The Immortal Warrior: From Reverse Engineering to Forging Swords for the Country

Chapter 230 is mainly about a topic [Request for full order and data]

In his previous life, Teacher Ma was a very influential figure.

In this life, he is actually willing to work?
This is a little unbelievable.

Zhang Zhipeng knew that Teacher Ma was a very ambitious man.

As the saying goes, a golden fish cannot stay in a pond. Once it encounters wind and clouds, it will turn into a dragon.

It is estimated that Mr. Ma also wants to make a temporary transition. Perhaps, after studying for a period of time and feeling that he has caught some new entrepreneurial opportunities, he will resign and leave.

But considering that Teacher Ma is also a talented person.

Zhang Zhipeng decided to make the best use of his talents.

So, this time, Zhang Zhipeng nominated Mr. Ma to be the person in charge of going to America to establish Twitter.

After the preparatory group was established, Zhang Zhipeng flew to Shenzhen to see Jack Ma and others off.

Zhang Zhipeng also had a special talk with Jack Ma.

This was his first conversation with Jack Ma.

Jack Ma was a little flattered.

Because he never thought that he would have the opportunity to be summoned by Zhang Zhipeng.

So, he was a little reserved at first.

As soon as they met, he bowed slightly and greeted them respectfully.

Zhang Zhipeng patted him on the shoulder affectionately and said, "Sit down and talk."

Jack Ma sat half of his butt on the sofa, sitting upright, as if he was listening to instructions.

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and said, "You seem a little reluctant."

"I just wanted to talk to you this time. I've read your resume, and you have a lot of entrepreneurial experience."

Jack Ma forced a smile on his face and said, "The main thing is that you are like a legendary figure. In my eyes, you are like a high and mighty god."

"You suddenly appeared in front of me. I can't digest this fact for the time being."

"I only did a little business in the past, and the few times I started a business were all small-scale, and I never made much money."

"Overall, I feel like a failure."

Zhang Zhipeng nodded and said, "You are a brave man. Moreover, I have seen that you have a good vision and a flexible mind."

"I sent you to Amei this time because I wanted to train you and see what you are capable of."

“I hope you can live up to everyone’s expectations and make Twitter, the semicolon of Weibo, a success in Amei.”

Teacher Ma quickly straightened his chest and said, "Boss, don't worry, I will do my best!"

“I believe I can make the product as soon as possible.”

He knew that this was the time to show his loyalty.

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and nodded and said, "Yes! I believe you."

"One more thing, if you can make Twitter a success and make it the number one social information distribution platform in the US, then if you want to come back and start your own business, I will strongly support you!"

Jack Ma was very touched when he heard this: "Thank you, boss. I am willing to serve you at all costs."

As he said this, he stood up and bowed deeply to Zhang Zhipeng.

Zhang Zhipeng waved his hand and said, "You're welcome."

"Let me ask you, do you need any help during this trip to America?"

Teacher Ma hesitated for a moment and said, "I am not your direct subordinate. I am very confused that you have entrusted me with such an important task. I hope that you can assign me someone who can check and balance me. In this way, perhaps you can be relieved."

Zhang Zhipeng was stunned.

Is this still the confident Jack Ma from his previous life?
Zhang Zhipeng never expected that he would worry so much.

Send someone to check and balance you, do you need me to tell you? Of course I will make the corresponding arrangements!
Although it is said that you should trust the people you employ and don't employ them if you don't trust them, various institutionalized preventive measures must be put in place.

Zhang Zhipeng waved his hand and said, "Trust your employees! Since I asked you to do this, it means I trust you!"

"Well! You just need to do it boldly according to the company's regulations! As long as it does not violate the rules, there is no problem with what you do."

Jack Ma was very grateful.

To be honest, he was really surprised this time that he would be entrusted with such an important task.

Because he was just a newcomer who had just joined the company not long ago, and was even just a middle-level manager. Logically speaking, he had no qualifications to independently dominate a large market.

God knows why Zhang Zhipeng noticed me and admired me so much.

"Thank you for your trust, boss. If I can't complete the task you assigned, I will be ashamed to see you."

Zhang Zhipeng smiled faintly and said: "Actually, this task is really simple!"

"Because our software is mature, there won't be any problems as long as it is well maintained and developed stably. Moreover, you don't have to worry about the technical aspects."

"All you have to do is coordinate management and execute the goals set by the company, and there will be no problems."

"Just do it boldly, I'm your strongest supporter!"

After talking with Zhang Zhipeng, Teacher Ma was very excited, but at the same time, he also felt great pressure.

Because the boss values ​​me so much and gives me such an important task. If I don’t do it well, there will be no future.

Teacher Ma will go to Amei from now on.

After arriving, he quickly set up the company because he had sufficient funds and a team to help him.

In fact, it mainly involves renting and renovating an office and building a server room.

After these are done, all that remains is to launch the product online and promote it vigorously to attract users to join in.

During the preparation process, Jack Ma was also observing the domestic market conditions of Aramco.

As a result, he discovered that Weibo had become quietly popular in Amei.

However, this software is still mainly used in China, and most of its users are of Chinese descent. It is not used by many local people in the United States.

In addition, in addition to Weibo, there is already an information sharing and distribution platform that is very similar to Weibo, called Share.

This Ser should have been launched not long ago, but it already has a large number of users.

The Ser software was launched by Yahoo, an Internet giant from the United States.

And, its number of users is growing rapidly.

After learning about this situation, Teacher Ma immediately became a little anxious.

Because it is a plagiarism of Weibo.

Its functions are actually very similar to those of Weibo.

Teacher Ma thought, this is a bit bad...

The other party already has similar software in their country, and it is from an Internet giant.

In this situation, what do you think we should do?
Can you out-compete the other party?

What's more, the other party already has a head start in development and has a fairly large user base.

At this point, you want to get all these users to start using Twitter?

This is probably not going to be easy.

Mr. Ma immediately worked with Twitter to set up a technical team to study the specific situation of this Ser.

After careful and comprehensive research, they found a problem: Ser’s recommendation algorithm was not very good, probably because the underlying framework was not well developed.

This leads to a problem: its recommendation mechanism cannot respond quickly and automatically discover information with huge potential for popularity posted by users on the platform.

This is a huge flaw for an information sharing platform.

What is this indicating?

This shows that Ser was probably a project that Yahoo hastily launched.

They just copy what is posted on Weibo.

However, they can copy the surface.

But what can’t they copy?

You can’t copy the source code, the underlying algorithm, or the distribution mechanism.

These are all core secrets.

They can't get it.

They can only improve their information distribution platform bit by bit after going online.

But this obviously requires a process.

Some readers may ask, doesn’t Amei have a large number of outstanding talents?

How is it that they can’t even figure out the algorithms and distribution mechanisms?

This is not reasonable.

Those who say this can take a look at Tik Tok. Even in the 21s, America will not be able to come up with an algorithm mechanism that can rival this software!

We don’t deny that Amei has a first-mover advantage in the Internet sector.

But they are really not as smart as the Chinese people. By the 21s, China's various Internet application software had actually begun to catch up with and even surpass America.

After the meeting, Teacher Ma felt refreshed and had gained confidence.

Don’t underestimate the fact that Ser was developed earlier.

After Twitter goes online, it will definitely catch up.

Mr. Ma has such confidence because he knows he has KK Chat to help him.

Teacher Ma naturally knew that KK Chat was also its own software.

After he first arrived at Amei, he met with KK’s current CEO Li Yanhong several times to chat.

Li Yanhong also received instructions to unconditionally support Twitter.

Of course, Li Yanhong has also studied Weibo carefully, and he knows that this software is different from KK Chat.

KK chat focuses on chatting and communication.

Weibo, on the other hand, focuses on information sharing.

The two combined together form a complete matrix.

Li Yanhong was a technical person, and he originally thought that Mr. Ma was also a technical expert. However, after communicating with him, he found that Mr. Ma knew nothing about technology.

It cannot be said that he knows nothing. Jack Ma has ideas, but most of them are strategic.

Besides, Jack Ma’s diploma is not very good.

Li Yanhong graduated from Peking University.

Jack Ma only went to junior college.

The gap between the two is still not small.

At the beginning, Li Yanhong looked down on Jack Ma a little bit.

He was a little confused: Why did the boss send Jack Ma to oversee the development of this new software?

In fact, Twitter can continue to lead the development of this new software by itself, without any problem.

However, Li Yanhong soon discovered that although Jack Ma did not have a high level of education, he had strong management skills.

He is also very decisive in doing things.

Moreover, the work arrangements are well organized and the overall planning is done well.

All kinds of work are progressing very quickly.

As a brand new software, what Twitter needs to do is to find a group of influential people to move in in advance and conduct internal testing for a period of time. After having a certain amount of content, it will officially go online to welcome a large number of users.

Teacher Ma has done a great job in this area. He has found a group of elites from all walks of life in China and systematically and comprehensively introduced China's culture, history, current prosperity, magnificent scenery, etc.

These contents are not only for cultural export, but also for authentic promotion of China.

More importantly, the people of Ame are actually full of curiosity about China.

However, there is basically not much positive news about China in Amei's media nowadays, almost all of it is negative and sarcastic.

Moreover, the photos they took were all of the worst and most backward aspects.

The purpose is to maintain their own pitiful vanity and self-esteem.

Therefore, it is now necessary to let the people of Ame see the real situation in China today.

In addition to showing the true situation in China, we also need to find people who are easy to create topics and debates and ask them to join Twitter.

These people will have to be found within Amei.

Some people say that Ameican media have freedom of news reporting.

In fact, this is pure nonsense.

In a country where the media is controlled by plutocracy, the media will inevitably be kept on a leash.

It can only report in accordance with the will of the chaebol.

It must also cooperate with the propaganda strategies of the Ami ruling elite.

Journalists with a sense of justice will often be punished and attacked if they do not follow their requests.

Mr. Ma found a group of dissatisfied journalists in Amei and stationed them on Twitter, asking them to stir up various topics.

These journalists had different opinions, and because they refused to give in, they were marginalized or even fired.

This also forced most reporters to pretend to be compliant even though they were dissatisfied in their hearts.

Today, these journalists can speak freely on Twitter and receive financial subsidies.

They are naturally happy to enter the platform to distribute the news and opinions they know.

The internal beta test lasted for a month before Twitter went live.

A lot of content has been accumulated.

At the same time, there are more than 10,000 people participating in the internal test.

Most of those who participated in the internal test were recruited by KK Chat through pop-up ads.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye it was mid-July 1999.

On this day, Twitter released a pop-up advertisement through KK chat, announcing the full launch of a new information distribution platform that is closer to the grassroots people. All the public can register an account on it to share their lives, opinions and knowledge.

Moreover, Twitter also provides a monetization plan for those who want to become a big V blogger on Twitter: advertising sharing, knowledge payment, commission from product sales, etc.

Nowadays, KK Chat has become a must-have chat software for all Internet users in Amei.

Anyone who goes online will register their own KK as soon as possible, and then stay online.

This is why people say that social software is the first entrance to Internet traffic.

Because everyone is using it, and it is indeed convenient to use.

KK Chat now has more than 200 million users in Amei.

It will be visible to all Ami citizens after they go online through a pop-up window.

After seeing it, as long as it is attractive, people will definitely click to take a look.

As soon as Twitter went online, it attracted countless people to click in at the first opportunity.

Hopkinson is a small farmer in central Aramco.

He has found life increasingly difficult in recent years.

This is because, when it comes to harvesting the crops he grows, as long as there is a good harvest, the price will immediately plummet.

Sometimes, even the investment in farming is barely enough to recover.

Hopkinson was naturally full of complaints.

He felt that something must be wrong.

He didn't know what went wrong, but his life was really not going well.

He often misses the happy life in the 70s.

At that time, the farm's output was abundant and the prices were quite stable and considerable.

Although he was just a small farmer with less than a hundred acres of land, he lived an upper-middle-class life.

He owns several large cars, and various luxury brands are stored in his garage.

He has at least two months of vacation every year, and his life is leisurely and rich.

But now what?

Life is just terrible right now.

Those large agricultural giants almost monopolize the entire Aramco food market.

In their eyes, small farmers like Hopkinson are just vegetables.

Hopkinson drank some wine that evening and sat in his study, turning on his computer.

He is very depressed now.

This made him not only like drinking, but also like playing games.

Of course, besides playing games, he also likes to chat with friends on KK.

If you can hook up with a woman who lives nearby, and you can all go out and have some fun together, that would be the perfect outcome.

After Hopkinson turned on his computer, he logged into his KK chat as usual.

He was just trying to see if any friends were talking to him when a pop-up window popped up: Do you want to be the master of the right to speak? Do you want to have a huge influence? Go to Twitter! It can help you get noticed by everyone!

Hopkinson was stunned.

Twitter?

What is this?
He is a small figure, but of course he also desires to have a say.

If he gets the right to speak, he can certainly talk about the distress he is facing now and find out where the problem lies.

Hopkinson clicked on the link.

Soon, the Twitter web version opened.

After clicking, a registration and login interface will appear first, and you can choose to log in with the KK chat account.

After Hopkinson clicked to log in, options such as selecting interests and hobbies appeared.

After Hopkinson made his choice, the system immediately recommended several bloggers for him to follow.

After Hopkinson chose to follow, he officially entered the information flow page.

The default page displayed is the blogger's page.

The first tweet Hopkinson saw was: Why are Ami farmers getting poorer? Why do ordinary Ami people feel that life is getting harder and harder? One picture can make you understand.

Below the tweet is a diagram.

The picture shows that the various chaebols are gearing up to use the monopoly resources in their hands to exploit small farmers, causing them to gradually go bankrupt, and then sell the land at a low price. Then the agricultural chaebols will merge a large amount of land and realize the goal of monopolizing agricultural production...

After Hopkinson saw this picture, he suddenly realized...

After all this time, it turned out that those chaebols were the ones causing trouble.

Their purpose is to plunder, and to plunder at a low price.

This is an attempt to bankrupt yourself!

This is so insidious and despicable!

Hopkinson was furious.

He continued to read the rest of the content on Twitter, and the more he read, the more he felt that this platform was amazing.

Things that I couldn't figure out in the past suddenly became clear to me after I came onto this platform.

Hopkinson decided to tweet himself to express his views.

Thinking this, he started to post his first tweet.

What he posted was his happy life in the past.

He has kept the photos and used them to describe the happiness and beauty of the time, and then made a simple comparison with the current situation.

In short, the main theme is the tragedy of the changing world and time.

What Hopkinson didn't expect was that his tweet was immediately pushed to the hot list...

PS: Here is today’s update. I will continue to ask for subscriptions and data.

(End of this chapter)