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Chapter 125 [Crushing Romance]

It wasn't just Van Gundy who felt slapped in the face, but also Bulls manager Jerry Krause.

When he first contacted Yang Rui, he wanted to find a transitional coach, but he didn't take him seriously at all. Now he finds that because of his mistakes, the Bulls seem to have missed a coach with unlimited potential.

Of course, no matter how sincere Klaus is, Yang Rui will definitely choose the Raptors. He is not interested in coaching the team where Kukoc is the boss. Yang Rui's tactics can't make the underdogs stronger to compete for the championship. The Knicks have stars, and the Raptors have potential rookies. These factors are essential.

Yang Rui has been very busy recently. Apart from training and competing with the Raptors, he also pays attention to Facebook. He is not very involved in operations, but as a major shareholder, he must understand the company's dynamics. When the company needs ideas, he has to stand up and show his "genius" side.

Yang Rui is not short of money. Cisco's stock price has risen to 28 US dollars, which is a good market. His net worth has exceeded 5 million US dollars, which is enough to support the company's expenses.

Since the launch of the "Minion" software, registered users have been increasing. On the 7th, the number of simultaneous online users exceeded 200,000, and the number of registered users reached more than 20 million, defeating ICQ in just over two months.

The screen and functions of Minion software are better than ICQ, even if it is much rougher than Yang Rui imagined, it still crushes the products of the same generation.

Yang Rui didn't have this software in his previous life. Relying on his foresight, he combined the future classic cartoon image and chat tool into one, which is as powerful as a nuclear weapon!

In his previous life, the peripheral products of Minions were sold like crazy. Universal Studios launched a special theme park "Despicable Me: Minion Catastrophe" in Orlando, Florida, and since then there is a color called Minion Yellow!

This sounds tall, completely different from Ito orange, Baoqiang green, ** blue and so on. (Those three are different too!)

Yang Rui also made a small correct change. Minions are Chinese translations. When they were created, they were named "". The Chinese literal translation of this word should be running dogs, or servile servants.

It's called this name because the little yellow man is a supporting role in "Despicable Me" and is a subordinate of the thief Gru. At that time, the producer did not expect that their popularity would surpass that of the protagonist.

This group of minions who don't even have a gender, singing songs made up of a hodgepodge of languages, easily occupied the earth, and the box office is not inferior to blockbuster movies starring Hollywood superstars.

Scarlett Johansson's minion image was also made and became the mascot of the entertainment section of Facebook.

The introduction is Scarlett, double-eyed, flaxen-colored long hair, 90cm tall, obese, likes to sing, and plays with Yang.

For the first time in her life, Scarlett experienced a word-romantic!

She is very satisfied, will other girls have this kind of treatment? Someone developed a software for her and made a cartoon image. Is this a cliché confession, comparable to sending flowers?

In fact, Yang Rui was developed for the brothers, wanting Thomas to have a great career worth fighting for a lifetime.

Melanie was very surprised after knowing this, and began to think about a question, could Yang Rui and Thomas have seen other good things and could make a better one?

She had a hunch that this small company that had just started might become an unimaginably huge one day.

There are quite a few people who think this way, and the minion software has been mentioned by many news media, and it has made the headlines of Science and Technology News. The name of Thomas Bentley has entered the attention of many big companies.

There are also people who are depressed about this, that is the president of America Online, who just bought ICQ last year for 407 million US dollars, and launched the 99a version with more functions, and inserted advertisements inside. The built-in search function makes the software bloated, and the unpopular advertisement column makes the use of ICQ have a downward trend.

In this context, the minion software was born out of nowhere, and AOL suddenly suffered a tragedy.

ICQ was purchased with a huge sum of money, more expensive than most NBA teams in this era, but it was suppressed without making a profit. If AOL makes the move a year later, those Israelis will bear the consequences, and they will never earn 400 million. They can also choose to invest in the acquisition of "Facebook".

Of course, this is just wishful thinking. Yang Rui and Thomas would not be so stupid as to sell the company. They had a complete plan and just waited for the programmers to continuously upgrade the software. With each upgrade, the software becomes more attractive.

Thomas usually stays in Toronto, and only returns to Silicon Valley or meets online for important matters. Minion software has the function of creating a group chat, where several people type to discuss issues.

Yang Rui also participated in important meetings, casually dialing a few words about software functions, and several programmers were very excited and full of confidence in the company.

He can also guide the staff responsible for updating the news on the website, and teach him how to make things from other news websites his own, saving time and effort.

Seeing Yang Rui's terrifying typing speed chatting with many people alone, Thomas firmly believed that he was a genius.

In the 1990s, not many people had access to computers, and it was rare for people who could type 200 words a minute. Yang Rui is a strong man who has been tempered in front of the computer. He has typed more words than others.

At this time, Tencent, which is far across the ocean, also launched Penguin chat software.

Thomas Bentley shook his head when he saw the news in the Science and Technology Newspaper. "It's too fast to imitate. I still want to see if you can bring the minions to China as your Chinese identity."

"Don't even think about the Chinese market. If you can't get in, we just need to develop steadily and settle the European and American markets. There are too many things to contact. Will you be busy in the future?"

Yang Rui took it very lightly. He knew that Mark Zuckerberg, the former Facebook CEO, spoke Mandarin and found a Chinese girlfriend, but he failed to enter the Chinese market.

Moreover, it is not that QQ copied Facebook at all, but that he copied QQ from his previous life. This way of starting a business, he is really embarrassed to grab human resources and make money from the Chinese.

Thomas suggested: "You might as well stop being a coach after the contract expires and focus on developing the company. It will definitely make more money than basketball in the future."

"It's not the same, as long as the money is enough to spend, I do things entirely out of interest. You think, Bill Gates is richer than Michael Jordan, which one of them is more famous? More fans?"

Thomas thought, the answer is really Jordan. "You're not a player, you're just a coach."

"But I can discover a group of stars and lead them to the championship. I am the living advertisement of the company."

Thomas snorted: "You just like basketball, what kind of advertisement? Let's not say, who knows that you are the major shareholder of the company?"

"When the company develops, I will tell you when it is appropriate."

Thomas stopped persuading him. He could understand Yang Rui's thoughts. Before the company became bigger, he didn't plan to show his face unless the company went public. Maintaining a sense of mystery is not for pretense, let alone for fun, it's just that there are fewer contacts, and people's lives are much easier.

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