Reborn in 08, Public Enemy of Competitors

In the afternoon, at Zhejiang University.

Wang Jin came out of the restroom and saw Liang Wenfeng, who was completely absorbed in the stock market, and felt quite helpless.

"Old Liang, stop messing around with that damn A-shares, it's been a bear market for ages!"

"Who says the stock market is bearish? It's fantastic!"

Liang Wenfeng looked at the colorful stock charts, a slight smile playing on his lips.

Wang Jin was shocked. "You haven't gone crazy with stocks, have you? How's this bear market going?"

"The news just came out that the government plans to spend 4 trillion yuan to stimulate the market and expand domestic demand through investment."

Liang Wenfeng said with a smile, "Both the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets are now experiencing a slight increase."

"What?!"

Wang Jin felt deep regret. "Damn it, I should have listened to you and cut my losses and run! Is it too late for me to get back in?"

"Go in now, and you'll be getting ripped off."

Liang Wenfeng adjusted his glasses. "Policy-driven, at most it will have an impact for a week or two. As for the technical aspects..."

Wang Jin said, "You're not still thinking about using machine learning and artificial intelligence to do quantitative trading, are you?"

Liang Wenfeng nodded. "I've already convinced my two junior brothers. Would you like to come along?"

"I'll pass."

Wang Jin sighed, "After several stock market experiences, I've realized that I'm just destined to be a sucker. I should just find a regular job and give up on the pipe dream of getting rich overnight or becoming a financial stock market guru."

Liang Wenfeng frowned. "You're looking for a job? Don't you still have more than a year until graduation?"

"Looking for a part-time job!"

Wang Jin lowered his voice and revealed that companies such as Lingyun Technology would appear at job fairs during the final stage of the autumn recruitment season.

Liang Wenfeng said, "Is it Lingyun Technology, the company that created 'Everyday Ranch' and YiTao GO?"

"Yes, they're about to secure their Series A funding."

Wang Jin said, "I have a high school classmate who works part-time at YiTao GO. His salary plus bonuses is no less than that of a full-time employee at a big company!"

Liang Wenfeng pressed further, "You don't mean you're thinking of working at EtaoGO after you graduate, do you?"

"I've actually thought that way! Better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big pond!"

Wang Jin said, "If YiTao GO is really a good platform, I hope to continue working on it."

Then, grinning, he leaned closer and asked, "How about it, Lao Liang? Want to come along?"

Liang Wenfeng declined, saying, "I'm not interested in e-commerce; I want to dedicate my time to fully automated quantitative trading."

"There's no conflict between them."

Wang Jin chuckled and said, "If you want to research artificial intelligence and quantitative trading, wouldn't the more capital the better? We can earn at least four or five thousand a month working part-time at YiTao GO. If you work there for a few months, your research funding will be secured!"

Upon hearing this, Liang Wenfeng was immediately tempted.

I don't really have much capital on hand, at most 4. If I could earn another 4...

………………

Meanwhile, the Jiangzhe University of Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Park.

Shen Mo looked around and earnestly instructed, "Although this campus recruitment is about picking up the scraps, we still need to choose the best ones."

"We need to recruit not only for YiTao GO, but also for ZhangLe Games, including planners, artists, developers, and operations staff..."

"Brother Mo, PalmJoy Games just hired people a while ago, are we hiring again now?"

Yuan Hua, Liu Yang, and the others looked at each other, puzzled.

"The previous batch of recruits was for version updates of 'Everyday Farm' and the research and development of 'Everyday Ranch'."

Shen Mo waved his hand, "This recruitment is mainly for the overseas expansion of 'Everyday Farm'."

In my past life, the two biggest mistakes I made in five minutes were, firstly, choosing the wrong revenue sharing plan with the penguin.

Secondly, it missed the best opportunity to go global, allowing foreign companies to copy the "vegetable stealing" gameplay and release "FarmVille" ahead of time.

As a result, Happy Farm failed to break into the European and American markets and could only gain a share in countries and regions such as Russia.

Shen Mo would not make such a mistake. He has already asked Lin Qingyan and others to act as his agents and register names such as farms, ranches, and fish farms overseas.

"Set out...set sail?!"

They were all stunned and incredulous.

"Brother Mo, are we really going to go out to sea?"

Yuan Hua hesitated before asking, "Would foreigners like playing our 'Everyday Farm'?"

"How could I not like it!"

Shen Mo rolled his eyes. "We Chinese have the gene for growing vegetables in our bones, and even Americans dream of becoming farm owners!"

Liu Yang stroked his chin. "What the boss said makes sense. There's a term for 'rednecks' in America."

"However, everything must be adapted to local conditions. The overseas expansion of 'Everyday Ranch' is not simply a matter of changing the Chinese language to English."

"Foreigners have different mindsets and habits when playing social games than we do, for example, crops."

Shen Mo nodded and said, "Wheat, corn, and soybeans can appear in the store system, but watermelons are absolutely prohibited, lest the Nikos perceive it as racism and cause unnecessary misunderstandings..."

"There's more! There's more!"

The group started talking and offered various ideas about the overseas version of "Everyday Ranch".

Shen Mo smacked his lips. Compared to the technical aspects, what he lacked most at the moment was talent who understood overseas markets and user operations.

Today's penguins do not have the overseas promotion channels they had in their past.

If "Everyday Farm" wants to go overseas, it can only rely on itself. The advantage is that if you're good at one thing, you'll be good at everything.

If FarmVille can fire the first shot for Palmgames, their future games will be much easier to launch overseas.

………………

The campus recruitment season, which ended in late November, is nearing its end.

The job fair was originally quiet, but suddenly the number of people increased dramatically after someone spread the news that Lingyun Technology was going to recruit students from universities.

Some came for the high salaries offered by YiTaoGO, while others came because they heard that YiTaoGO was about to launch its Series A funding round and wanted to expand its business.

Resumes appeared like snowflakes in Shen Mo's inbox and on his desk.

Upon closer inspection, he actually managed to find a group of engineers in charge of search and algorithms for the technology department to streamline the existing underlying architecture.

An algorithm sorting function is set up for the super group buying, super flash sale, and super cashback product pools.

It runs every 15 minutes, operates based on data, reduces human intervention, and has begun to upgrade the security system of EasyGo.

Just as he continued searching for talent, his pupils suddenly contracted as Liang Wenfeng's resume appeared before his eyes.

Holy crap, I got gold!

A golden legend!

Rumor has it that this guy started with 8 yuan and built Magic Square Quantitative into the top tier in the country.

The most ingenious thing is that they seem to have broken free from low-level interests and invested the money they earned from quantitative analysis into the field of large AI models, which led to the emergence of DeepSeek.

What's even more outrageous is that not only did they make Deepseek open source, preventing GPT, Gemini, and others from monopolizing and profiting, but they also permanently reduced the price, driving the token down to rock bottom, making it the most cost-effective large-scale model, at most charging users just for electricity.

As for R&D funding, I receive the national subsidy at 9:30 in the morning and the US subsidy at 9:30 in the evening.

If that's still not enough, you can open a 100x short position on AI concept stocks and draw the candlestick chart yourself.

We must hold onto this talent!

Leaving aside stock trading for oneself, in the e-commerce sector alone, the future competition will not only be about traffic and price, but also about computing power and algorithms.

Shen Mo looked at Zhong Xue and solemnly instructed, "I need to interview Liang Wenfeng personally. Please inform him."