Zhou Buqi knows that the tourism markets in Europe, America, South Korea and Japan are very large, but this is not easy to do. A systematic financial platform must be built.

For Ziweixing International, now is not the time to develop new industries. The key is to establish a firm foothold in the social business internationally.

Li Yanhong also saw that he was not very interested, so she smiled and asked: "By the way, how is the business development of Weibo and helo in Europe?"

"Oh, don't mention it!"

"What's wrong?"

"It's an Internet desert, and the hardware conditions are far worse than in China!"

"No way?" Li Yanhong was surprised, "Aren't all developed countries piloting 4G? Fiber optic networks have long been..."

Zhou Buqi interrupted him, "What I'm talking about is not network infrastructure, but supporting network services. If Ziweixing's business wants to advance in Europe, it must be promoted country by country."

“The CDN service is poor?”

"Yes, it is useless, or there are no large Internet companies in Europe."

Zhou Buqi couldn't help but complain.

Operating a website, game or mobile app is actually a process of data access, calculation, and transmission. Access relies on the database, calculation relies on the server, and transmission relies on fiber optics.

The transmission speed of optical fiber is very fast, but no matter how fast it is, there is still a delay.

The solution is to deploy a server nearby that can meet the computing power.

By shortening the transmission distance of data signals, users will have a better experience when using it.

But here comes the problem. Many companies are very weak and cannot deploy servers nearby in every region. What should we do? This requires a CDN service provider.

CDN service providers will specially deploy servers in many key areas and cities to become a node. Internet companies will cooperate with CDN service providers to rent their nodes and use their servers to complete data distribution.

Just like the early school network.

At that time, the strength of the campus network was very weak, and servers could only be deployed in the capital. But the country is very big, and universities near the capital can access the campus network smoothly. But what about the universities in the south? The distance is too far.

The small and frequent visits to the campus forum are bearable.

But on-campus group buying is not possible. When there are few goods, college students in southern universities cannot grab anything due to network delays.

In order to solve this problem, Ziweixing sought help from Wangsu Technology at that time, relying on more than 200 nodes deployed by Wangsu across the country to help the school network solve the problems of heavy traffic and access delays.

To this day, Ziweixing and Wangsu still have business cooperation.

For Internet companies, companies like Wangsu Technology are a necessity, especially in the early stages of development. If you want to have a good product experience, you cannot do without such service providers.

But here’s the problem, Europe can’t!

CDN service is an asset-heavy business, which requires the purchase of a large number of servers to be deployed in different regions, and a large team dispersed throughout the country for operation and management.

Based on the size of the domestic Internet market, Wangsu, as the largest CDN service provider in China, has a current market value of 3 billion yuan.

This is a high-investment, asset-heavy, low-return business.

Wangsu can be successful because it only deals with domestic business. Whether it is the south or the north, whether it is the east or the west, Chinese is used and can be operated by a unified team.

If the south can’t do well, send a team from the north to take over; if the west can’t do well, send a team from the east to take over.

This is a unified country, with no cultural differences, no language differences, and policies and laws are also very unified.

But that's not the case in Europe.

There are a bunch of small countries, and each country has a different language, cultural environment, policies and laws. This is very collapse. The CDN business is inherently a high-investment, heavy-asset, slow-recovery business, and there are so many complex external issues.

Due to the limited conditions, different teams must be formed in different countries... This loses the possibility of profit.

In the market economy environment, because this business is not profitable, there is no CDN distribution service provider in Europe like the domestic Internet sites that can spread all over Europe.

This means that if Internet companies want to do business in Europe, they cannot rely on the help of third-party companies and can only do it themselves, country by country.

The investment cost is extremely high and management is extremely difficult.

Only giants with strong financial strength can afford it.

A start-up company in a small European country, subject to such external conditions, will never be able to get ahead. Even if the project is really good and has great market prospects, Silicon Valley giants will belatedly enter the market, and they can still rely on strong

Financial strength, developed in dozens of countries at the same time, can quickly crush small companies.

There are only two final outcomes for a small company: either sell it or die.

In the final analysis, it is the special environment in Europe that prevents European startups from taking advantage of their first-mover advantage to quickly establish themselves on the track, even if they have found the right track.

This is also the reason why Ziweixing’s cloud computing business has been warmly welcomed by European countries.

Cloud computing services are “super version”, “enhanced version”, “rich version” and “deep version” of CDN services.

If Ziweiyun spreads across Europe, future European startups can use Ziweiyun's platform resources to quickly promote their business to all of Europe!

If you want to expand your business in Spain, go to Ziweiyun to buy cloud servers deployed in Madrid and Barcelona. If you want to expand your business in France, go to Ziweiyun and buy cloud servers deployed in Paris and Marseille.

This will greatly reduce the difficulty for startups to expand business in new markets and countries, allowing them to attack quickly and seize the track before the giants can react.

Hearing Boss Zhou's complaint, Li Yanhong couldn't help but complain, "Not only is the network service not enough, but the people are also not good enough!"

"Human? Engineer?"

"Yes, too lazy."

Zhou Buqi said amusedly: "Didn't you work in Silicon Valley? You haven't experienced it yet?"

Li Yanhong shook her head, "Silicon Valley is much better than the UK! Overtime in Silicon Valley is not as serious as in China, but the logic of the American dream is also to rely on struggle and hard work to pursue dreams. This time I went to Edinburgh to research skyscanner.

It’s really unbearable to look at.”

"Either we say that Britain is the back garden of the United States." Zhou Buqi also felt deeply about this. "The employees in Silicon Valley are lazy enough. As a result, if they can't survive in Silicon Valley, they come back to the UK. Or their skills are too poor.

Silicon Valley doesn’t like you, or you’re too lazy and Silicon Valley doesn’t want you.”

Li Yanhong said: "Skyscanner's core business is air ticket search services. It was founded at about the same time as Baidu, but it had to seek technical support from Baidu. At first, I thought it was because their technical talents were not good enough. After I went there this time, it was considered a start-up."

It has broadened my horizons.”

"What?" Zhou Buqi heard something and was slightly surprised, "The technical level is very high?"

"High! They all graduated from prestigious schools, and their overall technical level is higher than Baidu." Li Yanhong sighed, "I'm just too lazy to work."

"I don't understand technology anymore. You are an expert. If you say this, that's it."

Zhou Buqi looked serious, feeling that this was very important to the business structure of Ziweixing International. Even the United Kingdom was like this, so the purely white and left-wing world in Europe would be even more serious.

Li Yanhong said: "At Baidu, each industry line must submit a technical report every week and publish it on the intranet to clearly explain the technical iterations and innovations of the week. Every time there is a good technological breakthrough, there will be several comments.

Hundreds of articles, let’s all comment, praise, and encourage them together. This can form a good corporate technology culture and allow the technical team to generate the motivation and passion for further technological iterations and technological innovation.”

Zhou Buqi coughed, because Ziweixing also did this internally, stealing from Baidu, and asked calmly: "Where are your inspection results?"

Li Yanhong looked at him deeply, feeling sad and said, "Half a year."

"What?"

"You heard it right, half a year. Each technical team submits once every six months and twice a year. How can we still work? It takes so long. I go to work at 10 a.m. every day, take a nap at noon, and do another job in the afternoon.

Exercise, work for two hours and then get off work. To be honest, in my opinion, those people are wasting their lives. It is a pity for their talent and knowledge to just go around like that every day despite their high technical level."

"The technology is so good. If you have higher pursuits, you will go to work in Silicon Valley. Staying in the UK is nothing more than relaxing and stress-free, and just want to live a normal life." Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Yes.

If it weren’t for this cultural difference, how could our country catch up in just a few decades? The domestic technical level is not as good as theirs, but hard work can make up for weakness. It is the hard-working spirit of struggle that has created an economic miracle that has attracted worldwide attention."

Li Yanhong was amused, "You are giving an impromptu speech!"

Zhou Buqi smiled, "Isn't it?"

Li Yanhong sighed, "If all of them were given to me, I guarantee that Baidu's technical level would surpass Google's!"

"Just blow it!"

"Really, the premise is to accept the domestic system."

"This is actually an unfair competitive advantage. Either developed countries are opposed to our domestic overtime culture every day and demand the implementation of weekend days and an eight-hour work system."

Li Yanhong disagreed, "Can't we catch up after falling behind? The penetration of this kind of culture is a huge obstacle to the further development of our country's economy."

Zhou Buqi hummed: "Let's talk less about the collective and more about the individual!"

"Haha!" Li Yanhong couldn't help laughing and scolded with a smile, "Don't go online!"

Zhou Buqi said: "To be honest, looking at it now, the domestic Internet industry seems to be not much worse than Silicon Valley. That's because our employees are really hard-working and hardworking, and the national policies are relatively loose. After a few years,

, once the policy changes and excessive overtime is not allowed... Domestic and foreign countries are in a fair 8-hour work system, and the only remaining advantages of the domestic Internet industry will be gone, and the gap will soon be widened by Silicon Valley giants.

In the technology industry, in the final analysis, whoever has the most talent is the most powerful."
Chapter completed!