Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

{Time: November 4, 2002}

{Location: Special Administrative Region}

Ms. Joanna from Poland feels that she has enjoyed the benefits brought by skrpe, but people like her can only be considered a small part of skrpe's vast customer base.

In order to serve all 800w users well, the three teams of the skrpe team worked hard throughout the day.

Customer service team in Luxembourg; technical team in Frankfurt, Germany;

Especially the promotion and support flower planting zone team, because of the time difference with Europe, Ning Zimo and everyone worked non-stop for 14 hours that day.

Until 23:00 in the evening, "Xiaobai's home" was still brightly lit, and the sound of crackling keyboards and occasional voices spread throughout the conference room.

At the conference table lined with salted fish, Ning Zimo, who was close to the door, saw the 6-digit number jumping once. He could no longer suppress his nervousness and finally laughed.

The cumulative growth of new users has reached 210,000, an increase of more than 100% compared with the same period last month.

"Boss, the number of new skrpe users today is growing very rapidly, I'm afraid it will exceed 300,000!" Zhuang Zhanpeng, who was far away in Germany, also saw this comfort, and his uncontrollable excitement spread through the speakers of his laptop.

Ning Zimo smiled and nodded, "Well, it is definitely no problem to break through 300,000, but this growth trend should gradually subside within a week. If we want to have such a high user growth, we are afraid that we will have to cooperate with more countries

Typical operators will only maintain this after signing an interoperability agreement.”

"Then we need to get our new CEO and COO of skrpe to take action quickly, so that we are not far from making a profit."

Zhuang Zhanpeng's voice floated in "Xiaobai's home", making every busy person look up involuntarily. The owner of this voice and these eyes had spent several months working hard for this upgrade.

Seeing the anticipation in their eyes, Ning Zimo smiled and nodded, "Well, skrpe is very likely to make a profit this month!"

yeah!

Hurrah!

Going to make a profit!

Hohohoho~~

After all, they are a group of young people with an average age of only 25 or 6 years old. They were immediately excited when they heard the news.

Mo Fan even jumped up and ravaged Lin Changxin's hair beside him, while others slapped and hugged those around them and cheered in victory.

Ning Zimo simply stood up and walked out of "Xiao Bai's home", leaving the space behind them so that they could have a chance to vent after their hard work.

skrpe is finally profitable, not only because of the efforts before this version upgrade, but also because of more than a year of hard work and perseverance. Although this node is not profitable yet, if this trend continues, it may be officially launched next month

Profit results.

"How is it? Today's version upgrade is a big harvest?" Han Qinghua, who was standing a few steps away from Li Ying and Zhang Xiaolong, asked curiously.

"Well, user growth has doubled compared to last month. It is expected that in 24 hours, it will be at least three times that of last month." Ning Zimo replied, then raised his chin to Han Qinghua, "Walking up the rooftop

?”

"Let's go." Han Qinghua walked out, and Zhang Xiaolong looked impatient.

Ning Zimo led them outside and saw Li Ying crinkling her nose slightly.

What, she knew she wanted to smoke?

Wei Wei raised his eyebrows at her, admiring her for showing a tacit understanding even when she disliked her. Ning Zimo led Han Qinghua and Zhang Xiaolong up to the rooftop.

It was like the last time we came to the rooftop, except that Lu Qi, who was far away in Germany, was missing. The three of them lit cigarettes and leaned on the railing of the rooftop, all looking up at the starry sky at night.

After standing in silence for half a minute, Han Qinghua asked, "When you hear those guys cheering, there must be something more joyful than the increase in users, right?"

"Well, although there is no official profit yet, I first told them the possible profit situation next month, so these guys are naturally very happy."

"Can you make a profit so soon?"

"Actually, it's not that fast, because our real paying users are only 1/200. Even if we add the function of interoperating with telephones, our short-term profit situation will still be negative growth. But we need to give the team some confidence, even if it is a bold idea

, so I drew a cake for them." Ning Zimo shook his head, but the curved corners of his mouth were still raised.

After a pause, Ning Zimo explained in detail, "It is basically the first time for team members to participate in an Internet project, and they may not know much about this industry. Although skrpe is a software, it is essentially an Internet software.

.Although we have a certain profit model, it is normal for Internet projects to not see benefits in the short term.

For now, skrpe has 1/200 paying users, totaling 40,000 people. The average consumption of these 40,000 paying users is 9 US dollars a month. With this group of users, we can earn 360,000 US dollars per month, but our current monthly operation

The maintenance cost is as high as 500,000 US dollars. But even so, we are already much better than our neighbors."

"Neighbor?" Han Qinghua turned his head curiously.

"Yes, isn't Tengxun, which is located in Nantou Street, our neighbor? It is also an Internet company similar to ours. After three years of hard work after their establishment in 1998, they had a user base of 200 million in 2001

But still can't make any money.

There were once rumors on the Internet that QQ would charge fees or stop services, but this year their cooperation with "Mobile Monternet" changed their living situation. Mobile QQ accounted for 70% of Tengxun's business revenue, and it has completely turned around."

"Do you think skrpe will make profits faster than them?" Han Qinghua heard what Ning Zimo meant and asked with interest.

Ning Zimo raised his eyebrows, "I set up a flag for the skrpe project that will be profitable next month. Now I just put it out in advance to make everyone happy."

When Han Qinghua heard this, he was not happy at all. He curled his lips and said, "It seems that the profit methods of various projects in my hands are far behind!"

"And me, I'm afraid it will be difficult for this project to even make a profit." Zhang Xiaolong curled his lips.

"Hey, are you complaining that I didn't give you a good project?" Ning Zimo was amused. He put his arms around Han Qinghua and Zhang Xiaolong's shoulders and said, "We can't just focus on the immediate interests. You know,

The things you have in your hands are great weapons for our long-term development!"

"Just throw all the long-term projects at me! I won't have any sense of accomplishment in the short term." Han Qinghua said with a smile.

"You are my brother-in-law. If I don't leave it to you, who can I trust?" Ning Zimo turned to Zhang Xiaolong and said, "Although gmail may not make money, it is the most important link in the bing system.

Do a good job in Gmail first, and there will be better things waiting for you in the future."

"Ha~~" Both of them shrugged, but they felt relaxed in their hearts.

Han Qinghua knew that Ning Zimo had big plans and that what he was given would require a long development process. No one could be like him in the short term and persist in doing it even if there is no profit.

Whether it's ERP, Internet cafe management systems or other bits and pieces, this bunch of things that are not profitable in the short term can only make each other feel at ease if he holds them in his hands.

From the moment Zhang Xiaolong was invited by Ning Zimo, he felt that this young leader was a person with far-sighted vision. Although Emperor Penguin is currently very small, he will definitely bring Emperor Penguin to a bigger stage.

Looking at the expressions of the two of them, Ning Zimo knew that they were just joking.

So with half a cigarette left, the three of them said nothing more.

But after just a few exchanges, Ning Zimo understood.

He is willing to give trust,

They are willing to take responsibility,

One day in the future, these projects that are still incubating will explode.

But now,

Still need to hibernate!

This is the case with the Internet industry. Before the advent of the mobile Internet era, and in the chaos of the early days of the Internet, no one knew where the direction of tomorrow would be.

Before 2002, Beibao burned 300 million in funds. When the estimated money was burned out every month, team members would think that it might go bankrupt this month.

In the first three years since Tengxun was established, Xiao Ma and his team experienced countless hardships and obstacles, and almost sold Tengxun QQ for 600,000.

It can be said that in the early stages of development, every Internet company is crossing the river by feeling the stones, and every step is difficult.

Only you, because you have the golden finger of future development trends, can move forward and develop firmly in the established direction!

But those bad and good things cannot be brought out and discussed with the grassroots employees of the team.

Because even if Emperor Penguin has a far-sighted leader like him, it still depends on every member of the team to experience the good and bad things in the process before they can finally reach that beautiful tomorrow.

The value of one's presence in the team is that of a helmsman with a clear direction.

It is often necessary to encourage everyone with words and some practical achievements in order to sail the giant ship of Emperor Penguins to the destination of that dream.

Besides, he has already made too many changes in the world, and we still don’t know what the future process will be like.

This unknown fear will occasionally pop up in my mind to remind myself to be careful about my words and actions.

However, Ning Zimo is not the only one with emperor penguins.

There is a group of people here with him,

We stood together in the cold wind.