In the 2005 list of the world's 100 most influential people released by Time Magazine in April, there are two Chinese nationals under the category of "Builders & Titans", one is Ren Zhengfei, and the other is Wei Dongsheng.

In July 2004, Huawei and Cisco reached a settlement agreement on the infringement issue, and Cisco has been talking about Huawei all the time, spreading to the public how terrible Huawei is, and stopping Huawei's path to the United States.

Ji-woo's path to fame is similar. Zhiyu frequently draws on the mature products of its peers to remove key technical obstacles, coupled with Huaguo's relatively low labor costs, the R&D cost of the Nation series of low-end chips is low. In particular, the single-chip solution to be launched integrates RF, power supply, multimedia and other functions in the baseband chip, and still has a very considerable price advantage after paying patent fees. Compared with high-end chips, the Nation series of chips are cheap and beautiful; Compared with low-end chips, the Nation series is inexpensive and brings a tsunami-like impact to the market. Other chip manufacturers often talk about Zhiyu to promote the threat theory of China, coupled with the Cambrian 2004 name of Zhiyu's information industry, Wei Dongsheng won the list of the world's 100 most influential people in 2005.

Wei Dongsheng is more famous in the United States and internationally than in China.

Wei Dongsheng benefited from his age advantage and has quickly become a business card for the rise of China.

Clinton knew Wei Dongsheng.

Clinton also believes that Wei Dongsheng is capable of coming up with $1 billion.

Unfortunately, a 10% stake is an expected return, and even Microsoft can't guarantee that every investment it makes will be realized. Clinton politely declined: "I'm not worth a billion dollars." ”

Wei Dongsheng knew how high his charisma was, and he would never be able to persuade Clinton to reach a cooperation agreement with him in just a quarter of an hour. Today's meeting is just a matter of asking for directions, and the future partner does not necessarily have to be Clinton. Therefore, Wei Dongsheng did not insist on the invitation, and immediately took it lightly: "Chunqiu's new business is very promising, and your value is by no means more than $1 billion." ”

Clinton laughed and said, "You have more confidence in me than I do." ”

Wei Dongsheng: "There is an ancient poem in Huaguo, 'I don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain', the American system has made you and limited you. If we have a chance another day, let's talk about it in detail. ”

That was the end of the conversation.

Wei Dongsheng and Clinton did not reach a cooperation agreement, nor did they discuss certain issues in depth.

This meeting was meant to be a little bit of contact, and there was no need to be demanding that there be any results.

This move will have to wait a while before it can play a role.

The goal has been achieved, and Wei Dongsheng immediately bid farewell to the host Ma Yun. Ma Yun didn't dare to snub Wei Dongsheng, personally bid farewell to Wei Dongsheng, and took the opportunity to communicate on the way: "Are you really optimistic about Alibaba?" ”

Wei Dongsheng: "Of course it's true. ”

Jack Ma: "Is Spring and Autumn interested in investing in Alibaba?" ”

Wei Dongsheng avoided answering: "As far as I know, Yahoo's $1 billion financing, SoftBank cashed out $210 million by selling Taobao shares and buying Alibaba shares, and early-stage venture capital also withdrew on a large scale, and Alibaba management and other shareholders cashed out $540 million." Yahoo's $1 billion financing was half cashed out by shareholders rather than reinvested. If I'm not mistaken, Alibaba should not be short of money now, and it can use Yahoo's investment to survive to go public. ”

Jack Ma: "Alibaba is not short of capital, but it lacks technology, especially search technology. Alibaba agreed to Yahoo's financing in order to get Yahoo's search technology, but in the field of search engines, Spring and Autumn is obviously stronger than Yahoo. Alibaba could transfer a 15% stake in Taobao to Chunqiu. ”

Wei Dongsheng: "What about the price?" ”

Jack Ma: "SoftBank sold a 50% stake in Taobao for $360 million, and a 15% stake is $108 million. Erase the fraction, $100 million. ”

Wei Dongsheng nodded: "Ten years later, Taobao can be valued at 72 billion US dollars, which is an investment that will increase in value a hundred times in ten years." ”

Wei Dongsheng's argument for Alibaba's valuation of $200 billion is too shocking, and Ma Yun still doesn't dare to take it to heart. Hearing that Wei Dongsheng valued Taobao at $72 billion for the future, Ma Yun didn't know what to say for a while.

Wei Dongsheng sighed: "I don't want to set foot in the C2C field. ”

The former sentence praised Taobao as worth 200 billion US dollars, and the next sentence said that he didn't want to set foot in the C2C field, Ma Yun couldn't keep up with Wei Dongsheng's thinking. Ma Yun paused for two or three seconds to buffer the time, and asked: "Since you think this is an investment that has increased in value a hundred times, why are you not willing to hold shares in Taobao?" ”

Wei Dongsheng flexed his right index finger and lightly tapped his head twice: "People's energy is limited. ”

Ma Yun said with a smile: "From online games to security software, third-party payments to the Internet, search engines to social networking sites, I thought that the business of Spring and Autumn would spread infinitely to all aspects, and I never thought that the word 'limited energy' would pop out of your mouth." ”

Wei Dongsheng explained: "The Spring and Autumn Security Steward guarantees security, and the network guarantees the number of users, all of which are for the purpose of building an ecological environment for online recharge of credit treasure, which is not excessive. The four-dimensional space was moved to the Quantum Rose, which was purely a financial investment, and it was difficult for me to go once in half a year. Spring and Autumn is positioned as a search engine company, and all products will run around the core of the search engine in the future, and the two online games "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" and "The Road to Survival" will also develop in the direction of artificial intelligence in the future. The search engine is a bit far from C2C's Taobao. ”

Jack Ma: "Taobao also needs a search engine. ”

Wei Dongsheng: "I know. In fact, Spring & Autumn Search is preparing image search technology internally, that is, searching based on image information, rather than traditional search based on text information. In the first stage, the search engine can compare the similarity of two images and recommend similar images for users. In the second stage, the search engine can identify whether the image content is a dog or a cat, and can identify whether the image content is a certain celebrity or a politician. ”

Jack Ma immediately became excited: "This kind of technology sounds exciting. ”

Wei Dongsheng: "If everything goes well, you will see the image search option on the Spring and Autumn search page in 2006. ”

Jack Ma: "Taobao needs this kind of technology. ”

Wei Dongsheng: "I'll think about it again." ”

Wei Dongsheng really doesn't want to waste energy on developing e-commerce, but the temptation of a hundredfold increase in value is hesitant.

The food is tasteless, it is a pity to abandon it, and the chicken ribs are also.

Taobao's 15% stake is the chicken rib in Wei Dongsheng's eyes.

Ma Yun confessed his heart in a sincere tone: "After repurchasing the equity of Taobao held by SoftBank, I am actively looking for new strategic partners. To be honest, if it weren't for your astonishing $200 billion valuation of Alibaba, I would have wanted to work with Tencent. The 15% stake in Taobao was originally intended for Tencent. ”

Wei Dongsheng smiled and said, "Ma Huateng will not accept your conditions. ”

Jack Ma: "Why? ”

Wei Dongsheng: "Within ten days, you will know the answer." ”

On the way to West Lake, Ma Huateng had already informed Wei Dongsheng that Tencent's e-commerce trading platform Paipai was ready and ready to go online at any time. Unless Jack Ma is willing to take a big step back and compromise and give up at least 50% of Taobao's shares, there is any hope of convincing Tencent to abandon the Paipai.com project. In terms of Jack Ma's character, since he took great pains to take back a 50% stake in Taobao from SoftBank, he will never give another 50% stake to Tencent. The war between Taobao and Paipai is destined to be inevitable.

Until Wei Dongsheng left Hangzhou, he did not clearly answer whether Ma Yun was willing to participate in Taobao.

The 2005 West Lake Sword Debate ended here.

After finishing the international layout that few people can understand at present, Wei Dongsheng went straight to Yanjing to deal with some trivial matters, and leisurely transferred to Yenching University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Unlike other freshmen of the class of 05, Wei Dongsheng does not have to worry about missing classes, because before Wei Dongsheng decided to come to Yanhang to register his name, Yanhang Computer School solved Wei Dongsheng's worries. Wei Dongsheng doesn't even have to stay in school for three years like Wu Ping High School, he only needs to go through the procedures step by step, and he can obtain the corresponding degrees such as undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees in a very short time, and then be specially hired by Yanhang as a professor-level researcher.

It sounds exaggerated, but Wei Dongsheng's achievements are even more exaggerated.

As mentioned earlier, unlike other industries, the most important thing in the computer field is the international academic conferences and journals recommended by the Huaguo Computer Federation. For a university of this level at Yenching University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the standard for doctoral graduation is a Class A conference full_paper. Wei Dongsheng and Xiao Lei's team, in the field of supercomputers, first used Cambrian 2004A to brush to the first place in China, and then used Cambrian 2004B and Cambrian 2004C to beat IBM's blue gene, firmly holding the world's first seat. After the impact of Cambrian 2004A to Cambrian 2004C, no one suspects Zhiyu of fraud anymore. Therefore, various honors have been pounced on Wei Dongsheng recently.

Cambrian 2004C is the first in the world today, and Cambrian 2004D is sprinting to a new record.

In the field of high-performance computers, the team of Wei Dongsheng and Xiao Lei is undoubtedly the world's first-class team. Professor Qian Depei, the leader of the key special expert group in the direction of high-performance computing, should also listen to the suggestions of Xiao Lei's team and respect the judgment of Xiao Lei's team in terms of specific technical planning. The so-called Class A meeting full_paper, Wei Dongsheng didn't dare to boast that he could brush a few articles if he wanted to, but as long as he wanted to brush and was willing to brush up, he would be able to easily get seven or eight articles in a short time.

Looking at Wei Dongsheng with the training mechanism of undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees, Wei Dongsheng has long exceeded the standard. It would be a waste of talent to let Wei Dongsheng study for four years as a step-by-step undergraduate, and Huaguo's education system was not stiff to that extent. At the same time, Xiao Lei's team has frequent business contacts with the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, Yanhang and other universities, and has built a network of contacts with abundant financial advantages. Wei Dongsheng took a special passage to become the youngest professor in the history of Huaguo, which was a natural result.