I was born again with 100 million

Chapter 294 March 3th, Global Listing!

After sending messages with Dong Meilan, Lin Xiao called Zhang Jing again.

A few minutes later, Lin Xiao hung up the phone, and then frowned slightly.

Since meeting Zhang Jing in the United States last November and talking about setting up a chip manufacturing project funded by himself, in the past few months, Lin Xiao has talked with Zhang Jing on the phone almost every month.

But so far, the project has not yet been concretely implemented and promoted.

It's just that Zhang Jing can't be blamed for this.

A project like chip manufacturing is a system engineering. Although Zhang Jing is an expert in this field, if he really wants to do it, he must form a professional team.

When Lin Xiao talked with Zhang Jing, he hoped that the other party would not rely too much on TSMC’s technical team, and try not to poach the technical team from TSMC at the beginning of the factory’s construction. In the later communication, Zhang Jing also agreed. .

But obviously such a technical team is not so easy to form. During this time, Zhang Jing has been contacting technical talents in Silicon Valley and island countries, but I heard that a new chip manufacturing company will be established in mainland China, and most people are unwilling to come. .

As for Zhang Jing, if he can't set up a technical team, he will not be so confident in the whole project.

So the last time he called Zhang Jing once or twice, Lin Xiao could feel the other party's hesitation. He already realized that if he delayed, Zhang Jing might not agree to his plan.

So just now Lin Xiao told Zhang Jing on the phone that he was contacting a group of engineers through the resources of Yenching University of Science and Technology and the Silicon Valley R&D Center, which can be regarded as temporarily stabilizing Zhang Jing.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao's brows slightly relaxed.

"Fortunately, the Nasdaq crash is about to officially begin, and Silicon Valley will welcome a large number of unemployed engineers. These words of stabilizing Zhang Jing by myself should also become a reality."

Lin Xiao thought about it for a while, if it is not enough to return people, these people recently introduced by Wang Mingjiang and Tang Xingchang, he also simply merged into Zhang Jing's team, and Eternal Technology can still find a way later.

For the self-sufficient chip self-sufficiency goal set by myself, chip manufacturing is currently the most important link, because this link takes a long time. Without such a long time for technology accumulation, the project cannot be truly implemented.

After sorting things out, Lin Xiao temporarily postponed the establishment of a chip manufacturing company. In the next period of time, there is another very important thing to do.

That's where the Gpod comes in!
Lin Xiao went out of the office and found Ren Xiaowen in the next office.

"When is Mr. Yang coming?"

Ren Xiaowen immediately replied: "Mr. Lin, Mr. Yang's plane has already landed and should be on the way back."

Lin Xiao nodded, "When Mr. Yang comes back, tell him to come to me directly."

"Okay." Ren Xiaowen immediately responded.

After confessing to Ren Xiaowen, Lin Xiao returned to the office and opened his Foxmail mailbox.

This mailbox software was acquired from Zhang Xiaolong and merged into the Eternal Network, but Lin Xiao did not take any action against it for the time being.

Foxmail is still managed by Zhang Xiaolong. For more than a year, the mailbox has been continuously updated and optimized. With its good reputation, it is still the leader in the domestic client mailbox.

Naturally, all inside the Eternal Network are Foxmail mailboxes.

Lin Xiao opened the mailbox, and immediately saw the email sent to him by Fadell.

"This should be the latest modified version." Lin Xiao muttered, and clicked on a URL inside to download and install Fadell's software package stored there.

GPlayer, a music player developed by Eternal Technology that works with Gpod.

After receiving Lin Xiao's task of developing a music player, the Silicon Valley R&D Center of Eternal Technology spent a month to make a music player.

Of course, the version developed by Fadell and the others was far from meeting Lin Xiao's needs. After several rounds of communication, Fadell and the others modified the latest version.

Lin Xiao took a look after downloading and installing, and finally felt relatively satisfied.

Although Lin Xiao has the concept of later generations, Gplayer does not completely copy the music players he used in later generations. After all, the times are different and the environment is different. Music users in this era have their own needs.

Especially Lin Xiao's software is aimed at European and American users, so the needs of users there must also be considered. For example, this software has the function of ripping CDs into MP3 files, so that users can convert the CDs they bought into digital music. , and organize and classify, and create a music list.

Don't look at such a small function, no music player has it before.

Besides, this music player also supports burning a list of music files into a blank CD.

In China, because various pirated CDs are rampant at this stage, it seems that not many people care about such a function.

But in the United States, there are many music enthusiasts who are also supporters of legal music, so that they can make new CDs by themselves after buying some legal music.

From the perspective of Gpod sales, this function is actually not beneficial. After all, without this function, people may bite their teeth and buy Gpod in order to be able to hear their favorite music in a playlist.

However, Lin Xiao considered that this might allow other competitors to see the opportunity and snatch users away, so he launched this function.

First, enlarge the base of the user group, which is extremely beneficial to the sales of the product.

As for the software style of the entire player, Lin Xiao also put forward a lot of opinions.

Although Fadell is a European and American, his aesthetics is closer to the preferences of Europeans and Americans, but Lin Xiao has seen a lot after all, and Fadell still praised some of his opinions on style adjustments, and he also made revisions accordingly.

Especially in terms of menu options and function placement, Lin Xiao's opinion is even more important. Having been exposed to many Internet products in the future, he knows better how to create convenience for users.

Of course, while creating convenience for users, Lin Xiao is also trying to avoid some copyright disputes as much as possible.

For example, in the connection between Gpod and Gplayer, Gplayer can quickly import songs into Gpod, but Gpod cannot import songs into Gplayer.

This means that the transmission of Gpod is one-way, which may be criticized by some users, but at the same time, Gpod also avoids becoming a carrier and medium for others to spread piracy.

As for the setting of this point, Lin Xiao will actually have great use in the future.

After using the entire player, Lin Xiao was very satisfied, so he immediately sent an email to Fadell.

Not two minutes after the email was sent, Fadell's phone call followed.

"Hey, BOSS, thank you for using email for not disturbing my rest, but, I didn't sleep."

Fadell's tone was a little excited, "I'm using GPlayer to convert all my CDs into MP3s, and I'll finish with 2 left."

Speaking of this, Fadell seemed to have finally remembered the business.

"Hey, BOSS, do you think this version meets the requirements and can be officially released?"

This is exactly what Lin Xiao just told Fadell in the email.

"Yes, Fadell, let's officially release it tomorrow, and then start a large-scale publicity." Lin Xiao said affirmatively.

On the other end of the phone, Fadell immediately shouted excitedly, "Great, tomorrow morning, yes, I will release this software at midnight."

"Boss, I have already contacted several music forums and websites, and they are all very interested in helping us advertise this. Of course, there are also Yahoo and MOL, but their advertising fees are a bit high, which really makes people feel distressed..."

After hearing this, Lin Xiao said immediately, "Fadell, don't worry about these advertising fees, first do a good job of GPlayer's advertisements. If this software is popular, it will save a lot of advertising fees for our Gpod."

For this point, Lin Xiao is quite clear. After all, users do not need to pay to use Gplayer, which means that it is easier for Gplayer to attract users. As long as the user scale increases, Gpod will directly place advertisements on Gplayer. Much more targeted and much, much less expensive.

Therefore, Lin Xiao directly paid 600 million yuan for Gplayer's advertising expenses, and Lin Xiao's goal is to spend it in one month.

"Boss, I like your generosity. I am confident that this software will be very popular after it is launched. It is really great."

Hearing Fadell's longing voice, Lin Xiao smiled, "Of course, I think so too."

In terms of the promotion of Gplayer, Lin Xiao is determined to see results in a short period of time. After all, it is only about half a month before Gpod goes on the market.

"Dong dong." At this moment, there was a knock on the door, Lin Xiao saw that it was Yang Guanbin, and motioned for Yang Guanbin to come in.

Then Lin Xiao told Fadell to do a good job in publishing, and then hung up the phone.

Putting down the phone, Lin Xiao immediately asked Yang Guanbin: "Brother Yang is back, how is this trip?"

Yang Guanbin has been away for a while on this trip, not only in several places in China, but also in the United States, and all of this is to prepare for the launch of Gpod.

"Not bad." Yang Guanbin replied with a smile.

"BYD's production side, Wang Lihua and Mr. Wang's side should have reported to you, and the entire mass production has been very stable."

Lin Xiao nodded. Wang Lihua is the production supervisor recruited by the company and is currently squatting in BYD.

"He said that the first shipment to the United States will be sent out this evening."

"Yes, and in the United States, Amazon and Best Buy, which we worked with before, have completed the signing of relevant agreements. We only need to wait for our goods to arrive, and they can be sold online immediately. At the same time, various advertisements and the like are all Ready, ready to go online at any time." Yang Guanbin replied.

After hearing this, Lin Xiao made a decision immediately, "Okay, if this is the case, the advertisement will be fully rolled out in a week."

"On March 3, the world's first listing will officially start!"

(End of this chapter)