Chapter 886 The First Silicon Valley Boss

The first report of Ben.Clarkson's article in China turned out to be CCTV's morning news.

In the morning news broadcast at 7 o'clock, CCTV reported the sudden popularity of YY overseas with the headline "Huaxia Internet products are highly sought after by elite groups in the United States."

There is no doubt that CCTV is definitely the news media with the most sensitive news in China and the most timely information in the world. They can get all kinds of information one step ahead of other domestic media, and there are foreign correspondents in countries all over the world. The effect of time difference.

In the CCTV report, it introduced the popularity of YY overseas, and gave a brief overview of Ben. Magazine, and the editor-in-chief named Ben.Clarkson is also one of the three most famous and powerful editors in this magazine.

CCTV does news, and the overall sense of rhythm is indeed very well controlled. After the first two steps are completed, the rhythm has been brought up. Immediately after that, through the continuously rising data and the good reputation of various website forums, YY has been further consolidated overseas. The fact that it has become popular directly highlights the purpose of the news that "YY is very good overseas, and even wins glory for the country".

Here, CCTV excerpted a large number of comments from overseas forums on Makino Technology, and attached Chinese translations next to the original English comments. These comments were listed, which immediately inspired the national pride in the audience.

E.g:

"YY is definitely the best Internet product in the 21st century, and its appearance has changed the entire office landscape!"

"Hey, the arrogant Microsoft has finally been slapped in the face! For a long time, countless MSN users have protested to Microsoft, hoping that they can improve that shit-like software, but they have been indifferent, and now, YY from China has dumped It has more than 100 streets and slapped Microsoft hard!"

"My God! This product is really great. As an HR, I have to send and receive a lot of emails every day and keep in close contact with people in every department of the company. Send and receive various documents. This product brings a lot to my work. Huge improvement! After using YY for three days, I really want to kiss its product manager well!"

"I never thought that a piece of software from Huaxia would completely change the way my colleagues and I work. Now we no longer use the company's extremely difficult and often problematic internal communication system. There are more than 20 people in a large group, and each department has a small group, so it is not too cool to communicate with each other!"

"The wisdom of the Chinese people is shocking. This is not a software that is very difficult to develop, but it is a god-level product that requires extremely high wisdom to polish!"

This report has given the Chinese people a newer understanding of YY's overseas achievements.

When Li Mu received the news, it was already ten o'clock in the morning. All the college students at the same level as him had already started classes. At this time, he was sitting in the classroom listening to the lecture, and he had just got up from the bed.

Last night, I was busy working on the details of promotion activities with the core layer on Taobao. After getting up, I saw several messages from colleagues and friends in text messages. At this time, Li Mu turned on the computer and paid attention to the comments on the Internet. Only to find out that Ben.Clarkson, senior editor-in-chief of "Silion-Valley-Magazine", has long commented on YY that has spread all over the Chinese Internet.

Whether it is YY.com or other portals, they put this news in the most eye-catching headlines, and the headlines are basically the same, all of which are intended to highlight the theme of "Huaxia Internet Products Conquer Silicon Valley in the United States"

Because ancient times have created countless brilliant achievements that top the world, and modern history is quite bumpy, the Chinese people are very concerned about what the Western world thinks of them.

I also really hope to see Huaxia people, or Huaxia companies, and their products being highly respected overseas, because this can greatly satisfy people's national pride. Now, YY has conquered the American elite in an unstoppable way, and has suffered from the elites. Class praise, which naturally excited the Chinese people.

Li Mu found Ben.Clarkson's original text, and after reading it for a while, he couldn't help laughing out loud.

The request that Ben.Clarkson made to himself in the article, he has already considered it, and the more complete, in-depth and highly customized value-added membership services have been tested in the internal test, and the core functions have been developed for a long time. It is just to test whether there will be any problems in the purchase process of value-added services of different grades, so as to avoid users spending money in grade A but not being able to enjoy the services of grade A immediately, and also to avoid users spending money on grade A but only getting B-grade service, this is not considered development, it is just the opening of the channel and the backend server's support for the service.

In addition, Li Mu had already instructed to access Paypal as early as the last meeting, but Li Mu still didn't know how the progress was.

A phone call was made to Kong Lingyu, and Li Mu asked about the progress of the two things on the phone.

Kong Lingyu's reply is that the core logic of the whole set of member value-added services and the update of components have been completed, and now the technical team is waiting for the technical team to follow the technical requirements of Paypal to run the payment interface. As long as the payment interface runs through, Paypal will be YY's second recharge channel.

Li Mu asked him the estimated launch time, and Kong Lingyu replied before nine o'clock tonight.

9:00 tonight in Yanjing time, 8:00 a.m. in New York time, and 6:00 a.m. in San Francisco time, just in time for the Americans to go online before the start of the day's work. For Li Mulai, this time node is very good.

If the Paypal payment and the complete in-depth customized membership value-added service were launched at 6:00 am San Francisco time, it is estimated that Ben.Clarkson would be shocked, because it took less than 24 hours from the publication of his article to the response of YY.

A discerning person can definitely see that YY did not make adjustments based on Ben.Clarkson's suggestion, but had already prepared for it. In Li Mu's opinion, this must be clarified, otherwise some people will definitely think that their own YY was inspired and made adjustments after reading Ben.Clarkson's article. This forced the Americans to stop halfway and preemptively pretend.

Kong Lingyu also reported a small detail to Li Mu, that is, Paypal's rating for YY's partners is A+, and they enjoy a minimum channel fee of 5/1000. It is the only A+ partner among all Huaxia products that access Paypal. partner.

Li Mu was quite surprised by this and said with a smile, "I didn't expect Paypal to save face."

Kong Lingyu said with a smile: "Yes, the interface person at Paypal is very attentive, not only gave us the highest rating, but also gave us the highest priority."

Speaking, Kong Lingyu suddenly remembered something and blurted out: "That's right! I almost forgot! The Paypal interface person said that their CEO told our interface person through him that he himself hopes to have the opportunity to meet you, no matter where the meeting is. It can be China or the United States.”

Li Mu frowned and asked him, "Who is their CEO?"

Two of the founders of Paypal are familiar with Li Mu, one is Elon.Musk, and the other is Peter.Thiel.

Needless to say, the former is awesome. The founder of Tesla and SpaeX is known as the Iron Man of Silicon Valley. Mark Zuckerberg spent $500,000 for the creation of Facebook, and the profit he earned was more than 10,000 times the investment.

Both of them are big cows in the Internet and capital industries, but Li Mu really doesn't know who is the CEO of Paypal now.

At this time, Kong Lingyu said: "I don't remember exactly what their CEO is called Musk."

"Oh..." Li Mu said with a smile, "Elon Musk."

"Yes, that's the name." Kong Lingyu said in surprise, "Boss, are you familiar with Paypal?"

Li Mu said with a smile: "Alipay is inspired by them, so why is it unfamiliar."

After speaking, Li Mu said again: "You ask the interface person to help me convey a message to him. I don't have an American passport. If he is not in a hurry, he can visit him in person when I arrive in the United States. If he is in a hurry, please ask If he comes to Huaxia at any time, I will do my best as a landlord."

Kong Lingyu said, "Okay, then I'll talk to the interface person."

After hanging up the phone, Li Mu smiled. Unexpectedly, Elon Musk took the initiative to express that he wanted to see him. What did he want to do? Invest in yourself?

At first thought of this, Li Mu was still a little excited. After all, he was the first Silicon Valley tycoon and super tycoon to invite him to meet. It must be a joy to be appreciated by the super titans.

But after a while, Li Mu slapped his forehead, and the smile on his face disappeared instantly.

"Wait a minute, it doesn't seem right! Elon Musk is not a big guy right now! At most, he is just about to sell Paypal to eBay. It seems that this deal was only reached in October."

"Now Paypal is just a payment channel, and it hasn't become really good. How much can it sell? If I remember correctly, it was only sold for more than a billion dollars in my last life. How many shares does Elon Musk have? 10% What is it, with a net worth of around two or three hundred million US dollars, why should he vote for me with just his net worth?"

After thinking about it in his heart, Li Mu realized that his current worth is conservatively estimated to be several times that of Elon Musk, and with the continuous popularity of YY in overseas markets, his worth is still rising. This round of financing Makino Technology If he can get a sky-high valuation, he will directly become the richest man in the country, and his worth is at least ten times that of Elon Musk.

So why does Elon Musk want to find himself? Does he want to do it with himself? Or want to invest in yourself? Or just want to befriend yourself?

Li Mu thought about it in his heart. There are three possibilities, but the first and third possibilities are obviously unlikely.

In contrast, he thinks Elon Musk is more likely to want to invest in himself. Although he is awesome, he doesn't have much money in his hands. It is estimated that once Paypal is sold, he will throw the money into space. Project, don't you think that you, a Chinese upstart, looks like a big head, and ran to pull yourself to vote for his SpaeX?

That's not right, Li Mu has read Elon Musk's related books, and is very impressed that although he established SpaeX this year, the real investment of 100 million US dollars was in 2006 four years later. Is he interested now? Just pull out the investment?

Li Mu doesn't know anything about aerospace, and even if he has spare money, he will never invest in this stuff. The R&D investment cycle is long, the return cycle is even longer, and there are constant setbacks in the middle. After tossing for a few years, when the financial crisis in 2008, I saved enough capital, and then took the opportunity to copy his bottom!