Geek Man is a full-time digital content creator.
Early on, he simply made mobile phone review videos, and successfully gained a large number of fans with his authentic and independent review content and superb camera skills.
After graduating from university, he took advantage of the situation to start his own business, established a personal studio, and diligently managed his account.
But as he continued, he discovered that in order to ensure good income—not only to support himself but also to support the studio—the website's creative incentives were not enough.
Being as picky about commercial endorsements as he had been before made it difficult to maintain a balanced budget.
Geek Man chose the latter in the "dissolve the studio" and "lower the standards for accepting commercial endorsements" dilemma.
This indeed brought him far more income than before.
He felt he had made the right choice.
As for lowering some content production standards, pretending not to see flaws in some products, and occasionally saying something against his conscience…
Honestly, once he got over that hurdle in his heart, it wasn't difficult at all.
He regarded these as "things one inevitably experiences when entering society" and "necessary costs for achieving commercial success," and threw them to the back of his mind.
But everything comes at a price.
Too many sponsored posts will eventually lead to a mishap.
After one or two mishaps, the trust he had painstakingly built up in the hearts of his old fans quickly dissipated.
Video views were halved, and the number of fans decreased instead of increasing.
In order to expand his influence and attract new fans, Geek Man had to lead his studio to develop new businesses—
In addition to mobile phones, he reviewed tablets, computers, smartwatches, and other electronic products.
It was effective at first, but the effect faded quickly.
—It was difficult to raise the already lowered moral standards and video production standards again.
So they continued to expand their business scope, including televisions, speakers, cameras, headphones, game controllers, and even ergonomic chairs… all kinds of related products were included.
But it was only a temporary boom, and it quickly declined again.
The number of commercial endorsements also decreased.
In the end, the studio was still dissolved.
After losing his team, losing attention, and losing credibility and reputation, Geek Man returned to square one.
But he refused to admit defeat.
In order to regain attention, he began to frequently produce violent test videos to attract viewers' attention.
And disassembly was one part of it, and often the beginning of a violent test.
By this time, his image in the hearts of netizens was more like a "showman" blogger.
Seeing this post, everyone knew that Geek Man was trying to capitalize on the popularity.
But everyone has always been more tolerant of "showman" bloggers, and no one said anything harsh, and even those black history comments that had to be deleted every time didn't pop up much this time.
Netizens just routinely praised him for being "really rich" and "really generous."
Geek Man quickly replied:
"I'm really not showing off my wealth. Dream Building sells so cheaply, I can't afford to show off even if I wanted to."
Netizens immediately replied with a string of question marks.
Geek Man was very willing to share what he really had left after a great round of various product reviews—
"The pricing of these Dream Building products is really too low.
Of course, this is not from the perspective of consumers, but a conclusion drawn from business logic.
Whether it's VR glasses or haptic suits, there are similar products on the market.
Although Dream Building's technology is more advanced than theirs, the cost calculation should be the same. Considering the R\u0026D investment, I wouldn't be surprised if Dream Building raised the price by 5 or even 10 times.
This is also the view of many industry friends.
So today, when I saw the price that Dream Building revealed, I was stunned.
I bet:
Either Dream Building is cutting corners and providing substandard products, or it's simply a money-losing business!
—Of course, I think it's mostly the latter.
The manufacturers selling haptic suits and VR glasses on the market now must be very painful.
The price of their products is not lower than Dream Building's—or even higher—but the effect is far behind, almost not products of the same era.
Besides waiting to die, I really don't know what else they can do…"
This post was much hotter than the previous one, and the comment area immediately became lively:
"Burning money to seize the market? I seem to have seen this episode!"
"What have you seen! Dream Building has no competitors at all, the market is all theirs, why bother burning money to grab it?"
"Then why would Dream Building lose money to make a name for themselves?"
"Could it be that the intern set the price and filled in the wrong number?"
…
After a while, the popularity of this post became higher and higher, and many related practitioners emerged one after another.
Their comments were almost all complaints:
"I can prove that what he said is true. I make VR glasses. When I saw the price of Dream Building's VR glasses, my boss locked himself in the office. No one can call him out. I'm worried he's thinking of drinking pesticide to commit suicide."
"Damn it! I'm developing omnidirectional treadmills. Just now, HR came over and told me to be mentally prepared… Am I going to lose my job?"
"Damn, I'm the worst! I'm in the haptic suit business. Just now, HR notified me that our entire department has been shut down!"
"Our boss hasn't given up yet. He's pre-ordered Dream Building's products and plans to study whether he can overtake on a curve."
"Overtake on a curve? With Dream Building's technology and pricing… you still want to overtake? Overtake my ass! Our boss also wants to see if he can copy it. Heh… He says he wants to learn and draw lessons, I believe my ass! I've already written my resignation letter and I'll send it to HR later."
"Still chatting? I've already submitted my resume to [Neural Roaming]. I suggest you hurry up too."
…
Wails of woe everywhere.
This description is not an exaggeration at all.
While players cheered for prices below expectations, companies producing similar products fell into despair.
Startups had their investments withdrawn, new products couldn't be sold at all, and related departments were closed.
Layoffs, transformations… came one after another.
—Some companies had already started preparing for these things from the first day of the Cologne Game Show.
But after all, there was still a glimmer of hope, hoping that Dream Building's product costs were very high and they were selling very expensively.
Giving them more time to slowly transform and seek new ways out.
But on the day Dream Building announced the price, the boulder hanging over the heads of many bosses finally smashed down.
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Zu Rongyao, who was far away in Cologne negotiating overseas cooperation, had expected this and had already instructed the Human Resources Director of [Neural Roaming] to seize the time to absorb more available talents.
The players watched the chaos from the sidelines, unmoved.
Until time came to the afternoon, they discovered that the bright yellow [Pre-order] options on the product pages of 【Haptic Glove】and【Haptic Sync Suit】had successively turned gray.
"?"
"Why can't I pre-order anymore?"
"Is there a website malfunction?"
"What, did you finally realize that the temporary worker marked the wrong price?"
…
Netizens were surprised and speculated about what was wrong.
Geek Man was shocked and confused and said in the group:
"It can't be… that the inventory has been pre-ordered, right?"
—
At this time, Xu Meng was sending the staff of the Ningzhou Municipal Government out of the company building.
After the six-story office building was completely renovated, he moved the Dream Building headquarters to Jinghu.
After all, there is more space here and the scenery is better.
As for the staff of the Ningzhou Municipal Government, the purpose of coming here is very simple—
"Caring for the business environment of local private enterprises and star taxpayer enterprises, providing policy support for technological innovation enterprises, and providing targeted tax incentives for software innovation."
When Xu Meng heard these words, his head was full of question marks.
He neither knew what policy support was available for technological innovation enterprises, nor did he know what the standards for software innovation were.
What is being "investigated", and how is "caring" being shown?
He didn't understand any of it.
Fortunately, it didn't matter whether he understood or not.
The sole purpose of this delegation's visit was to give benefits.
If the considerable tax revenue of the 《Frost Snow Project》only made the municipal government notice Dream Building.
Then, when Dream Building exhibited a haptic suit that could be called black technology at the Cologne Game Show, causing a stir around the world, Dream Building—and Neural Roaming—directly landed on the list of key concerns.
Keeping this company in Ningzhou has become a task that must be taken seriously.
—Especially when they discovered that [Neural Roaming] also had commercial and technical cooperation with the military.
If it weren't for waiting for Xu Meng to come back, the research team would have come long ago!
Various tax preferential policies and preferential treatment for technological innovation enterprises that Xu Meng had never heard of were showered down one by one.
Listening and listening, Xu Meng only remembered words such as "tax exemption, reduced levy, tax refund, deduction, green channel…"
He was bored and even a little sleepy.
In order to restrain his sleepiness, he had to keep a tense face, looking very serious.
The company's CFO endured it for a long time, until she couldn't bear it anymore, and wrote a note and handed it to him—
[Boss! Smile a little!]
[Adding up all these policies, the development cost of 《War of Kings》can be saved by at least 20 million!]
[Those hardware you sold at a loss can also lose half as much!]
[I beg you, put on a good face!!!]
Seeing these lines, Xu Meng instantly woke up.
His whole person was energetic!
He unhesitatingly put on a happy expression, nodded frequently, indicating that he was listening carefully.
And he thanked the government very much for its support for the enterprise, and stated that he would continue to work hard, provide more jobs, create more value, and take root in Ningzhou in the future to contribute to the development of Ningzhou, and so on…
Anyway, it doesn't cost money to say nice things, Xu Meng opened his mouth and said it.
This time, both the host and the guest were happy.
After saying goodbye at the company gate, both sides felt that this was a meaningful meeting.
Watching the car drive away, Xu Meng stretched.
He didn't go back to the office, but beckoned to the little assistant and said:
"Let's go, it's time to rush to the next scene."
But as soon as the words fell, a person suddenly jumped out from behind him and reported to Xu Meng with excitement:
"Boss, good news! The inventory has been pre-ordered!"
This was Duan Siyu, Zu Rongyao's deputy, who was responsible for tracking the pre-orders and sales after the hardware was launched.
When Xu Meng heard this, his first reaction was not happiness, but surprise.
Because this is unscientific!
Asking for monthly tickets.
