Chapter 111: Guo Shouyun's conspiracy

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Although he has never been rich and does not have much social experience, he can still see that the other party has an extraordinary family affair and is very interested in him. For his solicitation, Liu Zhixing, who was determined to work hard, was not completely uninterested. But in the past ten years, he has really managed too many ups and downs and setbacks, which has made his personality become cautious. Therefore, he plans to make a decision after understanding it first.

Thinking of this, Liu Zhixing took out the business card.

The pale cyan hard plastic workmanship is very exquisite, and there is not much content on it, except for a phone number, there are only three words: Guo Shouyun!

"Guo Shouyun, I think this is his name!"

After grabbing the business card and thinking for a while, Liu Zhixing carefully walked down from the bed, and after seeing that he did not wake up his daughter who was sleeping next to him, he tiptoed to the desk and turned on the computer. Because he has to check the information frequently, his computer here is networked.

Find the usual Google, and after typing the word 'Guo Shouyun' into the search bar, hundreds of thousands of messages are instantly retrieved. After a brief browsing, I opened the encyclopedia page.

"The youngest billionaire?

The beating screen reflects a face full of surprise.

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"Wendy, where's my wine?"

After breakfast, Guo Shouyun, who was neatly dressed, was ready to go.

"Here, it's ready for you!"

After briefly glancing at the exquisite packaging in Wendy's hand, Guo Shouyun thought about it and turned around and walked into the study. All the calligraphy and paintings I bought from the night market last night are here. After selecting a good 'Eagle Stone', he left the hotel with Wendy Solo and Matthew Bloom.

As the CEO of a listed company, although Amazon's situation is not good now, Jeff Bezos lives in the villa area of Menady in Seattle, which is not far from Amazon's headquarters and the environment is quiet enough.

Because of the appointment in advance, after Guo Shouyun entered the door, Bezos and his wife had already greeted him in advance.

"Mr. Guo, welcome to visit!"

"It's a privilege to be here at Bezos. After shaking hands with Jeff Bezos, "Lady Bezos, it's a pleasure to meet you!"

The latter nodded and smiled: "Jeff has always praised Mr. Guo as a genius with a truly deep understanding of the Internet. It's the first time I've ever seen someone get such a high evaluation from him! And Mr. Guo is still so young!"

"Yes, then I'm very honored!" Guo Shouyun replied without being humble or arrogant, "By the way, this is a gift I brought, please accept it!"

"Thank you!"

After a polite word, Mrs. Bezos took the gift in Guo Shouyun's hand. Foreign countries are different from domestic ones, and there is no excessive politeness.

"Please come in!"

Under the guidance of the couple, the group walked into the living room of the villa. Authentic North American country style villa in an elegant yet joie de vivre. After a few brief glances, the group sat down on the sofa in the living room.

"Mackenzie, you go and prepare an afternoon meal, I'll take the guests to the back to see!" Jeff Bezos made a new suggestion as soon as he sat down and chatted.

"Okay, let's talk first!"

"Mrs. Bezos, I'll help you!"

After receiving Guo Shouyun's eye signal, Wendy Solo stood up and followed.

"No, there are servants!"

"It's okay, I'm idle anyway! The two chatted and hugged each other and walked into the kitchen.

"Looks like you've found a really nice girlfriend!" Jeff Bezos said after retracting his gaze from the backs of the two.

"Wendy is really good, but she's not my girlfriend!"

"Oh, yes. Then you have to hurry, good girls are in demand now!" As they spoke, the two stood up in unison. Then, under the guidance of Jeff Bezos, he walked through the back door of the living room and came to the garden behind the villa.

In addition to the swimming pool, the entire garden contains abundant vegetation, as well as a tennis court spread over two acres. In addition, due to the temperate oceanic climate, even though it is already November, you can still see the green in your eyes.

Along the winding garden road, the two walked side by side, and the atmosphere and timing of the exchange gradually became stronger.

"Bruce, can you tell me more about 'cloud computing'? Yesterday was too short, and I didn't listen to many details in too much detail!"

Guo Shouyun smiled slightly, he had long expected Jeff Bezos to ask such a question. If it weren't for the novel topic of 'cloud computing' that successfully attracted the other party's interest, how could he have gotten the opportunity to be a guest at Bezos' house with just one meeting?

"Actually, 'cloud computing' is just a business field that I name myself. In the absence of practice, I also have no more theory to support it. What is certain, though, is that the future of cloud computing is bright. After all, with the development of the Internet, more and more enterprises will be involved in Internet applications, especially in computing and storage. But compute and storage inevitably involve hosts and servers. For small and medium-sized businesses, investing in hosting and servers adds to their financial burden, creating a demand. A need for inexpensive computing and storage resources. ”

"Comparatively speaking, large enterprises have their own servers to solve their storage and computing applications. But a lot of times, there is a surplus for both this storage and application. If this surplus is packaged online and sold to those small and medium-sized enterprises or individuals who need it, then it will generate revenue. This kind of virtual network market, we can call it 'cloud', because it sells excess computing power, we can call this kind of transaction 'cloud computing'. If you sell storage capacity, then this kind of transaction can be called 'cloud storage'! and this kind of cloud-based service, we can also call it 'cloud service'. Cloud services can be compute and storage, but they can also include more, and this is a market with great potential!"

Looking at Jeff Bezos's constantly beating brows, and the excitement at the corners of his eyes, Guo Shouyun's heart gradually calmed down. He knew he had succeeded in provoking the other party's interest.

Also, the future Amazon is the world's No. 1 cloud service giant. Jeff Bezos certainly has a keen interest in this.

"Bruce, your talent is truly admirable. Cloud services are definitely a blue ocean that can go hand in hand with e-commerce!" Jeff Bezos enthused.

Hearing this, Guo Shouyun smiled in his heart, but he still nodded in agreement on his face.

"Of course, it's not easy to really open up the 'cloud service' market. We need to solve a series of problems such as 'distributed computing', 'parallel computing', 'utility computing', 'networked storage' and 'virtualization'. And most importantly, the huge amount of money! You must know that the price of servers is not cheap, even if we can effectively reduce the cost by assembling it ourselves, but thousands of servers add up to billions, or even billions of funds!"

Jeff Bezos stopped, the dark color of joy on his face gradually converged, and his brows wrinkled unconsciously. Even without Guo Shouyun's reminder, he understands that he needs to invest a huge amount of money to make a 'cloud service'. But what Amazon lacks most now is funding. Especially in the context of the NASDAQ crisis and the unpopularity of Internet companies in the capital market, it is difficult to raise large sums of money from financial institutions and investors unless he is willing to sell the company's shares. As for the funding of Amazon itself...... Don't mention it!

Thinking of this, Jeff Bezos sighed heavily. With a debt of $2.2 billion and even its own e-commerce business shrinking, 'cloud services' are just a flower in the well for the current Amazon after all, and they can't eat it.

"Worried about funds?" Guo Shouyun's eyes flashed with a gleam.

Jeff Bezos nodded, but looking at the smiling young man in front of him, an unpleasant guess suddenly flashed through his mind.

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