The 747 passenger plane landed on the wide runway of San Francisco with a huge roar. Along with the gentle meteorite in the airport megaphone, Li Ke walked out of the airport hall with his mother's hand.
After walking out of the airport's guidance passage, Li Ke recruited a taxi and took his mother to the hotel booked in advance to get the luggage. The two of them went to the United States without stopping, and even the center and cutting-edge Silicon Valley of high-tech in the world.
Through the car window, Li Ke was leisurely looking at the scenery of American streets.
The United States in the 1990s was indeed qualified to be called the beacon of the world.
In 1991, the Soviet Union, one of the two poles in the world, was shaking, and the political struggle between Yeltsin and Gorbachev became fierce, and the pro-Western capitalists and compradors took the opportunity to enter the Soviet decision-making level.
Under the influence of years of military competition, the Soviet Union's livelihood and economy were almost collapsed. The Soviet leadership, which was infiltrated by the West, took the initiative to accept Western ideas and assistance, implemented shock therapy, and introduced a large amount of Western capital.
The consequence of this was that the living conditions of the Soviet people who could still maintain food and clothing were rapidly deteriorating.
The heroes who once sacrificed their lives for the Soviet Union even had to sell their children to human traffickers to prevent them from starving to death.
But even so, the Soviet people still maintained their confidence and expectations for the future.But they don’t know that what awaits them in the future is only deeper pain and despair.
In contrast, Western capital controlled the Soviet foreign exchange and after opening banks to absorb large amounts of deposits from the Soviet people, it began to actively sell rubles, causing the rubles to depreciate wildly, and then took the opportunity to acquire large quantities of Soviet state-owned assets, thus making a fortune!
The United States, which was originally at the end of its strength, took the opportunity to recover a mouthful of blood, presenting a prosperous and prosperous scene.
In contrast, a large amount of capital began to pour into the United States in order to avoid possible risks.Because everyone understands that the Soviet Union has lost, and their decline is only a matter of time.
When this phenomenon is reflected in the US stock market, it is the soaring stock price on the US stock market, and the most eye-catching one belongs to the Internet sector.
In the early 1990s, the United States was a paradise for Internet companies.
Due to its new industrial structure and trendy technology, capital and people who experienced the technological outbreak throughout the Cold War of the United States and the Soviet Union were optimistic about their future. In addition, some of the technologies developed during the Cold War gradually became popular in the civilian market.
In that era, no matter what kind of company, as long as you can get a little bit related to the Internet, even if you lie at home and do nothing, your company's stock price will still rise every day, and a large number of people will come up to give you money!
Among them, the most eye-catching companies are Microsoft, IBM and Apple.
Such a hot blue ocean certainly stimulated many people to join in, and Sun Yàn is one of them.
He founded C-CUBE in Silicon Valley and developed MPEG decompression technology, which was originally intended to be provided to TV stations and IBM.
only……
After getting off the car, Li Ke looked at the dilapidated studio converted from an underground garage in front of him, and wondered if he had found the wrong place.
In the future, the core technology that creates a brand new industry with an annual output value of up to $1 billion was developed from such a small place less than 50 square meters?
With a skeptical attitude, Li Ke signaled his mother to wait for him on the spot, while he stepped forward and knocked on the rusty roller shutter door of the underground garage.
Hurry~
The roller shutter door was pulled open from inside, and the harsh noise and dust made Li Ke take a step back while covering his nose. After a moment, the face of an Asian man who was obviously not awake was poked out of the garage.
Hello, who are you?
The man groped in glasses and asked Li Ke fluently, while his eyes kept looking at him.
Li Ke put down his hand covering his nose and smiled and asked in equally fluent English: Hello, my name is Li Ke. Are you Mr. Sun Yànsheng?
That's right I'm.Sun Yàn looked at the little boy in front of him and said suspiciously: Is there anything you have to do?
Li Ke stretched out his hand to the man and said with a smile: I have a company in China called Rongyuexing Technology Co., Ltd.When I was in China, I heard friends talking about your research and development projects and were very interested in it, so I wanted to take a look.
Hearing Li Ke's words, the man's eyes lit up. He held Li Ke's hand excitedly and shook it. He didn't care why the little boy who seemed less than ten years old in front of him was so mature. He said eagerly: Please come in, please come in, I don't know you... Who did you hear about the project I researched?However, my project is still in the final stage and the technical effect is not yet mature. The problem is mainly focused on decompression. The video often has noise after decompression, but I have started to improve...
Li Ke turned around and waved to his mother. After his mother walked to him, he led his mother into the studio converted from an underground garage.
Sun Yàn is a typical science and engineering technology man.
The not-so-large studio was almost filled with all kinds of machines and electronic components. A bed that could only accommodate one person was squeezed into a small corner of the studio. A few changed clothes were thrown on the ground and on chairs. The only table with a big-headed computer in the whole room was clean and tidy.
Sun Yàn was talking about the rise of the words, while Li Ke nodded from time to time. In fact, he didn't know much about the software and parameters mentioned by Sun Yàn, but he knew what the basic requirements needed for VCD were.
Smooth and clear picture quality, synchronous and noise-free sound quality, and reasonable cost price.
When Li Ke asked his own question, Sun Yànsheng was not angry but happy.
Only picky customers are the ones you want to buy, and what Sun Yàn needs most now is money!
Sun Yàn, who invested all his wealth in this technology, was almost penniless at this time. Because the decompression technology was not mature enough, IBM looked down on it, and the TV station felt that the existing technology was quite good, so there was no need to spend a lot of money to get a new technology that no one had used.
Therefore, Sun Yàn was so poor that he was about to starve to death!
So to Sun Yànsheng, Li Ke was simply a lucky star from heaven!Of course he must seize the opportunity in front of him!
He turned on the computer in a few seconds, turned to look at Li Ke, and was amazed by Ye Rong beside Li Ke.
This person is... Sun Yànsheng hesitated and looked at Li Ke and asked.
Oh, this is my mother, and her name is Ye Rong.Because I am not over 18 years old, I need a guardian to accompany me when I go abroad.And my mother is also the current legal person of the company.Li Ke introduced his mother to Sun Yàn with a smile, and then translated it to his mother in Chinese.
Hello, Miss Ye!Sun Yànsheng shook hands with Ye Rong, but he spoke Mandarin, although it was a very popular Mandarin.
Hello, Mr. Sun.Ye Rong showed a reserved smile on her face and shook hands with Sun Yànsheng vainly.
Li Ke raised his eyebrows. This guy turned out to be able to speak Mandarin Ah?Coupled, I spoke Mandarin to my mother, the beauty, and English to my little kid, right!
Li Ke just muttered in his heart, and didn't really care.
The same is true for Sun Yànsheng. When he came to his senses from Ye Rong's beauty, he once again became a fanatical technical maniac, eager to show Li Ke his achievements.
He first turned on the computer, and then connected the optical drive launcher he made to the computer using the link cable.
Li Ke did not follow Sun Yànsheng's explanation to look at the computer screen, but looked at the optical drive starter in front of him.
The starter is not big, with a length and width of about 11 or 2 cm. The outside is wrapped in a light gray aluminum shell, and there are several small screws on both sides.
The starter is a bit thick, about the same thickness as an ordinary red brick. There are several fixed screws on both sides of the starter, and a pop-up disk loading bar is inserted in front.
The socket of the link cable is at the rear, and there is also a small light tube next to it that prompts whether the driver has been activated.
Except that they are all square, there is no similarity to the later VCD.
Li Ke did not rush to speak, but turned his head and watched Sun Yànsheng click on a CD icon on the computer and start playing the contents inside.
The movie is burned in it. The Queens performed the live music video in Vancouver in 1986.
The MV's picture quality is not high, it should be only about 120P. However, thinking that most TV stations only had 120P in those days, and only occasionally important programs would have 240P picture quality. Therefore, this picture cannot be said to be poor, it can only be said to be mainstream.
The sound quality is pretty good, and there is no current sound that Li Ke thinks will appear.
However, as Sun Yàn said, the picture occasionally has some green noise, which does not affect viewing, but it will make people feel uncomfortable if it appears too many times.
The MV is not long, only ten minutes in total.
When the player stopped and the computer screen turned dark, Sun Yànsheng secretly looked at the thoughtful Li Ke and asked tentatively: Mr. Li, what do you think?
Li Ke pondered for a while and asked: How much memory does this MV occupy?How many M of content can be engraved on the disc?How much does it cost to burn a CD?In addition, if I want to improve the video quality to 240P, how much memory will it take up?
Faced with Li Ke's inquiry, Sun Yàn thought about it for a while, and then replied: This MV does not take up much, only a little more than 4M. The disk I used is the cheapest disk, which can burn 20M content. The cost of burning the white disk and burning is only one US dollars in total.Currently, the disk with the largest memory of CDs on the market should be around 640M, but the price is not cheap, and a white disk may cost about 2 yuan.
In addition, improve picture quality. Generally speaking, the memory occupied by video will increase exponentially according to the picture quality.It's okay to improve the image quality to 240P, but it mainly depends on the source of the recorded video.
4M doubles to 8M, and ten minutes of content is 8M. Nowadays, mainstream movies usually cost about 100 minutes, which means that a movie requires at least 800M of memory.
No wonder the movies that used to rent vcd discs were divided into two discs. It turned out that it was because of insufficient memory, so I had to do it.
Thinking of this, Li Ke raised his head and said to Sun Yànsheng: Are there any discs of about 450M to 500M on the market?If so, how much is the price?
Yes, it should be around $15, and it may be cheaper if you buy in large quantities.Sun Yànsheng scratched his head. Although he didn't know what the little boy in front of him was thinking, he still answered truthfully.
$15, according to the current exchange rate of US dollar and RMB, it is almost 8 yuan.
Hiss, it's too expensive!
It seems that after returning to China, we have to check whether there are any CDs sold in China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Their prices should be much cheaper.
Thinking of this, Li Ke raised his head and smiled at Sun Yànsheng.
When Sun Yàn, who later became a billionaire, accepted an exclusive interview with Fortune magazine, faced with a reporter's suggestion, what opportunity did you take to develop a small company that could only bend into an underground garage into a giant enterprise that spans the world today?When it comes to the question, Sun Yàn will still recall the afternoon many years ago with emotion.
The little boy who was less than ten years old but had a concept that was ahead of everyone, said something that changed his life to Sun Yànsheng, who was full of expectations: Mr. Sun, are you interested in making something called vcd with me?
After walking out of the airport's guidance passage, Li Ke recruited a taxi and took his mother to the hotel booked in advance to get the luggage. The two of them went to the United States without stopping, and even the center and cutting-edge Silicon Valley of high-tech in the world.
Through the car window, Li Ke was leisurely looking at the scenery of American streets.
The United States in the 1990s was indeed qualified to be called the beacon of the world.
In 1991, the Soviet Union, one of the two poles in the world, was shaking, and the political struggle between Yeltsin and Gorbachev became fierce, and the pro-Western capitalists and compradors took the opportunity to enter the Soviet decision-making level.
Under the influence of years of military competition, the Soviet Union's livelihood and economy were almost collapsed. The Soviet leadership, which was infiltrated by the West, took the initiative to accept Western ideas and assistance, implemented shock therapy, and introduced a large amount of Western capital.
The consequence of this was that the living conditions of the Soviet people who could still maintain food and clothing were rapidly deteriorating.
The heroes who once sacrificed their lives for the Soviet Union even had to sell their children to human traffickers to prevent them from starving to death.
But even so, the Soviet people still maintained their confidence and expectations for the future.But they don’t know that what awaits them in the future is only deeper pain and despair.
In contrast, Western capital controlled the Soviet foreign exchange and after opening banks to absorb large amounts of deposits from the Soviet people, it began to actively sell rubles, causing the rubles to depreciate wildly, and then took the opportunity to acquire large quantities of Soviet state-owned assets, thus making a fortune!
The United States, which was originally at the end of its strength, took the opportunity to recover a mouthful of blood, presenting a prosperous and prosperous scene.
In contrast, a large amount of capital began to pour into the United States in order to avoid possible risks.Because everyone understands that the Soviet Union has lost, and their decline is only a matter of time.
When this phenomenon is reflected in the US stock market, it is the soaring stock price on the US stock market, and the most eye-catching one belongs to the Internet sector.
In the early 1990s, the United States was a paradise for Internet companies.
Due to its new industrial structure and trendy technology, capital and people who experienced the technological outbreak throughout the Cold War of the United States and the Soviet Union were optimistic about their future. In addition, some of the technologies developed during the Cold War gradually became popular in the civilian market.
In that era, no matter what kind of company, as long as you can get a little bit related to the Internet, even if you lie at home and do nothing, your company's stock price will still rise every day, and a large number of people will come up to give you money!
Among them, the most eye-catching companies are Microsoft, IBM and Apple.
Such a hot blue ocean certainly stimulated many people to join in, and Sun Yàn is one of them.
He founded C-CUBE in Silicon Valley and developed MPEG decompression technology, which was originally intended to be provided to TV stations and IBM.
only……
After getting off the car, Li Ke looked at the dilapidated studio converted from an underground garage in front of him, and wondered if he had found the wrong place.
In the future, the core technology that creates a brand new industry with an annual output value of up to $1 billion was developed from such a small place less than 50 square meters?
With a skeptical attitude, Li Ke signaled his mother to wait for him on the spot, while he stepped forward and knocked on the rusty roller shutter door of the underground garage.
Hurry~
The roller shutter door was pulled open from inside, and the harsh noise and dust made Li Ke take a step back while covering his nose. After a moment, the face of an Asian man who was obviously not awake was poked out of the garage.
Hello, who are you?
The man groped in glasses and asked Li Ke fluently, while his eyes kept looking at him.
Li Ke put down his hand covering his nose and smiled and asked in equally fluent English: Hello, my name is Li Ke. Are you Mr. Sun Yànsheng?
That's right I'm.Sun Yàn looked at the little boy in front of him and said suspiciously: Is there anything you have to do?
Li Ke stretched out his hand to the man and said with a smile: I have a company in China called Rongyuexing Technology Co., Ltd.When I was in China, I heard friends talking about your research and development projects and were very interested in it, so I wanted to take a look.
Hearing Li Ke's words, the man's eyes lit up. He held Li Ke's hand excitedly and shook it. He didn't care why the little boy who seemed less than ten years old in front of him was so mature. He said eagerly: Please come in, please come in, I don't know you... Who did you hear about the project I researched?However, my project is still in the final stage and the technical effect is not yet mature. The problem is mainly focused on decompression. The video often has noise after decompression, but I have started to improve...
Li Ke turned around and waved to his mother. After his mother walked to him, he led his mother into the studio converted from an underground garage.
Sun Yàn is a typical science and engineering technology man.
The not-so-large studio was almost filled with all kinds of machines and electronic components. A bed that could only accommodate one person was squeezed into a small corner of the studio. A few changed clothes were thrown on the ground and on chairs. The only table with a big-headed computer in the whole room was clean and tidy.
Sun Yàn was talking about the rise of the words, while Li Ke nodded from time to time. In fact, he didn't know much about the software and parameters mentioned by Sun Yàn, but he knew what the basic requirements needed for VCD were.
Smooth and clear picture quality, synchronous and noise-free sound quality, and reasonable cost price.
When Li Ke asked his own question, Sun Yànsheng was not angry but happy.
Only picky customers are the ones you want to buy, and what Sun Yàn needs most now is money!
Sun Yàn, who invested all his wealth in this technology, was almost penniless at this time. Because the decompression technology was not mature enough, IBM looked down on it, and the TV station felt that the existing technology was quite good, so there was no need to spend a lot of money to get a new technology that no one had used.
Therefore, Sun Yàn was so poor that he was about to starve to death!
So to Sun Yànsheng, Li Ke was simply a lucky star from heaven!Of course he must seize the opportunity in front of him!
He turned on the computer in a few seconds, turned to look at Li Ke, and was amazed by Ye Rong beside Li Ke.
This person is... Sun Yànsheng hesitated and looked at Li Ke and asked.
Oh, this is my mother, and her name is Ye Rong.Because I am not over 18 years old, I need a guardian to accompany me when I go abroad.And my mother is also the current legal person of the company.Li Ke introduced his mother to Sun Yàn with a smile, and then translated it to his mother in Chinese.
Hello, Miss Ye!Sun Yànsheng shook hands with Ye Rong, but he spoke Mandarin, although it was a very popular Mandarin.
Hello, Mr. Sun.Ye Rong showed a reserved smile on her face and shook hands with Sun Yànsheng vainly.
Li Ke raised his eyebrows. This guy turned out to be able to speak Mandarin Ah?Coupled, I spoke Mandarin to my mother, the beauty, and English to my little kid, right!
Li Ke just muttered in his heart, and didn't really care.
The same is true for Sun Yànsheng. When he came to his senses from Ye Rong's beauty, he once again became a fanatical technical maniac, eager to show Li Ke his achievements.
He first turned on the computer, and then connected the optical drive launcher he made to the computer using the link cable.
Li Ke did not follow Sun Yànsheng's explanation to look at the computer screen, but looked at the optical drive starter in front of him.
The starter is not big, with a length and width of about 11 or 2 cm. The outside is wrapped in a light gray aluminum shell, and there are several small screws on both sides.
The starter is a bit thick, about the same thickness as an ordinary red brick. There are several fixed screws on both sides of the starter, and a pop-up disk loading bar is inserted in front.
The socket of the link cable is at the rear, and there is also a small light tube next to it that prompts whether the driver has been activated.
Except that they are all square, there is no similarity to the later VCD.
Li Ke did not rush to speak, but turned his head and watched Sun Yànsheng click on a CD icon on the computer and start playing the contents inside.
The movie is burned in it. The Queens performed the live music video in Vancouver in 1986.
The MV's picture quality is not high, it should be only about 120P. However, thinking that most TV stations only had 120P in those days, and only occasionally important programs would have 240P picture quality. Therefore, this picture cannot be said to be poor, it can only be said to be mainstream.
The sound quality is pretty good, and there is no current sound that Li Ke thinks will appear.
However, as Sun Yàn said, the picture occasionally has some green noise, which does not affect viewing, but it will make people feel uncomfortable if it appears too many times.
The MV is not long, only ten minutes in total.
When the player stopped and the computer screen turned dark, Sun Yànsheng secretly looked at the thoughtful Li Ke and asked tentatively: Mr. Li, what do you think?
Li Ke pondered for a while and asked: How much memory does this MV occupy?How many M of content can be engraved on the disc?How much does it cost to burn a CD?In addition, if I want to improve the video quality to 240P, how much memory will it take up?
Faced with Li Ke's inquiry, Sun Yàn thought about it for a while, and then replied: This MV does not take up much, only a little more than 4M. The disk I used is the cheapest disk, which can burn 20M content. The cost of burning the white disk and burning is only one US dollars in total.Currently, the disk with the largest memory of CDs on the market should be around 640M, but the price is not cheap, and a white disk may cost about 2 yuan.
In addition, improve picture quality. Generally speaking, the memory occupied by video will increase exponentially according to the picture quality.It's okay to improve the image quality to 240P, but it mainly depends on the source of the recorded video.
4M doubles to 8M, and ten minutes of content is 8M. Nowadays, mainstream movies usually cost about 100 minutes, which means that a movie requires at least 800M of memory.
No wonder the movies that used to rent vcd discs were divided into two discs. It turned out that it was because of insufficient memory, so I had to do it.
Thinking of this, Li Ke raised his head and said to Sun Yànsheng: Are there any discs of about 450M to 500M on the market?If so, how much is the price?
Yes, it should be around $15, and it may be cheaper if you buy in large quantities.Sun Yànsheng scratched his head. Although he didn't know what the little boy in front of him was thinking, he still answered truthfully.
$15, according to the current exchange rate of US dollar and RMB, it is almost 8 yuan.
Hiss, it's too expensive!
It seems that after returning to China, we have to check whether there are any CDs sold in China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Their prices should be much cheaper.
Thinking of this, Li Ke raised his head and smiled at Sun Yànsheng.
When Sun Yàn, who later became a billionaire, accepted an exclusive interview with Fortune magazine, faced with a reporter's suggestion, what opportunity did you take to develop a small company that could only bend into an underground garage into a giant enterprise that spans the world today?When it comes to the question, Sun Yàn will still recall the afternoon many years ago with emotion.
The little boy who was less than ten years old but had a concept that was ahead of everyone, said something that changed his life to Sun Yànsheng, who was full of expectations: Mr. Sun, are you interested in making something called vcd with me?