America across the ocean.
The magical software from China has blown up a very special whirlwind. In the world of ordinary people, this whirlwind has almost no movement, but in Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Washington, and Seattle, this whirlwind has swept almost everyone. A high-tech company.
YY, this "instant messaging software" regarded by the American elite as a tool to improve work efficiency, is spreading among the elite in a particularly special way.
Almost every company in Silicon Valley has begun to use YY as an essential tool for work. They can chat in groups at any time, publish and share information and files at any time, and deliver various files to partners at any time.
YY's online, offline transmission and breakpoint resume functions have brought great benefits to IT practitioners who can easily transfer files of hundreds of megabits. Before this, no software could realize this safe and effective file transfer form. Online transmission of large files can only be done online, and once there is a problem with the network, the connection will have to be restarted all over again;
Offline transmission of large files is a huge difficulty. At this stage, almost all email attachments have strict size limits. Email service providers must control the size of attachments to reduce server transmission and storage pressure. Some companies can build their own enterprises. Fortunately, for email servers, those who do not have this capability can only compress the files into multiple compressed packages and then send them in batches. The user receives all the compressed packages and then decompresses them uniformly to get the large file that the other party wants to transmit. document.
Now, using YY, you can directly transfer large files offline to your target users. Although the daily transfer volume is limited, this has essentially solved this demand. If you need larger offline file transfers and longer servers, The retention time can be achieved by purchasing YY membership.
Recharge membership not only has greater offline file transfer, but also can form more and larger groups. Therefore, for these elites, YY membership is simply the cheapest and most cost-effective value-added service in the Internet industry.
The membership fee of 10 yuan a month, which is about 1.2 US dollars, is outrageously cheap in the eyes of these elites in the United States. But the biggest problem is that they do not have Alipay. Even if they have Alipay, they do not have Huaxia bank cards. Even if they don't care about such a small amount of money, they still have no way to purchase YY membership services for the time being.
There is no way to recharge the membership, which is a big worry for these American elites who have actual business needs. The Chinese are relatively easy to solve, and those with Chinese nationality are the most convenient. Basically everyone has Alipay in their hands; even if they are not Chinese, they You can also use the help of domestic relatives and friends to purchase a YY membership for at least one year at a time; but these non-Chinese and Chinese foreigners are in trouble. In order to solve this need, they can only look for help from Chinese people everywhere.
However, not everyone has Chinese friends, and those who really can’t find a way out will be really anxious.
There are not enough groups! what to do? Damn it, register another vest number? This is not good, because different accounts can easily confuse collaborators and cause trouble to each other.
This strong demand suddenly appeared. Almost immediately, Chinese people in the United States realized this business opportunity and immediately opened a store on eBay to recharge YY membership for users in the United States and around the world. The original YY membership cost about US$1.2 a month. Selling it on eBay for about 2 US dollars, the price increased by almost 66%, but even so, it still failed to stop the enthusiasm of these overseas users.
In less than 48 hours, Li Mu received an astonishing data feedback. The number of downloads of YY in the United States exceeded 500,000, and the number of registered users exceeded 800,000. Among them, the number of members exceeded 70%!
What really shocked Li Mu was the 70% number of members!
You know, in China, the overall proportion of YY members has just reached 10%. This was only achieved under the huge convenience of domestic users having Alipay as a recharge channel. However, far across the ocean in the United States, they have no way at all. Buy YY membership, but why can you reach 70% membership ratio? This is incredible!
Li Mu immediately asked someone to check the purchase records, only to find that many of the 70% members had an Alipay account and were recharging members for thousands or even tens of thousands of YY numbers at the same time! This is obviously against common sense!
After further following the clues, Li Mu discovered the benefit chain of eBay membership recharge!
Of the nearly 600,000 overseas members, at least 400,000 were sold through eBay, and the average membership purchase time for each user is 6.5 months. In other words, the average membership number costs about 13 US dollars. Come and recharge your YY membership, the total amount reaches an astonishing 5.2 million US dollars! Among them, the eBay store owners who recharged these Chinese YY memberships alone brought in more than 2 million US dollars in income!
It can be seen that the enthusiasm of overseas elite users for YY is simply beyond Li Mu’s imagination!
Just when Li Mu was surprised by YY's popularity among the American elite, Sequoia Capital in Silicon Valley had not yet realized the awesomeness of YY software.
Eric.Hanks is a senior VP and board member of Sequoia. Recently, he has been looking for suitable Internet start-ups in the United States. In the ten years since he joined Sequoia, he has invested in no less than a hundred start-ups, and the project profitability ratio has reached More than 80%.
At this time, Eric. Hanks was looking through the business plans of some startups in his mailbox. He was particularly interested in several startups that were following up, so he was not aware of the popularity of YY in Silicon Valley.
Not only him, but the entire Sequoia headquarters is still unaware of the popularity of YY in other companies around him, because for these big guys at Sequoia Capital headquarters, what they really focus on are these world-class companies in Silicon Valley. Internet companies and the projects they are incubating.
As for Makino Technology far away in China, these big guys were not interested in paying direct attention. They just followed the keen sense of capital and put forward a task to China Sequoia, requiring them to reach a financing agreement with this currently popular company as soon as possible. That's all. As for the origin of this company, it is left to Sequoia China's team to understand.
Eric.Hanks felt a little depressed after reading the business plans in his mailbox. Apart from the few companies he had been following, he had not found any new goals recently. He read through all the dozens of business plans in his mailbox. , none of which he thought was too impressive.
Just as he was about to rest his eyes, Eric.Hanks suddenly received a call. The other party was his college classmate who was currently working as an executive in a high-tech company in Seattle.
On the phone, his college classmate said to him: "Eric, there is a newly established software company here in Seattle. They have developed a new graphic design software that is very promising. They are now looking for investors. I wonder if you have one?" interest?"
"Graphic design software?" Eric.Hanks' eyes lit up and he said with a smile, "Can you tell me more about it?"
The other party gave a brief introduction to this graphics processing software, and then said: "How about I send you their BP and related information. You may be interested after reading it. They have produced a demonstration video. Trust me, This is truly amazing software.”
Eric.Hanks said: "Then please send the information to my email."
The other party immediately smiled: "Hey, I have more than 500 megabytes of data here. How do you want me to send it to your mailbox?"
Eric.Hanks subconsciously said: "Then wait for me to log in to MSN. MSN is more convenient, but the key is that the stability is too bad. If it breaks, you have to restart it. If it exceeds 500 megabytes, pray for God's blessing..."
The other party couldn't help but ask him: "Hey, Eric, are you in Silicon Valley?"
"Yes." Eric.Hanks said: "I have been in Silicon Valley for the past half month. What, you are coming to Silicon Valley?"
"Bullshit!" The other party couldn't help scolding: "You're still in Silicon Valley. Don't you even know how to use YY in Silicon Valley? I'm a YY member. Add a friend. I'll send you the file offline and you can download it slowly. That’s it, YY Download also supports resumed downloading, so you don’t have to worry about network problems.”
Eric.Hanks blurted out: "YY? What YY?"
"Shit!" The other party said a dirty word and continued: "You are a big boss in the venture capital circle in Silicon Valley, but you don't know about this amazing software YY?!"
Eric.Hanks frowned and thought for a long time, then suddenly caught a signal and blurted out: "Oh oh oh shit, are you talking about that software made by that Chinese brat?"
At this point, Eric.Hanks sneered: "Tommy, relax, it's just a Chinese who made software. You and I know the strength of their Internet companies. In addition to copying the American Internet model and Products, what else? With just them, how can they develop anything awesome?"
The other party said helplessly: "Eric. Hanks, I advise you to get to know YY first before considering whether to take back this sentence. In addition, I will only use YY to send those documents to you. If you want, text your YY number." Send it to me, forget it if you don’t want it.”
Americans tend to be relatively straightforward in doing things and speaking. Eric. Hanks's college classmates were quite dissatisfied with his ignorant and arrogant attitude, and his tone became much tougher. After saying this, he hung up the phone.
Eric.Hanks was a little confused, but thinking that the other person was also a talented person who had made great achievements in the computer field, he couldn't help but wonder, could it be that the software developed by that Chinese guy is really powerful
YY, right? Well, it doesn’t hurt to check it out next time.
Two hours later, Eric. Hanks rushed into the CEO's office in a panic. The CEO was using the video conferencing terminal equipment to hold a meeting with several partners. When he saw him coming in in a panic, he motioned for him to be silent. He was there. The device, which looks like a desk calendar with a screen less than ten inches in size, continued to say a few words.
After the video conference ended, the CEO looked at Eric.Hanks and asked him: "Eric, what are you so worried about?"
Eric.Hanks blurted out: "Do you know Makino Technology! It is the Chinese Internet company that has been hotly discussed recently!"
"Huh?" The CEO frowned: "When did you start paying attention to China's Internet?"
Eric.Hanks couldn't hide his excitement and said: "Holy-crap! Makino Technology, this company is so awesome! We must invest, and we must invest as soon as possible!"
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