After chatting about trillions, he didn't say anything else, but Zhou Shi's mood was still much heavier. But none of those things are his responsibility, and in a country with an official position, he doesn't have the ability to manage it.

He had some ideas for his next move, but he came to Time Friends before returning to the United States. Time has developed to the present structure is a bit large, Time Holdings has a friend network, Time Lab, Time Network, and then gradually incubated Time, Time E-commerce, Time Wallet, Time Music, and Time Video that is competing with LeTV for film and television rights (both sides are very restrained), and the time game that gives them the greatest support and ensures the safety of Time Holdings' cash flow.

"The main purpose of my meeting is to discuss with you the next direction for us to go. Zhou Shi looked around, this time he and Lei Jun were sitting on the rostrum, but he was sitting on the right.

"Let me tell you my thoughts, first of all, the friend network, which is our core industry, and the future development potential is very huge. In addition to maintaining technological superiority, cyber security and privacy security, we need to open up another battlefield, that is, artificial intelligence. After speaking, Zhou Shi looked at Zhou Jingren and Wang Xiaochuan, in terms of technology and management, Zhou is still leading, but Xiaochuan has old qualifications and is not bad at ability, as long as he does not make mistakes, he will not be replaced, not to mention that Zhou Jingren also holds the position of Time Laboratory.

"Artificial intelligence technology is not mature now......" Before Lei Jun could speak, Zhou Jingren spoke against it.

"I know, but I sponsored a project at Stanford called ImageNet, which labeled tens of millions of images, which is very useful for deep learning. And I'm not going to do it in one step, our growth team also has a certain technical foundation, the next step is to develop robot customer service, then intelligent review of illegal information such as violent and pornophobic rumors, and then push information dynamics according to users' preferences, and further develop into an artificial intelligence assistant that can talk through voice, text, and pictures, and then finally artificial intelligence! Then Zhang Yiming developed the push information according to user preferences to the extreme, and achieved the glory of today's headlines.

"If that's the case, it's technically possible. "Wang Xiaochuan

In addition to persuading Zhou Jingren to join a friend's company, Zhou Shi rarely had more contact with him, and he did not have a deep understanding of Zhou Shi's ability, and he did not want to be like Wang Xiaochuan, who witnessed Zhou Shi's ability to solve problems.

"However, with the current profitability and cash flow of Friends, we cannot support our great development in technology. Lei Jun, chairman of the board of directors and CEO of Friends, spoke

"How much revenue did we have in the third quarter?" Zhou Shi

"More than 20 million US dollars, less than 150 million yuan!"

"Well, that's a problem. What can you do to increase the company's revenue level?" Zhou Shi has no concept of making money, and he didn't know how Facebook made money before, but Penguin's knowledge is a game. Purely relying on advertising, it seems that the income will not be much, not to mention value-added business, three melons and two dates.

"This~~" Lei Jun has no background, and everyone is a little silent.

"Is there no way?" Zhou Shi was upset, so many people even asked him to come up with ideas on how to make money?

"The best way to do this is games, and only game revenue in China will generate enough cash flow. Yu Wei also spoke at this time, since he didn't do good things the first few times, Zhou Shi didn't embarrass him except for fines, but still gave him a chance, after all, people need to grow, and no one can reach the sky in one step. From now on, the other party's spirit has indeed improved a lot, and it seems that the development has been good during this time.

"Game?" Zhou Shi deliberately took out the game separately, just didn't want them to limit their attention to this, but there are only a few major ways to make profits in China, and it is not time to develop social e-commerce, in addition to advertising, there are only games.

"There's no better project than this?" said Lei Jun.

"Do you want to grow the game on your own or buy a ready-made game company? "Zhou Shi thinks about it, forget it, if you want to, I will give it to you, Zhou Shi can't restrict them all the time.

I saw a few people breathe a long sigh of relief, Zhou Shi had stopped the impulse of the friend network to develop games before, and maintained the purity and cleanliness of social interaction. But the reality still made him make a compromise, no matter what Zhou Shi thinks, the survival and development of the company comes first. Just like domestic environmental protection, development first and then governance.

"It's better to buy a few small studios!" said Lei Jun

"Then you decide for yourself!" Zhou Shi had just finished speaking, and something came to mind. "Wait, why don't you buy the web game division of Time Games?" ”

The development potential of web games is limited, and Zhou Shi and others are also preparing to urge Time Games to accelerate its transformation, in addition to terminal games, and increase the migration of smartphone mobile terminals.

"Is this appropriate? Yao Xiaoguan: They won't agree. "Lei Jun

"It's okay, I'll convince him. Zhou Shi thought that he was going to say it anyway, and it wouldn't be troublesome.

"But how do we acquire cash or equity?"

"The board of directors can discuss, if you don't want to, or if you can't talk, then forget it. You can find another company!" Zhou Shi said indifferently, there is no future, and there are still several years to make money, he is not in a hurry. However, the shareholders of Friends Network are not necessarily!

Lei Jun didn't hesitate too much and directly agreed.

"By the way, Friends can cooperate with Time Lab to develop artificial intelligence, share resources, and share technology patents. However, the role of the social network of friends must not be weakened, which is the foundation of our attraction to users. "Zhou Shi

"Rest assured, our growth team is working hard and has consistently ranked first among similar companies in China in terms of market share. "Wang Xiaochuan

"What's the use of being the first in China? Don't fix these fictitious, let's look at the number of users, look at the key data of monthly and daily activity!" Zhou Shi

Wang Xiaochuan instantly lowered his head.

"I have an idea here, and you will see if you can implement it. "Zhou Shi

"What do you think?" Wang Xiaochuan

"Generate a timeline: record the trajectory of your life!" Zhou Shi was still expressionless, "Our previous What's New page showed the activity of the last few days or weeks, but for the timeline feature, we have to think about it from the perspective of years or even centuries. We need to organize, aggregate, and sort logs, shares, photos, check-ins, and other information with great efficiency to show the most important things you've done on your friends' online over the years. Even if your life dies in the future, this is the trace you left on the Internet!"

"Wow!", the audience burst into flames, such an idea is so cool!

(End of chapter)