There is a question worth pondering, if a creature looks like a duck, barks like a duck, walks like a duck, and eats like a duck, is it a duck at all?

This is a difficult question to answer because it is indeed very likely to be a duck, but it is also possible that it is not a duck.

It's like a person, he doesn't seem to be smart, he walks with twists and turns, he can't understand what he says, everyone thinks he has a defective intelligence, but he actually has normal intelligence, and he is very good at thinking, but there is no way to express it, is this true?

Tom thought about this question for a long time, but he didn't understand it.

However, he didn't understand that it didn't matter. The $10 million invested by Thiel only requires 10% of Tom's shares, which means that in an instant, Tom's company, which has not yet gathered employees, is valued at 100 million.

As long as his company is not too green, it can be promoted soon, and Tom also feels that his antivirus software seems to be more effective to enter the market from high-end people, so he intends to use the question of whether a duck is a duck or not as an advertising slogan.

If there's a piece of software that looks like it's freeware and looks like it's freeware, but it has the quality of a premium software, is it free software or not?

Behind the duck, there will be such a sentence.

However, it is too early to advertise, and it is the right thing to call for employees to develop software as soon as possible.

Although Tom felt that his family was not wealthy, he started from the beginning, and his hands were actually elite education.

The so-called elite education is sometimes not a question of how much money it costs, and even if the level of parents is sufficient, it is still possible to complete elite education when the level of teachers is relatively watery.

For example, Zhongguancun Primary School in Beijing was a good school a long, long time ago? Maybe not, but why did it become a good school later?

It is because of this that a large number of high-quality talents have gathered, and they are very good at educating their children, so although the primary school is not very good, it has gradually become famous.

Many people always have a misunderstanding that whether a school is excellent or not depends on whether the teachers are excellent. But in fact, the real decision to determine whether a school is excellent or famous is not the teacher, but the students here.

And most of the time the students here are excellent or not, it is related to the teacher, so it is understandable that most people confuse the two. But there are exceptions, that is, parents are good enough and have some experience in education, and they will not stop teaching their children because they are too stupid.

You know, every child actually has a different talent for learning, or spirituality.

And from the perspective of an adult who has already figured out a problem, unless the kind of child who can understand it at all, other children are a little stupid.

Tom's parents are a very good pair of parents, and although their children are not very bright, they still have a good grasp of what they are learning.

Tom, who has connections, money, and knowledge, even has one more element than when Bill Gates made his fortune.

Although Tom himself was not famous before, after receiving 10 million dollars in investment from Pete Thiel and the company's stubbornness of up to 100 million dollars, he made the headlines the next day, and the people who came to apply on the third day were like mountains and seas.

This one comes for fame, but for money.

For a start-up company, what is often concerned is not how to "reasonably" reduce the investment of employees, but to make results as quickly as possible and not disappoint investors.

Therefore, employees of many security companies, including Symantec, Kaspersky, and Wanhu Security, have come to ask if they can change jobs here.

With a lot of cash in hand, Tom picks and chooses the people he thinks are the best fit, and his company suddenly becomes a medium-sized Internet company with 30 senior security personnel.

That's right, it's a medium-sized Internet company.

Unlike traditional companies, Internet companies require much fewer people. Even in many large companies, in addition to sales personnel, the employees who are really the core personnel of the enterprise are only one or two hundred.

This is not the same thing as traditional manufacturing, which requires a large number of workers to work on the assembly line.

Therefore, the average large enterprise has tens of thousands of employees.

In the early days of the industrial age, these companies were able to make much more money than agriculture, but in the industrial age, they were dwarfed by Internet companies.

Even, for example, the value created by one Microsoft employee can reach the value created by hundreds of people in traditional enterprises. And the salary paid by the company is far less than a hundred times.

That's one of the magic of the internet industry.

The second magic of the Internet industry is that it is very permeable to other fields.

It's like those big factories, which originally needed 10,000 people to keep up with their work. But with the addition of a lot of electronic technology automation, maybe 5,000 people will be enough.

As a result, these businesses will expand if they are profitable, and those who can't afford to expand will fire redundant employees. This reduces expenses and increases efficiency.

But do you really think that's all there is to it?

No, not really.

It's not so rosy.

From a small corporate level, it is indeed earned. But what about on a larger level?

A person is both a producer and a consumer, that is, they consume with the remuneration they receive for their production.

Let's imagine what would happen if most of the world's workers were "killed" by the Internet or automation.

The situation is very simple, that is, the goods produced in large quantities cannot be sold, and they cannot provide profits for the manufacturer.

If the profit is not enough, the goods cannot be sold, the factory will stop production and reduce production, a large number of workers will cut their salaries, their careers, and their spending power will deteriorate further, and this vicious circle will be repeated.

Therefore, countries with good Internet enterprises may not have a good overall economic trend.

As for whether it is a blessing or a curse, it is not easy to say.

However, there is a panacea that can be said that technology is not guilty.

A free-to-play strategy like Tom's is actually a very fierce competition for paid antivirus software.

Other paid security software, although they are also leaning into each other, still belong to the category of adding food to a table and expanding this market together.

However, Tom is different, he already belongs to the table.