"Yanda is getting better and better. When I left Yanda, there was no such thing. It seems that not only I have made progress, but Yanda has also made great progress in this year."
The Centennial Lecture Hall of Yanda was originally scheduled to be officially opened to the public in January 2000. This time Zhou Xin returned with honors as an outstanding alumnus, and Yanda deliberately moved the opening time of the Centennial Lecture Hall forward.
The largest hall of the Memorial Lecture Hall can seat more than 2,000 people, and such a large lecture hall was full of people.
If there were not special security personnel guarding the door, students outside would even want to rush in.
It was not just the students from the main campus of Yenching University who gathered at Yenching University. Students from the entire Yenching capital gathered at Yenching University that day after learning that Zhou Xin's first stop after returning to China was to hold a lecture at Yenching University.
As for how to distribute tickets on the day of Zhou Xin’s speech, the Department of Computer Science at YSU held a verification code lottery.
There are more than 2,000 tickets. Except for the reserved tickets, all other tickets are drawn by lottery.
Students of Yan University can apply for a verification code on the Weiming Lake bbs forum of Yan University with their student ID, and then verify it the day before the lecture. If the verification is passed, it means you have obtained a ticket.
On the day of the lecture, students from the computer department were at the door with laptops and checking the verification codes one by one.
When Zhou Xin was giving a lecture at Yanda, the Weiming Lake BBS forum was full of discussions about this matter.
"Yanda is too flattering to Zhou Xin. It even developed a lottery system specifically for Zhou Xin's return to China to give a speech at Yanda, and also specially used a verification code."
As Zhou Xin’s representative invention, verification code is almost synonymous with him.
Von Lewis is not famous enough, at least not famous enough in China.
If the verification code in Zhou Xin's previous life was invented by Jack Ma, everyone would definitely know it.
"Not to mention that Zhou Xin's current net worth is close to 100 billion U.S. dollars, at least half of which is cash equivalent assets. Even if Zhou Xin's net worth is only 10 billion U.S. dollars, Yanda University will give him this treatment when he returns home.
I looked at Hurun’s China Rich List. Before Zhou Xin, the richest man only had a net worth of 8 billion RMB, while Zhou Xin’s net worth was close to 100 billion U.S. dollars, which was close to one-tenth of our country’s total GDP last year. one.
I think this is normal behavior. "
Quora's shares were sold to Time Warner for about US$70 billion. After Riot Games went public, its market value exceeded US$20 billion. However, NewPay was not listed on the New Pay list last week.
NewPay was evaluated by Wall Street Business Journal as the most valuable unlisted Internet company and the first among unicorns.
Therefore, major media in China have estimated Zhou Xin's net worth at US$100 billion.
Hurun has been running the Rich List since 1999. After Zhou Xin came out, Hurun and his assistants complained privately: "Newman's appearance has made our statistics meaningless.
Our top spot on the Rich List won't change for at least a decade. Newman is beyond my knowledge of any rich man.
Our 100 Rich List needs to be changed as soon as possible to put Newman's name at the top, otherwise the list will be a joke.
In addition, I heard that Newman will return to China at the end of the year, and we need to do everything we can to interview him. "
Hurun and his assistants returned to the Weiming Lake bbs forum. Under the post just now, because it was rare for someone to express an opinion that was different from the majority of people, the discussion was particularly heated.
"Obviously, the poster is dissatisfied because he didn't win the lottery. If it were the previous ticket allocation method, where counselors, student unions, and various clubs allocate tickets, there would be a lot of room for maneuver.
However, through the verification code method and the fact that Zhou Xin only informed everyone of the winning news the night before his speech began.
It’s difficult to buy a spot from someone else. "
"Yes, why don't we just hold a lottery? I am from the computer department. The senior students in our department who were assigned to do this task all regard it as an honor. No one thinks it is to please Zhou Xin.
And this software is not too difficult, you can get it done in just a few days. "
"Zhou Xin's charm is still great. The entire Centennial Memorial Hall was crowded with people. It felt like watching monkeys. I remember that there was no such battle before Bill Gates came."
"Oh, no matter how great the aura and fame of Bill Gates is, he is still an outsider after all, but Zhou Xin is one of our own and an alumnus of ours. Of course, everyone will be more active."
"Monkeys go to Yanjing Zoo. You can see it whenever you want. You can see Zhou Xin at any time. I am Zhou Xin's classmate. I haven't seen him in real life for more than a year." he.
I didn't win a ticket in the lottery this time, so I guess I won't have the chance to see him in the future. "
"I'm just curious. With so much discussion, why doesn't anyone have an alternative idea?"
"The person upstairs is joking. One hundred billion. I don't eat or drink. I have been working in the Qin Dynasty and can't even make a small change now."
"The gap is too big. Maybe the freshmen don't know. When Zhou Xin transferred to Berkeley at the beginning of last year, he was just emerging on campus. Everyone thought he was very powerful, but no one thought he could do it. Things we can't do.
Later, after Zhou Xin sold his Riot Games shares to Bill Gates for US$200 million, when I heard everyone talking about Zhou Xin in Yan University, everyone had only one comment: a god.
As for now, he is no longer a god, but a god. "
Not only the Yanda BBS forum is discussing Zhou Xin's return to China and Zhou Xin's speech at Yanda, the campus BBS forums of other universities are also discussing this matter.
If China now has Weibo and Weibo hot search lists, this matter will occupy the top of the hot search list in an explosive manner, much more popular than the return of Jack Ma in later generations.
If Accountant Jia can make Faraday Future better than Tesla and then return to China, it will probably be almost as popular.
Zhou Xin looked on the stage at the two thousand young people in the audience. Their clothes had the mark of this era, and their demeanor also had the mark of this era.
Later Zhou Xin, as the founder of Xinxin Technology, returned to Huaguo University of Science and Technology and gave lectures to junior students majoring in microelectronics.
Compared with 20 years later, the hope on the faces of young people 20 years ago is more enthusiastic and clear.
This may also be related to the fact that they are from Yanda University, while Zhou Xin's junior students are from Hua Science and Technology University.
However, in Zhou Xin’s memory, 20 years later, Yan University students’ first choices after graduation will be civil servants, public institutions and state-owned enterprises. Zhou Xin estimates that they are no different from the junior students at Hua Science and Technology University.
Zhou Xin continued: “In addition to the obvious changes in the Yanda building itself, when I gave a speech, there were many more people sitting in the audience than the last time I gave a speech at Yanda.
The last time I gave a speech at Yanda, I had just received my transfer permission from Berkeley, and then I held a lecture on applying for study abroad in a classroom on the edge of the triangle. There were only two hundred people at that talk.
This time, President Xu told me that this auditorium can seat a total of 2,167 people. I think it is full now. It seems that there are ten times more people than the last time I gave a lecture at Yanda.
In the last lecture, the counselor was responsible for connecting with me.
This time I came to give a lecture, and it was our President Xu who contacted me. Before coming to the Centennial Lecture Hall, President Xu also took me around the Yanda campus.
I said, "Don't be so polite. You came to the hotel to pick me up and visit the campus. To me, I am just a student from Yanda."
President Xu told me that he had just come to Yanda from the Huaguo Academy of Sciences to be the president. He had only been here for less than a month. He had been busy sorting out work and had no time to take a walk around the Yanda campus. While I was here at Yanda, he Speeches are an opportunity to take a breather from the busy work.
I said okay, let me take you for a walk. You are familiar with me, especially the road from the dormitory of the School of Physics to the library. "
After Zhou Xin finished speaking, there was warm applause in the background. Everyone was young. Young people like this kind of communication method that focuses on storytelling without distance.
"The theme of my speech here is 'Keep doing what you think is right'.
I am sure that when I came to Yanda to talk about this, people in my company advised me to change the topic, because they felt that this topic was too small.
When Bill Gates came to Yanda to give a speech last year, the theme was 'Challenges and Opportunities in the Information Age'.
They felt that the topic of my speech could be finished in one sentence. As the world's best Internet product manager, I might as well talk about my understanding of the information age, which would be considered as a battle with Bill Gates.
I don’t call myself the best Internet product manager in the world. From the New York Times to Time Magazine to the Wall Street Journal, they are all vying to put this title on my head.
I was a little embarrassed at first, but then a certain American magazine gave me the title of a Chinese prodigy. I was stunned when I heard it. I am already in my twenties and I am still a prodigy.
Our colleagues explained to me that compared with people like Jerry Yang, Bill Gates, Jobs, and Bezos, I am much younger than them. They are young entrepreneurs. It is no exaggeration for me to describe them as children.
I was extremely resistant to this title, so I thought about it and decided to honestly call myself the best Internet product manager. This sounds nicer and longer. "
The Yan University students in the audience burst into laughter again.
Because almost all students at Yanda want to participate in Zhou Xin’s lecture event, but the limited seats cannot satisfy everyone.
So there were Weiming Lake BBS staff on site, and they simultaneously updated what Zhou Xin said in the pinned post of Weiming Lake BBS.
"Is Zhou Xin so funny? I heard from my microelectronics major friend who knew Zhou Xin before that when he was at Yanda, he did nothing but study. I thought he was a very serious person."
“I have seen the video of Zhou Xin’s product launch event at Amerikan, and he has this style. He likes to tell interesting content to close the distance with the audience.
This is his usual style. "
"I would resist the title of Prodigy of China. It's really a bit funny."
"Does anyone know how to sneak in? Are there security personnel watching the scene now? I really want to sneak in."
“Don’t even think about it, it’s almost impossible to sneak in, even for the last twenty minutes, knowing there’s a Q&A session at the end.
The security personnel were afraid that someone would come in and cause trouble. "
Zhou Xin waited for the laughter in the audience to stop and continued: "Our staff told me: Boss, how about your theme is called Innovation·China·Future, and talk about your understanding of the future of China from your perspective.
I said no, this topic is beyond the scope. Let alone the future of China, I don’t know what it will be like. I can’t even control my own future.
The future of China is in the hands of every young person here. This is a future written by us together. I have no power or ability to interpret it.
As for innovation, I only made some innovations in Internet products, which is nothing. In China, I am even less qualified to talk about such a grand and huge topic.
I have never been to every province in China, so it’s not appropriate to talk about this.
In the end, I just decided to talk about this. Anyone who has other opinions can speak for themselves.
Back to the topic: keep doing what you believe is right.
This topic is not that big and I think I can still grasp it.
At the same time, I also think this topic is very meaningful to everyone here, because we are all YSU students.
The moment you enter Yanda, it is determined that you will have more choices than others. You will face various difficulties and challenges, and you will also have more opportunities.
Every decision you make, whether to join a foreign company or a state-owned enterprise after graduation, whether to take the civil service exam or the postgraduate entrance exam, whether to stay at home or study abroad, will determine the trajectory of your life.
Everyone hopes that every decision they make at a crossroads in life will be the right one.
But I need to tell you that decisions made at a crossroads in life always have pros and cons. Just as there is no absolutely wrong choice, there is no absolutely right choice in life. "
Today’s second update, the two chapters add up to 6,000 words!
Asking for a monthly ticket!
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