Of course, the most important core competitiveness is still well-known fashion brands, whether it is a long-established foreign brand, or a rapidly rising domestic brand, is the future goal of the tide.

Because investment is not just about throwing money desperately, good projects are like white rich and beautiful, and people who rob them are Wuyang Wuyang.

If you invest 100 million, others will dare to smash 300 million, and there are many local tyrants these days.

The founders are not stupid, under the same investment, whoever can give more added value will be more competitive.

traffic, resources, connections, brand influence, and even more ethereal goodwill......

Otherwise, why is everyone rushing to Ali Tencent's endorsement?

On one acre and three points of land in China,

That's the rules of the game!

What hipsters have to do is very simple, create a comprehensive platform for trendy culture, and use investment and channels to gather potential stocks in all vertical fields, like a trickle, gradually merging into the sea.

In the end, it was completely connected with WeChat, and with the daily active traffic of one billion, it soared to the sky!

Of course, Brother Xiao Ma is not stupid, and his own traffic is to fancy the young future consumption big data of two or three hundred million behind the hipsters, which is a priceless treasure for Tencent.

Call Ye Fei up, after all, he is not a technical expert, and he is responsible for the group's recruitment.

"It's not a gimmick for Lao Ma to spend 100 billion to build the Damo Academy!"

Ye Fei said seriously: "Big data may be invisible or intangible to ordinary people, but in the eyes of giants, it is definitely a matter of life and death in the future." ”

Seeing that Shen Feng was also serious, he continued to explain: "Take Ali's analysis, the e-commerce platform has made Ali's market value exceed $450 billion, becoming the world's fifth largest economy, which has basically reached a bottleneck, and the next step is to expand its business overseas." ”

With the help of Ant Financial, the financial sector has completed a comprehensive layout of consumption, small and micro loan business, financial data application, personal credit and other aspects, and the ecosystem has long gone out of the scope of serving Taobao, and Alipay has become a benchmark for global financial innovation. ”

"This is the second wave of the market capitalization of $620 billion!"

So for the current Ali, the only area that is not ripe is data, and the so-called data is actually divided into two parts: artificial intelligence and big data, behind which is a bottomless pit of technology research and development investment. ”

Shen Feng took a deep breath and instantly felt a heavy pressure.

Long before the establishment of the Damo Academy, Lao Ma mobilized more than 20,000 scientists and engineers from around the world to devote themselves to the new technology strategy at the first technical conference in March last year, and called for the launch of the NASA program that attracted the attention of the world's scientific and technological community. ”

"In recent years, many of Alibaba's technologies have also been exported to the outside world: such as the Feitian system of cloud computing, the financial database developed by Ant Financial, the artificial intelligence ET for society, and the quantum computing laboratory in cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Sciences......"

"Even the bottom lifeblood of the entire e-commerce ecosystem in the future, all technology strategies need to have a practical carrier, not just a simple plan. ”

Ye Fei took a sip of coffee and joked: "I heard that the name Damo Academy was only held up by Lao Ma after two months of retreat in the back mountain of Shaolin Temple!"

Shen Feng was in no mood to laugh, and couldn't help but ask, "What are the movements of the other giants?"

"The important difference between Ali's technology layout and Baidu and Tencent is that it is often developed on the basis of front-end products and commercialization needs. ”

"For example, when Taobao lacked a perfect secured transaction mechanism, Alipay was born......"

"When Taobao and Tmall need to deal with large-scale traffic requests and high-concurrency processing, Alibaba Cloud came into being......"

"In the field of artificial intelligence, the first artificial intelligence service ET...... widely used in society was launched"

"In the field of cloud computing, the self-developed ultra-large-scale general-purpose computing operating system Feitian System ...... serving the world"

"YunOS, launched in the field of Internet of Things, has become the third largest operating system in China, and has been widely used in smartphones, TVs, cars, and IOT......

Speaking of this, Ye Fei sighed: "The arsenal-style technology development model makes Ali's technology far more practical than other enterprises, and meets the current needs to the greatest extent, which is the essence of the giant!"

Shen Feng let out a long sigh, there is no way, the old horse has been in vain for so many years.

But this model is difficult to predict forward-looking!" Ye Fei suddenly reversed: "Ali currently has more than 20,000 engineers and more than 500 doctors in technical reserves, and is known as the most innovative technology company. ”

"But all this is obviously far from enough for an international giant of Alibaba's size. ”

"Not only Alibaba, but in recent years, Book, Tencent, and Baidu have all spent tens of billions of dollars to do more or less forward-looking, even ungrounded laboratory research. ”

"Last year, Alibaba's sales exceeded 4 trillion yuan, which is equivalent to the size of the world's 21st largest economy. ”

"Last year's bold words at the Yunqi Conference are definitely the meaning of buying horse bones, just look at the list of technical experts announced by the Damo Academy. ”

Shen Feng checked the webpage, and among the ten people, there are three academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, five academicians of the American Academy of Sciences, and even Michael I. Jordan, a world-class leader in the field of artificial intelligence, and George M. Church, a leader in the Human Genome Project......

The former is one of the world's two root figures in the field of artificial intelligence, and there are many heroes under him, such as Yoshua Bengio, a professor at the University of Montreal, a leading figure in the field of deep learning, Andrew Ng, a former chief scientist at Baidu, and Percy Liang, a professor at Stanford University......

The latter is a leader in the Human Genome Project, ushering in a new era of personal genome research with new methods.

Proper gods gathered!

"Pony is not to be outdone, but Tencent is more low-key. Ye Fei said helplessly: "The two giants have been deeply involved in the Internet for 30 years, and many things cannot be smashed simply with money. ”

Shen Feng nodded, don't look at Wanli's prosperity in the past two years, in fact, in the eyes of the real giants, it is still like a baby.

Not to mention Ali Tencent, light big data, Baidu, Meituan, and even Toutiao can beat themselves!

Ye Fei saw the boss's thoughts, and said straight to the point: "Now we have a talent reserve of two hundred and sixty people, and every month we tap the technical talents of large companies through well-known headhunting, and the middle-level accumulation is gradually enriched, but the high-rise and top-level buildings are ......."

Shen Feng waved his hand, the technical experts are treasures everywhere, and it is not something that can be done with money at all.

If you can mix to that level, you are 100% idealistic, and if you can't create the best research environment, people won't look at you.

"Continue to increase investment in talents!" Shen Feng said firmly: "The company provides 100 million funds every month, as long as there is an opportunity to dig the foot of the wall......"

"Don't worry!" Ye Fei nodded with a smile: "It's already started." ”

Shen Feng breathed a sigh of relief, Wanli wants to become bigger and stronger in the future, there is no doubt that it must have its own core technical team.

Ye Fei's focus has gradually shifted from the million-dollar winner to the CTO of the entire group, of course, not because of the awesome technology, but from the veteran and the golden finger.

Now he is also a proper billionaire, a figure who can be on Forbes, and the pursuit of money is no longer the first goal in life.

Especially for entrepreneurs, earning a certain level of money is really just a number, and the sense of achievement comes from the success of each continuous challenge.

Lao Ma, Liu Chuanzhi, Niu Gensheng, and even Liu Qiangdong, who began to slowly de-Jingdong last year......

Return to the original intention, take money as an investor, support young projects, and watch them break through the ground little by little......

The feeling of gradually growing into a towering tree.

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