Reborn: Billionaire in College

After the New Year’s Eve dinner, Chen Pingjiang turned his attention to Alipay’s Spring Festival Gala activities.

Last year, WeChat launched the Shake function, and this year, Alipay launched the Shuu function.

At 1 a.m., after the Spring Festival Gala ended, Alipay’s official Weibo account excitedly issued an announcement: “The number of Alipay interactions during this Spring Festival Gala was 29.5 times that of last year, reaching 3245 billion times, with a peak of 210 billion interactions per minute.”

It’s a bit like announcing good news to the outside world, but it’s also a bit like declaring war on WeChat.

As a result, Lao Ma's complexion looked much better.

Fortunately, the data was good, otherwise Lao Ma would have almost bought a piece of tofu and died.

From the user's perspective, this activity organized by Alipay can be considered a success, and it has gained hundreds of millions of friendships.

This is what makes Alipay most excited.

Does the social dream you've always had finally seem to be coming true?

Chen Pingjiang acted very calm about this.

Lao Ma spent 100,000 yuan and seemed to have gained hundreds of millions of friends, but they are just friends.

These Alipay friend relationships will not be converted into real daily active users, they just lie in the address book without even any chatting.

How many good people would use Alipay to chat when they already have WeChat?

Unless it is between a couple, the WeChat friends have been blocked.

Therefore, the effect brought by Alipay's 1 billion is actually far less than the 300 million investment in WeChat Pay.

It is equivalent to buying registered users, but the actual conversion data is pitifully small.

Although Alipay's data has increased significantly compared to last year, WeChat is not bad either. This is purely due to the explosive growth of smartphone users.

In short, Alipay got the face, but WeChat got the substance.

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Early the next morning, the Chen family villa became lively at 7 o'clock.

He Zhiyu arrived very early with a large group, and soon Zhao Shaoyang and others also arrived.

"You came too early. You're here on the first day of the New Year?" Chen Pingjiang said with a smile.

He Zhiyu said: "If you don't come earlier, you will be busy in a few days and I won't be able to see you."

He Zhiyu, Liu Cheng, and Wan Qiping took out countless gifts from the trunk like Doraemon.

"These are not for you. They are for your uncle and aunt. They are not good things either. Don't refuse them."

Fearing that Chen Pingjiang would refuse, the three of them said with a smile.

Chen Pingjiang took a quick look and saw that they were nothing more than cigarettes, alcohol, health products and the like, so he did not refuse.

Zhao Shaoyang and Dai Sheng rushed over, but Zhou Guanghan was in his hometown and couldn't come over for the time being.

People on both sides were familiar with each other, and soon they were chatting animatedly.

"Since the beginning of this year, the rise in Bitcoin's price has become increasingly exaggerated. In December, it was still $12 per coin, but now it is almost $12 on Mt. Gox. Should we sell it?" said Wan Qiping.

Chen Pingjiang shook his head: "We are just getting started. Let's put it aside for now and see what happens at the end of the year."

He Zhiyu showed an interested look: "Do you think Bitcoin will continue to rise?"

Chen Pingjiang nodded: "I think it will rise to more than $1000 by the end of the year. If you believe me, take it."

This is almost equivalent to Chen Pingjiang giving everyone an open-book exam.

All that’s missing is feeding them.

2013 was the year with the most rapid growth in Bitcoin, with an increase of 6600%!

Just when everyone thought that $1000 was the ceiling for Bitcoin, they later realized that this ceiling would continue to get higher.

"Oh my god, it's up to $1000. Isn't that too much? I only have coins on hand now. It seems I need to buy more."

"Pingjiang, many people are tinkering with mining now. What do you think of this business?"

“On a large scale, it’s good business.”

"Then we'll build a mine after the New Year."

Zhao Shaoyang and Dai Sheng on the other end also showed interest: "Take one of us."

Chen Pingjiang, who knew the future trends of Bitcoin and housing prices, could make money almost without doing anything in 2013 and accrue terrifying wealth.

And those who are close to Chen Pingjiang can also eat meat and drink soup.

Apart from anything else, if one person holds 50000 bitcoins, by the end of 13, that would be 5000 million US dollars.

However, in the past two years, Bitcoin performed generally, until it soared to $1415 per coin at the end of 17.

"By the way, Brother Chen, Wang Cong recently invested in an angel round of Huobi, and he also asked me to join in. Is that reliable?"

Chen Pingjiang was delighted when he heard it.

I didn't expect that a few words from me back then would accidentally lead Wang Cong to this point.

"Let him play with this kind of thing by himself. Don't touch it. You don't have a father with a deep background."

After Zhao Shaoyang chewed over these words carefully, he nodded.

At this time, He Zhiyu came back from the yard with the phone in his hand, complaining as he walked: "This Zhang Fu, how can he arrange to play mahjong on New Year's Day? I told him that I was at your place, but he insisted that I help him ask, he also wanted to come over."

After hearing this, Wan Qiping and Liu Cheng thought of Zhang Fu's appearance and laughed.

They are quite proud of this.

Not everyone can come to the Chen family villa if they want to, especially during the Chinese New Year. People with ordinary connections cannot enter the yard.

They are just a few of Chen Pingjiang's old friends who have had a good relationship with him since before he became successful.

Those who are a little more distantly related, such as Zhang Fu, can only helplessly apply.

"Come if you want, but I can't prepare meals for so many people." Liu Cheng patted his chest and promised, "Come to my place!"

"I'm tired of eating at your restaurant all the time."

Chen Pingjiang didn't feel bored when a large group of people got together. Instead, he found it interesting. It was better than being stuck in the room every day during the New Year holidays.

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Chen Pingjiang officially returned to work on the eighth day after the holiday. He rushed to the Qingshan Lake base and called all the people from Orange Technology and Wang Tao to inquire about the progress of the project.

Wang Tao is very confident about Phantom 1: "The product has been almost fine-tuned and is currently in preliminary production."

Chen Pingjiang nodded and said, "At the Orange new product launch in March, you will be on stage to introduce DJI's first consumer-grade integrated drone."

DJI and Orange Technology have signed a contract.

Orange Technology charges a 10% fee and is also responsible for the sales of DJI Phantom 1.

Including but not limited to the Internet, offline stores and other channels.

A 10% commission is not expensive, and is even quite considerate to DJI.

Excluding the commission given to Orange Technology, DJI still has at least 20% of net profit left.

Moreover, as the production volume increases, profits can be further increased.

But Orange Technology’s complete channels are too important for DJI.

Otherwise, DJI can only sell online, and without popularity, its sales volume is questionable.

Now that it has entered all Orange Technology sales channels, DJI Phantom 1's sales volume will at least increase fivefold, and may even reach the global market.

This is extremely important for emerging companies like DJI.

Chen Pingjiang is naturally full of confidence in DJI's products.

Lin Bin then smiled and said: "The most groundbreaking innovation of our Orange S4 is the intelligent voice system - Xiaoju, which was also our main focus last year. It was jointly developed by the Orange Brain Lab and the Orange Exploration Lab and consists of a series of intelligent products such as Xiaoju Voice, Xiaoju Vision, Xiaoju Translation and Xiaoju Call. Strictly speaking, it is the world's first AI voice assistant, much more powerful than Apple's SIRI."

Hearing this, Chen Pingjiang nodded with satisfaction.

It is indeed very efficient to develop an AI voice assistant in such a short time.

Lin Bin continued: "At present, the development version of OrangeUI has been completed, and Xiaoju has the conditions to enter the Orange S4. At the same time, we have also developed Orange TV and Orange AI Impression according to your requirements, and cooperated with Jiuzhou Automobile to have the conditions to access the smart cockpit."

This thing was developed much earlier than Amazon. As part of the ecological chain, it will be an indispensable part of future terminal devices.

Whether it is a mobile phone, PAD, speaker, TV, watch, or car, it can be used in all situations and can be regarded as the most basic AI tool.

"This gives our smart home project a soul."

This is the ultimate goal of Orange Technology - smart home.

Xiaoju voice controls various terminals and connects to a local area network to form a smart home.

These include smart sockets, electric curtains, refrigerators, air conditioners, lights...

These combined together are awesome.

Chen Pingjiang naturally knows how important the AI ​​trend will be in the future.

Chen Pingjiang is determined to go all in on this, in order to get results as soon as possible before OpenAI.

Nvidia’s market value has soared to 3 trillion thanks to AI, which shows how important this thing is.

Although the current Xiaoju is still the most basic AI voice, it means that Orange Technology is already one step ahead in AI.

In the future, AI will be useful in autonomous driving, industrial manufacturing, education, finance, medical care, and machine learning.

It's a trump card.

"Where's the product? Show it to me."

Lin Bin smiled and said, "After the meeting, I will take you to the laboratory."

Wang Tao, who was listening in a daze, was also shocked by the research results of Orange Technology.

Is the world developing so fast?
Smartphones have only been around for a few years. Have they already come up with AI?
How terrible!
So can AI be combined with drones?
Wang Tao couldn't help but think.

At the same time, he once again felt fortunate for his decision to join Chen Pingjiang's team.

Not to mention funding, the most important things are resources and channels.

Among these, technical support is more important.

Chen Pingjiang owns his own chip design company, wafer fab, and AI laboratory, all of which can greatly help DJI's development.

There is nothing more comfortable in the world than this.

He just needs to focus on his research and doesn't need to worry about anything else.

"Let's go, what are you waiting for?"

Chen Pingjiang said excitedly.

He is most interested in this kind of high-tech gadget.

Especially smart home.

This concept came out a few years ago, and there are even many cases of semi-finished and finished products on display.

But without exception, they are all extremely expensive and the required conditions are extremely complicated.

Now we have it, with intelligent voice as the soul to control terminal devices. As long as we keep the protocol interface and buy the corresponding products, we can control all the home appliances.

Don't be too cool.

When you get home, the lights will turn on automatically, the curtains will close automatically, and the air conditioner will turn on automatically...

This is a smart home. (End of this chapter)