Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

When Ning Zimo entered his sweet dream in the early morning, a group of people were busy at the Paypal headquarters in California, 20,000 kilometers away.

Pan Yu was typing on the keyboard very fast while shouting loudly.

"Paul, I need more bandwidth. Please mobilize it quickly. I'm afraid that their next wave of attacks will be more powerful, and the bandwidth may not be able to support it at that time.

Chen, have you distinguished the IP segments of malicious requests? Block these damn guys from the IP end!

Hurley, have you caught the source of the springboard? How can these damn gangsters still find programmers with such advanced skills? Find the source quickly and fight back!"

A series of inquiries and a series of responses came one after another in the work area of ​​PayPal's security department.

After hearing the news, the fat white man who came over saw the chaotic scene in front of him and stopped stuffing hot dogs into his mouth.

He walked over quickly, stood next to the only man who didn't move, and asked curiously, "Sachs, what are you guys doing? Is our website under attack?"

"Hi, Hoffman." Sacks' eyes were still jumping back and forth on the screens of Pan Yu and Chen Shijun, and he took a moment to say hello to the fat white man named Hoffman.

After Hoffman stood side by side with him, he shook his head and replied, "It's not that we were attacked ourselves, it was ebayswindler that was suddenly violently attacked by hackers today. Pan and the others have now mobilized all security personnel and senior programmers.

Come and resist the attack together."

When Hoffman saw the thin Levchin in the crowd at Station, he was surprised and said, "Even our CTO has joined the work?"

"Yes."

"ebayswindler is the website founded by our part-time genius colleague? This is not part of our own business scope, so is it still important to us?" Hoffman was slightly puzzled.

Hearing this, Sax's face became strange, and he turned to look at Hoffman and said, "You have to know that in the past week, more and more people have gone to eBay's official forum to promote eBayswindler. Those who have helped us resist several times

Anyone who is not conducive to our PayPal's eBay policy should join in.

Now, the topic about eBayswindler has become a hot post on eBay's official forum. Moreover, these eBay users have also launched an anti-fraud action on the official forum, calling on eBay to blacklist the fraudster sellers listed on eBayswindler. As for those risks

Sellers with high coefficients will establish a credit system.

ebayswindler has had such a big impact in just one month, becoming a very authoritative third-party anti-fraud platform."

Sax paused and gave Hoffman some time to digest, then continued, "Now eBay is busy dealing with this wave of user emotions and doesn't have much energy to attack our PayPal. So, you haven't noticed that recently

While you have been busy with banking business for a while, don’t we have any urgent matters that need you to deal with? Don’t you think your recent work has been very easy?”

"Well, this is really the case these days. However, eBay users launched a revolt. When did this happen?"

"Two days ago."

"Then ebayswindler was attacked because..."

"One move can affect the whole body. This is what Pan told me, the wisdom of their ancestors." Sachs winked at Hoffman, "Because of the existence of ebayswindler, the fraud gangs want to defraud money.

The difficulty has increased a lot, so the existence of ebayswindler actually affects the interests of fraudsters. Seeing that this attack is much more powerful than the previous ones, I am afraid it was jointly launched."

Hoffman's solemn expression gradually relaxed, and he suddenly caught up with Sax's thinking and said, "Our PayPal now accounts for 75% of eBay's online transactions, and the existence of eBay Windler helps buyers reduce the risk of being cheated.

On the other hand, it helps us reduce the fraud rate of PayPal."

"Bingo! You finally understand the reason why we still value eBayswindler even though it is not a Paypal business system.

ebayswindler prevents fraud, and our paypal reduces financial losses.

At the same time, eBay has to invest its energy in dealing with user emotions, and we have reduced the workload of dealing with eBay in terms of business.

This multi-purpose thing, if it were just our own business, it wouldn't have such a big impact..."

Sachs snapped his fingers and as he spoke, he suddenly saw Pan Yu and others stop their movements, and there was a burst of cheers.

"nailed it?"

"F**k! It's done, you sons of bitches." Chen Shijun replaced everyone's answers with rude words.

"When that guy Ning arrives at the company, we must ask him to treat us to a nice meal!" Pan Yu also leaned on the back of his chair and turned around with an indignant look on his face, "How can the person involved be asleep? Let us

The unrelated people here have worked tirelessly for him! This guy is really a trouble-prone bastard."

Chen Shijun looked like he was not taking the trouble seriously and whistled, "Hoho, future team members have caused dissatisfaction among the old employees because of sleeping. I can't tell whether he is lucky or unlucky."

Chen Shijun's words caused a burst of laughter. At the same time, a man with dark brown hair walked from the other side of the office corridor.

Different from the sloppy attire of the busy people, the man in suit and leather shoes looked very upright.

His soft arrival did not attract too many people's attention. When he approached Sachs and Hoffman, they nodded to him.

"What's wrong, guys? I heard your cheers from so far away," the brown-haired man smiled contentedly, raised his chin at Hoffman and the other two, and exchanged words with the busy people with his eyes.

His eyes were like a greeting and he continued, "Has eBay surrendered to us?"

Sachs smiled and pursed his lips at Hofmann.

After working together for so long, Hoffman naturally knew what Sacks meant, and took the initiative to stand up and explain, "Hi, Peter. eBayswindler's big event today was caused by our talented young colleague..."

The brown-haired man's name is Peter Thiel. When he merged with Elon Musk's company in 1999, the two companies were officially renamed PayPal.

Peter Thiel took over the CEO position of PayPal from Elon Musk last year when PayPal was in turmoil.

Obviously, Peter Thiel is a very capable person. After he took over as CEO of Paypal, even in 2000 when the Internet bubble came, he also raised two development funds totaling more than 200 million US dollars for Paypal in the capital circle.

Let PayPal get sufficient development funds and development space in the new century.

Reid Hoffman was a good friend of Peter Thiel who met at the Stanford Reunion. After his entrepreneurial failure, he was invited by Peter Thiel to serve as senior vice president of PayPal.

Max Levchin is a college classmate of Peter Thiel. They have been together since Peter Thiel founded the predecessor company of PayPal, and currently serve as CTO of PayPal.

Business director David Sykes is also a member of Peter Thiel's Stanford Alumni Association, and was invited to PayPal by Peter Thiel.

They are such a close-knit team of founders who pay great attention to the importance of technology.

Therefore, the status of engineers in Paypal is quite high. This atmosphere has also contributed to the vigorous development of Paypal.

Although Paypal has always encountered problems of one kind or another during its development, at least everyone has overcome every hurdle together.

And now,

As Hoffman explains,

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Peter Thiel gradually understood what had just happened here.

After hearing the end, Peter seemed very surprised and very happy, "I didn't expect that our talented young colleague has already brought us such a big help even before he arrived."

Hearing Peter's words and seeing him so happy, Chen Shijun, who was sitting in his seat, suddenly had an idea and turned around with a smile, "Peter, although this guy has caused a lot of trouble for us, he has not helped the company.

Xiao, shouldn’t he be rewarded accordingly?”

"Well said," Peter clapped his hands, thought for a while and said, "Whether it is the verification code or the significant impact brought by eBaySwindler, even though Ning was not present, he did give our PayPal significant help in preventing fraud and other aspects.

."

Facing the expectant eyes of all the engineers, Peter stretched out a finger and said loudly, "I declare that the company will reward and compensate him with 100,000 US dollars for everything he has done in the past period!"

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The programmers suddenly burst into cheers,

It seems like they got the reward themselves.

But in fact, it is everyone's recognition of a genius.

After all, wherever capable people are, their demonstrated strength will be recognized.

Sachs watched the cheers of the crowd and was inexplicably happy for the guy far away in the east, but he said, "Isn't the 100,000 reward too high? After all, he has not officially joined the job yet, and if it is given too much,

When his third plan is implemented and becomes feasible, what will you reward him with? Equity?"

Peter smiled, "Why not? The war with eBay is a problem that so many of us cannot solve, but he said there is a way to solve part of it. If his plan can really be realized, he can also get something like

Captcha and ebayswindler have brought us revenue. Then his ability will be enough to prove that he is a high-end talent who can be our senior partner."

Shrugging his shoulders, Peter added, "Anyway, the company's shares are not ours. Having one more truly powerful person will give us more power, and we will have less worry. Why not?"

"Well, I now feel that he is worthy of our expectations. So, I am now eager for him to join our team as soon as possible."

"Emmmmmm" Hoffman knocked on the two people talking next to him and curled his lips, "It seems that I have to speed up the processing of this genius's special information."

"Of course!"

"Of course."

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Peter shrugged like Hoffman and suddenly raised his voice.

"Guys, in order to celebrate today's victory and to wish that the guy who caused us trouble will come soon. Today, let's go to the bar and have a crazy time. I invite you!"

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paypal engineers,

The madness started again.