Reborn? The Kind You Can Choose!

Of course Yuan Zhou didn’t know that his Xiaonei.com 2.0 update would attract the attention of Wang Xing, the future founder of Xiaonei.com and Meituan.

What's even more frightening is that the "Duoduoyou" website that he originally sold in early 2005 was actually going to be disposed of in advance.

In fact, as early as Christmas last year, Wang Xing boarded a plane to return to China with a clear business plan.

After seeing the success of SNS, that is, social networking sites FriendStar and Face in the United States, Wang Xing thought more deeply about the gap of this model in China, so he eagerly returned to China and founded "Duoduoyou"!

It can be said that his idea is good, but too radical.

It wasn't until the beginning of 2005 that he knew that Duoduoyou's idea was a bit ahead of his time, so he launched a second project - Youzitu.

This is a very specialized service website.

When Wang Xing was studying abroad, he discovered that foreign digital technology was very developed, and his parents were not used to surfing the Internet. This website allows overseas travelers to send digital photos to China, pay by credit card, and have the traveler's pictures printed and given to them. parents.

The idea of ​​this website is equally good, but... it's still not very popular.

It was not until the fall of 2005 that Wang Xingcai decided to focus on a market segment: university campus SNS.

They studied and learned from the successful example of Face Spectrum Network in the United States in this 24 aspects, combined their previous experience and lessons in the SNS field, and combined with the national conditions, developed the school network. Once launched, it became popular all over the country.

But in the end, Xiaonei.com was hijacked by capital. In just one year, it was acquired by Thousand Oaks Group for US$2 million, and its name was also changed to Renren.com.

Wang Xing also officially resigned from Xiaonei.com.

Then the fate of the school network went downhill.

This is a classic case of capital overriding the founders, ultimately leading to the destruction of the project.

Yuan Zhou in his previous life actually did an analysis. If Wang Xing had not had the money to add servers and bandwidth, no one would know where it would end up.

After all, Lao Wang's ability will be obvious to all in future generations.

After five startups and five failures, Meituan finally stood out from more than a thousand group buying websites and successfully transformed into food delivery.

The market value is as high as 169 million Hong Kong dollars and 218 billion US dollars, making it the third largest Internet giant in China after Penguin and Ali. It is only 40 years old!

If he can persist on the campus network, perhaps history will be rewritten.

He will become China's Zuckerberg, and may become a young man competing for the title of China's richest man at the age of 30!

"It's a pity... there are not so many ifs!"

Yuan Zhou looked at the skyrocketing number of user registrations in the background, and the number of online users had exceeded 10 million. Users stayed on the website for an average of more than 1.8 hours.

This time the school network 2.0 update can be said to be a great success.

Among them, two applications, personal image and parking space grabbing, are indispensable.

Yes, Yuan Zhou has separated personal image and parking space competition and maintained it as an application, which is what he calls API application access.

The advantage of this is that the application can actually be maintained and run independently of the website without causing problems and causing the website to crash.

It's like an assembled computer. The website is made up of applications, and each programmer only needs to maintain one item individually.

But the disadvantages are equally obvious.

The cost of operation will be greatly increased. Independent applications mean independent servers, especially for parking spaces. The bandwidth required will reach hundreds of servers.

As the number of users increases, the number of servers increases exponentially.

The reason why Wang Xing, a second-generation rich man in his previous life, could not afford to buy a server was because... social games burned the server too much.

Not a few dozens of units, but thousands or even tens of thousands.

For the most famous social game "QQ Farm" in his previous life, Ma Huateng once revealed in public that he purchased more than 10,000 servers in just one month to meet the massive increase in users and simultaneous online play.

This is unimaginable in any game.

"Lulu, the 18-story office building downstairs has been negotiated for 300,000 yuan a year. They can move out tomorrow!"

Zhou Wei came to Yuan Zhou with a rental contract.

This 18th floor is where Yuan Zhou plans to place servers. The entire floor is nearly 1,000 square meters.

"How about the Internet cafe?"

Yuan Zhou asked Zhou Wei that the popularity of Xiaonei.com's personal image has led to the popularity of campus network point cards in Internet cafes, and the telecommunications business has also begun to fully activate.

"Damn it, I get so fucking angry when I talk about this!"

Zhou Wei let out a sigh: "The Internet cafe owners were all scheming before and didn't give me any face at all. Now they are all talking about Brother Zhou. They are really a bunch of snobbery!"

"When I earn money, I scream loudly and get excited. I come to my door to beg him. His eyeballs won't move, as if they were set on the beam!"

"What the hell!"

Zhou Wei was cursing there, and Yuan Zhou laughed.

He could almost imagine that scene. In fact, he sent Zhou Wei and others to the Internet cafe to do business, just to stuff business cards, without even thinking that the Internet would agree to cooperate.

How can there be ghosts if they can agree?!

After all, in their view, Xiaonei.com is just a social networking site. How can this thing be used for DianCard?

But now, they have obviously understood the law of true fragrance.

Half an hour ago, everyone called Zhou Wei one after another because the points cards in the Internet cafe were sold out.

The method of recharging coins is clearly stated on the Xiaonei website. Users who log in to the Xiaonei website at the Internet cafe obviously go directly to the boss.

Fortunately, Zhao Lei, Sun Jiaqi and several others have not returned to the company. They squatted in the field and delivered the point cards directly to their doorsteps after a phone call. They also found many of their classmates from various places to help with consignment and Internet cafe delivery.

This prevented the recharging of the point card from being too messy.

But even so, Internet cafes across the country are out of stock.

"Okay, you will be responsible for delivering the goods tomorrow!"

Yuan Zhou patted Zhou Wei's shoulder, but the cell phone in his trouser pocket suddenly rang.

A somewhat unfamiliar number.

"Hello, who's there?"

Yuan Zhou said politely, and an excited 917 voice suddenly came from the other end of the phone: "Is it... is it Mr. Yuan?"

"I am Chen Mingsheng, the dean of the School of Transportation. Do you remember me?"

"Chen Mingsheng?"

"This guy finally called!"

How could Yuan Zhou not remember this guy? This was the sponsor of his first advertising fee on the school network. The derivative value of this wave of advertising for parking spaces can be counted on these driving school owners across the country.

"Remember, remember!"

Yuan Zhou said very politely. When Chen Mingsheng heard that Yuan Zhou remembered him, he immediately became happy: "That's good, that's good. I don't know if Mr. Yuan has time now. I want to invite you out for a drink. By the way." .........Talk about the advertising cooperation between your company’s website and our driving school!”

"Hey, are you cooperating with your wife now?"

Mr. Yuan suppressed his laughter and said, "I remember that Principal Chen told me that day that he was not interested in our website or something?"

Yuan Zhou still remembers the old boy's attitude at that time, which was called disdain.

Now it is obvious that the sweetness has been tasted.

"Hey, what the hell, Mr. Yuan was joking, I didn't know it at the time!"

"I want to know that Yuan Zhou's website has become so big, what should I tell you?"

"Let's do this. I'll be the host and I'll invite Mr. Yuan and Captain Shi to have a drink together!"

Chen Mingsheng blushed. After all, he is also a principal, so he is still very thick-skinned: "Mr. Yuan's website has become so big that adults don't remember the faults of villains. If this negotiation is successful, I will ask every student in our school to do it." Register an account on the school network and help you promote it, what do you think?"