Chapter 169: Lenovo's Ambition
Facebook is like a dark horse like an autumn wind sweeping away the leaves on the Internet, and the waves set off in just a few days have made all Internet peers no longer dare to underestimate it.
All Internet companies are watching Facebook, and at the same time studying the reasons for Facebook's success, and several large Internet companies are beating gongs and drums to develop similar social networking sites, which are nearing the end.
The rise of Facebook has not only attracted the attention of domestic Internet and technology companies, but also attracted the attention of predators in the computer industry.
Since the reform and opening up, the rapid rise of the Xia Kingdom has made many Western countries secretly vigilant, and the capitalist countries certainly cannot see the rise of the Xia Kingdom, so they have carried out different forms of suppression and blockade in the fields of public opinion, technology, culture and economy.
Despite such harsh conditions, through the efforts of the people of Xia and the whole country, the economy, science and technology, and politics of Xia have undergone earth-shaking changes.
Capital goes with the market, so after the initial wait-and-see and temptation, after more than 20 years of cooperation, many foreign-funded enterprises have gradually identified with the economic market of Xia, and more and more foreign-funded enterprises have poured into Xia.
The population of Xia has exceeded 1.2 billion, which means a huge market and opportunities, and this market is still virgin land in many industries, unexplored, and the benefits contained in it are even more coveted by those capitalists.
Lenovo Group, a computer technology company established less than 20 years ago, relies on the fledgling Internet market in Xia Guo, and now has a market value of more than 40 billion.
In the eyes of the predators in the technology industry, Lenovo Group is just a company that assembles computers, and the core hardware development is all in their hands, and Lenovo Group does not have any R&D technologies such as CPU, GPU, memory, and main version.
But in this case, Lenovo Group, a Xia Guo Technology Company that relies on assembling personal computers, has a market value of more than 40 billion, what does this mean?
This shows that the market of Xia Guo is very huge, and the number of Internet users in Xia Guo is only more than two million in the official statistics, so what about more than a billion people?
Someday, half of these 1.2 billion people will buy computers, so how big is the market here?
Unthinkable!
And Facebook has more than 300,000 users in just one week, what a terrifying development speed, so with the increase in Facebook users, should the server buy it? Do you want to buy a computer?
Definitely, if there are more than hundreds of millions of Internet users in Xia in the future, and Facebook can circle more than half of its Internet users to become its users, then the purchase of servers that needs to be an astronomical amount of money, must be a potential business of more than billions of dollars.
Now Facebook is just getting started, and if we have a good relationship with them at this time, then there will be a steady stream of business contacts in the future.
Therefore, Intel, IBM, Dell, HP and other predators have crossed the Pacific Ocean from the United States to the summer country, quietly paying attention to Facebook, a baby that has just been born but has shown strong vitality.
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Liu Yandong has been very distressed in the past two days, Su Chenfeng rejected his intention to acquire Facebook, and at the same time extinguished the idea of Lenovo Group becoming a shareholder of Facebook, which made him unable to raise his head in front of the company's top management.
But what about the result?
Su Chenfeng mercilessly refused, and at the same time, the media also exposed Lenovo Group's plan to acquire Facebook, and Facebook's refusal of Lenovo Group's 20 million purchase price was also exposed.
Pingbai has greatly increased Facebook's fame, and Lenovo Group has been forced to become a stepping stone for Facebook.
This is not what makes Liu Yandong the most depressed, the most depressed thing is that after Su Chenfeng rejected him, Facebook has developed more violently in the past two days, and there is a trend known to everyone.
Lenovo Group has achieved Facebook, Liu Yandong thinks so, so he is very depressed.
Lenovo's chief marketing officer, his immediate boss gave him a death order to win the sponsorship of Facebook's school flower contest, because computer manufacturers such as HP, Dell and IBM were already preparing to approach Facebook, who intended to be the title sponsor of Facebook's school flower contest, and also intended to market their own server business to Facebook.
You must know that these computer manufacturers are the sworn enemies of Lenovo computers, fighting to the death in the market, although Lenovo is far ahead of other computer brands in the Xia market, but in other countries' markets, Lenovo is suppressed even more insignificant.
The Facebook School Flower Contest has already had a great impact in Xia Kingdom, and many young people are paying attention to this contest, and these people are potential users who buy computers.
If Lenovo Group can title the Facebook School Flower Competition, it will definitely increase Lenovo's exposure and consolidate its position as the leading big brother in the Xia Guo market.
Lenovo Group doesn't want to give other computer brands any chance, so it has to win the title of Facebook's school flower contest.
So said the CMO of Lenovo Group.
When Liu Yandong was the most depressed, his immediate boss did not explain how much the budget for winning the naming rights of Facebook was, hundreds of thousands? Millions? Or 10 million!
Liu Yandong has been sitting in the position of marketing director in South China for several years, of course, he knows that the less money he spends, the better, but when Su Chenfeng asked for one million before, he did not agree, and now, the number of Facebook users has increased by 200,000.
So is this sponsorship going to triple? According to Su Chenfeng's character of not seeing rabbits and not scattering eagles, one million will definitely not work.
"There was a great opportunity in front of me, I didn't cherish it, and I regretted it until I lost it. If God gives me another chance, I will definitely say three words to you, 'I sign up', and if I want to add a time before these three words, I will say, right away! ”
Liu Yandong wanted to cry without tears.
"Is it difficult now, when Lenovo was first founded? Eleven scientific research workers, 200,000 yuan, but under such difficult conditions, Lenovo Group developed. And now, the market value of Lenovo Group exceeds 40 billion, which gives us the courage to stand up to any computer manufacturer! ”
"Lenovo Group is destined to become the world's No. 1 brand in the PC market, and there is no difficulty that can stop Lenovo Group from moving forward!"
Liu Yandong cheered up and regained his fighting spirit.
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Hengyi 4-star hotel, in a conference room.
"Mr. Su, happy cooperation!"
Liu Yandong laughed heartily, stretched out his right hand and held Su Chenfeng tightly, although Lenovo Group paid a lot of price, but finally before other computer manufacturers found Su Chenfeng, finalized the intention of cooperation.
"Mr. Liu, happy cooperation! I believe that Lenovo Group has made the most correct decision this time, and becoming the title sponsor of the Facebook School Flower Contest will definitely make you very rewarding! ”
Su Chenfeng smiled very brightly, and his eyes became crescents.
He didn't ask Lenovo for a penny of cash, he only made two requests to the other party, the other party to sponsor a server that can provide Facebook users with 5 million people online at the same time, and at the same time provide prizes for the winners of the school flower competition.
The market price of the server that can support five million Facebook users online at the same time is more than 10 million, and the factory price is as high as more than 5 million, so the value of the prizes provided is not calculated. This has far exceeded the one million asking price proposed by Su Chenfeng two days ago.
There is no way, now that Facebook is in full swing, Su Chenfeng naturally sat on the ground and raised the price, he asked for the price all over the sky, originally thought that Liu Yandong would bargain, but he didn't expect him to negotiate the price, and agreed directly.
Liu Yandong's cheerfulness also made Su Chenfeng full of doubts, he couldn't figure it out. However, he is not afraid of any conspiracy of the Lenovo Group, anyway, what he lacks most now is the server, since the other party agrees to his request, there is nothing to fear.
However, it is a pity that Lenovo Group does not provide so many servers at one time, Lenovo Group will provide Facebook with a server group of one million users online at the same time within a week, and the rest of the servers will be provided in turn after Facebook meets the corresponding simultaneous online conditions.
In this way, Lenovo Group's contribution is lower. You must know that Facebook has one million registered users, it does not mean that there are one million simultaneous online users, it may only be two or three hundred thousand simultaneous online users.
Then, it is estimated that it will be a few years before Facebook surpasses five million simultaneous online users. In two or three years, the price of a server that supports five million simultaneous users will be at least half compared to now!
Su Chenfeng doesn't mind this gain or loss, as long as the performance of the server is enough to support millions of users online at the same time, his goal will be achieved, who cares how valuable these servers are?
At this point, one of Su Chenfeng's major problems has been solved, and he no longer worries about the loss of users due to insufficient server performance.
It's time for Facebook to make a big difference!
PS: Xiao Wang found a clerical error in the first few chapters, Brother Ji's account should not be 123321, because the number released by Facebook every time is 100,000, and the account that Brother Ji grabbed is already the second batch, so it should start with 2, and it is more appropriate to change it to 222222.
Why didn't anyone find this vulnerability?