It is very troublesome to develop music streaming services overseas, especially under the premise that the music market is basically monopolized by four large companies: EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner Music, even Apple's ITunes does not have much room for negotiation. The only consolation is that the size of the music market is now starting to decline, roughly around $17 billion.

Zhou Shi has no friendly relationship with these major music giants, and the lawsuit between YouTube and Sony and Universal continues, and in this case, it is even more unimaginable to get good cooperation conditions.

"We launched Time Music, how to deal with the trouble of copyright?" Zhou Shi

"If necessary, we can transfer some of our equity to the big four music groups, and for them, if we can open up this market, they will gain even more. ”

"Okay, if you have the confidence to try, but the initial investment will not be very large, can you guarantee the smoothness of the service?" Zhou Shi

'There's no problem, we've got Bram Cohen. Pichai said, pointing to one of the shy men in the room.

"......." Zhou Shi was confused, not knowing where Bram Cohen was.

"He is the father of BT and the developer of the Steam game platform. "Pichai

"Hello, Bram, welcome to our team! Your BT is amazing!" Zhou Shi stood up and took the initiative to greet Bram Cohen.

Bram Cohen's indifferent look made Zhou Shi very unhappy.

"Cohen has Asperger's syndrome, which gives him a high level of concentration, but a social barrier. Pichai quickly explained

"Forget it, forget it, you can look at the music thing, I still have two ideas for you to realize this time. "Zhou Shi is still very tolerant of geniuses.

"What's the idea? We're starting big data research now, and it's already struggling. ”

"Let's recruit people, and I will inject 50 million into you in three or four months. "Zhou Shicai doesn't care about the lack of people, the talent problem is not only the most difficult, but also the easiest problem to solve. The achievements of Time Friends have made Time Lab also have a great reputation.

"What's the idea?" said Pichai

"I want to provide Friends with an online network storage service and an open-source code base and version control system. "Zhou Shi

"What's the point?" said Pichai

"The third-party platform of Friends.com has not been well promoted, so we have to promote it ourselves, and these two projects will either go out independently in the future, or we will continue to operate. "Zhou Shi

"Just for the sake of the network of friends, that's their thing. "Pichai

"Listen to me, the first project should be a network drive or a network synchronization tool. Users can store and share files and folders with each other, so that we can get rid of hardware limitations and bring more convenience and convenience to the majority of users. For example, we can sync photos from a bed user's camera or phone memory card to our network drive, and they can back them up and share them with others. There are certain restrictions on the use of space for free users, such as 1G for the initial space, 10G for the paid space, and there is a traffic limit for external links shared by free users, for example, if the traffic exceeds 10G, the sharing link will be invalid.

The second project is actually GitHub, but I want to acquire it, make appropriate changes and promotions, and increase its social presence. But his essence is still an "open-source code-sharing platform". We support a code hosting platform that can bring a lot of convenience to our operating system development, and we can meet and recruit a lot of excellent talents through code developers. I wanted to buy this platform more to support him and keep him independent and open. If they can't do it well, we'll intervene again."

Zhou Shi's words gave Pichai more confidence, as long as it was not messy, there was a purpose and ideas, and it was good for the development of the laboratory, these were acceptable. As for Zhou Shi's other thoughts hidden underneath, there was no need to delve into them.

Zhou Shi's first project is obviously Baidu Netdisk, or Dropbox. In the future, it can also be deeply integrated into the mobile phone, and upload the user's photos, text messages, and contacts to the network. In fact, this is the indispensable cloud service of smartphones, and it is just getting started. As for the significance of code hosting, that is, the reason why Microsoft acquired GitHub in the future, provides developers with an unprecedented common development environment in the cloud, and the prosperity of the application ecosystem is the most critical place to maintain and promote the advantages of cloud services. Perhaps in the open source state, developers no longer have to waste time and energy on operating systems, desktop and mobile systems, and developers can develop and run applications in the cloud.

"So we need to develop a project ourselves and then acquire a project?"

"GitHub can be acquired, or it can be a stake in a partnership, depending on what you know about the future and the potential of GitHub, if it can integrate the open source space and become one of the most attractive of them, then it is better to acquire. Zhou Shi also didn't know if Chris could still create a miracle in his previous life by acquiring GitHub in advance under his influence. You know, GitHub's annual revenue growth at that time was very large. Open source projects are free, but GitHub's private repositories are charged, and it is these charging projects that support the development of free repositories.

Then he communicated with them about some details of the two projects, and Zhou Shi left the Time Lab with confidence, these two simple projects should not be difficult for them, but whether they can grow up depends on luck. Even if it doesn't succeed, it's not very important to Zhou Shi, the role of capital will become more and more important in the future, as long as you maintain abundant cash flow, there is no GitHub, and Gitlab! Besides, Zhou Shi has not yet made up his mind to let Time develop cloud services, after all, he already has shares in Amazon and Alibaba, and the two largest cloud service providers at home and abroad have a large number of shares in him, so it seems that there is no need to intervene in everything. Artificial intelligence is his main direction in the future, and the application of big data is also indispensable.

Time.com finally reached a cooperation agreement with Google, and the two companies that had already sided with each other began to unite to encircle MySpace. Facebook is also in contact with Time Games, wanting to make Happy Farm appear on the Facebook website, Zhou Shi agreed in principle, Time Games is not a time friend after all, there is no need to completely give up their independence for Time Friends, but this first game still gives a lot of convenience to the friend network, after April 1st, Happy Farm will appear on Facebook. Time Games USA has begun to use game revenue to acquire game studios overseas and increase investment in the field of social games. Their first target was Zynga, and when Zynga needed financing, they directly proposed the acquisition plan of Time Games.

(End of chapter)