Code and Capital: Lin Zhou's Global Chess Game

In a heavy rainstorm in Shenzhen in 2008, programmer Lin Zhou clutched a crumpled financing plan and waited for three hours downstairs of the business giant Xingteng Building. His "Secret" encryption technology was rejected by 30 institutions, but unexpectedly caught the attention of Xingteng founder Zhou Qiming. This encounter in the rain became the starting point for him to move from the partition of a city village to the global business stage. From refusing to be acquired by giants and insisting on operating independently, to leveraging Xingteng traffic to rise; from betting on Apple and Amazon when Nasdaq rang the bell, to establishing "Ark Capital" to lay out global assets; from solving European data compliance problems, to using technology to pry open market barriers in India and Africa... Lin Zhou's every step has stepped on the trend of the times, but he has always followed the logic of "technology as the root and capital as the wings". He has encountered tit-for-tat opponents: the capital stranglehold of Indian consortiums, the pessimism of Wall Street investment banks; he has also met partners who work side by side: Su Wan, who is proficient in cross-border law, Silicon Valley venture capital elite Karen, and African telecommunications giant Obasanjo; and in the wave of encryption technology and AI large models, he has built a business empire that crosses borders.