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Chapter 109-0106 [A Freshman Entrepreneur and His Romantic Poem] (Bonus Chapter for Alliance Leader Thunderous Nine Heavens)
"Welcome, Professor Wang, for your guidance!" Chen Guiliang greeted him and shook hands.

Wang Kai laughed and said, "I wouldn't presume to offer guidance; you young people are much smarter." He turned to the girl next to him, "This is Lai Dandan, a reporter from the school newspaper."

Chen Guiliang was overjoyed and quickly shook hands: "Welcome, Reporter Lai, to our company."

Lai Dandan is a third-year student majoring in journalism. She is decent-looking, but not nearly as pretty as Bian Guanyue.

Chen Guiliang, being a looks-obsessed person, now uses Bian Guanyue as a benchmark when looking at women.

"I apologize for disturbing you, Mr. Chen."

Lai Dandan was also carefully observing this junior. Her first impression was that he was quite handsome, and her second impression was that he was a troublemaker.

She had never seen a freshman start a business and run two companies at the same time.

Reporters for the Peking University newspaper are hard to come by, and this was someone Wang Kai personally invited, which is considered one of the perks of the incubation project.

Wang Kai's hairline has receded slightly recently, but he looks more energetic than before.

He said with a smile, "Mr. Chen, please take me and Xiao Lai inside for a tour."

Chen Guiliang said, "Teacher Wang is joking with me again. How could a small business like this have a 'General Manager Chen'? Please come inside, both of you."

Seeing that the office space was small, with four students working inside, the people, machines, and desks were crammed together in harsh conditions, Lai Dandan immediately had a story to tell: "Professor Wang, Junior Brother Chen, please stand further inside. Professor Wang can tour the office while Junior Brother Chen explains. I'll stand at the door and take pictures of you and the four programmers."

The cramped office, with six people plus desks and computers, would definitely make the composition of the photos look too crowded.

But that's exactly the effect Lai Dandan wanted!

The reporter has the final say.

Wang Kai walked around half of the desk, bent down to look at the screen, his left hand behind his back, and his right hand pointing at the computer. He looked questioning.

Chen Guiliang rested one hand on the edge of the table, while pointing at the computer with the other, as if he were giving an introduction.

Click, click, photo taken.

Wang Kai was indeed asking, "Has the test started yet?"

However, Guo Feng replied, "It has already started. There are currently 16 online users, and we haven't found any problems yet."

Only 16 people?
Chen Guiliang lamented that his pride was not up to par.

There were over a hundred students in the 04 Yuanpei class, but most of them hadn't bought computers yet, so Chen Guiliang couldn't rely on his classmates to do the tests.

The students he invited were mostly sophomores or above.

All 14 counselors were among those invited.

However, many students are currently in class or studying and are expected to be able to go online after 10 p.m.

Wang Kai asked a few more questions.

Actually, everyone's asking random questions because we're currently in closed beta testing, and the main goal is to find out what bugs are still around. To be on the safe side, we've even limited the number of invitations to 300.

Users without an invitation code are unable to register an account.

Having achieved his goal for the night, Wang Kai uttered a few more correct but meaningless words, then turned to Lai Dandan and said, "Little Lai, you young people can continue your conversation. I'll go back to work now."

"Take care, Teacher Wang!" Chen Guiliang saw him to the door.

Lai Dandan looked at the Renren.com interface: "Junior Brother Chen, could you demonstrate how to use Renren.com?"

Chen Guiliang told Guo Feng to leave, and then sat down at the computer: "The school's intranet requires real-name registration, and will build an interconnected campus community based on schools and classes..."

Real-name registration is a double-edged sword. In the early stages, it can be used to expand rapidly, but in the later stages, it will inevitably hinder user growth.

We will definitely need to transform in the future.

The key moment came with the advent of smartphones, necessitating an early entry into the mobile app market.

"This is your personal homepage, where you can upload photos, blog posts..."

Chen Guiliang took out his digital camera, inserted a memory card into the card reader, and started talking while choosing a handsome photo of himself as his profile picture.

"Users can upload their own profile pictures, and there's an image cropping function here. Look, isn't my profile picture cropped really cool?" Chen Guiliang said.

This junior brother is so narcissistic!

Lai Dandan smiled and said, "He is very handsome."

Chen Guiliang added, "You can also choose other pictures as your profile picture. There's a picture library here—cats, dogs, flowers, trees, you can just pick any one. This is the album function; you can set up different types of albums. For example, I can name my album 'University Classmates' and then save the corresponding photos in it..."

"Let's look at the log again. Hmm... I wrote that I'm in a good mood today, and the school's intranet is finally in beta testing. Click to confirm."

Lai Dandan said, "Isn't this just a blog?"

“Yes,” Chen Guiliang said, “Our Renren network also has a blog function. If you write a blog post, Renren can automatically notify your friends of the update via internal message.”

Lai Dandan praised, "Great feature."

"This is the background music settings," Chen Guiliang said, dragging the mouse. "Users can upload their own music or use the site's music library. Friends or regular visitors will hear the music you set when they visit your homepage. In the future, when the server is upgraded, we will have more music features, and different music can be set for each blog post."

"By the way, the journal also has background options. You can choose different background colors and different stationery..."

Lai Dandan sincerely said, "That's a great idea."

"This is the class section. After creating it, you can invite classmates to join..." "There's a friend recommendation feature here. When two of your other friends are also friends with a stranger, the website will determine that this stranger might also know you. Then it will recommend them to you among your potential friends. This feature could potentially help you reconnect with long-lost high school classmates, or even find your elementary school classmates."

Lai Dandan exclaimed, "You guys have so many practical and creative ideas!"

"The website homepage automatically selects the most popular photo albums and blog posts every day. Users from all over the country can see them, and those who rank at the top become internet celebrities."

"We will also add mini-games in the future, so you can play with your friends..."

Lai Dandan asked, "Are those mini-games developed in-house, or are they developed in collaboration with other companies?"

“We’ll do it ourselves,” Chen Guiliang said, pointing to Dong Qianqiu beside him. “This senior brother Dong is currently developing the Three Kingdoms Kill online game.”

Lai Dandan asked in surprise, "You created the Three Kingdoms Kill game?"

"Senior sister, have you played this game too?" Chen Guiliang asked.

Lai Dandan said, "I've never played it. But I've seen it in the activity room of Peking University's youth, where a group of junior students from the journalism department were playing it and shouting loudly."

Chen Guiliang maintained his smile.

How could he not send a Three Kingdoms Kill card to a news club like Peking University Youth?

Chen Guiliang has admired journalists since he was a child and wanted to contribute to the development of China's journalism industry.

"Could you give me a beta test invitation code?" Lai Dandan asked.

“Of course,” Chen Guiliang said.

Lai Dandan sat down at the computer, took out her camera's memory card, registered an account, selected photos, and uploaded her profile picture. Then she uploaded some more personal photos to her album.

After thinking for a moment, she logged into Sina Blog again, copied her blog posts, and pasted more than ten of them into the school's intranet log.

Guo Feng and Dong Qianqiu have tried it; they can use web crawlers to transfer Sina blogs.

But I don't know what methods Sina used, but when I crawl blogs, I keep getting garbled characters and incorrect symbols. It's better to just copy and paste directly.

In another timeline, Renren.com, after Sina Blog declined, seized the opportunity to launch a blog migration plan, which resulted in a large number of garbled characters and errors crawling over.

Lai Dandan then selected her homepage music and discovered that she could also set the homepage style, so she happily started playing around with it.

She played with it for a full half hour and was very satisfied with her Renren (校内网) profile. She even hoped that Renren would open registration soon so that more friends could see the things she had set up.

That's so cool!
Chen Guiliang was reborn twenty years later, and in his opinion, these things were very outdated.

But at this time, people, including Guo Feng and Dong Qianqiu, felt it was very trendy and cool!

Dong Qianqiu has even begun to waver, and joining Chen Guiliang's team seems like a good option; there's no need for him to join Microsoft Research Asia.

Lai Dandan had had her fill of fun, finally logged out of her account, picked up her notebook and said, "Junior brother, how about I do an exclusive interview with you?"

"can."

Chen Guiliang felt the office was too crowded, so he went next door to borrow two stools and placed them in the hallway for the reporter to sit down.

The rudimentary interview conditions excited Lai Dandan even more, as she felt they would allow her to write a better report.

"Were you admitted to Peking University through a special admission program?"

"Yes, I won the first prize in the New Concept Writing Competition. As long as I passed the first-tier university entrance exam, I would be admitted. However, my college entrance exam score was 8 points higher than Peking University's admission line."

"Tell me about your childhood environment."

“I was born in a small village in southern Sichuan. My parents went out to work at a young age. They were cheated by a fellow villager and were burdened with debt. They didn’t dare to go home until last year when they finally paid off the debt…”

Lai Dandan became happier and happier as she talked about her junior from elementary school all the way to university, because her junior's story was so interesting.

After her article was published in the Peking University newspaper, she also planned to submit it to the China Youth Daily, hoping that this report would help her get an internship at the China Youth Daily ahead of schedule.

When asked why he started the company, Chen Guiliang gave the same answer.

Moreover, he once again complained about being poor, saying that he had invested all his bonuses and royalties into the project, and had even advanced 10 yuan in royalties for his new book.

Lai Dandan was more impressed by Chen Guiliang's daring and enterprising spirit.

"Both of your companies have very interesting names."

"Game Science specializes in making games. There is still prejudice against games in society, and I don't want to argue about it. But since I'm making games myself, I have to take a rational approach and treat it as a discipline. That's why the company is called Game Science."

What about ByteDance?

“ByteDance is cold and empty, it’s rational. I want to add some romance to it. Just like games are blind and passionate, I want to add a touch of rationality to them.”

"Now that you explain it that way, I feel that both company names have a poetic quality."

"Starting a company is like writing poetry. Perhaps, you can even write an epic of entrepreneurship?"

“You are different from many entrepreneurs.”

"Students, young people, are full of enthusiasm and ideals, so they should make their work, study and life more poetic and romantic."

Lai Dandan came up with a news headline: "A Freshman Entrepreneur and His Romantic Poems."

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(Brothers who still have monthly passes, throw them all at me! Quickly burst Guan Guan Gongzi's chrysanthemum!)
(End of this chapter)