Chapter 755 C Round of Financing (2)

The large conference room was silent, and Yang Cheng's loud words echoed in the huge space. The purpose of raising the volume was not to strengthen his courage, but to express his attitude.

Yang Cheng is well aware of the pessimism of the Wall Street investors, and even he himself has a similar temper, which is nothing more than exchanging the least amount of money for the most return, but when it comes to his own interests, Yang Cheng has to pay every penny.

In fact, regarding the investment in cloud computing, Yang Cheng had already clarified his point of view at the round B financing reception, and gained the approval of everyone present, but now Jack Ma suddenly mentioned that his real intention is worth pondering. Of course, this is not the case. It's hard to speculate, Ahri now occupies the vast majority of the cloud service field in country Z, and it's hard for him not to worry about New Era Media's menacing attack.

After all, Amazon dominates the cloud computing market in the United States and even the world, leaving little room for the development of New Era Media. As the world's second largest economy, it is also the largest and best market in the world. Country Z is undoubtedly the place for New Era Media to insert into the market. An excellent choice would inevitably lead to business competition with Ahri, which Jack Ma did not want to see, after all, New Era Media also had his investment.

However, Yang Cheng’s words are very reasonable, and even the shareholders immediately agreed with this strategy after a little ideological struggle, while Jack Ma is still trying to confuse everyone’s attention, “As we all know, the cloud service launched by Amazon in 2006, Not only is it the first cloud computing service platform launched in the world, but Amazon still occupies a dominant position in the global cloud computing field because of seizing the opportunity and investing a long time.

And Microsoft, which has huge resources, is also coming from behind. In Microsoft’s financial report for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2014 announced earlier this year, Microsoft’s smart cloud business revenue increased by 15.3% compared with the same period last year, reaching 1.2 billion US dollars. Among them, the quarter-on-quarter growth rate of the core Azure cloud business is as high as 98%. This is the second consecutive quarter that Azure has maintained a revenue growth rate of more than 90%.

Since Nadella became the CEO of Microsoft last year, Microsoft has vigorously transformed into cloud services and promoted the construction of cloud services. This move has made Microsoft face future competition with a new look amidst doubts.

Although so far, Microsoft has not demonstrated the ability to provide comprehensive services like Amazon, but Microsoft has unique advantages in security, coupled with continuous mergers and acquisitions, in the next two years, Microsoft has great hopes of gaining the dominance of Amazon cloud services. issue a challenge.

In addition, there is Google. The core of Google is the search business. Its revenue mainly comes from advertising. $1 billion a quarter.

With the market share controlled by these three, it can be said that there is almost no room for New Era Media to settle down. We really need to spend a lot of money to intervene, instead of choosing to spend a small amount of rental costs and invest cash in more effective Is it in the project? ? "

It has to be said that Jack Ma's ability to fool around has not been weakened by the change of language. The extremely provocative and contagious rhetoric has once again shaken the shareholders who were already inclined to Yang Cheng. Yang Cheng seemed to want to see what he had to say.

Yang Cheng chuckled, looked straight at Jack Ma with deep eyes, and looked at him with a shudder, but this kind of gaze didn't last long, Yang Cheng quickly scanned the crowd around, and said, " Although I really don't want to waste my saliva, I think it is necessary to emphasize the importance of cloud computing to everyone.

All of you here are outstanding entrepreneurs, financiers, and investors, but none of you have personally come into contact with computer technology, right?

Or in other words, everyone can only look at this cloud computing, which is comparable to the existence of the fourth industrial revolution, from a macro perspective, but they cannot go deep into it and analyze the significance and importance of this technology from a micro perspective.

Well, maybe you don’t agree, but since the birth of the Internet, although cloud computing is not a big change, it must be the most profound small change.

Cloud computing has its suitable characteristic architecture, not only because it creates and encapsulates a flexible IT environment, but also provides a complete set of technologies for infrastructure architecture, service management and rapid growth around virtual images, and also provides assurance that it can An innovative model for rapid creation, launch and provision of services.

Cloud computing technology can change the internal structure and IT organization of the enterprise, especially the change of the operating model of the enterprise, which is completely different from the traditional model.

IT enterprise employees generally do work such as data center, data network, personal computer operation and maintenance, etc., or rely on the data center to monitor and upgrade the application system on the personal computer. With the development of cloud computing technology, large Some IT companies engaged in traditional affairs have been upgraded to cloud service providers.

On the one hand, cloud computing is recognized by the entire information industry as a technology that can effectively reduce costs. It aims to rationally use various strategies to provide effective solutions to specific problems in a timely manner while reducing costs. In light of this, I Everyone should be aware of how much labor costs will be saved.

On the other hand, cloud computing is still related to the future and destiny of the enterprise, and it can be said that it cannot be controlled once it is released, but it affects the whole body.

As an almost fully automatic IT service management platform, cloud computing has a simplified and easy-to-operate user interface, so the infrastructure at the bottom of the service is completely exposed to users.

When additional resources are added to the service, the management cost hardly increases. Although this concept emphasizes minimizing overhead through various means, cost reduction is not the strong point of cloud computing. Its real advantage lies in providing A complete set of perfect, flexible agility strategies.

Aren't these important enough? "

Speaking of this, Yang Cheng made an oppressive posture with his upper body leaning forward, especially those powerful eyes like an emperor sitting on a dragon chair overlooking his courtiers, with an imposing manner that could not be resisted, he continued, "Just now Jack has a little You are right, the cloud computing market in the United States and even the world today is almost monopolized by the three companies in the first echelon, and there is almost no room for new era media to intervene, but this does not mean that we cannot enter the market, and we also have our own advantages .

Including the Toutiao app, we have 200 million users around the world. These 200 million users are our biggest resource. They contribute a huge amount of data to us every hour and minute every day. When these floods of data flood into us server, as long as we have enough computing power, we can convert it into money.

What is the most important thing in the 20th century in my opinion? talent!

And the most important thing in the 21st century is the user! Mastering the users means controlling the flow, and with the flow, there will be money. This is the fundamental! "

Undoubtedly, Yang Cheng hit the nail on the head of this group of capitalists whose eyelashes are full of the smell of copper. In fact, it's not that they don't understand the importance of cloud computing, but they may understand it better than Yang Cheng. If it is too high, the cycle to recover costs and generate benefits is too long, and they are unwilling to wait.

It would be fine if it was my own company, but now that New Era Media was built like an iron bucket by Yang Cheng, there was no room for them to start. If so, why waste a lot of time and money waiting for a good harvest? It's better to hit it with a hammer and listen to the sound.

But Yang Cheng's words brought them back on the right track. What is right? That is to be able to make money, and to be able to make a lot of money. At this time, what David Ellison thought was: It’s good to be able to make money. These days, my grandma knows that those who get traffic win the world, and cloud computing has proved that it can make money. Ability, now that there are so many people supporting it, if a large amount of money is spent, no matter how bad it is, it can be on par with Facebook's cloud service, right?

David Ellison's thoughts represented the true thoughts of most of the shareholders present, but Jack Ma secretly sighed in his heart: Jason is getting more and more mature, and some words are too much to point, and he will offend others.

Yang Cheng didn't know the mixed feelings in the minds of these capitalists, but he knew that even if the amount of financing would be affected for this strategy, he had to insist.

Fortunately, the result did not disappoint him. After Jack Ma fell silent, the two beauties, Amanda Hester and Georgina, turned to Yang Cheng after all. After they expressed their support for Yang Cheng and the establishment of the board of directors of New Times Media, The first resolution was formally passed, which will also be recorded by the secretary and kept in the archives. If anyone wants to publish a book in the future, this will be an important material that can be used as a reference.

Next, under the chairmanship of Eddie, the board of directors was brought up for discussion one by one. Each project had to go through a battle of lips and teeth before it was approved by a show of hands. This group of people with a combined net worth of nearly 100 billion dollars When the elites get together, the work efficiency is quite astonishing. The board of directors, which was originally planned to be held in two days, only took one morning to complete the agenda originally planned for one day.

This speed can't help but make the bosses who know that time is money very satisfied, so that at 11:30 in the afternoon, the door of the large conference room opened and they filed out, everyone's face was full of satisfaction after hard work smiley face.

The third floor of the New Era Building has welcomed the first batch of VIP-level guests since its opening, and it is the first time for ordinary employees to see the company's high-level executives come out in full force. All the familiar faces that I saw appeared in the restaurant on the third floor. Some lively employees smiled when they saw these rare bosses, and each of them plucked up the courage to ask for a group photo, and then uploaded it to Facebook at a fast speed. , How can such a good opportunity to show off be missed?

This scene was watched by the company's senior executives, their faces were as black as the bottom of a pot, if Yang Cheng hadn't smiled and made a gesture, they really wanted to rush up and slap each of them, and take all these unlucky employees out, it's too embarrassing~