"The United Nations held a special celebration meeting for the 50th anniversary of its founding in New York, and the Chinese government... delivered a speech..."

"A total solar eclipse occurred yesterday. It can be observed in India, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Malaysia and other places..."

On the morning of October 25, 1995, Du Qiu, as usual, after exercising in the gym attached to the villa, walked into the studio, sat at the computer desk, listened to the news broadcast on the radio, and read and replied to emails.

When he opened an email from He Lixing from China using the newly developed imail, he heard two light knocks outside, and then Qin Weizhen, who had bangs and a baby-faced face, walked in and greeted: "Du Qiu, Aunt Xue asked me to call you for breakfast."

This girl is a second-generation official and has a deep background in the Ministry of Finance. Because "White Night Walk" and Du Qiu had an intersection, she became the spokesperson for family interests. A few days ago, she followed her cousin Jin Ning, who made electronic tax calculation software, and signed a shareholding agreement, becoming one of the shareholders on the Snapdragon table.

"You are so terrified. Didn't you stay in a hotel last night? You came again so early today."

"Today is your happy day. I came here to congratulate you, but you didn't appreciate it."

"Where does the joy come from?"

"Pretentious!" Qin Weizhen sneered and walked to the computer desk, saying, "After today, you are the youngest and fastest super-rich man in human history to reach $500 million in assets. Isn't it festive enough?"

"Are you so sure I can successfully raise funds today?"

"If I can't succeed, those domestic financial mistresses and Zhou Papi will rush to give you money? Will I be forced to travel across the ocean to curry favor with you?"

Du Qiu likes her free and straightforward personality. While typing with her fingers, she joked: "Cheer up? Your cousin said you are Wang Zhaojun, who is here to marry him."

"Hey hey, it's enough for everyone to know this. Why bother to say it? It's a pity that Qin Weizhen bent down, rubbed Du Qiu's shoulders gently, and said, "It's a pity that Sister Danfeng got ahead. I don't have the peerless appearance of Wang Zhaojun as he sinks fish and falls geese. I can't hold on to the heart of you, the best Wang Laowu, so I had to stutter and settle the matter."

"Okay, from now on, you will be a personal maid, pour tea and water for me, wash and cook."

"Hey! You're kidding me seriously, don't rub your nose on your face. I don't like to do anything you said, nor can I do it." Qin Wei really turned into a pounding, and thumped his back vigorously, urging him: "Don't type, go for breakfast."

"It's going to be done right away."

After Du Qiu typed the last line of words, he turned off his computer and got up to go to the restaurant in the main building of the villa. Qin Wei followed behind and said, "Actually, in addition to financing today, there is also good news. Do you know what it is?"

"have no idea."

"No wonder Sister Danfeng keeps saying that you are not interested and is a tin man." Qin Wei really hummed twice in a childish way, revealing the mystery: "Today is the day when your single "The Action Program of Cruel Angel" was first released."

"Is that true?" Du Qiu only remembered that "Evangelion" was premiered in October 1995. The theme song was completely unimpressed and had never paid attention to it before. He asked: "Tokyo is more than ten hours earlier than here, how is the sales?"

"Aizi said it was very popular. Many people had never seen cartoons. I heard that it was your work, so I went to buy them very curiously." Qin Weizhen regretted for him and said, "Du Qiu, your song is very well written. It's a pity to be the theme song for "Evangelion". I read the online comments that the plot of this cartoon is difficult to understand, the picture is bloody, and the average viewership rate of the first three episodes is only 6.4%. It is neither good nor popular."

The 1990s was a glorious decade for the Japanese animation industry, and many classic works were born. The ratings of "The Book of Youyou" and "Slam Dunk" in the same period both exceeded 15%, while "Evangelion" was only 6.4%, which was a frustrating work. However, this cartoon started low and ended high, with videotapes, DVDs and peripheral products sold well for more than 20 years. It is one of the typical representatives of the "long-tail economy" after the rise of the Internet industry, and its subsequent returns are very high.

"Next time you call Aiko, ask her to contact the production company. I want to acquire the copyright of this cartoon."

"Ah, are you sure?"

"Confirm." Du Qiu smiled proudly by the landscape pool at the entrance of the villa with his hands behind his back, and pretended to behave: "Rich people like to collect some valuable things to show their taste. Some collect antiques, some collect luxury cars, and some collect beauties. What about me, I like to collect film and television works."

"Hey, hey, be careful, I'll sue you for gender discrimination. Beauty is human, how can it be considered expensive?"

"With your appearance, of course it doesn't count."

"roll!"

The two of them quarreled and walked into the super spacious restaurant on the first floor of the villa. Du Qiu saw that the dining table was filled with various foods, including Chinese soy milk and fried dumplings, as well as Western bacon and bread, so he said to Xue Liping: "Aunt Xue, I have gained several pounds these days, and if I continue like this, I will not be able to walk."

Xue Liping held the spatula and said with a smile: "You exercise every day, have a big appetite, and it's okay to eat more. Today is a big day. Only those who eat and drink enough will have the energy to negotiate with those investment managers."

"Where is Brother Chen?"

"I'll come down to Jin Ning when talking about immigration with him."

Chen Dayou has not been able to perform in China and has always had the idea of ​​immigrating. The company does need a reliable spokesperson in the United States. Seeing this, Du Qiule asked: "Aunt Xue plans to stay in China to take care of Uncle Chen, or immigrate to the United States?"

"I am so old that I can't speak English. I can't get used to living in the United States. After a while, Dayou settles down and returns to Yuncheng." Xue Liping glanced at Qin Weizhen and said, "You uncle Chen has been doing education for half a lifetime. The biggest wish is to be the president of a university. If Dayou and I immigrate, it will have a bad impact on him."

Chen Zhiyang was obsessed with the intention of moving around and trying to become the principal. Du Qiu also heard about it. However, he was not sure whether it had anything to do with Qin Wei's background, so he didn't say anything. He picked up a bowl of rice porridge and ate it with fried dumplings and side dishes.

A few minutes later, Chen Dayou and Jin Ning came down from the second floor. When Xue Liping saw him wearing a suit, tie, and looking like a workplace elite, she nodded with satisfaction and said, "This is just like a ceo. Don't wear those fancy street stalls in the future. She is like a hooligan, and I hate it when I look at it."

"Mom, those clothes are a few hundred dollars a piece, not street stalls."

"It's so ugly, no matter how expensive it is, it's still a street stall product..."

Chen Dayou looked helpless and had to keep silent and sit down and concentrate on eating. Qin Wei really sneered and asked Du Qiu, who was wearing casual sweatshirts and jeans, "Don't you change a formal outfit like Mr. Chen today?"

"You think those investors care what clothes I wear?"

"It should... don't care."

"That's amazing."

After breakfast, Du Qiu and Chen Dayou drove a Mercedes-Benz SL convertible sports car produced in 1988. Chen Dayou originally wanted to buy a Ferrari, but was severely suppressed by Xue Liping, so he had to settle for the second best. He bought this dream car when he was in college. This car is very classic, with a product cycle of 18 years and has appeared in posters of Bruce Lee and Chow Yun-fat.

As soon as the car drove out of the door, Chen Dayou pulled off his tie and asked, "You put all the clothes I bought yesterday in the trunk?"

"Let it go."

"Good buddy!"

I don’t know if it’s a psychological problem or other reasons, Chen Dayou is like a chameleon. The more flamboyant the clothes are, the brighter the colors, the stronger the confidence, and the more comfortable they can. So as soon as he arrived at the company, he took off his valuable but unindividual suit and changed into a set of Versace, which he just purchased yesterday. The blue silk fabric is embroidered with golden patterns, paired with a charming Medusa belt buckle, and pointed python leather shoes, which are so exaggerated that it makes people dare not look at it.

At around 9:30 in the morning, the bosses or partners of several major venture capital companies in Silicon Valley arrived at the conference room of iview Network Technology Company and officially launched the financing plan that the media and the industry have been looking forward to for a long time.

"In 1993, lou-montulli invented cookies that can record user information, such as web passwords, browsing history, stay time and number of visits, etc. iView 1.0 and 2.0 support this technology, and adopt stricter privacy protection measures than Netscape..."

"I recently wrote a gadget called imail. This is a brand new email system. You don't need to install another client, you can use it directly in the browser. Let me demonstrate the specific operation below..."

Du Qiu spent about 5 minutes to briefly introduce these two technologies in a language that laymen know, and then handed the projector's remote control to Chen Dayou and said: "The following will dylan introduce the business model of iview network technology companies to you."

"Abumn, don't you introduce the technical advantages of iView in the Internet field?"

Du Qiu spread his hands and asked, "Do you need it?"

Almost all investors in the audience laughed. The web technology standards have been released for more than a month. Netscape's navigator 2.0 is still difficult to produce, Microsoft's ie 2.0 is silent, and only iView 2.0 is the only one. There is no need to introduce more technology.

Chen Dayou took the remote control from Du Qiu and was about to speak. Tim Draper, who was sitting at the front of the conference table, raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and said, "dylan, autumn is too boring. I hope you can perform better, otherwise it will be difficult to impress the money in our pockets."

"I will satisfy you!"

Chen Dayou has been struggling with financing for several months, worried about gains and losses, and is under great pressure. He is like a tight spring. He is stimulated by Draper's condescending words. He suddenly loses control. His brain is hot. He jumps onto the conference table on the chair and takes a hip twisting dance in front of everyone. While dancing, he uses the remote control as a microphone. He repeatedly sings a line from the classic Elvis song "hound-dog": "You can't catch a rabbit, you can't catch a rabbit..."

The investors in the conference room were stunned and at a loss. Jennifer, who was sitting next to Draper, first reacted, made a gesture to Du Qiu, who was also stunned, and signaled him to save the scene quickly, then blew a loud whistle and applauded: "Excellent!"

Du Qiu was reminded by Jennifer and had to sacrifice his life to accompany the gentleman. He walked to the conference table and stood opposite Chen Dayou. He danced a short slow mechanical dance that he had performed on a private plane. The two of them went up and down, one was fast and one was slow, one was funny and the other was dull. The rhythm was completely inconsistent but they were interesting, and they had an indescribable tacit understanding.

“What a fun dance.”

“nice!”

“I liked the perfect show.”

Driven by Jennifer, everyone in the conference room came to their senses and gathered together, applauding, whistling, and whistling, as if the rock singers met. Chen Dayou quickly recovered his mind, but his emotions were still in a state of explosion. He simply bent his legs and sat down directly at the conference table, and said loudly: "Next, I'll introduce the business model of iView... First, let's look at a few numbers."

"The first one is 36 million people, which is the number of netizens around the world as of September 1995, an increase of 4 million from 6 months ago..."

"The second one, 1.09 million copies, is the average daily circulation of the New York Times in 1994, an increase of 4.7% over 1990..."

"The third one, $1.738 billion, was the advertising revenue of the New York Times in 1994, an increase of 15.6% over 1990..."

"The fourth, $5.3 billion, is the current share price of the New York Times..."

"The fifth one, 5.28 million times, this is the number of views of the iView browser's built-in homepage icard yesterday. When iView 2.0 was released 15 days ago, there were only 1.13 million times, 2.05 million times 10 days ago, and 3.47 million times 5 days ago..."

The amazing numbers, combined with the steep growth curve on the projection screen, made the investors in the conference room lose their calmness, which was even more shocking than when Chen Dayou was dancing the hip twisting dance just now, and he talked: "Oh, my goodness, this is crazy!"

“Are these numbers accurate?”

Du Qiu used his technical authority in time and said in a joking manner: "Inaccurate, because dylan is only accurate to ten thousand digits."

The cold joke was effective, and the audience laughed. Amid the laughter, Chen Dayou switched the projection back to the two technologies introduced by Du Qiu just now and said: "Cookies can record the interests and hobbies of each visitor and shopper habits. Imail can accurately place advertisements that are interested in to his email based on these records..."

"Excellent idea! The Internet has no geographical restrictions and is more accurate in its delivery. It has great potential in the advertising industry and is worth investing."

"IView's business model is much easier to understand than Netscape and has more promising. Their Microsoft business is staggered and there is no competitive pressure."

"Autun is such a genius. The commercial value of this imail should be no worse than iview."

Amid the crowd's discussion, Chen Dayou introduced the advertising distribution model of iView, then jumped off the conference table, pointed to the projection, and concluded with a nearly shouting voice: "Everyone! iView is not Netscape, nor Microsoft, we are not software companies, but advertising companies. Our number of readers is more than ten times that of the New York Times, our growth rate is dozens of times that of the New York Times, our advertising effect is hundreds of times that of the New York Times, and our valuation is only one-fifth of the New York Times, so why are you hesitating about?"

Intuitive data, sensational speeches and simple and clear business models made all investors attending the meeting excited. In just a few minutes, IView successfully obtained a $200 million investment at the cost of 20% of its shares. Among them, DeFengjie, a venture capital company that belongs to Jennifer, led the investment, invested 80 million US dollars, SoftBank of Japan invested 50 million US dollars, KPCB invested 30 million US dollars, and the remaining 40 million will be divided by the remaining venture capital companies.

"Brother Chen, from today on, you will be the world's number one dancer."

"That's a must. One dance earned $200 million, which is even more awesome than Elvis!"
Chapter completed!