America's Road to Fame

Chapter 433 Cloud Computing

The operation of the current Tru-Chen Business Management Company has entered a stable period. Through the development of Ivanta in China for a period of time, the TC Business Management Company at this time has already established in Yanjing, Modu and Yangcheng. There are three ultra-tall skyscrapers of city landmarks, and there are more than 10 buildings under construction, which will start to be completed in succession almost next year.

And because of the construction of these buildings, the bank debts borne by TC Commercial Management Company have reached a very high level, but these loans are all special low-interest loans, so we only need to wait for the price of commercial real estate in Huaguo to rise again in the next few years. If it goes up, there will be no pressure at all.

However, at this level, the original plan has been completed, so after that, TC Commercial Management Company will not continue to build new buildings, and the current management of the company has entered a stable period.

Just like what Ivanta said to William Chen, she can completely spare time to complete his plan for the Atlanta All-Star Carnival, as long as the daily operation of the company is handed over to her with the powerful income she has found during these times. Just go down and do it.

Recently, Alibaba’s Boss Ma, can also be said to be proud of the spring breeze. Not only has the e-commerce business slowly settled the Penguin and Baidu respectively, which has proved Ali’s dominance in the e-commerce industry in China, and has benefited from the success of the HOLA Huaguo version. Development, at present, can be said to be the same as Penguin's WeChat, which equally divides the social field of the mobile Internet, which can be said to directly break into Penguin's advantageous field.

But this time Boss Ma came to William Chen, and he didn't talk about these businesses. He mainly talked about two points.

One of them is Alibaba Cloud.After William Chen joined Alibaba Cloud and gave support, and Alibaba Cloud's R&D team had technical cooperation with the Meta Cloud team, the development of this project became more and more smooth.

At present, Alibaba Cloud is already providing services for Ali's e-commerce, and by the way, further adjustments are made to improve the deficiencies. I am afraid that in the second half of the year, we will be able to try to carry out open commercial operations.

Just like cloud computing in the United States, Amazon is the most resolute in its construction. E-commerce companies already have a strong demand for this technology, because the data and computing services they need to provide are too huge. If there is no Cloud computing, then the expenditure on hardware alone can make people desperate.

This is why, in Silicon Valley, Microsoft and Google are still hesitant in the research and development of cloud computing, but Amazon has already decided to win this technology regardless.

Therefore, Alibaba Cloud is indeed a technology that must be acquired for Alibaba Company. At that time, Boss Ma was so resolute in supporting Alibaba Cloud’s research and development, not because of his long-term vision, but because he really had to make this. Otherwise, it will have a great impact on the development of Ali's entire e-commerce.

Similarly, cloud computing is also very important to Zoom, another e-commerce company invested by William Chen.

Now Zoom holds a lot of cash-before, Amazon bought 50% of Groupon’s shares held by Zoom for $20 billion. After that, Zoom still holds 16% of Groupon stock.

In October last year, Groupon successfully carried out an IPO listing. Since Amazon, Zoom and Meta Group are the shareholders of the world's largest group buying website, the company's stock was sought after by the market as soon as it went public, and even Groupon's The market value once reached more than 350 billion US dollars, which is even crazier than the performance of Groupon's stock in William Chen's previous life.

It’s just that according to the agreement signed before Groupon’s listing, only the company’s founder Andrew’s team and Amazon’s stocks are prohibited from trading, that is, the stocks are locked for at least 18 months and cannot be sold in the secondary market.

The shares of Groupon, including Zoom and Meta Group, have not been locked. This is what Amazon is happy to see. If these two companies can withdraw from Groupon, even if it temporarily affects Groupon's stock price, for them , are all worth it.

Therefore, neither Zoom nor Meta Group was polite. When Groupon's stock price continued to rise and its market value was about to exceed 350 billion US dollars, they began to reduce their holdings of shares...

In the end, Zoom's investment in Groupon has reaped more than $100 billion in returns, which can be said to have made a lot of money.

With such a huge amount of cash in hand, Zoom, in addition to speeding up its deployment in the Americas and Europe, and competing with Amazon for these overseas e-commerce markets, also directly invested 20 billion U.S. dollars in Meta Cloud Company, holding acquired a 25% stake in Meta Cloud.

That is, at this time, the valuation of Meta Cloud has reached 80 billion US dollars!
Using the funds invested by Zoom, Meta Cloud will build 30 new large data centers around the world to enhance the capacity of cloud computing.

If these big data centers are built, Meta Cloud will surpass Amazon's AWS cloud service in terms of scale and become the world's largest cloud service company.

And Meta Cloud will provide global data storage and computing services for all Internet companies under Chen William. Of course, the domestic services in Huaguo will be provided by Alibaba Cloud.

The reason why Zoom can make up its mind to invest so much is because of cloud computing services, which are too important for the e-commerce industry.

Fortunately for William Chen, whether it is Microsoft, Google or Facebook, their cloud computing research and development progress has lagged behind Amazon and Meta Technology at this time, and it is precisely because of their business that compared with e-commerce , the dependence on cloud computing is not too obvious.

The investment in research and development and deployment of cloud computing is too huge. For example, Meta Cloud, from the beginning of research and development to the current global data center deployment, the total investment will soon exceed 50 billion U.S. dollars. This investment, It is not something that ordinary companies can make up their minds to carry out.

In addition to e-commerce, there are also streaming media platforms that rely heavily on cloud computing. In the current Meta Cloud, the largest customer is not Zoom, but Netflix.

It is also relying on the services of Meta Cloud and Netflix's streaming media playback technology that can guarantee their huge content and allow users around the world to watch smoothly.

If it is deployed like the traditional server before, I am afraid that Netflix cannot afford such a large amount of storage and data needs, and the funds that need to be invested in it can make their cash dry up.

Similarly, in China, Youku Tudou Company is also looking forward to the launch of Alibaba Cloud to provide them with services. This is why later video platforms need to rely on giants to survive, except for content purchases that require huge In addition to the funds, the demand for servers and bandwidth is the biggest expenditure on the video platform, and ordinary companies cannot afford it.

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