Bright Star Road [Entertainment]

When Li Wei said that he wanted to reorganize AKids, Zhou Xiao was indeed shocked, but then he also knew that this might be just an unrealistic dream.Among the five sons of AKids back then, only myself and Li Wei were still in the entertainment circle, but they belonged to different brokerage companies; Zhu Wangbin was in an underground rock band, and basically had no connection with the mainstream entertainment circle; Some activities related to campus sports will show up, and the rest of the time he will be his middle school physical education teacher with peace of mind; as for Long Hai, he entered the financial industry after quitting the firm, and then he almost disappeared.And even if Li Wei can find everyone together, AKids' logo and song copyright are all in Smart's office, and it is almost impossible to obtain authorization.

However, Zhou Xiao didn't deliberately hit Li Wei's self-confidence. Instead, after eating with Li Wei, he continued to return to the recording studio to help Li Wei complete the recording of the remaining songs in the album.Perhaps it was because Li Wei was in a good mood, or maybe Zhou Xiao's encouragement and comments were just right, so Li Wei completed the recording of five songs in one day today, and the recording progress of the album reached one-third.Li Wei is still very satisfied with this progress. If Zhou Xiao, a foreign aid, is not suitable for appearing in the company frequently, otherwise the "miracle" of recording an album a week may not necessarily not happen.

When Li Wei finished recording the last song of the day, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.For dinner, the two randomly mixed the sukiyaki left over from noon together with some other dishes, and then ate hastily with some sushi.Li Wei asked Zhou Xiao to wait for him in the parking garage downstairs first, while he went to an ice cream shop called "Rainbow Summer Love" in the East China Sea Center Building to buy their classic rainbow assorted fruit flavored milk ice cream.

When Li Wei handed the ice cream to Zhou Xiao in the underground garage, Zhou Xiao asked rather dumbfounded: "Is this a farewell gift for dating a girl? Milk ice cream, I'm not a girl, I won't be coaxed of."

"I just think the ice cream in this ice cream shop is delicious, don't overthink it." Of course, Li Wei denied Zhou Xiao's guess.

Seeing Li Wei's serious eyes, Zhou Xiao had no choice but to try to take a bite.It turns out that the ice cream in this ice shop is really special, the milk is not greasy, and the fruit taste is very rich and refreshing.So Zhou Xiao ate with satisfaction.

Seeing Zhou Xiao eating happily, Li Wei also laughed, "Let me tell you, this ice shop is first-class. But you are a singer, you can eat a few once in a while, don't eat too much in a day, Don't eat it every day, it's not so good for the throat. Shall we go?"

After Li Wei sent Zhou Xiao back to his community, he drove back to the office.Because tomorrow is a working day, and it's still Monday's regular meeting, of course Li Wei can't live outside, lest Su Li misunderstand it and it won't look good.

With Zhou Xiao's help, Li Wei's dwelling has been cleaned up. The newly bought perfume lilies and champagne roses have begun to release their fragrances, and the fresh fruit bowls are placed on the bedside table, creating a faint fragrance atmosphere.Li Wei took a bath, and then sat on the sofa, reading a collection of poetry and listening to a new vinyl record released overseas.Li Wei has a special hobby for poetry, whether it is metrical poetry or free poetry, Li Wei will not refuse.Because poetry has cultivated Li Wei's aesthetic feeling in writing lyrics, and at the same time, the lyrics that are particularly close to the heart can also inspire Li Wei's creation.After Li Wei flipped through a few pages of the poetry collection, he saw Su Li's phone call.

As soon as Li Wei pressed the answer button, he heard Su Li's extremely excited voice, "I said Li Wei, have you read the work email sent by the Hulu project team today? Now our registered users of Hulu have reached 500 million , the number of paid users is as high as 300 million, far exceeding the performance of other products. I remember when you explained Internet products before, you said that paying users can reach one-tenth of registered users is considered a success; It was almost a miracle. We performed a miracle!"

"It's too early to create miracles. The users who come in now are users who have special needs for animation and overseas TV dramas. Their willingness to pay is much higher than that of ordinary users. After a month of our large-scale promotion, we will see Paying users will be more objective." Li Wei said with a smile, "At tomorrow's regular meeting, we will start to make plans for the promotion of Hulu. The first wave of promotion will last until the end of the year, and the target users are Two-dimensional hobbies. In addition, the accelerator and the client need to step up development. I hope that in the second wave of development, the client will be able to achieve multi-screen unification. By the way, if I am not wrong, then starting next week Someone will come to you to discuss investing in the Hulu project. You can tell these individuals and institutions who are interested in investing that Hulu’s A-round financing plan will be launched in the near future, and let these people and institutions come up with their plans. Then If Zhong sees an insincere offer, you can send it directly to the shredder, and you don’t need to show it to me.”

Internet products generally go through multiple rounds of financing, including angel rounds, A rounds, B rounds, and C rounds, from the prototype of the idea to the final listing, so that the product gradually emerges from an idea to a mature product.Generally speaking, the fewer rounds of financing, the greater the control of the original management over the company, and the greater the vitality of the company in the future.But this statement is not necessarily true, because some big products require multiple rounds of financing. After the C round, you can also conduct D, E, F, G, and H rounds of financing, as long as your equity is still sufficiently diluted.

Because Li Wei himself is not short of money, he invested in his own creative prototype and formed a team, so the angel round investment was actually completed by Li Wei.

Generally speaking, angel round investment does not see any formed products, and most of the time it depends on the composition of the team.So the joke in the investment world is that angel round investment is based on people, A round investment is based on products, B round investment is based on data, and C round investment is based on income... Basically, when it comes to C round investment, investors only look at dry goods.If you can make money, then investors will continue to come in to help you and let you continue to burn money; if you can’t make money, then the C round will be your final outcome.

The reason why Li Wei intends to raise funds is actually to realize the equity in his hands. After all, Li Wei's equity is 5% now, and controlling a company does not require such a high percentage of shares.According to Li Wei's idea, Li Wei plans to reserve 40% for the management as a reward, and the remaining 4% will be gradually sold in three rounds of financing, so as to accumulate enough cash flow for the company.As for the remaining [-]% of the equity, Li Wei intends to stay and award veteran employees in the future, which can be regarded as a reward for the employees.

After Li Wei stated his plan at the regular meeting on Monday, he was naturally welcomed by the management attending the meeting.As the company's executives, they do not directly enjoy the dividends of the project team, but the cash brought by the financing of the project team's equity can be enjoyed by the executives.And for the current management of Hulu.com, they are extremely happy to have taken away 5% of the equity in vain. According to the internal evaluation of the Huluwang project, 1% of the equity in Hulu.com is worth at least 500 million to 1000 million yuan. Now it is equivalent to their less than 5000-person management team receiving a reward of [-] million yuan in vain.No

But if Li Wei knew about it, he would scold the management for being too low-sighted.Li Wei's idea is that as soon as Hulu.com goes public in the future, the executives of Hulu.com will at least be billionaires, and even the aunt who sweeps the floor will have to get a big red envelope of tens of thousands of yuan!

After giving the Huluwang project a date, Li Wei immediately swung the stick again, "We will start the promotion of Huluwang in the whole country next week at the latest. How is the progress of the accelerator? Also, next year's Spring Festival The second round of promotion will be carried out before, and I want you to guarantee that at that time, the clients of mobile phones, computers, and smart TVs have all been completed, if not, the 5% of the equity will be gone!"

"Leaders, please rest assured that the accelerator 'Xunkan' has been basically completed. We are currently conducting alpha testing, and it is estimated that we will be able to conduct beta testing next week. If there are no problems with the beta testing, then next month it can be used as the official version It’s released.” Deng Jiaqi, the project manager of Hulu.com, immediately came out and explained, “As for our client Hulu APP, the PC version has been completed, and the Windows system and MacOS system are compatible; the mobile version has completed the development of the Android version, and the iOS The version is still under development; the smart TV version is currently in the same progress as the Android version. We estimate that we can conduct internal alpha testing for these versions at the end of next month, and then conduct a month to two months of beta testing before the end of the year. On the line."

Li Wei is satisfied with the Hulu project, but he is most concerned about the development of the WeChat project. "What is the progress of our WeChat? How is the development progress of the mobile version? What about the computer version? Are the two interoperable?"

"At present, the basic functions of the mobile version and the computer version have been realized. But we have some doubts about the registration mechanism. If it is a mobile version, it is understandable that the mobile phone number is used as a registered account, but we cannot require computer users to also use mobile numbers. As an account registration and authentication tool? Many non-mobile users are very repulsed by this." WeChat project manager Zhao Yichen said.

"It doesn't matter. When registering and using WeChat on a mobile phone, the mobile phone number and WeChat ID are bound to each other, and the email address is used as a supplementary authentication; while on the computer version, the WeChat ID is bound to the email address, and the mobile phone number is used as a supplementary authentication." Li Wei replied. "If a mobile phone user wants to use it on a computer, he must verify his email address; and vice versa. Users naturally know how to choose."

Li Wei is very aware of the user's choice. With the widespread use of mobile phones, the role of e-mail will inevitably be reduced.

"In addition, WeChat should retain the entrance of our value-added services. We are firstly the red diamond of avatars; the yellow diamond of blog space and the blue diamond of mobile games."

Although Li Wei plans to launch diamond value-added services, he still doesn't want to be as ruthless as the Penguin Empire on the earth plane.For example, a blue diamond represents the VIP service of most games, and there will be no more black diamonds, colored diamonds, etc.After all, at present, Li Wei only needs to control the user's Internet access channel through WeChat, and finally charges through the channel.

"We estimate that we can complete the black box and white box testing within this year, and then conduct the first round of alpha testing. Before taking it out for beta testing, we need about two to three rounds of alpha testing internally. So it is estimated that it may take until next year Beta testing will only be possible in the second quarter." Zhao Yichen said, "If we need to speed up the progress, then we may need to increase manpower."

"There is no problem with increasing manpower, and the alpha test must be completed within the year. Then the beta version will be provided to the majority of users for testing as soon as possible. In the beta version, you only need to ensure that there are no problems with the core functions. We can find out the problems of other functions as we go. Improve." Li Wei replied.

To be continued...