Vol 2 Chapter 611: The purpose of YouTube

The six hundred and eleventh chapter the intention of youtube

After "Microsoft" acquired "aquantive" in Lin Feng's hands, Lin Feng had US$5.15 billion in cash and successfully raised "Google" and acquired 5% of "Google" shares.

For this series of transactions, many financial experts and analysts are confused and envious.

What makes these experts puzzled is why Lin Feng invested 500 million US dollars, but only 5% of the shares of "Google". Although "Google" is favored by the financial community, it is still strong after the dot-com bubble burst, but Lin Feng's The financing price is still too high, compared to the nearly half-price financing of other investment banks, this move is really silly.

For Lin Feng’s behavior, many financial analysts in the United States wanted to criticize and mock Lin Feng’s stupid investment behavior, but they didn’t wait for them to contemplate, slander, and ridicule Lin Feng. In a blink of an eye, Lin Feng said 55 U.S. dollars per share, 250% higher than the market price, sold "aquantive", which was acquired for 180 million U.S. dollars a year ago, to "Microsoft" for a total price of 2.85 billion. Lin Feng made a lot of money in one year. 1558% profit.

This is faster than robbing a bank to make money, and even faster than printing money.

Looking at the data at hand, many financial analysis experts are speechless. This "eseboy" is really good at making money, and he admires Abby Cohen's vision even more. Of course, I also secretly rejoice that the words that I and others were preparing to ridicule Lin Feng did not appear on paper. Otherwise, if they were in the newspapers, they would mock Lin Feng’s stupid acquisition, while on the other side "Microsoft" bought Lin Feng’s "aquantive" at a high price. ", then they will be embarrassed.

As for who is an idiot, I am afraid all come out.

Of course, compared to the experts who have almost made a mistake and hated forever, it is the Motorola of Sony Records that is really troubled. This time, the unified "blocking operation" of global record companies, among which the hardest and most anxious one is undoubtedly Sony Records. The 50% copyright in Michael Jackson's hands is a sweet pastry for all record companies. Sony Records must be able to get it. Even if Sony Records can't get it, it must not let other record companies get involved.

But under repeated pressure, Avril Records did not move, calmly and frightening. In particular, Lin Feng, who originally supported Avril Records, recently raised "Google" and sold "aquantive", and has made a big splash in the IT industry, but it has not helped Avril Records to solve the current dilemma. action.

This is too unusual, but Motora can't find any trace of Lin Feng's actions, but as the president of the world's largest record company, Motora faintly feels a hint of danger that the mountains and rain are about to come and blow all over the building. Unfortunately, this is just a feeling. As the president of Sony Records, he can't use his feelings to lead the operation of the entire company, and direct everyone with his "feel".

In this way, others will be dissatisfied, and he himself will find it absurd. Therefore, Motora can only focus all its attention on Lin Feng and Avril Records, paying attention to Lin Feng's every move.

"Lin, what the **** do you do now?" Avril asked, pinching Lin Feng's waist tender meat, snuggling into Lin Feng's arms.

"Don't worry, it will be resolved soon." Lin Feng pecked at Avril's face and said confidently.

"Huh, you have to hurry up. If my two singles are dragged like this, they won't be able to make the chart." Avril said with a pouting mouth.

Lin Feng smiled and stroked Avril's long golden hair. Although Avril said it was for his own record, it was actually for Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson is now in a dilemma.

In, after joining Avril Records, he launched a new record and a series of business plans. But if Lin Feng can't solve the ban on global record companies, Michael Jackson will not easily launch new records and develop related business plans. That will definitely be head-on, and it will be Avril in the end.

To retire is to leave Avril Records and join any record company. This "global ban" will naturally disappear. However, Lin Feng gave him hope again, and Michael Jackson did not want to jump into another fire pit again. The ravens in the world are generally dark. At this time, the record company that dares to accept him will definitely not come for his reputation, but for the 50% of the Sony record copyright in his hand. This is naturally unacceptable to Michael Jackson.

In this dilemma, Michael Jackson is naturally very embarrassed and in a dilemma.

A day later, Liu Yingying took a few key members from DingDang.com to the United States.

"Boss, congratulations, you have completed another big deal." Liu Yingying congratulated her sincerely. Unexpectedly, on this trip to the United States, Lin Feng actually created another miracle, which is really admirable. Of course, what is even more admirable is that Lin Feng dares to challenge the global record companies.

"Hey, Yingying, I haven't seen you in a few months, and I'm even more beautiful." Lin Feng Tsk and Tsk praised.

The Liu Yingying in front of me, not only has the temperament more and more outstanding, the heroic spirit between the eyebrows, but also does not lose any man. In addition, the influence of the "Dingdong Net" is expanding day by day, and the level of acquaintance is getting higher and higher. Between Liu Yingying's gestures, Full of the demeanor of a successful lady.

"Haha, boss, your smart words are even more pleasing!" Liu Yingying stroked her long hair, smiled faintly, and glanced at the top model in Taiwan behind Lin Feng and Lin Zhiling's secretary, and she shook helplessly. Shaking his head, "Also, there are always so many beautiful women around you."

Lin Feng shrugged helplessly. Lin Chiling was surprised. Unexpectedly, Lin Feng's "Dingdang.com" actually has such an extraordinary and extraordinary female president. And relying on a woman's intuition, Lin Zhiling faintly felt that Liu Yingying was so unusual about Lin Feng.

After the greeting, step into the topic.

"Boss, Dingdang.com currently has 200 million US dollars of working capital, b2c business, and the industries involved include electronic products (large household appliances, small household appliances, mobile phones, etc.), clothing and other categories. Its "Unlimited Express" has also spread all over the country. Except for the vast majority of cities, towns and townships in remote areas such as Xinjiang and Tibet," Liu Yingying said confidently.

After two years of development, especially after Wang Juntao, the former “father of e-commerce” in China joined, the business of “DingDang.com” has been booming, coupled with strict control of the source of goods, elimination of fakes, and thoughtful after-sales service, plus " With the cooperation of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, "DingDang.com" has become the first shopping website for many young shoppers in China.

At the same time, "DingDang.com" began to slowly enter Hong Kong and Macau, opening a traditional website, and cooperating with Hong Kong's HSBC. Netizens in Hong Kong and Macau can directly use HSBC and other bank accounts to buy what they want on "DingDang.com" s things.

According to the plan jointly formulated by Liu Yingying and Wang Juntao, they are ready to gradually set foot in Taiwan, and then enter South Korea, Japan and other countries, gradually expanding the influence of Dingdong.com to Asian countries. Unexpectedly, Lin Feng suddenly asked him to come to the United States to open a branch of Dingdong.com, which disrupted the plans of Liu Yingying and others.

"Relax, I'm not asking you to shift your focus to the US market now, but to focus on the domestic market. For the time being, we only sell Avril Records products and some cheap electronic products in the US." Lin Feng explained with a smile.

You have to eat one bite at a time, and you can’t make a fat man with one bite. If you want to fully open up the American market and continuously sell cheap Chinese products to the United States, that is not what Dingdang and Linfeng can do at present. Now, Lin Feng is just taking this opportunity to fight against the global record company "blocking the Avril Records" to make Dingdong.com a solid stake in the United States.

After getting Lin Feng's affirmation, Liu Yingying also breathed a sigh of relief. If you really let DingDang.com now aggressively attack the US market, it would be a bit outweighed by the gains. Later, when Liu Yingying established the US branch of "Dingdong.com", when Lin Feng planned to start an Internet radio station, he suddenly patted his forehead, how could he forget this website-youtube.

YouTube, the largest video sharing website in the United States, was founded in 2005 and was later acquired by "Google" for US$1.65 billion. This is definitely a sweet pastry. Compared with the "Tomato Net" established by Linfeng's company "Second World", "youtube" has the biggest difference.

"Tomato.com" is affected by domestic policies and can only provide videos by officials, and netizens cannot upload videos. In "youtube", any netizen can upload videos with a capacity of no more than 100m and a length of no more than 10 minutes. The completely open architecture also makes "youtube" the most influential video website in the world, with thousands of videos every day. It is spread to "youtube", but "youtube" itself is not a penny at all. It only needs to provide network bandwidth and hard disk space.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng had another idea in his mind, an idea to combat the "global ban" initiated by Sony Records. However, the prerequisite is to set up "youtube" first. Fortunately, at present, no one in the United States competes with Lin Feng. And now there is another advantage of establishing "youtube", which is to divert the attention of Motorola, the president of Sony Records.

Otherwise, he would be aware of the fact that Motorola was staring at him to set up the American branch of "Dingdong.com". When the time comes, I'll start to scare the snake.

If you want to establish "youtube", you need three people, the three founders of "youtube". Lin Feng also luckily remembered their names-Chad-Hurley (chad-hurley), Chen Shijun (steve-), Jawed-karim (jawed-karim), and they can remember their names because all three names More characteristic.

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As for looking for these three people, it couldn't be easier. Compared with the influence of "Baidu" on China, Lin Feng must admit that the influence of "Google" on the United States is absolutely earth-shaking, especially for all American netizens.

In China, login to "Baidu", although you can find all aspects of information, but subject to domestic policy restrictions, more information cannot be shared. And by logging into "Google", you can find almost all the information you want to know.

After Lin Feng landed on Google, he only needed to enter the names of the three people. Almost all Americans who matched the names came out. After screening, Lin Feng easily learned the whereabouts of the three people at the moment.

Chen Shijun and the others are now working at an Internet service provider called "paypal" (Chinese name: PayPal) in San Jose, California, USA. Lin Feng contacted the three directly through icq, and after telling them his thoughts, after the three heard them, their keen sense of touch told the three that this was definitely an opportunity.

The three of Chen Shijun resigned without hesitation and joined the "youtube" video network just created by Lin Feng. Lin Feng holds 85%, giving each of them 5% of the shares, and appoints Chad Herley as the chief executive officer, Chen Shijun Is the chief technical officer and Judd Kalim is the consultant.

In just a few days, with the abundant financial support of Lin Feng's investment of 5 million US dollars, the "youtube" video network was established, and the original videos were some precious personal videos of Avril and Michael Jackson.

In order to expand the influence of "youtube" as soon as possible, Lin Feng not only allowed his own "fsn-houston" TV station to broadcast advertisements, he also paid millions of dollars to broadcast advertisements on major TV stations in the United States, and used himself as a director of "Google" One of the advantages is that netizens who log on to "Google" will be the first to pop up the "youtube" link when searching for videos and other websites.

With Lin Feng’s financial resources and the support of “Google”, the “youtube” video network quickly became popular, and its open setting of uploading videos freely allowed many individuals who had taken many precious videos but had nowhere to publish. Opportunity to show yourself.

In just one week, the daily views of "youtube" exceeded one million, and the average daily uploaded video exceeded 8,000.

For Lin Feng’s creation of "youtube", he always pays attention to Lin Feng’s Motorola, naturally it is clear. But he didn't understand what Lin Feng's move meant? Although this video site can help Avril to promote her records, if it can't be sold online, no amount of promotion is useful.

Just when Motora was puzzled, Lin Feng made a move. Lin Feng uploaded a top-secret video of the "fsn-houston" TV station music channel interviewing Avril. In the video, the host asked Avril why the major record houses in the United States did not sell her latest single. Avril said he didn't know. . Afterwards, the host interviewed many record shops and came to a conclusion-the national record shops refused to sell Avril's records.

Once this video was uploaded, the click rate was huge, and within three days, it reached an astounding six million times. Those fans who listened to Avril’s latest two singles, girlfriend and you-are-went-away, The major record shops couldn't find Avril’s latest two singles CDs. I thought it was Avril’s own record company that had a supply problem, and most of them were still waiting. Now after watching this video, I suddenly understand.

Under the leadership of some of Avril’s die-hard fans, thousands of Avril fans gathered together, dressed in clothes with Avril’s head, holding banners, chanting slogans, and chanting—we want Avril, we want Avril! ——These fans demonstrated at the nation's largest record chain "Taoer Records" and demanded that "Taoer Records" sell Avril's records.

Humph, is this your plan! ——Motora's hanging heart was completely let go, with a trace of disdain in his eyes. He originally thought that Lin Feng would be so smart, but he was attacking the record shop. This was undoubtedly digging his own grave. You have offended the record shops, and which record shop will sell your records in the future. Even if you are forced to sell it, you will put your record in the most inconspicuous place.

Of course, what makes Motorola uncomfortable is that Lin Feng did not let Avril personally attack the record store, but let his TV host "fire" at the record store, which undoubtedly helped Avril avoid the turmoil. No need to offend the record shop yourself.

If Avril personally criticizes these record shops, then Motorola has the opportunity to personally destroy this star who dared to grab food from his "bowl." (In Motora’s mind, it is believed that Avril Records and Michael Jackson are in partnership and want to seize the 50% copyright of Sony Records. Avril Records belongs to Avril, and Motorola naturally has a relationship with Avril. In addition to resentment, of course, there is Lin Feng, who is also the enemy that Motorola's heart desires most to get rid of.)

As for the Avril fans who made trouble during the Youxing demonstrations, Motorola didn't take it seriously. Thousands of people protested in Youxing, and they couldn't make a big storm at all. And Motorola has too many solutions.

After a phone call, "Taoer Records" faced a reporter who came to hear the news and announced that this was because the record store had adopted a brand-new review standard. Avril’s records had some words that did not meet their standards, so they would not sell them for the time being. Avril's record.

This speech obviously did not satisfy Avril fans, but it also made Avril fans unable to object. After all, Avril’s lyrics were occasionally mixed with indecent words.

But then there was a protest from die-hard fans. Avril’s lyrics were mixed with one or two indecent words, which is a characteristic of punk and cannot be a basis for not selling Avril’s records. And once again protested against the record store not selling Avril's records!

Humph, the mob! ——Looking at the news, the hard-core Avril fans protested, Motora said disdainfully.

As many **** fans of Avril continued to make trouble, Motora combined with other record companies and major record houses to offer discounts and promotions on all records, and launched a selection of other popular superstars.

Under these multiple promotions, the fan base that took the lead in making trouble quickly collapsed. After all, there are still a few real hardcores, especially most people don't just listen to one person's song. Faced with the joint promotion of record shops and record companies, no one can ignore it. What's more, the tens of thousands of fans of "King of Pop" Michael Jackson complained for Michael Jackson at the time, and there was no turmoil. The thousands of fans of Avril were naturally even worse.

A celebrity is a celebrity, I want to fight with the company, too tender! ——Motora drank champagne proudly, watching the most hard-core fans on the TV screen gradually leave after the demonstration to no avail, Motora was full of pride.

"Lin, why didn't you let me come out?" Michael Jackson couldn't help but ask when the action planned by Lin Feng to use fans to criticize the record store failed. He believes that with his appeal and influence, there will be more fans and greater demonstrations. After all, in Europe, whether it is London or Paris, there have been tens of thousands of fans cheering for him. In the United States, Los Angeles, New York and other places, Michael Jackson believes that he must have more fans.

"Michael, it's not the time yet. Patience." Lin Feng said soothingly.

Motorola, this is just a preview, the show has just begun! ——Lin Feng said confidently.

In planning this fan demonstration, Lin Feng’s real purpose is to enable the establishment of the US branch of "Dingdong.com" without any interference. At present, the effect is significant, and Motorola has not even noticed "Dingdong.com". "The establishment of the US branch. Of course, the action of the fans this time is just an introduction, an introduction that is pre-buried for future plans. And Motorola didn't realize the real power of "youtube" at all.

"Boss, the U.S. branch of Dingdong.com has been established, and it has reached an online payment agreement with several large banks in the United States. At the same time, it has reached a national express delivery contract with FedEx." Liu Yingying said with a long sigh.

"Well, it's been hard work." Lin Feng poured a cup of coffee for Liu Yingying, thanking him.

In recent days, in addition to supervising her subordinates to step up preparations for the website of the US branch of Dingdong.com, Liu Yingying has also negotiated online payment agreements with major U.S. banks, such as Banner Bank and Midland Bank. FedEx" negotiates business, and it is not possible to make a deal when busy. In just one week, the flight journey exceeds 10,000 kilometers. It can be described as extremely hard.

"Haha, no way, who called you the boss, my subordinates. Born to work hard!" Liu Yingying shrugged helplessly, "By the way, boss, has Sony Records discovered our plan?"

Lin Feng shook his head. Because of Lin Feng’s high-profile preparations for the establishment of "youtube", Motorola’s attention was drawn to "youtube" by Lin Feng. In order to control the troubled Avril fans, he came up with a lot of methods, which were discounts and promotions. All the thoughts were taken to deal with the troubled fans, and naturally the establishment of the American branch of "Dingdong.com" was ignored.

"Boss, when will we launch Dingdong.com?" Liu Yingying asked.

"No hurry, wait until I meet someone, no, after a family!" Lin Feng's eyes rarely showed uncertainty and hesitation.

Liu Yingying was taken aback. She rarely saw Lin Feng so hesitant and uncertain, and subconsciously asked, "Who see?"

"The Walton family, the owner of the world's largest chain store-Wal-Mart!" Lin Feng showed a look of hope on his face.

Liu Yingying was surprised when she heard that, she didn't know why Lin Feng was looking for Wal-Mart!