"The United Nations held a special meeting in New York to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding, and China hosted the ...... Giving a Speech ......"

"There was a total solar eclipse yesterday, and India, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Malaysia and other places can observe ......"

On the morning of October 25, 1995, after exercising in the gym attached to the villa, Du Qiu walked into the studio, sat at the computer desk, and listened to the news broadcast on the radio while reading and answering e-mails.

When he opened an email sent by He Lixing from China with the iMail that he had just developed, there were two gentle knocks on the door outside, and then Qin Weizhen, who was combing his bangs and had a baby face, walked in and beckoned: "Du Qiu, Aunt Xue asked me to call you to breakfast." ”

This girl is a second-generation official, with a deep background in the Ministry of Finance, because "White Night Walking" and Du Qiu intersected, so she became the spokesperson of the family's interests, and a few days ago she came to the United States with her cousin Jin Ning, who made electronic tax calculation software, signed a shareholding agreement, and became one of the shareholders on the Snapdragon table.

"You're really haunted, didn't you go to the hotel last night? ”

"Today is your big day, I came to congratulate you, but you don't appreciate it. ”

"Where does the joy come from?"

"Hypocrisy!" Qin Weizhen sneered and walked to the computer desk and said, "After today, you will be the youngest and fastest super-rich person in human history to reach $500 million in assets, isn't it festive enough?"

"Are you so sure I can raise money today?"

"If you can't succeed, those misers and Zhou Papi in China will rush to send you money?

Du Qiu liked her free and straightforward personality, and while typing like flying fingers, he teased: "Your cousin said that you are Wang Zhaojun, and you came to kiss." ”

"Hey, hey, everyone knows it, why bother saying it, hurt feelings. Qin Weizhen bent down, gently rubbed Du Qiu's shoulder, and said, "It's a pity that Sister Danfeng took the lead, and I don't have Wang Zhaojun's peerless appearance, so I can't tie the heart of you, the best Wang Lao Wu, so I have to settle the matter." ”

"That's okay, in the future, you will be a personal little maid, help me pour tea and water, laundry and cooking. ”

"Hey, just kidding, you take it seriously, don't rub your nose in your face, I don't like to do anything about what you're talking about, and I won't do it. Qin Wei really kneaded it, vigorously slapped his back, and urged: "Stop typing, go have breakfast." ”

"Right away. ”

After Du Qiu typed the last line, he turned off the computer, got up and went to the restaurant in the main building of the villa, Qin Wei followed behind, and said: "Actually, in addition to financing today, there is also good news, do you know what it is?"

"I don't know. ”

"No wonder Sister Danfeng keeps saying that you are not interesting and you are an iron man. Qin Weizhen snorted twice childishly, uncovered the mystery and said: "Today is the day when your single "Cruel Angel's Action Plan" is released. ”

"Really?" Du Qiu only remembered that "Neon Genesis Evangelion" premiered in October 1995, and he had no impression of the theme song at all, and he hadn't paid attention to it before, and asked: "Tokyo is more than ten hours earlier than here, how is the sales?"

"Aiko said that the sale is very hot, and many people have never seen the cartoon at all, and when they heard that it was your work, they were very curious to buy it. Qin Weizhen felt sorry for him and said: "Du Qiu, your song is very well written, it's a pity to use it as the theme song for "Neon Genesis Evangelion", I read online comments that the plot of this cartoon is difficult to understand, the picture is bloody, and the average rating of the first three episodes is only 6.4%, which is neither popular nor popular." ”

The 90s was a brilliant decade for the Dongying animation industry, with many classic works born, and the ratings of "Youyou Hakushu" and "Slam Dunk" in the same period exceeded 15%, and "Neon Genesis Evangelion" was only 6.4%, which can be called a street work, but this cartoon started low and went high, and videotapes, DVDs and peripheral products sold well for more than 20 years, which is one of the typical representatives of the "long-tail economy" after the rise of the Internet industry, and the follow-up income is very high.

"The next time you call Aiko, ask her to contact the production company, I want to buy the rights to this cartoon. ”

"Ah, are you sure?"

"Sure. Du Qiu put his hands behind his back, smiled proudly by the landscape pool at the entrance of the villa, and pretended to be forced: "Rich people like to collect some valuable things to show their taste, some collect antiques, some collect luxury cars, some collect beautiful women, and I like to collect film and television works." ”

"Hey, hey, hey, be careful that I sue you for sexism, beautiful women are people, how can they be considered valuable?"

"With your appearance, of course not. ”

"Get out!"

The two casually quarreled and walked into the super spacious dining room on the first floor of the villa, Du Qiu saw that the dining table was full of all kinds of food, including Chinese soy milk and fried dumplings, as well as Western bacon and bread, so he said to Xue Liping: "Aunt Xue, I have gained a few pounds these days, and I will not be able to walk if I continue like this." ”

Xue Liping took the spatula and said with a smile: "You exercise every day, you have a big appetite, it's okay to eat more, today is a big day, only those who are full of food and drink have the spirit to negotiate with those investment managers." ”

"Where's Brother Chen?"

"I'm upstairs talking to Jin Ning about immigration, and I'll come down later. ”

Chen Dayou can't show up in China, he has always had the idea of immigration, and the company really needs a reliable spokesperson in the United States, Du Qiu was happy to see it and asked: "Does Aunt Xue plan to stay in China to take care of Uncle Chen, or do you also immigrate to the United States?"

"I'm old, I don't know English, and I'm not used to living in the United States, so I'll go back to Cloud City when Dayou settles down after a while. Xue Liping glanced at Qin Weizhen and said, "Your Uncle Chen has been doing education work for half his life, and his biggest wish is to be the president of a university. ”

Chen Zhiyang was fascinated by the fact that he wanted to go further and become a principal everywhere, Du Qiu had also heard about it, but he didn't know if it had anything to do with Qin Weizhen's background, so he didn't say anything, picked up a bowl of rice porridge, and ate it with fried dumplings and side dishes.

A few minutes later, Chen Dayou and Jin Ning came down from the second floor, Xue Liping saw him wearing a suit, tie, and an elite appearance, nodded with satisfaction, and said: "This is like a CEO, don't wear those bells and whistles in the future, like a hooligan, I hate it when I look at it." ”

"Mom, those clothes are a few hundred dollars a piece, not a stall. ”

"If it's ugly like that, no matter how expensive it is, it's still a stall......"

Chen Dayou looked helpless, so he had to keep his mouth shut, sit down and concentrate on eating, Qin Weizhen snickered, and asked Du Qiu, who was wearing a casual sweatshirt and jeans, "You don't change into a formal suit like Mr. Chen today?"

"Do you think those investors care about what I wear?"

"It should ...... Don't care. ”

"That's incredible. ”

After breakfast, Du Qiu and Chen Dayou drove a Mercedes-Benz SL convertible sports car made in 1988 and left the villa - Chen Dayou originally wanted to buy a Ferrari, but was severely suppressed by Xue Liping, so he had to settle for the next best thing and bought this dream car when he was in college, this car is very classic, the product cycle is as long as 18 years, and it has appeared in the posters of Bruce Lee and Chow Yun-fat.

As soon as the car drove out of the gate, Chen Dayou ripped off his tie and asked, "You put all the clothes I bought yesterday in the trunk, right?"

"Let it go. ”

"Good buddy!"

I don't know if it's a psychological problem or other reasons, Chen Dayou is like a chameleon, the more flamboyant the clothes, the brighter the color, the stronger his self-confidence, and the more he can sway freely, so as soon as he arrived at the company, he took off the valuable but impersonal suit, and replaced it with a set of Versace that he just purchased yesterday, a shirt embroidered with gold patterns on the blue silk fabric, with a bewitching Medusa belt buckle, and pointed-toe python leather shoes, which are so exaggerated that people dare not look directly.

At around 9:30 a.m., the bosses or partners of several major venture capital companies in Silicon Valley arrived in the conference room of iVie Network Technology Co., Ltd. and officially launched the long-awaited financing plan for the media and the industry.

"In 1993, Lou-Montulli invented cookies, which can record information about users, such as web passwords, browsing history, time spent and number of visits, etc., iVie 1.0 and 2.0 support this technology, and use stricter privacy protection measures than Netscape......

"I recently wrote a gadget called iMail, which is a new email system that can be used directly in the browser without installing a separate client, and I will demonstrate how it works......"

Du Qiu spent about 5 minutes to briefly introduce these two technologies in a language that laymen understand, and then handed over the remote control of the projector to Chen Dayou, saying: "Next, Dylan will introduce the business model of iVie Network Technology Company. ”

"Autumn, don't you tell us about iVie's technical advantages in the Internet field?"

Du Qiu spread his hands and asked rhetorically, "Do you need it?"

Almost all the investors in the audience laughed, the eb technical standard has been released for more than a month, Netscape's Navigator 2.0 is still difficult to deliver, Microsoft's IE 2.0 is silent, only iVie 2.0 is standout, and there is really no need to introduce more in terms of technology.

Chen Dayou took the remote control from Du Qiu's hand and was about to speak, when Tim Draper, who was sitting at the front of the conference table, raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and said: "Dylan, Autumn is too boring, I hope you have a better performance, otherwise it will be difficult to impress the money in our pockets." ”

"I'll make you satisfied!"

Chen Dayou tossed for a few months for financing, suffering from gains and losses, extremely stressed, the whole person was like a taut spring, stimulated by Draper's condescending words, suddenly lost control of his emotions, his brain was hot, he jumped on the conference table with a chair, and danced in front of everyone, using the remote control as a microphone while dancing, and repeatedly sang a lyric from Elvis's classic song "Hound-Dog": "You can't even catch a rabbit, you can't catch even a rabbit......"

The investors in the conference room were stunned and at a loss, Jennifer, who was sitting next to Draper, was the first to react, and made a gesture to Du Qiu, who was also stunned, signaling him to hurry up and save the scene, and then blew a loud whistle and applauded: "Wonderful!"

Du Qiu was reminded by Jennifer, so he had to sacrifice his life to accompany the gentleman, walked to the conference table, stood opposite Chen Dayou, and danced a short slow mechanical dance that he had performed on a private jet.

"What a fun dance. ”

“Nice！”

"Perfect performance, I loved it. ”

Driven by Jennifer, everyone in the conference room came back to their senses and had fun, applauding, whistling, and whistling, as if a rock star meeting, Chen Dayou's mind quickly regained consciousness, but his emotions were still in a state of explosion, so he simply bent his legs, sat down directly at the conference table, and said loudly: "Let me introduce the business model of iVie...... First, let's look at a few numbers. ”

"The first, 36 million people, which is the number of Internet users in the world as of September 1995, is an increase of 4 million ...... from six months ago"

"The second, 1.09 million copies, was the average daily circulation of the New York Times in 1994, an increase of 4.7 percent over 1990......"

"The third, $1.738 billion, was the advertising revenue of the New York Times for the whole year in 1994, an increase of 15.6 percent over 1990......"

"Fourth, $5.3 billion, that's the current share price ...... of The New York Times"

"The fifth, 5.28 million times, this is the number of views of iCard yesterday, when iVie 2.0 was released 15 days ago, it was only 1.13 million times, 10 days ago it was 2.05 million times, and 5 days ago it was 3.47 million times......"

The astonishing figures, combined with the shockingly steep growth curve on the projection screen, made the investors in the conference room lose their cool, even more shocked than when Chen Dayou danced the hip twist dance just now, and said: "Oh my God, this is crazy!"

"Are the numbers accurate?"

Du Qiu played his identity as a technical authority in time and said in a sneering manner: "Not accurate, because Dylan is only accurate to 10,000 digits." ”

In the midst of laughter, Chen Dayou switched the projection back to the two technologies that Du Qiu had just introduced, and said: "Cookies can record each visitor's interests and shopping habits, and iMail can accurately deliver the advertisements that the visitor is interested in to his email address according to these records......"

"Great idea! The Internet has no geographical restrictions, and the delivery is more accurate, which has great potential in the advertising industry and is worth the investment. ”

"iVie's business model is much easier to understand and more promising than Netscape, and their Microsoft business is staggered and there is no competitive pressure. ”

"Autumn is really a genius, and the commercial value of this iMail should be no worse than iVie. ”

In the midst of everyone's discussions, Chen Dayou finished introducing the advertising distribution model of iVie, then jumped off the conference table, pointed to the projection, and summed up in an almost shouting voice: "Everyone, iVie is not Netscape, let alone Microsoft, we are not a software company, but an advertising company, our readership is more than ten times that of the New York Times, our growth rate is dozens of times that of the New York Times, our advertising effect is hundreds of times that of the New York Times, and our valuation is only that of the New York Times One fifth of you, what are you waiting for?"

In just a few minutes, iVie successfully got an investment of 200 million US dollars at the cost of 20% of the shares, of which Jennifer's venture capital company Defengjie led the investment of 80 million US dollars, Dongying SoftBank invested 50 million US dollars, KPCB invested 30 million US dollars, and the remaining 40 million was divided by the rest of the venture capital companies.

"Brother Chen, from today on, you will be the world's number one dancer. ”

"That's a must, a dance earned $200 million, which is more awesome than Elvis!"