There were three people in the party that night.
Milner had a good chat with Lei Jun and decided to invest in Yuetuan.
He manages a large amount of mysterious funds from the United States and Russia. He is a bit like a double-sided white glove. He searches for projects all over the world. The one with the greatest potential and the widest market is China.
After eating, Yao Yuan chatted with Lei Jun alone.
The effect of the flash discount is very good, and it has enlivened the stagnant group buying market, but it can only go so far. There is no good creativity in this track. When all 9BAT is on the table, the only thing left is to grit your teeth and fight until the end.
99 is a three-front battle, group buying, takeout, and payment.
Next is the battlefield of takeout and payment.
"I found a TV show for you, would you like it?"
Yao Yuan handed over a pamphlet, and Lei Jun took it and took a look. It said "Win in China's blue sky and clear water" and asked curiously: "'Win in China' has been revived?"
"It's not a rebroadcast, this is a new program, a collaboration between Youmi.com and Jiangsu Satellite TV. If you go, you will be a special guest. You will only record one episode and help farmers sell their agricultural products."
"Okay, I'm very interested!"
Lei Jun readily agreed that being an Internet celebrity would be the best thing to do if you were on TV.
"Okay, I'll ask Yu Jiajia to arrange a script for you and create some jokes."
The boss of Youmi.com is Wang Lifen. As mentioned earlier, Yao Yuan and Xiao Ma competed on the same stage at the Mobile Internet Conference, and the host was Wang Lifen.
She used to work for CCTV and planned a business reality show called "Win in China".
Jack Ma, Shi Yuzhu, Yu Minhong, Liu Chuanzhi and other big names have all served as judges. The contestants explained their projects and passed the rounds, and finally 6 people were selected.
The champion can be operated by a company with a registered capital of not less than 10 million, with himself as CEO and owning 20%-50% of the shares. The runner-up is 7 million, the third, fourth and fifth place is 5 million, and the sixth place is 3 million.
This is actually an imitation of an American reality show called "The Apprentice". The protagonist is Trump, who finds some young business elites to be apprentices and complete tasks.
The winner will get a job at the Trump Organization with an annual salary of $250,000.
At first glance, US$250,000 is not that high. Do business elites still value this amount of money?
This is a typical Internet era, where consumerism is rampant, resulting in a kind of groupthink: people with a monthly income of 5,000 think that driving an Audi A6 is low!
Come on, for ordinary people, the Audi A6 is the price of a car.
An annual salary of US$250,000 is quite acceptable in the United States, not to mention that "The Apprentice" was a show in 2004, so the purchasing power of the US dollar would be even greater.
Having said that, although "Win in China" is a reference, the localization is very good.
It became very popular after it was aired, and many of the contestants in it actually succeeded in starting their own businesses, but it disappeared after three seasons. There are various reasons that I won’t go into details here.
Wang Lifen resigned from CCTV and founded Youmi.com. He also wanted to restore his glory, so he roped in Jiangsu Satellite TV to create "Win in China's Blue Skies and Clear Waters."
The show was okay, Lei Jun wouldn’t lose anything if he went on to have fun.
There are two special guests in total. The other one, Yao Yuan, wants to get Liu Qiangdong on board and let Lei Jun and Liu Qiangdong serve as captains respectively for real-person PK.
He enjoys himself.
…………
The long-lost Zhichun Road.
Yingshi Building stood there alone, and also alone was Sigma, where Tencent Video was stationed opposite. As soon as Yao Yuan moved, the GDP of the whole street exploded, and even one cafe closed.
But in the business apartment attached to Yingshi Building, a small company is rising rapidly and full of vitality.
Early that morning, Zhang Yiming, with messy hair, came to Bytedance wearing a T-shirt, jeans, a large bag, and standard programmer equipment.
He is from Longyan, Fujian, and is fellow villager with Wang Xing. He used to work at Wang Xing’s Fanfou.com.
After working in many companies, I founded ByteDance last year, located in an ordinary community called "Jinqiu Home" on Zhichun Road.
R&D, finance, and design work in different bedrooms. The conference room is only five square meters. If you open a few more pots during a dinner party, the circuit breaker will trip. But this is Zhichun Road, the Universe Entrepreneurship Center!
With many years of work experience and unique ideas about algorithms, Zhang Yiming got off to a fast start and successfully received US$1 million in Series A financing. This year he moved to a business apartment in Yingshi Building.
I originally made an appointment with Milner to meet today, but I didn't want to call Milner last night and tell him that Yao Yuan was coming too. Zhang Yiming's little heart was beating loudly. He didn't know his evaluation of Yao Yuan, he just felt that the big boss was coming.
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"Why haven't you taken that rice cooker away yet? Hurry!"
"Pay attention to hygiene dead spots, how many times have I told you!"
"Spray on the air freshener!"
"Who is that? Go down and wait to pick up the guests!"
Before the arrival of the two bosses, ByteDance was in a hurry and temporarily cleaned up. Zhang Yiming took the time to read the text again. The above is what he will talk about today.
About 9 o'clock.
There was a sound of footsteps, the door was opened, and an employee led several people in. One of them was a bald foreigner, Milner.
Another handsome guy is Yao Yuan.
"Mr. Milner!"
"Mr. Yao!"
"Nice to meet you……"
Yao Yuan held hands, looked around, and said curiously: "If I didn't come, I really wouldn't know you were my tenant."
"ah?"
Zhang Yiming was slightly stunned and said: "Isn't your property an office building?"
"Yeah, but I also bought a lot of apartments as employee dormitories, and 99 moved them out. I didn't let you rent the office building, but I rented some apartments, and this is the one you have."
Yingshi Building has 2 office buildings and 40,000 square meters of business apartments.
"Oh, you said this, this is really..."
"Coincidentally."
"That's right, what a coincidence!"
The atmosphere became cheerful for a moment. Yao Yuan was very cordial and said with a smile: "Today I am really presumptuous. Milner and I were talking about other things, and suddenly we mentioned you. I came here out of curiosity to have a look. Don't mind."
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, we are thriving!"
Milner carefully observes the working environment here. When investing, he invests in projects and founders, but also in his management capabilities and team strength.
Byte does not have many employees, but all of them are highly skilled and have experience working in large factories.
After chatting for a while, Zhang Yiming began to introduce his project:
"Our product is called [Today's Toutiao], which is a comprehensive information platform, but unlike Weibo, we mainly focus on official news and self-media news."
"The information explosion brought by the mobile Internet has made people face more and more choices. Faced with information overload, people are often at a loss. In this case, the method of obtaining information will no longer be the manual editing mode used by traditional media.
It is more intelligent and personalized automated recommendations.
[Today's Toutiao] does not have an editorial team and does not perform manual intervention on content. It relies entirely on algorithm learning to make personalized machine recommendations. It does not produce or process content, and only acts as a content distribution channel.
So it is not only a news client, but also an information distribution platform..."