Rebirth 2006, creating a super consortium

After mobilizing all employees, An Xin brought a dozen senior executives to the conference room and began to discuss Weibo's next response strategy.

"Weidong, the technical department must be well prepared for the launch of Weibo 2.0, and the development of Weibo 3.0 and Weibo 4.0 should be accelerated as appropriate!"

He Weidong was silent for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "I can issue a military order! All employees in the technical department must complete Weibo 3.0 within a week and Weibo 20 within 4.0 days!"

An Xin almost couldn't hold back after hearing this, and quickly shook her head to deny it, "Good fellow, you are more like a capitalist than I am!

I'm not asking the technical department to work all night, but I want you to recruit more technical personnel to speed up the development progress through the advantage of numbers. Don't be afraid to spend money! "

He Weidong breathed a sigh of relief and nodded immediately, "I see. In fact, the technical department is already handling the relevant recruitment work. More than 100 interviews have been scheduled in the next three days. It is estimated that we can recruit about 50 people!"

"very good!"

An Xin nodded in satisfaction and asked, "By the way, Weidong, how long do you estimate it will take for Penguin to copy Weibo 1.0?"

"If it's fast, it'll be 10 days; if it's slow, it'll be 15 days!"

"Then let's calculate it as 10 days!"

Anxin decided to deal with the subsequent response strategy as quickly as possible.

Then he turned his head to look at Zhao Rui, and said with a smile: "Zhao Rui, tell me, what do you think about facing the penguin."

Zhao Rui nodded and said easily, "To be honest, I was not a practitioner in the Internet industry before, so I don't have any special feelings about Penguin.

I think Penguin actually has only one advantage, which is the massive number of users brought by its monopoly. Apart from that, Penguin’s marketing and promotion is not worth mentioning.”

He Fang shook her head and immediately retorted: "Director Zhao, Penguin doesn't actually need any sophisticated marketing methods. After all, they have a huge number of users in the field of instant messaging, so they can get twice the result with half the effort."

Zhao Rui spread his hands towards He Fang and said with a smile: "So what if we can get twice the result with half the effort? I think everyone seems to overestimate Penguin. You know, in the field of instant social networking, we are the first mover on Weibo and we are far ahead!

We already have over 2000 million registered users and have obtained exclusive signing rights with over 1000 celebrities.

Even if Penguin transfers all of its more than 100 million registered users to the fake Weibo in the future, what will be the use?

What about the content? What about the traffic core? What about the playability?

Oh, and how do we resolve the exclusive signing rights of these more than 1000 stars and celebrities?

You want to poach people, right?

Okay, give each person a breach of contract fee of 100 million yuan. I just don’t know whether the Penguin board of directors is willing to pay a breach of contract fee of up to 10 billion yuan.

Besides, we have also formulated subsequent plans for version updates, KOL cultivation, media entry, variety show sponsorship, etc., which further increase Weibo's core competitiveness.

So I want to ask you, how do you lose when flying dragon on the face? "

clap clap clap...

After patiently listening to Zhao Rui's long speech, An Xin stood up and applauded him.

Daigo empowerment!

Zhao Rui's remarks directly awakened An Xin!

He had previously thought the penguin was too scary, treating it as the giant of the future!

In fact, in the current instant social field, Penguin has no advantage over Weibo!

After changing his mindset, An Xin glanced at the executives and said with a smile, "Zhao Rui said it very well! In the field of instant social networking, our advantages are too great! We can't see the possibility of losing!

Of course, we cannot relax because of this. We still need to prepare the necessary response strategies and then use the ironclad facts to tell all competitors: in the field of instant social networking, there can only be one king, Weibo!"

clap clap clap...

Warm applause instantly broke out in the conference room. Apparently, after this in-depth analysis, everyone had completely gotten over their fear of facing penguins…

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"Martin, are you saying that CEO An of Micro Times not only rejected our acquisition, but also offered to buy us for $48 billion?"

Liu Chiping smiled bitterly and nodded, "Yes!"

After getting the confirmation, Ma Huateng was stunned for a moment!

But he quickly reacted, and smiled as he spread his hands to the executives present, and said cheerfully: "This CEO An from Micro Times is really a wonderful person, he dares to brag about anything, Martin, why don't you just agree to him? I really want to see how this CEO An comes up with 48 billion US dollars, hahaha!"

"Hahahaha!"

Penguin executives burst into laughter upon hearing this, and the atmosphere in the conference room instantly became joyful...

But Liu Chiping not only did not laugh, but his expression became even more serious.

On the way back, he thought carefully about Anxin and Micro Times Company.

The more I think about it, the more I realize that if Penguin is really willing to sell, An Xin might be able to come up with $48 billion to complete the acquisition.

"Martin, you look a little unsociable!"

Hearing Ma Huateng's ridicule, Liu Chiping forced a smile and then said in a deep voice: "Pony, Anxin is a bit weird. Maybe he can really come up with 48 billion US dollars to acquire Penguin."

"what?"

"WTF?"

"Just kidding?"

Laugh, why aren't you laughing?!

Liu Chiping glanced at the executives who were all in a daze, and thought with some evil humor in his heart.

But Liu Chi Ping quickly adjusted his state, and then said with a bit of bitterness: "I roughly calculated the investment of Micro Times Company in the Weibo project.

As of today, Weibo has burned through at least 2500 million yuan, and has basic expenses of more than 600 million yuan per month.

In fact, this does not include the never-ending marketing and promotion expenses. If all of them were counted, it would be estimated that at least 1 million yuan in cash would be needed every year to maintain the Weibo business.

It’s hard to say whether he can afford $48 billion, but I personally tend to think he has the channels to get the money.”

Ma Huateng and a group of senior executives looked at each other after hearing this. No one spoke for a while and the atmosphere in the meeting room suddenly became awkward.

"Cough cough!"

Ma Huateng cleared his throat and said with a serious expression: "Martin, Zhang Zhidong, Xu Chenye, Zeng Liqing, Chen Yici, the five of you stay, and the others go out first."

The other executives did not dare to say much. They stood up and left the meeting room one after another. Soon, only the five Tencent tigers and Liu Chih-ping were left in the huge meeting room.

Ma Huateng took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, distributed them to the other five people, and then took out a cigarette himself. He then took out a lighter, lit it, took a deep puff, and slowly exhaled the smoke before muffledly commanding, "Martin, repeat the whole process."

Liu Chiping nodded when he heard this, quickly organized his thoughts, and then recounted the entire meeting process to everyone in detail.

"If we can't be colleagues, we can only be enemies? Isn't that a bit childish?"

After listening to the whole process carefully, Ma Huateng asked Liu Chiping with a little doubt.

Liu Chiping shook his head and said, "I don't think it's childish. His expression is very serious and he's obviously not joking."

"Is this person too prejudiced against penguins? Why is he staring at us?"

"He said copycat is our Penguin's business style..."

"Cough cough!"

Ma Huateng was instantly choked by the smoke. After taking a breath, he immediately said in a cold voice: "He wants to be an enemy, right? Then we will help him!

Zhidong, is it okay to launch Penguin Weibo within 10 days?"

Zhang Zhidong nodded and said, "No problem!"

"very good!"

Ma Huateng was very satisfied, and then turned to look at Chen Yici, smiling and said: "Yici, you should contact Deputy Mayor Chen more often during this period. After all, we are a giant Internet company rooted in Shenzhen. How can the city allow any cat or dog to bark at us?"

Once Chen understood what Ma Huateng meant, he smiled and said, “I understand. I will handle the relevant issues. After the Penguin Weibo is online, I will give President An a little shock!”

Ma Huateng nodded slightly with satisfaction, and then slowly said to the five people present: "The first batch of project development funds for Penguin Weibo is set at 1 million yuan! Okay, let's get busy. Develop what needs to be developed, contact those who need to contact, and connect channels with those who need to connect!

Anyway, the core of our Penguin's future development is to fully support the Penguin Weibo project!

We must let Mr. An see what the Penguin heritage is!"

"Ok!"

"Roger that!"

"no problem!"

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