Reboot 2003

Chapter 189 097: The Rain Comes (Two in One)

Two days later, the news that Google spent 2 million to acquire Getai en came out, and the market was in chaos. Baidu, which will be listed next month, was also overshadowed.

It's normal to think about it, 2 million US dollars... This is already higher than the amount of funds raised by general IPOs.

Although I don't know why Google spent so much money to buy an overseas semi-finished website, it stands to reason that buying China's Getai.com is a bit of a deal, and even adding a little more money is totally worth it.

In fact, the shareholders of Getai.com did ask this question, but Google replied that there is no further acquisition plan. Google has recently successfully taken over Getai.com, and they are generally satisfied. They have everything they want. Except for the founder Xu Tao who did not come to Google because of his position in the San Diego Group, the due diligence results of other employees are also very satisfactory, and the most "surprising" thing for Google is still in the code of Getai en——

On the day of due diligence, a few Google engineers who came to watch the excitement eagerly opened the background of Getaien, wanting to see how bad the code of this irritating website is...

But the result I saw is that the engineering code is actually not bad. I can’t say how good it is, but it has everything that should be there, especially there are a few particularly annoying page bugs. It is hidden, but if you want to sell music, the api interface to the database and ui resources are ready-made. That is to say, if Google wants to make digital music, at least on the web page, in fact, it only needs to delete the remark symbol. I used it directly, but Getai en didn’t make it public at all before…

I don't know if Google has discovered that the situation is wrong now, but the deal has been negotiated and officially announced.

And it quickly brought huge fluctuations to the market—first, the video website suddenly became a hot spot, YouTube, a previously unpopular video website, received a large investment from Sequoia Capital, and China’s Getai.com seems to have started According to the principle of relative valuation, although the profitability of Getai.com is far from reaching this level, its market value is also approaching the value of Getai en.

In the overflowing bubble, Galaxy Software got the acquisition money, and then it really started to continue to expand——

Regarding this matter, the public opinion in the market is actually a little skeptical. After all, the company's equity is not transparent, and outsiders have no idea what kind of organization the decision-making group behind it is.

However, after receiving the funds this time, it did not pay dividends and cash out like traditional companies, but continued to invest a lot of money in the company's business.

Taking advantage of this enthusiasm, the company launched some new projects such as free email, SMS service and PC communication software. In the investment market, it even directly won an old Flash website 'Flasher Empire' which was attempted to be acquired by Macromedia at the beginning of the year. '.

This is indeed an expansion method that large groups with complex interests will adopt, but it is indeed quite different from Galaxy Software's previous expansion style.

After the news came out, those who watched the excitement probably felt a little bored, but those old Internet companies were on the verge of a formidable enemy.

The previous actions of Galaxy Software are indeed very predictable, but its previous business plan was more like a pioneer than a competitor. Now that it has accumulated a large number of users and made money through capital operations, it seems to be preparing to eat away at the other end. The living space of the pioneers.

Tencent is now being overwhelmed by a large number of chasers in the market, and it is seeing that a galaxy software is about to enter. The stock price has risen since the middle of this year, but it has fallen sharply in the past few days. It's a headache.

Baidu is about to go public. Seeing that the 82 navigation on the opposite side is doing well, I quickly deleted a few items related to hao123 in my prospectus, and then hurriedly claimed to the outside world that we have no conflicts with Galaxy software, and privately. Reached some small content cooperation.

And 4399... didn't respond.

Although it was an official end to piracy in the early years, but recently it has learned advanced Meilijian market experience and added a "user uploaded" email address to its own content.

And under such turmoil, the investment of the Flash Empire has become less conspicuous. Flash is indeed a declining streaming media field, and after this acquisition, there is no brighter market for this website. The operation is just that Galaxy Software paid for it to set up several first-party flash studios.

After that, I just produced some small flash games that I don’t know what to use. It’s very similar to some dream-chasing operations where some bosses spend a little money on their hobbies after they get rich. Gradually, no one pays attention to this matter.

In this way, the time gradually came to August, and Baidu went public.

The IPO raised less than 2 million yuan, and the stock price rose four times on the first day of listing. Boss Li obviously underestimated the popular trend on Wall Street. It is no wonder that Google is now in the limelight. The e-commerce giant Amazon, which has just expanded its e-commerce services to all categories and completely got rid of the shadow of the bubble, now has a market value of only a quarter of that of Google, a young man.

Although Baidu itself may not have that kind of meaning, Baidu's stock price has indeed fallen back according to the actual value afterwards, but the irrational market is obviously chasing this beautiful phantom.

After Baidu, Facebook completed a financing of 1200 million US dollars. The two agency games of Kuaikan Media have been launched one after another, and their performance is also very good... Although Boss Chen generally does not have much confidence in them, with the recent fast The bar platform is fully blossoming in Internet cafes in second- and third-tier cities. These two games still showed a strong market response. As a buyout online game, "Guild Wars" even won an astonishing score of 10 people in the first week. "Thanks to the permanently free signboard, more than 200 million players logged in on the first day.

Everything is as beautiful as a dream.

"Mr. Chen, people from Goldman Sachs asked us today if we have any plans to go public..."

"No."

"Aotian, Facebook is really going to develop the information flow you mentioned, are we sure we want to share our patents with them?"

"Yes, just let them agree to share the technical solution."

"People from ICBC recommended a fund to us, called Huaxia Market, with an annualized interest rate of more than 100% in the past..."

"The annualized 100% fund, don't take it out to waste everyone's time..."

Another summer is over, and Boss Chen is in fifth grade. As usual, he is lying on the sofa answering work emails in his mailbox.

I don't know what grade Google is in this year, but time flies, it seems that I will graduate from elementary school in a blink of an eye, and it seems that there is still a long way to go in the future. All these are planned routes, just like Xu Lingling now goes to dance classes every day, just like she will be able to enter the special recruitment when she takes the college entrance examination in the future. For a businessman who has returned from rebirth, this is probably a kind of life plan.

Of course, it can’t be said that everything went according to plan. Perhaps the accident in the third grade brought a considerable degree of change in the direction of the good, so that everything seems to be going too smoothly now. Of course, being smooth is not a bad thing, but it is reflected in the present... …

Looking at the audit documents of last month, the income and expenditure turned out to be in balance.

The company has engaged in so many new projects and spent a lot of money. Some of them were named by him, and some were decided by senior management meetings. The total amounted to 3000 to [-] million.

But Google's first payment has already arrived, and the first money was brought, and our boss Chen chased Baidu's first-day stock as usual.

Baidu’s situation is different from the previous two. First of all, there is a lot of money now, and the plate is so big. If you go in too much, you will be slaughtered by the agency. You made a short-term short-term. I didn’t expect it to go up so crazy, and I made more than 1000 Ten thousand.

The bigger windfall came from the bank...

Of course, it would be a bit wasteful to deposit a large amount of money in the bank, but even if it is to be put in the foundation for overall management, it must cooperate with the bank.

However, 2 million is not a lot, and the combined net worth of many banks is not so much. The previous partner in San Diego was HSBC, but now I feel that there may be problems if I always cooperate with one bank... Chen Qin is a primary school student, and there are still many Find a few banks, and after reflecting the value of the united front, you will not be bullied by the big shop.

Before he asked Lao Xu to ask, Lao Xu said that people in Silicon Valley use Silicon Valley Bank. It can be called beautiful and strong Moutai, and there are quite a few customized services for venture capital, but in short it is still not auspicious.

Chen Qin said that you should go to a bigger bank. Lao Xu was in Luxembourg with the auditors and was about to sign a contract with Google's lawyers. Where can I find a big bank.

So I looked up on Luxembourg Avenue and found an ICBC on the side of the road...

Although the Luxembourg branch of ICBC is newly established, it is the first branch in the universe after all. Considering the reputation, it should be the best choice anyway.

And now that I have already deposited in ICBC, when I decided on the asset allocation plan later, I did consider bank stocks-now I mainly buy Google and Amazon. After all, those domestic giants compete with me, so it is not appropriate to buy any more.

But this was originally for convenience. It is really convenient that small-value stock transactions can be taken and used at any time. If the investment amount in a single stock is too large, there may be some other troubles, so I plan to allocate a little in the bank.For people in the future, China's bank stocks are notoriously stable.

As a result, Lao Xu asked by the way, knowing that ICBC hadn’t been listed this year, so he didn’t think about it at the time. He just randomly found a listed bank called Minsheng Bank, and bought it just in time for the share reform.

In order to cooperate with the policy, Minsheng Bank recently engaged in operations such as share splits. Chen Qin's bank shares inexplicably increased by 20%, and because of this good news, they rose sharply.

After going around like this, with the money in hand and the final payment that Google has not yet received, the 2 million US dollars has not been moved much.

Originally, I wanted to spend all the money and go to school with peace of mind... Although the money was earned in a muddle-headed way, this may be the charm of Wall Street.

Of course, the established plan cannot be changed.

I can't believe this money can't be spent!
There was a muffled thunder outside the window, Chen Qin closed the Motorola Blade V3 just replaced this year, and turned over from the sofa where Lao Chen often sat.

It seems to have started to rain.

"Mom, I'm going to Lingling's house!"

Lao Chen went to drink again tonight, but the wine seems to be getting better recently. Lou Xuemei was washing the table in the kitchen, and said to Chen Qin: "It's raining, take an umbrella, and give me the things in the vegetable basket." Granny Xu, bring it!"

"Oh!"

Chen Qin responded, and picked up a vegetable basket containing supermarket vegetables on the opposite wall. Looking up, he saw that the wall was covered with awards and little red flowers that Boss Chen had earned home since the second grade. It was embarrassing, but Lao Chen insisted on posting it at the door.

I went out with my things and didn't bring an umbrella. When I went downstairs, I saw that the rain outside was already heavy. Looking into the distance, there was a faint flash of lightning in the clouds on the other side of the rain curtain.

When I arrived at Xu Lingling's house, it was Xu Lingling's grandma who opened the door.

"Lingling has class this afternoon, and she hasn't come home yet, so Qinzai should play with the computer first!"

The old lady said kindly, and Chen Qin put the vegetable basket on the table.Over the past few years, the interior of Xu Lingling's house was a bit dark——

The carpet has been sent to the basement because it is not convenient to clean.The small potted plant on the display stand was broken and replaced with a small spherical souvenir from the company earlier this year. The humidifier and TV in the living room were covered with electrical covers specially bought by the old man.

Next to the TV is a potted potted plant that Principal Lu gave me in the middle of the year. On the wall is an oil painting sent by Lao Xu, but the one next to the oil painting is bought from ChinaJoy. The ancient fan hanging on the wall is really pretty.

Chen Qin went to Xu Lingling's bedroom by himself and saw Xu Lingling throwing the changed clothes on the bed at random.When I turned on the computer, I saw Grandma Xu returning to the small round table on the balcony. On the table were some sewing tools and half-filled shoe soles.

Chen Qin put on his earphones and turned on the meeting channel of the Twitter project team - of course the new project is not called Twitter, but 'Quick Look at Weibo'.

Others still don't quite understand why they still have to bring a quick-looking name, and Chen Qin still didn't explain.

The reason is quite simple. First of all, of course, it is because this project requires Gu Wenjie's efforts, and other directors of Kuaikan's board of directors are also willing to use Chen Qin's own products to make Kuaikan famous.

Secondly, it is the same as why Tencent can create a WeChat similar to QQ and thus achieve great success, but it will encounter Waterloo when it is named Tencent Weibo for its own Weibo. Its products may not be very good or bad. A trademark can only have one perception.

So if BYD sells soda, the public may think that it sells electrolyte solution, and put a license plate of Michelle Ice City on a car, users will probably only think that it is a shaved ice car, social service itself is a It is an Internet project that is not sensitive to technology but sensitive to marketing, and its trademark is also a very important part of user choice.

And Galaxies already had a lot of user-oriented tool services before. Letting it do social networking will probably only mess up these products. A corporate image that is more valuable to social users, it should be more appropriate for it to be used as Weibo.

That's why... Gu Wenjie has been very busy recently.

Entering the channel, I heard Gu Wenjie discussing with several project teams of Galaxy Software what to do with the trademark of the overseas website... The name of the Weibo overseas station has already been chosen, of course it is not called Twitter, it is called 'waybo.com'.

At the beginning, Gu Wenjie thought it was not good to call it crooked neck. Chen Qin said that foreigners would not understand, and he had a short domain name called wo.com, which he planned to sell for two years. Now that he wanted to build a social networking site, It's not a waste to take it out for your own use.

Now that the name has been decided, Gu Wenjie is discussing how to make a trademark with a few designers, and then prepares to launch Xiangjiang and the domestic market simultaneously. In the Internet age, big companies will be recognized as soon as their products in popular industries appear. For plagiarism, unlike those small grassroots companies that may have a stable development period for a period of time, when the protective effect of technical patents is not necessarily useful, they can only aim at speed and prepare half a year in advance.

"I said who drew this page design? It feels like there is an input box on the top, and there are so many unknown things on both sides. I feel that the proportion of the content is too small. If you want me to say, the index on the left should be hidden to the menu, leaving more interface to the user..."

"This is drawn by Mr. Chen himself."

"Mr. Chen doesn't necessarily understand design. I think the management should trust the ability of our professionals. Besides, hiding this drop-down bar will save performance."

"Mr. Chen has made more Internet products than your institute combined, and the control of the drop-down bar is much more powerful than the left navigation bar..."

An expert in charge of design talked with a programmer of Galaxy Software, HTML5 technology is not yet mature, but because of the recent Ajax technology, the web page can be made a little more fancy - the first version of Twitter suffered because the interface was too ugly After learning Facebook, it gradually became popular. Chen Qin directly moved over the Weibo page ten years later. The teacher can make some simplifications according to his concept.

The two were talking, when Gu Wenjie noticed him coming: "Hey, Old Chen!"

Seeing that it was Mr. Chen coming, the other people in the meeting quickly fell silent, and the design institute was probably a little embarrassed.

But it's not convenient for Chen Qin to talk, and besides, he is not in charge of this job.

He typed and asked: "I just stopped by to see. By the way, Wenjie, how is your contact with the overseas server provider?"

Gu Wenjie said happily: "It's settled. In addition, after the board of directors said last time, although Yahoo doesn't know what business we want to do, they are willing to cooperate with us and use their connections to help us contact some celebrities in the music field. I will help directly, but the information they provided is very detailed, I probably figured out that the cost of renting servers around the world is probably much cheaper than planned..."

"Since the server doesn't cost money, let's put more effort into marketing." Mr. Chen, who was inconvenient to speak, continued typing, "I can invest another 5000 million."

"no……"

Gu Wenjie couldn't fix it for him anymore... Probably there were many people on the spot who suspected that this was some kind of trouble, so they opened Mr. Chen's personal information and looked through it, and Gu Wenjie quickly opened a small window to talk to Chen Qin said: "I didn't say you, old Chen, you have money, can't you save it yourself? Our Three Kingdoms Online is only tens of millions. How do you go about doing a social networking site..."

Chen Qin typed: "Three Kingdoms Online, we can continue to vote."

"But don't you have the choice of where to buy a yacht with your own money? Recently, the funds over there have been flowing in, marketing and promoting your own discounted prices, there is enough money."

Chen Qin taught him: "We are still elementary school students and still in the growth stage. For the future, these investments are worthwhile."

Gu Wenjie couldn't take it anymore: "You people, I don't know what to say, then Li Yunlan is just like you. She stays up every day and submits questions in the middle of the night, which makes me feel guilty when I go home recently. I feel that you Just take it easy!"

He added: "Forget it, but I have had other ideas these two days. Didn't you say that we can use flash games as social services?"

Chen Qin said: "Yes, although the data interaction function of flash is quite rudimentary, it is more troublesome to directly play online games, but it is possible to make some games similar to those 'If you are a man, go down a hundred floors' and '2048'. The function of sharing the results with one click should be very attractive to white-collar workers."

"I know," Gu Wenjie said, "I think the people from Shanke Empire have done it very smoothly. The main reason is that they are beautiful and exquisite. Those who just pull a few programs are really not as good-looking as them."

He also said: "I think we can carry out such a marketing campaign for our online games, such as 'I found a treasure in xx today through a treasure map' or 'I spent a few minutes and a few seconds to conquer a copy of xx 'Such stereotyped texts can be shared by online game players on our Weibo with one click."

Chen Qin thought for a while and said, "Yes, it is possible. How about some rewards? The kind that can only be done once a day."

Gu Wenjie asked: "Physical strength?"

"Okay, once a day, and then you have to share it on special occasions, which can also encourage players to explore the content of the game." Chen Qin thought about it, and it is indeed a common marketing method in the future, and then said, "By the way, we can also You can also engage in cooperation with other online games, and you can spend money..."

"No, why have you been having trouble with money recently?"

Gu Wenjie was probably really helpless, but at this point, he remembered one thing: "By the way, have you heard of Jinshan's recent actions?"

"what?"

Gu Wenjie said: "Lei Jun has released a Kingsoft Antivirus Youth Edition and a Kingsoft Computer Assistant, both of which are completely free, and eBay has also recently made it free, but it can no longer catch up with Ali... It feels like you used to It’s a routine that you’ve played before, but now why are you burning money again?”

(End of this chapter)