Chapter 97: 095 Mountains Don

The spread of the internet is fast!

Although he already had such cognition, watching Bai Xiaosheng's user registration volume climb steadily, Yu Xing couldn't help but give such a sigh.

From the launch on the 21st to the meeting on the 26th, Bai Xiaosheng's user volume doubled from 26,587 to 58,145 in five days, which is an average daily growth of 6,312 users.

6300+ a day!

Two days are worth a month's work!

Moreover, Bai Xiaosheng's registration has a threshold, requiring users to perform real-name authentication.

Even in this situation, there can still be so much growth every day, which makes the company very happy.

The chairman's beating was not in vain!

Yu Xing reviewed the data of the past five days with his colleagues and gave his work plan.

"Our website must emphasize our position on the homepage. One is the 'independent third party' I shouted to the media and the public. This is the logical basis for our website to exist in the internet industry, and it is also what we must insist on; otherwise, the vitality of the website itself will disappear quickly."

"Another one, protect user information, never disclose it to the outside world, this must also be marked conspicuously. This is what we must do to gain the trust of users."

One is the positioning in the industry, and the other is the commitment to users.

As a small website, Bai Xiaosheng will be questioned for both points. At the same time, although the number of users is used as the goal of the early stage, user activity is also a dimension that needs to be considered closely.

Users only register but are not active, so the difference from not registering is not big.

Lu Haiying, who participated in the meeting, said at this time: "Senior, since our early goals are achieved early, titles and anonymous functions can be tested on a small scale."

Bai Xiaosheng does not have an anonymous function now. 50,000 is a watershed. It is necessary to contact investors and officially create an important part of workplace topics.

Yu Xing nodded, agreeing: "Not bad, these two functions can be put on. We have a foundation of many more workplace users than at the beginning. Now we have to keep them. Facts have proved that the shelling of the internet matchmaking industry is successful and effective."

"This counts as a certain degree of verification of our workplace topics."

"The anonymous function is likely to catalyze a series of small, continuous 'shellings'."

"The spread of the internet is fast, and this kind of continuous small shelling can inevitably attract users."

Things that are praised don't need to wear a vest, just post directly, but those who wear a vest to speak anonymously are mostly complaints or attacks, and this nature is similar to Yu Xing's shelling of internet matchmaking.

Yu Xing's shelling achieved a significant traffic diversion effect, but he couldn't run out to shell once a week, and there was no such material.

Therefore, the anonymous function is to mobilize the masses, and countless "Yu Xings" in the workplace use their own shelling materials.

At this time, Kong Huilin, who came to work today and caught up with the meeting, asked a question: "Boss Yu, is the use of this anonymous function..."

She deliberated: "A bit easy to hurt by mistake?"

Facing this question about basic settings, Yu Xing was not angry and explained patiently: "First of all, we must understand which side our website stands on. Compared with powerful enterprises and professional legal departments, individuals are weak. Our existence is the gathering of many individuals."

"Why do I emphasize and insist on not accepting investment from internet companies, not accepting Penguin, Alibaba, those giants with excellent resources, although they didn't say they would invest, it is because we want to succeed, we must get recognition from many individuals."

"Is it easy for weak individuals to hurt powerful enterprises, or the other way around? I think the answer to this question is very obvious."

"Secondly, as a platform, we must also bear certain responsibilities for user speech and have constraints."

"At first glance, it seems that there is nothing to fear after being anonymous, but in fact, the mechanism of our constraints is already implied in the threshold."

"Users who want to be anonymous must have dual authentication of real-name + work. He is anonymous to the outside enterprise, not anonymous to our platform."

"He will understand that we can hold him accountable, which is an invisible constraint in itself."

Yu Xing gave the conclusion: "So, the topic is back again. We need to provide users with a trustworthy reputation. They must believe that we can protect information and refuse the intervention of outside enterprises. In this way, they can provide the most attractive topics under constraints."

This set of settings is interactive.

Hearing this, Lu Haiying said quite suddenly: "Brother Feng was beaten this time, our website's non-compromise this time, and the words released by the senior using the media, these are all establishing the image in the eyes of users."

Zhong Zhiling suddenly had a thought that was not very respectful to the senior, Song Yufeng wouldn't be beaten by someone found by the senior...

He threw away the thought that did not conform to reality and said with a smile: "So, hard bones are still very important."

So, the company really needs a wind-bone performance artist.

Yu Xing nodded and made a small suggestion: "We can give this title to Brother Feng first, let him post in the hospital, which is considered an adaptation period and freshness for users. What do you think of the title 'Steel Chairman'?"

The paragraph previously used on Song Yufeng has spread widely, so he felt that this playful way could be used to promote it.

Everyone in the conference room thought slightly and nodded one after another. This is good, this is good!

"I expect to contact investors before the New Year, that is, before the Lunar New Year next January. Originally, I estimated that it would be from February at the latest to reach 50,000 users, so the time would be more comfortable." Yu Xing laughed, "But now, the schedule is a bit tight."

His chat with the second-in-command, third-in-command, and chairman was in January, but the company didn't set it so dead, so he corrected the itinerary appropriately.

Yu Xing said this, tapped the table with his knuckles, and reminded everyone to attach importance to what he said next: "To tell you the truth, our company is recruiting people and doing ground promotion. Although we took angel rounds, there is still pressure on funds."

"But if we get Series A financing, the development in the next 1-2 years will not be too shackled."

"The rise of this internet line is very fast."

"As long as Series A can raise money, the company's internal reward options can be put on the agenda."

Yu Xing's words made everyone's spirits lift.

He finally looked around at his colleagues and laughed: "I can say one thing today, the company is going to be listed. Maybe three years, maybe five years, everyone still needs to be more careful for their own future."

The "more careful" at this moment has a more glittering concrete realization.

Bai Xiaosheng's first middle and senior management meeting ended.

After everyone else left, Lu Haiying said her feelings: "Senior, this company does things more carefully."

She followed the senior all the way, and she knew exactly what Gui'ai was like before.

What cohesion, what company foundation, what business future, don't pull those, just give high commission and rush forward!

Bai Xiaosheng is not.

Lu Haiying can feel the senior settling down to do things more. 【

Yu Xing rubbed his face and replied, "We have to be meticulous; we must summarize our experience and lessons, and adjust in a timely manner. The times change very quickly, and so do our competitors."

He looked at Lu Haiying and Zhong Zhiling, smiling, "We need to straighten out our own logic and do everything we can. Only then can we convince investors as much as possible. Only when the investors' money arrives can we build our moat."

Money is still needed, needed to further expand the user scale, and in doing so, further expand workplace topics.

Yu Xing does not know if competitors will learn from this, but he knows that if his side can establish a moat in scale and reputation as quickly as possible, it will be very difficult for later opponents to rise. No business model is mysterious.

If there really are identical competitors, it would be very difficult for them to catch up to the fast-tracked Baixiaosheng while struggling to accept investment from big tech firms, and if they do accept the investment and resources of big tech firms...

Yu Xing had discussed this before; that is a destruction of one's own foundation.

The stance inherent to big tech firms themselves is destined to suffer even stronger questioning from users.

Under those circumstances, their own employees would not dare to criticize their own big tech firm, and employees of other firms would certainly not be able to sit idly by while someone runs to a friendly firm to criticize them.

Therefore, this is a good, natural vertical field that limits the intervention of big tech firms.

Big tech firms cannot do it, and it is even difficult for them to invest, so naturally, it is for small figures like Yu Xing to eat a small piece of the cake.

Compared to competing with big tech firms, the competitive environment Baixiaosheng can anticipate is much easier.

"Brother Xing, I had originally scheduled to go to Yangcheng tomorrow," Zhong Zhiling said with some hesitation at this moment, "Given the current situation..."

He was a bit worried that if he returned from Yangcheng, the home base would have been wiped out by someone.

Yu Xing waved his hand, "Still worried that we'll be beaten to death? Think about it, what role can you play by staying at the company? One more person to get beaten? Only if you can do the ground promotion work well can our company's operations be smoother."

Users acquired through ground promotion are equivalent to having undergone dual verification of real name and employment on the spot, which is much easier at the current stage than online.

Once Zhong Zhiling heard this, it indeed made sense.

He nodded solemnly, "Then I will go to Yangcheng tomorrow and take people to visit NetEase first."

NetEase's headquarters is right there. The unpleasantness from the last time with Gui'ai Network has already disappeared amidst this current common interest. That "NetEase Dating" clearly wants to have moves to leverage the trend.

Yu Xing gave an "um," agreeing with such a choice.

He smiled, "Alright, with the two of you, one promoting outside and one holding down the headquarters, I am at ease. It's just that this investor... I don't know if she's easy to talk to."

Zhong Zhiling glanced at his Senior Disciple and probed, "Brother Xing, you don't really want to find Xu Xin, do you?"

Yu Xing replied earnestly, "Yes, I only have some connection with her."

Thoughts ran wild in Zhong Zhiling's mind. This... how is this supposed to be using people to control people?

Lu Haiying also pursed her lips, feeling that other investors might be easy to talk to, but that Xu Xin is definitely not easy to talk to. No matter how sincere one is, it won't work.

The two of them looked at each other, both seeing the astonishment and confusion in the other.

"Just trying it out; if it doesn't work, we'll change," Yu Xing said calmly, though what he was thinking about in his mind was the short-selling move planned for next month.

If the investors contacted before the New Year are not successful, it would also be fine if short-selling can make money. As long as the future operation of Baixiaosheng can be guaranteed for a period of time, that is acceptable.

On December 27th, near the slack-off time before lunch, Jiao Shiqian, the deputy director of Ctrip, opened the Baixiaosheng website and skillfully clicked into the "Jianghu" section, reading the new victim cases with great interest.

Jiao Shiqian is an account personally verified by the CEO of Baixiaosheng.

He had curiously browsed this website before, but had never opened it again since.

Only after hearing that Yu Xing was bombarding the internet dating industry and hearing the discussions of his colleagues did Jiao Shiqian use his account to log in. However, he only browses, does not post, and does not comment; he just watches.

He thinks this matter is quite interesting, but he didn't expect this matter to actually become increasingly intense.

It wasn't just a small website bombarding the industry; even well-known portal websites like NetEase, Sohu, and Penguin had carried out reposted reports.

How did that Yu Xing manage to do that?

Jiao Shiqian felt very surprised, but he also gladly accepted the excitement he brought.

Work is too boring; having excitement to watch is always good.

The time to get off work arrived. Jiao Shiqian had just wanted to close the webpage when he suddenly noticed a prompt on the small speaker for private messages. He clicked it open in confusion to see that it was an internal test invitation for the "anonymous function."

Really going to do anonymity? How did the invitation end up with me?

I'm just here to watch the excitement!

Jiao Shiqian was shocked, and remembered the chat with Yu Xing that night. This really did end up with this function.

He stared at the explanation in the private message, and only one sentence could be seen in the whole thing—Hello, we invite you to become an internal mole!

Hah!

Jiao Shiqian resolutely deleted the private message and closed the webpage, firmly deciding not to become an internal mole.

I am a damn deputy director with a bright future; am I going to play this with you?

He moved his mouse, intending to remove the bookmark for this website with ulterior motives. However, at the moment he was about to click, his finger hesitated again.

Jiao Shiqian thought for a few seconds and still decided to keep the website.

He wanted to see if other internal moles would come out to play, or if internal moles from other companies would pop up.

The anonymous function will definitely cause trouble.

As long as it doesn't cause trouble for himself, it's fine.

On the evening of December 28th, Xu Xin was curled up on the sofa at home looking at her phone. When she heard the sound of the door opening, she turned her head and smiled, "You're back. There's an interesting thing to share with you."

Today was a difficult day for Li Song to negotiate with investors. Hearing his wife's words, he only gave an "um."

Xu Xin smiled, "The one who bombarded your company, that Yu Xing, he sent me a text message today wanting to make an appointment to meet me and talk about investment. Hahahaha."

She felt that this matter was truly inconceivable.

After Xu Xin finished this sentence, she couldn't help but laugh loudly, "Too coincidental, right? He definitely doesn't know our relationship."

Li Song cursed under his breath and asked, "How did you reply?"

"I didn't pay any attention to him at all," Xu Xin put down her phone, "I just think it's funny."

Li Song nodded. Having just walked two steps, he suddenly said, "No, he knows our relationship. I mentioned you last time when I was buying his company in Jin Ling."

Xu Xin was startled. He knows the relationship?

She asked in confusion, "Why did you mention me?"

"At the time, Liu Qiangdong of JD was calling him, and I just casually mentioned it. Oh, maybe not, I just mentioned it. He probably didn't remember it either." Li Song walked a few steps and poured a glass of water, "He has water in his brain; he's a lunatic!"

He tilted his head and drank half a glass of water, still feeling quite annoyed, "This is what they call the mountains don't turn, but the water turns. Young man, the road is still long!"

Xu Xin glanced at her phone and shook her head. The young man's road is indeed still very long.

(End of chapter)