Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

{Time: January 13-28, 2003}

{Location: United States, Nuremberg, Germany}

The biggest difference between San Jose and the Special Administrative Region is the population density. San Jose has less than one million people living in an area of ​​3,400 square kilometers, while the Special Administrative Region has more than 5 million people living in less than 2,000 square kilometers of land.

Standing by the small river next to US Route 101 in San Jose, Ning Zimo could enjoy a rare tranquility in the vastness. Even if a group of people were barbecued and noisy in the camp not far behind him, he still had this peaceful state of mind.

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I don't know why Ning Zimo suddenly wanted to smoke at this time, but after rummaging through his pockets, he found that apart from the two packs of cigarettes Zhang Xiaolong gave him before leaving to plant flowers, there was still one pack of cigarettes left, but his lighter was missing.

Just when I was thinking about going back to the camp to get it, the soft footsteps mixed with the squeezing of stones came closer.

Ning Zi followed the sound silently and saw Li Ying slowly walking over in the silver moonlight. Although she was holding the moonlight behind her so that he could not see her eyes, he felt like he was being stared at by her.

It wasn't until he saw her standing next to him that he realized she was holding a lighter in her hand.

"Hey, are you the roundworm in my stomach?"

"Your roommate is Chen Shijun," Li Ying handed over the lighter in disdain and teased, "Sure enough, only men understand men best. You have only been standing here for less than a minute, and he already knows that you must want to

If you want to smoke, you even ask me to come over and give you a lighter."

"Do you mind if I smoke a cigarette now?"

"It doesn't matter, I'm standing on the upper wind anyway."

"Excellent!" Ning Zi smiled silently, lit up the cigarette, and took a long puff.

Li Ying stood beside him without saying a word, watching quietly with him at the occasional passing vehicles on Highway 101 in the distance.

Just like that, they passed the cigarette in silence. When Li Ying saw that he had put out the cigarette butt, she handed him another piece of chewing gum and asked, "You were so sharp at noon today on purpose."

"Did you see it?" Ning Zimo took it and put it in his mouth. Without waiting for Li Ying's reply, he looked into the distance and said quietly, "Fris is too flamboyant. In the process of working together these days, I

I could feel his arrogance. I didn't know where his pride came from, so I just wanted to take the opportunity to put some pressure on him."

"Aren't you afraid of destroying the harmony of the skrpe team?"

"Then there is nothing to worry about. Even if Luxembourg is the nominal headquarters of skrpe, the core strength of skrpe has never been in Luxembourg, but in the hands of Feixun and Luban." Ning Zimo said lightly.

"So, the CEO and coo of skrpe are actually the executors and not the decision-makers." Li Ying's voice was also very calm.

Ning Zimo nodded, "In the first stage, no one in the team knows what Internet users want better than me, so at this time the team can only do things around my direction, and there is no real certainty.

direction."

"But you seem to have a different way of getting along with Brother Yang, Brother Han, Brother Lu, Brother Zhang, and even Chen Shijun and Hoffman?" Li Ying's voice finally fluctuated.

"Of course, they are the first to recognize me as a partner, and I also recognize their abilities and vision. Only when we work together with mutual trust can we be called a team. Naturally, they are different from the two people you just mentioned."

"What about me?"

"You?" Ning Zimo turned his head and looked at Li Ying.

Even though it was night, the bright moon still shone brightly in Li Ying's eyes. The dark night covered her with a hazy veil. At this time, she raised the corners of her mouth, showing off her rare playful side.

It was like the real face that could occasionally be seen through the rearview mirror when they sat on the front and back of the car and stayed together in the same space on the mountaintop and at the beach in their previous life.

In the previous life, Sister Yu, she rarely had such a little girl attitude.

Ning Zimo looked at the corner of his mouth and turned up unconsciously, staring into Li Ying's eyes and murmuring, "Although we have only known each other for more than a year, I have the feeling that I have known you for centuries.

A sense of familiarity and trust. If I really had to categorize that feeling, I would probably use the word 'confidant' to express it."

"Eh~~~" Li Ying dragged out a long syllable, her tone exuding a girlish tone.

But she found that Ning Zi's gaze passed directly through her eyes and looked farther away, causing the focus of their eyes to meet in an instant.

The ripples in her heart that had finally arisen due to the night and silence gradually calmed down.

Turning her head to look at the calm river in front of her, Li Ying returned her voice to her usual tone, "Then I will stay in the United States for the next period of time, and I will have to stay in the United States this year. But~~

~, did you rush over to cheer up your colleagues in Nuremberg because they had to stay abroad during the New Year?"

"Half and half, the point is that since I chose the path I'm taking now, I haven't thought about any New Year's Eve." Ning Zimo smiled with a smile on his face, looked at Li Ying's side face and said, "

Now that you are in charge in the United States, I can rest assured to stay in Europe for a few days. Then I will go back with the team and arrange the domestic affairs, and then I will come to the United States to gild you."

"Then at the beginning of next month, you won't be able to catch up with the launch of Lingying and Myspace?" Li Ying said as she tilted her head and looked at Ning Zimo.

Looking at him curiously, Li Ying seemed to suddenly catch a certain detail in what he just said, "You're going to gild me?"

"Well, Lingying and Myspace are not skrpe, and they don't have a suitable profit model for a while. So for the time being, I can only run according to my plan for a while. After all, even if we go online silently, we still have a complete publicity plan." Ning Zi

Li Ying's last question was tacitly ignored.

But seeing Li Ying staring at him without saying a word, Ning Zimo answered directly, "Although you are a top student with a double degree and have a golden name of having worked at McKinsey. But I promise that I will prepare for you."

For gold-lettered signboards, gold plating will have a better effect."

"I always feel like you are planning something bad, Xiao Jiujiu~~"

"Can I sell you~~"

"Hmm?~~" Li Ying wrinkled her nose and raised her chin slightly, the corners of her mouth and eyebrows were raised in a slight arc.

At this moment, Ning Zimo felt his heart beat faster for a few seconds.

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The Lunar New Year's Eve in 2002 falls on the second day of the Nuremberg Toy Fair, which means that not only Ning Zimo and Li Ying will miss this New Year, but also the entire exhibition team sent by Dibao Trading Company.

This is the Spring Festival.

"It's okay. Gradually, we will get used to it~" Ning Zimo stood on the rostrum of the hotel's function hall, looking around at the eyes below and said with a smile.

His sudden joke immediately made everyone present laugh helplessly.

There is no way, they are all sitting here now. Today is January 28th again, and there are really only three days left before New Year's Eve.

Therefore, this Spring Festival is destined to be a special day for these people in a foreign country.

Looking at the pair of complicated eyes, Ning Zimo spread his hands and curled his lips and said, "Anyway, we don't have a share in the New Year, so we can only vent our grievances on the customers."

Pointing to the exhibits on the table, Ning Zimo shrugged and continued, "Compared to the CES show where there were only three core products, this time we are better prepared for Nuremberg. Whether it's a hugging bear or a chameleon,

Or various other toy products, a whole line has prepared 10 main products and 20 other new products.

These are all ingenious products that colleagues in the product department have worked hard to create over the past six months. They are eagerly waiting for our big harvest this time. So whether it is for them, for ourselves, or for our entire Emperor Penguin team.

This Chinese New Year, it’s all hard work for everyone.”

Suddenly he remembered the speech on the Arctic Circle podium, and Ning Zimo walked out of the podium as he spoke.

Standing in the empty space on the rostrum, Ning Zimo bowed gently to the people sitting below.

But this is not the Arctic Circle, and this group of people is not the people of Beibao. When Ning Zimo made an "astonishing move", a group of people in the treasure hunting trade hurriedly stood up and imitated in his direction.

He looked like he was bowing in return.

Even Yang Jian,

No exception.

It's like some kind of solemn ceremony.

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Compared with the CES show, which has a lower entry threshold, Nuremberg's Exhibition Treasure Trading Company actually has no qualifications. The booth resources were still found by Yang Jian through entrustment relationships, and he found the current partners from them at a price higher than the market price.

Sublet the next half of the area.

This half is not much, only 36 square meters.

But for treasure hunting, that’s enough!

Therefore, there was a 40-person treasure hunting team that went to the CES electronics show in Las Vegas, but only 20 people came to the Nuremberg Toy Fair.

It was already 2 o'clock in the morning when everyone settled into the hotel last night, so after the mobilization meeting this morning, the team only had less than 2 days left.

Time was tight, so Yang Jian quickly divided the people into two groups to conduct work rehearsals.

The tasks of the product portfolio and the purchasing group are to visit the exhibition, but the product group is responsible for collecting inquiries about new products at the exhibition, while the purchasing group needs to purchase samples of the products they value and understand supplier information.

However, at foreign exhibitions at this time, it is not conducive to the development of this work if flower growers appear in the procurement process. Exhibitors will feel that flower growers have little purchasing power, and sometimes they are not even entertained.

This is the experience gained from the Hong Kong exhibition, so the procurement and product group of Dibaobao changed its strategy at the CES exhibition in the United States.

The two groups discussed early on that they would use a combination of experienced overseas students and flower planting agents to construct a virtual buyer identity to accomplish this task. Today, the overseas students with Western faces who were recruited at odd hours have arrived, and the product group and purchasing

The group needs to prepare with them through a translator.

But compared to their tedious transition, the sales team's task is still more arduous. The 10-person sales team needs to combine the plan formulated by Ning Zimo early in the morning to promote the product through ppt presentations and bilingual speeches in English and German.

Although the speech had been practiced when he was planting flowers, Ning Zimo caught them and rehearsed the details again in Nuremberg.

Ning Zimo spent the whole day in a hurry, so much so that at night he couldn't remember whether he came in a hurry or the team rushed to catch up.

All in all, the chaotic and hurried scene in front of us must have gone through the same process at the CES exhibition.

If we persist for one more day, the curtain will rise in Nuremberg.