I suggest you investigate; this person doesn't seem to be a first-time reborn individual.

"By the way, Fourth Brother, what exactly did you do in Beijing this time?"

"We discussed some things."

"What is it?"

You wouldn't understand even if I told you.

Liu Zhihua scoffed and continued eating his pastries.

Ding Facai leaned closer, his face full of gossip: "What does Zhou Hongyi look like? Is she fierce?"

Lin Ran thought for a moment: "He's a pretty normal person."

"So what did he say?"

He said he wanted me to work at 360.

The dormitory was silent for a second, then all three of them exploded at the same time.

"Holy crap! Really?!"

"Zhou Hongyi personally poached you?!"

"You're fucking bragging!"

Lin Ran ignored them, took off his clothes, got into bed, and turned his back to them: "Go to sleep."

The three people looked at each other in bewilderment.

Ding Facai whispered, "Do you think Lao Si is just bluffing this time, or is he really serious?"

Zhao Feiyu shook his head: "I don't know."

Liu Zhihua picked up another pastry, chewed it, and said, "Who cares if it's real or fake, at least the pastry is real."

The other two thought about it and agreed that it made sense, so they continued eating with their heads down.

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The following morning, in the office of the vice dean of the School of Economics.

Wang Lijun looked at the two boxes of tea in front of him and then sneered at Lin Ran, who was standing to the side.

"What do you mean? Trying to bribe me?" He pushed the tea leaves towards Lin Ran. "Too late."

He leaned back in his chair, crossed his legs, and said, "You've been skipping my classes for over a month now. Don't worry, you're definitely going to fail."

Lin Ran pushed the tea leaves back expressionlessly: "It's fine, just hang it up. Anyway, you're still our company's instructor."

Wang Lijun paused for a moment, then asked, "The company?"

Lin Ran nodded.

"At next week's press conference, everyone will know that the student you, Wang Lijun, mentored is a poor student."

Wang Lijun: "..."

Wang Lijun frowned. What a mess of nonsense, with talk of companies and press conferences.

"A press conference?" He decided to put aside the matter of skipping class for now. "What press conference? Tell me more."

Lin Ran pulled out an A4 sheet of paper. Wang Lijun glanced at it and saw that it was a letter of introduction for registering a company, located in Room 108 of the Jiangda Entrepreneurship Center.

Wang Lijun naturally knew that to register a company at a school, he needed a certificate of venue use or a letter of introduction from the school before he could go to the Administration for Industry and Commerce to register the company.

He looked up: "You guys are really going to start a company?"

Lin Ran nodded.

For Wang Lijun, this was indeed a good thing.

This signifies that, with the support of the college, the student entrepreneurship project has entered a new stage. This is a tangible achievement, and as the vice dean in charge of student entrepreneurship, he can write several more pages in his year-end report.

Logically, he should have given his full support.

But he paused for a moment: "You guys at Momo... the public opinion has been really bad for you lately, hasn't it? Are you sure you want to register a company now?"

Lin Ran could naturally understand his subtext.

In case something goes wrong, it can still be called a student entrepreneurship project. With the student's status, the school can provide support and mediation.

But if you register a company, you become a legitimate market entity, and if something goes wrong, you'll have to bear the risks and responsibilities yourself.

Wang Lijun was leaving him a way out.

Lin Ran nodded, indicating that he understood.

He also had his own considerations. After legal registration, he could apply for software copyright, making the ownership of the team's intellectual property rights clearer and making it more compliant to deal with giants like Tencent in the future.

Lin Ran nodded: "I'm sure."

Wang Lijun stared at him for a few seconds, and after confirming that he was serious, he sighed: "Alright, I think you two brothers are both the same. Once you've made up your minds, you can't be persuaded."

Wang Lijun bowed his head, stamped the college's official seal on the letter of introduction, and pushed it back.

"And tell me more about that press conference of yours, what was it all about?"

Lin Ran took the letter of introduction and admired the bright red seal on it: "Trade secret, no comment."

Wang Lijun rolled his eyes: "You're quick to turn your back on me, kid. You're like a donkey that's been used and then discarded, like a bridge that's been crossed and then destroyed."

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When Lin Ran arrived at Room 108 of the Entrepreneurship Center, Wu Chenhao was already waiting with the Momo technical team.

After a period of recruitment, Momo's technical team has expanded to more than a dozen people.

There were about ten people in the room, some staring at computers, others debugging equipment. The atmosphere was much more serious than usual.

Lin Ran first handed the letter of introduction to Xia Chan: "Continue with the company registration."

Xia Chan took it, glanced at it, and her eyes lit up: "Boss, is this all it takes?"

"Um."

"Then I'll go!"

Clutching the proof, Xia Chan rushed out in a flurry of activity.

Lin Ran walked to the conference table, glanced at everyone present, and said with a serious expression, "So, how were the test results for those new features on Momo?"

"The message in a bottle feature works perfectly. Bottles that are thrown out can be picked up by others, and those bottles can be replied to. The replies are received. During peak online testing, there are no problems."

"The shake function is working properly, and the matching success rate is over 70%, with a delay of less than two seconds."

"The community feature is also running. User posts, comments, and likes are all syncing without any problems. It's just that image loading is a little slow, and we're still optimizing it."

……

Lin Ran listened and nodded repeatedly. These functions were part of a pre-determined plan, and they just needed to proceed step by step.

After they finished reporting, he leaned back, narrowed his eyes, and asked, "What about the geolocation function and the random phone call function?"

Wu Chenhao pushed up his glasses: "Still testing, everything is normal for now."

Lin Ran stared at him without saying a word.

Wu Chenhao felt a little uneasy under his gaze: "The functionality is working, but the stability still needs to be adjusted. When the location traversal function is used to locate other places, there is sometimes a delay, and random calls sometimes drop."

Wu Chenhao and others may not know what these two functions mean.

Momo's biggest competitors in its early days were "Xiangyu" and "Youlin".

Although these two products have not yet been launched, Lin Ran could guess with his toes that these two companies were probably behind most of the negative publicity surrounding Momo.

The most eye-catching feature of Meet is that you can "travel" to any city in the world through the map mode and meet local online users.

The core gameplay of Youlin is random calling, where the system will randomly match you with a stranger and conduct a real-time voice call.

Lin Ran plans to install both of these features into Momo in advance.

It might make Momo a bit bloated, but it can nip those two competitors in the bud.

Damn it, what kind of Tom, Dick, or Harry dares to mess with me?

Let's all just die already. Better to kill the innocent than let the guilty go free. Let's just crush you all.

"How much longer?"

Wu Chenhao thought for a moment: "Give us three more days, and we can definitely complete the test."

Lin Ran nodded: "The purpose of registering a company is to patent the function in advance, so your progress cannot be slow."

"clear."