Chapter 406 It's Impossible to Suffer

The entire cooperation plan was designed by Zhou Buqi.

At first, there were many doubts internally.

It feels like giving up too many benefits.

In this cooperation, the active party is Friends.com. Grabbing a parking spot is a game developed by Youyou.com. If Facebook doesn’t back down, then just find other websites to cooperate with.

Why do you keep retreating?

For the equity-to-equity betting scheme, we took the initiative to propose a more favorable one for Facebook.

The overseas operating rights of social games are owned by Facebook.

There are even two supplementary agreements at the end: First, the equity betting agreement for Facebook is limited to 5 years. After 5 years, the contract will be invalidated automatically; second, if the "parking space grab" fails to succeed on Facebook, the project cooperation between the two parties will also be stranded.

All risks are borne by Youyou.com.

Why?

After signing this agreement, I feel aggrieved!

Friends.com got only a few points of equity in the distant future, as well as opportunities for cooperation in advertising distribution projects and open platform projects.

Therefore, the dinner was supposed to be a celebration party, but in the end everyone was a little depressed.

Zhen Yu rounded things up and said, "We still need to take a long-term view, and don't care too much about immediate gains and losses. Delayed gratification is indispensable in a great company."

Zhang Yiming also said: "In terms of cooperation methods, it is certain that we will suffer losses. However, if it really succeeds, we can use Facebook to help us develop the two major projects of advertising alliances and open platforms. If we do it ourselves, Without an R\u0026D investment of 100 to 200 million yuan, we can’t do it at all. We just used the future advertising revenue of social games to buy these two big projects.”

The development of the company must be done step by step.

It is impossible to have 200 engineers this year and 1,000 next year. This is different from the recruitment of salespeople and couriers in many traditional companies. Tens of thousands of people may join the job with a wave of hands.

Programmers are valuable assets of the company. Ability alone is not enough. It requires value training and time to understand the company's management method and operating model.

Lacking a unified understanding, how can they improve their efficiency because they work hard every day?

Moreover, the team needs to be adjusted, and new skills need to be learned. It is impossible to get started directly after recruiting. An excellent team must have at least half of the old employees to match the new ones.

One old and one new, help them adapt and integrate into the company as soon as possible.

So this year, Ziwei Star's largest recruitment quota is about 200 people. This year we will recruit 200 people, and next year we can recruit 300-400 people.

But with this few people and a group of new employees, it is difficult to get started with big projects such as advertising alliances and open platforms.

Why is Weimi.com's Taobaoke project unable to go online?

Because those few employees of Ali had a moth.

Why did they make a fool of themselves?

Because of a problem at Ali headquarters, they have made new adjustments and designs to the top-down structure of Ali Mama, its advertising alliance business.

Therefore, in the past one or two years, even if there are no technical problems, Ziwei Star will not be able to make such big projects as advertising alliances and open platforms.

Cooperating with Facebook is tantamount to installing two brand new imported motors on Ziweixing's high-speed train through external forces.

"This is a strategy, not something that money can solve."

Zhen Yu's vision was wider and she kept comforting her.

Zhang Yiming is the CEO of Friends.com, so he must cooperate with Zhou Buqi's strategy.

The two explained each other one by one, calming down everyone's complaints.

Zhou Buqi couldn't listen anymore, and said amusedly: "What are you talking about? Suffering? Who is suffering?"

Zhen Yu said softly: "The strategy has achieved results, but the benefits have indeed been compromised too much, and I have suffered a small loss."

Zhou Buqi was angry and funny, "Senior Sister Zhen, we have known each other for almost two years, when did you see me suffer?"

"ah?"

Zhen Yu was slightly taken aback.

The others were also blank.

Zhou Buqi snorted and said, "Using the overseas operating rights of social games to exchange two big projects, this is simply a stroke of genius! It is a great strategic success! Not to mention this, let's talk about benefits, we are at a loss in terms of benefits Why didn’t I see it? Comparing the terms of the contracts of the two plans, did you find any difference? Their plan has a maximum bet limit, and they can give up to 5% of the shares. Our plan has no limit for bets!”

Everyone was shocked.

Xue Baoshan also opened her beautiful eyes, and whispered: "Student Zhou, you... Our plan is to increase exponentially. A 5% quota will require 8 billion PV volumes. If a 6% quota is used, it will be 160 million. 100 million PV volume..."

Then, I couldn't go on.

It's so bullshit.

Zhou Buqi sighed, shook his head and said, "You guys can't see the general trend of the industry. Yes, in the United States, MySpace has many more users than Facebook. Don't forget, they just signed a contract with Google." A huge order of $900 million. For such a large order, there must be many commercials on MySpace."

"Will it affect the user experience?"

"Absolutely! Don't forget, it was News Corp. that acquired MySpace. That is a traditional media giant that doesn't understand the Internet at all. The pressure of profitability will definitely force them to go further and further on the road to death. Just watch, come out In three years, Facebook is bound to surpass them."

Xue Baoshan blinked her eyes, pursed her lips and smiled.

not talking anymore.

This is the classmate Zhou she is familiar with.

Confident, sharp, long-term vision.

Just to put it bluntly, such an embarrassing negotiation case with Facebook is not like his style at all. It turns out that he has a very clear understanding of this industry.

Tang Binchen said hesitantly: "Even if Facebook surpasses MySpace, the PV volume of 16 billion..."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Since last year, the global Internet industry has come out of the cold wave of the bubble crisis, and this is just the beginning. Facebook is currently only in North America, but don't forget, they have a big advantage, that is, Global vision. When they harvest the market, how many users do you think there will be? 500 million? 1 billion? Or 2 billion?”

The current Google has only 75 billion PVs per year, which is still far behind. After a few years, when the annual PV volume is 2 trillion, that will be the highlight period of the PC Internet.

Zhou Buqi said that he would not suffer a disadvantage, so he really did not suffer a disadvantage.

As long as nothing else, social games will become popular on Facebook just like in previous lives.

50 million users around the world play to grab parking spaces, what is the concept?

The daily PV volume can reach 300 million scale!

Not to mention much, through this gambling agreement, it should not be a big problem to get 8% or 9% of the shares.

As for the time limit of 5 years, it is better understood.

Five years later, the popularity of social games has declined.

The era of mobile Internet has come, and everyone has started to play various vertical APP applications on mobile phones.

After all, Zhou Buqi is the founder and big boss, and his words can play a role in calming the sea.

The atmosphere at the dinner table really improved a lot.

The dining table culture in the United States is different from that in China. There are no private rooms, and everyone eats in the hall openly. So in the restaurant on the Beverly side, you can often see big stars.

Two men and a woman were dining next door.

At the checkout, the couple took out cash to pay the bill, but the man didn't pay

Li Ke said with a smile: "I heard that the AA system is used here in the United States, and I don't know if it is right."

Tang Binchen nodded, "That's right."

Zhou Buqi shook his head, "Not necessarily, it may be AAB system."

"What's the meaning?"

"For example, the three people over there, the couple, eat under the AA system, and the man eats with a B face. This is the AAB system."

"True loss!"

Everyone laughed.

...

With an agreement with Facebook, the most important thing in the trip to the United States is completed.

The next step is the official signing of the B round of financing.

Zhou Buqi appeared on the stage in person and signed his signature.

Invested USD 5.5 million and subscribed for 300,000 shares, accounting for 1% of the shares.

The person in charge of Meritech Venture Capital is executive vice president Sean Lee, a Wall Street elite in his thirties. After signing the contract, he took the initiative to find Zhou Buqi.

"We have invested in a project, and I think Mr. Zhou should be interested."

"Yeah?"

"Youlin.com, Mr. Zhou, have you heard of it?"

"Unfortunately."

Zhou Buqi shook his head.

Sean Li smiled and said: "Similar to your friend.com, it is also a community website. However, friend.com focuses on domestic users, while Youlin.com targets global Chinese. The founder, Mr. Zhao, started his business at the age of 19, just like you. It has developed into a social network for overseas Chinese."

"Really?" Zhou Buqi smiled, "Congratulations, you have invested in a good project."

Seeing his lukewarm attitude, Sean Li raised his eyebrows, "Mr. Zhou, we are the major shareholder of Youlin.com, holding 35% of the shares. If Youlin.com is interested, we can promote Youlin.com and Youlin.com As far as I know, all the businesses of Friends.com are now limited to the mainland, and if Youlin.com is merged, it will open up overseas markets.”

Zhou Buqi's face straightened, "Sean, although we are only a minority shareholder of Facebook, accounting for 1% of the shares, we have full respect for our partners. We will not compete with our partners in terms of business."

Sean Li was stunned for a moment, "Mr. Zhou, the merger of Youlin.com and Friends.com will create the largest Chinese community in the world..."

"Thank you for your kindness, no need."

Zhou Buqi firmly refused.

He is interested in overseas markets, but it is impossible for friends.com to go overseas.

Social networking sites have just emerged, so the regulatory authorities are not yet vigilant, and there are not many restrictions. Domestic users can directly access Facebook, and overseas users can also log in to Friends.com without restriction.

But wait a few more years, and the wind will change.

People inside the wall can't get out, and people outside the wall can't get in.

You can't access Facebook in China, and you can't even access Moments overseas.

Recently, the old-fashioned 5Q campus network cannot compete, and another wave of mergers and acquisitions is about to be carried out, and they want to win the Hainei network of the Wang Xing team. He Yang suggested that you can cut off the Hu and eat it on Haineiwang, and the price will not exceed 5 million.

Hainei.com is the most commonly used social networking site by overseas students.

Winning the Hainei website is tantamount to opening up the overseas Chinese market.

But Zhou Buqi refused without hesitation.

He has no hope for the overseas Chinese market.