“Great, great, brother. The system you developed is fantastic. I think it will definitely be the key to Xiaomi’s future success. Giving you only 30% of the shares is too little. How about this, you take 40% of the shares and I’ll take 60%.”
"Brother Jun, no need, no need. We already agreed that developing the system is part of my job."
"Brother, don't refuse anymore. Really, when the Xiaomi phone is released, everyone will say I'm taking advantage of you. Let's not keep pushing it back and forth, let's just settle it like this."
"Alright, then I'll use the office space upstairs as part of my investment, and register it directly under Xiaomi Technology."
"Haha, okay, then my next step is to start recruiting people and building a team. First, we'll design the style, and then we'll produce the prototype."
"Okay, then it's up to you, Brother Jun. I'm going to launch Mixin first and guide users of Huasuan.com to use it."
That afternoon, Lei Jun summoned some people he had previously contacted to the Deji Building to start setting up the office, while he and his secretary personally went to the relevant departments to register Xiaomi Technology Co., Ltd.
Xiaomi Technology didn't hold a grand opening ceremony; it simply registered an official Weibo account and posted a short message.
Xiaomi: Born for fever.
Lei Jun was the first to repost it, adding the comment: "The road ahead is long and arduous, but we will start anew!"
Huasuan.com and Lin Chen's personal Weibo account immediately reposted it. Following that, a group of internet giants also reposted Xiaomi Technology's first Weibo post, which even briefly became a trending topic.
Unaware of the situation, onlookers left comments on Lin Chen's Weibo, asking what was going on.
Lin Chen replied, "Xiaomi Technology will create the world's most cost-effective smartphone. Stay tuned!"
"Holy crap, finally someone's making a cheaper smartphone? I really can't afford an iPhone."
"Exactly, it's too expensive. My monthly salary is only 3,000, and an iPhone costs 6,000."
"Steve Jobs said the iPhone would change everyone's life, and it's true, I've even become unable to afford food."
Xiaomi Technology was trending on social media for a day, and just as the hype subsided the next day, it resurfaced due to a Weibo post from Huasuan.com.
Mixin is now available on the Apple Store!
Huasuan.com released a video introducing the features of Mixin, with the caption: Share your deals with one click, starting with Mixin.
"Huh, Huasuan.com is starting to accept ads now?"
"Upstairs, I just checked. The development company is Xingchen Technology, the same company as Huasuan.com."
"How come the name seems to have anything to do with Xiaomi Technology?"
"You know what, you really can't believe it, these two companies definitely have some kind of shady dealings."
"I'll download it first and see, it's free anyway. Brothers, wait for my battle report."
This guy downloaded MiXin, which has a green icon with an email icon and the Xiaomi logo in the middle.
After opening the software, the first thing that pops up is the login screen, which offers three login options.
The first method is to log in using a mobile phone number.
The second method is to log in using your Huasuan.com account.
The third method is logging in with a Xiaomi account.
Xiao Shuai was a loyal user of Huasuan.com, so he clicked on his Huasuan.com account login. After successfully logging in, a pop-up window appeared, prompting him to "select to bind your mobile phone number so that others can add you as a friend".
Xiao Shuai thought about it and realized that a mobile phone number was indeed more convenient, since his Huasuan.com account was a bunch of English letters that only he could remember.
After the binding was completed, Xiao Shuai returned to the main interface and found an unread message from Huasuan.com.
Click to open, the content is: "Congratulations on becoming a Mixin user! You can directly search for the Huasuan.com ID to add a Mixin friend, or you can click here to send an in-app message to all your Huasuan.com friends, inviting them to download and log in to Mixin. Successfully inviting one person will grant you a free one-day Huasuan.com colorful username display privilege; successfully inviting three people will grant you a free three-day Huasuan.com colorful username display privilege and a 10 RMB no-threshold coupon for Ele.me; successfully inviting ten people will grant you a free ten-day Huasuan.com colorful username display privilege and a 50 RMB no-threshold coupon for Ele.me."
That's right, Lin Chen is using the same trick he used when Huasuan.com first launched. And now that he owns 79% of Ele.me's shares, isn't that basically like him treating Huasuan.com's users to milk tea?
However, what Lin Chen didn't know was that although Xiao Shuai was interested in Ele.me's coupons, he was even more interested in the privileges of displaying his name on Qicai.com. So Xiao Shuai clicked on the link to send a message to all his friends on Qicai.com, and then quickly interrupted his roommate who was watching a movie next to him.
"Old Wang, hurry up and download MiXin. I've sent an internal message to your Huasuan.com."
"Holy crap, I just saw Wolverine wreaking havoc, what are you doing causing trouble?"
"Hurry up, I'll treat you to milk tea later."
"That's more like it. Let me see, Mi Xin, what is that?"
Two minutes later, Old Wang exclaimed, "Holy crap, your colorful username is so cool! I have to get one too!"
Xiao Shuai looked at his colorful online name and was extremely proud of himself. He took a screenshot and posted it to various QQ groups, showing off to everyone.
As a result, more and more people started downloading MiXin, just so they could happily show off all day long.
Three days later, Zhang Yiming was stunned when he saw the download data for Mixin in the background. The data increase was too exaggerated. So he went to Weibo to see the comments from netizens. To his surprise, the most liked comment was asking if it was possible to exchange Eleme coupons for a few more days.
Ah, this...
Zhang Yiming organized the data and went to report to Lin Chen.
"It's number one on the Apple Store's free app download chart, with 10 million downloads in three days. It overlaps 95% with Huasuan.com's users. While this data is not bad, it's a bit worse than I expected."
Zhang Yiming was about to offer some flattery, but the words caught in his throat and he almost choked. These figures were bad? If this were a small company, they'd be celebrating with champagne.
"Ahem, Mr. Lin, after my investigation, I found that users are more interested in the colorful username feature than in Ele.me coupons, and they are strongly requesting that the display time of the colorful username be extended. You can take a look at the comments on Weibo."
"Oh? Let me see."
Lin Chen opened Weibo and looked at the comments. Sure enough, the demand for the "Seven Colors Netname" was very high. Lin Chen pouted and said, "Zhang Xuhao is such a failure. But since the users have said so, we have to satisfy them. Here's what we'll do: add a new message to the previous announcement: For every ten new users invited to register, the user will receive an extra day of the "Seven Colors Netname" privilege. If the number of users reaches 100, the user will receive a permanent privilege."
"Okay." Zhang Yiming went to arrange the work.
Lin Chen replied to the comment with the most likes: "Arranged!"
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