1991 Starting from the core

"Mr. Ding, whatever you have is the best. How about I make you a drink?" Zhou Xiaohui stood aside with a bottle of water and said with a smile: "Try to drink it."

"Okay, please excuse me, Sister Xiaohui."

"..."

Zhou Xiaohui made tea for the two of them and exited the office, closing the door at the same time.

"Sister Xiaohui is so virtuous..." Ding Lei held the tea in his hand and looked away from the door in admiration.

Su Yuanshan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Senior brother, can you have a formal appearance? Is she not as old as you?"

"She is half a month older than me, and one and a half months older than Pony."

"Uh...I forgot about that."

Ding Lei was 28 days older than Pony, and Su Yuanshan knew this - he had read their files when he sent Ding Lei to the Special Administrative Region, but he really didn't pay attention to Zhou Xiaohui's age.

After all, Zhou Xiaohui is considered an old person among Yuanxin old people. She was one of the first batch of employees recruited not long after Sun Xihui took office. Su Yuanshan did not have Zhou Xiaohui's file at all at that time.

After chatting for a while and taking another sip of tea, Ding Lei coughed and his expression became a little serious: "Mr. Shan, we senior brothers should be clear and don't tell secrets."

Su Yuanshan couldn't help but his eyelids twitched when he heard these words with a strong Jianghu aura. Ever since Ding Lei pulled Pony into a toast at last year's annual meeting, Ding Lei's image in his mind has completely changed into the type of the joking second brother next door... He is wary.

Now, no, even Mingren’s secret words have come out...

"Senior brother, tell me." Su Yuanshan remained calm.

Ding Lei stared at Su Yuanshan, gritted his teeth, and whispered: "How much money can we support investing in our Internet center now?"

As soon as he heard this, Su Yuanshan immediately felt relaxed. But he remained calm and asked with a smile: "How much do you want?"

Ding Lei smiled and said, "If you let me speak, I'll be in trouble."

As he spoke, he took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "I have been inspecting abroad for more than a month and found that even the Internet needs to be promoted."

"We got the Internet demographics. At present, the main Internet population is all in North America. To be more precise, it is the lighthouse country. Then after actual inspection, we found that the so-called Internet population is actually quite water-he only counted People who have access to the Internet can count even if they only use a Modem to dial a number once. And we know that in the west, at present, the vast majority of people are only connected to the Internet to receive emails. There is no concept of "online life" yet. "

Su Yuanshan nodded: "Yes, what next?"

"And our portal website, in a sense, the so-called information is actually online life. The biggest advantage of using the Internet to obtain information and use the Internet to replace communication and exchange is convenience. But now, there are a lot of The so-called 'Internet population' don't know how convenient the Internet is."

"Therefore... if you want to become bigger and stronger and achieve a monopoly, you must spend money."

"But advertising in the west is really a lot of money."

This is what Pony also added: "Besides, servers and bandwidth are too expensive."

Su Yuanshan pondered for a few seconds and then asked: "What is your budget this year?"

Ding Lei and Pony looked at each other, and finally Ding Lei said: "Eight million US dollars."

"Gone?"

Ding Lei shook his head: "There are still less than two million - you know, almost all of us here use foreign exchange."

Su Yuanshan exhaled softly, crossed his hands, pressed his thumbs together, and slowly wrinkled his brows.

He knew that Ding Lei and Pony spent money very quickly in the past six months or two months, but he didn't expect it to be so fast - in the blink of an eye, 30 million yuan was gone.

And as Ding Lei said, all they spent was foreign exchange.

Because of the particularity of Yuanxin's business, it has a high degree of freedom in foreign exchange. Especially when we were talking about wafer fabs last year, the Foreign Exchange Center personally asked Yuanxin whether there was enough foreign exchange - if not, we could get it for you!

However, with the completion of the wafer fab and the completion of various purchases this year, the foreign exchange center will not be like last year.

In particular, Yuanxin's exports of YX architecture chips have increased this year, and mobile phones and base stations have been vigorously deployed in Southeast Asia. Yuanxin has also incurred a lot of taxes.

Of course, the state supports and even supports Yuanxin, and the export tax rebate policy greatly favors it.

But in this way, Yuanxin's foreign exchange can no longer escape the control of the foreign exchange center.

Of course, the foreign exchange center is very polite to Yuanxin, saying that your foreign exchange is still yours, I just keep it for you...

"It's really annoying to spend all the foreign exchange." Su Yuanshan licked his lips, with a constipated expression on his face: "We are importing technology or equipment, as long as it is used in China, we will come over as soon as we say hello. But if we really want to Foreign countries are burning money to develop the Internet...the Gods of Wealth must be a little awkward."

"Yes." Ding Lei nodded and sighed.

After he came back, he asked around and found out that Yuanxin had expanded too much this year and burned too much money.

As the director of the Internet Center, in addition to being responsible for the general direction, Ding Lei also has to consider the significance of the existence of the Internet Center.

Even if Su Yuanshan said it didn't matter, he would still think it did.

——The same goes for Pony.

Among the major businesses of the Internet Center, only the Foxmail email client and enterprise email system have found a profitable direction, and have also successfully won several international orders, which can be regarded as successful profits.

But this profit is really only a drop in the bucket for the upcoming server and bandwidth pressure, as well as advertising investment.

"On the way here, we thought about the profit model again." Ding Lei said seriously: "Mr. Shan, you are different from other bosses."

Su Yuanshan was feeling worried, and he felt happy when he heard this: "Why is it different?"

"If I were the boss, or if I were the boss, I would definitely talk about the future of the portal and EM in front of investors." Ding Lei smiled and said: "But you are useless here, you can see better than us. Farther away…so I’ll make it clear.”

"Although all the capital is pouring into Internet companies, fundamentally, the Internet's profit model is still blank. The so-called advertising is just to deceive those who don't know how to do it."

Su Yuanshan watched the young Ding Lei, who had obviously lost a lot of weight, telling himself in an almost heart-to-heart manner that the profit model of his current job, Ding Lei, was blank... and he felt inexplicably moved in his heart.

Indeed, this can be considered as unfaithful advice.

After a few seconds of silence, Su Yuanshan smiled and said: "If you say that, I feel like you are going to persuade me to cancel the Internet Center next."

"That's not the case." Ding Lei chuckled.

"so?"

"If we really can't find a profit model..." Ding Lei breathed out softly: "I suggest that we don't continue to burn Yuanxin's money."

Su Yuanshan was slightly startled.

"Burn capitalists' money."