The 049th torrent download artifact is freeware

Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao have a strong network of friends. Chen Hong, founder of Silicon Valley Huayuan Science and Technology Association, Robin Li, founder of Baidu, Xu Yong, co-founder of Baidu, Yang Ning, founder of ChinaRen, etc., Zou Shenglong has intersected with them during his study in the United States.

Zou Shenglong, a returning entrepreneur who is highly sought after by venture capital, believes in the ability of Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao, and is ready to invest in them. During the exchange between Yang Fei and Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao, he accidentally talked about the profit model of download tools, so he paid attention to the download tool market. Who would have thought that in just a few dozen days, the download tool market has changed dramatically, and the torrent download artifact, which is more mature than BitTorrent, has made a strong debut with the posture of sweeping the global peers. Yang Fei is optimistic about the download tool market because of the discussion between Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao, and then is optimistic about the Spring and Autumn Software Company, which has produced varieties of download artifacts.

Yang Fei wants to invest in Spring and Autumn Software Company, not the shell-like Spring and Autumn Network.

In short, Wei Dongsheng cut off Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao's entrepreneurial path, so he was appreciated by Yang Fei.

The torrenting artifact blocked the possibility of Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao entering the download tool market. At this moment, Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao have extinguished the idea of developing and downloading software. One of the reasons is that the torrenting artifact is too high-tech and scares them off; The second reason is that Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao only use the download tool as a spare tire at this time, and what they want to do is a distributed storage system and cut into the large-capacity mailbox market.

Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao accompanied Yang Fei to meet Wei Dongsheng this time, and they were entrusted by Yang Fei to study Wei Dongsheng's level from the perspective of a business-minded technician, and then speculate on the potential of Spring and Autumn Software. In other words, Wei Dongsheng can regard Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao as Yang Fei's technical advisers.

As an aside, intercepting Hu Xunlei was not Wei Dongsheng's original intention.

When Wei Dongsheng cut into the download software tool market, he didn't think of Thunderbolt at all. The reason is very simple, if you talk about the ability to make money, it was not until 2014 that it was listed on the NASDAQ. Moreover, several factors that affect the money of Thunderbolt's listing circle cannot be solved by technical background, Wei Dongsheng took the old road of Thunderbolt with the seed download artifact, and it is difficult to reduce its more than ten years of Long March. For more than ten years, what is Wei Dongsheng not doing well? Stupid and stupid hoarding of real estate is also more profitable than operating a thunderbolt.

If you talk about doing things, Thunderbolt's development model is not liked by Wei Dongsheng, and Wei Dongsheng is not willing to develop the torrent download artifact into Thunderbolt. The nature of the torrenting artifact is completely different from that of the Compliment Bitstream protocol and the external private server that infringes on Shanda's profits. All this, because Wei Dongsheng did not intercept Hu Xunlei's careful thoughts, he faced Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao frankly at this moment.

After briefly talking about the connection between P2S, P2P, and P2SP for a while, Yang Fei gradually began to ask the core difficulty: "How is Mr. Wei going to solve the copyright problem of downloaded content?" ”

Copyright issues and illegal content are the fatal problems of download tools, and the download software in the P2P era has died in this forbidden area one after another, such as the famous Kuaibo incident. Until 2018, the issue had not been properly resolved. Wei Dongsheng couldn't give an answer, so he avoided the important and said lightly: "Huaguo is not a country with an IPO copyright treaty. ”

IPO (orld_Intellectual_Property_Organization_Copyright_Treaty) is a copyright treaty of the World Intellectual Property Organization, proposed by the World Intellectual Property Organization on December 20, 1996, to solve the new problem of copyright protection arising from the application of digital technology in the international Internet environment. In January 2003, China had not formally ratified the treaty, and the WIPO Copyright Treaty could not enter into force in China.

However, the IPO copyright treaty is just Wei Dongsheng's sophistry.

As in the previous example, the state has not yet formally convicted the plug-in and private service at this time, but the ninth city can cooperate with the Harbin police to destroy the "miracle of God" plug-in in Heilongjiang Province through other means. If the download tool ignores copyright issues and acts recklessly, even if the IPO Copyright Treaty has not yet entered into force in China, the opponent can invoke other laws and stubbornly pestering torrenting artifacts and Spring and Autumn software.

Yang Fei was naturally not satisfied with Wei Dongsheng's answer, and continued to ask carefully.

Wei Dongsheng was unwilling to waste time dwelling on copyright issues, so he led the topic to other places: "IDG wants to invest in Spring and Autumn Software? ”

Yang Fei said vaguely: "If it is appropriate, IDG will definitely invest in Spring and Autumn Software." ”

Wei Dongsheng nodded in understanding.

Wei Dong had accumulated some experience in communicating with investors when he started his business in his previous life, and then tried to get involved in the investment industry to understand the unspoken rules of the industry in general.

For the vast majority of entrepreneurs, their fantasy investment scenario is like this: the entrepreneur paints a wonderful prospect, and the investor has a whole heart blooming, and decides on the spot that he must invest in the project. These scenes, especially in some film and television works, entrepreneurs chatter a few forward-looking concepts, as if they have stepped into the threshold of the successful building.

However, on the contrary, forward-looking concepts and brilliant ideas are simply not valuable.

Tencent's English name is Tencent, and Tencent is a combination of Ten and Cent, which can be translated as ten cents.

Why is Tencent translated as Tencent?

As far as Wei Dongsheng knows, Ma Huateng's translation of Tencent into Tencent is precisely because of the true portrayal of the entrepreneurial environment in Silicon Valley in the United States.

One_idea，Ten_Cent。

Brilliant startup idea, only worth ten cents.

The difficulty of starting a business is not the lack of ideas, but the ability to realize them. Wei Dongsheng looked back on the Tencent led by Ma Huateng and found that the Tencent led by Ma Huateng is indeed more in line with the moral of Tencent than Jia Wenqing: the idea is not important, the important thing is to realize the idea. Tencent doesn't care about original innovation, but it has a keen eye to spy on market demand. Finding out which innovations users need, Tencent immediately transplants these innovations to its own content, and then fills up some of the flaws of the innovation, often doing better than the original creator.

Tencent is not only self-vigilant Ten_Cent, but also makes a group of entrepreneurs feel Ten_Cent despair.

Your ideas are worthless.

Your innovation is worthless.

Ten_Cent values are not limited to Tencent, but are a common phenomenon in the investment circle.

The vast majority of investors will not invest in you because a project is better.

On the contrary, it is because you and your team are good enough that they invest in you.

Investing in the team, rather than the project, is an unspoken rule practiced by many investors. The reason why Wei Dong was able to get Jing Minqiang's investment in his previous life was also because he had already made a name for himself in the mobile game circle. Jing Minqiang believes in Wei Dongsheng and Wei Dongsheng's team, so he is willing to invest in Wei Dongsheng.

It is also like the example of Baidu in this world.

Baidu is not the only search engine today. For example, Yang Fei made another investment in HC, which also developed its search engine business at the moment, and Sina.com officially adopted the new version of HC news search engine and web search engine in December 2002. If Yang Fei invests in the search engine Idea, he should try to urge HC to do a good job in the search engine, rather than repeatedly investing in Robin Li's Baidu.

Yang Fei invested in Baidu on behalf of IDG, not in the search engine, but in Robin Li, and in Robin Li's search engine.

Yang Fei is very optimistic about the product of torrent download artifact.

However, whether IDG really invests in Spring and Autumn Software, Yang Fei still needs to understand Wei Dongsheng and Wei Dongsheng's team in detail.

In fact, the reason why Yang Fei decided to meet with Wei Dongsheng in just a few days was because Wei Dongsheng borrowed Jing Minqiang's resources. Yang Fei values Wei Dongsheng's potential ability because of Jing Minqiang's prestige, and at the same time, Jing Minqiang also values Wei Dongsheng's ability because of IDG's investment intention, which is a catalytic effect layer by layer.

If Wei Dongsheng breaks into the Internet industry alone and recklessly, no matter how successful the torrent download artifact is, Spring Software will have to brew for a period of time before investors can believe that Wei Dongsheng really has the ability to lead Spring and Autumn Software forward.

Today's meal is not so much an investment negotiation as Yang Fei wants to get to know Wei Dongsheng up close.

Understanding Yang Fei's intentions, Wei Dongsheng simply and decisively rejected this investment, and said with a smile: "If I say that the torrent download artifact software will not be profitable within ten years, will IDG still be willing to invest?" ”

Yang Fei was stunned.

Yang Fei understood Wei Dongsheng's euphemistic refusal but pretended not to understand, and said in an encouraging tone: "Downloading software can be profitable." ”

Wei Dongsheng didn't argue with Yang Fei, and refused more clearly: "But I'm not going to make it profitable." ”

Yang Fei was stunned, and Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao were also stunned.

Wei Dongsheng continued to elaborate on his philosophy: "Torrent download artifact is a free software, free software in the true sense of the word. In order to solve the profit problem of the existential crisis, the current download software often loads advertising banners on the software interface. For example, the current industry leader FlashGet forces overseas casino advertisements to pop up from time to time, and forced the download software interface to be colored in the style of a website. I'm not against ad strip monetization, but the torrenting artifact never loads ad bars, and it never shows up with random ads. The torrenting artifact I envisioned, it runs smoothly; Its download speed is better; Its interface should also be simple and ad-free. ”

Yang Fei: "How to make a profit?" ”

Wei Dongsheng: "Torrenting artifacts is not profitable. ”

Yang Fei stared at Wei Dongsheng: "After all, we still have to make a profit." ”

There are people who do the business of killing, but no one does the business that loses money. If Wei Dongsheng was really a great philanthropist, the torrent download artifact would have been all open sourced and shared, and it would never have been open source only the most basic bitstream protocol like now. No matter how good Wei Dongsheng's words are, Yang Fei will not believe that he is willing to pay for the maintenance of the torrent download artifact for the rest of his life.

Wei Dongsheng reluctantly gave a reason: "I want its user base." ”

Give up vulgar advertising, take the boutique advertising route instead, and the torrent download artifact does not load messy ads, but will cooperate with Spring and Autumn Software and Spring and Autumn Network to promote their own products. After the production of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" developed by Spring and Autumn Software is in full swing, the torrent download artifact is its natural promotion platform. How many active users there are in the torrent download artifact, how many users will see the advertising promotion of "Spring and Autumn Ten Kingdoms". In short, Wei Dongsheng wants to operate the download tool as a traffic entrance.