Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

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After explaining the affairs of the United States in these two chapters, we will then circle around to Europe, and then we will begin to return to the flower-growing country during the quiet period.

Although it is two transitional chapters, there are a lot of details to be piled up.

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{Time: February 14, 2004}

{Location: Mountain View, California}

When Jennifer was driving the car, did she look at Ning Zimo in the back seat through the rearview mirror?

She always felt that something extraordinary had happened today, so that the big boss, who always kept his emotions secretive, was full of joy today. And Zhang Miaoying, who was usually gentle and elegant, also met with Zhang Miaoying on this day.

The temperament I see on weekdays is different.

After connecting the two differences, Jennifer felt she had found the key point.

Although she was still driving, she couldn't help but raise her chin at Zhang Miaoying.

"Zhang, did you win the boss today?"

"ah?"

Zhang Miaoying's mind was a little distracted just now, because she always unconsciously remembered the appreciative looks from the people around her when she took Ning Zimo's arm and took steps in unison.

Take down the boss?

Who can take him?

Zhang Miaoying shook her head involuntarily.

"Oh," Jennifer shrugged while turning the steering wheel and said with a smile, "You are still too reserved. If I were you, I might have knocked him down long ago."

"What are you talking about? I don't have it. Don't talk nonsense!"

Only then did Zhang Miaoying react and quickly waved her hands to deny it, but she felt that her face was heated to the point of being heated by Jennifer's explicit words.

"Hahaha, I understand, I understand. Just be low-key..."

"I don't have any, don't talk nonsense..."

The two women in the front row suddenly entered the PK mode, and the gradually increasing volume had no privacy at all in the closed car. When it reached Ning Zimo's ears, he could only watch his eyes, nose, and mind like an old monk in meditation.

He was already very familiar with Jennifer's style, and the more people followed her, the crazier she became.

Rather than denying it, it is better to show weakness and ignore it.

Sure enough, there was no response from the person in the back row, and the two women in the front row trembled for a few words but then stopped.

Jennifer saw in the rearview mirror that Ning Zimo had turned his gaze out the window, and the light in the eyes of the girl next to him was slowly dimming. Jennifer could only smile and stop talking, just staring into the distance.

The journey from San Jose to Mountain View is not far. After getting off US Route 85 and turning two turns, you can reach the offices of Lingying and Myspace.

After Zhang Miaoying parked the car, she walked out first. Ning Zimo paused deliberately, and after she walked out a few meters, she said softly:

"I have already transferred the 500 million funds into their accounts respectively. This is the last investment. There is no need to invest more money in the future."

Jennifer was taking out the car keys when she heard Ning Zimo's words and looked back at him.

She frowned and said, "There is a total of 570 million investment funds. If you follow the way you invest in projects, would it be too risky to invest such a large amount in them at once?"

"With such a large amount of money all at once, I can't invest it all in my current industries. After all, that doesn't conform to the law of development." Ning Zimo leaned on the back seat and rubbed his temples and said, "Besides,

Eggs can't always be put in one basket."

Jennifer shrugged upon hearing this. From the corner of her eye, she saw Zhang Miaoying looking over curiously from outside the car, and then looked at Ning Zimo in the back seat.

Ning Zimo saw her looking over and shook his head slightly.

Although silent, Jennifer understood what he meant.

The two of them walked out of the car, one behind the other.

…

"Hey, Monopoly, give me a hug and let me enjoy your happiness."

At the door of Lingying's office, Hoffman quickly came up to him and gave Ning Zimo a bear hug. At the end, he patted Ning Zimo on the back exaggeratedly and said loudly to Sachs, "See, buddy, I

Now holding 5.6 billion US dollars, I feel heavy."

"Everyone weighs less than a ton, so why is it so heavy?" Chen Shijun curled his lips and asked.

Sachs turned a blind eye to the exaggerated trio and said hello to Zhang Miaoying and Jennifer.

Then, he gestured to the office behind him, "Come on, we're both getting hungry waiting for you."

"Yeah, look, I'm really hungry." Hoffman said, rubbing his round belly.

Ning Zimo glanced at his round belly and the buttons of his shirt that were about to burst, and could only roll his eyes and follow Sachs into the leader's office.

After several people were seated at the temporary dining table in the conference room, eating the food that had been prepared, everyone started chatting again.

"You said in the email that you won't be able to stay in the United States for long this time?"

Sachs raised his eyelids and asked Ning Zimo while sawing the steak with a knife.

When he asked this question, Hoffman just raised his eyelids and glanced at Ning Zimo.

Seeing that neither of them made any special moves, Ning Zimo knew that although he was rich now, he was still the same as before in front of these old guys.

everything,

Nothing has changed.

still,

So natural.

This allowed Ning Zimo's body, which had been tense at the reception just now, to relax freely in this familiar atmosphere.

"Well, after arranging the glass slag matter, I didn't have anything special to do in the United States. Because [Lingying] and [mysapce] are now on track, I have nothing to do. And this time after the sale of skrpe,

It’s nothing more than that every time LinkedIn and mysapce raise funds, we can take more initiative.”

Entering February, both [Lingying] and [myspace] are developing steadily. Although they are still losing money on their books, the steady growth in the number of users is the "culprit" of this loss. Naturally, Ning Zimo has nothing to worry about.

.

After hearing this, Hoffman raised his head and glanced at Ning Zimo. He heard the meaning of Ning Zimo's words and paused slightly in his hand movements.

"Aren't you planning to raise funds for your projects in Europe?"

"That's not entirely the case." Ning Zimo didn't stop moving, looked up at Hoffman and said, "The environment in Europe is different from the environment in the United States. In addition, after the sale of skrpe this time, it has a lot of funds. So from now on

I had a frank chat with Pan Yu and Paul before leaving Europe, and at least [acs] I plan to have it in our hands within five years."

Before going to Luxembourg to meet with the Emperor Penguin management, Ning Zimo had a chat with [acs] directors Pan Yu and Paul in Frankfurt. A project like [acs] that requires a long incubation period is only in Europe.

In a place like this, Ning Zimo is not prepared to let [acs] raise funds and go public in the short term.

After [acs] was launched last year, Mariana, who was supposed to launch AWS in 2003, only officially released its AWS cloud service in January this year. But unfortunately, Ning Zimo has already launched AWS in several major search engines.

We have been promoting SEM for several months. At the same time, the bloggers of [Red Man Project] have already posted a lot of promotional soft articles for [acs].

Mariana is in Seattle, and [Red Man Project] is in California. Due to geographical limitations and the inefficiency of online communication at this time, there has not been much news about the monthly [Red Man Plan] small offline meeting.

Spread too far.

Perhaps Mariana still doesn’t know why their own AWS cannot compete with [acs]. But they know very well that [acs] is something they need to learn in terms of communication and flexible planning technology.

Therefore, even if there is no market share to compare. But like the huge 9:1 ratio difference between skrpe and bandwidth, Ning Zimo still has that confidence. In fact, it is no wonder that Jeff Bezos is not powerful enough, the main thing is this

In the early barbaric days of the Internet, the first-mover advantage of any project was too obvious.

“But [Bing Search] is different. Although this project can achieve rapid expansion through the improvement of other ecology, it needs fame and naturally needs to seek capital injection and support.

It's just that after the sale of skrpe, I have enough funds to protect our rights and interests. This money has been kept there, at least so that we will have enough initiative when financing."

"That's true," Hoffman nodded, "Sequoia, Goldman Sachs is currently very interested in our [Lingying] and [myspace], but because of your sale of skrpe this time, I was originally eager to give it a try.

They have spent a lot of money to make a venture capital investment, but now they lack some confidence."

Hoffman was still a little happy talking to himself, and Sacks added for him when he saw this, "Peter came twice and brought us some news about Sequoia. Peter analyzed it for us from our perspective. He

I also said what you said."

"Of course, there are two situations: having a sword and not using it, and having no sword to use. It was for this reason that we concentrated all our efforts on building the atomic bomb when we planted flowers."

Ning Zimo smiled, but looking at the reactions around him, he understood that he was the only one who was happy with this joke.

Shrugging boredly, Ning Zimo continued, "Apart from [acs], I am still open to financing other projects."

"I've already finished the YouTube software interface, and I'm just waiting to go to Frankfurt and be roommates with Pan Yu." Chen Shijun jumped out eagerly.

Ning Zimo could only chew slowly, and after a while he curled his lips and said, "It feels like singles can gather together in Europe."

Chen Shijun was stunned and shook his head helplessly. When they were in Beibao, they fell in love with three girls in the room next door. But now two years have passed, but they have gone their separate ways.

"Come on, let's talk about [myspace]. You have arranged other projects. I don't know how to deal with the Facebook you mentioned."

Before the sadness of the Chinese trio from Beibo could spread, Sacks quickly jumped out and changed the subject.

Ning Zimo was emotionally affected by Chen Shijun for less than a second, and was immediately brought to work by Sachs.

After thinking about it, Ning Zimo said, "Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg. I have noticed it from the moment it went online. The reason why I specially emphasize him and his Facebook with you in the email is that

The big reason is 'the crowd'."

"Crowd?" Sachs couldn't think of a specific meaning for this word.

Ning Zimo did not show off, and explained in detail, "[myspace] has been developing for more than a year. Influenced by our positioning, musicians, models, and singers have established homepages on myspace, attracting many beautiful girls to join.

Music, rock, and hippie style have now become the core atmosphere of our [myspace].”

"Yes, our current user base is like this," Sachs asked curiously, "Is there any problem with this?"

Ning Zi remained silent and continued, "Similarly due to hormones, Facebook has established a more fashionable and advanced brand tone among young people: this is where Harvard students pick up girls. And this cultural difference,

The impact will be slowly felt over the next few years.

When social networks develop to a certain extent, and people's tolerance and real demand for high-level culture gradually increase, Facebook's elite crowd will emerge. And the hippie culture may be about getting up early and taking [myspace] to ride the wind.

The help that rolled up the huge waves has also become a factor of being disliked after people's quality has improved."

Ning Zimo paused when he said this, and then stared into Sax's eyes and said every word, "The development of all projects follows established laws of social development. This is a law that the project itself cannot escape.

So, guys, keep an eye on Facebook."

Sachs was stunned because he hadn't seen his partner look so serious for a long time.

But then he nodded, although he didn't quite understand the meaning of keeping an eye on Facebook.

But he felt that Ning Zimo was right.

Ning Zimo didn't explain too much. There are some issues that he can't explain clearly to Sachs now. Because a future that is too clear will make Sachs confused at this stage. Therefore, there are some things that he can only explain by himself.

Tighter.

Ning Zimo could only look around again and exchange looks with all his partners.

"Guys, I will stay in Europe for a few more days, and then I will go back to China to prepare for other things. So, the rest of the things in the United States are up to you."