Overnight, Nike was almost a household name.
After seeing the news, the American people, especially young people, are very interested in Nike's sneakers.
For a time, the sales of Nike's products soared! The sales in just one week surpassed the sales in the past month, and Nike is all surprised!
Even Phil Knight, who was mentally prepared, was shocked. He couldn't help but be glad that Chronos Li had invested in Nike instead of Adidas. Otherwise, Nike would be in a very difficult situation.
"It should be Adidas who has a headache now, hahahaha..." Phil Knight looked out the window and laughed.
Adidas is very bad now, with product sales plummeting, stock prices plummeting, and the situation is not optimistic. And Nike has just received a $100 million investment from Li Zetian, and will soon be able to expand the market. Once Nike continues to develop, it is bound to occupy more market share of Adidas!
In this regard, Adidas seems a little helpless.
In fact, Li Zetian is more interested in the high-tech industry, and his investment in Nike is just an investment. After all, this is Nike. In the future, the market value will rise, and after cashing out the shares, it will be a large amount of money.
In the future, smart sports shoes are also an attempt to combine healthy sports and artificial intelligence to change people's lives.
As the saying goes, "technology changes life", technology can be applied to all kinds of places, involving all aspects of human life!
Nike has its own "Phil Knight to take care of it, and Li Zetian naturally doesn't need to intervene, he can't do it himself.
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At 2:00 pm on November 1st, Li Zetian was working on documents in his study when Dongfang Yuqin pushed open the door and stepped forward and said, "Mr. Warner Stephens, president of the American Computer Society of CM, came to visit suddenly, and Mrs. Jingqiu has already Let him wait in the living room first!"
"American Computer Society?"
In fact, just hearing the name, ACM is very powerful. This is an international science and technology education organization. Founded in 1947, it is the world's first scientific and educational computer society, headquartered in New York, USA.
Li Zetian was surprised, how could the president of the association come to visit him...
"Okay, I'll go right now!"
After speaking, Li Zetian stood up, put on a coat, and walked towards the door.
When I came to the living room, I saw a man in his fifties, wearing a happy-colored suit and a pair of gold-framed glasses. This must be Warner Stephens.
"Hello, Mr. Warner Stephens!"
Li Zetian stepped forward and greeted with a smile.
Warner Stephens immediately stood up, shook hands with Li Zetian, and said, "Hello, Chronos Li!"
"Hello, let's sit down and talk!"
"Um!"
The two sat opposite a red sandalwood coffee table.
Li Zetian smiled and said: "There is a saying in China that 'nothing goes without going to the Three Treasures Palace'. Mr. Warner Stephens is here today, he must have something important to call me!"
Warner Stephens smiled and admitted generously: "Yes, there are some important things to discuss with you. By the way, Mr. Li, do you know the ACM programming competition?"
As a programmer who is determined to become a billionaire by programming, how can you not know the ACM programming competition? Li Zetian nodded and said: "I know, in 1977, the first finals were held during the ACM Computer Science Conference, and then it evolved into the current annual multi-country international competition! However, the scale does not seem to be very large now. , only teams from a few countries such as the United States and Canada participated...”
Li Zetian told the truth.
Warner Stephens smiled awkwardly: "The reason why the scale is not large is because there is no sponsorship!"
After he finished speaking, he looked straight at Li Zetian and said straight to the point: "Actually, the purpose of my visit this time is to get your sponsorship and expand the scale and influence of the ACM programming competition."
Li Zetian pondered, the ACM programming competition is the highest brain competition in the university. It seems that in the past life, IBM sponsored the ACM programming competition, and the competition LOGO had IBM on it, which undoubtedly greatly improved IBM's brand description.
Just imagine, IBM can appear in the Olympic-level programming competition, it must be tall, it must be very awesome, IBM can attract these computer talents who come to the competition to join the company! You must know that these people are all talents selected from thousands of miles from colleges and universities in various countries! !
Li Zetian didn't hesitate for too long, and immediately replied: "There is no problem with sponsorship, but I also have conditions!"
When Warner Stephens heard that Li Zetian was willing to sponsor, he was overjoyed and quickly asked, "What conditions!"
Li Zetian said: "The scale and influence of the ACM programming competition are not very large now. After I sponsor the competition, the scale and influence of the competition will definitely increase. At that time, there will definitely be many companies vying to sponsor the competition, such as IBM. , HP and other companies…”
Warner Stephens was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly said: "Mr. Li, you mean, you plan to exclusively sponsor the ACM programming competition for a long time?"
Li Zetian smiled and nodded: "That's right! However, not in my personal capacity, but in the names of Apple, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and Galaxy Networks."
"No problem, we can agree to your request and write it into the agreement!" Warner Stephens nodded, whoever sponsors is not a sponsor, and these four companies are all closely related to computers, and they are all leaders in the industry.
"Okay, then the sponsorship of the ACM programming competition in the future will be contracted by these four companies! As a sponsor, I think, I should be able to get some benefits." Li Zetian said lightly.
"Of course, we will actively promote these four companies!"
"Propaganda is naturally necessary, but I also hope that the exam questions will be biased towards the business of these four companies!"
What the exam takes, students learn what!
Li Zetian controls the content of the test, so that students can learn what to learn, and in the future, they can program for Apple, Microsoft, and promote JAVA language, etc. These computer talents who come to participate in the competition, even if they are not in Li Zetian's company, they belong to the same camp as Li Zetian. .
"Of course there's no problem with that!" Warner Stephens doubted that he had him. He felt that the industries these four companies were involved in were basically the main industries of the current computer industry, and the exam questions should have been written like this.
"Well, well, we have reached a verbal agreement. Regarding the specific cooperation rules, I will send someone to discuss it with ACM carefully later!"
Warner Stephens nodded and said goodbye to Li Zetian.
As soon as he left, Li Zetian asked Dongfang Yuqin to inform the CEOs of Apple, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Galaxy Networks to hold a remote video conference.
At the meeting, Li Zetian told everyone what happened just now, and then said: "Next year's ACM programming competition will be very sensational, firstly to promote our company brand, and secondly to take the opportunity to attract talents! The world's top computer talents gather together. Let's pick dishes, this is a rare opportunity!"
"Yes!!!" Everyone couldn't help but nod their heads in support!