Man is human because he has thoughts. A pig is a pig because it only cares about eating and sleeping.

The rich second generation is also engaged in blind ** all day long in order to find his own sense of existence. In this world, people who simply want to eat, drink, and be merry after having enough money and don't want anything else...... Yes.

In the past, Chen Zier might be like this.

But the reborn Chen Zier will not be like this, because he has a huge advantage.

After solving the initial need for 'material benefits', Chen Zier experienced a short period of confusion, and slowly he found that his heart was also expanding with money, and he wanted more things, such as social recognition.

Social recognition is a kind of ** that goes beyond money: everyone has a higher pursuit after solving the problem of food and clothing, even if you don't practice it, but you must have it in your heart.

For example, if you want the people around you to recognize your abilities, to put it in a colloquial way: Wow, you're so awesome!

In the end, human nature dominates everything, and he wants to toss it, so that his life may be different, and he can leave a little trace in this world.

And what he asked Yang Runling to do was the signal: start with the music player.

Silicon Valley in 1998, digital music.

The first mp3 player has already appeared, and Sehan Corporation developed the MPmanFA10 at the end of 1997 (it will only be released in the U.S. in September).

There is also the ipod-inspired Rio PMP300, which is a product of the Imperial Union, but it is too expensive, and the memory for $200 is only 32MB, even if you buy an expansion card, you can only store 10~30 songs at most.

At this time, players were flash-based storage systems, and they generally had good sound quality, but the songs they could play were really limited.

Not long after the advent of the hybrid player, Pine used CD burning technology to develop an mp3 that could read CD music files.

From '98 to '99, the competition from the major brands was focused on finding greater memory support.

In addition to flash memory, there is also a high-capacity player that uses hard drives, but the lack of this type is even more obvious: bulky, slow response, and poor network infrastructure at this time, even if you have a large memory, slow downloadable speeds, it can take hours to fill up the entire memory.

In the end, the iPod combines the best of both worlds and solves a fatal problem — they bought a patent from Toshiba for an ultra-small 1.8-inch hard drive that can hold 1,000 songs.

That's how the phrase '1,000 songs in your pocket' came about.

But one thing is very annoying, he is a Chinese, and he wants to make a technical product in Laomei, and he has to sell this technical product...... It's very difficult, very difficult to achieve, and Haier doesn't even know how many years of hard work.

So Chen Zier is not delusional, he thinks that he can beep with Apple by robbing the portal-player, but he does want to make a player that can be a little competitive, but unfortunately he only knows the information of some key components, but a player is definitely not a hard disk can be done.

It seems impossible to do so.

Perhaps.

But the ipod handler is done by Portal-Player.

The hard drive is Toshiba's.

The battery is a lithium battery from Sony.

The display is Synaptics.

The three biggest selling points of the iPod: the sleek design, the good looks, and the innovative scroll wheel interface, but this one can be copied;

Micro hard disk, you can store 1000 songs, this can be bought;

The last one is FireWire technology, which means that you can put a lot of songs into the player in a short period of time, which is a bit troublesome...... Gotta figure it out.

You can't always claim that your product has 5G memory, and users find that it takes half a day to put a few songs in it. It doesn't make sense.

Of course, he couldn't have made it in '98, because in fact, Toshiba's hard drive was only developed around the end of 2000.

Chen Zier is now laying some foundations, including design, technical talents, basic technical reserves, and experience in making a piece of hardware.

He can't get stuck at that point in 2000, and he has to make mp3 with a hard drive, isn't that mentally retarded?

It's just that all this can't be started here by a yellow-skinned person.

Page and Brin are short of money, and they only admit Chen Zier's money, if he proposes me: "I'll lead you two and lead Google, right?

A better way would be for him to find an agent in Silicon Valley, who would represent Shengshi Investment and himself, which would be much more convenient.

Chen Zier is full of enthusiasm now, he can do it when he thinks of it, there are many elite talents in Silicon Valley, and there are naturally many headhunting companies.

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A day later, after receiving a $500,000 investment, Larry Page and Sergey Brin approached Chen.

There was also one person who came with him, Page, who was also a PhD classmate, Craig Hilfordstein.

Chen Zier has little impression of the name, he only pays attention to who Google's boss is, not what kind of employees they have hired.

But in fact, this is for very powerful technical people, and the first commercial version of Google was almost developed by himself.

Craig, now an official member of Google, is the first time he's met a 'rich man' who is willing to put $500,000 into the company with only three employees.

In a tree-lined area at Stanford, Page explains, "This is Craig, and he's a very good computer engineer. ”

Chen Zier greeted politely.

"Brin and I have decided to put our studies on hold and focus on Google, and all three of us believe that it will have a great future," Page said. ”

Chen Zier corrected: "It's the four of us." ”

Brin laughed, "Thank you, Chen. Page didn't have enough dorm and we decided we were moving to Menlo Park, where we found a garage for $1,700. ”

Garage plot.。。 Do all awesome companies have to start in the garage?

Chen Zier wants to find a garage here as a temporary office if he wants to invest in the prosperous world, and dip himself into the magical power of the word 'garage'.

He thought for a moment, then said to the two, "I'm sure that Google in the garage won't be long in the garage, and you'll soon have your own headquarters." ”

"Thank you, we decided to leave for Menlo Park City tomorrow," Page said. ”

"I'll do everything I can to keep your $500,000 in vain, you're a man of vision and courage, and Google doesn't want to be an example of how your investment failed," Brin said. ”

Chen Zier jokingly said: "This investment will bring me profits, I believe." ”

"Oh, by the way, if you are struggling or still short of funds, you can contact me, just prepare the certificate of equity, rest assured, I will not be stingy with dollars. ”

This is a good-natured joke, and the three of them think that Chen Zier has a sense of humor.

But in fact, he himself knows that from this time on, Google will never be short of money again, and the $500,000 injection not only gives them money, but also gives them confidence that Google's career is promising.

As he recalls, the two babies would use this to convince their friends and family, try to convince them that what they were doing had a future, and then found about $1 million.

Then there is the story of 25 million US dollars, that kind of investment, even if they find Chen Zier, Lao Chen can't afford to invest.

What makes Chen Zier feel relieved is that he doesn't have to arrange someone to monitor the flow of $500,000.

Brin asked Chen Zier when he was about to part: "Page often tells me that you know Google and know what is most important to it, do you feel the same way?"

"Yes. ”

"What's the most important thing?"

Page continued, "Technology. ”

Chen Zier emphasized, "Technology and the infinite pursuit of technology. ”

Page laughed and said to Brin, "Look, Sergey, I said it. ”

"That's why I'm willing to bet $500,000 that Google's search technology is ahead of all search engines. ”

In fact, there is no need for Chen Zier to say what path Google will take in the future, because they are going very right, that is, they are constantly pursuing technology.

But Chen still wants to say that the purpose of saying it is not to keep Google from going down the wrong path, but to make everyone think: Oh, we have the same philosophy.

To put it simply: I want to pretend to be a force. Let's talk about it, you are all doctors, you are elites, and I am also elites, okay?

This is important in the process of starting a business, and it never hurts to get along well with two future billionaires.

Therefore, Chen Zier opened his mouth to criticize other search engines, "For a search engine company, search technology is the core competitiveness, and now the mainstream view is that search itself cannot be profitable, and only a one-stop portal can be profitable." ”

"So you look at what Yahoo and Altavista and Excite and Lycos are doing? They don't want to improve their technical capabilities but focus on extravagant promotion, like Brin said last time, Yahoo still uses manual directory building, it's so disrespectful of technology, these public companies squander the money they raise, but they spend it on advertising for the rugby professional league!"

"If this continues, Google will definitely surpass them!"

Page caught a word in Chen's mouth and asked, "Do you think search itself can be profitable?"

Chen Zier said without thinking: "Of course." ”

"From my superficial understanding of search engines, search engine companies can't always think of being the terminal for people to surf the Internet. They don't understand that the search engine is the starting point of the Internet, and only when the customer is sent away as quickly as possible with the best service, will the search engine be used the most and will have a future. ”

Page felt a point in his heart was touched, and Brin was also surprised and inexplicable, this metaphor was too appropriate!