Reborn 2005: The Internet Myth

On April 10, 365 Navigation Page reached an average of 12 million daily visits in Midland.

It’s no exaggeration to say that everyone loves it.

According to the first calculation, the traffic revenue in these ten days reached 2.2 million US dollars.

When Cheryl announced the news in public, the whole office was in an uproar.

Success!

I have been working at Meta for a month, even though I know that their products are good and the boss is rich.

But some employees are still very nervous. You must know that it basically takes a long process for startups to get out of the investment stage and enter profitability.

But Meta seems to be completely different. The first project generated huge revenue in just ten days.

2.2 million is really a lot.

Data can best explain everything. In Silicon Valley, this sentence is regarded as truth.

As long as the company starts to make money, it means that the company is more than half successful!

Acting King Cheryl announced the evening party, and then showed the majesty of the future social queen in the cheers: "Now, I ask Meta to occupy Europe as soon as possible! Oceania! Asia! Run quickly! All of them!"

While the company was running at high speed, Cheryl returned to the office, and Wang was looking through obscure financial documents across the desk.

Cheryl put away her mentality of 2.2 million yuan in revenue and said seriously: "Justin, although 365 Navigation has 2.2 million yuan in revenue, the consumption of the Meta community has been increasing."

"Based on the growth rate of the Meta community, I estimate that by next month, more than eight million US dollars will need to be invested in IDC services, or even higher."

“After half a year, 365 Navigation’s income will be a drop in the bucket compared to the Meta community’s investment.”

"We should open the financing window early."

Wang Zheng nodded in agreement, Meta community is indeed a big money burner.

365's profitability is very high, but its upper limit is very low.

Moreover, in the American League, it is basically impossible to achieve the same share as Daxia.

Freedom is important here, and there are already voices scolding Meta for taking over their right to choose.

However, this is harmless. Huorong Security’s user statement clearly states that it will optimize the browser’s homepage during the optimization process to prevent malicious websites from hijacking the browser’s homepage.

If you don't agree, you can not install Huorong Security.

However, it is a common phenomenon for people at Midland to have this kind of virtue and scold them over and over again while using their services.

Financing is imperative, but now we are at a huge disadvantage.

Venture capital institutions are not stupid. It can be seen at a glance that the core of Meta Company is the Metaverse community.

This thing costs a lot of money - mainly IDC services and data storage.

365 Navigation has a low profit limit, Huorong Security operates for free, and these two businesses are agency models - they need to be split with Daxia 365.

So this means that Meta at this moment has investment value in the eyes of venture capital institutions, but it is impossible to give a high valuation.

Thinking of this, Wang Zheng asked: "How is the current number of users in the Meta community?"

"There are about 7 million registered users, but there is not much shared content, only about 800,000. The average daily IP is 1.1 million, which is not a good result." Cheryl knew the data by heart.

She spread her hands and said: "Most of our current content is pictures of landscapes, food, etc., which are not very eye-catching."

This result is indeed not good, and the content is too little.

Everyone has their own hobbies. According to the existing recommendation mechanism and excluding inferior content, there is not much high-quality content, so it is not very popular.

Wang Zheng was thinking about it and had a plan in his mind: "While we have money in our books, we are going to do a marketing campaign for Meta. Let's choose the most beautiful college student. What do you think?"

Cheryl's eyes lit up: "What a great idea. We can set up high bonuses to attract female college students to join the Meta community, and boys will naturally flock to it."

"We can set up a month-long competition schedule to guide female college students to post their own photos, and use the total number of likes and the number of comments to create a popularity value as the selection criterion."

Wang is slowly perfecting the prototype of this idea, "The top 100 people in the competition will receive corresponding rewards, and the champion's bonus can be 1 million US dollars!"

Cheryl is a veteran in operations and immediately praised: "What a great idea! We can even create a title with a bonus of tens of millions, so that the top 1,000 people can also get advertising opportunities of equal value. What do you think?"

"Perfect plan! In this event, we can show Meta's profit plan in a subtle way, and then take advantage of the huge popularity after the game to announce it."

Meta's profit plan was set early, and the development department is already developing advertising matching tools.

This is a common way to monetize future traffic.

Creators can get advertising opportunities through the platform. After publishing content containing advertising, the income will be determined based on the advertising effect or the number of fans, and the platform will take a commission from it.

In theory, every creator's content can become an advertising carrier, and every creator can make money.

Cheryl said longingly: "That will definitely be a feast."

"Shirley, Meta's first round financing valuation is up to you!"

"No problem. But Justin, it's time to put your best foot forward."

Cheryl smiled and said: "You have a good reputation now and are very handsome. Go on a few TV shows to promote our plan!"

Yes, Wang Zheng has gained some fame in the American League now.

There are not many such people in Midland who are young, entrepreneurial and have ideals.

But there are not many handsome ones!

Although he is Asian, his facial features are sharp and angular, which is in line with Western aesthetic concepts.

Wang Zheng actually didn't want to go, but he also knew that this would be a very effective publicity method: "OK, two at most, you can arrange it."

I left Meta Company temporarily, walked from No. 255 to No. 240, and walked into another office with a 'Meta' sign on the door.

This office is larger, with three floors and a total office area of ​​nearly 1,500 square meters.

Assistant Catherine has rented the place, hired people to clean it up, and purchased all the office supplies, just waiting for the opening.

It's not far from Meta and has a larger office area.

Now Meta's employees are overwhelmed, so he plans to move Meta here, and the previous one will be used as Ultron's office.

In the early days of Ultron, it didn’t need too many manpower, it was more developers and a simple sales department.

The recruitment of personnel is the same, with competition conducted by headhunting agencies.

Considering future development, this time, in addition to Heidrick & Struggles and Korn Ferry, we also contacted McKinsey, a total of three world-renowned headhunting companies.

Because Altron is responsible for the operating system and cloud computing business, the desire for senior development talents is stronger than Meta.

Following the precedent of Meta, this time the news that Wang Zheng founded Ultron was released through Catherine, and the three headhunting agencies began to pursue Catherine. Even the California branch manager came to ask for the opportunity to recommend talents.

After a round of screening, a total of six people were selected to participate in today's two interviews.

One is the CEO responsible for company operations, and the other is the CTO responsible for technology.

Wang Zheng was also looking forward to this interview and made a lot of preparations. After all, there was no one he would know in the future.