Tuesday, November 1.

At this time, the capital has entered autumn, the heat has faded, the weather is gradually cooling, and the leaves of the trees on both sides of the road are gradually turning yellow, and they are falling down by the wind.

The crowd on the street wears everything, the frost-resistant ones are still wearing short-sleeved thin shirts, and the ones who are afraid of the cold have put on thin down jackets, but the most worn are windbreakers, jackets, and sweaters.

On the university campus, the bell rings for the end of class, and at the end of the last class of the morning, students pour out of the school building and into the school cafeteria.

Guan Rong ate a bite of food in the cafeteria with her classmates, and packed another one before leaving.

After a while, she returned to her bedroom, and when she entered, she placed her packed meal on the large table in the middle of the room, and patted the bed by the door.

"Wake up, I've got you back lunch!"

A girl in light yellow pajamas with messy hair on the top bunk opened her eyes, sat up slowly, and stretched.

She heard Guan Rong's words, saw the packaged rice on the table, and showed a sweet smile.

"Rong Rong, you're the best!"

As he spoke, he got up and got out of bed.

"Wow, Malatang~

I liked it the most, I was hungry."

As he spoke, he pulled out his chopsticks and was about to eat.

"By the way, Rong Rong, did you call me for those two classes in the morning?"

Guan Rong sat in front of her bed and turned on the computer.

"It's all helping, but fortunately, there are a lot of people in class today, and the teacher didn't care, so he got mixed up."

"Hee-hee, Rongrong, you are the most righteous!"

"I said can you control the time you play games in the future, just play during the day, stay up late, I'm afraid you will die suddenly before graduating from college."

Hearing the advice of her best friend, the game girl Gong Miao was also a little embarrassed.

"I made a copy with the guild last night, and then I watched two episodes of the TV series after I finished it, and when I reacted, it was almost dawn, so pay attention in the future."

Guan Rong didn't care about her, and logged on to Weibo to see what news was on it today.

"Huh? What is this APP? ”

"What's wrong?"

Hearing Guan Rong's voice, Gong Miao, who was eating spicy tang, raised her head and asked suspiciously.

"I saw that Gu Wei posted a new Weibo, saying that he had opened his account on [Douyin], and friends who like him can go to [Douyin] to watch him.

What is Douyin? ”

"I'll see, I'll see"

Gong Miao sat down next to Guan Rong with a spicy hot.

She and Guan Rong are both fans of Gu Wei, and every time Gu Wei has a new drama released, they will watch it as soon as possible, and Gu Wei's Weibo is a place where the two of them must brush every day.

However, she herself likes to play games in addition to chasing stars, while her best friend Guan Rong is not interested in games at all.

"It's true, it's a music short video APP, it should be similar to Kuaishou, Gu Wei is short-sighted, and it lowers his grade a bit."

Guan Rong picked up her phone from the bed.

"Don't worry so much, download it first."

"Yes, yes, yes"

Gong Miao didn't care about eating, so she went back to her bed, found her phone, entered the App Store, and found [Douyin] to start downloading.

After downloading the APP, she opened [Douyin], and after entering, Gu Wei's account automatically appeared in front of her.

In the mobile phone with a vertical screen, Gu Wei is wearing a light blue casual suit, only the upper half of his body is exposed, and the background is a white wall.

He greeted with a smile.

"Hello, everyone, I'm Gu Wei!

I am very happy to be the spokesperson of [Douyin], I will officially settle in [Douyin] in the future, we will be a family in the future, I hope you can pay more attention to me, like more, and then we can communicate more.

Remember to pay attention to me~

Than the heart! ”

As he spoke, Gu Wei raised one arm, pinched his thumb and index finger together, and looked at the camera.

"Wow! Gu Wei is so handsome, what he said is simply too sweet, I want to pay attention to him, I must pay attention to him!! ”

Gong Miao said and clicked on the red heart on the right side of the screen, and then focused on it again.

Guan Rong did the same operation as Gong Miao, she watched Gu Wei's video several times back and forth, and then slid her fingers up and began to scroll through other videos on Douyin.

Soon, she was attracted to some interesting music videos, which she thought were relatively simple and should be able to shoot them herself.

As soon as she thought of it, Guan Rong found a very popular video that only shot the finger dance of the upper body, and practiced according to the original version, and after a while, she recorded a version that she was more satisfied with.

Appreciate it yourself a few times and hit send.

This is the first work she posted after downloading [Douyin].

"Rong Rong, there is still class this afternoon, aren't you going?"

Gong Miao's voice came, Guan Rong reacted, she glanced at her phone, it was already a little more than a little bit.

"Oh no, play this [Douyin] and forget the time, you can't be late!"

Guan Rong was a little worried.

"It's okay, it's still too late, if you play for a while, you won't be in a hurry"

Gong Miao reminded on the side.

"Aren't you going in the afternoon?"

Guan Rong asked while packing up her things and taking out the books she was going to bring to class in the afternoon.

"Hehe, I won't go, I didn't go in the morning anyway, so I just gave myself a day off.

Okay Rongrong, in the afternoon experimental class, if the teacher doesn't pay attention, you can help me sign my name."

"I'm really convinced."

Guan Rong waved her hand to show that she knew, and then walked out of the bedroom quickly.

Since the first day of November, more than a dozen celebrities, including Gu Wei, have entered [Douyin], including Gu Wei and Yang Mi, who have tens of millions of super traffic on Weibo, as well as new first-line actresses in the circle such as Nazha and Zhang Tianai.

There is still a certain distance between [Miaopai] and [Meipai], but the catch-up speed is very amazing, and it has become a software with great potential recognized by the industry.

Beijing [ByteDance] headquarters.

"Mr. Gu, this time it's really thanks to you, this morning there was news from [Sequoia Fund], they almost recognized the current [ByteDance] valuation of 11 billion, and hope that we will start the D round of financing process as soon as possible."

In the president's office, Zhang Yiyi and Gu Wei sat opposite each other, he took a sip of the coffee in front of him, and smiled, obviously in a very good mood.

"[Sequoia Fund] is wise, whether it is $10 billion or $11 billion, they will definitely not lose money in the D round now, and they will make a lot of money because of this investment in the future!"

"Haha~ Mr. Gu, to be honest, I like you for this.

Every time I chat with you, I feel that you, as an investor and major shareholder, have a higher confidence in [ByteDance] than the founder of my company! ”

Gu Wei smiled slightly, of course he was confident that no one in this world knew better than him how influential [Douyin] would be in the future, and what kind of behemoth [ByteDance] would grow into.

"Now the top spot in the field of short videos has been firmly occupied by [Kuaishou], so far it has more than 300 million registered users, more than 40 million daily active users, and has also cultivated a lot of Internet celebrity V, this year's MC Tianyou is not very famous, his song [One person drunk and drunk] I have heard it, and the number of single fans has exceeded 10 million.

Although we have a good start now, there is still a big gap with [Kuaishou], and we still need to increase investment in the future, catch up with the pace of the other party little by little, and finally surpass. ”

Zhang Yiyi smiled and nodded.

"Rest assured, our team has the technology and strength to be more confident, this month [Douyin] added the function of finding contacts, opened QQ and Weibo ports, and has the diversion of Mr. Gu and many celebrities, I believe that by the beginning of next year, it is not a problem for APP downloads to exceed 100 million.

And we are about to launch a new recommendation mechanism and support plan: [centralized operation model].

This model focuses more on giving priority to supporting some users to become popular, and then driving ordinary users by improving the creative enthusiasm and stickiness of top users.

Coupled with the $1 billion financial support after the D round of financing, the company will invest huge publicity resources into the operation of [Douyin].

In the future, [Douyin] will definitely become the real boss in the field of short videos! ”

Now Zhang Yiyi is full of confidence, he feels that he has won a hand of Wang Bang, and it is unreasonable if he doesn't win.

[ByteDance] itself has technology, and its unique algorithm and push technology are also unique in the industry.

Externally, there is Gu Wei, a major shareholder, sending traffic, with Gu Wei's popularity and popularity, to "milk" [Douyin], the newly launched APP, the traffic is like a river pouring in, you can imagine how other companies in the same industry are now red-eyed.

Finally, the D round of financing, which was completed immediately, brought a large amount of money to the company, so that he did not have to worry about the money for future development.

It can be said that now is the right time, the right place, and the right people, and he Zhang Yiyi has never fought such a rich battle.

"You are so confident, I am relieved, you can always come to me if you need help in the future"

Gu Wei took a sip of the coffee in front of him, his elegant demeanor and handsome appearance made Zhang Yiyi on the other side admire in his heart, he is worthy of being the hottest star in China now, this appearance is completely God's appreciation for food, he is not popular.

"By the way, when our D round of financing is over, the market value of your shares will be close to 10 billion yuan, and the billionaires in their twenties are also the first in China, tsk."

Gu Wei raised his head, picked up the paper towel on the table and wiped the corner of his mouth stained with coffee foam.

"[ByteDance] will not be listed in a short period of time, and it is impossible for me to transfer shares, what difference does it make between one billion and ten billion for me, it is just some book wealth.

I'm not short of money."

Gu Wei's speech was a bit suspicious of pretending, but he was also telling the truth.

Compared with the economic value of [ByteDance] shares, he actually attaches more importance to the right to speak as a major shareholder of [Byte].

You must know that Weibo is also one of the shareholders of bytes, and these two future network traffic pools have a strong role in publicity, as a major shareholder, Gu Wei does not say that he will manipulate public opinion in the future, at least there is no problem in protecting himself from harm.

Although [Douyin] has its unique underlying push algorithm, if [Byte] manually intervenes, it doesn't want a piece of news to ferment, and it doesn't take much effort at all.

"I forgot, with your current fame, a year's income is probably higher than the net profit of many listed companies in a year, and it's certain that it's not bad for money.

And I remember that the [Detective Chinatown 2] you filmed a few months ago was produced by your own company, with a box office of 3.9 billion, although I don't know the way in your entertainment industry, but I also know that you must have made a lot of money in that movie. ”

Gu Wei touched his chin.

"It's okay, after removing the cost and all the shares, [Tang Detective 2] probably has more than 800 million net profits left"

In fact, when filming [Tang Detective 2], Gu Wei served as a director, screenwriter, and starring role, and took a total of 60 million in salary.

Coupled with the various product placement advertisements in the movie, almost at the time of filming, the investment of [Wei Mingxia] has already paid off.

The subsequent box office sharing is almost all pure profit.

Zhang Yiyi also took a breath after listening to what Gu Wei said.

It's not that he hasn't seen the world, this round of [ByteDance] is valued at 11 billion US dollars, and his old Zhang is worth more than 10 billion yuan, but he, a billionaire, is all in the valuation of the company, and now he has to work hard to take out 100 million in cash.

Even if there were a billion dollars that came in immediately, it would be money in the company's account, not his personal wealth.

Of course, if the company goes public in the later stage, he can cash out a little casually, and he can also get a lot of cash, which is also the reason why all the CEOs of the company want their companies to go public.

After chatting with Zhang Yiming for a while, Gu Weiwan refused his meal and came out of [ByteDance].

Hop on your bright black Rolls-Royce in Beijing and drive to The Peninsula Beijing.

The celebration banquet of the [Mekong Operation] breaking 2 billion yuan was held there today.

When Gu Wei arrived, the banquet was about to start, and Yu Dong personally went outside to greet him.

"Yu Dong, don't be so polite, I'm scared of what you're doing."

Outside the banquet hall, Gu Wei looked at Yu Dong, who came to pick him up, and smiled politely.

"What's the matter, Mr. Gu, we are the closest partners, and I should do this."

With a smile on his face, Yu Dong welcomed Gu Wei in extremely enthusiastically.

Different from the previous celebration of [Tang Detective 2], [Bona Film and Television] invited a lot of media to attend today, and the publicity significance of the entire celebration was greater than the celebration.

The main creator and his party stood in the center of the stage.

Yu Dong stood in the middle, and Lin Chaoxian and Gu Wei stood on his left and right.

The crew pushes up a large sculpture made of ice cubes, with a front 2 and a 9 zeros in the back.

Then, under the witness of the media, everyone waved the small hammer in their hands together and smashed the ice sculpture.

[Operation Mekong] is a blockbuster with the main theme, and it can sell 2 billion at the box office, which is unexpected, but it is reasonable.

Thank you Director Lin, Gu Wei, Han Wei and all the main creators of the movie, it is your dedication to shoot such an excellent work.

I would like to announce here that during the National Day holiday, when the national security officers, armed police officers and soldiers, and firefighters were on duty, many of them did not have time to watch the Mekong Operation because they were busy with work.

In response to this situation, [Bona Films] decided to thank the public security officers, armed police officers and soldiers, and fire officers and soldiers for their hard work for the country and the people.

From tomorrow, public security officers, armed police officers and soldiers, and fire officers and soldiers nationwide can watch the movie "Operation Mekong" for free at Bona's cinemas with proof of documents.

[Bona Films] hopes to pay tribute to the anti-drug officers and policemen who are fighting on the front line in this way, and hopes that this film can be seen by more people's compatriots, so as to show the spirit of "not forgetting history, heroes will always be there". ”

After Yu Dong finished speaking, everyone at the scene, including the media, burst into warm applause.

After he finished speaking, the microphone was handed to Lin Chaoxian's hand again, and Director Lin also expressed his thoughts after the movie was a big hit.

Originally, Yu Dong wanted Gu Wei to say a few words, but he smiled and shook his head and refused.

[Operation Mekong] was a big hit, and he had enough limelight, so there was no need to say anything at the celebration.

(End of chapter)