Who would still start a business seriously after being reborn?

Chapter 365 Is this an Internet Conference?
Luo Shengyi had originally planned to take Cheng Yi sightseeing, but he wasn't in the mood for it anymore.

Because he had just lost 100 million.

After Cheng Yi and Luo Shenyi signed the contract, they each affixed their official seals.

Cheng Yi's official seal was more convenient, since he was the controlling shareholder of Xiaonei.com Technology and could carry the company's official seal with him at any time. However, it was not the same for Luo Shenyi. He had to run around to several departments before he was able to get the official seal of Shengda Group on the contract.

"Mr. Luo, I'll take my leave now. I'll leave the rest to you." Cheng Yi shook hands with Luo Shengyi and smiled.

Luo Shengyi said, "President Cheng, how about we have dinner together tonight?"

"No, thank you," Cheng Yi said. "After the contract is renewed, I'll treat President Luo to a big meal in Hawaii. If President Luo can renew the contract for another two years, I'll buy him a few villas in Hawaii."

Luo Shengyi really wanted to shout: "Okay, okay, okay, stop talking!"

To avoid arousing Cheng Yi's suspicion, Luo Shengyi forced a smile and said, "Okay, then it's a deal."

"It's a deal." Cheng Yi shook hands with Luo Shengyi solemnly, then turned and left the building.

At this moment, Lin Yongxing had already parked an Audi A6 sedan in front of the building.

This Audi A6 sedan must have just finished a wedding booking not long ago; the decal marks on the hood are still faintly visible.

Cheng Yi got into the car and said to Lin Yongxing, "To the Jin Mao Tower."

"Okay." Lin Yongxing replied and immediately drove away from the Shengda Group Building.

Jin Mao Tower, which was first built in 1994, covers an area of ​​more than 2 square meters and has a total construction area of ​​30 square meters. The main building has 88 floors and a height of 420 meters, making it the tallest building in Shanghai.

Standing in front of the Jin Mao Tower, you can feel the visual impact of a modern metropolis.

Many large-scale national events prefer to be held at the Jin Mao Tower, such as the inaugural Huaxia University Student Computer Game Competition currently being held.

The inaugural Huaxia University Student Computer Game Competition is a national computer competition hosted by the China Information Industry Association, co-organized by the China Overseas Municipal Government Affairs Association, and undertaken by Dazhong Software. Although it has not been publicly promoted, it is still quite famous in the computer field.

Handong University sent a total of five people this time, all of whom were students from the elite class?

Handong University attached great importance to this competition, with the vice president accompanying them and all the necessary arrangements being of the highest standard.

All five contestants stayed at a five-star hotel in the Jin Mao Tower, and each had a mentor to guide them one-on-one. Male contestants were accompanied by male mentors, and female contestants were accompanied by female mentors to ensure that there would be no problems with the contestants' lives.

This is the first time a formal computer science competition has been held since major universities began offering computer science programs.

Rather than calling this a computer competition, it's more accurate to describe it as an assessment of the computer science departments of various universities.

Don't you all say your computer science department is amazing? Well then, let's see what it's really like.

The number of participating universities reached as many as 73, with almost all universities that have computer science departments registering for the competition.

Cheng Yi knew very little about this competition in his previous life. After all, it was a competition among top students, and someone like him who was a poor student only deserved to know one name.

He had two purposes for coming to Zhonghai City this time. The first and most important purpose was to deceive Luo Shengyi face to face. After all, the success rate of deceiving someone face to face is much higher than that over the phone. In a face-to-face conversation, he could make Luo Shengyi see his sincere eyes and feel his sincerity.

Moreover, there are many things that are inconvenient to say over the phone.

Besides this purpose, he also wanted to broaden his horizons at this inaugural computer gaming competition.

As a programmer for decades, it would be a huge failure if he had never even seen what this competition looked like. Besides, he desperately needed talent right now. The contestants who were qualified to participate in this competition were all geniuses. Recruiting just a few of them would be a tremendous boost to Momo Group.

When Cheng Yi arrived at the Jin Mao Tower, he found that the parking lot was already full of cars.

Looking around, all you see are BMWs, Audis, and Mercedes-Benzes.

In this day and age, anyone who can afford these two models is a true millionaire.

As soon as Cheng Yi got out of the car, he saw an acquaintance walking towards him.

They are indeed acquaintances, and very close acquaintances at that.

The man was in his early thirties, wore glasses, and had a cheerful appearance. He was accompanied by a short, bespectacled man.

Seemingly noticing that Cheng Yi was observing them, both of them cast questioning glances at him.

Ma Huateng!
Cheng Yi never expected to run into Ma Huateng here.

Ma Huateng was indeed an acquaintance of his, not only his acquaintance, but also an acquaintance of the people of the whole country.

In his previous life, although he was very familiar with Ma Huateng, Ma Huateng did not know him.

"Is this Mr. Ma?" Cheng Yi quickly walked up to him.

Ma Huateng thought about it carefully for a long time, but he still couldn't recall where he had seen Cheng Yi before.

Out of politeness, he reached out and shook Cheng Yi's outstretched hand, asking with a hint of doubt, "Who are you?"

Cheng Yi smiled and said, "Let me introduce myself. My name is Cheng Yi, and I am the vice president of Momo Group."

"Momo Group?" Ma Huateng was taken aback at first, then politely withdrew his hand.

Who developed the Momo chat app?

Deadly enemy!

Ma Huateng immediately became highly vigilant.

Since Momo Chat came out, their group has felt a lot of pressure. Momo Chat updates very quickly and can be said to have always been ahead of them. Fortunately, Momo Chat only develops in Handong Province. If it had expanded to the whole country, the winter of QQ Chat would have come.

In their efforts to keep up with Momo's chat technology, the company's technicians have forgotten what a holiday is.

Ma Huateng smiled politely and asked, "Is your Momo Group also planning to recruit talent?"

“Yeah, who wouldn’t like such talent?” Cheng Yi smiled. Just as he was about to say something, Ma Huateng glanced at his watch and said, “The second match is about to end. We’d better hurry over, or we won’t be able to snag any more talent.”

"The second match?" Cheng Yi wanted to ask for more details, but Ma Huateng politely apologized and hurriedly left.

As Cheng Yi entered the lobby on the first floor, he saw a huge sign hanging in the lobby that read "The First Huaxia University Student Computer Game Competition". On one side of the sign, there was information about the competition.

Cheng Yi walked over and carefully read through the match information, and roughly understood the order of the matches.

The competition lasted three days, with two sessions each day, for a total of six sessions. Ten contestants were ultimately selected and awarded the title of computer super genius.

The competition is conducted in a simple manner. The competition review committee provides a unified topic, and the competition organizing committee sends the topic to all participants. Participants submit written solutions and test optimization results according to the topic requirements within the specified time. The competition review committee then evaluates the scores.

Today is the second day of the competition. The first day of the competition has already eliminated 60% of the participants. The fourth competition is about to end. After this competition, all those who are left will be geniuses.

This is why Ma Huateng and others rushed over.

Thinking of the luxury cars outside the Jin Mao Tower, Cheng Yi knew without a doubt that not only Ma Huateng had come to this match, but probably all of China's top internet companies had gathered here.

"16th floor." Cheng Yi noted down the location of the competition and immediately took the elevator to the 16th floor.

As soon as Cheng Yi stepped out of the elevator on the 16th floor, he saw that the corridor was full of people.

A cordon was set up at the end of the corridor, and a row of fully armed security personnel stood on the other side of the cordon. The competition area was ahead, and everyone had to stop here.

Cheng Yi looked around and couldn't help but laugh.

This isn't a computer gaming competition; it's practically an internet conference!

The number of internet tycoons present today is even greater than at the Internet Conference.

Li Yanhong of Thousand Degrees Company.

Wang Yan of Xinlang Company.

Zhang Chaoyang of Sohu Company.

Ding Sanshi of NetEase Entertainment.

Guo Fansheng of HC Group.

……

It's really comprehensive.

Cheng Yi stood near the elevator entrance, trying to squeeze forward, but found that he couldn't get through at all.

At the very front row were Ding Sanshi of NetEase and Hou Yantang of NetEase Express, among others.

Ding Sanshi was broad-shouldered; with his arms outstretched, he occupied the space of three people.

The corridor near the elevator was not wide to begin with, and Ding Sanshi occupied three seats by himself, so there were obviously not enough seats in the front row. Guo Fansheng from Huicong Group tried to squeeze in, but Ding Sanshi twisted his waist and bent him against the wall.

Taking advantage of Guo Fansheng's dismissal, Alibaba Group's Ma Yun immediately and quietly took over Guo Fansheng's original position.

Ma Yun was already small and thin, so half a meter of space was enough for him. He squeezed into the first row and held on tightly to the barrier, no matter how crowded it was behind him.

All the internet companies that came sent their top executives in person, which was to show their eagerness to recruit talent.

After all, if Liu Bei hadn't personally gone to invite Zhuge Liang back then, there probably wouldn't have been the Three Kingdoms period.

Everyone looked ahead expectantly, glancing down at the time every now and then.

There are now only six or seven minutes left in the second game.

This is the last match of the day, which means that if they are sincere enough, they can invite these geniuses to dinner.

For ordinary geniuses, offering a high salary is enough, but for these geniuses who have made it through four consecutive competitions, a high salary alone is not enough.

This gaming competition had 300 participants. Each round eliminated 60 people, and only 60 people were able to pass the second round today.

If these 60 people were distributed among the more than 60 top universities participating in the competition, each school wouldn't even get one.

These 60-plus universities include all of the 985 universities and some of the 211 universities.

Moreover, these 60 people represent the total number of students from freshman to senior year.

On average, that's only 15 people nationwide each year.

If you don't actively seek out such a genius, will he proactively submit his resume to your company?

If you don't fight for such a genius, the country will snatch him up first.

These internet entrepreneurs deeply understand the meaning of knowledge as wealth, and they also understand how much impetus a talented individual could bring to their group.

Especially in the field of computer science, the influence of geniuses is even more terrifying.

The problem that your entire group's technical department has been working on for half a year without success could be solved instantly by a genius with just a glance.

This is beyond what money and time can describe.

"It's almost over." Time ticked by, and many internet giants crowded towards the quarantine zone.

"Damn it, why are you pushing?" Ding Sanshi felt the people behind him pushing him, so he spread his arms and shouted, "Can't you guys have any manners?"

"Fuck you, you have manners, you have manners taking up the space of three people."

"Exactly, you dare to talk about manners? What right do you have to talk to us about manners?"

"You're the most rude person here." The internet mogul behind him immediately started cursing.

Ding Sanshi turned around smugly and glanced at the crowd, then snorted, "Friends, this front row isn't something you squeezed in, it's a sign of sincerity. I've been waiting here since 1 p.m. What do you have to offer me? Go back and wash up and go to sleep!"

"That son of a bitch, the stock price just started to recover and it's already turned into this mess. Last year it was like a stray dog."

"Hasn't he always been like this? If he ever pushes me too far, I'll have someone put a sack over his head."

"..."

Cheng Yi stared at the thoroughly enraged internet moguls and fell silent.

This environment made him feel like he was back at the Internet conference in his previous life.

The same noise, the same parents.

Talk about manners? Sorry, these internet giants never have that kind of mentality. If people were all manners, who would be in the internet industry?

These days, the internet is a bubble, an industry that makes small amounts of money from investors.

Simply put, all of them in the internet industry are involved in fraud. They take a non-existent webpage and an idea and then charge exorbitant prices.

The difference is that they succeeded.

Moreover, none of these big shots at the top of the pyramid are easy to deal with.

They've gotten to where they are today by killing off countless competitors along the way.

Guangwangyi Company alone crushed dozens of small companies that were trying to become portal websites.

This group of people has taken callousness and ruthlessness to the extreme, and has brought the law of the jungle to its fullest extent.

They were almost all highly educated individuals, possessing both the purity of scholars and the ruthlessness of bandits.

"He's out, he's out!" Finally, the first contestant walked out of the competition room and appeared in everyone's sight.

Upon seeing this contestant, everyone's eyes lit up, and they all waved their business cards.

The contestant was like a poor little lamb who had suddenly encountered so many menacing wolves. He stood there dumbfounded, not knowing how to react.

"I am Ding Sanshi, Chairman of NetEase Group!" Ding Sanshi, sitting in the front row, forced a friendly expression. He waved to the little sheep, his face full of wrinkles from smiling, and said, "Student, come and develop your career in our group. Our Chief Technology Officer position is still vacant, with an annual salary of 200,000."

(End of this chapter)