As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 298 Dinner (asking for monthly ticket!)
Li Miaomiao has become a mage, and after becoming a mage, Zheng Li would give her individual lessons almost every week.

Magic lessons from Merlin are priceless.

If other mages knew about this, they would definitely be extremely envious.

It was also with becoming a mage and taking these courses that Li Miaomiao gained a deep understanding of mages.

Especially for the functions and positioning of the mage.

At the same time, she also participated in the training organized by the China Abnormal Affairs Bureau.

I met Jiang Yan in the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and got to know the real boss behind the China Seed Group, which has been a big name in the seed industry in recent years.

China Seed Group has already captured approximately 50 percent of the global GMO market.

At its peak, it accounted for 70% of the market share. The situation became deadlocked until the American side received support from a biological wizard from the biological field to support Monsanto.

In such an era, Syngenta now exists in name only, although it is still a seed giant in name.

In fact, Syngenta is only the distributor of China Seed Group's seeds in Europe, and undertakes part of the R&D functions of China Seed Group.

So Li Miaomiao asked: "Is the technological progress in recent years due to the magician?"

Zheng Li: “That’s part of the reason.

As Internet technology has developed to this day, it is necessary to consider developing into the field of industrial Internet.

Magic speeds up the process.

Just like biological storage technology, this technology has directly led to the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology in recent years."

Biological storage is not just about having a larger storage capacity, but also about faster data access speeds and the ability to process data that is several orders of magnitude larger.

This leads to the ability to train stronger artificial intelligence.

Google's latest AlphaGo can beat AlphaGo from five years ago.

“Magic and Merlin hastened the process.

Changes that might have taken 15 years were achieved in five.”

After Zheng Li finished speaking, Li Miaomiao nodded and said, "I have seen a saying before that the technology people use in their daily lives now is technology from many years ago."

Five years ago, there was a popular saying that the past decade was the most boring and we had not left any valuable legacy to future generations.

Repackaging some technologies from many years ago into the so-called metaverse concept cannot be considered as heritage.

Creating new terms cannot cover up the fact that technology has reached its limit.

Many of the technologies that are closely related to our lives come from the Cold War era.

Dehydrated vegetables and vacuum preservation are products of the Apollo program.

The air cushion of sports shoes is the product of air blow molding technology developed by NASA.

The sensor system that monitored the astronauts later became the intensive care unit.

Digital image processing technology was first used to process photos of the lunar surface and is now being promoted on a large scale.

As for photovoltaics, it was first used in spacecraft and is essentially aerospace technology.

The Internet is also a product of the Cold War.

Technological developments during the Cold War laid the foundation for the prosperity of globalized trade over the past four decades.

The view five years ago was, what technologies can we leave behind for future generations that are worth exploring?
This statement has been seen less and less in recent years.

Previously, the metaverse was just a concept, but now that the second generation of brain-computer VR has been launched, the metaverse is no longer a concept.

The implementation of biological storage and driverless technologies has enabled the public to deeply feel the changes that technology has brought to their lives.

The unmanned trucks alone have reduced the average delivery time of express delivery in China by 30 percent.

The rapid implementation of these technologies has made people more optimistic about the future.

The changes that brain-computer connection VR brings to the Internet ecosystem are more direct than those of the industrial Internet.

Programmers can feel that as long as they master the knowledge related to VR development, it will be easy to find a job with a salary of over 20,000 yuan.

The Internet has grown from large companies to small companies, with a bit of the same passion as the early days of mobile Internet.

Li Miaomiao also has relatively good expectations for the future. In recent years, she has conducted research in external companies, not just in the Internet field.

Li Miaomiao has visited many companies in the fields of Internet, finance, manufacturing and biomedicine.

Some are partners of Ke Chuang Biotechnology, and some are government-level research activities.

She can feel the thriving vitality of China's economy.

But after listening to the conversation between Zheng Li and Musk today, Li Miaomiao feels that the Industrial Internet is likely to seriously affect the employment of ordinary people.

Therefore, Li Miaomiao wanted to ask Zheng Li's opinion.

In China, employment and stability are two sides of the same coin.

"Today we have invited Zheng Li to join our dinner party. Today we can say that many big names have gathered here, from those born in the 1960s to those born in the 2000s.

Zheng Li should be the first post-2000 person at our dinner party today.

I have to take a good picture as a souvenir.”

The dinner that night was organized by Ma Huateng, and the participants were divided into two groups of people.

One type is entrepreneurs engaged in the Internet industry, and the other type is angel investors.

Because of Zheng Li's participation, even Ma Yun, who had never appeared at the same dinner party in Wuzhen with Ma Huateng, joined in.

In 17, Ding Lei organized a big dinner party. Ma Huateng and Li Yanhong from BAT both attended, but Ma Yun did not.

The dinner that day was a gathering of many people organized by Ding Lei, followed by the Dongxing meeting organized by Wang Xing and Qiangdong, which was equivalent to eating one meal first and then the second one.

The first big dinner was attended by people with past grudges, such as Zhou Hongyi and Ma Huateng.

You have to know that when Ant Financial's listing was blocked, Ma Yun was still "Papa Ma" on major social media platforms.

In order to avoid the Dongxing Society, he did not even have a single private photo circulated.

This time, Zheng Li participated and he personally took action.

All the participants in this conference are bigwigs.

The main figures in the Internet circle include the founders of BAT, Lei Jun, Ding Lei, Zhang Chaoyang, Dong Zi, Wang Xing, Zhang Yiming, Huang Zheng and Yang Yuanqing.

People like Yao Jinbo, Zhou Hongyi, Zhou Yuan, and Cheng Wei are not eligible to participate.

(The above are the heads of 360.com, , Zhihu and Didi respectively)

In fact, they also want to participate, but they don’t have enough qualifications.

Zhang Chaoyang is chosen because of his seniority, and Ding Lei is chosen because he has hosted dinner parties for so many years and has a lot of seniority, so everyone is willing to give them some face.

Yang Yuanqing has Lenovo as his backer.

Lenovo, or to be more precise, the Lenovo Group, has a great influence in the domestic business circle.

The main investors are Zhang Lei, Shen Nanpeng, Guo Yihong and others.

Guo Yihong is the person who led IDG's participation in the financing of Ke Chuang Bio.

When Li Miaomiao participated before, she was actually invited to attend their dinner in Wuzhen.

However, all the people at the dinner party were men, so Li Miaomiao used this and the fact that she couldn't drink as an excuse to decline.

"The youngest person at our dinner party before was Yiming, and now someone younger has arrived.

Today’s post-2000s generation is incredible.”

"Zheng Li is far ahead of his peers, and Yiming was born in the 1980s, but he jumped directly from the 1980s to the 2000s.

Times are changing, and as a person born in the 1970s, I feel like I have been left behind by the times.”

"You are only 1974, it is still a long way to go before you are eliminated by the times. I am ten years older than you, and I am the one who is going to be eliminated."

“Although I am ten years younger than you, I am also retired.

We are actually from the same generation.”

Ma Yun is exactly ten years younger than Dong Zi. If Ma Yun retires first, Dong Zi will also be almost retired. "I'm a 1980s generation and I'm retired. Isn't it normal for you 1970s generation to retire?"

“You are retiring but not resting. You just handed over the management of Pinduoduo to your subordinates and devoted yourself to starting businesses in other fields.

This is not retirement.”

Pinduoduo’s founder Huang Zheng was born in the 1980s.

“In fact, whether to retire or not has nothing to do with age, but with one’s own thoughts.

I am the same age as Ma Yun, and I am not retired yet.

I even give physics lessons to everyone on Sohu Video every day.

I say, Ma Yun, you can also come to my Sohu Video to give a live lecture, and you can speak English. Isn’t that your specialty?

Zheng Li, this is the first time I meet you. We weren't very familiar with each other before.

If you ever want to teach netizens in the future, you can come and find me. We at Sohu Video are eager for talents.

If you come to teach biology to everyone, I will definitely give you the title of master."

As a PhD in physics from MIT, Zhang Chaoyang is addicted to talking about quantum mechanics and the origin of the universe.

However, Sohu has indeed never found its own positioning.

Missed too many times.

The Internet people present here not only span the era, but also span the times.

Sohu and Zhuchang represent the products of the early personal computer era, while BAT represents the mature era of personal computers.

Pinduoduo, Meituan, and Douyin represent the era of mobile Internet.

As for Lenovo and Xiaomi, these two companies are hardware companies.

"Old Zhang, you are old but your heart is young. If it were me, I would have gone to rest long ago.

The process of starting a business is full of passion, but after success, if there is no continuous strong stimulation, it is easy to fall into emptiness. "

According to these Internet people, the way to successful entrepreneurship is to go public.

It was previously listed on NASDAQ. You should know that it only took Sohu two years from its establishment to its listing on NASDAQ.

Later, they went to the Hong Kong stock market for listing. In recent years, most Internet startups have been thinking about listing on the Hong Kong stock market or the mainland.

Times are different.

“It has to do with personal character.

But I've always heard that Zheng Li is a workaholic.

Work more than twelve hours a day.

And it's not like our work where we have meetings, rest, meetings, and rest, which is an intermittent process.

Zheng Li left all the company affairs to Li Miaomiao and spent every day in the laboratory.

“I’ve also heard that young people today are amazing.

I didn't work this hard when I was studying in MIT.

Not to mention after the business is successful.

No wonder Zheng Li is the most valuable among us.

It's hard not to succeed if you have talent and work hard. Come and have a drink with us, just feel free."

For a dinner like this, especially since it was Zheng Li's first time attending one, there was absolutely no requirement for him to drink anything.

There won't be a situation where I do it and you can do whatever you want.

Lei Jun added: “In fact, I have heard of Zheng Li a long time ago.

At that time, Zheng Li was still studying at Jiangcheng University, and I saw them discussing Zheng Li in the alumni group.

It is said that a freshman from the School of Mathematics published a biology paper in Nature.

You have to know that the Biology Department of Jiangcheng University had not published in "Nature" at that time.

As a result, someone from the School of Mathematics got there first, and he was a freshman at that.

At the time I thought it was an April Fools’ joke, but after searching online I discovered it was real.

This is something I have seen and I am just impressed that young people nowadays are getting more and more capable.

Not long after that, Zheng Li came to me with a set of endorphin test data.

He said he wanted to attract investment, and then said he had mastered the method of industrially producing endorphins.

I thought about it for two or three days and finally invested.

The main reason was that I still had some money at that time.

If it were a few years later, I wouldn't have been so willing to pay that money.

Everyone knows what happened next.

I have always been lucky. Come to Zhengli, let's have a drink together."

2019 to 2020 should be the best period for rice after it came on the market.

Mainly because of the mobile phone market that was ceded by China, a large part of the market share has been taken up by Xiaomi.

Not only in the domestic market, but also in the international market, rice accounts for a large part of the total consumption.

In those two years, the share price of rice soared from HK$8 to HK$35.

So it is important to find the right time to invest.

For an individual, it is the process of destiny.

“You are really lucky, Lei Jun, to have received the angel round investment from Kechuang Biotechnology.

By the time I learned about this project, it was already in the A round of financing, and the price at that time had increased twenty times compared to the angel round.

At that time, the phase I clinical trial report of endorphin had just come out, and I decided to invest after reading it.

To this day, this investment is the most successful one I have ever made.

The potential of Kechuang Biotechnology is indeed as I thought, far more than just one product, endorphin.

But I didn’t expect that the development direction of Ke Chuang Biotechnology would be brain-computer connection, or the widespread application of brain-computer connection in the field of consumer electronics.

At that time, I thought that Sinovation Biotechnology would become China's Pfizer and shine in the field of biopharmaceuticals.

I can only say that the ideas of geniuses are always completely different from those of ordinary people like me.

The most regrettable thing is that Zheng Li’s projects never lacked money again.

Sometimes the opportunity only lasts for a few short days.

For example, I couldn’t find a channel to invest in Kechuang Future.”

"Zheng Li and I are competitors in some areas, and we acquired a VR manufacturer in 2020.

At that time, I was very optimistic about the future development of the VR field, and later it turned out to be just as I expected.

As VR technology matures, it will become the physical carrier of the next generation of the Internet.

What I didn't expect was that I was facing an opponent who had no chance of winning.

The combination of VR and brain-computer connection technology is a dimensionality reduction attack on other VR products.

The gap between our Pico and FutureVerse is even greater than the gap between Apple and low-end Android phones," Zhang Yiming said with a wry smile.

"I have met Zheng Li twice. The first time was when Kechuang Future was founded. At that time, I went to Gusu and met him.

The second time was when Ke Chuang Future’s equity was redistributed, and that was also when I went to Gusu to meet him.

We always have a lot of fun chatting. Although Zheng Li is more than 20 years younger than me, I am ashamed of my own understanding of many things. "

It's the end of the month, let's check the tickets~
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