Chapter 1070 Unexpected Invitation

In the past few days, when Li Mu grabbed the headlines of Western media and made American VCs sleepless, MSN and ICQ were both experiencing the same grief.

The cliff-like plunge in daily active users made the heads of the two products want to cry without tears. This kind of speed is unbelievable. It seems that there were over 100 million daily active users yesterday, but today, there are only tens of millions left. After a day, there were only ten to ten thousand left.

For these two software with hundreds of millions of registered users, the most critical indicator to measure the scale of the software is no longer the number of registered users, but the number of daily active users. Only the number of active users can highlight the actual impact of this product If there are hundreds of millions of registered users and only one million daily active users, it goes without saying that it can be seen that this software has reached the end of its streak, and time is running out.

The users of MSN and ICQ are highly overlapping with YY. The positioning of this product for the user group is all users with online instant messaging needs, and this strong demand basically covers all netizens, so the competition between the three products is all-round. , once Li Mu's YY is in full swing, the other two will be affected immediately.

While the daily active users of MSN and ICQ plummeted, the average usage time of daily active users also plummeted.

In the past, the average usage time of daily active users was nearly two hours, but now it has dropped to less than 30 minutes. In less than a month, the two softwares were greatly damaged by YY's destruction, and according to the current trend, don't Speaking of trying to turn the tide, even trying to stop the current collapse has become extremely difficult.

The fundamental reason why Mo can achieve a market value of billions of dollars under the overall impact of WeChat is that Mo himself gave up the same comprehensive battlefield as WeChat, and chose the vertical positioning of "professional appointments", and immediately The positioning of WeChat is staggered in order to return to a place of survival. This kind of gameplay is like one day after Walmart dominated the global comprehensive supermarket, other supermarkets transformed into sunny toys.

While MSN was showing its decline, it was interesting that Lin Qingya received an official message from Microsoft that Bill Gates rejected Li Mu's request to meet with Li Mu. Although he had agreed before, this time, he used his personal time to allocate a different amount of money. On the grounds of opening, he directly refused to meet with Li Mu.

Lin Qingya joked to Li Mu: "Bill Gates should be very unhappy about YY's move to crush MSN, so he made a temporary decision to break his promise?"

Li Mu smiled and said, "Maybe he is struggling with the charity fund. Maybe."

Lin Qingya suddenly realized.

As the richest man, Bill Gates' charitable foundation is still very famous, because he donated all Microsoft shares to the foundation established by himself and his wife, so the foundation now has more than 20 billion US dollars in funds, and one The annual investment return is also more than 2 billion US dollars,

However, it is not known how much the specific proportion is used for charity. Li Mu dare not say that Bill Gates' charitable foundation is for tax avoidance, but because his foundation is the largest, many media and individuals are now calling for his foundation. The direction of funds will be disclosed, and perhaps this will bring some trouble to Bill Gates.

Just after Bill Gates rejected Li Mu, Elon Musk, who had made great success at PayPal, came to visit again.

This is the second time that Elon Musk has taken the initiative to visit the door after Li Mu came to the United States. Li Mu has some respect for him, so he is also polite to him, but for Elon Musk, he came to Li Mu. , basically to say goodbye to the pier. Li Mu has just become the object of attention in the United States and even the entire Western world. It can be imagined how magnificent Li Mu's future development prospects are, so he also hopes to have a good relationship with Li Mu. become friends.

Although he is currently working on PayPal wholeheartedly, he is also very clear that PayPal is only relying on his own capital accumulation at this stage. In the future, he will definitely leave PayPal and try what he really wants to do, so it seems that he has a good relationship with Li Mu. It is especially necessary. Maybe in the next few years, he will be the new richest man in the world, and if he wants to start a new project at that time, Li Mu can bring him huge funds and resources to help him.

As soon as the two met, Elon Musk congratulated Li Mu on the miracle he created at Harvard, and then sighed: "Some media said today that your speech at Harvard may become the most expensive speech in history, because Muye Technology's estimate It's really admirable that this speech has indirectly raised billions of dollars."

Li Mu smiled and said, "Don't believe what the media say, they are not capital. They say that raising several billion dollars is really raising billions of dollars?"

Elon Musk said with a smile: "But according to the current trend, they are not necessarily wrong."

Li Mu pretended to be indifferent and said with a smile: "It all depends on the actual business growth of Muye Technology and the development of the entire industry."

Elon Musk said seriously: "At this rate, by the end of this year, YY will probably exceed 200 million users. By that time, the monthly turnover of value-added services alone may reach several hundred million. Its scale, not to mention its user stickiness is so high, and the average daily usage time is also the best among all software at this stage. Once the online advertising business is launched, it will be an extremely huge income! These potentials are like a mirror in the heart of capital. !"

Li Mu nodded lightly. All of YY's overseas payments go through PayPal. Elon Musk must be very aware of YY's current flow situation. It can be said that the people who know YY's situation the most, except Li Mu and Muye Technology. The top is Elon Musk.

Banks are the ones who know the income level of the people best, and payment channels are the ones who know the most about the revenue-generating capabilities of Internet products.

Because YY is a shareholder of PayPal, PayPal is YY's only overseas payment channel, which means that PayPal is well aware of the changes in YY's flow.

Through the recent changes in YY's recharge flow, Elon Musk can not only see YY's current revenue capability, but also analyze the approximate curve of YY's recent surge in new users through the increase in paying users. First, these data are enough for him to judge the current overall valuation level of Muye Technology.

Li Mu said with a joking smile: "So it's really wise for YY to take a stake in PayPal, otherwise all our current situation is firmly grasped by one payment channel, which is quite scary to think about."

Elon Musk has always been humble and convinced in front of Li Mu, so he spoke with great respect and said with a smile: "Mr. Li, don't forget, you are one of my bosses, and I am working for the same time. You, and eBay work part-time!

Li Mu said humbly, "YY is your business, and eBay and I are just taking a ride to earn some money."

Elon Musk laughed and said to Li Mu, "By the way, Mr. Li, I came here today. In addition to my congratulations, I would like to convey an invitation to you."

Li Mu asked curiously, "What invitation?"

Elon Musk said: "That's it, the influence of your speech has been increasing recently, which has brought a lot of impact to the charity industry. Many charitable funds and organizations are under great pressure, and now they are starting to do high-profile charitable activities to transfer Look, Hollywood has a charity organization dedicated to malaria in children in Africa. This time they held a charity dinner. They are going to imitate your way and announce all the income and future expenditures of this charity dinner to the whole society, and accept the society. Supervision."

Saying that, Elon Musk added: "I am here this time, entrusted by the sponsors of this charity organization, to invite you to their charity dinner. If you are interested, you may wish to take time to visit. "

Li Mu was stunned for a while, and said, "Forget the charity dinner, I'm really busy with things at hand, why don't I donate some money as a gift!"

Elon Musk hurriedly said: "I really didn't come to you to raise money, the main reason is that the sponsor of this charity organization has a good relationship with my sister, and I hope you can come to increase the popularity of this charity organization. Entrusted to my sister, and my sister entrusted to me, so..."

Li Mu asked curiously, "Your sister is in the film and television industry?"

Elon Musk nodded and said, "My sister has an independent studio in Hollywood, and I'm a little involved in it, and we both love movies, but she chose the industry, and I chose Internet."

Li Mu nodded thoughtfully and asked him, "Who is the charity organization you're talking about? What's the nature of it?"

Elon Musk said: "First of all, let me explain to you that their charitable organization is not in the form of a foundation, but was established spontaneously by a few Hollywood bigwigs, led by a director, I don't know if he is famous in your China. , named Steven Spielberg..."

Li Mu looked at Elon Musk with a sun-drenched expression, and said a little sullenly: "You think of China as Africa? When I was in high school, the school organized us to watch "Jurassic Park"! "

Elon Musk was instantly overjoyed and said with a smile: "That's great, so you are also his fan, so just go to Hollywood and take it as a way to meet Steven."

After saying this, Elon Musk was afraid that Li Mu would not be tempted, and hurriedly added: "There are quite a lot of Hollywood stars participating this time, Tom Cruise, do you know? There is also Leonardo Decca. Prio!"

Li Mu stared at Elon Musk with a dark face. Although his expression was not good-looking, he was very pleasantly surprised.

Good guy, Tom Cruise, and Leonardo DiCaprio are all actors he likes very much, and Steven Spielberg is also a director he likes very much, he even said he was Their fans are no exaggeration, just to rush to these three men, they have to support themselves!