Giant of the times

On the morning of April 8, Li Youran, Li Wei and others came to Chuangshi Company.

Li Youran glanced around and looked at the employees of Chuangshi Company. There were not many of them and the office conditions were very average. However, this is generally the case with startups.

meeting room.

As soon as Li Youran and Li Wei sat down, Li Youran said bluntly to Bao Jianfeng and others: "Chuangshi Company also launched a VIP charging plan, which is really surprising. This shows that your business philosophy is very correct. But there are If Qidian Company is still there, your company will not be able to continue. Now there is only one option before you, which is to be acquired!"

Bao Jianfeng and others' expressions changed.

As expected, the person who came was not good!

The company was acquired just after it was established. Naturally, everyone was unwilling to accept it. Several founders looked at each other and shook their heads secretly. According to the previous discussion, Bao Jianfeng said: "I'm sorry, Miss Li, I'm afraid I can't do what you want!"

A trace of displeasure flashed through Li Youran's beautiful eyes, and she frowned and said, "So, you are going to refuse?! You must know that Qidian.com is a powerful company that aims to monopolize the online novel market. It's not a bad idea if you can join Qidian. It’s not about entering a higher platform! On the contrary, if you compete with it, the results can be imagined! Do you think that your novel website can still compete with the Qidian Noon website??”

As soon as the words fell, everyone was unconvinced. A young senior manager couldn't help but said: "It's not that there are no powerful foreign companies that have entered the Chinese online novel market, but they all failed. Although Qidian has strong financial resources, we also have our advantages. , because we understand Chinese online novels, we are confident that we will make the website bigger and stronger! Now that the two novel websites are online at the same time, we still don’t know who will win in the end!”

The reason why this young executive dared to say this is because recently many venture capital companies have come to us and want to invest in Chuangshi.

The reason is simple. Both Chuangshi and Qidian have launched VIP charging plans.

Qidian was founded by Chronos·Li’s daughter, and it is inevitable that Chronos·Li would provide advice.

Chuangshi immediately attracted the attention of venture capital companies because of the same operating methods as Qidian.

Who will win? Li Youran couldn't help but laugh.

To be honest, she really didn't think Chuangshi would be Qidian's competitor. If it weren't for the fact that Chuangshi website also launched a VIP charging plan, Li Youran felt that the company's team was not bad, then she would never look at a small start-up company in a different light.

Li Youran also knows that recently many venture capital companies want to invest in Genesis, but it would be ridiculous for Genesis to think that it can compete with Qidian by getting venture capital.

"Okay, let's just wait and see!" Li Youran stood up coldly and said goodbye.

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However, as soon as Li Youran and others left, the news that she was going to Chuangshi Company spread not long after, causing a huge sensation especially in the venture capital community.

"Chronos Li's daughter wants to acquire Chuangshi. It seems that our previous investment decision was right. There must be many venture capital companies wanting to invest in Chuangshi now. We must speed up!"

"Yes, I heard that the market value of Chuangshi Company has been raised to 25 million yuan!"

"Damn, these people are too crazy!"

"Oh, who said that Chuangshi Novel Company is a hot commodity!"

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The launch of the VIP charging plan for novel websites has attracted many authors. The more authors there are, the more readers there will be, which will naturally increase website traffic. As a result, Chuangshi has been favored by many venture capital investors, making it the envy of other novel websites.

On April 10, Chuangshi received a total investment of 10 million yuan from Shanda Company, Goldman Sachs Group and Sequoia Capital, selling 35% of its shares.

As soon as the news came out, it caused huge shock in the industry.

Immediately afterwards, a large number of novel websites launched VIP charging plans.

The era of online novels in China and around the world has entered a new stage.

After receiving an investment of 10 million yuan, Chuangshi Company immediately purchased servers and broadband, and at the same time advertised online and offline. For a time, the number of website visits increased dramatically.

However, a month later, the number of visits to the Chuangshi website no longer increased, or even decreased.

At this time, most online novels had launched VIP charging plans, and many venture capital companies invested in them, which resulted in the creation company's advantages disappearing.

More importantly, after fierce competition, most Internet writers have switched to Qidian.com.

The Qidian website itself has the best works and Internet writers. In addition, the Qidian website cooperates with QQ to convert countless QQ users into readers of the Qidian website. This has resulted in an astonishing number of visits to the Qidian website. It is the number one website in the world. ten times. The income of online writers is linked to readers. The more people read the book, the more income they will earn. It is conceivable that online writers are willing to sign contracts with Qidian.

The more excellent online writers gather on one website, the easier it will be to produce excellent works, and excellent works can attract a large number of readers.

At this moment, three sacred books appeared on the Qidian website, one is "Piaomiao Journey", one is "Legend of Xiaobing", and the last one is "Zhu Xian" written by Li Zetian many years ago. "Zhu Xian" was published as a physical book at that time and was very popular. Now it is put on the website and many people read it.

These three books are extremely popular, with an astonishingly high click-through rate. They are widely rumored to be the "Three Wonderful Books on the Internet" and have attracted countless readers!

Many people are even more surprised that "Zhu Xian" was written by Li Zetian.

Among these three books, "Zhu Xian" has been read by the most people and has the most comments.

In order to attract readers, "Zhu Xian" is completely free.

As for "Piao Miao Journey" and "Legend of Xiaobing", they are both free, but they have signed buyout agreements with Qidian.com, with a price of 1,000 words/500 yuan. After the contents of this contract came out, it caused a huge sensation in the Internet writer circle at that time.

You must know that the income of Internet writers at that time was extremely pitiful. The vast majority of Internet writers had no income at all.

The buyout contract of 1,000 words/500 yuan is really shocking. This means that writing 2 million words a year and earning an annual income of over one million is unimaginable to many people!

Internet writers are all envious of the author of "Piao Miao Journey" and "The Legend of Xiaobing", and at the same time they are also eager to get this buyout contract. It is impossible for other novel websites to provide it, only starting point. This is naturally one of the reasons why Internet writers are changing jobs one after another.

At present, the Qidian Chinese novel website has become the undisputed dominant novel website in China. Readers who like to read novels will know about the Qidian website. The Qidian Chinese novel website at this moment is more powerful than Long Kong at his peak!

All other novel websites suffered serious losses and were unable to make ends meet, especially Chuangshi. The number of online writers and readers dropped sharply. The previous advertising promotion was almost in vain, and the company's valuation suddenly dropped to less than 5 million yuan. Nowadays, Chuangshi is burning money every day, and I am afraid that before long, all the funds in the account will be spent. If it cannot find new investors, Chuangshi may face bankruptcy.