Rebirth of the Cyber ​​Hegemony

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It’s just that Li Nan is a little worried: “What if 10 billion US dollars doesn’t generate 10 billion users?”

"Then spend another 10 billion."

"puff……"

Li Nan was so shocked by Chen Yu's generous spending of money that he was speechless.

Just thinking about Chen Yu's wealth, in his eyes, maybe it really doesn't matter whether it's 10 billion or 20 billion US dollars.

As long as it can be exchanged back to the market, it is worth spending as much money as possible.

Thinking about it this way, it seems that it is quite normal to drop $10 billion.

……

"Bill, I have bad news for you."

"You said."

"Some of us on MSN can't hold on anymore."

Microsoft headquarters.

CEO Steve reported to Bill.

Although MSN has not been completely surpassed by WeChat, Steve is extremely uncomfortable in the face of WeChat taking the market step by step.

More importantly, he doesn't really have much to do.

"Universal Technology itself is engaged in instant messaging business, and it is normal that we are not their opponents for the time being."

Bill shook his head, he was also very helpless.

He has known Chen Yu for a long time, and, in the contest of instant messaging, Microsoft has already competed with Universal Technology in the Chinese market.

Unfortunately, in the Chinese market, MSN died quite miserably.

Unexpectedly.

Chen Yu not only took their MSN beyond the Chinese market, but now Huanyu Technology has made a comeback to their North American market.

Is this trying to take away the North American market that belongs to them?

"Bill, what can you do?"

"let me see?"

Bill has long since ceased to hold any seat at Microsoft, and he only retains the position of chairman.

Although he used to be famous and monopolized the global PC market with windows.

But for so many years, he has not cared much about this, not to mention the nascent mobile Internet market.

but……

Although Bill doesn't care much about specific affairs, his vision and courage are still very strong.

After a while, Bill said: "The ability of the person in charge of MSN, Wei Sefu, is actually not bad. There is no need to criticize him too much. The reason why we have been lagging behind recently is that we are weaker than our opponents in the concept of mobile Internet. In addition, the main issue is funding. Steve, in this way, you approve a 1 million US dollar fund to MSN, so that Joseph can be bolder."

"$1 million?"

Steve was a little surprised.

"Correct."

"What is this 1 million US dollars mainly for?"

"Operate for MSN."

"In terms of operation, is 1 million US dollars..."

Steve didn't know what to say.

But Bill seemed to have misunderstood what Steve meant, and said: "Although 1 million US dollars may be a little too much, it also shows Joseph that MSN is not a marginal business of Microsoft, and our headquarters will always give them money." support."

"This one……"

Steve's face was a little ugly.

"Steve, what's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing."

"Your complexion looks bad, are you sick?"

"No."

Steve shook his head.

Then, he opened the e-mail, which was a secret business intelligence: "Old classmate, I have received a secret intelligence that Huanyu Technology has approved a plan of 10 billion US dollars."

"A billion dollars, that much?"

Bill was taken aback: "Which piece is it used in?"

"WeChat."

"What is the specific plan?"

"As you said just now, it is also used for instant messaging operations."

"Uh……"

At this moment, Bill almost crashed like a PC.

Chapter 1126: Alas, an era is over.

"A billion dollars, is Chen Yu crazy?"

Bill scratched his fist, feeling a little insulted by Chen Yu.

Just now he said that 1 million US dollars is a big number, but he didn't expect that others would start with 10 billion US dollars.

of course.

$10 billion is an astronomical figure for many people, but for Bill, it is not that big.

It's just that although it's not big, $10 billion is still a scary figure.

In particular, the direct investment in operations alone costs 10 billion US dollars, and this figure is even greater.

And this operation is not an ordinary operation.

If the $10 billion is used for operating expenses for a year, this is understandable.

However, according to the routine familiar with Huanyu Technology before, Bill knew that the 10 billion US dollars would definitely be spent within a few days.

then.

It becomes a money game.

Does Bill lack the $10 billion?

Of course not.

But is Bill as rich as Chen Yu?

Of course not.

Not only not, but far from it.

Bill can keep up with this one billion dollars now, so what about next time, can he still keep up?

Say.

Microsoft is not Bill alone, nor is he alone.

Even if Bill is willing, some other shareholders are not willing.

Also.

The core business of Microsoft is always the operating system, and a series of businesses like word around the operating system.

And MSN, to put it bluntly, is a completely marginal business.

If it's for the operating system, maybe Bill can keep up.

But for MSN to spend 10 billion US dollars, Bill really didn't have this idea.

"Bill, do you think we should follow?"

Steve asked weakly.

"You are the CEO, you decide."

Bill didn't know how to answer, so he threw the question back to Steve.

"I want to follow, but the main reason is that we can't spend money like this for nothing. It's clear that Huanyu Technology has picked up a big bargain."

Although the MSN business has developed very well, it has actually developed to the bottle shank.

Those who should grow have grown, and those who should use MSN have also used it.

Even if they spend $10 billion, it will be difficult for them to attract more registrations.

But WeChat is different.

WeChat is an emerging software, and it is also a global instant messenger.

He still has a lot of potential to tap.

Huanyu Technology invested 10 billion US dollars, and the effect definitely surpassed MSN.

"Steve, you're right."

Bill nodded: "I think so too."

The two were a little embarrassed, but very helpless.

but.

Even more helpless than Microsoft is America Online.

ICQ is clearly AOL's core business.

When the outside media rumored that Universal Technology would invest another 10 billion US dollars, AOL was silent.

The CEO of AOL is very courageous. He yelled loudly at the company meeting that I will spend 10 billion US dollars.

but……

What about after shouting?

Microsoft can shell out a billion dollars, but sorry, AOL can't.

It's not that I don't want to spend it, but that I don't have the money to spend it.

After all.

America Online is just a portal website, and judging by its name, America Online is still a portal website that only belongs to the United States.In terms of status, he is equivalent to Sina in China, even worse than Sina, because there is a Yahoo in front of America Online.

This is just a portal website, how much money do you think he can make?

Let alone 10 billion US dollars, 1 million US dollars may not be available.

Ok.

They can get it, but they really don't have the ability to spend 1 million US dollars on it.

If it's just this, it doesn't explain the tragedy of AOL.

America Online is actually the same Internet giant as Yahoo, even they are earlier than Yahoo.

In the early days of the Internet, he was also the nose master of the Internet in the United States and the world.

And merged with Warner in 2000, the market value reached a terrifying $3500 billion, well, this is a blow, the highest market value reached $1600 billion.But just two years after the integration, AOL suffered a huge loss of $540 billion.

Not only that, in 2003, it even reached a loss of more than 900 billion US dollars.

Yes.

You read that right.

This loss adds up to a loss of more than 1400 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to the loss of several super companies.

Until now, the overall market value of AOL is only less than 100 billion US dollars.