Chapter 1042: Larry Page, who changed the world
When the entire Silicon Valley venture capital was waiting for a meeting with Li Mu, Li Mu took the initiative to meet him, Larry Page, the founder of Google, who was in Silicon Valley.
In Li Mu's eyes, Larry Page's contribution to the world is greater and more profound than that of Jobs. Although the latter has created many amazing products, the former has truly changed the world.
Search engines have made great contributions to the Internet. They greatly improve people's information search efficiency on the Internet. Based on this, they improve almost all the efficiency of people using computers.
Learning efficiency is improving, work efficiency is also improving, and even gaming efficiency is improving. Just like Baidu is completely integrated into the lives of Chinese netizens in the future, Google is integrating it into the lives of netizens in the world.
Google is a company that advocates technology, which is closely related to Larry Page himself. For everyday netizens, they may not know what Google is so awesome, but Li Mu, who is a programmer, should know Google better than ordinary people.
The strong technological accumulation and patent accumulation make Google almost the most powerful Internet company in the world, and its technology application is so wide that it has far exceeded the visual range of ordinary users. However, at present, Google's market value is not as good as that of Makino Technology.
Li Mu admires Larry Page, and Larry Page also admires Li Mu at this time.
From the beginning of Google to the present, Larry Page has spent several years on the technology level, with many far-reaching innovations, but at the commercial level, it is several levels worse than Makino Technology.
Li Mu arrived at the restaurant he had agreed with Larry Page in advance. After waiting for about ten minutes, the 29-year-old Larry Page arrived.
When they first met, Li Mu felt particularly nervous, but fortunately they were still calm on the surface, while Larry Page's expression showed a bit of nervousness at a loss.
When facing Li Mu, Larry Page was really not confident. He was nearly ten years older than Li Mu, but Li Mu's net worth was much higher than himself. Google's current valuation is only about 10 billion US dollars, while Muye Technology's valuation is at least more than 20 billion US dollars. In addition, Li Mu also has a Muye game under his command. This company has the current popular "Paradise Town". What's even more scary is that Li Mu also has a Taobao website that is comparable to Amazon in China. If an authoritative organization systematically calculates Li Mu's net worth, he can even be at the forefront of the world's rich rankings.
Larry Page didn't know why Li Mu took the initiative to see him. In his opinion, he was not as good as Li Mu, so naturally he wouldn't think that the other party would admire him.
After Li Mu shook hands with Larry Page and said hello, they sat opposite each other. Li Mu said to Larry Page very sincerely: "Mr. Page, as a Google fan, I want to see you for a long time. It's a great honor to finally have the opportunity to meet today."
Larry Page didn't expect Li Mu to be so polite, and said hurriedly: "Mr. Li is so polite. In contrast, I am a fan of Muye Technology. As an excellent product, I use yy every day. It is of great help to improve work efficiency and saves me a lot of time. It is definitely the best auxiliary office software I have ever used. It is very amazing."
Li Mu smiled bitterly and said, "Mr. Page, you should see that yy's essence is not an auxiliary office software..."
Larry Page hurriedly said, "Sorry, I'm really sorry, it's because I'm wrong."
As he said that, Larry Page said: "yy itself is indeed an incredibly perfect social communication software. To be honest, when I saw yy, I always suspected that this should not be a product of our time."
Li Mu was shocked and couldn't help asking him: "Why do you say that?"
Larry Page said seriously: "In my opinion, all aspects of yy are perfect and unimaginable. In my opinion, it hardly follows the rules of all Internet products in this era. Its visual design language alone surpasses all Internet products. Moreover, its interactive experience also shows unprecedented user-friendliness, and it is by no means comparable to current products. Moreover, most importantly, the highly user-friendly function of yy's product highlights the founder's extremely in-depth understanding of user needs. Overall, this product really surpasses the times."
As he said that, Larry Page looked at Li Mu and said with a joking tone: "Being able to develop such a perfect product proves that your thinking pattern has surpassed this era. Without you and Makino Technology, the Internet industry might have taken more than five years to reach your height."
Larry Page's evaluation made Li Mu feel cold in his back in an instant, and the tension in his heart was hard to describe in words. On the one hand, he didn't expect that he would give such a high evaluation of his own products, and on the other hand, he didn't expect that he would give an evaluation of "transcending the times" that seems exaggerated but is actually infinitely close to reality.
To be honest, Li Mu did not consider the issue of "Framework of the Times" in pursuing product heights, but after Larry Page's indirect reminder, Li Mu finally had the awareness of "Framework of the Times".
The so-called "framework of the times" is to put it bluntly what this era should look like. If something transcends the framework of this era appears, it will immediately appear particularly unique.
YY is indeed beyond the times. It uses the design language, interaction method, and product functions that have been accumulated over many years and countless versions in many years. Each aspect reflects a deep understanding of the various needs of users. Ordinary users do not have a sensitive sense of industry and will only think that this software is too useful. However, for an industry master like Larry Page, it is not uncommon for him to have such a feeling.
If you erase all brand information from a 2016 S-Class Mercedes-Benz and give it to the 2002 automotive industry for research, you may have the same feeling.
The excellent car designers in 2002, even Mercedes-Benz, were shocked, because they could see at a glance that the 2016 S-Class Mercedes-Benz used in air intake, exhaust, front and rear surround, waistline, etc., were completely different from the design language shared by major manufacturers in this era;
The chassis training engineers in 2002 will also find that the chassis of this 2016 Mercedes-Benz is so complex and advanced that it is far beyond their understanding. If they are matched with high-end things like electromagnetic suspension, they will even doubt their lives even more;
Engine engineers in 2002 may also be surprised, why can this 2016 Mercedes-Benz have a 3.0 displacement of nearly 400 horsepower? And their 3.2-liter displacement engine has only 220 horsepower?
The gearbox engineers in 2002 would also be amazed that the top automatic transmission they could make had only five forward gears, and the technology was not mature enough and the gear shift response was slow, but why could this car do seven? Moreover, the switching speed of the seven gears was amazingly fast and extremely smooth at the same time.
YY is such a product today. It not only makes ordinary practitioners feel desperate, but also makes top practitioners like Larry Page feel particularly surprised. Li Mu even doubts whether anyone will look at YY like Larry Page, but at the same time it is more jumpy and bolder than Larry Page's thinking. Will anyone even boldly assume that they are a time traveler who has returned from the future world?
Just when Li Mu was nervous, Larry Page saw Li Mu silent and said, "In my opinion, it is precisely because of so many epoch-making progress that yy has made it an epoch-making product, just like the shock brought to the world by the first color camera; just like the magical effects of penicillin to the world when it was first discovered, yy was also shocking and inspiring me, making me realize that the product could still be done like this."
Li Mu breathed a sigh of relief.
When thinking about the yy product, Larry Page's thinking mode has automatically ignored the option that it may come from the future. His metaphor also made Li Mu feel much more relaxed. Before he was reborn, many epoch-making products often appeared in the world, but no matter how powerful the product is, people in the world will not doubt that it comes from the future except to praise and imitate.
Maybe yy gives the feeling of top people in the industry, it is the first camera that can take color photos. It subverts the black and white image world and gives them great shock. But they will not really question whether this disruptive product comes from the future. They will only study the product itself carefully so that they can catch up.
Li Mu, who was relaxed, said to Larry Page: "In fact, Google is also an epoch-making product in my opinion. Its appearance has brought about a huge change in the entire Internet world. It is like giving every user a Hubble telescope dedicated to the Internet world, allowing everyone to find what they want to find and explore everything they want to explore."
As he said that, Li Mu asked Larry Page: "Mr. Page, I'm curious, what motives did you inspire to create Google?"
Larry Page smiled slightly and said a little shyly: "When I was 22 years old, I was still studying for graduate school at Stanford. At that time, I had a great enthusiasm for the Internet. Moreover, the Internet was still in the fertility stage, and everything was in no way out. A few people were fighting each other and randomly creating some page products to fill in the Internet world. It was as if the library was not yet born. Many authors were writing books, but none of them could bring their books together."
"Without a library, it becomes extremely difficult for readers to find books, so I came up with a creative idea. Can I build a 'library' on the Internet? Just like a library collects various works and then builds a catalog of books. I can download all the information on the Internet, and then search every page of it to form a product similar to a library catalog. In this way, if the user wants to see any aspect of the work, he just needs to search on my library catalog, and all the related works he wants to see will appear."
Li Mu said in surprise: "Does Google's creativity actually come from the library?"
Larry Page nodded: "Yes, the most appropriate explanation for the so-called search engine is the 'library + book catalog'. Google's programs will continuously capture various information on the Internet and make itself the largest and most complete 'library' in the world."
When Li Mu heard this metaphor of Larry Page, he suddenly thought of Google Books in the future, the super online library with more than 20 million e-books in the future. However, in his impression, Google Books was born a little later, so Li Mu asked him: "Mr. Page, since you think Google's original intention is so close to the library, have you ever thought about building a real online library, digitizing as many paper books as possible, and then putting it online for people to read?"
Larry Page was shocked and couldn't speak. In fact, he had already launched the secret plan of Google Books this year. Unexpectedly, the model of this secret plan was guessed by Li Mu...
Chapter completed!