Chapter 040 [Why do you always have such good ideas? 】
"Isn't that satisfied?"
Xu Yong couldn't help but complain, and his heart was too big. Currently, there are more than 600 million Internet users around the world. Is it a small goal to make 300 million of them become blue space users within two or three years?
In their opinion, this is already a fantasy.
Luo Sheng leaned on the wheelchair and smiled calmly: "You have this little imagination? The growth of Internet users in the future will explode. Now there are less than 100 million Internet users in my country, but there are more than one billion people in my country who have not been exposed to the Internet. With such a huge population base, there will be endless imagination space in the future."
The growth momentum of Blue Space websites comes from the photo tag function, and the like function is currently the best function to maintain user activity. How big is the small like function? Not only will the product decisions of Blue Space websites change, but also other websites.
Luo Sheng said: "With the like function taking off, for the first time, we have a real fundamental change, which has changed the user's habit of using the B community. During the pre-a round of financing, I once told investors that it costs 300 million yuan in two years, but in fact, what I thought was that it would be faster."
Xu Yong, Feng Yi and others who attended the meeting were secretly amazed.
Seeing that they lack confidence, Luo Sheng immediately said: "To achieve the goal of 300 million users of Blue Space websites within two years seems to be an impossible feat. What we are striving for is to turn the impossible into a possibility. When we first joined the company, who could have thought that our career would develop to this extent? Who could have thought that Blue Space websites have reached more than 40 million user registrations in just over three months? Who could have thought that Blue Star Technology is currently valued at more than 1 billion?"
Speaking of this, Luo Sheng looked around everyone and pointed at himself, "I thought of it, I did it, and I can still do it!"
These words immediately mobilized several young managers in the conference room and raised their confidence inexplicably.
Yes, no one would have thought that Blue Star Technology could be valued as a 1 billion startup. This is a miracle in itself, and Luo Sheng is the core creator of this miracle.
So what reason is not to continue to believe that he can create new miracles again?
"You are the leader, we all believe it and believe it firmly." Xu Yong smiled and said, "Then what should we do next?"
Erin and others who attended the meeting also focused their attention on Luo Sheng. He thought for a while and said, "To achieve this seemingly impossible feat, the attitude of the Blue Space website should also change. Before, we only served college students, but there are only a limit on freshmen entering colleges in more than 1,000 universities across the country. Therefore, our products cannot only focus on universities, and there are enough reasons to expand outside the campus."
Expanding outside campus?
Everyone nodded silently, and then everyone remembered what Luo Sheng once said, the ideal and mission injected into the blue space is to connect all mankind. Although it was born in the school, it will not be limited to the school network in the end.
Erin said: "After the company moved into Jinmao Building, it has purchased three special business vehicles, purchased servers and corresponding hardware expansion, with a total expenditure of 3.3 million yuan, and the book funds still have more than 74 million yuan in full funds for expansion."
Erin, who served as chief financial officer of Bluestar Technology, soon played the role of CFO and was fully responsible for corporate financial audit management.
"Okay, according to the current established strategy, the company's employee recruitment will be expanded to 100 people within this week. In addition, the Finance Office will spend another 10 million yuan on the promotion of the Blue Space website." Luo Sheng ordered in an orderly manner, and the management teams attending the meeting also took on his task requirements and then ended the meeting.
Luo Sheng looked at Ailin and the others preparing to leave the conference room, and immediately said, "Xu Yong, Feng Yi, you guys stay."
The two sat back, and the last one left, Erin closed the door of the conference room. After a moment, Luo Sheng said: "Just shifting the expansion target from university to the whole society is far from enough to achieve the growth I have asked for. We need to develop new products to maintain the product advantages of the Blue Space website."
Competitor Renren.com is backed by Teng Xun and plans to buy it to the end. Luo Sheng calculated the time and community will most likely be launched in June, and will also turn his attention to the campus.
Now the two sides have begun to face the competition, grabbing users on each other's territory, and the competition has entered the next scene. The money-burning war has begun, which has undoubtedly intensified the intensity of the competition. Just now, Luo Sheng said that 10 million yuan in promotion and publicity costs were paid out, and it may not be enough.
Although the pre-a round of financing has obtained more than 70 million, once this starts to seize users, the two parties enter the money-burning mode, and more than 70 million is really not spent.
What's more, Blue Space not only faces direct competition from Renren.com, but also indirect competition from QQ. Although the two sides have different models, they do not seem to conflict. Now many users have both QQ accounts and Blue Space and Renren accounts at the same time. As they continue to expand, there will be more and more similar overlapping users.
Then for both Blue Space and QQ, fierce competition will surely start in the opening of product usage time, that is, competition for activity.
When users browse the blue space, the time they use QQ will be relatively reduced, and vice versa. The activity of users using the product is very critical, and what can be reflected is the direct impact on the returns.
"Boss, I guess you must have new creative ideas." Xu Yong couldn't help but lit up when he heard Luo Sheng say he wanted to develop a new product.
"No need to guess, there must be something." Feng Yi smiled.
The two looked at Luo Sheng in unanimously, and the latter nodded with a smile and said, "I decided to let the Blue Space complete a 'big plastic surgery'. The new idea, I call it the 'message flow'. At the latest, the launch of the project will be completed before the end of the fall. The time left for us is only about three months. We will start the message flow project at the end of the summer."
Xu Yong said curiously: "Message flow? What functional product is this?"
Hearing the words, Luo Sheng said with a confident expression: "If photo sharing is the core of the blue space, then the message flow is the fundamental. This is a subversive product, a viral marketing concept that allows users to have an avatar."
"This product, simply put, is a series of messages, which contains everything that happens in the blue space website. It just collects status updates and personal homepage changes information together. It should be an aggregator that collects all stories. Of course, there will be a new set of logical algorithms in it. We cannot display all the content to users."
Although Luo Sheng is the company's CEO, he has not forgotten his identity as a technology developer. This is the biggest competitive advantage. Technical CEOs like him are currently rare in the industry. However, in the original world, if the founder of the company does not have the ability to develop technology, he will be embarrassed to start a business.
Times are different, and the world is different, so there is no need to compare them.
Luo Sheng took a sip of water and gestured, "There are mainly two streams inside, one is what you are doing yourself, and the other is what others on the Internet are doing. It is not static, not boring, not useless. It should be a continuous update of the 'newspaper', that is, it can tell you what is happening in the Blue Space website, and we think there are some of them you may care about."
Xu Yong couldn't help but be amazed. His thinking was also very quick. He immediately realized the role of this news flow and couldn't help but exhilarate: "This idea is so great, why do you always think of such a good idea?"
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Chapter completed!