Chapter 1383

"No, Qianxi, you need to think this through. Wang Yan has already been honest with you; he is not a good man." Wang Ying couldn't help but advise her.

Xiao Qianxi nodded with a smile, sat down, and started eating an apple: "I know, and I even feel like he was saying that specifically to me."

"Then why are you still unable to let it go?" Xie Qiao expressed her confusion.

"It's precisely because I have let it go. Life is only a few short decades; if I can't be with the person I like, wouldn't that be a huge regret?"

Xu Lin said: "But you won't have a future together. Qianxi, you've seen it too—Wang Yan is too capable. Regardless of whether he succeeds or not, he will never be short of women in his life."

"Who cares about that?" Xiao Qianxi waved her hand. "The outcome is very important, but I'm still young and can afford to make mistakes. If I want an outcome, I have to start somewhere, don't I? Only by starting will I know if he is this way or that way. If I don't start, I will only regret not having been with him because I liked him. If we are together, even if the outcome isn't good, I won't regret it. I can handle it, and there will be opportunities in the future."

"Besides, at least up until now, he has only limited himself to talk and hasn't really been tangled up with several women at the same time. I am the only one, aren't I?"

"You're really something," Xie Qiao gave a thumbs up. "But I think if you really get together with Wang Yan, no matter if the outcome is good or bad, you will be miserable for the rest of your life."

"Why?" Xu Lin's face scrunched up; she didn't understand.

"You're so dense," Wang Ying huffed. "Although Wang Yan is annoying, I have to admit that among his peers—no, among the entire group of young and middle-aged men—he is among the best, and there is a high probability he is the only one. With such a gem before her, will Qianxi be able to tolerate anyone else in her eyes in the future?"

"Every man she meets will be compared to Wang Yan, and the result will undoubtedly be a comprehensive crushing defeat. Qianxi has a strong personality and would rather have nothing than settle for less. Do you think that apart from solving physical needs, she would look at any other man? Then again, if it's just to solve physical needs, why not keep looking for Wang Yan? He seems to be in pretty good shape."

"Oh~" Xu Lin had an 'I understand' look on her face, then let out a sly laugh, "I didn't expect you, a young lady of high status, to be so dirty too~"

"Tch, are you bored? Back when we were in school, the boring boys would always say these things—any homophones or double entendres, as long as it had something to do with that, they would stir up trouble, just like you, with a face full of lewdness."

Wang Ying glared at Xu Lin in annoyance, then turned her head to look at Xiao Qianxi. "In short, Qianxi, once you start with Wang Yan, there is a high probability you will be miserable for life."

"Being excellent isn't a bad thing, is it?" Xiao Qianxi smiled. "I believe that no matter what, he won't let people down. Just like he said himself, he is a sincere person, and I believe in his sincerity."

"You're awesome." Xu Lin gave a thumbs up; she didn't know what else to say.

Knowing the outcome won't be good, yet still willing—this moth-to-a-flame spirit really leaves one speechless...

Wang Yan didn't know what they were saying; he was still continuing his struggle.

The seven-day National Day holiday ended, and the registered users of Zhiwo Net exceeded 20,000, with over 2,000 daily active users. In the seven days, the various sections of the forum were filled with over 10,000 pieces of content.

Because it was all college student debates stirred up by Wang Yan, the content was relatively high quality. Wang Yan even managed to get a few professors to speak in the relevant sections, which further improved the professionalism.

If you want to talk about the liveliest part, it had to be the campus beauty activity. All the posts in other sections combined didn't beat this one section.

The users basically covered every university in Beijing, and under Wang Yan's constant agitation, the call for selecting a campus beauty was already very high. Moreover, one could clearly feel the number of registrations increasing day by day.

In the year 2000, the number of college students in Beijing was about 300,000, and thanks to university expansion, this number would continue to increase year by year.

Zhiwo Net's 20,000 people were spread out among these 300,000, but in the end, not everyone had converted into a registered user.

So, taking advantage of the already noisy and widely circulated campus beauty selection contest, it went live.

A voting channel was opened on the campus beauty posts under each university section. Above it was a hyperlink for voting instructions, which contained the rules and the prizes set up.

All posts with photos, specifying the department, major, and name, were posted up after some simple verification. A channel for uploading photos was also opened, because many people still didn't have photos. The activity lasted until midnight on the second Saturday of November, lasting over 30 days.

This completely exploded. College students began to vote actively and, without being taught, began to canvass for votes. The previous 20,000 registered users took a week to accumulate, but the subsequent 80,000 took less than half a month to achieve the milestone of over 100,000 registered users and over 10,000 daily active users.

And it was still growing.

Wang Yan created a map to record user distribution and popularity. With every new registration on Zhiwo Net, a red dot appeared on the corresponding place on the map, automatically updating in real-time.

Currently, without a doubt, the densest red dots were in Beijing and surrounding areas, radiating outwards. But on the map, except for the western and northwestern regions, almost all major cities in the country had red dots, just more sparsely.

This was, of course, the result of these Beijing college student users spreading the word among friends.

To deal with this problem and retain and attract more users from other regions, Wang Yan had people contact students registered from other schools and asked them to get a copy of their respective school's course schedule. For this, the vast majority of students were happy to work for free. However, Wang Yan never let people down and still gave each person 100 yuan for their hard work.

It was also because of this move that the course schedules of many schools were perfected. Plus, there was the excitement of voting for campus beauties at prestigious universities, so the number of registered users in various universities in other regions was also increasing. Some people even called Wang Yan's company directly, saying they were also selecting campus beauties over there.

Wang Yan communicated personally, letting them create their own campus beauty posts and post photos. As long as there were enough people, he would open up campus beauty selection qualifications for those schools and provide rewards like mobile phones.

He even revealed that if enough universities participated, he would launch a "Class of 2000 Hundred-School Campus Beauty Selection" activity to select the most beautiful college student of the Class of 2000 in China.

This was quite impressive. Whether it could be done or not, the slogan was shouted out first, and the spirit was shown.

While the number of users was growing rapidly due to the campus beauty voting, Wang Yan also precisely placed advertisements for computers, mobile phones, and Walkmans on the pages of Beijing users based on their IP addresses.

Yes, relying on his capital of 100,000 registered users, 80,000 Beijing users, and 10,000 daily active users, he negotiated business for Nokia and other mobile phones, and Sony and other Walkmans, at reasonable prices and providing after-sales guarantees.

These after-sales services were, of course, all handed over to Liu Qiangdong, whose good brother was now in high spirits. The computers Wang Yan sold were all from him, and he had made a lot of money following Wang Yan.

Right now, Wang Yan was precisely placing advertisements and launching review videos for computers, mobile phones, and Walkmans, and there were still many orders. Because in this short period of time, Wang Yan had already built up a reputation.

If there was a problem, he really took care of it and really solved it; the after-sales service was outrageously good. Even because of a shortage of manpower and no funds to add new personnel, he personally handled the after-sales service, which was very efficient, and his attitude toward solving problems was quite upright.

So, having relatively cheaper, but equally affordable and reassuring mobile phones and Walkmans, students with ideas were still quite supportive.

After all, comparing three shops, Wang Yan's prices were the most affordable. Even at the same price, Wang Yan's reputation was better, there were no traps, and after-sales service was guaranteed. The boss was also a college student entrepreneur from Peking University, so he couldn't afford to lose face by being fraudulent. Even if Wang Yan could, the school couldn't stand it.

Relatively speaking, it was more reassuring for students.

It was also by taking advantage of the sales of these things that Wang Yan made money, further expanding servers, recruiting personnel in various aspects, and expanding the company's scale.

By the time the campus beauty voting activity in Beijing ended, Zhiwo Net had exceeded 200,000 college student users in Beijing, and there were over 10,000 alumni. Nationwide, 100,000 new users had been added. The total number of registered users exceeded 300,000.

All this had only been a month and a half since Zhiwo Net went online.

Wang Yan made the news—financial news, the Beijing Daily, and even reporters from the People's Daily and relevant personnel from the Communist Youth League came to interview him.

In the interview, he thanked the school and department leaders for their support and trust, thanked the college student users for their trust, thanked the people who worked for free for him for their support, thanked... and expressed that he would continue to work hard to build a good internet company that serves the people, make people's lives more convenient, faster, and better because of the application of internet technology, promote the development of China's internet industry, and drive...

The reporter at the time was very confused because Wang Yan's skill was so profound that it was hard for people to believe that an 18-year-old young man could have such high awareness and quality.

But this didn't affect anything; on the contrary, everyone was quite satisfied. There were no radical theories, let alone rebellious words. On the contrary, he was a relatively rare, staunch supporter of the country's... businessman in this day and age!

After all, Wang Yan was a college student entrepreneur.

Various print media and the Communist Youth League highly affirmed Wang Yan, pushing him to the forefront as a representative youth figure of the millennium.

Because Zhiwo Net was introduced at the same time, it was equivalent to getting a large-scale free advertising exposure. After the release, the growth curve of Zhiwo Net's registered users had a significant change in magnitude, exceeding the range of normal stable development.

At the same time, other schools in other regions also started campus beauty voting activities one after another because they met the standards. Wang Yan also announced on the campus beauty sections of various schools that if the number of schools participating in the activity reached 100, a grand voting activity for the top three campus beauties of each school would be held, with prizes to be determined.

This further increased the enthusiasm of college students to participate. Everyone spontaneously canvassed for votes and participated, and the number of registered users climbed steadily. At the same time, due to the popularity, it spread to society, and alumni also initiated a wave of registration. Everyone actively contacted each other and found lost classmates in their address books.

At the same time, the completed chat system also went online. People in the alumni directory were automatically grouped; they could group chat or one-on-one chat. People who wanted to duel in debates also had a one-on-one channel.

At this point, Zhiwo Net had already gained momentum and was rapidly fissioning. It would be very difficult for others to copy and do the same thing.

After the report, venture capital firms came knocking one after another.

Their news was, of course, well-informed; they were just waiting for the campus beauty voting activity in Beijing universities to end to see to what extent it could go. Now that it was in the media, with hundreds of thousands of registered users and even a relatively perfect profit system, they were, of course, willing to invest money.

Even though Wall Street was sluggish now and there was an internet cold wave, it didn't affect Zhiwo Net.

It's just that Wang Yan only financed Zhiwo Net and didn't open up Youxiang Net. Selling computers, mobile phones, etc., was Youxiang Net's business. But Youxiang Net hadn't been perfected yet, and it had greater potential than Zhiwo Net. After all, he was directing traffic to himself.

But even so, relying on his excellent track record, the beautiful blueprint for the future he displayed, and his powerful speech and swindling ability, combined with various factors, after several rounds of contact and consultation, the final valuation was 10 million US dollars.

In December, Zhiwo Network Company was established, controlled by Long Teng Network. The contract was officially signed, and 20% of Zhiwo Net's shares were sold for 2 million US dollars, led by South Africa's MIH Capital, with IDG and Beijing Comprehensive Investment Company following, and obtained priority for the next round, as well as investment priority for Youxiang Net.

This year, the exchange rate of the red banknote to the US dollar was 8.2, and Wang Yan received more than 16 million in funds for company development.

The first thing to do after getting the investment was, of course, to celebrate together and have a lively time.

All the company's personnel, including the four girls Xiao Qianxi, totaling 82 people, went to the famous Beijing Hotel and celebrated together according to the standard of 10,000 yuan per table.

"I'll say a few words. It's been more than three months since we started the business. We've come a long way, and I see that everyone has some unreal feelings, which is normal. There are 16 million in the company's account; it's magical for anyone. But we can't relax; this energy must be kept up. We need to have 160 million, 1.6 billion. We will eventually go public, and by then, everyone here will be a millionaire."

"Today is a happy day, so I won't go into too much detail, just add some joy for the comrades. Starting tomorrow, everyone will have a salary. Because none of us have graduated and are all working part-time, we won't pay social security for the time being. If you are still willing to work after graduation, we will pay it then."

"As for the specific amount, starting tomorrow, basic developers will have a basic monthly salary of 1,000, with overtime and bonuses calculated separately. Development team leaders will have a basic salary of 1,200, with overtime and bonuses calculated separately. Part-time basic promotion personnel will have a monthly salary of 600, and part-time promotion team leaders will have a monthly salary of 800, with overtime, bonuses, and commissions calculated separately."

"Everyone is curious about how much I get, right? I'll give myself 10,000; I have to enjoy myself. But don't worry, everyone. As long as you work steadily with me, it won't be long before you earn this money."

"In addition, we have various subsidies. Later, the company will buy some snacks, drinks, fruits, etc., every day to provide good service to everyone and let everyone do a good job. After tomorrow, our company will recruit people on a large scale, expand rapidly, and at the same time start enterprise-level construction and development."

"The road ahead is still very long, and comrades must work hard. Come, I'll toast everyone, let's drink!"

Wang Yan raised his glass high, leading the excited crowd to revel...

Xiao Qianxi watched, stunned...

?? Daily thanks to the good brothers who reward, vote for monthly tickets, recommendation tickets, and silently read the books!

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