Chapter Fifty-Eighth: IU's Vision for the Future of Technology
In May, iu company began to prepare for the launch of cuckootalk, and Jiang Junxiang, who had finished his travel vacation, also came to iu US company. In the office reserved for himself, Jiang Junxiang met Jan, whom he had not seen for more than half a year.
"Wow, our big star is here! Boss, how are you doing lately? I love your song "viva" so much, it makes my blood boil every time I listen to it! 'Now the old king is dead! long'
Live the king(The previous king is dead! The new king will live forever)!'"
As he spoke, Jan sang one of the lyrics excitedly. It seemed that he really liked this song, but it was just a little off-key.
"Thank you Jan, you sing well. You can take some vocal training when you have time! Haha... I finished the album promotion and relaxed along Highway 1. I felt pretty good! What about you, I heard Johnson say that you are so excited when you join the job.
I haven’t taken a vacation for a long time, thank you for your hard work!”
After Jiang Junxiang finished speaking, he stepped forward and gave him a big hug. The two patted each other's backs as a sign of friendship. Everything in the United States was supported by Jan and his team, and Jiang Junxiang was very grateful for this.
"I like this kind of life. Whenever our ideas become actual product functions through lines of code, I am so excited that I can't sleep! I have to say, the product plan you gave us, boss, is simply amazing.
A genius idea. I have been thinking that maybe IU will become a great Internet company that changes people's lifestyles, like Yahoo changing people's habits of obtaining information, Amazon changing people's shopping habits, Facebook changing people's social habits, we
You can change something!"
Jan obviously has a lot of ideas to tell Jiang Junxiang. After nine years of wasted time at Yahoo and experiencing the fear of the economic crisis, he cherishes his current job very much, and it is a job that is consistent with his philosophy.
He is now slowly turning the ideas in Jiang Junxiang's product plan into real products, and the more he understands this product, the more he realizes what kind of changes it will bring to people.
Cuckootalk will allow people to give up using traditional mobile phone functions and bypass telecom operators. Calls, text messages, MMS, voice messages, etc. will all become almost free services. In the near future, it will even be possible to achieve video calls like those on PC.
People's communication will therefore become low-cost and efficient!
The follow-up plans that were slightly mentioned in the plan but have not yet been fully revealed also gave Jan a glimpse. Those ideas almost subverted his understanding of the Internet. He could not wait to discuss the future mobile Internet with Jiang Junxiang in depth.
The world!
"Although it is too early to say that iu will become a great company, I do not deny that I, like you, have great confidence in it!"
When Jiang Junxiang heard Jan talk about the product plan, he felt very proud. That plan was compiled by collecting information from almost all of Silicon Valley and even Internet companies around the world through cia.
Someone with his analytical ability may not be able to obtain such detailed information, and someone who can obtain such information may not necessarily have his analytical ability.
I have to admit that Jiang Junxiang is lucky. He possesses both. More importantly, he also has the ambition and execution ability to realize these.
A combination of luck, ability, and action resulted in such a plan. Although the plan only proposed a plan for an instant messaging product, Jiang Junxiang had already slowly planned and constructed iu's future development blueprint in his mind.
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"But boss, you have never mentioned to me the profit model of cuckootalk. The one dollar per year fee for cuckootalk mentioned in the plan is not enough to support our operating costs, and our promise to refuse advertising has cut off most of the revenue.
It's possible. I really can't think of what kind of business model you would use to attract investors... You know, investors are not as idealistic as we are, they only value profits!"
After discussing some of their respective ideas about the Internet, Jan once again raised his concerns. He had asked Jiang Junxiang this question when the company was founded.
"Jan, I understand your concerns, but I am not worried about it at all. Because I have enough funds to support the operation of this product, I even want to make it completely free soon! I can promise you that I will never
If you are worried about funds, you only need to make this product the best it can be and don’t let any external factors affect users’ use.”
"Free? How is that possible? Then there will be no revenue at all! Boss, do you have other plans..."
Jiang Junxiang didn't answer, he just raised the corners of his mouth and looked at Jan like an old god.
"By the way, those ideas you didn't elaborate on! That's the real profit point of iu!"
"Yes, cuckootalk is just a ticket to enter the mobile Internet era. This ticket is worth more than the advertising revenue! Those Internet giants are now crazy about getting this ticket. Some have already won the ticket, such as Amazon, and some have missed it.
Opportunities come again and again, such as your old club Yahoo that kicked you out, haha..."
"Haha... Yahoo has missed opportunities again and again. Google and Facebook were almost acquired by them. Unfortunately, the internal fighting in the company is too serious and the efficiency of the decision-making level is too low!"
"Yes, the disease of large companies can be barely overcome in traditional industries, but in the Internet industry, which is changing with each passing day and attaches great importance to efficiency, it is a fatal and terminal disease. Now Yahoo has been completely kidnapped by capital, and management changes too frequently
, the CEO was fired within the shortest six months of his tenure. It’s strange that timely decisions can be made in such an environment!”
"Yes, the collective dismissal of our instant messaging department at that time was also related to the dismissal of direct managers. The newly appointed managers did not have any concerns when they dismissed us. They were only responsible for capital, and departments that did not make money would
Cut it off, euphemistically called reducing operating costs.”
When Jan talked about his old employer, he felt a sigh of relief. It was impossible to say that he had no feelings at all in a place where he had worked for nine years, but the company where he had devoted his youth for nine years coldly kicked him out.
"This is what I wanted to tell you. I have recently been studying Google's dual-class share structure design and trying to find a way to control absolute control so that the capital can only sit and make money without affecting the company's operations! This is in line with the business philosophy of listing.
, which can protect the company from short-term pressure and bring more flexibility to the company's long-term development."
"Boss, I have to remind you that only when the controller and the company's future development give investors absolute confidence will they recognize the dual-class share structure."
Chapter completed!