Early the next morning, Chen Wenhao was still on his way to work, Jin Wei called to report the situation, "Mr. Chen, the company has just opened and several reporters have come, some of them have been here yesterday, these reporters will not stop if they don't see the main owner, do you want to meet with them?" ”

Chen Wenhao thought for a moment and replied, "You can tell them that tomorrow at two o'clock in the afternoon, we will have a press conference and welcome them to participate." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info and other media that can be notified, you can also invite it. ”

After receiving Jin Wei's affirmative reply, Chen Wenhao called Fang Yuxin again and told her about the preparations for tomorrow's press conference.

"The software park is very cooperative, saying that the medium-sized conference hall has been reserved for us recently, with more than 120 seats, and it should be enough tomorrow." Fang Yuxin's microphone came from time to time with the sound of decoration knocking, "I am at the site of the new office area, and the decoration company entered today, saying that it will be over in ten days." I have made a purchase price comparison list for the meeting room furniture and staff activity area facilities, and it has been sent to your email. ”

After a round of phone calls, Chen Wenhao found that the company was in good order, so he simply turned the head of the car and planned to go home to study the K+ language, saving the company from being asked questions by reporters who were squatting.

At this time, his mobile phone suddenly rang, revealing a phone number from the United States. "It's another scam call", Chen Wenhao muttered and prepared to hang up. Xiaoka suddenly spoke, [Detect that the call is from Menlo Park, California, USA, and belongs to the official registered phone number of Facebook].

"Facebook?" At this time, it should still be late at night in the United States. Chen Wenhao answered the phone, and a Chinese inquiry came from the microphone, "Excuse me, is it Mr. Chen Wenhao?" "I can still hear a little foreigner speaking Chinese accent, but it is very clear and there is no problem in understanding it.

"I'm Chen Wenhao, may I ask who you are?"

"This is Mark Zuckerberg from FB, you can call me Zach. Your little card translation software is pretty cool. If I can, I would like to come to China tomorrow to discuss cooperation with you. ”

Mark Zuckerberg is no stranger to anyone who knows a little bit about the Internet. Born in 1984, the young man already showed outstanding programming talent in middle school, and when he was a sophomore at Harvard University, he developed the prototype of Facebook, and since then he has led Facebook all the way to a profit, achieving profitability in 2009 and going public in 2012. Today, Facebook is the world's largest social platform, with a market capitalization of more than $300 billion.

Such a fierce man, known as Bill Gates's second in the industry, is simply an entrepreneurial model for global Internet practitioners. One day you suddenly receive a phone call, the other party claims to be this fierce man, how will you respond? Anyway, Chen Wenhao felt that if there was no confirmation information from the small card, he would definitely hang up as a fraudulent call.

On the other end of the phone, Mark Zuckerberg was still talking, "It may be a bit presumptuous, in Chinese, I'm an uninvited guest." But I think our conversation will be helpful for both of our companies. ”

Chen Wenhao has nothing to do, and in his plan, to create as much momentum as possible in the shortest possible time, and cooperation with large global companies is an inevitable choice, but the progress is faster than expected. He remembered tomorrow's press conference, invited Zuckerberg to attend, and agreed to talk in detail after the press conference. Zuckerberg readily agreed, threw down the sentence "I'm looking forward to meeting tomorrow", and ended the call.

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Meeting room in Facebook's new headquarters building.

Zuckerberg put down the phone and first glanced at the interface of the small card translation software on the laptop screen. He couldn't help but think that two weeks ago, there was a sudden and unusual change in Facebook's back-end statistics: users in English-speaking, German-speaking and French-speaking regions began to visit each other significantly, pulling an abrupt upward curve on the data table. The results of the survey are due to the emergence of a translation software that supports multiple Chinese, clearing the language barrier for users of different languages.

He looked around at the room, which was surrounded by transparent floor-to-ceiling glass, and he could see his desk at a glance. He has always liked to sit in the middle of the staff area, and even now that he has moved into the new headquarters building called MPK20, he still follows this routine.

The office area of the new building is spacious, all employees are on the same floor, and there are 4 or 6 desks in groups, without any blockage. His desk is also connected to the rest of the staff, and there is no difference.

At this moment, there are still many colleagues fighting in front of the computer, and the entire office floor is still brightly lit.

Zuckerberg had always believed that he and the programmers in the company were the best programmers in the field, but the results of subsequent reviews of the translation software shook his belief.

In the fields of artificial intelligence and machine translation, Facebook has a dedicated technical team, and each member of the team can be regarded as the closest person in the industry to the top of the pyramid, and the evaluation results show that the translation quality and efficiency of Xiaoka translation software far exceed all similar products at present.

The most shocking thing is that this group of elites has exhausted all means, but they are still unable to unravel the program, and the research on its operating mechanism has made no progress.

As a result, in just two weeks, Facebook has held three high-level meetings with senior operations management on the impact of the translation software on social networks around the world. Zuckerberg and other executives are keenly aware that such a translation software will truly ignore language barriers and bring users around the world closer together.

They quickly agreed that Facebook could not afford to miss out on such a software, and that it would be better to buy it in full at the beginning of its development, or to invest in a dominant stake.

In the days since the agreement was reached, Facebook has begun preparations for business talks – using a vast intelligence network to gather information about the companies that make the small card translation software, and a number of top think tanks have begun to calculate the specific benefits of the technology contained in the product for Facebook.

The feedback is both good and bad. On the bright side, the think tank believes that once the features of the card translation software are integrated into Facebook, it will increase user activity by at least 15%, which will increase advertising revenue by 25%. The bad news is that the software is said to have been developed independently by a Chinese programmer and has explicitly rejected a number of venture capitalists, including Sequoia and Goldman Sachs. The main reason why the programmer rejected the venture capital was that the software was already profitable, and more than 50% of the users who tried the software chose to pay to continue using it. This proves the promise of the software, but it means that it is more difficult to make acquisitions or investments.

As if to prove this, the announcement that the new version of the small card translation software will be upgraded has spread all over the world in a very short time. What does it mean to simultaneously recognize video and voice, intelligently translate images and text, ......? This means that as long as the quality of the translation can pass the passing score, the video website industry will usher in a big shock, or even a big reshuffle.

In the field of global video websites, YTB occupies the leading position in the global industry, while Facebook's video business has developed tepidly in the past two years, and the user growth rate is very fast, but the proportion in the overall sector of Facebook is not prominent, and it does not seem to be the focus of business. But Zuckerberg and Facebook's top management naturally know that in Facebook's strategic plan, Facebook's goal of transforming to mobile has been basically completed, and the next focus will be on the video business.

So, after seeing the news of the new version of the small card, Zuckerberg immediately convened an emergency meeting and undisputed the authorization of a larger acquisition amount. It was midnight after the meeting, and he refused to let his assistant contact him, so he called Chen Wenhao in person.

Subsequently, Zuckerberg, who was full of executive power, secretly set off with his entourage, and caught a red-eye flight to Jianghai City overnight without alarming any media.