Xueba's computing system

Chapter 233 Lei Zi's Appreciation

Faced with Lei Zi's poaching, Lin Yuan's first reaction was not to find out why the other party wanted to poach him, but to sigh that it seemed that many people in the IT circle knew about Lei Zi's basic skills.

Otherwise, Musk wouldn't be so sure that he was the one trying to poach me, and would even agree to the bet of "adding a steering lever".

What really opened Lin Yuan's eyes was that Musk had known that Lei Zi wanted to recruit him. Otherwise, he would not have been so sure that the person who came was Lei Zi as soon as he mentioned it to him.

Lin Yuan even felt that this was what Musk was trying to express.

But he thought about it and realized that he had never mentioned this to anyone else.

How did Musk know this? He suddenly remembered that the grain factory had a lot of foreign capital invested in it. Besides, it might be difficult for the headhunting company to keep silent.

Who knows? Lin Yuan could only feel that the business world was so complicated, and everyone was full of tricks.

"Lin Yuan, nice to meet you." Lei Zi chatted with Lin Yuan in his not-so-standard Mandarin.

Lin Yuan had to retract his thoughts, "Hello, Mr. Lei, I finally see the real person."

"Haha, I should be the one to say this. Ever since I saw your interview, I've been wanting to find a chance to meet you. I'm very interested in your discussion of humans and AI, and I like your personality - honest, enthusiastic, and unpretentious."

"Mr. Lei is interested in my views on AI?"

"Of course. The development of AI has never had a clear direction. I am very interested in the ideas of your AI administrator."

Lin Yuan then said somewhat embarrassedly, "But I didn't mention this on the show."

Lin Yuan was right. He originally wanted to discuss this topic on the show, and he thought it was much more interesting than talking about anything related to Tesla.

However, it was CCTV after all, and out of prudence, this topic was passed during the script review, fearing that this concept was too advanced and would scare the general public. Lin Yuan had no chance to talk about this publicly.

Therefore, what Lei Zi said about being very interested in Lin Yuanren’s discussion on AI after watching the interview is completely nonsense, because Lin Yuanren never talked about it at all.

Seeing Lin Yuan's disrespectful reply, Lei Zi was not angry at all. He even stood up to pour tea for Lin Yuan. "Maybe I remembered it wrongly. Maybe I saw it from other channels. As the saying goes, 'there are different levels of understanding'. Today I want to ask you about your thoughts on 'AI managers'. Let's see if this idea can help corporate management in any way."

Lei Zi's courteous attitude made Lin Yuan feel a little at a loss.

No wonder this guy has a good reputation on the Internet. Although Lei Zi has many haters, almost no one says he is pretentious.

The billionaire president personally pours you tea the first time you meet him, and asks for advice in an attitude that is open-minded. Anyone would be excited.

Fortunately, Lin Yuan had already seen Musk, an even more unbridled technology fanatic, otherwise he would have really felt grateful for having met a wise leader.

The most amazing thing about Musk is that he never acts as a boss in front of Lin Yuan, but as a friend and partner. He even sends Lin Yuan some funny videos of the old boy in Mar-a-Lago.

Although the old boy looks energetic in front of the public, he is almost 80 years old after all. In fact, he is also an old man in private and often takes a nap due to exhaustion.

Once you have seen the ocean, all other waters are but puddles!
Lin Yuan was intimidated by Lei Zi and was not overly flattered. He just felt that the other party was indeed a nice person.

"Mr. Lei, I don't actually have a very clear idea. I don't specifically want to promote the concept of 'AI manager'. I even personally think that this concept itself is hyped up by someone with ulterior motives. Let me tell you quietly, it might be Musk who is behind this..."

"Hahaha~~~," Lin Yuan's frank words made Lei Zi laugh heartily, "Elon and I are friends too. I also think he is deliberately hyping it up. It's rare for you to say it so generously. I appreciate your frankness."

Lin Yuan continued, "After all, building rockets is very expensive."

"Yes." The two of them immediately understood each other. People like Musk can do things like cutting leeks with digital currency, and he has done it more than once. Cutting leeks with the concept of technology is simply easy and unscrupulous. Lin Yuan didn't dare to think about what would happen if there were entrepreneurs in China who dared to cut leeks openly with the concept of digital currency. Most of them would be tied up.

But he thought again, China has its own characteristics. The way of cutting leeks here is unspeakable. To some extent, it may be more ruthless than Musk. After all, Musk has a bottom line in cutting leeks, which is hard to say. . .

Lin Yuan collected his thoughts and continued, "Actually, according to my idea, I don't want to do verification around an idea. My original intention was to do one thing and then come up with new ideas to complete it.

As for whether any new technical ideas or concepts will emerge from this incident, I don’t really care.

To be honest, Mr. Lei, I really want to make the takeout business a success.

Since I started out as a delivery man, I feel that the food delivery industry has developed to the point where there is nothing more to innovate.

If this is the case, why not form a unified standard at the national level?

In a field like this where there is little room for innovation, allowing capital to mess around, I personally think it will do more harm than good.”

Lei Zi praised while drinking tea, "You are right. The food delivery industry is a field with no technical ceiling. Large companies should not be born in such a field."

"Yes," Lin Yuan went on to say, "Big companies born in fields with no technical ceilings must have relied on monopoly. This is not a good phenomenon. Most importantly, food delivery is not a field related to national defense and security, and the country will not take the initiative to intervene. So naturally, competition should be completely opened up."

"Keep going, I enjoy listening."

“The business logic of food delivery is too simple. It’s just that customers place orders with merchants, and then the riders pick up the items from the merchants and deliver them to the customers. Why is there such a complicated algorithm for such a simple business logic? Putting aside the complexity of delivery scheduling itself, in fact, a large number of algorithms are used to target people.

The purpose of the algorithm targeting people is to muddy the waters, by using red envelopes, coupons, and events to make prices unclear, so that the food delivery platform can have the final say on pricing. To put it bluntly, it is just fishing in troubled waters.

This is essentially the same as the era when 4S stores sold cars.

The manufacturer gives a guide price, and then the 4S stores sell their own cars. The same store can sell the same car to Zhang San and Li Si at different prices.

This is essentially a backward sales method because no value is actually created in the process. It simply satisfies the merchants' greed to sell one item in multiple sales.

The development of science and technology should break this shackles and allow technology to truly serve the general public."

"Well said, you are in line with our values." Lei Zi looked at Lin Yuan with admiration, "After this takeaway is done, do you have any follow-up plans?"

"not yet."

"That's right, young people should think about it carefully. After listening to your words today, I am very moved."

Lin Yuan immediately responded, "Mr. Lei, do you also want to enter the food delivery industry?"

Lin Yuan was at a loss for words for Lei Zi all of a sudden, because the heartbeat the other party was talking about was obviously directed at Lin Yuan himself, and Lin Yuan was obviously pretending to be confused even though he knew the truth.

"Um, your suggestion is very good. I will discuss it with our team when I return."

After the two chatted for a while, the tea party ended quickly.

Lei Zi did not say explicitly that he wanted to poach Lin Yuan, because Lin Yuan's attitude had already been revealed inadvertently.

But it was obvious that Lei Zi admired him very much.

(End of this chapter)