Chapter 688 [Convincing Sergei Brin]

Lu Chong is a person with typical liberal arts thinking, he has fundamental resistance and aversion to those things like mathematics, physics and chemistry, which also created the tragic life of "men are afraid of entering the wrong industry" formed by his choice of science in high school and mechanical engineering in college. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

However, he can only temporarily blind Larry Page and win his temporary favor, and if he gets along for a long time, he may still be exposed.

And what Lu Chong wants is this temporary, in this short period of time, so that Larry Page has a strong impression and admiration for him, and then cooperates with him very happily, as for the future, the operation and development of the entire company is entrusted to Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Lu Chong is the shopkeeper, most of the time in China, rarely come to the United States, come to the United States to focus on the long-term development of Google, Larry Page wants to develop with Lu Chong that kind of relationship with Elon Musk is not available, Not to mention the appearance of Lu Chong's fake technical control.

The three of them had a good conversation, and Lu Chong proposed: "The three of us have ideas, technology, and funds, why don't we open a company and turn our ideas into reality?" After all, it's not enough to just conceive of an innovative technological future, it's not enough to have a big idea, it needs to be commercialized, and we have to build a successful company. ”

Larry Page was even more moved, because Lu Chong's words coincided with his experience after reading Nikola Tesla's biography, and Lu Chong's words spoke to his heart, and he readily agreed.

Although Lu Chong's main direction of attack is Larry Page, he did not forget to conquer Sergei Brin and obtain Sergei Brin's consent, after all, in the early days of that life, Sergei Brin was still very useful to Google, but relying on Larry Page alone, Google was still difficult to deliver.

Sergey became interested in search engines soon after entering university, and he published many papers on information gathering and keyword indexing, independently or in collaboration with others, and also wrote a number of small test programs. At the March 1995 freshman welcome party at Stanford University, Sergei was in charge of leading the new graduate student Larry Page to get to know the campus on weekends, which was the first time the two met. In an interview with The Economist magazine, Sergei jokingly said: "We both are a little disgusting to each other." The two seem to disagree on most topics, but after spending some time together, the two "became close friends intellectually." At the time, Brin was focused on developing a data mining system, while Page focused on popularizing the concept of inferring the importance of an academic paper from the number of citations in other papers, and the two eventually planned to build a large-scale web search engine with hypertext.

Sergey Brin is different from the introverted and low-key Larry Page, he likes extreme sports, skiing, skateboarding, high-altitude swings, etc. are his passions, and later in order to promote Google Glass, Sergey Brin also used Google Glass to broadcast skydiving, even after becoming a billionaire, Brin still loves sports, and is proud of it, likes to wear sports and fitness clothes to work, roller skating in the company, do yoga while having a meeting, or play handstand in the office. As Google grew from a search business to an internet giant, Brin was responsible for the most ambitious and daring projects, such as driverless cars, smart contact lenses, Google Glass, and more.

This is also the reason why Lu Chong can explain to them, Larry Page has no interest in basketball, but Sergei Pollin wants to watch it, Larry Page has to accompany him to watch, Sergey Brin is particularly impressed by Lu Chong, but Larry Page is fine, but now, after some detailed discussions, the two of them now have a feeling of seeing Lu Chong late.

As a technical genius, Brin is also not short of business talents. In August 2008, Brin, Page and their team began to create their own wealth myth. Not only did they create fancy search engine technology, but they also tried to innovate when Google went public. They conducted their IPO (initial public offering) pricing by auction, which was dubbed a "purge of Wall Street" by the American media, and two new billionaires were born.

How to make geniuses more comfortable working in the company, Brin has his own unique way. Although there is a proverb in the West that "there is no such thing as a free lunch", at Google Bollinger has implemented "free" as part of the company's culture, to the point of nuance: employee meals, fitness, massages, laundry, baths, and medical visits are all 100% free; The worst computer monitors the company gives employees are 17-inch LCD monitors; There is a café on each floor. You can make coffee and snacks at any time, and there are all kinds of drinks in the large refrigerator, so you can drink them freely for free. Brin also allows employees to bring children and pets to work, which is unthinkable for many companies in the United States. In addition, any key employee of the company has its own independent office, and each office can be renovated according to their wishes.

Brin also demanded that the company have ideas that were ahead of the times, and he made an unwritten rule for Google's employees that engineers must spend one-quarter of their time thinking about great ideas, even if they might be bad for the company's financial prospects. To encourage innovation, Brin allows employees to spend 4 percent of their time on whatever work interests them, but the research must be sold to the company. He holds an annual Employee Innovation Innovation Technology Competition with a prize fund of $10,000.

But when Sergei Brin heard that Lu Chong was from the Huaxia Continent, he didn't like it very much.

This is related to Sergei Brin's upbringing, he was born in the Soviet Union, his parents were both university professors, and they were both computer majors, as a result, he immigrated to the United States when he was 6 years old, and her mother was able to work in a place like NASA after arriving in the United States.

He originally had a good impression of Lu Chong because he thought that Lu Chong was from Baodao or Xiangjiang, and thought that Lu Chong was from the same background as Bruce Lee, but when he heard that Lu Chong was from the mainland, he frowned a little and said that he didn't want to cooperate much.

Lu Chong repeatedly explained to him that the current China is different from the past, and that the current China is very open, and there is only a conflict of interests with the United States, and there is not much difference in other aspects.

Fortunately, Lu Chong's English was repeatedly deprived and improved by the system, and it was close to a perfect score, so he was able to clarify a very complex problem and successfully persuaded Sergei Brin.

Of course, Lu Chong persuaded Sergei Brin that the most fundamental point was that he could immediately provide financial support, so that all of Sergei Brin's previous ideas could be realized as soon as possible.