Mr. Zhang was also troubled by joy, and after he scolded Mr. Jobs in front of all the CNN viewers, two more companies expressed interest in buying his million-dollar website.

Yahoo and AOL.

Yahoo was willing to buy Mr. Zhang's website for $1 million, while AOL offered $1.5 million.

From the bottom of his heart, Zhang Chen is more willing to sell to Yahoo, after all, Yahoo is more topical, but Yahoo insists on not raising the price again. And Yahoo just sent an operations director to send an email to Zhang Chen.

AOL is much more sincere, and founder Steve Keys personally called Zhang Chen to express his appreciation for Zhang Chen.

Steve Keys is definitely an outlier in Silicon Valley, and it should be said that his thinking is more similar to the thinking model of the traditional industry than the Internet industry model.

This also makes him pay more attention to the construction of profit models than Internet entrepreneurs in this era, and when most Internet companies do not know what advertising is, AOL makes a profit with advertising. In the last month, AOL has even begun to dabble in online shopping, partnering with VISA to launch an online credit card that will make it more convenient to shop online.

Therefore, Case was very appreciative of what Zhang Chen said in the first interview to focus on the profit model, but he did not have the idea of acquisition. The second live interview made Keys aware of the business opportunities in between.

AOL's recent stock price growth has also brought a lot of cash to Case, and Case's acquisition strategy has always had to be topical, but there are too few companies that have been topical recently, so Case waved a checkbook but couldn't find a suitable acquisition target.

The appearance of the million-dollar gimmick and the conflict between Zhang Chen and Jobs made this matter full of topicality, and Zhang Chen's offer of $3 million was also within the psychological range of Case.

Case has always been aggressive in its acquisitions, otherwise it would not have been a fatal acquisition of its contemporaries Warner in a combined transaction of more than $160 billion a few years later.

In just a few phone calls, Case raised his $1.5 million offer to Mr. Zhang to $2.8 million for all-cash.

Zhang Chen didn't care much about himself, he accepted it when he saw it, and he didn't insist on his request of $3 million, and happily promised Case that he could sign the acquisition agreement at any time.

On the same day, AOL announced the acquisition decision, which successfully attracted a wave of enthusiasm.

Zhang Chen's phone was about to burst, so he had no choice but to transfer the call to voicemail, and then select the person who was worth replying to.

When Zhang Chen was thriving in the United States, Liu Ming was also conquering the domestic PC market.

Following Bincheng, Kyoto, and Rongcheng, Liu Ming, who received a bank loan of 5 million yuan, successively opened two alien computer workshops in Shanghai and Shenzhen. At the same time, it is recruiting college graduates to work part-time or full-time. On average, each store has nearly 10 additional heads.

And the sales of aliens have also ushered in explosive growth after entering the first week of summer.

In Zhang Chen's strategy, every time he enters a city, he will advertise on the highest-rated channel of the local TV station in the local city. The time period is mainly concentrated around eight o'clock, which is the time for the whole family to sit in front of the TV and watch TV dramas.

Liu Ming drew inferences from others, not only on local TV stations, but also on local stations in neighboring cities.

At present, the computer cities in various places are concentrated in these regional central cities, and the market in the surrounding cities in the second or third year is also very large, resulting in many people who want to buy computers across cities or even provinces to buy.

Liu Ming's propaganda strategy of surrounding the city from the countryside has had a good effect, attracting a large number of customers from the surrounding cities.

In the first week of July, the Alien Five Cities store made efforts at the same time and launched a home computer of its own design. Of course, it wasn't Zhang Chen's design plan to steal the iMac.

After the discussion of the iMac solution, it is difficult to achieve the domestic manufacturing technology. Even if it is just the transparent candy color of the display, domestic manufacturers do not know how to meet the requirements. Not to mention that the iMac's display chassis integration involved a large number of circuit board redesigns, which the aliens are currently unable to achieve.

Moreover, this is a killer feature, and it won't come out now, so that it will hurt more to pull it out and beat people in the future.

But even so, the fashionable second solution provided by Zhang Chen is far beyond the aesthetics of this era, with a pure white overall pressed chassis with as few seams as possible. The entire chassis only requires three screws to be removed, which is far less than similar chassis on the market.

The shape of the display has also been optimized, and Zhang Chen has made 28 detailed improvements on the basis of the design of the AOC display, making the shape of the entire display more compatible with the chassis.

Low price, high appearance, medium performance, this is Zhang Chen's specific requirements for alien home computers.

While the cost of all products has increased due to improved processes, the actual cost has decreased due to the use of its own suppliers. Therefore, Liu Ming decided to achieve the lowest price in the country with the same configuration for the summer concession promotion.

As soon as this slogan was shouted, the alien market was completely on fire, and the home computer fell to less than 8,000 yuan, which made many people who originally wanted to buy a computer but couldn't afford it also moved.

In just one week, a total of 1,600 computers were sold at the Alien Five store! For the first time, Kyoto surpassed Bencheng to 620 units, with an average of nearly 100 units sold per day!

The popularity of the market forced Liu Ming to change his business model. A DC warehouse has been set up in each of the five cities, and most of the assembly work has been completed in the DC warehouse, and only a simple on-site inspection work is required to be shipped to the store.

In the first week of July, the sales of aliens exceeded 10 million for the first time! It is expected that by the end of the whole summer, the turnover of aliens in two months will exceed 100 million! and the profit will also exceed 15 million!

Zhang Chen was also very excited after receiving Liu Ming's good news call, and couldn't help but yell, it's done!

His efforts in the past few months have not been in vain, and the alien brand has been erected in a short period of time in China. If nothing else, within three years, the market share of desktops will be at least in the top three.

Zhang Chen has another plan for aliens behind him, it can be said that this company is not only the first company that Zhang Chen invested in after his rebirth, but also an indispensable part of the future plan that Zhang Chen just thought of.