Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

At 3 o'clock in the morning, there was a cool breeze in California. Standing on the balcony on the second floor, Ning Zimo looked at the bay in the distance, letting the cold wind blow over his face and enjoying the sobriety brought by the coolness.

The silvery moonlight shone on his body, and facing the moonlight with him was Li Ying who came to celebrate together.

The two of them were talking and laughing at the internal celebration just now, but now they stand together without saying a word. The partners of many years do not need to say too much.

After a long time like this, Li Ying finally said slowly, "Have you met the two founders of Google today?"

Bing finalized the acquisition intention with Google at the end of June, and the entire acquisition work is still in progress. Although Ning Zimo came to the United States recently, the work on iPhone Zero was not settled until today, so he only had time to meet with Google.

The two founders of.

"I've seen it. Now everyone at Google is busy integrating." Ning Zimo paused and then said, "Larry Page and Sergey Brin are good talents. This time, Brother Lu can bring them together."

The talks will add greater strength to our later launch of Bing."

"But it feels like you still haven't relaxed."

"After I've been busy for a while, I'm going to be busy for the next one." Ning Zimo turned around and said, "The iPhone has been launched, and Google is busy launching it, but there are other things."

"Why~~Ivanka approached you because she was entrusted by someone else?"

Li Ying's eyes sparkled with what Ning Zimo admired most.

He nodded and said, "Her godmother is Meg Whitman."

Between the two partners, some small gossip can be regarded as a small adjustment outside of work at most.

When two people really stay together, they often put their focus back on work.

Therefore, the recent gossip circulating on Twitter is not a big deal between the two partners.

Ning Zimo was very indifferent,

Li Ying naturally understood.

"Oh~~She is your old rival."

"Who says it's not the case," Ning Zimo looked up at the sky, "She begged me when I sold it to her in 2004, but it turned out that the product had already expired, and she actually came to me for after-sales service."

"Shelf life~~? After-sale service~~?" Li Ying smiled, "What you said is so funny."

Everyone around the world knows that Ning Zimo sold Skype to eBay for a whopping US$5.6 billion.

At that time, Skype had 130 million global users and a monthly user growth rate of 50%, and could generate more than 100 million US dollars in revenue every month. Naturally, this attack that laid golden eggs would not be an after-sales product.

, but the transfer of ownership of high-quality assets.

So after that transaction, many Internet people were curious about what kind of behemoth a project that could quickly become popular in the hands of an Internet upstart would develop into in the hands of eBay, an e-commerce giant.

But four years later, although Skype attracted the attention of many people with its 5.6 billion figure at the beginning, and developed rapidly for two months, in the following months, the average monthly user growth rate of 50% hit a cliff.

has been declining, and development has not been as good as people expected.

Thinking of this, Li Ying laughed and said, "No wonder Whitman agreed so easily when you took the lead in mobile payment for PayPal and Alipay."

"Unlikely," Ning Zimo frowned unconsciously, "In fact, not many people can clearly see the future mobile payment market at this time."

The application of QR code technology in the previous life was not welcomed at the beginning. Even the founder Teng Hongyuan was not optimistic that QR code could be widely used by society from the beginning of its invention.

In his previous life in 2014, when he received the European Patent Office's award, he made a shocking statement, believing that "QR codes have a maximum lifespan of 10 years."

But the technology he was not optimistic about was promoted by the Chinese. Xu Wei, the founder of Lingkong.com in his previous life in China, began to apply for the "QR code scanning" patent as early as 2011, and successively won the patents in China, the United States, Japan and

QR code scanning technology patent rights in the EU and other regions.

In September 2017, Xu Wei’s “Scan” patent licensing fee was as high as 700 million yuan.

Later, the application of QR code scanning technology blossomed in mobile payment scenarios, and was even called one of the "four new inventions of China", and created a QR code payment market worth more than 100 billion yuan a year.

It's just that the technologies that have flourished all over the world in the past life were brought out in advance, and not many people can see the future clearly.

After a change of thought, Ning Zimo said, "I think Whitman should have asked me for the sale of Skeyp, so I took advantage of this cooperation led by me. It was she who spared such a large circle.

, I don’t quite understand what she means.”

"She must value your vigorous and resolute style. After all, you cherish your time every time you make a move." Li Ying thought for a moment and raised the corner of her mouth, "However, she may want to take the opportunity to introduce Ivanka to you, so that she can win over you."

As close as you are."

Emmmmmmm

This girl looks too much like her.

Can Whitman be bored until he is a month old?

But considering that Whitman will develop into politics in the future, perhaps, he really means what Li Ying said.

But Ning Zimo didn't care about this, so he just skipped the topic, "It doesn't matter so much, it's a mule or a horse that comes out to run around. If the price of Skype is right, I don't mind buying it back and integrating it into the system."

After the successful launch of the iPhone, the next natural step is to continue to deploy the mobile Internet industry.

Although Ning Zimo had no plans to acquire Skype back in the early days, considering that Skype still has nearly 400 million users, it would be a good thing to acquire it back to add to the company's operations.

"As long as the price is right, I can consider it." Ning Zimo thought for a while and then said, "But I don't think Whitman would directly start a negotiation the first time he comes to me."

"so?"

"So, I will leave after seeing her tomorrow. After returning to China, I will quickly take advantage of the situation to promote domestic 3G and intelligent warehouses."

"Well~~I will also speed up the advancement of the Android system and launch the Starfire Alien smartphone in January next year."

"Um."

After a few brief greetings, the two people on the balcony ended their conversation.

Busy people are always like this,

The pace of progress never stops.

***+***

By the time Ning Zimo received the Feixun message from Li Ying, it was already the early morning of August 4, China time.

"We briefly talked about the intention to sell part of the shares, but I think it's better to wait until she comes to me."

After simply replying to Li Ying's inquiry, Ning Zimo hurried to wash up.

There were still important things to do today, and he really couldn't stop at all.

…

"Ning Zimo arrived at Cambrian Industrial Park at 8 o'clock in the morning, and then rushed to a closed warehouse in the industrial park. That warehouse was completed and built in April this year. Until August 1, this

Every warehouse is receiving large containers one after another.”

Zhang Junhao squinted his eyes and said to Richard Rothschild who came out of the swimming pool, "The confidentiality level of this warehouse is equivalent to that of Season 4. I have tried many times but have not been able to get anyone in."

"It seems that in his eyes, what is implemented in this warehouse is as important as iPhone Zero." Richard smiled slightly and then said, "Then what did he do in the last few days in the United States."

"In the last few days when he left the United States, our people were noticed again, so we did not grasp his whereabouts." Zhang Junhao frowned, "But from side information, he should have gone to see Meg...

Whitman."

"Is there someone around him starting to follow him?"

Richard raised his eyebrows. This action forced Zhang Junhao to nod awkwardly, "I'm not sure if he is one of his..."

"Forget it, a person like him must have some security measures." Looking at Zhang Junhao, Richard smiled easily and said, "He went to meet Meg Whitman probably for Skype.

"

"It should be. We have received news that eBay may be interested in selling part of its shares in Skype."

"Is this preparing to return the property to its original owner first?" Richard thought for a moment and said, "Collect the Skype information and then call Winston. Since we can snatch MySpace from him, then we can

Take Skype off his hands."

"OK."

"You continue."

Zhang Junhao continued after hearing this, "At 9 o'clock in the morning, the heads of several major domestic logistics companies, including Three Links and One Express and SF Express, gathered in Cambrian and were taken directly to this secret warehouse.

.”

"What kind of medicine does the leader of a logistics company sell in his gourd?" Richard couldn't help laughing. "The Internet, cultural industries, mobile phones, and now logistics. What do you think this emperor penguin leader wants?

What are you doing, why does he want to have a hand in everything?"

…

The busy Ning Zimo knew that someone was thinking about him. Cao Bin first told him this news.

However, the recent intensive work did not allow him to have time to think about this issue, so although today was the third time that Cao Bin reported the tracking situation that occurred in the new warehouse, he remained calm.

"After finishing the current affairs, I will talk to you about the arrangements for upgrading the security level."

After writing this sentence on the note handed over by Cao Bin, Ning Zimo glanced at him and put the note into Tang Ruiwen's hand.

Nodding to the security personnel at the second door, the inner door of the warehouse, which was quite mysterious in the eyes of San Tong Yida and the SF Express boss, was finally opened.

Then, an entire warehouse that surprised them was displayed in front of them.

"Dear bosses, this is the automated logistics operation center that I want to show you today that Emperor Penguin has been brewing for 5 years to improve the efficiency of logistics operations and distribution."

Chen Xiaoying, Yu Weijiao, Lai Meisong, Nie Tengyun and Wang Wei looked at everything in front of them and were speechless in surprise.

In front of them, there was a very special warehouse. The goods were being transported to a conveyor belt by workers, and on both sides of the conveyor belts that transported the goods, there were long mechanical arms that were straightening and isolating the goods.

The other end of the conveyor belt is another metal conveyor belt without tape. I don’t know what is going on there. The goods are automatically allocated to the corresponding partition conveyor belt according to their size. Finally, the goods are stacked by the robotic arm at the end of the conveyor belt.

On a small shelf.

Before I could see enough of the flowing conveyor belt, I saw the shelves with stacked goods suddenly start to move.

They drove away!

They are actually automatic.

Although there are many of them, they carry the goods to the corresponding area in an orderly manner, and in that area there are shelves similar to them neatly placed together.

What's going on?