Xiaomi Heavy Industry, its first entrepreneurial venture!

Chapter 481 News Headline Released! (First Update!)

Holding his phone and looking at the message from Zhang Yiming, Lin Yi inexplicably opened the email that Guo Song had just sent.

Ok……

It seems we can have some fun with the upcoming news headlines.

He sat down at the computer, opened the document, and placed his hands on the keyboard, but after staring at the computer screen for a long time, he still had no clue what to do.

Because we didn't have much information, it was like a tangled mess of threads, and we couldn't tell which parts were useful and which weren't.

Without finding useful information, it's impossible to begin.

With a sigh, Lin Yi closed the document on his computer and casually dialed Zhang Yiming's number: "If I request a simultaneous domestic and international launch, is that possible?"

After the question was asked, the person on the other end of the phone remained silent for a long time before softly humming in agreement.
“A few days ago, we expanded the capacity of our domestic servers. Well, according to our estimates, if we go online quietly, we don’t need to worry about the pressure on our domestic servers at all.”

"As for overseas, we can rent servers from mainstream CDN service providers and distribute the relevant content to these servers."

"This can alleviate our financial pressure while also ensuring the stability of the service for overseas users."

"If we go through Mr. Cook's connections, these overseas server service providers should be able to offer a good price."

"If we move quickly, we can try to launch it on the 8th, which is a little over a week later."

After closing his eyes and thinking for a moment, Lin Yi tapped the phone case and calmly instructed Zhang Yiming:
"I'll contact Cook later and ask him for help. You need to prepare for our overseas launch."

"If necessary, two employees can be sent overseas."

"Number 8!"

"On October 8th, we will go online on time. Please don't make a fuss. We will go online quietly."

After giving Zhang Yiming his instructions, Lin Yi hung up the phone. He checked the time and saw that it was still early morning in Cook's area, so he put the phone aside and continued to study the email sent by Guo Song.

After studying it for a while, he simply sent a message to Guo Song, asking Guo Song to connect him directly so he could listen to the call.

Guo Song was more than happy to accept his reckless request.

Less than five hours after Lin Yi made the call, even more audio from the surveillance recordings, like a tsunami, reached Xiaomi Heavy Industry and ended up in Lin Yi's hands.

He put on the headphones with great interest and, like a monitor, multitasked, analyzing the sounds coming through the headphones while taking notes.

As the audio started playing, he heard someone's confession—a long, cheesy, and corny confession that lasted an hour without a single useful word. At the very last moment, Lin Yi impatiently ripped off his headphones and stomped on them.

"WTF!"

After he finished cursing, he simply sat on the sofa, closed his eyes to rest, and several hours passed in the blink of an eye.

When he opened his eyes again, it was already 8 p.m., and in California, where Cook was, it was already morning.

He took out his phone and dialed the number casually: "Good morning, Mr. Cook. Our first software has been successfully adapted, and I want to launch it within 5 days, with a simultaneous global launch. I think Mr. Cook can definitely help me."

On the other end of the phone, Cook was probably having breakfast when the toaster clicked open, and his voice followed:

"I'll send you a list form later. Have your people fill it out today and send it to me directly. I'll approve it immediately."

"However, with a simultaneous release overseas, where are your servers?"

"If you don't have servers, you won't be able to serve overseas customers. If you get too many complaints, your software might be taken down."

Lin Yi had already formed an idea while chatting with Zhang Yiming a few hours ago, and upon hearing Cook's words, he naturally smiled and said:

"Then we'll have to trouble Mr. Cook to help us contact a CDN service provider. I think Mr. Cook would be happy to facilitate a collaboration."

After he finished speaking, only heavy breathing came through the receiver. After a long while, Cook's slightly impatient voice came through:

“Mr. Lin, you need to change your habit of attacking someone who has already attacked them.”

"However, since you'll be doing the manufacturing for me in the future, I'll help you out!"

…………

Cupertino, California, America.

As soon as Cook hung up the phone, Jobs looked up at him:
"A phone number for Xiaomi Heavy Industry?"

"Yes, he asked me to help him find a CDN service provider!"

"To be honest, I've looked at the samples you brought. Their technical capabilities are very strong. Won't what you're doing create a competitor for us?"

"Yes!" Cook answered decisively, but then shook his head just as decisively.
"But at the same time, it won't either!"

"Because of geopolitical competition, because of political competition, America and the EU, even with a market economy, cannot allow a Chinese brand to grow big and strong. Reaching second or third place is already the limit that their leaders can tolerate. What we want to do is not to be stronger than Xiaomi Heavy Industry, but to be stronger than the EU and everyone else in America!"

"And with them around, our value seems even greater!"

After listening to Cook's words, Jobs nodded thoughtfully twice, and then he couldn't help but cough again.

After coughing, he chuckled and said, "My condition has gotten a bit worse!"

Seeing this, Cook could only helplessly rub his temples with both hands and whisper, "Then you should rest well, I'll handle these things!"

After saying that, he rubbed his head, ate the last piece of bread, and left Jobs' office.

Back in his office, Cook quickly searched his contacts and found Akamai's phone number. Akamai is the CDN service provider with the widest global coverage, though it is quite expensive.

This was found for Lin Yi, not for my own use.

So, whether you can afford to pay for the job you found yourself is another matter entirely.

The call connected, and a hearty laugh immediately came from the other end: "Mr. Cook, is there business for you calling me so early in the morning?"

"There is indeed a business opportunity!" Cook, holding the microphone, circled his desk and chair, his gaze fixed on the floor-to-ceiling window, and said with a smile:

“A company from China wants to put a piece of software on our platform, but they don’t have an overseas server set up yet and need to rent a CDN service.”

"Name a reasonable price!"

The other party did not immediately make an offer because he sensed something strange in Cook's laughter.

That laughter sounded a little sarcastic.

After a while, the other party cautiously probed, "Mr. Cook's friend?"

"We're friends!"

"good friend?"

“Good friend!” Cook responded again, having already discerned the other’s thoughts. He calmly said, “Just give the normal price, and be quick. They need to get the software up and running this week. If you can’t keep up, you might not get paid.”

"I'll send you the information via email later. You can contact them yourself."

After finishing his sentence, Cook hung up the phone and turned to edit information about Xiaomi Heavy Industry and some software details via email. Once finished, he sent it to Akamai Corporation.

After sending the message, he opened a drawer, took out an iPhone 4, held it up to his eyes, and frowned as he asked the phone:
"How did they manage to achieve such a significant performance boost?"

"How exactly did they do it?"

…………

In Lin'an, Zhang Yiming signed his name on the document in front of him with a fountain pen, then took the seal next to him and gently stamped it on his name.

After doing all this, he handed the document in his hand to the person opposite him, took the document from the person opposite him, checked it again, and only after confirming that there were no problems did he hand the document to his assistant.

After his assistant put the documents away, he stood up and extended his right hand to the foreigner opposite him:

"Mr. Wright, thank you for lending us a helping hand at this time and for going to such lengths to help us. I hope we can have a pleasant cooperation in the future!"

Across from them, the foreigner in a suit also stood up and shook Zhang Yiming's outstretched hand:
"Mr. Zhang, you're joking! We're a service provider. We're paid to solve problems for our customers, that's what we should do. Mr. Zhang chose us, so we'll make sure you know your money wasn't wasted!"

"Mr. Zhang, your software will be launched in three days. We need to deploy the relevant data within these three days."

"These costs will be quite high!"

"Mr. Zhang, are you ready?"

Zhang Yiming gripped the other person's hand tightly and shook it gently twice: "Ready!"

Feeling the pressure on his hand, Wright responded, "Then let's begin!"

They released their hands and went to arrange their respective tasks: Zhang Yiming arranged for the data to be sent abroad, while Wright arranged for the data to be received.

Three days to deploy globally—the timeframe was very short and extremely tight!

If you're even a little slow, you might not be able to catch up.

If we miss it, the subsequent arrangements will be very troublesome.

Fortunately, he had money and connections. After receiving the money, Wright took the hard drives full of data, boarded a plane from Emirates Airlines, and transported the data to their servers located around the world as quickly as possible.

At the same time, Cook also used his acting CEO privileges to add related advertisements to the mobile browser's recommendation page.

As a result of these actions, many Apple users have become interested in the upcoming software.

Although I'm not really looking forward to it, since the official recommendation is so strong, I'll just join in the fun and download the software to see what happens.

Time flies, and it's already the morning of October 8th, China time.

Because the software is about to be launched, a group of people from the Lin'an company have been staying at the company for several days.

A ray of bright red sunlight rose from the east. Trouble peeked through the window and quietly slipped into the room. He saw Zhang Yiming sleeping on the sofa. The sunlight playfully slapped him awake.

After stretching his stiff neck, Zhang Yiming went into the bathroom, quickly washed up, and looked up at himself through the window.

His hair was a little messy, his eyes were bloodshot, and there were faint dark circles under his eyes, but his black pupils were still full of energy.

Looking at the person in the mirror, Zhang Yiming slowly extended his right hand in front of his eyes, clenching his fist:

"Zhang Yiming! You can do it! Your starting point is already much higher than others!"

The person in the mirror clenched their fists and waved them along with him.

After recovering, Zhang Yiming stood up, grabbed a tissue from the side, wiped the water droplets from his forehead, walked out of the restroom, and went into the large office at the end of the corridor.

In the large office, a group of people with panda eyes were sitting in front of their computers, holding coffee. Hearing the noise at the door, they all turned around and, seeing that it was Zhang Yiming, quickly made way for him.

As he approached, Zhang Yiming's gaze fell upon the two computer screens in front of him.

On the right-hand screen is their self-developed software, used to monitor software download and access data from the official website.

On the left screen is the data software provided by Akamai, which can monitor software downloads and access numbers in real time.

At this moment, the number on the left screen is 143265, which is the number of people who have downloaded the software and tried to access it.

On the right side of the screen, it shows 3647265.

Looking at those two numbers, Zhang Yiming involuntarily closed his eyes and began to gently inhale and exhale.

Apple's software has only been available in China for a short time, yet it has already garnered 14 downloads and attempts, meaning that 14 people have seen their software and expressed interest.

If we can have 140,000 stable users on the first day, then there will be 1 million, 10 million, and 100 million users in the future!

On the contrary, Zhang Yiming was somewhat dissatisfied with the data from overseas.

Keep in mind that Apple sells tens or even hundreds of millions of phones overseas, yet they only produced a little over 300 million!
Too little!
After staring at it for a while, he raised his left hand, and the time on his left hand stopped at 7:32.

He lowered his left hand and calmly looked at everyone: "In the last two hours, we have acquired a lot of resources. We can only succeed, we cannot fail."

"There might be another opportunity, but we won't be able to get as many resources next time."

"So, keep it up! Each group, check your work one last time and make sure the project is running smoothly!"

After saying good luck to these people, he turned around and walked to the coffee machine, poured himself a large cup of coffee, gulped it down, and then had another cup.

Time slipped away slowly, and soon it was 10 a.m.

The alarm clock rang at 10 o'clock. Zhang Yiming opened his eyes abruptly and whispered, "Open access permissions!"

Following his instructions, the staff responsible for controlling permissions quickly entered commands to officially open the server permissions, allowing users to access it.

As permissions were granted, the data on the two screens in front of me changed, becoming the number of visits.

The number of visits on both sides was 0 at the beginning, but in less than a second, the number on both sides began to surge, and the speed on both sides was very fast.

On the left, in the blink of an eye, the number of visits skyrocketed from 0 to 10, and after exceeding 10, the number continued to climb wildly.

On the right, the numbers climbed even faster, surpassing 50 in the blink of an eye and soaring to 100 million.

Upon seeing those two numbers, Zhang Yiming's heart began to pound uncontrollably, faster and faster. He quickly pressed his hand to his chest, took deep breaths, and forcibly suppressed his heartbeat.

After calming his racing heart, he picked up the phone and called the content department: "Take a look at what these users are posting, what they like to see, and then push content to them based on what they like!"

(End of this chapter)