giants of the era

Chapter 431
On the morning of April 4th, Li Youran, Li Wei and others came to Chuangshi Company.

Li Youran glanced at the employees of Chuangshi Company, there were not many of them, and the office conditions were very average.This is generally the case with startups, though.

meeting room.

As soon as Li Youran and Li Wei sat down, Li Youran unceremoniously said to Bao Jianfeng and others straight to the point: "Chuangshi Company also launched a VIP fee plan, which is really surprising. This shows that your business philosophy is very correct. But some With the Qidian company, your company will not be able to continue. There is only one choice before you now, and that is to be acquired!"

Bao Jianfeng and the others all changed their expressions.

Sure enough, the visitor was not kind!

The company was acquired just after its establishment, and everyone was naturally unwilling. The founders looked at each other and shook their heads secretly.According to the previous discussion, Bao Jianfeng said: "I'm sorry, Miss Li, I'm afraid I can't do what you want!"

A trace of displeasure flashed across Li Youran's beautiful eyes, and she frowned and said, "So, you are going to refuse?! You have to know that Qidian Company is strong, and it is going to monopolize the online novel market. It is not a big deal for you to join Qidian It’s not to enter a higher platform! On the contrary, if you compete with it, the result can be imagined! Do you think that your novel website can still compete with the starting point noon website??”

As soon as the voice fell, everyone was unconvinced, and a young senior manager couldn't help but said: "It's not that there are powerful foreign companies that have entered the Chinese online novel market, but they all failed. Although the starting point has strong financial resources, we also have our own advantages. , because we understand Chinese online novels, we are confident to make the website bigger and stronger! Now that the two novel websites are online at the same time, it is still unknown who will win the game in the end!"

The reason why this young executive dared to say this is because recently, many venture capital companies have taken the initiative to approach him and want to invest in Chuangshi.

The reason is simple. Genesis and Qidian have both launched VIP fee plans.

The starting point was created by the daughter of Chronos Li, and it is inevitable that Chronos Li will make suggestions.

Chuangshi immediately attracted the attention of venture capital firms because of the same operation method as Qidian.

Who will win?Li Youran couldn't help laughing.

To be honest, she really didn't think Chuangshi would be a competitor of Qidian.If it weren't for the fact that the Chuangshi website also launched a VIP fee plan, Li Youran felt that the company's team was okay, then she would never look at a small start-up company differently.

Li Youran also knows that many venture capital companies want to invest in Chuangshi Company recently, but it would be ridiculous for Chuangshi Company to think that with the VC, it can compete with Qidian.

"Okay, then we'll just wait and see!" Li Youran stood up indifferently and said goodbye.

……

However, as soon as Li Youran and others left, the news that she was going to Genesis Company spread, especially causing a huge sensation in the venture capital circle.

"Chronos Li's daughter wants to acquire Chuangshi. It seems that our previous investment decision is correct. Now there must be many venture capital companies wanting to invest in Chuangshi. We must speed up!"

"Yes, I heard that the market value of Chuangshi Company has been fired to 2500 million RMB!"

"Fuck, these people are too crazy!"

"Hey, who said that Genesis Fiction Company is a hot commodity!"

……

The launch of the VIP charging plan of the novel website has attracted many authors, and the more authors, the more readers, which will naturally increase the traffic of the website.Because of this, Chuangshi has won the favor of many venture capitalists, which makes other novel websites envious.

On April 4th, Chuangshi received a total investment of 10 million RMB from Shanda, Goldman Sachs and Sequoia Capital, and sold 1000% of its shares.

As soon as the news came out, it caused a huge shock in the industry.

What followed was a large number of novel websites successively launched VIP fee plans.

The era of online novels in China and the world has entered a new stage.

After Chuangshi received 1000 million investment, it immediately purchased servers and broadband, and at the same time advertised online and offline. For a while, the number of website visits increased sharply.

However, a month later, the number of visits to the Genesis website stopped increasing, and even decreased instead.

At this time, most online novels have launched a VIP fee plan, and many venture capital companies have invested in them, which has caused the advantages of Genesis to disappear.

What's more, after the wild competition of demons, most of the web writers have switched to Qidian.

Qidian website itself has the best works and Internet writers, and Qidian website cooperates with qq, turning countless QQ users into readers of Qidian website. ten times.The income of Internet writers is linked to readers, the more people read books, the more income will naturally be.It is conceivable that Internet writers are willing to sign contracts with Qidian.

The more excellent Internet writers gather on one website, the easier it is to produce excellent works, and excellent works can attract a large number of readers.

At this moment, three divine books appeared on the website of Qidian, one is "The Misty Journey", the other is "Legend of Little Soldier", and the last one is "Zhu Xian" written by Li Zetian many years ago. "Zhu Xian" was published as a physical book back then, and it was very popular. Now it is on the website, and many people read it.

These three books are extremely popular, with a frighteningly high click-through rate, and are widely rumored as the "Three Great Books on the Internet", attracting countless readers!
Many people are even more surprised that "Zhu Xian" was written by Li Zetian.

Among these three books, "Zhu Xian" has the most readers and the most comments.

In order to attract readers, "Zhu Xian" is completely free.

As for "Misty Journey" and "Little Soldier Legend", they are all free, but both have signed a buyout agreement with Qidian website, 500 words/[-] yuan.After the contents of this contract came out, it caused a huge sensation in the circle of Internet writers at that time.

You must know that the income of Internet writers at that time was pitifully low, and most Internet writers did not have any income.

The buyout contract of 500 words/200 yuan is really shocking.This means that writing [-] million words a year and earning more than one million a year is unimaginable to many people!

Internet writers are all envious of the authors of "The Misty Journey" and "Little Soldier Legend", and they are also eager to get this buyout contract.It is impossible for other novel websites to provide, only the starting point.This is naturally one of the reasons why Internet writers have switched jobs one after another.

Right now, Qidian Chinese novel website has become the undisputed overlord of novel websites in China. Anyone who likes to read novels will know Qidian website.The starting point Chinese novel website at this moment is stronger than Long Kong at its peak!

All other fiction websites suffered heavy losses and couldn’t make ends meet. Especially Chuangshi, the number of online writers and readers dropped sharply. The previous advertising promotion was almost in vain, and the company’s valuation suddenly dropped to below 500 million yuan.Now, Chuangshi is burning money every day. I am afraid that it will not take long for the funds in the account to be spent. If no new investors are found, Chuangshi may face bankruptcy.

(End of this chapter)