"Then get dressed. What do you want for breakfast? I'll go downstairs and make it for you. Mom and Dad haven't gotten up yet."
Lin Chen looked at An Rou, who was still wearing her pajamas.
"I'll eat you."
Then he used the move "Hungry Tiger Pounces on Its Prey".
An hour later, Lin Chen and An Rou arrived at the hotel conference room, carrying two boxes of steamed dumplings.
"Brother Lin, you've finally arrived! This hotel is very close to your home, less than a ten-minute drive, right?"
"I have a bad temper when I wake up!"
Lei Jun was taken aback, then glanced at An Rou, as if he understood something.
"Haha, sit down, you can eat while we have the meeting."
"Brother Jun, how dare you say that? Is this how you do things? I treated you to the best hotel around here, and this is how you repay me?"
"Yes, look, you're the second largest shareholder of Xiaomi Technology. I even bring my team to work on holidays to make money for you. Tell me, am I good to you?"
"Hey, you're a pretty nice person."
"Haha, okay, today's topic is the Xiaomi Mi 3. Does anyone have any thoughts?"
Although Lei Jun asked the question, after he finished, his eyes were fixed on Lin Chen.
"Ahem, Brother Jun, you're being way too obvious. At least wait until I finish this box of steamed dumplings. You guys can discuss it first, I'm listening."
Lei Jun then looked at the others.
"I think we've already achieved a full-screen design with the Xiaomi Mi 2, but the screen still isn't big enough. We could release a phone with a larger screen."
"If the screen gets any bigger, wouldn't it just become a tablet?"
"Turning it into a tablet would be great, then I wouldn't need to bring my tablet to watch dramas."
"But it's so big and inconvenient to carry around. You can't just keep holding it in your hand all the time."
"This is indeed a problem."
At this moment, Lin Chen had finished eating the steamed dumplings, wiped his mouth, and spoke.
"The idea of increasing the screen size is great. We don't need to make it too big; a size that fits our palm is fine."
"But Mr. Lin, it's not much different, so this kind of change doesn't really make much sense, does it?"
"But what if the phone screen could fold? Like the old flip phones, wouldn't the screen be bigger?"
"ah?"
"ah?"
"ah?"
Everyone was dumbfounded. How do you fold a phone screen? Isn't it rigid? Won't it break if you fold it?
Have you ever heard of flexible screen technology?
"Flexible screen?"
Just when Lin Chen thought no one had heard of it, a boy wearing glasses raised his hand and said.
"Mr. Lin, are you referring to flexible OLED?"
You know?
"I glimpsed it on a foreign forum before. I heard that LG and Samsung are researching this technology, but it seems they can only make the screen curved, not foldable, right?"
"That's right, you're absolutely right. What a talent, Brother Jun. This young man's bonus will double this month."
"Okay, all arranged."
Lin Chen continued.
"As this handsome guy just said, foreign countries are already researching this technology. As far as I know, it hasn't reached the point of being commercially viable yet, and there's no concept of foldable screens. So this is also our opportunity, and our goal is..."
Lin Chen looked at everyone expectantly, but no one knew what to say next.
Lin Chen looked at An Rou, who answered weakly.
No cavities?
"Ha ha ha ha……"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Lin Chen looked puzzled and cleared his throat.
"Ahem, our goal is to overtake the competition by producing the world's first foldable screen phone!"
Lei Jun spoke up.
"Brother, but we have nothing. How can we overtake them on a curve? Are we supposed to poach people from South Korea?"
Lin Chen smiled mysteriously and said.
"No, no, no, who says only Koreans can do it? We can too."
...
The date was January 2, 2012.
Far across the ocean in the US, at the internet giant IBM, a young Chinese man named Liu Zihong was sitting in his office, lost in thought.
Yesterday was New Year's Day, and Meidi also had a day off. He made a video call with his parents and found that they had aged a lot.
Sigh, my parents worked so hard to raise me, but I've come to work in Meidi and can't take care of them at all. It makes me so sad.
While your parents are alive, you should not travel far.
Moreover, he was tired of IBM, a job that seemed great to outsiders. He mechanically repeated tasks every day that didn't require much brainpower, which was a waste of time for the young genius Liu Zihong.
"Hey Liu, get me a cup of coffee."
That despicable fat American supervisor came to instruct Liu Zihong to pour him coffee again, which became the last straw that broke Liu Zihong's back.
Damn it, you fat bastard, I've put up with you for too long, but this time I'm done!
But I need to find a way to teach him a lesson, otherwise I'll feel uneasy.
As Liu Zihong got up to pour coffee for the fat supervisor, he thought of a solution.
He first skillfully took the coffee cup to the toilet to wash it, even though he washed it in the toilet bowl.
After washing my hands, I took them to the coffee machine, pressed the espresso button, and finally added a little more hand sanitizer. For aesthetic purposes, I even added some saliva for latte art.
Yes, perfect.
"Hey? I've got it!"
Liu Zihong suddenly thought of a way to get back at the fat supervisor.
He first switched his phone to recording mode, then took his coffee and walked into his supervisor's office.
"Manager, your coffee."
The supervisor picked up the glass and took a sip.
"Yes, Liu, this is the taste. Your coffee is the best. No one else can make it taste like this."
"You flatter me. By the way, supervisor, when I went to make coffee just now, I overheard people from the next group saying that their team leader, Catherine, is about to be promoted, and that they'll be merging our team with theirs. Is that true?"
"Nonsense, I've never heard of this news."
"I heard that their team leader, Catherine, has a close relationship with a vice president of the company, which is why she got this promotion opportunity. Moreover, Catherine and you have never gotten along well. When the team is merged, they might take away your team leader position!"
"Fuck Catherine, f*** yourself! The company's leadership is a bunch of idiots, morons. How can they be leaders with brains like that? They wouldn't even be able to farm properly if they went back to shoveling manure!"
"All done," Liu Zihong quietly left the supervisor's office and returned to his workstation.
Speaking of which, Liu Zihong is a genius. He was the top science student, completed his undergraduate and master's degrees at Tsinghua University, and earned a full scholarship for his doctorate at Stanford University, but he could only drift along at IBM.
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