America's Road to Fame

Chapter 26 Magic Mike
Another thing is that Nelson needs to get in touch with the Twitter company. The scale of Twitter is not large now, and William Chen knows that the era of mobile Internet has begun, and in his previous life, the development of Twitter was also good, with a market value of over [-] billion US dollars .Therefore, after discovering that there is only one company with the best development in this kind of "Weibo" product in the United States, I decided to invest in or acquire this company.

William Chen hoped that Nelson would help him get in touch with this company first, sort out the detailed information for himself, and then conduct a test, the best acquisition can be made, and the worst investment should be made to hold as many shares as possible.

Soon, Nelson sent some information about Twitter to William Chen. He saw that it was not much different from his previous impression, so he was a little relieved.

Twitter was founded at the end of March 2006. The original design of Twitter was to allow users to send messages anytime, anywhere to publish their own dynamics and ideas, and provided the most convenient way - short messages on mobile phones.

Users only need to use their mobile phones to send messages to Twitter's number, and their followers (followers) will receive the message.At that time, there was a character limit for each text message (SMS) on a mobile phone, and Twitter messages were set to 140 characters, which was the same as the initial setting of Weibo used by William Chen in China in his previous life.

Twitter got off to a big start at SXSW in 2007 and has grown exponentially since then. In 2007, the total number of tweets per quarter was 40. By 2009, the number of tweets per day on Twitter has exceeded 2000 million. From this, we can also see the speed of Twitter's development.

However, the development of Teitter has not always been smooth. Last year, there were twists and turns. The founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, had disagreements with his hand-picked Evan Williams. In the end, the company’s board of directors decided to support Teitter. Evan, who succeeded Jack Dorsey as CEO, and Jack Dorsey left Twitter as a result.

But Chen William knows that this is not the end of Twitter's management infighting, but just the beginning.After a few years, the founder Jack Dorsey will return to Twitter as CEO and clean up the management, and then a few years later, he will be replaced by an Indian CTO again and leave the company.

In William Chen’s previous life, the development of Twitter was not as good as Facebook and other similar companies, and the stock price was often unstable. The most important reason was that there were too many management changes, which not only failed to continue the execution of the strategy, but also gave people the impression that the company was not mature feeling.

But buying or investing in Twitter at this time is still a very cost-effective deal, and if he can have a greater say in the company, it can also help the company stabilize and maybe allow the company to have better development.

From the information collected by Nielsen, we can see that so far, Twitter has conducted two rounds of financing. The first round of financing was carried out in July 2007. The specific amount is not clear, it should be between 7 million and 100 million US dollars.

Twitter's B round of financing was completed in May 2008, with an estimated amount of $5 million. This round of financing valued Twitter at approximately $1500 million.

According to Nielsen's estimates, Twitter's current development speed, if acquired, should be valued at more than $2 million.

William Chen naturally doesn't care about this. He knows that in the mobile Internet era in the future, as long as this company can develop smoothly without making too many mistakes, it is very possible that the market value will exceed 1000 billion U.S. dollars. It can be said that it is very cost-effective to win this company.

So he authorized Nielsen to start contacting Twitter to explore the feasibility of an overall acquisition of the company.

In the past two days, Chen William spent most of his time at the "New York Observer", planning the transformation of the newspaper with editor-in-chief Kaplan and network editor-in-chief Allen.

In his previous life, William Chen’s last backstab of his wife was in a related industry, so he still had some understanding of the future development of paper media. He combined the development of paper media that had successfully transformed in the Internet age Experience, as well as the current situation of the newspaper office, already have a basic idea.

In William Chen’s previous life, how to transform paper media into the digital age was a problem that many traditional media had to face. Some of them disappeared in the process, while others developed well. After learning from those successful cases, he , proposed several directions for Kaplan and Allen:
First of all, users still need original, in-depth and professional reports at any time.

Just like when William Chen was in his previous life, during the development of the mobile Internet, many self-media and official accounts appeared. At the beginning, those exaggerated and eye-catching reports really made readers feel novel and attracted a large number of fans, but After a long time, too many headlines and the content of the opening picture are all made up of false reports, making readers less and less able to trust those self-media, and instead look forward to information from credible media.

Therefore, in the future, the "New York Observer" needs to continue to insist on objective, fair, in-depth and professional reports, constantly strengthen the power of editing and editing, and at the same time establish a mechanism to give more opportunities to capable content creators.

Then it is necessary to enhance the field of Internet media, and he has talked with Allen about these.At present, we still need to continue to recruit relevant personnel. Among the employees of the newspaper office, those who are good at this aspect can also be absorbed into the Internet department. The electronic version of the "New York Observer" must be differentiated from the content of paper newspapers, and the electronic version of the newspaper must be more oriented towards young people.

These things were ordered, and the specific execution was carried out by Kaplan and Allen respectively.At the end of the conversation, William Chen took out his iPhone 3GS, gestured to them, and said:

"I don't know what you two think about smartphones? I think we have entered the era of mobile intelligence. From now on, people's reading habits will change. Smartphones will replace books and newspapers and become the main carrier of public reading." , so we need to adapt to this change. In the future, we need to develop our own mobile APP to occupy the fragmented time of users. In the near future, people may no longer read newspapers by the way while having breakfast, but use smartphones, Read in fragmented time, or even on the way to work, learn about news through audiobooks on our mobile app."

"So in the future, we may no longer have a huge distribution department, or even paper newspapers, but our readership will be greatly expanded. The charm of the Internet is that it can break the need for traditional newspaper distribution. Faced with geographical restrictions, our content is put on the Internet, and the target group is no longer just a small New York area, but the whole of the United States and even the whole world.”

Hearing William Chen's outlook on the future, Kaplan and Allen had contemplative expressions on their faces.The change of the times brings new challenges to this industry, and even many traditional methods must be changed.

For William Chen, when he thought of this, the first thing that popped into his mind was Jinri Toutiao in his previous life. However, he also knew that the format of Jinri Toutiao was not suitable for reading from serious news like the New York Observer. He has another plan for incubating in the media.

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Have a new event?

When William Chen woke up in the morning and habitually opened the Future Bank panel to check, he found that the [Activity] column was flashing, which also meant that there were new activities.

Paris didn't come to stay at his house last night. She called earlier and told William Chen that she was going to attend an event and needed to leave New York for two days.

However, William Chen suspected that, judging from her performance the previous two nights and the joy she couldn't hide when she spoke, it could not be ruled out that she was suffering from the hard work of fighting against him every night and wanted to temporarily escape for a two-day break.

At this time, William Chen opened the [Activity] panel, and after seeing the new activity, his face showed joy.

[Full Moon Reward] Congratulations to the user who has been a customer of the bank for a full month, and will receive a lucky draw once.

Only then did William Chen realize that today is already July 7th, and it has been a full month since the Future Bank was activated.But what he is most concerned about at this moment is the lottery that the system presents. He wonders what he can reward himself on this happy day?

He looked at the lottery button under the [Full Moon Rewards] event, and suddenly hesitated. He remembered that he still had a [Lucky Perfume] in his inventory, should he spray it first to add some luck to himself before drawing a lottery?But thinking that there will be a wave of gold market soon, I still want to use the [Lucky Perfume] to increase the amount increase rate of the [Random Temporary Amount Card], it seems that that is more important, after all, a few times more is an increase of hundreds of millions of the investment capital.

Thinking of this, William Chen decided not to use the lucky perfume for the time being.But since a lottery is needed.Then there is still a basic sense of ritual.He got up from the bed, went into the bathroom, and took a good shower first.

Lucky draw, bathing and changing clothes are the basic operations.After tidying up everything, William Chen opened the event interface, prayed silently in his heart, and pressed the lottery button.

He only saw a slot machine appearing in front of him, and then the panel of the slot machine began to scroll rapidly. When the scrolling on the panel gradually slowed down until it stopped, a burst of special effects appeared, and he saw the display "The prizes have been distributed to Inventory" hint.

Is it that hasty?I haven't seen clearly what item I just drew, William Chen complained casually.But he thought.Even if there was something shady about the system lottery draw, he didn't know anyway, so he just accepted it intelligently, so why bother himself.

Opening the inventory, William Chen saw the new item that appeared at the end——

[Magic Mike] Another World is a comedy film produced by Warner Bros. Pictures in 2012, directed by Steven Soderbergh, Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer and Matthew McConaughey and others co-starred.The cost of the film was US$700 million, with a North American box office of US$1.13 million and a global box office of US$1.67 million.

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