Standing pretty old

Chapter 479 Ending the four-game winning streak and welcoming the eight-game winning streak

When we arrived in Boston, we naturally had to go to Han Lei’s place to sit. DROPBOX has not yet launched the C round of financing. Due to its participation in the development of Icloud, the company’s overall valuation has exceeded 10 billion yuan.

Even if Erniu's shares are diluted, the online disk alone will make him worth more than 7 million yuan, but this figure on paper has not been reported by the media, and no one has noticed Kraft* Ruan is an Internet predator hidden in the NBA.

Er Niu visited the interior of DROPBOX again, and attended a company's high-level regular meeting as a shareholder.Even as a mascot, Ruan Erniu is quite popular.

In Han Lei's office, he said to Er Niu, "How do you feel?"

Ruan Erniu said, "Johnny, or how I should put it, your current performance is already a qualified IT entrepreneur."

Han Lei said with a smile: "I became a manager myself, only to realize that my brains are not enough. The market changes too fast. The size advantage of those giants is a headache. Whether it is Apple or Google, they are all eyeing us!"

Er Niu said: "In this regard, I respect your personal opinion. Since we already have such a good foundation for cooperation with Apple, even if you plan to sell the whole company to them, I personally have no objection."

Han Lei asked suspiciously, "Well, Kraft, do you want to sell the shares?"

Ruan Erniu shook his head and said, "No, Johnny, everything depends on you. I'm an investor and I only care about maximizing profits."

Han Lei nodded in agreement. Internet companies are like this. There are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies.

It's like the historical PAYPAL (that is, PayPal, which can be understood as Alipay in the United States).

Founders Peter Thiel and Elon Musk (yes, the one who later developed the SPACE-X rocket project and Tesla, who is said to be the prototype of Iron Man), almost at the same time stared at the online pay on.

Peter Thiel established Confinity and officially established PAYPAL in 99. Coincidentally, Elon Musk established X.com next to PAYPAL.

Due to the proximity of product items and similar operating models, the competition between them is quite fierce.

Shopping malls are like battlefields. With the escalating pressure of competition, the emotions of both sides are becoming more and more tense.

The characteristic of Internet start-up companies is that the thinking is quite divergent during internal meetings, and the engineers under the boss dare to come up with all kinds of magical and weird ideas.

When did Peter Thiel realize that his rivalry with Musk was no longer sustainable?
On this day, PAYPAL held a meeting as usual, and it was the turn of an engineer under Peter Thiel to speak. He closed the doors and windows in a daze, then opened the slides, and began to talk about all his plans.

It turned out that the engineer didn't think of any new operating strategy or product optimization. He directly designed a bomb to blow up Elon Musk's company.

It is said that such an absurd idea that does not conform to the normal legal order should be laughed at by everyone, but then something happened that made Peter Thiel dumbfounded.

Peter Thiel miraculously found that most of his engineers agreed with the engineer's idea.Not only did they not get rid of this problem, but they discussed the details: how to arrange the storage location of the bomb, how to detonate it, how to ensure that all X.com employees are in the company, and can kill them all at once. kind.

Only then did Peter Thiel realize that the competition between the two sides had reached an extremely bad state, and if it continued, both sides would collapse sooner or later.

Businessmen are like this, no one wants to fall down in vicious competition.

Thus, the most classic scene in the history of business appeared. After Peter Thiel stopped the strange idea of ​​his subordinates, he took the initiative to come together with Musk. They merged the online payment companies of both parties at a ratio of 50:50. There was today's PayPal.

They created a new win-win model for latecomers, and finally avoided blind competition.

In fact, what they avoided was not only the fierce competition of Shuangfa, but also the Internet bubble crisis in 2000.

Due to the merger of the two parties, the new PayPal has occupied a super high market share, and finally obtained enough financing through this, which successfully survived the most difficult Internet winter period.

In fact, the Chinese people who are good at learning have also fully learned this kind of competitive strategy. The same will be true for Youku and Tudou, Didi and Kuaidi in the future.

Once it is not possible in a short period of time, use various commercial means to kill the opponent with one blow.It is better to let the two strong players cooperate to instantly become a monopoly power in a certain field, so as to maximize their respective interests.

Ruan Erniu patted Han Lei on the shoulder and said, "CEO, think about it slowly. Anyway, I will definitely support your choice. Let's go first. I will go to today's adaptive training later."

After the Hawks got rid of the Celtic Heat, they were not in a hurry to leave Boston. They will rest here for a day, and then fly to New Jersey the next day to complete their four-game winning streak.

The New Jersey Nets traded Kidd last year. In this summer, they even wanted to trade Richard Jefferson, a young man who was trained by himself.

But in the end, the deal did not take place. The Bucks were once the team closest to the deal, but the Nets wanted to get Al Horford, who was also not for sale by the Bucks. In the end, the two sides failed to reach an agreement.

The Nets' starting lineup this year has undergone a sea change from the beginning of last season.

The starting point guard changed from Kidd to the extremely fast Devon Harris, Carter was moved to the shooting guard position, and the small forward was naturally served by Richard Jefferson who had not been traded.

In terms of interior, they boldly used two rookies as the starters, Brook Lopez with the 10th pick and Ryan Anderson with the 21st pick.

The Hawks don't know if it's because they are homesick or feel that the Nets are nothing more than that.

At the beginning of the first quarter, he was caught off guard by his opponent. Ryan Anderson pulled the inside line continuously and hit Chris Anderson from outside the three-point line.

Birdman was instantly beaten by fellow Anderson.

What about Ruan Erniu?

In fact, it's not much better. Brook Lopez has solid low-post skills and doesn't shoot too much. He actually completed mutual explosions with Er Niu on the offensive end for quite a long time.

Mr. 65 Fen has just experienced a brilliant night, so he didn't get a bargain in front of the rookie.

What's more terrible is that in this game, Devin Harris went crazy.

He gave full play to his speed advantage, made Bibby and Dragic feel a little bit tempered, and continuously broke through the inside to cause damage. Throughout the game, Harris scored 12 free throws by himself, and miraculously made all of them.

Ruan Erniu suffered from a foul, and his playing time in this game dropped sharply. Despite this, he finally scored 27 points and 14 rebounds.

However, compared with Lopez's 25 points and 9 rebounds, Er Niu's dominance obviously failed to fully show in this game.

Jon Jonsen's performance became the key to dominating the game. The second leader of the Hawks stood up. He made 16 of 11 shots in this game, including 8 of 5 three-pointers and 6 of 5 free throws. He scored 32 points and 9 points in the game. With 5 assists in the board, the team helped the team cling to the score.

At the last moment, Ruan Erniu was not soft after all. He succeeded in singles against Lopez in the low post and overtook the score.

At 116:115, the Eagles won the last game of their four-game streak without any risk, and returned to Atlanta overnight with an 8-game winning streak at the beginning of the season.

Where they still have a back-to-back game to play, and the opponent is the Nets who just played against each other.

(End of this chapter)