If Gu Kun directly said that he would give preferential treatment to early users of Alipay, it would definitely be inappropriate and would be rejected by the guests.

However, Gu Kun has always insisted that this is a project led, invested and intervened by Lanfang Bank, and will try to enter the markets of various friendly Asian neighbors without discrimination in the future.

Even if the local state has other regulations that do not allow Lanfang Capital to play "e-commerce payment tools", but those countries themselves have set up similar platforms, Lanfang will also give financial visa exemption to practitioners of those platforms equally, which is very correct.

The subtext he gave to Mr. Yamazaki was: I am just indiscriminately optimistic about all e-commerce practitioners in the world in the future, and I think that people in this industry will be easy to make a lot of money and pay more attention to credit, so it is safer and easier to let such people come to Lanzhou.

You say that you don't want me to go, you can do it yourself, but if your whole country misses the Internet economy era and stagnates, then you can't blame me for not enjoying this small dividend.

Of course, Gu Kun knew that Yamazaki, JTB, and even ordinary citizens couldn't look down on this bit of sesame seeds, and they didn't even notice the existence of this difference. As long as Gu Kun stands firm and has a bowl of water, he has already shown favor to others, and if anyone notices it in the future, he can't be blamed.

After Yamazaki listened to this explanation, he was really only slightly embarrassed but actually smiled indifferently: "It is probably the new gadgets of those bubbles on the Internet, it is rare that Gu Sang still thinks about this mess after the Internet bubble bursts. ”

It can be heard that Yamazaki looks down on the Internet people in 2001 and doesn't want to understand it at all. It's no wonder that 01 and 02 are the deepest years of the Internet winter, in this book, in addition to a Yahoo browser Yahoo search engine is still used, even the news portal is rarely watched, even if you look at Yahoo.

Almost all other Internet services are completely ruined in this state. Yahoo can not be maintained by technology or business strength, purely because Yahoo's major shareholder is Sun Zhengyi of SoftBank, Sun Zhengyi is said to be himself, and the only Internet market in the past must of course support Sun Zhengyi in the cold winter.

In 2001 and '02, the Internet industry was a little more breathless than the half-dead state of China, mainly because the online game industry in China and South Korea was developed, and in the past two years, the only scenic spot of the Internet was games.

If it weren't for half a year ago, when Boss Bao and Ma Feng of Zhonglian Game Platform came to report the current status of the investment project to Gu Kun, 21 Tianwu was assigned by Gu Kun to "cut into the e-commerce payment tool by the online game recharge system".

According to the original inertia of history, Ma Feng has to suffer in the cold winter for at least 20 months before he can barely see a way out with his own eyes.

So Yamazaki's indifference and contempt at this moment can be understood.

But he still had an extra heart, and with the mentality of literacy popularization, he asked Gu Kun: "But, Gu Sang, can you tell me what kind of tool that Alipay is? ”

Many other guests next to him also pricked up their ears to listen, after all, people in other countries are not as strong as they are about the decline of the Internet economy.

Of course, Gu Kun did not hesitate to take the opportunity to publicize, and he introduced familiarly: "Here's the thing, I can also be regarded as cleaning up the aftermath of some projects I invested in a few years ago." As you know, when I entered the market to speculate on Internet concept stocks a few years ago, it was not my original intention and I did not take the initiative to enter the market.

There was also a time when I took the initiative to enter the market, it was in 96, when the stock price valuation of Internet stocks in Silicon Valley was generally very low, and I bought it with the mentality of value investment. After buying it in '97/98, Soros came to do something, and I was forced to dump all the Internet stocks and have to resist for the well-being of our Southeast Asians.

Later, it was in the Hong Kong stock tide for the tray, I became a major shareholder by speculating in stocks, fortunately, at that time, several network concept stocks in Hong Kong stocks were relatively hot, so I could only run in those directions and slowly replace the chips to escape.

That's it, in the end, isn't there still a bunch of tail-end companies worth more than a billion dollars that haven't run out and smashed their hands, but fortunately, the big head has run away, and just with the part that ran away in front, I have earned all my capital, and I still have a few percent of profits.

The two unfinished companies I cleaned up this time, one is called Zhonglian Games, and the other is called Ahri Baba, which is one of the goods that I didn't smash in my hands at the beginning. But I think this year, the only way out for the Chinese Internet market is to count on online games, so I will support Zhonglian's products and make a supporting recharge service tool.

It is convenient for the citizens of the third tier and below Huaxia cities to buy a point card when they can't buy a point card, they can go to the Internet café owner to buy it on their behalf, and the specific operation is to go to the Internet café to go online, give the boss cash, and the boss can recharge the electronic point card online for any game that joins this recharge platform. In this way, it avoids the hoarding of niche game point cards by Internet café owners for fear of not being able to sell them and not being able to sell them out, and also saves the physical point card issuance channel.

I've done research, and I think that today's Chinese gamers' understanding of online games is still too superficial, they haven't seen good products at all, and they don't have enough games for them to pick and choose the most fun ones in the highly competitive market like Koreans. For Chinese users, whoever can reach the relatively underdeveloped city first and let the locals buy a point card, the locals will go to play. The content and quality of the game are not important, as long as you have them. ”

This is the truth, the success of the legend, has nothing to do with the quality, this goods can no longer be pounced on the streets in South Korea, but the key is that the requirements for the computer are low, the requirements for network speed are also low, the PK rhythm is also slow, and the network speed card will not die. Then, with the addition of an operator's marketing genius of "making remote cities even buy point cards", it won.

It's a preconceived business, where marketing and popularity are greater than technology and art. Of course, this kind of opportunity is only once, and it is not easy for players to open their eyes and take their eyes in it

(Note: Chen's operational exploits still have to be recognized, after all, he is not the first person to make online games in China, and there are games from the Stone Age and earlier in front of him.) But the previous people didn't catch it, and it has something to do with the fact that those people are generally too professional, and they are all tall people in Zhongguancun who enter the game circle with a shelf, and they look down on the small town market. ）

"Just selling game point card recharge services?" said the guest and several other colleagues in the Middle East, listening to the incredible.

It seems that he still feels very worthless for Gu Kun to give such a convenient discount to such a lowly person, and he also feels humiliated for losing at the hands of that kind of group.

Gu Kun also hurriedly said something to keep the table: "Of course, it's not just selling point cards, we also provide payment services for users who buy books online." For example, if a Chinese person wants to buy a book on the Internet, he can first look at what he wants to buy on the Internet, and then go to the nearest Internet café, pay cash to the Internet café owner to dictate the demand, and then the Internet café owner will help operate and use Alipay to pay for the Internet to place an order.

Boss Li of Dengdang.com welcomes our Alipay to provide this kind of service, so it has been connected to the backend, you can go to the homepage and any book promotion page for sale, there is a conspicuous text prompt - 'Users can go to the nearest Internet café with Alipay business to pay remotely'. ”

Of course, Gu Kun knows that selling books can't be sold for a few yuan, but he is doing this to pull a fig leaf, after all, in the eyes of today's Chinese business tycoons, games are not a serious industry, if Alipay was born for games in the early days, the pattern will be smaller in the future.

The reason why Chen's career is not big in history is also related to the stereotype that he left people with "this is an online game" when he started. It's not that you can't do online games, but you definitely can't leave the impression that the mainstream society is "only doing online games/starting with online games".

That will only make you more successful in your online game career, the more hostile the mainstream society will be to you, and it will be difficult to finally clear your name.

In contrast, if you get an elegant business of "helping people sell books", even if the book itself does not make money or even loses money, it can be pasted with gold and accumulate yin virtue, and the reputation of the whole society is different.

Moreover, in 2001, Gu Kun wanted to use e-commerce payment to provide free services for retail business, and he could only find a business of selling books, after all, other 2C e-commerce companies were far from appearing.

As for Li Yuqing's position, someone is willing to provide him with payment tools for free, but he can't ask for it, and the two sides naturally hit it off. This matter was when Ma Feng's Alipay was closed at the end of the summer vacation and officially launched, Gu Kun instructed Ma Feng to talk to Li Yuqing, because the process was very smooth, so I won't go into details.

All in all, this is what Gu Kun is seeing now, and he just took advantage of the black swan event that Lanfang tourism industry suffered from the decline in the number of white customers, and pretended to solve the problem sincerely.

Public and private.

was explained by him, and those who said that they and even the next customers of the tourism industry in other countries who did not get the "visa-free discount" finally felt a little more balanced.

After all, it is a very noble thing to provide convenience to merchants who sell books online, and it is to alleviate the inequality of education and the difficulty of obtaining knowledge in society.

"Okay, can I ask, how big is the current user scale of this so-called Alipay?" Mr. Yamazaki, a layman, would not ask anything else but that.

Gu Kun: "At present, the number of users is not much, less than 20,000, after all, it has only been officially launched for more than a month." There are more than 14,000 outlets in Huaxia and more than 500 in Lanfang. ”

Lanfang has a registered population of 70,000, but there are nearly 300,000 permanent residents, as well as tourists. Generally speaking, a residential community of several thousand people, with two or three Internet cafes is not too much, right?

Therefore, there are now three or four hundred Internet cafes in the entire Lanfang, with an average of one for every 1,000 people. As Gu Kun's lair, of course, the Internet café owners in the whole territory of Lanfang must be Alipay users, otherwise they don't even have the qualifications to open Internet cafes.

Mr. Yamazaki shook his head: "You Lanfang people really attach importance to the Internet, the nationality population is only one-twenty-thousandth of that of Huaxia, and the number of Internet cafes joining Alipay is one-thirtieth of that of Huaxia, and the per capita rate is 700 times higher." ”

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