The Millennium Semiconductor Survival Guide.

Chapter 163 Trading
"Professor Hu is so kind to you. I heard that after you transferred to Berkeley, many students in your department also sent emails to Professor Hu, hoping to study for his Ph.D.

It may be that people who came later could not meet Professor Hu's requirements. In the past year, no one has heard of anyone applying for a doctorate from Professor Hu. "Zhou Xin's turning point made Li Jingyi a little confused about how to answer, so she talked about Professor Hu Zhengming.

Before recruiting Zhou Xin, Professor Hu Zhengming would come to Yanda University for an academic exchange every two years and give academic lectures to students from the Department of Microelectronics of Yanda University.

Before that, some Yanda students also applied for the doctorate of Hu Zhengming, such as Zhang Zhongbo, who was born in Yanda.

So everyone guessed that Professor Hu Zhengming gave preferential treatment to Yanda students, especially after Zhou Xin appeared, this kind of preferential treatment should be increased.

Therefore, many people send emails to set the magnetism.

Zhou Xin replied: "It's very good. Professor Hu is very high-level and a good person. If you go to study under him for a doctorate, you can grow up quickly. The only disadvantage may be that the pressure will be very high.

But to Lord Yan, this is not a shortcoming.You just said that you originally planned to study computer science at the University of Hong Kong. How did you think about it?
There are many directions in which applied mathematics can turn. Why choose computers?
Among the girls I know, very few would consider computer science.It's not because of gender discrimination, but I feel that girls should not 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 the current Huaguo, this is a topic that no one pays attention to.

Little did they know that before Zhou Xin, it was okay in Huaguo. Most of the gender issues in Huaguo only stayed on the Internet. When I was in California, in reality, such issues would be posted online if I didn't pay attention.

Li Jingyi said: "I am still very interested in computers. When the PULAIS system developed by Yanda Library was switched to the UNICORN system bought from American, 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, and I became interested in system development itself when I was doing system switching.

Later, I learned C++ by myself. Last year, I participated in the construction of the Weiming Lake BBS forum. It was also in the process of developing the Weiming Lake bbs forum that I made up my mind to switch to computers at the graduate level.

The software developed by myself can be used by many people and loved by everyone. This is a very fulfilling thing.

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 the combination of mathematics and practical applications.

In fact, the best direction after graduating from an undergraduate 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 in later generations, and it is even impossible to mention what kind of space machine.

There is no essential gap between the salary level of computers and other industries, and option incentives have not yet been popularized in the Internet industry in Huaguo.

Therefore, finance and civil engineering are the current gold majors.

Zhou Xin said after listening, "I had the same idea as you when I was making Internet products.

Seeing the growth of the number of users in the background, hearing the feedback from users, and constantly optimizing and iterating my application to make users more satisfied.

The monetary gain is second, and this kind of experience that brings people what they don't have is the most important thing.

It appears that there is a large degree of overlap in our thinking. "

Female programmers are rare, especially female programmers who like this line of work from the heart are even rarer.There are still a lot of female product managers and product operations.

"However, the difference between us is that I generally don't do specific program development, I only raise requirements. Except when I was working on "Angry Birds", I had to do part of the development work, and I didn't seem to do any subsequent products. product development.

At that time, it was impossible to make "Angry Birds". The whole body was only more than 1 US dollars. I had to do the development myself to reduce the cost.

At that time, it was called a poor person, with only a little scholarship plus the salary of an internship at Microsoft, and the start-up funds obtained by cooperating 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, and this complement made the other party more real.

In the image of Zhou Xin created by the Huaguo media, the other party seems to be omnipotent. After making a choice in life, the only word is success. During the Microsoft internship, he casually waved to his employees and bowed down.

Li Jingyi asked: "So if Angry Birds fails, your first venture means failure.

There will be no series of products such as Quora, Riot Games, and NewPay in the future? "

Zhou Xin shook his head: "No, even if Angry Birds fails, I will still start a business, and there will still be Riot Games.

It’s just that compared with the current Riot Games, if Angry Birds is not successful, then Riot Games will only be used as a pure game forum, there will be no Riot Game 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, more than anything else, helped me establish that Americans' acceptance of electronic payments was higher than I expected.

The second point is that its success made me realize that users are willing to compromise for a good product.

Even if it is an unprecedented transfer method, an unprecedented payment and purchase method, as long as your product is good enough, users will make concessions.

I don't know if you know about 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 for registering a NewPay account. If you register with a mobile phone number, you will get a $10 incentive. If you register with an email address, the incentive is only $1.

There is an incentive of US dollars, as long as the user has a mobile phone number, they will use the mobile phone number to complete the registration.

We found from background data that during the incentive fund plan period, the number of users registering through mobile phone numbers is more than ten times that of email registrations. "

Li Jingyi quickly realized the irrationality of the incentive plan, and she immediately asked: "What if someone writes a special program to defraud the incentive money by registering a NewPay account through the email indefinitely?
Although $1 is a small amount, it adds up to a lot of money. "

Zhou Xin said: "Registering a NewPay account also needs to bind a bank card, register with an email address, and then bind a 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 what you want to get, you have to give users first.

Free services to users are even better than paid services.

Angry Birds provides players with 10 free levels to experience, and Riot Games often sell games with a 1% discount. For this 1% discount game, we have to make up the difference to the game manufacturer. They will not accept this price game for sale.

Incentive money from NewPay included.

These free, and even the methods of posting money, were unavoidable in order to win users in the early days.

While talking, I got off topic again, if this is the first time we meet in a blind date ceremony, my score in your heart must be a failure. " Zhou Xin laughed at himself.

No matter in the past or now, Zhou Xin is an extremely self-centered person, and he rarely and does not consider other people's feelings.

Because of this, his work 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 was amused by him all of a sudden, and said with a smile like a flower: "Hahaha, so this is not a blind date.

The more we talked, the clearer it became to me that this is an interview, an interview you proposed on your own initiative.

What I want to interview is your girlfriend's position. The benefits of this position are very high. There is a high probability that I will never earn money in my life. More importantly, I can get in touch with things that I have never been in touch with before.

Just like what you just said, from the establishment of the company to the listing, the reception of the dignitaries of various countries, etc., these things are not necessarily exchanged for money.

Of course, compared with foreign countries, Huaguo respects women more. In the past 30 years, the idea of ​​equality between men and women and free love became popular, which led you to hope that by talking with me, I would have the illusion that this is love.

Put the blunt up front and try to trick me with small talk.

In fact, I feel that you are also quite strange. You just said yourself that you just need a girlfriend, a girlfriend who is open.

You said it so bluntly, but I had the illusion that you long for love during the conversation. "

Zhou Xin didn't expect Li Jingyi's straight ball, or the other party's gentle appearance made Zhou Xin think that he completely dominated the conversation.

It was only after Li Jingyi brought up the essence of their meeting and transaction again that Zhou Xin realized that she was a girl of science and engineering, and her emotional color would be lighter.

Zhou Xin thought for a while, and then said: "I haven't longed for love since my net worth exceeded [-] million.

Because every time someone appears around me, I will wonder whether she is here for my money or for me.

Later I realized that this question is meaningless, because money is obtained by my own ability and experience, it is also a part of me, and it is meaningless to dwell on this question.

After thinking about this point, it's not that I don't desire love, but that I don't have time, and I don't have time to follow a normal person from dating to falling in love to getting married with a girl.

I have neither the time nor the energy, and at the same time, no girl can make me do this willingly.

So from then on, I planned to find a suitable trading partner directly.

As for why I said so much, it is because I am afraid that you will not 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 without any texture in terms of language.

Starting a business, financing, going public, and meeting with political leaders seem to be just a few words. In fact, you will only understand after experiencing it. This is a completely different life from your past.

You also said just now that you helped Yanda Weiming Lake bbs develop, I believe you are just a member of this team, and you are only responsible for development.

I can directly give you a team and let you lead the birth of a product. The users of Weiming Lake are no more than a few thousand people, and the product you want to make must be at least a million people.

From four figures to at least seven figures, from one screw in it to the helm of the whole team.

This is a very different concept.

So if you are willing to accept, then the deal is concluded, and I will help you operate and come to Berkeley to study as a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science.

And during graduate school at Berkeley, whether you want to intern at Microsoft, Yahoo, or a company under my name, there is no problem.

After you have a certain amount of experience, I will arrange an entrepreneurial project for you. I will only give you a general idea, and you will implement the entire project.

During some public occasions, you need to cooperate with me to attend, 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 that this is a job, so you will work for me for at least five years.After you agree to break the contract, you have to wait until five years later. As for if I fire you halfway, I will give you the corresponding compensation. "

Li Jingyi got up and stretched out her hand to look at Zhou Xin: "The deal is concluded."

After Zhou Xin and Li Jingyi shook hands, they took out a bunch of keys and handed them to each other: "The deal is concluded.

This is me going out at the west gate of Yanda University. There is a community called Beiheyan. I bought a duplex there. You can live there anytime. "

Being rejected, Zhou Xin never thought about this possibility.

At the New Oriental lecture at that time, he gave email addresses to several girls, one refused and the next one came.

Not everyone will be rejected.

He doesn't think he's very handsome, but Xiaoshuai is still worthy, and he doesn't look like Jack Ma.

Therefore, after Zhou Xin decided to find a girlfriend from Yanda University, he asked Wu Shiqiang to prepare a house.

This is also an asset investment.

Seeing that Li Jingyi didn't take it, Zhou Xin said, "You can think of this as a kind of employee benefit.

At that time, Wu Shiqiang will contact you, and he will help you with the big and small matters of studying in California. According to your conditions, going to Berkeley is more than enough. "

What Zhou Xin didn't say was that with his letter of recommendation, any Huaguo student could go to any university in American for further study.

"Also prepare, you need to go to Shenhai with me on the last day of New Year's Day, I'm going to meet Shenhai's leaders.

An occasion like a dinner party requires you and me to be there.

In addition, Shenhai promised to build a semiconductor technology park for me in some places, and you can also go and see it with me. "

Finding a nominal girlfriend solved most of the troubles for Zhou Xin, and he finally had a reason to face all kinds of political marriages.

This matter is just a small matter to him.

But for Li Jingyi, the conversation just now was just a conversation. After receiving the bunch of metal keys from Zhou Xin, she had a real feeling that her life would undergo earth-shaking changes.

In Beiheyan Community, Li Jingyi didn't know where it was, but Zhou Xin said that she would know when she went out at the west gate of Yanda University.

The house on the edge of the North Fourth Ring Road is still on the edge of Yanda. Even if it is only 40 square meters, it is worth [-] RMB, which is an astronomical sum for her.

Zhou Xin heard from Wu Shiqiang that he had a strong sense of happiness when he bought a house on the edge of Yanda with 110 square meters and 50 RMB.

Even though Zhou Xin knew that the price was not low compared to the current general income level, he was already very happy just hearing the price.

Later, starting a business in Shenhai was considered a small success, and the valuation of Xinxin Semiconductor also exceeded one billion. He was still in a very awkward situation when buying a house in Shenhai.

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, her roommates would think she was crazy.

"Let's wait until they see it on the news and ask me, and I'll explain it.

Now it's time to explain it again. "

　Let me briefly talk about what happened in the early morning of the day before yesterday. I was woken up with pain at two 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 didn’t write it out last night. I barely wrote 4.6k today. I will try to restore the normal 6k update tomorrow.

　　The holiday starts tomorrow, so I should be able to write slowly.

　　In the end, the difference between today and yesterday is 8k, and I will make up for it. It is not too much to ask for a monthly pass at the end of last month when it will be made up.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)