Chapter 467 Maiwo may go bankrupt, but it will never go bad
"What a son of a bitch!"
Chen Yizhou once again extended his cordial greetings in his hometown dialect.
Yao Yuan announced that Maiwo Community had accepted financing, and the news spread quickly in the investment circle. Several institutions on Zhixiaonei.com immediately withdrew after hearing the news. If they could invest first, who would invest second?
What's more, this second one was picked up and lost, and its size is dozens of times different!
The duck in the pot flew away. Chen Yizhou, who had always been good at raising financing and bullying others, felt frustrated again - the last time he founded ChinaRen, it was acquired by Sohu.
"..."
He locked himself in the office, breathing heavily like an ox, and for a moment he couldn't figure out Yao Yuan.
Isn't community your ideal? You have rejected at least 20 investment proposals, why did Mao let you go now? Is it really just to make mobile phones and realize another ideal?
I can't help Chen Yizhou.
Are there really such pure people working on the Internet?
But no matter what, he was very angry now. He just wanted to give the other party some eye drops and ordered: "Make the news public and say that Maiwo is going to be sold!"
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In 2001, Yao Yuan set up a rough dating club and made his first pot of gold by relying on the text message alliance.
The community officially took shape in 2002, and it has been 5 years now. It has created countless firsts and led countless products. However, because it was not born in the United States, its influence has been greatly reduced.
Even so, it has also changed the course of the domestic Internet. For example, it has single-handedly suppressed the blog era that once created glory in history. Although there are blog websites now, they have not become big.
This is the ark and spiritual home of young people. There have been too many stories here... Now it is going to be sold?
As soon as the news came out, it immediately detonated the Internet. Many netizens who were really extreme or fake extreme protested or fished in troubled waters.
"The boy who slayed the dragon eventually became a dragon. Commander Yao couldn't resist the temptation of capital after all!"
"I post here as proof that if Maiwo is really sold, I will not take another step and let it be buried with my youth!"
"Commander Yao vows to promote his ideals, but after all, he is not a businessman full of money?"
"Everyone was deceived by him!"
"Perhaps he is just fattening up the wheat nest and waiting for this day!"
Rumors and trolls did drive some rhythm, but Liu Weiwei took action in time and quickly corrected the direction of public opinion.
"Where did so many level 1 accounts come from? They are troublemakers at first glance. Didn't Commander Yao clearly say that he is short of money to make mobile phones?"
"Let me just say one thing, Maiwo is the only one without advertisements! Which websites, big and small, don't have advertisements now? Do you know how much advertising fees Maiwo can collect every year based on its size? It's at least 200 million!"
"Maiwo has been interesting to users for so many years. As long as the eyes are not blind and the brain is not disabled, I don't want to change hands. But to put it bluntly, why should we kidnap Commander Yao morally?"
"Yeah, there's no official announcement yet, so just listen to the wind and it will be rain!"
"In 2002, I was a freshman in college and entered the community for the first time. Now I am working after graduation. Maiwo accompanied me in my youthful and happiest time. I met my girlfriend here, made many friends in the same city, and got to know people from all over the world.
Brothers and sisters, there is really a big family atmosphere here. No matter what happens to Maiwo, I will stick to it."
This passage resonated, and people began to feel nostalgic.
"When I came here, it was still a dating club. At that time, there were two major goddesses, Doll Sister and Smiling Girl. Even the new users didn't know about it."
"The smiling girl is so strange and familiar at the same time. I remembered it as soon as you mentioned it, and I was obsessed with it for a while."
"I called Smile Girl!"
"The brothers upstairs were joking. The smiling girl is the most mysterious. In the end, her true identity was unknown. How can you still make a phone call?"
"Romance in the Rivers and Lakes, A Touch of New Tea, Jin Sha, Young Man, Mu Zimei, Sister Furong, 6 Yuan Malatang, Super Girl, Squinting Eyes, Han Bai Battle, Mike, Goddess Contest... I have so many memories here, suddenly
I want to cry."
Why is sentimental rice so delicious?
Because people will grow up, and they will habitually beautify the past and miss the past. We laugh at the elderly for always talking about the past, but in fact we are all the same.
A bad movie like "Pancake Man" can touch a large number of people just by the appearance of the Young and Dangerous foursome at the end. Even "Write a Poem for You" can be made into a movie to sell emotions, and even the "
"Li Lei and Han Meimei" can be used as gimmicks... This is the reason why.
Even before Maiwo was sold, a group of people began to feel nostalgic, and it became more and more intense.
Yao Yuan knows what's going on, but netizens don't know, and those UP owners don't know! Especially those UP owners, who have made a lot of pocket money through the community's incentive plan in recent years, who knows whether they will pay it back in the future?
Pan Pan, who cooks, posted a post, recalling the story of his recording of "One Meal".
Socialite Zhu Tiantian also said arrogantly that apart from here, no other place is worthy of having me!
There are also photographers, makeup people, travel people, and clothing people who have expressed their opinions, and those online singers have also come to join in the fun. Although we have moved to Qianqian Music now, we will never forget Maiwo!
The portal is also going viral, and even Lao Ma, Xiao Ma, Robin Li, Chen Tianqiao, and Ding Lei have called Yao Yuan to ask if they really want to sell and they can consider us.
All these things instantly create the feeling of "the atmosphere has reached this point, we can't leave without leaving".
Yao Yuan looked at it and thought, what the hell? I'm not dead yet!
He simply used his real-name authentication account to post a blog post. It was not as eloquent as an internal letter, but only a few short sentences:
“Maiwo will not be sold, but only accepted for investment.
Many people will not believe that I started Maiwo not to create another successful company in the world, but to enable more minorities like me to find a place to be happy together online.
Maiwo may go bankrupt in the future, but it will never go bad!”
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This may be the best product that has received investment since the birth of the domestic Internet.
At that time, Sohu, QQ, and Taobao were also of high quality, but they were not at their most powerful stage. However, Maiwo announced its opening at the height of its popularity.
Investment institutions, large and small, were all excited. They rushed to the capital in droves, queuing up to meet Yao Yuan and calculate the valuation of Maiwo.
The benchmark product is naturally Facebook.
Facebook was founded in 2004 and rejected Yahoo's $1 billion acquisition in 2006.
This year, the latest news came out that Microsoft intends to pay US$240 million to acquire 1.6% of Facebook's equity. Yes, it is 1.6%!
This brings its valuation to an astonishing $15 billion!
Of course, according to convention, the valuation of similar products in China is much lower than that in the United States - even if Maiwo is before Facebook.
Even traditional newspapers and periodicals were excited. They wrote articles one after another to analyze how many shares Maiwo would eventually take out and how many dollars it would earn. Xiao Ma and Robin Li were more sincere and carefully studied whether they could make an investment, but Yao Yuan rejected it.
To be honest, most institutions cannot afford to invest in Maiwo nowadays.