After rebirth, I became a great master

Chapter 389 All We Eat is Spiritual Food
Zhou Haoran is currently driving a Xiali.

Low-key and pragmatic.

Taking Lao Zhang to the airport, sitting in such a simple and unpretentious little car, really moved him.

"Are you really going to give up all the intellectual property rights?"

Zhang Chaoyang felt that this was not something a human being would do.

Zhou Haoran said with righteous indignation: "To promote overall technological progress, you gave up your life in the United States and returned to China, wasn't it also to change the impoverished state of the country?"

Zhang Chaoyang twitched the corners of his mouth, but couldn't help saying, "Email is a good project."

"Since it's a good project, it should be shared so that more people can get involved. We can't keep it all to ourselves, can we?"

Zhou Haoran was telling the truth.

But that's not entirely the truth.

Email is actually not a very technologically advanced thing. The current difficulty is because the internet is still in its infancy, and many development paths and technological routes are not yet determined. Choosing the wrong direction will naturally lead to a lot of problems.

For example, choosing the wrong transmission protocol could cause emails to take several days to arrive.

For example, if the server is configured incorrectly, emails will often be lost or delayed.

For example, choosing the wrong encoding tool can lead to Chinese character encoding problems and frequently receiving garbled emails.

These "choices" are actually research topics in universities.

Once the research is completed and the paper is published...

The academic direction has been determined.

If you develop email systems in the right direction, it will be too easy in the market.

In just two or three years, email services will spring up like mushrooms in China and around the world.

Rather than letting others develop email on their own, Zhou Haoran would be more generous and teach everyone how to develop email, while also gaining some prestige in the process.

As for making money...

Email is a classic example of high investment and low return. Due to significant losses, a group of people started experimenting with paid email services... Many established email providers have opted for the paid model.

The result was that these established email providers all went out of business.

The upstarts are all free email services.

Zhang Chaoyang was powerless to change the outcome. "Once it's finished, you must give it to me first."

Zhou Haoran said, "Okay."

Zhang Chaoyang breathed a sigh of relief, but still couldn't understand, and said, "You have such a deep understanding of the internet, and you have such good product technology, don't you really want to make money?"

Zhou Haoran said, "A gentleman earns money in a proper way."

"What way?"

"My technology belongs to the whole world, and I must share it."

"Ah."

Zhang Chaoyang didn't know how to evaluate it.

Zhou Haoran laughed and said, "Mr. Zhang, if you don't want me to share it for free, there are ways."

"Oh?"

Zhang Chaoyang is looking forward to it.

Zhou Haoran said calmly, "You can buy it out, just like Oracle did. Oracle offered $1000 million, and I certainly wouldn't have made the relevant solutions public. I'll give you a discount, $500 million, and you'll have exclusive rights."

"Stop joking."

Zhang Chaoyang is currently famous, but he's dirt poor. He only received angel investment from the US; to secure more funding, he needs to develop a product and then attract venture capital.

I just can't figure it out.

Dr. Zhou has achieved such great success and high prestige in the academic field.

What is the use?

It can't be converted into cash!
The campus cards and email addresses they create are all to be shared with the public for free... That's a high ideal, but it won't make any money! What, do you not need to eat, but instead eat spiritual food?
Clearly, Lao Zhang's understanding of the internet is still too superficial.

In the early days of this industry, internet technology originated from academic research.

Once academia establishes a direction, the market can then develop businesses in that direction; once academia produces research results, the market can then commercialize those results.

As Zhou Haoran's collaboration with Oracle neared its end, the San Jose News, Silicon Valley's most important newspaper, published an article.

The collaboration between the two parties was documented.

It was also said that under Zhou Haoren's technical approach, Oracle solved many technical problems that had plagued them for years, making their aviation system more mature, stable and efficient, and able to provide better security for the global civil aviation system.

It was also commented that this is an important combination of academic theory and commercial application!
It has a great influence.

Zhou Haoran soon received an email.

They said they wanted to ask Mr. Zhou to help them solve some technical problems.

The other party is an instant messaging company.

Its name is ICQ.

……

Because it involves foreign exchange transfers.

So we need to go to the People's Bank of China.

As Qiao Suiqing walked out of the bank with her passbook in hand, she was a little stunned. If she hadn't been holding Zhou Haoran's arm, she would have almost lost her balance.

The account balance is 4237 million!
"Haoran!"

"Ah."

"Haoran?"

"Hmm?" "I...I'm a little flustered."

Qiao Suiqing clutched her chest.

Zhou Haoran put his arm around her waist, helped her to her feet, and said with a smile, "Good sister, you have to stay strong, your wonderful life has only just begun."

"Isn't this too much?"

Qiao Suiqing's face was no longer flushed with excitement, but pale with worry.

Zhou Haoran helped her into the car and closed the door. "What's the big deal? This is all legal income. I reported it to the relevant departments before we started working with Oracle. Otherwise, how could the approval process for these millions of dollars in remittances have been completed so quickly?"

"Won't we be being watched?"

Qiao Suiqing was very worried.

Zhou Haoran said, "We've been watched for a long time."

"what?"

Qiao Suiqing's face paled.

Zhou Haoran said casually, "It's not what you think. We're being targeted because someone wants to protect us. I'm an academic bigwig, you know. I'm the Qian Xuesen of our time. The fact that I don't have a full-time bodyguard means I'm keeping a low profile. Sister Qingmei, how could a mere tens of millions be enough for my worth?"

"is it?"

Qiao Suiqing stared blankly, her hand gripping the bankbook slightly sweaty.

Zhou Haoran said calmly, "This is all small change. Zhang Chaoyang came the day before yesterday... he's the entrepreneurial star mentioned in the newspaper. He doesn't understand the significance of my academic pursuits, since it doesn't make money. But many people don't realize that what's more important than making money is having the life to enjoy it after you've made a lot."

Qiao Suiqing wasn't that shrewd and didn't really listen. Looking at the bankbook in her hand, she said, "Haoran, there's... there's over 4200 million here!"

Zhou Haoran said, "My contract with Oracle was $1000 million. However, it wasn't fully fulfilled because there was a technical problem I couldn't solve for them. They paid me a total of $760 million. After taxes, there was still more than $600 million left. Originally, our family should have had $5000 million."

Qiao Suiqing nodded slightly, "Yes, that Tomson villa in Pudong is too expensive, it costs 1000 million."

Zhou Haoran said, "I'm going to buy an old villa soon for work purposes, and it's estimated to cost 2000 million."

"Oh." Qiao Suiqing pushed the passbook over. "Haoran, you manage the money!"

"You!"

Zhou Haoran is too busy.

Qiao Suiqing was self-aware. "But I don't know how. There's too much money. Why don't you let me manage the small portion of over 200 million, and you can keep the rest? Looking at so many numbers, I... I'm so nervous."

"What's there to be nervous about..." Zhou Haoran said casually. "Sis, just relax. Having more money gives you more confidence. Managing money is an essential requirement for the first wife."

Qiao Suiqing gave him a slightly annoyed look, and said with a half-smile, "Since you're so amazing, what kind of reward do you want from your sister?"

Zhou Haoran smiled and said, "Anything is fine!"

Qiao Suiqing said with a complicated expression, "How about I talk to Sister Yang and we take her in as a mistress? Anyway, we're rich, and she's short of money. She has to go to two weddings every week to host for others."

"Cough cough..."

Zhou Haoran was actually a little tempted.

Since my rebirth, I feel like I've failed only with Bai Panyang.

Qiao Suiqing saw through him immediately and reached out to pinch him, "You really think that way!"

Zhou Haoran quickly changed the subject, "Qingmei, after we get engaged, how about we go on our honeymoon?"

"what?"

Qiao Suiqing blushed slightly, her expectant expression evident.

Zhou Haoran laughed and said, "Let's go to America. I happen to have some things to do there."

Qiao Suiqing rolled her eyes at him. "It's your decision. If you marry a chicken, you follow the chicken; if you marry a dog, you follow the dog."

"Then it's settled. This month, let's finish the 'Abandoned Baby Girl' series."

Zhou Haoran said he was the chief director and editor of this series.

He actually acts like a leader.

Everything was planned out in advance, and he asked senior director Zhang Ming to be his assistant.

Qiao Suiqing sighed softly, "This series is quite different from Editor-in-Chief Lin's current approach."

"Hmm?" Zhou Haoran glanced at her. "Didn't you disagree with Editor-in-Chief Lin's approach?"

Qiao Suiqing hummed in agreement, somewhat troubled: "But I don't know if my thinking is right. The recent episodes have all been about love triangles and melodramatic plots. The ratings have exploded, although not as high as your episode's 18%. They've generally been around 8%, and several episodes have even exceeded 10%."

"I know."

"Your 'Abandoned Baby Girl' series only got a 5.4% rating for the first episode. In the past, that would have been pretty good, but now it's not enough compared to those new shows."

"Don't worry!"

Zhou Haoran has a good attitude.

Qiao Suiqing said reproachfully, "Many people in the workplace say that Zhao Qiaoqiao is going to become the top female employee."

"Huh?" Zhou Haoran found it somewhat amusing. "You still care about this?"

Qiao Suiqing said softly, "The ratings are so low when I work with you. Zhao Qiaoqiao hosts those new programs every day, her popularity has increased, the ratings have increased, and the directors prefer to work with her."

"Wasn't the rating process supposed to start at the beginning of this month? Why hasn't it started yet?"

"The date has been changed to the beginning of next month."

"what?"

Zhou Haoran had never cared about such things.

Qiao Suiqing said, "I heard from my colleagues that Zhao Qiaoqiao contacted some leader and changed her rating to the beginning of next month. She's hosting a new show this month, and high ratings will help her get promoted. Meanwhile, the 'abandoned baby girl' series that I'm working with you on has only mediocre ratings, so she has a chance to surpass me."

Zhou Haoran snorted, "Trying to steal the top spot from my sister? She's dreaming!"

(End of this chapter)