Chapter 046 [Reversal]
"Manager Zhao, when will the R-Social News Streaming Project be launched, and there is also a privacy slider function."
This sentence came into Zhao Peng's ears and hesitated for a while. After a while, he said hesitantly: "Mr. Ma, that... that may take a long time, from eight months to one year, and is currently under discussion..."
He didn't dare to lie. After saying that, Zhao Peng couldn't help but secretly glance at Mr. Ma. When he saw him frowned, his heart was cold.
Xu Chenghua immediately looked at him: "One year? The daylily is cold all over the year, and there is a huge gap in a month. Do you know what Luo Sheng once said? The number of users in blue space is 300 million in two years, and the current development momentum of 300 million is a foregone conclusion. What competition does renren network use?"
Zhao Peng weakly explained: "Mr. Xu, the launch of the message flow function in Blue Space was immediately strongly resisted by users. In addition, the development team found that it was quite difficult to develop the message flow function. Among them, the design of the distribution system and solving the problem of intelligent push, the engineers under it were helpless, so we did not follow up immediately."
Mr. Ma said mercilessly: "The company has already burned 100 million yuan on the Renren project, and the internal drainage and other related resources have been tilted by no less than 150 million yuan. The profits earned by QQ show business have basically burned to this field. Creativity is not as good as technology development, and even copying... To put it bluntly, it is really hard to catch up with the heat when eating feces."
Zhao Peng was very embarrassed at this moment, and he was in tears. The others didn't say anything, for fear that President Ma would withdraw Zhao Peng and replace him to take over.
Now no one wants to take over Zhao Peng’s mess. Whoever takes over the other is hot. I used to think it was a good job, but now it is a hot potato. The competitors are more than ten times more difficult than I thought.
After the meeting, Mr. Ma kept Xu Chenghua.
"The Renren project is mostly a competition but Luo Sheng. You have also seen the meeting just now. Everyone in the operation department did not say a word. This is treating the Renren project as a hot potato and dare not take it. No one dares to compete with Luo Sheng, who has not graduated from college or even a newcomer in the Internet." Mr. Ma shook his head with a wry smile. In fact, he also knew that with Blue Space's current market share, it would be very difficult for QQ to make all his efforts to get back the situation.
Now that the market share of Blue Space is about to exceed 60%, the 82 effect of the Internet industry will become more and more prominent, and the longer it will be more difficult to be shaken. Unless a subversive model appears, this subversive model is not that easy?
Before the blue space came out, no one thought that social networks could still play the real thing.
"Fortunately, the company received the angel round of financing from Blue Star Technology and is now the second largest shareholder." Mr. Ma couldn't help but take a deep breath. If it weren't for Blue Star Technology's second largest shareholder, Teng Xun might face a loss of two ends.
The number of Internet users is growing rapidly in absolute terms. Now the industry generally believes that the Internet bubble winter is recovering and the general environment is developing in a better direction.
"By the way, Blue Star Technology's funds are probably about to bottom out. A new round of financing is expected to be launched. Zhao Peng can't play with Luo Sheng, so he can only invest in Luo Sheng. A round of financing QQ cannot be left behind. Luo Sheng is now a hot commodity in the industry." Mr. Ma said.
"I will maintain the status of the second largest shareholder as much as possible." Xu Chenghua nodded. He was responsible for this part. After a moment, he couldn't help but sigh: "Luo Sheng does have a set of things. He played such a big show before the A-round financing. If the news flow function is successful, his bargaining chips will be greatly increased. This round of financing will probably be a sky-high price."
As long as there is real data support, investors will willingly spend money. The reason is very simple, two words: down-to-earth.
But for Tengxun, he felt the pressure on funds. It would be okay for any one to come out with tens of millions of dollars. But if the unit increased by 100 million, Tengxun really couldn't get it out now. However, it wasn't that I just found a strong monetization business this year and could not lead the investment in the previous round of financing. This time, Tengxun no longer had the expectation of leading the investment, just take a little bit.
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Once the three-day deadline has passed, Luo Sheng's team has put the privacy slider function online on the Blue Space website as scheduled. Every user logged into the Blue Space sees that the website has been updated.
The investment circle and industry insiders are also observing. Gradually, industry insiders and people in the investment circle are surprised to find that the users' anger has begun to fade.
In the blink of an eye, the privacy slider function has been online for five days, and the college student users who had previously resisted fiercely ushered in a 180-degree reversal.
It smells so good!
This surprised many insiders in the Internet industry, especially those who hope that Blue Space websites will be in trouble.
The user doesn't object?
Faced with such a big crisis of user trust, is it fading because of the privacy slider function?
A week later, the message flow function completely took off. Luo Sheng and his management team once again told the industry that Blue Space easily turned danger into safety and entered a new round of takeoff.
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"My admiration for the boss is like a surging river, endless."
"Hahaha……"
"Feng Yi, when did you lick so well?"
"Rare, this is called fact. Without the judgment of the boss's wise and magical martial arts, the news flow function of the fire may have died. The efforts of several months were wasted, and the losses were immeasurable."
The launch of the privacy slider function perfectly solved the crisis. Luo Sheng rarely approved the company to use some public funds to invite nearly 200 people to have a luxurious celebration dinner. The negative news during this period made the management team feel depressed, but fortunately, all this became a thing of the past.
Young teams always need to grow with the company.
The current team has become extremely admirable to Luo Sheng. The earlier the group of people who followed him, the stronger they are. When they see the boss, they feel like they are backbone.
Luo Sheng smiled and said, "Okay, don't brag, be more modest, everyone has the credit, but I take 90% of it."
Everyone was stunned for a while, and when they reacted, they immediately burst into laughter. Xu Yong immediately complained: "Do you have any misunderstanding of the word modesty?"
"that is."
"Come on, cheers!"
The celebration was divided into two groups of people, and the company also needed people to operate, and gatherings could not delay the company's development, and operation and maintenance were indispensable.
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Company executive meeting.
"The privacy slider function has been launched for ten days, and there are no more opposition and resistance. Users find that the message flow function is exactly what they say they need. This function greatly enhances the practicality of the blue space." Feng Yi, who attended the meeting, said with a smile. Now everyone is very optimistic and the previous tension is gone.
Xu Yong nodded and said, "Just like the photo sharing function, message flow is also a subversive function, greatly elevating the product to a new level. Combining it with the photo sharing function is a 1+1>2 effect."
Although the message flow function was strongly resisted by users just now, its usage rate has soared since the day it was launched. Now, with the addition of the privacy slider function, it has undoubtedly been more complete.
The management team also found that Luo Sheng’s prediction was almost completely correct. 80% of users basically did not use the privacy slider function. Everyone is keen to share. Gossip and curiosity will drive them to see what new news they have when they follow.
Sometimes it's so helpless. Some things may not be used by users, but they must have them, otherwise something will happen to you.
Luo Sheng, who was sitting in the chief, also spoke, saying: "The current scale of users in the blue space has basically attracted all college students. It is time to open it to people outside the school, and it is bound to be the case."
Everyone nodded in agreement. The growth rate has slowed down in recent weeks. Obviously, it is time for the website to find new user growth points. They have not forgotten the mission Luo Sheng once said, allowing the blue space (bluespae) to connect all mankind.
I used to think this was just a loud slogan, but after the number of users in the blue space exceeded 100 million, the team members following Luo Sheng increasingly believed that it was more than just a slogan.
Luo Sheng added: "After opening to the public, one thing needs to be clearer and clearer, that is, let blue space become a directory index library for everyone around the world. The combination of photo sharing and message flow functions has two major factors to make blue space usher in a new turning point and become a product used by countless people. Before that, what we did was just a niche product, for university students, and after that, we will be a mass product, for the whole world and all mankind."
OK, let’s just open here, everyone is going to do their own business. From today on, the blue space will be officially opened to the public, and the firepower will be fully opened!”
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Chapter completed!