Peter Thiel is also paying attention to their Confinity's backend data. Since the launch of "Plants vs. Zombies", PayPal's payment data has increased slightly.
Although the improvement was not particularly obvious, it still surprised Peter Thiel. After all, this is just a game.
For a payment system like theirs, the daily payment flow is very high, and it is difficult to have an obvious reflection in such data.
In fact, their PayPal payment flow has been increasing, but after the game was released, the increase was higher than before. No need to do more analysis, this increase must be related to the sales of the game.
Their company is in the process of merging with the Deep Space Group. When the merger is completed, Confinity will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Deep Space Group.
After the two parties reached an agreement, Jimmy proposed to let them log in to space. Of course, Peter Thiel and the others wanted to add merchants, so they quickly connected with space and connected the payment.
After the payment was connected, Peter Thiel didn't take it too seriously. After all, Space was just a game sales platform that had just been launched, and their daily transaction flow couldn't be compared with websites like eBay.
Peter Thiel still hopes to develop in-depth cooperation with Amazon as soon as possible. If they can become the preferred payment method for Amazon merchants, then they will no longer have to rely on eBay.
But what Peter Thiel didn't expect was that Space's streaming performance was so good.
He also paid attention to the fact that there are not many games on the space now, and the number of users is slowly increasing. When the number of games and the number of users increase to a certain level, the transaction flow will definitely increase significantly. Originally, Peter Ti
A channel that I didn't pay much attention to gave him a little surprise.
This is also the benefit of becoming a subsidiary of Deep Space Company. They can provide a lot of assistance to Confinity. Although space cannot bring about qualitative changes in PayPal, if the number increases, the impact on PayPal will be considerable.
There are rumors circulating now that Doctor Cat, which just acquired Pets, is behind Deep Space. If this news is true, Doctor Cat will also become an important channel for PayPal.
In addition, Deep Space Company's Star Card has slowly built a very complete branch system, which can completely help PayPal.
On the sixth day after "Plants vs. Zombies" was released, Peter Thiel had a phone call with Yu Dong.
There is nothing important in making this call, except that Confinity is about to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Deep Space Group. According to the procedure, CEO Peter Thiel also has to chat with Yu Dong, one of the bosses.
After the call was connected, after a brief chat, Yu Dong smiled and said, "Actually, I was quite surprised when I heard Jimmy say that he wanted to acquire your company, because I had this idea before, but at that time you just
We have already had good cooperation with eBay.”
"Our cooperation with eBay may be affected by mergers and acquisitions. Next, they should vigorously develop their own payment system billpoint."
"It's understandable that there will be some impact, but don't worry. eBay's turnover is just the tip of the iceberg in the payment market. We have to take a longer-term view. Next, you have to do two things. One is to launch in-depth cooperation with Amazon.
To strive to become the preferred payment method for Amazon users, the second thing is to cooperate with a ticketing website called Ticket House.”
Peter Thiel wondered, "Tickethouse? Is it a new ticketing website?"
Ticketing websites in the United States have only just developed a few years ago. There are only a few ticketing websites that can be named. Peter Thiel has never heard of any ticketing website called Ticket House.
Yu Dong smiled and said: "It hasn't come out yet. A company that Jimmy and I started together has just acquired Ticketweb. By the end of the year, this ticketing website will be renamed Ticketweb and relaunched."
"Did you actually acquire ticketweb?" Peter Thiel was very surprised.
ticketweb is also quite famous among ticketing websites. This year it was acquired by a company called Aitao for US$35 million. People in the industry are still guessing who made the move. Unexpectedly, the person behind Aitao is
Yu Dong and Jimmy.
This is very important news for Peter Thiel. If they can cooperate with a mature ticketing website, it will be very beneficial to their confinity business development.
"Well, this is what Jimmy did. He should be talking to you about this before long. Just be prepared. On the Amazon side, are there any problems with your connection?"
"There is no problem at all. It will be completed soon. The next step is up to us."
Although Amazon will help Confinity promote their payment system, it still takes some effort to make users willing to use their payment system.
In fact, Confinity’s way of attracting customers is very simple, which is to spend money. This is what they did on eBay before. Every time you recommend a new user, you can get a reward of ten dollars.
This trick was very useful and quickly attracted a large number of individual users to Confinity.
With a considerable number of individual users, it will naturally attract more merchants to use Confinity as their preferred payment method.
Yu Dong didn't know much about technology, so he naturally didn't chat in depth. Peter Thiel was quite good at chatting, and he started chatting with Yu Dong about literature.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Peter Thiel usually doesn’t pay much attention to literature, but he talks endlessly when talking about it. His knowledge is very broad, no matter what he talks about, he
all know.
Yu Dong was not too surprised by this. He also knew a little about Peter Thiel. This guy was definitely a genius.
Peter Thiel has been good at chess since he was a child. He was ranked seventh in the United States at the age of twelve. Just when everyone thought he would continue to pursue a career in chess, he went to Stanford Law School and then founded
established an investment company and established Confinity with Musk.
For a person like Peter Thiel, he basically never forgets the books he has read.
In order to have a more pleasant chat with Yu Dong, Peter Thiel read some articles related to literature in the past two days, and then chatted with Yu Dong based on the opinions and knowledge gained from the articles.
After chatting about literature for a while, Peter Thiel turned the topic to Amazon.com.
"Readers who want to buy a book may first go to Amazon to take a look, because they know that they can buy any book on Amazon. But there is a disadvantage, that is, users cannot buy it from the website.
From the comments, they can get some useful information for them to choose a book that suits them. In the comment area, they are basically comments on the quality of the book, and few users will seriously talk about the content of the book."
Yu Dong smiled and said: "Amazon is an online mall. When people buy something in the store, of course they evaluate the quality of the product more, because they know that whether a book is good-looking or not has nothing to do with the Amazon platform."
"This is the problem. In order to stimulate book sales, Amazon actually does some book recommendations, which proves that they still hope to guide users' reading taste. Some activities have good results, and many users will do so because they see a book on the homepage.
But even so, no one will go to Amazon specifically to look for books to read; they will only log in to the website after they are sure what books they want to read."
Yu Dong smiled, but he didn't think there was any problem with this. Each platform has its own characteristics. Amazon is a product sales platform, and it is impossible to kill the Literary Network.
The Deep Space Literature Network under the Deep Space Company has this function. Many people who want to find a book to read will choose to go to the Deep Space Literature Network to find it. However, most people will read the e-book after finding the book on the Deep Space Literature Network.
version, the conversion rate of the physical version is not very high.
On the Deep Space Literature Network, there is a very good recommendation mechanism and scoring mechanism.
However, Peter Thiel's words also reminded Yu Dong that there are only books copyrighted by Deep Space Company on the Deep Space Literature website, and there are no other books, so the library is relatively thin.
Moreover, most users who enter the Deep Space Literature Network are looking for popular literature and popular works.
They can completely build another website, similar to Douban, which specializes in book and movie recommendations and reviews. Netizens can find books that suit them on this website, and then go to Amazon to buy them.
After pondering for a while, Yu Dong asked: "Do you think Amazon should solve this problem? Or, do you already have a good way to solve this problem?"
"Haha, I think Amazon can add some book recommendation content, which can attract more users to stay on the website. The longer netizens stay on the website, the more sales the website can increase. In addition, you can also add comments in the comment area
Putting the reviews that evaluate the content of the book in a more prominent place will help more people decide to buy the book."
Peter Thiel's suggestion is very good, and Amazon is indeed doing it, but he still only thinks about working on Amazon and has not thought about opening another website.
The reason why Yu Dong asked this question was to find out if Peter Thiel had any ideas. It seems that he hasn't thought of it yet.
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After talking to Peter Thiel on the phone, Yu Dong called Jiang Jie.
"Hey, Brother Dong, why are you calling me so early? Are you coming to the park today?"
Yu Dong said with a smile: "Have you gone to work?"
"Not yet, I'm having breakfast in the cafeteria. My wife went back to her hometown these two days, so she ate in the cafeteria."
Jiang Jie just got married in the first half of the year. His wife is the editor of Deep Space Books. After they got married, they were assigned a house in the Deep Space Talent Apartment and have already moved in.
The talent apartment is very close to the company. Most employees live in the apartment, but their meals are provided at the company.
"Meili still cooks for you every morning?"
"Oh, that's not true. When she was at home, I wanted to cook for her. Now that she has returned to her hometown, I am too lazy to cook, so I come to the canteen. The canteen is so good, you don't have to do it yourself, don't spend money, and there are many kinds of things.
, it tastes so good, I really don’t know what she thinks, she wants to eat it at home every day.”
Yu Dong laughed and said, "She has just started her own little family. She should feel that cooking at home will be more comfortable. It will be fine after a while."
"I hope so. Brother Dong, you haven't said anything about it yet."
"That's it. I hope you can create a website. I hope this website can achieve the following functions..."
Yu Dong briefly explained the needs of the website, and Jiang Jie on the other side of the phone said, "Comments, searches, and ratings are all very simple functions. It doesn't cost us much to do them, but it does cost a lot for people with the same taste."
With a little effort, reading and taking notes can also be realized, but the requirements for the website are higher. Is the profit model of this website mainly through advertising, or what?"
"Advertising is on the one hand, there are also paid subscriptions, and cooperation with some e-commerce websites. We don't need to think too much about the specific income for the time being. We will set up the website first."
"Okay, I understand. Let's do this. After breakfast, I will go to the office and start working on the plan. I will hand it over to you within three days." Jiang Jie said.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Yu Dong smiled and said: "Don't be so anxious, this is just a temporary thought. You should mainly do what you are doing. During this period, your deep space computer
There are still a lot of things going on. By the end of the year, the traffic of various websites will definitely increase dramatically, which will be a big test for your technical department."
At the end of every year, Deep Space Company has a lot of things going on, especially this year. Their cooperation with movie theaters requires the technical support of Deep Space Computer, the WCG competition, the Deep Space Annual Meeting... a series of activities are inseparable from Deep Space Computer.
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The Deep Space Computer's business model has become somewhat outdated in recent years. Recently, Yu Dong and Jimmy are also considering reorganizing the Deep Space Computer and decentralizing some of the Deep Space Computer's businesses to reduce the pressure on the Deep Space Computer and allow them to focus on
Develop several main businesses of the company.
"Brother Dong, don't worry, we are well prepared and there will be no problems at the end of this year." Jiang Jie said with great confidence.
"Well, let's just say this. After you get the plan out, send it over to me for a look. If you have any questions, call me at any time."
"By the way, Brother Dong, do you want to tell Mr. Ji about this?"
"Tell him and send him a copy of the plan when it's ready."
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Before Jiang Jie's plan was finished, Jimmy called Yu Dong, and the two discussed the new website in detail.
For the new website, Jimmy initially wanted to add many functions. If Jimmy's vision is followed, the new website will become an e-commerce website.
However, after a detailed chat with Yu Dong, the two parties reached a consensus that the new website should be simpler and made into a social networking site for netizens to discuss literature, film, television, and music. In fact, it is an upgraded version of the forum.
Chapter completed!