All day long, Li Mu kept showing off in the same way.
It can be said that Li Mu offended all the powerful venture capital investors in Silicon Valley in one day.
The attitude of never making any compromises starting with the negotiation of 1.7 billion US dollars made all the venture capital investors think that Li Mu was crazy. He was simply too arrogant and took himself too seriously.
Not to mention that everyone doesn’t agree with his valuation of US$17 billion. Even if they do, his company’s scale is still not among the top in Silicon Valley. Why is he so arrogant
In fact, Li Mu is not the kind of person who is overly arrogant. The reason why he is so arrogant is that he must let these capitals feel the huge contrast. If you don’t agree with my valuation of 17 billion US dollars, it doesn’t matter, just wait. , I will let you take the initiative to come back with an offer of US$17 billion, but by that time, my starting valuation will not be as simple as US$17 billion.
So, after offending all the venture capital companies in Silicon Valley in one day, Li Mu stopped meeting with any capital. The outside world thought that he was hit hard when he first arrived in the United States. Many media wrote articles and reports, saying: "The Internet Prodigy from China" Silicon Valley has suffered a waterloo, and its over-arrogance has kept Silicon Valley venture capital at arm’s length. I haven’t heard of any venture capital continuing to negotiate with Li Mu. It is suspected that Li Mu has not yet recovered from the shadow of the blow.”
For a time, the entire Silicon Valley thought that Li Mu had really suffered a big blow.
Li Mu didn't care at all.
Immediately conduct a video conference with the promotion team in the United States and the domestic support team. The core of the meeting is one: to quickly promote the 'Paradise Town Cup America's Top School Beauties Ranking' event.
All previous plans must be fully implemented, and a new function must be added, allowing all candidates to place a cartoon movie screen in their own town, allowing these candidates to record a video of no more than 60 seconds. Upload it, and once approved, all users can see her video in her town.
Since we are engaged in the Internet celebrity economy, we must give "Internet celebrities" more and more three-dimensional exposure opportunities, not just photos and sounds, but also videos. Using videos to mobilize the enthusiasm of fans is probably the most effective method in the Internet industry. Solution now.
With the existing technical level and hardware support, Li Mu is still unable to implement nationwide live broadcasting. Even the entire Internet industry still has at least several years of technical road ahead to achieve universal live broadcasting. However, Li Mu can make nationwide live broadcasting as lightweight as possible. A small number of candidates upload short videos, which can be easily handled using Makino Technology’s streaming solution.
When the time comes, these girls participating in the 'Paradise Town Cup America's Top School Girls Ranking' will definitely try their best to make their videos more attractive for the sake of fame, income, and grand prizes. Audiences, once their videos are online, they will definitely increase the enthusiasm of the entire event.
Makino Technology has a strong technical team, and the streaming media technology has a ready-made result reserve. On this basis, it is easy to develop such small functions. With Li Mu’s order, the entire technical team went into full gear and quickly developed, tested, and adjusted.
At the same time, promotion teams across the United States are ready. Local promotion materials for activities related to the 'Paradise Town Cup America's Top School Girls Ranking' have been prepared, and various online and offline promotion resources have also been prepared. Once it starts, , and will also continuously broadcast announcements in the "Paradise Town" game to ensure that the event will quickly detonate colleges and universities across the United States as quickly as possible.
Li Mu and the entire Makino Technology seemed to have been silent in the eyes of Silicon Valley for two days. Everyone was waiting for the moment when Li Mu surrendered to the capital market. However, no one knew that Li Mu was already secretly infiltrating Chencang and laying heavy plans for universities across the United States. The Internet bomb is just waiting for the time to explode.
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Thousands of kilometers away in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after being obsessed with "Paradise" for many days, Mark Zuckerberg finally gave birth to a new idea in his dormitory at Harvard University.
"Paradise" is so popular right now. Mark Zuckerberg's goddess Fiona has become one of Harvard University's most popular goddesses in "Paradise." Fiona doesn't have to do anything every day. You can receive gifts worth at least tens of thousands of dollars, sometimes even as high as tens of thousands of dollars. The strong spending power of Fiona's fans shocked Mark Zuckerberg.
After his plan to attract the goddess's attention failed, Mark Zuckerberg learned from the pain and began to seek inspiration from the success of "Paradise Town". He believed that "Paradise Town" opened up a new situation in the online fan economy, which gave He was a great inspiration. After careful consideration, he decided to launch a campus beauty selection website. He had already thought of a name, and it was called Facemash.
Mark Zuckerberg's idea is to make Facemash into a page product, and then collect information about beauties from major universities and put it on it, so that fans of these beauties can vote for them on the website to select the best girls from each school. Popular beauties, and he hopes to develop a backend so that every campus beauty can write her own homepage, update her own photos and even post messages asking fans to vote.
In addition, and more importantly, Mark Zuckerberg plans to imitate the gift system of "Paradise Town" in his own page product, so that fans can not only vote for their goddess on their own platform, but also You can also leave them messages, interact with them, and send them gifts.
After the gift system is established, Facemash can be connected to PayPal, allowing fans to pay directly online, and then the platform will share it with these beauties. In this way, fans spend money on the beauties, and the beauties and the platform borrow the loyalty of the fans. Come to monetize, the business model will become clear.
Mark Zuckerberg firmly believes that once the business model is clear and can withstand scrutiny, then it must be a good project. Facemash is the first campus entrepreneurial project in his eyes.
Mark Zuckerberg, who was determined to make Facemash, took the initiative to invite his roommate Dustin Moskowitz, hoping that he could join his Facemash project, but Dustin Moskowitz is now completely immersed in "Paradise Town", and even more immersed in "Paradise Town", playing games with Monica, a classmate whom he has a crush on, while flirting with each other.
Because his relationship with Monica heated up quickly in real life, Dustin Moskowitz has no idea of starting a business now. All he can think about is how to establish a relationship with Monica as soon as possible and then make her his own. A real girlfriend.
The roommate's rejection did not dampen Mark Zuckerberg's entrepreneurial passion. He immediately registered the domain name of facemash and then began to develop website programs and pages.
If it is purely a display page, the workload required for development is not large, but if the front and backends are distinguished and various page functions are implemented, the overall workload will increase exponentially.
When Mark Zuckerberg was doing facemash in his last life, he just designed a simple display page and added a voting function. However, in this life, with the invisible guidance and promotion of Li Mu, Mark Zuckerberg Ge's demand for Facemash's products has undergone tremendous changes. On the original basis, it is necessary to not only develop a user login system and a backend for ordinary users, but also develop an exclusive backend for the beauties who participate in the platform's share, and then design and develop a gift system.
The huge workload made Mark Zuckerberg flinch a little at the beginning. He thought about giving up or changing to a simpler way, but after careful consideration, he decided to persist.
In Mark Zuckerberg's view, Li Mu is his best role model. He is about the same age as him and has already become a tycoon worth tens of billions of dollars, but he is only a first-year student at Harvard University. If If you want to be as successful as him, the only way is to work harder, work harder, and work harder.
After thinking about this level, Mark Zuckerberg was like a chicken blood, sitting in front of the computer day and night to write code. His roommate Dustin was surprised by his efforts. , he has never seen Mark Zuckerberg work so hard.
At a certain moment, Dustin also thought about starting a business with Mark Zuckerberg, but when he turned around, he was immediately attracted to Monica. As long as Monica said a word, he could start a business at three o'clock in the morning. He got up from bed and played games. Now, Monica had become everything in his life.
The first thing Mark Zuckerberg focused on was facemash's gift system. After working day and night for a few days, this system finally had a relatively complete beta version. When he was very excited and couldn't wait to When he was about to test his newly developed functional section, Dustin just returned to the dormitory.
Seeing that Mark Zuckerberg was busy with business, Dustin did not disturb him, but habitually turned on the computer and prepared to go to "Paradise Town" to complete a few waves of tasks. It happened that Monica had almost returned to the dormitory to go online. Yes, I also promised Monica to help her complete more tasks so that she could level up quickly.
The task system of "Paradise Town" is highly interactive. Tasks will always randomly require the user to provide a bunch of unrelated items, such as dozens of corn, several portions of milk, and several portions of ice cream. If the user cannot collect them, If the products required for the task are produced, the task will remain in an unfinished state. If the number of unfinished tasks reaches a certain number, users will not be able to accept new tasks until they complete the unfinished tasks.
In this case, the help between friends is very important. Players can directly submit help and let their friends provide them with the raw materials they need. When their friends come to help complete the task, they can also get rewards from the system. In addition, In addition, players can directly trade items with each other. In this way, if one person is willing to sacrifice himself and take out his items to fully cooperate with another person to complete the task upgrade, it will have a great impact on the other players. help.
Dustin is naturally happy to help his goddess Monica, because while the two are carrying out such tasks, their relationship is also growing. While playing games, they can gain the favor and favor of beautiful women, which is very important to Dustin. , simply the most cost-effective thing.
While Dustin was working tirelessly to clear tasks for Monica, "Paradise Town" suddenly sent out an extremely eye-catching system message: the "Paradise Town Cup America's Top School Girls Ranking" event is officially launched!
(End of chapter)