October.
Temple Run, Minecraft appeared at the top of the global download rankings in both Europe and the United States.
Minecraft's potential was much wider than the Temple Escape game.
The former caught up from behind and created a miracle of the world's highest daily download exceeding 300,000 copies. The daily sales exceeded 56.85 million USD and directly reached the top of the global game download rankings!
Minecraft had sold 8.82 million copies, with sales reaching 167 million USD!
Although the sales of the Temple Run game were slightly inferior to that of My World, it still reached a new high. The highest download rate in a single day exceeded 150,000, and the daily sales reached 28.425 million USD, ranking second on the global Ranger download list.
The Temple Escape had sold a total of 6 million copies, with sales reaching 113 million USD!
It was simply terrifying!
The terrifying sales of the two games had undoubtedly greatly stimulated the nerves of many game producers.
Later, according to incomplete statistics, in October 2006, there were more than 540 new games on sale worldwide, which was more than the total number of games sold in the whole of last year. It was enough to show how crazy these game manufacturers were.
After releasing the two games, Temple Run and Minecraft, Super Play Technology released a puzzle game, Angry Birds, in October.
October ended.
Information related to Super Play Technology had already begun to appear in front of the world's major venture capital giants.
Famous companies such as KPC, De Feng, IDG, Goldmans, Google, Today, Soft Bank, Sequoia, and others sent people to Super Play Technology to negotiate.
No matter how hard these giant companies tried to persuade him, Ye Ge eventually rejected them on the grounds that the company had not planned to do the first round of financing yet.
However, Ye Ge promised them that once Super Play Technology started the first round of funding, he would definitely inform them first.
During this period, Ye Ge successfully reached a secret cooperation with Google.
Super Play Technology exchanged the Angry Birds game copyright and 180 million USD for Android from Google.
Android was acquired by Google in August 2005, and the founder of Android, Andy Rubin, sold both himself and Android to Google.
From 2005 to 2013, for a total of eight years, Andy Rubin had been in charge of the Android department that he had nurtured.
But this didn't change the dissatisfaction of Google's internal executives with Android.
They felt that Google lacked complete control over such a system that occupied a huge market share, and it was difficult to use it for commercial realization.
After the open source, the Android system successfully gained market share, but it lacked a business model.
In the past two years, Android had not produced any results, which had led to dissatisfaction among Google's internal executives.
Therefore, Super Play Technology proposed to buy Android with the best-selling game, Angry Birds, and the price of 180 million US dollars.
After some discussion, all of Google's executives voted to accept the proposal.
After all, Google had only spent 50 million dollars to successfully acquire Android.
Now, not to mention that the price offered by Super Play Technology was three times that of the original, there was also a popular game like Angry Birds that could bring a lot of traffic to Google.
After learning that Google's higher-ups had agreed to his acquisition proposal, Ye Ge was a little worried and couldn't sleep for an entire night.
The next day, the first thing he did when he arrived at the company was to ask Huang Shan, the product manager, to bring his team to Silicon Valley.
October 31st, 2006.
Ye Ge met up with a big shot at a coffee shop in Yanjing.
"I'm very grateful to you for thinking so highly of me. You're even unwilling to come all the way here.”
"But I really want to know, what kind of ability do you see in me that you're willing to hire me with an annual salary of a million?”
Zhang Yiming looked at Ye Ge curiously and asked a curious question.
A smile appeared on Ye Ge's face as he said,""Actually, I've always had an idea in my heart, which is to develop a recommendation engine product based on data mining. It will recommend information for users and provide a service that connects people and information.”
"One day, I happened to find Kuxun's online travel search engine on Kuxun, so I was very curious.”
Ye Ge paused and then asked with a smile,""Since I've already answered your question, I have a question for you, Mr. Zhang. What do you think of the current Internet?”
Zhang Yiming was stunned. Actually, before he came to see Ye Ge, he had already learned some information about Super Technology from the headhunter company.
At the same time, he was also surprised by Ye Ge's rapid rise, even though Super Play Technology had yet to make a product in the country.
However, overseas, Super Play Technology was already famous in the gaming industry. Several of its games had already reached the top of the global game download rankings.
The more he understood Ye Ge, the more Zhang Yiming realized that Ye Ge was not simple. He believed that when Super Play Technology entered the domestic market in the future, it would definitely cause a sensation.
Hearing Ye Ge's question, Zhang Yiming thought for a while before raising his head and saying,""In my opinion of the Internet, the current mainstream Internet companies are actually inseparable from the three core essences: traffic, channels, and content.”
"The reason why I rank traffic first is because traffic is the essence of all Internet companies 'survival.”
"Just like how the world's leading actor, Youtube, exploded a few days ago. If Youtube had no traffic, how could it sell to Google for a dream start of 1.65 billion USD?”
" On the other hand, the huge amount of traffic on Youtube is closely related to the content generated by Youtube itself.”
Zhang Yiming looked at Ye Ge and said seriously,""The traffic and content derive from the channel realization. The three complement each other and are indispensable.”
Pa pa!
Ye Ge couldn't help but applaud. As expected, he was still the giant who could single-handedly create ByteDance
He didn't expect Zhang Yiming to understand the core nature of the internet.
It was time for Ye Ge to extend an olive branch and sincerely said,""Mr. Zhang, your understanding of the Internet can be said to hit the nail on the head. With your intelligence, it's really a little buried in Kuxun.”
"I'm still going to say the same thing. I'm going to set up a recommendation engine product based on data mining with you as the main focus. It will recommend information for users and provide a service that connects people and information.”
Zhang Yiming looked at Ye Ge curiously and said in surprise,""CEO Ye, don't tell me you want to make a portal website too?”
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