Chapter 043 Instagram Goes Live

After lawyer Sith arrived at Apple, he had a one-hour conversation with Wen Ming. As a result of this conversation, Mr. Sith merged his own law firm of only three people into Apple's legal affairs department.

Cage, an intern, naturally became the fourth employee in Apple's legal affairs department.

When one person attains the Tao, the chicken and dog ascend to heaven.

Wen Ming has not yet attained enlightenment, but he has been able to make these people who are good to him have a brighter future because of his favor. Moreover, Wen Ming also needs trustworthy people to help him, which is completely mutually beneficial.

Cui Chuanming's good news has not yet arrived, which makes Wen Ming a little anxious, but it has not affected his work plan. In fact, it will take a while for Wen Ming to have more funds to invest in the project of 'resurrecting' the dinosaurs.

For a whole week, Wen Ming was in the research room that was not yet fully built, because he did not suffer the disaster in "Jurassic Park", so he could not dream. Originally, this was his biggest headache, but in the recent period of work, he found that this is a great benefit.

Not being able to dream means that he sleeps better, and he can complete the day's work with only a few hours of sleep every day. This is because he is not in good physical condition, otherwise he thinks he can work for a few days in a row and then rest.

In the past week, Wen Ming has led a limited number of his researchers to 'invent' dozens of new technologies. And these new technologies were also handed over to the Sith to apply for patents at the patent office, and also to apply for international patents.

This kind of speed amazed Sith and Cage and others, not to mention that people like them who don't understand technology know the incredible speed of this kind of research, and even the researchers under Wen Ming are also impressed by Wen Ming's five bodies.

"Boss, we're here to be researchers, not your lab assistants."

A researcher looked at a new technology proposed by Wen Ming with a serious face, and complained at the same time: "But now, we can't do anything except verify the technology you have researched." ”

This complaint made several other researchers look at Wen Ming with adoring eyes again, if the speed of several researchers to verify the feasibility of the technology is not as fast as the speed of one person researching a new technology, there are only two possibilities.

One is that several researchers are idiots, and the other is that several researchers are working with a genius.

Wen Ming noticed the admiring gazes of several researchers, without the slightest smugness, these techniques were good for him, but none of them were developed by him. In fact, if it weren't for the fear of too much impact, he could have come up with hundreds of new technologies in a week.

"Once you've proven this technology, you can take a day off."

After Wen Ming saw the SMS prompt on his mobile phone, he said, "I just need to deal with the company's new product." ”

Several researchers breathed a sigh of relief, and one of them said, "Boss, after the new product is launched, can we recruit another batch of researchers?" It's embarrassing to say it, but we really can't keep up with the speed of your research. ”

Wen Ming smiled: "Of course it is needed." ”

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Just after the three-week period that Wenming had requested, Apple's second product was completed. Wen Ming is actually not satisfied with this speed, because the design ideas and functional demands of new products have been formulated by him.

"These technicians, the technology is still not strong enough."

Apple's employees are generally very young, and compared with the R&D teams of other companies, they may be more energetic, but they still lack enough accumulation in technology.

The research room is next door to Apple's headquarters, which is a warehouse area, and after Wen Ming walked to Apple's headquarters, he met the person in charge of the second R&D team.

"Boss, we're waiting for you to come and we'll start releasing the product."

Apple's second photo app is a social app that focuses on beautifying and sharing photos, as well as commenting on photos between users and users.

Such software needs to be supported by a server.

However, because the site of the company's headquarters is too small and the conditions are insufficient, Wenming does not configure its own server, but rents servers from other companies.

The server leasing business in the United States is very mature, and Wenming does not need to worry about being restricted by the leasing party because of the rental of servers. Of course, if this product can be successful, Wenming will not hesitate to build a server center by himself.

"Boss, we have made all the plans, today at 12 noon, all software platforms will launch our Instagram software."

"At the same time, we will be pushing all Plants vs. Zombies updates at 12 noon, and the content of the push is the download of Instagram that we have previously formulated in exchange for the permission to update the special edition of Plants vs. Zombies."

Levels in Plants vs. Zombies are limited, and although the release time is only four weeks, some users have already cleared them. When there are no new levels, some users will choose to replay to pass the time, after all, the purpose of the game is to pass the time. But there are also some users who will uninstall the game because it is not challenging.

Who will cherish what they bought for $2.99?

This is also the reason why Wen Ming asked to complete the development of Instagram and launch it within three weeks. He didn't want to wait until Instagram went live, and there were a lot of Plants vs. Zombies users who uninstalled the game.

Wen Ming didn't need to do any work at this time, and waited patiently until 12 o'clock arrived, and Wen Ming began to pay attention to the number of downloads.

"Shouldn't we add a big screen?"

When I thought of a certain company in my previous life, when the whole network broadcast the transaction volume of the company's event on the day, I used a big screen. The continuous increase in the transaction volume on the big screen also has an advertising effect, which can allow more people to invest in it and contribute to the transaction volume on the big screen.

However, Wen Ming can only think about it, and it is too late to install a large screen at this time.

"There is still a lack of capable people, and I need to worry about everything, so I can't take care of it."

At 12:01, Instagram was launched for one minute, and the number of downloads was still zero.

This surprised many people, including Wen Ming, even if it took time for users to read and jump to the page to receive the push information of "Plants vs. Zombies", Wen Ming also posted an advertisement on his Facebook.

Wenming, who already has more than 6 million fans, how can it not affect one person to download?

Just as Wen Ming was about to ask if there was a problem with the background data, the number of downloads finally began to jump.

Moreover, it jumped directly from 0 to 5 digits.

The person in charge of developing Instagram breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Boss, it should be that there are too many downloads at the same time, so it affects the update of background data, in short, it is stuck." ”

Wen Ming glanced at him and didn't speak, and the person in charge suddenly woke up, his boss was much better than him in terms of technology.

After smiling awkwardly, the person in charge said: "Boss, I think we should improve our hardware level, this product can definitely get a huge amount of financing." ”

Financing is an inevitable step for many enterprises, whether it is the need for development funds or the need for listing, financing can help entrepreneurs save time.

Of course, financing will also take away the due benefits of entrepreneurs.

For example, the owner of Instagram's original development company, if he had not accepted financing, they could have received Facebook's $715 million acquisition alone, but only received $400 million.

But if they don't accept the financing and don't have the money to develop Instagram, they can't afford to rent servers alone. What's more, what about the company's other expenses?

"Need financing?"

Wenming now has enough cash flow to develop Instagram. The premise is that he doesn't invest in the 'resurrection' of the dinosaurs, and he doesn't need to invest in Apple's hardware production.