Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

July has just arrived, and a piece of news that shocked the industry suddenly came out of Silicon Valley in the United States. All Google employees joined Bing by merging with Bing, and the corresponding original shareholders of Google will obtain 5% of Bing's shares as a result of this merger.

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A company as big as Google only received 5% of Bing's shares?

We must know that Wall Street can still value Google at 10 billion US dollars, which is in a period of decline. If we estimate Bing based on Google's value, wouldn't it mean that Bing has a market value of 200 billion?

However, just as Silicon Valley and Wall Street were surprised, another piece of news came out. Bing officially accepted a US$5 billion investment from Sequoia Capital before going public. Correspondingly, Sequoia Capital will exchange US$5 billion for 5% of Bing.

shares!

US$5 billion before listing in exchange for 5%!

This is Bing’s real valuation of US$100 billion!

That’s just a search engine company!

Is Sequoia Capital crazy, or does Bing really have the strength?

The entire Silicon Valley and Wall Street are wondering what this news means.

However, while these experts were busy trying to figure out whether Bing's pre-IPO investment valuation was high or low, Ning Zimo received a call from someone.

He is Ning Zimo’s old boss—the former CEO of PayPal, Peter Thiel, and the key person who introduced Sequoia Capital to Bing. He approached Ning Zimo because of a very important matter.

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"I have some connections in the government. Yesterday I overheard rumors that Apple has recently lobbied your Yugong Technology iPhone Zero."

"Apple lobbying for public relations?" This was the first time Ning Zimo heard the term "lobbying for public relations", and he was naturally confused.

"Yes," Peter Thiel on the other end of the phone saw that Ning Zimo didn't understand what he meant, and his tone suddenly became serious, "I have some connections in the government. Yesterday I overheard rumors that Apple had recently

News about the company lobbying your Yugong Technology iPhone Zero. Lobbying refers to wooing government officials to benefit one's own interests, and Apple's lobbying this time is aimed at the iPhone Zero. You Yugong Technology's iPhone Zero also needs access to be sold in the United States.

Formal."

Yugong Technology has already become famous in the foreign press because of its zero iPhone launch event. After that press conference, the public's call for smartphones became more and more intense.

Although Yugong Technology has a sales network layout of direct sales and cooperative distribution with dealers in the United States from the beginning, access procedures must be followed to sell mobile phones to any country.

"Our iPhone zero samples have been sent to FCC and UL laboratories for testing, and now the experimental reports have arrived at Yugong Technology's California branch. Isn't Apple trying to tamper with established facts by doing this?" Ning Zi

Mo frowned.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the U.S. government established by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and is directly responsible to Congress. The FCC coordinates domestic and international communications by controlling radio, television, telecommunications, satellites and cables. Although the United States in 1996

A new telecommunications law was enacted in 2016, but wireless equipment entering the United States still must comply with FCC regulations.

The Laboratory Safety Laboratory (UL) is the most authoritative in the United States and a large private institution engaged in safety testing and identification in the world. It is mainly engaged in product safety certification and operating safety certification business, and its ultimate goal is to obtain reasonably safe products for the market.

standard product.

The overlords who have always liked manufacturing standards have made a lot of money by relying on these standards. If the iPhone 0 wants to enter the US market, it must pass FCC mandatory certification. At the same time, if it wants to be international, the iPhone 0 must be gold-plated by UL.

Ning Zimo was already very clear about these common Western routines in his previous life. Is it possible that after all these preparations are made, some people in the United States will still make some random mistakes? Are they shameless?

"No, no, no," Peter Thiel affirmed, "it's much simpler and more serious than you think. They only need to use ZZ power to spread some security issues, and the sale of iPhone Zero in the United States will be in vain. Even

Apple plans to be even more ruthless, and they can use all their power to prevent your iPhone from being launched in Europe."

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Only then did Ning Zimo realize that Apple was using ZZ power to directly block the release of the iPhone Zero with high-level government decrees. Isn't this a replica of the previous life, except this time it's the iPhone Zero's turn.

"This is a very dark move!" Ning Zimo complained, "Are your country's government officials allowed to do whatever they want?"

"No, I'm just an American Jew. I just have an American name on my ID card."

Peter Thiel's parents were Germans, so it was understandable that he said this, but Ning Zimo felt uncomfortable hearing it. Maybe the concept of country is not important to some people.

Ning Zimo simply skipped the topic, "Stop it, stop it, if you say bad things about the United States again, I will get a 404. Let's talk about Apple's trends. Does this lobbying mean bribery?"

"No, no, no," Peter Thiel suddenly laughed, "How can it be called bribery if this is on the ZZ level?"

Hearing his tone, Ning Zimo understood that he had hit the key point. It was like a scholar's business, how could he say that copying was the same truth?

The so-called "lobbying" in this country is actually not just bribery. It is an obvious thing and a blatant donation between interest groups. It is just the elites of Western countries who use "lobbying" to beautify it.

This kind of thing about taking off your pants and farting is a money-making game that the so-called elites are well aware of, but since it is a money-making game they are well aware of.

"That means that what Apple can do, we Yugong Technology can also do." Ning Zimo thought quickly, "If it can lobby one party, we can lobby the other party. It just depends on who it is.

The money given was too much.”

"Yes, that's what I meant when I called you." Peter Thiel said, "You need to come to the United States as soon as possible. I will arrange for you to meet with two government officials. Maybe with their help, you

Only iPhone Zero can survive this Apple criticism unscathed."

Ning Zimo couldn't help but frown when he heard this, put his hand on his forehead and sighed, "I don't like ZZ things the most, but in the end I still have to do these jobs."

Peter Thiel laughed, "You said you don't like politics, but I don't think you don't understand politics. I have been exposed to some ZZ characters over the years, and I realized that your original layout was probably necessary.

Key Internet technologies like search engines would definitely not reach today's scale if you used your Chinese identity to develop them from the beginning. Therefore, since you have silently made various preparations, how could you give up all the early steps?

Such preparations will help your Bing ecosystem develop smoothly."

Although Peter Thiel didn't say it, Ning Zimo, who had paid attention to the PayPal gang in his previous life, knew that Peter Thiel had indeed gradually moved closer to ZZ after 2010. He even became the madman's staff when Cornhead came to power.

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But in this life, he gradually got closer to him because of his relationship with his PayPal colleagues, and was tied to him because of his investment in Bing. I don’t know if this change in relationship will have a huge change in his future development.

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Shaking his head, Ning Zimo quickly pushed aside these miscellaneous thoughts.

"I won't be able to fly to the United States until the day after tomorrow at the earliest. What else do I need to prepare before then?" Ning Zimo asked.

"No, your CEO of Bing is currently busy making final preparations before going public. Although there are some minor problems with the integration of the former Google team, Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the ones you value.

You have the talent, so I have a lot of time to spare recently to help you prepare." Peter Thiel said.

"Okay, thank you very much." Ning Zimo thanked him, paused, and suddenly thought of asking, "How is Elon doing lately? The rocket took off and exploded not long ago, which must have put a lot of pressure on him.

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Elon Musk, the Iron Man of Silicon Valley in his previous life, is still the one who insists on the "Mars Project" in this life. It's just that his career development has been quite unsatisfactory recently, but Ning Zimo has not had time to do it because of his busy schedule.

Look at him.

"He's under a lot of pressure. I went to visit him once. It's better to wait until you come over and solve your own troubles before going to see him." Peter Thiel sighed, "You and he are the same kind of people. You should

I will talk more. After all, I still have some differences with the dispute over the position of PayPal CEO."

This was a long conversation, and the two of them simply said goodbye in tacit agreement to prepare for the next step.

After hanging up the phone, Ning Zimo put aside the idea of ​​acquiring Google, and thought about Apple's "pillow style".

"Lobbying public relations" is a method with very Western characteristics. Fortunately, as long as it is not arrogant and shameless, it can still work.

When will the game between multinational companies be completely divorced from ZZ? When we were planning the Bing ecosystem and secretly preparing to build American Spark, weren't we just preparing for these things?

Being low-key does not mean dodging. There are two different concepts between having a sword in your hand and not having a sword in your hand. Since sooner or later you cannot avoid these things, then find a way to face them.

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Dong Dong Dong,

Hearing the knock on the door again, Ning Zimo came back to his senses subconsciously. Through the frosted glass door, a stream of fiery red voices and shadows were outside the door. Ning Zimo responded, and the person who came through the door pushed the door open.

It's Sima Lin wearing a red short skirt.

He had never seen her dressed up like this before, and Ning Zimo felt like he was almost lost in her enchantment.

"Boss, your glasses fell off."

When Lin Changxin's disobedient voice appeared from behind Sima Lin, Ning Zimo noticed that there were four people following behind Sima Lin, who was holding a cup of coffee and had a blushing face. They were Ye Xiu, Su Mucheng, the earliest members of the Skype group,

Lin Changxin, and Zhang Xinyi from the treasure hunting trade.

Ning Zimo quickly waved and when a few people came in, he smiled at Sima Lin and said, "You sit aside for a while, I'll say a few words to Ashin and the others and then we'll set off."

While talking to Sima Lin, Su Mucheng and Zhang Xinyi were secretly enjoying themselves. Their blatant smiles naturally made Sima Lin hurriedly hide away.

After glaring at the two of them, seeing that they were laughing even more fiercely, Ning Zimo said seriously, "I'll just let you guys be arrogant for a while. If you go to the United States in a few days, I'll leave you all there."

It will fend for itself."

Ning Zimo pretended to be serious, but Lin Changxin rubbed his hands unmoved, "Boss, why are you leaving us to fend for ourselves? You are clearly giving us young people a chance to practice."

They were both born in the same year, month and day, but Ning Zimo choked up when he said to Lin Changxin, "Give young people a chance to practice" and couldn't take it anymore.

Rolling his eyes helplessly, he could only let a few people sit down and turn to business, "Sooner or later the social ecosystem will be separated from the Bing ecosystem, so Facebook alone is not enough, we also need new and more powerful products.

I hand over the Instagram and Instagram to you so that the most critical things will always be in the hands of our own people. Therefore, your burden during this trip to the United States is not light."

The Bing ecosystem has grown to a large scale, and the future mobile Internet ecosystem is bound to have multiple legs. Following the three major traffic systems of Google, Facebook, and Amazon in the previous life, Ning Zimo is preparing to copy the three major systems of the previous life into the mobile Internet era of this life.

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The Google ecosystem in the previous life was naturally taken over by Bing, but what the Facebook ecosystem still lacks is naturally its own people to keep up. As for the Amazon ecosystem, it will have to be implemented later by the Dibao e-commerce mall.

Everything is proceeding step by step. It can be said that after 2008, I will never be idle.

Also, although the acquisition of MySpace in the United States failed last time, the mastermind in the past life unexpectedly surfaced. This big gain gave me a new sense of crisis about the unknown of this life that was gradually tampered with by the butterfly effect.

In addition, Apple, which cannot compete with iPhone Zero, actually uses competitive methods that have never been heard before, which makes me deeply realize the gloom of this world.

In the future, whether it is Emperor Penguin, Bing, social networking, e-commerce ecology, or even American Spark, you need to be particularly cautious if you want to continue.

Thinking of this, Ning Zimo added, "Although our Skype was first developed in China and then promoted abroad, Sheryl Sandberg has already promoted Facebook quite well, and photo walls and photo walls are definitely needed.

Use Facebook user groups.

Therefore, you must cooperate with her more whether it is the development or marketing plan of the photo wall, so that you can catch up with the dividends of the mobile Internet era."

After three years of silence, there must be many steps that must be gradually accelerated since the launch of iPhone 0.

After thinking about it, Ning Zimo added, "After we pass, you should pay attention to Mark Zuckerberg."

"Why?"

At that time, Lin Changxin was already 25 years old and had even begun to take charge of his own business.

But in front of Ning Zimo, he often asked questions like a curious baby.

However, why we need to pay attention to Mark Zuckerberg really needs to be explained clearly to them.

"He was once the genius who founded Facebook, but in recent years he has become more and more interested in developing the role of CTO." Ning Zimo sighed, "Although you have also developed from programmers early on, my expectations for you, chief executive

Technical director is not the end."

The future development of Emperor Penguins will definitely require strong mainstays. Ning Zimo hopes that these mainstays will evolve from the old guys who fought together in the early years. In addition to having sufficient cohesion, they are bound to be the most worthy

People you trust.

After a few brief chats at the end, Ning Zimo was about to wave goodbye to a few people, but saw Zhang Xinyi taking the initiative to stand up.

"Dean, Ashin and I are planning to get married at the end of the year, and we would like to invite you and Linlin to be our bridesmaids and best man."

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Ning Zimo glanced at Lin Changxin and found that the jumping boy was shy and did not dare to look at him. On the contrary, Zhang Xinyi, who was shy at first, has now become the one who takes the initiative.

Seeing such changes, Ning Zimo suddenly felt melancholy, "It seems like it was 6 years ago that you met."

Time flies so fast. In a blink of an eye, I am already 25 years old, and Lin Changxin, who is the same age, is about to get married. And his wife is Zhang Xinyi, with whom she had a relationship.

By some calculation, Zhang Xinyi seems to be already 30 years old.

Lin Changxin can afford to wait, but Zhang Xinyi may not be able to afford it.

For some reason, Ning Zimo glanced at Sima Lin unconsciously at this moment, but when he saw her being evasive, he turned his gaze to the side.

Ning Zimo smiled helplessly, not knowing what kind of relationship he had with her.

But after so many years, it seems that each other has become accustomed to the feeling of the other in their own world.

But after all, why can't I overcome that hurdle?