Silicon Valley

Chen Tianqiao and his wife Luo Qianqian looked at each other for a long time, and finally nodded secretly.

"Mr. Ma, we agree to your conditions!" Chen Tianqiao said.

Ma Huateng's face was filled with joy, and he said, "Okay, let's sign a contract as soon as possible, and then start promoting "Legend"!"

Luo Qianqian rolled her eyes at this moment and asked, "Mr. Ma, Hongnian Internet Café Alliance is the property of Mr. Henry Williams, right? I think, if every Internet cafe can install "Legend", this game will definitely become popular immediately. Get on fire!"

"ICQ and Hongnian Internet Café Alliance are not the same company. However, Hongnian Internet Cafe Alliance is indeed the industry of Henry Williams. This Internet Café Alliance was established by Hongnian Technology Co., Ltd. with Hongnian Computer and the local people. There are more than 3,000 Internet cafes in the country..." Ma Huateng looked at them and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I will tell Mr. Williams and ask him to help us!"

"That's great!" Chen Tianqiao said excitedly.

After sending Ma Huateng away, Chen Tianqiao and his wife looked at each other excitedly.

"Tianqiao, this time, Shanda is really going to make a big splash!!!" Luo Qianqian said.

"En!" Chen Tianqiao nodded heavily, a stone fell from his heart, and he was full of hope for the future!

"However, it's a bit strange. We also approached ICQ before, and it seemed that they were not interested in our game, but this time they took the initiative to invest in us!" Chen Tianqiao wondered.

Luo Qianqian laughed, "Have you read the latest news?"

"What news? I'm so busy right now, why do I still have time to watch the news..." Chen Tianqiao shook his head.

Luo Qianqian smiled and said simply: "Yesterday, Henry Williams went to Shenzhen!"

"Henry Williams went to Shenzhen?" Chen Tianqiao murmured and repeated, and suddenly he seemed to be enlightened, "Could it be..."

"That's right!" Luo Qianqian laughed, "Henry Williams must have taken a fancy to our Shanda Internet company, and that's why he ordered Ma Huateng to invest in us!"

"Well, it should be like this!" Chen Tianqiao nodded, and immediately laughed, "It seems that Henry Williams really has sharp eyes!!!"

Hearing this, Luo Qianqian couldn't help "pushing" and laughed out loud, "Are you praising yourself in disguise?"

"That's right, I firmly believe that "Legend" will be a success!"

...

The next day, Ma Huateng came to Shanda again. This time, the two parties signed a contract directly.

After signing the contract, Ma Huateng said: "Mr. Chen, the headquarters of Shanda Network Company has nothing precious, so I suggest that it is best to move to Shenzhen and stay in the same city as the parent company ICQ. In this way, it will be more convenient for the company. Manage and operate!"

"Okay, that's no problem." Chen Tianqiao said, since the parent company ICQ made such a request, Shanda Networks naturally had no reason to refuse.

In early May, Shanda Networks moved to Shenzhen.

Ma Huateng brought Chen Tianqiao and his wife to ICQ to meet Henry.

"Hello, Mr. Williams!" Chen Tianqiao and his wife said in unison.

"Please sit down!" Henry couldn't help looking at the legendary figure in his previous life. Chen Tianqiao was not tall, slightly fat, and had a calm personality. And his wife, Luo Qianqian, has a good figure, a handsome face, high knowledge, and a beautiful temperament.

Henry wasn't interested in his subordinate's wife, he just glanced at it, then turned to look at Chen Tianqiao, and asked, "Chen Tianqiao, now that you have funds, how do you plan to promote the game? Also, how do you make money from the game? !"

"Mr. Williams, I think the game is free at the beginning to attract a large number of players. After that, when there are more players and they like this game, we will charge again!"

"Very good, please continue!" Henry nodded in satisfaction.

"Okay, Mr. Williams. The charging model of "Legend" is completely different from that of traditional games. "Legend" is charged according to the length of the game!"

Ma Huateng was stunned at the side, "Mr. Chen, you are not mistaken, are you charging according to the length of the game?"

"That's right, the fee is based on the length of the game!!"

Chen Tianqiao replied in a very affirmative tone. At the same time, he looked at Henry. Ma Huateng's question was useless, and Henry was the real decision maker!

Clap clap! ! !

Henry applauded and said with a smile: "Very good, almost coincides with me!"

With that said, Henry handed each of Chen Tianqiao and Ma Huateng a document titled "On the Operation Model of "Legend"". It contains not only what Chen Tianqiao just said, but also more details, because the Chinese Internet e-commerce and third-party payment market is immature, so that most Chinese netizens do not know how to use PayPal. Therefore, although game time can be purchased directly through PayPal, a "game point card" is still required. The game point card designed by Henry is just an ordinary card with an account number on it, and the password is set by the player himself. The card is sold by local Internet cafes. Players who do not know how to use PayPal can find Internet cafes to help them recharge if they want to recharge. There is money on the account, and then you can buy game time to play the game! In fact, "game point card" is a kind of "offline PayPal" in disguise, and you can log in to the PayPal system by directly using the "game point card" account number and password.

However, Internet cafes recharge players’ "game point cards" by using the Internet cafe's PayPal to transfer money to it. The only difference is that Internet cafes can get a commission! Otherwise, Internet cafes are not happy to be busy in vain, isn't it...

Henry's ambition is huge. By using the "Game Point Card", all "Legend" players can be trained to become Paypal users, and more than that, the "Game Point Card" solves the current payment problem, and it is bound to make other game companies choose this method. This way, all game players may become PayPal users. If Ma Yun launches Alipay in the future, I really don’t know how he can play it?

Both Chen Tianqiao and Ma Huateng are smart people. After watching it, they are deeply impressed by it! The eyes of the three of them looked at Henry differently. They always heard that Henry Williams was a peerless genius. I still didn't believe it. When I saw him today, he really is a genius. No wonder he can become the richest man in the world!

"Mr. Williams, game time can be purchased not only by the hour, but also yearly, monthly, or weekly. This idea is very good! The price of yearly and monthly subscriptions is much cheaper. I believe many people will choose these two options. way, and in this way, we can quickly collect a large amount of funds, and with the funds, we can go to Korea to represent the game again!!!" Chen Tianqiao said excitedly.

"You can't always find Korea as an agency game. Do you want Korean online games to dominate the Chinese market?"

Henry shook his head. In his previous life, Shanda didn't have a decent game R\u0026D team at all. As a result, he failed to represent a good game, so he was "led by the dog"!

When Henry said this, Chen Tianqiao blushed a little, acting as a proxy game is very easy, everyone thinks it is troublesome, right? Moreover, the risk of developing a game is too great. What if game players who have worked so hard and spent huge sums of money on development don't buy it? Isn't it a waste of time? Therefore, in China, there are not many companies that develop their own games! Henry knew that since "Legend" became popular, every game company followed suit and went to South Korea to represent the game, resulting in Chinese games being conquered by Korean games, while domestic games collapsed and collapsed...

Henry continued: "The agent game is only for a while. How can we rely entirely on other game companies to live? This is like pinning hope on other people. If one day the other party becomes unreliable, wouldn't I be doomed? So, hit the iron It also needs to be hard on its own, in addition to representing other games in the future, Shanda must form its own game development team!"

"Mr. Williams, I have been taught, and I will follow your teaching!" Chen Tianqiao couldn't help lowering his head, and said in a deep voice.

Henry waved his hand and smiled, "It's already May, and preparations and publicity will take a while, probably... In July, "Legend" will be released, and then it will be free for one month, and charges will start in August! Hong I have notified them of the Internet Café Alliance, ICQ, and PayPal in 2018, and you can contact them afterwards to cooperate together!"

"Yes!" Chen Tianqiao nodded in response.

"Okay, then let's do this, you just arrived in Shenzhen, and the journey is tiring, so go back and rest first!"

"Thank you Mr. Williams!"

Henry watched them go, then turned on the computer and surfed the Internet alone. At this moment, Henry wants to build a Chinese website, but lacks a team. And he is now looking for acquisition targets. At the same time, he also has some understanding of the ups and downs of the Chinese Internet in recent years!

"The book has its own golden house, and the book has its own Yan Ruyu!"

In 1988, the Golden House website was the most famous, and it was called "If you don't know the Golden Bookstore when you read on the Internet, it's useless to call it a net bug"! At that time, the Golden House had already monopolized the Chinese market. If nothing unexpected happened, I am afraid that there would be no net from the previous life! It is a pity that the intervention of capital has changed the trajectory of fate.

In December 1999, Duolaimi purchased 16 of the top 20 personal websites in Netease's personal website list at a price of 4 million yuan. Including Golden Bookstore, China Football Net, Haikuotian Download, Xiaolin Guangji and other famous domestic websites. After the Golden Bookstore was acquired, due to copyright considerations, it did not dare to plagiarize and copy too freely in operation. Many readable works could not be included in it, but there were not many original works, which caused the gradual loss of readership and voluntarily gave up. The dominance of online book sites.

Rich people are reserved, talk about genuine things in China, and end up screwing themselves to death.

At this time, Boku was established in Silicon Valley, possessed American industrial capital, and had a lot of money. As soon as it came to China, it carried out overwhelming advertising in major media, and then cooperated with China Youth Publishing House, Peking University and other units to launch "Zou Ma Huang He", Activities such as "Travel to Dunhuang" created great momentum, and later, in addition to purchasing a large number of electronic copyrights of works, in the name of cultivating China's "Stephen King", signed contracts with a large number of writers such as Wang Shuo and Chen Cun. However, Boku's business model is to download and read for a fee. In the current Chinese Internet environment where piracy is common, it is naturally out of place, so it closed down at the end of the year. The most terrible thing is that in 1999, there were not many Chinese netizens, and there were no convenient payment methods! Henry launched the "offline PayPal" point card this time, which is different. Firstly, it can solve the payment problem. Secondly, the number of Internet users increased greatly in 2001, and the conditions for paying for reading books are ripe.

The website Henry is currently browsing is "Dragon's Sky". Relying on its stable space and popularity accumulated in Westland bbs, "Dragon's Sky" quickly filled the space left by the Golden Bookstore and became the well-deserved leader of the fantasy book site! However, Henry knew that he was not the real man in his previous life!

Right now, with the increase in traffic, Longkong's server resources are insufficient, and the access speed is getting slower and slower, which has begun to be unbearable. Many challenges.

In order to get out of the predicament, Dragon Sky has two development directions. One is to invest funds to buy new servers and expand the Dragon Sky website, which can maintain the monopoly advantage on the Internet, but the prospect is unclear; the other is to abandon the development of the website and go to the entity book publishing route. As for the result, Henry naturally knew that Long Sky chose the latter, which can be said to be surrendering!

"The founder of Wangwang seems to be Bao Jianfeng. It should be the best to let the original founding team manage the company..." Henry murmured.

Henry often browsed the Internet in his previous life. In addition, as an engineer, he also studied the second version of the improved website, because this revision is the most successful revision in the history of Internet literature. Other literary websites have copied it. Almost 80% of the interface and similar. At the same time, Henry also witnessed the rise of China. There were many dangers in the early days, but every time a best-selling book turned things around! The signing turmoil in October 2003 can be said to be the most serious crisis since the establishment of the station. When the VIP road was in desperation, the toad who had just wandered here was saved. The hot sale of "Tianpeng Zongheng" brought a large number of members to China, and finally survived the difficulties.

In 2004, the upsurge of online game novels came quietly on the Internet, and they dominated the new book list, so that other types of new books did not have a bright future at all, so they were quietly poached by other websites. And the reason why these online game books are so powerful is actually behind the scenes. It is the competitors who teach new authors how to write online games and how to hit the list. All these works can basically be on the new book list! ! !

Hidden arrows are hard to guard against!

Too many online game novels cause aesthetic fatigue, and naturally VIP subscriptions are low. The development of the Internet has been slow for a while, and it will be overtaken! However, at this moment, "Road to the Dragon" was born—"As soon as the Dragon comes out, who will fight for the top?" Since the day when the Dragon was launched, it has continuously refreshed the records of VIPs! Afterwards, Shanda acquired it, crushing other literature websites with its powerful and unparalleled financial resources, blatantly stated that if you don't accept it, you will do it, accept your shit, and finally dominate the Internet literature!

Henry quickly found Bao Jianfeng on the Internet and joined his ICQ book friend group. No way, Bao Jianfeng was a bit awesome in 2001, and happened to create the online novel "Legend of Magic Knight Heroes", which became one of the most popular works of early online fantasy literature.

"Hello, are you Bao Jianfeng?!"

The name of Henry's ICQ is Williams, and there are many ICQ people who take this name all over the world, including many in China, as if many people changed their IDs to "Bill Gates" in previous lives.

"Yes, I am Bao Jianfeng, welcome to join the "Legend of Magic Knight Heroes" book friend group!"

At this time, a prompt message of a video pop-up window is displayed on ICQ.

Bao Jianfeng hesitated for a moment. Is it appropriate to start the video if there is a disagreement?

Bao Jianfeng thought about it, and finally turned on the video. However, Bao Jianfeng was dumbfounded when he saw the face in the video.

"You, you are Henry Williams?" At this moment, Bao Jianfeng was so shocked that he couldn't even speak coherently.

"Yes, it's me." Henry smiled at him.

"Hi, Mr. Williams, it is my honor to have a video chat with you! Excuse me, what can I do for you?"

"Yes!" Henry nodded and said, "The thing is, I'm going to build a Chinese website, and I plan to invite you to join..."

Bao Jianfeng was shocked and thought, my book is so well written, even the richest man in the world likes to read it (Henry said he hadn’t read it), and he even came to dig himself out, so touched, so touched Alright, against Henry Williams' attitude of being a corporal, my next new book will only be published on their website! ! !

Bao Jianfeng's gaze suddenly became very firm.

"Bao Jianfeng, can you bring some like-minded friends of yours over here?"

"No problem, Mr. Williams, don't worry, I know a lot of friends, and I'm planning to set up a fantasy literature club together!"

"Hehe, that's good, then pull them all over! This is my phone number: XXXXXXXXX. When you get in touch, call me!"

"OK!"

Video call ended.

Bao Jianfeng looked excited and excited, he picked up his mobile phone and started calling his friends...

(two chapters in one)

(to be continued ~^~)