Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 786 Keeping pace with each other (two in one)

Fang Zhuo was very happy to get the money from Qingzi.

He had a small discussion with Su Wei about how to spend the money.

Because Bingxin’s cooperation with Sony’s Shencheng No. [-] Factory and Lin’an No. [-] Factory, which has obtained Qimonda’s patent transfer and authorization, have arranged capital budgets in advance, the money belonging to Yike Investment Company has ample room for use.

In short, he intends to use it to improve lives.

Fang Zhuo asked Su Wei what he meant when buying real estate or transportation in the capital.

"It's okay to live in a hotel suite, haven't you booked here for a year?" Su Wei hesitated to help rule out an option, "If you want to buy it, you have to go back to Shanghai to buy it. Auntie told me about this before."

Fang Zhuo nodded solemnly and made up his mind: "Okay, then buy a plane."

Su Wei slowly put a question mark on her face: "?"

The surname Fang, I suspect that you are misleading me, you only mentioned the means of transportation, not the plane.

I thought it would be adding another Ferrari, Rolls-Royce, etc., but I didn't expect it to be built like this!
Fang Zhuo turned around and took out the aircraft information from the drawer, and introduced to Xiao Su the aircraft he liked—the Gulfstream G550 business jet.

This is the first ultra-long-range business jet in the history of human flight launched by the Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation of the United States the year before last, with a direct flight range from New York to Shanghai. It can carry 18 passengers, with a range of 11686 kilometers and a maximum cruising altitude of 15545 meters.

It is a luxury business jet with the longest range, the best performance, the most spacious cabin and the best comfort.

Su Wei frowned and listened to the introduction of the man in front of her, and only asked, "How much?"

"Gulfstream just happened to have a customer in the Middle East who refunded the order. We can get a discounted price of almost 4000 million US dollars." Fang Zhuo said with a smile, "With it, it doesn't take more than 20 hours to fly to New York, it only takes ten hours. enough."

Su Wei pursed her lips: "Will it be a little high-profile?"

"Zhang Yue bought a private jet in 97, and I don't promote it." Fang Zhuo said, "The main reason is to save time. I also want to wait for Liang Mengsong to join the ice core and pick him up by plane. How about it? Shall we line up?"

Zhang Yue is the founder of Broad Air Conditioning. Last year, he ranked around 70 on the domestic rich list.

"Enough, enough, President Fang wants to buy it, who would dare not listen?" Su Wei shook her head and sighed, "Take it as a gift from Mr. Li for celebration."

Fang Zhuo smiled: "I think so too, just treat it as a gift from Qingzi."

Su Wei still couldn't help but ask, "When will I be able to sit in the car of the richest man?"

"I'm afraid it will be December at the soonest. I have never bought an airplane and have no experience." Fang Zhuo gave an answer and smiled, "I don't have a car for now, and the richest man is right in front of you."

Su Wei glanced sideways and mentioned another matter: "I heard from my aunt that you set up an education and medical fund for the family, but anyone in the family will get the two yuan from here? I think this method is quite good , plan to learn."

"I gave my mother a bank card at the earliest time. At first she didn't touch it at all. Later, it seemed that I had more and more money. The money in that card was used by the family members. The first two days I thought about it for a month, and there is a formal rule." Fang Zhuo explained a few sentences.

Because of certain things in the "before", he has never cared about the whole big family, and because he has been very busy all the time, his parents are basically the ones who come forward, and occasionally some troublesome things are unavoidable, so he simply established a family tradition and unconditionally supports Education and addressing medical bills.

If someone thinks that the richest man has a lot of money, and this is still too stingy, they can come to express their opinions in person.

Su Wei thought about it and said: "Well... I am as famous as you, but I can also contribute to my family in this way, so I just set up such a fund."

Fang Zhuo glanced at Xiao Su, and said directly: "There is no need to set up an additional fund, just use a fund."

The fund is used for family affairs, what does it mean for two families to share one fund?
Su Wei asked with a smile: "Is this okay?"

"Very good." Fang Zhuo gave an affirmative answer.

Su Wei's mood suddenly improved.

Don't talk about business, eyebrows and eyes are full.

Silent all night.

Regarding the purchase of the "Qingzi" private jet, it is natural that professionals will take care of it.

In addition to being grateful for each other's friendship, Fang Zhuo is also more concerned about the competition between Youyou.com and QQ dating. It doesn't make sense to come to the capital to find Qingzi and relax his attention on Penguin.

However, people are known more in the capital, and there are many things that can't be pushed away.

Bingxin's Shencheng No. [-] Factory had two loans from Bank of China and ICBC respectively. The heads of both parties took this opportunity to chat with Mr. Fang again. This cannot be shirked.

The lawsuit between SMIC and Taiji became more and more complicated. The counterpart leaders knew that Mr. Fang was in the capital, so they paid more attention. There were two one-on-one meetings alone, and three regular discussion meetings in the department.

When the local administration of the capital heard that the richest man was here, it was inevitable that "who would think that money is too little?" Sincerely invite Mr. Fang to look at the map to see which one is suitable for investment.

That’s not all, other industry conferences, lectures invited by business schools, industry-university-research exchanges, etc., are almost all coming.

Fang Zhuo can push as much as he can, but he soon discovered that as long as a person is stuck in a business, it is like falling into a busy whirlpool, which is almost non-stop.

Except for the tenderness with Xiao Su, the whole October was almost busy.

Fang Zhuo has always been busy, but he used to be very organized, but this time he couldn't help himself.

So busy, Friends.com and QQ Dating are still fighting non-stop, e-buy is in full swing to prepare for Double Eleven, and the farm game is also in full swing.

On the second day of November, Mr. Fang was finally able to get out of his busy schedule and took the initiative to participate in a Sino-US entrepreneur exchange meeting.

This meeting was a subsidiary product of Paulson's visit to China last time, but the people who came here in November were mainly people from the Internet industry.

Well-known Internet companies such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook have come, most of whom are looking at China's huge market potential, and a few are trying to seek approval for information censorship.

All major Internet companies in China have received invitations. Fang Zhuo and Wang Yan are both confirmed to attend. Like Wang Xing, he can also participate, but not as a guest, he can only be an audience. Even so, he is excited to think To see the demeanor of industry leaders at home and abroad.

As of November, the total number of users of Friends.com has approached 11 million, that is to say, it has expanded nearly 1000 million workplace groups on the basis of the original 700 million campus social users.

This speed is not unpleasant.

However, according to Xiong Xiaoge's words, "The friends on Youyou.com were really built with money."

In this wave of burning money, the customer acquisition cost of Friends.com has been approaching 1 yuan from the original 1 yuan per user. After a rough calculation, 2 million users means that almost 300 million funds have disappeared. Counting other costs, 600 million lost in 2 months.

On top of that, monetization of the site looks far off.

As the founder and the executor of burning money, Wang Xing sometimes feels his head is numb.

He met Mr. Fang at the entrepreneur exchange meeting, and mentioned the increase in the cost of customer acquisition before the meeting started.

Fang Zhuo expressed his opinion without blinking: "Where is this? Are you afraid that IDG has no money or Goldman Sachs has no money? Don't worry, you are not fierce enough. When will you burn a scale of [-] million users? You are first class."

"As long as you can burn, you can continue to raise money."

Friends.com took two waves of money. The first time was US$2000 million from Sina, IDG, Goldman Sachs, Yike Investment, and Shenxin Kechuang. The second time was US$1000 million from Goldman Sachs and IDG.

The current ammunition is still sufficient.

Wang Xing can only express his conviction in the other party's general words, Friends.com is now desperately expanding the user base.

This strategy is also due to the severe competitive pressure brought by QQ Dating. Youyou.com has close to ten million users, and competitors are not idle. Two days ago, QQ Dating announced that it had exceeded 900 million users.

The total number of users of both is increasing, but the gap between them is getting smaller and smaller.

If the number of friends made by QQ begins to lead Friends.com, or even maintain a high growth rate and achieve a substantial lead, I am afraid that it will cause a fatal blow to the social relationship of Friends.com.

The furthest distance in the world is when I am on Friends.com, and you make friends on QQ.

Wang Xing's recent pressure has become even greater, and he often has the illusion of feeling the breath of his opponent behind him.

On November 11, he finally met the real person at the helm of the competitor for the first time at the meeting. Penguin came to the meeting this time with Ma Huateng and Zeng Liqing, the latter being the person in charge of the QQ dating business group.

Wang Xing looked at these two people from a distance, seeing them chatting and laughing freely with the boss, he couldn't help feeling ashamed, but looking at Mr. Fang, his spirits were uplifted, not as much as Mr. Fang.

The opening atmosphere of the Sino-US entrepreneur exchange meeting was relatively friendly. Even with direct competitors such as Baidu and Google, the dialogue between the two leaders was very gentle. Li Yanhong praised Google's global business, and Schmidt believed that Google's localization is indeed Need to learn.

When the host asked Facebook's Zuckerberg, he threw the communication question to Penguin's Zeng Liqing. Zeng Liqing, the "Penguin Five Tigers", also talked about the development of social networks.

This kind of eloquence led to the applause of the audience.

Then, when the host handed over the microphone to Mr. Fang who was sitting smiling, the warm applause stopped immediately.

——Okay, okay, good delivery, don't you know Mr. Fang's style?

——Looking at Dangdang's Li Guoqing without knowing it, it is said that Mr. Li's face was directly scratched by Mr. Fang.

"Mr. Fang, what do you think of the current development of domestic social networks?" The host asked a very conventional question.

"The competition is very fierce. When I was in the United States, I talked with Zuckerberg about the development of Facebook. The competition there is actually not as fierce as ours here. Youyou.com and QQ Dating have successively acquired other players, and now they are competing for the first place in the industry. " Fang Zhuo replied.

The host immediately asked: "Who do you always think will have the last laugh?"

Fang Zhuo replied without hesitation: "Friends Network."

The atmosphere on the scene began to warm up a bit.

Zeng Liqing over there indicated that he wanted to speak.

Fang Zhuo glanced at Mr. Zeng and continued to state his reasons: "Friends.com has a first-mover advantage, a unique community atmosphere, and extremely clear development goals. This is the reason why I think it can have the last laugh."

Zeng Liqing turned on the microphone and said with a smile: "Mr. Fang, I have a different opinion when you mention QQ making friends. Your so-called first-mover advantage of Friends.com has already surpassed us in the number of users it took so much time to create. That can no longer be a point of support.”

"Community atmosphere, we Penguins have experience in doing this, and our development goals are also clear. I have to say that I think QQ friends can have the last laugh."

This occasion is where ideas are exchanged.

Fang Zhuo didn't mind chatting with Penguin, and simply said: "First, the number of users is not unique. How did you get the number of users for making friends on QQ? I think your QQ making friends has become a pseudo-real-name system. Many users do it for Light up the icon of the QQ chat software."

"Second, relying on the community atmosphere suggested by a large number of such low-active users is not enough."

"Third, what are your development goals?"

Seeing that Zeng Liqing wanted to answer, Fang Zhuo stopped first: "I have never understood that the pages of QQ dating and Qzone are so similar, are you competing with Friends.com or your own Qzone?"

Zeng Liqing was choked up by this question, which really caused some internal disputes.

Ma Huateng replied with a smile: "Of course it is competing with Youyou. QQ making friends is more about socializing based on more real relationships. Qzone is not like that."

"This is also the first thing I just said. QQ making friends has introduced a lot of QQ traffic. This is the QQ relationship chain that you are reluctant to abandon. You can only make improved products on the basis of this chain. On the contrary, the two businesses have similarities. sex." Fang Zhuo disagreed with Ma Huateng's answer, "It is an improvement internally, and micro-innovation externally, how can such a product have the last laugh?"

Zeng Liqing immediately asked: "Mr. Fang, tell me honestly, isn't Friends.com an imitation of Facebook? Is micro-innovation something to blame?"

There was a small noise at the scene, and Facebook's Zuckerberg was sitting next to him.

"So, Wang Xing started to change immediately after I asked the same question on Fb, instead of asking me back with confidence." Fang Zhuo said seriously, "But QQ makes friends, Mr. Zeng, you also honestly say, are you a friend? Net enters the workplace, and you also enter the workplace, so friend.com changed its name, and you also changed your name, isn’t this a step-by-step trend?”

Zeng Liqing also replied seriously: "I think this is an inevitable stage of development. Both websites must go out of the campus community and seek a larger development direction. This just shows that QQ Dating is going in the right direction."

The coming and going of both sides is already quite tense.

I don't know who shouted: "Cross the river by touching the friend network!"

Cheerful laughter sounded at the scene, Penguin is walking in the right direction in different businesses.

Fang Zhuo shrugged, this was not arranged by himself.

Both Ma Huateng and Zeng Liqing's expressions turned serious.

"Pony, Mr. Zeng, let's not talk about disputes. Our understanding of step-by-step may be different. Let's forget the first two steps. Now I'm curious, whether the actions taken by Friends.com will be learned immediately. "Fang Zhuo left a suspense.

Ma Huateng was suspicious and didn't speak.

Zeng Li said calmly: "QQ dating is bound to develop into social networking for the whole people. This will not be affected in any way, and it cannot be said that there is nothing to follow."

Fang Zhuo praised: "President Zeng's words are reasonable. I believe that QQ Dating Friends will be able to come up with their own things, and they will no longer learn from Friends.com. Everyone cheers for Penguin and encourages them."

He took the lead in applauding, which led to the applause that peace is the most important thing in the audience.

Zeng Liqing nodded slightly, this was barely enough.

Two days later, the number of users of Friends.com officially exceeded [-] million, and a small game called "Friends Farm" was also released.

Soon, Zeng Liqing found himself in a dilemma.

(End of this chapter)