Reboot 2003

Chapter 191 099: The Record Holder (Two in One)

At the beginning of November, Shanke Empire’s overseas website was the first to go online, Galaxy Software launched a free mailbox, “Three Kingdoms Online” performed very well after it was launched, and Getai.com actively bid after financing to become the official live video provider of the Olympic Games…

In addition, Getai en is almost integrated with Google.The Getay en English website was renamed Getay.com and officially launched. This move seems to be to change its own trademark and domain name on the premise of avoiding losing the audience as much as possible.

Perhaps it was because Google was really powerful. After that, it not only persuaded the two Meijian Communications companies to simultaneously launch the CRBT service, but also contacted many music copyright owners. After the operation began, the digital music business was really interesting.

Although it is still far from the [-] million yuan, it is better than Chen Qin imagined. No one wants ring tones, but the business of selling digital music and ringtone downloads is not bad, at least it has attracted some users .

Considering the prospects of the video website, this business really only needs to be able to make a name...

In short, this is enough, both parties are satisfied, and the transaction is very pleasant.

After the money was in place, the investment fund under the name of Santiago turned around and bought a large number of Google shares—because the money for this acquisition was directly taken out of Google’s operating income. When buying it, Lao Xu said that he could cash in part Google stock, but the Google people thought it was troublesome and didn’t agree. Now after getting the money, they went back to buy Google stock, and Google’s stock price broke through the $[-] mark in a flash.

And after the oil price turmoil in 2005 and China's shareholding reform, the stock markets on both sides of the ocean were in successive big bull markets. Even a sick tiger like Yahoo can draw a beautiful figure for its own financial report by selling off Google stock. The whole world is immersed in the fantastic scene.

"So did you spend that money?"

The last conversation at the end of the year was before the launch of Weibo.

Gu Wenjie asked half jokingly...he probably understood what Chen Qin meant by doing this, and of course he felt that Chen Qin's obsession with spending money was incomprehensible.

But Weibo will go online tomorrow, so now is not the time to talk about it.

Chen Qin replied, "The flowers are gone", but then asked him: "The server will officially open tomorrow, are you nervous?"

Gu Wenjie was indeed a little nervous—"Probably a little bit, compared to when I saw the malicious news when the investment was halfway through..."

"Actually, don't worry. Waterside Getai is rich recently. Even if it's not successful for a while, I can let Waterside Getai invest here. Even if we don't succeed, we still have the opportunity to try and make mistakes."

"Probably, after all, other companies are making efforts now. Tencent has created a qq space like Myspace, and Sina is also developing celebrity blogs. They have more connections in the news field. This also conflicts with our route, and there is still a month to go." The previous 'Xiaonei'... By the way, aren't you investing in ecology, then did you invest in Xiaonei?"

"No, they have only been established for more than a month. I can't just invest in them directly like Facebook. I invest in Facebook after observing for more than half a year, not to mention that the cultural circle of China must prefer products like Weibo. Xiaonei may not be able to beat us..."

"It's okay, anyway, I don't know how to socialize like you, I can only do things, that's right."

In the middle of speaking, Gu Wenjie seemed to think of something, Chen Qin asked: "What's wrong?"

Gu Wenjie thought for a while, and said, "Aotian, I've been wondering recently, should our Quick Look be listed?"

"You're so busy now, why do you suddenly want to go public? It's not easy to go public..."

"It's easy to run after it's listed. I think it's time to look at those people in the media. What should I say?"

"Don't worry, I won't say anything."

"Follow that group of insects, how do you do business..."

"Hahahahaha..."

Just a few words, everything is still going well recently, although there is indeed a little disturbance, not because of external competition, but because there is a small problem with the media... But in short, the problem is not big.

The first is the contract with Santiago - because the competition agreement expired, Chen Qin's Santiago no longer has to avoid the advertising industry.

Although the advertising agency of Kuaikan Weibo can continue to be assigned to Kuaikan, all the advertising services of Galaxy Software were provided by Kuaikan Media.

Now that there is no competition agreement in the same industry, it is of course to build a DSP platform by itself, so as not to make a difference to the middleman.

In addition to the game side, Kuaikan and Moyou are also bad debts——

Before Moyou launched Absolute Goddess, it was regarded as a "pilot". As the parent company, although it is not a family, it has a higher shareholding ratio, and it has similar interests with Moyou.com.

Later, Chen Qin and Gu Wenjie invested in self-developed online games. The board of directors was basically not very happy, so the two directly increased their capital. Now Moyou has become half of Santiago, the development team and Gu Wenjie's other half. Look at the people on the board of directors I still have some complaints about the dilution of my shares, just because I don't have the right to control it.

And recently, looking at the popularity of "Super Runner" represented by the media itself, they seem to finally have something to say - after all, Moyou is not Quickwatch's own industry, so the internal resources of the company must be tilted towards Super Runner. Three Kingdoms online...it can't be pushed to other places, but the announcement should be ranked second.

There is one thing to say, this is indeed a reasonable appeal, and Gu Wenjie and Chen Qin can almost understand it, but the variable seems to happen on another matter.

A few years ago, Chen Qin asked Gu Wenjie to focus on a game called Dungeon and Warriors. Recently, there was news that the old chess and card game Wang Lianzhong had its main business destroyed by the QQ game hall. In order to get rid of the incompetent board of directors, it recently recruited South Korea's nhn White Knight, I have been tossing for a long time to prepare for the transformation of online games, but there is no movement on my side. Instead, dnf, which nhn holds shares in, seems to be doing very well. Although the game is popular, it is a good thing, but this company has signed a contract with nhn before. Gambling, this year's gambling goal has been completed, and nhn has to redeem himself for others.

Of course nhn refused, this game just started to charge in December, he did a lot of promotion for dnf for free, and now it has not been recovered.

Neople doesn't mind continuing to be invested, but Gu Wenjie wants to step in at this time and buy the company directly.

As a result, the board of directors disagreed, and rejected the acquisition with one vote...

It’s fine if you can’t buy it, it just so happens that Chen Qin has no money here, so he can only do the most important thing at hand first, but Gu Wenjie seems to have made up his mind because of this——

It's not that he plans to use some means to deal with these shareholders, but he thinks that it's time for Kuaikan Media to go public.

For entrepreneurs, having multiple companies under their name, and each company's ownership structure is different is quite troublesome.

Therefore, in such a short-term and fast-paced industry as the Internet, the usual practice is that of Chen Qin—a company goes public before starting the next project. Although there is no need to get all the equity out, at least let the previous company get on the right track. Then resign from all positions in the previous company and start the next project. This kind of entrepreneur is called a "serial entrepreneur", and is like a biological father to venture capitalists.

Since successful resumes and the capital in their hands can also be converted into the right to speak, serial entrepreneurs must have a stronger right to speak than newcomers who start their own businesses for the first time.

Chen Qin ran away after Yahoo entered the game, but Gu Wenjie was the CEO after all, so he had to take Kuai Kan to the IPO before leaving. It just so happened that the three strategies that Chen Qin said at the beginning were almost completed—— Kuai Kan Platform The user group is very stable, and it occupies an absolute dominant position among small and medium-sized websites. Kuaiba also has a high share in the Internet cafe ecosystem with its innovative business model. Software is an existing competition model, and it is basically difficult to be defeated by new entrants.

And now Kuaikan has eaten the downstream cake of online games. The business model has basically taken shape. If it is to be listed, it is probably the time...

"Where are you going? To Meilijian, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, or stay in China?"

"Advertising concepts are very popular in Meilijian recently. Let's go to the United States and earn money from Americans." Gu Wenjie said without any psychological burden. Taking advantage of the fact that Three Kingdoms Online doesn’t have a mall, buy back that part of Kuaikan’s equity.”

Chen Qin wanted to nod, but Gu Wenjie was too extreme, cashing out directly, this...

"I don't think it's right." Chen Qin thought of one thing, "Although I have no objection to the listing, it will take a long time to go public. Our shareholding restructuring will take a lot of time. It takes three months to go through the listing process, and the quiet period is half a year. Wait for at least a year to prepare. After listing, you have to lock it for half a year and cannot cash out. When you can run away, that is..."

"The second half of 07," Gu Wenjie said, "What's wrong with this time?"

Chen Qin took a deep breath: "I'm pretty good at stock trading recently."

"I know, your fund seems to have made a lot of money. It's been mentioned in financial magazines."

"I think the market bubble is a bit big now, what should we do when there is another stock market storm like in 00?"

Gu Wenjie was taken aback: "You mean the Internet will plummet? That should really be avoided... Then do you think we should not go public for now?"

"We can stagger the time a little bit, and when the next wave of crisis starts, we start preparing for the listing, and it should be almost the same."

"Oh...that makes sense, then I'll go back and talk to the people on the board."

Gu Wenjie was also a little surprised when he heard it, but he is used to trusting Chen Qin's judgment, so of course he has no doubts... For a company, the significance of going public is first of all to raise funds, which means issuing new shares. You can also sell your shares for money, but you have to wait for a quiet period. If the stock market as a whole plummets at this time, the assets in the hands of shareholders will also plunge, which is really not worth it.

Of course, the two of them did not consider the significance of this news in other fields at this time, and then, the topic of discussion between the two returned to the upcoming Weibo.

Because Weibo is promoted both in the mainland and overseas, the mainland is fine, but the overseas market is very complicated, and it is an unknown field that is completely unknown to today's Chinese entrepreneurs.

Even if there is a reborn person like Chen Qin, if you want to set up an overseas Weibo, you don’t have to copy it...Twitter’s management before Ma Yilong’s acquisition was earth-shatteringly bad, but social networking itself is a field that is not very sensitive to technology. , The inability of management is also a skill for social networks. Specifically, it is the early selling point of Twitter, which is 'freedom of speech'.

It itself is a strategy compromised by the incompetence of the Twitter management. It cannot be said that it cannot be used, and it is also the fundamental reason why Twitter has become a troll paradise where "as long as the number of characters is limited, you can say whatever you want." However, in order to avoid risks, a It is impossible for companies from the Celestial Dynasty to use this strategy.In the last period of the project preparation period, Chen Qin discussed with Gu Wenjie the most important issue.

So in the last part of my childhood journey, 2006 came quietly.

Another year has passed, and the life of elementary school students is still as ordinary as water. Galaxy software is expanding its territory in a regular manner. Before the company announced that it would develop communication software, it was only an internal office software, which was not in the market. How much reaction it caused on the Internet, although the free mailbox and sp services performed well, they did not cause much turmoil.

At this moment, 'Weibo' went online—'Weibo' was not called Galaxy Weibo, and the initial publicity was called 'Quick Look at Weibo', but then Kuaikan was removed.

Nowadays, social network competition is in full swing. Whether it is an old player like Qzone and Sina Blog, or a rookie like Mopu and Xiaonei, they all seem to have a bright future, and it seems that they have already competed in this market.

But just as Galaxy Software has always done in the past, this time it still brings surprises to people. For users, the 140-character forwarding limit is of course a bit inexplicable. In many cases, there are obviously a lot of things to write. Of course it feels a bit strange to exceed the limit, but Weibo has a function that looks very interesting, called forwarding.

Why is it interesting?

After going online on the first day of the new year, a bunch of forum posts and news pages popped up out of nowhere, telling everyone that it was amazing!There is a free lottery draw on the newly opened Weibo, everyone, hurry up and check it out!

Click on the link to register, and after registration, you will have your own homepage, which is a bit like QQ space, but it is not as fancy as QQ space, and there is no messy place that needs to be manipulated and decorated. It is a very simple orange-blue two-tone page.

There is an input box on the homepage, and you can post something on your homepage by typing in something, but what can you say?Let me draw a lottery!

I clicked on the lottery page again, this time I had already registered, and went directly to a content page belonging to Weibo. The page was a post published by a company called ZTE... Is this called a post?
In short, the post said that ZTE has a new mobile phone that is ready to be released on the market. There is a picture of the mobile phone. The picture quality is not very good, but you can tell that it is an advertisement picture. It is a domestic mobile phone that ZTE just released this year. Click to forward and promote it Participate in the lottery and wait until the result of the lottery is announced after 10 days.

At that time, 30 ZTE's new mobile phones will be drawn. The result of the lottery will be determined by the official Weibo. It is absolutely fair and effective. Remember to watch it.

So what exactly is retweeting?
It’s easy to understand. In fact, what most people click on is a page that has been forwarded. Although there is no specific explanation for a bunch of symbols like @ and //, @ is very commonly used in email services, and // is also a common separator. symbol.

Then click forward, and this content will appear on your homepage. Is this the end?
After understanding the principle of this system, new users who are still interested will take an extra look. Although they are not sure whether they can draw a lottery, their main purpose is to see if there are other lottery draws here.

But the lottery is an advertisement after all. The advertisements on this website are hidden quite deep. The website itself does not have a homepage, but there is a "recommended users to follow" on the right side, and there is a row of "certificate" logos, which are the same as the ZTE just now. user.

The first one in the first row turned out to be a trapeze... I'm going, is it really an Olympic champion?
Click in and take a look, Feiren is very polite: "Friends on Weibo, hello everyone!" There is also a photo in the training room, and there are many replies below, the one in the first place looks a bit messy—— "Comrade Flying Man has worked hard!"

Haha, who are you, why are you talking to flying people like this?
Nowadays, simple netizens feel very novel about such social products. Of course, this is the only one for flying people, and there is nothing to see. The content will appear on your home page.

At this time, many users have already been attracted. After all, although my friends are not here, it is still interesting to see the life content posted by these celebrities. The top business elites on the list, Mr. Gu Wenjie from Kuaikan Media, the sometimes popular first-line singer Yao Nabei, big companies like ZTE, many online game companies, and the creator of the brainwashing nursery rhyme "Where are you going, Dad?" , Later, Lina, a very popular internet star by doing software tutorials...

Seeing this, many people finally came to their senses. Baidu searched, 'Is Weibo from Galaxy Software? ', the answer is 'yes', Weibo is co-founded by Mr. Gu from Kuaikan and Galaxy Software. These two companies are originally brothers who wear a pair of pants.

It turns out that Weibo belongs to Galaxy.

No wonder this website is so smooth to use, and I was able to log in directly with the galaxy account just now, the galaxy software is really awesome.

At this point, the old users of Galaxy Software are also satisfied. This social application seems to have aroused the curiosity of most netizens, but it is not the only one——

For new users, the first thing to do is to go shopping and find people who you are interested in. These people are mainly celebrities and certified users signed by Galaxy Software, and there are also some non-certified users that you know in the interaction.

When browsing other people's homepages, it is inevitable that you will see some novelty things. For example, when you enter the homepage of the child star Lina, you will see that she has shared an external link—now Weibo can support external video input windows, but don't worry. The link has to be clicked out by yourself.

"I just went down 59 floors in "If I'm a Man, Go [-] Floors", you should come and take a look!"

Everyone is happy when they see the name, you are a little girl who has gone down a hundred floors, so can you be a man?
Click on the link, it is a Flash website address, called Flash Empire, this game is indeed called "If you are a man, you will go down a hundred floors", and there is a leaderboard next to it, called 'Friends Ranking (You can view the ranking of friends after logging in)'.

There are already many people's game records, the one in the top row is called 'Chen Aotian', where has this name been seen before?

Then click to enter this person's Weibo homepage. He is also a certified user, and he remembered it when he saw the remarks on the homepage.

'Former co-founder of Kuaikan Media, employee number 000 of Galaxy Software, chief product engineer, the first game record holder to break through 800 floors in "If you are a man, go down a hundred floors"..."

Isn't this the high-level executive of Galaxy Software who quarreled with the foreign tycoon the year before last?
It seems that there has been no news of this person for a long time since that time.However, many people have seen the articles on his blog, and he also set up a verified account on Weibo, but this introduction... Is there something wrong?
(End of this chapter)