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In his previous life, when Zhang Yiming started his own business as Toutiao, it was also a relatively bumpy development step by step.

When we first started, Toutiao didn’t have self-media.

They are all "fake accounts".

It is purely a porter of Internet content information. It scrapes content from other platforms and recommends it to users intact.

So it was very difficult at the beginning of starting a business. On average, Zhang Yiming had to meet with 30 investors every day to talk about his product positioning and market direction, and he lost his voice for a while.

Not only that.

Today's headlines carry the content of other platforms intact, because the technology is strong and the business model is right, which directly leads to a sharp drop in the traffic of those platforms that have worked hard to produce content.

Toutiao has become a news integration platform, which is so convenient.

Soon the user scale was formed.

Then, countless media filed complaints and sued Toutiao. I receive more than 50 court summonses every month, and I am overwhelmed.

Fortunately, at this time, the traffic of Toutiao has already increased, and the capital saw the business opportunity and invested 10 million US dollars.

Today's headlines are alive.

After getting rich, Zhang Yiming immediately changed the position of Toutiao, reached a settlement with thousands of media that sued Toutiao, and invited them to join Toutiao.

This is the earliest self-media of Toutiao, and it is celebrity self-media.

Since then, it has been out of control.

BAT was also very jealous when they saw this, and followed suit one after another. Baidu launched its own information flow information business, Ali launched UC Toutiao, and Penguin launched Tiantian Express.

However, the success of Toutiao and the innovation of the business model are only one aspect, and another aspect is the strong technical guarantee. Powerful recommendation algorithms and rudimentary artificial intelligence are the foundation of Toutiao.

Baidu's technology is strong, so Baidu's information flow business has also started, and it is doing very well. After development, it is not much worse than Toutiao.

At that time, Ali was no longer a technological desert, and the technology had also developed, and UC Toutiao was doing okay.

As for Penguin's Daily Express... it can only be seen to death.

Today's headlines in this life, under Zhou Buqi's planning, solved all the problems of the previous life's headlines.

First, copyright.

Now is the pioneering stage of the Internet. There is no copyright at all. As long as it can develop, everyone will feel the stones and work together. It is useless for anyone to sue.

Second, jump.

The mobile app cannot jump, or jump from one app to another, which is too difficult and the experience is too bad. Web pages are different, you can jump at will. You can easily jump from Friends.com to Jinri Toutiao, and from Jinri Toutiao to Embarrassing Encyclopedia.

Third, celebrity self-media.

Zhou Buqi had dug over Chen Tong, a great master in this field, early on. With him as the leader, not to mention today's headlines, the Weibo business will also flourish in the future.

Fourth, funds. Fifth, traffic sources. Sixth, core users. Seventh, the external environment for BAT's joint strangulation is gone...

It can be said that in the Toutiao project, Zhou Buqi has already done everything he can.

In terms of strategic direction, the ultimate has been achieved.

Next, it depends on the specific operation.

If under such circumstances, Zhang Yiming can lead the team to kill this project, then there is really no way. God wants you to die, you have to die.

There is no other way but to sigh with emotion.

Ning Yaxian listened to his emotion, pulled her hair by her ear, pursed her lips and said, "I read the materials, and among the recent popular Internet concepts, today's headlines account for two, one is web3.0 and one is web3.0. It’s streaming media. After the publicity is done, it can help us get a better offer in the next B round of financing.”

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Yes, web2.0 is so popular, isn't web3.0 a gold mine?"

Recently, news came back from the United States.

It is said that Microsoft defeated many giants and successfully invested in Facebook, investing 240 million US dollars, accounting for 1.6% of the shares. And Ziwei Star now holds 7.8% of Facebook shares... the valuation is 1.17 billion US dollars.

"So, you don't need to be too stressed. Just be yourself and leave the rest to God's will. If you don't talk about it, whether you can succeed in starting a business depends on your fate."

Ning Yaxian felt that he was under a lot of pressure recently, so she enlightened him appropriately, with a soft tone, like a neighbor's big sister, a gentle sister-in-law, or a kind aunt.

Zhou Buqi snorted, and said in a tactful manner: "My fate is up to me! Yaxian, don't bully young people into poverty!"

Ning Yaxian couldn't laugh or cry, "Who is poor? You have been richer than me since you were born."

Zhou Buqi said in a beating voice: "Is that little money called money?"

Ning Yaxian couldn't help laughing, and said softly, "Okay, stop bragging. Wang Haoyang said he needed something, when will he come over?"

"Now."

"Well... Also, do you want to go to my house to rest at noon? It's such a hot day, take a nap, half an hour will relieve fatigue."

Zhou Buqi looked strange, "Are you sick? Need an injection or medicine? That's right, I haven't seen a doctor for you this week."

"No."

Ning Yaxian was a bit devastated, feeling helpless with this incomprehensible boss.

Zhou Buqi pondered for a moment, then shook his head, "Tomorrow, go to Aunt Xue's at noon. She wants to buy a car, so I'll go and have a look. Let her go to the 4S store alone, and she will be cheated."

After a while, Wang Haoyang came over and said bluntly, "I asked about the private jet."

"How about it?"

"Enough!"

"Um?"

Wang Haoyang sighed: "Now the world's economic situation is very good. The stock markets of various countries are soaring, and a large number of rich people have been born. The business of private jets has reached the highest point in history, and everyone is crazy about it."

Zhou Buqi blinked, a little dazed, "It's sold out? Shouldn't you place an order first and then produce it?"

Wang Haoyang said: "Yes, the normal process is to place an order first and then produce it. But now the orders are like pieces of paper. Well-known private aircraft manufacturing companies such as Bombardier, Gulfstream, Beechcraft, and Cirrus are operating at full capacity, and the orders are also It’s the next year’s turn. We place an order now, and it’s estimated that we won’t get the plane until 2012.”

"Fuck! That's the end of the world!"

Zhou Buqi was stunned.

The bull market is really a myth of creating wealth, and you have to queue up to buy a private jet.

Wang Haoyang continued: "I have consulted. If we want to get the plane in advance, there are two ways. The first is to buy second-hand planes. Many rich people have ordered new planes, and the old planes will be sold at a discount The second way is to increase the price and buy the order from those rich people who have already placed the order. It is estimated that the premium will be about 25%.”

"impossible!"

Zhou Buqi categorically refused, and both ways were useless.

Used aircraft? Not interested in.

Buy at a premium? A plane is 400 million yuan, and the premium is 25%, which is 500 million yuan. Money cannot be wasted like this.

Wang Haoyang sighed, "The global economy is thriving, and there are too many rich people. The private jet industry is too prosperous, there is no way. If this doesn't work, then there is only the third option, but it is almost impossible."

"What?"

"If someone voluntarily abandons the order, we will have the opportunity to take the order."

"oh?"

Zhou Buqi's eyes lit up, and his heart was shocked!

oops!

Yes, the opportunity has come!

Wang Haoyang looked at him suspiciously, and shook his head slightly, "It's almost impossible. Because orders are crazy now, and aircraft manufacturers have a lot of say, such as Gulfstream. In the past, when ordering an aircraft, it was enough to pay a 15%-20% deposit. Now It’s 30 percent. A 30 percent deposit on a $50 million plane is $15 million. No one is going to give up a lot of money to cancel an order.”

Zhou Buqi laughed out loud.

No one will cancel the order, but if you can't pay the balance, the order will be automatically cancelled.

Wang Haoyang looked puzzled, "What's wrong with you?"

Zhou Buqi snorted and said: "Fire cooking oil is the last supper. Others are greedy and I am afraid. The global bull market, I think it is about time. As long as the stock market crashes, many companies will go bankrupt, and many rich people will go bankrupt." .”

Wang Haoyang twitched the corner of his mouth, "What if it doesn't collapse?"

Zhou Buqu shook his head, and said lightly: "Impossible, there is no bull market that does not collapse. If it does not collapse in one year, it should collapse in two or three years. The orders have continued until 2012? Just watch, This kind of deformed private jet market must end up with nothing."

There are many things he didn't know before.

But after listening to Wang Haoyang's brief description of this industry and some experience in his previous life, he can keenly grasp the industry trends.

Uncle Benshan bought a private jet in 2009, why?

Because the market crashed!

Numerous orders for private jets have been cancelled. In order to deal with large quantities of private jets, aircraft companies can only choose to sell them at a low price... Then many second- and third-rate rich people have the opportunity to purchase private jets.

This is a leak.

Uncle Benshan didn’t buy just one plane, but set up an aircraft leasing company with his friends and bought several planes.

Zhang Chaoyang also bought the plane at this time, flashing the Internet with arrogance.

The abnormal carnival in the private jet market in the past few years has not slowed down after more than ten years, and the second-hand jet market is still at the bottom.

Wang Haoyang disagrees.

In his view, even if the stock market crashes, those rich people will not be able to give up their 30% margin to cancel orders. However, it is a good thing for the big boss to stop buying planes.

It's not worth spending so much money on an airplane.

Naturally, Zhou Buqi would not tell him that there would be an economic crisis next year, so he said casually: "Then don't place an order yet, just wait. You have to use your own plane before the end of the world."

"Is Google's stock still cashed out?"

"Of course, cash out! After the ban is lifted, just empty it out for me, and wait for the emergency. After cashing out, transfer back 100 million US dollars and complete the real estate case."

Transfer back 100 million US dollars, put 500 million into real estate companies, and keep the rest for home use. For the other US dollars that have been cashed out, part of them can be used to buy airplanes, and the rest can be used for emergency rescue and help Facebook survive the economic crisis.

Selling Google's stock at a high point and copying it to Facebook at a low point would make the arrangement more satisfactory.

Wang Haoyang nodded, "I'm in Shanghai, talk to them."