Society owes me a brother

On the second day after attending the private party, Lu Chi received a call from Bell Brosnan.The founder of Fruit Mobile, whose talent shocked the world, offered to visit the campus network on the phone.

Although they didn't quite understand Bell Brosnan's ulterior motives, Lu Chi, Yue Bin and others agreed to Bell's request.And very positively set the visit day on the afternoon of the day I received the call.

Bell Brosnan didn't seem to expect Lu Chi to be such a passionate and resolute person.He was slightly shocked by Lu Chi's super execution ability, and then very happily offered to invite Lu Chi to lunch as a reward.

Although it is not clear what the purpose of Bell Brosnan is, but in the face of the fruit boss's overtures, Lu Chi can't think of any reason for him to refuse.

So at noon that day, including Yue Bin, Zhang Yang, and Matthew Locke, the four major shareholders of the campus network were all present.

Bell Brosnan chose a very authentic F country restaurant.St. Jacques scallops, grilled Camembert cheese, veal stew in white sauce, puff pastry onion soup, truffles, foie gras and caviar, and the dessert is the restaurant's best caramel milk jelly and almond cake... ...Because the ingredients are very delicious and the chef's cooking skills are also very good, so that even Lu Chi, a Chinese native who is not very used to eating Western food, can eat to his heart's content.

After a feast for the host and guest, the atmosphere on both sides became much more harmonious.From this point of view, Bell Brosnan is still very proficient in the social way that Chinese people like to build relationships at the dinner table.

After lunch, everyone visited the campus network headquarters as scheduled.As the most legendary social platform in the IT field, the office location of Campus Network is similar to that of most IT companies in Silicon Valley.The comfortable office environment, relaxed working hours, and generous internal benefits are all designed to make the campus network programmers relax as much as possible, and then inspire more inspiration in their work.

In fact, the programmers of the campus network have indeed lived up to expectations—under the leadership of Lu Chi, a programming genius, they have created one miracle after another that can change the world.

Recently, the programmers of the campus network have been working on the development of APPs that can be installed on handheld computers.This is precisely a technology that Bell Brosnan is most concerned about.

"I heard that you really want to install the campus network and several other life website apps on the new handheld computer, so that customers can go online directly. I don't know how this technology is going now?" Bell Brosnan paused slightly, straight to the point "I'd love to visit this if it's convenient," said the request.

"Of course." Lu Chi smiled slightly. After thinking for a while, he walked to his desk, opened the first drawer on the right side of the desk, took out a new type of handheld computer from it, pressed the power button to turn it on, and handed it over to him. In the hands of Bell Brosnan: "This is our latest model, the function is not perfect, and sometimes the program runs very unstable. But you can try it out."

Bell Brosnan looked at the handheld computer in his hand.This is the first model launched after Modun was officially renamed as Dongfang Motordun after it was acquired by Campus.com.The length is [-] centimeters, the width is [-] centimeters, and the thickness is [-] centimeters. To the naked eye, it looks as big as two palms of an adult man.The whole body is white, with a metal surface, foldable, with a display screen on one side and a keyboard on the other. It looks like a miniature notebook computer, with smooth lines and texture, and is very fashionable.

After the handheld computer was turned on, it ran the internal system written by Lu Chi himself. After a burst of dazzling color contrast effects accompanied by clear and pleasant sound effects, the first thing Bell Brosnan saw was a very neat computer page—similar to that of a laptop. Action page.There are several icons arranged vertically on the left.Although he had never been in contact with it before, Bell Brosnan recognized at a glance that it was the campus website, as well as the dating website launched by Lu Chi and others, the gourmet travel website and several other life websites. It has to be said that Lu Chi's team The artists and designers in the game are still very strong.

Bell Brosnan manipulated the mouse and clicked on the icons of the campus network and several other websites one by one.Soon, the page went directly to the campus network page.Thanks to the collective efforts of Lu Chi and the entire team of programmers, the APP page of the campus network is very clean.It looks similar to the computer version of the page, but the proportion of the page is more in line with the visual beauty of the handheld computer.

Bell Brosnan played with it fondly for a while, and then—the page suddenly flashed back to the background page of the handheld computer.

Lu Zhi shrugged regretfully, and explained: "The program is not running stably."

"But it's amazing." Bell Brosnan was full of praise.After thinking for a while, he asked again: "By the way, isn't it said that Modun still wants to add a camera function to the handheld computer?"

Hearing this, Lu Chi raised his eyebrows calmly: "I have this idea, but the technology still needs public relations."

In fact, not only the camera function, according to Lu Heng's suggestion, Lu Chi also wants to develop a touch screen function on the handheld computer.But there is no need to bring this up.

However, smart people always have a tacit understanding at certain moments, and smart people always make decisive moves at critical moments.On the evening after the visit, Bell Brosnan sent an invitation to Lu Chi—he invited Lu Chi and several other shareholders of the campus network to visit the headquarters of the fruit company.And personally led Lu Chi and several people to visit all places including the R&D department except the core secrets.Then in the president's office of the fruit company, the intention of cooperation was directly proposed.

"If the fruit phone can reach a cooperation with the R&D team of Dongfang Modun and the campus network..."

In fact, when Bell Brosnan issued the cooperation intention, he did not mention the new project secretly developed by the fruit company.He only put forward a proposal to combine some functions of the handheld computer with the functions of the phone from the technical and market considerations.However, Lu Chi, who had already received the mysterious prophecy from his younger brother, thought of the so-called smart phone at the first time.

All the partners looked at each other in blank dismay.Obviously, although Bell Brosnan's proposal is a bit abrupt and reckless, everyone is very interested in this cooperation intention.

Yue Bin made a decisive decision and said, "Maybe we can ask a professional evaluation team to do an evaluation first." Then we brought in professional negotiators to discuss the specific items of cooperation one by one.

Bell Brosnan smiled slightly.Yue Bin's proposal happened to be exactly what he wanted.Because he doesn't want to destroy the friendship between each other, and of course he doesn't want to affect each other's interests because of the relationship of friendship.So in business is business.In fact, whether it is on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley, no matter whether it is an acquisition or cooperation invitation proposed by Party A or Party B, it will always fail due to various reasons while succeeding.However, no matter whether it is Party A or Party B, the most unacceptable failure is probably due to misestimating the value of oneself or the other party, resulting in a biased position, unable to correctly face oneself and deal with the terms of the contract during the negotiation, and ultimately lead to waste of time and waste Negotiations that waste energy and human resources fail.

Therefore, at the beginning of the negotiation, it is the most correct choice to introduce a formal negotiation team and evaluation team, and hand over more professional matters to more professional people, so as to achieve a cooperation intention that maximizes benefits.

"Then we can let the people below do the next thing." Bell Brosnan readily seconded.

Matthew Locke, who hadn't answered much, suggested with a smile: "Then, in order to wish us a happy cooperation. Tonight, I'll be the host and organize a bikini party. Everyone, let's have fun."

As the well-known playboy of the Locke family, Matthew Locke is undoubtedly a sociable party animal.In fact, Matthew Locke will hold at least two parties every week, and even stores the contact information of hundreds of models and actors on his mobile phone, including various brokerage companies and intermediaries.

And because Matthew Locke was studying at Stanford, there is no doubt that his reputation as a playboy definitely resounded throughout Silicon Valley.

At least Belle Brosnan is known for Matthew Rourke.

Therefore, not only to win over the shareholders of the campus network, but also to get close to the son of the Locke family, Bell Brosnan agreed to the invitation without hesitation.He even joked: "I hope your young people's parties can be more friendly to middle-aged people like me."

"Come on, man!" Matthew Locke laughed and patted Zhang Yang's shoulder, and said casually: "I bet, as long as you show up at the party, you will definitely become the object of crazy pursuit of girls—at least Stanford, everyone adores you and sees you as a god."

On the other side, Lu, who has never been too cold about parties, frowned indistinctly.Seeming to notice Lu Chi's mood, Bell Brosnan turned his head and said with a smile: "Although the cooperation has not officially started yet, if you don't mind, I would like to discuss the code issue with you."

Although he didn't point it out clearly, Bell Brosnan's meaning was very clear-he just wanted to discuss with Lu Chi the internal system that could support the normal operation of the handheld computer, which was developed by Lu Chi.

Lu Chi's attention stopped immediately: "Of course I don't mind."

Lu Chi smiled slightly: "Actually, I can't wait."