Chapter 576 Time waits for no one
On February 2, Xiong Da sank a fishing boat, killing seven and injuring three.
highly praised comment: Where is Kunpeng team, where is Xu Kun? Go and save them quickly!
On February 2, the Philippine monkeys passed a bill with the intention of stealing our territory.
highly praised comment: Where is the Kunpeng team and Xu Kun? Hurry up and get them back!
On February 2, the 22st Academy Awards was successfully held.
highly praised comment: What about "Operation Kunpeng"? What about Director Xu? We won't recognize the Oscars without the "most awesome director"!
On February 2, Christie's in France auctioned the bronze statues of rat and rabbit heads from the Old Summer Palace. Cai bought them for 25 million euros but refused to pay.
highly praised comment: I, Xu, have invested in this deal. Is 100 million enough? What, not enough?! Then I will send out the Kunpeng team!
On March 3, the Chang'e-1 satellite hit the moon with great precision and was a complete success.
Fanfou highly praised comment: "It's 50 years later than others and it's still broken. Is it possible? I suggest that this job be handed over to the Kunpeng team, and they call on their crazy fans to build a human ladder to go to the moon, and then make a movie about it. I have even thought of a name for it, it's called "Escalator Up to Miles"!
In the general manager's office of Fanfou, Wang Xing was reading through these sarcastic comments with great delight. Although Fanfou was among the top of the first generation of "microblogs" years ago, its size is not even as large as that of Sina Blog.
Originally Wang Xing was still worrying about how to break the impasse, but who would have thought that new youth, new atmosphere, and overwhelming wealth would suddenly fall upon Fanfou.
Over the past month, thanks to the public opinion storm caused by a certain famous director, Fanfou has seen explosive growth in registered users.
This made Wang Xing full of confidence and ambitious. He had originally been begging for investment from everyone, but now he simply raised the price and was not in a hurry at all.
Thinking of the prospect of a huge increase in valuation, Wang Xing leaned back in his chair with his head tilted back, scratched his toes, and slowly turned around behind his desk.
The reason why I'm moving slowly is mainly because this office is rather cramped and I'm afraid of hitting my kneecap if I move too much - but as long as I can get the investment, everything will be fine.
Knock knock knock~
At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door. Wang Xing quickly stopped entertaining himself, adjusted his expression a little, and then replied, "Come in."
The technical director came in from outside holding a notebook and said to Wang Xing respectfully, "Mr. Wang, there are some radical remarks here. Please decide how to deal with them."
"Excessive speech?"
Wang Xing frowned and asked, "Is it a reflection of the top management?"
"No, it's mainly criticisms of the general direction and details, and the words used are quite harsh and excessive."
The technical director explained: "We originally wanted to delete these messages, but Mr. Liang and Mr. Chen took the lead in liking and forwarding them, and this Mr. 'Shanheshuo' was one of the first users when we founded the website, and he had interacted with you several times..."
When Wang Xing heard this online name, he immediately had an impression of him. This person always liked to say weird things, but he always kept a good sense of proportion and basically never violated Fanfou's bottom line.
Of course, Fanfou’s bottom line is lower than that of other similar websites.
So Wang Xing didn't take it seriously at first and waved to the technical director to bring the notebook over. However, when he finished reading several consecutive comments from Shan Heshuo, his brows were immediately twisted into a knot.
The intensity of this establishment of a regime was much more wild and unrestrained than Shanhe Shuo's previous one, and it even made Wang Xing a little frightened.
"Has he had any gunpowder to-day?"
Wang Xing immediately gave instructions: "How can such comments be left? Delete them immediately!"
The middle-level leader got the confirmation and immediately went out with his notebook.
Wang Xing sighed helplessly. This was the trouble with a small startup company. His subordinates were either too bold in making decisions or had no sense of responsibility. It was really difficult to find subordinates who could satisfy both needs!
It seems that after attracting investment, we must try to find a few elite talents, preferably those who have worked in similar websites abroad.
While thinking this, Wang Xing moved the mouse, exited the screen saver mode, and then searched for Shan Heshuo's remarks on the Fanfou page.
Then I started refreshing the page over and over again, trying to see when these extreme remarks would be deleted.
As a result, after just a few swipes, the page suddenly got stuck.
"What a crappy broadband!"
Wang Xing thought there was something wrong with the broadband, so he cursed and tried again, but this time the "404" screen popped up directly.
"WTF?"
Wang Xing refreshed it a few more times, but the effect was the same, so he opened the 'CMD' mode of the XP system and wanted to PING it to see where the problem was.
At this moment, the landline phone on the table suddenly rang, and the caller ID showed that it was a call from the front desk.
While Wang Xing was typing the code into the DOS interface, he picked up the phone and asked, "What's going on?"
"Boss Wang, this is bad! The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology just called and said that our website was suspected of something and has been temporarily shut down. They also asked us to save the data and wait for them to come and investigate."
"what?!"
Wang Xing jumped up suddenly, and his boss chair hit the wall behind him, then bounced back and hit his knees, knocking him back down, with the phone pulled into his arms.
He frantically hugged the phone and asked again: "What's going on? How is this possible?! Did you hear it wrong?!"
"I, I don't know. That's what they said on the phone."
Wang Xing held the receiver in a daze for a moment, then suddenly grabbed the mouse and quickly switched to the web page. He clicked a bookmark at random, and the next moment the main interface of hao123 appeared on the screen.
Wang Xing's face turned the color of liver. Not giving up, he switched back to Fanfou, but the result was still the 404 interface.
Now he was finally sure and slumped back in his chair dejectedly.
"Boss Wang, Boss Wang?"
At this time, the receptionist heard him not speaking for a long time and couldn't help asking on the phone: "Are you okay?"
"I-I'm fine."
Wang Xing felt his mouth was a little dry, but he had no desire to drink water. He casually ordered, "Notify everyone in the company, in..."
Halfway through his speech, he changed his tone and said, "Forget it, I'll go find them myself."
…………
The small size of the company makes some things convenient. In just five minutes, more than a dozen employees from Fanfou gathered in the office opposite the computer room, even including the confused receptionist.
After explaining the situation, he suppressed the uproar of the crowd. Wang Xing pointed out the names of the technical department with a stern face. He was very dissatisfied with their failure to discover the situation earlier and their hesitation after discovering it, which delayed the best time for handling and led to the closure of the website.
At the same time, he had already chosen a scapegoat in his mind, who was the technical director who had just come to see him - although the other party was an old subordinate who had previously worked with him to establish the campus network, he could not care less when the time came.
"Mr. Wang."
The technical director also sensed something was wrong and racked his brains to analyze, "I don't think this is accidental. Think about it, even if we reacted slowly, it only took less than two hours. It doesn't make sense that the efficiency of the official agency would be faster than ours, right?"
A middle-level manager nearby also nodded and said, "That's right. I suspect the higher-ups have been keeping an eye on us for a long time."
"Yeah, there have been too many sarcastic comments recently, and I feel scared every time I read them."
"Now people outside say that we are the second pig farm and a concentration of traitors..."
"okay!"
Wang Xing interrupted his subordinates' discussion, but he couldn't help wondering in his heart, could it be that Fanfou has really been targeted by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for a long time?
If this is true, then this level will be difficult to pass.
"Mr. Wang."
At this time, an employee cautiously reminded: "Shouldn't we take the initiative to contact the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and explain the situation so that the ban can be lifted as soon as possible - otherwise, if the website is blocked for a long time, our losses will be too great!"
Wang Xing knew this very well, but the problem was that he didn't know which way the door of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology opened. Even if he could go there, he had no confidence that he could resolve the issue quickly.
"I will naturally do this. What you need to do is to conduct a thorough review and institutionalize it to prevent similar incidents from happening again!"
Wang Xing had a fit, then returned to his office and started looking through business cards and cell phone numbers to see if there were any connections that could be used.
But he is still just a small Karami at present, far from the level of causing trouble in Meituan later. Even if he knows some people with resources and background, he cannot easily persuade them.
Finally, Wang Xing sat back in his chair in dejection, futilely and mechanically scrolling through the web pages again and again, hoping for a miracle to happen. The miracle did not happen, but his cell phone rang.
Wang Xing picked up the phone and heard the other end say with a smile: "Mr. Wang, the boss of an investment company wants to meet with you to discuss the next round of financing for Fanfou."
How could Wang Xing be in the mood to talk about financing at this time?
Even if good terms can be negotiated, the other party will definitely cancel the contract if they find out that Fanfou is in trouble.
So he turned it down without a second thought.
"Oops~"
The person on the other side kept persuading him: "Mr. Wang, you are wrong. Even if we can't reach an agreement, what's the harm in meeting? I tell you, he has connections up there!"
When Wang Xing heard about the Tongtian Pattern, his heart was moved.
Since the other party has connections and is interested in Fanfou, is it possible to pay some price to get Fanfou unblocked as soon as possible?
Wang Xing was a bit desperate, so he changed the subject and asked, "When are we going to meet? Can you arrange it as soon as possible?"
"Why are you so anxious again?"
The broker on the other side said with a smile: "Okay, I'll contact the other party and try to arrange it as soon as possible."
The result was even faster than the broker had expected. At noon that day, Wang Xing arrived at the teahouse as agreed with the investor.
He arrived half an hour early and waited in the private room for more than twenty minutes, feeling uneasy, until finally two people pushed the door open and walked in.
The first one looked familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen him. As for the second one...
"Xu Kun?!"
Wang Xing's eyes widened immediately, and his first thought was "Hongmen Banquet", and his second thought was: "Did you set up the ban on Fanfou?!"
bang~
Liu Qiangdong put the briefcase tucked under his armpit heavily on the table and said calmly: "Boss Wang, what you said is too ignorant. With the style of your crappy website, isn't it a matter of time before it is blocked?"
Xu Kun closed the door and sat down opposite Wang Xing with a smile on his face.
He originally wanted to stay silent and find an agent to talk to Wang Xing, but Fanfou had become a gathering place for his black fans over the past month, so it was only natural for him to approach Wang Xing. He didn't need to be shy about hiding anything, nor did he have to worry about Wang Xing thinking too much.
Under the gaze of the two, Wang Xing's expression changed several times and his lips trembled, but in the end he sat back in his original seat silently.
If it was someone else, he would definitely talk about freedom of speech and brag about the treatment of his peers across the Pacific, but when it came to Xu Kun...
But in order to gain popularity, Fanfou can curse people thousands or even tens of thousands of times a day. This has already developed into a personal grudge. What's the point of talking about those foreign bullshit?
But because of this, he saw a glimmer of hope, so he poured himself a cup of tea and looked directly at Xu Kun: "Director Xu asked me to come here just to vent his anger, right?"
"Haha~ Mr. Wang is indeed a smart man."
Xu Kun winked at Liu Qiangdong, who immediately took out three copies of the contract and pushed them in front of Wang Xing.
Seeing that the two men were indeed well prepared, Wang Xing guessed that there would be a huge loss this time, but after reading the contract that the two men had signed with a stern face, he still couldn't hold it back.
"You want a controlling stake in Fanfou?!"
Wang Xing gnashed his teeth and pushed the three contracts back fiercely, saying word by word: "Daydreaming!"
It turns out that according to this contract, will acquire 10% of Fanfou's shares, and Xu Kun will take 41%, which together exceeds half.
"Don't be anxious, Mr. Wang."
Liu Qiangdong smiled and said, "We two companies have only temporarily obtained the controlling rights of Fanfou. In fact, you are still the largest shareholder, and the operation of Fanfou will still be controlled by you."
"Humph~"
This sounds good, but it's just for show. Wang Xing sneered and said, "After all, you just want to turn the tables and make me work for you - haha, it's still the same four words: daydreaming!"
"Mr. Wang."
Liu Qiangdong tapped the table with his fingers and reminded: "Now is the critical moment for Fanfou's survival."
Wang Xing hesitated for a moment, then sneered again: "I have started from scratch twice, so I am just starting over again. What is there to be afraid of?"
Seeing that Wang Xing was unmoved, Liu Qiangdong shrugged at Xu Kun, indicating that it was his turn to come out.
Xu Kun smiled and said, "Over the past month, hasn't Mr. Wang realized the impact that entertainment stars have on Fanfou?"
Wang Xing was stunned. Although he also thought that Xu Kun was the lucky star of Fanfou, he attributed it more to those opinion leaders. But if he thought about it from another angle...
After a while, he sat up straight and said, "Director Xu, why don't you explain it more clearly?"
"It's very simple."
Xu Kun said straight to the point: "After I invest in Fanfou, I will use my personal connections to actively encourage celebrities to join Fanfou. By then, the number of fans of these people alone will be several times larger than Fanfou's current size. If they come up with various things, they will attract even more onlookers.
Most importantly, celebrity gossip can generate more heat with much less risk, which is enough to make Fanfou a true industry leader, even competing with Sina Blog.
Liu Qiangdong also added: "In fact, Director Xu saw that Fanfou's model is a perfect match for celebrities long before the New Year - mainly because most celebrities can't write blogs."
What the two said was like a ray of hope, and Wang Xing stood up excitedly. However, when he saw the contract on the table, he sat back down like a deflated ball.
"It's indeed a match made in heaven, but this is too..."
Wang Xing raised his head and looked at Xu Kun again: "Director Xu, if you are willing to give way, I promise..."
"I'm not here to bargain today."
Xu Kun took out his phone and looked at it, saying, "There are still 48 minutes until . If Mr. Wang is unwilling to cooperate, then we can only give up Fanfou and find another company to cooperate with as soon as possible - after all, once this idea is exposed, it will not be so valuable."
Liu Qiangdong once again said: "Director Xu's resources and connections in the industry are unmatched by just anyone. I believe other companies will be happy to cooperate with Director Xu."
Wang Xing gnashed his teeth in anger again. It was really a good idea that "we" had to give up Fanfou, and this obviously included him, Wang.
If they had not agreed, Fanfou might have disappeared from the scene - even if Fanfou was released a few months later, Xu Kun's celebrity + Weibo model would inevitably establish a huge first-mover advantage.
Wang Xing was naturally very reluctant about this.
but……
Although this contract caused him to lose control over Fanfou, it brought Fanfou to a level he had never dared to imagine before.
By then, he, as the founder and temporary largest shareholder, will inevitably gain huge benefits and prestige.
If he does not agree, all his previous investment will be wasted. Besides, making a comeback is easier said than done, but the hardships involved are beyond the understanding of outsiders.
Well, let's just treat it as a temporary wait for the right time!
After repeated consideration, Wang Xing's reason finally prevailed. He took the pen handed to him by Liu Qiangdong and signed the three contracts one by one.
Then he took the initiative to stand up, calmly extended his hand and said: "I wish us a happy cooperation."
It was not until this time that Liu Qiangdong's expression finally became serious, because he found that he seemed to have underestimated the other party before - being able to adjust his emotions in such a short time showed that Wang Xing was not an ordinary person.
So when they shook hands, Liu Qiangdong suddenly asked, "What year was Mr. Wang born?"
Wang Xing said: "I was born in 79, one year older than Director Xu."
That means he is not yet thirty years old.
Liu Qiangdong, born in 74, suddenly felt that time was running out.
(End of this chapter)
