Du Qiu temporarily wanted to go to Los Angeles yesterday, and he didn't bring any luggage with him, so after breakfast, under the leadership of Jennifer, he went to the neighborhood to buy a change of clothes and some daily necessities.

Every woman is a shopaholic, Jennifer is no exception, she obviously said that she would buy two pieces and leave, but she just walked around for more than an hour, helped Du Qiu choose four or five sets of clothes, and did not stop after changing them from head to toe, and took a fancy to a burgundy leather coat in a clothing store.

"Forget it, I don't like leather clothes, and I can't wear them well. ”

"Autumn, you have good taste in cars and food, but very bad taste in clothing, trust my eye, go try it. Jennifer pulled out a dark blue denim shirt from her shopping bag and said, "Wear it with this one." ”

"Okay. ”

The moment Du Qiu changed his clothes and came out of the fitting room, Jennifer's eyes lit up and said: "If you are interviewed by the media as it is now, iVie will immediately increase the number of female users by 1 million." ”

"Really?"

Du Qiu turned around and looked in the mirror, but he was startled, feeling that he had never been so handsome - the rough denim shirt and luxurious leather coat prompted the deep bohemian temperament in his heart, and the bookish aura that had been cultivated between the eyebrows for a long time were intertwined with each other, perfectly blended together, full of yuppie style and very lethal.

"Autumn, in fact, you are very handsome, and there are almost no shortcomings in your facial features, but the lines are too rounded, lack personality, and are not very recognizable, so you need to find the right clothes to show your charm. ”

This is a fact, Lin Dawei is handsome, Du Chunhua is dignified, both of them are very good-looking, Du Qiu inherited their genes, and the congenital conditions are not bad, but the personality was weak before, there was no aura, and it was easy to be ignored, but now he is famous, his confidence is high, and his aura is full of energy.

I rubbed it, it turns out that I am so handsome......

I knew that I could eat with my face, so why work so hard to be a powerful faction after crossing......

Du Qiu was narcissistic in the mirror, when the mobile phone in the shopping bag rang, and when he took it out, it turned out to be Chen Dayou calling, and he asked, "Where are you?" My mother said that you didn't go back last night. ”

"I'm in Menlo Park. Du Qiu glanced at Jennifer, who was choosing shoes, walked to the door of the store and said, "Jenny and I are going to drive to Los Angeles for a few days, and we won't go to work anymore, and if the company has something, call me." ”

“ooo…… ! I thought you were Megumi Yanagishita, but it turned out that you were just a pickier eater than me and liked high-end goods. Chen Dayou let out a burst of laughter that only men understand, and then said: "I want to skip the invitation to the closed beta and directly let iMail conduct the open beta." ”

After Du Qiu got iMail out, he was going to follow Google's business strategy when promoting gmail, and in the form of an invitation system, he would conduct internal testing among universities, industry insiders and celebrities to create a highly sought-after high-end image, and then fully commercialize it, Chen Dayou originally agreed with this plan, but now he suddenly changed his mind, Du Qiu was a little strange and asked, "Why?"

"The performance of those guys at yesterday's funding conference has proven that iMail is the most sought-after product in the world. Chen Dayou seemed to be driving, there was a whirring wind on the phone, and he said loudly: "So we don't need to do anything else, to create any image, just start selling, everything is fine!"

Du Qiu was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized, found that he unknowingly fell into the trap of experience, when gmail was launched in 2004, there were already many email brands in the world, so Google used the form of invitation system to engage in hunger marketing, and 1995 iMail belonged to the world's first, no competitors, and hunger marketing was indeed a redundant move.

This guy is really good at marketing......

No wonder Jennifer says iVie doesn't need a chief media officer......

"If you want to test it directly, you have to invest in both hardware and software, and you need to be especially cautious in terms of databases, you ask Wei Zhiqin if you need to let Xiao Wu come over to help. ”

"I'm on my way to her house right now. ”

Du Qiu was surprised and asked, "Aren't you in Las Vegas?"

"I flew back at 9 o'clock in the morning, and the company still had a lot to deal with. Chen Dayou was still excited, but his brain had regained his senses and said: "Women can only be happy for a few minutes, and their careers can be happy for a lifetime, and I can tell the difference." ”

Du Qiu was impressed by his control, and teased: "You go to Wei Zhiqin's house now, aren't you afraid that she will hit you with a gun?"

"Las Vegas is in Nevada, not Silicon Valley. ”

Chen Dayou and Wei Zhiqin made a gentleman's agreement, and agreed to be a model couple in Silicon Valley, fooling around casually when they went out of Silicon Valley, Du Qiu heard about it, and said with a smile: "That's okay, I wish you can still pay the public food later." ”

"I wish you and Jennifer a long adulterous relationship!"

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California Highway 1 has been rated by National Geographic magazine as one of the 50 attractions that cannot be missed in a lifetime, along the way can not only enjoy the beautiful and spectacular natural scenery, but also taste the unique cultural customs, the trip can be completed in five or six hours, Du Qiu and Jennifer took three days to reach Los Angeles, all kinds of charm and romance along the way, there is no need to go into detail.

Monday, October 30, 7.50am.

After working out in the gym at The Peninsula Beverly Hills, Du Qiu went to swim in the pool for half an hour, and when he returned to his suite, he found that Jennifer had already gotten up and was hurriedly packing her clothes, and it seemed that she was leaving.

"What's wrong?"

"Draper suggested that I go to iVie as Chief Marketing Officer and develop the marketing plan for iMail, and I agreed, now I have to go back to Mountain View. ”

Du Qiu was surprised and asked, "I invited you to be the chief media officer of iVie a few days ago, didn't you refuse?"

"The job of the chief marketing officer and the chief media officer is different, I am in a hurry to catch the flight, go take a shower first, and then we will talk later. Jennifer took her underwear and walked towards the bathroom, pointing to the phone on the coffee table in the living room, and said, "Netscape bought Extreme for $30 million last night, you can ask Dylan, he has made several calls just now." ”

Du Qiu was even more surprised, and said to himself: "Netscape actually acquired Excite?"

Founded in February 1993, Excite is one of the four major search engines in the early days of the Internet, and like Yahoo, it was also born from Stanford University, and received venture capital funding earlier than Yahoo, and the traffic of the two websites is not much different, and it is in a state of fierce competition.

Now that Extreme has been acquired by Netscape, the previous rumors about Yahoo are nine times out of ten smoke bombs put by Yang Zhiyuan at a high price......

It is estimated that Yahoo will also be financing soon......

While thinking to himself, Du Qiu picked up the phone, dialed Chen Dayou's number, and asked, "What's the situation now?"

Netscape acquired Excite as the default home page for the Navigator browser. Chen Dayou was a little angry and said: "They are obviously imitating our business model, and they will definitely make Navigator free and compete with iVie for market share." ”

"It's okay if it's free, Microsoft also buys one get one free, buys IE and gets indos, it's more generous than Netscape, but the result is still no iVie market share. Du Qiu disagreed, and said: "Netscape's main profit comes from enterprise users, they will at most make the personal version of Navigator free, but it will definitely not be open source, as long as it is not open source, the research and development progress and network ecology will not be able to keep up with us, there is nothing to worry about." ”

"But Netscape will steal a lot of iCard advertisers if it does this. Chen Dayou was very worried and said: "I have already told Draper and Son to immediately inject $50 million into the purchase of hardware equipment, and strive to bring iMail to the market in mid-November, and I was caught off guard!"

"Don't be in such a hurry. Du Qiu walked to the floor-to-ceiling window of the suite, looked at the scenery outside, and said calmly: "Now there are too few Internet users in the world, and it has not yet formed a scale, and it is difficult to make money by advertising. ”

"Even if it's a gimmick, you have to make it look decent, everyone else is burning money, and if we don't move, it will make Wall Street think that we don't have good goods in our hands. Chen Dayou is very talented in cheating, said: "Now the Internet concept is very popular on Wall Street, Draper has contacted several investment banks to strive for listing in March next year, the sooner iMail is launched, the more users will be when it is listed, and the more the stock price will rise." ”

I see, no wonder Jennifer is going to iVie as Chief Marketing Officer......

This group of venture capital company guys are really dark-hearted, they just finished investing one second, and the next second they were thinking about how to cash out leeks......

"You're the CEO, and if you think it's okay, let's do it. Du Qiu was not interested in the specific process of listing, and was too lazy to participate in these trivial matters, and said: "I am going to return to China on November 5 and help you as a temporary worker for a week at most." ”

"Why are you in such a hurry to go back to China?

"The iMail program is finished, and the rest is operations and maintenance, which I'm not good at, so it doesn't matter if I'm not there. ”

"Even if you don't do anything, hiding in the office and flirting with Jennifer every day can make your employees more productive. Chen Dayou persuaded him to use what he could: "And you are very famous now, and you can make iMail have many more users by accepting interviews with a few media, and for each additional user, the market value at the time of listing may increase by one dollar." ”

"I don't cash out, so it doesn't matter if the market value is a little more or less. Du Qiu was indifferent and said: "My problem now is that I have too much money and want to go back to China in a hurry to spend it." ”

"What project are you going to do back to China?"

"It's not a project, it's a cost. Du Qiu smiled and said, "I'm going to grab next year's CCTV advertising king." ”

"Damn! What are you doing grabbing that thing?" Chen Dayou was surprised and said: "iVie's main market is in the United States, electronic tax calculation software does not need advertising, office software has not yet been made, the operating system and database are free, the software park has just laid the foundation, what products do you want CCTV to advertise?"

"Advertise myself. ”

"You...... You...... Uncle Du: People are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, do you think you are not famous enough, or do you think there are not enough butchers who slaughter you?"