Chapter 141 The situation changes
Du Qiu started to go to Los Angeles temporarily yesterday, but he didn't bring any luggage around, so after breakfast, he went to the nearby area to buy clothes and some daily necessities under Jennifer's guidance.
Every woman is a shopping crazier, and Jennifer is no exception. She clearly said she would buy two of them and leave. As a result, she kept shopping for more than an hour and helped Du Qiu choose four or five sets of clothes. After changing them from head to toe, she still didn't give up. She also took a fancy to a burgundy leather jacket in a clothing store.
"Forget this, I don't like leather jackets and I can't wear them well."
"Auto, you have a great taste in cars and food, but the taste in clothing is very poor. Trust me, go and try it." Jennifer pulled out a dark blue denim shirt from his shopping bag and said, "Wear it with this one."
"All right."
When Du Qiu changed his clothes and came out of the fitting room, Jennifer's eyes lit up and said, "If you accept media interviews as you are now, iView will immediately increase by 1 million female users."
"Yeah?"
Du Qiu turned around and looked at the mirror, but he was shocked. He felt that he had never been so handsome before. The rough denim shirt and luxurious leather jacket inspired a bohemian temperament deep in his heart, and it intertwined with the long-term bookish atmosphere between his eyebrows, perfectly integrated, full of elegant style and very lethal.
"Abumn, you are actually very handsome, with almost no shortcomings in facial features, but the lines are too round, lack personality, and have low recognition, so you need to find the right clothes to show your charm."
This is a fact. Lin Dawei is handsome and Du Chunhua is dignified. Both of them are very good-looking. Du Qiu inherited their genes and has good conditions. However, he used to be weak and had no aura and was easily overlooked. Now he has achieved success and fame, with high confidence and full aura. It is difficult to think of not being outstanding against the right clothes.
I'm so handsome...
If I had known that I could make a living by relying on my face, why would I work so hard to be a powerful person after traveling through time...
Du Qiu was narcissistic in front of the mirror. At this time, the cell phone in the shopping bag rang. He took it out and saw that it was Chen Dayou who called him. He asked, "Where are you? My mother said you didn't go back all night last night."
"I'm in Monroe Parker." Du Qiu glanced at Jennifer, who was picking shoes, walked to the store door and said, "Jenny and I were going to drive to Los Angeles to play for a few days. We won't go to work anymore. If there is any problem in the company, call me."
"wooo...Fuck! I thought you were Liu Xiahui. It turned out that you were just picky food than me and like high-end goods." Chen Dayou let out a laugh that only men understood, and then said: "I want to skip the invitation to be tested and let the imail be tested directly."
After Du Qiu created the imail, he was preparing to follow Google's business strategy when promoting gmail, conducting internal testing in universities, industry and among celebrities in the form of invitation, creating a highly sought-after high-end image, and then fully commercialized it. Chen Dayou originally agreed with this plan, but now he suddenly changed his mind. Du Qiu was a little surprised and asked: "Why?"
"The performance of those people at yesterday's financing meeting has proved that imail is the most sought after product in the world." Chen Dayou seemed to be driving, and there was a whistling sound on the phone. He shouted: "So we don't need to do anything extra to create an image, just sell it directly, and everything will be fine!"
Du Qiu was stunned at first, then suddenly realized that he had fallen into an experience trap without realizing it. When Gmail was launched in 2004, there were already many email brands in the world, so Google used the invitation-based form to engage in hunger marketing. The imail in 1995 was the first in the world, and there were no competitors. Hunger marketing was indeed a waste of time.
This guy is really a good marketing guy...
No wonder Jennifer said iView doesn't need a chief media officer...
"If you directly public beta, both hardware and software need additional investment, and you need to be cautious in the database. Ask Wei Zhiqin if you need to ask Xiao Wu to come and help."
"I'm on my way to her house now."
Du Qiu was surprised and asked, "Aren't you in Las Vegas?"
"I came back by plane at around 9 o'clock in the morning. The company still had a lot of things to deal with." Chen Dayou was still excited, but his brain had regained his rationality. He said: "Women can only have fun for a few minutes, and their career can be enjoyed for a lifetime. I can tell the difference."
Du Qiu looked at his control with admiration and joked: "You are going to Wei Zhiqin's house now, aren't you afraid that she will use a gun to hit you?"
“Las Vegas is in Nevada, not Silicon Valley.”
Chen Dayou and Wei Zhiqin made a gentleman agreement and agreed to be a model couple in Silicon Valley. They left Silicon Valley and just messed around. Du Qiu heard about this and said with a smile: "Okay, I wish you can still hand over the public grain later."
"I wish you and Jennifer's love forever!"
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California Highway 1 was once rated as one of the 50 attractions that cannot be missed in one of the life of National Geographic magazine. You can enjoy both beautiful and spectacular natural scenery along the way and enjoy unique cultural styles. It took Du Qiu and Jennifer three days to arrive in Los Angeles. There is no need to explain the various charm and romance along the way.
Monday, October 30, at 7:50 am.
After exercising in the gym of the Beverly Hills Peninsula Hotel, Du Qiu went to the swimming pool for another half an hour. When he returned to the suite, he found that Jennifer had already gotten up and was hustling to pack up his clothes, and it seemed that he was about to leave.
"What's wrong?"
"Draper suggested that I go to IView as Chief Marketing Officer and be responsible for formulating the marketing plan for Imail. I agreed and now I have to go back to work in Mountain View."
Du Qiu was surprised and asked, "I invited you to the iView Chief Media Officer a few days ago. Didn't you refuse?"
"The Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Media Officer have different work content. I'm in a hurry to catch a plane and go take a shower first and then talk later." Jennifer took his underwear and pointed to the phone on the living room coffee table and said, "Netjing bought excite for $30 million last night. Please ask dylan for details. He has called several times just now."
Du Qiu was even more surprised and said to himself: "Did Netjing actually acquire excite?"
Founded in February 1993, excite is one of the four major search engines in the early days of the Internet. Like Yahoo, it was also born from Stanford University and received venture capital earlier than Yahoo. The visits of the two websites are not much different, and they are in a fierce competition.
Now that excite has been acquired by NetView, the previous rumors about Yahoo were probably the smoke bombs that Jerry Yang raised his own value...
It is estimated that Yahoo will also raise funds soon...
While thinking about it secretly, Du Qiu picked up the phone, dialed Chen Dayou's number, and asked: "What's the situation now?"
"Netjing acquired excite and used it as the default homepage of the navigator browser." Chen Dayou was a little angry and said: "They are obviously imitating our business model. Next, they will definitely make navigator free and compete with iView for market share."
"It doesn't matter if it's free. Microsoft also buys one free one free. Buy ie and get windows, which is more generous than Netscape. It's still not as good as the iView market share." Du Qiu disregarded and said: "Netscape's main profit comes from corporate users. They can at most make the personal version of Navigator free, but they will definitely not be open source. As long as it is not open source, the R&D progress and network ecology will not keep up with us. There is nothing to worry about."
"But Netscape will steal away many ICard advertisers." Chen Dayou was very worried and said, "I have already told Draper and Masayoshi Son to immediately invest $50 million to purchase hardware equipment, and try to bring the imail to the market in mid-November, and catch Netscape off guard!"
"Don't be so anxious." Du Qiu walked to the floor-to-ceiling window of the suite, looked at the scenery outside, and said calmly: "There are too few Internet users around the world, and they have not yet formed a scale, so it is difficult to make profits through advertising. Whether it is icard or imail, they are actually gimmicks for making money for listing."
"Even if it is a gimmick, it must be done well. Others are burning money, and we will not move, which will make Wall Street think that we have no good products." Chen Dayou is very talented in cheating and cheating, saying: "Now the concept of the Internet is very popular on Wall Street. Draper has contacted several investment banks to strive to go public in March next year. The sooner the imail is launched, the more users will be available and the more stock prices will rise."
So that's it, no wonder Jennifer is going to iView as chief marketing officer...
These guys from venture capital companies are so damn-hearted. They just finished the investment one second, but they thought about how to cheat the leeks and cash out the money in the next second...
"You are CEO, if you think it's OK, then do it." Du Qiu was not interested in the specific process of listing and was too lazy to participate in these trivial matters. He said: "I am going to return to China on November 5th, and at most I will help you become a temporary worker for a week."
"What are you doing in such a hurry to go back to China? Can't you leave after the imail is finished?"
"The imail program has been completed, and the rest is operation and maintenance issues. I am not good at this, so it doesn't matter whether I am there or not."
"Even if you do nothing, hiding in the office every day and flirting with Jennifer can improve the work efficiency of employees." Chen Dayou persuaded him with the intention of using it if you can: "And you are very famous now. If you accept interviews from a few media, you can make the imail more users. For every additional user, the market value of the market value when you go public may be one dollar."
"I don't cash out, what does it matter if the market value is a little more or less." Du Qiu said indifferently: "My problem now is that I have too much money and I want to rush to return to China and spend it."
"What projects are you going to go back to China to do?"
"It's not a project, it's spending money." Du Qiu smiled and said, "I'm going to grab the CCTV advertising bid next year."
"Damn! Why are you snatching that thing?" Chen Dayou said inexplicably: "IView's main market is in the United States. Electronic tax calculation software does not require advertising. Office software has not been made yet. The operating system and database are free. The software park has just laid the foundation. What products do you want CCTV bidding king to advertise?"
“Advertise me.”
Chapter completed!