Rebirth: I Want to Surf

Chen Yizhou, Lei Jun's classmate.

In the late 1990s, he co-founded ChinaRen with Zhou Yunfan. After being acquired by Sohu, he started his own business again.

In the history of the Internet, it can also be regarded as the number one figure.

"Chen Yizhou received an investment of 10 million U.S. dollars last year, and this year, according to my information, another 48 million U.S. dollars will fall into his account.

All are American investment institutions, because of the influence of Facebook.

Although your community is leading, but the Internet is fighting for money, a large amount of money is spent, and the expansion speed is far beyond your imagination..."

Xu Xin looked at Yao Yuan and said, "So if Maiwo wants to maintain its advantage, the best way is to open up financing. Your scale is so large, and the valuation is higher than Facebook. Only a small amount of shares can get a large amount of funding.

With the development of the Internet for so many years, there will always be geniuses who amaze the world, but no matter how talented they are, they cannot win by fighting alone. To put it bluntly, if others raise money, if you don’t raise money, you will fall behind.

We are not enemies, we are friends, I want to be your friend, we move forward together. "

oh!

Yao Yuan understood that she wanted to be my friend.

HE...TUI!

You know what I wanna do I'm behind? Am I here to tinker with the community? I am here for a big transformation in the future! For Weibo and public opinion.

And you are all wrong. It is Maimai Space and QQ Space that are benchmarking Facebook, not Maiwo Community.

"..."

The Malaysian braised stew has been eaten up, and the target has shifted to the skewers. Yao Yuan is picking up the skewers, but he is distracted, as if he is digesting the touching speech of the other party.

After a while, he slowly shook his head: "The community is my painstaking effort..."

"Mr. Yao!"

Yao Yuan stopped her, with a sincere and deep look on his face, and said: "You can regard me as an idealist, I want to build an online holy place for young people, whether it is backward or eliminated, I like the way it is now .

If the day becomes unsustainable, I might sell it, if anyone still buys it. "

well!

As soon as Xu Xin heard it, he knew it was over, but the other party changed his voice and said with a smile: "But it doesn't mean we can't cooperate. If you are still interested, we can talk about Maike Eslite, or Qianqian Music Box."

Maike Eslite?

What what music box?

She knows the former, but what is the latter? It doesn't hurt to listen to it, so I nodded.

"Maike Eslite is now a self-operated brand of the mall, but its volume has grown rapidly. I plan to divide it out and count it as a subsidiary."

oh?

Xu Xin was moved after hearing this, Maike Eslite has good potential, and if the investment is counted from the A round, it can be done.

"If you're interested, let's talk about it another day. As for the Qianqian Music Box, it's a package of community music services, and a comprehensive player as the carrier..."

After he talked about it, Xu Xin frowned and asked, "Then how to make money?"

"There is no profit..."

Yao Yuan did not say that he would combine with Maimai Space, but only said: "But I have the copyright in my hand."

"copyright?"

"Massive song copyrights."

"Then why don't you..."

Xu Xingang wanted to ask why he didn't sue those who pirated, but he immediately realized that the whole network pirated, sue the hair! She thought about it and said, "You want to do long-term business, wait for the policy?"

"That's right, we've all joined the WTO, so we can't keep playing with piracy. I believe there will be a day when there will be a crackdown, and then we can try the profit model."

"Appreciate further details!"

"First of all, members, only members of certain VIP songs can listen.

Secondly, the sale of digital albums and singles. I'm already doing this, such as selling records on the mall. Now that physical records are so bad, I think sooner or later they will go online.

This again involves the number of netizens and the awareness of payment. If in an ideal environment, a digital album costs 20 yuan, and one million people pay, it will be 20 million, which directly saves the cost of distribution. The creator-platform- The audience is one-stop.

And then there's the ads and stuff like that. "

Yao Yuan said: "As you said, this is a long-term business. The size of the music platform is neither big nor small. It is not a necessity, but it is also indispensable. It is a small thing."

This year he wants to spin off the music service without paying the cost because the community is already too big.

The best way is to find financing. The same is true for Maike Eslite. It costs too much to do it yourself.

After a series of reshuffles in domestic music platforms, there are only two left in the future: QQ Music and NetEase Cloud, both of which have a market value of less than 10 billion US dollars—serving as a side dish in the big meal of the Internet.

It's actually quite a pity.

When the Chinese music scene was still creative, piracy was everywhere and the policies were weak. When the music scene declined, the music platform took shape. Everyone can only appreciate the skills of those old guys in variety shows.

When we met today, Xu Xin failed to achieve his goal, but he got two projects, Maike Eslite and Qianqian Music Box.

She is also very interested, and she has a preliminary understanding.

The two talked for several hours before leaving the China World Hotel. Their respective drivers drove over. Xu Xin looked at his luxury car and then at the Accord opposite, with a strange expression on his face, but he didn't say anything.

But Xiao Mo hurt his self-esteem.

"Boss, can I ask you something?"

"You want to borrow money?"

"No, can you change to a better car? It's not a Rolls-Royce, but at least a Mercedes-Benz. People think I'm the driver of a township entrepreneur."

"You know what a fart, only township entrepreneurs love to drive Mercedes-Benz!"

"Yes, yes, I know what a fart. I know you are low-key, but you can't be too exaggerated. If you come to China World Hotel in an Accord, it's like Maotai with stewed fire."

Xiao Mo complained again and again, and even expressed that he was willing to cut his salary and pay him a down payment.

Yao Yuan thought it was the same, mainly because he was too lazy to operate these things, and it was the same in his previous life. Others used their mobile phones for 1-2 years, but he used a smart phone for 4-5 years, and only changed when the performance could not keep up.

"Okay, let's change to another one, uh..."

As soon as he pondered, Xiao Mo got excited, Rolls Royce? Maybach? Bentley? Longer Lincoln is also OK!

"Change to a Volvo!"

Alas!

Xiao Mo rolled his eyes, forget it, a Volvo is just a Volvo, and it is still the driver of a township entrepreneur.

…………

After seeing Xu Xin, Yao Yuan didn't fluctuate much.

Carry out the plan for this year step by step, and first push out Qianqian Music.

Considering the user's mood and habits, the [Music] section was not directly cleared, but a transition period of one month was reserved. During this period, the content of the original section will be gradually transferred to "Qianqian Music Network".

One website + one music box, the account is still common.

The number of active users of Mai Wo has decreased, because some people don't like to argue, gossip, or post photos, they come for the music, and they follow the music.

Business divestitures are inevitable.

The independence of Qianqian Music made a sophomore boy at AH Medical University very happy. This person is Xu Song.

(no more...)