"That's special, this "rabbit obedient" is just a thing that eats inside and out!"

At the headline's emergency high-level meeting, some executives couldn't help but explode into foul language.

"You can't let her go so easily, just block her account!"

Other executives objected, "The account can't be blocked, and a letter doesn't show that we are empty-minded." ”

"Then how can you let her go gently? This is definitely black gold that has received shaking eyes. ”

"You can't let her go so easily, or just sue her and sue her for defamation. ”

"I think something is wrong, and the lawsuit will definitely cause things to ferment further. And she is standing behind her back, and she will not be afraid to sue us.

I think Doushi wishes we had a lawsuit, and the bigger the trouble, the better. ”

......

The executives were talking and discussing, and Zhang Ming was also very tired.

In order to catch up with the footsteps of Shake Vision, Toutiao can be said to have tried everything he could.

From digging anchors, grabbing MCN institutions, to transporting videos, all tricks have been used, but they can't close the gap with Shake Vision.

When Toutiao Video was still pursuing to break through 20 million daily active users, the daily active users of Douyin were approaching the 1 billion mark.

The 10-fold gap makes people almost lose their fighting spirit.

And as this gap widens, the Matthew effect is fast forming.

The number of users of jitter is growing faster and faster because the content on it is more and more refined.

Toutiao Video has fallen into a growth bottleneck, and although the number of users is also rising, it is all about spending money to buy.

What bothers him the most is that user activity is declining.

Zhang Ming thought about it, but he didn't understand where the parallax was.

In terms of technology, Toutiao's content distribution and recommendation mechanism is the best among peers.

In terms of investment, after obtaining the actual financing of 1 billion US dollars, Toutiao quickly allocated 200 million US dollars to Toutiao Video.

With this money, Toutiao Video threw money to grab Internet celebrities and advertise, and the effect was still there, but it was not as good as Zhang Ming expected.

He even said that it was far from his expectations.

It's hard to spend money on things, then it's hard to do.

Zhang Ming thought about it and felt that he had missed the short video outlet.

Zhang Yida is a "blitzkrieg" master, which can be glimpsed from the development trajectory of Huimin Travel.

Compared with Doushi, Toutiao Video was launched a year later, and the opportunity has been lost.

I can only pin my hope on the opponent to make a mistake himself, but Shake Sight did not make a mistake, and the rise was as fast as riding a rocket.

Faced with such a situation, he was powerless to return to the sky.

"How about going overseas to make short videos? I heard that it has developed very well in Europe and the United States, and it has also become popular in South Korea.

We can enter the blank markets that are not covered, such as Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Southeast Asia, India, Central Asia, West Asia, Africa......

Once we had gained a foothold in these markets, we moved on to Europe and the Americas. ”

Zhang Ming put forward his own ideas, and then looked at the executives, expecting their opinions.

"It's true that these markets are blank markets that haven't been covered yet, but this is only temporary.

Moreover, compared with Europe and the United States, most of these regions are economically backward.

Even if you can occupy a part of the market, if you can't enter Europe and the United States, it may be difficult to make a profit. ”

One executive objected, then said, "I think we should focus our business on news distribution."

In China, Toutiao is already the hegemon of the subdivision field.

But abroad, we don't have many layouts.

The overseas market is vast, equivalent to several Chinese markets. This virgin land is still waiting for us to reclaim.

As long as we replicate the model in China and replicate it in these regions, it is very likely that the miracle that will happen in China will be created again. ”

Zhang Ming nodded, "At present, the most important business of the group is indeed the news aggregation platform. We should also put more effort into today's headlines.

But short videos can't be given up!

Think about it, if we master the two tracks of graphics and short videos, there are so many things that can be done.

Moreover, short videos are a time black hole, and it is easy for users to indulge in them.

The domestic Internet dividend is gradually drying up, and what will be competing for it in the future is the stock market.

It's not a competition of who has attracted how many new users, but whose product users have been using it for a longer time......"

Zhang Ming told a lot and eventually convinced the other executives.

Toutiao decided to maintain the status quo of domestic Toutiao Video and divert more funds and manpower to overseas markets.

As for the handling of the video, Toutiao pretended to be deaf and dumb.

Nor can it be called pretending to be deaf and dumb, and published a clarification article.

said that Toutiao will strengthen the review mechanism in the future, and called on users to pay attention to originality and respect intellectual property rights.

Anyway, the headlines have been, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that there must be the mastermind of the platform behind the scenes of the moving video, and at the very least, there is also connivance.

The shaking side did not chase after it, and after gaining the upper hand in public opinion, it also died down.

Anyway, after such a round of turmoil, it will be even more difficult for Toutiao Video to catch up with Shake Eye.

For example, Shake is the starting point, and Toutiao has become a pirated website such as Vertex and Vertex.

And this genuine version is still free, with more and richer content, everyone must see the genuine version.

......

Ruixin Group digested it for a long time after the acquisition of Weizhong Tax Bank.

Now, they're eyeing a new target, a business search website.

"The enterprise inquiry website began to blow out in 2014, and at its peak, more than 40 companies were fighting.

However, there are three companies with a good development momentum at present, Qichacha, Tianyancha, and Qixinbao.

Qichacha completed a Series A financing of 50 million yuan in September last year, with a valuation of about 500 million yuan;

Tianyancha received an investment of 25 million yuan in April last year, and the valuation was 200 million yuan at that time;

Qixinbao was launched in March 15, and in September of that year, it was sold to INTSIG, the parent company of CamCard All-in-One, for 30 million yuan......"

Fang Yuhan introduced the situation of the three companies to Zhang Yida one by one.

Zhang Yida nodded, "Let's focus on the first two, the latter one should not be sold, and the market share is lower than the first two." ”

Fang Yuhan responded well, and then began to introduce: "Qichacha is currently the first in the market, but Tianyancha is growing rapidly, and the technical background is also stronger.

The founder, Liu Chao, once served as the chief scientist of Sogou, and started the business the year before last year, forming a small team of four people, and the valuation was 200 million in one year. ”

Zhang Yida was also stunned and said in surprise: "Four people made a company with a valuation of 200 million?"

"Yes, it's a legend in the industry. ”

Fang Yuhan chuckled, "In fact, the technical barriers to this kind of enterprise query website are not high, a few IT technology men can just mess around and get a crawler software to come out and capture the company's public data."

Data sources: National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System, China Judgment Network, China Enforcement Information Disclosure Network, State Intellectual Property Office, Trademark Office, Copyright Office.

If we want to build the platform ourselves, it is estimated that it will take less than half a month to do it.

But to promote your own brand, you still need a lot of advertising investment.

In addition, Tianyancha these companies were established a few years earlier and have already seized the opportunity.

It is not easy for us to take food from the tiger's mouth.

To be on the safe side, acquisitions are the best. ”

"Well, Qichacha or Tianyancha, which one are you more optimistic about?"

Fang Yuhan said with a smile: "It must be Tianyan Check, and the product will be launched later, but it will soon catch up with the enterprise check."

It is expected that within this year, it will complete the overtake. And Tianyancha is an authentic Jingda series.

CEO Liu Chao and COO Liang Shuang both graduated from the Department of Computer Science of Beijing University, and you are still alumni with Mr. Zhang. ”

"Yo, it's still two senior brothers! ”

Zhang Yida's sentence is quite nonsensical, and Fang Yuhan can't answer it.

However, she also thinks that Tianyancha is more suitable because it is cheaper and has greater growth potential.

......

Fang Yuhan, CEO of Ruixin Group, personally made a phone call to Liu Chao, CEO of Tianyancha, and invited the latter to meet.

"Hello Senior Brother Liu, Hello Senior Brother Liang!"

For Zhang Yida, the two are no strangers, this is a well-known alumnus who has not graduated, how can they not know each other.

However, knowing is only limited to knowing Zhang Yida's face, and it is the first time to deal with him.

After a few people chatted for a while, Liu Chao pondered for a moment and said, "Senior Brother Zhang, you came to us, what's the matter?"

Liang Shuang, who was sitting beside him, also looked at Zhang Yida, and the two of them didn't believe that Zhang Yida was looking for them to make friends.

Most of it is related to Tianyancha, not investment...... It's mergers and acquisitions.

"Ruixin Group's ambition is to be China's "Experian" and "Dun & Bradstreet", and to achieve this goal, we need more partners to make suggestions, so I sincerely invite the two brothers to join. ”

Zhang Yida said very elegantly, but the two still understood, this is to incorporate themselves.

"Senior Brother Zhang, to be honest, Tianyancha has been in contact with Series A investors, and the SME Development Fund under the Ministry of Finance has expressed its investment intention to us.

The intended investment amount is 130 million yuan, and the post-investment valuation is 433 million yuan. ”

Zhang Yida listened to Liu Chao's words and thought quickly.

After financing this round of funds, Tianyan Chake will become half of the national team, and the direct investment fund under the Ministry of Finance accounts for 30% of the shares.

With this background, if you do not go sideways in China, the probability of entrepreneurial success will be greatly improved.

You have to add some chips, otherwise you won't be able to fool people.

"Oh, that's it!"

Zhang Yida said with a smile: "This is a good thing, I expect that Tianyancha will soon be able to stand out from the one-ticket enterprise inquiry website." ”

"In fact, Tianyancha has not been in a hurry to start commercialization in the past few years, and we have been working hard to improve our internal skills.

We have invested most of the funds in R&D work, developed a graph database with independent intellectual property rights, realized the multi-point aggregation of business subject relationships, and presented them in a visual way in front of users.

After the R&D results come out, C-end users will naturally know whose query software to use to query the enterprise relationship at a glance......"

Liu Chao has high academic attainments, is the top science student in the college entrance examination in Henan Province in 99, received a doctorate in computer science from the University of Illinois, and worked at Microsoft Research in the United States, in charge of the data intelligence team.

He has published 3 English monographs, 5 articles, and more than 30 articles from world-class academic conferences, with a total of 1300+ independent citations.

When it comes to technology at this time, it is endless, and Zhang Yida can't understand most of it, so he has to smile and nod.