A dinner party that seems to be a folk cultural exchange, but also a mixed show, each with a ghost is definitely the most appropriate description.

After Chen Bo returned to the hotel, he sat on the balcony blowing the gentle sea breeze, thinking about what happened tonight, Ambassador Zhang Pengsheng's ambition to increase the influence of the people, the careful thinking of the local overseas Chinese who wanted to embrace the mainland to seek wealth, and Temasek's lukewarm sense of distance, all flashed in his mind.

The place is not big, the ambition is not small. This is probably one of the reasons why this small land can take off economically and become one of the four Asian tigers.

But what can he do to find a balance between personal interests and national politics, but also not to stir the sensitive nerves of local officials, and still be able to gain a foothold in Singapore and maintain more users. This is really a situation that affects the whole body, like walking a tightrope.

The company can't be located in Singapore, and the main business is all in other countries, which is obviously unreasonable and has lost its original intention.

"Still having a headache?" Ivanka walked around behind him, gently massaging his temples and gradually smoothing his tightly knit brow.

"It's so much better to have you." Chen Bo said softly.

"Needless to say those comforting words, I'm not a little woman who needs your care." Ivanka said with some anger, "If you have any troubles, just say it, don't hold it in your heart, don't forget that I am also an honor student of Wharton, and I am also your personal assistant." ”

"Well, what kind of internet service do you think the city needs?" Chen Bo asked with a pair of soft wattles stretched out behind him.

"It's not simple, what users need, you have to do, supply and demand will always be the essence of business."

One sentence woke up the dreamer, Chen Bo only thought about the pressure in all aspects, but ignored his own advantages. No matter which force you have, no one can find fault with the basic Internet needs and build Internet platform services.

"What do you think of today's dinner?" Chen Bo tried to ask again.

"Hypocrisy." Ivanka pouted and said, "New York is full of this kind of social occasions, everyone wants to fight for more benefits for themselves, but only the most unique person is also the most successful, the wizard eats meat, the monster drinks soup, and the mediocre only brushes the pot water." ”

"And what am I?" Chen Bo's opinion of her can't help but deepen again, beauty will always make people inadvertently ignore her talent.

"You're a ghost, and you always have a brilliant way to break out of the encirclement, and that's what I admire about you the most. Sometimes calm and sophisticated, sometimes bohemian, sometimes wise. Ivanka's row of sentences is used extremely smoothly, praising Chen Bo is a little blushing, thanks to only a few simple Chinese, if you really learn the idiom, then pay it back?

"Now I'm realizing how important it is to have a think tank by my side." Chen Bo tugged on her hand and couldn't help but kiss it, and the big stone in his heart gradually let go.

The next day, Chen Bo appeared in the office building of Ant Search in high spirits, and summoned the senior management for a brief product discussion meeting, which was more of his direct order than a discussion.

"To build a bilingual portal platform in Southeast Asia, one is to radiate tens of millions of Chinese, and the other is to influence the elite." Chen Bo directly said his decision, the portal is a comprehensive website, the foundation of Internet services, although it was the mainstream in the past, the future is thankless.

But for Southeast Asia, a strong portal network basically does not exist, few capital is willing to burn money here, the website with the largest traffic is still the official website of the Straits Times, just look at the news, about 2 million traffic per day.

"Other countries, what should I do if I can't read both Chinese and English?" Feng Cheng put forward his opinion.

"Control!" Chen Bo stretched out his palm, and then held it tightly in his hand, "Using the way of holding and technology output to support more high-quality websites in the language, not limited to portals, but also vertical segments, the investment is not about how much, but to incorporate most of the network resources in Southeast Asia into our territory!" ”

He has secretly supported a Vietnamese company, so he doesn't care about some other websites, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand, which are countries with good economic conditions and a certain base of netizens in the entire radiation circle.

As for Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and Papua New Guinea, these are all poor areas that are lagging behind in development and can be developed slowly.

For historical reasons, except for a few small places that were once French colonies, the rest were controlled by Britain and the United States. In the entire system of social elites, English and Chinese are the two largest languages, so the new website will no longer involve other minor languages.

In an economically underdeveloped region, it is not so easy to rebuild a Yahoo, and cost and efficiency must also be considered.

"Acquired the largest local forum with the largest traffic, and introduced MySpace personal blog and microphone music services." Chen Bo also asked Feng Chengdao to "talk to Lianhe Zaobao and the Straits Times about authorizing them to use their news content temporarily." ”

"It seems that the name of the website has not yet been decided." Operations Director Gao Naji said at this time.

"Since it's in Singapore, let's call it Sin Chau, and let the planning department design a Q version of the cute Merlion, which should be closer to the people. Then hurry up and apply for a license, and you must go online within half a month. Chen Bo's idea made all the executives almost unable to keep up with the pace, this speed is too fast, right? The layout and overall structure of the website all need to be designed, and it has to be set up by manpower, so planning, publicity, and promotion are not a trivial matter.

"That's not all, I also need a classification platform for life services, which can be combined with electronic map services. For example, renting, selling, recruiting, and second-hand transfer services in the same city. ”

After Ivanka's guidance last night, Chen Bo followed the idea of what users need to design, although most of Singapore's HDB flats are developed by the government. A small percentage of properties are privately developed, while luxury seaside villas can only be purchased by Singaporeans.

The land area is smaller than that of Hong Kong Island, and the large number of floating residents who come and go, which also creates the price of every inch of land. Where do foreigners stay? To whom do the houses of the citizens rent? Limited intermediary resources alone are not enough to solve the problem, isn't this a market demand point?

As for job recruitment, it is better explained, high-end elites have LinkedIn, and low-level basic service jobs have the Philippines and Indonesia, and a good platform can also solve the employer's employment costs.

As soon as Chen Bo gave an order, the whole company was like a clockwork machine, ending its comfortable working state, and quickly dispatching manpower to start a new project department.

The portal is becoming more and more like a chicken rib for the current market, and now is not the era of the portal, although Chen Bo's contrary approach makes some employees in the company not quite understand, but it is still implemented in accordance with the requirements of the above.

Chen Bo was not idle, brainstorming technology, design, and planning continuously, and constantly instilled his ideas. He has to personally test each layout before he can make a decision, and the application of each background program will also participate in the test himself, striving to achieve the best experience.

This feeling seems to go back to the days when Skynet was founded, overtime is a normal thing, and strive for better solutions in the details, so that the product fits the user, which also makes the employees of the branch feel the way of working of this global president for the first time.

After a week of continuous assault, I finally have the corresponding prototype, and then improve the content and wait for the Internet license to be officially launched.

At this time, he also received a notice from the Ministry of Industry and Trade, inviting him to come over for tea, instead of letting Feng Cheng, the person in charge of Singapore, go, as for what it means, he can guess it with his ass.

It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided, what should come is always coming, Chen Bo is not hypocritical, and happily goes. Before leaving, he did not forget to instruct Gao Naji to let him buy the advertising supplements of major newspapers, and it was half a month's layout, not only in the local area, but also in the surrounding countries.

The place is small, you can get to it a few steps away, and there is no traffic jam, after all, no matter how good your car is, you can only drive on the island. It's not as good as Hong Kong Island, at least you can apply for a Lingnan license and go all the way north to Dongguan Lang.

"Minnan Tieguanyin, the tea is good." Sitting on the upper floors of Temasek Tower overlooking the city is quite exciting. Chen Bo took a sip of tea and praised indifferently.

"On behalf of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Singapore, I welcome Mr. Tan to invest with us, and we will work together in the future." Xu Kailai, Minister of Industry and Trade, smiled and took the initiative to show his goodwill, but it was still the official language of English.

"Minister Xu is polite, Singapore has a good business atmosphere and investment environment, as well as a clean and efficient government, and it is the economic center of Southeast Asia, which made me decide to move the company from Kuala Lumpur." Isn't it just to praise each other, I'm afraid that you will climb too high and fall down and cry out in pain.

"Thank you for your affirmation and support of our work." Xu Kailai said with a smile, "Singapore's development is obvious to all, and now is a critical moment for our economic transformation, and strive to build the Internet center of the future, the island of science and technology." Ant search has given us a lot of confidence! ”

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, it's all for better development."

"Of course, we have also found some of these problems, and I would like to ask Mr. Chen to explain one or two." After the touting was finished, Xu Kailai lifted his mask, got up, took a document from the desk, and sat down opposite him again.

Chen Bo raised his palm weakly, signaling that Xu Kailai could continue, and his expression was still calm, showing no traces.

"Ant now has a 68% market share in Singapore's web search market, and its products such as Foxmail and fox live have more than 1.5 million users in China, right?"

"This is a fact, and there is no need to deny it." Chen Bo shook his head and said.

"How are you going to explain this kind of market monopoly?" Xu Kailai is now staring at him with a businesslike face, hoping to find some clues from it, and even the name in his mouth has changed, this is a salute before a soldier.