Revisiting Future Path

The 049th seed download artifact is free software

Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao have a strong network of friends. The founder of Silicon Valley Huayuan Science and Technology Association Chen Hong, Baidu founder Robin Li, Baidu co-founder Xu Yong, ChinaRen founder Yang Ning, etc., Zou Shenglong had an intersection with them during his study in the United States.

These returned entrepreneurs like Zou Shenglong are highly sought after by venture capital. Yang Fei believes in the capabilities of Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao and is ready to invest in them. During the exchanges between Yang Fei and Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao, he occasionally talked about the profit model of download tools, so he paid attention to the download tool market. Who ever thought that in just a few dozen days, the download tool market has undergone a sudden change, and a more mature seed download artifact than BitTorrent will come on stage with a sweeping global counterpart. Because of the discussion between Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao, Yang Fei is optimistic about the download tool market, and then is optimistic about the Spring and Autumn Software Company, which produces a variety of sub-download artifacts.

Yang Fei wants to invest in Chunqiu Software Company, not Chunqiu Network which looks like an empty shell.

In short, Wei Dongsheng cut off the entrepreneurial road of Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao, and was appreciated by Yang Fei.

The seed download artifact blocked the possibility of Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao entering the download tool market. At this moment, Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao have put out the idea of ​​developing download software. One of the reasons is that the technical content of the seed downloading artifact is too high, which scares them away; the second reason is that Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao only use the download tool as a spare tire at this time. What they want to do is a distributed storage system to cut into the big Volume mailbox market.

Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao accompanied Yang Fei to meet Wei Dongsheng this time. They were entrusted by Yang Fei to examine Wei Dongsheng's level from the perspective of a business-conscious technician, and then speculate on the potential of Chunqiu Software. In other words, Wei Dongsheng can regard Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao as Yang Fei's technical consultants.

In addition, it is not Wei Dongsheng's original intention to stop Hu Xunlei.

When Wei Dongsheng entered the download software tool market, he did not think of Xunlei at all. The reason is simple. If it is concerned with the ability to make money, Xunlei was not listed on the Nasdaq until 2014. Moreover, several factors that affect Xunlei’s listing money cannot be solved by technical background. Wei Dongsheng takes the seed download artifact to retake Xunlei’s old road, and it is difficult to reduce its more than ten-year Long March. After more than ten years, what has Wei Dongsheng done badly? Hoarding real estate silly and stupid is more profitable than operating Xunlei.

In terms of doing things, the development model of Xunlei is not liked by Wei Dongsheng, and Wei Dongsheng is unwilling to develop the seed download artifact into Xunlei. The nature of the seed download artifact to Xunlei is completely different from that of complementing the bitstream protocol and infringing on the profit of Shanda. Because of all these things, Wei Dongsheng had no careful thoughts to stop Hu Xunlei, so he faced Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao openly at this moment.

After briefly talking about the connection between P2S, P2P, and P2SP, Yang Fei gradually began to ask the core difficulty: "How does President Wei plan to solve the copyright issue of downloaded content?"

Copyright issues and illegal content are the fatalities of download tools. Download software in the P2P era has died in the restricted area one after another, such as the famous fast broadcast incident. As of 2018, the problem has not been properly resolved. Wei Dongsheng could not give an answer, so he avoided the important and said lightly, "China is not a WIPO copyright treaty country."

WIPO (World_Intellectual_Property_Organization_Copyright_Treaty) is a copyright treaty of the World Intellectual Property Organization. It was proposed by the World Intellectual Property Organization on December 20, 1996 to solve new problems of copyright protection arising from the application of digital technology in the Internet environment. In January 2003, China had not formally adopted the treaty, and the "World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty" would naturally not take effect in China.

However, the WIPO copyright treaty is just Wei Dongsheng's evasive sophistry.

As in the previous example, the country has not yet formally convicted the plug-in and the private server at this time, but the Ninth City can use other means to smash the Heilongjiang Province general agent of the "Miracle of God" plug-in with the Harbin police. If the download tool ignores copyright issues and acts recklessly, even if the "WIPO Copyright Treaty" has not yet entered into force in China, opponents can still invoke other laws and cling to seed download artifacts and Chunqiu software.

Naturally, Yang Fei would not be satisfied with Wei Dongsheng's answer, so he continued to ask carefully.

Wei Dongsheng was unwilling to waste time talking about copyright issues, and led the topic elsewhere: "IDG wants to invest in Spring and Autumn Software?"

Yang Fei said vaguely: "If appropriate, IDG will definitely invest in Spring and Autumn Software."

Wei Dongsheng nodded to express his understanding.

Wei Dongsheng had accumulated some experience in communicating with investors in his previous life when he started his own business, and then he tried to get involved in the investment industry, broadly understanding the hidden rules of the industry.

For the vast majority of entrepreneurs, their fantasy investment scenario is like this: the entrepreneurs paint a wonderful prospect, the investor's heart is full of flowers, and he decided on the spot that he must invest in the project. These scenes are especially prone to appear in novels and certain film and television works. Entrepreneurs talk about a few forward-looking concepts as if they have already stepped into the threshold of the building of success.

However, on the contrary, forward-looking concepts and brilliant ideas are worthless.

The English name of Tencent is Tencent. Tencent is a combination of Ten and Cent, which can be translated into ten cents.

Why is Tencent translated into Tencent?

As far as Wei Dongsheng knows, Ma Huateng translated Tencent into Tencent precisely because of the true portrayal of the entrepreneurial environment in Silicon Valley.

One_idea, Ten_Cent.

Wonderful business ideas are only worth ten cents.

The difficulty of starting a business is not the lack of ideas, but the ability to realize ideas. Wei Dongsheng reviewed Tencent led by Ma Huateng in this life and found that Tencent led by Ma Huateng really fits Tencent's moral better than Jia Wenqing: ideas are not important, it is important to realize ideas. Tencent doesn't care about original innovations, but has a pair of keen eyes on market demand. After discovering which innovation users need, Tencent immediately transplants these innovations into its own content, and then fills in some of the defects of the innovation, often doing better than the original creator.

Tencent not only warns Ten_Cent itself, but also makes a group of entrepreneurs feel the despair of Ten_Cent.

Your ideas are worthless.

Your innovation is worthless.

Ten_Cent values ​​are not limited to Tencent, but a common phenomenon in the investment circle.

Most investors will not invest in you because a project is better.

On the contrary, it is because you and your team are good enough to invest in you.

Investment teams, not investment projects, are the unspoken rules practiced by many investors. The reason why Wei Dongsheng was able to get Jing Minqiang's investment in his previous life is also because he has already made a name in the mobile game circle. Jing Minqiang believed in Wei Dongsheng and Wei Dongsheng's team, so he was willing to invest in Wei Dongsheng.

It is also like the example of Baidu in this world.

Nowadays, Baidu is not the only search engine. For example, Yang Fei invested in another HC.com. HC.com has also developed a search engine business. Sina.com officially adopted the new version of the HC news search engine and web search engine in December 2002. If Yang Fei invested in the search engine Idea, he should work hard to urge Huicong.com to do a good job in the search engine, instead of repeatedly investing in Robin Li’s Baidu.

Yang Fei, on behalf of IDG, invested in Baidu, not in search engines, but in Robin Li and Robin Li’s search engine.

Yang Fei is very optimistic about the seed download artifact product.

However, whether IDG really invests in Spring and Autumn Software, Yang Fei still needs to learn more about Wei Dongsheng and Wei Dongsheng's team.

In fact, the reason why Yang Fei decided to meet with Wei Dongsheng in just a few days was because Wei Dongsheng took advantage of Jing Minqiang's resources. Yang Fei valued Wei Dongsheng's potential ability because of Jing Minqiang's reputation. At the same time, Jing Minqiang also valued Wei Dongsheng's ability because of IDG's investment intentions. This is a layer of catalysis.

If Wei Dongsheng recklessly breaks into the Internet industry alone, no matter how successful the seed download artifact is, Chunqiu Software will have to brew for a period of time before investors can believe that Wei Dongsheng really has the ability to lead Chunqiu Software forward.

Today’s meal is not so much an investment negotiation, as it is Yang Fei who wants to get to know Wei Dongsheng up close.

After understanding Yang Fei's intentions, Wei Dongsheng resolutely rejected the investment and said with a smile: "If I say that the seed download artifact software will not be profitable within ten years, will IDG still be willing to invest?"

Yang Fei was stunned.

Yang Fei understood Wei Dongsheng's euphemistic refusal, but pretended not to understand, and encouraged him to say: "Downloading software is profitable."

Wei Dongsheng didn't quarrel with Yang Fei, but refused more clearly: "But I'm not going to make it profitable."

Yang Fei was stunned, Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao were also stunned.

Wei Dongsheng continued to elaborate on his concept: "Seed Download Artifact is a free software, free software in the true sense. The current download software, in order to solve the profit problem of survival crisis, often loads advertising banners on the software interface. For example, the current industry Leader FlashGet, from time to time forcibly popping up overseas casino advertisements, forcibly turning the download software interface into a color website style. I am not opposed to advertising bar-style profit, but the seed download artifact will never load ads, and there will never be messy ads. The seed download artifact I envisioned, its operation is smooth; its download speed is better; its interface should be simple and without ads."

Yang Fei: "How to make money?"

Wei Dongsheng: "The seed download artifact is not profitable."

Yang Fei stared at Wei Dongsheng: "After all, it will be profitable."

Someone did the murder business, and no one did the loss-making business. If Wei Dongsheng is really a great philanthropist, all seed download artifacts would have been open sourced and shared long ago, and he would never open source just the most basic bitstream protocol like now. No matter how good Wei Dongsheng said, Yang Fei would not believe that he would post money for the rest of his life to maintain the seed download artifact.

Wei Dongsheng reluctantly gave the reason: "I want its user base."

Giving up bad ads and changing to the route of high-quality ads, the seed download artifact does not load messy ads, but will cooperate with Chunqiu Software and Chunqiu Network to promote their products. When the "Ten Kingdoms Spring and Autumn" developed by Chunqiu Software is finished, the seed download artifact will be its natural promotion platform. The number of active users of the torrent artifact will see the advertising promotion of "Spring and Autumn Ten Kingdoms". In short, Wei Dongsheng wants to operate the download tool as a traffic portal.

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