"After years of being controlled by out-of-town owners, the Los Angeles Times is back in the hands of locals. ”

At the breakfast table the next morning, Andy couldn't help but smile and shake his head as he looked at the headline on the front page of the Los Angeles Times, "Who is Andy Smith?"

The remarks made by the new owners in a video conference yesterday afternoon made the editors of the Times completely relieved, ushering in a new boss who was not bad for money, and the newspaper was no longer worried about the terrifying shadow of the layoffs, and everyone was looking forward to the day when the Times would return to its glory days.

"What news makes you so happy?" Charlize, who was wearing a silver-gray two-piece silk nightgown, walked into the dining room with his hair tied in a bun and a little lazy, leaned over and kissed Andy first, and then reached out to take the newspaper and read it.

"Gurgle... Charlize giggled while looking at the report, and raised his eyebrows at Andy, who was eating breakfast, and joked: "This group of guys is really going to please the new boss, hehe, it's too much to tout!"

"They're just stating the facts. Andy took it all in shameless, shrugged his shoulders and said like this.

"Giggles, if I'm not mistaken, you're a New Yorker, right, when did you become a Los Angeles local? It's unbearable!"

Charlize teased and teased, rubbing his arm with goosebumps.

Andy looked at the expression of pride in his achievements on the face of the emperor, and smiled at her mischievous complaints, and said, "The new script has been received, is it okay?"

"Well, don't worry, although the role I played is somewhat similar to my experience, however, I have come out of the shadows and will not be entangled, and I also hope to challenge it, maybe there will be a breakthrough. Charlize naturally knows what Andy meant, and the character she is going to play in the new script "The Burning Plains" is very similar to what happened to her childhood because of the sins she accidentally committed in her childhood.

"To be honest, I didn't want you to be in this movie, but Rob Freman decided that you were the only one who was the best fit and wanted to send the film to the Venice Film Festival next year. Andy said with a gentle gaze and reached out to caress the emperor's rosy cheeks.

"Hehe, don't worry, I'm not that fragile, my heart has been filled by little Laura, and there is no room to carry those gray memories!"

"Ahem, it's too much, what about me? there should be my place!"

"Huh. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Hehe... ”

In the bright and spacious conference room of hatsApp, Andy, who was sitting in the first place, leaned lazily on the boss's chair, crossed his fingers with his hands in front of him, and looked at his subordinates who had already quarreled into a pot of porridge with some headaches.

Without him, Watsip, who has been running for free for 1 year, has divided the company's subordinates into two camps because of whether to choose to charge, free or charged, which has now become a big problem for Andy to face.

Today, Wattsp has developed into a global phenomenon. Nearly 90 million people use its service to send text messages and photos for free. It can be said that there has never been a social JIAO tool that has developed so rapidly. Facebook now has only 120 million users. And more importantly, nearly half of hatsApp users reply to messages every day.

Therefore, once the fee is charged, this will undoubtedly bring a very large profit to the Watsip company, so that Wantsp, who has been investing money in development and burning money, will start to make a profit.

But the crux of the problem is the payment method, users can only pay through credit cards or electronic platforms, so that some people who do not have credit cards or do not accept payment on electronic platforms cause inconvenience, in this regard, Andy is really a little speechless, Americans have always been skeptical about the security of electronic payments.

Another is to use the dollar fee method to complete real-name login, because the credit card login data is real-name.

Everyone likes free things, once charged, it will definitely make Watts lose a lot of users, and Watts in the development period is very popular now, but if you really want to charge, you will definitely lose a large part of users.

If you want to say that the most hated the app is the wireless operator, the past year of $5 billion in SMS revenue. These carriers used to make a lot of money by charging per text message.

If you want to say that you don't want to make money, then how is it possible, Andy Smith, who can't afford to make money early, will not let go of any opportunity to make money.

However, he also knows that now is definitely not a good time to charge, and for the sake of his third-party payment platform plan, Wattsp will continue to be free.

"It seems that the Starbucks acquisition must be implemented!"

After making a decision, Andy coughed lightly, so that the whole conference room returned to quiet, leaned forward, put his hands on the conference table with his fingers crossed, looked around for a week, and said to his subordinates: "First of all, I reiterate once again that our company is currently under no pressure to make money. I hope you will be able to reach 500 million to 1 billion users in the next 3 years.

As for the issue of the company's profitability, I have already considered it, but at present, it is not the time to take it out, because our user base is still too small, so we don't want to make a profit, we are still a new company, and we must calm down to continue to develop and promote. ”

As the developer and owner of Watsip, since Andy Smith has already expressed his position, his subordinates will naturally not say anything, and the charging party also hopes to give the company a profitable means to increase the market value of Watsp and prepare for the first round of financing in the future.

However, at present, it seems that his big boss is not ready to raise money.

After the meeting, Andy sat alone in the conference room, frowning slightly, and the pen in his hand quickly wrote on a piece of paper.

Official account, using the official account platform to carry out self-media activities, simply put, is to carry out one-to-many media behavior activities, and obtain income by helping enterprises communicate with users.

This is the service that Andy is preparing to launch after Watsip has a sufficient user base, so as to create a better user experience and form a different ecological cycle. Let the merchants display the official website, members, pushes, activities, registration, sharing, business cards, etc. through the secondary development of the public service account, forming a mainstream online and offline interactive marketing method, as a service provider, Wacipu can charge these merchants who apply for the official account.

Of course, the most important thing is to use the combination of online and offline to promote the third-party payment platform that he is still shadowing in the shadow, and when the Starbucks acquisition is completed, he is ready to start burning money to promote the new app!