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Chapter 59 A $100 Billion Valuation?

Apple's stock price fell by 1% within an hour of opening, and its market value evaporated by 82 billion US dollars.Apple's stock price is still fluctuating, falling for three days in a row before finally stabilizing. The three-day drop is close to 4%. For any company, this drop is very large, especially for a giant like Apple.

The last time there was such a big drop, it was when Apple announced that it would charge a tipping fee on the Apple side.This sudden drop reminds people of smart assistants.

The Apple system is closed-source and cannot support smart assistants. In the next mobile phone market, it will no longer have an advantage.The Apple mobile phone is the most profitable among many businesses, and all Apple stock prices have shown a downward trend. Although the decline is not very large, the impact has already come out.

This impact has caused an uproar in the market, and many media have started reporting on this topic.

"Have the Army Ants Been Formed?" "--New York Times

"Rising Giants? - Wall Street Journal

"Aggressive Army Ants! - The Times

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Numerous reports are overwhelmingly discussing the threat of army ants.

It was bustling outside, and the Apple headquarters was not peaceful. A researcher with a hooked nose and a beard looked gloomy at the screen code on the computer.

It's been a week since they hacked files from Army Ant's database.

During this week, he was trying to crack this folder.Tried for so long and made little progress until today.

He didn't expect that the Marching Ant Company would be so difficult to deal with, and it would encrypt the data, which made him want to break his scalp.

The company's recent stock market is not very good, and the superiors keep urging him to crack the data package and get the source code of the smart assistant, otherwise he will definitely be scolded.

"OK."

The man sitting on the computer chair finally smiled.Not long after, the man's smile froze on his face. Seeing a bunch of messy characters on it, his face was as dark as the bottom of a pot.

Snapped……

As soon as the computer screen went black, the screens of several computers next to it also went black.This scene made the man's pupils shrink.

"Fuck!"

The man shouted angrily and punched the keyboard.Don't think about it, the people from Marching Ant Company planted viruses in the data packets, and he was tricked.

With the black screen of the computer, commotion began to appear in the office area.

Army Ant Company.

Chen Mo smiled slightly when he heard Mo Nu's report.

He has asked Mo Nu to implant a tracking virus in the data package. As long as the data package is cracked, the computer will be useless when the virus spreads. This is just a small lesson for them.

Standing up from his seat, Chen Mo put on his lab coat and walked towards the laboratory.

Chen Mo is very calm here, but the domestic network is not.With the popularity of smart assistants, more and more interesting things have also burst out from the Internet.

On Weibo, someone posted that his girlfriend quarreled with the smart assistant, and then smashed the phone in a fit of anger.After the video was uploaded on the Internet, it attracted a lot of onlookers and laughter.

Xiaodie's chat function is also vividly and delicately reflected in a short video.

This is not an isolated case. The official Weibo of Marching Army Ant Company has already been occupied by a group of people complaining.

"I've never seen such an arrogant smart assistant. Every time I scold it, it doesn't answer back, and even asks me to hit it. It bullies me and dare not hit it? Let alone, I just bought a new phone now."

"Product quality problem, marching ants, you pay me for my phone. I scolded it, and it asked me to put it in the water. I forgot that it's not butterfly eyes."

"It seems that I'm not the only one who was injured. Fortunately, the screen is broken and can be replaced."

"Brothers, push me up, my phone is a Nokia..."

Although the painting style is strange and funny, many people see the key points.

Being able to have such a flexible voice interaction function undoubtedly tells everyone that the artificial intelligence of Marching Ant Company is already at the forefront of research.

Artificial intelligence is the main development trend of future technology.

Whoever makes a major breakthrough in this field will dominate the future market.The artificial intelligence market has been researched a long time ago, and all the numerous technology companies have invested a lot of money in the research of artificial intelligence.

Many market evaluation companies began to evaluate the value of Marching Ant Company, and finally Morgan & Co. made a valuation of 100 billion US dollars.

This valuation shocked financial markets.But many people do not agree with Morgan's forecast, that this valuation is too low.

Not to mention the army ants system and butterfly eye mobile phone, just the existence of smart assistants, the market value has exceeded 100 billion US dollars.

Entering the global market in the future, even if only 5000 million mobile phone users pay to use the smart assistant, Marching Army Ant's annual revenue will be 120 billion Huaxia coins.

This is just the lowest estimate. There are billions of smartphones in the world. A little more optimistic, with the help of smart assistants, the future of Marching Ants is limitless, and there are many derivative products of smart assistants.

$100 billion is just a minimum valuation.For the marching ant company that has not yet developed, when it develops in the future, the market value of the marching ant company will definitely be comparable to those giants.

The rise of the army ants caused a huge sensation in China.

All kinds of reports on the army ants were overwhelming, and for a while, the army ants company became the focus of discussion again.

Founded less than a year ago, with only two product launches, Marching Army Ant has become one of the domestic technology giants, which can be called a legendary rise.

Never before has a technology company risen at such a fast pace.

As for the Army Ant Company in the eye of the storm, it was busy up and down.After the smart assistant came out, Marching Ant Company once again ushered in the opportunity to expand.

Zhao Min was sitting in the office dealing with a whole pile of documents, and she had a very headache at this moment.

After the smart assistant came out, Marching Ant Company ushered in the biggest period of development.This time, it is necessary to expand or not. The company's popularity has reached a peak. It is necessary to expand the company's scale in order to operate better.

But that's where the problem lies. If you expand too fast, the company is prone to problems.

According to various reports outside, no one knows better than Zhao Min how powerful Marching Army Ant Company is. Now Marching Army Ant Company is short of talents, and the speed of talent training cannot keep up with the speed of the company's development.

When the Butterfly Eye mobile phone was released last time, the company had already deployed in major cities in China.

Now that the scale is expanding, the talent cannot keep up.In order to be able to develop faster, the capable managers of the headhunting company are now recruited and sent to major cities to set up branches.

Moreover, preparations for national recruitment have already begun to recruit talents.The army ant company is like a large machine, which must be combined with various small gears to operate.

"Trouble." Zhao Min put down the file and knocked on his head, taking a deep breath.

The sales of smart assistants are crazy. During this period, the company's revenue can almost be described as rising every day.The more money, the more troublesome things.

Not long after Zhao Min put down the file, Xiao Yu walked in: "Sister Zhao, Mr. Yu Chengnan, the CEO of Huawei Terminal Company, wants to see you, and he is in the reception room now."

Chapter 60 Direction

As soon as Zhao Min and Xiao Yu walked into the door of the reception room, a man stood up from the sofa.He is Yu Chengnan, the consumer CEO of Huawei Terminal Company. He is one of the most famous figures in the technology circle.

"Mr. Yu, hello."

Zhao Min reached out to shake hands with Yu Chengnan, and sat on the seat opposite him: "Mr. Yu came here in person this time, and made us flourish."

"You're welcome, I like to be more straightforward." Yu Chengnan shook his head and smiled at Zhao Min.

"I also like to be more direct." Zhao Min smiled and said, "Mr. Yu is here this time to cooperate?"

Yu Chengnan straightened his body.

"Mr. Zhao, is your company planning to sell shares? Our company can buy some shares of your company. Join forces, one plus one is definitely greater than two."

"No, let's put it this way. In the past few days, I have sent away people from IDG, Ali, Jiuding, Sequoia, and Penguin. Mr. Yu thinks we are still short of money and need to raise funds and sell shares?" Zhao Min said.

"That's not true. It's just that there are some rumors in the circle that the shares of Marching Army Ant Company are only in the hands of your chairman. This piece of meat is too fat for him to eat. Some people want him to spit it out. I came here this time because I also wanted to Cooperate with you." Yu Chengnan said without hesitation.

"Let him spit out some?" Zhao Min smiled and shook his head.

Knowing Chen Mo for so long, she also has some understanding of Chen Mo's character.

Although the chairman is usually very peaceful, easy to talk, and likes to joke.But when necessary, he is definitely a strong person, and it is impossible to take away the shares of Marching Ant Company from him.

Now the main products of Marching Ant Company are all produced by him, and the wealth created by himself cannot be given away to others in vain.

"Mr. Yu doesn't have to worry about us. The company has experienced a black hand once, and we survived that time. It won't be a big deal if we experience it again." Zhao Min said.

"May I chat with the chairman of your company?" Yu Chengnan asked with a smile.

"Xiao Yu, go and inform the chairman to come down and talk to Mr. Yu." Zhao Min said to Xiao Yu beside him.

"it is good."

Xiao Yu nodded and left the reception room. After a few minutes, Xiao Yu came back again, but there was Chen Mo beside him.

"This is our chairman, Chen Mo." After Chen Mo walked in with Xiao Yu, Zhao Min introduced.

"Hello, Mr. Chen."

Yu Chengnan looked at Chen Mo with surprise in his eyes.

No photos of Chen Mo have been exposed on the Internet, but he knows that the chairman of Marching Army Ant Company is a young man, and only after seeing it did he realize that he is too young.

If it wasn't for Chen Mo standing in front of him, he would never believe that such a young man is the real ruler of Marching Army Ant Company.

"Hello, Mr. Yu, I've heard of you for a long time." Chen Mo reached out and shook Yu Chengnan's hand.

"I won't say polite words. This time, there are two things. One is about buying shares in Marching Army Ant Company, and the second is about some cooperation. Originally, these things are not what I should do, but this time it happened Here, just drop in." Yu Chengnan said.

Chen Mo sat down opposite Yu Chengnan: "Then I'm afraid Mr. Yu will be disappointed. I have no plans to sell the shares for the time being, but we can discuss the cooperation in detail."

"In terms of shares, there is no room for negotiation?" Yu Chengnan asked.

"No. Our company is not short of money at present, and there is no need to adjust the company's shareholding structure." Chen Mo said without hesitation.

"Okay then, let's talk about cooperation."

Yu Chengnan didn't get entangled in this issue, Chen Mo had already made it very clear that if he entangled in this aspect, it would cause resentment instead.

"How does President Yu want to cooperate?" Chen Mo asked.

"Patent interoperability, our two companies can sign a patent interoperability agreement, and some patents are interoperable." Yu Chengnan said.

"Our company has not been established for a long time, and there are not many patents in total."

"Now it's just a memorandum of cooperation, and there will be opportunities in the future. Of course, if you are willing to exchange patents with our smart assistant technology, many of our technologies can be licensed to you."

Yu Chengnan looked directly at Chen Mo, Chen Mo made him unable to see through, this was the most confident young man he had ever met.

"Smart assistants are not going to be authorized." Chen Mo said unhurriedly: "It is still possible to sign a memorandum of cooperation. After all, this is an open era, and cooperation can be a win-win situation."

"Chen Dong is a quick talker, so I just have time today, let's talk about the general direction of cooperation first."

As a giant of domestic technology companies, Huawei is not generally strong, and the army ants can be regarded as a rising star.But Chen Mo is confident that it is no problem for Marching Army Ant Company to surpass Huawei, so when discussing cooperation, the two parties have an equal relationship.

During this period, Chen Mo asked Huawei to upgrade their servers.During this period of time, the number of users of the smart assistant has grown rapidly, and the speed of server upgrades is not much faster. It is just to take this opportunity to ask the people of Huawei to help.

Both parties have the willingness to cooperate, so the matter of cooperation was discussed very quickly. After talking about cooperation, Zhao Min took a group of people to have a simple meal and socialize, and then sent Yu Chengnan to leave.

"Chairman, the influence of the smart assistant this time is very great, and I'm afraid someone is going to play tricks from behind. The benefits are too great, and many people are staring at it. It is more troublesome than the last time the army ant system." On the way back to the company, sitting Zhao Min in the business car said.

Zhao Min is very clear that there are many alternative options for the mobile phone system, and they are closed source, so the reaction from the outside world is not as great as imagined.

But the market for smart assistants is different. There is currently no substitute product, and they are the only one.In any market, once it reaches the monopoly level, the profits will be terrifying, no matter what it sells.

Before the release of the smart assistant, she had this concern, but it is impossible to give up the release of the smart assistant because of this concern.There isn't much going on in the company right now, but she feels a storm is brewing.

"Don't worry, the soldiers will cover up the water and the earth. The current company is no longer the original company."

"You are so optimistic, what else can I say?" Zhao Min said helplessly.

"What about the plans for the company's headquarters?"

"It is being designed by someone, and I have also sent people to follow up, and the drawing should be released soon. The construction issue is also preparing for public bidding." Zhao Min said.

"Tell me about the direction you want to develop next, so I can pave the way first, so as not to be in a hurry when I get it. You suddenly threw me a smart assistant this time. Such a sudden thing will disrupt many plans."

"Well." Chen Mo nodded: "Next, I will enter the manufacturing industry. I'm researching battery materials. You should buy a few factories first, battery production and parts processing factories."

"Fully owned or invested?" Zhao Min asked.

"Fully funded."

"Well, anyway, the company's money is yours. There is no place to spend it, so I can only listen to you." Zhao Min said: "One more thing, I am going to buy an advertising company. In the future, our product promotion will also have its own Channels and planning. Moreover, we have a platform and can receive a lot of advertising business.”

"Yes." Chen Mo nodded.

After the group returned to the company, Chen Mo went straight into his office area and continued to experiment.

Chapter 61 If we take a step back, we will lose