"First, what did I think of the Ministry of Education launching the Education Network app and a series of policies such as Double Reduction?
My view was that I was very happy and honored. After all, with the Handwriting Robot, I had eliminated a great deal of unnecessary formalism and successfully freed many teachers and students from their suffering."
As for whether I resented the Ministry of Education, I did not. Life should not be only about money, and success was not defined by others—it was defined by oneself.
My dream was to explore the truths of the universe, research and create things I liked, and even build a spacecraft to explore the Solar System and the Milky Way Galaxy. Money was merely a tool for achieving those goals.
So to me, earning a hundred thousand or so more or less each month did not really matter. Compared to my grand ambitions, that little bit of money was pocket change."
"Holy crap, that's incredible! He actually wanted to build a spacecraft and explore the Solar System and the Milky Way Galaxy?"
"I get it now. Lin Feng is China's Musk!"
"So impressive. He didn't even care about losing a hundred thousand or so in monthly profit."
Everyone who heard Lin Feng's words was amazed by his dream of exploring the truths of the universe, researching and creating various things, and building a spacecraft for space exploration.
Although they knew Lin Feng would definitely be unable to build a spacecraft or explore the Solar System and the Milky Way Galaxy,
being able to truly treat it as a dream and put it into action was already impressive. He had surpassed 99% of the people in the world; many people only dared to think and never dared to act.
But Lin Feng did not wait for them to keep being shocked. He simply continued speaking on his own.
"Perhaps you don't know this, but after more than half a month of hard work, the Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle was successfully developed and assembled yesterday afternoon.
The relevant technical patents were also submitted yesterday through the online patent application channel.
As for the live-fire test video, I'll finish filming it within the next two days. I'll upload it directly to Bilibili then, so remember to watch it."
"Holy crap, he came up with the Second-generation Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle that quickly?"
"Seriously? He finished developing it in just over half a month? Are you sure he wasn't joking?"
"I bet it's just some small practical improvements to the original Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle. At its core, it's still just a second-generation Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle."
Most of the barrage comments did not believe Lin Feng's Second-generation Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle could be all that powerful.
They only believed that this so-called Second-generation Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle was a product with minor improvements, not some major upgrade or overhaul.
Some viewers even bluntly said that it should not be called the Second-generation Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle at all. It should be called the 1.1-generation Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle.
After all, if minor improvements were enough to call it a second generation, then in a few years there would be dozens of generations of Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifles. That would be awkward.
Faced with such naysaying and skepticism, Lin Feng frowned slightly, but ultimately said nothing more.
There was no point. Words alone proved nothing. He would wait until his test video was released to show them just how powerful the Second-generation Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle was.
With that thought, Lin Feng shifted the topic to recommendation algorithms.
"Come to think of it, most of you probably don't know that Bilibili and I have a wager agreement, right?"
"A wager agreement?"
"What's a wager agreement?"
"What are you betting on?"
The livestream chat was filled with confused and bewildered comments in response to Lin Feng's words.
Looking at the confused viewers and seeing that the livestream's audience had quietly surpassed 2.5 million as time passed, Lin Feng smiled and said:
"Everyone knows that ever since Bilibili was founded in 2009, it has stuck to an ad-free development strategy, right? It has been four years now, and it has always spent more than it earned.
Over those four years, Bilibili's operating team had tried countless methods, but all with little success. It had remained in the red the entire time.
The only reason Bilibili had not collapsed was because it kept relying on fundraising to continue developing.
While fundraising could support Bilibili's development and operations, it inevitably came at the cost of shares. Faced with this situation, Bilibili's operating team was naturally extremely anxious.
So more than half a month ago, Bilibili's founder, Xu Yi, traveled all the way to my home to negotiate because he wanted to secure the rights to my videos and livestreams.
During the negotiations, I learned about Bilibili's predicament. In the end, with my silver tongue, both sides reached a wager agreement.
Under this wager agreement, I had to come up with a profitable development plan that would make Bilibili profitable within half a year and allow the site to sustain its own development without further fundraising within two years.
If my plan achieved those goals, I would receive 30% of the shares. If it failed, the 30% would be returned to the original shareholders."
The 2.5 million viewers in the livestream were utterly stunned by Lin Feng's words. They had never expected Lin Feng and Bilibili to have such an arrangement.
Bilibili's bosses were truly crazy. They were actually willing to put up 30% of the shares to gamble with Lin Feng. Weren't they afraid that Lin Feng would fail and leave them badly burned?
"Of course, aside from creating a profitable development plan, I also have to develop a recommendation algorithm.
That recommendation algorithm will be licensed to Bilibili for ten years.
I'm currently preparing to develop the recommendation algorithm, while the profitable development plan has already been completed.
Many of its measures are already being implemented.
For example, Bilibili's website and app have undergone major redesigns, with image-and-text advertisements added to both the mobile and web versions, as well as the livestreaming platform we recently introduced...
These are only some of the profitable development plans that have already been implemented. There are still some plans that have not yet been carried out, but everyone will definitely see what they are within the next few months."
"I see."
The more than 2.5 million viewers in the livestream nodded in realization. They finally understood why Bilibili's pages and app had suddenly undergone such major changes over the past two days.
So it turned out that Lin Feng was behind it all. However, they soon became interested in the recommendation algorithm he had mentioned.
After all, Lin Feng had placed that recommendation algorithm on the same level as the profitable development plan. Could its value really compare to that of the profitable development plan?
As doubts arose in everyone's minds, Lin Feng seemed to know exactly what they were thinking and spoke directly.
"You may be wondering why I specifically emphasized the recommendation algorithm and placed it on the same level as the profitable development plan.
Let me put it this way: personally, I believe the profitable development plan I wrote was worth 10% of Bilibili's shares, while a ten-year license for the recommendation algorithm was worth 20% of Bilibili's shares!"
"Wow!"
The livestream erupted after hearing Lin Feng's words. Everyone stared at him in astonishment, wondering whether Lin Feng had gone crazy.
It was only a recommendation algorithm, yet Lin Feng claimed it was worth 20% of Bilibili's shares—and that was merely for a ten-year usage license!
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