Chapter 173: Chief Strategic Advisor
I believe that many people often think and ask themselves, "What will my future look like?"
Personally, it's still a bit of a romantic question.
But what does the future hold for a company leader? It's a very serious question that has nothing to do with romance at all.
How will your company develop in the future, whether it will be able to be smooth and profitable, and be among the best in the industry, or will it be replaced by a new business model if it is still in the process of working hard?
For a madman like Page, since he came up with the algorithm in his dream and designed it as a new Internet search engine, he is already confident that his company will receive the vast majority of advertising revenue on the Internet in the near future.
Unlike the inventor Nikola Tesla whom he admired, now he has a very successful company, and in the foreseeable future, it will become more and more successful.
Therefore, the direction he pursues is hopefully universal, but at present, he has not found another clear goal other than the search business.
In the future, its greatest charm lies in its unpredictability, taking ourselves as the starting point, there are countless roads to the future, and there are many of them, which look very beautiful.
(However, judging by the existing conditions, no one can say for sure, from the starting point to the end, these roads full of fog and unknown, we have not been asked to pay a huge price, nor can we wade through the river ravines, nor can we climb over the high mountains and cliffs.)
And such a setback is an unbearable burden in the lives of a company and an individual.
Paige didn't want to be a martyr like his idol Tesla.
And Feng Yiping's imagination. It is tantamount to opening a window for him, although with the existing conditions, the scene he said is still a bit sci-fi, but think about it seriously. That kind of scene is not an unattainable dream, at least, it is very good to use it as a direction to struggle.
Page also has a lot of ideas about the future.
When he was a student, he had many plans to change the world.
While at the University of Michigan, he proposed that a personal express commuting system could be used. Replacing the school's public transport, it's actually an unmanned monorail system.
During his time at Stanford, some of his ideas were more distant, one of which was to create a circular orbit from the surface to space, making it easier for objects to enter space.
And another, to make a solar-powered kite that can absorb energy from space.
The two contrasted those thoughts of him. Either it's not systematic enough, or it's really too far away. It is Feng Yiping's ideas that are more worth looking forward to and investing in.
For a company with ideals, as long as the direction of the future is determined, then many problems will no longer be a problem, and the products to be developed now and in the future will be extrapolated from the future. There is also a relatively clear direction.
On the way to achieve this goal, the improvement of any new technology can improve the living standards of the general public, which is exactly what he pursues.
"Von, come with us, me and Brin. I'm willing to work towards the future you've described," Page repeated.
Even Brin's behavior was very surprising, you must know that his comrades and brothers are quite unkind to people other than engineers, and Feng Yiping has nothing to do with engineers at all.
Looking at his unfeigned sincerity, Feng Yiping was very relieved, it was finally in vain that I had been preparing for so long.
"I'm honored, but I already have a very clear plan for my path,"
"What could be more attractive and necessary than to devote ourselves to such a creative event? Is it money? I believe that in the process of realizing this kind of future that you have described, we can also reap great wealth. ”
Now talking to Feng Yiping, Page's gaze is no longer dodging, and he can look at him, that is, he agrees with Feng Yiping very much.
"This kind of thing can be done by geniuses like you, and some things can only be done by me," Feng Yiping said.
Brin patted his more excited partner, "Can you tell me more about it?"
"If it's money, I've achieved financial freedom a few years ago, and I don't have to worry about money for a long time. ”
"Do you know that my hometown, located in a remote mountainous area of an inland province in China, has been connected to electricity for less than 15 years, and for a long time, my hard-working fathers could only rely on farming to make a living, although they had no worries about food and clothing, but they had very little cash income, so anything that needed to spend money at that time was a luxury."
"For example, our meal today averaged 50 US dollars per person, which added up to nearly 1,000 yuan, which was a sum of money that most families could not save in a year at that time."
Even the country does not shy away from these problems now, and Feng Yiping did not hide it, in terms of the objective conditions of his hometown, poverty is not an original sin.
Page and Brin were attracted again, their families are considered middle-class in the United States, and the life described by Feng Yiping is really unimaginable for them.
"So, when I learned about the outside world in school and from other media, I felt that I had a responsibility to my hometown to make her rich and modern, hehe, this is my ideal, far less ambitious than yours,"
"No, no, that's something we can admire," Mr. Brin said.
"Since I had my first income, I have been trying my best to drive the hometown of the old folks to get rich together, through our joint efforts, nearly ten years have passed, objectively speaking, has been very good.
If you are middle-class people with an annual income of more than $50,000 from the perspective of the United States, then there are already a number of such people in my hometown, and at the same time, there are also great progress in various infrastructure construction.
However, this is still far from my ultimate goal, and I need to continue to work hard, and I am the most suitable person for this project so far. ”
"Do you want to make your hometown as modern as it is here?" asked Brynn.
"At the very least, let her keep up with the times," Mr. Feng said.
If Feng Yiping's knowledge and vision for the future attracted Page and Brin before, then Feng Yiping's dream now deeply moved them.
The two of them are now hot-blooded young people, and while making money, they are also eager to benefit the society.
"No matter how small a dream is, it can change the world," Mr. Page said, "I respect and admire your choice, but I don't think it contradicts the invitation I made, how do you think so, we invite you to join Google's board of directors as chief strategy advisor," he thought and created a position.
"This position does not require you to work full-time, but I hope that on some issues, your forward-looking vision can help us make judgments. ”
The cowhide is really not blown, there is really no fluke in success, Page is very keen to see Feng Yiping's greatest value.
"I sincerely hope you'll think about it," Brin is always on the same side as Page when he is on the outside.
Accepting this invitation, whether it is fame or fortune, will be good in the future, is it accepting, or accepting, or accepting? )