Chapter 805: High-end business wars often...
In the game, Xiao Qinghe won his first dungeon victory with the help of his guild members.
Everyone chatted while picking up equipment.
One of the subordinates said, "President, the video you asked me to post before has not been deleted by Renren."
When Xiao Qinghe heard this, he burst into laughter. "Okay, then keep posting. Form a group of five and upload them in bulk. Then take screenshots of each other for evidence. Then we'll report them together! Anyway, it's only 50 cents per post. The more you post, the more money you'll make."
His subordinates were very excited. They could make money just by sitting in front of the computer screen and moving their fingers. This was much more comfortable than screwing screws in a factory. They loved this job!
Soon, Li Quanwang reported the news to Lu Yiming.
However, he was confused: "Will this work? Renren doesn't seem to care at all."
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Why is it useless? What do you think high-end business war is? Is it about planning and winning thousands of miles away? You are wrong. The real high-end business war is often back to basics, going straight to the opponent's lower body. No matter how high your martial arts skills are, you are afraid of crotch kicks and crotch grabs."
At the regular meeting on Monday, Chen Yizhou was in high spirits and smiling.
As Renren's market share increased, he became more motivated.
After reading Renren's recent data, he said excitedly, "Renren has a strong momentum of development. If we continue to develop like this, we will definitely be the number one in the same category within a year. When the company goes public, we will all go to Nasdaq to ring the bell, and then everyone will be a millionaire!"
Liu Jian immediately said: "Mr. Chen, what you said is good! Everyone applaud!"
There was immediate applause in the conference room, and the atmosphere was filled with joy.
Listing on the Nasdaq is a myth of making money in the capital market. Once successful, money will come in like snowflakes, and becoming a millionaire or even a billionaire will be no problem.
"Alright, alright."
Chen Yizhou waved his hand, coughed lightly, pretended to be calm, and said: "A journey of a hundred miles begins with a single step. Although we have achieved very good results now, we still need to continue to work hard. I hope everyone will not slack off and work hard to do the work at hand. If you have no other topics to discuss, then let's go down and work together. Work hard and strive!"
"Work hard! Strive!"
Everybody started laughing and shouting.
It has to be said that Chen Yizhou's words were very inspiring. The enthusiasm of the employees has been completely mobilized by him. They all want to live in the company, work like slaves 24 hours a day, and never complain.
After returning to the office after the meeting, Chen Yizhou felt as if his bones had become two pounds lighter.
Not only was he painting a rosy picture for his employees, he was actually also painting a rosy picture for himself.
What about listing on Nasdaq, what about becoming a billionaire, in fact, he himself believed it firmly and was very excited.
A quick phone ring interrupted his thoughts. He took out his phone and pressed the answer button, but heard a roar from the other end: "Chen Yizhou, what are you doing? The regulatory authorities have ordered the closure of Renren!"
The person who called was an investor of the company. His background was very impressive. Chen Yizhou was very proud of this connection. Hearing this roar, he did not dare to neglect it and asked quickly: "Mr. Jay, what happened? Why did they close down Renren? Is there any misunderstanding here?"
Renren is developing well and has not been involved in any of the three illegal activities. So how come it has attracted the attention of regulatory authorities?
Is it wrong to have strong development momentum?
Or are some fees not paid enough?
Chen Yizhou's mind raced.
"What a misunderstanding!"
Seeing a large sum of money about to go down the drain, the investor cursed: "Do you think I'm as stupid as you? This news is absolutely true! You'd better pray that this matter can be resolved, otherwise I will make you pay for it."
Before he finished speaking, the phone was hung up.
Chen Yizhou has no doubt about the source of the investor's information. The most important issue now is to conduct self-examination to find out why the regulatory authorities took action against Renren.
Chen Yizhou said anxiously: "Xiao Song, notify all the people above the first level of the company to hold a meeting. Quick!"
His secretary Xiao Song was a little surprised to hear the order. After all, the meeting had just been disbanded less than ten minutes ago, and it was more or less ridiculous to hold another meeting now.
Seeing that Xiao Song didn't move, Chen Yizhou glared at Xiao Song and urged him, "Why are you still standing here? Go quickly."
"Ohhh, okay."
In less than ten minutes, the company executive who had just returned to the office after a meeting and hadn't even had a sip of hot tea was called to the conference room again.
They looked at Chen Yizhou with a gloomy face and lowered their heads, as if they had done something wrong, just like when they were in school and were afraid of being called on by the teacher to answer questions.
"What's wrong with Mr. Chen? What's the meaning of calling us back after the meeting?"
"You can see his face is not right. Did Fan Jin go crazy after passing the imperial examination?"
"Not really. Fan Jin went crazy after all because he got the money. Renren hasn't even gone public yet, has it?"
"What the hell is going on? "
Chen Yizhou knocked on the table and said in a deep voice: "Renren has been reported. The relevant departments want to close down Renren. The source is quite large. Renren may be gone."
"What?"
"Impossible?"
"Renren.com is going to be shut down?"
After hearing what Chen Yizhou said, the company executives present could no longer sit still.
Just now, everyone was dreaming of the company going public and becoming billions of dollars worth of assets, but in the blink of an eye, the company was reported?
The ups and downs of life are really too exciting!
"No, Mr. Chen, what is going on?"
Liu Jian couldn't sit still anymore.
He had just sold himself to Renren, and now Renren was going to be gone?
If I had known this, it would have rotted in the soil.
Chen Yizhou sighed and said, "When I received the call just now, I didn't know what was going on, but now that I think about it, it should be related to those borderline videos."
When it comes to borderline videos, everyone knows the answer.
Everyone knows that this is the source of traffic. All the websites with the highest traffic in the world are of that type.
When this video first appeared on Renren, everyone was hoping for the best. But later, when they found that these videos brought a lot of traffic to Renren, everyone tacitly pretended not to have seen it.
Now, Renren has been reported because of this incident, and it seems that it is not just a report of ordinary bad information, otherwise Jay Chou would not be so angry.
Normally, when reporting harmful information, the relevant department would at most make a phone call, say a few words, admit the mistake, and remove the video. But now it seems that this is not the case at all.
This means that the whistleblower must be someone important.
For example, if an ordinary netizen reports the same bad information, the relevant department may notify the website to rectify and delete it. But if it is reported by a person of high status, then banning is considered light, and he will face the people's judgment in minutes.
After all, the law is humane.
Someone couldn't help but curse: "Which second-generation rich kid has nothing better to do than report our website? He's eating so much and yet he won't even let us see it? This is too disgusting."
"Who says it's not true? But this is how the world works. We can only say that it's our bad luck that we encountered this."
"Who the hell are you talking about? You're disturbing me from becoming a multi-millionaire. If he stood in front of me, I would definitely beat him to death!"
As the saying goes, blocking someone from getting rich is like killing their parents. Now that Renren has been taken down, it is really blocking everyone from getting rich.
Chen Yizhou analyzed: "The person who reported us must be someone powerful. Generally, he will be interviewed first when he reports. This is an old tradition. Secondly, he must be in competition with our products. Only then will he have the motivation to target us. With both the identity and the motivation, the answer is obvious. It is Lu Yiming!"
"Lu Yiming?"
Liu Jian cursed: "This is too rude. If the literary method doesn't work, then use the force? Can he have some shame? He is the richest man in the country, but he actually did such a despicable and shameless thing. Is he still a human being?"
Chen Yizhou has been hit by investors before, so he doesn't have a hard time seeing this: "High-end business wars often use the simplest methods. And it's not like Mr. Lu hasn't done this before. They uploaded the borderline video themselves and then reported us. I have to say that they are really unethical. But it's also our own fault for being greedy and covering up those videos for traffic."
Although the business world is like a battlefield, with people treating each other to meals and stabbing each other with hammers and knives, Liu Jian couldn't help but curse: "Fuck, this method is too dirty! How about we delete the post right now?"
Chen Yizhou shook his head: "It's too late. Mr. Lu has always been very careful in his work. He must have kept the evidence. Besides, we can delete the post now, so can't he continue to post it?"
There are some things Chen Yizhou didn't say. The cause of the incident was that Renren.com did not supervise strictly in order to develop, which led to all kinds of bad things in the forum.
The Internet has memory, and everything you do will leave traces, so Renren cannot withstand scrutiny.
Li Yiwen walked into Lu Yiming's office with a stack of documents.
He slapped the information on Lu Yiming's desk and said, "Chen Yizhou has admitted defeat and plans to sell Renren. Let's name a price."
Without even looking up, Lu Yiming said, "Five million."
Li Yiwen was shocked: "Damn, you are so generous? Five million before and still five million now? Now Renren has been registered and the traffic has dropped sharply. If it weren't for the web video thing, I think five hundred thousand would be too much."
Lu Yiming said: "The unit was previously in U.S. dollars, but now it is in RMB."
"Wow, it dropped eight times in one go? I told you, if you want to be ruthless, you're the one. It's not your character to let others take advantage of you."
Lu Yiming argued, "Why am I so cruel? I hired the Internet trolls for free, right?"
Li Yiwen said: "This guy gave in so quickly. How much money did you pay for hiring the water army? A hundred thousand or eighty thousand at most."
Lu Yiming said confidently: "Then I personally reported it, so a fee of four million is not too much, right?"
“…”
Campus network.
Wang Xing and other founders were in a bad mood and looked worried.
Although the digestion contest attracted a lot of traffic to the campus network, the strong rise of Renren also took away many of their users.
The most important thing is that everyone is talking about the interesting short videos on Renren.com, so everyone goes to Renren.com. For campus network users, posting a few selfies is not attractive at all.
Wang Xing knocked on the table and said, "Hey, the situation is very serious now. Let's first discuss how to deal with the competition from Renren."
Wang Huiwen said: "Although we have Lu, the richest man, behind us, Chen Yizhou has just raised more than 10 million US dollars. His financial strength is stronger than ours. I am afraid that the competition will be at a disadvantage for us."
Wang Xing sighed and said, "There is nothing we can do. Although the number of registered users of our campus network is still increasing, the number of new users is lagging behind our competitors. We must find a way to reverse the downward trend as soon as possible."
Because of this, Wang Xing couldn't sleep well these days. He even thought about whether he should shamelessly ask Lu Yiming for some financing and directly spend money to compete with Renren for customers.
Just when the two were at a loss, Wang Xing received a call.
The call was from Lu Yiming. The moment the call was connected, Lu Yiming said, "Get ready, take over Renren."
"What?"
Wang Xing was shocked and asked quickly, "Mr. Lu, are you planning to acquire Renren? Renren is developing so fast now, Chen Yizhou shouldn't sell it, right?"
Lu Yiming said expressionlessly, "He has already planned to sell it. The asset price is RMB 5 million. You can go and discuss the details with him."
Wang Xing was so frightened that he stood up from his stool and said seriously, "Okay, I'll contact them right away!"
After hanging up the phone, Wang Xing still felt like he was dreaming. Wang Huiwen asked, "What are you calling for?"
Wang Xing said to Wang Huiwen: "Mr. Lu called me and asked me to negotiate with Renren about the acquisition."
Wang Huiwen was surprised and said, "Acquire Renren? Brother, are you kidding me? With the current development momentum of Renren, how much money would it cost?"
Wang Xing said: "Five million RMB."
“…”
Wang Huiwen felt unbelievable: "Five million RMB? Are you sure you heard it right? Or did Chen Yizhou break his brain when he fell down the stairs last night?"
It is conservatively estimated that Renren's marketing expenses are more than 10 million yuan. And now that its development momentum is so strong, would it be sold for 5 million yuan?
Isn't this nonsense?
Just when the two were puzzled, Lai Binqiang ran in and said excitedly: "Hahaha, we are going to see a good show!"
Wang Xing asked: "What's the good show?"
Lai Binqiang laughed loudly and said, "The headquarters of Qianxiang Interactive seems to have been closed down. Many people have been discussing this online. I heard that they were reported for having pornographic content on their website."
Wang Huiwen felt unbelievable: "Where did this news come from? Is this a mistake? Chen Yizhou shouldn't be so stupid, right?"
It’s not that he believes in Chen Yizhou’s noble character, but that he believes in Chen Yizhou’s IQ. After all, if you want to build a platform, how can you personally do the dirty work?
Wang Xing said: "It seems that what was uploaded online is true. This is illegal, they were lucky, and now they are being punished."
Lai Binqiang said: "I don't know about this. But the problem with Qianxiang Interactive is not only with Renren.com, but also with Dudu, a network download accelerator. This type of software is in the vortex of rogue software controversy, and many of the resources in it are Japanese porn movies uploaded by users."
After hearing this, Wang Xing and Wang Huiwen looked at each other.
This kind of thing can be big or small, and although there are clear regulations, in reality it is a case of the government not investigating unless the people report it.
These are just minor issues when no one is looking into them.
But once someone investigates it, it will immediately become a huge event.
Wang Huiwen still found it hard to believe: "What a coincidence that someone uploaded sensitive information on Renren.com and was then reported by someone, and it happened to be at the critical moment when Renren.com and our campus network were competing?"
Wang Xing thought of the phone call Lu Yiming had just made. He had already made a guess in his mind, and immediately said with a smile: "No matter what, our biggest problem has been perfectly solved."
In the next few days, Wang Xing led the team and acquired Renren for five million yuan.
Of course, the name Renren has become tarnished and can no longer be used, but the technology is not to blame. As for those video-related and previous Renren users and traffic, the campus network simply accepted them.
After Campus Network swallowed up Renren, its market share more than doubled, and its growth rate became even faster, resulting in a monopoly.
After a while, Chen Yizhou appeared on a TV show with a gloomy expression. Facing the camera, he said in a serious tone: "I will not do controversial business anymore. This is a controversial place. For Qianxiang Group, the most important thing is its reputation."
There is no doubt that Chen Yizhou has been scared and no longer focuses on the social track. He even made a program to say that he would "change careers." On the one hand, he wanted to eliminate the social impact, and on the other hand, he wanted to draw a clear line with Lu Yiming, for fear that starting a business later would anger Lu Yiming again.
In the office, Lu Yiming and Li Yiwen also watched the program on their computers. Li Yiwen laughed and said, "Why is this guy so cowardly? I thought most entrepreneurs were arrogant and stubborn."
Lu Yiming said: "In front of capital, how can you be so stubborn? Whether to kneel or not is not about backbone, but about interests."
Li Yiwen was a little worried: "You used this method to kill Renren.com, aren't you afraid that others will use the same method to kill Campus Network?"
Lu Yiming said: "I'm afraid, so I plan to add some insurance to the campus network."
Li Yiwen was curious: "What insurance?"
Lu Yiming said: "First, we need to work hard on our internal work. Let Wang Xing and his team strengthen the internal review of the community, delete sensitive content that should be deleted, and ban accounts that are messing around."
Li Yiwen frowned: "Isn't this enough? I'm afraid that the opponent will cry thief and the website will not be able to delete it."
Lu Yiming said: "Of course I know this is not enough, so in addition to strengthening censorship and management, we also need to find a protective umbrella for the website."
"Umbrella?"
Li Yiwen became even more curious and asked quickly, "Who are you going to look for?"
