Chapter 362 The boss is on TV
In the first-class cabin of the plane, Qin Shaoyan poured the iced Coke into the goblet and took a careful sip.
“Don’t say they are curious, I am also curious.” Zhang Pingyi looked at the information in his hand and sighed.
Qin Shaoyan was a little stunned, "Why are you curious about this? Besides, didn't I tell you about the campus network's website plan before?"
"There is not a word of truth in your mouth." Zhang Pingyi He said seriously, "In the past two years, you have either been painting people's cakes, or you are on the road to painting cakes. You have promised things in the front and then regretted them later. Who dares to believe the plan you said."
"To take a step back, you mentioned too many plans before. How can I remember which plan it is?"
Qin Shaoyan was a little dumbfounded and said angrily: "You are my right-hand man, the veteran hero who started the business. As the pillar of the campus network, others say that I am just fine. How can you doubt the boss?”
“My plan for the campus network has always been clear, relying on the campus to spread to the society.”
"Wait?!" Zhang Pingyi said doubtfully, "When did you mention this plan? Why haven't I heard of it?"
"Didn't I say that?" Qin Shaoyan was confused. Said, "I remember I said that university campus users should be absorbed quickly, and we should also develop to young people who have just graduated, urban white-collar workers and other groups."
Zhang Mingyi said with great certainty, "You only told us that we should rely on the College Student Station to connect online and offline, and build the College Student Station into a comprehensive one-stop service store."
"Not only includes express delivery. , buy and sell various mobile phone cards, game points, milk tea snacks, and sell travel tickets and movie tickets.”
“Now college student stations have been established in several cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Hong Kong. There are more than a hundred, but I think it will be doubled next year at most."
Zhang Mingyi opened his hands and counted, "How much can you earn from these three hundred college student stations? I remember you also said about college students. My spending power is limited and I don’t have much money.”
“Yes.” Qin Shaoyan nodded, “So I often give benefits and subsidies to my family, and I don’t expect to make money from them.”
"Don't worry about the college student station. That thing is just an advertising sign for the campus network." Qin Shaoyan said lightly, "If we want to make money, we still need to use our brains from users outside the campus network."
"? ??" Zhang Mingyi was startled. He pondered for a long time and didn't understand what Qin Shaoyan meant.
Other people’s websites are trying their best to squeeze money from their users. They want every netizen who browses the web to pay for it, and they do everything possible to convert users into paying users.
As a result, Qin Shaoyan said that he did not expect to make money from the 10 million users of the campus network. He planned to make money from people outside the campus network.
Listen, is this human talk?
Zhang Mingyi clearly remembered Qin Shaoyan once said that video websites had no hope of making money, but Qvod.com was eventually established.
Now Kuaibo.com relies entirely on venture capital money to maintain it, and Qin Shaoyan has never thought about making Kuaibo.com profitable.
Campus Network will be preparing for an IPO next year, and Qin Shaoyan also talked about making money outside of Campus Network.
It’s all nonsense. Zhang Pingyi even suspected that Qin Shaoyan didn’t want the campus network to make money at all.
Zhang Pingyi asked tentatively: "Whose money do you want to defraud?"
"What do you mean by defrauding someone of their money?" Qin Shaoyan retorted, "This is a normal business activity. This is not defrauding someone of their money."
"Have you forgotten how we started our business?"< br>
“Do you really expect to make money from games?” Zhang Pingyi was stunned again and asked incredulously.
“Didn’t we make a fortune from just one game?” Qin Shaoyan asked, “If it weren’t for the money from “Plants vs. Zombies,” how could we have a campus network and a Facebook network?”< br>
“What’s more, I’ve taken over several game studios. I’m not here to support them, but to make them make money for us.”
"Didn't you tell me that games are the same as lottery tickets?" Zhang Pingyi asked puzzledly, "No one can guarantee that the game will be popular. It is possible to invest several years and a lot of money and die suddenly as soon as it is released. , the chance of becoming popular is very difficult.”
“The game industry does have this characteristic.” Qin Shaoyan did not deny, “But my game design is different.”
“What’s the difference?” Zhang Pingyi asked rhetorically.
I just copied the answer directly.
"If you can understand it, you will be the number one designer." Qin Shaoyan patted his chest and said, "This thing is talent, you don't understand."
"Single-player games are indeed like buying lottery tickets, but today's online games are different."
"Now China's online game market is expanding rapidly, and the huge game user group and the market with great potential are in short supply. The situation is that there are only a small number of online games on the market, and most of them are of low quality, have serious bugs, and have poor operation ideas.”
“On the one hand, game manufacturers lack experience and are still exploring design ideas and accumulating technology. Not enough leads to too many bugs, and there is even less experience and technology in operations. The industry is extremely short of talents.” It must be to make money.”
“Online game users do not necessarily need to attract traffic from campus network users, it is a different system.”
"Zhou Yuan, who is in charge of the college student station, has already started to build a local promotion team to explore online game channels."
Zhang Pingyi suddenly said, "I said I haven't seen Zhou Yuan for a long time. It turns out that he is busy with this." "
Qin Shaoyan said casually, "Didn't Zhou Yuan send you a report application or something like that? You can tell by looking at his report."
"I didn't pay attention." Zhang Pingyi was startled, "Don't you usually sign for things like budget reimbursements?"
"This guy." Qin Shaoyan smiled, "He can keep things secret pretty well."
Zhang Pingyi had some doubts, "How much money can be made from just one online game, and can it support the campus network's market value of US$2.5 billion?"
"If one doesn't work, just two, there will always be a way." Qin Shaoyan said confidently, "My goal is a market value of 4 billion US dollars."
"Look at Shanda and NetEase, why can the bosses become the richest men in China? Isn't it because of their online game business?"
< br>In the Internet industry during this period, until before the mobile Internet, if you wanted to make money, you had to rely on online games, and you couldn't make much money from users.
So during this period, the Internet and the game industry have begun to be deeply integrated. Online games have become the mainstream of the Chinese game industry, and there is almost no room for stand-alone games to survive.
Zhang Pingyi breathed a sigh of relief, "I hope your online game can make a lot of money."
"Don't worry, it will definitely be possible." Qin Shaoyan thought for a while, "But before that, we have to defeat an opponent. "
"Which opponent?" Zhang Pingyi was stunned. "There are not many opponents in the game industry that you can take seriously. Is it World of Warcraft?"
" No." Qin Shaoyan shook his head.
“That wouldn’t be Fantasy Westward Journey, right?” Zhang Pingyi thought for a while, “This game’s performance is indeed quite strong. NetEase has made a lot of money from this online game.”
"It's a game called Zhengtu."
"What is that?" Zhang Pingyi thought for a while and looked through all the games he had heard of in the world, but he had no impression. "Which company produced it?" "?"
"There shouldn't be any tests yet." Qin Shaoyan said with a serious expression. "It's from the Giant." Platinum?”
“Yes, that’s it.”
"Aren't they making health care products?" Zhang Pingyi found it unbelievable, "When did they start playing games?"
"Shi Yuzhu poached a team from Shanda." Qin Shaoyan sighed, "Boss Chen It's still careless. Shanda is clinging to the legend now and is completely sitting on nothing and not making progress."
"You should not worry about Mr. Chen. You should pay more attention to our game." Zhang. Ping Yi said worriedly, "You have been running around cheating and kidnapping in the past two years, and you have not paid much attention to the game company. Can they produce qualified works?"
"It's okay, in the past two years I let them do it, mainly to accumulate resources and technology. What they are lacking now is the design idea," Qin Shaoyan said without worry, "I will go back and train for a few months, and I will be able to do this kind of thing right away. Not bragging.
He had really seen similar operations. Looking back on his previous life, he had seen a project that had been in the works for nearly three years and was almost to death.
After three years of working together, there are no big problems with art and programming. It’s just that there is no powerful producer to lead and no design ideas to work together.
Before going online, a producer parachuted into the project team and spent three or four months sorting out the project. The game made a lot of money right after it went online.
At that time, the producer was not very sure about himself.
What Qin Shaoyan has to do now is to copy various gameplay systems and operational ideas that have been verified by countless online games and players in later generations.
These mature gameplay designs are simply a dimensionality-reducing blow to the market that has just started and everyone is still in the exploratory stage.
"Then I look forward to what classic works you, the number one designer in the Chinese game industry, can bring to everyone." Zhang Pingyi said with a smile.
Qin Shaoyan also laughed. A classic will definitely become a classic, but it is not necessarily a good classic or a bad classic.
After this game comes out, it will leave an important mark in the history of games. It is estimated that players will definitely criticize it if they mention it again.
Sorry players, in order to successfully launch the campus network, and for the future Internet blueprint planned by Qin Shaoyan.
I can only suffer the players, and I will take the blame.
At worst, I will make more good games in the future to make it up to you.
Zhang Pingyi sighed with emotion: "If Mr. Qin can really make the game, Campus Network will be able to successfully go to Nasdaq to ring the bell next year. By then we will be the real bosses of listed companies. Maybe I can even get on the list of blessed immortals."
Qin Shaoyan glanced at him, "Do you think being on the list is a good thing?"
"Hi, my goal is not to be on the list. I want to make a fortune." Zhang Pingyi said excitedly, "It's quite honorable to go out and say that you are the vice president of a company with a market value of several billion dollars."
"Ever since I was tricked by you into joining the gang, I have been scared for the past two years. You have always painted cakes for me. It took me two years to get the money back."
"What does joining the gang mean?" Qin Shaoyan He said displeasedly, "I am here to cooperate and lead you to win-win cooperation. Don't you think this is win-win cooperation? Isn't YouTube's shares money?"
"Taking a step back, even if I exaggerated, what did you lose?"
"Yes, yes." Zhang Pingyi thought of the hundreds of millions of dollars he earned from selling YouTube, and he felt embarrassed to tease Mr. Qin again.
“When will Facebook be launched? I heard that our campus network will be launched next year. Fred’s eyes are red with envy. He can’t help it.”
"It's not time for Facebook to go public yet." Qin Shaoyan sighed, "Even if we want to go public now, I'm afraid those venture capital investors won't agree." Do you want me to start a business project for Facebook? The group purchase mentioned before has been delayed."
The smile on Zhang Pingyi's face gradually disappeared, "How long do you think it will be delayed?"
" When our shares are almost diluted, they should think about going public." Qin Shaoyan said helplessly, "Now Facebook is a piece of fat, and everyone wants to take a bite."
"I guess. It’s time to think about your retreat. You can try to cash out your Facebook shares next year. I will sell my Facebook shares to Fred in 2007 at the latest.”
"It's time to quit this pitfall of Facebook."
Zhang Pingyi was a little surprised, "Aren't you going to wait until it goes public?"
"Can't wait any longer." Qin Shaoyan sighed with emotion. , "Facebook is becoming more and more influential. My identity is too sensitive. If I don't wash my hands of it quickly, I'm afraid there will be endless trouble."
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Qin Shaoyan is over. After a rewarding trip to the United States, he returned to his loyal campus network in high spirits.
As soon as I walked into the company, I saw the campus network employees looking a little strange and seemed a little excited.
“Mr. Qin is back!”
“Brothers, Mr. Qin is back!”
Someone spotted Qin Shaoyan’s figure and shouted loudly, and instantly the whole company was It was boiling, and almost everyone stood up and looked at Qin Shaoyan with reverence.
Qin Shaoyan was stunned, what is going on?
What happened?
Wang Jun, the CTO who stayed behind, heard the noise outside, ran out of the office, rushed to Qin Shaoyan in two or three steps, and said excitedly: "Mr. Qin, you are finally back."
"Ah, I'm back." Qin Shaoyan was a little confused, "Didn't I tell you before, I will be at the company today."
"Mr. Qin, didn't you watch the news?" Wang Jun couldn't hide it An excited look.
"What news?" Qin Shaoyan asked.
"It's CCTV, the seven o'clock news broadcast." Wang Jun said excitedly, "You are on TV! Our campus network is also on TV."
Qin Shaoyan was startled and his body shook.
On TV?
I was still on CCTV's news network. Although there had been speculation before, now that it has become true, Qin Shaoyan felt a little untrue in a daze.
Qin Shaoyan asked subconsciously, "When was it broadcast?"
"Last night."
"Is there a replay?" Qin Shaoyan asked.
"I have already recorded it." Wang Jun immediately called to the employee at the next station, "Xiao Xu, please open Qvod.com and show Mr. Qin the news on our school network."
Qin Shaoyan immediately ran to the computer and looked at the uploaded video. Although the picture quality was not satisfactory, the sound was still clear.
The announcer's well-spoken voice came out through the small speaker, "Recently, the World Student Forum Summit held at the United Nations Headquarters concluded successfully... Chinese university student representatives performed well and won the debate competition. Silver medal.”
"This international college student summer camp event sponsored by Campus Network showed the world the style of Chinese college students..."
As the screen continued to switch between the United Nations Headquarters and the debate process, Qin Shaoyan was finally revealed. Shot wearing a campus network T-shirt.
He was talking eloquently into the microphone, and he looked relaxed and free-spirited.
"The campus network will be held once a year, so that more college students can participate and let more students know the world. ... I hope students can look at the world with equal eyes."
Wang Jun raised his hands Newspapers, "Not only CCTV news, but also many newspapers reported it."
Qin Shaoyan grabbed the newspaper and glanced at it. It contained a complete transcript of Wen Jiali's interview with him, complete with pictures.
"The campus network is going to be popular now!"
(End of this chapter)