You call this entrepreneurship?

Chapter 267 Where’s your video?

Do you really not care, or are you just being polite?

Qin Shaoyan pondered over what Bill Gates said.

But it is very likely that he really doesn't care. After all, he is the world's richest man and the chairman of Microsoft.

There is no need to worry about business acquisitions worth hundreds of millions of dollars, otherwise what are the people under you doing?

If we talk about importance, YouTube is what Bill Gates really cares about.

Fortunately, YouTube really wants to sell this thing.

Qin Shaoyan turned on his computer and logged into YouTube. He searched for the video that Bill Gates had just uploaded, then used his super administrator privileges to put the video on the homepage recommendation.

Then I downloaded the video from the background, opened Qvod, registered an account for Bill Gates, and uploaded the video.

After completing the homepage recommendation, Qin Shaoyan thought about it and felt that something seemed to be missing.

It seems that he had previously invited Ma Huateng, Ding Sanshi, Zhang Chaoyang and others to participate in the "Ice Bucket Challenge". Now that Bill Gates has fulfilled his promise, why are they not making any moves?

They are all leaders in the Internet industry and should contribute to the Internet.

As a person who loves charity, Qin Shaoyan feels that he has the responsibility to bring these people to participate in charity, which is a great way to accumulate merit.

Qin Shaoyan picked up the phone himself, called Ma Huateng, and said directly: "Mr. Ma, are you free now?"

Ma Huateng was a little confused, "Boss Qin, what do you want?"

"Please open Qvod and YouTube and have a look." Qin Shaoyan said with a smile, "Did you see the recommended video on the homepage?"

Ma Huateng was stunned for a moment, "I see, it's Bill Gates, eh, what is he doing?"

"Boss Ma, have you forgotten?" Qin Shaoyan said with a smile, "This is the Ice Bucket Challenge, it's a public welfare campaign for rare diseases."

"I invited you to participate before, together with Bill Gates."

"Now that Bill Gates has finished his work, Mr. Ma, please record a video when you have time. I will send it to YouTube and the homepage of Qvod and put it together with Bill Gates's."

Ma Huateng then recalled that this had indeed happened, but it had been two months and he had long forgotten about it.

"I remember, I remember. How could I forget?" Ma Huateng said immediately, "It's just that there has been no news from President Qin, so I didn't upload the video."

"How about this, I'll upload the video tomorrow morning, and then I'll trouble Boss Qin to pin it to the top of the page for me."

"No problem, this little thing is not worth mentioning." Qin Shaoyan agreed very readily, "I will help you arrange it to be recommended on the homepage as soon as possible."

"Thank you, Mr. Qin." Ma Huateng thanked him quickly, and then asked, "Mr. Qin, I heard that your Qvod website... is it going to be sold?"

"YouTube is interested in acquiring us, but my shareholders have some disagreements with them." Qin Shaoyan sighed, "Now the negotiations are at a stalemate."

"I heard it's because of the price, right?" Ma Huateng asked curiously, "How much is it?"

"Well..." Qin Shaoyan hesitated for a moment, "This is a business secret, it's not easy to disclose, but Mr. Ma is not an outsider, I don't think Mr. Ma will disclose it to others casually."

"Don't worry, Mr. Qin. I will definitely not tell anyone." Ma Huateng quickly assured.

"YouTube offered $240 million, but the shareholders thought it was too low and wanted $360 million," Qin Shaoyan said helplessly. "Now neither side is willing to give in, and I'm in a difficult position."

"Three hundred and sixty million US dollars?!" Ma Huateng was very shocked. "Isn't this price too high?!"

"It's a bit high, but putting aside other things, Qvod is worth this much money." Qin Shaoyan said confidently, "Qvod is the first video website in China, it is growing very fast, and has huge market potential."

"It is similar to the development of YouTube in the US market. YouTube is now valued at $1.2 billion, so Qvod is not overvalued, but underestimated."

"Yahoo, Microsoft and Google are all very optimistic about YouTube. Now YouTube urgently needs to acquire Qvod to increase its valuation and sell itself at a good price."

"YouTube's valuation has reached 1.2 billion US dollars?!" Ma Huateng was even more shocked. As far as he could remember, YouTube had only been around for a short time. How come its valuation had inflated to this point?
1.2 billion US dollars is 9.6 billion RMB, which is almost as much as the market value of the entire Penguin.

"Bill Gates and I have talked before. He wants to acquire YouTube." Qin Shaoyan said casually, "The acquisition price may be more than 1.5 billion US dollars."

"So YouTube's shareholders are very eager to increase the valuation of the site and want to raise the acquisition price to $2 billion."

“…”Ma Huateng was shocked by this series of inside information.

Is a video website really that valuable? That so many giants are offering high prices to compete for it.

Putting aside YouTube, even Qvod has demonstrated its unparalleled value and is being sought after by capital.

Ma Huateng immediately decided that he must get involved in the video website market.

No matter what the video website is like, at least it has a great stimulating effect on the stock price.

Qin Shaoyan then spoke with Ding Sanshi and Zhang Chaoyang, and accidentally revealed the current deadlock between Qvod and YouTube.

Soon, the exclusive insider information spread throughout the Internet circle in a very short time.

Some portal websites even held meetings overnight to discuss the emerging track of video websites.

Internet giants are gearing up for the game, and capital is waving money with greed in its heart, looking for opportunities to enter the game.

……

When Xiao Xiaomeng, a user of Qvod, opened the video website the next day, he was surprised to find a different video on the homepage.

The cover of the video featured the world's richest man, Bill Gates. When Xiao Xiaomeng turned her attention to the account that released the video, her eyes widened.

Account ID: Bill Gates, and the profile also says “Officially certified by the website”.

Xiao Xiaomeng rubbed her eyes and opened her mouth wide for a long time without being able to close it.

Oh my God, am I seeing things? This is Bill Gates, right?
He actually also plays on video websites!
Could it be that the title is fake?
Nowadays, some people on the website do all kinds of things to increase their playback volume.

Title party is a basic operation, and there are also various bizarre contents in the video.

There are all kinds of borderline and large-scale scenes.

However, these videos did not survive more than a day before they were deleted by the website review.

However, those clickbait headlines that are not real have survived tenaciously. After all, they are just defrauding users and there is no illegal content.

So Xiao Xiaomeng actually clicked on a video, and except for the first few seconds which she wanted to watch, the rest was just a blond man dancing in a cheesy way.

Now there is a so-called "official website certified" Bill Gates, which aroused Xiao Xiaomeng's interest.

Xiao Xiaomeng clicked on the video out of curiosity, and it was indeed Bill Gates himself who appeared in the video and kept saying something.

Because there were no subtitles, Xiao Xiaomeng felt like she was listening to a foreign language. It took her a long time to react and she grabbed her best friend and roommate.

"Aya, come and help me translate, what is the world's richest man saying?"

Aya walked over helplessly and picked up the headphones, "Haven't you passed the Level 4 exam?"

"Oh, my English listening is very poor, unlike you who is from the subtitle group." Xiao Xiaomeng hugged Aya's arm and shook it, "Help me translate it quickly."

Aya listened to a few words and organized her words, "He was talking about charity or something, and he was invited by Mr. Qin to participate in this event."

"He said something that I haven't heard of before. It seems to be a professional term."

"Hey, he said the ice bucket challenge."

Then the two of them stared at Bill Gates in amazement, and he took out a bucket of ice water and poured it directly on his head. The freezing water instantly soaked his clothes, and Bill Gates shivered visibly.

Xiao Xiaomeng was confused, "Is it still winter now?"

Aya was also stunned, "It seems so."

"This is too cruel." Xiao Xiaomeng exclaimed, "Who invented this thing? It's too ridiculous."

"In the middle of winter, he poured cold water on himself. Is this the richest man in the world who has nothing better to do? How can this help charity?"

"It's better to just donate money or pick up trash instead of wasting water."

Aya said casually: "The world's richest man is personally performing an ice water pouring show for you, what else do you want? I'll just ask you if you like it."

"I do like watching it." Xiao Xiaomeng said honestly, "Although I don't understand it, I respect it and give my blessing."

"Huh." Aya said in surprise, "He was talking about video websites at the end. He said he likes video websites very much and hopes more netizens will join in."

"Wow!" Xiao Xiaomeng opened her mouth wide, "Is this a promotion for Qvod?"

"Who is the boss of Qvod? He has such great connections that he can even get Bill Gates to promote him."

"It seems that Qvod and Campus Network have the same owner." Aya reminded, "Don't you remember that when Qvod was first launched, Campus Network advertised it a lot?"

"You even said at the time that since the campus network helped you win the prize, you would not criticize it if it advertised again."

"As expected of the boss of the campus network, he is really amazing!" Xiao Xiaomeng exclaimed, "I remember they also cooperated with the International Olympic Committee."

“Hey, this video is also talking about the ice bucket challenge.”

"This person..." Xiao Xiaomeng was stunned for a long time before coming back to her senses. "It seems to be the boss of QQ. His name is Ma something?"

Aya took a look and said, "It's Ma Huateng, the boss of NetEase, the boss of Sohu, and the boss of Baidu."

On that day, Qvod almost caused a sensation on the entire Internet.

It's amazing that a video website has such a grand display, with several Internet giants personally recording videos and uploading them to the homepage. This is really a way to support it.

Especially the video of Bill Gates, which was played three million times in less than three hours.

The video of Bill Gates participating in the Ice Bucket Challenge is being circulated and reposted everywhere on social networking sites.

The communication effect brought by top stars like the world's richest man is enormous. In this Internet age, celebrities come with all kinds of halos.

How blogs and Weibo became popular is that they spent a lot of money to invite a large number of celebrities to join, which brought in extremely high traffic.

What's more, Bill Gates himself is a traffic black hole, and other Internet celebrities are not on the same level as him.

The users who heard the news instantly overwhelmed the servers of Qvod.com. The huge traffic directly brought down the website, and it was still stuck after several repairs.

Everyone was watching Bill Gates wash his hair with ice water, and they watched it over and over again, discussing with relish what he was doing.

The editors of the portal website have already written more than a dozen articles, waiting for them to be reviewed and approved by the editor-in-chief before being published.

The editor-in-chief is also in pain. If he doesn't publish it, he won't be able to get any traffic.

Just post it, it's equivalent to giving free publicity to Qvod.com.

So the editor-in-chief had to report the matter to higher authorities and ask for the opinions of his supervisor.

Soon the supervisor gave advice, "Hurry up and post it, the PR fee from Qvod has been transferred!"

The editors were delighted and immediately began to publish the various manuscripts in their hands on the website.

After being promoted by portal websites, Qvod's reputation spread throughout the Chinese Internet.

The campus network, Tianya, Mop, major forums, and blogs are all discussing Qvod.com.

Celebrities have praised Bill Gates and called on everyone to care about public welfare.

There are several cultural celebrities who are good at writing. They flatter the world's richest man from various angles and even want to praise him as a saint of the time.

Then there are the "Yilin" style short stories, which also criticize the domestic situation.

What ordinary netizens are concerned about is the wide variety of film and television dramas available on Qvod, including those from Europe, America, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

After all, these are the most common contents on Qvod, and there is nothing interesting about domestic selfies.

People no longer have to worry about being bored while surfing the Internet at night. With a simple search on Qvod, they can find countless movies and TV series to help them pass the lonely nights.

……

Qin Shaoyan looked at the skyrocketing data on the backend of Qvod and felt very satisfied.

Bill Gates' card is so useful that it's worth my while to sell YouTube to you. This free advertising is totally worth it.

Xiong Xiaoge called directly to congratulate, "As expected of President Qin, you did a great job in creating publicity."

"Using public welfare propaganda to cover up the Qvod advertisement is a perfect job."

"Qvod's momentum has shocked other websites."

"Mr. Xiong, thank you for your compliment." Qin Shaoyan said modestly, "It's just a trivial skill."

"How did you convince Bill Gates to promote your product?" Xiong Xiaoge asked curiously.

"Mr. Bill Gates is very enthusiastic about charity, I just mentioned it briefly." Qin Shaoyan said with a smile.

Xiong Xiaoge didn't really want to explore this matter, so he changed the subject and said, "Can YouTube agree to our terms during this opportunity?"

"It's hard to say." Qin Shaoyan pondered for two seconds, "After all, they don't have that much money, but they are reluctant to part with Qvod."

"Then keep stretching." Xiong Xiaoge laughed, "The situation is favorable to us now."

"Boss Xiong is right. I have the advantage now." Qin Shaoyan said immediately, "I have contacted the reporters and am preparing to publish another round of soft articles to promote public welfare, which can raise the popularity."

"Okay!" Xiong Xiaoge was delighted. "That's the right way to do it. Boss Qin, just go for it. Don't be afraid to spend money. We can't save on PR and publicity at this stage."

"If you invest one dollar, you can get a valuation of ten dollars."

"Don't worry, Mr. Xiong." Qin Shaoyan smiled slightly, "The next step is to invite celebrities to join Qvod."

"Why write a blog? Outputting text is a thing of the past. It's time to teach with videos."

Hearing this, Xiong Xiaoge felt relieved. It seemed that Qin Shaoyan had prepared a lot of cards.

While there are no other competitors in the market, attract as many users as possible and grab the biggest piece of the pie.

Just when Qin Shaoyan was thinking about his next plan, Ma Huateng called.

"Boss Qin, where is your video?"

"What video?!" Qin Shaoyan was stunned.

"That's the video of you participating in the Ice Bucket Challenge." Ma Huateng felt a little strange. "Didn't you invite me and Bill Gates to participate in the Ice Bucket Challenge together? A-choo!"

"A-choo... I didn't see your video on the video website."

(End of this chapter)