Friends Network is a project that Zheng Ge decided to hold for the long term.
In the future, Friends.com will be one of the representative companies among the companies he invests in.
Just like Ali in his previous life.
When people think of Ali, they will think of the man from the island country.
When people mention that person, their first reaction is that he invested in Alibaba.
He just wants to build Friend.com into a company of Alibaba’s level.
It's not like the game where everyone just earns one vote and runs away. Therefore, he still attaches great importance to the development of the friend network.
He is a friend who invested in the company in October.
At the beginning, I told Ximeng to try to launch the new version of Friends Network within a month.
If I don't delay this, it will be two months.
He wanted to go over today to see what results Simon had accomplished in the past two months.
Friends Network Company, like Feiyu Games, is located in an idle warehouse. But it is not near Jiangnan University, but in the suburbs. It is a large warehouse covering several acres.
The warehouse is divided into office areas to provide office space for young entrepreneurs.
Simon rented an office area of about 300 square meters.
The interior of the warehouse is well laid out and quite stylish.
The key is that the rent here is much cheaper than that of office buildings.
Zheng Ge was speechless. Isn't it hard to do warehousing business these days? Has it been converted into a warehouse office?
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"Brother Zheng, please look."
In a conference room separated by frosted glass, Simon turned on the projector, which showed the new version of the Friends website page.
Zheng Ge picked up the mouse and tried operating it a few times before nodding.
Very perfect.
This is the most perfect social networking site page he has ever seen.
It integrates the advantages of the previous SNS platform.
It also incorporates some features of the sns platform in this world.
The functions are very complete.
"Brother Zheng, this is Happy Farm."
Simon clicked on the navigation bar on the left side of the friend network, and there was a very obvious SNS application, Happy Farm.
It is almost exactly the same as the Happy Farm in my impression.
"Yes, in this way, I will inject another 10 million as publicity funds."
Zheng Ge said.
"10 million..."
Simon took a breath.
In the past two months, she had gotten to know Zheng Ge somewhat. In her impression, Zheng Ge was rich, but not very rich! He was worth tens of millions, mostly in shares.
This sentence means 10 million. If you didn't know, you would have thought it was the second generation of rich people.
But she knew that Zheng Ge started from scratch.
This is something she admires very much about Zheng Ge.
"Having sold part of Renrenwan's shares, we still have sufficient funds on hand. But in what name will this money be given to Friends.com?"
Singer Zheng tapped on the table and said.
Simon fell silent.
Zheng Ge already owns 90% of the shares of Friends.com. He is injecting 10 million, how much of his shares will be left?
"Let's do this. I will lend this money to my friends in the name of a loan. I will return it with interest after half a year, and the interest will be the same as that of the bank."
Zheng Ge said.
"good."
Simon agreed without hesitation.
…
The launch of Friends Network was silent.
In the vast ocean of the Internet, it did not cause any ripples.
Just like a carp plunged into the sea.
At most a few drops of water splashed.
But Xi Meng, who has millions of dollars in capital, naturally does not allow Friends.com to continue to remain unknown.
As money poured in one after another, the popularity of Friends.com began to rise.
The brand-new interface and rich content of Friends Network are eye-catching.
At the same time, the circle function is also a big highlight.
Circle functions are roughly divided into two types.
One is to find a circle of old friends.
In this circle, you can find old classmates, old comrades-in-arms, old neighbors, etc.
The other is the topic circle. Each netizen can open a personal circle of his own and post some short articles, moods, photos and other content. You can also post some celebrity topics, social topics, etc., which is somewhat similar to Weibo.
In short, as soon as Friends Network was launched, it attracted countless young people to join.
What is even more attractive is Happy Farm.
This application is not acclimated in this world, and it also has signs of shining brightly.
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Soon, 10 days passed.
In the past 10 days, as publicity funds were spent one after another, the number of registered users of Friends.com increased rapidly, and it already has 500,000 users, with daily active users reaching 300,000.
500,000 registered users and 300,000 daily active users.
Such a size has caused some waves in the ocean of the Internet.
As the popularity of Friends Network increases, a lot of news about finding old friends appears on the Internet.
There are endless touching stories about finding old friends.
For example, an old man who was over seventy years old, with the help of his grandson, used the circle function of "Find Old Friends" on the friend network to find a life and death comrade in the past, and he was deeply moved.
Another example is an older single man with a successful career. Through the circle, he found the girl he had a crush on back then, and finally got married, which touched countless men and women.
etc.
Under Simon's promotion, various touching stories emerged one after another.
This makes more people join the friends network.
Suddenly, the circle function of Friends Network became popular. Various friend circles were established, making the circle system quickly full.
What left Zheng Ge speechless was that he also found the circle of old classmates from the Central Plains Province-Xucheng-Fifth High School-Class of 2011 high school class, where he saw many old classmates whose memories were vague.
Apart from the dating circle, the most attractive one is naturally the national SNS application Happy Farm.
Netizens can grow vegetables and various fruits on the farm, which feels particularly fulfilling.
This also brings a novelty to those children who grew up in the city.
You know, many urban children nowadays can't even tell the difference between wheat seedlings and leeks.
For a time, the momentum of Friends.com was so unique that it attracted the attention of some domestic Internet giants, including TT Group.
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TT Group, TT Space Operation Department.
"Have you checked it out? What's going on with this friend network?"
Zhou Hao frowned as he looked at the page on the friend website.
This is the first time I have seen this SNS platform interface.
So innovative.
"It has been found out that the founder of this company is a female college student from Jiangnan University named Xi Meng. Friends.com was formerly known as Dream Home. Later, with the capital injection from investors, it was renamed Friends.com and the website
It has been revised and is now the website.”
Secretary Wang Mengjuan blinked her twitching right eye and said.
"College student?"
Zhou Hao nodded and said: "Let's make arrangements to acquire it and merge it into TT space." He could see the value of Friends Network, and he could also imagine that once Friends Network was merged into TT space, it would bring benefits to TT
What a change.
At least it can overwhelm a penguin.
By then, promotion and salary increase will be no problem.
I get excited just thinking about it!
"This, I'm afraid it won't work..."
Secretary Wang Mengjuan said while holding back her right eyelid from beating wildly.
"how?"
Zhou Hao wondered.
"The investor of Friends.com is named Zheng Ge, the creative person who sent you an email two months ago." Wang Mengjuan said.
Judging from the confused expression on Zhou Hao's face, it was obvious that he had forgotten about this matter.
Wang Mengjuan reminded: "He came up with two ideas at that time, one was a welcome animation and the other was a personalized navigation."
"Is it him?"
Zhou Hao's eyebrows jumped, his face changed slightly, and he fell silent.
After a while, he looked at the friend interface and said quietly: "Are you sure? Isn't he a creative person? How did he become an investor?"
"I'm sure, he is an investor. He has invested in Renrenwan and Feiyu Games. Jiuyou Entertainment acquired Renrenwan some time ago, making him a profit of nearly 30 million."
Wang Mengjuan said weakly.
This information is not difficult to check, and with TT’s channels, it is not difficult to find out.
"Click..."
A pen in Zhou Hao's hand broke with a click. He gritted his teeth and said, "Did you invest in Friends.com after we rejected him?"
"Yes."
Seeing Zhou Hao's calm yet ferocious expression, Wang Mengjuan sweatdropped on her forehead.
"Phew! It's really impressive!"
Zhou Hao took a deep breath and looked at the friend interface with complicated eyes.
I think of the email Zheng Ge sent, and the sentence in the email: "I have a creative plan to make TT space take off."
He was amused by this sentence at the time.
Too wild.
It’s so ignorant!
But at this moment, looking at the brand new friend network...
It feels like being slapped in the face.
With his professional ability, he can see that once the idea of Friends.com is used in TT space, coupled with the channels of TT Group, it will not be a problem to overpower Penguin Space.
"This matter will be kept strictly confidential."
Zhou Hao said seriously.
If word spreads about rejecting Zheng Ge, the group will definitely punish him severely.
Because this is an opportunity he rejected to make the TT space take off.
If the superiors above knew this, how could they spare him?
"yes."
Wang Mengjuan said seriously.
Zhou Hao nodded, looked at the computer and said, "Xiao Wang! What do you think is the most attractive thing about this friend network?"
Wang Mengjuan calmed down and said: "The most attractive thing is the circle function and Happy Farm."
"What if we move circles and farms into TT space?"
Zhou Hao's eyes flickered.
"I'm afraid this won't work. These two ideas have already been patented."
Wang Mengjuan said.
Patent laws in this world are relatively sound.
Especially industrial technology patents are very sound.
"Internet patents are no better than industrial technology patents. They were legislated late and there are many loopholes. There are always loopholes to exploit." Zhou Hao waved his hands, frowned and thought for a moment, "But 'circle' is a functional application, and it is a bit difficult to imitate. Then let's start with Happy Farm.
Let's move here. Isn't he a farm? We'll just build a fishery, and the core of the gameplay will be changed, so it won't have much impact."
"Manager, this..." Wang Mengjuan said weakly: "If you do this, what if Zheng Ge is angered and he tells us about our rejection of him?"
Zhou Hao's face froze and he said coldly: "Say it? Someone must believe it. Find a hacker to delete all traces of the email and erase all evidence."
"All right."
Wang Mengjuan touched it and felt that she might be in bad luck next time.
"Let us know and have a meeting."
Zhou Hao waved his hand.
Wang Mengjuan nodded, turned around, touched her right eyelid, and felt uneasy.
TT Group has a profound foundation and abundant talents.
With this happy farm as a reference, it only took 10 days to build the TT fishery.
After some testing, TT Group began to promote it through various major channels.