Chapter 16: The Bargaining Maniac
7 million, after returning from the hotel where the negotiation was made, the figure of 7 million made Gu Mojie fall into deep thought.
To say that he doesn't care about cash flow is a fool's errand.
As an Internet company, technology is of course important, but cash flow is equally important. How many surprising ideas and perfect solutions are peers, just because of the rupture of funds, it is really impossible to count. Otherwise, how could there be so many venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, hovering like vultures that smell blood.
And the reason why Gu Mojie is reluctant to accept other people's shares and venture capital is that he feels that he is a reborn person, and his wisdom has been highly refined, and there is also the plug-in of Hatsune Niang, he will definitely go to the top in this life, and there is no need to let others share too many original stocks that are destined to be very valuable in the future when he is still very weak.
If he is unwilling to accept other people's investment, he is doomed to be more short of money and more miserable in the primitive accumulation stage.
For a moment, this thought turned in his mind: Or, sell the universal input method? Big deal and sell it a little more expensive?
After all, as long as you have tens of millions of funds, you can start a company and set up a platform. The remaining two system tools pre-installed on Hatsune Niang, "Audio Master" and "Graphics Master", are also slowly transplanted and put on the table. And the things that Gu Mo sells are not many in terms of proportion, because even if it is just a "universal input method", what is now made and sold to Shi Guanghu is actually just part of its pinyin typing function. And the functions of voice recognition input and handwriting scanning input have not yet been taken out, and they are still in Gu Mojie's hands.
If he doesn't get the first 10 million yuan level of funds, although Gu Mojie can succeed in the future, his original accumulation time will be longer, maybe it will take two more years of hard work to slowly squeeze himself into the "10 million club". Although he is only 20 years old two years later, he is not old, but the Internet industry has always been unpredictable, who would think that he developed early.
Do you want to abandon the pinyin input method, which only accounts for a few tenths of the overall plug-in of the first sound mother, in exchange for two years of the overall original accumulation window period?
Once this thought is fermented, it lingers.
"No, you can't just get that rich second generation cheaper, if you want to sell it, you have to sell it more expensive, and it's better to leave a chance to get back to the field in the future......"
After struggling for a long time, Gu Mojie was still unwilling to give in directly, and instead began to use his brain, trying to find the best of both worlds, not only to take the money, but also to be able to find a way to get back to the field in the future and not let Shi Guang take care of it.
Normal people, when they get this kind of brain, their first reaction is to "keep a copy of the source code of the software that is about to be sold, and after selling the software to get money, then use the code they left behind to change it slightly, make a new software, and re-enter this market".
Of course, Gu Mojie could do the same, and he knew that Shi Guanghu and Zou Sheng would definitely expect that he might do so. But since they still want to buy it, it means that they don't care about the possibility at all.
After all, after a software reaches 10 million users, its greatest value is not the software itself, but its brand and user stickiness. If it's just the software code itself, maybe the follow-up peers spend hundreds of thousands of salaries to recruit some programmers to copy it, and there will be it. But 10 million have been accustomed to the use of "universal input method" users, their inertia is difficult to reverse, if a new homogeneous software, even if the performance is not bad, it is unlikely to lead users to start a new business to pursue new software.
"It seems that unless there is a more epoch-making new technology than the input method at hand, it is possible to regain the market after the old software is sold."
After thinking about it for half the night, Gu Mojie finally came to such a conclusion.
In desperation, he activated Hatsune Niang and asked in a whisper: "Is it possible for us to make a more powerful pinyin input method than the 'universal input method' that has been released?" It must be epoch-making and progressive. ”
Hatsune Musume's magnetic voice was not emotionful at all, and said lightly, "Of course it's possible." ”
Gu Mojie sat up from the bed with excitement and reproach in his tone: "How is it possible?" Why didn't you say it earlier? ”
Hatsune asked innocently, "You haven't asked me, how do I know you have this need?" People are just computers, not humans. You ask me to answer, rightly so, and you still expect me to give advice? ”
Gu Mojie thought that this was indeed the case, artificial intelligence has come to the step of Hatsune Niang, and it is already rare to be able to answer all questions about human needs, no matter whether the answer is correct or wrong. The other party is not self-conscious, and it is impossible to take the initiative to plan for the master. It seems that he still uses too little of Hatsune Niang, asks too little, and does not fully enter the role of the owner of a smart phone.
Thinking about this, Gu Mojie didn't bother with it, and asked straightforwardly: "Then you can tell me, if we rewrite a software now, what functions can be added to it compared to the 'universal input method' currently put on the network?" ”
Hatsune Niang methodically checked herself, and then replied:
"First of all,The input method that is currently put up,After all, it depends on constantly updating the version to upgrade the thesaurus。 For example, we have gone from version 1.0 in February to 1.3 and 1.4 today, and after collecting word frequency information for several months, we will upgrade the version. This is very unintelligent, and at a time when the growth rate of new words on the Internet is getting faster and faster, there is no way for new words to immediately enter the user thesaurus.
If we rewrite a version now, we can add the 'real-time update thesaurus online' feature to keep the customer's thesaurus up to date without realizing it.
Secondly, the original input method only has the ability to collect user input habits and user-active word formation information in one direction, and does not allow users to share the settings of these input habits in real time. Even for individual users themselves, we don't have the ability to learn and memorize their input habits. This point,At present, if you rewrite an input method,It can also be solved。
Last but not least, we didn't have a custom thesaurus for different types of users, for example, there were two users who also typed hui-wu in pinyin, the first user was a secretary who might want to type the word 'meeting', and the second user was writing prose, maybe he wanted to type the word 'repentance'. It is important to know that even the word frequency statistics of the largest sample are only optimized for the users closest to the public, not customized for each user. Only by joining the cell thesaurus, let the input method give a word frequency when serving secretarial users, another word frequency when giving ordinary users, and the third word frequency when two users, in order to accurately catch everyone. ”
HATSUNE NIANG BLABLA SAID A LOT, AND THE MORE GU MOJIE LISTENED, THE MORE SURPRISED HE BECAME.
In fact, if it weren't for his memory of later generations has been washed away, maybe he would be surprised at this moment: isn't this the function of the "Sogou Pinyin Input Method" that was only listed around 2006~07? Of course, Sogou around 07 years, only the first two improvements have been made, as for the functions of customized design and cell thesaurus, the later generations of Sogou have actually been slowly developed in 08~09 years.
Subsequently, Gu Mojie came up with a new question: "Then why couldn't we do these function points half a year ago?" At that time, what was the obstacle that the guide couldn't do it in one step? ”
"At that time, we had just arrived in this time and space, and people didn't have a cloud data library in 2050 to call, so of course we couldn't do it in one step. Nowadays, it has taken half a year to collect the required large number of jù through the backdoor of the software vendor, and only with the material base can these new function points be unlocked. ”
When Gu Mojie heard that this was indeed the truth, he did not continue to ask.
However, Hatsune Niang didn't finish speaking, and paused, as if she felt that Gu Mojie had already entered the army, so she added slyly: "I have to remind you that if you are really ready to upgrade according to the three technical points just mentioned, you can get some more server resources." At present, these servers are only enough for backdoor collection and regular update versions. If you want to count in real time, update it in real time, and realize the cell thesaurus, the server and bandwidth will be increased by at least ten times. ”
Get! As soon as Gu Mojie heard it, he knew that Hatsune Niang's suppressed hand chopper attribute had exploded again.
"Cheng, as long as you make enough money from this transaction, let alone rent a server, even if you buy it. When the time comes, a budget of two million will be allocated specifically to buy servers. ”
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After full communication with Hatsune Niang, and Gu Mojie himself has further in-depth use and understanding of the performance of the three system tools that Hatsune Niang brings, after he has the bottom of his heart, he is not so disgusted with the follow-up negotiations with Swift Network.
The next day, Zou Sheng asked Gu Mojie to reason and lay out the facts as usual, and also took out a lot of indirect evidence to prove Shi Gongzi's financial strength and ruthlessness, trying to make Gu Mojie believe: If Gu Mojie doesn't sell the universal input method to them, then they will kill Gu Mojie's input method even if they spend a big price!
Gu Mojie consumed the other party noncommittally, and when he saw the move, he further consumed the other party's sharpness and patience; On the other hand, he skillfully played a double reed with Fei Liluo, so that his private chat with Fei Liluo was "accidentally" overheard by the other party, so as to pass on the information that "Gu Mojie actually doesn't want to sell, but he just feels that today's offer is not preferential enough, and he sells cheaply" to the other party.
As long as Zou Sheng and Shi Guanghu knew that Gu Mojie might eventually be sold, but the price was not enough, they would find a way to bridge it, instead of giving priority to the fish and the net was broken.
Fei Liluo was very cooperative, and also managed to let Zou Sheng and others inadvertently discover that in addition to Huang He's source of cash flow, Gu Mojie also had some other small cash flows, which made Zou Sheng and the others even less confident about cutting off Gu Mojie's cash flow to force the other party to death.
Under the internal and external turmoil, the deadline given by Shi Guanghu has arrived, and Zou Sheng has made countless calls to Shi Guanghu in the past two days, and in the end, it has brought Gu Mojie a much more favorable condition than 7 million.