Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

{Time: August 29, 2003}

{Location: United States-California}

"Dong dong dong"

"Please come in"

Huffman, who was sitting on the sofa, answered the door with a very loud voice, which shocked Ning Zimo, who was sitting on the sofa opposite him, to snap out of his thoughts.

The person who pushed the door open was Chen Shijun, but there was another person behind him.

It’s Elon Musk!

Ning Zimo was very surprised to see Elon "dropping in" during the working day.

The important thing is that Elon slowly walked towards Ning Zimo with a cup of coffee in his hand.

From the look on his face, it seemed that this cup of coffee was served to him. Ning Zimo stood up quickly when he saw this situation.

"Hi, Elon. Why are you here?"

When Elon handed the coffee in his hand to Ning Zimo, he patted his shoulder and said, "Hi, man, relax."

Ning Zimo looked at Elon in confusion. He was confused as to what exactly this guy was making.

Elon smiled and said, "You have been extremely busy lately, working almost day and night. Hoffman and the others are very worried about you, and even asked your beautiful partner to persuade you once, but it was of no use.

So they asked me to come over and take a look."

???

Ning Zimo suddenly remembered that Li Ying came here once on Wednesday afternoon. At that time, she brought some small things for him, but she never mentioned this matter at all like Elon.

Looking at Elon, Hoffman, Levchin, Chen Shijun and Saxophone who were sitting opposite him, Ning Zimo slowed down and saw the concern in their eyes when they looked at him.

Ning Zimo felt warm in his heart, and by turning around to take the coffee cup from Elon's hand, he soothed the emotional emotions that arose in his heart.

When he turned around again, the smile on Ning Zimo's face became much more natural.

"Hey, guys, don't worry so much. Haven't you been like this too? Whose youth is not crazy?"

Hoffman, who was sitting at his desk, stood up now. He walked to Ning Zimo's side, patted Ning Zimo's arm with the fleshy palm of his right hand and said,

"Ning, you have been working 18 hours a day for more than 20 consecutive days. Although we have gone crazy, no one will be like you now. Although you are young, you will have a strong body if you continue like this.

It’s unbearable. What’s more, you have to consider other people’s feelings.”

Ever since Ning Zimo and Bram Cohen finalized the work on wegame, they have started a crazy working mode.

There are also new versions of various platforms that have been launched recently. Although Ning Zimo does not need to do these in detail, it only takes up time to present the future direction to a few people, and Ning Zimo can spend all his days.

Fill up.

Fortunately, MySpace is very close to Lingying, so Hoffman specially made two spaces for Ning Zimo to use as temporary offices.

So Ning Zimo made full use of this time to implement every bit of work.

Mobile operating systems Andy and Mathias are much more professional than Ning Zimo. As long as Ning Zimo comes up with some interface diagrams and some human-computer interaction interfaces during the brainstorming session, the duo can understand and extend it.

.

At the same time, Ning Zimo needs to allocate part of his time to make the software prototype interface of WeGame. After all, the failure of V Club in the previous life was in the poor interactive interface, so Ning Zimo took the designer to polish this thing personally.

matter.

In the first few days, Bram and Andy could keep up with the rhythm. But with Ning Zimo's full devotion, when more and more software prototype interfaces appeared in front of everyone, they could not only get the

From the data, I can see what kind of grand plan the creators of these detailed contents have crafted, and I also feel an unprecedented sense of suffocation.

This feeling is not only felt by the three newcomers, but even Chen Shijun, who plans to leave Myspace to build an oil pipeline project, will occasionally be caught by Ning Zimo talking about oil pipeline plans during breaks.

Hoffman didn't notice this problem at first. It wasn't until one day when he came to the office very early and found Ning Zimo getting up from the floor that he realized something was wrong. Chen Shijun's recent mental malaise made Huo even more...

Fuman understands that Ning's current suffocating rhythm has had a very serious impact on the leaders of several projects he is currently working on.

So Hoffman could only go out while Elon was away from the incident, and came here today, and then there was a scene where several people met.

Elon detailed to Ning Zimo the situation that Hoffman noticed, and only then did Ning Zimo understand his current situation.

"Sorry, guys, I didn't consider the feelings of the people around me. This is my problem. I have been a little too nervous recently, so much so that I drove everyone away. Maybe it made everyone feel suffocated.

.”

"That's right, buddy, but I accept your apology."

Chen Shijun's generosity obviously has some funny elements in it, "Actually, this is quite good. This period of time allowed me to experience the difficult moments of reading books in college. This is also a way to experience youth."

After Chen Shijun finished speaking, he stretched out his fist. Ning Zimo stretched out his fist and bumped it with him knowingly.

This time, both of them laughed easily.

Putting down his arms, Ning Zimo took a deep breath for a while and then said to everyone, "Guys, please sit down for a moment. I'm going to talk to the other three people."

Everyone nodded and saw that Ning Zimo could slow down and walk out slowly.

Elon looked away from Ning Zimo's back and asked curiously, "What's going on with this guy recently?"

Hoffman said with a wry smile, "I don't know what happened to him recently. I always feel like he is being chased by something, or he is chasing something. We don't know the reason, and we don't dare to ask."

If it weren't for you, a third party, to help, we really wouldn't be able to say anything."

Elon looked at Chen Shijun. He knew that as Ning Zimo's roommate, Chen Shijun should know some of the reasons.

But Chen Shijun simply shook his head and said, "It seems that it was because Wei Ni was not reunited with Ning during her promotion in California, but in fact he didn't care about it. He seemed to have some kind of tacit understanding with Wei Ni, so

, the two of them are happy-go-lucky emotionally.

As for the real reason, I'm not very clear, I can only feel that he has been really anxious recently."

"You don't even know, so it seems like there's no way to investigate." Sachs curled his lips and said.

"Forget it, since we have already mentioned it to Ning. Now that we have raised these things, let him digest it by himself." Elon frowned and said, "He must have the ability to digest it."

After a pause, Elon did not continue discussing this topic, and instead smiled at Chen Shijun, "Your recent changes have been a bit rapid."

Chen Shijun shrugged, "On the way to pick up Ning back at the beginning of the month, I talked to him about my confusion at that time. The solution he mentioned was to let me participate in projects with higher technical requirements. So I talked to him

After Sachs discussed it, Ning’s new idea was included in the plan.”

"What kind of project is it?" Elon was even more curious.

"There are projects similar to myspace, except that it focuses on the video field."

"Video website?" Elon said, stroking his smooth chin, "Ning, this guy, always sees some special markets. Now I admire his vision even more."

"I heard that you led Ning to invest in a robot company last time. In what field are you planning to apply it?" Hoffman also asked curiously.

Elon winked at him and said, "I can only say that his eyes are not just staring at the robots. You will have to wait until the day the results are announced to understand what he is doing."

Regarding Elon's "naughty", Hoffman could only respond to him with helplessness lying on the sofa.

Seeing that Hoffman was unable to resist, Elon turned around and asked, "What's going on with this wegame?"

Chen Shijun curled his lips and said, "I only heard Ning mention it briefly. It is a platform that sells games online and provides BitTorrent technical support for downloading. If it is more complicated, I can only let Bram tell you."

"Well, forget it. I've met that guy a few times, and he's a bit difficult to get in touch with. Sometimes I wonder how Lin invited him. Does he have any magic power?"

Chen Shijun laughed loudly when he heard what Hoffman said about Ning Zimo's magic power.

Regarding his reaction, Hoffman was confused, "What's wrong? What's so funny?"

"Ning does have magical powers, but only in terms of thinking, vision, and creativity. Just pay for it?"

"Ah? You mean, Ning hired him to develop the wegame platform?"

"Yeah, that's Bram's own intention."

“Then who will be responsible for the wegame platform in the future?”

"Ning didn't let him leave before he finished developing it."

Hoffman looked at Chen Shijun in surprise, then turned to look at Elon, and heard Chen Shijun's voice in his ears:

"After developing the core functions, you can then participate in platform development. There will be other functions in the future."

"Well, I was defeated by him. His thinking was really strange, and he actually tied people up in such a way."

…

Everyone chatted for 10 minutes before seeing Ning Zimo return from the office on the other side.

As soon as he sat down, Ning Zimo took a big sip of coffee and then breathed a sigh of relief, "It's much better, guys. Fortunately, you reminded me, otherwise, the three of them will definitely have deep grudges against me."

Ning Zimo was very grateful to the partners sitting here, but as he spoke, he thought of other partners who were growing flowers in the United States, Europe, but were not around him.

If it weren't for them to protect him, he wouldn't be able to do many things.

Elon watched Ningzi think for a long time, and couldn't help but say, "Ning, although your ideas are very good, and each idea is dedicated to the responsibility of partners like you sitting here, your project is too big.

Being dispersed is not conducive to your development."

Ning Zimo leaned on the sofa helplessly and said with a wry smile:

"Elon, I am also very helpless about this. In this golden era of the Internet, there are many fields that are untapped gold mines. But in more than ten years, when these fields are discovered one by one, any

Giants in a field will all hit a development ceiling in their current field.

At that time, everyone will think about expanding to other fields to seek suitable development opportunities. But at that time, companies said that the problem they faced was that they wanted to develop, but the development space had already been occupied by others. Unless they could be like Kang

Finidi and

Therefore, if we just look at one place now and focus our energy on one area, we will not have the strong ability to seize the market with the giants in the future.

Therefore, we can only work hard in this barbaric period to organize enough resources, do what we can, and form our own closed ecology. Use the large ecological foundation to expand for the future, so that in the future, the three or two of us rookies can

Only then can we gradually gain the strength to compete with the giants."

Ning Zimo said,

Elon listened quietly.

The situation of chamber resistance described by Ning Zimo gradually unfolded in Elon Musk's mind.

He also found that besides himself, several other people sitting here were also aroused by Ning Zimo's simple words.