Of course, the most important core competitiveness is still well-known trendy brands. Whether it is a long-standing foreign brand or a rapidly rising domestic brand, it is the future goal of trendy people.

Because investing is not just about spending money desperately, good projects are like white and rich and beautiful people, who are robbing Wuyang.

If you invest 100 million, others will dare to spend 300 million. There are many rich people these days.

The founder is not stupid either. With the same investment, whoever can give more added value will be more competitive.

Traffic, resources, connections, brand influence, and even more illusory goodwill...

Otherwise, why are everyone eager to endorse Alibaba and Tencent?

On one acre of three-point land in China,

This is the rules of the game!

What trendsetters need to do is to create a comprehensive platform for trend culture, and use investment and channels to gather potential stocks in all vertical fields, as if a trickle of water, gradually converge into the ocean.

Finally, we were completely connected with WeChat and soared to the sky with a daily active users of one billion yuan!

Of course, Brother Ma is not stupid either. Giving himself traffic is a big data of young future consumption behind trendy people. For Tencent, this is a priceless treasure.

He called Ye Fei up. After all, he was not a technical expert and he was responsible for recruiting soldiers and horses in the group.

"Old Ma is not a gimmick to build the DAMO Academy with 100 billion yuan!"

Ye Fei said seriously: "Big data may not be visible or touched for ordinary people, but in the eyes of giants, it is definitely a matter of life and death in the future."

Seeing that Shen Feng became serious, he continued to explain: "Take Alibaba's analysis, the e-commerce platform has made Alibaba's market value exceed 450 billion US dollars, becoming the fifth largest economy in the world. This area has basically reached a bottleneck, and the next step is to expand its business overseas."

"Finance has used Ant Financial to complete comprehensive layouts in consumption, micro loan business, financial data application, personal credit reporting and other aspects. The ecosystem has long gone out of the scope of serving Taobao, and Alipay has become a benchmark for global financial innovation."

"This is the second wave of raids that achieved a market value of $620 billion!"

"So for Alibaba today, the only field that does not have any ripe melons, only data, and the so-called data is actually divided into two parts: artificial intelligence and big data, and behind it is the bottomless pit investment in technology research and development."

Shen Feng took a deep breath and felt heavy pressure instantly.

"Long time before the establishment of the DAMO Academy, Lao Ma mobilized more than 20,000 scientists and engineers around the world to participate in the new technology strategy at the first technical conference in March last year, and called for the launch of the Nasa Program, which attracted the attention of the world's scientific and technological community."

"In recent years, many technologies of Alibaba have been continuously exporting to the outside world: such as the Feitian system for cloud computing, the financial database developed by Ant Financial, and the artificial intelligence used for society. et, and the quantum computing laboratory that cooperates with the Chinese Academy of Sciences..."

"Even the underlying lifeline of the entire e-commerce ecosystem in the future, all technical strategies need to have a practical carrier, not just a simple plan."

Ye Fei took a sip of coffee and joked: "I heard that the name of the Damo Academy was founded after Lao Ma was in seclusion in the back mountain of Shaolin Temple for two months!"

Shen Feng was not in the mood to laugh and couldn't help asking: "What's the movement of the other giants?"

"The important difference between Alibaba's technology layout and Baidu and Tencent is that it is often developed based on previous products and commercial needs."

"For example, when Taobao lacks a complete guarantee transaction mechanism, Alipay emerges..."

"When Taobao and Tmall need to deal with large-scale traffic requests and high concurrency processing, Alibaba Cloud came into being..."

"In the field of artificial intelligence, the first artificial intelligence service that is widely used in society is launched..."

"In the field of cloud computing, the ultra-large-scale general computing operating system Feitian system that is independently developed to serve the world..."

"Yunos launched in the field of IoT has become the third largest operating system in China, and has been widely used in smartphones, TVs, cars, and IOT..."

Speaking of this, Ye Fei sighed: "The arsenal-style technology development model allows Alibaba's technology to have far more practicality than other companies, and meets current needs to the greatest extent. This is the foundation of the giant!"

Chen Feng was so angry that he had no choice. Lao Ma would have been so frustrated for so many years.

But it is difficult to make forward-looking predictions in this model!" Ye Fei suddenly reversed: "Ali currently has more than 20,000 engineers and more than 500 doctoral students, and is known as the most innovative technology enterprise."

"But all this is obviously far from enough for an international giant like Alibaba."

"Not only Alibaba, but in recent years, Google, Facebook, Tencent, and Baidu have spent 10 billion yuan to do more or less forward-looking and even down-to-earth laboratory research."

"Last year, Alibaba's sales exceeded 4 trillion yuan, equivalent to the 21st largest economy in the world. If it wants to become a world-class laboratory, of course, it is necessary to find world-class experts."

"Last year, it made a bold statement at the Yunqi Conference. It was definitely a sign of buying horse bones with a wealth of money. Just look at the first batch of technical experts announced by the DAMO Academy."

Chen Feng checked the web page and found that there were three academicians from both academies and five academicians from the American Academy of Sciences, and even michael, a world-class master in artificial intelligence. jordan,e    m.        church…

The former is one of the two root characters in the field of artificial intelligence, with many heroes appearing, such as Yoshua, a professor at the University of Montreal, bengio, former Baidu chief scientist Andy Ng, and Stanford University professor percy liang...

The latter is a leader in the Human Genome Project, using new methods to create a new era of personal genome research.

There are definitely great gods gathering!

"Xiao Ma is not willing to be outdone, but Tencent is more low-key." Ye Fei said helplessly: "The two giants have been deeply engaged in the Internet for 30 years, and many things cannot be made simply with money."

Chen Feng nodded. Although Wanli has been doing well in the past two years, it is actually a baby in the eyes of a real giant.

Not to mention Alibaba and Tencent, Everbright Data, Baidu, Meituan, and even Toutiao can beat yourself up!

Ye Fei saw the boss’s thoughts and said straight to the point: “Now our talent reserve is 260 people. Every month, we explore the technical talents of large companies through well-known headhunting. The middle-level accumulation is gradually enriched, but the high-rise and top-rise buildings…”

Chen Feng waved his hand and said that he was a treasure wherever he was skilled, and it was not something that could be done with money.

Those who can get to that level are 100% idealists. If they cannot create the best research environment, they will never look at you.

"Continue to increase talent investment!" Chen Feng said firmly: "The company provides 100 million funds every month, as long as there is a chance to poach..."

"Don't worry!" Ye Fei nodded with a smile: "It's already started."

Chen Feng breathed a sigh of relief. Wanli must have its own core technical team if he wants to become bigger and stronger in the future. There is no doubt about this.

Ye Fei's focus has now gradually shifted from a million winners to the entire group's CTO, of course, not because of his awesome skills, but because of his elders and gold fingers.

Now he is a billionaire. A person who can join Forbes, his pursuit of money is no longer the first goal in life.

Especially for entrepreneurs, making money to a certain level is really just a number, and the sense of accomplishment comes from the success of every continuous challenge.

Lao Ma, Liu Chuanzhi, Niu Gensheng, and even Liu Qiangdong, who started to slowly move to JD.com last year...

Return to their original aspirations, use money as investors, support young projects, and watch them break out of the ground little by little...

It feels like gradually growing into a towering tree.
Chapter completed!