Chapter 131: The Future of YouTube
It may be that God saw that Zhou Shi was more unlucky during this time, and finally opened his grace, otherwise Ji Tailai.
Facing Zhou Jingren and Lu Qi, Zhou Shi didn't take out his PPT Dafa this time, but his long-trained three-inch incorruptible tongue is still very powerful. In these meetings, he talked about his views on artificial intelligence, his understanding of cloud computing, his application of big data, and his future positioning and development of Time Friends. And then there's his technology-oriented business philosophy. Finally, he also talked about the company's financing situation and the employee stock ownership plan. In addition to these, Zhou Shi and them don't have much to talk about, this time Wang Xiaochuan didn't come over, only Zhou Shi is a bare-bones commander, and even the driver is YouTube.
Both Zhou Jingren and Lu Qi are obviously interested in Zhou Shi, and they are even more curious about how he will develop YouTube. And why not focus on YouTube in Silicon Valley, but go back to the mainland to develop social networks.
"The future of YouTube is media, and the future of social networking is the virtual society. I hope that Time Friends can become everyone's second home in the future. Zhou Shi explained
"You developed the Time Browser?" Zhou Jingren
"It was my idea to develop a browser with its own kernel, high scalability, high speed, stability and security, but I didn't preside over the development, and I didn't have that strength. "Zhou Shi
"So you're a great product manager?"
"Possibly, I like to forge my own path in the vast future together"
"What is the future of Time Browser?" said Zhou Jingren
"My ultimate goal is OS, in the future, everything is based on the Internet, everything is based on the browser! When the browser is both a tool and an operating system, or there is no operating system, it is more likely that the world only needs one operating system, that is, the cloud operating system. "Zhou Shi
"Cloud operating system?" Zhou Jingren
"In the future, the speed of the Internet will be faster and faster, and maybe in ten years, the speed will no longer be the bottleneck. Isn't it possible to form a matrix of one or several hyperscale computers and then distribute their computing power to users who need it on demand? Whether he is an individual user or a micro, small and medium-sized enterprise user, he can pay for it on demand. The system that allows them to do this is the cloud."
"Your brain hole is really big, this may also be a future" Zhou Jingren
Lu Qi and Zhou Jingren are more interested in big data analysis and artificial intelligence. Zhou Shi talked about their ongoing AI experiments and data growth team building, which attracted Lu Qi's curiosity.
In just three days, Zhou Shi persuaded these two geniuses, and what was even more unexpected was that KPCB actually found him another technology bull Wang Haifeng, who is the youngest fellow of ACL, the world's most influential international academic organization in the field of natural language processing, the only Chinese who has served as the president (President), and the senior vice president of Baidu in the future, the general director of the AI technology platform system (AIG), and the president of Baidu Research Institute.
With the assistance of the first two big bulls, Zhou Shi successfully abducted Wang Haifeng.
Taking advantage of the east wind of his time, Zhou Shi asked Li Ying to give up the persuasion of others, and together with Lu He, Lehman Brothers, Sequoia and KPCB started the next step of venture capital, and the equity negotiations only communicated with these three. At the suggestion of Zhou Shi, Lu He chose Lehman Brothers as the main investor. Such a choice was not rational in the eyes of Sequoia and Kai Peng Huaying, and even caused a faint confrontation between Zhou Jingren, Lu Qi, and Wang Haifeng. Zhou Shi is not good at saying anything, as a reborn, as a leader of an enterprise, waste utilization is still a must. Moreover, in Zhou Shi and Lu He's previous plan, Lehman Brothers was their biggest prey.
This big guy, who will go bankrupt in less than two years, has been very active in the mainland in recent years. After this guy went bankrupt in his previous life, their investment in the mainland was eaten by a group of predators. But these are obviously not in Zhou Shi's eyes, no matter how valuable these assets are, no one has a big role. With this group of elites of Lehman, there will be countless more such opportunities.
Zhou Shi is very proud of his choice, but unfortunately most people don't think it's a wise choice, such as Joe Lacob, who has been friends with Zhou Shi for a short time.
"Simon, you guys didn't make the right choice. Lehman Brothers, they are not like we will grow with the business, they are like a group of vultures that will only live for profit. ”
"Joe, I can't help it. Galaxy Capital chose Lehman Brothers for further cooperation on Wall Street. "Zhou Shi
"These vampires!" said Joe Lacob
Vampire, I don't know who the vampire is, Zhou Shi smiled secretly. In the subprime mortgage crisis, he chose to cooperate with the loser, Lu He was naturally ill-intentioned and wrong, and he should have been far-sighted.
Zhou Shi is ready to go back, and after completing this financing, he will come back to host YouTube and Twitter, usually by email and phone call. Unexpectedly, Cheng Shijun took the initiative to find Zhou Shi.
"Google, they want to buy YouTube. "Cheng Shijun
"Haven't they had this idea for a day or two, didn't we have a premonition when they first bought shares?" In fact, Zhou Shi reminded them, but unfortunately everyone was carried away by money at that time, even Zhou Shi was no exception.
"They're here for real this time, and they've already acted. "Cheng Shijun
"Did they communicate with you directly?" Zhou Shi said in surprise
"They communicated with 2 other people and may have come back to me recently. "Cheng Shijun
"What do you think?" Zhou Shi asked
"We want to know what you think. "Cheng Shijun
"You should know that although I am more of a show for the sake of publicity, I have always thought that this is your business. That's why I'm developing my own business more in the mainland" Zhou Shi's face is not red and his heart is not beating nonsense, if it weren't for the fact that the three of them have a combined almost 40% stake, Zhou Shi only has about 25% of the shares, and there are giants like Google around him, the ghost would want to sell YouTube. With such a high-quality asset, it may become a media giant. A market capitalization of $100 billion won't just be a dream either.
"I think YouTube has the potential to become a giant, but the process will be very hard, there will be many difficulties in the middle, and it will require a determined leader and a group of partners who share the same beliefs. Zhou Shi looked at Cheng Shijun's lost expression, but still gave him hope. "If you want to operate independently, I will do my best to assist you, and if you want to sell to Google, I will not be an obstacle to you" Zhou Shi said beautiful words, in fact, because his little stake could not be an obstacle at all.
"Thank you for your support, I'll go back and think about it. "Cheng Shijun
"Rest assured, no matter what you choose, we are all friends. "Zhou Shi
The development of YouTube is obviously much more than in the previous life, and Zhou Shi doesn't know how the three founders will choose, maybe he is not so half-hearted, and they will not be so entangled. Zhou Shi's words today obviously made Cheng Shijun a little disappointed, he wanted to find a leading brother, but Zhou Shi just wanted to shirk his responsibilities and say that he was good for you.
Zhou Shi looked at Cheng Shijun's back, and was also reflecting on whether he was too cruel, is there any other choice for YouTube?