That night, Wang Haoran chatted with Xia Qirong for a while, and prepared to return to the room as usual.

"Ranran, go back to the room so early, the results of the Olympic bid will come out soon, don't you look at it!" Xia Qirong said to her son excitedly.

Not only Xia Qirong, but Wang Yanqin's pretended calm expression also exposed the tension in his heart because of his clenched hands.

Look at Wang Haojie staring at the TV intently,The excited look is silent,If it was a weekday,I would have gone back to sleep obediently,Otherwise, I would definitely be scolded。

Wang Haoran glanced at the wall clock on the wall.

9:36 min.

The TV is playing on the central station, and the prime time after the end of the happy simulcast should be the world where all kinds of small fresh meat fly together, but the picture on TV today is a bad old man.

Not only CCTV, but almost most of the country's TV stations are showing the same picture at this time.

It wasn't until he saw this familiar picture that Wang Haoran found out that today is the day when BJ is remembered by the world.

In just two short years of rebirth, Wang Haoran has forgotten his identity as a prophet.

Young and ambitious, parents are healthy, and the girl he likes is not far away, everything is very beautiful, so beautiful that Wang Haoran ignores the memory of his previous life, just because he doesn't want to recall the beginning.

was reminded of the familiar picture, Wang Haoran thought that a lot of big things really happened in the first half of 2001.

BJ revoked the establishment of DX District in Da X County.

The Shenzhou-2 unmanned spacecraft was successfully launched.

The three major earthquakes killed tens of thousands.

War madman George W. Bush reigns in the United States.

And most importantly, on July 13, 2001, BJ's bid for the Olympic Games was successful!

Everyone, whether it is ordinary people or dignitaries, as long as it is the descendants of Yan and Huang, they are all waiting for the result with anticipation in front of the computer.

When the word "beijing" came out of Samaranch's mouth, countless Chinese people cried with joy.

Xia Qirong cried,Wang Yanqin wet the corners of his eyes,Wang Haojie yelled like a madman。

It's not just Wang Haojie who is shouting,The originally silent community suddenly turned on with lights,Demons danced,All kinds of hysterical shouts indicate the rise of a nation。

Even Wang Haoran, who already knew the result, couldn't control the excitement in his heart at this moment, and took a deep breath.

Those who have never experienced these images will not be able to understand the excitement of the time.

Isn't it just a success in the Olympic bid? We have to spend money and exert effort, what are we trying to do?

More than a decade later, no one would make such a fuss, and it would not deserve the applause of the whole country, but now it is a matter of course.

The current Celestial Empire does not have the waist and self-confidence of the world's second largest economy more than a decade later, and no one has the right to speak as the world's second most powerful country, and the contempt and belittlement of China in the international community is still the norm.

In later generations, few people will mention "turtles" and "green cards" with pride, and now many people still retain an "American dream", and even pay for it with their bodies.

Eight years later, the success of the Olympic bid is the world's recognition of China, and it is also the wish that many people have been waiting for for many years.

The motherland is getting stronger and stronger, and this is a thing that Wang Haoran is sincerely happy about.

Weak countries have no diplomacy, and weak people have no dignity.

Whether it is an official doing business or an ordinary person, a strong motherland is always the greatest backing.

The phone rang, and Wang Haoran answered.

"Hey, boss! Did you watch TV! BJ's bid for the Olympics was successful!!...... It's a success!" Without waiting for Wang Haoran to speak, Xu Mingwen lost all his former steadyness, and repeated it repeatedly at Wang Haoran on the phone, and the excitement in his voice was felt by Wang Haoran through the phone line.

"Well, look, my family watched the live broadcast in front of the TV. ”

"Ha, my dad just finished calling me, and they went to Tiananmen Square to celebrate, and the whole Tiananmen Square was full of people, and there were almost a million people as far as the eye could see. Xu Mingwen's tone was excited, mentioning a million people, with a yearning on his face, wishing that he was also a part of it.

One million people is supposed to be an exaggeration by Xu's father, and according to later news reports, almost 400,000 people flocked to Tiananmen Square that night to celebrate the success of the Olympic bid.

"Hehe, I'm sorry, I'm so excited, I'll call you in the middle of the night. Xu Mingwen's mood calmed down for a while, and then he felt that his call was quite abrupt.

"It's okay, you understand, what's going on with the company?"

"Speaking of which, boss, you are really a god, this Lu Jing usually can't see anything special, it's a genius to write a program, the website has now been tested internally, there are a lot of those functions you proposed, all of them are available, and it is expected to be officially launched in a week. ”

"Is there enough money?"

"If you don't say it, I'm going to tell you that the server has been negotiated with IBM, but the bandwidth and telecom have not been negotiated. ”

"How?"

"The price is too high, I want to strive for a little discount, recently Liu Wenwen and I have been to the telecommunications bureau more than ten times, not much progress. ”

Wang Haoran pondered for a while, "Let you and Sister Wen bother, just go and talk, some should be spent, as the saying goes, take people's money and eliminate disasters with people, no matter how much you spend, try to strive for a relatively low bandwidth price, and the contract period must be signed longer after the negotiation." ”

The phone hung up, Wang Haoran rubbed his forehead, there was nothing to do.

The biggest cost of an Internet company with a website as the core is not hardware, staff overhead, etc., but bandwidth expenses.

To use a simple analogy, all Internet companies can be seen as a small car, regardless of whether you have a luxury car like Mercedes-Benz BMW or a low-end car like Santana Xiali.

If you want to run fast, it is not only limited by your own performance, but also the biggest factor is related to the road conditions.

If you drive a Mercedes-Benz on a country road that is one person wide, there will be a pothole, and you will have a bend, and it is a question of whether you can walk faster than a person.

Conversely, if you drive a Xiali and you run on the highway alone, it will definitely run faster than those Mercedes-Benz BMWs stuck in the city center.

And what kind of road you can drive on depends on the bandwidth given to you by the three giants of the Internet.

The Internet triumvirate is not BAT, it is China Telecom Mobile Unicom.

The three major monopoly state-owned enterprises firmly grasp the infrastructure of the domestic Internet, and no Internet company can bypass all of them.

Why is it that many people can start an Internet website on their own, and then have to look around for venture capital for one, two, or three rounds of funding?

It is because with the gradual growth of Internet companies, more and more funds are needed, and one person cannot play it.

Gu Yongqiang founded Youku, and it only took one year to make Youku the largest video website in China, and fools know that Youku has a great future.

Why did Koo still accept venture capital financing? More than once.

In December 2006, $12 million was raised.

In November 2007, $25 million was raised.

In July 2008, 40 million US dollars were raised.

...... 2009

Until Youku went public, it had to be financed almost every year, and with the financing one by one, Gu Yongqiang's Youku shares were getting smaller and smaller.

The rationale for the financing is evident in a disclosed report.

In 2007, Youku spent more than 10 million yuan a month on bandwidth, and by 2008, that number had doubled.

And what was Youku's advertising revenue in 2008?

The annual advertising revenue is barely enough to cover a month's worth of bandwidth.

The bigger the website, the higher the cost, and if you don't raise money and don't have the money to invest in it, then there is only one way to go out of business.

Therefore, even if Wang Haoran has a cash cow like Aihua Supermarket, the speed of making money cannot keep up with the speed of Internet companies, Wang Haoran can only let Xu Mingwen find a way to get a relatively low unit price of bandwidth and minimize expenses, so that he can talk about financing when the website is more valuable.