Chapter 2: Opportunities to Make Money
The sun is just right, but Lin Fan's mood is not so beautiful.
The food in the cafeteria is so expensive, a dish dares to sell for a piece, and a bowl of braised noodles outside is only two yuan. This kind of meal is cheaper than the seventy or eighty yuan in later generations, but this was in 2005, and farmers only earned a few thousand yuan a year of hard work.
It seems that not only in the previous life, but also now, the heaviest mountain pressing on Lin Fan is poverty, poverty like a cone and a thorn. Lin Fan clenched his fists, it seems that he is going to earn money, not only to earn living expenses for himself, but also to enter college in two months, Lin Fan also wants to earn himself a college tuition.
Lin Fan's first thought was to make some kind of program, after all, this was the guy Lin Fan ate in his previous life. So what program should I do and who should I sell it to? Filtering the famous Internet companies in his mind one by one, Lin Fan's eyes suddenly lit up, and the word Baidu jumped into his mind.
Baidu went public in August 2005, four months away, and in fact Baidu was not so confident about its prospects before it went public, and even a week before the company decided whether to go public. After all, there is Google in front of him, and it can be seen from Robin Li's original stock price pricing for Baidu during the US roadshow that he is not very bold in his forecast for Baidu's prospects.
The IPO (initial public offering) was priced at only $19 per share, and then it was confirmed to be listed at $27 under the operation of investment banks such as Goldman Sachs.
At the beginning of the listing, Baidu has already begun the layout, it has long been not satisfied with the huge energy brought by the engine, in 2003 launched the post bar to increase the viscosity of users, the reputation of the first Chinese community for Baidu to bring a large number of stable and high-quality users, which is destined Baidu must embark on the road of launching its own products.
In 2004, Baidu acquired hao123 website navigation, and further expanded its influence through products, Baidu needs products, needs products to strengthen their confidence in listing on the NASDAQ, Baidu does not want to make itself too ugly.
Maybe Baidu is now operating the listing thing, if there is a product that can increase the viscosity of Baidu users, and then expand Baidu's influence, so that investors have more trust in Baidu, then Baidu will definitely pay for this product.
Lin Fan has such a product in his mind, which was launched in 06 and officially released in 08. This is the famous Baidu Encyclopedia, it is as a supplement to Baidu know and Baidu search, and now it will take more than a year for it to be born, Lin Fan now has to do is to write a plan, and then make a simplified version of Baidu Encyclopedia, so that Baidu can access the company's headquarters program.
But touching his pocket, a touch of bitterness flashed at the corner of Lin Fan's mouth, when he returned home half a month in high school, his mother gave him sixty yuan for living expenses, except for eating and taking the car home, where did he have the money to go to the Internet café to write programs. Lin Fan sighed, he could only go back to the classroom first to figure out a way, but he couldn't bear to go to the Internet café without eating.
The afternoon sun is warm, and although it is a fragrant day in April, the not too hot sun that has just come out of the cold winter also makes people feel a little poisonous.
As soon as he arrived in the classroom, Lin Fan noticed that something was wrong, there were too many people in this class, so he finally squeezed in and sat in his seat and touched Cai Wen, "What's the situation?"
"What's the situation, someone is going to come to our class to confess to Chu Chu. ”
Lin Fan was a little funny, the third year of high school was a turbulent time period, especially in the second half of the semester, seeing that the college entrance examination was imminent, confessing and skipping classes, many people relaxed.
"You're not angry?"
"Why should I be angry?"
Cai Wen looked incomprehensible, "Chu Chu is our class flower, or the school flower!"
Lin Fan followed Cai Wen's gaze and did see Chu Chu, it was a girl who looked cold on the outside, sitting there quietly, as if she was out of step with this world. It is undeniable that Chu Chu is indeed very beautiful, with thin lips and curved eyebrows, a pretty face, and the action of pulling his hair up from time to time is even more confusing the hearts of many teenagers. It's a pity that Lin Fan was a cowardly and inferior person in high school in his previous life, and he naturally stayed away from such a big beauty, so he didn't have much impression.
Love in high school is still so beautiful, when you go to college, when you enter society, love will not be so pure, it's not that you love you, just look at you, you can be happy for a long time when you smile at me.
To be honest, Chu Chu's cold appearance, the temperament of this iceberg goddess is also a little special in Lin Fan's heart, but his only idea now is to study hard, and then it would be more perfect for him to have a little money so that he can go to an Internet café.
"Oh. ”
"Damn, what's your reaction? You're still not a man?"
Young people who are carried away by love, Lin Fan understands that Cai Wen's performance may not be love, but just greed for a beautiful thing.
"It's coming, it's coming. The crowd suddenly became lively.
A young boy slowly entered from outside the door, with a non-mainstream hairstyle that was quite mainstream in this era, and picked the hair that had covered his eyes with his fingers, with the momentum of I am the king.
To be honest, Lin Fan's first reaction was to laugh, but he still held back, he felt that he had to learn to respect others on such a serious occasion.
"Damn, this idiot Wu Lin didn't dare to confess just because he could show off a few lines of poetry. ”
Lin Fan was a little curious, "Lao Cai, do you know this product?"
"This is our liberal arts class, relying on being able to memorize a few lines of poetry to tease girls all day long, and now the more I look at it, the more stupid I become. ”
Wu Lin had already walked to Chu Chu's seat, and shook his hair when he thought he was very handsome, "Chu Chu, at this moment when the third year of high school is about to come to an end, I hope you can be my girlfriend and let me accompany you through this time." ”
Cai Wen was even more upset and spit a few mouthfuls of foam. "Damn, I'll find someone to buy a few packs of cigarettes after class, and I'm going to beat this kid. ”
Lin Fan's eyes lit up when he heard this, he knew Cai Wen's character, and he was not stingy but had a bit of the spirit of fighting for righteousness and squandering money, "Old Cai, do you want me to help you slap Wu Lin in the face?"
Cai Wen looked at Lin Fan and shook his head, "You have a good academic performance, don't fight for me, I'll just find some people." ”
Lin Fan was speechless, there was a generation gap with the people of this era, but he could only explain, "I mean I can make Wu Lin ugly, but you have to promise me one condition." ”
"On what terms?"
"I've finished reading novels in the past few days, and I want to go to an Internet café to find some novels to read, but I don't have any money, how about you invite me to go online for a while?"
"Do you really have a way?"
A smile crossed the corner of Lin Fan's mouth, even if it was nothing else, we are absolutely not ambiguous about pretending to be forced.
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