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In April, Liu Qiangdong led his team to the United States and began to prepare for JD.com's IPO in all aspects.

Zhou Buqi was once again invited to participate in JD.com’s road show.

Zhou Buqi is unavailable.

He still has a series of strategic arrangements yet to be completed.

Such as online education, such as business social networking.

This morning, Zhou Buqi invited a guest, Louis von Ahn, the founder and CEO of an educational product called Duolingo.

This company is actually called Duolingo. The reason why it has the Chinese name "Duolingo" is because this app is developing very well and its performance is amazing!

Just last year, it was selected as the best app of the year by the Apple Store.

With such a prestigious reputation and Apple's recommendation, it is natural to focus on the domestic market, which has the largest number of mobile users in the world.

It started out well.

Soon we ran into huge trouble.

This time, Louis von Ahn took the initiative to ask to see Zhou Buqi. He wanted to understand some situations with Boss Zhou and seriously learn how to make Internet products in China. It happened that this was an educational product, and Zhou Buqi was also interested in it, so he agreed to meet with him.

While Zhou Buqi was waiting for him in the office, Sun Wanran came over with a sad expression.

Zhou Buqi saw that her expression was wrong and asked, "What's wrong?"

Sun Wanran sighed softly: "Your little beauty is in trouble."

"Which little beauty?"

Zhou Buqi was a little baffled.

He has many beauties, which one are you talking about?

Sun Wanran rolled her eyes at him, "The one you snatched from Mr. Liu!"

"Ah?" Zhou Buqi became serious, "Wang Langli?"

Sun Wanran snorted lightly and said sourly: "I remember the name so clearly."

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "Isn't she just a woman? As for you!"

Sun Wanran didn't want to get too entangled at first, and sighed, "She was in trouble and has been crying all afternoon... Ning Lu is staying with her, saying that the results of the hospital's physical examination showed some very bad signs. ”

Zhou Buqi's heart moved.

Sure enough!

Sun Wanran continued: "It seems that her father has leukemia. Now Ning Lu and her have taken her parents to Xiehe to register for a specialist for follow-up consultation. But it seems that there may be no escape. If it is really leukemia , I heard that the treatment fee for a year costs millions. Her family comes from a small town and cannot afford it. "

Zhou Buqi said: "Then let Ning Lu work hard. If necessary, you can ask He Yang to come forward. If you can help, you must help. As for the cost of treatment, don't worry at all, I will be responsible for it! No matter how much it is, use it The best treatment option!”

Sun Wanran pouted and said, "This is an advantage for you!"

"What's the word?"

"Ning Lu, as well as Yan Qiqi, Zhang Zetian, and Han Yalan who stayed in the country, have all talked to Miss Wang several times. They have different ideas and are not willing to be Xiaomi's love interest at all. Everyone has different opinions. If you have ambition, you shouldn’t force yourself. Now, your opportunity has come.”

"I'm here to treat illnesses and save people!"

Zhou Buqi felt that his character had been slandered.

Sun Wanran said: "Yes, you cured the disease and saved the life, and you also brought the beauty home, killing two birds with one stone."

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "What if I really want to do something, can she still resist? Call her to the United States, and we can take her down after a few private conversations? Why go to such trouble? Saving one life is better than making one. Seven-level pagoda, do you understand?”

"That's what I said." Sun Wanran is not an ordinary secretary, "But the current method is undoubtedly the best. If it is really leukemia, whether it can be saved or not, Wang Langli will be able to live without it for the rest of his life. You? With her traditional character, she must be so moved that she would consider you her lifesaver and pledge her life to her!"

Zhou Buqi said speechlessly: "Have you watched too much official media and learned the tricks of holding funerals and weddings? Someone has leukemia. This is obviously a disaster, but for you, it seems like it has moved the heavens and the earth. Can you have some compassion and empathy?”

At this time, another little secretary Gu Zanli ran over and said quickly: "The guest is here, Louis von Ahn, CEO of Duolingo."

"Let him come here!"

Zhou Buqi finally got rid of Sun Wanran's entanglement.

He actually understood what was going on.

Because when it came to Wang Langli, he went a bit beyond the bounds. The other secretaries were all arranged by the secretariat and had been inspected at all levels. They were all equivalent to Sun Wanran's direct sisters. They were all recruited by her, and of course they all followed her lead.

Wang Langli is different. She has really become Zhou Buqi's personal secretary. Being favored is not a big deal, but she is afraid of being disobedient.

Once there is no organizational principle, it is easy for one fish to make the same soup.

It would break the current situation of stability, friendship, and harmonious coexistence within the Zhou family.

This is also something that Aunt Xue and Ning Yaxian are worried about.

Zhou Buqi has no such worries. He knows Wang Langli very well. She has a soft personality and has a traditional concept of "following her husband when she marries", so there are no hidden dangers.

Soon Louis von Ahn arrived.

Was led to the reception room.

It can also be seen from the name that this Louis von Ahn is of German descent.

The company he founded is mainly focused on language learning.

Because it was founded only a short time ago, less than two years ago, the business is very small and is currently limited to English learning.

The current performance is very good. With the recommendation of the Apple Store on the iPhone and the free model, it has accumulated more than 40 million users worldwide, and everyone is using the product to learn English. As the business develops and the company expands, more language learning types will be launched in the future.

Zhou Buqi was very interested in this direction.

Language learning is an inescapable hurdle for educational products. Many domestic educational institutions are also launching online education products, but most of them are exam-oriented and are designed to pass the exam rather than for real language exchange.

If you want to really learn English well, you must be a British and American person.

Just like the top foreign chefs, they also lack some sense when cooking Chinese food.

I had a brief chat with Louis von Ahn. He didn’t look like an American at all. He lacked that kind of comfort and calmness. He seemed a little nervous when facing Boss Zhou. He sat in a neat posture and had no aura of equality at all. .

Then he persuaded Duolingo to develop its business.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "The mainland market has 530 million mobile users, twice the size of the United States. Such data is indeed very deceptive and tempting. Many American technology companies want to develop in the mainland market. But most companies don’t understand that there are some essential operational differences here.”

Louis was convinced and said, "Really, when Duolingo was just launched there, it was on Apple's recommendation list, and it had 1 million users in less than a week. But it soon appeared The problem is, it feels... like I broke into Bermuda and all the users disappeared."

Zhou Buqi knew it all too well and immediately got to the point, "Don't you have a Chinese team?"

Louis said: "No, we are just a small company and we don't have a studio there yet."

Zhou Buqi said: "You should have made a very basic mistake. If there is an initial surprise, it should be that the content violates the rules."

"Content violation?" Louis frowned slightly, "How could it be? We are an English learning product and do not have functions such as social networking and search. I also have some basic understanding of the situation on Google and Facebook."

Zhou Buqi said effectively: "English learning, where are your learning materials? Those voice broadcasts taken from celebrity speeches and some famous TV programs, have these contents been censored?"

"ah?"

Louis von Ahn was immediately stunned.

Zhou Buqi said: "The complexity here is far from as simple as you think. My suggestion is to do a good job in overseas markets first, and don't rush to develop in China. In the future, when the company becomes stronger, we must first form a strong content team. Let’s build the branch first.”