Chapter 1044 Thanksgiving Global Competition
Li Mu is not going to give Sequoia any face at all now.
Once the financing window is closed, it is not up to any capital to open it again, it is up to Li Mu himself.
You rejected me in the first round, so if you want to find me again, you have to see my face. He is not worried that Sequoia will have a grudge with him because of this, because in the eyes of capital, interests are the most important.
In fact, the first time I talked to Sequoia, Li Mu himself was setting up a cover for Sequoia. He knew that Sequoia would reject his offer, but he insisted on the offer and put his attitude very high. What he wanted was Sequoia categorically reject.
If Sequoia rejects him, all the initiative in the future will be in his own hands. On the contrary, if Sequoia agrees at the beginning, it will be Li Mu himself who is dumbfounded.
Fortunately, Sequoia has its own pride, and it has been performed according to Li Mu's script perfectly, and Paradise Town's top school beauty list in the United States has also unexpectedly gained huge social attention. With this foundation, everything goes on. The initiative is in Li Mu's hands.
Larry Page was indeed tasked with persuading Li Mu. The CEO of Sequoia hoped that he could influence Li Mu from the side and let Li Mu restart the negotiations with Sequoia as soon as possible, but the result was cruel. Because of any change in Larry Page's face, not even a polite word that I would consider.
Sequoia held a discussion meeting to discuss and speculate on the opening time of the next financing window of Makino Technology. Most people believe that Li Mu will now make the "highest school flower list in the United States" hot and very likely to be in the "highest school flower list in the United States". In the final stage of the competition, that is, when the popularity of the "Highest School Flower List in the United States" is the highest, the financing window will be opened again.
The CEO of Sequoia also has nothing to do with this. This guess is in line with the law of most corporate financing. Financing and operating stocks are the same. The holders of stocks all hope to sell when the stock price is the highest, as the holders of the shares. , Li Mu and shareholders of Muye Technology must have the same idea.
Thinking of the 17 billion transactions, the possibility of being able to make more than 20 billion by himself, or even making it into a bamboo basket to draw water, the CEO is also under great pressure.
However, Li Mu's exhibition competition in the United States continued.
The event of "The Most High School Flowers in the United States" has indeed attracted the attention of the United States, but it has a huge limitation after all: the direct participants of the event and the beneficiaries of the event's huge rewards are limited to the group of female college students. , there are only so many millions of people in total. No matter how many other people are just running with them, there may be hundreds of millions of people who pay attention, but only a small proportion of those who can really put in the time and energy to participate in running with them.
Therefore, how to allow hundreds of millions of Americans to participate in "Paradise Town" and benefit from "Paradise Town" has to start Li Mu's second plan.
So, on the second day after Li Mu and Larry Page met, "Paradise Town" officially released another big news.
The "Paradise Town Thanksgiving Global Competition" event was officially launched.
This event is aimed at all users of "Paradise Town" around the world. Of course, because domestic users are playing "Happy Farm", not "Paradise Town", domestic users are not within the scope of this event. The second competition is focused on players in the US market.
As for the domestic market, Li Mu has communicated with the operation team of "Happy Farm", because the current "Happy Farm" and "Paradise Town" do not communicate with each other in terms of data.
Therefore, in the domestic market, try not to use foreign festivals as game activities. Correspondingly, you can formulate corresponding activities for domestic users in traditional festivals such as the Lunar New Year, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival in China.
In Li Mu's strategic plan, "Paradise Town Thanksgiving Global Competition" is a strategic complement to "the highest school flower list in the United States". If the latter only allows female college students in the United States to participate and benefit, then the former can make All users across the United States have the opportunity to benefit from it.
The requirements for participating in the "Paradise Town Thanksgiving Global Competition" are very simple. As long as they are registered players of the game, they can directly participate in this interesting competition in the game. Plant the designated crops, and calculate the global player list after the deadline of 24:00 on Thanksgiving Day. The first 10,000 players will have huge bonuses.
According to Li Mu's plan in China, only the top 100 winners in the "Paradise Town Thanksgiving Global Competition" will be rewarded. However, because of the temporary increase in the "Top Ranking of School Flowers in the United States", the attention of the event has skyrocketed. This time also temporarily increased the prize money of the "Paradise Town Thanksgiving Global Competition".
First of all, the bonus for the first place has been directly increased from the previous 100,000 US dollars to 1 million US dollars, the second place is 500,000 US dollars, and the third place is 300,000 US dollars;
Fourth to sixth place, $100,000;
Seventh to tenth place: $50,000;
11th to 20th: $10,000;
21st to 50th: $5,000;
51st to 100th: $3,000;
101st to 10,000th: $1,000;
The reason for raising the reward range from the top 100 to the top 10,000 is to further expand the influence and make all potential players feel that there is a greater chance of getting the reward.
Li Mu's calculation is very simple. The tens of millions of dollars in prize money looks scary, but these prizes are also promised costs. If this competition can attract a large number of users to Paradise Town, it will be a very good deal in itself. What's more, the proportion of users in Paradise Town is very high. At that time, the competition on a global scale will definitely prompt a large number of users to pay to participate in the game. It may not wait until Thanksgiving really comes, and the tens of millions of dollars in incentive costs have already been collected. came back.
The main purpose of Li Mu's holding this event is to greatly mobilize the enthusiasm of netizens in the United States through this event, so that all players can become potential beneficiaries, and more importantly, it can cooperate with the "American school flower". The highest ranking" deep integration.
According to the rules of the "Highest American School Flower List", whether players want to vote for their favorite school flower, or ordinary people want to vote for their favorite school flower, they must complete the corresponding tasks in the game before they can get the corresponding "resident vouchers" ", before that, all the motivation for players to obtain "resident vouchers" came from two aspects: first, the entertainment of the game itself; second, the attractiveness of school flowers.
Now, players have one more motivation to obtain "resident vouchers" to participate in the "Paradise Town Thanksgiving Global Competition". By participating in this Thanksgiving competition, players can complete the acquisition requirements of "resident vouchers" in the game, and get "Resident vouchers", and there are more than one million dollars in bonuses waiting to be won, so that users have two sets of power systems that complement each other.
Players who were originally interested in the "American School Flower Rankings" now have a powerful new motivation.
Players who were originally not very interested in the "American School Flower Ranking", driven by the Thanksgiving competition, can naturally participate in this competition without paying much behavioral cost, which is very interesting. .
This is like the monthly ticket policy of the starting point. If the monthly ticket is relatively difficult to obtain, then only some die-hard fans will find a way to obtain it in order to vote for their favorite books. As a result, the enthusiasm of ordinary users to vote for the monthly ticket will be greatly reduced. , so the product logic is defined as: as long as the genuine subscription accumulates to a certain amount, a monthly pass can be automatically obtained, which basically allows genuine users to obtain the monthly pass when they are reading normally. In this way, The enthusiasm for voting will naturally increase greatly.
What Li Mu wants to play now is a two-pronged approach. On the one hand, everyone can play with prizes, and if they play well, they can win cash prizes, and on the other hand, let everyone play and play and get the "resident coupons" that are the highest in the United States. Kill two birds with one stone.
Li Mu's plan quickly worked.
When American netizens envied American female college students and wanted to use "resident vouchers" for female college students for various reasons, the "Paradise Town Thanksgiving Global Competition" activity that made them cheer was launched.
The operators of "Paradise Town" finally thought of them, and they also set up a competition for them, and gave high cash prizes of tens of millions of dollars, which were given to all groups except non-female college students. A huge stimulus, an extraordinary social influence for a time.
After the Thanksgiving competition was launched, the number of users of "Paradise Town" began to surge, and the number of registered users in the United States quickly exceeded 50 million, becoming the online game with the largest number of registered users on the Internet in the United States, and the online game with the highest average daily online users, reaching three. Thousands.
Just recently, a report released by the United Nations showed that the total number of Internet users in the United States at this stage is about 143 million. Among them, the most visited website is Microsoft's MSN, with a daily visit of about 90 million, and the largest daily active user. Software, also Microsoft's MSN, has nearly 100 million daily active users.
The current number of daily active users of "Paradise Town" has been rising sharply. This rising data has shocked Microsoft. The popularity of "Paradise Town" will be a certain impact to other Internet companies in the United States. , but the impact is not large, however, Microsoft is obviously a little unable to sit still.
MSN is Microsoft's current flagship product in the field of instant messaging. They know that there is a huge gap with YY. Although they are catching up, this gap cannot be caught up in a short time. Right now, "Paradise Town" In the US market, Microsoft is most worried that "Paradise Town" starts to divert to YY. Once "Paradise Town" is diverted to YY, tens of millions of MSN users may be lost overnight...