Chapter 1603 Seize the Opportunity of Mutual Benefit

Charles hung up William's phone and immediately started to get in touch with the top ten universities in the UK.

As an old prince who has been active in the UK for many years, Charles has a very strong network in China, and the heads of several top comprehensive universities in the UK have friendship with him.

Interestingly, the United Kingdom is an old imperialist country after all. Although the royal family no longer holds political power, they still hold the right to honor. For the elites of this country, the greatest honor is bestowed by the royal family, so they share with the royal family. The relationship is very close, and it also gives the royal family a lot of face.

Charles communicated one by one, and every word was the same. He first said hello to each other, and then asked if the other party was interested in cooperating with Muye Technology.

In general, when Charles talked about Muye Technology, the other party expressed a strong interest, not only because it wanted to sell Charles a face, but also because Muye Technology was indeed too well-known in the world.

After confirming that the other party is interested, Charles will further reveal the specific details of the cooperation:

The appeal of Muye Technology is to hope that these colleges can provide Huaxia with a certain number of exchange student places every year, and these places should be as many as possible, and they should cover as many disciplines as possible;

The return given by Muye Technology is to provide a certain number of direct employment positions for these schools. For example, in Cambridge, if Li Mu gives Cambridge 20 direct employment positions every year, he will definitely recruit 20 people from Cambridge every year.

Charles' first contact was with Alec Brous, the vice-chancellor of Cambridge University.

Alec Brous is a very legendary figure, he is Australian, studied at Cambridge, studied electrical engineering and then joined IBM as IBM Chief Scientist after nearly two decades of service at IBM Returned to Cambridge to set up a laboratory, and in 1996 took up the post of Principal of Cambridge.

Alec Brous has devoted almost all his career in social enterprises to IBM, and IBM itself is a world-renowned supplier of commercial computer hardware and solutions, so he is very knowledgeable about the Internet and attaches great importance to it. .

However, the UK itself has not yet formed a strong Internet entrepreneurial atmosphere these days. Although there are several old-fashioned high-paying technology companies in the UK, these companies generally focus on chip-based hardware, not so much for the product-based Internet industry. understanding.

Because of this, it has led to an embarrassing situation: there are almost no real Internet companies in the UK that can come up with it.

Alec Brous himself is very anxious about the development of the Internet in the UK,

He even felt that it was necessary for Cambridge to improve the strength and level of the entire country in terms of Internet for the United Kingdom, so he has been promoting the establishment of "Silicon Swamp" parks around Cambridge to attract multinational Internet companies and local Internet companies.

However, although Alec Brous has this heart, he does not have the ability to revitalize the entire market.

Not only are British Internet companies not developing much, but Cambridge students don't seem to be very enthusiastic about the Internet. Their future employment plans are generally in Europe, and Europe itself is not a soil with Internet roots.

Almost half of Cambridge students will choose to stay in Europe after graduation, and a small number will choose to return to the motherland. Only a small part will decide to develop in North America. Moreover, due to the consistent development of Cambridge, almost all students who go to North America will go to North America. All went to Wall Street, and very few would choose to go to Silicon Valley.

The reason for not choosing Silicon Valley is not that they are not interested in Silicon Valley, but that they feel that it is much more difficult for them to enter Silicon Valley than Wall Street.

Don't look at the arrogance of these universities such as Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College, but in this year, because they are located in Europe and far from the center of the Internet industry, students from these universities have very few opportunities to really enter the core circle of the Internet, not to mention Top companies like Makino Technology.

If Muye Technology does not give them direct employment positions, it is very likely that a Cambridge person will not be recruited all year round.

The reason is not because Cambridge is not good, but because companies in Silicon Valley are more inclined to recruit local employees, as well as experienced and hard-working Chinese and Indian employees. For pampered European college students, they are inherently somewhat repulsive.

What's more, even in American universities such as Stanford and MIT, which are close to the Holy Land of the Internet, it is not so easy for their students to enter Muye Technology, let alone those students in Europe who are far away from the Internet battlefield.

For these British universities, they are also aware of the rapid development of the Internet industry, so they hope to find a good opportunity to break into the core layer of the Internet and into Silicon Valley.

At this stage, Silicon Valley is far less international than it was a decade later. More than 70% of Silicon Valley practitioners graduated from universities in the United States, and most of the rest are from China and India.

It's easy for students from European universities to get into Wall Street, but it's really not that easy to get into Silicon Valley.

At this time, Europe was somewhat similar to Japan. They all had a strong economic foundation, a strong industrial and academic foundation, but they did not have a strong Internet foundation.

Japan has not seized the Internet industry, and the same is true in Europe. In more than ten years, the top 20 Internet companies in the world by market value will be divided between American companies and Chinese companies. Europe, Japan and other countries have no fate.

The reason is because, except for the United States and China, no other country has created a real Internet industry atmosphere.

These problems have long been seen and anxious by European institutions of higher learning.

For any world-renowned university, the most important thing is not academic achievement and academic construction, but the growth of graduates from all over the world and in all walks of life. Li Mu summed this up as academic colonization.

In Li Mu's eyes, academic colonization is the vertical penetration of a civilized means, and it is not uncommon in modern society.

If several Tsinghua graduates enter Silicon Valley and get influential positions in influential jobs, then there will be more and more Tsinghua graduates in Silicon Valley, and even eventually become a large-scale alumni reunion;

If the students from the School of Finance of Jiaotong University can gain a firm foothold on Wall Street, then more graduates of Jiaotong University will take root on Wall Street in the future.

This is still the case for an institution. If it is enlarged to a country, the scale and significance of academic colonization will be greater and far-reaching.

Academic colonization is like racial migration. As long as the pioneers can gain a foothold and achieve success, later people will follow.

Universities in Europe, especially in the United Kingdom, all hope to make achievements in the field of high-tech IT. If their students are sent to Silicon Valley and the best Internet companies in the world, it will become their dream. At this time, Li Mu gave them An excellent springboard, which means a lot to these schools.

Therefore, each of these schools is very interested in the cooperation that Charles said. They exchanged certain exchange student resources for an opportunity to go to Silicon Valley or go to the world's No. 1 Internet company for academic colonization. This transaction is very cost-effective. .

Alec Brous is also very eager for such cooperation. He hopes that Muye Technology can give these young people more opportunities to see the future, so that they can prepare for their future in advance. If they can directly send a group of people to It would be more perfect if Makino Technology works.

So, Alec Brous quickly agreed to Charles' request and was willing to offer more than 100 exchange student places to make a mutually beneficial deal with Li Mu.

Charles quickly compiled the feedback from British universities on Li Mu's cooperation plan.

Among the top ten universities in the UK, every college is willing to establish cooperation with Li Mu, and the number of exchange students they can provide ranges from more than 100 to dozens of students.

The most generous of them is the University of Cambridge, which has given 150 exchange student places in one breath, covering almost all majors in undergraduate and graduate schools.

...

When Li Mu returned to Ziyun Villa, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.

Zhao Ziqiu is still playing with the dog in the yard. In one day, she has established a good emotional foundation with this corgi. This little guy has regarded her as a master and has been circling around her.

Seeing Li Mu coming back, Zhao Ziqiu hurriedly said to Li Mu, "Lucky is so cute and very smart, would you like to play with him for a while?"

Li Mu smiled and said, "What are you pulling, it's called a dog."

After all, he walked up to the dog, squatted down, touched his dog's head, and said with a smile, "How about the dog, doesn't it mean something worse than your hometown?"

Although the villas of Ziyun Villa are considered to be very high-end villas, they are still far worse than Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle.

The dog had never had much contact with Li Mu. He touched him twice, maybe because he was a little scared, so he instinctively took two steps back and looked at him with small eyes, with a look of alertness.

Li Mu said with a smile, "Looking at your cowardice, I can still eat you."

Zhao Ziqiu shook his head and smiled: "How can you get along with a dog like this, and then frighten it."

Li Mu smiled and said, "It's fine, I'll just tease it first."

Zhao Ziqiu said, "Be careful that it will ignore you in the future."

Li Mu said: "It's okay, we'll get to know each other after living together for a few more days."

Zhao Ziqiu asked him, "Have you ever raised a dog before?"

Li Mu nodded and said, "Our family used to have a Beijing bus, and I don't know what happened. In those few years, the Beijing bus was very popular, and all the dogs walking on the streets were the Beijing bus."

Zhao Ziqiu asked, "How did the Jingba in your family raise them?"

Li Mu thought for a while and said, "Take it out for a walk once or twice a day, and then it basically follows what people eat, and nothing else."

Zhao Ziqiu said: "The dog is a precious breed, but you can't raise it like a Beijing Ba."

Li Mu smiled and said, "What's so precious? Isn't Jingba said to have been raised by Lafayette in the palace back then? Ordinarily, it's more expensive than it is."

Zhao Ziqiu smiled and said, "You will be poor all day long."

After speaking, Zhao Ziqiu took Li Mu's hand and said, "Let's go, let's go to dinner first, I'll make you fried noodles."