Reborn: Billionaire in College

Chapter 186 Everyone Steals Vegetables [End of the third update]

"I'm tired from work today, so I went home to secretly cook some vegetables."

"The first thing I do when I get to the office in the morning is to steal vegetables. My colleagues are all playing around, calculating the time to collect and steal vegetables, and they have no mind to work."

"What you guys are doing is nothing. My mom is awesome when she plays. She opened four accounts at once, weeding and pest control for each other every day, and even used the big account to steal vegetables from the small account. Last night, the alarm clock even woke me up. I was still wondering, and then I saw my mom ran to the study in the dark and skillfully opened the computer to steal her colleague's vegetables. I was shocked by her spirit."

"Every day, I write down the time for all my friends' farms to mature in order on a piece of A4 paper, and then I watch while waiting. When the time is almost up, I switch to sneak a few vegetables and watch again. Setting an alarm in the middle of the night is a routine operation."

"I get up early and go to the Internet cafe to spend half an hour online, steal vegetables and park my car. Who here is as awesome as me?"

"My son is in fifth grade today. The first thing he asked after school was if I helped him steal vegetables."

“I recommend everyone to buy a Renren membership, which allows you to collect food with one click. I have personally tested it and it works well.”

"My retired grandma asked me to help her register for Renren.com, and she wants to play on it too!"

"..."

Is it a surprise that the game of stealing vegetables has become popular?
Do not!
Chen Pingjiang was not surprised at all.

This is a game that many people are still playing in 2024.

Even many elderly players plan to play until the game is removed from the shelves!

In this time and space, the Renren Farm created by Chen Pingjiang is more sophisticated than the original QQ Farm, which is the result of time-consuming polishing.

Within 24 hours of its launch, the daily active users of Renren Farm reached 100 million, which is five times the number of Renren Parking Space at the beginning.

This is certainly due to the 50 million registered users of Renren.com, but more of it is due to the stealing vegetables game itself.

As soon as Stealing Vegetables was launched, the slow data growth caused by the launch of new games on other SNS social networking sites was pulled into a vertical line.

Miao Bingwei was speechless after seeing the data.

I thought it would be popular, but I didn’t expect it to be so popular!

Even if I have imagined the data limit as much as possible in my mind, it is still not enough.

48 hours after the game was launched, the daily active users reached 200 million.

72 hours, 300 million daily active users.

500 million... This was already the peak number for grabbing a parking space.

650……

800……

1000……

In just one week, the daily active users of Renren Farm reached 1000 million, and directly increased the number of registered users of Renren to 5500 million.

And as word of mouth continues to spread, the daily growth rate is getting bigger and bigger.

Renren was in a state of panic and began to frantically increase the number of servers!

As the first generation of national social games, its popularity is beyond your imagination.

Some people set an alarm to wake up in the middle of the night so that they can harvest the crops the moment they are ripe. Their work and rest schedules change according to the growth patterns of the crops. Some people are absent-minded at work and open a web page as soon as their leader leaves, and switch instantly when the leader comes, which is too stimulating. Some people spend tens of thousands of dollars on Taobao just to buy an account with a high level and much assets. Some people become professional boosters, watering, weeding, fertilizing and harvesting vegetables for dozens of people every day.

The operation is simple, it provides a strong sense of instant gratification and is highly interactive. No matter what age you are, if life is boring, as long as you can access the Internet, you can have fun through Renren Farm. Even in this era when mobile Internet is not well developed, users can steal vegetables through the wap web version space.

In just one week, the number of active users of Renren surged by 33%. In addition to new users, the vast majority were returning old users, or accounts that originally logged into Renren only once every two or three days a week now log in two or three times a day.

Virtual items such as "seeds", "pesticides", "one-click harvesting" and the membership mechanism of Renren have brought huge profits to Renren.

People have shown unimaginable enthusiasm for this game.

"A man was fired for playing FarmVille, just because he stole his boss's vegetables during work hours."

"A student suddenly rushed out of the classroom in the middle of his final exam. It turned out that it was time to 'steal vegetables'."

"Grandpa and grandma set the alarm to get up in the middle of the night and steal some cabbages."

"The nurse delayed treatment because she stole vegetables during work."

"A father used a broom to beat his son away for a computer game."

"..."

These news are not hype created by Chen Pingjiang, but real cases that have occurred across the country after Renren Farm became popular.

This also made him somewhat amused and helpless.

A vigorous campaign of planting and stealing vegetables was launched across the country, with people of all ages and genders participating enthusiastically. This enthusiasm even alarmed some department leaders, who called Renren.com and asked them to change the "stealing vegetables" campaign to "picking vegetables".

Everyone on Renren was as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood. Even an idiot knew that with the popularity of Renren Farm, the company's valuation would probably more than double.

Shen Nanpeng, who was far away in BJ, excitedly called Chen Pingjiang and talked for a long time that day. His only purpose was to urge Chen Pingjiang to start the second round of financing as soon as possible, because he had received news that many VC/PEs were contacting Chen Pingjiang in various ways, and he didn't want Chen Pingjiang to forget him.

It was not until his father Chen Guangming called Chen Pingjiang to complain that he had been unable to sleep at night and was always woken up in the middle of the night by his mother Xu Fangjuan's alarm clock setting for stealing vegetables that Chen Pingjiang had a clear understanding of the coverage level of Renren Farm.

But my mom doesn’t even know how to use the computer!

…………

At the internal meeting of Renren.com, the middle and senior executives present looked a little tired, but they were full of energy.

"Boss, there are more and more news like 'stolen vegetables get fired, students don't study to steal vegetables', I'm afraid it will cause a bad influence on public opinion."

Chen Pingjiang nodded, thought for a moment and said, "There's nothing wrong with the game itself. This situation cannot be avoided. Just use text reminders in the game."

After a pause, Chen Pingjiang's gaze shifted to Miao Bingwei.

"If my guess is correct, Xiaonei.com, Kaixin.com and even Tencent should be working overtime to copy the app. In two months at most, they will definitely force the app to launch. By then, we will have to compete with many fake farms for users."

"I hope you can prepare well and wait for the opportunity. Accelerate product development and optimize user experience. Focus on feature innovation and high-frequency product iteration."

Miao Bingwei said: "I have selected an elite team to operate Renren Farm. This team consists of project managers, products, UE design, front-end development, back-end development, testing, operation and maintenance, etc. The iterative development cycle is one week, and multiple deliveries and releases are completed in one iteration. Even if a user complains casually, I require them to respond quickly to fix the bug and make sure it is resolved within two hours."

He is well aware of the importance of Renren Farm to Renren.com. In the past week, Miao Bingwei even slept in the company.

Because he found that he could only sleep soundly in the company, but couldn't sleep when he got home.

Constantly coordinating with the server operation and maintenance department and the Renren Farm development and maintenance team, and paying close attention to market feedback, can be said to have worn out Miao Bingwei's mood.

But the longer he endured, the happier he became.

Throughout the history of the Internet, there are few people who can be responsible for a game with such a large number of users. This is both a challenge and an achievement for Miao Bingwei.

Chen Pingjiang clapped his hands, attracting everyone's attention: "In the future, everyone should take active actions. Before other competitors' similar games are launched, we should accumulate our advantages to a large enough level and dig our moat to a deep enough level."

After the meeting, Guan Yifeng came over with a list.

"Here are the VC/PEs that have contacted us in the past three days. There are already fifty of them, and the number is still increasing." Guan Yifeng said with a smile: "These people are like crazy, inviting me to dinner in various ways, but I rejected them all."

Chen Pingjiang smiled and glanced at him and said, "You have to grasp some key institutions. If it's really hard to refuse, go have a meal with them. You can accept cigarettes and alcohol if they give you some, but you can't accept anything expensive."

This can be considered a win-win solution. The best time for financing has not yet arrived, and Chen Pingjiang does not want to meet those investment institutions or convey any information. It is just the right thing to let Guan Yifeng come forward, and it can also train him.

Guan Yifeng was afraid that Chen Pingjiang would misunderstand him, so he quickly waved his hand and said, "I'm not going."

"Just go if I tell you to. It's okay."

The reason why these VC/PEs were rejected by Chen Pingjiang last time but persisted in coming again this time is precisely because they saw the possibilities.

Many times, in order to control the equity ratio of certain investment institutions, the founders of the company will introduce other VC/PE to ensure the security of their control over the company.

In addition, given the current data explosion of Renren, the amount of Series B financing is definitely not small, and it is not something that one or two companies can afford.

There is now a general consensus among the outside world.

The current overall valuation of Renren exceeds 150 billion.

This number is not a random estimate.

First of all, during the first round of financing, Renren's valuation was as high as about 20 billion. At that time, the number of registered users of Renren was only more than 500 million, but now this number has increased tenfold.

Secondly, just a few days ago, Microsoft invested US$2.4 million in Facebook, accounting for 1.6% of the shares.

Finally, even Xiaonei, which was beaten by Renren, received a valuation of 63 billion from Softbank. In comparison, Renren’s valuation was only 150 billion, which is not high. After all, although it is unknown when the domestic SNS war will end, there is no doubt that this war has entered the second half, and Renren has the qualifications to be the winner from any angle.

Chen Pingjiang was not too nervous about Renren's financing, but Chen Yizhou of Xiaonei.com was the first to get nervous.

If Renren got a fairly good valuation and raised a large amount of money, he really wouldn't know how to fight this battle.

It has already been pressed to the ground and the gap will only get bigger.

If Chen Pingjiang had not refused, he would have planned to use all his money to invest directly in Chen Pingjiang.

It's not that he is belittling himself, but Chen Yizhou feels like he has fallen into an endless abyss, as if he can't climb out no matter how hard he tries.

　Tomorrow will still be three more

　　
　
(End of this chapter)