Reality Monopoly

Chapter 21
At this moment, the expression of surprise on Yang Tian's face was beyond words.

If you tell Yang Tian about Bytedance Technology Co., Ltd., such a weird name, of course he has never even heard of it.

But if it's today's headlines
It is a matter of course that Yang Tian has heard of this name!

And not only heard of it, Yang Tian is quite familiar with it!
You know, in the previous life, Yang Tian's favorite app for browsing various news was Toutiao today!
On the basis of liking, Yang Tian in his previous life had spent a lot of effort to understand the development process of this company.

At the same time, this can also be called a hobby of Yang Tian, ​​that is, when he is free, he likes to look at the development history of those big companies, especially when those products were launched, when they received financing, when It started to make a profit, when did it go public, etc.
I don't know why, but Yang Tian likes to read this kind of information, and whenever he reads it engrossed, there is always an inexplicable excitement in his heart.

It is precisely because of such a hobby that Yang Tian can remember it.

Of course, most of Yang Tian's attention is on Internet products, and he rarely cares about the company name.

Um.
Byte bounce
bytedance
Doesn't the implication mean that it is related to data?

Today's headlines are most famous for their huge amount of data!
At this time, Yang Tiancai suddenly realized, quite belatedly.

But according to Yang Tian's understanding, shouldn't this company be located in Yanjing when it was founded?
When did you go to the Shanghai stock market?

If you look at it this way, there are still many differences between this parallel world and the earth.
But Yang Tian's sudden reaction startled Liao Yong and Zhang Yi beside him.

The two quickly took out a paper towel and wiped off the coffee water that Yang Tian sprayed on the table.

"Brother Tian, ​​what's wrong with you?" Liao Yong asked in surprise.

"It's okay, I'm choking." Yang Tian smiled awkwardly, reached out and picked up a piece of paper to wipe his mouth.

Zhang Yi glanced at Yang Tian with contempt: "I said Brother Tian, ​​you can choke on a cup of coffee, you are no one else."

Hearing this, Yang Tian pouted helplessly, speechless for a while.

He really couldn't explain it. He couldn't say that he was surprised by the company Zhang Yi just mentioned, right?
"Hehe." Liao Yong laughed a few times when he heard the words.

"But Brother Tian, ​​looking back, don't think that you just changed the subject and it's over. I said, your technical ability is among the best in our class, but now you say that you go to guard an Internet cafe every day, isn't that true? Is it a little too good to use?" At this time, Zhang Yi suddenly said with a little disappointment: "Besides, as the backbone of our Three Musketeers, at our age, don't you want to take us to fight together?"

"That's right, Brother Tian, ​​you shouldn't run to open some Internet cafe. What's the point of guarding an Internet cafe every day? The layout is a bit too small! Now we, the three musketeers, are getting together, and while we are still young, why not Why don't you look for opportunities on the Internet?" Seeing this, Liao Yong, who had been wanting to talk about this just now, quickly agreed.

"That's right, and among the three of us, you have the most ghost ideas. As long as we have some good ideas, we can use our spare time to make a project! And the risk of doing so is small, and it won't Delay our work!" Zhang Yi nodded again and again, excitedly said: "When our product is finished, we can take the project to participate in the road show and find angel investors! As long as there are angel investors who are willing to give After our project is invested, we can really start the company, and then we will resign to develop our own company!"

"Lao Zhang's idea is good. It won't affect our existing work, but we can really try it!" Hearing this, Liao Yong raised his eyebrows excitedly: "And the price we paid at the beginning was only Just spend some spare time!"

"Hehe." Looking at Zhang Yi and Liao Yong talking to each other, Yang Tian smiled lightly, then shook his head.

But to be honest, for a second or two just now, Yang Tian was almost moved by the two of them.

After all, Yang Tian only needs to combine the experience of his previous life to talk about the idea of ​​Internet entrepreneurship. He can come up with at least seven or eight now, and among them, the products with a market value of hundreds of millions or even more than one billion US dollars can at least exceed The number of five fingers.

But so what?
The market value of more than one billion US dollars seems very high, but the process will be extremely difficult and difficult...

At this point in 2012, BAT has already developed into the three giants of the Internet. No matter what kind of ideas Yang Tian has, the course of history has told him that everything is empty talk, and the latecomers on the Internet will eventually be You can't get around the three big mountains of BAT.

In terms of scale, capital, traffic, user volume, product matrix, etc., no matter what point it is, it cannot be compared with BAT.

Even Baidu, who later fell behind from BAT, is an existence that many other Internet companies can only look up to.

More importantly, the Internet environment at this time is not as good as it was in 2000. The cost of acquiring users on the early Internet was negligibly low, but now the cost of acquiring users has already risen countless times invisibly. All authoritative statistics.

Of course, in addition to the increase in the cost of acquiring users, he also has to face many competitors who follow suit. Yang Tian can't forget the scene in his previous life when all kinds of red envelopes and discounts on the Internet were flying all over the sky to compete for users and market share. .

Simply put, it is to burn money.

And if Yang Tian devotes all his energy to start a business and start a project, he is indeed very likely to be able to succeed in a project, provided that Yang Tian puts all his energy into it.

Even so, the company ended up being that size.

In the end, the choice Yang Tianneng faced was nothing more than choosing which BAT company to lean on.

Some people may wonder, why do you have to choose one of the BAT?
In fact, the reason is very simple, because if you don’t choose, BAT will either invest in your competitors, or they will directly make a product similar to yours, but don’t underestimate BAT’s ability to follow suit , For example, Fujixun in the previous life, it relied on its own huge number of users, as long as it really wanted to imitate a certain product, it would definitely have the ability to kill you, such examples abound on the earth in the previous life.

Therefore, in the face of BAT's increasingly mature product matrix covering multiple fields of the Internet, the possibility of Yang Tian wanting to truly emerge from the domestic Internet environment and become a giant is almost zero.

And this is obviously not what Yang Tian wanted, and it is far from the goal Yang Tian set at the beginning.

Therefore, in Yang Tian's mind, between spending all his energy on starting a project and investing in others to do the project, he must choose the latter, because he prefers to be an investor. , Yang Tian has a greater opportunity to create a product matrix that belongs to him, rather than being limited to a certain product of a certain company.

"Alas!" Seeing Yang Tian shaking his head, Zhang Yi and Liao Yong sighed in unison.

The expressions on the faces of the two are very rich, with regret, distress, and depression...

In short, the faces of the two were full of unhappiness.

Seeing this scene, Yang Tian pursed his lips.

In fact, after this contact, Yang Tian could see what kind of position he was in in this combination of the Three Musketeers.

Judging from the names Liao Yong and Zhang Yi called him, he can almost understand.

"What you just said is indeed very reasonable. We can spare some spare time to do a small project first. I agree with that very much. However, I won't do it, because the Internet cafe here has just opened, and In addition to the Internet cafe, I may have many other things to be busy recently, and even I may not be able to fully control the issue of time." Yang Tian sighed and said helplessly: "So, I may Not that much time."

What he said was all the truth, after all, he didn't know what asset he would buy next time he rolled the dice.

When Liao Yong and Zhang Yi heard this, they both smiled wryly at the same time again. From their point of view, Yang Tian seemed determined not to get involved in the IT field.

At this moment, Yang Tian, ​​who had paused for a moment, suddenly changed the topic, and said lightly, "But."

(End of this chapter)