Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 929 Familiar names and systems

Li Kunyao greeted Yu Dong and ran to Jiang Jie to discuss the automation of office software. After he left, Yu Dong asked Yu Liang, "What do you want me to do?"

Yu Yue smiled and handed a document in front of Yu Dong: "This is the sales data of BenQ S1 and BenQ store as of yesterday. It just so happens that you came to the park, boss, so I'll show it to you."

Yu Dong nodded, took the file, and simply flipped through it.

He had seen a batch of data a few days ago, and the data handed over this time has not changed much. The sales volume is higher and the market expectations are better, but they are all within expectations.

"In the future, you don't need to show me this kind of data every time. You can give it to me when I want it."

"Okay, I see." Yu Yu took back the document, and then handed another document in front of Yu Dong, "Besides this, there is one more thing. Didn't I mention to you before that I want to acquire a translation agency? This is the translation agency we want to acquire."

"Have we talked about it yet?" Yu Dong asked.

"Well, the conditions have been negotiated, and now we are waiting for your nod. As long as there is no problem with you, the boss, we can sign the contract."

Yu Dong heard about the acquisition of a translation agency before, but it was not a big deal in itself, so he didn't ask too much, and let Yu Yu take care of it.

Deep Space Company has a lot of translation business. Although they have set up a translation department and have always cooperated with those well-known translators, they still have to outsource a lot of business.

Now that the company exports more and more entertainment products, the demand for translation is also increasing. If it slowly absorbs talents, the efficiency will be too low. It is better to directly acquire a powerful translation agency.

Yu Dong opened the file, ready to see how the organization Yu Yu and the others had acquired this time.

But when he saw the name of the translation agency, he squinted his eyes, Hangzhou Haibo Translation Agency, the name sounded familiar.

He looked down again, and sure enough, he saw a familiar name, Ma Yun.

After staring at the name for a long time, Yu Dong looked up at Yu Yu again, "What are the conditions you negotiated with this translation agency? Can we get all the shares of their agency?"

Yu Yu shook his head, "No, we only have 50.00% of Wu's shares, and the company's original shareholders are diluted in the same proportion. From the beginning of the negotiation with the other party, we actually did not want all of their shares. This translation agency Ma Yun, the boss of Haibo Translation Agency, is a very sociable person. He is well-known in Hangzhou and has a good relationship with various units. Haibo Translation Agency has a large part of its business from various government units. I think it is better to translate It’s better for him to manage the social network. Boss, do you think 50.00% of Wu’s shares are less?”

Yu Dong smiled and shook his head, "No, 50.00% five is already a lot. This Ma Yun is only working as a translation agency, doesn't he have other businesses?"

Yu Yu thought for a while and said, "When I was talking to him before, I heard him talk about his previous experience in starting a business. It seems that he went to start some computer company halfway through. After a few years, it seems that the development is not bad, but He was dissatisfied with himself, so he sold several websites in his hand, and took the money from selling the websites to go back to develop Haibo Translation Agency. Now in addition to Haibo Translation Agency, he has also set up an education and training institution. At the beginning, the education and training institution only taught English for adults, but now it has expanded many other courses, the scale is not smaller than that of Haibo Translation Agency, and the development prospect is even better.”

After Yu Liang finished talking about Ma Yun's current situation, Yu Dong blinked his eyes, but he didn't expect Ma Yun to compete with Yu Minhong for a job.

Yu Dong had thought about this before. Now that Deep Space Corporation has done all the Internet and other things, will the two horses come in? Will they become a threat to Deep Space Corporation?
The other horse didn't know, but now it seems that this horse won't.

Ma Yun's current career is still successful, this is because his personal ability is indeed strong, but the outlet has been taken by the Deep Space Company, and it is basically impossible for him to achieve the success of his previous life.

After briefly looking at the document, Yu Dong said, "Finish the formal contract, let's sign the contract later, and it should be Ma Yun who will come to sign the contract then?"

"Well, he will come by then."

"All right, then bring him over to meet me."

"Okay, I remember."

……

Ten days later, Yu Dong met Ma Yun, and the two chatted for over an hour.

I have to say that Ma Yun is really good at talking, or bragging, and the positive energy that emanates from him is hard for ordinary young people to resist.

There are many kinds of people who are good at management in this world. Some people are proficient in the rules of management and use rules to restrain their subordinates, while some people are good at keeping their subordinates full of energy and motivation. Ma Yun is obviously the latter.

Although Ma Yun is very powerful, it always makes people feel that what he said can come true.

Even Yu Dong, who has been in a high position for a long time, almost fell into Ma Yun's way.

During the conversation between the two, Ma Yun intentionally or unintentionally showed Yu Dong the educational institution he founded, how he established the institution under difficult conditions, and how he developed the institution to such a large scale step by step , and some of his future plans.

After the demonstration, he began to reveal to Yu Dong that his educational institution wants to go further and what conditions are needed, and when Yu Dong heard these conditions, couldn't Deep Space satisfy them all.

Yu Dong was almost about to invest in Ma Yun's educational institution.

Yu Dong was quite interested in another idea mentioned by Ma Yun. Ma Yun said that he wanted to build an automatic translation website. Netizens only need to input words into the website, and they will get translations of various words.

But this time Ma Yun mainly wanted Yu Dong to invest in his education and training institution, so he didn't talk about the translation website in depth.

After Ma Yun left, Yu Dong couldn't help feeling that if he hadn't been reborn and had Jimmy's help, he would never have played better than Ma Yun.

……

Ma Yun walked forward, and another customer came to Yu Dong's office.

This time, a foreigner came here, about 40 years old, wearing glasses, bald, and looked a bit dull, but if you look closely at his eyes, you will feel that this person is very spiritual.

It seems a bit inconsistent to use the word aura to a 40-year-old man, but obviously this man in front of him is very suitable.

This man's name is Andy Rubin. When Yu Dong was chatting with Larry Page and Roberta Williams before, he heard them mention Andy Rubin. He heard that he was developing a scanning device. .

This scanning device can scan objects, and then connect to the Internet to find some information related to the objects on search engines. But when he heard about this thing, Yu Dong was very interested and asked Roberta to help him get in touch.

After a period of long-distance communication, Andy Rubin finally came to China to meet Yu Dong.

What impressed Andy Rubin and made him travel thousands of miles to China was naturally Yu Dong's willingness to invest in his scanning equipment.

A few years ago, several colleagues of Andy Rubin at Apple established a research and development company Artemis and invited him to join. After that, they developed an interactive Internet webtv, which has hundreds of thousands of users and annual revenue reached [-] million US dollars.

Later, Artemis was acquired by Microsoft, and Andy Rubin also stayed with Microsoft.

At Microsoft, he has been quietly exploring his robotics project.

He built a walking robot, equipped with a camera and microphone, that wandered around Microsoft, recording what it saw.

And one day, Microsoft's security personnel discovered that the computer controlling the robot had been hacked. Although the hackers who invaded the computer did not find that the computer was mobile or had a camera function, Microsoft's security personnel still Ask Andy Rubin to keep robots out of the loop.

After that, he left Microsoft and set up a laboratory by himself to study various robots.

That kind of scanning equipment was also researched and completed in this laboratory by him, but after the research was completed, no one was willing to fund him.

Andy Rubin is a very direct person. After meeting Yu Dong, he just chatted briefly, and he asked straight to the point, "YU, are you really willing to fund my laboratory? How much are you willing to fund?" money?"

Yu Dong also didn't expect Andy Rubin to talk about money as soon as he came up, but it's true to think about it. Andy Rubin is a master of technology and usually pays little attention to literature, so it is impossible for the two of them to talk about literature.

If you don't talk about literature, Yu Dong can't understand if you talk about technology, so you can just point it out and talk about money.

Since he was straightforward, Yu Dong didn't go around the bush anymore, and said with a smile, "It depends on how much money you need."

Andy Rubin thought for a moment and said, "Maybe, $300 million?"

Three million US dollars is not a small amount. After all, their project is very small, and the equipment they make can't even be sold for ten dollars.

Yu Dong didn't answer in a hurry, but asked, "When we were chatting on Dongdong before, you mentioned that you added a wireless receiver and converter to the original equipment?"

Andy Rubin nodded, "Well, we added a wireless receiver and a converter, and then it will become a smartphone capable of surfing the Internet. The difference is that this smartphone will be equipped with an The camera of the object, people can hold this device to scan the object anytime and anywhere, and then query the information on the Internet. Of course, this is only the first step. In addition to the function of scanning pictures, I plan to continue to add some other functions, and finally Make it a robot that can connect to the Internet and help us share the work."

After listening to Andy Rubin's idea, Yu Dong fell into deep thought. Although Andy Rubin said that he wanted to build a robot that can help humans work, Yu Dong felt that Andy Rubin was researching Something more like a mobile operating system.

Thinking of this, Yu Dong asked, "Can the system used by your sidekick be grafted into the mobile phone?"

Andy Rubin pushed his glasses, "Of course, didn't I say, its next step will be a smartphone that can scan pictures, and its system can also be grafted to other devices. I I know you released a mobile phone recently, so I guess you want to put this system on the mobile phone, but I remind you that it is not very useful to put this system in the mobile phone at this stage, because the current wireless network Poor, and the device relies heavily on wireless networks."

In fact, the development of mobile networks in recent years is still very rapid, but it is still limited to the formulation of standards, and has not been popularized to the public at all.

Europe and the United States may be faster, and China will not enter the 2G era until the second half of this year.

In order to enable mobile users to use the Internet, operators launched gprs technology. gprs can only be regarded as a plug-in of gsm. This thing only completed the first phase of the agreement in 97.

Only after gprs came out, the main development direction of mobile communication has also been determined - to improve data service capabilities.

Now there is also an EDGE technology that can provide data service rates twice that of gprs, but many ordinary people don't even have access to gprs, let alone edge, which is not even commercially available.

However, Yu Dong still believes that since he wants to study the operating system, he should do it as soon as possible, otherwise it will be too late to wait until the mobile network is fully developed.

Moreover, some people are already working on a mobile operating system. Three years ago, in order to fight against Microsoft and introduce mobile products that can run an open operating system into the mass consumer field, Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, Mitsubishi and psion jointly invested in Symbian in London. company.

Two years ago, Symbian launched the first generation system Symbian 5.0.

Last year, Ericsson released the r380 mobile phone, which became the world's first mobile phone based on the Symbian operating system. This mobile phone integrates functions such as network, wireless text, web browsing, e-mail sending and receiving, and can also run small third-party software.

This year, Nokia released news that they will release a 2.5g mobile phone based on the Symbian system, the so-called 2.5g is gprs.

Yu Dong knows about the future of Symbian, but Yu Dong still believes that he should develop his own operating system earlier, so as to seize the market opportunities in the future smart mobile terminal field.

He pondered for a while, and said, "I think that if you adjust the direction appropriately and develop a mobile operating system that can be used in mobile phones, it won't affect your other research, right?"

Andy Rubin said very confidently, "Of course not, the direction is the same, but then 300 million is not enough."

Yu Dong smiled and snapped his fingers, "No problem, let alone 300 million, as long as you can make something, 3000 million is no problem."

It just so happens that Yu Dong still has a lot of spare money in his private account, which can be invested in Andy Rubin and his project. Not to mention much, 3000 to [-] million US dollars is still light.

(End of this chapter)