Mount View is a transliteration of mountain-view, and Mount View has another Chinese translation called Mountain View. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Mountain View is about 53 kilometers south of the old gold SD, bordering Palo Alto, where the famous Stanford University is located, and only 10 kilometers from San Jose, the "heart of Silicon Valley", where many well-known institutions such as Google's corporate headquarters, the Mozilla Foundation, Microsoft's MSN/Hotmail/Xbox/MSNTV division, Silicon-Graphics, and NASA's Ames Research Center are located.

Tesla is headquartered in Palo-Alto, and then arranges an annual investor meeting in Mountain View, which not only ensures that the venue is different every year, but also does not waste too much time, which is very much in line with Elon Musk's style of acting.

Coincidentally, Youdao Group's KKI North American branch is located in Mountain View.

The location was chosen by Zhang Xiaolong, and Wen Congqian's opinion was referred to before selecting the site.

Bian Xuedao, Wu Sijie, Shen Ya'an, Hong Chengfu, Zhang Xiaolong, these people sat together to study, and they had already predicted the various benefits and disadvantages of KKI Global Downloading and entering North America, so in January 2009, they registered the North American branch of "KKI Technology" in California.

At the same time, a North American node of Youdao IDC data center was split, controlled by a company registered in Canada, and then signed a data storage service cooperation agreement with the North American branch of "KKI Technology" in the name of the holding company.

All of the above is to pave the way for KKI and try to avoid complications after it goes online.

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San Francisco International Airport.

20 minutes before the Gulfstream G550 arrived, Zhang Xiaolong, Wen Congqian, and several employees of the North American branch of "KKI Technology" had already driven to the airport to wait.

Only Wen Congqian came, Shan Rao and Su Yi did not come, because the two were not familiar with Zhang Xiaolong, and there were also employees of the North American branch of "KKI Technology" present.

Shan Rao didn't come, Su Yitui said that he couldn't leave the work, and he stayed in the office.

In fact, it doesn't make much difference whether you come to pick up or not.

The first stop on the plane will definitely be Timona Entertainment, and then go to the North American branch of "KKI Technology" in Mountain View.

After 35 minutes.

Energetic, Bian Xuedao sat in the domineering black Cadillac Escalade, and the four-car convoy headed north, straight for the headquarters of Timona Entertainment in downtown San Francisco.

In the Escalade.

Bian Xuedao looked at Zhang Xiaolong, whose eyes were slightly darkened, and asked, "What's the matter, I've been so tired that I haven't rested well lately?" Or are you so excited that you can't sleep looking at the downloaded data?"

Listening to Bian Xuedao's questioning, Zhang Xiaolong had a rare embarrassed smile on his face, and subconsciously rubbed his hands and said, "I'm not afraid of your jokes, I've been playing minecraft for the past two days, and I'm addicted to it and can't extricate myself." ”

Bian Xuedao: "......"

Wen Congqian saw it and explained with a smile: "The opinion of a top product manager is almost as good as a small-scale market research...... Mr. Zhang's level of master usually can't ask for it, just in time for him to be in the United States, I asked him to play minecraft, I didn't expect him to play it at once, two days later, his evaluation to the company a lot of encouragement. ”

Zhang Xiaolong on the side took over the conversation and said: "It's not that I picked a good one, it's really minecraft, this game is very good." To be honest, I was proud of KKI's achievements, but after seeing Minecraft, and now I am looking forward to seeing the market performance of Minecraft after it is launched, which must be amazing. ”

After thinking about it, Zhang Xiaolong added: "I don't dare to pack tickets in China, but I dare to say that this game will definitely sell well in Europe and the United States......"

Wen Congqian interjected: "My point of view is similar to yours. Because of the different education models, most Europeans and Americans have a richer imagination than Chinese, and the core gameplay of the game Minecraft happens to be imagination, plus the piracy factor, so I am not optimistic about the future performance of the domestic market. ”

Zhang Xiaolong nodded, didn't dwell on the topic of piracy, and instead said: "The picture quality problem you mentioned before, I think it's just right now." People who love this game don't particularly care about the graphics quality, and people who care about the graphics quality don't play the game at all. Moreover, if the picture quality is improved, it may not attract players who pay attention to the picture quality, but it will inevitably bring hardware pressure to players who build a grand world in the game, raise the hardware threshold for playing games, and force away some players, which will outweigh the losses. Therefore, it is better to develop a mod to optimize the image quality and let the players choose by themselves, or wait for the cross-generational development of computer hardware technology before considering the overall improvement of the image quality. ”

Zhang Xiaolong's words were clear and logical, and he spoke gently, humbly, and sincerely.

In fact, Wen Congqian also thought of this truth just now, but it wasn't until he heard the same point of view from Zhang Xiaolong's mouth that Wen Congqian really felt that his thinking was right.

The reality is like this, it is better for ordinary people to say a hundred words than to say one word from an authoritative person.

Listening to Zhang Xiaolong and Wen Congqian, I exchanged words and words, and Bian Xuedao, who was sitting next to him, quickly figured out the reason - Zhang Xiaolong, a technical man with a whimsical mind and a focused spirit, once he encounters a high-degree game like minecraft, it is easy to indulge in it, day and night, and he can't stop.

The distance of more than 20 kilometers from the airport to the city is not far away, but it is not close.

During the topic break, Bian Xuedao asked Zhang Xiaolong and Wen Congqian: "Which of you two understands graphene?"

Graphene?

Wen Congqian's expression was a little dazed, and Zhang Xiaolong nodded and said, "I understand a little." ”

All right......

With just this sentence, you can see the gap between Wen Zhang and the two.

Wen Congqian is in San Francisco, on the edge of Silicon Valley, and compared with Zhang Xiaolong, he has more opportunities to get in touch with new concepts, but as a result, Zhang Xiaolong, who is developing KKI in Yangcheng, has more new things in his mind.

To put it bluntly, if you score and rank talents like in some games, Zhang Xiaolong's "talent level" will definitely be higher than Wen Congqian.

After a few seconds of silence, Zhang Xiaolong said slowly: "Graphene is the thinnest, hardest, and most conductive and thermally conductive new nanomaterial discovered so far, and this new material has infinite possibilities, and it is known that it can be used to make quantum computers, supercapacitors, new lithium-ion batteries, flexible circuits, touch screens, ultralight aircraft, ultra-tough body armor, and gene sequencing...... With the accumulation and progress of technology, this material may even change the life of human beings in the future, and it is called 'black gold', of course, at this stage it is completely a black hole that swallows money. ”

A black hole that swallows money?

What an apt metaphor.

Bian Xuedao smiled and asked quietly: "If Dao wants to get involved in graphene research and development, what good suggestions do you have?"

When Zhang Xiaolong heard this, he looked at Bian Xuedao for four or five seconds, and said word by word: "Not to mention the funds, first of all, you need to register a new company, secondly, you need a R&D team composed of interdisciplinary generalists, third, you need to find a group of outsourcing partners with excellent technical strength, and finally, don't let hardware designers lead the design of a hardware product." ”

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San Francisco, headquarters of Timona Entertainment.

Under the watchful eyes of the employees, Bian Xuedao shook hands with Shan Rao, Su Yi and other management personnel one by one very formally, and then the group walked directly into the conference room without any politeness to watch the demo of the official version of "Minecraft" after the bug fix.

The demo lasted for an hour and a half, during which he just watched quietly and did not say a word.

The game "Minecraft" is so special that it is far from being able to see its essence when it is only demonstrated by one person, so Wen Congqian has called 5 game engineers to operate and demonstrate.

Finally, halfway through the demonstration of the fifth game engineer, Bian Xuedao said, "That's it." ”

Two minutes later, Bian Xuedao looked at the freeze-frame screen on the projector and said, "There is no doubt that everyone made a great game. After more than an hour of demo, I have only one suggestion for this game - set up some trigger easter eggs to increase the vitality of the game appropriately. I believe a vibrant world would be more appealing......"

Speaking of which, the mobile phone that Bian Xuedao placed on the conference table "buzzed" and vibrate.

Picked it up and glanced at the caller ID, and turned it on.

After listening to a few words on his mobile phone, Bian Xuedao said calmly: "You told Professor Deng that I will visit on time in three days." ”

Professor Deng?

Three days later?

More than half of the people in the conference room could understand Chinese, and at this time, they all guessed in their minds: which Professor Deng is qualified to let Bian Xuedao make an appointment to visit three days in advance.

After 5 minutes, the meeting ended.

The others got up to leave, and Bian Xuedao and Shan Rao sat still with a heartfelt heart.

After Su Yi, who was the last to walk out of the conference room, closed the door, Bian Xuedao looked at Shan Rao and said, "I'm sorry." ”

The phrase "I'm sorry" refers to the fact that he couldn't come to the United States to meet Shan Rao around the Spring Festival.

Shan Rao smiled and said, "I know you're busy." ”

As if she didn't want to continue the topic, Shan Rao then asked, "Who is Professor Deng? You will return to China in three days?"

stood up and walked to Shan Rao's side, sat in the position of Su Yi just now, and held Shan Rao's hand and said, "I won't go back to China so soon." Professor Deng's name is Deng Qingyun, and he teaches at the University of Rochester, and is known as the 'father of OLED'. ”

Holding Bian Xuedao's hand, Shan Rao muttered and repeated: "Rochester...... oled……”

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(PS: Thank you for the reward support of the starting point alliance leader [Romantic Sakura Flip Book].) After reading this chapter, I believe many book friends can guess the industrial route of Lao Bian. Lao Geng, I have a limited field of vision, so I can only think of this. ）