Most of the things in this world can be handled with money. If you can't handle them, there is only one situation, and the money is not enough.

Mark Pincus, an IT tycoon, has been kicked out of the company by capital many times, so his vigilance is completely different from that of entrepreneurial novices.

But even so, Ma Liang still impressed the other party with huge benefits.

Under the temptation of Twitter's stock exchange, Mark Pincus finally agreed to the special financing plan he proposed.

This time, the Pre-A round of financing was directly skipped. [Dafeng Capital] invested US$20 million in Zynga in the A round, and once again acquired 50% of the company's shares.

Adding the 10% of the Angel Wheel, after conversion, [Dafeng Capital]'s shareholding ratio reached 55%, becoming the largest shareholder in one fell swoop.

Of course, Mark Pinkas also defended himself and set up an AB share structure in advance.

His decision-making and voting rights are twice as high as [Dafeng Capital], so despite the worse shareholding ratio, Zynga's control is still firmly controlled by him.

Ma Liang didn't care about these things at all. He only cared about how many shares he could use Zynga to replace from Twitter.

The two sides happily signed an investment agreement, and the 20 million investment funds will be transferred into two periods.

Next, Ma Liang is responsible for the three giants of Twitter, and Mark Pincas will recruit soldiers to develop more chess and card games, and at the same time, it will increase its revenue with Twitter's traffic support.

Moreover, Ma Liang secretly reminded him to go to China to follow a game company called five minutes.

After all, "Happy Farm" is about to be released, and Zynga can buy the copyright in advance.

As for why Ma Liang didn't operate it himself, this kind of small business could no longer attract his attention.

If the revenue of Zynga alone can increase Twitter's financial report by $200 million to $300 million.

If Happy Farm is added, its revenue can even grow by more than 50%.

By then, with this revenue scale, Zynga will be enough to replace a large number of Twitter shares. This is what Ma Liang really likes.

In the next few days, Ma Liang stayed in San Francisco.

While paying attention to the development of new features of Twitter websites, he brainwashed the three Twitter giants from time to time and gave him a shot of vaccination for mergers and acquisitions in advance.

Burn more incense at ordinary times to avoid cramming.

Now we will do more psychological construction, and when we really need to acquire large quantities of mergers and acquisitions in the future, the three Twitter giants will not be too resistant.

He got busy, and Jennifer began to act separately. She led her investment team to various places and acquired game companies one by one.

On this day, Ma Liang came to Twitter’s new office on time for a walk.

As soon as I reached the door, Jack Dorsey ran out of the office excitedly.

Originally, he wanted to find the newly appointed COO Dick Costoro. He was even more excited when he saw Ma Liang appear in front of him.

“Marlon, you’re here just in time, and the new Twitter version of the website has been tested.

We will be updated at 0:00 tonight, and our plan will be officially launched tomorrow."

Ma Liang was also very happy when he heard this: "That's great, this is really something worth everyone's celebration."

He couldn't wait to take out his cell phone, compile a text message and send it out in a group.

[Tonight, the carnival starts!]

The person who sent the text message was not someone else, but the heads of the five major professional leagues and four major record companies in the United States.

The new Twitter version of the website is online, and many new features will be updated simultaneously.

The biggest upgrade is that users can have better interactivity, can follow others and be followed.

This means that with the fan function, you can even send private messages to each other.

However, the number of fans of ordinary users is limited, and using these functions is free.

If you want to expand the upper limit of the number of fans, you need to open a VIP account and pay a little fee to Twitter every month.

Special users like enterprises, celebrity artists, and well-known people can enable the certification function as soon as they come.

Authentication is also free for the time being, and you will have to pay the same as ordinary users when it is a certain time.

As for the advertising implant function, it is still under intensive development and is expected to take at least a month to launch.

By then, it will be just right for game companies to join Twitter and use traffic to support big and special profits.

Ma Liang sent a notice to the group of leaders that they could take action tomorrow.

At the same time, he also reminded Jack Dorsey to be fully prepared because tomorrow will usher in the biggest wave of traffic shock in history, so the server must not be able to withstand it.

...

October 8, US time, 10:00 am.

Just as the EU held a two-day meeting of finance ministers to discuss the slowdown in the US economy and the depreciation of the US dollar, all employees of Twitter were busy.

Technical personnel are responsible for dealing with the pressure of a large number of users coming in at the same time, while service personnel are busy reviewing the applications of VIP paid users.

After the new version of the website was updated and launched at 0:00 last night, the website almost went down several times.

As star artists from the five major leagues and four major record companies registered their Twitter accounts, users were completely trapped in a social carnival feast.

NBA legendary superstar Shaquille O'Neal registered a Twitter account half a year earlier than his previous life.

As a result, because the name [O'Neal] has been stolen by others, he named his Twitter [The_Real_SHAQ].

This guy is indeed an entertainment celebrity. He posted several updates in a row as soon as he registered his account.

"I started to control my diet a few days ago. I wanted to be Calvin Klein's underwear model. Please don't laugh at me, I'm very serious."

"Yes, there is still one hour left for the Jazz game. I still have a ticket on my hands. Whoever contacts me on Twitter will be the first to get the ticket."

In addition to O'Neal, NBA All-Star players started to play.

Dwight Howard is also a playboy, and his curiosity about new things is unmatched in the NBA.

His funny talent is also well known, and he became fascinated by it after registering with Twitter.

Not only did I interact wildly with my fans on Twitter, but I even said that I needed to live in an environment where I could always play Twitter.

Howard probably couldn't imagine that this wish would come true after another year.

By June 10 next year, Apple will officially release the iPhone 3G version. This epoch-making product will officially lead the mobile phone industry into the mobile Internet era.

By then, not only will Twitter be available on smartphones, but many websites and software applications will also be launched.

This is why Ma Liang can start Twitter financing before May next year.

The NBA superstars joined, and the NFL, MLB, NHL and MLS superstars also joined the online event.

Countless big-name music and film and television stars have poured in.

After all, compared with sports stars, these music and film and television stars need more exposure, and want to use this to maintain their popularity.

Therefore, Twitter, which can accumulate millions of fans, has a reputation spread in the circle and immediately became a popular thing for celebrities.

Little Lizi, model worker sister, Tom Ge, Taylor Swift, Mr. Mu, Magic Red, all of them are here.

Many people started playing Twitter without waiting for the record company to notify them.

Especially the film and television actors are even more exaggerated. Ma Liang did not make any efforts in this field at all. As a result, there are no fewer actors and stars than in the sports world.

The reason why celebrities who have not integrated the film and television industry is mainly because they are too troublesome.

After all, the actors are not like singers. Most of them fight on their own, and the agency companies are extremely scattered, so it is difficult to make orders as quickly as sports leagues and record companies.

But what surprised Ma Liang was that the performing stars did not move slowly at all, and familiar names submitted applications for certification accounts.

From time to time, screams came from the office of the Twitter company's customer service department.

"Oh my god, Dwayne Johnson"

"Look, everyone, my cousin Jennifer Lawrence has opened an account!"

"I'm Maiga, the Elf Prince Orlando Bloom is here, today is my lucky day."

"I'm so laughing. Jimmy Kimmel from the Chicken Feather Show posted a funny update just after he finished his certification. He actually wanted to invite the star with the highest number of fans in a week to go on his talk show."

Unlike the sports world, celebrities in the entertainment industry have their own communication attributes and are easy to lead the rhythm.

It can not only attract a large number of fans to join Twitter, but also share this brand new, fun and interesting website into their respective circles.

In the end, the stars did not apply one by one, but were infected by the most contagious virus.

They flocked to Twitter websites like crazy, along with a large number of ordinary users.

Of course, all this is inseparable from COO Dick Costoro's hard work leading the team to operate and promote.

Whenever an influential celebrity joins Twitter, once they post funny news, they will take screenshots and post them everywhere to promote them.

This has led to an increasing traffic flow into Twitter, and congestion is inevitable.

Although the server did not go down, intermittent network lags have occurred many times.

Even though Twitter had made sufficient preparations in advance, it did not expect such a scene.

If Ma Liang hadn't had warned him long ago, this wave of traffic shock would have squeezed out the Twitter website.

"Crazy, it's poisonous!" The programmer staring at the server felt like he was about to collapse.

The users did not play by the rules at all, and almost poured in like a tide, causing them to be in diversion at all.

At this moment, Twitter seemed to have poisoned many people, trapped in it and couldn't extricate itself.

If this continues, the servers and bandwidth prepared in advance will not be enough. Once the website is washed away, it will not be so easy to recover.

It’s nothing to work overtime to resume access to Twitter websites. I’m afraid that I can’t pass the BOSS review level.

Today, Jack Dorsey issued a deadly order and will never allow a downtime.

Otherwise, whoever is responsible will get out of here.
Chapter completed!