Reborn 2005: The Internet Myth

Facts have proved that some people are born to be favored.

Diane Rothschild was admitted to Harvard at the age of 17, graduated early with a bachelor's degree in economics and media at the age of 19, and then entered UC Berkeley, where she received a bachelor's degree in computer applications in one year, and then came to

Stanford, earned an MBA in one year.

This Diane Rothschild is only 22 years old now, and she is also preparing to study for a master's degree in computer applications.

Wang Zhengzheng clicked his tongue after hearing the series of degrees.

In five years, across three world-class prestigious schools, this IQ is too evil, right?

Wang Zheng currently has hundreds of employees under his command, and there are many young geniuses, but there really is no one with a protagonist template.

It's amazing that you have a high starting point and can actually make a living.

Excluding the lack of work experience, if I just show these academic qualifications and say I want to start a business, there will be a lot of venture capital chasing me.

After Diane finished talking about her study experience, Wang Zheng asked in surprise: "You are so good, shouldn't you join the family business? I heard that Rothschild is a big conglomerate."

Speaking of this, Diane shook her head in disappointment and was silent for a moment before saying: "Rothschild of Midland no longer directly operates business, he only does investment management. And..."

After a slight pause, Diane said helplessly and frustratedly: "I am a woman."

It turned out to be pressure within the family.

Wang Zheng has also read "Currency War", which has a profound description of this: The Rothschild family has two principles, eternal unity among brothers, and male supremacy.

As a female Rothschild, Diane may also be at risk of being "excluded", but regardless of whether she can bring resources, her knowledge alone is worth Wang Zheng's investment.

Thinking of this, Wang Zheng asked again: "If you were asked to run an Internet media business from scratch, where would you start?"

When it comes to professional work, Diane becomes very confident: "Celebrity effect. I will invite some governors, celebrities and traditional media to join in. Their participation and speeches will drive local residents and fans to join."

"We can create an instant release platform for news. It is also a platform for freedom of speech. Different from Meta's content, it will pay more attention to timely news content such as politics, entertainment and technology."

Wang Zheng felt that this was enough.

The first thought of inviting celebrities to stay and real-time news is already a very advanced concept.

Wang Zheng didn't even have the slightest doubt that if he rejected Diane, she might turn around and set up a similar website of her own, or join the soon-to-be-established Twitter.

After all, she does have the ability to do it. The reason why she doesn't do it is probably because she hasn't thought about the profit model yet.

So Wang Zheng no longer hesitated and said solemnly: "Ms. Rothschild, I solemnly invite you to join Tik Tok. I hope we can all get the rewards we deserve."

"Tik Tok? Heartbeat?" Diane evaluated the name carefully. It was indeed very consistent with the Internet news business. He gently stretched out his hand and shook Wang Zheng's hand. He smiled and said: "It's a very good name, Mr. Phil. I'm happy to help."

At your service."

We are still at the dance, so of course it is not appropriate to talk about the specific details now. We might as well make an appointment to discuss it at the company tomorrow.

While chatting, Elizabeth finished dancing a song and came back, smiling: "Justin, Diane, how was your chat?"

"I'm very happy. I have just officially invited Diane to join the new company I am planning."

Elizabeth was also very happy when she heard this and said to Diane: "Congratulations Diane, you finally have the opportunity to realize your dream. Justin is a very good person and a good boss."

Before Diane could answer, a burst of applause suddenly came from the front hall, attracting people's attention, and the originally cheerful music stopped abruptly.

Wang Zheng also followed the sound and saw that he was a fat middle-aged man about forty years old, walking side by side into the center of the dance floor with Louis Bryan.

"He is Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn and the most famous angel investor in Silicon Valley. By the way, he also invested in Facebook."

Elizabeth saw that Wang Zheng did not recognize this person, so she introduced him in a low voice.

LinkedIn, as Wang Zheng knows, is the largest workplace social platform now and in the future, and it is also the first social platform to segment vertical markets.

In the future, win10 will have a built-in tile application called "People", which is actually the application entrance provided by Microsoft after acquiring LinkedIn.

As a well-known angel investor and an entrepreneur who graduated from Stanford, Hoffman is obviously more popular among student entrepreneurs.

His speech was indeed very contagious and won a lot of applause.

However, this has little to do with Wang Zheng. Investors who only do angel rounds are destined to miss Wang Zheng.

I stayed at the dance until about ten o'clock, thinking that it would give Brian enough face, I said hello to Elizabeth and Diane, found the little secretary on the dance floor, and quietly left.

Catherine, whose interest was interrupted, was speechless. She changed her shoes and started the BMW: "BOSS, you really should communicate with those people more. Their ideas are so wonderful. Someone just told me that he was looking for funds and planned to start manufacturing. What kind of super battery can be used in spacecraft in the future..."

Wang Zheng was too lazy to pay attention to her. He had no time to become an angel investor at the moment.

Although the amount of funds occupied is not large, the withdrawal process is troublesome, and he has to worry about investing. He can hardly finish the business at hand, so he has no time and energy.

People here in Silicon Valley are really imaginative these days, and many startups tend to be like science fiction movies. Super batteries, spaceships, etc. will still take decades to develop.

But when thinking about batteries, Wang Zheng suddenly thought of a very important technology in the future, sodium-ion batteries.

In 2006, commercial battery technology was of course mainly lithium-ion batteries and lithium iron phosphate batteries. Lithium-ion batteries were used in the consumer electronics field, while lithium iron phosphate was mainly used in the power battery and energy storage battery fields.

However, at this time in China, lead-acid batteries still have a large market share.

Because at this time, the core technology of lithium-ion batteries is in China, and the core technology of lithium iron phosphate is in Midland.

Daxia has struggled to catch up in this field for many years, but it was not until more than ten years later that it discovered that lithium batteries were not the way out for Daxia's battery industry.

The main reason is lithium ore. Lithium ore reserves are relatively abundant in China, but the quality is not high and the cost of purification is very high. Good-quality lithium ores are all found abroad, and the Daxia lithium battery industry relies heavily on imports.

So later Daxia developed a sodium-ion battery. The positive electrode of the sodium-ion battery is sodium. This is very cheap and the domestic production is huge. Moreover, its negative electrode material is aluminum, which is better than the negative electrode material used in lithium-ion batteries.

Much cheaper.

Although the energy density of this battery is slightly lower than that of lithium-ion batteries by about 10%, it is much cheaper, safer, and its charging speed and cold resistance are also greatly improved.

Around 2025, the commercialization of sodium-ion batteries will be very mature, and industries such as consumer electronics, electric vehicles, and clean energy can begin large-scale applications.

From lithium iron phosphate to ternary lithium batteries to sodium-ion batteries that are most suitable for the national conditions, Wang Zheng will definitely not take this detour again. Only by starting the research and development of sodium-ion batteries in advance can he have more say and guide the lifeline of the times.

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This research will definitely not work in Midland, as the main issue is intellectual property rights.

The American League is an old double-standard dog in this big ugly country - if you have anything to do with it, you dare to take over everything and say it's under my control.

But in China, who would be better suited to do this?

Unlike the American League, if you randomly find a so-called "professional manager" in China and don't keep an eye on it, he will be fooled by you in a matter of minutes.

Fire Cloud's Lei Jun and Ding Ding's Gong Yu each have their own problems. The research and development cycle of batteries is not very short, and it has nothing to do with their business, which is a bit uncomfortable.

There are still too few people available in China.