Chapter 361 How to Make Money
In a hotel room in New York.
The photographer and assistant are nervously arranging the venue and equipment, and carefully adjusting the lens.
Wen Jiali, who was in charge of the interview, touched up her makeup with a small mirror, and then carefully checked the manuscript in her hand.
As the interviewee, Qin Shaoyan was simply put on makeup by the makeup artist and put on a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.
When he was sitting on the chair, Wen Jiali, who was opposite, raised her head and suddenly froze when she saw Qin Shaoyan wearing it.
Because Qin Shaoyan wore a white T-shirt with the three characters campus network printed on it, and the logos of campus network and the United Nations below.
Qin Shaoyan saw that Wen Jiali looked wrong, so he pretended to be cautious and asked: "What's wrong? Reporter Wen? Is my clothes inappropriate?"
"That's not the case." Wen Jiali smiled and said, "It's just that Mr. Qin's outfit is very surprising. I thought you would be wearing a suit."
CCTV interviews do not require interviewees to dress formally. As long as it's not illegal, not offensive, and clean and tidy, that's all.
Qin Shaoyan confirmed it with CCTV staff in advance, so he specially picked such a T-shirt to leave the country.
Wen Jiali knew Qin Shaoyan's little thoughts at a glance. She said with a smile: "We will put subtitles on it and write Mr. Qin's name and the name of the website. You can be a little more formal."
"I usually don't like to wear suits, because our company advocates comfortable office work, and I usually get whatever is comfortable." Qin Shaoyan smiled sheepishly, "That's what I usually wear."
“This T-shirt is a commemoration of the World University Student Forum Summit. I think it is very meaningful to wear this clothes for interviews.”
Wen Jiali did not struggle with the issue of Qin Shaoyan’s clothes, but smiled asked: "Can we start then?"
"You can do it at any time." Qin Shaoyan immediately became serious.
Wen Jiali raised the first question: "How did you come up with the idea of organizing such an international event as the World Student Forum Summit?"
"The World Student Forum Summit is our campus network It is co-organized by Facebook in the United States and the United Nations and is part of the International College Student Summer Camp." Qin Shaoyan said slowly, "The World College Student Forum Summit is mainly to show the international community what college students think about future social development and globalization. "At the same time, elite representatives elected by various countries have shown to the world the responsibility and responsibility of college students for global development."
"The United Nations has long ago Recognizing that the imagination, ideals and vitality of young people are crucial to the sustainable development of the society in which they live, relevant departments of the United Nations have given considerable support to this forum summit and provided us with a lot of conveniences.”
“We use the platform provided by the United Nations to better demonstrate the comprehensive quality of young college students to the world.”
“We also hope that through this platform, we can demonstrate to the world the excellent abilities and high-spiritedness of Chinese college students. Mental outlook."
Wen Jiali continued to ask: "What do you think of the performance of the Chinese college students this time?"
"Excellent, very good!" Qin Shaoyan said with a smile. , “During the entire forum summit, Chinese university student representatives showed outstanding quality and rich knowledge reserves, especially in the debate competition, and won high praise from the judges.”
“Participants World-renowned experts and scholars are full of praise for the Chinese university student representatives.”
"Although the entire Chinese university student delegation only won the silver medal, this is also a historic breakthrough. The judges also awarded the outstanding group award and special award to the Chinese university student representatives."
"This is everyone's recognition of China. The university student representatives unanimously recognized it.”
Wen Jiali: “I understand that the World University Student Forum Summit is part of the international summer camp. What I want to ask is, how do you think about holding such an international event? What?”
“Because the main user group of our campus network is college students, we often carry out activities targeting college students,” Qin Shaoyan said, “At the same time, we are an Internet company, and the spirit of the Internet is. Share and communicate, break the restrictions of region and language, and eliminate the barriers of culture and customs.”
“The purpose of organizing the International College Student Summer Camp is to allow college students from different countries around the world to communicate and learn from each other on an equal footing. The stage.”
"At the same time, it can give Chinese college students a window and opportunity to understand the world. Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles and visiting different countries in person."
"In addition to the natural scenery, there are also Unique culture, an opportunity to have close contact with world-famous universities.”
Wen Jiali: “How do our college students perform compared with outstanding college students from all over the world?”
"Unexpectedly excellent." Qin Shaoyan said seriously, "At the beginning, our college students were a little reserved. When we visited Italy, the Italian students were very enthusiastic and quickly cheered up the atmosphere."
“After arriving at the second stop in Germany, our students have been able to actively communicate with students from other countries. They cooperated tacitly in subsequent activities, and many of them have become good friends.”
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"Our college students have strong teamwork skills and high execution ability. They can often complete various social practice activities excellently in a short period of time. American college students like to form teams with Chinese college students, and there are often fights."
Wen Jiali: "Do you think this international college summer camp event meets expectations."
"This event has greatly exceeded my expectations and is even better than I imagined." Qin Shaoyan said with a smile, this sentence is a rare heartfelt statement, "My original plan was to let Chinese college students go out for a walk, take a look, have a preliminary understanding of European and American countries, and at the same time learn something during the study tour. This is considered a success.”
“But in social practice activities, our students performed perfectly, which impressed students from other countries. I feel that this summer camp activity has far exceeded my expectations. Its expectations.”
“We will hold this summer camp event every year to allow more college students to participate and let more students know the world.”
Wen Jiali was very surprised. This kind of activity seemed to be very costly. She thought it was a publicity activity organized by the campus network, but she did not expect that the campus network would fix this event.
“This will cost a lot of money for the campus network, right?”
“I think this money is well spent, and it is appropriate to spend money on meaningful things.” Qin Shaoyan said Although he was calm and calm, he knew in his heart that this event did cost a lot of money, tens of millions of dollars.
Thanks to Facebook and the parents of American students paying the bill, the campus network paid for the air tickets, food and accommodation, otherwise Qin Shaoyan would not dare to brag about this to CCTV.
Wen Jiali showed an expression of admiration and praised: "The campus network has developed so well in just two years, which is inseparable from Mr. Qin's vision of the situation."
"It all relies on the joint efforts of employees and the love of users. I just caught up with the good opportunity of the rapid development of the Internet." Qin Shaoyan said modestly.
"Mr. Qin is too humble." Wen Jiali said with a smile, "This is not the first time we have dealt with each other."
Qin Shaoyan was startled, and quickly recalled in his mind when he and the central government We have met in Taiwan.
Wen Jiali reminded: "The last time was last year at the Global International Marathon. I was there, but unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity to interview Mr. Qin. I finally made up for it this time."
"Oh, it was that Olympic charity event." Qin Shaoyan suddenly realized.
Wen Jiali said with a smile: "At the end of the interview, does Mr. Qin have anything to say to the domestic college students?" Qin Shaoyan thought for a moment, "Now is the best time. I hope the students can work hard and work hard. ”
“Stay down to earth and learn more about the world. Although there is still a big gap between us and developed countries, I hope that students will face up to their shortcomings, not belittle themselves, and straighten their spines to look at the world. ”
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After the interview, Qin Shaoyan and Wen Jiali chatted for a few words, exchanged contact information with each other, and asked secretary Xiao Chen to send the reporter off.
Secretary Xiao Chen prepared two small gifts in advance in his handbag. While seeing him off, he looked for opportunities to give them to each other.
Qin Shaoyan was wondering whether the entire interview just now would be put on the news, and if there were any cuts, which sentences would be released.
Secretary Xiao Chen returned soon and reported to Qin Shaoyan, "Mr. Qin, the gift was sent out and received very smoothly. Let me convey my gratitude to you."
Qin Shaoyan He gave a perfunctory hum, "You can keep in touch with her later. It would be good to be on the line with CCTV."
"Okay, Mr. Qin." Secretary Xiao Chen took out his mobile phone from his bag and handed it to her. Give him, "Mr. Xiong called you several times."
Qin Shaoyan casually took the phone and saw that there were several missed calls, so he called Xiong Xiaoge, "Mr. Xiong, what's the matter?"
"When will you come back?" Xiong Xiaoge asked directly. road.
"Let me check the time, next week." Qin Shaoyan glanced at the itinerary and said smoothly, "I will definitely return to China next week."
"The activities over there are over, what are you still doing? Not coming back." Xiong Xiaoge asked, "What are you doing in the United States?"
Qin Shaoyan said unhappily: "Mr. Xiong, I am not only the boss of Campus Network, I am also a shareholder of Facebook. I have a lot of things to deal with in the United States.”
"Besides, these college students in China haven't gone back yet. What's the point of me going back by myself?"
"Huh?" Xiong Xiaoge was a little surprised, "You plan to come back with the student representatives."
"That's not necessarily true." Qin Shaoyan sighed, "Mr. Xiong, don't rush me. I just called you after finishing the interview. I'm also very busy."
" CCTV interview?" Xiong Xiaoge asked curiously.
"Hey, Mr. Xiong is very well-informed." Qin Shaoyan was a little surprised. He didn't expect that even Xiong Xiaoge in China knew about this.
"Mr. Qin is very capable, and he managed to get interviewed by CCTV." Xiong Xiaoge joked.
"This is also for the promotion of the campus network. The IPO will be listed next year. As the boss of the campus network, I have to put more thought into it." Qin Shaoyan complained, "I have been running back and forth for this matter. I work day and night. Mr. Xiong, please help me because I have no credit but also hard work."
"Okay, okay, you seem to be working for me. Same." Xiong Xiaoge said impatiently, "This is why I'm looking for you. You have to tell me clearly in advance what you plan to do." "I will end the matter here as soon as possible, and we will discuss it in detail after returning to China."
IPO listing does require Xiong Xiaoge's great help, but this matter is different from other things that can be messed up.
Qin Shaoyan has been almost sixty in his two lifetimes combined. He has never participated in the listing of a company and has no such experience.
As for the listing process, not one of the hundreds of people in the company understands it. Although there will be specialized securities firms, accounting firms, and law firms to assist, it is impossible for the campus network to be completely hands-off.
The most important thing is that it is not that easy to go public. Xiong Xiaoge and Sequoia need to coordinate together to find a capable broker.
Qin Shaoyan can't handle these things, he has nothing to do and has no background.
Now Qin Shaoyan has two things at hand, one is how to join the "Anti-QBO Alliance", and the other is the listing of the campus network.
Although the "Anti-Quick Broadcast Alliance" relied on Qin Shaoyan to obtain financing and quickly organized a counterattack, Qin Shaoyan didn't care about them at all.
After all, video websites cannot be successful just by having money, not to mention that the money they get is simply not enough to watch.
So the most important thing right now is the launch of the campus network.
After two years of hard work, his first entrepreneurial project is finally going to be launched. Thinking about it, he is still a little excited.
By then, Qin Shaoyan will be the boss of a company listed on the U.S. stock market, spending money from U.S. investors to improve his life, what a fun thing it is.
Next, he only needs to solve one small problem and he can successfully go public.
That’s how the campus network makes money.
The topic of how to make money on the campus network goes back to when Sequoia and IDG first invested in him. At that time, Qin Shaoyan described many profitable ways for these two venture capital firms.
Advertising revenue is better than nothing. Although the campus network is very famous and has many active users, it can still earn a lot of money from selling advertisements.
But Qin Shaoyan said when he first created the website that for the sake of user experience, the campus network should add as few advertisements as possible, which resulted in the campus network having almost no advertisements.
Some advertisements are purely in cooperation with friends and will only appear when needed.
In the early days, Campus Network relied on e-commerce gimmicks to let venture capital see the spending power of Campus Network user groups, so the cooperation with Jingdong Mall came about.
However, the consumption power of the student group is limited after all, and there is not much money to be made from students.
Qin Shaoyan had never counted on e-commerce at all. As for the college student post station, it was a purely money-losing project in Qin Shaoyan's plan. Now it is an unexpected surprise that it can maintain a balance of payments.
As for why Qin Shaoyan wants to start a money-losing project.
Everyone knows this. It is normal for a company's projects to make profits and losses.
Xiong Xiaoge called Qin Shaoyan in such a hurry because he wanted to find out how Qin Shaoyan wanted to make the campus network make money quickly.
This may be related to the market value of the campus network.
(End of this chapter)