Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

{Time: August 8, 2004}

{Location: United States-California}

August 8 was Sunday, and a lot of people gathered at Reid Hoffman's house. But after Elon Musk entered the door, he saw Ning Zimo in the crowd at a glance...

Hiding in the kitchen, Elon stared at him for a long time. For some reason that he was not sure about, he looked at him a few more times before looking away and curiously asked Hoffman, "That Miss Li and our Paypal flower."

Among them, who is his real girlfriend?"

"Oh..., it's a good thing he didn't hear this." Hoffman rolled his eyes and said, "Otherwise he would have said that we guys from Paypal are more gossips than the girls.

Gossip party.”

After a pause, Hoffman curled his lips disdainfully, "Even if I admit that that guy is a creative genius and an excellent leader, I think he is definitely the single most wasteful person in our group who has no talent for love.

dog.

Therefore, even if the two girls around him have such thoughts about him, I'm afraid he doesn't have the awareness to notice it. Perhaps in other words, it is more appropriate to say that he is a 'killer who cannot get feelings'."

The two awkward words "single dog" and "emotionless killer" made Elon Musk think about it for a long time. If it weren't for Hoffman's explanation, he might not have been able to figure out the meaning of these two words.

Elon could only roll his eyes and said helplessly, "Although he spends most of his time planting flowers now, many of our guys have been deeply poisoned by him."

Hoffman knew that Elon's eyes that kept gesturing towards him meant something, but he hugged Elon indifferently.

"Okay guys, it's rare to get together, so let's try to be as relaxed as possible."

After releasing his upper arms, Hoffman dragged Elon towards the house. Before he had taken two steps, Elon saw a blond beauty with big breasts and fat butts throwing her way in the outer circle of the crowd in the distance.

Got a wink.

Although he didn't know the woman, Elon still knew what that wink meant.

Elon bumped Hoffman with his arm and said with a smile, "You and Ning are simply two extremes on the same line. You can be called an outlier among science students. Can't you two have a good relationship?"

"Hey, just say Ning. Also, remember to talk separately next time, otherwise it will be easy for people to misunderstand that Ning and I have an ulterior secret." Hoffman curled his lips and said, "Besides, they are here

There are always my secretaries around me, but every time I fall in love, I take it seriously."

The "them" in Hoffman's words once again made Elon roll his eyes helplessly.

He always felt that since Ning Zimo came to Paypal, he had led all the original simple engineers into bad ways. But as soon as the idea came to his mind, he thought that Ning Zimo didn't seem to have a girlfriend yet.

The villain leader turned out to be a "killer with no emotions".

So, I had no choice but to stop the thought I just had.

Coincidentally, someone in the crowd facing them had already seen him. Then, a large group of people looked over. Ning Zimo followed the crowd towards the door and saw Elon Musk walking with Hoffman at a glance.

He couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth and said to Elon, "Hey, guys, our Silicon Valley Steel is here. It's a pity that his nemesis hasn't arrived yet today, otherwise we would definitely see some hot scenes."

Although the Iron Man movie version has not yet come out, the Iron Man comics were born in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. Recently, Elon Musk has been busy building rockets for SpaceX, so since Ning Zimo began to express his love in front of his former colleagues

After being called so, Elon's nickname became widely circulated among former Paypal employees.

Elon smiled and walked over from the position vacated by the crowd, and gave Ning Zimo a big hug.

When the two of them looked at each other, Elon grabbed Ning Zimo's arm and said with a smile, "I have been in the United States for so long before I have time to get together with us. I thought that after Paypal was listed, everyone would be rich because of their wealth.

In life, who would have thought that after leaving Paypal, we would have to rely on you, thousands of miles away, to gather us together so well."

"How can I be thousands of miles away," Ning Zimo laughed, "Aren't I just here with everyone?"

"How can you be without me at this time?"

Suddenly there was a loud voice at the door, and everyone followed the sound and saw Peter Thiel approaching with Hoffman's blond secretary.

"It's good now, everyone is finally here." Ning Zimo said with a smile.

…

With Li Ying winning where2 (where2) and keyhole (keyhole) successively on July 26, plus Jennifer winning the zip code (zipdash) as early as July 20, Spark rushed ahead of Google to win the game on July 26.

On March 26, we acquired three Internet companies dedicated to developing GPS positioning map software.

These three companies were absorbed by Google in their previous life, and then they had Google Maps, Google Earth and Google Latitude, which brought Google great fame. But in this life, Google did not have this opportunity. They were once controlled by Ning Zimo.

The plan stayed with Picasa for so long that when they came back to their senses, they were afraid that they would not be able to find any reasonable space for development in the next step.

Moreover, Ning Zimo would not give Google this opportunity.

On August 2, the three companies were officially merged into three full-time project teams under Spark, [Wandering Earth], [Zongheng Map], and [Zongheng Earth], and officially settled in Spark's office in Mountain View.

Of course, at this time, the real "Wandering Earth" was not as famous as in the previous life. Ning Zimo named the "Wandering Earth" project team this way, which even seemed to promote the novel for Liu Cixi.

In addition, the three projects are important milestones in Ning Zimo’s [bing ecosystem].

These three projects that enhanced Google's style in the past life are destined to play an important role in Ning Zimo's hands in this life.

And today, this Sunday, Ning Zimo gathered everyone in Paypal just for this matter.

…

"[Traffic Earth] was formerly known as Keyhole Company. After being merged into Spark Company, the software released to the public will be divided into three versions. They are free version, advanced version and professional version. The free version will remove the watermark of the original version.

, and the premium and professional versions are open to the public at prices of US$20 and US$400 per year respectively.

The satellite images of [Flow Earth] are not a single data source, but a data integration of satellite images and aerial photography. Part of its satellite images come from digitalglobe's Quickbird commercial satellite and EarthSat's Landsat-7 satellite.

The sources of aerial photography include bluesky, sanborn, ikonos and spot5. Among them, spot5 can provide images with a resolution of 2.5 meters, ikonos can provide images of about 1 meter, and Kuaibird can provide high accuracy up to 0.61 meters.

Imaging is the highest level of global commercial use..."

While Li Ying stood in front of everyone at Paypal to analyze the source of information on [Traffic Earth], Ning Zimo was secretly thankful in her heart.

Because, in terms of satellite images, the Pentagon of the United States gives billions of dollars in funding every year to its three major partners, DigitalGlobe, Ikonos and Orbima Google Earth. In return, the satellite data of these companies will naturally be handed over to the Pentagon as soon as possible for military use.

Application, and commercialization is not allowed within the specified time limit for certain sensitive areas.

This means that if Li Ying and Jennifer had not determined their American identities before they formed Spark. The three big killers of [Wandering Earth], [Zongheng Map] and [Zongheng Earth] would not have been possible at all.

There will be opportunities for Ning Zimo to get involved with Xinghuo.

But Ning Zimo is worried that this is not enough to reassure the American people, so he must lend out at least 20% of Spark shares at the PayPal internal financing meeting organized this time. Otherwise, Spark's identity is not enough

Safety.

Although a lot of vested interests will be dispersed in this 20% transfer, Ning Zimo can only do this in order to prevent future big plans from being restricted in the name of "security". Even this time for Spark's financing, Ning Zimo can only use the recommendation

Identity is involved.

He could only choose to believe in the tacit understanding and trust between Li Ying and him in his previous life, and he could only choose to believe in Jennifer, a colleague who had worked with him not long ago.

The future development of Spark depends on Li Ying and Jennifer to come to the forefront on their own.

He could only silently make the shadow of Starfire on his back.

And the road is rough,

Ning Zimo had no choice but to choose now.

There is no other way!

"Currently, Spark has signed a cooperation agreement with Bing America. Spark's [Wandering Earth] will provide Bing with a map data interface, which will be used in content such as merchant lists, driving routes, bus transfers, and traffic information in the future. Bing plans to launch the service next year

It will be officially announced in May.”

Li Ying paused, then turned to Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons, whom she had known for a short time, and said:

"Similar to merchant review websites like Yelp, [Wandering Earth] can also open a map data interface. In this way, Yelp users will be able to combine satellite maps and geographic information on Yelp's reviews of clothing, daily necessities, travel, houses, cars, restaurants, etc."

The location has a more intuitive impression.

In this way, with the help of the satellite map of [Traffic Earth] or the 2D navigation of [Zongheng Map], users will be able to choose nearby stores with good reputations for consumption. And Yelp will be able to use the media advertising model (cpm) and similar agent-based sharing

In terms of model (cpc/cps), we will develop and exhibit a more suitable profit model."

Jeremy Stoppelman and Russell Simmons met each other and looked at each other. They did not expect that the important lifeline of the business model they had been thinking about would be in the hands of the beautiful founder of Spark Company brought by Ning.

But if you think about it carefully, they can clearly find the development path of Yelp from the technical support provided by [Traffic Earth] and [Zongheng Map].

The two of them suddenly felt that today's internal financing meeting with Paypal was really not in vain.

Peter Thiel could see the excitement of Jeremy Stoppelman and Russell Simmons at a glance.

Not only that, with his many years of business vision, he also saw the huge potential of the three softwares under Spark. Spark may not be the most direct person to make big money, but its business methods have positioned it as a "big player" in the business chain.

Water Provider".

Wherever there is a need for water, Xinghuo can get a share of the pie. And Xinghuo's "water" is its three products.

He was very curious. Ning was already a very powerful figure at Paypal. But the Miss Li he brought today, who had provided management consulting services for Paypal, actually had such a vision in the Internet field?

Thinking about it again, Peter Thiel thought of Hoffman, Sachs, Levchin, Chen Shijun and Pan Yu, and even thought of Elon Musk, who had a close relationship with Ning. They had all been affected by Ning in the past few days.

Not a small impact.

I think Miss Li, who spent a lot of time with Ning's partner, was naturally influenced by Ning a lot.

He can't wait to get involved, maybe this is a new paypal!

Thinking of this, Peter Thiel asked after Li Ying stopped:

"Ms. Li, after listening to your introduction to the future development of Spark, I am full of expectations for the development of Spark Company. I would like to know how many shares you are planning to sell this time and how much capital you are going to raise?"

Li Ying looked at Peter Tell, and she knew that everyone's attention was focused on her, including the real owner who stood behind her and gave advice to Starfire.

Li Ying also knew very well that the next step was when she and Jennifer walked to the stage.

But the road has come to this, and she has no choice but to retreat. In that guy's big plan, the plot is definitely not just the little thing in front of her. As a partner he can trust wholeheartedly, the only thing she can do now is to come to the stage and take his place.

To achieve the part that he cannot do.

Li Ying breathed a sigh of relief and said calmly, "Spark Company is selling 20% ​​of its shares in this round for a price of US$100 million and only has the right to dividends."

Hiss~~

Suddenly there was a sound of breath in the room.

But Li Ying seemed not to have heard it, and said word by word, "Spark Company has officially submitted an acquisition invitation to qnx System Company, with a price of up to 500 million US dollars. After qnx is acquired by Spark, it will officially enter the field of mobile operating systems!"