Chapter 633: Chapter 195: Outstanding Team Player (Part 3)
"What are we going to do?"
"This! Instant messaging software. You start a company, hire operations, maintenance, and development personnel, and start by targeting universities in Los Angeles or California. There are many computers in universities, and those eager students will definitely use such a handy tool."
You still say you have no ideas? Still saying you don’t know how to operate? Pelinka doesn’t believe it! But listening to this, it’s still impressive!
Seeing Pelinka’s interest, Zhang Hao continued, "Once our software gains a certain number of users and becomes famous in universities, provide it for free to those companies in Los Angeles. But you’ll need to launch another software, and for that, you’ll need to gather a team to create a private fixed-IP regional chat software, which should have multi-user chat mode and IP addition and deletion features, specifically for internal company use. Everything should be free."
Pelinka had already taken out his pen and was scribbling down notes.
For any unfamiliar terms, he wrote them down to look up later, but hearing ’free’ was surprising: "Still free?"
"Yes, free. If we can manage it, gather some mini-games, like Tetris, Bridge, Sudoku... combine them into a collection, make it into software, and once our communication software has a large user base, push this to the users."
"Oh oh oh, then what?" Pelinka was getting more and more excited!
Although he didn’t understand computers, from listening alone he knew this was impressive! It’s finally time to make money, right? We’ll make money from this game software, right?
"Then wait for someone to buy us out, and we’ll sell them."
"Oh... then sell... wait, sell? Such great stuff with many users, and we sell it?" It is about making money, but the method of making money was completely unexpected for Pelinka.
"What else can we do besides selling? I don’t know how to profit from this, and we’ll have to keep investing! Of course, we’ll sell it when someone offers us a lucrative buyout price."
"How much can we earn this way?"
"I don’t know, but I think we’ll make a lot..." Zhang Hao said this with confidence, as he knew that the internet bubble in the United States was imminent.
During this period, any new and intriguing internet software would yield tenfold or even hundredfold returns as long as one wasn’t aiming too high or too strong!
And the progenitors of those later wildly popular software are already long gone. Zhang Hao just thought of taking advantage while it was convenient for him to make a profit. In the future, when newer software becomes more popular, we can just switch to another software.
After all, software is just a tool.
If money is tight, one can find ways to attract investment. Zhang Hao remembers that investors would soon be frantically seeing new software with some users and quickly writing checks. Mr. Zhang might earn a bit less, but it’s better than watching the American internet bubble era arrive and not getting a share.
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As a diligent worker, Pelinka needed to go back and think carefully about what to do next.
As for hesitating to agree?
He’s already committed, feeling like he’s embarking on something big.
He chose to ignore Zhang Hao’s intention to sell these things... better to start first.
After signing the agent contract, Pelinka felt like he had completely become Zhang Hao’s tool... no, partner.
But he was happier than when he was a lawyer!
For Zhang Hao, his retreat was broken, and seeing it’s already September, it’s time to return to the team and take a look. After practicing for a full three months, he’s somewhat fatigued, needing a mental rest. He’ll take a break first, and later gather a few teammates for an early practice.
The team lineup has changed drastically, and he also needs to return to the team early to discuss new strategies with the old fox, not knowing how many hairs the old fox currently has left.
As a spot-up shooter, Mr. Zhang is mentally prepared to accommodate the team’s four main stars in the tactics, and he must do so. This requires having an understanding of the tactics and the team’s use of the stars deeper than the stars themselves.
Before returning to the team, there’s one more thing to do.
Before entering closed training, Zhang Hao had asked Aprile Clark to keep an eye on all NBA signing and trading news, cutting out newspaper articles.
Also, cut out reports of NBA players’ performances from the summer league and Olympics that weren’t paid much attention before.
These days, the news available in newspapers is even more than on TV...
Aprile Clark was motivated by this task, even cutting out news about teams signing training camp contracts after entering September. She felt she was finally able to help.
Whether from news reports or personal impressions, Zhang Hao realized that after O’Neal joined, public attention focused entirely on their Lakers. But the stars they acquired this summer were actually just three: O’Neal, Barkley, Kenny Anderson. Other signings were regular signings, just done a bit quicker.
Once Zhang Hao refocused on the NBA, he discovered many things were overlooked because his Lakers were too prominent.
While other teams’ star acquisitions might not be as flashy as theirs, many teams silently strengthened their roster while media attention was drawn away.
From the end of last season to now, just under four months, suddenly jumping from development phase to championship contention, remains unbelievable to this day. But Zhang Hao knows that if he wants to continue standing out, he must quickly adapt!
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