Wind Rises 2005

Chapter 611 A trivial matter

Ma Liang thought about it for a moment, and then he remembered a name in an investment list that Jennifer sent in an email before - BitFun.

That's right, this is Su Xiaomi's entrepreneurial project, an online video website.

It's no wonder that Ma Liang didn't pay much attention to it. An angel round investment of only 300,000 US dollars was nothing to him now.

In order to give [Gale Capital] more failure records, he also left it up to Jennifer.

So I didn't read the introduction of this project carefully at that time, and I didn't expect that this dead girl Su Xiaomi would do it.

While listening to assistant Wan Yaoxuan's report, he opened his mailbox again.

After I found the file from the email and read the relevant introduction myself, I finally understood the whole story.

BitFun is not only an online video website, but also an online community that only focuses on games and two-dimensional content.

The most important thing is that Su Xiaomi actually established the website in China.

In fact, if you think about it, you can understand it. This girl is a deep lover of games and animation, and she usually has her own circle online.

In addition, my family's economic conditions are excellent, and I am good at playing games and computers. There are always a group of fans around me.

The most critical reason is the issue of copyright protection. After all, there is almost no management in this area in China, which has kept online video websites in a state of brutal growth.

Even the so-called Youku and Tudou are the same. In the early days, they developed by transporting various pirated videos.

In fact, let alone direct piracy, even second creation is an act of infringement.

You must know that it is illegal to use someone else's original work as material to create any secondary content without the authorization and consent of the copyright owner.

Just like many fanfics on certain Chinese websites, if law enforcement is really strict, many authors will face huge compensation claims, and in serious cases, they may even face jail time.

However, two-dimensional communities like Station A and Station B have been condemned to death abroad for a long time, and it is impossible for them to develop.

Even the best Douyin was like this in the early days.

However, as it developed later, pirated and second-generation videos on Douyin no longer accounted for a large proportion, and it still relied more on the original content contributed by countless bloggers.

That’s why we can easily go abroad and flourish overseas.

This is why Su Xiaomi operates the website in China even though she is in the United States.

Only after Ma Liang went online and logged into BitFun's website did he understand why the big girl would come up with such an entrepreneurial project.

That’s right, it’s still because of station A.

The origin of Station A (AcFun) is actually very simple. The founder Xilin himself is a two-dimensional player, and he accidentally copied the idea from NICONICO, a barrage sharing website in Neon Country.

Xilin was still a student at this time, and he had never been doing this as a full-time entrepreneurship, but as a sideshow.

This has also led to the poor functionality and experience of Station A, which has been complained about by many people.

But even so, because of its unique existence, Station A has quickly become the favorite gathering place for domestic two-dimensional fans, including Su Xiaomi.

In March of this year, Xilin once again showed off its capabilities.

In addition to allowing site A to be filled with all kinds of content copied from NICONICO, even their video barrage function has been copied.

Just last month, a NICONICO intrusion occurred at Station A.

A large number of 2D players in Neon Country believed that AcFun was an unfair copy of Niconico, and they flocked to Station A and posted unpleasant comments such as [DATA EXPUNGED].

It caused a huge uproar for a while and even caused Station A to crash several times.

After this incident, Station A also upgraded its functions and enabled members to log in before posting barrages.

During the period when Station A collapsed several times, Su Xiaomi, with the encouragement of her fans, created a replacement website. This is very similar to the origin of Station B.

Because Station B is similar. It was a website initiated by enthusiasts at the beginning. From the day it was born, it has been a backup tire for Station A during the collapse period.

But later, as the operation got better and better, it accepted the intervention of capital, and Station A itself failed to live up to its expectations, and finally achieved a counterattack and replaced it.

But the birth of Station B was already after 2009 in Ma Liang’s previous life.

It was only 2008, and this girl Su Xiaomi had invented something similar, which really made him dumbfounded.

Like Station A at this time, BitFun also has a video barrage sharing function, and has also moved a lot of two-dimensional videos on Niconico, and even a lot of videos on YouTube.    Coupled with the fact that I am a game expert, the game and animation content on the BitFun website are almost evenly split, becoming a rival.

It is precisely because of this that BitFun's popularity quickly surpassed that of Station A and was sought after by countless netizens.

This caused Su Xiaomi to spend all her pocket money to expand bandwidth and rent servers.

Even for this reason, she entrusted friends in China to help register the company.

As a result, all the money was spent, but there was not much profit, and everything was lost very quickly. After all, how can netizens these days pay for the pirated videos you brought?

Su Xiaomi didn't know what to do for a while, and was too embarrassed to mention it to her mother.

After all, this BitFun is something she created for fun, and she was afraid that Sister Bingmeiren would blame her for not studying hard.

I don’t know how this girl found Jennifer and actually convinced her to go directly to [Dale Capital] to raise an angel round of US$30.

Ma Liang was really convinced, but his boss had been kept in the dark.

This is not only due to his own carelessness, but also has something to do with Jennifer, a crazy woman who deliberately concealed it.

The result was not good. BitFun had more and more users, and Su Xiaomi was in trouble again.

On the one hand, I am worried about burning money too fast, on the other hand, I am worried that my computer skills cannot keep up with the development of the website.

For this reason, she took her roommate Li Li and became a partner. The two worked hard to study and delve into various network technologies every day, and even went to teachers, senior brothers and sisters for advice.

Recently, we encountered another technical problem. BitFun was the same as Site A. It frequently crashed when there were too many users, but it stumped her.

She even went to ask some professors for advice, but found that it was not that easy to solve, so she refused to go home, wanting to wait until she could overcome the problem.

Otherwise, BitFun will be like Station A, going down every three days.

Ma Liang understood the situation completely at this time and immediately ordered his assistant Wan Yaoxuan to bring Su Xiaomi directly to San Francisco and escort her in front of him.

After learning that she could no longer hide it, the eldest girl cooperated obediently.

What's the matter? BitFun's angel wheel was all invested by Ma Liang, does she dare to come?

"Hey, don't look at me like that, okay!" Su Xiaomi felt a little guilty in front of Ma Liang, "In the worst case, I'll ask mom to pay you back the money..."

Ma Liang was so angry at her appearance that she joked directly: "Damn girl, I really didn't realize that she actually learned how to start a business!"

"Huh, you're not even a few years older than me. You can start a business, why can't I?" Su Xiaomi bit her lip, with a stubborn expression on her face.

Ma Liang shook his head slightly, and then joked: "Look at what you can do, do you still want to drop out of school early?"

He was mocking the big girl for not knowing what the world has to offer. Don't follow the example of Bill Gates and Qiao Gangzhu who dropped out of school early to start a business. You must know that this is an old tradition at Stanford University.

If that really happens, I will definitely make Sister Ice Beauty angry to death.

"I don't know how. You really think I'm stupid!" Su Xiaomi was smart, so she could naturally hear the sarcasm in his words.

Ma Liang stopped teasing her and said immediately: "Okay, the truth is now revealed anyway, and you don't have to hide it. Make arrangements in a few days, and prepare to come back to China with me!"

"I won't reply. The website problem has not been solved yet!" Su Xiaomi was still very stubborn and refused to agree to go back.

She is a person who cares about face. She has already praised her little fans and fans so much that she can only feel relieved after the website runs smoothly.

Now BitFun's downtime problem is stuck at a key technical node, which can be solved with just one step from Ling Men. How can it possibly leave at this time?

Ma Liang looked at her stubborn look and couldn't help but tease her: "Aren't you quite capable? Why can't you solve even a small technical problem?"

"Huh!" Su Xiaomi was so angry that her eyes were red, and she wanted to bite the bad guy in front of her to death on the spot.

It's really a matter of not picking up the pot. If it was so easy to solve, why would she not go home for a long time? She didn't know how much she missed her mother and sister.

Seeing that the eldest girl was about to cry because of him, Ma Liang had no choice but to calm down: "Come on, look at how anxious you are.

Follow me to a place later. The difficulty of your broken website is not a trivial matter. "

"Where to go?" Su Xiaomi immediately became energetic when she heard that the technical problem could be solved, and asked urgently.

Ma Liang smiled slightly and replied calmly: "Twitter..."

(End of this chapter)