Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

{Time: February 2, 2001}

{Location: Flower Planting-Qin Province-Hannan City}

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Although there are many conventions of calling people by their names in English, for example, people are generally called by their surname if they are related to each other, and only by their first name when they have a good relationship.

However, they will be used interchangeably in this book for the sake of reading.

Friends who like to pay attention to details, bear with me.

For the sake of recognition, no way.

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For a moment, the plot that flashed through Ning Zimo's mind was like a movie, taking him on a new journey.

But now, the girl nodded to him shyly, as if none of that had ever happened.

Oh, indeed.

Are you reborn?

None of this has happened yet.

The corners of Ning Zimo's lips raised slightly in response to her nod.

The girl looked at him and slightly opened her red lips, "Can you help me get that book again?"

After mobilizing a lot of strength, Ning Zimo reached out and got the book pointed by the girl on the bookshelf.

This time, the book was as high as she could reach on tiptoe.

However, Ning Zimo didn't have much energy to think about the reason behind it.

The girl took the book with her left hand, but stretched out her right hand in front of Ning Zimo, "Hello, my name is Ling Shengnan - Ling from Top Gun, Sheng from Victory, and Nan from boys."

Ning Zimo stretched out his hand with difficulty to hold it with hers, and said calmly.

"My name is Ning Zimo. I would rather bear the Ning of the people in the world, the bullet of the bullet, and the ink of the ink."

Ling Shengnan's expression froze and he forced a smile, "You are such an interesting person."

Smiling and nodding in response, Ning Zimo retracted his hand and turned to pick up the book he had just read from the bookshelf and read through it.

Out of the corner of his eye, Ling Shengnan tilted his head and looked at him for a few seconds. Then he followed his example and stood aside, facing the bookshelf, and started reading.

Five minutes feels like a century.

Finally, someone tapped me lightly on my arm.

Turning his head to the side, Ling Shengnan held the book in front of him and nodded slightly at him again, "I'll just buy this one, thank you."

"You're welcome."

The breeze blows and the people have gone away,

This time, it was difficult for Ning Zimo to suppress the turmoil in his heart.

After waiting for a minute, Ning Zimo sighed and closed the book and prepared to go to the cashier to pay.

But when he was about to reach the cashier, Ling Shengnan's back appeared there again.

Slowing down her pace, Ning Zimo heard what she said to the clerk.

"Sorry, I may have dropped my money somewhere."

When Ning Zimo heard this, he subconsciously dug into his pockets.

The moment he touched the money, he was restrained by his subconscious actions.

some things,

It's so hard to forget.

Ning Zimo could only suppress the discomfort in his heart and walked to the checkout counter.

He handed over the two hundred-dollar bills in his pocket and said, "Let me pay for her, and I'll also check out my book by the way."

Ling Shengnan didn't seem to understand that Ning Zimo, who had been indifferent just now, could behave like this, and stood stunned for a while.

The cashier's eyes scanned the two of them, and finally he took the money and handed back the change and book.

Ning Zimo took what the cashier handed him and separated the books and placed them in front of the two of them.

He turned around and was about to leave, but Ling Shengnan behind him grabbed his clothes.

"Wait a moment."

Ling Shengnan asked the cashier to borrow a pen and paper, leaned down and wrote down a string of QQ numbers before handing it to Ning Zimo.

"Thank you, this is my QQ number, I will return it to you."

Ling Shengnan's stubborn eyes were as determined as she was every time she conquered the bug, and as weak as when she begged herself.

Unable to stand that kind of look, Ning Zimo took the piece of paper with the QQ number written on it.

Turning around indifferently,

I left the bookstore without looking back.

Ling Shengnan held the book and looked at Ning Zimo's retreating back,

I don't know what I'm thinking.

Behind the pile of snow, there was a long series of Ning Zimo's footprints.

Ning Zimo tightened his collar and hat, thinking about something in his mind.

Once in the previous life, Ning Zimo heard such a question from another friend, Lin Changxin.

If you knew your destiny in life, would you continue to live?

Is there any need to ask? If fate is irreversible, you will know every day when you wake up how far you can achieve today, and even the misfortune will appear tomorrow.

So, who still has the courage to live?

So the reason why the future is unclear is because there are infinite possibilities.

As for rebirth, isn’t the greatest significance lies in change?

Change the impossible things in your previous life and make everything better!

When the cold air flowed down the nose and stimulated Ning Zimo's mind, his hand in the bag happened to pinch the paper the girl handed him.

But courage is this thing,

Most of the time it is inspired by the atmosphere,

A small amount of the time it just comes out of habit.

Meet again before the new world,

Is it really because of fate?

But in the end, that fate

Will the two lines still be adjusted separately?

***+***

"You're back, have you had lunch?" Zheng Yawen asked softly while helping his son pat the snow off his body.

When his hand followed his son's shoulder and was about to pat the hat on his head, he paused.

After all, he was his son who had lived together for 17 years. The imperceptible depression in Ning Zimo's mood was easily noticed by Zheng Yawen.

"What's wrong?"

A hand grabbed Ning Zimo's arm, and Zheng Yawen seemed to be able to feel his son's slight body trembling through his clothes.

The mother's soft questioning finally brought Ning Zimo back to her senses. Looking at her concerned expression, Ning Zimo slightly curled up the corners of her mouth to avoid the topic, "Mom, I want to eat bacon, steam some for me.

"

These days, Zheng Yawen saw a completely different son from before.

His serious look is completely different from before, and his energetic state is even more surprising.

Only when I saw him just now, the look on his face was not as energetic as it was a few days ago.

but,

My son is older.

He also has his own little secret.

Since, he doesn't want to tell himself.

Just let him be.

Zheng Yawen raised her hand and patted her son on the shoulder, "If there's anything that can't be solved, you can tell your parents. Mom will steam it for you right now."

Give your son enough free space,

Zheng Yawen turned around and went busy.

After a while, she brought a plate of hot bacon and placed it in front of Ning Zimo.

Sometimes, food is also a good healing equipment.

Sometimes, so does work.

After eating another small plate of bacon, Ning Zimo returned to his house.

Turn on the computer,

Through the screen in front of you,

There is another world there.

A world of your own.

There was a letter from Pan Yu lying in the mailbox. In order to show that he was born as a flower farmer, it was even written in Chinese.

Seeing the slightly unreasonable sentence, Ning Zimo suddenly wiped away his previous depression and became happy.

The image of the gentle man with glasses and watermelon head that he had seen in his previous life came to mind.

That person is very low-key, and there is very little information about him on the Internet in his previous life.

However, Ning Zimo has always liked low-key people.

Therefore, he also knew a lot of information about Pan Yu.

Pan Yu's ancestral home is Guangxi Dayz Autonomous County, and he was born in Nanning City at the end of 1976.

When he was in the second grade of Kwangseo University Elementary School, his father applied for a job in the United States to assist as a professor at NASA.

With funding from NASA, he evaluated alloy phase diagrams and thermodynamic properties for the International Phase Diagram Committee. The following year, his mother took him and his sister to Chicago to reunite with their father.

Pan Yu, who has been smart and studious since childhood, has a special interest in mathematics and computational science. With excellent results, the brother and sister were admitted to the Illinois Mathematical Academy (IMSA), known as the cradle of scientists in Illinois.

He received rigorous scientific training there, and his job at Paypal was Pan Yu's first job after graduating from school.

The reason why Ning Zimo noticed him in his previous life was because he was one of the six first founders when he and Peter Thiel, the current CEO of PayPal, founded Confinity, the predecessor company of PayPal.

Although his reputation is not as dazzling as Chen Shijun who later founded youtebe, he founded his own company after leaving PayPal and devoted himself to the field of biological sciences.

In this world, there are many people who are doing hard work. They are all outstanding in their respective industries, but they are not known by others.

Compared to Chen Shijun's dazzling appearance, Ning Zimo has a natural affinity for people like Pan Yu.

In the past 10 days or so, Pan Yu and Ning Zimo have exchanged emails and chatted dozens of times. The two of them have become pen pals through their correspondence.

In this email, Pan Yu continued the last topic - Paypal's weaknesses.

Although both are third-party payment platforms, compared with Alipay, Paypal does have inherent shortcomings.

When Alipay was first launched, it was launched by Taobao. Unlike the competition between Paypal and the trading platform eBay, Alipay inherently has an excellent living environment.

But Paypal is different. The competition between Paypal and eBay is that eBay has always wanted to replace Paypal with the payment products of Billpoint, a company in which it holds shares.

Under such prerequisites, Paypal has actually been having a hard time surviving.

If it weren't for the fact that Wells Fargo Bank of the United States owns 35% of Billpoint;

If PayPal hadn’t continued to lead users to call for free transactions;

If Billpoint hadn’t failed to live up to his expectations;

eBay could have replaced paypal a long time ago.

The embarrassing thing about Paypal is that it was developed at a time when it did not have the huge financial demand market that Alipay had after cultivating customer habits for several years.

Of course, if several things happened at the same time, there would not be the first miracle of Internet companies - Paypal was acquired by eBay for US$1.5 billion in 2002.

In the past few days of contact, Ning Zimo explained the difficulties faced by Paypal in detail for Pan Yu. He was not bored enough to show off his vision.

His main purpose was to recommend his third small plan.

After reading Pan Yu's letter, Ning Zimo thought about it carefully and clicked the reply button.

Hello Pan Yu,

Seeing the words is like seeing the face...

***+***

As long as you enter a state of concentration, time will often pass quickly.

When Ning Zimo got into bed on this side of the earth, he was on the other side of the earth.

In the cold California, USA, a few people sat around a round table and looked at a laptop in the early morning of winter.

The person in the middle is none other than Pan Yu, whose words are as clear as his face when Ning Zimo sees them.

There were four people around him, the oriental-looking man with curly hair was Chen Shijun, the white man with glasses was Paypalcto Levchin, and the other curly-haired white man was the current business director of Paypal, David Sachs.

The reason why there was such a big battle was that the letters Pan Yu sent to Ning Zimo in those days were actually Levchin's idea.

From the first time he received Ning Zimo's mini program, Levqin became very interested in Ning Zimo.

So he encouraged Pan Yu to keep in touch with Ning Zimo, and he also learned more about the people on the other side of the ocean through Pan Yu's repeated reports.

Ning Zimo's constant display of vision made Levqin secretly frightened.

Except for a few senior PayPal executives, even senior security consultants like Pan Yu are not very clear about the dilemma faced by PayPal.

However, those difficulties were carefully displayed on the screen by a young man far away in the east.

Seeing Sachs frowning next to him after reading the email from Ning Zimo on Pan Yu's monitor, Levchin raised his chin at him and said, "How are you, man? What do you think he said?"

"From his detailed analysis of us and his innovative ideas, he really doesn't look like a 17-year-old boy.

He is more like a master who has been in the industry for many years, and he also has excellent market thinking.

To be honest, I prefer to believe that he is a middle-aged man nearly 40 years old.

Because his thinking and vision are not what people of his age should have."

David Sacks touched his beard and suddenly showed a curious expression, "It's just that I'm curious. He listed his plan completely, isn't he afraid of us plagiarizing?"

Pan Yu, who was sitting in the middle, turned his head and smiled at him when he heard this, "When we plant flowers, he calls it a conspiracy."

"Conspiracy?"

"Yes, Yangmou." Pan Yu nodded and continued, "His software is obviously a third-party software. But if we release this software, it will become a competition with eBay, and it will still be the same.

It must be controlled. But it is different when he does it. If he does it as a third party, he will not be directly resisted."

Sachs smiled and pointed to the engineer's office area outside the door.

There are many PayPal software engineers sitting there, numbering dozens of people.

"Let's not say that we can reopen a small company to do this idea. Let's just say that if we gather a group of people to do this, won't it be faster than him?"

Hearing this sentence,

Pan Yu's brows suddenly wrinkled.

He wants to plagiarize?