Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

{Time: September 1, 2003}

{Location: United States-California}

For a long, long time, if Chen Shijun hadn't suddenly mentioned it, Ning Zimo would not have remembered that there were still shadows and baggage hidden in his heart.

Thinking about my previous life before my rebirth, I was quite successful, but why do I always feel like I have some shortcomings?

What's missing?

Can't remember,

No time either.

Because Ning Zimo was about to leave for Europe with a few people, he had no time to think about this issue.

Maybe I can't find the answer from home until I return home one day.

But the prerequisite is that everyone has the courage to face it.

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When Brian, Andy, and Mathias walked into the temporary office in Europe on September 1st, the three of them had already seen Lingying and myspace in the United States, and had seen Ning Zimo in Europe.

After other industries, they realized that the young man who invited them to work together had a corresponding plan early on.

"Stay away from the hustle and bustle of Silicon Valley, the center of the Internet, and take root in relatively remote Europe. All our projects rooted here have only one purpose, and that is to compare the development in recent years only for ourselves."

Sitting in the only conference room in the two adjacent offices, Ning Zimo chatted with the three people for a few words, and after introducing the administrative staff prepared for [wegame] and [Wandoujia] to the three people, he introduced the two companies

The work was officially handed over to them.

【wegame】We have already thought of a name since the beginning of the project.

The meaning of "pea pod" is the new ecology wrapped in plump and rich seeds.

Therefore, it officially became the name of the mobile Internet operating system that Andy Rubin and Matthias were responsible for.

When he went out and entered the elevator, Pan Yu finally couldn't contain his curiosity.

"Where did these three people get cheated from?"

"What do you mean by lying? They are all like-minded comrades that I managed to find with great difficulty!"

Ning Zimo waved his fist, but Pan Yu screamed and hid aside.

Ning Zimo was in a good mood after not seeing the old pai dong who had a tacit understanding for a long time.

After a pause, Ning Zimo saw Pan Yu smiling mischievously, and teased, "By the way, didn't you trick Bella into coming to Europe?"

"We broke up. Her family is considered middle class in the United States, and she is not ready to accompany a poor guy like me to come to Europe to develop slowly." Pan Yu curled his lips.

"Hey, American girls don't pursue freedom, so why can't they leave their families behind emotionally?" Ning Zimo was very surprised.

Pan Yu turned to look at Ning Zimo's exaggerated expression, and couldn't help but roll his eyes at him.

"I am not a single person who works hard under your influence. The story of the three of us in this house and the beauty next door has finally come to an end." Pan Yu rolled his eyes and said.

Suddenly, Pan Yu took him back to the embarrassment of not meeting Winnie, who was also in California, after spending so much time in California.

Perhaps, he and she had no idea when their "traveling separately" became what Pan Yu called "an end".

The hurt disappeared in a flash. Ning Zimo curled his lips and said, "How come you, a normally good boy, learned to be so unruly? This is unscientific."

"After staying with an immoral person like you for a long time, who can be serious?"

The corner of Pan Yu's mouth moved, which made Ning Zimo's face hurt.

Little did he know that all the irregularities he showed when he was around Pan Yu and Chen Shijun were imitated by them.

Ning Zimo shrugged as he walked out of the elevator. He didn't dwell on the issue and instead asked, "How is [acs] doing lately?"

"I'll take you to the computer room and introduce it to you while I'm at it. Brother Lu and Levchin are already waiting there."

…

The computer room with neatly arranged servers is located on the second floor on the same floor as [bing] and [acs]. It was Lu Qi’s request to build his own computer room from the beginning, and it was also [bing] and [acs]’s request.

Necessary demand, Ning Zimo invested millions of dollars in this temporary computer room.

Now that the computer room has been completed, Lu Qi stood in front of the computer room and saw Ning Zimo arriving, waved to him and said with a smile:

"I found that you are still a patriot. Huawei attaches great importance to our procurement of switch equipment from China. When the equipment was sent here for the second time, they even came here thinking they were the person in charge of Bloomberg. He also laughed and said

, they Hua Wei have wanted to establish a stronghold in Europe for a long time. After seeing how good we are here, they also want to be neighbors with us."

"Oh? That would be fun?"

After listening to Lu Qi's words, Ning Zimo felt funny in his heart.

Regarding Hua Wei, the pride of the private flower-growing company in his previous life, Ning Zimo had dug a lot of information from professional gossip forums in his previous life.

Speaking of which, Hua Wei proposed an internationalization strategy as early as 1996. After several years of trial and error, they settled on a logic early on.

To a certain extent, it is the same as the idea of ​​establishing a European center.

"If you dare to call yourself an "international enterprise" without being ridiculed by others, you can't just "show off" in the third world such as Asia, Africa and Latin America. You must occupy the top three consumer markets in the world: Huahua, the United States, and Europe.

At that time, Hua Wei's research on these markets found another problem. All companies entering the United States must first establish a foothold in Europe. Because flower growing companies enter the United States, there will be various uncontrollable obstacles in a short period of time.

There are relatively no man-made barriers to entry into Europe.

At the same time, in view of Western Europe's "absolute controlling" economic and political status in the entire Europe, only by winning Western Europe can we prove that we have won Europe."

Ning Zi laughed silently, because what he said was Hua Wei's strategy.

"Look, Hua Wei was actually the one who thought of the European strategy earlier than us. However, they were forced to open up the European market to prove themselves, while we have a global strategy centered on Europe. The starting point is not the same.

.”

"I can somewhat understand your concerns, because even though I am an American, I can still feel the prejudices of some Americans against other countries, and their sense of superiority that comes from nowhere."

Levchin, who was standing next to Lu Qi, smiled sarcastically, while Ning Zimo just curled his lips and shrugged, and did not continue on this topic.

After all, many of my former Beibao Gang colleagues are Americans.

It is always undesirable to be in a dark area, and the troublemakers will always be those few people.

He turned around and pointed at several cabinets filled with blade servers inside the room separated by two layers of glass.

Ning Zimo said to Levchin again, "In our entire ecosystem, hardware and network security and even computer room construction must be handled by corresponding teams. Because in the future, with the rapid increase of information in the era of information explosion,

It will take less than 2 years for this 100-square-foot computer to store the data we have stored.

Even in the future, these current stable IBM servers will not be able to meet our needs. At that time, we will not only have our own solutions in terms of hardware, but also have our own technical reserves in the computer room.

Whether it is Bing search, users can extract corresponding retrieval information results from extremely large amounts of data within nanosecond time units;

Or e-commerce can process tens of millions and hundreds of millions of orders concurrently within 1 second during holidays;

Even social platforms process hundreds of millions of pictures, videos, and tens of billions of interactive messages in a single day;

And the development pattern of data doubling in 18 months is similar to Moore's Law.

These are all user-level needs. Correspondingly, our team has to face the large data storage, interaction speed, and storage security behind this;

I am certain that before too long, we will need to develop our own server system and customize the server hardware architecture, network security architecture, database architecture, etc.

In the future, we will need to build our own data centers in Europe, America, Asia, and Africa. At that time, thousands of square meters of data centers will rely on the hardware, software, and network technologies accumulated over the years to expand.

For this reason, we not only need various engineers in hardware, software, and network majors, but even scientists in non-computer fields such as professional mathematicians and physicists are what we are extremely eager for.

From the traditional telecommunications network to the Internet, from the Internet to the mobile Internet, and then from the traditional telecommunications network, the Internet, the mobile Internet to the Internet of Things, which was mentioned by the former richest man Bill Gates in 1995 but was only established in 1999.

The development of the industrial level of science and technology in recent years has allowed those concepts from the past to appear in front of people more quickly. And the update and iteration of technology will allow many things that have never been seen before to be applied at a faster speed.

stand up."

The future that unfolded in Ning Zimo's mouth gradually unfolded in the eyes of the four people around him. It was like a nebula gradually expanding from a star, getting bigger and bigger and more spectacular.

Although that day has not yet come, Levchin, Pan Yu, Paul, and Lu Qi all know that the good fortune will be in the near future.

Levchin smiled after a long time and said, "I knew that what you asked me to do alone was not that simple. To tell you this, I feel that what I want to do is no longer [Senior Programmer Incubation Center] or even

[Bing R&D Center] It’s so simple.”

"I also think we [bing] still have a lot to do."

"[acs] also has a long way to go." Paul rarely spoke.

When Ning Zimo saw that several people had expressed their opinions, the corners of his mouth turned up.

"That's inevitable, because what supports our current ecology is the upgrading and expansion of traditional industries. What we are doing now is naturally just an entry-level product. In the future, it will be far better than what we are doing now.

Much larger.

Furthermore, even if we develop step by step and follow the rules of affairs, we must be forward-looking, and I will be responsible for this matter, and I will plan a complete support system in advance."

With that said, Ning Zimo raised his chin at Levchin and continued, "Man, your job is to provide more professional talents and projects to our corresponding projects in the future. To make it clear, it is within multiple projects.

Innovation and the cultivation of corresponding talents.”

Turning to look at Pan Yu and Paul, Ning Zimo added, "[acs] has just taken the first step. It is still making its first attempts at cloud computing and cloud services, but we can update our friendly projects."

Incorporate more into [acs] for use and provide the greatest support.

Especially with the launch of [Diobao Mall] next year, there will be a huge demand for [acs] pop-up tools. In addition, the various ecosystems we have established and launched will support the corresponding markets, which will also make many professionals demanding

Cloud computing and cloud services.”

Whether it is Mariana's developer ecosystem, Fengyu's developer ecosystem, or even Bing's developer ecosystem, bringing together a large number of third-party developers to develop corresponding new functions for their own platforms requires the use of [acs] cloud

Computing and cloud services.

Regarding this point, Fengyu, Mariana, and Pingguo in the previous life did particularly well, and Aliyun, Huaweiyun, and Tencent Cloud all followed them.

But this life is different. When Ning Zimo was building the ecology, he had already thought about how to include third parties around the ecology. The earlier entry will mean more experience, and if the third-party market operates

It is so good that when the mobile Internet appears, all the ecology under Emperor Penguin will usher in the first wave of explosion.

Turning his head, Ning Zimo could already see the uncontrollable enthusiasm in the eyes of Lu Qi, a usually calm man. And the same enthusiasm was also revealed in the eyes of others.

In this way, Ning Zimo still did not forget to tease the heartstrings of otakus.

"Are you ready for the great era in the future?"