Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1495 The Objectivity of Technology

In fact, as early as two years ago, Baidu had plans to develop its European business.

At that time, Baidu's status in China was in full swing, and its competitiveness seemed to be stronger than that of Google. Boss Li himself was also favored by various official media.

Under this general trend, Baidu launched the "going out" strategy, choosing two directions, one is Japan and the other is Europe.

At that time, the chief financial officer Wang Zhansheng was in charge of the main research, investigation and preparation of the European business. Unexpectedly, an accident happened suddenly.

During a vacation, Wang Zhansheng took his wife and daughter to the beach to swim, but unexpectedly a big wave hit him.In order to save his wife and daughter, he rushed over and drowned to death.

The European business plan was also shelved, and began to focus on the Japanese market.

For Baidu, it can be regarded as a blessing in disguise.

If they really come to Europe, it will be too much for them!

The working atmosphere in Europe is really terrible.There is no need to work overtime like in China, at least the 8 hours a day stipulated by law is enough, right?

The people here are really lazy. If you can have 4-5 hours a day as a serious working time, then thank you very much.

Not to mention compared with the overtime culture in China, Korea and Japan, it is far inferior to Silicon Valley.Large companies in Silicon Valley also often work overtime, and the weekly working hours can be maintained at 50-60 hours for a long time.

Li Yanhong has been in the UK for three days and has inspected several British technology companies, saying that she accepted the invitation of former British Prime Minister Blair.

The meaning of the British side is that they hope to introduce Baidu to the UK to compete with Google.

After investigating around, he had no such idea at all.

You can't even play in Japan, so come to the UK?

Money is not wasted like this!
However, he still kindly gave Zhou Buqi some suggestions, "If you want to develop your business in Europe, the investment and cost are huge, so you have to be mentally prepared."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "I know, I have been mentally prepared for a long time. There are all kinds of bad things in Europe, but there is one advantage, that is, money. As long as the business is developed, even if these employees deal with moths every day. If you don’t work hard, you can still make a lot of money by relying on this huge market.”

Li Yanhong said: "Yesterday I met several British officials. They hoped that Baidu would come to the UK to conduct business, and the conditions they gave were very sincere. I can feel that they don't want to see Google dominating."

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "Are you going to enter?"

"Do not."

Li Yanhong shook his head.

Zhou Buqi said: "It's right if you don't enter the market. Ziwei Star still has Weidian, and it has no international business at all. Look at how much money Microsoft has spent on search, and you can't even see a splash. This is still the PC Internet In this era, when it enters the mobile Internet, it will be even less likely to shake Google. Don’t have illusions.”

"How can the search business be better transferred from the PC side to the mobile side?"

"Can't do it!"

"what?"

Li Yanhong was stunned for a moment.

Zhou Buqi said: "The core business of search is the address distribution of various websites. Smartphones are all directly operated apps, and the search logic is not as strong as before."

Li Yanhong nodded lightly, "It is indeed very difficult."

This is Old Trafford, the owner of Zhou Buqi, friends who come from China, always give warm hospitality.

There were no extra women in Manchester's family, which was more convenient, so Zhou Buqi invited them and his party to have dinner at home.Later, there will be a Manchester United Women's Premier League game, you can also go and watch it. The Chinese player Han Duan is the main striker. He has contributed 3 goals and 3 assists in 2 games. His performance is eye-catching!
After dinner, on the way to the reserve team stadium, Li Yanhong shared his views from a technical point of view, "In the design, operation and promotion of Internet products, different countries have different cultural characteristics, and measures should be adapted to local conditions. However, technology is There is no regional difference in the objectivity of technology.”

"Oh?"

"This is my experience from Baidu Japan. This is true in Japan, and it must be more serious in Europe."

Li Yanhong's meaning is very clear.

Technology is objective.

For example, if Helo wants to operate in Spain, it is necessary to open a branch in Madrid or Barcelona and form a local operation and promotion team.

Only Spaniards know Spaniards best.

However, there is no need for the technical team to source materials locally.

People here are so lazy.

Hire a Spanish programmer, with the same money, you can hire 3 domestic programmers, and these 3 people can still do the work of 10 Spaniards.

From the perspective of the company's management costs, of course it is better to hire domestic programmers.

If dealing with technical problems in different places, there will be a lot of inconvenience in communication. At worst, a technical team from China will be stationed in Spain all the year round for business trips, with food and accommodation included.

It's also better than hiring local technicians.

The average age of Internet companies in Silicon Valley is around 30 years old.It's similar in China. If you can't be promoted to expert level or management position at the age of 35, you will basically be at risk of being laid off.

The reason is that supply exceeds demand.

There are fewer jobs and more employed people.

Needless to say, Silicon Valley is where the world's top technological elites go, and they can search for talents all over the world, and there is no employment crisis.

It is starting here in China, and the Department of Computer Science is the most popular major in universities. For example, in Tsinghua University, those top students from various provinces and special candidates for competitions basically go to the Department of Computer Science.

In a few years, there will be a large number of computer engineers in the country, and the supply will exceed the demand.

Many people change careers as they get older.

This is a waste of social resources.

For enterprises, the greatest social responsibility is to provide as many jobs as possible while legally paying taxes.For Ziweixing, it can not only fulfill more social responsibilities, but also effectively save management costs, why not do it?
There is no need for Li Yanhong's suggestion, Zhou Buqi has already made arrangements.

Ziwei Star's Modu branch is the Ziwei Star International Department, which mainly undertakes overseas business.For example, UC Beauty in Japan was developed by the team of the International Department, and then the product team of the Japanese branch made functional adjustments and skin designs, and it became a hit product after it was launched.

After Ziweixing is split, there will be two sets of accounts at home and abroad.

Ziweixing Japan needs to spend money to purchase technical services from Ziweixing, which is equivalent to earning foreign exchange for the country through Internet technology.This is true in Japan, and so can be in Europe.

Aren't Europeans lazy?

Isn't the salary high and disobedient?
That's easy, Ziweixing Europe outsources many common technical services to Ziweixing, and the domestic team will do these things.It is equivalent to indirectly providing jobs in Europe to the domestic market.

Not only Ziweixing is doing this, but also Silicon Valley giants.

Just like Microsoft, there are only Microsoft Silicon Valley Research Institute, Microsoft Asia Research Institute, Microsoft China Research Institute, as for Europe... Forget it!

Li Yanhong said: "The top European practitioners in the Internet industry either went to work in Silicon Valley or were recruited by Silicon Valley giants. The rest of them are either not skilled enough and people don't like them; or they are not skilled enough. The work attitude does not meet their standards. The remaining two types of people are burdens to Ziweixing."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "I know, Ziweixing is already doing it. Ziweixing's Shanghai Branch is the Ziweixing International Department, which mainly undertakes the outsourcing business of Ziweixing International. Zhang Jiang is still building Ziweixing. Shangyan Building will start this business. The person in charge of the business is Liu Qing, an executive of M7, who is at the same level as the president of a large business group, and attaches great importance to it."

Li Yanhong further said: "You know that success comes from 99% hard work and 1% inspiration, and that 1% inspiration is more important than 99% hard work. The same is true for technology."

"You teach."

"For a technical project development, 99% of the work is relatively simple, and it is enough to leave it to a huge technical team to do it according to the plan and direction. The 1% of the level is the most difficult. Some simple problems, hard work can also be solved. It can be solved, but the real world-class problems are difficult to achieve.”

Zhou Buqi is very smart, and he immediately reflected what he meant, "So, when doing technology outsourcing business, it is best to outsource the 99% of the part to China?"

Li Yanhong smiled and said: "Yes, for the 1% inspiration, we still have to find world-class scientists from Silicon Valley. Although the price is high, it is worth it. We do it ourselves, and it may take half a year of hard work. After thousands of experiments, Demonstration can solve the problem, and the total cost may be 1 million. A top scientist may come up with a solution after an idea. Even if he has an annual salary of 1000 million, even if he is lazy, it is still profitable for the company. "

"Well, that makes sense."

"However, most Internet projects are not technical and can be solved domestically. For multinational companies, the next frontier technical problem is cross-regional data synchronization. This is very important. Google has published several papers , but the words are vague. If Ziweixing can overcome this difficulty, then the stability of the business will be guaranteed, and the financial-level business will also have a security guarantee."

"Okay, I'll talk to them later."

Zhou Buqi accepted it humbly.

The technical problem of data synchronization has been discussed many times by the technical committee when he was in China, and it has been solved very well in China, providing a strong technical guarantee for the gold coin wallet system.

However, the country is a continent, and its area is not too large.

Europe, the United States, and the Asia-Pacific are all separated by oceans, thousands of miles away, covering the whole world.

Global data synchronization is indeed a big technical challenge for multinational companies.

The better the synchronization, the higher the technical level.

For example, when sending WeChat on an Apple mobile phone, there will be a 1-2 second delay in receiving the message.Sending a message on an Android phone is almost instant.

When I arrived at the stadium, I was ready to watch the women's football game.

Ho!
There are a lot of people!

It was full!
(End of this chapter)