Chapter 686: Soaring 1

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"Last year, China increased its Internet infrastructure, and the most affordable thing for netizens is that Internet fees have been greatly reduced.
In the past, thousands of blocks per month, and now hundreds of blocks, users are also increasing. In the first few months of this year, 400,000 households have been added. At this rate, at the end of the first half of the year, Chinese Internet users can exceed 1 million. "
After all, Zhang Fox has seen the world, and soon stabilized and talked lavishly.
"More than half are engaged in scientific research, but nearly 30% of users want to obtain leisure, entertainment, and other entertainment information through the Internet.
I call these people consumer users, and they will dominate in the future. The Internet is no longer a magical high-tech technology, but permeates everyone's life.
What are the specific functions? I threw a brick to attract jade, hoping to discuss with you.
Newsletters, such as e-mail now.
The extension of communication is social, such as BBS.
Those two people have a communication foundation and an interactive platform. Can they do more? For example, buying and selling each other, that is, e-commerce.
Now that the news is available online, is that a book? Can music be? Can film and television... I dare not imagine the future, I just think that the potential of the Internet is far from being exploited.
This is a huge, almost unlimited new carrier.
If technology is feasible, a lot of things can be put in, ‘Internet changes lives’ is not just a slogan. "
After all, Zhang Fox started to demonstrate Sohu.
He talks about news, about mailboxes, about chat rooms and BBS, and then about virtual communities.
"At the end of last year, we launched a trial version, with the concept of creating a virtual city, allowing users to operate homes, planting, leisure, making friends, etc...
Last year, the most visited China was People's Network. The latest data from last month, Sohu has occupied this position, about 400,000. The main source of growth is the virtual community. "
"Wow!"
The foreigners were exclaiming, and the United States had never seen this thing!
"Next, Sohu is preparing to develop a search service, named Sogou...and is also preparing to enter the online gaming industry..."
He talked for more than an hour, and the scene was enthusiastic. At the end, he refused to step down and asked questions one after another.
"You just introduced Sohu, the features are indeed comprehensive, and the concept is also very advanced. But as we all know, the Internet is very easy to imitate, aren't you afraid that the latecomers will step on the body of Sohu?"
"Yahoo is a pioneer in the United States, which has attracted countless people to imitate, but do you see Yahoo behind?
Similarly, Sohu is also a pioneer.
We contributed the fastest and most complete news, and even prepared to send a team to France for the World Cup.
Our BBS has led the social topic many times and has been reprinted by countless paper media. It is now the most popular communication forum in China.
Our mailbox users have reached 400,000.
Our chat room stayed up all night.
Our essay contest is already being held for the third time, allowing countless young people who love literature to have a stage to show.
Our virtual community concept is at the forefront of the world, and as technology upgrades, it will become a real dream city, the second society.
You just asked me if I was afraid of being surpassed, and I suddenly remembered a friend, which is also a common saying of my investors.
The purpose of Sohu is: have been imitated, never surpassed! "
"Boom!"
Applause was like waves, Zhang Fox was full of enthusiasm, and life was at its peak.
After the event was over, a group of foreigners hugged and gathered together, they like the arrogance of high-tech. And Zhang Fox's free temperament in the United States fits their appetite.
"Wonderful! Wonderful!"
Xiong Xiaoge slaps his hands and his confidence in financing reaches 100%.
"Excellent, full of creativity." Intel's representative said.
"This is a treasure hidden in the East, and we should let the world see it as soon as possible." Dow Jones said representatively.
It is said that Yahoo is the first on the portal. Sohu can show things and ideas ahead of Yahoo. If you are in the United States, you can casually estimate $70-80 million.
In China, you have to fold in half again.
After the financing intention is established, the next step is specific negotiations. Xu Fei gave the bottom line and let his men do it.
Ma Fuhao was also present, excited as much as getting the good news, because he wanted to be a portal at first, and gradually embarked on the evil path of e-commerce.
The expo exploded on the first day, the second day was relatively dull, and the third day Yang Zhiyuan appeared and gave a speech.
This is a real speech, all chicken soup.
"I like my current job. What excites me most is the ability to integrate the traditional world into a new era."
"I won't lose anything. I started from scratch, and even if my hands are empty again, I don't care."
"The greatest happiness is not money, the most pleasant thing is that you are changing the world every day."
Gee!
Xu Fei listened to special acquaintances, and all the rich people said that they did not love money. I am different, I like money very much, because I am just a small boss of a film and television company.
When Yang Zhiyuan came to the meeting, he proposed that he wanted to visit the Great Wall. Ma Fuhao just took charge of the reception, and invited the brilliant Zhang Fox together.
Xu Fei kept a low profile and witnessed history again. It was this opportunity that made Yang and Ma have a good relationship, and the two took a photo:
Yang Zhiyuan was young and energetic, tall and upright; Ma Fuhao was short and singular, carrying a bottle of water-that year 34, the Great Wall tour was like a joke.
Later, Yahoo exchanged US$1 billion for a 40% stake in Ali, and then Ali repurchased Yahoo. On the day of signing the contract, this picture was placed over and over again on the big screen at the scene.
As for Yang Zhiyuan, after leaving Yahoo, he first ran to Lenovo and then Didi.
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On the day of the exposition, Panjiayuan.
The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economics has a dormitory here, and more than a dozen people from the Ma Fuhao team are divided into three houses.
Their daily life: get up early in the morning, sleep on the bus to the unit, come back late at night and have English classes, the old horses take classes in person. Meal is to take turns to cook, go to a nearby Northeast dumpling restaurant to take a meal on holidays.
Life is hard, but the salary is very high.
The old horse invited Xu Fei to come, not embarrassed to go to the dormitory, first visit Panjiayuan. That's right, still accompany the tour.
In 1998, Panjiayuan didn't have so many big houses, and it spread out all over the place. Mr. Xu looked at it saltily, and occasionally squatted down to talk a few words.
Walking, suddenly stopped, picked up a bracelet.
The jade carving cicadas, eight, looked very moist and very clear.
"That was the jade carving cicada of the Ming Dynasty, which was genuine and passed down from home. If you like it, take it for 100,000," said the master.
"..."
Xu Fei ignored, saying: "You pick one."
"I do not understand."
"Just pick one and play."
The old horse scratched his head and picked up one easily. The stall owner said again: "That was the eighteen sons of Vajra Bodhi in the Qing Dynasty. You took 80,000... Hey, don't squeeze, don't let go!"
"These two, five thousand."
Xu Fei shook, the stall owner was depressed, and waved his hand: "Okay, go, hold it!"
Xiao Mo gave the money in the back, he walked in front and threw the eighteen sons to the old horse. After the old horse developed, he only played collection, which would be a chicken, playing with mystery: "Is this really fake?"
"looks good?"
"Not bad."
"Then it must be true or false."
He put on the novice string himself, and went shopping again before going to the Northeast Dumpling House.
Called a pound of dumplings, a chicken stewed mushrooms.
"Most of us are Southerners. We have settled in for a long time before we settled down. We also like dumplings now. And this chicken stewed with mushrooms is a must order."
"Well, it's okay."
Xu Fei took a few bites and said, "Tell me, what are your thoughts?"
If it's someone else, Lao Ma has to flicker for a while, which will be honestly introduced.
When it comes to Ali, Taobao, Tmall or something, in fact, the earliest thing he did was direct telephone sales.
At that time, two domain names were activated, the Chinese site and the international site. The form is a BBS plus homepage, which is extremely rough, mainly facing the salesman and some bosses of SMEs.
How do you make money for B2B business?
One is to sell "integrity pass". Simply put, it is to sell a "license" to a company that wants to do business on Ali. You do not have a credit rating without a license.
The second is to charge service fees, more than 10,000 per year.
At that time, all relying on the telephone, the telephone sales team accounted for more than half of the company's employees. It was not until 2003 that Taobao was born.
Lao Ma's thoughts remained largely unchanged, but due to Xu Fei's influence, Taobao had already had a preliminary idea.
"After finishing the project in my hand, I plan to resign, and then clear the shares of the Yellow Pages, specializing in e-commerce."
"In the capital?"
"No, back to Hangzhou."
"Yes, I will invest a start-up capital first..."
Xu Fei made another dumpling. "The taste is really good."