Reinventing the Millennium

Xiong Xiaoge has been abroad for a long time this time.

In addition to going to IDG America to talk about work and plans, he also wanted to observe Yike's movements and possible changes up close.

As a result, this news was really big!

Good guy, this long-planned run really squeezed out Mr. Fang’s evil heart!

Xiong Xiaoge originally guessed that there was some interest chain pulling in the direction, but he didn't expect that it was mainly a display of financial techniques. Of course, the smooth opening of Yike stock was indeed very strange.

This kind of operation directly killed the short-selling institutions seven in and seven out, and turned them upside down.

Xiong Xiaoge has been in New York for the past two days and has seen some media taking pleasure in counting the losses and bankruptcies of institutions. It is simply too horrible to watch.

Of course, it’s really fun.

As for contacting Mr. Fang... he confirmed that in addition to many hedge funds being trapped by Yike this time, there are also some well-known institutions that are also silently bearing losses, and IDG America is suspected to be among them.

IDG's business in the United States is not actually focused on investment and finance. It has Ventures investment, Communications media and IDC data business.

Among them, IDC is the world's leading market intelligence and consulting services company.

As a former shareholder of Yike, IDG America’s actions and losses this time have been kept secret.

But Xiong Xiaoge knew what was going on.

Sometimes, he really lamented that for people, it is easy to learn bad things but hard to learn well.

After briefly chatting on the phone about the tragic situation he saw in New York, Xiong Xiaoge briefly mentioned one obvious thing: "IDC is an excellent consulting company and of high quality, and the same goes for IDG Communications' media and marketing business. in this way."

“Both of these are very good for Fanyike.”

High quality is often an adjective for an asset.

Xiong Xiaoge listed two of IDG’s three major businesses.

"Okay." Fang Zhuo guessed what Lao Xiong meant before he called. Although he had been the world's richest man for three days, his mentality had not changed. This was considered to have been promised to the other party a long time ago, and there was no change now.

IDC is indeed of high quality. The last time IDC was listed among the top ten wafer foundries in the world, it was it.

The media and marketing business can be integrated into Yike. At present, Yike is more hardware-oriented, and the overseas Android ecosystem is controlled by Google. This is difficult to change.

It is difficult for a company that only uses hardware to tell stories to continue to gain favor from the secondary market.

Xiong Xiaoge felt relieved when he heard Mr. Fang's brief response.

It is impossible for him to reverse acquire IDG Group by himself. He must find a sponsor and then get what he needs. What he wants is the IDG investment brand, which is another breakthrough in his career.

As for IDG America's short selling of Yike, there is no need to elaborate or even talk about it with Mr. Fang.

Is there any attempt to confuse or manipulate the market?

Not at all, there was no phone call or face-to-face communication. If I had to say anything, it was all free-spirited testimony.

Xiong Xiaoge is in New York, watching Shenxin Science and Technology and Xiangjiang Universal, which played a huge role in Yike's shortfall this time, and believes that they are the same as him.

This time Mr. Fang ate a big meal of meat, and I took advantage of his momentum to take a sip of soup.

"President Fang, wait until I return to China and see what the rules are for this matter."

Xiong Xiaoge knew that Mr. Fang liked a win-win situation, so he thought this should be considered a win-win situation.

"No problem, Old Xiong, I should be in China in the near future." Fang Zhuo said with a smile.

Xiong Xiaoge knew it was for safety reasons, and finally said: "I will watch Yike's new phone launch conference in New York later. I hope Yike's Mars and Selfy will sell well this year."

Fang Zhuo accepted the blessing from Lao Xiong.

This new phone launch conference...

Although I agreed to Mr. Yu and thought there was nothing wrong with it, when it came to it, perhaps because I had been too obsessed with short-squeezing recently, I actually didn’t have much to say.

But the only good thing about online live streaming is that you can interact with users who are paying attention to Yike’s new products.

Fang Zhuo sat in the R\u0026D conference room and played with the two new products in his hands.

The third generation Mars and the first generation Selfy.

From Mars1 to Mars3, there are actually not many breakthroughs in products.

The first is to make up for the shortcomings of the hardware and make it more and more worthy of the name as a flagship. Like Nokia at the same time as Mars1, its N95 rear camera is 5 million pixels, while Mars1 only has 2 million pixels.

This has been enhanced on Mars2, which has also been increased to 5 million pixels.

But the overall cost of Mars2 is lower than Mars1.

The second is to improve the system ecology, so that the user experience and software construction will be on the right track of getting better and better.

This is an overall competition that requires the participation of many parties, and it has already achieved results and is pressing Saipan.

Mars3 is still the product of this idea, and Selfy, as the name suggests, is mainly focused on taking pictures. For this purpose, it uses a front 500 + rear 8 million pixel camera, and has built-in camera filters that have been polished for a long time. It is to make the product code name more effective. Extreme.

Whether consumers like it or not remains to be seen.

Fang Zhuo quite likes Selfy. He feels like he has the temperament of the world's richest man with such a front-facing camera.

Oh, the aura of the former richest man in the world.

Information and manuscripts are on the table.

Employees adjust equipment and live broadcast settings.

YouTube is very happy that Yike has adopted an all-online live broadcast this time, and is urgently preparing to make sure that the live broadcast room will not be overwhelmed by too many people.

After such a global hot event, the new phone launch conference was launched. They felt that Yike and Mr. Fang were really good at picking the time.

Fang Zhuo looked at the materials and parameters and briefly went over possible problems he might encounter. Then he returned to the president's office to greet the company's two important shareholders.

The atmosphere in the CEO's office seemed quite harmonious, and it was obvious that Mr. Liang was able to complete his self-explanation.

Fang Zhuo feels good about Xiangjiang Huanyu and feels that Mr. Liang is indeed a visionary investor. After this battle, he will definitely grow.

Time flies by very quickly. As the morning comes in the United States and the press conference time approaches, more and more people @Fang Zhuo appear on Twitter. Everyone can’t wait to see the response from the person involved.

The parties involved in this wave of Yike short squeezes, except for Paulson, who was blocked twice and had a simple voice, other institutions such as Goldman Sachs and Mandarin are very official and cannot see the excitement they want at all. SEC , NASDAQ, let alone NASDAQ, are purely mere words.

Mr. Fang, who is known for his style, has become a heart-wrenching breakthrough point.

"Brother Wang, Mr. Liang, are you going to the R\u0026D room to see it or here?" Fang Zhuo is about to release Yike's new machine this year.

Wang Fengyi said directly: "I am in the president's office so as not to disturb your work."

Liang Qihua said the same thing, but he was more focused on making sure not to be impulsive.

Fang Zhuo personally changed the tea for the two shareholders, then picked up the documents and walked into the live broadcast of Yike's 2009 new machine launch conference.

The R\u0026D conference room has been renovated and debugged.

Photography, fill light, projection, and distance angles were all confirmed repeatedly.

Ten minutes before nine o'clock in the evening, Fang Zhuo tentatively started a YouTube live broadcast, and almost instantly saw a skyrocketing number of comments in the live broadcast room.

He glanced casually and said something to the domestic audience who may also be following this live broadcast: "In two days in China, there will be a press conference hosted by Liu Qiangdong, President of Yike Huaxia. The main purpose of this online press conference is It’s for overseas users, and I mainly speak English. The official website has debugged a real-time subtitle, but it may not be easy to use.”

After saying this, Mr. Fang continued to prepare for a serious press conference.

The launch of Yike's two new models is a serious matter and cannot be messed up.

Ten minutes flew by.

YouTube is already filled with comments and questions, and the number of viewers has exceeded one million.

Although the popularity of this Yike conference was anticipated, YouTube urgently limited the traffic, and then launched a new live broadcast channel to divert traffic to avoid smoothness problems.

"Welcome everyone to attend Yike's 2009 new machine launch conference."

"I am Fang Zhuo, the president of Yike."

Fang Zhuo started the show normally with a smile on his face.

Then, he saw his smiling face stuck on the screen of the live broadcast room.

No, YouTube's live broadcast function is still not doing well after a year of trial use. More resources should be invested in this business. Well, if the comments are turned into barrages, I wonder if it can stimulate new conversions.

Fang Zhuo was thinking in his mind, took a sip of tea, and frowned. The tea in the R\u0026D room was like tea.

It was stuck for 5 minutes before the live broadcast room returned to normal.

"Yike's complete use of online publishing this time is a brand new attempt. We hope to use the Internet to bring news about new models to everyone more comprehensively and quickly." Fang Zhuo said eloquently, "I don't know the effect of this No matter what, but just like Yike trying the smartphone field, we are willing to try new things."

In the first few minutes, Fang Zhuo only said three sentences.

Because it was live online, he couldn't help but read the comments.

Seeing this, Fang Zhuo burst into laughter.

——Mr. Fang, stop pretending, kill a few short sellers to warm up the situation.

Fang Zhuo laughed in front of the camera.

The comments on the online press conference were all "hahahaha", "mdr", "KKKKK", "WWWW", "ah ah ah", "hahahaha"... just like expressions of laughter from different parts of the world.

Fang Zhuo can recognize a few, like kkkk seems to be from Korea, mdr is probably from France, this is why many countries around the world are paying attention to this conference.

"Cough, cough, cough!!"

Fang Zhuo tried hard to control his emotions and said seriously: "I don't really like to laugh at ordinary times, because as everyone knows, I am really in a good mood recently. Sorry, let's start over."

He paused for five seconds and saw that the real-time comments had turned into various questions about short squeezes. He thought about it and said: "In this way, I know what you want to see. In order to ensure the progress and popularity of our press conference, I’ll chat about the new phone for a while and then randomly answer a few questions I saw, okay?”

There was naturally a lot of agreement in the comments. Mr. Fang didn't hide it at all, he said it very straightforwardly.

"The product I have in my hand is a new product released this year. We named it Selfy. It has extremely excellent photography capabilities and can meet everyone's increasing imaging needs."

"The front camera is 5 million pixels and the rear camera is 8 million pixels. This is the world's top hardware performance."

"In order to achieve the best camera function, we have carried out special optimization of CMOS with Sony. I will post some actual photos for you to see."

Fang Zhuo gave an evaluation: "This Selfy is the most powerful camera phone in the world today."

The strongest in the world!

Plus a limited edition, camera phone!

Ever since the first-generation Mars launched the front-facing camera function, Yike has been internally brewing the product positioning of Selfy. This time it has also been a long process of polishing, integrating Sony Ericsson camera + Sony CMOS hardware + pixel parameters + targeted system optimization to launch Selfy.

Whether it is Yike America's Yu Hong or Yike Europe's Pan Ben, their expectations for Selfy are very high, because both markets have corresponding software needs. Relatively speaking, the Chinese market is worse, and the 3G ecosystem still needs Continue to improve.

The projection behind Fang Zhuo revealed more detailed product parameters.

After such an explanation, Fang Zhuo did not announce the price, and planned to talk about it at the end.

He picked up the tea cup, took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and turned around and said, "Xiao Liu, give me the tea I usually drink."

Secretary Liu Zonghong immediately stood up and went to get Mr. Fang's ration tea.

Fang Zhuo looked at the YouTube comments and saw a question.

——Mr. Fang, you chose to live broadcast online instead of New York. Are you worried that those institutions will be disadvantageous to you?

Fang Zhuo read out the comment and replied cheerfully: "How could it be? The hedge funds are actually quite polite and well-behaved, just like this time they came to my place..."

Before he could finish speaking, the door of the R\u0026D conference room was suddenly slammed shut.

Mount, the co-founder of DR Fund, who had previously fought with Philip of Goldman Sachs and successfully used an ashtray to leave his mark, rushed in.

There were anxious sounds from outside, and the fingerprint lock kept ringing, but it was not opened.

Fang Zhuo stood up from his seat and quietly retreated behind the bench, ready to pick up the bench in front of him at any time.

Since Yike announced the settlement of options, the group of short sellers who came to Yike before have returned home in despair, but there are still a few stranded in the Yike lounge.

Their stay was meaningless and would not disturb the company's operations, so they were allowed to temporarily calm down at Hang Lung 23.

Mount is one of the walking dead.

Unexpectedly, he suddenly rushed in at the right time today.

Fang Zhuo was ready to try his hand, but after Mount rushed in, he did not pounce on anyone. Instead, he ran directly towards the camera. When he saw himself appearing in the live broadcast, he immediately complained loudly.

"Goldman Sachs bastard!"

"Goldman Sachs swallowed $80 million in put fees from our DR fund!"

“Goldman Sachs broke the law!”

"Goldman Sachs violated laws and regulations in the process of shorting Yike. I have comprehensive evidence in my hand. I am in Shanghai! I will publish them all here!"

Mount couldn't forget Goldman Sachs, his voice bursting into tears.

The fingerprint lock in the R\u0026D room was finally opened.

Secretary Liu Zonghong and security assistants urgently dragged Mount away from the scene.

Fang Zhuo returned to the camera and remained silent for a long time.

He saw the popularity of comments rising to a higher level.

Fang Zhuo pondered for a long time, this matter...how should I put it, it is really an emergency. Goldman Sachs, please believe me.

"Fortresses are always breached from the inside, and I didn't expect this short seller to storm the conference room."

"This, this, um..."

Although Fang Zhuo has always been eloquent, he couldn't organize his words for a while. Even the bankrupt Mount didn't come for him in the first place. How could he smooth things over for Goldman Sachs?