Chapter 218: Zuckerberg
Yang Lin was one of the guests who arrived in Wuzhen relatively late.
This originally peaceful and peaceful Jiangnan town has become a world celebrity because of this world summit, and the town is full of admiring journalists.
The world-class executives attending the meeting basically stayed in a well-known local five-star resort hotel, which is located in the middle of the Xizha Scenic Area of Wuzhen, surrounded by beautiful waters, quiet in the middle of the noisy, with Wuzhen local traditional architecture and private garden style as the main tone, integrated into the modern decoration style, looks very stylish.
The hotel will also be one of the main venues of the Wuzhen Summit.
As the most high-profile guest of this summit, Yang Lin's arrival has received great attention from the government and those global Internet giants.
As soon as he settled in his hotel suite, he received the news that Google CEO Page and Apple CEO Tim Cook had come to visit.
Yang Lin hurriedly went out to greet him, only to find that it was not only Cook and Page who came this time, but also a young man who looked a few years older than him.
"Zuckerberg!"
Yang Lin was taken aback, he didn't expect this great god to come.
As the founder of the famous social networking site Facebook, Zuckerberg has always been known as the "Second Gates" in the United States.
He is only four years older than Mr. Yang, but the Facebook he founded is already a behemoth with a market value of more than $200 billion.
Today's Facebook is no longer just a social media.
In the past three years, Facebook has not only completed its IPO, but also completed a number of industry-shaking acquisitions. And with a wide range of layouts in artificial intelligence, virtual reality, drones and other fields, Zuckerberg's thinking on the future development of the Internet can be seen behind all this.
And he himself is the top of the list of the richest people under 40 with a net worth of $19.2 billion.
Comparisons between Yang Lin and Zuckerberg are often seen in the media in China and the United States.
Both men are self-made. Self-employed, all with unimaginable success in their respective fields.
Especially their age. Among billionaires with an average age of more than fifty, it is almost an unusually dazzling existence.
Yang Lin really didn't expect to see Zuckerberg here, he stepped forward to shake hands with Page and Cook respectively, and then came to Zuckerberg and shook hands with him with a smile and said: "Mr. Zuckerberg, I didn't expect us to meet here, look up to him for a long time!" ”
To Yang Lin's surprise, Zuckerberg actually replied with a smile in Chinese: "Mr. Yang, I wanted to meet you a long time ago, and I heard Mr. Cook and Mr. Page say that they want to come to you. Therefore, please forgive me for taking the liberty of visiting. ”
Yang Lin then remembered that Zuckerberg's wife was Chinese, and in order to communicate with his wife's grandmother, Zuckerberg chose to learn Chinese.
Yang Lin laughed and said: "It's great that Mr. Zuckerberg can come over, how can it be said that it is presumptuous!" Please, Mr. Cook, Mr. Page, let's sit down and talk! ”
The four of them sat down on the living room on the guest sofa, and the hotel staff quickly served drinks.
After a few moments of pleasantries, Cook got to the point. said: "Mr. Yang, you must still be wondering why Mr. Page and I brought Mr. Zuckerberg over this time, right?" ”
Yang Lin smiled and nodded, he was indeed a little surprised, according to his agreement with Cook and Page. The three of them were mainly discussing the preparation of M.G.A. in this meeting, and Zuckerberg was a little surprised that he was so sideways.
Cook took a sip of his coffee. said: "I think it's better to let Mr. Zuckerberg say this question himself." ”
Yang Lin turned his gaze to Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg smiled, "Mr. Yang, I'm here with Mr. Page and Mr. Cook this time. The main thing is to be able to take a stake in M.G.A. ”
"Investing in the M.G.A?"
Yang Lin couldn't help but be taken aback.
Zuckerberg said with a smile: "Mr. Yang, you must also know that just over a month ago, Facebook has reached a final agreement with Oculus, the leader in virtual reality technology, to acquire Oculus for nearly two billion US dollars. The Oculus platform will bring a lot of different experiences to the Internet. We can watch the game up close from the players' seats, learn in a classroom full of students and teachers from all over the world, or even talk to the doctors face-to-face, all by simply putting on a virtual display at home. Of course, there are still a lot of problems to be overcome in this technology, and I hope to use Oculus' technology to take a stake in M.G.A and cooperate on the future of holographic display technology. ”
Yang Lin was slightly stunned, pondered for a moment, turned his head to look at Page and Cook, and said, "Mr. Page, Mr. Cook, what is your opinion?" ”
"We evaluated Oculus, and the technology of adjusting the angle of view through the gyroscope would be very useful for our future hologlasses, so I agreed that Facebook would be on board," Page laughs. ”
Cook also nodded, "I agree!" ”
Yang Lin laughed, turned his head to Zuckerberg and said, "Mr. Zuckerberg, welcome to M.G.A." ”
Zuckerberg shook hands with Yang Lin and smiled, "Thank you, Mr. Yang, I think you will soon see the value of Oculus." ”
As soon as Zuckerberg joins, the shareholding structure of M.G.A. will also be split into four, with Google, Apple, Matrix Digital, and Facebook each holding 25% of the shares, and even the company's name will be changed to F.M.G.A.
Although it does not have absolute control over the company, for Yang Lin, this is just a layout of Matrix Digital when the Internet display technology changes in the future.
After all, the core technology that Matrix Digital really masters now is only in the field of artificial intelligence, and there is a big gap with foreign giants in the hardware fields such as communication, display and even integrated circuit manufacturing, and there is almost no possibility of catching up in a short period of time.
Therefore, joining forces with the major giants through joint ventures and laying out in advance has become the best choice for Yang Lin.
According to the agreement of the four people, F.M.G.A will be headquartered in Silicon Valley and will have four R&D centers around the world, located in Jiangcheng, Zurich, Tokyo and San Francisco.
It is expected that the first generation of holographic glasses will be launched in 2016, in this process, the four parties will invest in research and development funds in the same proportion, and the four companies will also have the scientific and technological achievements obtained in the research and development of holographic glasses in the future. (To be continued......)