Chapter 273 The Olympics of Programming (3)

Overnight, Nike became almost a household name.

After seeing the news, the American people, especially young people, became very interested in Nike's sports shoes.

For a time, sales of Nike products soared! The sales in just one week exceeded the sales in the past month, and everyone at Nike was shocked!

Even Phil Knight, who had been mentally prepared, was shocked. He couldn't help but feel lucky that Chronos Li had invested in Nike instead of Adidas. Otherwise, Nike would be in a very difficult situation.

"It should be Adidas that has a headache now, hahahaha..." Phil Knight looked out the window and laughed.

Adidas is in a very bad situation right now, with product sales plummeting and stock prices plummeting, and the situation is not optimistic. Nike has just received a US$100 million investment from Li Zetian, and will soon be able to expand its market. Once Nike continues to develop, it will inevitably encroach on more of Adidas' market share!

In this regard, Adidas seems a little helpless.

In fact, Li Zetian is more interested in the high-tech industry, and buying shares in Nike is just an investment. After all, this is Nike. If the market value rises in the future, after cashing out the shares, it will be a large sum of money.

In the future, smart sports shoes are also an attempt to combine healthy sports and artificial intelligence to change people's lives.

As the saying goes, "Technology changes life." Technology can be applied to everything, involving all aspects of human life, food, clothing, housing, and transportation!

Nike owns Phil Knight to take care of it, so Li Zetian naturally doesn't need to get involved as he himself is too busy.

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At 2 o'clock in the afternoon on November 1, Li Zetian was working on documents in the study room. At this time, Dongfang Yuqin pushed the door open and stepped forward and said: "Mr. Li, Mr. Warner Stephens, President of the ACM American Computer Society, came to visit unexpectedly. Mrs. Jingqiu has already asked him to wait in the living room!"

"ACM?"

In fact, just by listening to the name, you know that ACM is very awesome. It is an international science and technology education organization. Founded in 1947, it is the world's first scientific and educational computer society, headquartered in New York, USA.

Li Zetian was surprised why the president of the association came to visit him...

"Okay, I'll be there right away!"

After saying that, Li Zetian stood up, put on a coat, and walked out the door.

When I came to the living room, I saw a man in his fifties, wearing a bright suit and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. This man must be Warner Stephens.

"Hello, Mr. Warner Stephens!"

Li Zetian walked forward and greeted with a smile.

Warner Stephens immediately stood up, shook hands with Li Zetian, and said: "Hello, Chronos Li!"

"Hello, let's sit down and talk!"

"Um!"

The two of them sat across from each other on a rosewood coffee table.

Li Zetian said with a smile: "There is a saying in China that 'Nothing goes wrong without going to the Three Treasures Palace'. Mr. Warner Stephens is here today. He must be looking for me for something important!"

Warner Stephens smiled and admitted generously: "Yes, I have some important things to discuss with you. By the way, Mr. Li, do you know about the ACM Programming Competition?"

As a programmer who aspires to become a billionaire through programming, how could he not know about the ACM Programming Competition? Li Zetian nodded and said: "I know, in 1977, the first finals was held during the ACM Computer Science Conference, and then evolved into the current annual international competition involving multiple countries! However, the scale now does not seem to be very big. , only teams from a few countries such as the United States and Canada participated..."

Li Zetian told the truth.

Warner Stephens smiled awkwardly and said: "The reason why the scale is not large is because there is no sponsorship!"

After finishing speaking, he looked directly at Li Zetian and said straight to the point: "Actually, the purpose of my visit this time is to get your sponsorship and expand the scale and influence of the ACM Programming Competition."

Li Zetian pondered in his heart. The ACM Programming Competition is the highest level brain competition in universities. It has always been known as the "Olympics of Programming" and has great influence! It seems that in a previous life, IBM sponsored the ACM Programming Competition, and the competition LOGO had IBM on it, which undoubtedly greatly improved IBM's brand image.

Just imagine, if IBM can appear in an Olympic-level programming competition, it must be tall and awesome. IBM will be able to attract these computer talents who come to participate in the competition to join the company! You know, these people are all talents selected from thousands of universities in various countries! !

Li Zetian didn't hesitate for long and immediately replied: "Sponsorship is no problem, but I also have conditions!"

When Warner Stephens heard that Li Zetian was willing to sponsor, he felt happy and quickly asked: "What are the conditions!"

Li Zetian said: "The scale and influence of the ACM Programming Competition are not big now. After I sponsor it, the scale and influence of the competition will definitely be bigger. By then, there will definitely be many companies vying to sponsor the competition, such as IBM. , HP and other companies..."

Warner Stephens was stunned and hesitated: "Mr. Li, you mean, you plan to exclusively sponsor the ACM Programming Contest for a long time?"

Li Zetian smiled and nodded: "Yes! However, it is not sponsored in my personal capacity, but in the name of four companies: Apple, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and Galaxy Networks."

"No problem, we can agree to your request and write it into the agreement!" Warner Stephens nodded. Whoever sponsors is not a sponsor. Besides, these four companies are closely related to computers, and they are all leaders in the industry.

"Okay, then these four companies will be responsible for the sponsorship of the ACM Programming Competition in the future! As a sponsor, I think we should be able to get some benefits." Li Zetian said lightly.

“Of course, we will take the initiative to promote these four companies!”

"Publicity is naturally necessary, but I also hope that the test questions will be biased towards the business of these four companies!"

Students will learn whatever is tested in the exam!

Li Zetian controls the content of the exam so that students can learn whatever they want so that they can program for Apple and Microsoft in the future, promote JAVA language, etc. These computer talents who come to participate, even if they are not in Li Zetian's company, still belong to the same camp as Li Zetian .

"Of course there is no problem with that!" Warner Stephens did not doubt that he was involved. He felt that the industries involved in these four companies were basically the main industries in the current computer industry, and the test questions should have been asked this way.

"Well, well, we have reached a verbal agreement. As for the specific cooperation details, I will send someone to discuss it carefully at ACM later!"

Warner Stephens nodded and said goodbye to Li Zetian.

As soon as he left, Li Zetian asked Dongfang Yuqin to notify the CEOs of Apple, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Galaxy Networks to hold a remote video conference.

At the meeting, Li Zetian told everyone what had just happened, and then said: "Next year's ACM Programming Competition will be very sensational. Firstly, we will promote our company brand, and secondly, we can also take the opportunity to attract talents! The world's top computer talents will gather together. Let us pick the food, it’s a rare opportunity!”

"Yes!!!" Everyone couldn't help but nodded in support!