Chapter 755： Series C financing (2)

There was silence in the large conference room, and Yang Orange's loud and loud words echoed in the huge space. Deliberately raising the volume was not for courage, but to express his attitude.

The urinary nature of Wall Street investors, Yang Cheng, is clear, and even he himself has a similar temperament. It is nothing more than the least money in exchange for the most returns, but when it comes to his own interests, Yang Cheng has to compare.

In fact, with regard to the investment in cloud computing, Yang Cheng has already clarified his point of view at the B round financing reception, and has also been recognized by everyone present. Now Jack Ma suddenly mentioned his true intentions. Of course, this is not It is hard to speculate that Ari now occupies the vast majority of the cloud service sector in Country Z, and it is hard not to worry about the aggressive media in the new era.

After all, Amazon dominates the cloud computing market in the United States and the world, leaving little room for the development of media in the new era. As the world’s second largest economy and the world’s largest and highest-quality market, country Z is undoubtedly the market for media in the new era. An excellent choice, it is bound to have business competition with Ari, which Jack Ma does not want to see, after all, New Era Media also has his investment.

But Yang Cheng’s words are very reasonable. Even after a slight ideological struggle, shareholders immediately agreed with this strategy, and Jack Ma is still trying to confuse everyone’s attention, “As we all know, Amazon’s cloud service launched in 2006, Not only is the world's first cloud computing service platform launched, Amazon is still occupying a leading position in the global cloud computing field due to seized opportunities and long investment time.

And Microsoft, which has huge resources, is also behind. In the fourth quarter financial report of the 2014 fiscal year released by Microsoft earlier this year, the revenue of Microsoft's intelligent cloud business increased by 15.3% compared with the same period last year, reaching 1.2 billion US dollars. Among them, the chain growth rate of the core Azure cloud business is as high as 98%. This is the second consecutive quarter that Azure has maintained a revenue growth rate of more than 90%.

Since Nadella took office as the CEO of Microsoft last year, Microsoft has vigorously transformed into cloud services and promoted the construction of cloud services. This move has made Microsoft face the future competition with a new look amidst doubts.

Although up to now, Microsoft has not demonstrated Amazon's comprehensive service capabilities, but Microsoft has unique advantages in security, coupled with continuous mergers and acquisitions, in the next two years, Microsoft has great hopes to become the dominance of Amazon cloud services issue a challenge.

In addition to Google, Google’s core is the search business, and its revenue comes mainly from advertising. However, cloud computing services are increasingly being valued by its management, and its cloud service sector revenue is gradually approaching A quarterly scale of 1 billion US dollars.

With the market share controlled by these three, it can be said that there is almost no room for the media in the new era. We really have to spend a large amount of money to intervene, instead of choosing to spend a small amount of leasing costs and invest cash in more effective Is it in the project? ? "

It has to be said that Jack Ma’s ability to fool has not been weakened by the change in language. The extremely inflammatory and infectious rhetoric once again shaken the shareholders who had been inclined to Yang Orange. These shareholders were volatile for a while, and at the same time they also focused on Yang Cheng seemed to want to see what he said.

Yang Cheng chuckled lightly, looked directly at Jack Ma with a deep gaze, and gave him a glimpse of his heart. Fortunately, the gaze did not last long. Yang Cheng quickly scanned the crowd in the room and said, " Although I don't want to waste my saliva, I think it is necessary to emphasize the importance of cloud computing.

All of you here are outstanding entrepreneurs, financiers, and investors, but none of them has personally touched computer technology, right?

Or in other words, everyone can only look at this cloud computing comparable to the fourth industrial revolution from a macro perspective, but cannot go deep into it and analyze the significance and importance of this technology from a micro perspective.

Well, maybe you don't agree, but since the birth of the Internet, cloud computing is not a big change, but it must be the most profound small change.

Cloud computing has its proper characteristic architecture, not only because it creates and encapsulates a flexible IT environment, but also provides a complete set of technologies for infrastructure architecture, service management, and the rapid growth around virtual images. It also provides assurance that An innovative model for rapid creation, launch and service provision.

Cloud computing technology can change the internal structure and IT organization of the enterprise, especially the change of the enterprise's operating model, which is far different from the traditional model.

IT enterprise employees generally do tasks such as data centers, data networks, personal computer operation and maintenance, or rely on data centers to monitor and upgrade application systems on personal computers. With the development of cloud computing technology, the Some IT companies engaged in traditional business have been upgraded to cloud service providers.

On the one hand, cloud computing is recognized by the entire information industry as a technology that can effectively reduce costs. It aims to make reasonable use of various strategies to reduce costs while providing effective solutions to specific problems in a timely manner. If you think about it, you should realize how much labor cost will be saved.

On the other hand, cloud computing is still related to the future and destiny of the enterprise, and it can be said to be irrelevant and affect the whole body.

As an almost fully automatic IT service management platform, cloud computing has a simplified and easy-to-operate user interface, so the infrastructure at the bottom of the service is completely exposed to users.

When additional resources are added to the service, management costs hardly increase, although this concept emphasizes minimizing overhead through various means, and cost reduction is not the strong point of cloud computing. Its real advantage lies in providing business operations. A set of perfect and flexible agility strategies.

Are these not important enough? "

Speaking of this, Yang Cheng made an oppressive posture with his upper body leaning forward, especially those pair of powerful eyes, like an emperor sitting on a dragon chair overlooking his courtier, with an impossibility to resist, and then said, "Just now Jack had a little bit To be right, the cloud computing market in the U.S. and even the world is almost monopolized by the first echelon of the three companies. There is almost no room for media in the new era, but this does not mean that we cannot enter the market. We also have our own advantages. .

Including the Toutiao app, we have 200 million users around the world. These 200 million users are our biggest resource. They contribute massive amounts of data to us every hour and every minute. When these tides of data flood into us As long as we have sufficient computing power, we can convert it into money.

What is the most important thing in the 20th century in my opinion? Talent!

And the most important thing in the 21st century is the user! Mastering the user means controlling the traffic, and with the traffic, there is money. This is the fundamental! "

Undoubtedly, Yang Cheng poked the key to this group of capitalists whose eyelashes are full of copper smell. In fact, they do not understand the importance of cloud computing. On the contrary, they may understand more than Yang Cheng, but this technology investment. Too high, and the period of cost recovery to generate benefits is too long, and they are unwilling to wait.

If this is your own company, that’s nothing, but now that New Era Media has been built by Yang Cheng as a piece of iron bucket, there is no room for them to start, so why waste a lot of time and money waiting for a good harvest? It's better to hit it with a hammer and listen to the noise.

But Yang Cheng’s words put them back on the right track. What is right? That is, you can make money, and you can make a lot of money. At this time, David Ellison is thinking: It’s good to be able to make money. My grandma all knows that traffickers have the world, and cloud computing has already proved that it makes money. Ability, now that there are so many people supporting it, a large sum of money can be smashed, and no matter how bad it is, can it be equal to Facebook's cloud service, right?

David Ellison’s thoughts represent the true thoughts of most of the shareholders present, but Jack Ma secretly sighed in his heart: Jason has become more and more mature, and some words will end, and it will offend others.

Yang Cheng didn't know the miscellaneous things in the minds of these capitalists, but he knew that even if this strategy would affect the amount of financing, he had to stick to it.

Fortunately, the result did not disappoint him After Jack Ma fell silent, Amanda Hirst and Georgina, the two confidantes, turned towards Yang Cheng after all. After they expressed their support for Yang Cheng, Xin After the establishment of Times Media’s board of directors, the first resolution was formally passed, which will also be recorded by the secretary and kept on file. If anyone wants to publish a book one day in the future, this will be important material that can be cited.

Next, the board of directors, under the auspices of Eddie, were discussed one by one, and each project had to go through a lip-and-tooth struggle before a show of hands was passed. This group of net worth is nearly 100 billion US dollars. The work efficiency of the elites gathered together is quite amazing. The board of directors, which was originally planned to be divided into two days, took only one morning to complete the originally planned one-day agenda.

This speed can’t help but satisfy the big guys who know that time is the way of money, so much so that at 11:30 noon, the door of the big conference room opens. When they file out, everyone’s face is filled with satisfaction after hard work. Smiley face.

The third floor of the New Era Building has welcomed the first batch of VIP guests since it opened. It is also the first time for ordinary employees to see the company’s high-level staff come out. There are also some that can only be read in financial newspapers. All the familiar faces that arrived appeared in the restaurant on the third floor. Some of the lively employees saw these rare bosses with smiles, and gathered courage to ask for a group photo, and then uploaded them to Facebook at a fast speed. , How can such a good show-off opportunity be missed?

This scene was seen by the company's senior executives. The face was as dark as the bottom of the pot. If it weren't for Yang Cheng and gestured with a smile, they really wanted to rush up and slap all these unlucky employees out. It would be shameful~