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As for the equity distribution of the new company, Wenwen Jingjing Technology Company holds 80% of the equity, Chen Jingjing holds 10% of the equity, and Zhang Tiantian holds 5% of the equity.

In addition, Chen Wenwen holds 5% of the equity on behalf of the company, and the equity held on behalf of the company will be used as equity incentives for employees who contribute to the company in the future.

Jingjing Application Software Co., Ltd. is a technology-oriented enterprise whose employees are mainly engaged in application software research and development.For example, new application software is evaluated as having huge commercial value or strategic value in a technical sense.

As long as the technology is judged to be valuable, the company's equity incentives will be obtained.

The so-called value sets a clear threshold to develop a product with 1000 million monthly active users.Reward 1% equity incentive.This is an achievement tested by the market and should be encouraged.

In addition, if the market cannot test it, then rewards will be given based on technical value.

"Everyone, I am very happy today. Another new subsidiary of ours has been incubated and established. In the early days of its establishment, the company already has explosive Internet products that have skyrocketed!"

Zhao Han said, “The Jingjing Pinyin input method that we have been developing for several months has achieved amazing results since it was launched on the market. In less than ten days, the number of users exceeded the 100 million mark, surpassing our Jingjing Reading website that was launched earlier.

Now, with the download stations such as Huajun, Sky, Zhongguancun, and the download channels of portal websites, advertisements have been placed one after another.According to the current situation, the number of users is increasing by more than [-] every day.

User reputation is also rising in a straight line.

The Jingjing Pinyin input method is indeed the best Pinyin input method on the market.

The Pinyin input methods before us have all become prehistoric input methods.

We completely, completely redefined the industry standard for Chinese Pinyin input method.

In the future, input methods that cannot reach the level of our Pinyin input method will become junk input methods that even dogs will not use.

Although, it’s just the beginning, 100 million users!

But we all know this is not the end.

quickly!

We will welcome 200 million, 300 million, 500 million users, and 1000 million installed users.

In the future, we probably will have a product with hundreds of millions of installed units!

An installed base of 3800 million users seems to be a fantasy now. After all, there are currently about [-] million computers connected to the Internet in China.

However, taking into account the current growth of domestic Internet users, more than 100 million new users will be added every month.

The number of our input method users reaching [-] million is not a fantasy! "

Everyone present smiled.

Previously, although Jingjing Reading Network had a clear business model, it could achieve stable profits as the number of users grew.But everyone knows that there is an upper limit to the size of a novel website.

Leaving aside the issue of piracy or not, the point is that adults who read novels as a way of entertainment and recreation are actually not in the majority.

According to the ranking of human Internet entertainment methods, games should be first, videos second, music third, and reading should be ranked after music.

Later, the monthly active users of major applications can prove that games...well, there are too many apps and they are scattered. However, there are a bunch of games with amazing monthly active users. From the perspective of user time occupied, games occupy the largest share of the Internet entertainment market.

Video websites are undoubtedly second. Later, the number of monthly active users of leading video websites reached [-] billion. There was not one such platform, but multiple.

If you include short videos, your monthly life is more than one billion.

The leading music platform, which later reached 5 million monthly active users, is owned by Goose Factory.Music platforms other than Goose Factory also have [-] to [-] million monthly active users.

Novel websites In the era of mobile Internet, the top novel APP has 1 million monthly active users.

Compared with the games, videos and music above, it is just a younger brother.

The potential of the market is also the same. Games have always been the largest market in the field of Internet entertainment.Goose and Pig, the two major domestic Internet companies, have always had the largest contribution in terms of profits.

The monthly activity potential of the input method can almost reach the level of market share as there are Internet terminals.

Whether it is a PC, a mobile phone, or a tablet, as long as it is a terminal that surfs the Internet, it will eventually use an input method.

The original future was for Sogou Input Method to be the dominant player in the PC era, with 2 million PC users at its peak.

In the mobile Internet era, Sogou, Baidu, and iFlytek dominate the world, each with a huge installed base of [-] million.

It can be seen that the input method software market is indeed far underestimated by the current Internet industry!

Chapter 232: Two years in advance, seize Sogou’s luck

Zhao Han’s confidence in Jingjing Pinyin input method comes from the development history of Sogou Pinyin input method.

The Jingjing Pinyin input method came out two years earlier than the Sogou Pinyin input method.

Sogou is currently mainly a search engine and has no idea of ​​​​being an input method.The input method was just an accident in 05. There was a guy who submitted his resume and peddled the theory that the input method and search technology were created in heaven. This guy, Ma Zhankai, actually sent his resume to all the big companies with search business, but basically nothing happened. So Sogou took over Ma Zhankai. He was asked to lead a few people to create the Pinyin input method. Half a year later, the Sogou Pinyin input method was completed.

After it was launched in 06, it was released casually in the early days without paying much attention to it.Sogou Input Method did not place any advertisements and was only uploaded to major download sites in a low-key manner. It only took half a year to acquire 200 million users.

Then, Sohu executives asked Ma Zhankai to teach him the input method PPT.One key point of Ma Zhankai's PPT is that the download volume of QQ on major download sites is 5 million, and the total download volume of Pinyin input method on major download sites is [-]-[-] million, and those input methods are garbage!

Then, Sohu's senior management made a decision to focus on the development of Sogou Input Method. Only in 07 did they start large-scale advertising to promote Sogou Input Method.

In 07, Google also quietly developed the Chinese Pinyin input method, because Ma Zhankai also submitted his resume to Google at that time. Google later realized that the input method was indeed perfect for search, in order to better develop the search engine in the Chinese market. Made input method.

As a result, the incident of plagiarizing Sogou's vocabulary broke out, and instead it advertised Sogou, and the number of Sogou users suddenly increased to 1500 million.

In 08, the number of Sogou input method users exceeded 7000 million, changing the era when smart ABC firmly occupied the top spot.

In 09, the installed base of Sogou input method exceeded 1 million, exceeding 70% of the market share. After that, it soared to 80% of the market share, with 2 million users.

Sogou Input Method's peak user base in the PC era was second only to QQ, and it was a must-have software like 360, Xunlei, and Qvod.

In the mobile Internet era, more input methods compete.

However, Sogou still relies on its advantages. While it ranks first on PC, it also has more than 5 million monthly active users on mobile.

In a sense, Sogou input method relied on its product strength to perform miracles in a track that was almost considered impossible.

“I am so confident that Jingjing Pinyin will definitely become the king of Pinyin input methods in the Internet era!

There are reasons!

The main reason is that our opponent, Intelligent ABC, is too weak. As long as it is enterprising, it will iteratively improve it, so it is difficult for us to stand a chance.

However... Microsoft's front line is too long, and its attention is very scattered.

For the time being, it has not noticed that the Chinese Pinyin input method is a market that has no hope of success for the time being. "

Zhao Han said with a smile, “The ABC of mental retardation was probably like this in the 90s, and there are basically no changes now.

Other input methods are not up to par, and there is no fundamental product that far exceeds Smart ABC. A little improvement is meaningless.

Only qualitative improvement!

It is meaningful if the user changes the input method and immediately feels different. "

Everyone present laughed.

The title ABC of Mental Retardation seems to have a clue.

However, most users did not agree with the nickname ABC for mental retardation before experiencing a better Pinyin input method.

In essence, it’s still smart ABC that doesn’t want to make progress.

Since the 90s, when Microsoft acquired Smart ABC and incorporated it into the default Chinese input method of the operating system, no changes have been made.

Microsoft's attitude towards the Chinese Pinyin input method is that for the Chinese market, the operating system must have this function.

As for polishing the input method, I'm sorry... not interested.

After all, from Microsoft's perspective, it's just Pinyin, does it need to be improved?

Wubi has not changed much for a long time after Microsoft bought the technology patent license, and it still has a firm monopoly on the market.

Look at Pinyin in the same way as Wubi. This is actually an arrogant misjudgment made by Microsoft because of its lack of understanding of Chinese Pinyin input.

“Jingjing Pinyin Input Method’s current priority is to expand the number of users. We will continue to improve and iterate our products so that we can’t be surpassed by our peers!

In addition, in order to operate sustainably, traffic monetization is indispensable.

The most core functions of Jingjing Pinyin are free for users to use.

But value-added services that do not harass users should be added as soon as possible.

For example, in the input method interface, we can launch the skin function, which is the appearance of the input method.

Users can either use the classic skins we provide, or change the skin center to skins designed by other users.

The skin is the appearance of the input method designed by the artist to meet the different aesthetic needs of users.

If the user wants to get a skin with the appearance of Sun Wukong, he can download a new skin and change it.

If you like Two-dimensional ones, such as Inuyasha and Saint Seiya, you can also replace them. Of course... they will only be provided after obtaining copyright authorization.

Skins are both free and paid.

It depends on the creator of the skin's own wishes and chooses to pay. You can set a price for the skin, such as 6 yuan.For skins, we divide it [-]% to [-]% just like the novel, [-]% to our platform and [-]% to the creator! "Zhao Han talked freely about his views on the next stage of traffic monetization.

"Well...the input method is just for typing. Will users really buy any skins?" Liu Mengcheng couldn't help but wonder.

Zhao Han couldn't help but laugh and said: "Don't underestimate this skin. In the early days of Q Coin launched by QQ, it had to rely on QQ Show to monetize Tencent's large amount of free traffic.

In 2003, the QQ show earned 2500 million yuan in half a year after it was launched, and then quickly became a money printing machine. Now it earns at least [-] million yuan a year.

Suppose that our user base reaches the level of a small Tencent, such as half of Tencent’s users.So, no matter how discounted the skin value-added services are, a profit of 1000 million a year should be achievable.

With a profit of 1000 million, it is definitely more than enough to support the input method itself.

Not to mention, Tencent’s QQ has many monetization options, and the QQ show is just an appetizer.

Even if we are more restrained and don’t create pop-ups.

After the user adapts to the skin function.You can add another reading in the future, which is the traffic entrance of Jingjing Reading Network.

Well, be more conscientious and provide an entrance to the toolbox, with some applications for the tools, such as translation, text proofreading and error correction.

The proofreading function allows you to directly paste the article and detect some typos, which is convenient for some writers.

For example, online writers and software for correcting typos are in great market demand, which increases user stickiness. "

Chapter 233 Office Software

"Will these features be launched in the next version?" Chen Jingjing asked.

"No rush!" Zhao Han thought for a while, "For the time being, the input method is still in the stage of increasing the number of users. All versions will be iterated to make the input method more usable.

Minor version changes, do not change the appearance or functionality, only functional enhancements to make it easier to use.For example, changes from version 1.0 to 1.1 are just enhancements and there will be no major changes.

Major version iterations introduce new changes from 1.0 to 2.0.

For example, the skin function is version 2.0, and the design and development of skin appearance is mainly open to third-party skin developers.

In version 3.0, the toolbox will be launched, and a variety of tools can be added to the toolbox button.

For example, it is a very practical tool for the unique text formatting, error correction, etc. abilities of online writers, and can also enhance our reputation and user stickiness.

After we have completed these small tools, we can later develop specialized office software, similar to Microsoft Office and Kingsoft’s WPS. Such productivity tools have huge market value!

Our company name is an application software company. With such a large category of office software, we have to do it, right? "

Zhang Tiantian couldn't help frowning: "You want to cross-border office software? I don't think it's easy to do it. Users are accustomed to using Microsoft Office. Domestic Kingsoft WPS is second only to Microsoft Office. It must be that WPS developed relatively early and came out in the 80s. It has accumulated a large number of users over the years. Many other office software, even if they have all the functions, cannot make any waves at all."

"We have an entry point and have a powerful function of correcting typos that is more powerful than other office software!" Zhao Han was very confident.

But in 2004, the functions of mainstream office software, including error correction, were still barely interesting.

Not to mention now, even in 2023, mainstream office software still has not done a good job in functions such as typo correction.

Therefore, there are user pain points here. As long as a group of users are caught in the pain points, there will naturally be a certain market foundation.

There is also free software. This concept still had huge lethality in 2004.

Almost all of the future domestic application software will be free. QQ, Xunlei, Sogou, WPS, 360... one of them counts, the basic functions are free, and some value-added paid functions are added.

Well, there are also some innovations in the future, such as - office cloud!

Current office software does not yet have functions such as cloud storage, cloud office, and collaborative office.

To put it simply, today's office software has not been Internet-based and was still designed based on the concepts of the 90s and [-]s.

Then Zhao Han said: "Suppose, I said that our office software is Internet-based office software. For example, if we create a team-mode document, team members can edit the document and work collaboratively. Is this function technically difficult? ?”

"It's not difficult!" Zhang Tiantian said, "It's just that the idea is relatively new."

"Okay! The office software we will develop later will have the following functions. The basic functions of Microsoft, Kingsoft, and various office software on the market are all available. We provide all the functions that our peers have for free. Basic error correction, school team The functions are free, and if we improve them further in the future, you can charge, for example, 1 yuan a month. If users need a certain function, they can subscribe and pay. After expiration, the basic functions of the user will not be affected, and the basic functions of office software will be free forever! "Zhao Han thought for a while, "Also, find a way to cooperate with the paper website and provide paper plagiarism checking services!"

"Would you like to build a journal article website?" Zhang Tiantian couldn't help but joked.