Chapter 613 Lin Lu’s mother gives “equipment”

"Well said!"

"For Internet companies, if they lose their imagination, they lose everything!" Zhang Yiming lamented crazily in his heart.

This sentence resonated greatly with him.

This is why he is eager to find new breakthroughs for Byte!

Cheng Zhu knew it very well, and of course he would resonate with it.

Because this sentence was what he himself said many years later, hehe.

——What I said are all your words!

.......

Dog Man said all his future lines, didn't he just hit people's hearts?

Zhang Yiming suddenly felt that even if we are not here to discuss cooperation today, but we are just here to chat and learn from each other, this trip is still worth it.

Cheng Zhu said: "After hearing what Mr. Zhang said so much, I probably understand why Mr. Zhang is so obsessed with making short videos."

"But I still have a confusion. Why did you choose me, or why did you choose to invest in Youqu, just because what Youqu makes is very similar to the product your team wanted to make before?" Cheng Zhu asked.

Zhang Yiming nodded and said: "To be precise, it's because of Youqu's positioning."

He continued: "Nowadays, Miaopai is fully embedded in the Weibo client."

"The Xiaoka Show follows the route of celebrities + internet celebrities, and invites celebrities and internet celebrities from all over the world to sit on the platform."

"WeiShi relies on Penguin's social traffic support. Of course, you and I both know that WeiShi is now marginalized within Penguin, and it can be eliminated."

"The most developed players actually follow the same route as Wang Xin's Mi Tuan. They are mainly rooted in third-tier cities and below, and even in villages and towns. They rely on the sinking market and follow the path of 'rural areas surrounding cities'."

"Looking at it this way, there is actually not much room for innovation in the short video category."

"But Mr. Cheng's interest in grapefruit coincides with our team's initial vision!"

"Whether it's product positioning or the algorithm approach, it fits our vision quite well!"

When Zhang Yiming said this, a smile appeared on his face, and he joked: "If it weren't for the people in Mr. Cheng's team, and I didn't know any of them, I might have thought too much, hahaha."

Cheng Zhu, the "stealer" of the Douyin business empire, sat in front of him majestically, smiling calmly and saying:

"Yes, what a coincidence!"

"Haha, fate, fate!"

Ouch, why don’t I blush at all? I’m so bad!

Having already talked about this, Zhang Yiming said directly: "Of course, I think Mr. Cheng must have also made reference to [Musical.ly], an overseas short video platform."

When Douyin started, it actually drew lessons from it.

To this, Cheng Zhu just smiled and responded with silence.

In fact, he referenced shitty Musical.ly.

This overseas APP is positioned to attract young girls in their teens and twenties.

Obviously, Youqu is more comprehensive.

Douyin also had this positioning when it first started.

It was not until the summer of 2017 that this positioning was changed, mainly combined with the word trend.

Therefore, Cheng Zhuyi started the second stage of Douyin and directly ignored the first stage.

Because that would be too single.

When talking about this overseas short video platform, Zhang Yiming also gave a series of small hints very thoughtfully.

He wanted Cheng Zhu to prepare early, so that after Youqu gained momentum, there would be a large number of negative manuscripts claiming that Youqu plagiarized it.

The two of them just sat on the sofa and kept talking.

Cheng Zhu also gradually began to understand why Zhang Yiming was still determined to make [Volcano].

The reason is simple - Katana is so awesome!

Yes, Kuaishou is a very strange company.

It doesn't look like an Internet company at all.

Because it is too "conservative"!

Kuaishou obviously has no shortage of money, but it does almost no promotion.

This is different from most Internet companies.

Most Internet companies have strong operations.

Kuaishou is different and has always been known as a Buddhist type.

In terms of GG placement, Block Player can be said to be quite "restrained".

At this stage, that is the case.

In Cheng Zhu's memory, in his previous life, Kuaishou was overtaken by Douyin in terms of daily active users and fell far behind, before he started a head-to-head confrontation in publicity and operations and started spending money crazily.

But, it's too late.

Whether it was Cheng Zhu or Zhang Yiming, neither of them could understand it.

For example, now, block players obviously have hundreds of millions of dollars lying on their accounts, and they are not short of money at all, but they just don’t engage in GG investment, and they just develop like this!

Perhaps it’s because it has been on the trend in the past two years and has not even had a decent direct competitor, so its development has been too smooth.

This makes Zhang Yiming still feel that there is an opportunity to take advantage of.

After the Douyin plan was scrapped, he chose to invest in Youqu and insisted on working on [Volcano].

Cheng Zhu would definitely be happy to see this happen.

The reason is simple, he knows that [Volcano] has nothing to do with it.

But in the future, some shortcomings of [Youqu] can be made up for.

Just swallow it and that's it!

"Boss Bao, come on! How can I treat you?" Cheng Zhu thought of this [King of Mergers and Acquisitions] again in his heart.

As it approached eleven o'clock in the morning, Cheng Zhu called Zhang Sixing into the office and asked him to come and chat with Zhang Yiming.

Because there are rumors in the world: At the end of 2012, when the industry recognized that personalized recommendation technology was immature, Zhang Yiming, who was born in technology, wrote the first version of the personalized recommendation engine.

After many iterations, this technology was naturally applied to the later Douyin.

To put it simply, today's Byte and today's Zhang Yiming are experts in playing "algorithms" in China!

The God of Algorithms!

Zhang Sixing is indeed an excellent technical talent.

But his experience in this area is definitely not comparable to Zhang Yiming's.

"It's right to ask him to come and learn the scriptures," Cheng Zhu thought to himself.

Now, he has made up his mind and is willing to accept investment from Byte.

Then, everyone will be their own people from now on.

He also doesn’t ask the Byte team to teach them all about algorithms, which is unrealistic.

After all, this kind of thing is the foundation of [Toutiao], it can even be said to be the foundation of Byte.

But it’s never too much for everyone to communicate and learn from each other, right?

Moreover, in Cheng Zhu’s plan, he will invest heavily in Youqu in 2016.

After the number of daily active users breaks through the 10 million mark, he will start preparing for the [Personalized Recommendation Information Flow GG Model].

This is a highly efficient business monetization model.

And efficient commercial monetization has always been the shortcoming of most start-up Internet companies!

Zhang Yiming also recommended a doctor named Cao to the two of them, who is one of the most senior algorithm architects in the country.

In addition, Zhang Yiming also gave another wave of kind reminders.

"Mr. Cheng, I believe that Youqu will be like our Toutiao in the future, relying on technological advantages and Internet product methodologies to stand out. However, using machines and algorithms to capture content, according to my experience, will often cause us to be accused of copyright infringement. Sued by the copyright owner."

He also smiled and joked: "I am quite experienced in this area."

This man with a friendly smile has become accustomed to him since last year.

"We [Toutiao] have been conducting extensive copyright cooperation and have reached cooperative relationships with thousands of media."

"Mr. Cheng can pay more attention to this aspect," he said.

Hearing this, Cheng Zhu nodded solemnly.

These are all words of experience, and can even be said to be bloody lessons!
To be continued...