Chapter 686: Soaring to the Sky 1

"Last year, China stepped up the construction of Internet infrastructure, and the most beneficial thing for Internet users is that Internet fees have been greatly reduced.

In the past, it was thousands of yuan per month, but now it is hundreds of yuan, and the number of users is also increasing rapidly. In the first few months of this year, 400,000 households have been added. At this rate, by the end of the first half of the year, the number of Chinese Internet users will exceed 1 million. "

After all, Zhang Huli has seen the big world, and soon stabilized, talking lavishly.

"More than half of them are engaged in scientific research, but nearly 30% of users hope to obtain leisure and entertainment information such as food, clothing, housing and play through the Internet.

I call this group of people consumer users, and they will occupy the mainstream in the future. The Internet is no longer a magical high-tech, but has penetrated into everyone's life.

What are the specific functions? I throw a brick to attract jade, and I hope to discuss it with you.

Communication, such as email now.

The extension of communication is social networking, such as BBS.

Those two people have a communication foundation and an interactive platform. Can they do more things? Such as buying and selling each other, that is, e-commerce.

Now that the news can be read online, how about books? How about music? Is film and television okay... I dare not imagine the future, I just feel that the potential of the Internet is far from being developed.

It's a massive, almost limitless, whole new vehicle.

If the technology is feasible and many things can be put in, "Internet changes life" will not be just a slogan. "

After all, Zhang Fox began to demonstrate Sohu.

He talked about news, mailboxes, chat rooms and BBS, and then virtual communities.

"At the end of last year, we launched a trial version, with the concept of creating a virtual city, allowing users to run their homes, grow plants, relax, make friends, etc...

The most visited website in China last year was People's Daily Online. And last month's latest data, Sohu has already occupied this position, about 400,000. The main source of growth is the virtual community. "

"Wow!"

The foreigners below exclaimed, the United States has never seen such a thing!

"Next, Sohu is planning to develop a search service and name it Sogou...and also plans to enter the online game industry..."

He spoke for more than an hour, and the scene was lively. In the end, he refused to step down and asked questions one after another.

"You just introduced Sohu. It has comprehensive functions and advanced concepts. But as we all know, the Internet is very easy to imitate. Aren't you afraid that the latecomers will follow Sohu's corpse?"

"Yahoo is the pioneer in the United States, attracting countless people to imitate, but do you see Yahoo lagging 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 feature.

Our BBS has led social topics many times and has been reproduced by countless paper media. It is now the most popular communication forum in China.

Our mailbox users have reached 400,000.

Our chat room stays up all night.

Our essay competition is already in its third session, giving countless young people who are passionate about literature a stage to show off.

Our virtual community concept is at the forefront of the world. With the upgrading of technology, this place will become a real dream city, a second society.

You asked me just now if I was afraid of being surpassed, and I suddenly remembered a sentence that a friend and my investor often said.

Sohu's purpose is: always be imitated, never surpassed! "

"Wow, boom!"

The applause was like waves, Zhang Hu was full of energy, and he was at the pinnacle of his life.

When the event was over, a group of foreigners cheered and came over. They liked the high-tech man the most. Moreover, Zhang Fox's liberal temperament in the United States is very suitable for them.

"Wonderful! Wonderful!"

Xiong Xiaoge slapped his hands, and his confidence in financing reached 100%.

"Great, full of creativity," said an Intel representative.

"This is a treasure hidden in the East, and we should let the world see it as soon as possible." The representative of Dow Jones said.

It is said that Yahoo is the number one portal, but the things and ideas that Sohu presents are even ahead of Yahoo. If it is in the United States, it can be estimated at seventy to eighty million U.S. dollars.

In China, you have to fold in half and then in half.

Once the financing intention is established, the next step is specific negotiations. Xu Fei gave a bottom line and asked his subordinates to do it.

Ma Fuhao was also there, excited as if he had received a blessing, because he wanted to start a business at first, but gradually he took the evil path of e-commerce.

The first day of the expo was a big hit, the second day was relatively flat, and on the third day Yang Zhiyuan made an appearance and gave a speech.

This is real speech, it's all chicken soup.

"I love what I do now, and what excites me the most is bringing the traditional world into the new age."

"I don't have anything to lose, I've made it from nothing, and I don't care if I'm empty-handed again."

"The greatest happiness is not money, the greatest feeling is that you are changing the world every day."

Tut tut!

Xu Fei sounds very familiar, look, all the rich say they don't 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 to visit the Great Wall by the way. Ma Fuhao happened to be in charge of the reception, and invited Zhang Huhu, who was shining brightly, to join him.

Xu Fei accompanied him in a low-key manner, so he witnessed history again. It was this opportunity that made Yang and Ma have a good friendship, and the two even took a photo:

Yang Zhiyuan is young and vigorous, tall and straight; Ma Fuhao is short and strange, carrying a bottle of water——34 that year, traveling the Great Wall like a gangster.

Later, Yahoo exchanged US$1 billion for 40% of Ali's shares, and then Ali repurchased Yahoo. On the day of signing the contract, this photo was displayed on the big screen over and over again. I don't know if it is nostalgia or a face-slapping.

As for Yang Zhiyuan, after leaving Yahoo, he went to work in Lenovo first, and then in Didi.

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On the day the expo ended, Panjiayuan.

The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation has a dormitory building here, and more than a dozen members of Ma Fuhao's team were divided into three houses.

Their daily life: get up early in the morning, sleep on the bus to work, and come back late at night to have English classes, which are taught by Lao Ma himself. When I eat, I take turns cooking, and I go to a nearby Northeast dumpling restaurant for a meal on holidays.

Life is hard, but wages are very high.

Lao Ma invited Xu Fei to come, but he was too embarrassed to go to the dormitory, so he visited Panjiayuan first. That's right, still accompany the tour.

In 1998, Panjiayuan didn’t have that many big houses, just a lot of stalls. Teacher Xu watched indifferently, and occasionally squatted down to talk a few words.

As he walked, he stopped suddenly and picked up a bracelet.

There are eight cicadas carved in jade, which look moist and translucent.

"That's a jade cicada from the Ming Dynasty. It's genuine and passed down from the family. If you like it, take it away for 100,000 yuan." The stall owner said.

"..."

Xu Fei ignored it and said, "You pick one."

"I do not understand."

"Choose one at random, just for fun."

The old horse scratched his head and picked up one casually. The stall owner said again: "That's the eighteen sons of Vajra Bodhi from the Qing Dynasty. You can take 80,000 yuan away... hey, don't mess around, just put it down if you don't want it!"

"These two, 5,000."

Xu Fei shook it, and the stall owner waved his hand depressed, "Okay, okay, take it!"

Xiao Mo gave the money at the back, and he walked in front, throwing Shibazi to the old horse. The old horse only played collection after he became well-developed. This time he will be a dish, and he is quite mysterious when he fiddles with it: "Is this real or fake?"

"looks good?"

"good."

"Then, it doesn't matter if it's true or not."

He put on the novice string by himself and walked around again before going to the northeast dumpling restaurant.

I ordered a pound of dumplings, and a small chicken stewed with mushrooms.

"Most of us are southerners. It took a long time to settle down, and now we also like dumplings. There is also this stewed chicken with mushrooms, which is a must-order dish for us."

"Well, it's okay."

Xu Fei took a few sips and said, "Tell me, what do you think?"

If it's someone else, the old horse will have to fool around for a while, so I will introduce it honestly.

When it comes to Ali, Taobao, Tmall and so on, in fact, he was the first to do direct sales.

At that time, two domain names were enabled, the Chinese station and the international station. The form is a BBS plus a homepage, which is extremely rough, mainly for salesmen and some bosses of small and medium-sized enterprises.

How does B2B business rely on to make money?

One is to sell "CreditPass". Simply put, it is to sell a "license" to a company that wants to do business on Ali. If you don't have a license, you don't have a credit rating.

The second is to collect service fees, more than 10,000 per year.

At that time, it was all on the phone, and the telemarketing team accounted for more than half of the company's employees. It was not until 2003 that Taobao was born.

Lao Ma's thinking has largely remained the same, but due to Xu Fei's influence, he already has a preliminary idea for Taobao.

"After I finish the project in hand, I plan to resign, and then liquidate the shares in the Yellow Pages, and focus on e-commerce."

"In the capital?"

"No, go back to Hangzhou."

"Okay, I will invest a start-up capital first..."

Xu Fei picked up another dumpling, "It tastes really good."