Reborn: Billionaire in College

When Chen Pingjiang received the call, he thought he had misheard. It took him repeated confirmation before he believed that Gulfstream Aerospace had really built the aircraft he wanted.

It usually takes half a year to a year to wait for the Gulfstream G550, but Chen Pingjiang only spent three and a half months waiting in line. This delivery speed is just right.

Money makes things easier. In capitalist countries, nothing is a problem as long as you pay enough.

If you find a client who is not in such a hurry to discuss it and cut in line, wouldn't you save several months of time?

Chen Pingjiang kept his word and transferred a service fee to Gulfstream.

Private jets are different from cars.

If you buy an imported car, the car dealer will ship it back to your country.

Private jets are delivered overseas, and the crew hired by Chen Pingjiang has to go to Georgia, the United States, to drive the plane back.

When Chen Pingjiang saw his own Gulfstream G550 at Dongjiang Airport, he nodded with satisfaction.

Next, it was time to send Ge Mengshi to Finland.

Ge Mengshi, who is more than four months pregnant, is already showing some signs of pregnancy and is not suitable to continue working in the company.

It would be okay in winter, but in summer if you wear less, others will notice it at a glance.

While the Gulfstream G550 is processing its certification, Ge Mengshi can also take advantage of the time to reunite with her family.

"Xiao Chen, are you ready to leave?" Ge Bingyi looked at his daughter reluctantly.

"Let's do it at the end of this month. Let's take advantage of these few days to get Auntie's visa." Chen Pingjiang hasn't been to the Ge family for a few days.

The result of the discussion was that Ge's mother would accompany Ge Mengshi to Finland first, and Ge Bingyi would go there after finishing the matters at hand.

The position of CEO of Zhizhen Catering has been handed over to Qin Suqin. She is capable of handling the daily work, and if she encounters anything she is unsure about, she will report to Ge Mengshi via video.

Xu Fangjuan and Chen Guangming will go there one month before the due date to welcome the birth of the first third generation of the Chen family together.

Now, Mr. and Mrs. Ge are somewhat at a disadvantage when facing Chen Pingjiang. Not to mention that a mother must be strong, no one can remain calm when facing Chen Pingjiang's future son-in-law.

"Xiao Chen, look... when can you meet your parents? You haven't met them yet." After Ge Bingyi and the boss looked at each other, Ge Bingyi finally said it reluctantly.

Unexpectedly, Chen Pingjiang smiled and said, "They are traveling recently. You can talk to them when they return to Europe."

Xu Fangjuan and Chen Guangming are indeed not in Dongjiang, but they are not traveling. Instead, they have returned to their hometown of Tongcheng.

This is somewhat intended to avoid the Ge family.

Empress Dowager Xu had her dignity to protect. She could treat Ge Mengshi like her daughter-in-law, but she was too embarrassed to face her parents.

If the two families were legitimate relatives, meeting each other would not be a problem. The difficulty was that Xu Fangjuan didn't know how to face Ge's father and mother, and always felt that her little bastard was too bad.

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Zhang Yiming sat in his office, nervously waiting for Toutiao to release 24-hour data.

Having spent so much time and effort, and obtained so many publicity resources from the group, if Zhang Yiming fails, he will probably look down on himself.

Not only Zhang Yiming, but other senior executives of Renren are also paying attention.

Algorithm is the foundation of Toutiao. If it has been successful on Toutiao, it will be no problem for TikTok in the future.

It is almost certain that the TikTok project will be the last piece of Chen Pingjiang's puzzle.

Toutiao uses a lot of black technology.

In addition to algorithms, there are also AI robots, yes, you heard it right.

This AI robot is called xiaomingbot, and it can write news articles in real time, producing an average of 50 to 100 news reports per day.

The average time from news generation to release is 2 seconds, almost reaching the speed of live TV broadcast.

Xiaomingbot is an AI robot developed by Toutiao Lab that can produce news through text generation technology.

Generate natural language reports, i.e. newsletters, based on tabular data in databases and knowledge bases.

In fact, Toutiao is not just a news client, but also a personalized information recommendation engine based on machine learning, and a platform for all information and content sharing and creation. Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms play an important role in helping to efficiently and accurately recommend content that users are interested in.

The rest of the news is posted here through reprinting.

Toutiao has never defined itself as a news client, because the bottleneck of news clients is obvious, and the shortcomings are also the same. It is difficult to meet the various needs of the mobile era by completely copying the content and model of PC portals.

From the very beginning, Toutiao has emphasized that it is an information distribution platform.

The scope of "information" is much larger than "news". When users browse their phones, they do not actually distinguish between "information" and "news". From the user's perspective, they are the same thing, and they are all helping them complete the task of seeing new things. However, it is obvious that "information" can provide more new things, so it is naturally strategically higher than "news".

Unlike experts, scholars, journalists and other groups who have a high demand for information, the general public has a lower demand for information and will not invest too much energy in it. What they need more is a leisurely reading experience. Therefore, Toutiao emphasizes "information" from the beginning.

In the mobile era, everyone reads in fragmented form, using their phones before and after meals, during breaks, in the toilet, on the way to work, and while waiting in line. This is a different logic as everyone gives up everything and sits in front of their computers to read the news in the PC era.

This is also the reason why Weibo, short videos and even online novels are so popular.

The difference between the two is whether "information looks for people" or "people look for information".

"How is it?" As soon as the time came, Zhang Yiming ran impatiently to the employee in charge of data statistics.

There was a large group of people surrounding him, all paying attention to the first day's data.

"Yes, very good, over a million downloads on the first day!"

"Awesome, it worked!" "We must celebrate tonight!"

After seeing the data, Zhang Yiming also breathed a sigh of relief.

However, he was very clear that it was not Toutiao itself that played a role in the first wave of download data, but Renren's powerful publicity channels.

But, anyway, it was a success.

The entire project team has worked hard for more than a year to get to where we are today.

It was almost done from the beginning before Zhang Yiming came. After Zhang Yiming came, part of it was redone. It took 14 months in total.

This is almost the longest project in the entire group. You can imagine how much pressure the project team is under.

What’s special is that all the other products within the group are star products. If Toutiao fails, the entire project team will probably be wiped out.

"Nothing else, Longbiju has reserved the entire place tonight, let's celebrate."

Zhang Yiming shouted with a smile on his face.

Chen Pingjiang, who was following the progress, also breathed a sigh of relief. This version of Toutiao was very complete, and it would be unfair not to win.

What Zhang Yiming and Chen Pingjiang didn't expect in the next few days was that the number of downloads of Toutiao continued to surge and received a lot of positive reviews.

This would be understandable in 2024, but right now there are less than million smartphone terminals in the country, and millions of downloads per day is terrifying.

The main reason behind this is the lack of news-type apps.

The clients of the four major portals have not yet been launched, and Toutiao is the only one in the market.

In this era, everyone is very hungry for information, but at the same time, entertainment options are relatively limited.

What can you do when you go to the toilet during your commute?
Can't do anything.

No mobile games!
No short videos to watch!
You can’t watch TV series on your mobile phone because the data is too expensive!

What can some middle-aged men who don’t like to check Weibo and Renren do?

The emergence of Toutiao perfectly fills their squatting time.

After all, most male compatriots really like going to the toilet.

There is no other reason, it just feels real.

“Is anyone using Toutiao, which is very popular recently?”

"Your sentence above is a grammatical error. Since you said it's very popular, naturally many people will use it."

"Young people may not like it, but those of us who are over 30 years old all say it's good after using it."

"As a professional, I have to give a thumbs up to Toutiao. Although it is just a small application, it has very high technical content. Did you notice that it seems to have a pair of eyes, and it will recommend you what you like to watch?"

"I've also discovered that when I read news on Sina or NetEase, I have to keep flipping through them, and they are all very orthodox news. But Toutiao is different. There is a lot of knowledge, news, and information that I can't find on portal websites, or I have to flip through them for a long time to see. The comment section of Toutiao is especially interesting."

"I found a good idea for starting a business. Toutiao has a creator incentive program. You can write and upload your own information and you will get money."

"..."

I have to say that the technology of using big data statistics to recommend content based on what users like was simply amazing in 2010.

It can be regarded as a dimensionality reduction attack on similar products.

Big companies like Tencent and Alibaba were shocked when they saw it. How could it be done this way?

After all, the concept of big data was only introduced in 2008. Everyone knows about it, but how to apply it is still a problem.

Toutiao taught everyone a lesson.

The combination of user behavior analysis, personalized recommendation system, big data and machine learning, similarity recommendation, and implicit query system is simply an invincible combination.

It is open to internal and external traffic.

In just half a month, major manufacturers began to invest frantically in research and development.

Alibaba was even more direct. It found Zhang Yiming through a headhunting company and poached him with a high salary.

However, Zhang Yiming clearly rejected it.

What's worse is that after being rejected, Alibaba exposed Zhang Yiming through other channels and portrayed him as a key figure in the success of Toutiao.

Suddenly, Zhang Yiming became famous in the entire Internet circle.

Faced with olive branches and countless temptations from various companies, Zhang Yiming rejected them all.

He knew very well that if Chen Pingjiang had not given him the opportunity, he would not be where he is today.

What's more, the concept of using big data and machine learning to make personalized recommendations on user preferences was first told to him by big boss Chen Pingjiang, and he just led the team to complete it.

How can I have the nerve to claim it as my own?

The more he got along with Chen Pingjiang, the more he realized the unfathomable and outstanding insights of his boss.

In the face of Zhang Yiming's "loyalty", Chen Pingjiang also showed great generosity and directly promoted him to the position of vice president of Renren. (End of this chapter)