Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 736: Capricious and Rampant
Discussion: How can you ruin a good hand of cards?
Brother Li: Even if you give me a chance, I am useless.

This Li Ge is not the one from LOL, but the neighbor of the Bi'an Technology Park.

The wheel of history started rolling when Li Ge shouted “All in AI”, and Lu Qi’s drastic reforms touched the cheese of the search business.

The ending is well known: the reformers left the market in disgrace, and the stock price fell from a high of $300 to a low of $170.

After a few years, Brother Li found that relying solely on big search was not enough, and the trend was still driven by AI. He wanted to go back to his old love and continue to bet on AI. He then took action himself, and soon kicked out Hailong, who was in charge of big search.

And senior officials like Hai Long were not there to sit around and do nothing. When he left, he did not just wave his sleeves like Lu Qi did, leaving billions of dollars in ashes. He did not take the money with him, but took people with him, and a large number of senior officials left.

Later, Li Ge asked Doushen (Shen Dou) to manage Dasou. It turned out that this guy was a fierce fighter. He fought three times a year and forced all the remaining talents of Dasou to move to Byte.
As a result, AIAI failed to get up, and Dasou Dasou was half-dead, so it was not pleasing to both sides.

When ChatGPT came out, Li Ge was so excited that he put his hands on his hips and shouted to the sky: "HIAHIAHIA, my era has finally arrived!"

However, looking around, apart from Mrs. Ma and a group of flatterers behind him, there was no real expert in the field of AI under his command.

The hastily launched "Chunxinyiyu" was finally nicknamed "ChatPPT" by netizens due to its charging strategy and poor experience.

People know their own business. The company that was the first to develop AI abandoned its own products on its official website and instead put up another company's AI search, becoming a laughing stock in the industry.

Chen Mo still clearly remembers looking at the pictures posted by netizens in the workplace forum.

In front of the company building, groups of employees spontaneously lined up to see him off wearing T-shirts printed with "Qi's Team". Some held up signs that read "Thank You Qi" and some even had tears in their eyes.

Ironically, many employees of the company were given an internal gag order, and these heartwarming pictures disappeared quietly from all major platforms a few hours later.

The public's opinion of this legendary executive has taken a sharp turn for the worse, from previous praises of "AI Godfather" and "reform pioneer" to "an unworthy paratrooper", "Silicon Valley elite unable to adapt to the Chinese environment", "a PPT executive who can only draw big pie in the sky", and even worse, some people directly mocked him as "an executive with an annual salary of over 100 million yuan".

What a lively scene, but now the place is deserted.

But Chen Mo is well aware of a simple truth: no matter whether he is dying or leaving, the person who can make people see him off spontaneously must be someone who has truly done practical things and made contributions to everyone.

Coming back to his senses, Chen Mo put a tick on Lu Qi's evaluation report.

The analysis of Tianji Pavilion coincided with his inner judgment. In an environment like the other side where there was no factional constraints, Lu Qi was still Lu Qi, and he was not Brother Li.

"Okay, that's him."

After ticking the box, Chen Mo suddenly discovered that there was another page attached to the end of the evaluation report.

He raised his eyebrows slightly: "Hmm? Is there another expert?"

This anonymous file is extremely mysterious. There is no name at the beginning and even the resume is vague.

Born as a programmer, he started from scratch in the Internet industry;
After working, he started as an ordinary employee and became one of the company's senior executives in just a few years.

I worked on a project in my spare time and sold it for hundreds of millions.

Later, he resigned from the company for some reason, leaving billions of dollars in his bank account.
As he watched, Chen Mo felt something was wrong.

Especially the billions mentioned by Carrie Wenwan, isn’t this talking about Lei Jun?

Then Chen Mo changed his mind and realized that, indeed, if he opened his mind, Lei Jun was indeed a more suitable candidate than Lu Qi.

He has the ability, vision, technology and marketing skills, and he is only 1 cm shorter than me.

But, how is it possible? It's simply the opposite of Tiangang.

Is it that Bi'an acquired Xiaomi, or is it that Lei Jun brought Xiaomi to marry into Bi'an?

Either situation will shake the entire Chinese business community.

Even if Lei Jun agrees, what about the other shareholders?
Even if all the shareholders agree, the relevant departments will never sit idly by and watch such a super giant being born. This is going to be a big deal.
"These guys in Tianji Pavilion are really bold." Chen Mo then realized that he had only asked to screen candidates but did not limit the feasibility.

He looked directly to the end and saw a recommendation index of ten stars, as well as two extremely familiar words that appeared at the very end.

Chen Mo cursed directly, "Fuck you!"

Well, he was wrong. It was not Lei Jun, but himself.

Then he felt the backup of Lei Jun. How could he have so much money in his card at that time? It was outrageous!

But if you think about it carefully, he and Lei Jun do have many similarities: both have technical backgrounds, both started from scratch, and both are wise and brave.

The only difference is that Lei Jun had been walking on thin ice on this road for more than ten years, while he finished it in just a few years.

It seems that this report is really driving everyone in Tianji Pavilion crazy, so they left a surprise for themselves, or used this method to subtly persuade him to continue to be at the helm.

Chen Mo smiled and shook his head, then turned on the computer and started deploying:
After looking up some information online, he started to write and draw on a notebook and began to arrange these candidates. Forget about the two foreigners, Chen Mo was still worried. It was still very difficult to adjust to the cultural differences between the East and the West. What was originally intended to save trouble turned out to be troublesome.

As for Su Ma, in fact, rather than being in line with the other side, she is more in line with Mi'an Xinsheng.

Compared with Nvidia, Chen Mo pays relatively less attention to AMD, but even if the stock price is lower, it is impossible for it to be only 3 US dollars.

What Bi'an lacks the least now is cash flow, so this investment must be made.

Moreover, through strategic investment, the considerable profits in the later stage are only one of the benefits. The second is to keep in touch with Lisa Su and wait for opportunities to poach her. The third is to allow Mi'an Xinsheng to jointly develop customized GPU/CPU with AMD for use in other side games, cloud computing and data centers.

The reason why Mi'an Xinsheng has made such rapid progress in related chips is that in addition to spending a lot of money to acquire hardware, such as lithography machines, the members of the R&D team are basically top-notch and have built a strong technology ecosystem.

In addition, Bi'an previously invested tens of billions of dollars to buy shares in Nvidia and cooperate with it to learn from its strengths. Now with the addition of AMD, it is like adding wings to a tiger.

Just be aware that this is the last honeymoon window period, and you must be careful about methods and approaches to avoid subsequent sanctions. All operations must be nested through offshore companies and funds to ensure risk isolation.

Thinking about personnel arrangements, Chen Mo already had a plan:
Shen Xiangyang can serve as the dean of the Beyond Innovation and Research Institute and release Xu Chaojun's energy. Although this guy has extraordinary energy, it is still a bit difficult for him to take on several positions, including the academic affairs of Qingteng College, the Innovation and Research Institute, and network security.

But it's also a good thing. If Xu Chaojun is busy, he won't be distracted by other things. He can even get himself into playing poker.

As for Lu Qi, he must make a quick decision within three months. If Brother Li takes the lead and follows the old path of history, he will regret it deeply.

Chen Mo knew very well that for these top talents, headhunters could only play a leading role, and he would eventually have to take action himself and show his sincerity by making three visits to the thatched cottage.

It seems that I have to go there myself this time. However, considering my current wealth and the importance of the other side, the foreign country is so chaotic, and the security must be foolproof. It is better to be safe than sorry.

Chen Mo's mind was full of thoughts. An hour later, three encrypted emails were sent out one after another:

“@徐培新, appoint an internationally renowned headhunter to contact Lisa Su, Harry Shum, and Qi Lu, and pass on the news that the other side is interested in them, make initial contact, and continue to monitor their developments.”

“@周守资, research AMD’s market prospects, use overseas offshore funds to make strategic investments, and be careful to avoid policy and geopolitical risks”

“@张长发, the entire army is going abroad to form a temporary special security team (ten people, fully armed), equipped with bulletproof vehicles in the United States.”

As the orders were issued, several departments began to operate at high speed like sophisticated machines.

In the last week of April, Chen Mo was reviewing the progress of the KPIs he set for himself at the beginning of the year:

1. V3.0 architecture split: 60% completed;

2. CEO candidate selection: preliminary confirmation, progress 50%;

3. Subsidiary financing plan: key projects such as Ele.me, Dadi Chuxing, Qidian, etc. are to be promoted;
Behind this list is Bian's strategic blueprint of "the parent company will not be listed, and the subsidiary businesses will be split and financed separately."

Since its launch in the fourth quarter of last year, Wu Dan has led the financing of projects such as Zhihu and Bilibili, but the core business still needs to be managed by Chen Mo himself.

And so April draws to a close.

Another major event happened in the Internet technology circle this month, which was LeTV Sports' Series B financing.

You should know that LeTV Sports was born with a silver spoon in its mouth since last year. With the help of his wife Gan Wei, Jia Yueting invited 11 celebrities including Sun Lulei, Liu Baijie, Zhou Gongzi, Huang Xiaozhu, Chen Ji, Guo Xiaosi and others to become shareholders of LeTV Sports.

Jia also used this trick when he was developing LeTV Pictures. At that time, he invited a number of directors and stars including Mou Zi to join the company, which was very successful.

On the one hand, it relies on the endorsement of powerful stars, and on the other hand, it relies on the success of LeTV TVs and mobile phones and the high valuation of LeTV.com.

In the middle of last year, LeTV Sports received 8 million yuan in financing in its A round. Many top domestic financial groups such as Wanda Group, Yunfeng Fund, Pusi Capital, and Tianhong Fund were investors.

This time, LeTV Sports received a letter of intent to invest from China Construction Bank International. HNA, Sunac, China Media Capital and many other institutions also began to compete for investment in LeTV Sports, in addition to many previous celebrity investors who followed suit.

In the end, LeTV Sports' Series B financing was a huge success, with a total investment of 80 billion yuan. The company's valuation was as high as 215 billion yuan, and LeTV Sports ushered in its highlight moment.

Later, with the support of huge capital, LeTV Sports went on a crazy shopping spree around the world, first acquiring the Chinese Super League for 13.5 billion, and then madly acquired the copyrights of first-line events such as the AFC Champions League, Premier League, Serie A, ATP World Tour, etc. Except for the NBA copyright which was owned by Bi'an Video, it can be said that the rest were packed up and taken away by LeTV.

LeTV Sports, like LeTV Video, has become a copyright empire for film, television and sports. Even a LeTV Sports executive claimed, "No matter what game you like to watch, you will definitely find the content you like on the LeTV Sports platform!"

At this time, with the help of massive funds, the company's scale expanded rapidly and its staff continued to increase. LeTV Sports began to poach a large number of people from major sports units, often offering sky-high salaries of more than twice its original amount. It even sponsored the Guoan Football Team and renamed the Wukesong Sports Stadium as LeTV Super Sports Center through sponsorship.

Lao Jia was once hailed as someone comparable to Chen Mo.

As LeTV's stock price continues to rise, it has become the most powerful challenger after the new BAT.

Jia Yueting's insinuation on Weibo sparked heated discussions: "I wonder how a certain Internet giant feels now that he missed a good investment opportunity because he didn't know what he was doing?"

Just as the media were speculating on who Lao Jia was referring to,
Chen Mo, who hadn’t updated his Weibo for many days, posted a post, “I saw him building a tall building.”

(End of this chapter)