Chapter 613 Lin Lu’s mother sends “equipment”
"Well said!"
"For Internet companies, losing imagination means losing everything!" Zhang Yiming sighed wildly in his heart.
This sentence resonated greatly with him.
This is why he is eager to find new breakthroughs for Byte!
Cheng Zhu knew it very well, and of course he would resonate with it.
Because this is what he said himself many years later, hehe.
——All I said were your words!
The dog man has said all his future lines, doesn't it hit the heart directly?
Zhang Yiming suddenly felt that even if they were not here to discuss cooperation today, but just to chat and learn from each other, this trip would be worth it.
Cheng Zhu said, "After listening to Mr. Zhang's talk, I now understand why Mr. Zhang is so obsessed with making short videos."
"But I still have a confusion. Why did you choose me? Or, why did you choose to invest in Youqu? Is it because the product made by Youqu is very similar to the product that your team wanted to make before?" Cheng Zhu asked.
Zhang Yiming nodded and said, "To be precise, it's because of Youqu's positioning."
He continued: “Now, Miaopai is fully embedded in the Weibo client.”
"Xiao Ka Xiu follows the route of celebrities + internet celebrities, and invites various celebrities and internet celebrities to join the platform."
"Weishi relies on the social traffic support of Penguin. Of course, you and I both know that Weishi has now been marginalized within Penguin, and it can be eliminated from discussion."
"The best-performing block-makers actually follow a similar path to Wang Xin's rice group, mainly rooting in third-tier and lower-tier cities, and even in towns, relying on the sinking market and taking the path of 'surrounding the cities from the countryside'."
“From this perspective, there is actually not much room for innovation in the short video category.”
“But Mr. Cheng’s Yuzuqu coincides with our team’s initial idea!”
“Whether it’s product positioning or the algorithm approach, it’s highly consistent with our vision!”
When Zhang Yiming said this, a smile appeared on his face, and he joked: "If it weren't for the people in Mr. Cheng's team, I don't know any of them, I might have overestimated it, hahahaha."
Cheng Zhu, the "thief" of the Douyin business empire, sat in front of him with a dignified manner, smiling peacefully:
"Yes, what a coincidence!"
"Haha, it's fate, it's fate!"
Oh, why am I not blushing at all? I’m so bad!
Having already talked about this, Zhang Yiming said directly: "Of course, I think Mr. Cheng should have also referred to the overseas short video platform [Musical.ly]."
In fact, TikTok borrowed from it from the very beginning.
In response, Cheng Zhu just smiled and remained silent.
In fact, he didn't even reference Musical.ly.
This overseas APP is positioned to attract young girls in their teens and twenties.
Obviously, Youqu is more comprehensive.
This was also the positioning of Tik Tok at the beginning.
It was not until the summer of 2017 that this positioning was changed, mainly in conjunction with the word "trend".
Therefore, Cheng Zhu started with the second stage of Douyin and directly ignored the first stage.
Because that is too monotonous.
When talking about this overseas short video platform, Zhang Yiming was also considerate enough to give a few small hints.
He wanted Cheng Zhu to prepare early in case there would be a large number of negative articles after Youqu became popular, saying that Youqu plagiarized it.
The two of them just sat on the sofa and chatted all the time.
Cheng Zhu also gradually began to understand why Zhang Yiming was still so determined to make "Volcano".
The reason is simple - the hand is too Buddhist!
Yes, BlockHand is a very strange company.
It doesn't look like an Internet company at all.
Because it is too "conservative"!
Blockbuster obviously has no shortage of money, but it hardly does any promotion.
This is different from the vast majority of Internet companies.
Most Internet companies have strong operations.
Unlike Kuaishou, he has always been known for his Buddhist style.
When it comes to advertising, Kuaishou can be described as being quite "restrained".
This is the case at this stage.
In Cheng Zhu's memory, in his previous life, it was only after Kuaishou was overtaken by Douyin in daily active users and left it far behind that it began to engage in a head-on confrontation in publicity and operation and started to spend money like crazy.
But it's too late.
Whether it was Cheng Zhu or Zhang Yiming, neither of them could understand.
For example, now, although Kuaishou has hundreds of millions of US dollars in its account and is not short of money at all, it just doesn't put in any advertising and just lives a Buddhist life!
Perhaps it is because it has been in the right trend in the past two years and has not even had a decent direct competitor, so its development has been too smooth.
This made Zhang Yiming still feel that there was an opportunity to take advantage of.
After the TikTok plan was abandoned, he chose to invest in Youqu and insisted on developing Volcano.
Cheng Zhu would definitely be happy to see this happen.
The reason is simple, he knows that [Volcano] is useless.
But in the future, some of the shortcomings of [Youqu] can be made up.
Just swallow it and that's it!
"Boss Bao, come on! Will I be nice to you?" Cheng Zhu thought of the "King of Mergers and Acquisitions" again in his heart.
Around eleven o'clock in the morning, Cheng Zhu called Zhang Sixing to the office and asked him to come and talk with Zhang Yiming.
Because rumors have it: At the end of 2012, when the industry generally recognized that personalized recommendation technology was not mature, Zhang Yiming, who had a technical background, wrote the first version of the personalized recommendation engine himself.
After many iterations, this technology was naturally applied to TikTok.
To put it simply, today's ByteDance and today's Zhang Yiming are the experts in algorithms in China!
The God of Algorithms!
Zhang Sixing is indeed an excellent technical talent.
But his experience in this area is definitely not comparable to Zhang Yiming's.
"It will be right to let him come and learn from the masters." Cheng Zhu thought.
Now, he has made the decision and is willing to accept ByteDance's investment.
Then, we will all be family from now on.
He also did not ask the ByteDance team to teach him everything they knew about algorithms, as this was unrealistic.
After all, this thing is the foundation of Toutiao, and it can even be said to be the foundation of ByteDance.
But it wouldn’t be too much if everyone communicated more and learned from each other, right?
Moreover, according to Cheng Zhu's plan, he will make a large-scale investment in Youqu in 2016.
Once the number of daily active users exceeds 10 million, he will start preparing for the [personalized recommendation information flow advertising model].
This is a highly efficient business monetization model.
However, efficient commercial monetization has always been the shortcoming of most start-up Internet companies!
Zhang Yiming also recommended a PhD named Cao to the two of them. He is one of the most senior algorithm architects in the country.
In addition, Zhang Yiming also made another wave of friendly reminders.
"Mr. Cheng, I believe that Youqu will stand out in the future just like Toutiao, relying on its technological advantages and Internet product methodology. However, based on my experience, the practice of using machines and algorithms to crawl content will often cause us to be sued by copyright holders for copyright infringement."
He also laughed and joked: "I am quite experienced in this area."
This man with a friendly smile has become accustomed to being sued since last year.
"We [Toutiao] have been conducting extensive copyright cooperation and have reached cooperative relations with thousands of media outlets."
"Mr. Cheng can pay more attention to this aspect," he said.
Upon hearing this, Cheng Zhu nodded solemnly.
These are all people’s experiences, or even lessons learned from blood!
He is just a reborn person, not a know-it-all.
For a project to be truly successful, there are many uncertainties.
It doesn't mean that he has been reborn, and he seems to be able to have smooth sailing just because he has a connection.
There were many undercurrents that he had never seen with his vision in his previous life, so there was no way he could predict them early.
It was not until almost noon that Zhang Yiming left the office building where Youqu was located.
Cheng Zhu and Zhang Sixing accompanied him all the way to the elevator.
"It's been a fruitful harvest." He sighed.
Zhang Sixing stood beside him and nodded seriously.
Before parting, they made an appointment for the next meeting.
The next meeting is scheduled for next week.
Zhang Yiming will bring a young woman named Zhang Nan with him, who will be responsible for the specific operations of Volcano.
As one of the "three Zhangs" of ByteDance, Cheng Zhu is very familiar with the name Zhang Nan.
Both Volcano and Tik Tok were launched under her leadership.
And she was quite pretty when she was young.
There are many different opinions about her personal background on the Internet, and it is almost impossible to find the school she graduated from.
Some people say that she is just an ordinary second-tier art student, some say that she graduated from Tsinghua University, and some say that she actually has a mysterious background and that her blood is very red.
However, putting all this aside, Zhang Nan's personal abilities are quite strong.
ByteDance once had a flagship product called Neihan Duanzi.
But Zhang Nan first worked for Qiubai, a rival of Neihan Duanzi.
Later, she started her own business, and her entrepreneurial project was acquired by Zhang Yiming.
After joining ByteDance, she began to be responsible for the work of Neihan Duanzi.
Compared with Weibo, the route of the connotation jokes led by Zhang Nan is more down-to-earth.
"Target 'diaosi' users" and "take advantage of users' fragmented time to keep them coming back to view pictures."
Under her leadership, the users of Neihan Duanzi began to form a community. "Duanzi friends" became a kind of identity, and some people put white "Neihan Duanzi TV" stickers on the rear of their cars.
When friends meet at a traffic light, they will honk their horns to signal, "Beep~Beep", one long and two short. If they match the signal, they are friends.
When it comes to UGC community products, this woman is pretty awesome.
After taking over the two projects, Tik Tok and Volcano, she made great contributions in the early stages.
It is really enviable to have such elite soldiers and generals under your command.
But Cheng Zhu thought again: "I also have Ningning."
He was no longer envious in an instant.
But, how should I put it, Cheng Zhu was quite looking forward to meeting Zhang Nan.
In the afternoon, he became busy in the company and finished all the things that needed to be dealt with in the next two days.
Since today is Christmas Eve, he also received an invitation to dinner from Zhang Qiqi, who also said that she bought him a peace apple.
Cheng Zhu naturally refused immediately.
"You are the most clueless one." He judged in his mind.
"Someone like Yiyi wouldn't look for me on a holiday like this. Even if she doesn't know Xiaolu's birthday is Christmas, she won't put pressure on me on holidays." Cheng Zhu thought.
As soon as he thought of this, he started sending WeChat messages to Lin Lu.
"My little beauty, could you please have dinner with me tonight?"
"Beauty, please think about it." Lin Lu replied.
Three seconds later, she sent a message: "I've thought about it, I'd like to give you the honor."
"Okay, then think about what to eat. I'll be busy for a while. I'll pick you up after get off work around five o'clock." Cheng Zhu typed.
"Okay, okay~"
After putting down the phone, Lin Lu went downstairs and said to her mother Meng Yue, who was on holiday today, "Sister Yue, I'm going out for dinner. Please tell Auntie that you don't have to cook for me."
"With Cheng Zhu?" asked Meng Yue, who was not wearing a coat at home and only a gray turtleneck sweater.
At this moment, the deer was also wearing a turtleneck sweater, but it was black.
If the mother and daughter sit together, the picture will be absolutely spectacular thanks to the slimming properties of the sweater.
"Well, he came to pick me up after get off work." Xiaolu admitted frankly.
"You're not going to eat at home tomorrow. You're going to celebrate your birthday with your boyfriend, right?" Meng Yue looked at her and started teasing her daughter.
"Hehe, who knows!" said the milk deer with a smile.
"Look at you!" Meng Yue looked helpless.
After her daughter went back to her room, she sat in the living room and suddenly remembered something.
Last time, after the mother and daughter had a frank talk, she only made one request to her daughter, which was that girls should learn to protect themselves and not get pregnant.
Meng Yue has read a lot of news and Weibo, saying that our country is very lacking in X education.
At that time, even with Xiaolu's lively personality, he couldn't continue the conversation and went back to his room in embarrassment.
The next day, Meng Yue actually went to buy a box set for her daughter and placed it on the bedside table in her room.
At her age, she really understands men.
She thinks it is better for girls to carry some family planning products with them, such as in the car or in their wallet.
Because at the critical moment, if a man doesn't have this thing, he won't be able to hold it back, and his brain and reason will fail.
Plus, people tend to have a lucky mentality.
It is very likely that there will be unbearable consequences!
Don’t ask me why I know so much. In the era of family planning, our family prefers daughters. Why did I give birth to a son after I already had a daughter?
——"It's all experience".
Lin Lu, the fruit of love.
Lin Qi, a man-made accident.
To be honest, when the voice actress found the small umbrella in gold packaging on the bedside table the next day, she was petrified and stunned on the spot!
"Sister Yue, are you serious?" This was what Xiaolu was thinking at the time.
Her heartbeat began to speed up slightly.
After a long while, the lively girl began to feel a little curious.
Just like many boys when they were students, some classmates and friends would be funny and give this thing as a gift on their birthdays.
Some boys had no place to use their skills at that time.
However, I can't help but open one and study it out of curiosity.
Lin Lu felt a little naughty at the moment.
After locking the door, she opened the golden box, took it out and looked at it several times, and she felt it was very sticky.
Then, she flushed it down the toilet like a thief, and washed her hands carefully again and again.
"There's a smell on my hands!" She sniffed it again, her swollen chest rising and falling, and her heartbeat still a little fast.
After leaving the bathroom, the girl looked at the unsealed box on the bedside table and thought to herself:
"Where should I put it?"
(ps: asking for monthly ticket~)
(End of this chapter)
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