Li Mu is not ready to give Sequoia any face now.
Once the financing window is closed, it is not up to any capital to reopen it, it is up to Li Mu himself.
If you rejected me in the first round, then you have to look at my face if you want to find me again. He is not worried that Sequoia will have a grudge with him because of this, because in the eyes of capital, interests are the most important.
In fact, when talking to Sequoia for the first time, Li Mu himself was setting up a trap for Sequoia. He knew clearly that Sequoia would reject his offer, but he still insisted on the offer and set a very high profile. What he wanted was Sequoia's decisiveness. reject.
If Sequoia rejects him, all the initiative in the future will be in his hands. On the contrary, if Sequoia agrees at the beginning, Li Mu himself will be dumbfounded.
Fortunately, Sequoia has its own pride, and it perfectly followed Li Mu's script. Paradise Town's list of the top school beauties in the United States also unexpectedly gained huge social attention. With this foundation, everything will happen in the future. The initiative lies in Li Mu's hands.
Larry Page is indeed tasked with persuading Li Mu. Sequoia’s CEO hopes that he can influence Li Mu from the side and let Li Mu restart negotiations with Sequoia as soon as possible. However, the result is cruel. Li Mu refuses too simply and does not make any difference. Not even a kind word for me to consider because of any change in Larry Page's face.
Sequoia held an internal discussion to speculate on the opening time of Makino Technology's next financing window. Most people believed that Li Mu would now go all out to promote the "Top School Beauties in America" list, and it is very likely that Li Mu would be among the "Top School Beauties in the United States". In the final stage, when the "Top Beauty Ranking in America" is at its most popular, the financing window opens again.
Sequoia’s CEO is helpless about this. This guess is in line with the rules of most corporate financing. Financing and operating stocks are the same. Stock holders want to sell when the stock price is the highest. As a stock holder , Li Mu and the shareholders of Makino Technology must have the same idea.
When he thought that a 17 billion transaction could be made into more than 20 billion by himself, or even be made into a bamboo basket, the CEO was under great pressure.
However, Li Mu's exhibition games in the United States continue.
The "Top Beauty Ranking in America" event has indeed attracted the attention of the United States, but it has a huge limitation: the direct participants of the event, as well as the beneficiaries of the event's huge rewards, are limited to female college students. , there are only a few million people in total, and no matter how many others are just running with you, there may be over 100 million people paying attention, but the people who can really devote time and energy to running with you can only account for a relatively small part.
Therefore, how to enable hundreds of millions of Americans to participate in "Paradise Town" and benefit from "Paradise Town", Li Mu's second plan must be launched.
So, the day after Li Mu and Larry Page met, the official "Paradise Town" released another bombshell news.
The "Paradise Town - Thanksgiving Global Competition" event is officially launched.
This event is aimed at all "Paradise Town" users around the world. Of course, because domestic users play "Happy Farm" and not "Paradise Town", domestic users are not within the scope of this event. This competition focuses on players in the US market.
As for the domestic market, Li Mu has communicated with the operation team of "Happy Farm". Because the data of "Happy Farm" and "Paradise Town" are currently not interoperable, in the domestic market, try not to use foreign festivals for game activities. Correspondingly Corresponding activities can be developed for domestic users during traditional festivals such as the Chinese Lunar New Year, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival.
"Paradise Town - Thanksgiving Global Competition" in Li Mu's strategic plan is a strategic complement to the "Top Ranking of American School Beauties". If the latter only allows female college students in the United States to participate and benefit, then the former can Let all users across the United States have the opportunity to benefit from it.
The requirements for participation in "Paradise Town - Thanksgiving Global Competition" are very simple. As long as you are a registered player of the game, you can directly participate in this interesting competition in the game. Players will raise designated turkeys and manufacture specified feed in accordance with the rules. And plant designated crops. After the deadline at 24:00 on Thanksgiving Day, the global player list will be calculated. The top 10,000 players will receive generous bonuses.
According to Li Mu's plan in China, only the top 100 people in the "Paradise Town-Thanksgiving Global Competition" can receive rewards. However, due to the temporary increase in the "Top School Beauties List in the United States", the event's attention has skyrocketed, so Li Mu This time, the prize money for the "Paradise Town-Thanksgiving Global Competition" has also been temporarily increased.
First of all, the prize for the first place was directly increased from the previous one hundred thousand US dollars to one million US dollars, the second place was US$500,000, and the third place was US$300,000;
Fourth through sixth place, $100,000;
7th to 10th place: $50,000;
11th to 20th place: US$10,000;
21st to 50th: $5,000;
51st to 100th place: US$3,000;
No. 101 to 10,000: US$1,000;
The reason why the reward range is increased from the first one hundred to the first ten thousand is to further expand the influence and make all potential players feel that they have a greater chance of receiving rewards.
Li Mu’s calculation is very simple. The bonus of tens of millions of dollars seems scary, but these bonuses are also promised costs. If this competition can attract a large number of users to Paradise Town, this in itself is a very cost-effective deal. What's more, the payment ratio of users in Paradise Town is very high. By then, the global competition will definitely prompt a large number of users to pay to participate in the game. The tens of millions of dollars in reward costs may have been collected before Thanksgiving Day actually comes. came back.
The main purpose of Li Mu's organizing this event is to greatly mobilize the enthusiasm of netizens across the United States through this event, so that all players can become potential beneficiaries, and more importantly, it can compete with the "American School Belles" Top list" deep integration.
According to the rules of "Top Ranking of School Beauties in America", whether players want to vote for their favorite school beauties, or ordinary people want to vote for their favorite school beauties, they must complete the corresponding tasks in the game in order to obtain the corresponding "resident vouchers". ", before this, all the motivation for players to obtain "resident coupons" comes from two aspects: first, the entertainment of the game itself; second, the attraction of school beauties.
Now, there is another motivation for players to obtain “Resident Vouchers”—to participate in the “Paradise Town-Thanksgiving Global Competition”. By participating in this Thanksgiving competition, players can complete the requirements for obtaining “Resident Vouchers” in the game. And get "resident coupons", and there are bonuses of up to one million US dollars waiting for you to win. In this way, users have two sets of complementary power systems.
Players who were originally interested in the "American School Beauty Ranking" now have a powerful new motivation.
Players who were originally not very interested in the "American School Beauty Ranking", with the motivation of the Thanksgiving competition, can naturally participate in this game without paying too much behavioral costs, which is very interesting. .
This is just like the monthly ticket policy of Qidian. If it is relatively difficult to obtain monthly tickets, then only some die-hard fans will find ways to obtain them in order to vote for their favorite books. In that case, the enthusiasm of ordinary users to vote for monthly tickets will be greatly reduced. , so the product logic is defined as: as long as the genuine subscription reaches a certain amount, you can automatically obtain a monthly pass. This basically allows genuine users to obtain the monthly pass while reading books normally. In this way, The enthusiasm for voting will naturally increase greatly.
What Li Mu wants to do now is to use a two-pronged approach. On the one hand, everyone can win prizes for playing, and if they play well, they can win cash prizes. On the other hand, they can also win the "resident coupons" that rank among the top school beauties in the United States. Kill two birds with one stone.
Li Mu's plan worked quickly.
While American netizens were envious of American female college students, and at the same time wanted to use "resident vouchers" for female college students for various reasons, the "Paradise Town-Thanksgiving Global Competition" event that made them cheer was launched online.
The operators of "Paradise Town" finally thought of them, and set up a competition for them, and gave tens of millions of dollars in high cash prizes, which were given to all groups except non-female college students. A huge stimulus, with extraordinary social influence for a time.
After the launch of the Thanksgiving Day competition, the number of users of "Paradise Town" began to surge. The number of registered users in the United States quickly exceeded 50 million, becoming the online game with the largest number of registered users on the Internet in the United States. It is also the online game with the highest average number of daily online users, reaching three. More than ten million.
Just recently, a report released by the United Nations showed that the current total number of Internet users in the United States is about 143 million. Among them, the most visited website is Microsoft's MSN, with about 90 million daily visits, and the largest number of daily active users. The software is also Microsoft's MSN, with nearly 100 million daily active users.
The current number of daily active users of "Paradise Town" has been rising sharply. This rising data has shocked Microsoft. The popularity of "Paradise Town" will have a certain impact on other Internet companies in the United States. , but the impact is not big, but Microsoft is obviously unable to sit still.
MSN is Microsoft's flagship product in the field of instant messaging at this stage. They know that there is a huge gap with YY. Although they are catching up, this gap cannot be caught up in a short time. At the moment, "Paradise Town" As the U.S. market explodes, what Microsoft is most worried about is that "Paradise Town" will begin to divert traffic to YY. Once "Paradise Town" diverts traffic to YY, tens of millions of MSN users may be lost overnight...
(End of chapter)