The casual conversation with Baidu's Shanghai branch gave Meng Fanqi a lot of inspiration, and at least allowed him to establish a strategy for applying technology before technology. Just deal with the Google advertising algorithm first, and start the business.

Advertising algorithms are now the fastest and most profitable thing, and they must rely on large platforms, and it is difficult to get the same scale of income by starting their own business.

The initial plan for entrepreneurship is to first lower the threshold for applying technology, have a sufficient mass base, and make the facial modification algorithm deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, which is more conducive to the development of the company and is conducive to the facial recognition algorithm launched by itself with the ability to discriminate.

"I need to learn more about management, and I need to hire a professional manager as soon as possible in the past two days."

If you really want to start a business, Meng Fanqi still doesn't dare to hold it up, in terms of technology, there is no problem that he can be a chief technology officer, and on top of the overall management, there is no need to slap a swollen face and become fat.

It's just that being the boss, whether it is the company's premises, equipment, or hiring personnel, is a big expense.

Although he had some money on hand, because he had just invested a large amount of shares, he had to transfer back a sum of money from his overseas account.

Huaguo has strict control over the transfer of large amounts of overseas funds.

The amount of normal wire transfer is only 50,000 US dollars, and the first part of Meng Fanqi's advance, after the shares were sold, has reached about 4 million US dollars.

After searching for half a day, a series of legal and compliant operations are either very cumbersome or extremely time-consuming to operate by yourself.

Because he was embarrassed to go to Baidu again to transfer back the money that had been transferred out for a long time, Meng Fanqi asked Google for help this time.

Strictly speaking, Meng Fanqi and Google are currently in the form of a one-year contract, and the first performance time point is March 1, 2014.

But at the time of the meeting, Meng Fanqi had already handed over a lot of scientific research results with little realizable value to Hinton, which was equivalent to handing over to the Google Brain team.

This includes methods such as optimizers, optimization strategies, and data augmentation. It is all valuable work for the entire field of AI, and it has been published in open source at the Sini venue.

Google, and Jeff and Hinton in particular, don't treat Meng exactly the way they treat employees.

The most obvious is Hinton, who is getting along with Meng Fanqi in a way that a tutor treats talented juniors in college.

The internal account of the Google Brain team was given in advance to facilitate his choice of research direction. This money is not a hassle to facilitate the transfer into the country.

In 2012, Google's Shanghai branch moved into the World Financial Center.

The few office floors rented by Google are often more than 60 stories high, which is quite impressive.

The area is at a premium and is surrounded by high-rise buildings, with the World Financial Centre 60 storeys tall and offering a panoramic view of the iconic Pearl Tower. However, in fact, public transportation is not convenient, fortunately, there is no commute to and from work, and employees can adjust their own time to travel off-peak.

Meng Fanqi walked into the building and found that people were coming and going, most of them in suits and leather shoes. Both men and women were dressed in professional attire, which made Meng Fanqi, who was dressed in ordinary clothes, feel weird.

The 60th floor is Guguo Information Technology Co., Ltd., and the 61st floor is Google Advertising Co., Ltd.

"It's the first time I've seen this strange Google Chinese homonym." Meng Fanqi has heard of Google's name for a long time, but he has never had the opportunity to come to the door.

I thought that Google had already withdrawn from the Chinese market, but I never thought that it would still be entrenched in such a luxurious office building in Shanghai.

There are all kinds of facilities such as canteens, medical rooms, gyms, lunch break rooms, etc., which may be a lot of miscellaneous things, which makes the workstations look a little crowded.

Many of the walls are covered with large Chinese words, such as "qin", which at first glance is a design that the gringos deliberately close to Chinese culture.

The word "diligence" is not enough to have that feeling, Meng Fanqi said with a smile in his heart, if he changed Huazi, he would definitely have a big "wolf" in the book.

In 2010, Google's withdrawal from China was huge, and now it seems that it still has a lot of business.

Google's Shanghai is mainly doing things to help Chinese companies go overseas.

"After all, search is only a small part, and it is still too good to rely on selling search bidding after all, and it is too wise to make a decision to sell advertising instead." Facing Xi Xiaohu, who came to greet him, Meng Fanqi couldn't help but sigh.

To be honest, Meng Fanqi didn't expect that the first person he saw when he came to Google Ads would be Xi Xiaohu, a big bull.

Xi Xiaohu was born in Princeton, joined Google at the entrepreneurial stage, and is also the core developer of Google's advertising business, and has twice won Google's highest award for outstanding contributions to the advertising system.

In recent years, when he came to Google's China branch, due to the internal positioning of Google Yanjing as search and Google's positioning as advertising, Xi Xiaohu settled in Shanghai and took charge of the advertising business.

"It stands to reason that I don't need to come to see you." Xi Xiaohu could see that Meng Fanqi recognized him at a glance, so he explained with a smile, "I came to see you because Jeff praised you, and secondly, because I heard that you were going to improve our group's advertising system, so I decided to meet you." ”

Although Xi Xiaohu smiled heartily, Meng Fanqi could hear that he had a lot of complaints about his choice of advertising algorithms for the first task after joining Google Brain.

This is understandable, Xi Xiaohu is confident in the advertising system he has been responsible for for many years, and he is not the kind of person who will make some clever changes to the system and platform for short-term profits.

Meng Fanqi thought in his heart, he probably thought that he was going to use some small means to grab profits from the advertising algorithm.

To be honest, if it weren't for Meng Fanqi's papers in recent months, which have been widely praised and Jeff's high praise, Xi Xiaohu would not have given him a good look.

As soon as I came in, I chose the recommendation advertising algorithm, isn't this equivalent to saying, "I can see at a glance that you have a problem here"?

Meng Fanqi noticed his thoughts, and didn't care, and responded humbly: "I don't dare to say that it is an improvement, I am just curious, come and learn." ”

The little hostility that Xi Xiaohu had was insignificant in Meng Fanqi's eyes, whether it was a normal reaction or not, and after the experimental results came out, everything would be resolved.

Speaking of which, he is familiar with Xi Xiaohu not because Xi Xiaohu is the core developer of Google's advertising system AdWords, nor because he has served as the chief technology officer of Didi, Xiaohongshu and other star companies.

It is because at the beginning of the 23rd, Xi Xiaohu was accused of bigamy, and the case was tried in Shanghai.

This matter is full of rumors, and I can't find any information about Xi Xiaohu's original match.

According to Meng Fanqi's combing of the news from all parties, a timeline can be vaguely obtained, and Xi Xiaohu seems to have a marriage in the United States.

During his 15-year tenure as the chief technology officer of Xiaohongshu, he sparked sparks with his senior colleague Wan Yanjing, but somehow he didn't divorce first and then get married.

A few years later, Xi Xiaohu's vice president of the penguin department couldn't do it anymore and left in a hurry.

The specific reason is unknown, and I don't know if it is because of this case.

Looking at his face, I really can't imagine that he is a person with such a story.