Chapter 1486 Huge Space for Imagination
Of course, the three creative ideas that Xiao Qi put forward were not ordinary people, those were only worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and he had no interest in mixing them at all.
The first creative concept is called "airbnb", the full name is "air bed and breakfast", which translates into Chinese as "air catering".
People in China may not be familiar with Airbnb, an Internet company, because it basically has no room for development in China, but it is extremely popular abroad, especially in Europe and the United States.
Founded in August 2008, this service-oriented website is dedicated to providing short-term rental services for travel houses. Users can publish or search for house rental information in places you want to go through the Internet or mobile phone applications, and then directly The process of booking or confirming a reservation online.
It is worth noting that the rental information of Airbnb is not provided by places such as hotels or small hotels, but that both parties to the lease are individuals.
As an example, you want to travel to Barcelona, and you want to find a hotel that is cleaner, cheaper, and preferably offers an authentic Barcelona breakfast. It may cost you $100, but if you change the hotel to If you are an average resident of Barcelona, chances are you can get a better experience than a hotel for $50.
Conversely, if you live in a tourist city, but your house always has one or two rooms vacant, then you can hang out the specific information of the room on the air board and explain what services you will provide , and then someone decides to rent your room for a certain day, and after you confirm his identity information and bank payment information are correct, the deal can be concluded.
Airbnb maintains its website operations and profits by charging tenants and landlords a certain percentage of the transaction price.
through this means of contact. Airbnb has subverted the concept of people's travel and housing, and has developed rapidly as a result, becoming a large-scale service website with a valuation of 5 billion US dollars.
The second wonderful idea is called "foursquare", the main function is a social networking site for geographical sharing, users can share their current location with friends at any time through the terminal of foursquare. And upload your local real-time information, as well as the evaluation of some local shops, restaurants, hotels, etc., for other people's reference.
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Different from the original foursquare launched in 2009, Xiao Qi's foursquare version is more commercialized.
The most important thing about the original foursquare was an irrelevant model of "share your location and check in to get rewards for badges and titles", so it developed to 2013, and when other competitors appeared, they fell into a huge crisis dilemma. There is no commercial incentive to be found at all.
Xiao Qi’s foursquare is different. Not only can the circle of friends see where you are now, the whole process of traveling, but also share your instant information at any time, and you can also learn about the various customs of the tourist place from the perspective of friends. Human relations, the choice of hotels, restaurants, and shops will also be very inspiring.
Put it this way. Foursquare has a good business entry point, which is tourism promotion peripheral products. After commercialization in the future, it is entirely possible to charge a certain service fee through the transaction ratio between customers and merchants.
The original version of foursquare, which only shared geographical location, was valued at US$1.2 billion in 2013, but Xiao Qi’s commercialization of foursquare has increased several times, not to mention the loss of US$3 billion.
Whether it is airbnb or foursquare. Out of respect for the original founder, Xiao Qi did not change its name, but the third company, because it already had a prototype, could no longer follow its original name.
The company is called Zynga. Its name is not very familiar to people, but if you mention a game it developed, then people will suddenly realize it, and they will say, "Ah, so it is it!"
This game that everyone is very familiar with is called "Happy Farm". It is called "Happy Farm" in China. It was made by them.
"Happy Farm" has also been Facebook's best-selling champion game for three consecutive years. In the heyday of Facebook users' top ten best-selling games of the year, Zynga alone accounted for 6 of them. Zynga's highest stock price reached 11.5 billion U.S. dollars after listing The overlord of the entire game industry!
Zynga was established in the middle of this year, but they won't take off until they bought the developer team of "Happy Farm" in 2009, and they are still thinking about how to develop it now.
The name Zynga is the name of the dog in the family of the CEO of the company, Pincus, and their logo is also the image of this puppy. Xiao Qi doesn't like it that much, and because there is no need for Zynga to acquire it, so they just take it directly. With their "Happy Farm", "Happy City", "Texas Hold'em", "Coffee World", and other companies' "Pet Community", "Bejeweled Blitz", etc., they started a new online game company.
Now whether it is a website or a game, the most important thing is the number of audience and database. If these games are concentrated in one game company, then its audience is conservatively estimated to be at least 100 million, which is the least! Normally speaking, the peak audience of three to five billion people is definitely not wishful thinking. Think about it, how much room for market imagination should a game company with a user base of 300 to 500 million have? And going one step further, what kind of miracle will the three such creative company ideas Xiao Qi put forward together create a miracle? Just thinking about it, Hoffman has the urge to roar! (to be continued..)