Chapter 642 Renting is better than buying

Microsoft can be called the Whampoa Military Academy in China's IT industry. It has made great contributions to the development of the Internet in China. The most important manifestation is that it has sent a large number of talents.

Microsoft's Asian strategy is to focus on China and establish a Greater China and Asia-Pacific research group. Then, send batch after batch of elite Chinese from Silicon Valley to host the situation, and at the same time recruit a large number of young people locally, and then spend huge sums of money on training each year, with an average cost of 500,000 US dollars per person per year. ?

As a result, within a few years, the Chinese executives sent back from Silicon Valley, as well as the hard-earned local talents, all quit and went to their peers.

Even the past presidents of Greater China were not spared, and countless vice presidents and senior technical personnel left.

Shanda, Google China, Kingsoft, Lenovo, Haier, Ali, Tencent, Xiaomi, Huawei, Comtech, Baidu... Among the presidents and vice presidents of a series of domestic technology companies, there are talents from Microsoft China.

This situation did not change until the Indian CEO Nadella came to power.

He changed "Microsoft China" to "China Microsoft", and brought in a group of domestic companies to inject capital... In fact, Microsoft was not interested in helping the Chinese technology circle to train talents, and began to operate independently. Without the unreserved support from the headquarters, it would be difficult to cultivate outstanding talents in batches like in the past, and naturally no one would dig them out.

Zhou Buqi took a fancy to Microsoft Asia Research Institute, which is the place with the highest IT technology content in Asia.

He has been planning since 2005, trying to recruit Wang Jian, the executive vice president.

Unexpectedly, Xu Liangjie's appetite was even bigger, and he fell in love with Dean Shen!

Will Bill Gates be furious if the first and second leaders are dug over at the same time?

Moreover, if the dean and the executive vice dean are poached together, there will be a corresponding R\u0026D team behind them, which is an institutional poaching. The scale is as large as Microsoft's large-scale brain drain in 2005.

It's embarrassing to say.

It is obvious that Microsoft, the world's largest technology giant, cannot keep up with the trend in the Internet age. Its industries and projects involved in R\u0026D cover almost the entire IT industry, and many projects even have very in-depth technical exploration. But at the application level, it suffered a great blow.

The research and development has been done, but there is no market effect. Isn't this a blow to the research and development team? Can talents not be lost?

Zhou Buqi decided to let Xu Liangjie let it go.

If Shen Xiangyang can be recruited here, even if he offends Bill Gates, he will not hesitate.

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The blockbuster "Assembly Number" invested by Huayi is about to wrap up. Zhou Buqi received an invitation, saying that he hopes to attend the wrap-up banquet. There are no reporters, and they are all friends in the circle.

Zhou Buqi instinctively wanted to refuse.

But later, I thought it would be good to take Yang Mi there and meet the Wang family brothers face to face, and I could help her properly if I had the resources, so I agreed.

After Xu Baihui heard about it, she called directly and said mockingly, "I thought you'd be successful in cultivation!"

"What's wrong?"

"Stop pretending, what's going on with Yang Mi?"

"I do not know what you're talking about."

Xu Baihui laughed and said: "I remember you seem to have said that if an entrepreneur chases a female star, the business is not far from the end. What's going on with you?"

Zhou Buqi said: "I didn't say it, it was Feng Lun."

"No matter who said it, how did you do it?"

"What's wrong with me?"

Xu Baihui joked: "I tested you a few times casually, and you just gave in obediently? What's the matter? Are you revealing your true nature?"

Zhou Buqi said eloquently: "That's different, I didn't chase. Chasing is chasing, playing is playing, it's different."

"ah?"

“There is still a difference between buying and renting.”

"You are shameless."

Zhou Buqi said: "It's definitely not good to chase female celebrities as wives. Whoever does this will lose their skin if they don't die. The cost of ownership is too high. But leasing is different. The cost is not high, especially the cost of time."

Xu Baihui was about to faint, "Who did you learn this theory from?"

"Isn't it?" Zhou Buqi snorted, "You are in this business, you should understand? Many TV dramas show the love story between the girl at the front desk and the domineering president, as much as you want. The tactics of the domineering president , Shrewd, deep and value concepts are beyond the imagination of a young girl at the front desk. It is nothing more than a rental transaction of material and youth. But it is precisely this kind of plot that is most likely to generate interest and has the most ratings, and the result is small Girls fantasize about Prince Charming and domineering president every day, do you think it's harmful?"

Xu Baihui sighed, "Yes, when you don't have enough value to match yourself, you can't have any fluke mentality. The appearance is easy to age, youth is perishable, knowledge, culture, taste, vision and aesthetics are women who are more profound. level of value."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "You still have wealth, at least you are financially independent. You are fine, you are getting better and better."

"Then are you interested in me?"

"No."

"coward!"

"I think Meng Houkun always peeps at you with his small eyes, or you..."

"Fuck you!" Xu Baihui scolded with a smile, and couldn't help laughing, "He is also a scumbag, worse than you, and he goes to the clubhouse every weekend for massage and SPA, do you know that?"

Zhou Buqi dismissed it, "It's just a massage, you think too much!"

"You think I don't understand?"

"Okay, I have something to do, so I won't chat with you anymore, let's have dinner together on weekends."

At this time, Wang Xing came.

Tang Binchen, who just flew back from the United States, was with him.

"Welcome! Welcome! The hero is back!"

Zhou Buqi got up and laughed.

Tang Binchen was a little tired and embarrassed, "What kind of hero am I? I did a little bit of my job."

"You don't know yet, do you? Friends.com's advertising fee was more than 95 million last month, thanks to the advertising distribution system you brought back. When the open platform is refitted and launched, the vitality of Youyou.com will be greatly improved. "

Zhou Buqi's admiration was sincere.

In the previous life, Renren and Kaixin were popular for a while, but they soon fell silent. If Friends.com does not follow in its footsteps, it must be changed.

In addition to making more money when it is hot, the most important thing is to open the platform.

Facebook has become popular all over the world for a long time, not because Facebook itself can continue to innovate, but because it has developed an open platform early, relying on developers all over the world to help develop new functions and new ways of playing, to continue to provide users with form an attraction.

When Renren and Kaixin became open platforms, it was 2013. Weibo was in full swing, and WeChat was also popular all over the country. If you don't prepare defenses in advance, and wait until you are dying to think about changing, the day lily will be cold.

Of course, it may not be possible to have an open platform.

So Zhou Buqi made a plan early on. The name displayed on the homepage of Friends.com is not the three words "Friends Network", but "Friends Circle".

Friends network is the circle of friends.

This is the final killer move.

When we make mobile communication products in the future, we will integrate Youyou.com, turning the information flow function of Youyou.com into Moments, thereby forming product iteration and association.

Tang Binchen had just returned to China and needed jet lag, so he looked very tired. Zhou Buqi told him to go home and rest for three days.

Tang Binchen shook his head, and said solemnly: "There is one thing, I think we must act, and the sooner the better."

"What's up?"

"Poach people."

"ah?"

"Poach people from Silicon Valley!"

Tang Binchen's eyes lit up like two light bulbs.

Wang Xing added on the side: "We just came back and we chatted all the way. It is indeed the case. Ziwei Star's positioning is intelligence and data, behind which there is no lack of technical support. But it is not enough to rely solely on domestic technical strength. Silicon Valley It is the source of high-end technology."

Tang Binchen said with emotion: "Boss, I have been working at Facebook for almost a year this time, and I have a deep feeling. I used to think that my skills were good enough, but this time I went to Silicon Valley, only to find that every engineer there is better than me. powerful."

"Isn't it?"

"At least not worse than me."

"Is it Chinese?"

Tang Binchen said helplessly: "It can only be Chinese. We want to recruit foreigners, but they won't come. Chinese are enough. In all major high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, Chinese are the mainstay, and they have positions in all major R\u0026D teams."

Wang Xing narrowed his eyes and said meaningfully: "Silicon Valley is the benchmark. We don't know what technology they are developing or even what projects they are working on. Only by digging people back can we understand their inside story and keep up with the pace. "

To put it bluntly, it is to poach people from the scientific research projects of Silicon Valley giants.

It would be nice to sneak some code back.

This is already a very common unspoken rule in the circle.

Not only the technology circle, but other circles as well.

For example, in the medical field, I went to European and American laboratories or pharmaceutical groups to observe for a period of time. After returning to China, I imitated a similar product and applied for a patent in China. After writing a thesis, you might be able to apply for an academician. Later, Europe and the United States found out, and they resisted the study teams sent out from China. We can only go to Korea and Japan, imitating and applying for patents. Then I discovered that Korean and Japanese things are also imitating European and American ones.

Tang Binchen said: "As far as I know, Facebook is working on 8 technical projects, including data center time consistency, flow control, distributed caching, disaster recovery measures, scheduling and monitoring, and accelerated optimization of PHP. , as well as HayStack and Scribe. At present, Friends.com is stronger than Facebook, but their technical reserves are too strong. When these projects are launched, they will be able to surpass Friends.com in terms of experience.”

Zhou Buqi was dizzy, but couldn't help being curious: "Simply put, what do you mean? The data centers have the same time?"

Tang Binchen said: "It is to ensure that there is no delay in the servers distributed in various places. For example, if you delete a photo in the friend network album in the capital, but if the server in the south cannot follow up in time, the users in the south will still be deleted for a period of time. I can see this photo."

Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows and looked at Wang Xing, "Is this similar to what Cheng Binghao said?"

Cheng Binghao said that recently he will lead a new project to synchronize the database across the country. For example, if the content of Weidian Encyclopedia is modified in the capital, it must respond to all servers in the country as soon as possible, and modify it immediately.

The technology is the same, and the underlying algorithm logic used is the same.