Wen Ming didn't know that when he left Harvard University, Cui Chuanming had already gotten the news he wanted most.

And Cui Chuanming did not inform Wen Ming of the news at the first time. Because in his opinion, even if there were prehistoric mosquitoes, it was impossible to extract dinosaur blood from them so coincidentally.

The word prehistory is very long, and dinosaurs are creatures 65 million years ago, and mosquitoes 30 million years ago can also be called prehistoric mosquitoes. What's more, the amber that sealed the prehistoric mosquito was not obtained by Cui Chuanming's mentor, but an industry friend of his mentor.

Wen Ming, who didn't know what he was missing, returned to his Apple company after explaining to ask David to help him continue to search, professionals similar to Cui Chuanming and his professor.

The release of the game "Plants vs. Zombies" has completely entered the formality, but this can't stop Wen Ming from making money.

"If I were Bill Gates, it would not be Cui Chuanming who came to greet me today, but his mentors, and even the powerful figures of Harvard College."

Wen Ming knew that the main reason why Cui Chuanming rejected him today was not only because Cui Chuanming felt that his 'resurrection' plan was impossible to realize, but also because he was very 'poor'!

With a weekly revenue of $7 million, Plants vs. Zombies is a single-player game that doesn't require expensive servers that can accommodate people online at the same time, and there is little additional investment other than staff salaries.

It can be said that $7 million can be regarded as a net profit for a week.

But for the professors at Harvard, what is $7 million?

Many of them have a very high standard of living with high salaries from large companies. Moreover, many of them have their own research projects, and the study of genes can often be in the tens of millions of dollars, or even in hundreds of millions.

You must know that many professional research equipment are too expensive for ordinary people to imagine.

No one believes that a person who has just earned $7 million will give all this money to someone else to do research, so if it's only a part, is it necessary to meet?

"I still need to make more money, whether it's for research expenses later on, or to start making Apple products."

If you want to make more money, you can't do it in a short period of time with just one "Plants vs. Zombies". Therefore, Wenming needs to develop new products.

Thanks to the cash flow brought by "Plants vs. Zombies", Wenming's Apple has a second development team.

"Many of you may be wondering why the game company that made Plants vs. Zombies recruits people like you."

In a conference room that has just been built inside Apple, Wen Ming sat on the main seat and said to the 12 employees below: "That's because I have never positioned Apple as a game company." ”

The 12 employees here, almost all of whom are software design majors, are also able to develop mini-games like Plants vs. Zombies, but in fact, the worst thing they are at is developing games.

Wen Ming continued: "When you joined the company, you should have seen our company's slogan: Born to change the world. ”

This sentence has been written on the door of Apple, as well as on the background wall of the front desk, and on every desk in the company. Both new employees and the first employees to join Apple are skeptical of this sentence.

Wen Ming also understands this very well.

"I know a lot of you think that changing the world is just a slogan, but I would say it's not just a slogan."

After expressing his ambitions for the future in a few words, and also telling the new employees that he was destined to have high requirements, Wen Ming began to get to the point.

"Apple's second project, which will be born out of your development team, is called Instagram, or you can call it Instagram."

Hearing the name of the project, the 12 new employees were a little puzzled because they had never heard of similar products at all, which indicated that the photo wall was a completely new product.

But this is also normal, because this product is in this world, only Wen Ming knows.

Instagram is ostensibly a software that can beautify photos, make them look better, or make them more interesting. But in reality, it's a social app.

Once you've taken a photo, you can choose to share your retouched photo via Instagram and share it on your homepage or on another social networking site like Facebook.

What seemed to be a very simple software in later generations was equivalent to a pioneer in 2009.

In Wenming's previous life, this software was born in October 2010, and its developer team was only 13 people. Without any marketing efforts, the software, which took only 8 weeks to develop, reached 100,000 registered users within a week of launch, and then quickly covered more than 50 countries and established more than 700 online communities.

In September 2012, the software, which was less than two years old, and its 13-person company were successfully acquired by Facebook for $715 million, and its founder personally earned more than $400 million through this acquisition.

The company's investment was only in the initial two rounds of financing, seed and Series A, with a total of $7.5 million.

Does Wenming have $7.5 million?

Of course!

Does Wenming have eight weeks?

Of course!

Does Wenming have 13 employees?

In fact, the number of employees Wenming now has reached 50.

"I'm going to tell you about the features that this software needs, and even some of its program architecture patterns, and all you need to do is develop this software in 3 weeks, and then get it live."

After having the experience of using the mature version of this software, Wen Ming has a very deep understanding of this software. In his opinion, it is possible to reduce the original 8 weeks of development time to 3 weeks.

Hearing that there were only 3 weeks of development time, the 12 new hires finally couldn't sit still.

"Boss, don't we need to discuss the features of the new product?"

Someone raised his hand and stood up and asked, "I did an internship at a company before, even if the software is simple, after developing the original version, you need to try and debug, and even need to redesign, although I don't know what kind of functions the software you want to develop, but I think 3 weeks is not enough." ”

Wen Ming laughed, and he didn't blame the employee for interrupting him, because what the employee said was very reasonable. Normally, 3 weeks is not enough time to develop a brand new piece of software and get it live.

But for Wen Ming, does the word normal really exist?

He didn't need the steps the employee had said, because he had in his head the experience of using the mature version of Instagram. Even, including interface design and so on, he is also clear.

If you add to that his knowledge of Apple designers, he can definitely make the experience of using this software even better.

It's like a completely unfamiliar jigsaw puzzle toy, and it's hard to put together in a short time without a reference. But what if there is a reference?

"Don't worry about these problems, I said it, I will tell you all the features that the new product needs, and all you need to do is implement the features I requested."