"Professor Hu is so kind to you. I heard that after you transferred to Berkeley, many classmates in your department also sent emails to Professor Hu, hoping to study for his PhD.
It may be that no one who came after was able to meet Professor Hu’s requirements. Last year, I didn’t hear of anyone applying for Professor Hu’s PhD. "Zhou Xin's turn made Li Jingyi a little confused about how to answer the question, so she started talking about Professor Hu Zhengming.
Before Professor Hu Zhengming recruited Zhou Xin, he would come to Yanda every two years for an academic exchange and give academic lectures to students in the Microelectronics Department of Yanda.
Some students from Yanda have applied for Hu Zhengming’s PhD before, such as Zhang Zhongbo, who was born in Yanda.
So everyone speculated that Professor Hu Zhengming had preferential treatment for students at Yan University. Especially after Zhou Xin appeared, the degree of preferential treatment should have increased.
Therefore, many people send emails to ask for magnets.
Zhou Xin replied: "It's good. Professor Hu is very good and a very nice person. If you study for a doctorate under him, you will grow up quickly. The only drawback may be that the demands are high and the pressure will be great."
But for Master Yan, this is not a shortcoming. I just told you that you originally planned to study computer science at the University of Hong Kong. What made you think about it?
There are many directions in which applied mathematics can be pursued. Why choose computers?
Among the girls I know, there are very few who would consider computer science. It's not because of sexism, but I feel that girls don't have much interest in this kind of pure machine interaction. "
Li Jingyi was surprised that Zhou Xinhui took the initiative to mention gender discrimination. In China today, this is a topic that no one pays attention to.
As everyone knows, before Zhou Xin, in China, most gender issues in China only stayed on the Internet. In California, in reality, such issues would be brought online if you were not careful.
Li Jingyi said: "I am quite interested in computers. When the Yanda Library's self-developed PULAIS system was switched to the UNICORN system purchased from Amerika, I participated in the system switching work.
At that time, I was just doing some data checking and correction, because we also had to learn C language. When doing system switching, I became interested in system development itself.
Later, I taught myself C++ and participated in the construction of the Weiming Lake BBS Forum last year. It was during the development of the Weiming Lake BBS Forum that I decided to switch to computers at the graduate level.
It is a very fulfilling thing to realize that the software you develop can be used by many people and loved by everyone.
Unlike mathematics, the sense of accomplishment in mathematics comes from the joy it brings you in the process of approaching the truth. Applied mathematics is about combining mathematics with practical applications.
In fact, the best direction after graduating from a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics should be the financial industry, but I don't have much interest in the financial industry. It is not my point of interest.
Computers are much more interesting. "
As an option for workers, computers are far less popular than later generations, and space machines are even less popular.
There is no essential gap between the salary level of computers and other industries, and option incentives have not yet become popular in China's Internet industry.
Therefore, finance and civil engineering are now the golden majors.
After listening to this, Zhou Xin said: "When I was making Internet products, I had the same idea as you.
In the background, I see the growth in the number of users, hear the feedback from users, and constantly optimize and iterate my application to make users more satisfied.
Monetary gains are secondary, but bringing people experiences they have never had before is the most important thing.
It seems that there is a great degree of overlap in our ideas. "
Female programmers are rare, especially female programmers who love this field from the bottom of their hearts. There are quite a few female product managers and product operators.
"But the difference between us is that I usually don't do specific program development, I only provide requirements. Except when I was working on "Angry Birds", where I had to do some development work, I don't seem to have done any subsequent products. product development.
There was no other way to make "Angry Birds" at that time. The total cost of the entire game was more than 10,000 US dollars. I had to do the development myself to reduce the cost.
At that time, I was considered poor. I only had a little scholarship, the salary from my internship at Microsoft, and the start-up capital obtained from my cooperation with New Oriental. "
During the conversation with Zhou Xin, Li Jingyi felt that the Zhou Xin in front of her was a complement to the image of Zhou Xin she knew in the media. This complement made the other person more real.
In the image of Zhou Xin created by the Chinese media, he seems to be omnipotent. After making a choice in life, he only has the word "success". During his internship at Microsoft, employees who waved to him casually bowed to him.
Li Jingyi asked: “So if Angry Birds fails, your first startup will fail.
In the future, there will be no series of products such as Quora, Riot Games, and NewPay? "
Zhou Xin shook his head: "No, even if Angry Birds fails, I will still start a business and there will still be Riot Games.
But compared with the current Riot Games, if Angry Birds does not succeed, then Riot Games will only be a pure game forum, there will be no Riot Games store, and it will not become an online game distribution channel.
Quora will also not have paid services, and their development speed will be seriously affected.
Angry Birds, most importantly, helped me determine the acceptance of electronic payments among Americans, and their acceptance was even higher than I expected.
The second point is that its success made me realize that users will be willing to compromise for a good product.
Even if it is an unprecedented transfer method or an unprecedented payment purchase method, as long as your product is good enough, users will make concessions.
I don’t know if you know NewPay’s incentive plan. "
Li Jingyi said: "I have never heard of it. I only know that NewPay is an electronic payment software."
Zhou Xin continued: "Users can get incentives when registering a NewPay account. If you register with a mobile phone number, you will receive an incentive of $10. If you register with an email address, the incentive will be only $1.
There is an incentive of US dollars. As long as users have a mobile phone number, they will use their mobile phone number to complete the registration.
We found from backend data that during the incentive bonus program, the number of users registering via mobile phone number was more than ten times that of email. "
Li Jingyi quickly realized the unreasonableness of the incentive plan, and she immediately asked: "What if someone specially writes a program to register unlimited NewPay accounts through email to defraud incentive funds?
Although 1 dollar is a small amount, it adds up to a large number. "
Zhou Xin said: “Registering a NewPay account also requires binding a bank card, registering with an email address, and then binding the bank card. Only after these two steps are completed can the requirements of the incentive plan be met.
The third point is that the success of Angry Birds made me realize that if you want to get something, you must first give it to the users.
Free services to users are even better than paid services.
Angry Birds provides players with 10 free levels to experience, and Riot Games often sells games at 10% off. For these 10% off games, we have to pay the difference to the game manufacturers, and they will not accept this price. Games for sale.
Including NewPay’s incentive payment.
These free, or even rebate methods were unavoidable in order to win over users in the early days.
While talking, I went off topic again. If this was the first time we met in a blind date ceremony, my score in your heart would definitely be failed. "Zhou Xin laughed at himself.
Whether in the past or now, Zhou Xin is an extremely self-centered person who rarely and will not take into account the feelings of others.
Because of this, his working experience in Washington made him particularly uncomfortable. No matter what he said or did, he needed to take into account the thoughts and feelings of the American people.
After Zhou Xin finished speaking, Li Jingyi was just smiling, but she was amused by him all of a sudden. She smiled like a flower and said: "Hahaha, so this is not a blind date for us.
The more we talked, the clearer it became to me that this was an interview, an interview initiated by you.
What I want to interview is your girlfriend's position. This position has great benefits. It is most likely an amount of money that I will never make in my life. What's more important is that I can be exposed to things that I have never been exposed to before.
Just like what you just mentioned, from the establishment of a company to its listing, the reception of dignitaries from various countries, etc., these are not necessarily something you can get in exchange for money.
Of course, compared with foreign countries, China respects women more. In the past thirty years, men and women have been equal and the idea of free love has become popular, which leads you to hope that by talking to me, I will have the illusion that this is love.
Put the blunt words up front and then use small talk to try to trick me into thinking.
In fact, I think you are quite weird. You just said it yourself, you just need a girlfriend, a girlfriend whose identity is public.
You said it so straightforwardly, but during the conversation I had the illusion that you were longing for love. "
Zhou Xin didn't expect Li Jingyi's straight shot, or the opponent's gentle appearance made Zhou Xin think that he completely dominated the conversation.
It was only after Li Jingyi brought up the nature of their meeting and transaction again that Zhou Xin realized that she was a girl majoring in science and engineering, and her emotional tone would be lighter.
Zhou Xin thought for a while, and then said: "I have never longed for love since my net worth exceeded 100 million.
Because every time someone appears around me, I will doubt whether they are here for my money or for me as a person.
Later I realized that this question was meaningless, because money was obtained by my own ability and experience, and it also belonged to a part of me. There was no point in dwelling on this question.
After thinking about this, it's not that I don't long for love, but that I don't have time to go from dating to falling in love to getting married with a girl like a normal person.
I neither have the time nor the energy, and there are no girls who can make me willing to do this.
So from then on I planned to go straight to find a suitable trade partner.
As for why I say so much, it’s because I’m afraid that you won’t be able to accept such a naked transaction, so I hope that by sharing my experience with you, you will be less resistant to this transaction.
If we are together, it is essentially a transaction, and nothing will change because of my attitude towards you.
As for the things you can get, it seems to be light and devoid of any texture in terms of language.
Things like starting a business, financing, going public, and being interviewed by dignitaries may seem like just a few words. In fact, only after you have experienced it will you understand that this is a completely different life from your past.
You just said that you helped develop Weiminghu bbs at Yan University. I believe you are just a member of this team and are only responsible for development.
I can directly give you a team and let you lead the birth of a product. The number of users of Weiming Lake is only a few thousand, and the product you want to make must be used by at least one million people.
From four figures to at least seven figures, from one of the screws to the helmsman of the entire team.
This is a completely different concept.
So if you are willing to accept it, then the deal is done, and I will help you to come to Berkeley to study as a graduate student in the computer science department.
And while you are a graduate student at Berkeley, whether you want to intern at Microsoft, Yahoo, or a company under my name, there is no problem.
After you have some experience, I will arrange a startup project for you. I will only give you a general idea, and you will implement the entire project.
During this period, you need to cooperate with me in attending some public occasions, that's about it.
As for other more intimate contacts, I fully respect your wishes and wait until you are ready to talk about them.
Of course, you just said this is a job, so your period of working for me will be at least five years. After you agree, you have to wait until five years if you want to break the contract. As for if I fire you midway, I will give you corresponding compensation. "
Li Jingyi stood up and stretched out her hand to look at Zhou Xin: "The deal is done."
After Zhou Xin shook hands with Li Jingyi, he took out a bunch of keys and handed them to the other party: "The deal is done.
This is when I went out to the west gate of Yan University. There is a community over there called Beiheyan. I bought a duplex there. You can live there at any time. "
Being rejected, Zhou Xin never thought about this possibility.
At that lecture at New Oriental, he gave several girls their email addresses, one rejected them and the next one refused.
Not everyone will be rejected.
He doesn't think he's very handsome, but he can still be called handsome, and he doesn't look like Jack Ma.
Therefore, after Zhou Xin decided to find a girlfriend from Yan University, he asked Wu Shiqiang to prepare a house.
This is also an asset investment.
Seeing that Li Jingyi did not take it, Zhou Xin said, "You can think of this as an employee benefit.
Wu Shiqiang will contact you at that time, and he will help you with all the major and minor matters of studying abroad in California. Based on your conditions, going to Berkeley is more than enough. "
What Zhou Xin did not say was that with his letter of recommendation, any Chinese student could go to any American university for further study.
"Be prepared. You need to go to Shenhai with me on the last day of New Year's Day. I'm going to meet the leaders of Shenhai.
An occasion like a dinner party requires you to attend with me.
In addition, Shenhai has promised to allocate some land to me to build a semiconductor technology park. You can also go and see it with me. "
Finding a girlfriend in name only solved most of the troubles for Zhou Xin, and he finally had an excuse to face various political marriages.
This matter was just a small matter to him.
But it was different for Li Jingyi. The conversation just now was just a conversation. After taking over the metal keys from Zhou Xin, she had a real feeling that her life would undergo earth-shaking changes.
Li Jingyi didn't know where it was in Beiheyan Community, but Zhou Xin told her to go out at the west gate of Yanda, so she knew.
The house on the edge of the North Fourth Ring Road, or on the edge of Yan University, even if it is only 100 square meters, it is worth 400,000 RMB, which is an astronomical sum for her.
When Zhou Xin heard from Wu Shiqiang that the house he bought for him in Yandabian was 110 square meters and cost 500,000 RMB, he felt a strong sense of happiness.
Even though Zhou Xin knew that the price was not low compared with the current general income level, just hearing the price made him happy.
Later, starting a business in Shenhai was considered a small success, and Xinxin Semiconductor's valuation exceeded 1 billion. He was still in an awkward position when buying a house in Shenhai. He couldn't afford the bad ones and couldn't afford the good ones.
After Li Jingyi returned to the dormitory, she didn't tell her roommates. To be precise, she didn't tell anyone, because if she told her roommates like this, they would think she was crazy.
"It's better to wait until they see it on the news and ask me, and then I'll explain.
Now I have to explain it again when the time comes. "
Let me briefly talk about what happened in the early morning of the day before yesterday. I woke up with pain at about 2 o'clock in the middle of the night, and then went to the hospital for emergency treatment. Finally, I was diagnosed with renal colic caused by kidney stones turning into urinary stones.
It's still hurting now. I couldn't write anything last night. I managed to write 4.6k today. I will try to resume the normal 6k update tomorrow.
My vacation starts tomorrow, so I should be able to finish it if I write slowly.
Finally, I will make up for the 8k difference between today and yesterday. Seeing as I can make up the difference, it’s not too much to ask for a monthly pass at the end of last month.
(End of chapter)
