As Western media revealed more details about 3321, Li Mu's influence in the Western world has been unprecedentedly enhanced.
At the same time, far away at home, due to the earth-shattering news of Li Mu's overseas efforts and the great positive impact, the domestic media and the public's respect for Li Mu has also increased, and there is even an additional layer of Li Mu's overseas achievements. China, and the pride of the Chinese people in winning glory.
Domestic media's coverage of Li Mu can be described as overwhelming. Turn on the TV and flip through a few channels, and one of them will be reporting on Li Mu or news related to Li Mu. Moreover, the Chinese people are not bored at all, but rather can't get enough of it.
The extremely large amount of exposure has allowed Li Mu to rise rapidly because of his influence, even though he is no longer in the country, reaching a new height that has never been seen before.
The night before the second round of meetings with major capitals, Li Mu called Dong Ai, who was in Yanjing and was in charge of the entire 3321. On the phone, Li Mu told Dong Ai to immediately start preparations for departure to the United States. At that time, she will arrange for Makino Technology's technical team representatives to go to the United States with her to meet with Lawrence to discuss cooperation in establishing 3321. Since American society is full of praise for 3321, let 3321 take root in the United States as soon as possible.
3321 US station will be the first step for 3321 to go abroad. If its current operating concept can develop healthily in the United States, then it will basically have the ability to operate in all developed countries and developing countries with relatively good economies. With the possibility of smooth development and continuous expansion, 3321 may become the largest educational charity project and the largest educational charity fund in the world.
Dong Ai had naturally been looking forward to this for a long time. After receiving Li Mu's instructions, he immediately started to apply for visas for the core team of 3321 to go to the United States. It was precisely because of the popularity of 3321 in the United States that the U.S. Embassy in China was concerned about this. Special attention was paid to the introduction of the project into the United States. Almost at the same time that Li Mu contacted Dong Ai, staff from the U.S. Embassy in China also contacted Dong Ai and offered to expedite the application for visas to the United States for 3321 members.
Dong Ai's trip to the United States and the cooperation between 3321 and Harvard, Li Mu no longer has the energy to do it himself. He believes in Dong Ai's ability. Since she can bring 3321 to its current scale in China, which is vast and complex, she must have The ability to do this well in the United States.
Li Mu himself did not participate in the subsequent second round of financing negotiations. He left the negotiations entirely to Ding Zhenglin, who was in charge of the financing negotiations, and let him screen those capitals that were interested in Makino Technology. After finally selecting a few, he Interview them again.
However, Li Mu's request to Ding Zhenglin was to set the pace of the negotiations, and while firmly grasping the initiative, slow down the speed of financing negotiations.
The purpose of slowing down is to give Makino Technology more time to develop. This wave of hormones is so strong that it will take some time to digest it properly.
Ding Zhenglin commented that Li Mu's trip to Harvard was worth at least several billion dollars. Li Mu and the entire senior management of Makino Technology agreed with his statement.
Because of this wave of full support from the American media, the huge shock that Li Mu brought to Harvard and MIT students was amplified to the entire Western society. The result of this operation not only made Li Mu famous, but more importantly It has brought about the vigorous development of YY.
In just a few days, the number of YY overseas users has increased several times. In the United States alone, which has over 100 million Internet users, more than 60 million people have downloaded and registered YY. The entire Europe has brought two more users to YY. There are tens of millions of registered users, so that the number of users in YY has increased dramatically.
The surge in YY users has directly brought two major impacts to Makino Technology. The first is that cash flow continues to rise. The payment rate of users in developed countries is very high, so the proportion of paid members among YY overseas users is also surprisingly high. , adding tens of millions of paying users in a few days, increasing Makino Technology’s monthly revenue by over 100 million U.S. dollars, making money so fast that the whole world was stunned.
However, although the speed of cash inflow is very fast, the second major impact is the sharp increase in the demand for servers and bandwidth, which further increases the operating costs and the speed of capital outflow.
In the United States, Li Mu's team has been setting up servers beyond the demand, so the demand in the American market can be relatively satisfied. However, in the European market, this sudden increase in users and demand forced Li Mu to make a temporary decision to advance the production of "Paradise" The servers prepared for "Paradise Town" and "Plants vs. Zombies" in Europe are all used by YY, delaying the promotion pace of "Paradise Town" and "Plants vs. Zombies" in Europe.
All these servers were provided to YY, allowing Makino Technology to barely meet the huge demand in the European market.
At the same time, Li Mu was even more eager to raise funds.
The current operating costs of Makino Technology are too high. Although the revenue capability is also very strong, the proportion that can really be counted as net profit is very low. With the current profitability, it is basically impossible to expand at a high speed.
Li Mu now urgently needs more than 2 billion US dollars in cash to quickly establish Makino Technology's own data processing centers in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea and other countries. The data center will be used to satisfy Makino Technology and Li Mu in the early stage. All enterprises within their own system need to start providing global cloud computing services in the middle and later stages.
The market for cloud computing services started late. Amazon AWS, which accounts for more than half of the world's share, only started in 2006. Therefore, Li Mu still has time to accumulate his own talents, technology and hardware. If he first builds his own data around the world Processing center, in this way, after one or two years, the successful IPO of Makino Technology will at least push Makino Technology to a market value of more than 80 billion U.S. dollars, and by then the financing will easily reach a scale of 8 billion or even more than 10 billion U.S. dollars , by that time, if you have money in your pocket to back it up, you can take the lead in launching advanced cloud computing services to the world in 2004.
Li Mu's blueprint for the future has already been completed in his mind. Next, it depends on how he can unfold this grand blueprint step by step and present it to the world.
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After several days of financing negotiations, the valuation of Makino Technology has reached US$26 billion. Ding Zhenglin’s prediction has come true. Just relying on the overall benefits brought by Li Mu’s speech at Harvard, the market value of Makino Technology has increased in a short time. Billions of dollars were added internally.
This is the charm of the Internet industry. If you seize a hot spot, any consultation and product may spread all over the world overnight!
The sudden increase in the valuation of Makino Technology mainly comes from three points: huge social influence, crazy rising number of users, and continuously doubling platform revenue. Each of these points further promotes the valuation of Makino Technology It keeps rising, and this rising speed scares American venture capital investors.
However, no one believes that there is much moisture behind Makino Technology’s rapidly rising valuation, because YY’s overall improvement speed is too fast.
A month ago it was just a tool for improving work efficiency for a few elite groups in the United States and the West, with only over 10 million overseas users;
Immediately after the popularity of "Paradise Town", the influence of this game spread to the entire American university community. It even attracted a large number of preliminary users for YY in advance through the ranking of the top campus beauties in the United States and the Thanksgiving Day global competition. And with the sudden explosion of YY, these users were all washed away by YY and became their own deep users almost overnight, which is simply more shocking than the most awesome magician in the world;
Then, Li Mu suddenly left Silicon Valley and went to Cambridge. Who would have thought that a speech that was originally only for Harvard University students would become famous throughout the Western world!
This time's popularity allowed YY to once again perform an earth-shattering super magic. Overnight, tens of millions of new users were added, making this software quickly become the brightest new star in the Internet industry.
Because of his terrifying operational capabilities, Li Mu has been dubbed the "Magician" by the Internet industry. The entire Internet industry has admired him. Before him, no one believed that the means and speed of user acquisition could be as fast as this. situation.
Stanford University, which has provided a large number of talents to Silicon Valley, even opened a special class to study and analyze Li Mu's methods of operating YY. Several professors listed and analyzed every step of YY's development in the United States, compiled it into a book, and then published it within the school. Disseminate in photocopy form.
The professors at Stanford University have a deep understanding of the Internet and their level is extremely high. What’s more, this set of unpublished “textbooks” was jointly written by several professors, so it has a very high gold content and is very difficult to be sought after by Stanford students.
It is said that in just a few days, everyone at Stanford had a copy of this book analyzing Makino Technology, and businesses around Stanford University that could provide copying services were copying this set of internal teaching materials almost non-stop.
This set of only 50 pages of books was targeted by publishers, who even paid these professors high royalties in advance, just to let them think of ways to make this textbook longer so that it could be published in physical form. books and sell them at a good price.
The book market in the United States is relatively developed, and there are basically no pirated books. In addition, e-reading is not developed at this stage, so the traditional publishing industry is still very hot. The sales volume of any best-selling book may exceed one million copies. In this case, a best-selling book can bring millions of dollars in royalties to the author, and these Stanford University professors each received two dollars before the book was officially completed. An advance payment of one hundred thousand dollars.
These professors did not expect that they could get such high royalties just by jointly analyzing Makino Technology and Li Mu's promotion methods, and it was only a partial advance. This gave them huge motivation to calm down. Develop this internal textbook into a physical book ready for publication.
Changing the internal textbook into a book is a relatively long process, but several professors and publishers first chose the name for the book when it will be published in the future - "Li Mu: Let the Entire Silicon Valley Tremble"
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