Rebirth of the Wild Age

The second "Song Weiyang Charity Dinner Auction" has begun again, but this time imitating Buffett's charity lunch and instead conducting public auctions on the Internet.

After learning of this news, Ding Sanshi and Zhang Chaoyang both called in person, hoping that Netease and Sohu would undertake the auction.

Song Weiyang suddenly had difficulty making a decision, feeling that it was not good to promise anyone, so he handed the auction to Yunwang to do it.

Under Song Weiyang's strong suggestion, Joyo.com and Yunwang negotiated for more than half a year, and finally reached an acquisition agreement in early November. Joyo invested 120 million yuan to acquire 90% of Yunwang. After the transaction is concluded, Zhu Zhigang, the founder of Yunwang, will continue to serve as the CEO and vice president of Joyo.com. He will also receive 1% equity incentives from Joyo.com.

The headquarters of Yunwang is in the capital, and Song Weiyang took the time to summon Zhu Zhigang on the second day of recording "High-end Interview".

Zhu Zhigang is very interesting. After graduating from Beijing Institute of Technology, he was assigned to a subsidiary of the Ministry of Aerospace Engineering. After only one year, he resigned and went to the sea to develop e-mail addresses and system integration for private companies.

As we said before, the first real Internet cafe in China was Shihua, the owner Zeng Qiang dominated the Internet industry in China. While Shihua opened an Internet cafe, Zhu Zhigang also had a small amount of shares-Zeng Qiang was responsible for investment and ideas, and Zhu Zhigang was responsible for the actual work, which is considered to be a share of technology and labor.

After Shihua opened an Internet cafe on the right track, Zhu Zhigang took the money to start a business alone. His entrepreneurial project is e-commerce, but he does not sell clothes or computers, but sells ip phone cards online, and then expands his business scope to virtual items, game cards, etc.

Giants such as Netease and Sohu saw that this gadget is very profitable, so they also opened related businesses, invested huge amounts of money to build websites, and specialized in selling various cards.

However, the Financial Street website invested 10 million yuan, prepared for three months, and closed after only three months. Netease and Sohu invested tens of millions of yuan, frantically doing publicity and promotion, and asked senior artists to make the website beautiful, but they only gave up after only nine months. Only Zhu Zhigang's cloud network, with rough to explosive pages and poor publicity funds, has survived the competition of these big websites, and now it has occupied more than 90% of the market share.

In this way, we can understand why the asking price of Yunwang is so high. In an era when e-commerce websites collectively lose money, Yunwang has achieved sustained profitability as early as 2004.

Song Weiyang also intends to let Yunwang adopt Alipay. Who knows that during the acquisition negotiations, Zhu Zhigang quietly launched the "Payment@网" system-Yunwang actually started its own payment system, and it has cooperated with the four major domestic banks, China Merchants Bank and Minsheng Bank have reached cooperation agreements.

In another time and space, the decline of the cloud network is related to business philosophy.

Zhu Zhigang's e-commerce business was affected by 8848. As a result, 8848 was held by capital. The founding CEO was forced away by the joint efforts of shareholders. He has now become half-dead. Lessons learned from previous mistakes made Zhu Zhigang have a deep fear of capital. This has led to the lack of expansion funds for Yunwang and can only revolve on that one-third of acre.

As the central bank's supervision of online payment became more and more stringent, the small cloud network was unable to obtain an online payment license and could not continue to conduct business, and finally closed.

Zhu Zhigang later became an angel investor, investing in technology companies everywhere, and was one of the co-founders of Onion Funds.

What surprised Song Weiyang was not only the launch of the payment system by Yunwang, but also the development of the c2c platform. Those merchants who sell cards can register as Yunwang members, and Yunwang earns commissions. This business has even begun to make a profit.

Judging from the short-term contact, Zhu Zhigang is still very capable. The only drawback is that the business structure is not large enough.

However, Zhu Zhigang was very proud of this for a while. He sold 90% of the shares of Yunwang. Although he distributed a lot of money to his partners, he suddenly became a multi-millionaire. Moreover, he also retained the position of CEO of Yunwang, and served as vice president of Joyo.com, and was even summoned by Chairman Song Weiyang, as if he had already reached the pinnacle of his life.

Zhu Zhigang attached great importance to the auction of the charity dinner and was personally responsible from beginning to end.

At 7:45 in the evening, Zhu Zhigang typed the next line of text in advance-"Auction begins!", only to be sent out on time at 8 o'clock.

Then there was an embarrassing scene, and the subordinates panicked and shouted: "Mr. Zhu, the server is going to crash!"

"How could the server crash?" Zhu Zhigang asked.

He had a constipation expression on his face and replied: "It was fine before, but just now, a large number of users registered. If this continues, the server will definitely be squeezed!"

Due to the delay in accepting financing, Yunwang's funds have been tight. Zhu Zhigang had to make careful calculations. As an e-commerce company, a zero-inventory strategy can even make the company's funds turn 52 times a year. The earliest servers on the cloud network are used to play "Shan Hai Jing". Last year, each newly installed server does not exceed 5 Ten thousand yuan.

After being acquired by Joyo, although it received a capital injection, Yunwang is still responsible for its own profits and losses, and it is still a careful plan.

Zhu Zhigang also guessed that the auction of Song Weiyang's charity dinner would greatly increase the traffic of the website, so he gritted his teeth and set up three new servers worth 200,000 yuan. Unexpectedly, before the auction started, the server was going to be squeezed, which made Zhu Zhigang just be at a loss.

what to do?

This is the chairman's charity dinner auction!

On the other side, it was the scene of the press conference. The offline event was hosted by Hu Run, and many reporters and local bosses were invited. These local tyrants can participate in the auction on the spot. Every time they raise a placard, the staff enters the computer and the reporters watch the whole process.

The on-site press conference started as early as 7:20, and Hu Run did a lot of activities. Finally, he looked at the big screen and said: "Guests, friends, ladies and gentlemen, the exciting time is coming. Song Weiyang Charity Dinner Auction..."

Suddenly, a staff member ran up and leaned into his ear and said, "Mr. Hu Run, there is a problem with the cloud network."

"What's the problem?" Hu Run asked.

The staff member said: "It seems that the website has crashed. The accounts we registered for the wealthy people on the scene were all stuck just now. I can't log in after I log out and log in."

Hu Run: "..."

Both Hu Run and Zhu Zhigang underestimated the influence of this auction.

This is not only the charity dinner auction for the richest man in China, but also the first large-scale national online auction held in China. They all used the data of Buffett's charity lunch online auction as a reference. Who knows that we Chinese prefer to watch the show, and the number of participants and the number of onlookers are more than 10 times that of the United States!

It is also blamed for Hurun's propaganda to be so strong, and the national media spontaneously cooperated, and this auction has already become known to everyone.

Even many netizens stopped playing games, and the entire trade union got together and ran to the cloud network to join in the fun. Then they discovered that Yunwang actually sold some cards and various game props, so they registered accounts to go shopping, and many players even took the opportunity to buy a few orders.

Netizens who do not play games also stop chatting on forums, and some people are still planning to participate in auctions. Anyway, as long as you pay a deposit of 1,000 yuan (refundable) and fill in your identity information, you can participate in the online auction. I won’t mention if I can take it, but as long as I participate in it, I can brag with others when I look back. Among these people, many of them easily buy internet and phone cards on the cloud network, because they are cheaper than offline purchases.

What left Zhu Zhigang speechless the most was that most of these netizens poured in more than 10 minutes earlier, leaving him little reaction time at all.

Hu Run quickly called: "Mr. Zhu, what's going on with you?"

Zhu Zhigang said: "There are too many visitors to the website and the server is not enough. I am thinking of a solution."

"Please be as soon as possible!" Hu Run wanted to scold his mother very much.

There has been constant noise at the press conference, and everyone in the audience is talking about it. Everyone guessed what seemed to be an accident.

Hu Run still kept a smile on his face, holding the microphone and said: "Because the netizens are too enthusiastic, and the cloud network is already overwhelmed, the auction time will be postponed. Let's have an on-site interaction first..."

The Internet has already turned upside down, and major forums are complaining about it. As a result, more netizens are attracted to watch.

I don't know how Zhu Zhigang did it. Anyway, after an hour, the cloud network can log in normally, but it seems a little stuck, and the functions such as message and customer service are temporarily unavailable, and new account registrations are no longer accepted.

The online starting price is very low, only 50,000 yuan, and the minimum price increase is 100 yuan each time.

There is a lot of booing bidding, especially when it is below 1 million, you know that this price is impossible to bid successfully, so you can just increase the price casually.

Finally, some local tyrants were made impatient and directly bid 1.5 million yuan. Now the netizens finally did not dare to mess around. What if they continue to increase prices and the auction succeeds inexplicably? They paid a deposit of 1,000 yuan and signed an online bidding agreement. When the deposit of 1,000 yuan is not refundable, it will be a small matter, and the activist will sue the lawsuit.

This gadget is more interesting than on-site bidding. Countless netizens sit in front of the computer and watch the bidding price keep jumping up. The kind of immersiveness makes the thief feel immersed.

It's so exciting!

Forums, chat rooms, QQ groups, and game chat channels are all discussing the auction situation.

"Oh my god, it's so scary, now the bidding price has surpassed last year's 1.68 million, so there are so many rich people!"

"Damn, just a minute later, it has risen from 1.7 million to 1.8 million."

"Dr. Ma 666666, someone is calling for 2 million!"

"What Dr. Ma~www.wuxiamtl.com~ wants to be called Teacher Song."

"Dr. Ma feels intimacy."

"2 million for a meal, I really have money to burn, Buffett's lunch is not so expensive."

"The more expensive the better, the money is used for charity anyway."

"Every day, every day, someone shouts 3 million directly!"

"Really? I'll take a look."

The number of online auctions was finally fixed at 3.88 million yuan, more than double the auction price last year, and about 1 million yuan more expensive than this year’s Buffett’s charity lunch.

In addition, this year's shooter was very high-profile, and directly accepted media interviews on the spot. This person said: "I admire Mr. Song Weiyang very much, but the fundamental reason that prompted me to take this dinner is that I think I and Mr. Song Weiyang are in the same way. Mr. Song likes to watch "Selected Works of Mao", and I also like it. Read "Selected Mao Zedong" and use "Selected Mao Zedong" as a business guide book. When Mr. Song and I have dinner, we will not discuss any commercial content, but will discuss with him the understanding of "Selected Mao Zedong"!"