My Age of Investment

Time to March.

Xia Jingxing chatted with Andrew, who had just returned from China, and asked about the due diligence of Frame Media and Tudou.

Just halfway through the conversation, I heard a knock on the door.

"Please come in!"

The puppy opened the door and walked in, happily dancing like a child: "Good news! Good news!"

Xia Jingxing didn't know what happened, so the little dog was so happy.

Andrew even more did not know, and Xia Jingxing looked at each other.

The puppy gradually recovered his calmness, and said with a smile, "Someone wants to invite us to dinner?"

"We?" Xia Jingxing asked.

"Yes, you and me, and Christina," the puppy replied.

"Why didn't you invite me?" Andrew gag aside.

"People have said that you have no part in inviting the three founders of Facebook and YouTube!"

Andrew shrugged. "Oh, that sucks. Dinner hasn't even arrived today."

Xia Jingxing said impatiently, "Hurry up and say, who is the inviter?"

"Bill Gates!"

The puppy called out the other party's name word by word, and also gave Andrew a smile, winked, and deliberately glared at the other party.

"How did he invite you? In what name did he invite you?"

Andrew questioned, "Have you been asked to pay? Have you encountered a liar?"

The dog shook his head, "It's definitely not a liar, the real Bill, his assistant called and asked if we had time, saying that Mr. Gates is also a YouTube user, and he likes this website very much, and wants to chat with us..."

"Bill Gates also plays YouTube?" Andrew asked suspiciously.

"It should be!" The little dog was not particularly sure.

"That's him, it should be right."

The two didn't quite understand.

Why did Xia Jingxing make such a promise.

Xia Jingxing remembered that in his previous life, Bill Gates invited the founder of YouTube to have dinner, but it seemed that it was 2006, and with them, it was a full year earlier.

And Bill Gates is really a YouTube user and a video blogger with millions of followers.

It's just that there are not so many fans yet, and he has not disclosed his account identity on the platform.

Andrew thought to the side: "What did he talk to you about? Get him some fans? Put his video on top?"

"Don't make random guesses, you'll know when you see it."

Xia Jingxing didn't know what Bill Gates wanted to talk to them about, so he only talked about YouTube? I'm afraid not.

Thinking too much was useless, so Xia Jingxing asked the puppy to inform Yang Niu and asked her to tidy up and prepare to come to eat.

Andrew also wanted to see Bill Gates' famous mansion, but he was not invited, so he could only watch Xia Jingxing and the three get into the car with envy and headed straight for the airport.

That's right, Bill Gates doesn't live in Silicon Valley, but near Seattle, and he has to fly to get a meal.

After the three got off the plane at Seattle Airport, they got into the car that Bill Gates sent to pick them up and headed for Medina on the east coast of Lake Washington.

Bill Gates' famous mansion "Xanadu 2.0" is located in Medina, the smallest city in the United States, close to the big city Seattle and Redmond, where Microsoft headquarters is located, both a 15-minute drive away.

Xanadu 2.0, the English name Xanadu 2.0, also known as Xanadu, Marco Polo called Kublai Khan's palace in his travel notes is this word, also translated as Yuanshangdu, Xinggong.

After passing a road lined with native alders, maples and Douglas firs, the car came to a steady stop.

The driver got out of the car and opened the door, and the three walked out one by one.

Although the three of them talked about Bill Gates' mansion along the way and saw it in newspapers and media, it was still a bit shocking that the real thing appeared in front of him.

The front of the mansion overlooks the vast Lake Washington, and the back is deep into a hill on the east bank of the lake.

The newspaper said that the mansion is over 6,000 square meters. The house is made of wood, all of which are 500-year-old Douglas Cold Mountain wood. It took 300 workers 7 years to dig half a mountain to complete the construction. The total construction cost is as high as $97 million.

In addition to being expensive, there are various high-tech products and smart homes in the mansion.

The average person who wants to visit can participate in the charity auction of the Gates Foundation, and someone once bought a ticket for $35,000.

The three of them looked around like a country bumpkin, and Gates's assistant was waiting quietly beside him.

It was Xia Jingxing who regained his senses first and asked the assistant to lead them in.

At the gate, the security stopped three people. After entering fingerprints and other visitor information, they gave them a brooch, which was actually a locator.

If you break in without this thing, it will immediately trigger the alarm system in the mansion.

Passing through a door with a weather sensor that transmits information to the control room to regulate temperature and ventilation, the three followed the assistant into a huge living room.

The living room is like an aquarium. There is a huge shadow in the glass house dozens of meters long and wide, and a few large fish are wandering around the shadow.

Suddenly, the shadow moved, and it was only then that everyone could see that it was a whale shark nearly ten meters long.

"Oh, buy it!"

Yang Niu covered her mouth, poverty really limited her imagination.

The puppy also dodged backwards in fright, almost squatting on his butt.

Xia Jingxing was also a little shocked, he was inhuman!

Following the assistant, the three of them were like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, seeing everything fresh.

Especially the assistant who led the way in front, every time he walked to a glass door, the door opened automatically without seeing any movement from him.

In addition to the door, the lights and sound will automatically turn on when people approach.

After the person leaves, the door, lights, and sound will automatically close again, as if there is wisdom.

The little dog and the foreign girl were completely eye-opening, and whispered.

"That's too smart, isn't it?"

"At least ten years ahead of the outside world."

...

Xia Jingxing did not participate in the discussion. At present, these technologies in Gates' mansion are still new, black technologies.

But in another ten years, the concept of the smart home will be completely popular.

But Gates did enjoy early life. He moved into this mansion in 1997 and enjoyed a life that 99.999% of people in the world have never enjoyed.

It is understood that 80 kilometers of cables are laid in the entire mansion, connecting various sensors, receivers, and central computers in series, making bathrooms, air conditioners, audio, and lighting extra obedient.

Even after the third generation was invited to visit the mansion, he couldn't help but ask, "You don't need a housekeeper, do you?"

The assistant took the three people through the rooms and buildings, and came to a dome-style library.

One side of the tall bookcase wall is full of books. It really looks like a library, but it is actually just Gates' study.

A grey-haired little old man in his fifties, wearing a gray woolen sweater and a pair of black-framed glasses, was sitting on the sofa quietly reading a book.

Noticing that someone was coming, he glanced up and found that it was an assistant and three young people.

Bill Gates closed the book, put it on the coffee table, and walked over with a smile.

"Hello, welcome to my house!"

Bill Gates didn't have any air, smiled and greeted the three, and shook hands respectively.

While shaking hands, the three of Xia Jingxing also introduced themselves.

The puppy who shook hands at the end was like meeting an idol, holding Gates' hand tightly, making his self-introduction a bit incoherent.

Xia Jingxing also understands that, after all, this little old man has been the richest man in the world for ten years from 1995 to the present, and it is normal for him to be blown into a godlike figure.

When he was studying in China, his friends and classmates often said: Who do you think you are? Bill Gates?

It's all made up of mantras and adjectives!

The old man's reputation in the world is no exaggeration to say that he is more famous than some of the great commanders in the United States.

Gates walked out of the study and, accompanied by his assistant, brought the three to the living room.

The living room is half hidden underground and is very spacious enough to accommodate two hundred people for meals and parties.

A large limestone fireplace greets the door, and 24 40-inch TV screens line another wall.

Gates did not choose to host the three here, but took them to the third floor of the building, which has a banquet hall that can accommodate 24 people.

Through the glass wall of the banquet hall, you can overlook the beautiful lake and mountains.

Although the area here is relatively small, Xia Jingxing knew that this was the standard for the reception of high-level guests.

The old man is so polite, I'm afraid he has a plan, right? He thought to himself.

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