Overnight, Nike became almost a household name.

After seeing the news, the American people, especially young people, are very interested in Nike's sneakers.

All of a sudden, the sales of Nike's products soared! The sales in just one week exceeded the sales of the past month, and the whole company was surprised!

Even Phil Knight, who had been mentally prepared, was shocked and couldn't help but rejoice that Chronos· Li fortunately invested in Nike, not Adidas, otherwise, Nike would be in a very difficult situation.

"It's Adidas that's the one that's getting the headache now, hahahaha......" Phil Knight looked out the window and laughed.

Adidas is in a bad situation right now, with sales plummeting and stock prices plummeting. And Nike has just received a $100 million investment from Li Zetian, and it will soon be able to expand the market, and once Nike continues to develop, it will inevitably encroach on more market share of Adidas!

In this regard, Adidas seemed a little helpless.

In fact, Li Zetian is more interested in the high-tech industry, and his stake in Nike is just an investment, after all, this is Nike, and the market value will rise in the future, and it will be a large amount of money after cashing out the shares.

In the future, smart sneakers are also an attempt to combine healthy sports and artificial intelligence to change people's lives.

As the saying goes, "science and technology change life", and the places where science and technology can be applied are all-encompassing, involving all aspects of human clothing, food, housing and transportation!

Nike has its own "Phil Knight to take care of it, Li Zetian naturally doesn't need to mix more, he can't be busy himself."

……

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon of November 1, Li Zetian was working on documents in the study, when Dongfang Yuqin pushed the door out, stepped forward and said: "Mr. · Mr. Warner Stephens, President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), has come to visit suddenly, and Mrs. Jingqiu has already asked him to wait in the living room first!"

"ACM?"

Founded in 1947, ACM is the world's first scientific and educational computer society, headquartered in New York, USA.

Li Zetian was surprised, how could the president of the association come to visit him......

"Okay, I'll be right over!"

After speaking, Li Zetian stood up, put on a coat, and walked towards the door.

When I came to the living room, I saw a man in his fifties, wearing a happy suit and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, this must be Warner Stephens.

"Hello, Mr. Warner Stephens!"

Li Zetian stepped forward and greeted with a smile.

Warner Stephens immediately stood up, shook hands with Li Zetian, and said, "Hello, Chronos· Li！”

"Hello, let's sit down and talk!"

"Hmm!"

The two sat opposite a red sandalwood coffee table.

Li Zetian said with a smile: "There is a saying in China that 'nothing is left to the Three Treasures Palace', Mr. Warner Stephens is here today, presumably there is something important to find me!"

Warner Stephens smiled and generously admitted, "That's right, there are some important things to discuss with you." By the way, Mr· Li, do you know about the ACM Programming Contest?"

As a programmer who aspires to become a billionaire by programming, how can he not know about the ACM Programming Competition? Li Zetian nodded and said: "You know, in 1977, the first finals were held during the ACM Computer Science Conference, and then it evolved into the current annual international competition with the participation of many countries! However, the scale of the current competition does not seem to be very large, and only teams from a few countries, such as the United States and Canada, participate in the ......."

Li Zetian told the truth.

Warner Stephens smiled awkwardly and said, "The reason why the scale is not large is because there is no sponsorship!"

After speaking, he looked directly at Li Zetian and said straight to the point: "Actually, the purpose of my visit this time is to get your sponsorship and expand the scale and influence of the ACM Programming Competition. ”

Li Zetian pondered in his heart, the ACM Programming Contest is the highest level of the university's brain competition, and has always been crowned with the honorific title of "Programming Olympiad", which has a great influence! It seems that in the previous life, IBM sponsored the ACM Programming Competition, and the logo of the competition had IBM on it, which undoubtedly greatly improved IBM's brand description.

Just imagine, IBM can appear in the Olympic-level programming competition, it must be very high, it must be very awesome, IBM can attract these computer talents who come to participate in the competition to join the company! You know, these people are the talents from colleges and universities in various countries!

Li Zetian didn't hesitate for too long, and immediately replied: "It's okay to sponsor, but I also have conditions!"

Warner Stephens was overjoyed when he heard that Li Zetian was willing to sponsor, and hurriedly asked, "What conditions!"

Li Zetian said: "The scale and influence of the ACM Programming Competition are not big now, but after I sponsor it, the scale and influence of the competition will definitely be greater." At that time, there will definitely be many companies vying to sponsor the competition, such as IBM, HP and others......"

Warner Stephens was stunned and hesitated: "Mr. · Li, you mean, you're going to be an exclusive sponsor of the ACM Programming Contest for a long time?"

Li Zetian smiled and nodded: "That's right! However, it is not in my personal capacity, but in the name of Apple, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and Galaxy Network. ”

"No problem, we can agree to your request and write it into the agreement!" Warner Stephens nodded, who sponsors is not sponsored, besides, these four companies are all closely related to computers, and they are all leaders in the industry.

"Okay, then these four companies will be contracted to sponsor the ACM Programming Contest in the future! As a sponsor, I think we should be able to get some benefits. Li Zetian said lightly.

"Of course, we will take the initiative to promote these four companies!"

"Publicity is a must, but I also hope that the questions will be biased towards the business of these four companies!"

Students learn what they test in the exam!

Li Zetian controls the content of the exam, so that students can learn what to program, so that they can program for Apple in the future, Microsoft programming, promote the JAVA language, etc., these computer talents who come to participate in the competition, even if they are not in Li Zetian's company, but they also belong to the same camp as Li Zetian.

Warner Stephens did not doubt him, thinking that the industries involved in these four companies were basically the main industries of the current computer industry, and the exam questions should have been presented like this.

"Well, well, we've kind of a verbal agreement. As for the specific details of cooperation, I will send someone to discuss it carefully later!"

Warner Stephens nodded and said goodbye to Li Zetian.

As soon as he left, Li Zetian asked Dongfang Yuqin to notify the CEOs of Apple, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and Galaxy Networks to hold a remote video conference.

At the meeting, Li Zetian told everyone what had just happened, and then said: "Next year's ACM programming competition will be a very sensational, first, to promote our company brand, and second, to take the opportunity to attract talents! The world's top computer talents gather together for us to pick vegetables, a rare opportunity!"

"Yes!!" Everyone couldn't help but nod their heads in support!