Chapter 59: Acquisition of the Singularity
Putting the school affairs down for the time being, Lin Feng took his heart back again.
With Qian Qiongyao's efforts and Lin Feng's financial support, Singularity was finally acquired by Lin Feng for 100 million!
Dear audience friends, this is the live news of Sina.com, and I am now in the relocation and new mileage departure ceremony of Fengyi Chinese Network. Before the interview, the interest in the industry was focused on Fengyi's acquisition of Singularity, but when I arrived at the scene, I felt that what interested me the most was not the acquisition, but the head of Fengyi, Lin Feng himself......
I didn't expect the legendary industry hero-level figure to be only 20 years old, so young that it was outrageous, and from the outside, he was still an out-and-out handsome person......
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Sina Network's live program is not a traditional news column, the content tends to be younger and more entertaining, it is a program between online economic integration and entertainment programs, and the interview style of the holder is also more jumpy.
So he didn't get the opportunity to interview Lin Feng alone.
"Hello this Fengyi colleague, I would like to interview you, what is it like to work with a young handsome, rich and talented boss all day long? Do you think that the company has one more benefit in addition to the high salary?"
"How can we work together all day, we are always very busy, sometimes we are not in the company for a few days, and sometimes we will work overtime every day and night in the company......"
"It's just a mysterious man like the wind!" a female employee of the wind came out to grab the camera and interjected.
"Then what do you want to say to Mr. Zhao, do you usually dare not speak?" said the host with a deliberately ambiguous expression.
Several female employees looked back at the direction of the general manager's office, and suddenly shouted at the camera: "Push to Mr. Zhao and go to the peak of life!"
After saying that, he ran away with a smile.
"Well, everyone has seen it, this is obviously a man who can eat with his face, but he has to rely on talent. The host pretended to sigh depressedly, "What should we do if we only have talent and no face?!"
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Subsequent revisions to the company's development plan.
The number of paying users exceeded '10 million', the number of writers with a monthly income of more than 10,000 exceeded '1,000', and the top gods in the industry were cultivated, with an annual personal income of more than 10 million.
In terms of the current scale and strength of Xinfengyi, this goal has become tangible and it is entirely possible to achieve it within a year.
Lin Feng remembered that in the middle and late 08 years of Singularity in his previous life, he also achieved a 'thousand': the monthly manuscript fee exceeded 10 million yuan.
If you compare and calculate, Fengyi's goal of 3,000 is much more difficult than the monthly payment of more than 10 million yuan. The second article alone: a writer with a monthly income of more than 10,000 people, more than '1,000 people', and a monthly manuscript fee of 10 million yuan can be equated.
"If you have any suggestions, you can put them forward, and let's brainstorm and discuss. Lin Feng said.
"I suggest that the next step is to expand the peripheral business of novel copyright, focusing on traditional and simplified Chinese publishing of novels, supplemented by comics, film and television adaptations, and at the same time, you can contact radio stations and other units to adapt audio novels. ”
"That's a good idea. Lin Feng nodded and said: "I remember when I was a child, I listened to book reviews, listened to stories, and listened to them, just those paragraphs, I was about to memorize them." Traditional quyi storytelling has a long creative cycle and few products, while the material content of online novels is inexhaustible and inexhaustible. Just make up for the shortcomings of traditional literature and art. In this way, you are specifically responsible for the adaptation of the audio part, Qian Qiongyao, the copyright peripheral, or Sister Mei and Qian Qiongyao cooperate. ”
After Qian Qiongyao finished speaking, Sister Mei spoke: "The company has now entered formalization, and a special legal department, human resources department, and even a regulatory office should be established.
Improve the organizational structure. ”
"There are also employees' salaries, benefits, and promotion systems. Lin Feng took over and said, "In this way, you and Qian Qiongyao will discuss a specific plan and report it to me as soon as possible." In addition, a part of the manpower was transferred to form a sticker project team. ”
After speaking, he glanced at Qian Qiongyao quietly.
"Mr. Zhao, I think that some of the original old singularity employees have conflicts with Fengyi employees in their posts, so they might as well get rid of some old singularity employees to join the project team. Qian Qiongyao said.
"Good. ”
Next, the backbone took turns to speak, and most of the methods for Fengyi's business expansion were the later singularity, and there was not much surprise to Lin Feng.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the last time I went to Shanghai, I passed by the pedestrian street and saw a lot of foreign shops, and suddenly an idea popped up. Lin Feng said.
"It's not a new idea. Lin Feng was rarely thin-skinned once, "I saw so many foreign shops on the pedestrian street, so I thought, foreigners can make our money, can't we make foreigners' money?"
There were all industry experts present, and it was easy to understand at one point, Sister Mei's eyes lit up, and she answered: "Mr. Zhao, what do you mean to promote our novels overseas?
The rest of the people were stunned for a moment, and then they all nodded slightly.
This idea seems to be ordinary, and it is not a new trick, various domestic literary works are translated into foreign languages, and various foreign literature is translated into Chinese, countless, not to mention anything else, Jin Yong's martial arts alone has been translated into more than a dozen languages, selling well all over the world.
Let's not talk about influence, just making money is not worse than the entire mainland market, and even stronger.
Speaking of influence, if it can be sold even abroad, is it still worried that the copyright of this book will not be sold at a high price? Film and television companies may rush to buy the copyright to adapt the film and television.
It's such a seemingly ordinary idea, but ordinary people may not really think of it. Because online novels, from the original positioning, are called the grassroots class to put it mildly, and to put it ugly, they are ordinary people and ordinary people, and they are not a lofty thing, if they don't have a long-term vision and enough courage, who would have thought that they would promote online novels to the world? Who would dare to think so?
"Qian Qiongyao, what do you think?" Lin Feng asked Wu Xiaohui.
Qian Qiongyao pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "The country is vigorously promoting the policy of cultural going out and promoting my country's culture to the world. ”
Lin Feng noticed that when Qian Qiongyao said the four words 'we Fengyi', she deliberately accentuated the pronunciation of the word 'we'.
Cast an encouraging look and say, "Do you have any concerns?"
Mr. Zhao's eyes were like torches. Qian Qiongyao nodded: "I'm thinking, our country's cultural model and way of thinking are fundamentally different from Westerners. In foreign countries, especially in the West, the promotion of online novels, although the benefits are large, the investment is also a huge amount of money. In case of failure...... Therefore, I considered whether there was a safer way to do it step by step. After all, we are in a good situation at the moment, and there is no need to take risks. ”
"Hmm. Lin Feng said: "Qian Qiongyao's concerns are reasonable. Let's talk about cultural differences first, of course, there are differences between the cultures of the East and the West, in fact, many of our literary and artistic works can sell well overseas, and the main sales targets are still overseas Chinese. That's enough to tell, but ......"
followed the conversation and said with a smile: "Let's go back to the essence of online novels, online novels are fundamentally different from literary and artistic works. I said a long time ago that online novels are to satisfy human desires, while literary and artistic works are to discuss human nature. The cultural differences that Qian Qiongyao just talked about may be more related to writing skills and perspectives on human nature. The human desires reflected in online novels, such as money, beauty, power, and revenge, are common to all human beings. And those things that are literary, social structure composition, institutional discussion, human nature mining, philosophical thoughts, etc., and there are really big differences between the East and the West, are basically not involved in online novels, or are not the focus. So I think that in the general direction, online novels should be able to meet the requirements of Westerners. ”
After speaking, he smiled at Qian Qiongyao: "Of course, we can't expect a person who reads Pushkin to love me as a hooligan, just like in China, people who watch Mao Dun read the Analects all day long will not spend money." However, people who like to read the Three Musketeers, who like to watch Harry Potter, regardless of the country, make up the majority. Qian Qiongyao couldn't help but gasp.
As an industry expert, the more he has contact with Lin Feng, the more he feels that Lin Feng's understanding of the industry is unfathomable!
In the current online novel industry, Qian Qiongyao has always believed that there are two levels of high-end practitioners. The first level is to basically accurately judge the quality of a certain novel, and teach writers how to write good novels.
The second level is a higher level, detached from a specific novel itself, from the perspective of the entire industry, to judge the future trend and find the laws of the industry.
People at this level are all leading industry elites, Sister Mei and the founders of Singularity are basically at this level, with a slight gap between high and low levels, but in general, they are all at this level.
But Lin Feng's level seems to be one level higher.
He seems to have fully grasped the essence and laws of online novels, rather than exploring them based on experience, or like the elites of the second layer, only vaguely figuring out some of the rules.
This is really not Lao Wu touting Lin Feng in his heart, what he said just now is simple to say, and you can understand it when you listen to it, but if you don't have a deep understanding of the essence of online novels, you will definitely not be able to say it, and you can't think of it.
"Listening to your words is better than reading a book for ten years! Mr. Zhao's analysis is incisive, and I don't see the root of the problem. After Qian Qiongyao finished speaking, she sighed faintly.
I don't know if this sigh is because he feels helpless because he is in the same era as Lin Feng, or if he feels that Singularity died in the hands of this person, which is not wronged.
Lin Feng waved his hand and said, "This is just my personal guess, and it has not been tested in practice." What Qian Qiongyao said just now step by step, this is the old calm and steady words. I think this is good, the first step, let's not rush to promote the overseas version, but make a traditional version, for Hong Kong and Taiwan readers, first test the water. After all, we are of the same species, and there are very few cultural differences. Moreover, there are many opportunities for Hong Kong, Taiwan and the West to come into contact, which is a springboard for the development of the Western world. ”
"Moreover, the e-reading market in Hong Kong and Taiwan is still blank at present! With the base of our Fengyi's novels, we can rush into it all at once, and we will soon be able to occupy the entire market!" Japan and North Korea added: "Mr. Zhao, I think I should try the Korean version and the Japanese version."
Lin Feng laughed: "The Japanese version, forget it for the time being." ”
"Why?" someone asked.
"In our bloody texts, nine out of ten are slaughtering Dongying and sinking RB. Lin Feng made an explosive gesture and pretended to be scared: "I don't want a few RB angry youths to come one day and blow up our Fengyi building." ”
made a joke, everyone laughed, and the atmosphere of the meeting became relaxed, Lin Feng smiled and pressed his hand: "Then it's decided, first develop the traditional Chinese version, and through our relationship with Hong Kong and Taiwan Publishing House, promote electronic web novels in Hong Kong and Taiwan." Depending on the effect, prepare the English version step by step. Reach the world. ”
In addition to putting forward specific business means such as expanding Hong Kong and Macao business and overseas business, it also finally determined the specific direction and program of Fengyi's development in the next few years, and at the same time unified the thinking, and further established the leadership of Lin Feng and the division of labor within the company, which is an important turning point in the development process of Fengyi. Zunyi Conference'.
The original operation department of Fengyi was renamed the marketing department, which was specifically responsible for market development and was directly managed by Wu Xiaohui, the general manager of Fengyi. In terms of function, it is divided into daily market development and several specific project teams, and the simplified and traditional Chinese publishing project team and the overseas website project team are the two largest project teams at present.
The other founders of Singularity are basically assigned to Sister Mei, another vice president, Sister Mei, who is in charge of the three major tasks of website operation planning, human resources, and editorial department. Sanlu is still the head of his technical department, and is directly responsible to the general manager Lin Feng himself.
The focus of work is different, each has a division of labor, and crosses with each other.
Lin Feng's plan to 'march outside the mainland' has now been launched, which is the main job responsibility of the overseas project team in the near future.