Lack of money.

If you want to improve the G system ecology, you need to invest a lot of money to purchase more powerful servers, especially for European and American users, and user data feedback must be directly fed back to the server of the China headquarters, which is really inconvenient.

Although he was short of money, Li Mu did not accept the acquisition or capital injection of any company, for example, a few days ago, Baidu bid 350 million yuan to acquire 2048, and Li Mu did not dump him. And Teng Xun said that 200 million to acquire 45% of the shares, but Li Mu was directly bombarded away.

"Mr. Li, Mr. Ma of Ali called and wanted to talk to you." Wang Yating's face appeared on Li Mu's computer screen.

The G system has been fully used in the company's internal communication, as long as a command, each person's office computer can establish a dialogue window with each other, through video, voice, text and other ways for instant communication. Of course, there is also access to communicate with each other, and ordinary low-level employees cannot contact Li Mu himself.

"Old horse?" Li Mu said, "Take it." ”

"Okay." Wang Yating said.

The phone on the desk rang quickly, and Li Mu picked up the microphone, but he was already a little unaccustomed to this ancient way of communication.

"Mr. Li, hello, I'm Ma Yun." The old horse said.

"Mr. Ma, hello." Li Mu said nonchalty.

"Mr. Li, I used your G system, it's great." Lao Ma said, "I'm very optimistic about this, I don't know if Mr. Li is interested in cooperating?" ”

"Not interested." Li Mu said.

"Uh......" The old horse was stunned for a moment, and the prepared words suddenly held in his stomach. I'm taking the test, why don't you play your cards according to the routine?

In other words, Lao Ma is one of the three giants in China, who dares not to give some face in the IT circle? Even if you are a good person, at least you have to talk a few words first and ask how to cooperate, right? As soon as you open your mouth, the rich and willful old horse will not worry about the conditions you will not agree to.

But what about Li Mu, he blocked the road without saying a word, how can he play this?

"Mr. Li, I'm very sincere." Lao Ma took a breath and said, "The G system is very good, but with the scale of your company, if you want to do a good job and promote the G system, I'm afraid that the gap in funds is very large, right?" ”

"I'm serious too." Li Mu said lightly, "I'm very short of money, but I'm not interested in the capital behind Ali." ”

Ali's capital can be a little devil, and Li Mu will resolutely not work for a little devil!

Even, Baidu, Tencent, these companies that say they are good are Chinese Internet giants, which of the biggest investors behind them is not a foreign devil? Li Mu didn't have the slightest interest in them!

"Mr. Li, you are acting rashly." The old horse was scarred and said fiercely, "Now is the era of giants, and the boat can't withstand the wind and waves!" ”

"Thank you Mr. Ma for reminding me, there's nothing else, let's talk later." Li Mu hung up the phone, lay down on the senior chair, and calculated.

Li Mu is not an unsophisticated person, 2048 Don't look at the investment of more than 100 million, it can only be regarded as a small sampan in the IT industry, not to mention compared with the giant ships of the Big Three, in the current situation, any company with a little fame can sink 2048.

This is not the point, the point is that if there is no money, 2048 itself can drag itself down - with the explosive growth of users, the user data server at the headquarters will soon be full, if there is no money to add servers, no money to develop profitable projects, I am afraid that I will not be able to wait for the second-generation operating system to come out, I am afraid that the company will starve to death.

Looks like we'll have to get some more money soon......

According to Li Mu's original plan, it was to start charging directly when the second-generation operating system was launched, and it was not a problem to sell a few hundred yuan per system, or to charge ten yuan a month for service fees. Of course, if you don't want to pay for it, the first generation is still free, but you can't enjoy the more intelligent second-generation system core, as well as the corresponding mobile version interface and other functions.

However, with the current user growth rate, I am afraid that if we can't wait for the release of the second-generation system, the initial construction of a server that can accommodate 50 million users will not be enough, so we must find other ways to make money.

If you want to make money with the operating system, it's just too easy. Early the next morning, the official website of 2048 announced the news and began to launch the advertising service.

The system will push advertisements by Xiao G during the user's idle time. Advertisers can give a plain text slogan to be read by Xiao G to the user, or provide an ad clip that Xiao G will play to the user. This kind of advertising method of directly talking to users is definitely far more targeted than pop-up ads and video roll ads on ordinary web pages and software, and the CPM conversion rate is very high, so the advertising price will be relatively high.

Of course, in order to avoid frequent advertisements that disgust users, Xiao G will only push in the user's free time, and at the same time push up to three times a day, so as not to be like some software that will be pushed once every few minutes, which makes users disgusted.

Advertising is just one of the ways to make money, in addition, the official website also announced the upcoming launch of the small G image mall.

The small G image mall will launch a copyrighted small G image, and sincerely invite major stars and various animation characters to join. After joining the small G image mall, the copyright owner can set the image price by himself, and after the user buys it, the income will be shared with the copyright owner. At the same time, the official appeals to users that they can send suggestions to their favorite stars, so that maybe your favorite stars will appear in your computer every day, chat with you, help you do things, and become your good friends.

In fact, this plan is not only for celebrity fans to get an opportunity to interact with virtual fan images, but also for celebrities to maintain exposure.

As soon as 2048's two profit plans were launched, there was a lot of discussion.

"The system has only been launched for a week, and it is self-destructive to release a profit plan that can't wait to be released!" A science and technology newspaper declared.

"Ads pushed by the operating system? I dare say that their user growth stops right away, or even gets abandoned by users soon! A technology reviewer said.

"2048 is too urgent, but it is understandable, they have no money, and they have not yet accepted financing, and what awaits them must be a new star that will fall!" The CEO of a network company said.

"The technology of 2048 is very advanced, but to run a technology company, technology is only one aspect, and 2048 lacks a strong leader, a leader who understands the operation of capital." A giant said.

"How much ad revenue do 20 million users bring to them? Financing is their only way out! A certain capital predator made a loud noise......