Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

"With Skype, we will incubate a project in depth this time."

Richard Rothschild was unwilling to pass up this opportunity!

Regarding Winston's decision-making and results of participating in MySpace operations, he has actually been studying this report for a long time recently.

With so many years of experience in investing in the Internet, he can clearly feel that it is difficult to incubate another phenomenal project like Overture and MySpace in the current environment.

The important thing is that I recently observed Ning Zimo at close range in Shenzhen for a long time. His current focus does not allow him to invest too much energy in the social field.

At this time,

Definitely an opportunity!

"With the intervention of capital, especially the Midas touch like Emperor Penguin. Their habit of taking large amounts of capital and distributing 30% of the shares to the founding team has become well-known in the industry, which also makes today's founders more discerning.

As people get higher and higher, they become more and more smart.

You must know that a search engine like Overture only cost us less than 20 million US dollars back then. But in a few years, if we want to win a social networking site like MySpace, we will need to mobilize 600 million dollars?"

Richard Rothschild lamented, "Small projects are not dominant in today's Internet era, so this time we have to systematically consider Winston's suggestions. My decision is to take down Skype.

In-depth incubation of social projects.”

After several years of smooth sailing, Richard Rothschild felt that he had found a way to become rich.

In this road to wealth,

Ning Zimo is the guiding light.

There have been many projects in recent years. After studying the Internet ideas of Ning Zimo and Emperor Penguin in Europe and the United States, they made a lot of money by following the trend of selling low and selling high.

Ning Zimo values ​​​​the game distribution platform, so they invested 50 million in Steam. Although Steam only accounts for less than 30% of the global game distribution field, relying on this 30% share, they relied on the last round before Steam went public.

Added US$500 million in revenue and achieved a 10-fold return.

Ning Zimo attaches great importance to e-commerce. Their Alando subsidiary not only bought shares of eBay and Amazon, but also copied eBay's model to create an e-commerce platform, and then sold it to eBay and earned another 2

100 million U.S. dollars. This transaction even achieved a 100-fold return.

Continuous success made Richard Rothschild appreciate the Internet giant's vision even more.

But appreciation is just the fruit buried in his heart. After all, he is a nobleman born from one of the four major families, and he cannot let the name of plagiarism always accompany him.

Moreover, as the youngest contemporary heir of the Rothschild family, with such a prestigious endorsement, he cannot remain a shadow forever.

He wants light,

It is even more important to stand in front of the stage.

He wants to prove that he comes from a wealthy family, but he is definitely the best of this generation!

After all, he, a top student from Eton College, must be higher than that high school student who has never even been to the ivory tower in some fields!

Now, the opportunity is right in front of you to compete with him in the social field.

Not only for wealth and fame, but also for this outstanding woman beside me.

As his thoughts flowed, Richard Rothschild couldn't help but look at the woman beside him.

Ling Shengnan!

A top student at Winchester School in England.

Looking at her profile, there are few faces in the world that are so charming.

What's more, her knowledge, her intelligence, and everything about her are all part of her intoxication.

Ever since an unintentional online contest turned into a real meeting, I have been deeply attracted to her.

Different from other enchanting women, she has a charming face, but there is an interesting soul sealed in her enchanting figure.

It's a pity that after all these years, apart from working together, he has not been able to take any further steps with her.

But this time it's different. As long as that dazzling Internet giant is brought down from the altar in the social field, he will definitely win her attention!

The fire rises in my chest,

The scorching heat ignited his ambition.

"This time, we have mobilized all the backbones of our team to provide a high degree of cooperation in all aspects to ensure that we can gain a firm foothold in the social field. So... Winston."

Seeing Richard Rothschild's stern expression, Winston, who had always been casual, changed his usual style and immediately responded, "Here, boss."

"You are responsible for negotiating the acquisition of Skype. Since you have decided to make different achievements in the social field than in the past, you must be fully prepared for how this project will be integrated into MySpace's plan."

"No problem, Boss." Winston nodded and said, "I have done a lot of work, and I will continue to do the subsequent work. As soon as I am ready, I will contact eBay immediately. I believe Meg Whitman

I would like to get a satisfactory exit result before she leaves office."

"Okay!" Winston nodded and turned to look at Zhang Junhao, "Your information team must cooperate with Winston's work and feed back various information in a timely manner. But the most important thing is to see if there is any opportunity to borrow

Through your cousin’s relationship, I learned about the Internet giant’s movements.”

Seeing Zhang Junhao nod in agreement, Richard Rothschild added, "The person we are looking at has always behaved very differently. It is difficult for us to guarantee that his purpose of coming to the United States this time will not overlap with ours. Therefore, we have to

Very aware of his movements."

"I understand," Zhang Junhao smiled, "I haven't seen my cousin for a long time, and I should go see her."

"The understanding is that we don't need to worry too much. After all, the reason why we are considering acquiring Skype at this time is because Emperor Penguin should focus mainly on the 3G mobile phone business. Their lengthy front is also where we can fight against them.

capital.”

After spending several months in Shenzhen, everything about the Emperor Penguin Cambrian Industrial Park was engraved in Rothschild's mind.

The trends in the laboratory in the fourth quarter, the collective visits of Ren Zhengfei, Lei Jun, logistics companies, and the appearance of DJI drones at the Beijing Olympics.

All the current trends of Emperor Penguin indicate that Ning Zimo has turned his attention to the direction of hardware.

Did he think that the Internet industry had become his stable back garden, so he turned the ship around?

The sneer in his heart only lasted a few seconds before Rothschild suppressed it. He turned around and continued to look at Ling Shengnan. He said sternly:

"Shengnan, although Ning Zimo has now turned his attention to hardware, Facebook, which competes with our MySpace, is operated by a whole team.

Former Google executive Sheryl Sandberg is a talented person. Under her leadership, their major shareholder Ning Zimo does not need to invest energy, and Facebook can still develop smoothly.

Therefore, while we invest the main energy in the social field, Facebook also needs you to add more trouble to them. On the one hand, it will make Facebook confused, and on the other hand, it will also attract their attention, allowing us to leave more

space to operate the Skype acquisition."

Ling Shengnan glanced at Rothschild.

With just one glance, she turned to look out the window into the distance.

"Understand, this is our 'X' job."

Nuwa, this is Ling Shengnan's code name in the X hacker team. When he joined the X hacker team by chance, he never expected that this team would get in touch with the Rothschild team who was eyeing Ning Zimo.

After so many years, Rothschild relied on X's behind-the-scenes operations behind the Internet to win many Internet projects. Their consistent thinking was that money would clear the way, and X would use all his means behind the Internet.

In this way, these projects have more or less contributed to the sudden increase in Rothschild's wealth.

So now, Rothschild's eyes are fixed on the person she can't forget.

Zimo, are you ready?

There is a jackal watching you!

What can I do for you this time?

And, do I still have that much time?

***+***

"Why don't you need Skype? When you founded MySpace, didn't you just spend a lot of energy on the number of users?" Elon Musk was very puzzled by Ning Zimo's thinking, "Skype has such a large number of users.

If it can be acquired back, doesn’t it mean there will be a huge user injection?”

Although he has not participated in Internet projects for so many years, he has never lacked attention to the growth of the young people he admired most at PayPal.

"Why Skype?" Ning Zimo laughed, "The mobile Internet that I have been promoting with all my energy is no longer in an era when one software or one platform can attract users from all over the world."

Looking at Elon Musk's confusion, Ning Zimo joked, "You don't like the Internet, why are you so concerned about this issue? Shouldn't you talk to me about the launch progress of Falcon 1 now?"

"

"Hi... The Falcon launch progress is beyond my control at the moment. The plan is September 28, and everyone is already taking action..."

"Hey... I'm just kidding, don't be so serious." Ning Zimo quickly stopped and explained, "Internet projects always have a key value, and this key value is called customer acquisition cost.

The main reason why Skype was valued by eBay at that time was because Skype had a user market of 100 million at the time. For eBay, while they were concerned about whether Skype was a healthy project, they also wanted to bring it to eBay.

Go to relatively low customer acquisition costs.

After all, for e-commerce platforms, the linkage value generated by the average customer acquisition cost of US$5.5 is inertial. In other words, for e-commerce platforms like eBay, the acquisition price of Skype is affordable.

.”

"This is because after users develop the habit of purchasing, they will inevitably generate inertial consumption. Therefore, Skype is a good traffic source platform for eBay."

"Yes, users' subsequent consumption will bring sustainability to the e-commerce platform. But such behavior is different on social networks."

"It's because the business model of social networks is different from that of business, so..."

"Of course," Ning Zimo said happily, "most of the main revenue of social network platforms comes from advertising, and a small part comes from operating shares of third-party mini programs. For users, the spread of social networking will bring crowds together.

Effect. Therefore, the main job of social networks is to provide users with refined services, not to acquire customers themselves.”

Ning Zimo shrugged when he said this:

"In this case, do you think it is necessary for me to repurchase Skype?"

"It's...there's really no need."

"That's it, let's talk about your falcon."