Cool Plate Chairman Huangmingming: Entrepreneurial to know how to choose to do China's Dropbox

Whether it was an investment by angel investor Shire before the line, or by the founding team of Huangmingming and Guzhi Daban, all the cool discs that came online in August 2010 accumulated a rapidly growing gene. As the investor and chairman of the cool plate, Huang Ming is going to take the team to be a Chinese Dropbox. And in this venture, he is also constantly making trade-offs.

Choice

2010 years or so, when the current cool disk CEO Guzhi proposed a new venture to do Super http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/8861.html "> offline download, Huangmingming resolutely to deny." "I had a judgment at the time that the general download field had been slipping since 07, when it reached its peak in 08. The reason is very simple, by Youku potatoes and other video sites to the video of this big chunk of streaming out; For general software downloads, the Thunder and the express train are not very good seize the opportunity, but was 360 robbed a large market. Huangmingming then suggested thinking about what was the next big thing.

Huangmingming I very much appreciate Lei said a word: Entrepreneurial election direction is very important, you stand on the tuyere, pigs can be blown up. At that time, Dropbox in the United States for more than three years, although the accumulation of less than 10 million users, but has shown signs of eruption. As a Huangmingming of Dropbox users, it is a glimpse of the practicality and ubiquity of the storage requirements behind the product, as well as the gaps in the domestic market. He eventually locked his business in the Dropbox of China. The facts have not deviated from his judgment.

From August 2010 to April 2011, Dropbox began to explode, and users turned five times times to 50 million users. "The snowball effect of Dropbox's own user accumulation and Word-of-mouth is starting to erupt, as is the rapid popularity of the iphone 4, IPad and Android phones worldwide." "he concluded.

And the other choice, is the emphasis on sharing or focus on storage? "There is a big problem with the business model of the network, and it is possible that 80%-90% of the shared public documents may be pirated or pornographic." "Huangmingming from the outset to do with the public file-sharing network disk services, but focus on the user's personal files in the cloud storage." "Cool disk to solve a problem is to provide a very low cost to individual users a cloud of storage services, I hope everyone will put all the personal files in the cloud, any device at any time any place can get all the files." Today, the cool disk of personal file storage accounted for 60%-70%, public documents accounted for a small proportion. He revealed that cool disk through the second kill technology to identify the identity of pirated and pornographic files, a "second kill" delete. "A lot of users upload blockbusters when they think it is a program error, often say how a second 1G or even 1.5G of documents are passed." In fact, because we did a second kill technology, this is the domestic relatively good. ”

"There are a lot of small and medium-sized webmaster said that a large number of pirated resources can instantly bring you hundreds of thousands of of users." Once a user defines you as a tool for acquiring pirated resources, it may be hard for him to reassure himself that he has the most intimate personal information on you. Huangmingming said, in the face of temptation, cool disk made a very courageous choice. Cool disk also from the restrictions on the chain to control the spread of pirated documents, is the only large-scale open outside the chain. He says the cool disk allows users to send 1g-2g large files to others via email, but strictly limits the number of downloads, now five times, and may open up to 10 times.

Currently cool disk registered users over 10 million, upload more than 20 million files a day. In the past two months, Huangmingming said, the number of files uploaded by a cool-phone user on a daily basis, or the number of mobile phones being online and active, has doubled 20 times times. The explosion of smartphones is increasing the demand for users ' cloud storage. "Cool disk such cloud storage services, this year will usher in a burst of growth." "Huangmingming is very optimistic about cool dishes, but also in the promotion of cool disk and intelligent TV and other intelligent terminals to cooperate."

Accordingly, in the past more than a year, cool disk on the capital road is very smooth. February 2011, the cool disk received the Haina Asia "Emergency" of the 1 million U.S. dollars bridge loans, and then received a round of investment in Haina Asia; in August 2011, the Silicon Valley wind investment DCM again to the cool plate invested 20 million of dollars, investors even in the final dive into the cool Pan Mountain Research team to understand.