Chapter 804: Pay for cursing, 50 cents for each
After successfully acquiring Uume, Chen Yizhou became even more confident. He immediately set his sights on Campus Network and asked Chen Xiaoxin to talk to Wang Xing about the acquisition.
"Go ask the campus network if they sell it."
Chen Xiaoxin replied without thinking: "Don't ask, the campus network will never accept our acquisition."
Chen Yizhou frowned and asked, "Why? Is it because there is not enough money?"
Chen Xiaoxin said: "No, the main reason is that Campus Network has already accepted the investment of Mr. Lu in the angel round. You can even say that this website belongs to Mr. Lu. Wang Xing and others are just high-level employees. Their shares added together are not as much as Mr. Lu alone. When we went to Wang Xing to discuss the acquisition, he couldn't make the decision. We had to go to Mr. Lu."
"Can I buy it only from Mr. Lu, the richest man? That's useless."
Chen Yizhou was dumbfounded.
This is not about money at all.
Whether the acquisition can be successful depends entirely on Lu Yiming's intention.
After all, no matter whether everyone has money or not, no one is as rich as Lu Yiming.
It's simply stupid to talk about money with Lu Yiming.
But Chen Yizhou was unwilling to give up just like that.
We are already halfway through the journey. We can't just go back just because there is a big rock at the end, right?
Then wouldn’t all the journey above be in vain?
Who should be responsible for the previous efforts and investments?
Since there is a stone in front of you, move it away!
Even Yugong could move mountains.
"Since we can't buy it, let's make one ourselves."
Chen Xiaoxin asked: "What?"
Chen Yizhou smiled and said, "Didn't he set up a campus network? He used colleges and universities as a breakthrough point, so let's set up one too, but we should do as the great leader said, come from the masses and go to the masses, so that everyone can find fun on it. Hey, how about calling it Renren? His campus network focuses on sharing photos, which is outdated. Videos are the most fashionable thing now. I'll ask people to come and shoot videos for sharing."
Chen Xiaoxin was speechless: "I don't think this is good, right?"
Chen Yizhou said calmly, "What's wrong with that? I didn't plagiarize him, and his photos and my videos don't overlap. Can he mess with me?"
Chen Xiaoxin thought about it and it seemed to be the case.
It’s no wonder she thought too much. After all, Lu Yiming’s name was so famous that people couldn’t help but think of him.
Now after hearing what Chen Yizhou said, it seems that there is indeed no connection between the two parties.
They acted immediately and built the framework of Renren quickly with the help of Uume. They then asked people to shoot videos and share them on Renren, using this as a gimmick to attract users to register.
In this era, video websites are definitely a new thing. Relying on various videos, Renren quickly attracted many people to register.
For a time, Renren was very popular and had a strong momentum of development.
Chen Yizhou himself began to appear frequently in newspaper media and even accepted an interview with the "First Financial Daily".
In the spacious and bright studio, Chen Yizhou sat opposite the beautiful female host, looking very confident.
"Hello, Mr. Chen. Please introduce yourself to everyone first."
"Hello everyone, I am Chen Yizhou, CEO of Renren.com, hello host, hello everyone in the audience."
The female host said, "We noticed that Renren.com appeared in a refreshing way and instantly ignited the Internet. In the era of Internet 1.0, many companies went bankrupt due to lack of profit model. Mr. Chen, how does your Renren.com plan to make a profit? I don't see any paid content on Renren.com at present."
Chen Yizhou already had the answer to this question, and said without hesitation: "Of course, it depends on advertising."
"advertise?"
The female host joked, "I understand TV commercials, but Renren is a video sharing site, right? Mr. Chen, are you planning to let users watch a few seconds of commercials before a short video of several minutes?"
Chen Yizhou did not directly answer the female host's question, but talked to the camera: "When a user in a certain street in Jiangcheng goes online at 11 or 12 o'clock in the evening, an advertisement for the hot dry noodle restaurant next to his home pops up on the web page. The bowl of hot dry noodles costs 20 cents, and I charge 1 cent for the advertising fee. This is the ultimate in my ideal online advertising."
It has to be said that Chen Yizhou's ideas are very advanced, but they are not fantasy. At least relying on the future big data technology, such things can be easily done.
But now, even the advertising method and concept he proposed are very attractive!
Video websites are destined to burn money, with broadband fees alone being the biggest expense, so advertising is a must.
This is something that can be done but not said, and Chen Yizhou is certainly not stupid enough to expose his shortcomings.
After the news was broadcast, it had a significant impact. Renren.com also began to frequently enter the public eye as the reports progressed, which was even more effective than advertising.
Wang Xing, the campus network company, felt very unhappy when he saw that the number of new users of the campus network was declining, while that of Renren seemed to be growing by leaps and bounds.
In the internal QQ group, Wang Xing @ Lu Yiming said: "Mr. Lu, Renren is coming on strong, and the video sharing trick is too ruthless. The campus network can only share photos now, and we can't compete with them to grab users. How about we also put videos on our campus network? Now we have so many beautiful female college students here, and we have an advantage in doing this. Isn't Renren the same as YouTube in the United States? We can also join."
If you can't beat them, just join them. It's not shameful to make money.
As for plagiarism, we are all plagiarists, so don’t laugh at the second brother, our eldest brother.
Lu Yiming said: "There's no need to do any video sharing. It's useless to do anything fancy."
Wang Xing asked in confusion: "Why?"
Lu Yiming said: "I invested in YouTube, and I had a chat with Steve Chen this week."
Wang Xing: “…”
Lu Yiming said: "Continue with the original plan. As for Renren, I will help you with it."
After pacifying Wang Xing, Lu Yiming called Li Yiwen and said, "Go talk to Chen Yizhou. I want to acquire Renren."
Li Yiwen couldn't help but complain: "You can't play like this. They just became popular, and you just bought them?"
Lu Yiming said seriously, "Yes, I just want to tell him that in the face of absolute strength, those fancy tricks are useless. I don't want to waste time on a problem that can be solved by spending money. Five million US dollars, as long as Chen Yizhou agrees, the money will be his."
Li Yiwen: “…”
It turns out that having money can allow you to do whatever you want.
Li Yiwen asked: "What if Chen Yizhou doesn't sell it?"
Although it is indeed a bit exaggerated to have a website that has just been opened for a short time costing five million dollars, but Chen Yizhou is coming with great momentum and it seems that he is not short of the five million, so it is hard to say whether he can take it down.
Lu Yiming said indifferently: "Then just destroy it. After all, doing business is not only about social etiquette, but also about fighting and killing."
Li Yiwen was surprised and said, "If you don't sell it, you'll be destroyed? Do you have to be so cruel?"
Lu Yiming shook his head slightly and said, "If you are not ruthless, you can't stand firm. You should take action when it is time to take action. Otherwise, any scumbag will dare to provoke me. How can I survive in the world of martial arts in the future?"
Li Yiwen's face was full of question marks.
Did anyone provoke you?
Wasn't this you who took the initiative to find him?
Although he was very speechless about Lu Yiming's distortion of facts and reversing right and wrong, after all, the rich have the final say in this world. Li Yiwen still followed Lu Yiming's request and went to Beijing to find Chen Yizhou to discuss the acquisition.
Of course Chen Yizhou knew Li Yiwen's identity. When he learned that Li Yiwen had come to Qianxiang Interactive, Chen Yizhou did not dare to neglect him and quickly invited Li Yiwen into the office.
After both parties sat down, Chen Yizhou made tea for Li Yiwen and asked, "Mr. Li, I have heard of you for a long time. How come you have time to visit my small company today?"
Li Yiwen said straight to the point: "Let's not beat around the bush. I'll pay you $5 million for Renren."
The smile on Chen Yizhou's face froze for a moment, but he quickly returned to normal: "Mr. Li, you are such a joker. My website has just started, and you're offering me five million dollars?"
Lu Yiming had finally conquered the social sector, so he naturally couldn't just sit back and watch someone come and grab his territory. After all, he couldn't allow others to sleep on his bed.
Chen Yizhou also quickly figured this out.
This made him feel a little annoyed.
Originally, he wanted to acquire the campus network, but after finding out that the campus network was Lu Yiming's industry, he had to settle for the second best and created Renren.com.
Now that Renren has started to pick up some steam, Lu Yiming is thinking of acquiring Renren.
All I can say is that the business world is like a battlefield, the situation changes rapidly, and no one knows what will happen in the next second.
Chen Yizhou, who had been hit by capital once, was still very wise. It was not impossible to sell Renren, but five million US dollars was obviously not enough for him to afford it, so he said so, and at the same time he was also testing Li Yiwen's bottom line.
However, this statement did not completely block the room for further negotiations. If five million is not easy to negotiate, there are still six million and seven million.
This is the art of negotiation. Although it seems that everyone is just talking about it in a few words, in fact, the connotation is very rich. It depends on how you interpret it.
Faced with a veteran like Chen Yizhou, Li Yiwen had no choice. After the two chatted for a while, he got up and said goodbye.
After leaving Chen Yizhou's company, Li Yiwen quickly called Lu Yiming, explained the situation, and then asked tentatively: "According to him, it's not that we can't negotiate, but he thinks the price of five million may be too low. Should we increase it a little?"
Lu Yiming refused without thinking: "Five million dollars is already a lot, and his crappy website is not worth much anyway."
Li Yiwen understood what Lu Yiming meant: "So we should fight?"
"Well, since he doesn't want the five million dollars, then use it to buy his life."
Lu Yiming didn't think there was anything wrong. Although the campus network was a product destined to be eliminated by the times and technology, he didn't mind destroying Renren before the campus network died out.
Li Yiwen was shocked: "Oh my god, you want to hire someone to kill someone?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? Is it worth five million dollars to buy his life?"
If Chen Yizhou was around, he would definitely be even more painful after hearing these words - his life is not even worth Renren.com.
Li Yiwen was relieved when he heard what Lu Yiming said and asked, "Then what do you want to do?"
Lu Yiming said, "I will use this five million dollars as capital to compete with Renren and bring it down. Okay, I'll handle this, and you can do whatever you need to do."
Although he failed to buy Renren for US$5 million as he wished, Lu Yiming still planned to spend the five million on Renren.
He called Li Quanwang over and asked, "There is a business that is very unethical and shady, but it can make money. Are you willing to do it?"
Although Li Quanwang didn't have much business sense, he could still tell if someone was immoral. But when Lu Yiming said he could make money, he didn't refuse on the spot, but asked, "Is it illegal?"
If it is simply a lack of morality, it seems acceptable as long as it can make money.
In this day and age, making money is king, and having money means having everything. As for whether one is immoral or not, who cares?
Lu Yiming laughed and scolded: "Can I let you do something that is against the law?"
Li Quanwang thought about it for a while and nodded immediately: "As long as it's not against the law, I don't have any great ability. If you hadn't helped me get rich, I wouldn't be where I am today. It doesn't matter whether I'm immoral or not."
It is said that two people are brothers for a lifetime. Li Quanwang believes that Lu Yiming will not harm him.
Seeing that Li Quanwang agreed, Lu Yiming whispered to him, "I want you to form an online army."
Li Quanwang raised his eyebrows and asked, "Internet trolls? From what you said, you want me to hack people online?"
Lu Yiming didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Who are you going to kill? At most, I'm asking you to spread rumors, confuse right and wrong, and stir up trouble."
Li Quanwang pinched his chin and said, "It's really quite wicked."
Lu Yiming said seriously: "The Internet has a beautiful side, but it also has an ugly side. Internet trolls are necessary, just like a standing army for national defense. There are not many people I can trust, and you are the most suitable one."
Li Quanwang agreed without thinking too much: "Okay, I'll do it!"
Lu Yiming laughed: "Then you will be my navy commander in the future."
Lu Yiming gave Li Quanwang some more instructions and let him leave.
Li Quanwang returned to the villa and called Lu Yiping and Xiao Qinghe directly, inviting them to have a barbecue together.
The two of them now run a game studio and have their own guild forces in "Xianji" and "Legend of Mir 2". They are the most suitable people to be found for this kind of thing.
Lu Yiping asked curiously, "Wangzai, why did you suddenly ask us to come out for barbecue?"
Li Quanwang said: "I plan to form a network of online trolls, who will take jobs online, take money from people, and curse their mothers for them."
Xiao Qinghe was surprised and said, "Fuck, getting paid to curse someone, is there such a good thing?"
Li Quanwang said: "Just tell me whether you will do it or not."
"Go ahead, why not!"
"That's right, taking money to scold people, it's exciting just to think about it."
The three of them hit it off immediately.
Li Quanwang took out an envelope and said, "Then go back and gather some people immediately. I have a big job on my hands."
"Okay, there are many people who want to do this kind of good thing."
There is already a group of social people in their guild who are idle and have nothing to do on the Internet every day. One of them has a low level of education, but is very good at swearing. He sprays people wherever he goes. He is just right for doing this kind of thing that people hate.
After returning, Xiao Qinghe immediately logged into the game and shouted in the guild channel: "Does anyone know how to curse?"
Originally, the people in the guild were busy killing monsters or doing quests, and there was no movement in the chat channel. However, Xiao Qinghe's question directly blew everyone out.
"Wow, what kind of fresh and unconventional opening line is this?"
"To be honest, my mom has been the swearing champion of our street for fifteen consecutive years. I have been influenced by her for many years, and my swearing skills have been honed to perfection. I can't swear at the dead, but I can swear at the living to death. What do you want, Boss?"
"And me, when I watched Justice, My Foot, I learned how to curse."
For a while, all kinds of messages were flooding the chat channel.
Xiao Qinghe nodded at the son of the swearing champion and said, "Come on, show me a performance."
The man immediately started to speak out, silencing the entire chat channel.
Xiao Qinghe couldn't hold it any longer and quickly called out, "That's enough, that's enough, quickly retract your magical powers."
Someone asked, "Boss, why are you looking for someone who can curse?"
Xiao Qinghe said: "I have a job here, I get paid to curse people, and I get 50 cents for each curse."
Everyone was shocked.
"Fuck, 50 cents for cursing?"
"50 cents a time, is this true?"
"If that's the case, I think my name will definitely be on the Hurun Rich List next year."
Everyone knows that swearing will get you beaten, but swearing and making money is really beyond everyone's comprehension.
Xiao Qinghe said: "Of course, there are standards, but we will definitely not treat you unfairly."
"Of course I know that the boss won't let us down."
"I did it. I get 50 cents for each scolding. This job is so damn easy to make money. President, who are we going to scold this time?"
Li Quanwang said: "Chen Yizhou and Renren."
Renren Inc.
Liu Jian was looking at the ever-increasing user data in the background, and his heart was filled with joy.
He felt that he had made the right decision to surrender.
Now he is specifically responsible for the business of Renren.com. Every day he sees the soaring data of Renren.com and experiences unprecedented happiness.
At this time, someone suddenly came to report: "Someone uploaded a short video with color, which was cut from a short movie in the island country. Should it be deleted?"
Liu Jian frowned, but finally decided: "Don't delete it yet, just pretend you didn't see it."
He still understands that pornography is the primary attraction.
The subordinate said worriedly: "But this is illegal, will we be sued?"
Liu Jian thought for a moment and said, "The platform is not guilty. After all, we didn't upload the video. At most, we failed to supervise it properly. We can remove it later. Traffic is the most important thing now."
The company wants to raise funds and go public, but without substantial user data, what can it use to fool investors and drain shareholders' wallets?
Since the boss has said so, the subordinates naturally dare not say anything. After all, the salary and bonus are still in the hands of the boss.
"Don't tell me anything like that later."
"OK."
