Immortal Master Invincible

Chapter 1190 Alien World ([-])

Councilor Wang raised his glass and touched Pang Xiaonan, but he was not in a hurry to drink it. He said quietly: "The project is a good project, but there are still a few issues we need to think about carefully." The wine poured into his mouth.

Pang Xiaonan looked at Mr. Wang, and felt that the old man in front of him deserved to have invested in several Internet projects. Now his thinking is also advancing with the times and he knows that he is steady. "Is there anything else that needs to be considered, let me hear it?"

"First, this is just a preliminary prototype. We are not sure how far he can go and how much investment he needs. That is to say, how much money will he burn in the process of adjusting the algorithm? You must know that Internet projects want to If it is done well, it will burn a lot of money. If it burns hundreds of millions, no matter how rich the consortium is, it is impossible to lose money." Mr. Wang has a good understanding of the degree of money burning in Internet projects, so those he invested in before Small projects don't cost much money.

"Several hundred million?" Pang Xiaonan was a little frightened, "You mean it is possible to burn several hundred million without seeing any results? That would be too scary, but I don't know, all these several hundred million will be burned. Where to go?"

"Let me tell you, an investment of several hundred million yuan is nothing to a large Internet project," Mr. Wang put a handful of green beans into his mouth, "I'll tell you where the money went. The first is to buy a server. If you want to support massive content, you must have a large number of servers as storage. The second is to buy bandwidth. The broadband in our home now requires hundreds of megabytes of traffic. Years, he needs to support so many people to watch online, the bandwidth is tens of thousands or even hundreds of millions of megabytes per second, how much do you think about, and the third is the cost of development, think about a chef in order to adjust your favorite Taste requires a full-time job. Once this software becomes bigger, it will adjust the taste for hundreds of millions of people, so how many chefs will be needed. Finally, there is another cost that is also very troublesome, that is, advertising costs, because a new software, the early stage is very expensive. If no one knows, no one will use it, so in the early stage, advertising must be overwhelming. Advertising alone is not enough, and you may have to spend some money to attract people to download and use. For example, if you encourage someone to download our software, as long as After successful installation, I will give you a few dollars, which is also a big expense."

Pang Xiaonan was dumbfounded when he heard that. After Mr. Wang's calculation, it is true that the investment of several hundred million is nothing. His several million fund does not know whether he can last for a few days. "According to your calculations, then this project cannot be voted for?"

"Don't be too scared," Mr. Wang changed the subject, pointing to the plate of twice-cooked pork, "Look, we don't just eat one dish at a time, you can eat food slowly, and invest slowly. Moreover, in the process of investment, there will still be some benefits, and it is impossible to burn money without making money."

"Then should I invest or not?" Pang Xiaonan sounded dizzy. Investing is not his specialty, especially Internet projects. He has never been in touch with it before. Internet gameplay and offline business are completely different things, professional Leave the things to a professional to do, he doesn't want to die too many brain cells.

"You can vote, but we have to control the pace and try to keep the funds rolling in, without adding too much money." Mr. Wang had already thought of some countermeasures in his head while drinking the soup.

"Oh, I think even if I invest, my several million funds don't seem to have any effect?" Pang Xiaonan's worry is not unreasonable. According to Mr. Wang's calculation, if this project really needs to invest hundreds of millions, hundreds of millions Wanzhan's shares are almost negligible. Investing in this project is equivalent to throwing money into the sea, and there is still a sound when it is thrown into the sea. up.

"You don't understand this. Although a few million is nothing compared to the overall investment amount, we are angel investment." Councilor Wang is worthy of being a veteran of Internet investment. "What is angel investment? Without us With these millions of dollars, he will never even think about starting to operate. Once he starts to operate, our angel investment is an original stock, and the shares will be diluted more and more later. Only 100 yuan can be used to own a share, because the risk of angel investment is the greatest, and when the project is implemented, everyone sees the future, and naturally the shares will become more valuable as the tide rises.”

"What you mean is that my few million may be able to occupy tens of millions of shares later." Pang Xiaonan understood Mr. Wang's meaning, and couldn't help but yearn for it. It has doubled ten times, and it is indeed a good deal.

Councilor Wang shook his head and said, "You underestimate Internet projects too much. It is normal for a few million to tens of millions, and it is entirely possible to turn it into a few hundred million."

"Then why hesitate? Vote." When Pang Xiaonan heard those scary numbers, he couldn't help but want to make a move.

Mr. Wang nodded and said, "We have made a decision on whether to invest or not. The next step is to see how to invest, that is, how much to invest, how many shares to occupy, and whether to hold a controlling stake."

"According to me," Pang Xiaonan picked up another piece of twice-cooked pork and ate it, "I invested all my millions. You said that Internet projects burn money, and I don't like the same thing. I just do it." Be specific, this project sounds good to me, just take a little risk, if you are rich and rich, you can get so much profit.”

"A few million is enough for start-up capital." Mr. Wang took a sip of the soup, "Then how many shares are you going to take?"

Pang Xiaonan was stunned for a moment. He looked at Mr. Wang and replied cautiously: "Isn't it based on the amount of investment? Oh, by the way, you said it was an angel investment, which means that the other party has no money, and he just provides technology. "

"It's not that the other party has no money, it's just that his previous experience was just a part-time job, and it's impossible to spend a lot of money. If he has a few million, he will start working on his own, so why would he come to me? "Rep. Wang continued to drink soup, "But he can't pay a penny. In this case, it is not safe for investors, because what he loses is only time, and what we lose is real money. Don’t be careful during the operation of the project. Therefore, the other party wants to invest money, but we must invest the bulk of it. Of course, the other party also needs to occupy some technology stocks, after all, he is required to do things.”

"Actually, I think the main thing is to talk about the ratio of shares." Pang Xiaonan summed up some experience, "Even if the other party does not have enough money, we can advance the funds. The project has made money. He replaced the dividends with arrears. I think If the people who actually operate the project have too few shares, he will also not care."

"You're right," Mr. Wang gave Pang Xiaonan a thumbs-up, "It's true that the person who works on the project shouldn't take too few shares, but I don't think it should be too much. After all, we give him the money to play. We feel that we should hold a controlling stake, which means more than half of the shares."

"Why do you want to hold shares?" Pang Xiaonan knows what holding shares means. "Once we hold shares, will the actual operator of the project feel that he has no say and can't motivate himself? Only in this way can he control the entire project, give full play to his talents, and realize his original dream." For those who have dreams, Pang Xiaonan has always felt that they should not interfere with their judgment and behavior style, and should be given the greatest autonomy, otherwise the There will be deviations in the realization of dreams.

"You're thinking wrong." Mr. Wang put a handful of green beans into his mouth, and the crisp taste made his lips and teeth fragrant. "The holding is not about not giving power to the actual controller of the project, but to protect our own rights and interests. Taking a step back, if the project operator doesn’t invest money and he decides to pay dividends or he gets the most, how can we ensure that the direction of the project’s operation is what we want to see? Let him take advantage of the cheap, the world There is no such good thing in the world, we can hold a controlling stake, but we can give the right to speak to the actual operator of the project, so as to at least ensure that our profits can be maximized. Or, we can also sign a gambling agreement..."

Pang Xiaonan quickly raised his hand to stop Mr. Wang: "Old Wang, don't explain to me. You can vote as you say! If you keep talking, I will eat everything I ate tonight. You are too It's complicated and consumes too much of my nutrition."

"Okay, then I'll make the decision, and I'll talk about my plan again." Councilor Wang took a piece of bread, tore off a lump and put it in his mouth, "Because the start-up funds are not much, I plan not to spread it at first." It’s too open. Let’s start with the simplest content. What is the simplest content? I think it’s text, because text occupies the smallest file size, so it consumes the least amount of server and bandwidth, which can reduce expenses. After getting up, we uploaded the picture, which is slightly larger than the text. At this time, we have obtained a certain amount of customers through the form of text, and earned a part of the profit, and then invested in the picture. After the picture, we put in the audio. After the audio is put into the video, in this way, all content forms are covered, and a step-by-step development rhythm is also formed, what do you think?"

Pang Xiaonan smashed his mouth, took a deep breath, and said, "I don't think it's appropriate. Why should these content forms be integrated together? Should each form be made into a single project first, and when it becomes bigger, Is it better to integrate it at the end?"

Mr. Wang shook his head and said, "Didn't you find out that there are already websites or apps of the same type on the market for a single project, and the volume of the work is already huge. It is almost impossible to compete with them in the early stage. For example, there are so many novel websites with text content, and several audio-book websites with audio content. These websites have been playing for many years and have accumulated many loyal users. If you want to compete with them head-on, you will no longer be able to enter. "

Pang Xiaonan nodded and said, "You're right, these separate content sections are made by other websites, but aren't they mainly doing traditional search? They don't use big data to push you anything What are you interested in?"

"That's true, but after all, they have a huge user base. We launched the same website. They saw the threat and they would naturally study the function of big data push. Can you guarantee that our technology is the only one? Impossible Well, money can turn ghosts around. They only need to spend a little money to poach our technicians," Mr. Wang made a digging motion with a spoon, "and even poach our entire team directly. So in the early stages of development, we’d better not go head-to-head with the giants, and give them a chance to suppress us.”

The corner of Pang Xiaonan's mouth raised, and he raised his hand to point at Mr. Wang, "Old Wang, Lao Wang, you are indeed a veteran in the business world. I can't reach your level. What you said is right. You can't go head-to-head with giants. Enter the village quietly, don't shoot, lest the giants form an outflank and encircle us, the shopping mall is like a battlefield, we can only overtake in a curve, and suddenly overtake the giants when they are not paying attention."

"That's right, that's the reason, so we still focus on the information integration platform, so that it is not easy to attract the attention of the giants, and we can develop first in the cracks. When the giants realize it, the timing is in our favor." Mr. Wang made an unhurried analysis, eating bread and taking a sip of soup.

"Okay, listen to you, first text, then pictures, then audio, and finally video." Pang Xiaonan took another piece of twice-cooked pork and chewed it with relish, his mouth full of oil, "But I have one last suggestion, can you combine text and pictures? Combined? I find that people nowadays are less and less interested in reading text, but if there is a picture in it, can it arouse a little interest? Don’t you see that illustrations are also popular in books now?”

"Well, your suggestion," Mr. Wang ate the bread and stared at the soup in the bowl, "I will discuss it with the initiator of the project, because these content forms are also some of my preliminary ideas for the time being, what will be the final idea? Go, still have to seek the opinions of their developers, or do a market research.”

"Yes, for professional things, I still have to leave it to them to judge. I'm just offering a suggestion." Pang Xiaonan served a bowl of rice, put a piece of scrambled egg in the bowl, and took two mouthfuls of rice.

After a few mouthfuls of food, Pang Xiaonan suddenly remembered a question, "Old Wang, the preliminary plan for this project is finalized, but my original intention of doing this project is charity. What about the employment problem of difficult students in military academies?”

Mr. Wang squinted his eyes, raised the corners of his mouth, and replied, "Why not? Didn't you find the jobs here? You taste it, you taste it carefully..."

Pang Xiaonan stopped what he was doing, thought for a while, and finally understood the meaning of Mr. Wang, "You mean, the developers of this project should use students from Dongli Military Academy as much as possible? But this can only solve the problems of some people. Employment, what do you want those students who can't program to do?" Pang Xiaonan's charity project does not want it to become a pure Internet company, and the result he hopes is that any capable student can find it in this project Own position, no matter what major.

Mr. Wang took the bread in his hand, dipped it in some soup, put it in his mouth, and said, "This software project has other positions besides the developers. If you think about it carefully, what else can students who don't know how to program do?" ?”

Pang Xiaonan thought for a long time, finally shook his head, and said, "I can't think of it, so please enlighten me."

"In addition to software development, this project also needs a large amount of content. Who will provide the content?" Mr. Wang raised his glass, "In addition to some of the most popular fresh information collected by machines, a large amount of original information is also required. Shouldn't this part of the work be done by humans?"

"You mean, let those students who don't know how to program be editors?" Pang Xiaonan looked at Mr. Wang suspiciously, "It doesn't seem realistic, is it okay to be an editor without writing skills? Although the students of Dongli Military Academy have poor writing skills If you don’t go anywhere, at least you have passed the composition, but if you want to be an editor and create a piece of content that everyone loves to read, it doesn’t seem that simple, does it?”

Mr. Wang did it first, wiped the hops from his mouth, and said: "Whoever said that providing content requires good writing, have you read online novels? When online sales were just popular a few years ago, they were written about What? The bullshit doesn’t make any sense, so many people read it? No one reads those world famous books because they don’t understand.”

Pang Xiaonan nodded and said: "You are right. I have read a few online novels, and they are indeed full of nonsense and typos, but... they are beautiful, easy to read, and the plot is attractive. , It’s just too time-consuming, a novel has several million words.”

"So, it doesn't have to be well-written to provide content, as long as someone reads what you write." Councilor Wang put a handful of vegetables into his mouth, the bowl of vegetables was already empty, and there was only a little soup left. Both of them love to eat green vegetables, "I am born to be useful. People with poor writing skills may be funny, serious people may like to preach, and people with average connotations may be good. In short, everyone can discover his shining points .”

"I probably understand what you mean." Pang Xiaonan frowned, "Those who can program will develop software, and those who can't program will provide content on this platform, whether it is text, pictures or videos, after the platform has content You can attract more viewers, more and more content, and more and more viewers.”

"That's the reason," Mr. Wang stretched out his chopsticks to pick in the bowl of twice-cooked pork, and found that there was only pepper left, so he stretched his chopsticks into the bowl of fried eggs, where there was still a small piece of egg lying alone. "After the software is finished, first enrich the content, whether it is machine-collected or manually edited, in short, all good-looking content will be added to it, and then a wave of advertisements will be placed to attract users to watch, and then a group of authors will be recruited to create More good content will attract more users, forming a virtuous circle, so that the software will develop better and better, with more and more users.”

"It's a good idea." Pang Xiaonan poured a glass of wine for Mr. Wang, "but there is another problem. This content creation is not limited to the student group, right? After all, there are only so many students, and the content of creation is limited. Open the entrance to other people, right? Experts are among the people, maybe other people’s content is much better than students, doesn’t that mean that students who create content will be subject to fierce competition?”

"Well, you are right to be worried. At this time, they will show their respective abilities. The Eight Immortals have shown their magical powers across the sea." Councilor Wang took the wine glass handed over by Pang Xiaonan, "We can only guarantee that the first batch of authors will be open to the needs Funded students, but slowly, we will release all author rights, and anyone has the opportunity to become a content creator to obtain income. At this time, the algorithm is very critical, and we must base the content on the basis of popularity. Paying wages, that is to say, if your content is not read, you will not get paid, which will put an end to the phenomenon of occupying the latrine and do nothing, so that the survival of the fittest will be eliminated, and those authors whose content is not up to standard will be eliminated.”

Pang Xiaonan nodded and said: "According to the software development plan, this should indeed be done. Selecting good content and good authors will help the long-term development of this project, but in this way, those funded Poor students may be eliminated."

Councilor Wang raised his glass, "It's no one's fault. Don't forget that although your fund is for charity, it still needs to be based on long-term development. If it's just to give money, then you can just give money, but You said that it is to create a project to create employment opportunities, so that the recipients of the funding will not feel that they have been rewarded for nothing. Since it is an employment opportunity, it may be eliminated. How can there be any iron rice bowl now? And we prioritized it at the beginning Letting go of the author's authority to students and giving them a certain amount of traffic support means trying to make their works reach as many people as possible. This is already doing charity. If such support can't make money, then It can only show that their content is too bad, either they are lazy or have no intention, as a professional worker, who else can you blame?"

"Yes! We have done our best." Pang Xiaonan raised his glass to clink with Mr. Wang, and then drank it down. "Let's do it this way. The project is very good. I agree with it. I won't participate in the rest, but I have a partner in this fund. If I set up a company by then, I hope that my partner can enter the management team, because I want her to help me watch the operation of the fund. Although it is several million, it is based on the scale of Internet investment. It’s not much to see, but it’s something we’ve worked so hard to earn, and I hope it’s still a little more secure.”

"That's no problem. I'll talk to the project founder. He should listen to us. Without start-up funds, he's like water without a source, like a dream in a mirror." Councilor Wang agreed and asked again, "Is the wine still worth it?" Do you have it? Do you want another bottle?"

Pang Xiaonan quickly waved his hand and said, "Forget it, Lao Wang, the most wonderful feeling when you are slightly intoxicated after drinking alcohol is this state of intoxication, and besides, although your body has recovered a lot, but after all The function is a little old, take it easy."

The two ate and drank until after 10 o'clock in the evening. Seeing that Mr. Wang was a little sleepy, Pang Xiaonan got up and said goodbye: "Old Wang, let's stop here today. I will leave the project to you. See when you have time. Make an appointment with the founder, and I will bring my person-in-charge there, and the two of them will meet, and in the future, it will be mainly the two of them who will be connected, and you and I can come up with ideas."

Councilor Wang nodded and said, "No problem, just wait for my news."

The next day, Pang Xiaonan arrived at the school after practicing. There was an advanced mathematics class this morning in Room 1 in Building 303. Pang Xiaonan arrived at the classroom ahead of time and found Huang Minghu.

Huang Minghu was dozing off on his seat, when he saw Pang Xiaonan coming, he happily pulled him to sit down, "Brother Nan, my dear Brother Nan, you are here, sit down quickly, you miss us to death. "

Pang Xiaonan sat down and said with a playful smile, "What, did you miss me?"

Huang Minghu patted Pang Xiaonan on the shoulder, exaggeratedly showing a row of big white teeth, and said, "That's not worth mentioning, it's just thinking about it day and night, you don't know, I remitted tens of thousands of dollars back home , My parents always asked me where I got the money, and I said I earned it, but they didn't believe it until I explained the cause and effect, and they reluctantly believed it, and said that I should thank you very much. Tell me, how do you want me to thank you? How about we go to West Lake Tower for a full meal?"

Pang Xiaonan frowned and said, "What's so interesting about West Lake Tower? Or ask me to make a big sword?"

Huang Minghu was stunned for a moment, then he understood, pointed at Pang Xiaonan and said with a cheap smile: "I didn't expect you to be such a person, Brother Nan, hey, I heard that there are many places where big swords are played in the degenerate street outside the school." , you can get a [-]% discount with your student ID card.”

Pang Xiaonan pretended to be surprised and said, "Really, is the student ID still useful?"

Huang Minghu said swearingly: "It was reported by the monitor of the class next door. They used the class fee to play together. It's too corrupt. The current college students are really depraved, degenerate to the extreme..."

Pang Xiaonan quickly stopped Huang Minghu's emotions, hugged his shoulders and said, "Forget it, I won't be that depraved person anymore. I'm just kidding, do you think I am that kind of person? What do you earn? You deserve all the hard-earned money, you don’t have to thank me, just thank yourself.”

"Brother Nan is righteous!" Huang Minghu gave Pang Xiaonan a thumbs up, and then asked eagerly, "Brother Nan, your breathing mask production project has been suspended for a few days, when will it restart?" Ah, the price of respirators on the market is not low now, do you want to strike while the iron is hot? But I will not hide it from you, the main reason is that the students can make money, many students are asking about this matter, and, They thought Zhang Ping was the boss behind the scenes. I followed your orders and didn't confess you. Now, Zhang Ping has become an entrepreneurial star in our department. Don't you know that many boys think about Zhang Ping day and night, and She's pretty and can make money, who wouldn't want to find her as a girlfriend."

Pang Xiaonan pointed to Huang Minghu and said, "Haha, I know, you all have bad stomachs - you can only eat soft rice, right?"

Huang Minghu rubbed his belly and pretended to say: "How do you know that I have a bad stomach? I have had a bad stomach since I was a child, but I don't have soft rice to eat. If Zhang Ping can give me soft rice, I will be content in my life." gone."

Pang Xiaonan glared at Huang Minghu, and said: "I think you are destined to live on hard food! Don't think about it, it's better to support yourself, build yourself into a man, and give others soft food!"

"Well, listen to you," Pang Xiaonan patted his chest, "I want to be a tough guy!" Then he leaned down again and said to Pang Xiaonan, "But Brother Nan, you should promote your younger brother a lot, what's the point of getting rich?" Don't leave me behind on the project."

Pang Xiaonan vowed: "No problem, the new project will start soon, and you will still be the veteran!"

Huang Minghu's eyes were shining brightly, and he said excitedly: "Really? That's great, then I'll just wait for the good news."

(End of this chapter)