The next day.
Silicon Valley, Page Building, ICQ company.
iQc has just been established. The company's CEO is Weisger, 27 years old; President Vadi, 26 years old; Chief Technology Officer Goldfinger, 26 years old; and Annon Amir, 24 years old, who just came from Israel to serve as the director of the marketing department;
It has to be said that ICQ is an Internet company with a very young staff.
Of course, this situation was very common in Silicon Valley in the 1990s!
Now the official version of ICQ has been successfully developed. Knowing that it will be awesome in the future, Kyle naturally came here very early.
"I'm such a genius. I got 40% of the original shares with only 400,000 US dollars. Even if the subsequent rounds of additional investment will dilute the shares, I will make a lot of money!" Kyle's heart moved.
In 1998, AOL paid more than 400 million U.S. dollars to acquire ICQ!
"Kyle, you are finally here," Weisger said.
Kyle smiled and said, "How can I not come? I am the company's chief creative officer."
"Yes, yes, yes."
Wadi and others on the side also kept nodding.
Although Kyle rarely comes to ICQ, he is qualified as the Chief Creative Officer. Many of the functions he proposed are very suitable for the development of ICQ, making its future development clear as soon as it comes out.
How could it not be appropriate?
Kyle is a time traveller.
Free software download;
Membership level title;
Recharge membership to enjoy text colour, membership level acceleration, text effects and other functions;
While developing the English version, we also develop versions for other countries' minority languages;
...
Kyle mentioned many suggestions like this.
In particular, page simplification and development for non-English languages are particularly important.
In the previous life, ICQ, with its amazing creativity and free concept, shocked the world as soon as it came out, and set off a craze of "online chatting" around the world. Even in non-English speaking Asian regions, it occupied 70% of the market.
Of course, due to the lack of development of non-English languages, many non-English countries quickly launched ICQ-like instant messaging software in their languages.
For example, Qicq in China and QQ which imitates Qicq.
Icq's incorrect operations caused it to quickly lose markets in many countries around the world.
Therefore, it is particularly important to develop non-English languages in a targeted manner!
Secondly, page simplification is also very important.
Too many functions will make the software page appear too bloated. At the same time, many functions are not used by many people, which will greatly damage the user experience.
"I have made so many suggestions. I don't believe that ICQ will be as good as the previous life."
Of course, Kyle has his ideas, but he will never blindly believe that ICQ will dominate the markets of all countries in the world.
Therefore, Kyle's purpose was very clear from the beginning to the end!
That is to push ICQ to a higher level than its original time and space, and then successfully sell the shares in one's hands!
"Come on, I'm just an ordinary time traveller!"
"In my previous life, I said I was half an entertainment industry insider, but in fact, I'm just an ordinary loser!"
"It's already hard enough to run a film company at this stage. If I have to run a few more businesses that ended up failing in the original time and space, I'll be at a loss."
"How can I have such an ability?"
"For companies that failed in the original time and space, I don't think I can reverse their fate."
"Um,
Even if I could reverse my fate by accident, I wouldn't do it. I'm just a shareholder. If I owned all the shares in the company, I'd probably fight for it."
"As for ICQ?"
"Forget it, just wait until the peak and sell it!"
Kyle kept watching the technicians testing the ICQ 1.0 version on site, and his mind was already filled with wild thoughts.
....
"Mr. Page, we have completed the 1.0 version of the applicability we developed, and the results of a week of testing are quite perfect. Our various server equipment can at least meet the needs of 1 million people being online at the same time," said Chief Technology Officer Goldfinger.
Kyle nodded and said, "At this stage, being able to accommodate 1 million people online at the same time is already amazing, but it is not enough. I think we need to continue to add servers. In the future, we must be able to accommodate tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people online at the same time."
Visger, Wadi and others also agreed on the spot.
Although young people don't have money, they are not short of drive.
Later, Kyle made another suggestion.
"You mean product placement in the movie?"
Weisger was surprised and said, "Kyle, you are right. Product placement in popular movies does have a great effect on the early promotion of our products, but we don't have any money in our company's account now!"
Wadi also said: "No money is the biggest problem."
Goldfinger lamented: "In addition to money, choosing an unreleased film with high box office potential is also very important."
Money?
A high-grossing movie?
Haha~!
Kyle is cunning.
You don't have money, but I do; you don't know about movies that have not yet been released and have high box office potential, but I do!
The North American box office of "Juno" reached 140 million US dollars.
Moreover, the majority of the film's audience are young people, which is particularly important for young groups on the Internet.
"Everyone, don't forget that I am the chief creative officer of ICQ and the owner of a film company. The movie Juno produced by our company will be released soon. I can add product placement in the movie. Well, of course I will charge for it."
As soon as the words were spoken, the entire office fell silent.
Kyle added: "Of course, I will give the company a good price, $300,000 will do."
$300,000?
As far as product placement is concerned, it's not expensive.
But the problem is that the ICQ company has no money!
Kyle smiled again and said, "Money is not a problem. I have it! I can continue to invest more."
For a while, Weisger and other entrepreneurial teams were caught up in discussion.
Kyle was not in a hurry and just watched them discuss.
In the end, Weisger and others surrendered!
Visger is indeed very smart, but at this stage, their biggest disadvantage is that they have no money.
Because the 1.0 version of ICQ has been completed, and Kyle's equity share is already very high, reaching 40%, so even if Kyle makes additional investments this time, the equity he obtains will not be much.
An additional $500,000 was invested to acquire another 5% stake in ICQ.
In one fell swoop, Kyle accumulated 45% of his ICQ shares.
The largest individual shareholder at this stage!
....
Back at Page Pictures in Burbank, Los Angeles, Kyle immediately asked Victor to contact director Linklater and ask him to recall some of the actors and staff from the "Juno" crew to add a few shots for product placement.
"Boss, is this ICQ also your company?" Victor asked.
Kyle waved his hand and smiled, "Not really. I just own a small share."
A little bit of shares?
It was because Visger and his companions were not here, otherwise, they would have denounced Kyle's shamelessness.
It's already over 50, and you still say you only own a small portion of the shares?
Good fortune never comes alone; misfortune never comes singly!
Kyle was already very excited about the good news that ICQ would be launched soon. Just a few days later, he received some good news.
All 40 episodes of the first season of "SpongeBob SquarePants" have been completed.
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