Frank dragged out the end of his tone, playing a game of suspense.
"For our high-net-worth users, we launched a vault value-added service. They pay a small amount every month, and the server provides high-frequency off-site data backup. Guess what? Test data shows that those Wall Street fund managers and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are flocking to this paid service."
Service stratification, manufacturing demand, and letting users willingly offer up their wallets.
This play style had been mastered to perfection by Frank.
"What is the competition doing?" Nakayama Takuya asked.
"What else can they be doing? Of course, they are all copying," Frank spread his hands. "Yahoo, AOL, and even some ragtag outfits that just secured venture capital are studying our business logic. No choice, the user feedback is too good. If they don't copy, they are just waiting to die."
"Let them copy. They can copy the features, but they can't copy the ecosystem." Nakayama Takuya transitioned to the next topic. "Has the name for the portal website been decided?"
Mentioning this, Frank's expression turned somewhat constipated.
He pulled a stack of exquisitely bound market research reports from the side and tossed them onto the desk with utter disgust.
"Cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire top consulting companies, and the plans they gave us were all a bunch of obscure Latin root combinations or compound words over a dozen letters long. They feel this looks professional," Frank snorted coldly. "These suit-wearing idiots don't understand the current Internet at all."
With the popularization of Windows 95 and various web browsers, getting online was no longer the exclusive domain of geeks and programmers.
A large number of ordinary people who couldn't even tap out a keyboard were flooding into this virtual world.
"The name must be simple," Nakayama Takuya shook