Chapter 236 I also want to try Light Armor Aerospace

What Tan did not say explicitly is that Alpha Technologies will be massively expanding its data centres across Malaysia, not just in Johor.

Only when you launch user-oriented applications and the larger the user base, you have a legitimate reason to expand your data center.

At a certain stage, relying on Malaysia's mountainous terrain, there is a strong reason to dig a disaster recovery center deep underground.

“We are a global technology giant, so setting up a data backup center is not excessive, right?
As for your question, why do we need to build a professional fortification 50 meters underground for the purpose of defending against nuclear attacks?

I can only say that as the only global technology giant headquartered in Malaysia, or more precisely in Southeast Asia, we store the data of 100 million users from more than 100 countries around the world. Is it okay to increase the security factor as much as possible? "

This is an open conspiracy, and the main focus is speed, accuracy and ruthlessness.

There are data centers spread across thirteen states in Malaysia and in neighboring Singapore, Bangkok, and Pengcheng. In Malaysia, the data centers are even built underground. When the day comes when Alpha reveals the identity of its artificial intelligence, how will outside forces determine which one is the real one?
Is it really possible that the entire Southeast Asia will be wiped out with nuclear bombs?

Princess Amina naturally didn't know about Chen Yuanguang's plan. Samad's identity was like a firewall between them.

"No problem." She thought there was nothing wrong with the other party's request.

Twenty years ago, it might have been a rare thing for technology giants to require unequal voting rights when raising funds, which offended the giants on Wall Street. But in the past decade, even companies like Didi, which rely on investors' money as the first priority for financing, can require AB shares to ensure the founding team's control over the company. This reason is more legitimate than ever.

Amina even felt that Samad's demands were a bit humble. If Alpha Technologies was an American company, could they raise the conditions even higher? For the first time, she deeply felt the weakness of Malaysia.

As an absolute carnivore in Malaysia, Amina has never felt that Malaysia is weak. In her perception, Malaysia is full of beautiful scenery. Is there oppression? No, it doesn't exist.

When a unicorn with a vested interest in her emerges within her jurisdiction, Amina's identity will, under the current circumstances, change from a member of the domestic oppressive class to an oppressed class in international business operations.

She may not be clearly aware of this, but the subconscious discomfort it brings to her is real.

“Mr. Samad, I think your request is completely legitimate, but I still have a few questions.

The first point is valuation. What do you think is an appropriate valuation for Alpha Technology in this round of financing?

The second point is future expectations. What are the future expectations of Alpha Technology? I believe that with Alpha Technology’s business model and development prospects, it will definitely not end with one round of financing.

It requires a huge amount of funds, and requires rounds of financing to tie as many allies as possible to our chariot.

It is not easy to defeat Google with technology alone. We need strong allies to help us in many aspects such as supervision, laws and regulations, and funding. So when will the end be?

Is our goal to be listed on NASDAQ, or to replace Google in the search engine field, or what?" Amina asked, "Because only when I know this, I know to introduce our vision in the financing pitch."

The second question is how to draw the pie.

Everyone knows that the pie is big and $100 billion is just the beginning. The question is whether it is a pancake, a flapjack or a pie.

While Alpha Technology was working hard for its first round of financing, many companies thousands of miles away in Shenhai, China's financial center, wanted to get a piece of the pie and see if they could get on this train.

America is not the only one that can see the opportunity. The Chinese capitalists, who have been rich for a long time, have a sense of smell that is no worse than America. What they lack is experience.

"Mr. Lin, have you heard of Malaysia's Alpha Technology? They have been very popular on the Chinese Internet recently because they launched an artificial intelligence search engine called Hornbill." Li Haide, the vice president of Guangjia Aerospace who was poached from JinkoSolar, talked about it.

After he joined Guangjia Aerospace, he became the vice president in charge of investment and business, which was highly relevant to his previous resume.

In the past, when he was at JinkoSolar, he was responsible for investing in Jinko's upstream and downstream suppliers. After coming to Guangjia Aerospace, it was similar. Guangjia Aerospace has a large number of upstream and downstream cooperative manufacturers, and there are a lot of investment opportunities among them.

After starting business with Xiaomi, Shunwei Capital under Lei Jun and investment companies affiliated with Xiaomi itself invested in Xiaomi's supply chain companies, including some that went public by being Xiaomi's supplier.

The logic behind Guangjia Aerospace Investment is similar, except that Chen Yuanguang is not interested in splitting out an investment company of his own to engage in commercial investment activities, so they only have one investment entity.

Lin Jia smiled and nodded, thinking that I had invested in the angel round of this company. To be precise, I had invested in the angel round of the founder of this company:

“Of course, Hornbill is very easy to use, but you have to climb over the firewall before using it. Apart from this, it is much easier to use than Baidu.

Last night, Baidu's stock price fell 18 points, and today the Hong Kong stock market followed suit. Google's stock price can still rise after falling, but Baidu's stock price can never go back after falling."

After all, without a search engine, Google still has YouTube and Android, but without a search engine, Baidu has nothing. You can't say that Apollo autonomous driving can support a market value of hundreds of billions.

Li Haide nodded: "Alpha Technology's main business includes not only artificial intelligence, but also cryptocurrency exchanges.

These are all cutting-edge businesses at the moment, and what excites me most is that their founders have demonstrated extraordinary strength.

This kind of strength is almost all-round, with extraordinary performance in both technology and business.

Later, we conducted an internal review of the cracking of the RSA encryption system. If we did not have a bird's eye view, everyone would think that they could think of using this ability to tell the outside world that banks are no longer safe.

Take the opportunity to go long on cryptocurrencies.

But none of us could have imagined that not only would they make public how to crack the underlying algorithm, but they would also make the quantum computers they have available to the public cloud and make them available to the outside world.

And they can successfully predict that hacker groups will use this capability to attack financial institutions.

This diversity of means is beyond our imagination.

Without the latter, BTC’s rise would be at most 2 to 3 points, because consensus building is difficult, especially when it comes to the application of quantum computers in cryptographic attack and defense.

But with the event as a reference, consensus was established in an instant. Even if it was not reported in the news, it would take no more than half an hour for the financial circle in the information age to build consensus.

The surge in BTC is becoming unstoppable.

Samad is very strong. The superb strategic skills he demonstrated in the RSA battle alone are enough to attract investors, not to mention the potential shown by Alpha Technology. "

The RSA battle has been included in the textbooks of major business schools around the world and is hailed as a classic example of how to use new technologies to maximize profits.

After listening to what Li Haide said, Lin Jia roughly guessed what the other party wanted to say: "Are you saying that we should also get involved in Alpha Technology's financing?"

Li Haide nodded: "Yes, I think our previous investments were limited to upstream and downstream companies of Guangjia Aerospace. We can appropriately invest in some projects with huge benefits.

We can actually participate in global targets such as Alpha Technology.

I don't think we have a chance. After all, for a project of this level, with Samad's wild strategic vision, his requirements for investors must be very demanding.

Guangjia Aerospace's strength lies in the aerospace field, and there are too few intersections with Alpha Technology.

Others won’t give us a chance. But I think we should expand the scope of our investment and participate in projects like Alpha Technology, which is also a way to make a name for ourselves in the industry.

Tell the outside world that Guangjia Aerospace's investment department does not only invest in commercial aerospace-related investments.

When good projects emerge in the future, we may not be without opportunities.”

The reason why Li Haide has such consideration is that in the foreseeable future, the profitability of Guangjia Aerospace will become stronger and stronger with the space station project.

The huge amount of funds on the books can be invested in more projects after forming positive cash flow.

After listening, Lin Jia nodded and said, "I think what you said makes sense, you can go and try it.

Maybe Alpha Technology will take a fancy to us."

In the Mel Hall of Renaissance Hotel in Johor Bahru, guests from all over the world gathered together and were divided into two groups. One group was dressed in suits and had serious expressions, exuding the aura of being Wall Street elites.

Fortunately, the air-conditioning in the five-star hotel was turned on high, otherwise I would have fainted from the heat in Malaysia.

Although to the waiters at the Renaissance Hotel it looked like a security company was holding a training session, the only difference was that each of the security personnel had a laptop in their hands, which was not standard equipment for security personnel.

Everyone saw that all the men in suits except their colleagues were wary.

The other group wore shorts and short-sleeved shirts, as if they were on vacation, but they felt a little cold because of the air-conditioning.

In the past week, Google's market value has fallen by 30%. In addition to Google, many companies related to artificial intelligence have seen their stock prices rise.

It is a consensus in America that the U.S. stock market cannot collapse. Google is in danger, so let’s tout the benefits of artificial intelligence. We don’t know who will be the next giant to be disrupted by artificial intelligence, but America’s artificial intelligence industry is definitely number one in the world.

So even if one of the big 7 goes down, the US stock market will win. Even if Google plummets, the Nasdaq can still hold steady. One cannot help but sigh at the strong trading ability of the US stock market.

At the same time, the elites on Wall Street also joked that Samad is not as good as Wright, because Wright is the one who can make it impossible for the Federal Reserve to save the U.S. stock market.

Before Alpha appeared, the idea that Google could be disrupted by Southeast Asian technology companies would have been seen as a joke, but now the joke is becoming more and more likely to become a reality.

In just one week, Hornbill is rapidly eroding Google's market share in a large number of countries other than Chinese and English.

Calculated by the number of search engine occurrences, their market share has exceeded 20% outside of Chinese and English-speaking countries.

This is an exaggerated number because the Global Communication service is charged.

On the French eBay market, sharing Hornbill accounts has become a trendy thing.

People outside the company have predicted that if Hornbill is willing to open up its global communication function for free, Hornbill's market share will soon exceed 50%.

Google will retreat to English-speaking countries.

As for the Chinese-speaking countries, the largest of them does not allow Hornbill to enter its market.

GFW has become Baidu's best partner.

But Google’s disapproval of Chinese laws and regulations does not mean that Alpha Technologies does not accept Chinese laws and regulations.

Will China make demands on Baidu that Alpha Technologies cannot accept? No one dares to bet, especially the capital market.

After all, everyone is investing real money. If Hornbill can enter the Chinese market, Baidu will have only one outcome: being swept out.

Robin was so worried that he personally led the team to Malaysia this time.

Wang Haifeng arrived first, and two days later, Robin bought Zhang Fei a plane ticket to Singapore.

The big guys who came included not only Robin, but also two of the 18 Arhats of the Ali system, the brains of Tencent's investment business, and so on.

“It’s really grand. This is the first time I’ve seen a Southeast Asian technology company with such a grand style.

This is my first time in Johor Bahru.”

The "grand" here refers to holding a financing promotion conference in Johor Bahru. Generally, Malaysian technology companies raise funds either in Singapore or Kuala Lumpur.

Because Malaysian technology companies target overseas financial institutions for financing, none of them have their headquarters in Johor Bahru.

Furthermore, the executives with decision-making power flew in from abroad, and there were no direct flights to Johor Bahru.

“There’s nothing you can do. Don’t you see that Hornbill is so powerful now? His momentum is even more frightening than Facebook was back then.

After all, Facebook was only popular in the United States at the time, and no one knew whether it could go overseas.

Hornbill's target was global users from the beginning, and the names "Global Connect" and "Global Connect" were very impressive.

It really doesn’t look like a Malaysian company. I’ve never seen a Malaysian company that looks to the world.”

“Yes, they asked Goldman Sachs for H300 but not cash. Our team even teased them during the meeting, saying that Malaysians have high aspirations but low skills. Wouldn’t it be better to make some money for retirement? They really thought they could make a name for themselves in the field of artificial intelligence.

But it was only two months later that I was slapped in the face.”

“Who could have guessed this?
Even Malaysians themselves couldn’t guess.

Back then, Tencent had a ticket theory, believing that QQ was the ticket to the PC era, WeChat was the ticket to the mobile era, so Hornbill might be the ticket to the artificial intelligence era.

We are all here, waiting for the chance to buy tickets for the boat.

Compared with financial institutions, I think this is where Internet companies have an advantage.”

The entire Southeast Asia is a staunch support area for Alpha Technology. Under the spontaneous call of the people, the number of searches through Hornbill has exceeded that of Google in most parts of this region, and the golden cross point has been activated.

Local consciousness is unprecedentedly strong.

"Good afternoon, everyone. It is a great honor to meet elites from all over the world to attend Alpha Technology's financing promotion meeting."

(End of this chapter)