You call this entrepreneurship?

Chapter 363 Confidential Development

Before the mobile Internet rose to prominence and completely replaced the television ecosystem, CCTV's status in the hearts of the Chinese people was still very special.

At this time, CCTV's communication power, influence and credibility are still very strong, especially the 7 o'clock evening news broadcast has extremely special significance.

For ordinary people, being able to appear on the news broadcast is a matter of honor.

Although campus networks have been making rapid progress on the Internet, in just two years they have dominated the campus social field and become the most popular social networking site on the domestic Internet.

As a boss, Qin Shaoyan is just a small boss. There are hundreds of Internet company bosses like him in China.

In terms of strength, it is not as good as the three major portals Sina, Sohu and NetEase, and in terms of influence, it is not as good as Penguin, Alibaba and Baidu.

It is simply impossible to appear on the news broadcast relying solely on the current campus network's own strength and influence.

But Qin Shaoyan relied on his own efforts to give the campus network a chance to appear on the CCTV platform.

This achievement alone is enough to make the company's employees admire him. He is worthy of being President Qin.

In fact, this is not the first time that the campus network has been featured in CCTV news. CCTV reported on the "Global International Marathon" last time.

However, that report focused mainly on the competition and did not mention the name of the campus network. The camera only scanned the campus network's promotional banner and logo a few times.

At that time, Qin Shaoyan's main purpose was to take advantage of the situation to expand the market of Dazhong.com, not to become famous, so his operations were still mainly based on ground promotion, targeting college students.

This time, the "International College Students Summer Camp" and the "World College Students Forum Summit" are intended to leverage the momentum to promote to the general public, targeting different target groups.

It was a complete surprise to be featured in the news on CCTV.

After the interview was broadcast on CCTV's News Broadcast, the campus network instantly became popular.

Coupled with the extensive coverage in major newspapers, the campus network became extremely famous.

It was originally a well-known social networking site on the Internet, and now its fame has broken through the limitations of the Internet and become a household name.

In layman's terms, it means going out of the circle.

Originally, ordinary people were not familiar with the Internet, and many people even felt that university was distant and unfamiliar.

If I simply introduced the Internet company Campus Network, I guess no one would be interested in taking a look at it and would just skip it.

But this time the promotion is different from the past. It accurately found the common points that can most attract the attention of ordinary people.

That's education.

In China, and even in the entire East Asian cultural circle, education is taken very seriously.

Most parents want their sons to become successful and their daughters to become outstanding, and they wish their children could achieve success overnight.

Enrolling children in various tutoring classes, interest classes, and improvement classes, this phenomenon of "chickening up children" is not something that has only emerged in the past decade or so, but has existed from ancient times to the present.

It’s just that in the past, due to limited family income levels and insufficient financial resources, there weren’t many conditions to support our children.

At this "World University Students Forum Summit", the wonderful performance of Chinese university student representatives shocked the world.

In everyone's eyes, a group of college students went to the United Nations and stole the show in the competition with students from various countries.

He has also won various major awards. It is not an exaggeration to call these students the best of the best. He is simply a genius among geniuses.

These college students were not selected from key universities such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, "985" and "211". Most of them were randomly selected from ordinary universities and then screened.

The thirty students in the delegation are all ordinary people from ordinary families, and several of them are poor students from rural areas.

This "International College Student Summer Camp" activity was simply a dream trip for them. Not only did they study abroad, but they also received honors from the United Nations.

As soon as the delegation returned home, they were commended in the Great Hall of the People and received an audience with the leaders.

Not only did they receive national scholarships, but the school also gave them various awards, such as "joining the party", "guaranteed admission to graduate school", and "outstanding college students". All kinds of honors and bonuses came.

In the award-winning student’s hometown, local leaders visited the student with drums and gongs to express their condolences and also gave him a scholarship on behalf of the local government.

The parents of the students in the delegation were so excited that their eyes were filled with tears, and they were a little overwhelmed by this good luck that seemed to have fallen from the sky.

The envious and jealous looks from the neighbors and relatives around made the students' parents secretly happy.

When everyone learned that qualification for the "International College Student Summer Camp" was obtained through a lottery on the campus Internet, they all went crazy and immediately looked for computers to register accounts for their children.

If you are lucky enough and your child is qualified, it would be a great opportunity, just like winning the lottery.

Not only are parents of college students urging their children to register accounts, even parents of elementary school students are busy registering their children on the campus network.

The campus network gained nearly four million new users within a week, almost paralyzing the server. CTO Wang Jun was so scared that he didn't dare go home for several days and stayed in the office every day to keep an eye on the server situation.

Looking at the surge in new users, Qin Shaoyan was a little amused.

For others, the increase in users is a good thing, but for Qin Shaoyan, these new users are just icing on the cake.

……

Probably knowing that Qin Shaoyan had returned, Xiong Xiaoge immediately went to congratulate him with a newspaper.

"Boss Qin is now rich and has even made it to the news broadcast." Xiong Xiaoge said with a smile, "You really made a profit this time, congratulations."

"It's just five or six million new users. There's nothing to congratulate." Qin Shaoyan acted very calmly, as if it was someone else who was on the news broadcast.

"Listen to what you said. If other Internet bosses heard it, they would definitely call you hypocritical." Xiong Xiaoge was amazed. "An additional five or six million, that's all."

"These new users are relatively insignificant. It would be good if 30% of them can remain active." Qin Shaoyan said calmly, "For me, these users cannot create value for the time being, and they are destined to be users of the campus network in the future. Now they are just registering in advance."

"They have even less ability to pay and are considered a low-net-worth group for campus networks."

Xiong Xiaoge didn't care at all. "It will be listed next year. The more users the campus network has, the better. Don't worry about whether they can pay or not. Let's gather data... popularity first."

"As you said, once the ecosystem is established, we will naturally find a way to pay for it later."

Now everyone is looking at the data. Don’t worry about whether your users can spend money or how much they can spend. The first goal is to get as many users as possible.

With more users, there will naturally be ways to make money.

For example, Penguin has 100 million users and was very anxious when it was not making money, but venture capitalists were not anxious at all.

If the campus network has 100 million users, Xiong Xiaoge wouldn't even ask how Qin Shaoyan plans to make money.

However, the campus network currently has less than 20 million users, so Xiong Xiaoge has to ask some questions.

"Yeah, I think so too." Qin Shaoyan said in agreement, "As long as the community ecosystem is established, we can slowly find ways to make money. We will always find them."

"The money prospects of campus networks will come in the future, not now. The next three to five years will be the time when campus networks will start to develop. That's when President Xiong will be able to see the true potential of campus networks."

Wow, this time the pie is pushed back to three to five years later. This guy is simply unable to fulfill his previous promise and has started to talk about other things.

Xiong Xiaoge looked at Qin Shaoyan suspiciously, "Don't tell me about what will happen in three to five years. I just want to know about the IPO next year."

"Didn't you say that you could make the campus network profitable? Tell me how to make money. Let me open my eyes."

Qin Shaoyan sighed, as if he had struggled in his heart, and stood up directly, "Okay, I'll take you to see my secret weapon."

This time, Qin Shaoyan didn't even bring his secretary or driver. He just called Zhang Pingyi and drove away with Xiong Xiaoge.

The car drove further and further away, and Xiong Xiaoge felt a little uneasy.

He secretly calculated how likely it was that Qin Shaoyan would take the risk.

"Mr. Qin, where are we going?" Xiong Xiaoge asked tentatively.

"To Changping." Qin Shaoyan explained, "I rented a few houses there and moved the game company there."

"Why did you move there?" Xiong Xiaoge was surprised. "It's such a remote place. How do your employees get to and from get off work? It's hard for you to recruit people, too."

"We won't be hiring new people for now." Qin Shaoyan replied, "As for the issue of employees going to and from get off work, they don't have to worry about going to and from get off work for the time being."

"From now on, the project will enter a closed research and development phase. To maintain confidentiality, they will be managed centrally."

"Only on weekends will we send them home by bus. On other days, they live in dormitories provided by the company."

"Good fellow." Xiong Xiaoge was a little surprised. "What are you researching? Why are you so secretive?"

"It's a cross-era online game." Qin Shaoyan said seriously, "This is related to the IPO of the campus network, so we must be cautious."

"Everyone involved in the project has signed a confidentiality agreement, and mobile phones and other communication tools are usually handed in. The company has temporarily cut off external networks."

The car drove into a quiet courtyard and stopped. The security guard closed the gate tightly and locked it.

After getting off the car, Xiong Xiaoge looked around and found that although this place was remote, the environment was good.

The yard is very clean, with a flat concrete floor. There are also some small pavilions, fitness equipment, swings, slides and the like, and lush green plants filling the surrounding space.

"This used to be a kindergarten, but they moved away and I rented it." Qin Shaoyan took Xiong Xiaoge up the spiral staircase made of welded iron frames and walked all the way to the second floor.

As soon as you enter, you will see a spacious and bright hall with computers neatly arranged on the tables. Each employee has a large workstation with various things placed near it.

Some workstation desks have four monitors, some have various action figures, some have green plants, and some have various snacks.

At this time, the employees wearing plaid shirts were busy working, and the only sound was the clacking of keyboards.

Turning around the hall, there is another more spacious hall with nearly fifty people.

Compared with the programmers, the art team dressed more casually. Many of them even wore pajamas and slippers, slumped in chairs, wearing headphones, holding tablets and pens in their hands and scribbling freely.

Keep pressing Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+S, concentrating on creating and refining your work.

Qin Shaoyan approached a member of the 3D modeling team and asked, "Where is Teacher Hong?"

The other party took off his headphones and was stunned for a moment, then pointed to the conference room and said, "He's arguing with the stupid planner in there."

"Okay, go ahead and do your thing." Qin Shaoyan took Xiong Xiaoge and walked straight to the meeting room.

As soon as I opened the door, I heard Teacher Hong's loud voice yelling, "Are you kidding me? You said you wanted thirty, and then you said you wanted fifty. Can you be more precise?"

"You guys are always talking nonsense and boasting about how awesome you are. If you are really awesome, you should clearly state your needs. You just keep bragging all day long."

"Look at this crap you made. Tell me what it means to look like jade but not jade. Translate it for me!"

"Translate, translate, what do you mean by it looks like jade but isn't jade?!"

The planners present were speechless after being criticized. They just sat there without saying a word, allowing Teacher Hong to vent.

"I'm warning you, if you do this again, we won't be able to do this job!" Teacher Hong slammed the table fiercely, "The art work schedule is already tight. You put forward a lot of requirements in advance, and then you randomly put forward requirements to cut in line. Even if I have 300 people, I can't complete your requirements."

Liu Kun, the planning director, stood up and tried to appease Mr. Hong. "Calm down first, Mr. Hong. I will definitely deal with them when I get back. Let's talk about how to solve the current problem first."

"How can we solve this? There is no way to solve this!" Teacher Hong spread his hands. "I only have so many people, and my schedule is full. And we are all here according to your requirements. We can't just do whatever we want."

A planner stammered, "But, but, we have already planned this event and it needs to be completed by the end of the month."

Liu Kun sighed, "Why not postpone it to next month."

Qin Shaoyan laughed, "Let's not talk about next month yet, put down everything you are doing and I will sort it out for you."

Teacher Hong was overjoyed when he saw Qin Shaoyan coming in. He jumped up from his chair, tears welling up in his eyes. "I have waited so long for Mr. Qin to finally come."

"Mr. Qin, you don't know how they planned to torture us. They are not human beings." Teacher Hong was about to cry.

"Ahem." Qin Shaoyan interrupted Mr. Hong's complaint with a cough. "Let's talk about this later. Let me introduce you. This is Mr. Xiong Xiaoge from IDG, our investor."

"This is our company's art director, Mr. Hong Feihong. He was in charge of the entire "Plants vs. Zombies" and won the Golden Keyboard Award for Best Art Design."

"Hello." Xiong Xiaoge and Hong Fei shook hands.

"This is Liu Kun." Qin Shaoyan pulled Liu Kun over again, "He is an ace stand-alone game producer and has also won international awards."

"Good." Xiong Xiaoge was very satisfied. "There are many hidden talents under Boss Qin."

"There is another person in charge of programming, Mr. Fan Xiaoqian." Qin Shaoyan glanced at the rock artist but didn't see him. "He is a genius programmer who was even praised by Gabe Newell, the producer of Half-Life."

"Where's Teacher Fan?"

"He worked overtime last night and is probably still sleeping." Hong Fei said, "Why don't I go call him."

"No need." Qin Shaoyan waved his hand. "Teacher Hong, go and get the latest version of our project and let Mr. Xiong appreciate it."

"Okay." Teacher Hong and Liu Kun immediately called on the others, "Hurry up and package the version. We need to make the server stable."

"It's okay to have some bugs, as long as the game can run." Qin Shaoyan added, "It's normal to have bugs during the development stage."

It is normal to have bugs. As long as the server does not crash, it is a stable version.

After working on it for nearly half an hour, they came up with an online game that looked very complete.

When the beautiful login screen appeared, Xiong Xiaoge's eyes lit up.

Hiss, it looks like there is something.

(End of this chapter)