KPCB's limelight is brilliant, right? But KPCB's brilliant fighter jets are not just Compaq, SUN, and Lotus, the famous American Online, the EXcite search engine that is as famous as Yahoo!, and the most famous independent web browser company Netscape... These companies with huge influence around the world are also made by KPCB!

Although it is also a top venture capital company in the United States, Sequoia Capital is obviously a little inferior to KPCB. No matter how hard it works, the fact that Sequoia Capital cannot climb onto KPCB is no matter what, it has become a deep thorn in Don Valentine's heart.

In the eyes of Tang Valentine, Lin Zheng's words meant that they would not mention which one.

Even Benier, who had been holding back the doubts in his heart and didn't say much, couldn't help it at this moment, turned his head in shock and looked at his boss: The boss is actually preparing to seek financing from KPCB?

But what is the boss planning to do for financing? He was very curious about what his boss had to do: What projects would require more than 100 million US dollars to promote?

Benier had no idea that Lin Zheng was going to establish the "Tesla Automobile Manufacturing Company" and the first model smartcity, so it was natural to have this question in his heart.

But Don Valentine is Don Valentine after all. When he heard Lin Zheng mention KBCP, he felt extremely unhappy, but he had extremely strong control over his emotions. After a little "shocked", he laughed, "KPCB? That's not bad. They are a very professional venture capital company. You can try to contact them."

As a business elite, Don Valentine deeply understands one thing: it is actually an extremely stupid way to say bad things about your competitors in front of customers. A real marketing expert will never belittle his competitors through such naked and naked, without any technical content. A real expert only needs to click on it lightly and slightly, just one or two times at the most important time. It can achieve the effect that those idiots can't even say 100 words.

"We will." Lin Zheng nodded with a smile. Anyway, he didn't expect to reach an agreement with Sequoia Capital for the first time... It would be fast to succeed in three or two months.

But when he said that, he felt a little regretful: I heard that Sequoia Capital and KBCP were old enemies and mortal enemies, but now they didn't fight. It's so disappointing.

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"Boss, the company is not short of money," Bernier spoke after seeing Don Valentine leave. It was really hard for this guy to hold it in for so long. "Mr. Bill sent it in advance enough money to be enough for our early expenses. Your $150 million..."

Benier actually wanted to use this method to indirectly criticize me. Is this money for ICQ companies?

But Lin Zheng's answer disappointed him, "Oh, this money has nothing to do with ICQ company. It's another project I'm operating."

It turned out to be another project. When his boss said this, Benier sighed slightly: If only the money was used for the company.

However, he quickly calmed down. The boss's business was not something he could interfere at will. He also knew that the boss's career in the United States was more than ICQ and Yahoo search engine. As the CEO of ICQ, Zhi just needed to do his own job. He cheered up his spirit and said to Lin Zheng. "Boss, can the company's advertising business be carried out?"

After the ICQ user base has grown to a certain level, it will start advertising business. This is the company's established development strategy that has been formulated before. Now ICQ has 5 million registered users, and the number of peak online users exceeds 800,000. This number is a little higher than that of many TV stations and radio stations with average viewership. It is enough to be an advertising platform. To be precise, it is an advertising platform with good potential for any merchant. Considering that most users who use ICQ are groups with strong acceptance of new things such as the Internet. If you select advertising items in a targeted manner, the effect may not be worse than that of traditional TV stations, radio stations, newspapers, magazines and other media.

"Then let's start. The company still has to make money to support itself." Lin Zheng also hopes that ICQ can support itself as soon as possible and help him earn some money... He always steals money from it. When is this the end?

"The company must be for profit." Benier nodded.

The fundamental purpose of any company is to make money. If you don’t aim to make money, it is not a company, it is called a charity. Then again, even a charity needs to make money. Otherwise, how can you continue to do charity? For yourself, only by making ICQ profitable as soon as possible can you prove your value to your boss and prove that your salary is not in vain. The most important thing is that only when you make a profit can you get profit dividends.

"But boss, I always feel that the current ICQ is not convenient enough. If it can be ported to a mobile communication device and can be used anytime and anywhere, it will be much more convenient." Benier said regretfully. For the development of the company, Benier actually thought about a lot of things.

Hum? Mobile ICQ? Lin Zheng was stunned: Yes, why did I forget this magic weapon?

That's right, now is the era of feature phones, not like the smart phones in later generations. The owner can install any software by himself if he wants to install. The owner now has no choice. You can use the machine you give you, add new or delete certain functions by yourself? Sorry, unless you are a computer expert, you should be honest.

But this does not mean that the mobile ICQ function cannot be implemented on mobile devices in the era of feature machines. As long as the processor performance is sufficient and the system memory is enough to run programs, there is no problem... Are there fewer feature machines built in Penguin in later generations?

As for the data traffic issue, just talk to the operator directly. Anyway, the increased cost for operators is almost zero, but there is an additional charge, which is strange if they are unhappy.

"That's right, we are going to start working on mobile ICQ. This is a huge market. I believe it will not be smaller than the personal computer market," Lin Zheng patted Benier's shoulder and laughed happily! Benier's reminder was too timely, so Lin Zheng immediately decided: "Old Bei, your creativity is good, I want to give you a bonus!"

He has seen the number of ICQ users growing at a rocket-like rate... Benier's salary is indeed not in vain.

It is of course a good thing to be praised by the boss. Bernier grinned excitedly: "Ha... Boss, do you think this method is good? Then I think it's done carefully, how should this matter be done? Well, it would be great if this and the advertisement could be combined."

After laughing, Lin Zheng suddenly realized a very serious problem: However... it seems that even in the United States, mobile phones are a bit expensive, and not many ordinary people can afford mobile phones?

Thinking of this question, Lin Zheng frowned: If he remembered correctly, it seems that the penetration rate of mobile phones in the United States is only about 10%.

Don’t think that mobile phones are already very popular in the United States. In fact, on the contrary, the popularity of mobile phones in the United States is actually not high. The high purchase and use costs have made mobile phones almost exclusive items for the social elites such as wealthy people, politicians, business elites, etc. As for ordinary people and even the "middle class" in the general sense, the mobile communication equipment used is just BP machines, which seems to be a very serious problem...

No, I remember that the Penguin of Mahua Vine cooperated with telecom operators from the beginning. How did it do it? No, I thought about it. It seems to be connected to wireless paging, G"S-M" short messages and IP phone network? This method is good, but can you improve it?

"It's a good idea to combine ICQ with mobile networks," Lin Zheng frowned and said to Bernier for a long time, "Old Bei, I thought of a new way to expand our ICQ business scope."

"Really?" Benier's eyes suddenly widened! The next moment, he couldn't wait to ask Lin Zheng, "What is it?"

Benier has long admired his boss's stunning ability: he can even think of something magical like ICQ, and he can even think of the idea of ​​using ICQ as a boutique advertising platform. What else can the boss not think of?

"We can cooperate with telecom operators to connect ICQ wireless pager, mobile phone G"S-M" short messages and IP telephone network. For example, we can directly send short messages to pagers and mobile phones from the ICQ client. This function should be very practical in the business field..."

Before Lin Zheng could finish his words, Benier hugged Lin Zheng tightly, "Yes, yes, boss, this is really a wonderful idea. Those bosses of telecom operators and enterprises will definitely love this function. You can even come up with this kind of creativity. You are simply a genius! No, we need to plan this plan carefully, maybe we can make some money from telecom operators..."

When Lin Zheng just said this method, Benier keenly realized that the boss's idea was not only very creative, but also very marketable. As soon as this business was launched, it would immediately be sought after by the market...

The boss is definitely a genius! He affirmed this again.

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