Many years later, Stephen settled in New York, but every time he talked about San Francisco, he always said, "It's a hot August in San Francisco." ”

On the day Riot Games went live, everyone was unmotivated to work, squatting in the background to see the number of clicks on their page and user retention.

Of course, there is no such thing as user retention, only the length of time the user is connected.

"Hey, Mr. Zhou? Your account has received its first transfer. Ten minutes after the website was launched, Zhou Xin received a call from the person in charge of the business department of the San Francisco branch of Huaguo Bank.

The reason why Wu Shiqiang agreed to cooperate with Zhou Xin was because he accidentally saw a report about Zhou Xin when he returned to China in the summer.

As the first student in Yan University, he then transferred to Berkeley, and he studied for a bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree.

Under the propaganda of New Oriental, the incident spread very quickly in China.

Even in the six months since the news hotspots passed, Wu Shiqiang could still see sporadic reports when he returned to China.

Therefore, after Zhou Xin's visit, he deliberately went to find news related to Zhou Xin in China.

After confirming that the other party was Zhou Xin himself, Wu Shiqiang decided to start this cooperation with Zhou Xin.

He didn't know about Zhou's business model, and he didn't think it would bring much performance to Huaguo Bank's San Francisco branch.

Simply because he is also Chinese, and the other party is from a prestigious school, he quickly started his business after coming to America, and under the superposition of various halos, Wu Shiqiang wants to maintain a good personal relationship with the other party.

Let Zhou Xin handle the business here, and observe the development of the other party in the future.

Therefore, when Zhou Xin made a small request: "Mr. Wu, when the trouble arises for the first transfer, send me the specific information and time of the transfer." ”

Wu Shiqiang agreed without thinking.

The information that needs to be provided here is only the content filled in by the transferor on the attachment, and does not involve user privacy.

Not to mention that at the moment, there are no laws and regulations for user privacy protection.

"Friends, we received our first transfer! $19.99! After Zhou Xin finished speaking, the other three took paper sticks rolled up from white paper and knocked on the noise, creating a party atmosphere in the garage.

Wu Shiqiang, as the head of the business department, has no presence in the San Francisco area of Huaguo Bank San Francisco, but it does not mean that he has little knowledge.

Because he stayed long enough, he worked in the San Francisco branch for almost eight years, what has he not seen?

There are not a few entrepreneurial Chinese who come to them to handle business.

But with so many small transfers and remittances, and a variety of phone numbers in the postscript, it was definitely the first time he had seen it.

Wu Shiqiang didn't go to the lobby once, and silently watched the amount of money on the bank account increase little by little in the background.

A transfer.

Ten transfers.

One hundred transfers.

1,000 transfers.

It took only an hour to go from the first transfer to the thousandth transfer.

Not even an hour.

Wu Shiqiang was completely shocked, a thousand transfers are 20,000 US dollars, which is already a lot of money in this era.

He instantly thought of the joke he often made after working in a bank, if everyone transferred a dollar to you, you would soon become a billionaire.

And now it's not about transferring a dollar to Zhou Xin, it's about someone constantly transferring $20 to Zhou Xin, $19.99 to be exact.

He hurriedly called Zhou Xin and tried to ask what the other party was doing.

If he does something illegal, it will affect him.

He now regrets that when Zhou Xin came to talk to him, he didn't ask the real purpose behind the other party's needs.

"Mr. Zhou, the number of transfers to your bank card has exceeded 1,000, and the number of transfers is still increasing.

I would like to know more about your business, can you please tell me about it?

This is also to avoid unnecessary troubles. ”

"Mr. Wu, I'm sorry for your trouble, the address of our company's official website is, you can go to our company's official website to see our products.

It's more intuitive and efficient than I explained it myself. Zhou Xin said.

After Zhou Xin hung up the phone, he told everyone: "The number of paying users has exceeded 1,000.

That is, in just one hour, our game has already gained a thousand paying users.

And it's still based on the fact that the way we pay is something completely new.

A lot of users have doubts about our game.

It has already brought us $20,000 in revenue!

It's a day to remember in gaming history.

But we can't take it lightly.

At one o'clock tomorrow morning, after the San Francisco branch finishes the approval, we will send all the bank postscripts to us in the form of attachments.

Louis sent the SMS verification code to the users as soon as he received the email.

Be sure to send it to the customer at the agreed time in us.

I'm going to go to Huaguo Bank now and reconfirm with them.

There must be no mistakes in this one.

And then there's Stephen, you need to go and talk to the server renter, and we're going to have to scale up the server we're renting.

Three IBM minicomputers are far from enough to meet our needs.

Whether it's an IBM minicomputer or a network bandwidth, it needs to be downloaded according to the estimate of one million users.

We can pay 30% upfront.

Then try to get a deal.

Finally, Ashley, improve the user forum, and the user forum should be perfected in three days.

I'll do this with you when I get back from Huaguo Bank.

This will be our busiest time, offline payment, online download, whether this new model can be successful.

These two weeks are extremely critical! ”

One million users is a conservative estimate, you must know that the Angry Birds have dominated the App Store in 69 countries for many years, and the number of downloads worldwide has exceeded 50 million.

Computers are not as convenient as mobile phones, but with smartphones, users are rapidly becoming more entertained.

You know, this was the end of the nineties when entertainment was scarce.

After Zhou Xin arranged the work, everyone moved quickly.

The management of a team of four people is extremely efficient.

Not to mention that both Ashley and Stephen are shareholders, and they make 30% of the final earnings.

According to the estimate of a thousand paying users an hour, Angry Birds is enough to make them lie flat together.

On the other side, Wu Shiqiang returned to his workstation and opened the link given to him by Zhou Xin, and after clicking on it, he saw that the homepage was a red bird's head, surrounded by a circle of green pig's heads.

Underneath the bird's head are two words: angry birds

After clicking on it, he realized that it was a game.

The game's color scheme caught his eye, and this kind of bright animation style was very rare in this era.

The game is very simple and there is almost no learning barrier. Put the bird on the slingshot, adjust the angle, and smash down the fat house green pig hiding in the illegal building.

After playing the first ten simple levels, Wu Shiqiang saw the payment instructions.