Hollywood starts with animation

After the inspection of the business of Water World Animation that day, Zhu Ke did not leave Silicon Valley, but went to the LinkedIn company in the same building as Water World Animation.

As of the deadline, LinkedIn has been established for more than a year.

From scratch, Zhu Ke personally invested 45 million US dollars in funds. This amount is not small, at least surpassing 90% of Internet companies on the market.

Of course, the results are also impressive.

Jeff Weiner deserves to be the first contributor to bringing LinkedIn to its glory in the original time and space. Under his leadership, the current LinkedIn company has finally made a breakthrough.

Registered users in the United States, as many as 11.72 million;

Overseas regions, um, are mainly registered users in Mexico and Canada, and there are more than 600,000 people;

According to a report in the latest issue of "Goldman Sachs Finance and Economics", LinkedIn Group, which was founded only 14 months ago, currently has an estimated market value of US$62 to US$70 million.

Among the thousands of newly established Internet companies less than two years old, LinkedIn ranks sixth in market value.

This achievement is enough to overlook a lot of Internet companies.

Of course, this excludes Internet giants such as Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Amazon, and Yahoo.

After all, the newly established LinkedIn company is quite different from them.

Well, even in the future it will be very different.

"Boss, although our number of users is currently up, but judging from the daily growth in the last two months, it has already fallen into a bottleneck period. We need to increase our efforts to develop overseas and seek more users." CEO Jie Weiner suggested.

However, Zhuke shook his head.

The number of users!

In the American Internet field in the late 1990s, competing for the number of users was the mainstream of this era!

Pull allies, expand shareholders, bank loans...

In a word, use the means of continuously burning money to increase the number of users.

"Boss, as long as we have more users, we can be more favored by the market."

What Jeff Weiner meant was to let LinkedIn expand its shares and increase its powerful shareholder allies.

"I don't agree!"

Zhuke categorically rejected: "Jeff, I understand what you said. But you ignored a major premise!"

"What?" Jeff Weiner frowned.

Zhu Ke pondered: "Don't you think that the current Internet market, whether it is the creator or the investor, is too enthusiastic? There is a saying in the far east that the flowers are like cooking oil!"

"......"

Jeff Weiner can also be considered a senior intellectual, but please forgive him for not being a celestial master.

He does not understand!

Question mark full of mind.

Zhu Ke said solemnly: "The Internet market that is in full swing nowadays, in my opinion, it is undercurrent. The market's expectations for Internet companies are far higher than the actual situation today. A carelessness is likely to cause a huge financial crisis!"

E-Toys Toys, an online toy sales website, has an annual turnover of only hundreds of millions of dollars and a loss of profit, but its market value is as high as nearly 10 billion dollars.

R-Toys Toys, which is also engaged in toy sales, is a physical toy sales chain enterprise. Its annual turnover is as high as 6 billion US dollars. However, its market value is only 4.2 billion US dollars, far inferior to E-Toy. Toys.

This is obviously extremely unreasonable!

Are those investment institutions all stupid?!

Do not!

On the contrary, they are all shrewd!

They don't care what happens in the future, as long as they can make a quick cash, let it be flooded in the future.The people who ultimately suffer and bear the losses will always be ordinary people known as "leeks."

"Jeff, this market is too abnormal, so I would rather slow down the development of LinkedIn, and never want to see the collapse of LinkedIn under the outbreak of the crisis!"

Zhuke was determined.

"But, boss, this is a rare opportunity now, if..."

Jeff Weiner still wanted to fight for reasons, but was interrupted by Zhuke.

Zhu Ke said in a deep voice: "I don't care how others expand their shares, pull allies, or rapidly expand overseas. The first thing we have to do is to lay a solid foundation for ourselves and work hard to cultivate the American market, but wait for the opportunity. Well, Just like Bezos's Amazon."

"Okay." Jeff could only compromise.

Bezos' Amazon Mall, in today's Internet, it is a wonderful work!

Other Internet companies are expanding their shares, pulling allies, burning money, and striving to expand their global market strategies. Well, Yahoo is like that;

But Amazon is different!

"Stabilize the basic market, deepen the basic market, and maintain a steady increase in the amount of profit while pursuing the growth of the number of users."

"A company that can always make a profit is more recognized and welcomed by the market than a hundred loss-making companies."

—— Jeff Bezos.

After the Internet crisis broke out in 2000, giant Internet companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM, and Oracle suffered severe losses, their market value plummeted and suffered heavy losses.

But only Amazon Mall is different!

Although its stock price has also dropped from 45 yuan per share to less than US$2, it is one of the few profitable Internet companies after the financial statements of the new quarter are announced.

Since then, Amazon has soared into the sky, becoming the most anticipated and recognized Internet company in the market.

It is precisely because of Bezos' business strategy that Amazon has always maintained the company with the highest single share price!

"Jeff, take a look. There is no such savvy guy as Bei's bald, who is not vigorously exploring overseas markets now, so what are we worried about?"

Zhu Ke smiled and said: "So it's not that I don't want to pull allies and expand shares now, but that I am not in a hurry at all, no need!"

Play steady!

This time, Zhuke is not in a hurry!

LinkedIn now has an estimated market value of $62 to $70 million, but it is still not profitable.

At a loss!

"So, your current priority is to increase the number of users, so that LinkedIn can achieve profitability as soon as possible, and lay a good foundation." Zhu Ke laughed.

"Okay, boss."

Jeff Weiner somewhat agrees with Zhuke at the moment.Of course, his disapproval is of no use.

He is not the boss, he is just an executor!

Not long after, Zhuke left.

In the car, Zhu Ke murmured: "It is indeed not the time to pull allies. At least before the Internet bubble bursts, it will definitely not work, otherwise it will be finished."

.......

The next day.

Zhu Ke also inspected the first industrial SpongeBob Squarepants house created by himself.

At the same time, Zhu Ke also took a look at the sales of SpongeBob House last month.

At present, in addition to the 7 stores opened at the beginning, SpongeBob House has now expanded to 19 stores. In addition to downtown Los Angeles, it has also established stores throughout California.

After all, California is Zhuke's base camp!

Last month, 19 SpongeBob Houses received a total of 23 million US dollars;

Remove various expenses and costs, and make a profit of 4 million US dollars;

Of course, the most gratifying thing is the online store!

Since 1996, SpongeBob Squarepants House has cooperated with Amazon Mall to develop online sales services. Thanks to the prophetic insight of Zhuke’s traversers, they have won the peripheral copyrights of popular movies. In the last month, Sponge Baby House reported a receipt of 17 million US dollars, and the profit amount was as high as 4.5 million US dollars.

The profit ratio of online shopping malls is higher than that of physical stores!

"Hashimoto Taro, you did a good job!"

Zhuke now praised the little devil in front of him, after all, he did a pretty good job.Much better than the original James Sean.

"Thanks to the boss for the compliment!"

The little devil Taro Hashimoto bowed to Zhu Ke very respectfully.

After chatting, Taro Hashimoto made an application to Zhu Ke.

"Boss, I attended an exhibition of peripheral products and toys a few days ago and met someone named Bryant Ben. He is a very talented person." Taro Hashimoto said.

"Uh, tell me more specifically."

Zhuke became interested.

Mainly the name Bryant Ben, Zhuke always feels a bit familiar.

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