You call this entrepreneurship?

Chapter 362 The Boss is on TV
In the first-class cabin of the plane, Qin Shaoyan leisurely poured the iced cola into a highball glass and took a sip.

"Don't say they are curious, I am curious too." Zhang Pingyi looked at the information in his hand and sighed.

Qin Shaoyan was a little surprised. "Why are you curious about this? Besides, didn't I tell you about the website plan for the campus network before?"

"You never tell the truth." Zhang Pingyi said seriously, "In the past two years, you have either been making promises or going back on your word. Who would dare to believe your plans?"

"To be honest, you mentioned too many plans before. How can I remember which one it was?"

Qin Shaoyan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said angrily: "You are my right-hand man, the veteran contributor to our business, and the pillar of the campus network. It's fine if others say something about me, but how can you doubt the boss?"

"My plan for the campus network has always been very clear: relying on the campus and spreading to the society."

"Wait?!" Zhang Pingyi asked in confusion, "When did you propose this plan? Why haven't I heard of it?"

"Didn't I say that?" Qin Shaoyan asked doubtfully, "I remember I said that we should quickly recruit university campus users, and also develop new users such as young graduates and urban white-collar workers."

Zhang Pingyi said with certainty, "You only told us that we should rely on the University Student Station to connect online and offline and turn the University Student Station into a comprehensive one-stop service store."

"It includes not only express delivery, buying and selling various mobile phone cards, game point cards, and milk tea and snack shops, but also selling travel tickets and movie tickets."

"There are now more than 100 college student hostels in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Hong Kong, but I think the number will at most double next year."

Zhang Pingyi counted on his fingers, "How much can you earn from these 300 college student stations? I remember you said that college students have limited spending power and there won't be much profit."

"Yes." Qin Shaoyan nodded, "So I often give benefits and subsidies to my family members, but I don't expect to make money from them."

"Don't even think about the college student hostel. It's just an advertising sign for the campus network." Qin Shaoyan said calmly, "If we want to make money, we still have to think about users outside the campus network."

“???” Zhang Pingyi was stunned. He thought about it for a long time but couldn’t understand what Qin Shaoyan meant.

Other websites are trying their best to squeeze money out of users. They want every netizen who browses the web to pay them money and try every possible means to convert users into paying users.

As a result, Qin Shaoyan said that he did not expect to make money from the 10 million users of the campus network, he planned to make money from people outside the campus network.

Listen to me, is this human language?
Zhang Pingyi clearly remembered that Qin Shaoyan once said that video websites had no chance of making money, but Qvod was eventually created.

Now Qvod.com is entirely dependent on venture capital to maintain its existence, and Qin Shaoyan has never thought about making Qvod.com profitable.

The campus network will be preparing for an IPO next year, and Qin Shaoyan also said that he would make money outside of the campus network.

This is complete nonsense. Zhang Pingyi even suspected that Qin Shaoyan never intended to make money from the campus network.

Zhang Pingyi asked tentatively: "Whose money are you trying to defraud?"

"What do you mean by cheating someone's money?" Qin Shaoyan retorted, "This is a normal business activity. It's not cheating anyone's money."

"Have you forgotten how we got started?"

"Do you really expect to make money from games?" Zhang Pingyi was stunned again and asked in disbelief.

"Didn't we make our fortune from a game?" Qin Shaoyan asked, "If it weren't for the money from Plants vs. Zombies, how could we have a campus network and Facebook?"

"Besides, I have acquired several game studios. I don't support them to eat for free, but to make them make money for us."

"Didn't you tell me that games are like lottery tickets?" Zhang Pingyi asked in confusion. "No one can guarantee that a game will be a hit. It's very possible that after investing several years and a lot of money, it will fail as soon as it's released. The chances of it becoming a hit are slim."

"The gaming industry does have this characteristic." Qin Shaoyan did not deny it, "But the games I design are different."

"What's the difference?" Zhang Pingyi asked back.

I just copied the answers directly.

"If you can understand it, you will be the top designer." Qin Shaoyan patted his chest and said, "This thing is a talent, you don't understand."

"Single-player games are indeed like buying lottery tickets, but online games are different now."

"China's online game market is expanding rapidly. The huge game user group and the market with great potential are facing a situation where supply exceeds demand. There are few online games on the market, and most of them are of low quality, with serious bugs and poor operation ideas."

"On the one hand, game manufacturers lack experience and are still exploring design ideas. Insufficient technical accumulation leads to too many bugs. Operational experience and technology are even more insufficient, and the industry is extremely short of talent."

"Now, as long as you come up with a decent online game, keep it bug-free and operate it steadily, you will definitely make money."

"Online game users do not necessarily need to be diverted from campus network users. It follows a different system."

"Zhou Yuan, who is in charge of the college student hostel, has already started to build a marketing team to explore online gaming channels."

Zhang Pingyi suddenly realized, "I haven't seen Zhou Yuan for a long time. It turns out he was busy with this."

Qin Shaoyan said casually, "Hasn't Zhou Yuan sent you any report application recently? You will know after reading his report."

"I didn't notice that." Zhang Pingyi was stunned. "Don't you usually sign for budget reimbursements?"

"This guy." Qin Shaoyan smiled, "He's quite good at keeping secrets."

Zhang Pingyi was somewhat skeptical. “How much money can be made from just one online game? Can it support the market value of Campus Network of 25 billion US dollars?”

"If one doesn't work, then two will work. There will always be a way." Qin Shaoyan said confidently, "My goal is a market value of 40 billion US dollars."

"Look at Shanda and NetEase. How did their bosses become the richest people in China? Isn't it because of their online gaming business?"

During this period of the Internet industry until the mobile Internet, if you wanted to make money you had to rely on online games, and you couldn't make much just by relying on users.

Therefore, during this period, the Internet and the gaming industry have begun to be deeply integrated, and online games have become the mainstream of the Chinese gaming industry, leaving almost no room for stand-alone games to survive.

Zhang Pingyi let out a sigh of relief, "I hope your online game can make a lot of money."

"Don't worry, I can do it." Qin Shaoyan thought for a while, "But before that we have to defeat an opponent first."

"Which opponent?" Zhang Pingyi was stunned for a moment. "There aren't many opponents in the gaming industry that you can take seriously. Is it World of Warcraft?"

"No." Qin Shaoyan shook his head.

"Could it be Fantasy Westward Journey?" Zhang Pingyi thought for a moment. "This game is really powerful. NetEase has made a fortune from this online game."

“It’s a game called Journey.”

"What is that?" Zhang Pingyi thought about it and looked through all the games he had heard of in the market, but he had no impression of it. "Which company produced it?"

"It probably hasn't been tested yet." Qin Shaoyan said with a serious expression, "It was released by the Giant."

"Giant?" Zhang Pingyi was shocked. "Is that Melatonin?"

"Yeah, that's it."

"Aren't they making health products?" Zhang Pingyi found it unbelievable. "When did they start making games?"

"Shi Yuzhu poached a team from Shanda." Qin Shaoyan sighed, "Boss Chen is still careless. Shanda is now clinging to Legend, which is completely a waste of resources and has no ambition to make progress."

"You'd better stop worrying about Mr. Chen and pay more attention to our games." Zhang Pingyi said worriedly, "You've been running around cheating and deceiving people for the past two years, and you haven't paid much attention to the game company. Can they produce qualified works?"

"It's okay. I've let them do it freely in the past two years, mainly to accumulate resources and technology. What they lack now is design ideas." Qin Shaoyan said without any worries, "I'll go back and train them for a few months, and it will be ready soon." Qin Shaoyan was not bragging about this.

He had really seen similar operations. Recalling his previous life, he had seen a project that had been in development for nearly three years and was almost dying.

After three years of running-in, there are no major problems with art and programming, but there is no strong producer to lead, and no design ideas, so we just work together in a haphazard manner.

Before the launch, a producer joined the project team and spent three or four months sorting out the project. The game made a huge profit as soon as it was launched.

At that time, the producer was not very sure about himself.

What Qin Shaoyan has to do now is to copy the various gameplay systems and operational ideas that have been verified by countless online games and players in later generations.

These mature gameplay designs are simply a dimensionality reduction attack on the market which is just starting out and everyone is still in the exploratory stage.

"Then I look forward to what classic works you, the top designer in China's game industry, can bring to everyone." Zhang Pingyi said with a smile.

Qin Shaoyan also laughed. A classic will definitely become a classic, but it is not certain whether it will be a good classic or a bad classic.

After this game comes out, it will leave an important mark in the history of games. I guess players will definitely curse it when it is mentioned again.

I'm sorry, players, for the successful listing of the campus network and for the future Internet blueprint planned by Qin Shaoyan.

The players can only suffer, and I will take the blame.

At worst, I can release more good games in the future to compensate you.

Zhang Pingyi said with emotion: "If Mr. Qin can really make the game, Campus Network will be able to ring the bell at Nasdaq next year. By then, we will be the boss of a real listed company, and maybe even be on the Fortune Immortals list."

Qin Shaoyan glanced at him and said, "Do you think being on the list is a good thing?"

"Hey, my goal is not to be on the list, I want to get rich." Zhang Pingyi said excitedly, "It would be very prestigious to say that I am the vice president of a company with a market value of billions of dollars."

"Ever since you tricked me into joining you, I've been living in fear for the past two years. You kept promising me the future, but after two years I finally saw any money back."

"What do you mean by joining a partnership?" Qin Shaoyan said unhappily, "I am cooperating with you to achieve win-win results. Isn't this a win-win situation? Aren't YouTube shares money?"

"Even if I am exaggerating, what have you lost?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Zhang Pingyi thought of the hundreds of millions of dollars he earned from selling YouTube, and he felt too embarrassed to tease President Qin again.

"When will Facebook go public? I heard that our campus network will go public next year. Fred was so envious that his eyes turned red. He couldn't help it."

"It's not time for Facebook to go public yet." Qin Shaoyan sighed, "Even if we want to go public now, I'm afraid those venture capitalists won't agree."

"Didn't you see that the venture capitalists haven't urged me to develop a commercial project for Facebook? The group buying I mentioned before has been delayed."

The smile on Zhang Pingyi's face gradually disappeared. "How long do you think it will take?"

"Once our shares are diluted enough, they will start thinking about going public." Qin Shaoyan said helplessly, "Facebook is a piece of fat meat now, and everyone wants to take a bite."

"I think it's time to think about a way out. Next year, you try to cash out your Facebook shares. I will sell them to Fred by 07 at the latest."

“It’s time to quit Facebook.”

Zhang Pingyi was a little surprised, "Aren't you going to wait until it goes public?"

"I can't wait any longer." Qin Shaoyan said with emotion, "Facebook's influence is growing. My identity is too sensitive. If I don't quit, I'm afraid I'll be in endless trouble."

……

Qin Shaoyan ended his fruitful trip to the United States and returned to his loyal campus network in high spirits.

As soon as I walked into the company, I saw that the employees of the campus network looked a little strange and seemed a little excited.

"Boss Qin is back!"

"Brothers, President Qin is back!"

Someone noticed Qin Shaoyan's figure and started shouting loudly. In an instant, the whole company was boiling. Almost everyone stood up and looked at Qin Shaoyan with admiration.

Qin Shaoyan was stunned. What was going on?

What happened?

CTO Wang Jun, who stayed behind, heard the noise outside and ran out of the office. He rushed to Qin Shaoyan in two or three steps and said excitedly, "Boss Qin, you are finally back."

"Ah, I'm back." Qin Shaoyan was a little confused, "Didn't I tell you before that I would be at the company today?"

"Mr. Qin, didn't you watch the news?" Wang Jun couldn't hide his excitement.

"What news?" Qin Shaoyan asked back.

"It's CCTV, the 7 o'clock news broadcast." Wang Jun said excitedly, "You're on TV! Our campus network is also on TV."

Qin Shaoyan was stunned and his body trembled.

On TV?

It was still on CCTV's news broadcast. Although he had speculated about it before, now that it had come true, Qin Shaoyan felt as if it was a little unreal.

Qin Shaoyan asked subconsciously, "When was it broadcast?"

"last night."

"Is there a replay?" Qin Shaoyan asked.

"I've recorded it." Wang Jun immediately called out to a worker at a nearby workstation, "Xiao Xu, open Qvod and show President Qin the news on our campus network."

Qin Shaoyan immediately ran to the computer and watched the uploaded video. Although the picture quality was not very satisfactory, the sound was still clear.

The announcer's clear and melodious voice came out through the small speaker, "Recently, the World University Forum Summit held at the United Nations Headquarters ended successfully... The Chinese university student representatives performed well and won the silver medal in the debate competition."

"This international college summer camp sponsored by the campus network has showcased the elegance of Chinese college students to the world..."

As the screen kept switching, clips of the United Nations headquarters and the debate process flashed by, and finally a shot of Qin Shaoyan wearing a campus network T-shirt was revealed.

He talked freely into the microphone, seeming relaxed and carefree.

“The campus network will be held annually to allow more college students to participate and to let more students know the world. … I hope that students can see the world with an equal eye.”

Wang Jun held up the newspaper in his hand and said, "Not only is there news from CCTV, but there are also many newspapers reporting on it."

Qin Shaoyan snatched the newspaper and glanced at it. There was a complete text record of Wen Jiali's interview with him, and it was also accompanied by pictures.

"This campus network is going to be a blast!"

(End of this chapter)