Councilor Wang raised his glass and touched Pang Xiaonan, but he was not in a hurry to drink it, he said calmly: "The project is a good project, but there are still a few issues that we need to think about carefully." With that, he poured the glass of wine into his mouth.

Pang Xiaonan looked at Councilor Wang and felt that the old man in front of him was worthy of investing in several Internet projects, and now this thinking is also keeping pace with the times and knowing that he is making steady progress. "What else is there to consider, you say, come and hear it?"

"First, this is just a preliminary prototype, how far he can go, how much investment he needs, we are not sure, that is to say, in the process of adjusting the algorithm, how much money will he burn? You must know that if the Internet project wants to do well, it is very expensive, and if it burns hundreds of millions of dollars, no matter how rich the consortium is, it is impossible to lose money. "Councilor Wang has an understanding of the extent of money burning in Internet projects, so the small projects he invested in before were not very money-burning.

"How many hundreds?" Pang Xiaonan was a little frightened, "You mean it's possible to burn hundreds of millions and not see results? That's too terrifying, but I don't know, where are these hundreds of millions going to burn?"

"Let me tell you, an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars is nothing for a big Internet project," Councilor Wang put a handful of green beans in his mouth. Where is the money spent, I'll count it for you, the first is to buy a server, if you want to support a large amount of content, you must have a large number of servers as storage, the second is to buy bandwidth, we now have broadband in our home, tens of trillions of traffic will cost hundreds of thousands of years, he has to support so many people to watch online, the bandwidth is tens of thousands or even hundreds of millions of trillions per second, you think about how much money, and the third is the cost of development, you think about a chef in order to adjust the taste you like to be full-time, once this software is bigger, it is to adjust the taste for hundreds of millions of people, how many chefs do you have to have。 Finally, there is a piece of cost that is also very nerve-wracking, that is, advertising costs, because a new software, no one knows about it in the early stage, and no one uses it, so it is necessary to overwhelm the advertising in the early stage, and it is not enough to invest in advertising, and you may have to spend some money to attract people to download and attract people to use, for example, if you encourage a person to download our software, as long as it is successfully installed, you will be given a few dollars, which is also a big expense. ”

Pang Xiaonan was secretly speechless when he heard this, Councilor Wang calculated this, it is true that an investment of hundreds of millions is nothing, and his millions of funds do not know if they can last for a few days. "If you do that, then you can't vote for this project?"

"Don't be too afraid," Councilor Wang changed his words and pointed to the plate of back pot meat, "You see that we eat vegetables, it's not a plate of vegetables to eat in one bite, the vegetables can be eaten slowly, and the investment can also be invested slowly, and in the process of investment, there will still be some benefits, and it is impossible to just burn money and not make money." ”

"Is that to invest or not to invest?" Pang Xiaonan listened to his big head, investment is not his specialty, especially Internet projects, he has never been in contact with before, the Internet gameplay and offline business are completely different things, professional things are left to professional people to do, he doesn't want to die too many brain cells.

"You can invest, but we have to control the pace and try to keep the money rolling in it, without adding too much money. Councilor Wang drank the soup, and already had some countermeasures in his head.

"Oh, I think even if I invest, my millions of funds don't seem to have any effect, right?" Pang Xiaonan's worries are not unreasonable, according to Councilor Wang's algorithm, if this project really wants to invest hundreds of millions, the shares accounted for by millions are almost negligible, and investing in this project is equivalent to throwing money into the sea, and throwing it into the sea will still make a sound, but then the project will not be able to play, and millions will really be equivalent to burning.

"You don't understand this, although millions are nothing for the overall investment amount, but we are angel investment," Councilor Wang is worthy of being a veteran of Internet investment, "What is angel investment?" Without our millions, he doesn't want to start operating at all, once he operates, our angel investment is the original stock, the more the shares will be diluted in the back, for example, I now account for a dollar of a share, and it may be a hundred yuan to account for a share, because angel investment is the most risky, the project is done, everyone sees the future, and the natural shares will rise and become more valuable. ”

"What you mean is that my millions may be able to account for tens of millions of shares in the future. Pang Xiaonan understood what Councilor Wang meant, and couldn't help but yearn for it, from a few million to tens of millions, the value has increased tenfold, and it is indeed a good business.

Councilor Wang shook his head and said: "You underestimate Internet projects too much, it is normal to turn from a few million to tens of millions, and it is completely possible to turn to hundreds of millions." ”

"Then what are you hesitating about? As soon as Pang Xiaonan heard those scary numbers, he couldn't help but start.

Councilor Wang nodded and said, "We have made a decision on whether to invest or not, and the next thing is to see how to invest, that is, how much to invest, how many shares to occupy, and whether to hold a controlling stake." ”

"According to me," Pang Xiaonan took another piece of back to the pot and ate it, "I have invested all the millions, you said that the Internet project burns money, and I don't like a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, just do it and be single-minded, I can listen to this project, take a little risk, take a little risk, seek wealth and danger, who told him to make such a big profit." ”

"A few million is enough to make a start-up capital. Councilor Wang took a sip of soup, "Then how many shares are you going to have?"

Pang Xiaonan was stunned for a moment, he looked at Councilor Wang and replied cautiously: "Isn't it according to the amount of investment? Oh, by the way, you said that it is angel investment, which means that the other party has no money, and he just has technology." ”

"It's not that the other party doesn't have money, it's just that his previous experience was just a part-time job, and it's impossible to come up with a lot of money, if he has a few million, he will do it himself, how can he come to me?" Councilor Wang continued to drink the soup, "But he can't not not pay a penny, in this case, it is not safe for investors, because he only loses time, and we lose real money, and he may not be careful in the operation of the project." Therefore, the other party wants to invest money, but we must invest a large amount, of course, the other party also has to occupy some technology stocks, after all, he wants to do things. ”

"Actually, I think it's mainly about talking about the proportion of shares," Pang Xiaonan summed up some experience, "Even if the other party doesn't have enough money, we can advance funds, the project makes money, he replaces the dividends with arrears, I think if the people who actually run the project have too few shares, he will also not care." ”

"What you say makes sense," Councilor Wang gave Pang Xiaonan a thumbs up, "It's true that the people in charge of the project can't have too few shares, but I don't think they can be too much, after all, we give him money to play, and we think we should have a controlling stake, that is, more than half of the shares." ”

"Why do you want to hold?" Pang Xiaonan knows what it means to be a holding, "once we have a holding, will the actual operator of the project feel that he has no right to speak and can't raise his motivation, I think it is better to let the actual operator control, so that he can control the entire project, better exert his talents, and realize the original dream." For people with dreams, Pang Xiaonan has always felt that they should not interfere with their judgment and style of acting, and should be given the greatest autonomy, otherwise there will be deviations in the realization of that dream.

"You'd be wrong. Councilor Wang took a handful of green beans and put them in his mouth, the crisp taste made his lips and teeth fragrant, "Holding is not not to give the actual controller of the project power, but to protect our own rights and interests, take 10,000 steps back, in case the project operator does not invest money and he has the final say in dividends or he is the most, then how can we ensure that the direction of operation of the project is what we want to see?" There is no such good thing in the world, we can hold a controlling stake, but we can hand over the right to the actual operator of the project, so as to at least ensure that our profits can be maximized. Alternatively, we can sign a VAM agreement......"

Pang Xiaonan hurriedly raised his hand to stop Councilor Wang: "Lao Wang, don't explain it to me, you can vote as you say! If you keep talking, what I ate this night will be in vain, and you are too complicated and consumes my nutrients." ”

"Okay, then I'll call the shots, and I'll talk about my plan again. Councilor Wang took a piece of bread, tore off a lump and put it in his mouth, "Because the start-up capital is not much, I plan not to spread it too wide at first, and start with the simplest content, what is the simplest content?" I think it's text, because the file size of the text is the smallest, so it consumes the least server and bandwidth, which can reduce the expenditure, after the text is done, and then the picture, the picture is slightly larger than the text, at this time we have obtained a certain amount of customers through the form of text, and earned a part of the income, and then invest in the picture, after the picture, and then into the audio, and then into the video, in this way, it covers all the content forms, and also forms the rhythm of ladder development, what do you think？”

Pang Xiaonan smashed his mouth, took a deep breath, and said: "I think it's inappropriate, why should these content forms be integrated together? Shouldn't each form be made into a single project first, and after it becomes bigger, it is better to integrate it at the end?"

Councilor Wang shook his head and said: "Haven't you noticed, a single project currently has a website or APP of the same style on the market, and it has been done in a huge volume, and it is almost impossible to compete with them in the early stage, for example, there are so many stations for text content, and there are several websites for listening to audio content, these websites have been playing for many years, and have accumulated a lot of loyal users. ”

Pang Xiaonan nodded and said, "You're right, these separate content sections are being done by other websites, but aren't they still doing traditional search-based? They don't use big data to push you what content you're interested in, right?"

"That's true, but after all, people have a huge user base, we launched the same website, they see the threat, they will naturally study the function of big data push, can you guarantee that our technology is a monopoly? It will even poach our entire team directly, so in the early stage of development, it is best for us not to go head-to-head with the giants and give them a chance to suppress us. ”

The corners of Pang Xiaonan's mouth raised, and he raised his hand and pointed at Councilor Wang, "Lao Wang, Lao Wang, you are worthy of being an old fritter in the business world, I can't reach your realm, what you said is not wrong, you can't go head-to-head with the giants, quietly enter the village, don't shoot, lest the giants form a situation of outflanking us, the shopping mall is like a battlefield, we only have corners to overtake, and suddenly overtake it while the giants are not paying attention." ”

"That's right, that's the truth, so we still start from the platform of information integration, so that it is not easy to attract the attention of the giants, and we can develop first in the cracks, and when the giants realize it, the timing is in our favor. Councilor Wang analyzed unhurriedly, ate bread in the middle, and took a bite of soup.

"Okay, listen to you, first text, then pictures, then audio, and finally video," Pang Xiaonan took another piece of back to the pot and chewed it with relish, his mouth full of oil, "But I have one last suggestion, can you combine text and pictures? I find that people nowadays are less and less interested in reading text, but if there is a picture in it, can you raise a little interest? Don't you see that illustrations are also popular in books now?"

"Well, your suggestion," Councillor Wang said, eating bread and staring at the soup in the bowl, "I will discuss it with the initiators of the project, because these content forms are also some of my initial ideas for the time being, and in the end, I still have to ask their developers for their opinions or do a market research." ”

"Yes, professional things, I still have to leave it to them to judge, I'm just giving a suggestion. Pang Xiaonan filled a bowl of rice, sandwiched a piece of scrambled eggs and put it in the bowl, and took two bites of rice.

After eating a few bites of food, Pang Xiaonan suddenly remembered a question, "Lao Wang, the initial plan for this project is decided, but my original intention for doing the project is charity, and you didn't help me solve the employment problem of difficult students in Dongli Military Academy from beginning to end?"

Councilor Wang squinted his eyes, the corners of his mouth raised, and replied: "Why not? Didn't you find the job here......?

Pang Xiaonan stopped what he was doing, thought for a while, and finally figured out what Councilor Wang meant, "You mean, the developers of this project try to use the students of Dongli Military Academy as much as possible? But this can only solve the employment of some people, what do you do with those students who can't program?" Pang Xiaonan's charity project doesn't want it to become a simple Internet company, he hopes that the result is that any capable student can find his place in this project, no matter what major.

Councilor Wang picked up the bread in his hand, dipped it in a little soup, put it in his mouth, and said: "In addition to the development personnel of this software project, there are other positions, think about it, what else can students who can't program do?"

Pang Xiaonan thought for a long time, and finally shook his head and said, "I can't think of it, please give me advice." ”

"In addition to software development, this project also needs a huge amount of content, who will provide the content?" Councilor Wang raised his glass, "In addition to a part of the most popular fresh information collected by machines, a large amount of original information is also needed, can't this part of the work be done by people?"

"You mean, let those students who don't know programming be editors?" Pang Xiaonan looked at Councilor Wang suspiciously, "This doesn't seem to be realistic, right, can't you write as an editor?" Although the writing of the students of Dongli Military Academy is not much worse, at least the essays are passed, but to be an editor, it seems that it is not so simple to create a content that everyone loves to read, right?"

Councilor Wang first acted as a respect, wiped the hops from his mouth, and said: "Who said that the content provided should be well written, have you ever read the Internet? A few years ago, when online sales were just popular, what was written was it? Bullshit, not a lot of people read it? On the contrary, no one reads those world masterpieces, because they can't understand them." ”

Pang Xiaonan nodded and said, "What you said is indeed right, I have also watched a few Internet, and it is indeed a lot of nonsense and typos, but ...... It's good-looking, it doesn't take a lot of brains to watch, and the plot is attractive, but it's too time-consuming, and a film is worth millions of words. ”

"So, you don't have to be well-written, as long as you write something. Councilor Wang put a handful of vegetables in his mouth, the bowl of vegetables was empty, only a little soup remained, it seems that both of them love to eat vegetables, "I am born to be useful, people with bad writing may be funny, serious people may love to preach, people with average connotation may grow well, in short, everyone can discover his shining point." ”

"I kind of understand what you mean. Pang Xiaonan frowned, "Those who can program to develop software, and those who can't program will provide content on this platform, whether it is text, pictures or videos, the platform will be able to attract more audiences after it has content, more and more content, and more and more audiences will be attracted." ”

"That's the truth," Councilor Wang stretched out his chopsticks and picked in the bowl of the back pot meat, and found that there were only chili peppers left, so he stretched his chopsticks into the bowl of fried eggs, where there was still a small piece of egg lying alone. After the software is made, first enrich the content, whether it is machine collection, or manual editing, in short, all the good-looking content is given to it, and then a wave of advertising is played to attract users to see, and then recruit a group of authors to create more good content, and then attract more users, forming a virtuous circle, so that the software will develop better and better, and more and more users. ”

"That's a good idea," Pang Xiaonan poured Councilor Wang a glass of wine, "But there's still a problem, this content creation is not limited to the student group, right? After all, there are so many students, and the content created is also limited, so we must open the entrance of the author to others, right? The master is in the people, maybe other people's content is much better than the students, doesn't that mean that those students who create content will be subject to fierce competition?"

"Well, you're right to worry about this, at this time, you will reflect your own abilities, and the eight immortals will show their magical powers across the sea," Councilor Wang took the wine glass handed over by Pang Xiaonan, We can only ensure that the earliest batch of authors are open to students who need funding, but slowly, we will release all authors' permissions, and anyone has the opportunity to become a content creator to obtain income, at this time the algorithm is very critical, we must pay wages according to the popularity of the content, that is, if no one reads your content, you can't get money, which puts an end to the phenomenon of those who occupy the pit and don't, so as to achieve survival of the fittest, and eliminate those authors whose content is not up to par. ”

Pang Xiaonan nodded and said: "According to the development plan of the software, this should indeed be done, and the selection of good content and good authors will contribute to the long-term development of this project, but in this way, those poor students who are funded may be eliminated." ”

Councilor Wang raised his glass, "No one is to blame, don't forget, although your fund is for charity, but also based on long-term development, if it is simply to send money, then you will send money, but you said that it is to create a project to create employment opportunities, so that the funded object does not have the feeling of being in vain, since it is a job opportunity, then there is a possibility of elimination, where is there an iron rice bowl now?" And at the beginning, we gave priority to letting go of the author's authority to students, and gave a certain amount of traffic support, that is, trying to make their works reach the eyes of as many people as possible, which is already charity, if this kind of support can't make money, it can only mean that their content is too bad, either they are lazy or they don't have intentions, as a professional worker, who else can you blame?"

"Yes, we have done our best," Pang Xiaonan raised his glass and clinked glasses with Councilor Wang, and then drank it all, "Let's do it, the project is very good, I raise my hands in favor, and I will not participate in the rest of the things, but I now have a partner in this fund, and if the company is established at that time, I hope that my partner can enter the management, because I want her to help me watch the operation of the point fund, although it is several million, not much according to the scale of Internet investment, but it is also our hard-earned money, I hope it can still be safe." ”

"That's no problem, I'll talk to the founder of the project, he should listen to us, there is no start-up capital, he is a source of water, a mirror. Councilor Wang agreed, and then asked, "Do you still have any wine?" Do you want another bottle?"

Pang Xiaonan hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Forget it, Lao Wang, the most wonderful feeling is that you are slightly drunk, and the most wonderful feeling is that you are in a state of being drunk but not drunk, and although your body has recovered, after all, your function is a little old, take it easy." ”

The two ate and drank until more than 10 o'clock in the evening, Pang Xiaonan saw that Councilor Wang was a little sleepy, so he got up and said goodbye: "Lao Wang, let's go here today, please leave the project to you, see when you have time, you make an appointment with the founder, I will bring the person in charge of my side over, the two of them will meet below, and the main thing in the future will be the two of them to dock, you and I will come up with ideas." ”

Councilor Wang nodded and said, "No problem, you wait for my news." ”

The next day, Pang Xiaonan finished practicing, he arrived at school, and this morning there was an advanced mathematics class, in classroom 303 of Building 1, Pang Xiaonan arrived at the classroom ahead of schedule and found Huang Minghu.

Huang Minghu was dozing off in his seat, and when he saw Pang Xiaonan coming, he happily pulled him to sit down, "Brother Nan, I'm good Brother Nan, you are here, sit down quickly, you want to kill us." ”

Pang Xiaonan sat down and said with a hippie smile: "What, do you miss me?"

Huang Minghu patted Pang Xiaonan's shoulder, exaggeratedly showing a row of big white teeth, and said: "Then it doesn't need to be said, it's just thinking about it day and night, don't you know, I remitted tens of thousands of yuan back home, and my parents asked me where I got the money, I said I earned it, and they didn't believe it until I explained the cause and effect, they reluctantly believed it, and said let me thank you well." Say, how do you want me to thank you? Why don't we go to the West Lake Tower for a full meal?"

Pang Xiaonan frowned and said, "What's so interesting about Xihu Tower?" Or do you ask me to make a big sword?"

Huang Minghu was stunned for a moment, then understood, pointed at Pang Xiaonan and said with a cheap smile: "I didn't expect you to be such a person, Brother Nan, eh, I heard that there are many places to play big swords on the degenerate street outside the school, and you can get a twenty-percent discount on your student ID." ”

Pang Xiaonan pretended to be surprised and said: "It's really fake, is there still a use for a student ID?"

Huang Minghu swore and said: "The class leader next door came out, they used the class fee to play collectively, it was too corrupt, and the current college students are really degenerate, degraded to the extreme......"

Pang Xiaonan hurriedly stopped Huang Minghu's emotion, hugged his shoulders and said, "Forget it, I won't be that degenerate person." I'm kidding you, do you think I'm that kind of person? You're earning hard-earned money, and you deserve it, you don't have to thank me, just thank yourself. ”

"Brother Nan is righteous!" Huang Minghu gave Pang Xiaonan a thumbs up, and then asked a little eagerly, "Brother Nan, your project to produce respiratory shields has been stopped for some days, when will it be restarted, the price of respiratory shields on the market is not low now, do you want to strike while the iron is hot?" But I won't hide it from you, the main thing is that the classmates can make money, and many classmates are asking about this, and they think that the boss behind the scenes is Zhang Ping, I did not give you out according to your instructions, and now, Zhang Ping has become the entrepreneurial star of our department, don't you know, many boys think about Zhang Ping day and night, she is beautiful and can make money, who doesn't want to find her as a girlfriend. ”

Pang Xiaonan pointed at Huang Minghu and said, "Haha, I know, you all have a bad stomach - you can only eat soft rice, right?"

Huang Minghu touched his stomach and pretended to say: "How do you know that I have a bad stomach, I have a bad stomach since I was a child, but I don't have soft rice to eat, if Zhang Ping can give me soft rice, I will be content in this life." ”

Pang Xiaonan glared at Huang Minghu and said, "I think you are the one who eats hard rice! Don't think about it, it's better to support yourself, build yourself into a man, and give others soft rice to eat!"

"Well, listen to you," Pang Xiaonan patted his chest, "I want to be a tough guy!" Then he leaned down and said to Pang Xiaonan, "But Brother Nan, you have to promote your little brother a lot, don't leave me if you have any projects to make a fortune." ”

Pang Xiaonan swore and said: "No problem, the new project is about to start, and you will still be a veteran at that time!"

Huang Minghu's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "Really, great, then I'll wait for good news." ”