Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 199 Internet Investment

The Zhiyun S phone uses a high-end and elegant aluminum alloy body. It is worth it to have an average signal. It is not unusable anyway. At most, the Internet signal is poor, but it is still no problem to make calls.

Besides, some people say that mobile phone signals are too strong and the radiation is too strong, which can easily cause cancer... So a weaker signal is a good thing. Zhiyun deliberately makes the signal weaker for the health of us high-end users.

Don't think this kind of statement seems stupid, but there are really many people who agree with it...

After all, basic scientific common sense is still relatively precious and scarce. Not everyone can possess it. In fact, only a very small number of people have basic scientific common sense.

At the same time, the public's awareness of this thing can actually be guided.

And Ji Chenghe is particularly good at doing this!
Then it became like this: Many people think that Zhiyun S phones deliberately make the signal so bad for the health of high-end users like them...

When Xu Shenxue saw such remarks on the Internet for the first time, he was silent for a long time... and then he silently gave Ji Chenghe a bonus!

This guy is really talented!

In short, Zhiyun Technology’s publicity department is just making all kinds of nonsense, either diverting attention or trying to make people ignore the signal problem.

Well, the above is limited to domestic areas!
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As for foreign countries... Zhiyun doesn't even bother to pay attention to these comments.

Your own network settings are so bad that you lose network as soon as you go out of the suburbs. Can you still blame me for the poor cell phone signal?
I have to spray you in the face!
Do you still dare to promote it so loudly? Be careful that Zhiyun’s huge legal team will sue you and destroy your family...

Faced with a group of unruly people making a fuss in China, Zhiyun's legal team could only watch helplessly...forcing Ji Chenghe to personally start brainwashing!
But overseas, hehe, Zhiyun’s legal team plus the top law firms that cooperate with it will let you know what it means: in a free world, you can’t say anything you want!

I told you, you're going to go bankrupt.

For example, it is very expensive to sue in the United States. Zhiyun’s legal team will delay your case for several years, and ordinary middle-class people will most likely go bankrupt due to lawyer fees...

Well, you have to have confidence in the determination of multinational giants to use legal weapons to protect their own rights and interests!
Due to various factors, few users abroad have reported poor signal on Zhiyun S series phones... because their 3G network coverage is extremely low and the signal is poor.

As a result, most users cannot tell whether the signal of the Zhiyun S series mobile phone is poor or the local network signal itself is not good.

It is the domestic users who are in a network environment with network base stations everywhere who will complain about the poor signal of Zhiyun S mobile phone... they are spoiled by it.

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At a symposium on 4G network, Xu Shenxue just made a cameo appearance and when he expressed his opinion, he had only one attitude: I'm ready anyway, you guys can do whatever you want!
As a mobile phone manufacturer, we cannot make any practical comments on this conflict of interests among the three major operators. Let them argue it out first.

After the symposium, Xu Shenxue went to Peking University and Tsinghua University to see the jointly built laboratories of both parties. Among them, the materials laboratory was very large and required considerable investment.

Afterwards, I went to visit Sina. Of course, my purpose was not to see any portal website of Sina, but to see their new product Weibo.

This thing has been very popular recently and has attracted considerable market attention.

Xu Shenxue is naturally also aware of the future development height of this product... Of course, Xu Shenxue is not concerned about how much money Weibo can make, this is not important.

What’s important is that Weibo is an extremely important product marketing platform!

This is what Xu Shenxue values!
As time goes by, online marketing channels will become more and more important. If you want to build a brand in the future, online marketing channels cannot be left behind...

Compared with simple advertising, Xu Shenxue prefers to make direct strategic investments and gain direct voice.

When you want to delete a post, you can delete it. When you want it to be on the hot search list, it will be on the hot search list... How simple!

It doesn’t cost much anyway.

So I asked Sina some time ago if they wanted to invest.

Xu Shenxue, the world's richest man, asked Sina whether you want to invest, so Sina would naturally not neglect it... If Xu Shenxue wants to invest, it will not only be a simple financial investment, but also can bring them great other help.

It can be said that he is the strategic investor that many technology companies dream of.

So we invited Xu Shenxue to come and visit... The implication is that big boss, come and take a look first, and then we can talk if you like it, and everything can be discussed.

Xu Shenxue actually doesn't take investment in the Internet very seriously. Basically, he has nothing to do and has a lot of spare money, so he will invest when there is a chance, and he won't force it if there is no opportunity.

For example, they dug out Zhang Xiaolong from Tencent and asked him to develop a WeChat project... but it didn't last long. As soon as it was developed and made some noise, they sold it to Tencent, made some money, and got some Tencent shares by the way.

Instead of competing with Tencent in the field of instant messaging, it would be better to sell it to him directly in exchange for shares!
In the field of instant messaging, Tencent is still very powerful, and its inherent advantages are so great that it is difficult for other manufacturers to compete.

There are some other Internet projects that are similar. Xu Shenxue's goal is to make early investments, then raise money and cash out, and then get some shares.

As for doing it yourself, there is no need, and you usually don't even have a controlling stake. You just need to make a basic strategic investment and get some shares. When it comes to the microblog field, it is a little different. This time Xu Shenxue is not doing it for money, but for marketing channels.

After Xu Shenxue arrived at Sina Corporation, he took a brief tour and then had a brief chat with several of their management about Weibo. Finally, they successfully reached an investment intention.

Xu Shenxue exchanged a sum of cash and some mobile Internet channel resources for 15% of the shares of the independent Weibo business.

The specific investment matters will be promoted by the subsequent investment department of Liuhe Holdings.
After reaching an investment intention with Weibo, Xu Shenxue met with several entrepreneurial teams, including one that was working on big data algorithms and waterfall flow.

The leader of this small team is Zhang Daming, who just resigned... or to be more precise, was persuaded by someone sent by Xu Shenxue to resign and start his own business.

Xu Shenxue still attaches great importance to the future field of short videos... This thing is a rare platform that can be used to make money and also for product marketing.

Although today’s Internet infrastructure is not yet sufficient to support the development of short video business, it is always a good idea to start with it.

So Xu Shenxue sent someone to find this person, and advised him to resign and start his own business... Don't worry, I'm the world's richest man and I'm backing you up, what are you afraid of? Just go and start your own business!

So, after resigning, Zhang Daming brought his small team to meet Xu Shenxue. After a brief exchange between the two sides, Xu Shenxue made the final decision in less than ten minutes. He decided to invest 10 million US dollars and let them work on it slowly. There was no rush for the product. The smart recommendation algorithm should be developed first. If there is not enough money, then tell me.

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Whether it is Weibo or the short videos in the future, this is an Internet project that Xu Shenxue attaches more importance to, even more than WeChat and the future Pinduoduo.

Because these two things are product marketing platforms...and Xu Shenxue needs this!
In addition, these two platforms can also collect a large amount of data content, and these data contents will play a huge role in the future development of big data and artificial intelligence.

In the future, big data and artificial intelligence will require massive amounts of data.

Basically, the reason for investing in these two companies is, on the one hand, for the marketing platform, and on the other hand, for the large amount of data.

As for making money, Xu Shenxue doesn't really care about it.

For him, who has experience in the future and a lot of wealth, he can make money by doing any project...

For example, Bitcoin, which is talked about a lot in later online articles. In 2009, Xu Shenxue had people get a lot of mining machines to start mining directly. The number of bitcoins mined was extremely large, hundreds of thousands... He was probably the first person in the world to engage in large-scale mining.

But this thing didn't even have any value last year. It was only this year that there were small-scale transactions and its value exceeded one dollar.

Now Xu Shenxue is too lazy to mine, because he has too many bitcoins. If he continues to mine, no one will want to play with him... The bitcoins are all in your hands, who would want to play with you!
If no one plays with it, then Bitcoin will naturally become worthless.

So after quietly mining a large amount of bitcoins, Xu Shenxue did not disclose it to the public, nor did he let these bitcoins flow into the market. Instead, he directly hid the bitcoins on hand.

Avoid the butterfly effect as much as possible.

If everything goes well, in seven or eight years, the bitcoins Xu Shenxue has on hand are estimated to be worth tens of billions of US dollars!

Well, the premise is that Bitcoin's trend is pushed forward normally and does not deviate too much, and at the same time Xu Shenxue cannot sell too much.

But it doesn’t matter how much.

Anyway, Xu Shenxue just wanted to pick up a piece of paper out of boredom, so it didn't matter whether it succeeded or not.

Moreover, Xu Shenxue not only deals directly with Bitcoin, but also sets up a startup company in the United States to deal with other types of digital currencies. If he speculates on them, he can easily make a profit.

This is the case in the digital currency field, and it is similar in other fields.

Even if he didn't bother with these things, his wealth would continue to increase as his many businesses grew.

For someone like Xu Shenxue, when he makes some industrial investments, especially industrial investment projects that he values, he often has some special purposes.

At least, making money or not is not his main consideration!

He is considering more important things, such as the layout of the industrial chain, especially the semiconductor industry chain.

This thing is the cornerstone of modern society. Whether it is the Internet or the smart home ecosystem, all of these things are built on the semiconductor industry chain.

And this is what Xu Shenxue attaches the most importance to.

In addition, there are some new industries, such as drones.

After returning to Shenzhen on a special plane, Xu Shenxue took a few days' rest and saw the drone prototype from Xiaojiang Technology.

(End of this chapter)