Making up his mind, Su Yang flew from Oklahoma to San Francisco and took a taxi to Silicon Valley.

He posted on various IT forums a few months ago, hoping to find someone to develop an APP. The core function focuses on instant messaging chat, no advertising and distribution, no game links, and free downloads, no fees.

Most respondents scoffed at his idea, saying that even if you can develop Windows-level applications on your mobile phone, you will not be able to make a profit. What should you pay the server fee? Even the electricity bill is too bad. Will you use love to generate electricity?

Some respondents also carefully analyzed the competitive products for him, believing that under the premise that Apple has iMessage and Microsoft has MSN, it is difficult to develop an instant messaging application, which is about the same difficulty as riding a bicycle to catch up with a sports car running at full speed.

Su Yang knew who could not understand, so he still insisted on finding partners, and so he searched for several months.

Coincidentally, except for those profiteers who wanted to trick him into buying website domain names, the only person who was interested in his ideas was Miss Jiang, who had just graduated. He accidentally talked about developing APPs before, and Miss Jiang asked him to cooperate with him the next day.

He was surprised at first, but recalling that Miss Jiang once said last year that 3G networks would give birth to a large number of mobile phone applications, it was quite normal. Moreover, Miss Jiang still studied investment-related majors and was naturally interested in new things.

At 7:30 pm, the two met at the famous Red Rock Cafe in Silicon Valley and talked about specific matters for the first time.

I met a few times more than a year or chatted online in the past few times, and the two of them had a casual name. This time, they might be working together soon. Su Yang changed his name to Miss Jiang's name Jiang Ruolan, and his attitude also became to treat his partners.

The two of them chatted for three hours in detail, returned to the hotel, and met in the restaurant the next day to continue the chat.

After a few days, the preliminary plan was temporarily determined. First register a company called MT, and then recruit some international students in Silicon Valley. It took three months to develop the initial version. Su Yang provided the design plan and Jiang Ruolan was responsible for team management.

There are two main points in the specific development.

First, register with a mobile phone number verification code without the need for cumbersome email and confidentiality procedures.

Second, it automatically matches the user address book and can directly add friends to chat via phone number.

Client development is relatively simple, and the problem is server data interaction. Fortunately, the user size is relatively small in the early stage, and programmers at the international student level are also competent. After the big shot is getting bigger, they will introduce server giants, and then consider financing and market expansion.

After completing all matters, the All-Star Weekend is about to end, and Su Yang is preparing to fly back to Oklahoma.

Jiang Ruolan drove him to the airport and accidentally talked about the future valuation of MT application. Su Yang replied that the conservative estimate is 20 billion US dollars, and if he could not encounter the FBI's scrutiny on privacy reasons, it might have greater value.

However, the initial investment will be very exaggerated, because the non-charge strategy will consume a lot of funds to operate and open up the market. If you encounter competitive products, there will be a risk of being acquired or defeated. Large capital may be needed in the medium term, otherwise the salary and interpersonal relationships he is a coach cannot be supported in the long term.

Anyway, it is very difficult to earn $20 billion.

After saying that, he thought Jiang Ruolan would make fun of him, but he received encouragement and praise.

On the morning of the 17th, Su Yang met Tyson Chandler at the Thunder Training Base, and the two talked in detail in the office.

Su Yang directly told Chandler not to worry about the game, and he recovered from the remaining 29 games of the season.

Chandler was moved on the spot and said that he had never met a coach who thought about him like Su Yang. Su Yang originally thought he was a humble person, but then he thought about it carefully. Since Chandler entered the league in 2001, he has always encountered rigid or parallel coaches.

By night, the Thunders faced the Hornets at home, because they traded Wilcox and Joe Smith, and injured Collison and Mason. Su Yang could only use Swift, who had not played for a long time, and also added time to veteran Chucky Atkins.

But just that, the Thunder still fought back and forth with the Hornets, forcibly dragging the game to the last 13 seconds.

Unfortunately, after Durant hit a three-pointer to tie, Paul made a strong mid-range shot, while Westbrook scored a three-pointer in the last two seconds. The Thunder lost to the Hornets 98-100, resulting in Durant's 47 points in the game.

After playing against the Hornets, the Thunder rested for three days and started a devilish schedule, facing the Suns, Warriors, Lakers and Mavericks one after another. Except for the win against the Warriors, they lost all the other three games. Su Yang wanted to win, but the little center and forward could not beat him.

What's even worse is that in the game against the Mavericks, Durant was injured because he stepped on Josh Howard. The X-ray showed negative, but the MRI showed that it was a second-degree sprain on his right ankle and he needed to rest for 7 to 14 days.

Durant was quite frustrated about the injury, because he averaged 33.1 points and 6.7 rebounds per game in the past 10 games, which was even more exaggerated than Wade's momentum. It was a critical moment in the competition for the scoring king. Retirement for seven or eight games was basically no chance.

Su Yang comforted Durant without worrying. The scoring champion will sooner or later be the things in his pocket, and the key is to recover from injuries.

But Durant was injured, and the Thunder's offensive and defensive firepower dropped sharply, with 1 win and 3 losses in four consecutive games.

The fans were very calm, and Su Yang was not in a hurry. He asked Westbrook and Green to practice skills step by step, and the coaching tasks were reduced, so he spent more time on MT application development and communicated with programmers as product managers.

In the next three games, the Thunder narrowly defeated the 76ers and the Kings, and lost back to back to the Nuggets.

But the Thunder still wins more games in the same period than the Warriors, Grizzlies and Timberwolves. In addition, the Wizards, Clippers and Kings teams only have about ten wins, and the probability of getting the top five picks in the lottery conference is getting smaller and smaller.

Fortunately, in the last eighteen games, the Thunder had to face strong teams many times, and they could reduce the winning rate without deliberately losing.

On March 14th, the Thunder played against the Suns away, and Durant officially returned and lost by 11 points.

Following the match against the Spurs and in four quarters, Westbrook tried to win the three-pointer with a big hat, and narrowly won.

On the 19th, Su Yang, Presti, and his little boss Simon watched the Arizona State University Crazy Three 64 match against Temple University in the office, and specifically inspected potential draft pick James Harden.

As a result, Harden's performance in a critical battle was 1 of 8 shots in the game, scoring 9 points with only free throws, and the most four mistakes in the game were all due to his two teammates scoring 20 points. ESPN reported that Harden's performance was very struggling.

That performance made the boss Simon frown on the spot. Presti said don’t worry, you can watch the second game again.

Who would have thought that on the 21st, Arizona State University went to Syracuse University and Harden played 40 minutes in the game, but he made 2 of 10 shots and scored 10 points on free throws, resulting in Arizona State University being eliminated in a disastrous defeat.

In two crazy three games, Harden struck one after another, and the boss Simon said whether he should consider Spanish golden boy Rubio.

Su Yang left the headache task to Presti and devoted himself to the last 12 games of the season.

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Chapter completed!