Chapter 150: Internet Thinking
After a day of rest, he also enjoyed the top service of the Burj Al Arab, and after adjusting the time difference, Chen Bo decided to go to Dubai Internet City to find out.
In fact, the two places are only about 4 kilometers apart, right next to the Palm Island in Jumeirah Beach, which is under construction day and night.
The hotel not only provides Rolls-Royce, but also Lamborghini, Ferrari and other big brands of luxury cars can be used with you. And he chose a hard-core jeep, with muscles and more power in the desert city.
A group of more than a dozen people, driving a number of jeeps, also looks very eye-catching.
"Welcome to you from afar! I'm Batya, CEO of Dubai Cyber City. A man in a white robe and a turban stood at the entrance to a deserted construction site, the view behind him resembling ruins.
"It's a really unique industrial park." Chen Bo didn't know what to say, half of the foundation was beaten, and the bundled steel bars were exposed, except for a very luxurious artificial lake in the center, the others were completely suspended.
"Ahem, we are stepping up construction, this is the proud work of Crown Prince Maktoum." Batya is not afraid of the wind flashing his tongue, it is all rotten into this thing and forcibly pretending, and there is no one left.
"Then Mr. Lao will help me introduce the plan here." Chen Bo had no choice but to say helplessly.
In fact, there is nothing to see in this place, and it is not even as smart as the domestic real estate developers, and the foundation may not be laid to build a beautiful sales office, sand table, model house, and the packaging of advertising words are difficult to sell.
The remote area is far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, the suburban towns are back to nature, the close proximity to the downtown is to sit on the prosperity of the city, the stinky ditch is the out-of-print waterfront mansion, digging a pool is the Venice of the East, and adding a corrugated top floor has become a Parisian style......
If the local tyrants learn this trick, they will definitely be able to increase their ability to absorb gold by several levels, at least they can overshadow the ability to lose money.
As for Dubai's telecommunications services, I haven't tried it yet, and I don't know how much bandwidth it is, and it is still unknown whether it can withstand huge data transmission.
The so-called Silicon Valley plan in the Middle East seems to him to be more like a chicken rib, tasteless and a pity to abandon.
Dubai is indeed a very geographically advantageous place, 9 hours to the east to Yanjing, 9 hours to the west to New York, plus the largest port at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, also won him a lot of pluses. And it is a very dynamic city, secularization naturally does not have to say, foreign chicks can wear bikinis on the beach, but there are devout Muslims next to her, the two sides do not interfere with each other, a very harmonious scene.
But as far as infrastructure is concerned, it is not very favorable, which makes him hesitate a little.
"First, I needed an office building. Second, I'm going to build a huge data center in the Middle East, at least 100,000 servers. How to coordinate and solve it is your problem, and I hope to come up with a plan as soon as possible. ”
Chen Bo didn't plan to play any dumb riddles with him, and the Emiratis are generally relatively gentle and straightforward, so there is no need to detour. Investment is this kind of thing, there will be people everywhere you go, not to mention that it is dressed in a coat of developing science and technology, which is definitely quite a temptation for them who dream of building a "Middle East Silicon Valley", and the Middle Easterners have a better face than the Chinese people.
This is also derived from an inferiority complex that only has oil and money, international status? You have to ask the US dollar, the currency of oil settlement. Therefore, Chen Bo is tough enough in front of them, and he will not beg them.
"In three days, I will go to Abu Dhabi and Riyadh." Chen Bo pretended to be arrogant and put pressure on him, this project is unfinished like this, it is absolutely painful. Where is the real tech hub in the Middle East? Israel, with its many powerful universities and government encouragement, has just set up an office there to invest in promising start-ups.
The reason why he is in Dubai now is because he is aimed at Arabs, and the Jews are just a small dropout, and they have little influence on the users of Ant Search. But he can't blatantly put pressure on Israel, otherwise his expulsion is still unknown, and he can only use his big brother Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia to scare people.
"Please be patient, we will definitely show sincerity to show our determination to develop the technology industry." Of course, Batya was also worried that this project was in his hands, so he hurriedly agreed and sent everyone to the car on the way back.
"When I was a kid, I always heard stories about Arab businessmen, but now I feel like I'm not so smart." Ivanka sat in the car and whispered her assessment.
"Haha, if the Arabs were really smart, they wouldn't be beaten by Israel." Julio took over and said disdainfully, "In the past, I was poor, and with geographical advantages, I could only develop business, but there are few who are really smart." Now that they have oil, what are they doing but being poor and luxury? Education is not up, there is no industrial system, and money will not be spent. If you look at the current situation in Yemen, Arabs without oil will become this kind of virtue. ”
"And you'll spend?" Chen Bo quipped, "I have become an expert in the study of international issues." ”
"Of course, I'm going to make money to buy an island and collect a bunch of beautiful women...... Happy as a fairy. ”
"Good idea, keep up the good work."
Chen Bo threw away a roll of his eyes and let him experience it for himself.
Dubai, a city built in the desert of yellow sand, does not have many places worth visiting except for a variety of unique buildings. If you want to buy gold, it's a good choice, there is a street full of gold, and the price is very cheap, and the other is luxury consumption.
It's a good idea to rent a yacht for a lap of the Persian Gulf, go fishing, or bask on the beach and see the bikini beauties. The most important thing is that although the women of the UAE wear headscarves and black robes, they rarely have veils, and although they cannot see their graceful figures, they can at least see their faces.
"Look, I didn't expect them to wear makeup." Dressed in a three-point pose, Ivanka lay under a sun umbrella, scanning the pleasant scenery on the beach through the lenses, and when she saw a local woman passing by, she would whisper to Chen Bopin.
"I heard that the consumption of these women is quite high, the shoes under the skirt corners are all red bottoms, and even the most popular ones in the mall are high-end erotic underwear." Chen Bo smashed his mouth, and was quite amazed, there was a beautiful soul hidden under the black robe, but he was bound by a black robe.
"How do you know?"
"Well, Julio said." Throwing a good pot, only this little brother can bear it.
"I want to start a women's fashion brand, what do you think? It's called Ivanka Trupp, and she deals in shoes, clothes, and jewelry. Instead of dwelling on the minutiae with him, Ivanka began to plan her future.
"Take Trupp out, your big-mouthed dad is too good to toss and will have a negative impact on the brand." Chen Bo suggested, "Use your strength to prove yourself, you have to do better than him!" ”
"Well, I'm not going to lose to Donald, and I'm not going to lose to you." Ivan Card nodded solemnly, it's just that the difficulty of the game you challenged is a bit high, if you let you win me, and be a fart protagonist?
"But your idea reminds me that women in the UAE have a lot of inconvenience when they go out, and I can make an e-commerce website for women, so that they can enjoy high-quality service and their favorite products without leaving home, and it is cheaper than buying them in the store."
"It's similar to Singapore, but why is it operating in a different way?" Ivanka wondered.
"The two cities look like the same pattern, but in fact there are still big differences. Dubai has an oil base, everyone is rich, and its business model is not as mature as Singapore's. In addition, the labor cost and logistics cost are not a big problem, you see the streets full of Indians and Pakistans, as well as low oil prices and cheap cars, and there is no shortage of land. It is very suitable to develop e-commerce, and I am positioning high-end e-commerce, not for ordinary foreign workers. ”
Dubai has a population of more than 2.6 million, of which only more than 500,000 are local Arabs, who can receive a large amount of living expenses every month without working, not to mention marriage, childbirth, education, etc.
As for the 2 million overseas workers, although the quality may not be high, driving and delivering goods with a little training are not a problem. The UAE was a former British colony, and as long as you can speak English and a little Arabic, it will work.
Such a website, limited by the user base, may not have much turnover and surplus, and even has the possibility of losing money. But the purpose is to divert traffic and increase the influence of Ant Company, and it is completely acceptable to make money at a loss.
"Great, I can also market my own brand here through this website when the time comes." Ivanka was excited, and she couldn't wait to leave for New York to start her own business.
"Then I'll hang your flat photo on the homepage of the website, let all women regard you as a fashion icon, and then open a column for you." Chen Bo is not untargeted, Ivanka's height, appearance and temperament are the focus everywhere, and her kung fu on the beach for a while has attracted countless eyeballs.
"I really want to knock your head open, any idea can be combined with the Internet, it's simply born for the Internet."
"It's called Internet thinking!" Chen Bo pretended to knock his head and smiled proudly.