"Professor Hu Zhengming is the first president of CAAS, and he is also my doctoral supervisor. Doesn't this feel like an official appointment?
Mr. Li Zhengdao told me, don’t worry, the organization has already decided, and the second step is for you to go up and talk about it. If anyone has an opinion against you, and he has more money than you have donated, he will go up and talk about it.
I instantly felt much safer. Although everyone here is more knowledgeable than me, they don’t have as much money as me.
Haha, just kidding. "
As the largest donor and one of the founders of CAAS, Zhou Xin is naturally qualified to speak at the founding ceremony. With his status, no one here will question his speech.
But Zhou Xin's little joke at the beginning still made the audience feel good about him. No one would dislike a junior who is funny and respectful.
Zhou Xin continued: "Because of my work, I have held many press conferences. The most crowded one was probably the Quora Gold Award press conference held at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. At that time, including media reporters, there were more than one person present. Twelve thousand people.
The two hundred people here today put more pressure on me than the twelve thousand people at that time, because you are all my elders in age and seniors in the pursuit of knowledge.
I always feel that I don’t have the confidence to talk about academics in front of everyone and talk about promoting academic exchanges between America and China.
Because I am still in the early stages of academic research and am currently in the second year of my PhD. As for promoting academic exchanges between Amerikan and China, I have only spoken about it.
As I know among you, many seniors often return to China to hold academic lectures, participate in academic forums, and conduct academic exchanges.
So here, I can only talk about why CAAS was established. After it was established, I served as the executive director and built a system for CAAS. What goals do we hope to achieve.
First of all, CAAS originated from my coming to America as an international student from China. While studying at Berkeley, I realized that China had many backward places in academic education.
However, not all the younger generation in China have the same opportunity as me to come to America to continue their studies. Therefore, I hope that students in China can also receive a better education, at least through this kind of academic lectures. Let Chinese college students broaden their horizons.
Help Chinese students know what work is being done in mainstream academia, and then they may find their own points of interest in it. Perhaps an academic lecture or an interaction with a big boss can help Chinese students embark on the path of scientific research. opportunity.
However, I cannot do this alone. This requires the help of Chinese scholars in the United States.
So after I communicated this matter with Professor Hu, he felt that we could set up an organization to do this specifically.
Professor Hu has been going to China to give academic lectures and conduct academic exchanges since the 1980s. He has held several lectures at Yanda.
When Professor Hu went to Yanda to give a lecture, I had not yet enrolled.
After we reached an agreement, Professor Hu's connections in the academic world were much wider than mine, and later he brought in several gentlemen such as Ting Zhaozhong, Li Zhengdao, Qiu Chengtong, and Zhang Zhongmou. I sorted them according to the first letter of the pinyin.
Mr. Li Zhengdao, don’t blame me for ranking you behind Mr. Ding Zhaozhong. The same goes for the next two gentlemen.
After several seniors joined, they suggested that our goal should be broader, not only to spread academic thoughts, academic concepts and research directions to China, but also to conduct technical exchanges, and then learn from China's scientific research excellence. The place.
Scholars from China are definitely no less capable than scholars from Amerikan, but they are lacking in academic foundation and academic taste due to historical reasons. We can encourage Chinese scholars to come to Amerikan for academic visits and fully Leveraging the energy between scholars from both countries.
The final name of the organization also became the current Chinese Association for the Promotion of Science.
I will also donate some money in the future as scholarships for Chinese students to study at Americen and as living allowances for Chinese scholars to visit and study at Americen.
A corresponding bonus will be established in the name of the Chinese Association for the Promotion of Science. "
Zhou Xin originally planned to set up a charitable foundation, which would invest at least 5% of its money in charity every year.
Therefore, donating this money to CAAS and specifying the purpose of the donation means that the money that should have been taxed is used to support Chinese students and scholars.
Zhou Xin continued: "As for the user system I built for CAAS, everyone can definitely feel that it is very my personal style.
From verification codes to badges to level settings, this is to have a certain degree of differentiation.
When CAAS was first established, we did not want to adopt the model of other organizations. Whoever donates more money will have more power or a higher status. Since the name of CAAS has the word science, we hope that you will work hard within the organization. Power or status is determined by your contribution to science.
Because CAAS also includes promotion, the content of promotion has also been added.
You can think of this as a role-playing game. CAAS releases tasks through the system I developed. For example, I will go to China to hold an academic lecture in December this year. Those who are interested in participating can apply.
After the application is approved and completed, we will give you points as a reward. The points can help you upgrade, and you can enjoy the corresponding benefits after upgrading.
This is a task issued by the organization, and the seniors here have made academic breakthroughs, such as what materials were invented and what theorems were proved. This is a task that is completed on your own initiative.
After filling in the relevant information and submitting supporting materials, we will also award points.
To put it simply, it is set up as a role-playing game.
Although I am the executive director, my role is to serve you well, so I hope to serve you well in a fair, just and interesting way through the system. "
Zhou Xin plans to establish his own charitable foundation, and most of the fixed 5% of charity donations every year will be donated to CAAS.
Build CAAS into your own talent base.
The last person to speak was Li Zhengdao. Ding Zhaozhong did not like to speak on such occasions: "Zhou Xin just said it very well."
Robin Li watched from the audience that Zhou Xin was so high-spirited on stage and was so comfortable teasing big guys like Li Zhengdao and Ding Zhaozhong that he felt envious in his heart.
Whether they are Chinese or other races, a large part of their pursuit in life is nothing more than fame and fortune.
In Robin Li's view, Zhou Xin's starting point can be said to be his end point. If he can make Baidu have the same market value as Quora, it will be enough to satisfy him.
In terms of fame, Zhou Xin far surpasses him. His fame is only limited to a small circle, while Zhou Xin is a world-renowned Internet tycoon.
What's more important is that Zhou Xin is younger than him, and six words even pop up in Robin Li's mind: He is born with Yu, but why is he born with Liang?
This also made Robin Li's idea of listing Baidu stronger. When he thought about it, Zhou Xin would still be the biggest beneficiary of Baidu's listing, and he felt dejected.
When the people around you are younger than you and much stronger than you, you need to adjust your thoughts as soon as possible.
Robin Li comforted himself by saying that there was no one better than Zhou Xin in the world, and he did not need to compare with him. He was already the best in his class at Yenching University.
Baidu’s next round of financing will be valued at at least US$100 million.
But there is another uncomfortable thing, that is, once Quora kicks Baidu out of its supplier list, the valuation will be at least halved.
After Zhou Xin stepped down, Robin Li whispered as he passed by him: "Newman, you spoke very well. I didn't realize you were so good at this."
Zhou Xin didn’t know what Robin Li was thinking. Even if he knew, he would just smile. This is a common psychology among people:
"Entrepreneurs who can't give speeches are not good entrepreneurs. Didn't you speak well when Baidu was launched before?
When Baidu goes public in the future, you will have to practice repeatedly when road shows are needed. Everyone has this process.
For the previous press conference launched by Quora Golden Selection, I felt that distributing 5,000 tickets was enough. There would be so many people traveling all the way to San Francisco to attend the press conference.
At that time, Quora's executives told me, Newman, you have to believe in your and Quora's appeal and asked me to send out 20,000 invitations. In the end, we compromised and sent out 15,000 invitations, and one came. More than ten thousand people.
How much pressure is there? There are so many heads below. If you say something meaningful, the following people will cheer and scream to interrupt your train of thought. "
Zhou Xin just said on the stage that this speech was more stressful, and it was completely polite. It was no different from an academic lecture, and there was no pressure at all.
The press conference held in San Francisco was really stressful because there were too many people. When the number of people reached a certain level, the sense of oppression was completely different.
And there are so many people, you have absolutely no control over the situation, and you can’t guarantee that what you say will go as expected.
You think the audience will cheer here, but they won't. Their ideas will not be completely consistent with yours.
After attending the CAAS founding ceremony, Zhou Xin was about to prepare for the Matrix launch conference, which was also the first Matrix product launch.
This is a new beginning for him. Zhou Xin has never made a consumer-grade product.
Xinxin Technology, which he founded before, is a product for enterprises. There are too many cases for Internet products to learn from in future generations.
China Internet is the largest Internet market in the world. Internet companies that can succeed here have their own unique skills.
Zhou Xin's thinking on Internet products was a dimensionality-reducing blow to the American Internet industry in 1999.
But consumer electronics are different. This is too complex, with countless links in the process nodes.
Product quality control, price, supply chain management, profit margin, brand marketing, product design, etc.
In the last chapter, a reader replied to me and said that the value of a standing director is not as good as identifying oneself as a woman. I wanted to reply to his comment, but was swallowed by Qidian.
Let me reply here. The executive director of the European and American Alumni Association I know had Vice Minister Tongzhanbu giving lessons to them when he was in Shanghai.
In March last year, this guy was able to get a special permit to leave Shanghai. The quality of CAAS in the article is undoubtedly higher than that of European and American Alumni Association, right?
(End of chapter)
