Chapter 266: Attracting Potatoes

The doubts in the reporter's heart are also the doubts of many people in the industry after the news is released.

At this stage of the Internet, no one has ever put forward the concept of "open platform".

After everyone has their eyes on their own track, they strive to become the leader of the track, leaving all competitors behind and grabbing more and more market share.

Baidu is bent on beating the challenger Google and monopolizing more than 90% of the search market share;

Ali is launching a C2C war between Taobao and Ebay, with a resolute free strategy and brutal pop-up technology, it has snatched nearly 50% of the share from ebay, which originally had a share of more than 90, and from the curve of the two companies, Taobao will soon complete the catch-up and achieve victory in this battlefield.

The traditional Internet giants, Sina, NetEase, and Sohu.

After Sina acquired UC, it was unexpectedly blocked by the emergence of FF, and now it has no longer increased its investment in UC, but is ready to rely on its own media genes and prepare to exert force in the emerging blog market;

NetEase also made every effort to push the NetEase bubble for a while, and found it difficult to shake the dominant position of FF+QQ, and began to develop new game projects, looking forward to making breakthroughs in games and increasing market share.

Sohu wants to do everything and forms a so-called business matrix, but unfortunately each business does not rank in the top three .......

For the popular "open platform strategy", the industry also had different views for a while.

Some people are dismissive: "FF itself cannot be called a platform, and the registered users of major Internet companies in China have exceeded 100 million...... , not optimistic that opening up can bring decisive growth to Fengxing. ”

Some expressed doubts: "FF first opened up the game business, and Fengxing itself also makes game products, it itself is an excellent product developer in the domestic game industry, after opening the platform, this kind of referee and athlete competition in the same field, it is more embarrassing!"

Others remain cautious: "Lin Feng's strategic intention is still difficult to see, ostensibly to support small and medium-sized enterprises, in fact, to enrich the shortcomings of the insufficient number of FF applications, but whether it can promote the development of the industry, it depends on the actual operation, to what extent it is open." ”

The one who really expressed vigilance about this was Ali's Jack Ma.

After he saw the news, he frowned and thought for a while, and immediately found Sun Tongyu, the general manager of Taobao at the time: "What do you think of Lin Feng's opening of Alipay?"

Sun Tongyu said: "It seems that he and we have the same idea, want to make Alipay a third-party independent payment platform! Old horse, our 'credit payment' should also be independent as soon as possible!"

Ma Yun nodded: "Yes, you and I thought together, after I contacted Lin Feng, I found that his biggest feature is that he sees farther, this move is definitely not as simple as it seems on the surface, I suspect that his goal is to directly target our 'credit payment' business, we have to pay attention to this matter, you arrange it as soon as possible!"

Of course, the reactions of these big companies in the industry were mixed.

But for the majority of entrepreneurs and independent developers in the Internet industry, the popular openness is naturally a very exciting good news!

For a while, a large number of mini game production teams and personal websites have applied for interface cooperation on the open platform website launched by Fengxing, and some entrepreneurial projects that have been looking for investment have also submitted investment cooperation applications to the popular "Ten Hundred Thousand Plan".

Only then did I find out that Fengxing is actually very cautious about open interfaces!

Fengxing has very strict and systematic review standards for the opening of the FF platform, and reviews it from many aspects such as developer qualifications, website and product ratings, etc., to ensure that the partners and developers who access the platform provide high-quality game content and services that meet the standards of the Fengxing platform.

After all, this involves the entire FF business environment, and if the good and the bad are mixed, it will cause great harm to the FF platform and users.

However, there is a great tolerance for the support plan for developers and entrepreneurs, after the preliminary review of the project, offline interviews, etc., after understanding the entrepreneur's background, entrepreneurial direction, team, and product ideas, as long as it is in line with the popular business direction, in entertainment, content, e-commerce, consumption and other fields, you can get popular investment.

As teams and projects were exposed by the media one after another, and after successfully obtaining the popular financial support plan, for a while, the entire Internet industry was fluctuating, and many people with ideas began to move.

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"What? This video website project called Tudou has also applied for the Ten Hundred Thousand Plan?" Lin Feng was a little surprised when he got the latest project report.

Li Dong nodded: "Yes, I am very optimistic about this project, the founder Wang Wei, is the CEO of Bertelsmann Online China, has an MBA degree from INSEAD and a master's degree in computer science from Johns Hopkins University, and the team's background is very good." It's just that he wants to be able to get $1 million in funding, which is more than our investment limit for a single project, and I'd like to hear from you. ”

Lin Feng nodded without hesitation: "Yes, the video website is our next very important business direction, FF video is a player client after all, Zhi Frame is now talking with various TV stations about the live broadcast cooperation of network TV, but for the aspect of online video websites, only FF video and audio is not enough, we also need more business groups, I think this potato is good!"

Looking at the slogan "Everyone is the director of life" on the project introduction book, Lin Feng felt a little.

In his previous life, he initially liked to watch Tudou, but he felt that compared to Youku, which was founded by Gu Yongqiang, who was born in finance and capital, Tudou's genes have a unique sense of romance and dreams for Internet entrepreneurs.

Of course, in terms of business, operation, user experience and many other aspects, Tudou has great disadvantages compared to Youku.

But it is undeniable that Tudou pays more attention to originality, creators, and content.

The fact that literature and art lose to commerce does not mean that literature and art themselves have no value.

With Fengxing's investment, as a shareholder, Fengxing has the ability and resources to make up for Tudou's own natural weaknesses.

Perhaps, from this moment on, Fengxing will reshape the future Internet video landscape. This is also what Lin Feng is most interested in at the moment!

Since his rebirth, he has shifted from the original goal of starting a business and achieving financial freedom to a higher pursuit.

History is composed of countless small events at a critical time, and perhaps a change in a small event will cause a huge change in the future pattern.

And it will be a very fulfilling thing to create an Internet world that is different from his previous life by himself!