Once he accepted the premise that Chen Cheng was Wang Yufei's favored classmate of the Brain Machine Club, Gu Bingjun naturally knew everything.

Especially for Gu Bingjun, he still has a very special feeling for the brain-computer club.

A few months ago, he came to the capital to look for investment failures, and the first meeting with Wang Yufei was the first initiator meeting of Huaqing Brain Machine Society.

Speaking of which, at that time, the brain-computer club had not yet been officially established, and there were only a few dozen people.

Now that I think about it, maybe there was this young man in front of me among the dozens of people at that time?

But even so, his answer did not solve Chen Cheng's confusion.

Because of the two reasons given by Gu Bingjun, Chen Chengdu couldn't accept it.

In fact, in Chen Cheng's view, the universal values of the United States are the truth, and the feeling of being kind to others is much more harmonious than that of China; as for the second point, it is ridiculous, if he wants to start a business, he must choose the United States, and the information he has collected through many channels shows that the United States is the most friendly country in the world to entrepreneurs.

It's just that given his identity, he was embarrassed to ask more deeply.

However, it was obvious that Gu Bingjun saw Chen Cheng's confusion, and couldn't help but smile, and said, "Do you think that the reason I said is different from what you imagined? By the way, have you ever been to the United States or other European countries?"

"Of course!"

Chen Cheng nodded proudly: "During the summer vacation of my junior year of high school, my parents took me on a tour of New York, Wall Street, Fifth Avenue, Times Square, and the Metropolitan Museum, and I stayed there for half a month. ”

"Oh. Gu Bingjun nodded, and then asked, "Then what do you think of the city of New York?" ”

Chen Cheng thought about it, and then said very firmly: "Freedom, positivity, openness and tolerance. ”

Gu Bingjun smiled and didn't refute, but the old god said: "I guess your main activity trajectory is in Manhattan, Fifth Avenue, Keeping with the East Side, South Brooklyn and other places, and you definitely haven't been to North Brooklyn, Queens, and Harlem to see these places." ”

"Huh?" Chen Cheng looked at Gu Bingjun in surprise and did not answer.

Gu Bingjun smiled and continued: "Fifteen days is not enough to understand a city. Believe me, I've been working in New York for three years, and I definitely know New York more than you do. Fifteen days is too short, and I believe that your impression of the city of New York, and even the whole of the United States, comes mainly from the blockbuster movies in the United States, where most of the ordinary people are friendly and kind. Right?"

Chen Cheng nodded subconsciously.

"That's prejudice, and I have to say that Americans have done a great job of exporting their culture. It will give people a feeling of enthusiasm, freedom, and positivity. But the sense of disconnection is not something that people who have really lived there for a long time can't feel. Let me tell you this, in the United States, more than 70 percent of Chinese Americans live in Chinatown, and they still eat Chinese food and read Chinese newspapers. This group of people likes to pay lip service to always the country, but they never really want to go back. ”

"There are also 20 percent of Chinese Americans, usually second-generation Chinese, who are desperately trying to integrate themselves into American society and become what the Chinese people call banana people, white on the inside but yellow on the outside, in fact, I think they are the saddest, because yellow skin makes it difficult for them to really integrate into the mainstream American social circle. ”

"The top 10 percent of Chinese Americans have their own circles, including work, professional and social circles. They hope to gain more honor and influence, but in fact, it is extremely difficult for Chinese people to achieve this kind of achievement in the United States. It often takes several times the effort. Especially in the field of high-tech scientific research, believe it or not, many of them are forbidden to Chinese Americans. ”

"You may think my resume looks glorious, but in fact if I stay in the United States, I can't go any further. Of course, you may not understand this, but you can consider this problem from the side, and if you look up those high-tech companies in the United States, you will find that there are many Indian executives who have access to company secrets, but there are very few Chinese executives with yellow faces, which is enough to explain a lot of problems. Is it true that Chinese Americans are so much worse than people in other countries?"

Chen Cheng was silent.

He hadn't really thought about these things.

"That's true. Ge Lingyue next to him sighed.

Obviously, I was quite touched by Gu Bingjun's words.

Gu Bingjun turned his head and smiled at Ge Lingyue, and continued: "As for the security issues in the United States except for the rich areas, as well as the many contradictions in the economically backward areas, there is actually no need to discuss them, you just need to know that the so-called free lighthouse country is far from being as beautiful as advertised. ”

"As for why I chose to return to China to start a business, I won't tell you some big truths, such as because of patriotism. To put it bluntly, it is all based on realistic considerations, and it is true that the domestic business environment is not perfect enough, but no one can deny that China is currently the fastest growing country in the world. A fast-growing country also means a fast-growing business, as it often means lower requirements for entrepreneurs. Although some policies in the United States are indeed very lenient towards entrepreneurs, the threshold is getting higher and higher, and VC is getting more and more. ”

"For example, if I had chosen to start a company with a custom operating system in the United States from scratch, what would my direct competitors be? IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and so on, how many angel investors would be optimistic about me? But what about in China? Of course, I'm talking about China before the Xin system was born. ”

Chen Cheng nodded in realization.

With that, he could fully understand.

It's just that the mood is inexplicably a little low.

Of course, the belief that has always been will not be shaken so easily by Gu Bingjun's words, but the feeling that the originally beautiful vision seems to be overshadowed is indeed quite uncomfortable.

I was interested in asking Gu Bingjun about some questions about living in the United States, but unfortunately the door of the box was pushed open again, and this time Wang Yufei took Lu Jia into the box.

"Hey, Mr. Ge, Mr. Gu, are you so fast?" As soon as his head poked out, Lu Jia, who was familiar with him, said hello to the two executives of Changxiang Technology.

As the vice president of the Brain Machine Club, Wang Yufei took him to meet Ge Lingyue and Gu Bingjun, and they couldn't talk about it, but this was obviously not a matter in Lu Jia's opinion.

When he saw Wang Yufei walking into the box following him, he finally reminded Chen Cheng of the purpose of inviting him to dinner this time, and after he stood up for the first time, he didn't know how to speak.

"Hehe, classmate Chen is also quite early, sit down, you're welcome. Lu Jia blinked and continued.

With Lu Jia's living treasure, Chen Cheng also felt that his embarrassment was relieved a lot, and then he plucked up his courage and hung his head and said, "Mr. Wang, I'm sorry." ”

"Huh?"

The two bigwigs were a little surprised.

At this time, Wang Yufei was already sitting in his position with Lu Jia.

Hearing Chen Cheng's apology, Wang Yufei glanced up at this high-achieving student of Beijing University, bowed his head slightly, and replied: "Let's eat first! ”

......

Redmond, Seattle, USA, Microsoft Headquarters, or Microsoft Town.

The building of Microsoft's headquarters is actually very distinctive, with a total of more than 100 buildings and tens of thousands of excellent employees.

It's late at night, but some of the buildings are still brightly lit.

Generally speaking, foreign companies like Apple and Microsoft do not have any overtime culture.

But it's clear that these are not the usual times.

In fact, in recent times, many of Microsoft's conference rooms have been lit even in the early hours of the morning.

Over time, the rooms grew larger and smaller.

At this time, a high-level meeting of five people, including the president and CEO, was being held in a small conference room at Microsoft.

The next five people need to do the next five to implement the board's resolutions.

Bill Gates had already returned to Seattle half a month ago.

But as Wang Yufei said, the bigwig's position at Microsoft is a little awkward.

He can make suggestions, but his stake in Microsoft is no longer enough for him to follow through.

To put it bluntly, Microsoft now belongs to shareholders, and Bill Gates's shares at this time are obviously completely unrelated to the three words of major shareholders.

Of course, that's not to say that's a bad thing.

After all, if he hadn't continued to sell Microsoft shares over the years, Bill Gates would have lost a lot this year, after all, Microsoft's market value has fallen by more than a third.

Don't underestimate this third, while the US stock market remains high, Microsoft's market value has fallen from more than $900 billion last year to less than $600 billion now, causing countless shareholders to suffer heavy losses.

Of course, losses in the stock market are small things, and the question now before the management is how to maintain the fundamentals and how Microsoft can survive in the post-OS era with the rise of Xin.

There is no good news.

The Silicon Valley Alliance's reverse design of brain-computer chips has fallen into a scientific research bottleneck.

Reverse research is not a simple matter.

Of course, the difficulty of scientific research is secondary, and the key is that the attitude of the allies has become ambiguous.

If Changxiang Technology only has a fist product of brain-computer chips, the Silicon Valley Alliance naturally has no psychological barriers to doing this.

But now it's different, Changxiang Technology not only has a brain-computer chip, but also a Xin system, as well as the copyright of several intelligent software, and what's more terrifying is that it has also mastered solid-state high-energy battery technology.

It has also made the attitude of many allies of the Silicon Valley Alliance ambiguous.

So-called allies need to be supported by common interests.

The chip reverse cracking project is in trouble, and the Xin system has a popular trend, which alone is not enough to break the restrictions of the Silicon Valley Alliance on Changxiang technology, but the release of solid-state high-energy batteries has made many allies tangled.

What is this?

God bless China?

A set of combination punches really stunned the so-called Silicon Valley Alliance.

Some people even began to suspect that Changxiang Technology was just a cover for Huaxia on the surface, and all these technologies were actually technologies secretly developed by Huaxia for many years with the power of the whole country, and then released through the platform of Changxiang Technology.

This conspiracy theory even has many adherents.

There is no way, who has made the intensive release of these technologies beyond the expectations of countless laboratory experts around the world.

The brain-computer chip and Xin system have shocked the world, and the solid-state high-energy battery has caused the entire industry to start an earthquake.

After this period of fermentation, the video of the press conference of solid-state high-energy batteries has been flooded on the Internet, and scientific research institutions around the world have experienced a very nervous mental journey from the initial doubts to the disbelief after personally testing the samples in various ways.

Even on the Internet, there are calls for this invention to win the Nobel Prize in physics.

There are not a few who have voiced such a voice.

However, when it was learned that it was eight students from Huaqing University who invented this technology, this call was somewhat embarrassing.

First of all, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to eight people at one time, which has never been done in history, and these eight people are currently undergraduates in Chinese universities......

But if it is not awarded, everyone knows that the results of this research have a direct impact on the energy landscape of the entire world......

In short, this year's Nobel Prize selection is definitely a big test for the Swedish Academy of Sciences.

However, whoever wins the award, if its achievements are too far from the solid-state high-energy battery, it will inevitably attract doubts and criticism from the academic community, and have an impact on the fairness of this worldwide award.

So at this time, Microsoft is really embarrassed.

What to do?

Really, as Bill Gates suggests, Microsoft should take a break from the edge and start trying to transform.

Conduct research on the next-generation operating system business while consolidating the existing business?

Although Bill Gates is no longer in a position to dictate Microsoft's future, his advice is still somewhat influential.

But even as Bill Gates suggests, Microsoft needs a fist product to survive the next cutthroat competition.

Otherwise, the so-called temporary avoidance of the edge, avoiding it, may hide the company and go out of business.

"Completely abandon the Chinese market and stop providing services for the products of the Chinese market, which is a decision to retreat into advance. At the same time, we need to be prepared for both, as we consolidate Microsoft's presence in the rest of the world. ”

CEO Satya Nadella is speaking.

The decisions he has announced now are resolutions of the board of directors and must be implemented.

"According to various data sources and Mr. Gates's suggestion, we noticed that TikTok has become popular around the world, and it is currently the most popular and popular video software among young people. And this happens to be another product of a Chinese company. ”

"If we can successfully acquire TikTok, even if the current windows market is devastated, we will be able to upgrade our tentacles to another broad field. As for TikTok's performance in the international market, this acquisition has also brought more positive reactions to Microsoft. Ladies and gentlemen, we are now in a very dangerous situation, and I hope you can cheer up and recover the decline!"