order management, opportunity management, Sales management, etc., are included.

Now they have more than 1 million subscribers, and even big companies such as Japan Post and Cisco have become their customers. The technology behind this is a SaaS platform.

The concept of cloud computing is very broad. SaaS is also a model for selling public computing service resources. Soft Camp is at the forefront of the world in the exploration of cloud computing. "

Wang Jian nodded slightly, his eyes revealing deep thought, "This is also a kind of cloud computing, but they don't involve development platforms, virtual machines or storage resources, and the exploration and application of cloud computing is still very simple."

"Yes, there is no clear framework for cloud computing. In my opinion, it can be divided into three layers, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS..."

Xia Jingxing briefly introduced his division of the three-layer cloud computing architecture, and then said: "The cloud computing we want to do naturally includes three layers to create a one-stop cloud service platform.

Among them, IaaS is undoubtedly the layer with the most difficulty and investment.

But once it is done, domestic large and small websites no longer need to purchase foreign servers, and all rent our cloud services.

This can not only lower the threshold for entrepreneurship, but also help domestic counterparts.

For example, Ali, I heard that servers are almost unaffordable. If they rent our cloud services, they can save some money to enter the overseas market, enter the United States, the stronghold of Amazon and eBay, and sell domestic products to the United States. , Drive the development of domestic small and medium-sized enterprises, which can be called infinite merit. "

Wang Jian said with a smile: "That's true. I heard that Ali has more and more e-commerce users, and the pressure on server expenditure is very high. Every year, they buy a large number of Oracle and IBM servers."

Xia Jingxing nodded with a smile, and continued: "IaaS can be classified as an asset-heavy operation model because it needs to build a data center and purchase a large amount of hardware equipment.

Whether a cloud computing company can make profits and how far it can go in the future depends on how prosperous the PaaS layer and SaaS layer ecology above the IaaS layer is.

For example, if Microsoft wants to do cloud computing, it may not be very good at the beginning, but in the later stage, relying on its huge customer base, by grafting its own Windows, Office, SQL Server and other software with cloud services, the potential will be fully released. "

Shen Xiangyang pondered for a moment, nodded and said: "That's right, cloud computing is essentially the lease of server resources, selling computing power and selling storage.

The leasing model has a typical scale effect, that is, the more customers, the lower the marginal cost. "

Xia Jingxing smiled and said: "So, this is also a winner-takes-all track, small players can't play IaaS, they can only play PaaS and SaaS.

Our cloud computing service platform has been heading for the global market since the establishment of the project. Although Microsoft is powerful, we don't have to be afraid of him. No matter how powerful a company is, it has to be built step by step.

As long as we are determined, there must be a place for us Chinese people on the stage of cloud computing. "

Seeing Xia Jingxing's great ambitions, Wang Jian was also deeply moved, and he became very proud.

But he didn't rush to agree to Xia Jingxing, he also wanted to see Xia Jingxing's layout of the other two cloud computing levels, so he asked very directly: "President Xia, I want to hear about Fuxing Cloud's layout of PaaS and SaaS?"

"IaaS provides hardware, and PaaS provides a development platform. In Fuxing Cloud's PaaS plan, Overseas Holdings Group will participate and launch a game cloud platform with Fuxing Cloud to simplify the game development process and make game entrepreneurship easier.

In addition, relying on the group's own resources, Fuxing Cloud will launch an industrial cloud platform to create an industrial big data system and provide development tools for industrial application developers.

At the same time, it will also closely connect equipment, production lines, employees, factories, warehouses, suppliers, products and customers, share various element resources in the whole process of industrial production, and make them digital, networked, automated and intelligent, so that Achieve efficiency gains and cost reductions.

Fuxing Mobile put forward the demand for an industrial Internet platform very early, but the current technology is far from being able to complete this arduous research and development task.

I dare to conclude that there must be only two types of companies that can provide such a powerful platform in the future, either companies with strong industrial manufacturing capabilities, such as Siemens and GE;

Either it is a company with strong information technology capabilities, such as Google and Microsoft.

If we can combine the strengths of industry and information technology, then our industrial cloud platform and industrial Internet platform must be very competitive. "

Wang Jian nodded again and again, and then he asked: "Industrial Internet, this concept is very interesting, it seems that no one in the world has proposed it yet?"

Xia Jingxing smiled, "Yes, it was first created by Fuxing Industrial Group, because we are developing Internet of Things technology recently, and we have some insights.

Only when the Internet of Things technology acts as the glue, can the two industries be truly organically combined. "

Shen Xiangyang's reaction was very keen, and he immediately noticed the power of the integration of the two industries. He said: "This direction is very remarkable, it may be equivalent to an industrial revolution."

Xia Jingxing said calmly: "Industry 1.0 is the age of steam; Industry 2.0 is the age of electricity; Industry 3.0 is the age of electronic information.

Then Industry 4.0 must be "hard + soft", that is, manufacturing + Internet.

The volume of our country's manufacturing industry accounts for an increasing proportion of the global manufacturing industry, but it is a pity that the manufacturing industry is huge in scale and complete in categories, but its level is uneven. Some have just completed mechanization, and some are in the process of automation and automation. Informatization.

On the other hand, due to the large consumer population base in my country, the degree of development of the consumer Internet is second only to the United States.

Therefore, I think this is an opportunity for our country to rise. Whether it can turn backward industries that Americans look down upon into advanced industries and high-end manufacturing, the password lies in Made in China 202..."

Xia Jingxing almost leaked the secret, and quickly changed his words: "It depends on whether the industrial upgrading can be completed in the next ten to twenty years.

Fuxing Industrial Group is an enterprise with leading domestic technology and certain international competitiveness. Our corporate mission is to take the revival of China's industry as our own responsibility, and integrate the feelings of family and country into the unremitting struggle of personal career.

The country has been calling for enterprises to go global. Fuxing Industrial Group has the basic conditions to go global. We also hope to embark on a successful path of "driving industry with technology and changing the appearance of China's backward manufacturing", and to pave the way for domestic counterparts who have ideals and dare to go to sea. Make a way. "

Shen Xiangyang felt very excited, because the grand blueprint drawn by Xia Jingxing, especially the industrial Internet, gave him an urge to join it immediately, and he quickly asked: "The direction of artificial intelligence I research is also very important to the industrial Internet platform. ?”

"This is for sure. The extraction, processing, and specific solutions of a large amount of industrial data require the participation of artificial intelligence."

Shen Xiangyang nodded heavily, "Okay, I understand."

After staying in the United States for so many years and getting a high salary, Shen Xiangyang has never become an American citizen. He still has a sense of family and country in his bones.

There is an unwritten rule in Silicon Valley that a Chinese must be a vice president of a large company. Senior vice presidents and above must be American. In order to promote Shen Xiangyang, Microsoft made an exception for him.

Of course, the artificial intelligence developed by Shen Xiangyang-Microsoft Xiaoice has also planted a flag for Microsoft in the field of cutting-edge technology, which is worthy of Microsoft's love.

Xia Jingxing looked at Wang Jian and continued to introduce: "In the SaaS field, that is, software services for enterprises and individuals, we will only try to open up a few sets of office software, and leave the rest to the ecological partners to develop.

After all, a company has limited manpower, and it is impossible to build a prosperous SaaS application ecosystem on its own. "

Wang Jian smiled and said: "That's right, open and win-win! If you do it like Penguin, the whole country and the whole industry are its enemies."

Xia Jingxing smiled. By the time of cloud computing, Penguin had already got rid of the bad habit of plagiarism and was completely open.

However, the other party still tried to develop SaaS applications by themselves. The purpose was not to make money, but the acceptance of SaaS software by domestic small and medium-sized enterprises was not high, which was far behind the coverage rate of foreign countries. It was necessary to break this deadlock, and cloud computing could Usher in greater development opportunities.

Aliyun was left far behind by Microsoft Cloud, which started almost at the same time, mainly because domestic companies were not strong enough to guard DingTalk, which is used by hundreds of millions of people, but the payment rate and value-added service revenue could not increase.

On the contrary, Microsoft's cloud-based software has made a lot of money. With the help of cloud services, Microsoft, which is already aging, will soon usher in a second career.

Shen Xiangyang suddenly said: "Lu Qi said you want to build a voice assistant?"

"Yes, he told you everything, right? We want to develop the voice assistant as soon as possible and put it on the Fuxing mobile phone, and start the cultivation of artificial intelligence as soon as possible. This thing is not fed by data, and it will not grow up."

Xia Jingxing looked at Shen Xiangyang with a smile on his face. The latter and Lu Qi were brothers in the same discipline, and both had Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

In the previous life, Lu Qi left Yahoo to join Microsoft, which was recommended by Shen Xiangyang.

In this life, it was completely reversed, Lu Qi helped Xia Jingxing dig Shen Xiangyang.

Now that he has some strength, Xia Jingxing feels that these top Chinese talents can no longer be left outside, and he must gather them under his own banner as soon as possible to speed up the development of Fuxing Industry, Overseas Holdings and other industrial sectors.

Of course, to recruit these top talents, you have to provide them with research and development funds, cutting-edge projects, research and development environment, and so on.

Xia Jingxing believes that these conditions can still be provided, and he is now considered one of the leading figures in the Chinese science and technology circles. He raised his arms, and he still has some appeal to Chinese science and technology talents.

Shen Xiangyang nodded, "Apart from voice assistants, are there other directions for exploring artificial intelligence?"

"Tesla plans to start an autonomous driving research and development project, Fuxing Mobile wants to start face recognition and fingerprint recognition projects, Fuxing Internet of Things wants to start a smart home project, Youtube wants to start smart video recognition..."

Shen Xiangyang laughed, "These projects are indeed the direction of artificial intelligence exploration, but each project requires a huge amount of funds. Darren, are you mentally prepared?"

Xia Jingxing felt that Shen Xiangyang underestimated himself, and replied with a smile: "Vision Capital has made a little money in the United States in the past two years, so there is no pressure to invest billions of dollars in the field of artificial intelligence.

Overseas Holdings Group and Fuxing Industrial Group can start financing at any time. Sun Zhengyi and Yuri Milner from DST call me every now and then to remind me that they have started financing and don’t forget to notify them.

Also, Ari will be listed next month, and Facebook will be soon.

In short, there is no need to worry about R\u0026D funds, I will take care of it, you just need to focus on technology R\u0026D. "

Shen Xiangyang smiled, "Daren, that's not what I mean, what I mean is that there may not be any rewards in the short term."

"I understand, long-termism. I dare to bet heavily even on the semiconductor industry, let alone Internet IT."

Seeing Xia Jingxing's confidence, Shen Xiangyang completely threw away the last trace of hesitation in his heart.

"Okay, Darren, since you invited me so kindly, then I won't be hypocritical."

Shen Xiangyang held out his hand and said, "I hope we can do something together for the rise of China's science and technology."

Xia Jingxing shook hands with Shen Xiangyang, and said with a smile, "To be more precise, we are opening a new chapter in China's technological era together!"

Wang Jian on the side was stunned. Shen Xiangyang agreed to join so readily?

What he didn't know was that Lu Qi had already done a lot of preliminary communication work, and the meeting today was just Xia Jingxing's finishing touch.

"Dr. Wang, what about you? China needs its own cloud computing platform very much! And everyone starts at the same time. This is one of the few technological fields where we can catch up with the United States."

Hearing this, Wang Jian no longer hesitated, and held out his hand and said, "Mr. Xia, since you trust me so much, it would be shameful for me to dawdle any longer. Don't worry about this cloud computing, I'm just going to risk this Old life, let’s make it too.”

Xia Jingxing shook hands with Wang Jian with a smile on his face, and then glanced at Shen Xiangyang next to him, feeling very satisfied.

With this pair of crouching dragons and phoenixes joining, the technological strength of Fuxing Industry can be raised to a higher level, and many research and development projects can be officially launched.

Then, Xia Jingxing chatted with the two about the official entry time.

Because they are corporate executives, it is impossible to enter the job as casually as ordinary employees, especially when the two have signed an agreement with Microsoft.

The good news is that the contracts of both of them are about to expire. After submitting their resignations and handing over the work at hand, they will be able to join Renaissance Industries at the beginning of next year at the latest.

"Can you bring some people over here? Fuxing Industrial Group is currently short of senior engineers. I heard that Microsoft Asia Research Institute is full of talents. Bringing more people over will also speed up our research and development progress."

Shen Xiangyang and Wang Jian looked at each other, feeling a little embarrassed.

It's okay to poach the two directors and vice presidents, but Mr. Xia wants to take over the Microsoft Asia Research Institute.

I heard Mr. Xia and Gates are still good friends, are you so cruel to friends?

Xia Jingxing saw the hesitation in the eyes of the two, and did not make things difficult for them, he said, "You can bring as many people as you can, don't force it. Next year I will send people to Silicon Valley to recruit, and the salary will be higher, there should still be some people who are willing to return to China of."

The two smiled, as long as they are not asked to change the name of Microsoft Asia Research Institute to Fuxing Asia Research Institute, otherwise, Microsoft will definitely not let it go, and it will easily increase variables.

In fact, Xia Jingxing really had this dangerous thought of taking it all in one pot.

He had already inquired. Microsoft Asia Research Institute has a total of 1,700 people, gathering domestic elite talents. If they can get all of them, he really can afford to support them.

But after all, we are good friends with Gates. If you want to talk about martial arts, you still can't do things so badly, otherwise the American industry will be greatly affected.

By the way, you can put your mind on the Google Research Institute!

Xia Jingxing's eyes lit up, and soon he had a new goal.

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