When the entire Silicon Valley venture capital capital was eagerly waiting to meet with Li Mu, Li Mu took the initiative to meet with Larry Page, the founder of Google who happened to be in Silicon Valley just like him.
In Li Mu's eyes, Larry Page's contribution to the world is greater and more profound than that of Jobs. Although the latter created many amazing products, the former truly changed the world.
Search engines have made a huge contribution to the Internet. It has greatly improved people's information search efficiency on the Internet. Based on this, it has improved almost all the efficiency of people using computers.
Learning efficiency is improving, work efficiency is also improving, and even gaming efficiency is also improving. Just as Baidu will be fully integrated into the lives of Chinese netizens in the future, Google will be integrated into the lives of netizens around the world.
Google is a company that advocates technology, which is closely related to Larry Page himself. For ordinary netizens, they may not know what is so awesome about Google, but as a programmer, Li Mu Relative to ordinary people, you need to know more about Google.
Strong technological accumulation and patent accumulation make Google almost the most technically powerful Internet company in the world, and its wide range of technical applications have far exceeded the visual range of ordinary users. However, at the moment, Google's market value is still Not as good as Makino Technology, which is at its peak.
Li Mu admired Larry Page, and at this time, Larry Page also admired Li Mu.
It has taken Larry Page several years since he founded Google. There have been many far-reaching innovations at the technical level, but at the commercial level, they are still several levels behind Makino Technology.
Li Mu arrived at the restaurant he had agreed with Larry Page in advance. After waiting for about ten minutes, 29-year-old Larry Page arrived.
When they met for the first time, Li Mu was extremely nervous, but fortunately he was still calm on the surface, while Larry Page's expression showed a bit of nervousness at a loss.
When facing Li Mu, Larry Page really didn't have much confidence. He was nearly ten years older than Li Mu, but Li Mu was worth much more than him. Google's current valuation was only around 10 billion U.S. dollars, while Makino Technology is valued at at least 20 billion U.S. dollars. In addition, Li Mu also owns Makino Games, which owns the currently popular "Paradise Town". What's even more frightening is that Li Mu also There is Taobao, which is comparable to Amazon in China. If an authoritative organization systematically calculated Li Mu's worth, he would even be at the top of the world's richest list.
Larry Page didn't know why Li Mu took the initiative to see him. In his opinion, he was inferior to Li Mu, so naturally he didn't think that the other party would admire him.
After Li Mu shook hands with Larry Page and said hello, the two sat across from each other. Li Mu said to Larry Page very sincerely: "Mr. Page, as a Google fan, I have wanted to meet you for a long time. It’s a great honor to finally have the opportunity to meet you today.”
Larry Page did not expect Li Mu to be so polite and said hurriedly: "Mr. Li is so polite. In comparison, I am a fan of Makino Technology. YY is an excellent product. I use it every day." Now that I'm using it, it has greatly helped improve work efficiency and saved me a lot of time. It's definitely the best auxiliary office software I've ever used. It's amazing."
Li Mu smiled bitterly and said: "Mr. Page, you should be able to see that the essence of YY is not an auxiliary office software..."
Larry Page said hurriedly: "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, my statement was wrong."
Saying that, Larry Page added: "YY itself is indeed an incredibly perfect social communication software. To be honest, when I saw YY, I always suspected that this should not be a product of our time."
Li Mu was shocked and couldn't help but ask him: "Why do you say that?"
Larry Page said seriously: "In my opinion, all aspects of YY are so perfect that it is unimaginable. In my opinion, it almost does not follow the rules of all Internet products in this era. Its visual design language alone, It surpasses all current Internet products, and its interactive experience also shows unprecedented user-friendliness, which is by no means comparable to current products. Moreover, the most important thing is that the functions of YY products are highly user-friendly, highlighting The founder has an extremely deep understanding of user needs. Taken together, this product is indeed ahead of its time."
As he spoke, Larry Page looked at Li Mu and said with a bit of joking: "Being able to develop such a perfect product proves that your thinking model has transcended this era. Without you and Makino Technology, the Internet industry would have It may take more than five years to reach your height.”
Larry Page's evaluation made Li Mu feel chills on his back for a moment, and the tension in his heart was simply difficult to describe in words. On the one hand, he did not expect that he would give such a high evaluation to his product, and on the other hand, he did not expect that, He would give a seemingly exaggerated evaluation of "ahead of the times", but in fact it was infinitely close to reality.
Frankly speaking, Li Mu did not consider the issue of "the framework of the times" in the process of pursuing product heights, but after Larry Page's indirect reminder, Li Mu finally became aware of the "frame of the times".
The so-called "frame of the times", to put it bluntly, is what this era itself should be like. If something beyond the framework of this era appears, it will immediately appear to be extraordinarily different.
The current YY is indeed ahead of the times. It uses the design language, interaction methods, and product functions that Tengxun has accumulated over many years, countless versions, and little by little. Every aspect reflects the importance of users in all aspects. In-depth understanding of this kind of demand, ordinary users do not have a sensitive industry sense, and will only feel that this software is too easy to use, but for an industry master like Larry Page, it is not unusual for him to feel this way.
If you take a 2016 S-Class Mercedes-Benz and erase all brand information and give it to the auto industry in 2002 for study, I'm afraid you will feel the same way.
Excellent car designers in 2002, even Mercedes-Benz car designers, would be shocked, because they can see at a glance that the 2016 S-Class Mercedes-Benz has a lot of features in the air intake and exhaust, front and rear surrounds, and waistline edges and corners. The design language used in other aspects is not at all the design language shared by major manufacturers in this era;
Chassis tuning engineers in 2002 will also find that the chassis of this 2016 Mercedes-Benz is far more complex and advanced than they understand. If it is coupled with high-end things like electromagnetic suspension, they will be even more suspicious of life;
Engine engineers in 2002 may also be surprised, why is this 2016 Mercedes-Benz with a 3.0 displacement capable of bursting out nearly 400 horsepower? And their 3.2-liter displacement engine only has 220 horsepower
Transmission engineers in 2002 would also be amazed that the top automatic transmission they could make only had five forward gears, and the technology was not mature enough and the shift response was very slow, but why could this car do seven? ? Moreover, the switching speed of the seven gears is amazingly fast and at the same time extremely smooth.
Today's YY is such a product. It will not only make ordinary practitioners feel despair, but also make top practitioners like Larry Page feel extremely surprised. Li Mu even doubts whether there will be anyone like Larry Page. Larry Page views YY the same way, but at the same time his thinking is more jumping and bold than Larry Page. Would anyone even boldly assume that he is a time traveler who has returned from the future world
Just when Li Mu was nervous, Larry Page saw that Li Mu was silent and said, "In my opinion, it is precisely because YY has made so many epoch-making advances that it has become an epoch-making product. Just like the shock that the first color camera brought to the world; just like the miraculous effects that penicillin brought to the world when it was first discovered, YY also shocked and inspired me, making me realize that the original product can still do this .”
Li Mu breathed a sigh of relief.
Larry Page's thinking mode, when thinking about the YY product, has automatically ignored the option that it may come from the future, and his metaphor also made Li Mu relax a lot. Before he was reborn, in the world There are often many epoch-making products appearing, but no matter how powerful the product is, the world will not only admire and imitate it, but will not doubt that it comes from the future.
Maybe the top people in the industry feel that YY is the first camera that can take color photos. It subverts the black and white imaging world and gives them a great shock, but they will not really question whether this disruptive product comes from In the future, I will only study the product itself carefully so that I can catch up.
Relaxed, Li Mu said to Larry Page: "In fact, in my opinion, Google is also an epoch-making product. Its emergence has brought about huge changes in the entire Internet world. It is like giving every user a dedicated computer." The Hubble Telescope for the Internet world allows everyone to find what they are looking for and explore everything they want to explore."
With that said, Li Mu asked Larry Page: "Mr. Page, I'm curious, what motivated you to create Google?"
Larry Page smiled slightly and said a little shyly: "When I was 22 years old, I was still a graduate student at Stanford. At that time, I had great enthusiasm for the Internet, and the Internet as a whole at that time was still In the gestation stage, everything is unorganized. A few people are working on their own, randomly creating some page products to populate the Internet world. It is as if the age of libraries has not yet been born. Many authors are writing books, but there is no book. The library was able to bring their books together.”
"Without a library, it would be extremely difficult for readers to find books, so I came up with the idea of building a 'library' on the Internet, just like a library collecting various works and creating a catalog. You can download all the information on the Internet, and then search every page in it to form a product similar to a library catalog. In this case, users who want to see works in any field only need to go to my library catalog A search will bring up all the relevant works he wants to see.”
Li Mu was surprised and said: "Google's creativity actually came from the library?"
Larry Page nodded: "Yes, the so-called search engine, the most appropriate explanation is 'library + book catalog'. Google's program will continue to crawl all kinds of information on the Internet and build itself It is the largest and most comprehensive 'library' in the world."
When Li Mu heard Larry Page's metaphor, he suddenly thought of Google Books in the future, the super online library with more than 20 million e-books in the future. However, in his impression, the birth of Google Books took a long time. It was still a little later, so Li Mu asked him: "Mr. Page, since you think Google's original intention is so close to the library, have you ever thought about building a real online library and digitizing as many paper books as possible? , and then put it online for people to read?”
Larry Page was shocked and speechless after hearing this. In fact, he had already launched a secret plan for Google Books this year. Unexpectedly, the pattern of this secret plan was guessed by Li Mu...
(End of chapter)