Reinventing the Millennium

Fang Zhuo was very happy after getting the money from Qingzi.

He and Su Wei had a small discussion about how to spend the money.

Because the third factory in Shanghai, which Bingxin cooperates with Sony, and the second factory in Lin'an, which has transferred and authorized Qimonda patents, have arranged their capital budgets in advance, the money belonging to Yike Investment Company has ample room for use.

Simply put, he intended to use it to improve lives.

Fang Zhuo asked Su Wei what she meant by buying real estate or transportation in the capital.

"It's okay to stay in a hotel suite. Didn't we book it for a year?" Su Wei hesitated to help eliminate an option, "If you want to buy it, go back to Shanghai to buy it. Auntie told me about this before."

Fang Zhuo nodded cautiously and made up his mind: "Okay, then buy a plane."

Su Wei slowly put a question mark on her face: "?"

Mr. Fang, I suspect you are misleading me. You only mentioned means of transportation, not airplanes.

I thought it would be like adding another Ferrari or Rolls-Royce at most, but I didn’t expect it could be built like this!

Fang Zhuo turned around and took out the aircraft information from the drawer, and introduced to Xiao Su the aircraft he was interested in - the Gulfstream G550 business jet.

Launched by the American Gulfstream Aerospace Company two years ago, this is the first ultra-long-range business aircraft in the history of human flight that can fly directly from New York to Shanghai. It can carry 18 passengers, has a range of 11,686 kilometers, and a maximum cruising altitude of 15,545 meters.

It is the luxury business jet with the longest range, the best performance, the most spacious cabin and the best comfort.

Su Wei frowned as she listened to the introduction of the man in front of her, and only asked: "How much is it?"

"Gulfstream happened to have a customer in the Middle East who canceled the order, and they could get a discounted price of almost 40 million U.S. dollars." Fang Zhuo said with a smile, "With it, it doesn't take more than 20 hours to fly to New York, it only takes a dozen or so." One hour is enough.”

Su Wei pursed her lips: "Isn't it a bit high-profile?"

"Zhang Yue bought a private jet in 1997, and I don't want to publicize this." Fang Zhuo said, "The main reason is to save time. I also thought that when Liang Mengsong can join the ice core, I would personally fly to pick him up. How about that? That's enough. Arrange noodles?"

Zhang Yue is the founder of Yuanda Air Conditioning. He ranked around 70th on the domestic rich list last year.

"That's enough, that's enough. President Fang Da wants to buy it, who dares not to listen?" Su Wei shook her head and sighed, "Just think of it as Qing, just think of it as a gift from Mr. Li."

Fang Zhuo smiled: "I think so too, just think of it as a gift from Qingzi."

Su Wei still couldn't help but laugh a little and asked: "When can I get in the car of the richest man?"

"I'm afraid it will be December at the soonest. I have never bought an airplane and have no experience." Fang Zhuo gave an answer and said with a smile, "I don't have a car for the time being. The richest man is right in front of you."

Su Wei glanced sideways and mentioned another thing: "I heard from my aunt that you have set up an education and medical fund for your family. Anyone in the family who needs these two yuan will get the two yuan from here? I think this method is quite good. , plan to study.”

"When I first gave my mother a bank card, she didn't touch it at all at first. Later, I seemed to have more and more money, so some of the money in the card was used by the family. The first two I thought about it for a few months and finally came up with a formal rule." Fang Zhuo explained a few words.

Because of some things "in the past", he has never paid much attention to the entire big family. In addition, he has always been busy, and his parents are basically the ones who come forward. Occasionally, there are some annoying and trivial matters, so he simply establishes a family rule and provides unconditional support. Educate and address medical expenses.

If someone thinks that the richest man has a lot of money and is still too stingy, then come and give his opinion in person.

Su Wei thought about it and said: "Well... I am not as famous as you, but I can also contribute to my family and set up a fund like this."

Fang Zhuo glanced at Xiao Su and said directly: "There is no need to set up an additional fund, just use a fund."

The fund is used for family affairs. What does it mean for two families to share a fund?

Su Wei asked with a smile: "Is this good?"

"Very good." Fang Zhuo replied affirmatively.

Su Wei's mood suddenly improved.

Don't talk about business, just keep your eyebrows full.

A night of silence.

Regarding the purchase of the "Qingzi" private jet, it is natural that professionals will take care of it.

In addition to being grateful for the friendship between each other, Fang Zhuo is also more concerned about the competition between Friends.com and QQ Dating. There is no reason to come to the capital to find Qingzi and relax his attention on Penguin.

However, people are well known in the capital, and there are many things that cannot be ignored.

Bingxin's Shencheng No. 3 Factory had two loans from Bank of China and ICBC. The leaders of both parties took this opportunity to talk to Mr. Fang again. There was no way they could shirk this.

The litigation between SMIC and Taiwanese reporters became increasingly complicated. The corresponding leaders above knew that Mr. Fang was in Beijing, so they paid more attention to it. There were two one-on-one meetings and three regular discussion meetings in the department.

When the local administrator in the capital heard that the richest man was here, he couldn't help but sincerely invite Mr. Fang to look at the map and see which area is suitable for investment.

That’s not all. Others, such as industry conferences, invited lectures from business schools, industry-university-research exchanges, etc., are almost all coming to you.

Fang Zhuo pushed as much as he could, but he soon discovered that as long as people are stuck in affairs, they seem to fall into a busy whirlpool, spinning almost non-stop.

The whole month of October was mostly busy except for the tenderness with Xiao Su.

Fang Zhuo has always been very busy, but he used to be very organized in his work, but this time he couldn't help himself.

So busy, Friends.com and QQ Dating are still fighting non-stop, Tesco is busy preparing for Double Eleven, and the farm game is also undergoing internal testing.

On the second day of November, Mr. Fang was finally able to escape from the busy schedule and took the initiative to participate in an exchange meeting between Chinese and American entrepreneurs.

This meeting was ancillary to Paulson's last visit to China, but those who came in November were mainly people from the Internet industry.

Well-known Internet companies such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook all have people coming. Most of them see China's huge market potential, and some of them are trying to get approval for information review.

Domestic Internet companies have received invitations, and Fang Zhuo and Wang Yan are both confirmed to attend. As for Wang Xing, he can also participate, but not as a guest, only as an audience. Even so, he excitedly thought about it. To get a glimpse of the industry leaders at home and abroad.

As of November, the total number of users of Friends Network has reached nearly 10 million. In other words, it has expanded nearly 3 million workplace groups based on the original 7 million campus social users.

This speed is not unpleasant.

However, according to Xiong Xiaoge’s words, “Friends on Friends Network are really made with money.”

In this wave of money burning, Friend.com’s customer acquisition cost has been approaching 2 yuan from the original 1 yuan per user. A rough calculation shows that for 3 million users, almost 6 million funds have disappeared. Counting other costs, 12 million were gone in 2 months.

Most importantly, commercialization of the site seemed far off.

As a founder and a money-burning executor, Wang Xing sometimes feels like his head is numb.

He met Mr. Fang at the entrepreneur exchange meeting and mentioned the increase in customer acquisition costs before the meeting started.

Fang Zhuo expressed his position without blinking: "Where are you? Are you afraid that IDG will have no money or Goldman Sachs will have no money? Don't worry, you are not fierce enough. When will you reach the scale of 100 million users?" You are top notch."

"As long as you can burn it, you can continue to raise money."

Friends.com received two waves of funding. The first was US$20 million from Sina, IDG, Goldman Sachs, Yike Investment, and Shenxin Technology. The second time was US$10 million from Goldman Sachs and IDG.

The current ammunition is still sufficient.

Wang Xing could only express his belief in Mr. Fang's words. Friends.com is now desperate to expand its user base.

This strategy is also due to the severe competitive pressure brought by QQ Dating. Friends.com has nearly 10 million users, and competitors are not idle. Two days ago, QQ Dating announced that it had exceeded 9 million users.

The total number of users of both is increasing, but the gap between them is getting smaller and smaller.

If the number of QQ friends begins to lead that of Friends.com, or even maintains high growth and leads by a large margin, it may cause a fatal blow to the social relationships of Friends.com.

The farthest distance in the world is when I am on Friendship Network and you are making friends on QQ. If you don’t come over, I will have to switch over.

Wang Xing's pressure has become greater recently, and he often has the illusion of feeling the opponent's aura behind him.

On November 2, he finally met the real person at the helm of his competitor for the first time at the meeting. Penguin came to attend the meeting this time with Ma Huateng and Zeng Liqing, the latter of whom was the head of the QQ Dating Business Group.

Wang Xing watched the two people from a distance and saw that they were talking and laughing with the big boss. He couldn't help but feel ashamed. However, when he turned to look at Mr. Fang, he was in high spirits, not as much as Mr. Fang.

The opening atmosphere of the Sino-US entrepreneur exchange meeting was relatively friendly. Even if they are direct competitors like Baidu and Google, the conversation between the two leaders was very polite. Li Yanhong praised Google's global business, and Schmidt believed that Google's localization is indeed Need to learn.

When the host asked Facebook's Zuckerberg, he threw the communication question to Penguin's Zeng Liqing. Zeng Liqing, the "Penguin Five", also talked about the development of social networks.

Such eloquence brought applause from the audience.

Then, when the host handed the microphone to Mr. Fang who was sitting with a smile, the warm applause stopped immediately.

——Okay, okay, good delivery. Don’t you know what Mr. Fang’s style is like?

——Look at Dangdang Li Guoqing for those who don’t know. It is said that Mr. Li’s face was directly scratched by Mr. Fang.

"Mr. Fang, what do you think of the development status of domestic social networks?" The host asked a very conventional question.

"The competition is very fierce. When I was in the United States, I talked with Zuckerberg about the development of Facebook. The competition there is not as fierce as here. Friends.com and QQ Dating have successively acquired other players and are now competing for the top spot in the industry. ." Fang Zhuo replied.

The host immediately asked: "Who do you think will have the last laugh?"

Fang Zhuo replied without hesitation: "Friends Network."

The atmosphere at the scene started to warm up a bit.

Zeng Liqing over there indicated that he wanted to speak.

Fang Zhuo glanced at Mr. Zeng and continued to state his reasons: "Friends.com has a first-mover advantage, a unique community atmosphere, and extremely clear development goals. This is why I think it can have the last laugh."

Zeng Liqing turned on the microphone and said with a smile: "Mr. Fang, when you mentioned QQ Dating, I have a different opinion. Your so-called first-mover advantage of Friends Network. The number of users it spent so much time to create has almost been surpassed by us. This cannot be a point of support.”

"The community atmosphere, we at Penguin have experience in doing this, and we are equally clear about our development goals. I have to say, I think QQ Dating will have the last laugh."

This occasion is the place to exchange opinions.

Fang Zhuo didn't mind chatting with Penguin and said simply: "First, the number of users is not unique. How did the number of QQ Dating users increase? I think your QQ Dating has become a pseudo-real-name system. Many users are just for Light up the icon of QQ chat software."

"Second, relying on the community atmosphere suggested by a large number of such low-active users is not enough."

"Third, what are your development goals?"

Seeing that Zeng Liqing wanted to answer, Fang Zhuo stopped him first: "I have never understood that the pages of QQ Dating and QQ Space are so similar. Are you competing with Friends Network or with your own QQ Space?"

Zeng Liqing was choked by this question. This really caused some internal controversy.

Ma Huateng replied with a smile: "Of course we are competing with Friends. QQ Dating is more about social networking based on more real relationships. QQ Space is not like that."

"This is also the first thing I just said. QQ Dating has introduced a lot of QQ traffic. This is the QQ relationship chain that you are reluctant to abandon. You can only make improved products based on this chain. On the contrary, the two businesses have become similar. Sex." Fang Zhuo did not agree with Ma Huateng's answer, "Internally it is improvement, and externally it is micro-innovation that follows step by step. How can such a product have the last laugh?"

Zeng Liqing immediately asked: "Mr. Fang, tell me honestly, isn't Friends.com an imitation of Facebook? Is micro-innovation something that needs to be criticized?"

There was a little noise at the scene, and Facebook's Zuckerberg was sitting next to it.

"So, Wang Xing immediately started to change after I asked him the same question on Facebook, instead of asking me confidently." Fang Zhuo said seriously, "But QQ Dating, Mr. Zeng, can you honestly tell me whether we are friends or not?" When the Internet enters the workplace, you also enter the workplace. Isn’t it true that when Friends.com changes its name, you also change its name?”

Zeng Liqing replied equally seriously: "I think this is the inevitable stage of development. Both websites must go beyond the campus community and seek greater development directions. This just shows that QQ Dating is going in the right direction."

The back and forth between the two sides has become quite tense.

Someone from below shouted: "You can cross the river by touching the net of friends, right?"

There was cheerful laughter at the scene. Penguin was heading in the right direction in different businesses.

Fang Zhuo shrugged, this was not his arrangement.

Ma Huateng and Zeng Liqing both looked a little serious.

"Pony, Mr. Zeng, I won't say much about the argument. Our understanding of step by step may be different. Forget the first two steps. Now I am curious whether the next actions taken by the friend network will be learned immediately. "Fang Zhuo was left in suspense.

Ma Huateng was suspicious and said nothing.

Zeng Liqing said calmly: "QQ Dating is bound to develop into a social network for all. This will not be affected in any way, and it cannot be said that this trend will follow suit."

Fang Zhuo praised: "Mr. Zeng's words make sense. I believe QQ Dating will definitely come up with something of its own and will not learn from Friends.com anymore. Please give Penguin a boost and encourage us."

He took the lead in applauding, leading to applause from the audience.

Zeng Liqing nodded slightly, his words were barely acceptable.

Two days later, the number of users on Friends.com officially exceeded 10 million, and a small game called "Friends Farm" was released.

Soon, Zeng Liqing found himself in a dilemma.