In the past few days when Li Mu dominated the front pages of Western media and made American venture capital investors sleepless, both MSN and ICQ are experiencing the same sadness.
The cliff-like plunge in daily active users made the two product managers burst into tears. The speed was so fast that it was unbelievable. It seemed that yesterday there were over 100 million daily active users, but today, there are only tens of millions left. After a day, there was only a mere ten thousand left.
For these two softwares with hundreds of millions of registered users, the most critical indicator to measure the scale of the software is no longer the number of registered users, but the number of daily active users. Only the number of active users can highlight the actual impact of this product. With hundreds of millions of registered users and only one million daily active users, it goes without saying that this software has reached the end of its power and its days are numbered.
The users of MSN and ICQ highly overlap with those of YY. The user groups of this product are all users who have online instant messaging needs. This strong demand basically covers all Internet users, so the competition between the three products is all-round. Yes, once Li Mu’s YY launches a full-scale attack, the other two companies will immediately be affected.
While the daily active users of MSN and ICQ plummeted, the average usage time of daily active users also plummeted.
In the past, the average usage time of daily active users was nearly two hours, but now it has dropped to less than 30 minutes. In less than a month, the vitality of the two softwares was seriously damaged by YY, and according to the current trend, other software Speaking of turning the tide, even trying to stop the current collapse has become extremely difficult.
The most fundamental reason why Momo was able to achieve a market value of billions of dollars under the comprehensive impact of WeChat is that Momo itself gave up the same comprehensive battlefield as WeChat and chose the vertical positioning of "professional dating". Only by staggering WeChat's positioning can we regain a place for survival. This kind of gameplay is like one day when Wal-Mart dominates the world's comprehensive supermarkets and other supermarkets transform into shopping supplies.
Just as MSN was in decline, what was interesting was that Lin Qingya received official news from Microsoft that Bill Gates had rejected Li Mu's request to meet. Although he had agreed before, this time he could not allocate his personal time. He directly refused to meet with Li Mu on the grounds that he did not want to.
Lin Qingya joked to Li Mu: "Bill Gates must be very unhappy about YY's move to crush MSN, so he decided to break his promise at the last minute, right?"
Li Mu smiled and said, "Maybe he is worried about the charity fund."
Lin Qingya suddenly realized.
As the richest man, Bill Gates's charitable foundation is still very famous. Because he donated all Microsoft stocks to the foundation established by himself and his wife, the foundation now has more than 20 billion US dollars in funds, and a The annual investment return is also more than 2 billion US dollars, but the specific proportion is unknown. Li Mu dare not say that Bill Gates’ charitable foundation is for tax avoidance, but because his foundation is the largest, Now many media and individuals are calling on his foundation to disclose the direction of its funds, which may cause some trouble to Bill Gates.
Just after Bill Gates rejected Li Mu, Elon Musk, who had made a name for himself at PayPal, came to visit him again.
This is the second time Elon Musk has come to visit Li Mu after he came to the United States. Li Mu has some respect for him, so he is quite polite to him. But for Elon Musk, he came to Li Mu , basically come to say goodbye to the dock. Li Mu has just become the object of much attention in the United States and even the entire Western world. You can imagine how bright Li Mu's future development prospects are, so he also hopes to have a good relationship with Li Mu, and it is best to be able to become friends.
Although he is working on PayPal wholeheartedly at the moment, he also knows very well that PayPal is only his reliance for capital accumulation at this stage. In the future, he will inevitably leave PayPal to try what he really wants to do, so it seems that he has a good relationship with Li Mu. It is extremely necessary. Maybe in the next few years, he will be the new richest man in the world, and if he wants to start a new project by then, Li Mu can bring him huge financial and resource help.
As soon as the two met, Elon Musk first congratulated Li Mu on the miracle he created at Harvard, and then sighed: "Today some media said that your speech at Harvard may become the most expensive speech in history, because Makino Technology's valuation It’s worth billions of dollars indirectly boosted by this speech, which is really admirable.”
Li Mu smiled and said: "Don't believe what the media says. They are not capital. If they say it will increase by several billion dollars, is it really going to increase by billions of dollars?"
Elon Musk said with a smile: "But judging from the current trend, what they said is not necessarily wrong."
Li Mu pretended to be indifferent and smiled: "All this depends on the actual business growth of Makino Technology and the development of the entire industry."
Elon Musk said seriously: "If we continue at this rate, YY will probably have more than 200 million users before the end of this year. By that time, the monthly revenue from value-added services alone will probably reach several hundred million." scale, not to mention that its user stickiness is so high, and its average daily usage time is also the leader among all software at this stage. Once the online advertising business is launched, it will be an extremely huge income! These potentials, the capital is like a mirror. !”
Li Mu nodded lightly. All YY's overseas payments were made through PayPal. Elon Musk must be very aware of YY's current flow situation. It can be said that the people who know the most about YY's situation at present are except Li Mu and Makino Technology. At the top, it’s Elon Musk.
Banks are the ones who know people’s income levels best, and payment channels are the ones who know the revenue capabilities of Internet products best.
Because YY is a shareholder of PayPal, PayPal is YY's only overseas payment channel, which means that PayPal is well aware of YY's flow changes.
Through the recent changes in YY's recharge flow, Elon Musk can not only see the current revenue capacity of YY, but also analyze the approximate curve of YY's recent surge in new users through the increase in payment users. After all, he is also one of the Internet giants. First, these data are enough for him to judge the current overall valuation level of Makino Technology.
Li Mu said with a joking smile: "So it's really wise for YY to invest in PayPal. Otherwise, all our current situations will be firmly controlled by one payment channel. It's quite scary to think about it."
Elon Musk has always been humble and convinced in front of Li Mu, so he speaks with great respect. He said with a smile: "Mr. Li, don't forget, you are one of my bosses, and I am also working for him at the same time. You and eBay work!
Li Mu said humbly: "YY is your career, eBay and I are just riding along to make some money."
Elon Musk laughed and said to Li Mu: "By the way, Mr. Li, I'm here today. In addition to congratulating you, I also want to convey an invitation to you."
Li Mu asked curiously: "What invitation?"
Elon Musk said: "That's right. The influence of your speeches has been increasing recently, which has had a big impact on the charity industry. Many charity funds and organizations are under great pressure, and now they are starting to carry out high-profile charity activities to divert Eyesight, there is a charity organization in Hollywood specially established to deal with malaria in children in Africa. This time they held a charity dinner. They are going to imitate your approach and announce all the income and future expenditures of this charity evening to the whole society, and accept it from the society. Supervision.”
After saying that, Elon Musk added: "I am here this time at the request of the founder of this charity organization to invite you to their charity dinner. If you are interested, you might as well take the time to go there. "
Li Mu was stunned and said, "Let's forget about the charity dinner. I'm really busy with the things at hand. How about I donate some money as a token of my gratitude?"
Elon Musk said hurriedly: "I really didn't come to you to raise money. The main reason is that the founder of this charity organization has a good relationship with my sister, and I hope you can come to increase the popularity of this charity organization, so I came here." I entrusted it to my sister, and my sister entrusted it to me, so... "
Li Mu asked curiously: "Is your sister from the film and television industry?"
Elon Musk nodded and said: "My sister has an independent film company in Hollywood, and I am a little involved in it. We both like movies, but she chose this industry, and I chose the Internet.”
Li Mu nodded thoughtfully and asked him: "Who runs this charity organization you mentioned? What is its nature?"
Elon Musk said: “First of all, let me explain to you that their charity organization is not in the form of a foundation, but it was established spontaneously by a few Hollywood big shots. The leader is a director. I don’t know if he is famous in China. , whose name is Steven Spielberg…”
Li Mu looked at Elon Musk with a confused expression, and said with a hint of sullenness: "Do you mistake China for Africa? When I was in high school, the school organized us to watch "Jurassic Park"! "
Elon Musk was instantly overjoyed and said with a smile: "That's great. So you are also a fan of his. Why don't you just go to Hollywood and treat it as a way to get to know Steven."
After saying this, Elon Musk was afraid that Li Mu would not be moved, so he hurriedly added: "There are quite a lot of Hollywood stars participating this time, do you know Tom Cruise? And Leonardo DiCaprio Prio!”
Li Mu stared at Elon Musk with a dark face. Although his expression was not good-looking, he was extremely surprised in his heart.
Goodfellas, Tom Cruise, and Leonardo DiCaprio are all his favorite actors, and Steven Spielberg is also his favorite director, even saying that he is It’s not an exaggeration to say that they have so many fans. Just to support these three men, I have to support them myself!
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