Chapter 63 Inspecting the Development of Station B

Listening to the quarrel between the two and watching Wang Gaoyuan leave, dozens of employees in the office lowered their heads and dared not make a sound, for fear that the two angry people would focus their attention on themselves.

"call!"

Editor-in-Chief Chen Tong took a deep breath, then turned to look at the people at the scene and continued:
"You guys keep playing. After an hour, everyone has to write me a review of their experience in no more than 140 words."

"Yes."

"Uh, okay."

"it is good."

"knew."……

There was an immediate enthusiastic response from the audience. After all, who wouldn’t be excited to be able to watch videos for an hour openly in the office?

In response, Chen Tong did not say anything and walked back to his office amid the excited voices of the people.

Sitting on a stool, taking out a cigarette and lighting it, Chen Tong felt deeply confused.

This job is becoming more and more difficult now. The headquarters seems to intend to let Wang Gaoyuan be the new president and CEO, but Wang Gaoyuan has been secretly dissatisfied with me. This job is becoming more and more difficult.

Although Wang Gaoyuan did not show his displeasure with him openly, Chen Tong knew that he was secretly unhappy with him.

After all, Chen Tong also knew that his reputation and influence on Xinlang and even Weibo was too great. With Wang Gaoyuan's reputation and achievements, Chen Tong knew that even if Wang Gaoyuan worked hard for ten years, his reputation and achievements would not be as good as his.

Under such circumstances, it was normal for Wang Gaoyuan to secretly dislike him, regard him as a huge threat, and even wish him death.

After all, he is the one with the highest seniority at Weibo and is most likely to threaten his position as president and CEO.

Seeing that Wang Gaoyuan didn't even look at the results, but directly grabbed his weakness and criticized him harshly, Chen Tong knew that it might not be easy to buy Lin Feng's recommendation algorithm next time.

But he decided to give it a try anyway.

After all, Wang Gaoyuan is not the president of Weibo yet. It is not Wang Gaoyuan who decides the fate of Weibo, but Mr. Cao of the New Wolf headquarters.

If Mr. Cao agrees, Wang Gaoyuan won't dare to say anything even if he is dissatisfied.

As for himself, if he can't do it, then so be it. With his abilities, he can certainly get a high salary.

However, out of his professional sense of responsibility of loving what he does, he believes that even if he leaves, he must build the strongest foundation for Weibo.

Thanks to its recommendation algorithm and its ability to tap into the opinions and thoughts of ordinary people, Weibo will be able to survive no matter how bad the situation is.

It can be said that as long as Weibo in the future does not frantically embed advertisements into its software and does not allow fan culture to get out of control, Weibo will not collapse. This is the strongest foundation he wants to leave for Weibo before he leaves!
……

A week later, on January 2014, 1, Kangzhou B station headquarters.

Lin Feng, who had been away from the B station headquarters for a week, came to Zhancheng from Xiaohe Town again and took a plane to the B station headquarters in Kangzhou.

"How's the situation?"

Lin Feng asked about Xu Yi, the current vice president of Bilibili and editor-in-chief who is mainly responsible for the content operations of Bilibili.

“It’s amazing. Since the new recommendation algorithm system was launched, our user retention time has quadrupled from a few minutes to more than 20 minutes, and the number of online users has also reached a new high.

Of course, what is even more surprising is that there are hundreds of thousands of new registered users every day, and the number of videos released every day has increased by more than 5 times compared to usual. It can be said that our strength is getting stronger every day. "

"Is that so?"

Lin Feng nodded, and then asked: "How many people are online at the same time now? How many users are there in total?"

Hearing this, Xu Yi glanced at the background data on the computer, and then said happily:
“There are now 238 million concurrent online users and 581 million registered users. We have added millions of registered users in just one week!

According to the current trend chart of new user numbers, I have reason to believe that in a month, our registered users will reach tens of millions!"

After saying this, Xu Yi became even more excited, his eyes full of anticipation.

Don’t think that tens of millions of registered users are nothing in this era. After all, there were 2013 million Internet users in the country in 6.18 alone, and the number of registered accounts on video websites reached 4.28 million.

Under such circumstances, it seems that even if the number of registered users of Bilibili can reach tens of millions, it is still a weakling.

But the problem is that this is a huge breakthrough for Bilibili, whose total number of users did not exceed 400 million before Lin Feng joined!
What’s more important is that Bilibili’s user retention rate is too high. On average, each user spends more than 20 minutes on Bilibili every day.

This means that many users are active users, and the actual monthly active data and daily active data are stronger than those of video website apps with tens of millions of registered users.

"Boss Lin, all this is thanks to you. I think I should give you 30% of the shares in advance."

Faced with the super genius Lin Feng, Xu Yi really wanted to tie Lin Feng completely to Bilibili.

Otherwise, if Lin Feng goes to support other video websites, it will be a disaster for Bilibili.

In response to this, Lin Feng shook his head and said:

"Let's see if we can achieve self-sustaining profitability first. Otherwise, if we can't do what I promised, I'll be slapped in the face."

After finishing his speech, Lin Feng continued to ask questions about profitability.

"Can our company's monthly profit be enough to sustain the operation of a video website?"

If a video website cannot be self-sustaining, the more users and videos it has, the worse it will be.

The more videos and users there are, the more expensive the financial pressure of renting cloud servers and the bandwidth fees will be, and the faster the money will be burned.

Therefore, few video websites can achieve large-scale profitability. In the past, Penguin, iQiyi, and Youku have all been in a state of loss.

Although these losses are often caused by their investments or research and development of certain products, the operating and maintenance costs of video websites are too high, and they can only barely maintain self-sustaining operations. It is also a fact that the profits are not very high.

"With the live broadcast business and the only graphic advertisement, we are now able to operate on our own and even make an extra million in profit every month."

Xu Yi gave his answer, and this was also the reason why he had directly proposed to give Lin Feng 30% of the shares without waiting for two years to give Lin Feng 30% of the shares.

“It seems our live broadcast business is booming.”

Lin Feng said thoughtfully.

In response to this, Xu Yi also said with emotion:

"Yes, our live streaming business is indeed booming. We can even say that 90% of our profits come from live streaming."

After saying that, Xu Yi thought for a moment and then continued:

“It’s correct that Mr. Lin insisted on letting Bilibili direct traffic to the live streaming platform, and finally the recommendation algorithm has a powerful auxiliary effect.

In just one week, our Bilibili live streaming platform not only defeated the broadcasting board of Station A, but also defeated Momo, one of the three giants in the original live streaming industry.

(End of this chapter)