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Chapter 273 The Olympics of Programming (3)

Overnight, Nike became almost a household name.

After seeing the news, the American people, especially young people, are very interested in Nike's sports shoes.

For a time, the sales of Nike's products soared!The sales in just one week exceeded the sales in the past month, and everyone in Nike was shocked!
Even Phil Knight, who was mentally prepared, was shocked. He couldn't help but feel lucky that Chronos Li invested in Nike instead of Adidas. Otherwise, Nike would be in a very difficult situation.

"Adidas should be the one that feels the headache now, hahahaha..." Phil Knight looked out the window and laughed.

Adidas is very bad now, product sales have plummeted, stock prices have plummeted, and the situation is not optimistic.And Nike has just received a [-] million US dollar investment from Li Zetian, and will soon be able to expand the market. Once Nike continues to develop, it will inevitably occupy more market share from Adidas!
In this regard, Adidas seems a little helpless.

In fact, Li Zetian is more interested in the high-tech industry, and the stake in Nike is just an investment. After all, this is Nike. The market value will rise in the future, and after cashing out the shares, it will be a large amount of money.

In the future, smart sports shoes are also an attempt to combine healthy sports and artificial intelligence to change people's lives.

As the saying goes, "Technology changes life", the places where technology can be applied are all-encompassing, involving all aspects of human beings' basic necessities of life!

Nike has its own "Phil Knight" to take care of it, and Li Zetian naturally doesn't need to get involved, as he is too busy himself.

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At 11:1 p.m. on November 2st, Li Zetian was processing documents in his study. At this time, Dongfang Yuqin opened the door and walked forward and said: "Mr. Li, Mr. Warner Stephens, the president of the ACM Association for Computing Machinery, came to visit unexpectedly. Madam Jingqiu has asked him to wait in the living room first!"

"ACM?"

In fact, ACM is awesome just by its name. It is an international scientific and technological education organization founded in 1947. It is the world's first scientific and educational computer society, headquartered in New York, USA.

Li Zetian was surprised, how could the president of the association come to visit him...

"Okay, I'll go right now!"

After speaking, Li Zetian stood up, put on a coat, and walked out the door.

When I came to the living room, I saw a man in his 50s, wearing a happy suit and wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. This must be Warner Stephens.

"Hello, Mr. Warner Stephens!"

Li Zetian stepped forward and greeted with a smile.

Warner Stephens immediately stood up, shook hands with Li Zetian, and said, "Hello, Chronos Li!"

"Hello, let's sit down and talk!"

"Ok!"

The two sat opposite a red sandalwood coffee table.

Li Zetian said with a smile: "There is a saying in China that goes, 'If you have nothing to do, go to the Three Treasures Palace', Mr. Warner Stephens must be here today to find me for something important!"

Warner Stephens smiled, and generously admitted: "Yes, I have some important matters to discuss with you. By the way, Mr. Li, do you know about the ACM Programming Competition?"

As a programmer who aspires to become a billionaire by programming, how can he not know about the ACM programming competition?Li Zetian nodded and said: "Yes, in 1977, the first finals were held during the ACM Computer Science Conference, and then evolved into the current annual international competition with multinational participation! However, the current scale does not seem to be very large. , only teams from a few countries such as the United States and Canada participated..."

Li Zetian told the truth.

Warner Stephens smiled awkwardly: "The reason why the scale is not large is because there is no sponsorship!"

After finishing speaking, he looked directly at Li Zetian and said straight to the point: "Actually, the purpose of my visit this time is to get your sponsorship to expand the scale and influence of the ACM programming competition."

Li Zetian thought deeply. The ACM Programming Contest is the highest level brain competition in universities. It has always been dubbed the "Olympics of Programming" and has a great influence!It seems that in the previous life, IBM sponsored the ACM programming competition, and the logo of the competition had IBM on it, which undoubtedly greatly improved the brand image of IBM.

Just imagine, IBM can appear in the Olympic-level programming competition, it must be tall, it must be awesome, IBM can attract these computer talents who come to participate in the competition to join the company!You know, these people are all talents selected from universities in various countries! !

Li Zetian didn't hesitate too long, and immediately replied: "Sponsorship is fine, but I also have conditions!"

When Warner Stephens heard that Li Zetian was willing to sponsor, he was overjoyed and quickly asked, "What conditions!"

Li Zetian said: "The scale and influence of the ACM programming competition is not large now. After I sponsor it, the scale and influence of the competition will definitely increase. At that time, there must be many companies competing to sponsor the competition, such as IBM , HP and other companies..."

Warner Stephens froze for a moment, then hesitated and said, "Mr. Li, what do you mean, you plan to exclusively sponsor the ACM Programming Contest for a long time?"

Li Zetian smiled and nodded: "That's right! However, it is not in my personal capacity, but in the name of Apple, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and Yinhe Network."

"No problem, we can agree to your request and write it into the agreement!" Warner Stephens nodded, whoever sponsors is not a sponsor, and these four companies are closely related to computers, and they are all leaders in the industry.

"Okay, then the sponsorship of the future ACM programming competition will be contracted by these four companies! As sponsors, I think they should be able to get some benefits." Li Zetian said lightly.

"Of course, we will take the initiative to promote these four companies!"

"Publicity is of course necessary, but I also hope that the test questions can be biased towards the business of these four companies!"

Students learn what the exams test!
Li Zetian controls the content of the exam, so that students can learn something, so that they can program for Apple, Microsoft, and promote the JAVA language in the future. These computer talents who come to the competition, even if they are not in Li Zetian's company, belong to the same camp as Li Zetian .

"Of course there's no problem with this!" Warner Stephens had no doubts about him, and felt that the industries these four companies were involved in were basically the main industries in the current computer industry, and the exam questions should have been set like this.

"Well, that's good, we have reached a verbal agreement. Regarding the specific cooperation details, I will send someone to ACM to discuss carefully later!"

Warner Stephens nodded and said goodbye to Li Zetian.

As soon as he left, Li Zetian asked Dongfang Yuqin to notify the CEOs of Apple, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and Yinhe Network to hold a remote video conference.

At the meeting, Li Zetian told everyone what happened just now, and then said: "Next year's ACM programming competition will be very sensational. Firstly, it will promote our company's brand, and secondly, it will also take the opportunity to attract talents! The world's top computer talents will gather together. Let us choose vegetables, a rare opportunity!"

"Yes!!!" Everyone couldn't help but nodded, expressing their support!
(End of this chapter)