You call this entrepreneurship?

Chapter 548

After sending his family back home, Qin Shaoyan spent some time with Mingyue before hurried back to the company.

At this time, the building of Sentinel Technologies was brightly lit. Employees who were still working overtime had just watched the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on TV. They were all excited and discussing the show with great interest.

This opening ceremony can be described as grand and magnificent, surpassing all previous Olympic opening ceremonies.

I guess no one expected that subsequent Olympic opening ceremonies would be worse than the previous ones.

There were a bunch of hellish performances, and some people were bragging about the feeling of relaxation, doing this in front of the whole world. It was so disgusting.

Every time the Olympic Games are held, there will be a large group of stimulated people who come to video websites to watch the replay of the 08 Olympic Games opening ceremony to heal their spiritual world.

Seeing that everyone was in high spirits, Qin Shaoyan did not disturb them and walked quietly into the office.

Zhang Pingyi, Sentinel Technology CTO Wang Jun and VV's head Marco all rushed over, ready to listen to President Qin's instructions.

"I don't have any instructions. I just came to take a look." Qin Shaoyan said with a relaxed expression, "Just do what you should do."

Although Qin Shaoyan spoke casually, Wang Jun and Ma Ke did not dare to relax.

After all, this is VV's first large-scale event, and the VV software has extraordinary strategic significance for the company.

Although Qin Shaoyan previously emphasized that VV is not a strategic project that will be promoted in the next two years, Sentinel Technology has invested a lot of money in the chat software VV, which is almost half of that of Weibo.

Judging from the level of investment, VV will definitely become the future business center and no one dares to take it lightly.

Ma Ke was the first to report, "The number of VV Online accounts has now exceeded 160 million, and the number is still growing rapidly. It is expected to reach 200 million."

"Two hundred million?" Qin Shaoyan was startled, then asked, "Is this data true? Why is it so much? How many real users are there?"

"We can only see the number of online accounts in our backend right now, but we can't count the exact number of users," Marco said, somewhat embarrassed. "We can only use an estimated method."

"It's alright." Qin Shaoyan waved his hand. "Well, for the publicity tomorrow, we'll use the figure of 200 million."

"Ah?" Marco was a little surprised. "This is not good."

"What's wrong with that? Our data is not fake." Qin Shaoyan said nonchalantly, "It's just that the statistical caliber is different."

Zhang Pingyi also nodded. "Based on the 200 million figure, the news writer will automatically make up a reason for you."

Qin Shaoyan continued to ask, "If we remove the accounts with the same IP, how many users do you think there are?"

"I estimate it to be around 80 or 90 million," Marco replied.

"Eighty or ninety million is not bad." Qin Shaoyan nodded, "Then let's be more optimistic about the situation and calculate it based on 100 million."

It wasn't until March 2010 that the number of concurrent online users on Penguin exceeded 3 million.

Qin Shaoyan made the decision on the spot, "Tomorrow's promotional announcement will include one more statement: Our VV users will reach 100 million at the same time. This is an Internet miracle!"

This is a very interesting topic, so Qin Shaoyan naturally cannot let it go.

Although this data may be a bit exaggerated, and today is a special day, coupled with the temptation of huge bonuses, all VV online users are waiting to participate in the lottery, which has led to this grand occasion.

But this is also a great opportunity for VV. If it can seize this opportunity and retain more users, even if only half, it will be a huge success.

Users of this era are less picky and have higher stickiness, but if you don’t do as well as your competitors, users will abandon your product without hesitation.

As it gets closer to twelve o'clock, countless VV users are squatting in front of their computer screens, staring at the event lottery page intently.

They are all waiting for the arrival of the last Fuwa. If they can draw the Fuwa "Nini", they will be able to collect the five blessings and be eligible to share the 20 million bonus.

The atmosphere in the entire Sentinel Company became solemn. All employees were on high alert and paid close attention to the situation on the event page.

As the time jumped to 11:59, everyone's heart rose to their throat and began to beat wildly.

Watching the numbers keep jumping, everyone began to count down silently, "10, 9, 8, 7..."

"6, 5, 4..." At this time, everyone started to shout loudly. "3!"

"2!"

"1!"

A gorgeous firework appeared on the lottery page, and the animation of the rotating cards bloomed with beautiful special effects.

"I won!" The winner cheered excitedly, "I won!"

At midnight, the number of VV users who won the prize was nearly 100,000.

These 100,000 users shared the 20 million yuan prize money, an average of 200 yuan per person.

Although the money was not much, the excitement of winning the lottery made everyone excited.

Those who didn't win the prize were very upset. Looking at the fact that they only had four different Fuwa, they felt that they had failed.

But fortunately, they can still participate in the draw for the first prize, which is a kind of consolation.

The special prize of "Collect Five Blessings" has been drawn, and the remaining Fuwa are of no use. Everyone has started to use the blessing cards in their hands to see if they can win other prizes.

Because there were too many people participating in the lottery, the lottery page crashed at one point, which made Marco quite embarrassed.

The VV server was safe and sound tonight, but the lottery system server crashed, which is a kind of black humor.

But Qin Shaoyan didn't care at all, these were just details.

Qin Shaoyan was quite satisfied with today's activity data, and announced with a beaming face: "We will continue to hold this Five Blessings Collection activity in the future, and we will hold it again at the end of the year!"

"Ah? Are you still doing it?" Zhang Pingyi was shocked.

"Since our users are so supportive, we should give back to them!" Qin Shaoyan said nonchalantly, "Isn't it just 20 million? Our company is not short of money, we will continue to do it next time!"

……

As soon as the VV lottery data was released, the entire Internet industry was shocked.

"The number of VV online users has exceeded 100 million." This data is really too terrifying.

In June 2008, the number of Internet users in China just exceeded 6 million, surpassing the United States to become the world's number one.

The chat software VV has been launched for only a few months, but it has reached such a scale, which is beyond the Internet industry's cognition.

Penguin Company reacted even more violently after receiving the news. Ma Huateng held an emergency meeting that night, and the lights in the conference room remained on until sunrise.

The shareholders of Sentinel Technologies were even more restless. Xiong Xiaoge and Zheng Nan from Sequoia Capital China rushed to Sentinel Technologies the next morning.

"Mr. Qin, how accurate is your data?" Xiong Xiaoge broke into Qin Shaoyan's office and asked seriously.

"What do you mean by how inflated the data is?!" Qin Shaoyan retorted in dissatisfaction, "We are a listed company, how can the data be inflated? How can you, as a shareholder, talk nonsense?"

Xiong Xiaoge felt that he had said something out of turn, but he was too excited and accidentally told the truth.

He glanced at the office door, which had been closed by Qin Shaoyan's secretary. He hesitated for a moment and asked, "How did you calculate the data of 100 million online users?"

"Of course it's the backend server data statistics." Qin Shaoyan said confidently, "Our server statistics show that at midnight on August 9, there were a total of 201 million accounts online."

"We eliminated duplicate IP addresses and ultimately arrived at the 100 million user figure."

"This data may have some errors, but the number of our VV users is definitely a record high."

Xiong Xiaoge heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this, "Okay! Okay! Okay!"

(End of this chapter)