Chapter 173: Anyone's porcelain dares to touch it
Lanfang flaunts the wealth of the economy's business logic doxxing secret".
"What you don't know about business insiders: some people make a lot more money than they spend by slapping their swollen faces and making fat people......
In 99 years of Internet hype, the deliberate shock of the words is still relatively low, but the logic is in the same vein.
And the creativity of folk jokers is endless, even if some official news links and columns themselves are not too outrageous, but as long as the "comment" function is opened and there is a BBS community for netizens to post, then it is easy to ferment some wild malicious brain supplements under mutual discussion.
Gu Kun only looked at it for a few minutes, and he was slightly unhappy.
Huang Yi! It was Ding Sanshi's people who did it!
Sure enough, up-and-comers prefer to step on people or show their ingenuity.
At this juncture of 99 years, the three major portals of the mainland have been formed, in terms of qualifications, Sohu Xinlang these are a little longer, but to say that the momentum of the rise, and the aggressive momentum of the people, it is really the rising star Boss Ding is even worse.
Among these three portals, the first two were successfully listed on the NASDAQ in the first half of this year or even last year. After all, Huang Yi's development pace is slower, and it is still in the preparation period for an IPO, according to the original history, it was only squeezed into the NASDAQ in June 2000, that is, there are still more than 8 months.
Huang Yineng came from behind in the portal and occupied an important ecological niche, which was inseparable from some of its small designs at that time. One of the most successful points is that Huang Yi was the first to provide a comment function that is closely integrated with the news portal (at that time, it was mainly based on the BBS forum model, and it was not possible to comment directly under the news, but it had already induced everyone to comment)
As we all know, you can only watch the news and can't comment, the sense of participation of netizens is very low, and the interaction is similar to that of traditional media, and netizens have no loyalty.
And being able to post a product is a big one, and it suddenly makes those early keyboard warriors feel a sense of belonging. Later, for nearly 20 years, Huang Yijia's news clients are the ones with the strongest rhythm and atmosphere, and everyone likes to control comments the most, which is also a historical tradition, and people relied on this when they started.
Otherwise, when Sohu and Xin Lang have already occupied the top two ecological niches, Huang Yi has no chance to surpass it at all. (Of course, Huang Yi's mailbox business is doing well and is more professional, and relying on mailbox overtaking is also one thing.) The success of any business is a complex issue, and one cannot be generalized for one reason)
At this moment, out of the need for interaction and heat mixed rhythm, a handful of guys sprayed Gu Kun's head, if he just wrote a business case analysis and interpreted Gu Kun's lofty successes as worthless, Gu Kun really had nothing to do with them.
After all, this kind of edge ball itself is not illegal, it belongs to freedom of speech.
Gu Kun could only endure the discomfort for a few minutes for the time being, and looked down carefully.
In addition to the speculation at the beginning, there are some pictures and texts in the back that were indeed caught by Gu Kun as taboo-in - in several articles, some things that Gu Kun never said were directly fabricated to start a lot of Gu Kun's unclear business logic, and interpret Gu Kun's lofty behaviors as extremely vulgar.
For example, there is a picture and text, the content is actually similar to those in later generations, "Analysis of the marketing pros and cons of the 'Yangzhou local government wasted several tons of grain to fry a world record Yangzhou fried rice'".
Those articles are nothing more than calculating "how much a few tons of grain are worth and how much a ton of eggs are worth, which add up to less than 100,000". However, the number of clicks and exposure won through news channels after event marketing is converted into a reach that is equivalent to millions of advertising dollars, so "wasting eyeballs is a long-planned trick".
The article on Huang Yi that Gu Kun saw at the moment was pretending to use Gu Kun's mouth to pretend to calculate "how much is it worth to cut and waste thousands of pineapple durian leftovers with the Lanfang knife method", in exchange for "let the world name the knife cutting method of wasting food as 'Lanfang knife method', and when all mankind encounters the waste of food in the future, it will ridicule 'please stop your Lanfang knife method', and how much exposure and topicality it can bring to this country." Then, combined with the offline traffic monetization method, boast about how awesome this business is and how cost-effective it is.
This doxxing article is, strictly speaking, a bit of a rumor and slander. It is equivalent to some commercial review accounts in later generations who desperately fabricated "Ma Feng quotations" and "Ma Feng Chicken Soup" in order to attract attention, but Ma Feng himself may not have said those words at all.
Fabricating something that no one else has said has said is definitely a crime. Even if that's what the other party thinks in their hearts, as long as people don't say it, you can't spread rumors that people say it.
If Ma Feng, the quotation supplier in later generations, wants to sue, it will definitely be accurate, but Ma Feng itself also needs continuous traffic heat, so just turn a blind eye and don't sue.
However, even if those articles are prohibited, combined with the environment of the times in 99, Gu Kun has not many countermeasures.
Nowadays, online postings cannot be tracked at all, and the protection bias of the law for website operators is also very serious, as long as the website casually writes a sentence "This article comes from the Internet and does not represent the views of the website", it can be directly exempted from liability.
No matter how hard Gu Kun chases, it is nothing more than letting people delete the article, and it is impossible to lose money and fight a lawsuit. What's more, people wish you would sue him, which can also attract traffic to the website.
......
"Let's salute first and then soldier, talk to the other party through some intermediaries, and let him clean up the atmosphere of the article on the website. ”
Gu Kunzhi thought about it again and again, and decided not to do it.
Although he is already tens of billions of billionaires, after all, he is only a hegemon in Nanyang and the emperor of foreign lands, and he still can't make a mistake when he goes to China.
He wants to be an "old friend of the Chinese people" for the rest of his life, and this person will not waver for a hundred years, and he will always have a strong number in his heart.
So he picked up the phone on the desk and hung up the phone to Ma Feng, who took his investment:
"Old Ma, are you familiar with Ding Sanshi, give me a contact information, or you can help me make an appointment and tell me. This kid is not authentic, we still have a little friendship, we are all from the East China Sea, we are half a fellow countryman, this kind of article slandering me?
After all, Ma Feng took Gu Kun's $10 million investment and let Gu Kun take 20% of the shares in Ahri Baba, of course, he still has to worry about Gu Kun.
After listening to it, the attitude was very good, and I quickly opened the webpage to confirm that I had seen a few times, and then said that I would help to say and:
"You mean articles like 'revealing the commercial hype interests behind the Lanfang knife method'? It fabricates something you haven't said, and says that you said it yourself, which is really slanderous.
But I think Xiaoding shouldn't be that kind of person, now the management of domestic portals is not as good as Oceania, we basically don't hold him accountable, I told him, the article should be down. Boss Gu, I'll be fair, in fact, a quarrel is good for both parties to improve their popularity......"
"What I do is a high-quality product! It is a luxury positioning! I want traffic to be a good name, not a cheap traffic! But those who don't know are not guilty, I give him a chance to rectify. Gu Kun's tone became a little more serious.
It's just a matter of letting people get rid of fabricated articles, just this level of disposition, it must be Gu Kun's responsibility.
Even according to the law of '99, if the website still does not post the article after the victim has informed and reminded the website operator, then the website will bear legal responsibility.
Ma Feng asked Gu Kun to give him some time, and he immediately called to find someone.
Ding Sanshi and him are both in Ark City, and they can be found by calling the city, and they don't even need to travel long distances.
Half an hour later, Ma Feng gave Gu Kun a reply: "I negotiated with Xiao Ding, and I also took a look, and he did drop those few articles on the edges." YOU CAN ALSO CONFIRM HERE, IF YOU CAN'T SWIPE IT OUT, CLEAR THE COOKIE CACHE OF THE BROWSER, AND REOPEN HUANG YI, AND THOSE SHOULD BE GONE. ”
"I'll take a look first. Gu Kun was not too worried, and operated the computer while holding the microphone.
However, after taking a look at it for a while, he found that only those articles that were not legally reasonable were deleted, and the others who followed the bottom line of the law and hacked him were still there, which obviously did not satisfy Gu Kun:
"Brother Ma, is he determined to do something with me?
Ma Feng's tone was a little tactful: "People are also young and vigorous, and the selling point of their website is freedom of speech." You know, Xiao Ding started as a BBS, and he was the first BBS in China back then. Now that it is a portal, we still attach great importance to the voices of all parties.
And he is different from me, I have created a few karma and suffered losses, and I know that survival is the most important thing. He is a young man who has never suffered a loss, so he is easy to get angry. If you give me some more time, I think he seems to want to negotiate terms with you, and if you have time, sit down and talk in person, maybe we can cooperate. ”
Gu Kun smiled coldly: "Cooperation, why is he cooperating with me now, is everyone equal in status? However, since you said it, I will give you this face." If his appetite is lower than Zhang Chaoyang's, it's not like I can't be appeased. If he wants to make a big deal of wrongdoing, then don't talk about it, I'll make him look good. ”
He can roughly estimate that if Ding Sanshi really figured out that he wanted to touch porcelain with him, or to raise money at a high price, he would definitely not be able to agree.
The current Internet boom is indeed very frenetic, and there are many people willing to invest money, and this peak of easy financing will continue until the end of the year, if nothing else.
However, the whole atmosphere is easy to finance, but it does not mean that Huang Yi is easy to finance, nor does it mean that there are many people who are willing to give Huang Yi high valuation financing.
Because this is related to the stage that the other party is in - Ahri and Tengyun, new companies that are still in the A round and B round, it is very easy to raise money at the moment. Xinlang and Sohu have already IPOs, and their market value can soar and issue new shares.
But it is a company like Huang Yi that expects to go to the NASDAQ IPO in a little more than half a year.
Such a point in time when the IPO is not IPO is not available, which is very unfriendly to shareholders who want to enter the market newly.