The Millennium Semiconductor Survival Guide

Chapter 18 The Scared Wu Shiqiang

Many years later, Stephen settled in New York, but every time he talked about Los Angeles, he always mentioned: "August in Los Angeles is very hot."

On the day Riot Games' official website was launched, everyone was indifferent to work, squatting in the background watching the number of clicks on their page and user retention.

Of course, there is no such thing as user retention, only the length of user connection.

"Hello, Mr. Zhou? Your account has received the first transfer." Ten minutes after the website went live, Zhou Xin received a call from the person in charge of the sales department of Hua Guo Bank's Los Angeles branch.

The reason why Wu Shiqiang agreed to cooperate with Zhou Xin was because he accidentally saw a report about Zhou Xin when he returned to China in the summer.

As Yanda’s top scorer, he transferred to Berkeley, and he was a combined undergraduate, master, and doctoral student.

Under the publicity of New Oriental, the incident spread very quickly in China.

Even in the six months after the news hot spots passed, Wu Shiqiang could still see sporadic reports when he returned to China.

Therefore, after Zhou Xin's visit, he deliberately searched for news related to Zhou Xin in China.

After confirming that the other party was Zhou Xin himself, Wu Shiqiang decided to start this cooperation with Zhou Xin.

He didn't understand Zhou Xin's business model, and he didn't think this business would bring much performance to Hua Guo Bank's Los Angeles branch.

Purely because they are both Chinese and the other party is from a prestigious school, he quickly started a business after coming to American. Under the superposition of various auras, Wu Shiqiang wanted to maintain a good personal relationship with the other party.

Let Zhou Xin handle business here, so as to observe the development of the other party.

So when Zhou Xin made a small request: "Mr. Wu, please send me the specific information and time of the transfer when the first transfer occurs."

Wu Shiqiang agreed without hesitation.

The information that needs to be provided here is only the content filled in the attachment by the transfer party, and does not involve user privacy.

Not to mention that at present, there are no laws and regulations on user privacy protection.

"Friends, we have received our first transfer! It's $19.99!" After Zhou Xin finished speaking, the other three held paper sticks rolled up from white paper and tapped them to create a party atmosphere in the garage.

Wu Shiqiang, as the person in charge of the business department, does not have a sense of presence in the Los Angeles area of ​​Hua Guo Bank's Los Angeles branch, but it does not mean that he has little knowledge.

Because he stayed long enough, he has worked in the Los Angeles branch for almost eight years, what situation has he not seen?
There are not a few entrepreneurial Chinese who come to them to handle business.

But it was definitely the first time he had seen so many small transfers and remittances with various phone numbers.

Wu Shiqiang didn't go to the lobby once, and silently watched the amount on the bank account increase little by little in the background.

A transfer.

Ten transfers.

One hundred transfers.

A thousand transfers.

It took just one hour from the first transfer to the thousandth transfer.

Not even an hour.

Wu Shiqiang was completely shocked. One thousand transfers amounted to [-] US dollars, which is already a considerable sum in this day and age.

He instantly thought of the joke that he often made after working in the bank. If everyone transfers one dollar to you, you will soon become a billionaire.

But now instead of transferring one dollar to Zhou Xin, someone keeps transferring $20 to Zhou Xin, or $19.99 to be precise.

He hurriedly called Zhou Xin, trying to find out what the other party was doing.

In case of any illegal activities, he will be implicated.

He now regrets that when Zhou Xin came to talk to him, he didn't ask clearly the real purpose behind the other party's needs.

"Mr. Zhou, the number of transfers with your bank card has exceeded 1000, and the number of transfers is still increasing.

I want to know more about your business, can you tell me, please?

This is also to avoid unnecessary trouble. "

"Mr. Wu, sorry to trouble you, our company's official website address is www.riotgames.com, you can go to our company's official website to see our products.

This is more intuitive and efficient than if I could explain it myself. " Zhou Xin said.

After Zhou Xin hung up the phone, he told everyone: "The number of paying users has exceeded [-].

In other words, in just one hour, our game has acquired a thousand paying users.

And this is based on the fact that our payment method is a new thing.

Many users have doubts about our game.

It's already brought us $2 in revenue!

This is a memorable day in gaming history.

But we should not take it lightly.

At one o'clock in the morning tomorrow, the Los Angeles branch will send us all the bank postscripts in the form of attachments after the batch is completed.

Louis, sent the SMS verification code to the users as soon as they received the email.

Be sure to send it to the customer at the time we agree.

I'm going to Hua Guo Bank now to double check with them.

This must not go wrong.

Then Stephen, you need to communicate with the server rental company, the scale of the server we rent will be expanded.

Now three IBM minicomputers are far from meeting our needs.

Whether it is an IBM minicomputer or network bandwidth, it needs to be downloaded according to the estimated amount of 100 million users.

We can prepay 30.00% of the fee.

Then try to get the best deals.

Finally, Ashley, perfect the user forum, the user forum must be completed within three days.

I'll do it with you when I get back from Overseas Bank.

This will be our busiest period of time, offline payment, online download, whether this new model can be successful.

These two weeks are extremely critical! "

One million users is a conservative estimate. You must know that the later generations of Angry Birds occupy the top of the App Store list in 100 countries all the year round, and the global downloads have exceeded 69 million.

Operating Angry Birds on a computer is not as convenient as a mobile phone, but with a smart phone, users' entertainment methods are also rapidly increasing.

You know, this is the late 90s when entertainment was scarce.

After Zhou Xin arranged the work, everyone moved quickly.

Teams of four are managed with great efficiency.

Not to mention that both Ashley and Stephen are shareholders, with 30.00% of the final proceeds.

According to an estimate of one thousand paying users per hour, Angry Birds is enough to make them lie flat together.

On the other side, Wu Shiqiang returned to his work station and opened the link Zhou Xin gave him. After clicking on it, he saw that the home page was a red bird head surrounded by a circle of green pig heads.

There are two words under the bird's head: angry birds
After clicking on it, he found that it was a game.

The color matching of the game made his eyes shine. This kind of bright animation style is very rare in this era.

The game is very simple, there is almost no learning threshold.Put the little bird on the slingshot, adjust the angle, and knock down the fat green pig hiding in the illegal building.

After finishing the previous ten simple levels, Wu Shiqiang saw the payment instructions.

(End of this chapter)