Football giants

Chapter 48 What Logic Is This?

East of Stockholm, Sweden

Andres Ihaan was standing on the roof of the office of the free streaming music company Sound Breaker, facing a green spire building with a very distinctive Nordic style in the distance, but he was looking down at the phone in his hand.

He is a die-hard Ibrahimovic fan, and his idol is the national idol of this country.

In Sweden, almost no one does not know Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and almost no one does not like him.

Andres? Ihaan is just one of them.

He is the chief technology officer of Soundwave, but he is not optimistic about the company's future prospects at all. Even so far, the company has more than 600 million users, but it has been suffering serious losses.

Among the many investors in Soundwave, there are many celebrities, such as Li Ka-shing, the super rich in Hong Kong, China.

But in Andres? Ihaan view, this company is too passive, subject to too many restrictions of record companies.

The value of the Internet lies in freedom, but the more the sound of the sky develops, the more restrictions there are, and it gets stuck.

600 million users seems like a lot at first glance. The population of Sweden is less than 1000 million, but it is insignificant in the current Internet environment. How many startups have attracted hundreds of thousands, millions, or even tens of millions of users at once.

With the rise of smartphones, information has become more and more developed, and it has become easier to attract users.

The premise is that you have to have the capital to attract users, put it in the world of massive resources, and be able to stand out.

Andres Ihaan now admires the developer of this WeChat application in his mobile phone. He made good use of the shocking effect brought about by Zlatan Ibrahimovic's transfer to promote this WeChat application, and this application is indeed very useful.

What's more, it's free!
In this world, all business rules are no match for a free, which is the most terrible weapon.

With promotion and marketing, the ultimate weapon of free, and the fact that the app itself is really easy to use, it is not surprising that the WeChat app can attract more than 100 million users in just a few days.

Even in the next period of time, it will usher in a blowout outbreak.

Suddenly, Andres Ihaan was very interested in meeting and chatting with the entrepreneurial team of WeChat.

He had an immature idea. After seeing that WeChat developed the mobile phone address book user field, his idea became stronger. He wanted to have a good talk with WeChat entrepreneurs.

At this moment, a message was uploaded on his mobile phone WeChat.

"Congratulations on being the 2 questioners in this press conference, please prepare your questions."

After Andres Ihaan saw the message, he was a little excited. He was eager to have a few words with his idol Zlatan Ibrahimovic, but all the questions he wanted to ask had been asked by the previous 240 nine people. He didn't have any new questions.

A fresh and abrupt idea suddenly popped up in my mind, so I entered my question on the phone.

"Hi, Zlatan, I'm a die-hard fan of yours in Stockholm, Sweden, and I'm also an Internet entrepreneur. My name is Andreas Ihaan. I hope to meet the entrepreneur of the WeChat application. Can you help me with this?"

When the host sent out a message inviting user 2 to ask a question, he immediately sent the message.

For a moment, all WeChat users around the world who followed the press conference were dumbfounded.

Who are these people?
It was agreed that it was a press conference, but he was lucky enough to start looking for relationships?
entrepreneur?Isn't it to attract investment?

Does the question he asked have anything to do with Zlatan Ibrahimovic?

Well, maybe it has something to do with it!

Who made him a die-hard fan of Ibrahimovic!
Throughout the WeChat world, countless users expressed their dissatisfaction with this [-] user in private chats.

Fortunately, after 250 users, the press conference has also come to an end. To be able to catch up with the current followers, at least the tolerance is much higher.

However, this made it difficult for Ibrahimovic who answered the question.

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Southampton
When Yang Huan saw this message pop up on the screen, his first reaction was astonishment, and then he laughed.

"If anyone still says we are fake tomorrow, then his eyes must be blind!"

Although this user was a bit of a joke, at least he proved one thing, that is, the whole press conference was true.

In fact, Yang Huan was not interested in falsification from the very beginning, because in his understanding, the cost of falsification was too high and unnecessary, so the entire press conference was true.

Even if only one person asks a question today, he will continue this press conference.

Fortunately, 250 people, including more than 100 media, can be regarded as a complete success.

"Master Huan." Zhu Liangcheng quickly ran over, "Zlatan asked me to ask, would you like to see him?"

After hearing this, Yang Huan nodded without hesitation, "See, of course I will. Not only do I want to meet him, but I also have to pay for his air ticket and accommodation for free. At the same time, I also want to invite the media to testify at the airport to see if anyone dares to say that we are fraudulent!"

Zhu Liangcheng was a little dumbfounded. He asked to see him. It was great for you to see him. He even provided air tickets, board and lodging for free. This...

But Yang Huan said so, so he had no choice but to do so, and immediately ran over to reply to Zlatan, indicating that he could agree.

Ibrahimovic quickly replied on WeChat, "Andres, my friend, thank you for your support. I have not let you down. I contacted the WeChat team and they expressed their willingness to meet you and provide you with round-trip air tickets, board and lodging. When are you free?"

Andres Ihaan was ready to be rejected. When he saw Ibrahimovic's reply, he was full of surprise, "Tomorrow, I will be free tomorrow."

"Old pig!" Yang Huan called Zhu Liangcheng as soon as he saw the reply.

"Master Huan, what are your orders?"

"Go, arrange a ticket for him to come to Southampton tomorrow, first-class cabin, board and lodging in a five-star hotel."

When Zhu Liangcheng heard this, he had a bitter face, and wanted to say, this is too extravagant.

But in the end, knowing Yang Huan's temper, he didn't say anything more, and immediately agreed to do it.

Huang Ying was puzzled at the side, "Master Huan, in fact, even if you promote this person, those who don't believe it will also not believe it. Is it necessary? And provide first-class and five-star hotel treatment?"

When Yang Huan heard this, he turned his head away and laughed, "Silly girl, your understanding is wrong. I never thought that everyone would believe me."

Huang Ying made Yang Huan blush when she called out a silly girl, and accidentally glanced at Zhang Ning. Seeing Zhang Ning's sister's face was normal, she was relieved, but she muttered, "Then you are still so stupid?"

"Many people will believe, and many people will doubt. Those skeptical conspiracy theorists, no matter how much you say and do, they still have a way to question you, as if you can never wake up a person who pretends to be asleep."

When Zhang Ning heard this, her pink face turned red, and she remembered the scene of Yang Huan pretending to be asleep and hugging her thigh.

"I want to give those who believe in me some weapons to fight back, so that the two sides can be evenly matched, and the quarrel will be more lively."

Doing so much, and paying for a guy you've never met, inviting him on a tour, just to make it easier for people to quarrel?
What is the logic?

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No one knows Yang Huan's logic, or he doesn't care about tens of thousands of euros at all.

Or, the world has never been logical.

It seemed that no one knew why such a seemingly inconsequential press conference suddenly became the hottest topic and topic of discussion on the Internet, and became the focus of reports by major portals all over the world.

This press conference held for the transfer of the number one center forward in the football world was completely divorced from football, and even from the field of sports. Before everyone figured out what was going on, it became popular!
All the traditional media reporters who participated in this press conference gave mixed reviews to this press conference.

Some people think that this is an innovation and a successful press conference, because more than 100 million people participated in this press conference, and there were 150 media outlets, and almost every media outlet had the right to ask a question once.

This is unimaginable in a traditional press conference.

In the traditional star transfer scene, the largest number of people is Cristiano Ronaldo's transfer to Real Madrid, but he only attracted [-] fans to the Bernabéu stadium.

But now Ibrahimovic's transfer has attracted more than 100 million people to watch on the Internet.

Of course, some people also thought that this was a failed press conference because it took too long. Although the total number of people reached 100 million, how many users followed from the beginning to the end, and how many users quit within a few minutes after entering?

And compared with the traditional press conference, this is not so much a press conference about Ibrahimovic's transfer, but rather an interaction between the Swedish center and fans, and it can even be said to be Ibrahimovic's personal show bombarding Barcelona.

Success and failure, this is a difficult problem that is difficult to define, and even a consensus can never be reached.

But one thing is very clear, that is, with the help of this press conference, WeChat users successfully exceeded 200 million, and after the press conference, with the hype and promotion of major traditional media, portal websites, Facebook and Twitter.

When Yang Huan woke up the next morning, Zhu Liangcheng sent a message on WeChat, and the total number of users successfully surpassed that of WhatsApp, reaching 350 million.

At this time, it was less than five days before WeChat was officially released.

Everyone is crazy, the whole world is crazy!

No one knows what's behind the reason that this app, which was only available for five days, has such a staggering number of users.

Especially in the Silicon Valley of the United States, all entrepreneurs and investors feel incredible about this.

You know, Twitter, which now has 100 million users, was born in [-], but in [-], the number of Twitter users only exceeded [-] million, and it took two full years.

However, in less than a week, WeChat has more than 350 million users. If this vigorous development momentum continues, how terrible and amazing will the future become?

But the surge in users has also brought troubles.

Less than five hours after the press conference, RIM Canada announced that it would remove the WeChat app from the BlackBerry device app store, ending the app's five-day tour of the BlackBerry platform, citing alleged violations of user privacy.

But everyone knows that this is because WeChat is too popular, and BlackBerry itself has the same type of application product BBM.

However, the removal from the BlackBerry platform has no impact on WeChat at all.

The Apple and Android platforms are the focus of WeChat's efforts.

As for a small character like Blackberry, Yang Huan didn't even want to talk to it.

Lost identity!

In addition, some investors said in interviews with the media that although the strong rise of WeChat is amazing and eye-catching, how to maintain this start-up company under the condition of free will be a difficult problem.

"The huge data traffic generated by this type of service has very high requirements on the quantity and quality of servers, which requires this startup company, which has not even had a name so far, to have a lot of financial support and investment."

"At least, WhatsApp's server has just recovered from an eight-hour paralysis, and it can last less than an hour before being paralyzed again, which in itself is enough to prove the high threshold for this type of application, especially the requirement for capital investment."

"And that's the biggest challenge of any startup."

But no matter what, it doesn't matter whether you support it or criticize it, because the tsunami caused by this press conference is still going on.

(End of this chapter)