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YY Network Technology's Mi Guo subsidiary is registered in San Francisco, California, but still has an office in Boston on the East Coast.

Zuckerberg hasn't dropped out of Harvard yet, and he can't leave Boston for long. Although they hardly go to school anymore, they devote themselves to topics such as YY.com and "social applications of deep learning".

On New Year's Day, Liu Qian was officially appointed as the CFO of Eslite Holdings, coordinating the capital operation and equity financing of all companies under the group, and then flew to the East Coast in advance to mediate with all parties in New York to make the final sprint for Legendary Entertainment's NASDAQ journey.

In the first half of 03, Li Ying, who was still CMO of Acono, also extended an olive branch to Gu Cheng as soon as YY was on the right track, and Gu Cheng also very decisively took this 23-year-old and talented beauty sister into the account and reappointed as the CMO of YY Network Technology Mi Guo Company.

Therefore, the current high-level layout of YY Miguo Company is roughly like this: Saverin is the COO, focusing on the construction of the operation system, Zuckerberg is the CTO, in charge of the technical layout, and Li Ying is the CMO.

The Spring Festival in 2004 came very early, around January 20. Although the people of the United States are not old, the semester setting of the university is quite consistent with Huaxia, and the winter vacation will be on January 15.

Since Gu Cheng was coming to the United States, he took him to Harvard, and went through some of the formalities of his "sophomore first semester", and all the credits were paid off, and he occasionally participated in one or two defenses and discussions, and the professors of the Harvard Department of Computer Science had real things to ask for.

Saverin and Zuckerberg were not as free as Gu Cheng, so they took a few exams in the main course before they could enjoy the winter break.

It's a strange combination, everyone seems to have a maturity and ability far beyond the school students, but in some ways they retain the youthfulness and impulsiveness of the school students, and even the casualness.

But this is life, and there is nothing to dislike about it - Zuckerberg in parallel time and space, in the first half of his business, was also this virtue. Later, after getting involved with Sean Parker and even Peter Thiel, he gradually lost his student spirit and eventually dropped out of school and went to California.

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It's still the original place, and it's still a familiar taste.

On the third day after flying to the United States, I completed the semester procedures for Harvard.

At the Harvard Club at the end of Hancock Avenue in Boston, Gu Cheng asked for a luxury bag and had a small gathering with his colleagues in the United States.

"Everyone has worked hard this semester, and it is a very critical step for YY to get the first 1 million users, and I would like to give you a drink. ”

Gu Cheng took the people-friendly Free Cuba and touched a glass with several other people.

There were six people attending today's party, and Gu Cheng didn't bring his cousin, for fear that Pan Jieying would not be suitable for this kind of crazy party in the United States, so he left her in New York, living alone in a villa in Manhattan.

In addition to Gu Cheng, the other five people are Li Ying, Saverin, Zuckerberg, and Saverin and Zack's girlfriends, three men and three women. It can also be regarded as the annual meeting celebration banquet of YY network.

Sure enough, Zach changed girlfriends, and the new girlfriend was Priscilla Chen, whom she met at a Harvard party at the end of October. However, because Zach seems to be more successful than the same period in another plane, Priscilla Chen's motives for approaching the other party seem to be more utilitarian (according to historical facts, it was Priscilla Chan who took the initiative to pretend to be drunk at the drinking party and beg Zach to send him home).

But Zach seems to be okay with this and doesn't care about these details.

Tonight's small gathering is the first time Priscilla Chen has met Gu Cheng and Li Ying. Seeing other Chinese on such an occasion still made Priscilla Chen quite a little thoughtful.

Helplessly, Gu Cheng was more or less face controlled, and he was not interested in making an ordinary friend for a woman who was too ugly, and when he first saw Priscilla Chen, he was simply frightened by the ugly, fat and old-fashioned woman. So he basically ignored the other party the whole time.

It was Li Ying who chatted with Priscilla Chen out of politeness, but the latter was obviously unwilling to be the opposite of the Massachusetts school flower, lukewarm.

After a few drinks, Saverin and Zach each took their girlfriends to the hall for two Latin dances. Only Gu Cheng and Li Ying were left on the wine table.

Today's YY network has just gained its first 1 million users, and it has not shown a tendency to kill its own way under the siege of MSN and MySpace, so it is far less market capitalization than FACEBOOK after the formation of another time and space.

According to the evaluation of senior venture capital institutions in the capital market, YY.com, which has just been established for one semester, is valued at 30 million or 40 million US dollars. The options shares held by Saverin and Zach are now worth millions of dollars.

Millionaires can grab a handful of bricks at Harvard, and they can smash several bricks, so they can still have a lot of fun, and they don't need to be forced by the rich at all.

Li Ying looked at the men and women who were dancing in the lights on the dance floor downstairs, and complained inexplicably: "I really don't understand the aesthetics of white people, and I think such a girl is beautiful?"

Gu Cheng looked at the beautiful royal sister with a dignified posture that was quiet and good, and he couldn't help but laugh a little, and playfully teased: "What? ”

"you! Who has taken a fancy to him, I just think this world is too strange, ugly girls actually have a market. Li Ying's face turned red, and she glanced at Gu Cheng resentfully, "You know how busy I am, and you are not interested in thinking about the relationship between men and women." ”

Gu Cheng knew that the joke was a bit too much, and he didn't complain about the royal sister being coquettish, so he helped Li Ying pierce the knot in his heart when he saw that it was good: "It can't be called 'white people's aesthetics are like this', if WASP is good, how did you get the nickname of 'Massachusetts Rose'?

Don't look at Priscilla's ugliness, she is as ugly as Wendi Deng: her face looks old-fashioned, with obvious various lines, especially deep nasolabial folds, eagle eyes and deep eyes, and a typical Jewish face shape. So, how did Murdoch get recruited back then, and how Xiaozha got recruited today. ”

"Poof~ Hahaha, it's so funny, no, you make me laugh for a while. Li Ying was amused by Gu Cheng's analysis, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt that it made sense, and the mood that had been depressed because she felt that "white people think that Chinese women like Priscilla are beautiful women" were also re-lit.

Li Ying laughed so much that tears came out, and she finally put it away, and then hugged Gu Cheng's shoulder with relief: "You still listen to what you say, and you know how to appreciate oriental beauties." I knew that I should put on some makeup tonight, and the woman is the one who pleases herself. In the past two years in the United States, I have almost forgotten how to put on makeup, and those white people are simply pit goods with no eyes! I feel disgusted when I think that the Chinese female supermodels brought out by the Paris Women's Fashion Festival are all Lu Yan's looks. ”

"I'm disgusted too, so let's respect the Asian aesthetic. Gu Cheng picked up the wine glass and drank with Li Ying casually.

Li Ying put down the cup, her face a little crimson: "Don't you invite me to dance too?" I heard that you were forced to practice dancing for a year and a half like you were abused in your early years, and I really want to see it. ”

This is a bit of a faux pas. After all, even in the entertainment industry, DANCER is the lowest existence, and then there are singers, TV series, movie stars, and directors......

Gu Cheng now has a big family, and Li Ying also mentioned that he was "enslaved" by S-M as a trainee when he was 15 years old.

Fortunately, Gu Cheng is an extremely confident temperament, and he does not have any sensitivity to forcing qualifications at all, and he is not afraid of being regarded as a nouveau riche.

If you don't accept the offer, won't you be regarded as not doing your own thing and bound by your own past?

"Okay, but don't blame me for being too open. Gu Cheng was not hypocritical at all, he hugged Li Ying's waist and pulled out.

Flamenco dance music was playing on the dance floor downstairs, and Gu Cheng had good basic skills and could go up to anything. However, Li Ying did not have any training, and was soon dragged by Gu Cheng to stagger, so she simply did not use any force at the mercy of others.

"It turns out that dancing is so comfortable, so relaxed, and not tired at all. Li Ying felt warm all over, like a frog boiled in warm water, too lazy to struggle, and her eyes were foggy.

Gu Cheng was angry and funny: "Of course you are relaxed, I am tired when I am tired - I have never seen a pestle like a spinning top when I dance flamenco, and it is all up to a man to help you spin." If you sink a little more, I'll definitely throw you to the ground. ”

"Knowing that you pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, then I will also reward you with some benefits. Li Ying was dizzy, so she simply wrapped her arms around Gu Cheng's neck and whispered in his ear, "Xiao Zha shouldn't have told you, he recently worked with Professor Hinton to figure out a prototype of a set of image recognition software, but it can't be used commercially yet." ”

Gu Cheng's heart sank slightly: "There is something serious that I can't say just now, I have to talk about it when I have to dance." He mentioned to me that he had made such a thing, but the recognition rate was too low, and the algorithm needed to be further optimized, and it would take at least three months of internal testing and learning supplemented by manual data marking. ”

Historically, when the discipline of machine learning was first born, it was Larry Page and Zuckerberg who first focused on the discipline. THE FORMER DID GOOGLE'S IMAGE SEARCH ENGINE, AND THE LATTER DID FACEBOOK'S FACE RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY.

What's more, the topic of "how to identify whether a cat is on a picture" that Gu Cheng gambled on when he made a bet with Zuckerberg has brought a lot of inspiration. It's no surprise that Zuckerberg has been organizing for a strong attack on the subject this semester, and that he has achieved so many phased results.

With Gu Cheng's professional vision, it is estimated that it will take at least a year and a half of hard work to barely come up with some commercial results.

Li Ying's undergraduate at MIT is the Department of Computer Science, which is a typical compound talent. Although she is not engaged in R&D now, she can still understand the results of the technical department. As for her overall judgment, it is more based on her own experience over the years.

She didn't care about Gu Cheng's arbitrariness, but insisted on her own opinion: "Actually, I also poured cold water on him, saying that the marketing department does not need this kind of defective technology at present, so that he should not be arrogant." But in fact, I have thought that this technology has a better short-term market application scenario - only not in the United States, but in China, to give you that Renren network. ”

Gu Cheng raised his eyebrows: "Let's go sit over there for a while and talk slowly." ”

Li Ying rejected Gu Cheng's proposal without hesitation: "No, I just like this state, and my thinking is very clear." If you dare to put me down, maybe I won't remember. ”