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Chapter 167 The Mobile Internet Era Has Arrived

"Isn't this the phone you're using?"

Liu Yifei looked at the phone that Gu Bei placed on the table.
That silver and black phone is the first generation iPhone released by Steve Jobs in January this year, or it can be said to be the iPhone 2G.

This generation of iPhone even only has one color.
The color of the packaging box is also black.

Gu Bei nodded: "Yes!"

A couple's phone!

Liu Yifei's expression suddenly became excited.

She happily unpacked the box.
Take out that 3.5-inch "big screen mobile phone" and play with it,
Everything about this type of mobile phone is new to her.

Gu Bei couldn't help but smile when he saw her happy expression.

This kind of happiness,

For him, a reborn person, he can no longer feel it.

Gu Bei has been waiting for the release of the first generation iPhone, a groundbreaking product.

It was not until the end of June when he returned from China that he got the mobile phone that had just been officially released.

With the release of the first generation iPhone,
The big ship of the mobile Internet era has finally started sailing.
If Gu Bei didn't get on this big ship, his rebirth would be in vain.

but,

According to Gu Bei's original plan,
He planned to start in North America and use the money from the movie to support the League of Legends.
Then, we will further develop the mobile game field and acquire Mihoyo and Bilibili.
Later on, I can make movies if I want to.

If you want to make 3A games, make 3A games.

The main thing is to do whatever you want.

But after meeting Liu Yifei,

Gu Bei's ambition also began to expand gradually.

He needs a bigger career and needs to have greater power in the field of public opinion!

At present, Gu Bei has obtained the domain name of Weibo, and a video website is also in his next plan.

The Internet's burning of money,
It is not something that can be supported by a League of Legends or a film career.

Gu Bei needs a larger source of cash.
So he focused on the time difference between the early days of mobile Internet between China and the United States.

In the early stage, he used his film career to support himself. In the middle stage, he sold the company in North America and invested all his energy in the domestic business, which was his foundation.

Gu Bei only set his sights on two applications.
The secondary battlefield is more valuable than quantity.

One is WhatsApp and the other is Instagram.

The former is an instant messaging software, equivalent to WeChat,

The latter is a picture sharing software, which is equivalent to the picture version of Weibo.

Compared to X (formerly Twitter), whose environment deteriorated later, Instagram's community environment was relatively better, and it later became the main social network for overseas celebrities to cultivate.

Gu Bei will try his best to keep Instagram in his own hands.
As for WhatsApp,

There's no use keeping this thing in your hand.

In terms of profitability, it cannot compete with games; in terms of influence, it cannot compete with short videos.
Gu Bei didn't have the hobby of reading other people's chat records. When the time was right, he would sell it to whoever offered the highest price.

"Crack!"

Liu Yifei took a photo of Gu Bei and said, "Wow, it's so clear!"

She took it and showed it to Gu Bei.
In fact, the camera of the first generation iPhone was only 200 million pixels.
Compared with the 500 million pixels of Nokia's flagship in the same period, it is actually not as good.
But the 3.4-inch LCD "big screen" of the first generation iPhone is much more amazing than Nokia's 2.4-inch TFT screen.

"Let me take a picture of you."

Gu Bei took the phone and pointed it at Liu Yifei opposite him.

Liu Yifei immediately cooperated and made a scissors hand pose.

Since she was little, Liu Xiaoli liked to take her out to play and take pictures of her, which led to Liu Yifei developing the habit of taking selfies everywhere when she grew up.
That's the level...

Just be happy!
However, the first generation iPhone only had a rear camera, not a front camera.

For the time being, we are unable to appreciate Liu Yifei's masterpiece of selfie from the death angle.

"not bad!"

After seeing Gu Bei's masterpiece, Liu Yifei happily patted him on the shoulder to show encouragement.

Gu Bei smiled and said, "I feel that this type of mobile phone will definitely replace the existing mobile phones, so I plan to open a new company to develop some software for them."

Liu Yifei already has experience in Rose Films,

She agreed without hesitation: "Okay, then I'll go register another company."

Gu Bei waved to the outside.

A white man pushed the door open and came in. He was wearing a neat suit, a simple tie, and walked with a steady pace. He looked like a traditional white elite.

Jason said to Gu Bei enthusiastically, "Bruce, you finally showed up again. Are we ready to embark on our business?"

Gu Bei said to Liu Yifei, "This is the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) I found for the company!"

finished,

He looked at Jason across from him.
Rather than saying that he hired Jason to be the CEO,
It would be better to say that he is here to play the CEO, just a human signatory.

Even when WhatsApp was acquired,
The entire team consists of 55 people, including 35 engineers.

A team of this size is within Gu Bei's personal comfort zone.

only,
WhatsApp is relatively sensitive.

So we need a white elite-looking CEO to stand in front.

Jason fits this requirement perfectly.

His life is somewhat legendary. When he was a child, his father was a famous financial tycoon in California. He was uneducated and had to spend money to go to Stanford.

Before he graduated from college, his father was sent to prison. It turned out that his father was not a financial genius, but a Ponzi scheme that increased the rate of return to defraud money.

Although Jason was not kicked out of Stanford, he could not continue his studies because of his poor grades.

Since then,

Jason wandered around various cities in California,
Don't be fooled by the fact that he is dressed in a suit and tie now. He may not even have a hundred dollars in his pocket, but he still dares to spend fifty dollars to dry-clean his suit. His suit is his life.

Gu Bei met Jason in Silicon Valley in 2010.
At that time, he was interning at Google. Jason inherited his father's talent for fraud and swindled five thousand dollars from Gu Bei.

Originally, Gu Bei considered himself unlucky.
But Jason's character is rather strange. He inherited his father's talent for fraud, but he has no ambition.
After cheating the next person out of money, he returned the unspent two thousand dollars to Gu Bei and was caught red-handed by Gu Bei.

Based on Gu Bei's personality, he must have been sent to the police station.

But at that time, he had just resigned from Google and was about to return to China, so he didn't care.

The next news I heard about Jason was that he was an executive at a company, responsible for signing documents with legal risks. He was eventually imprisoned and sentenced to hundreds of years, which was longer than the sentence of his father who defrauded more than one billion dollars.

Gu Bei approached Jason because Jason was easy to control.

As long as his salary is enough for him to hang out in nightclubs every day, he will be satisfied.

The story that Gu Bei arranged for Jason was,
A Stanford outcast met Gu Bei and Liu Yifei.
After a grand speech,

Liu Yifei invested the first round of start-up capital for him, and Gu Bei became his CTO (Chief Technology Officer).
Later, the Minecraft Investment Fund from Europe invested money in him again and again, and he successfully created WhatsApp, which made a world sensation.

Quite the North American dream!

Gu Bei knows that Silicon Valley is just like this.
To some extent, the Silicon Valley elite is actually a larger grass-roots team.

Otherwise, she would not have been fooled by the female version of Steve Jobs and pushed a blood testing company with no technology to a market value of up to 90 billion US dollars.

(End of this chapter)