If investors didn't know the value of oo network before the roadshow and during the first roadshow, then by the time of the second roadshow, if any financial institutions were still unaware of oo network, they would definitely be cooked by the investors.
Therefore, during the second roadshow, not only was the small theater originally scheduled completely full, but those without seats also crowded the entire venue. As a result, Goldman Sachs had to step in temporarily to completely reserve the hall outside the theater and then directly give speeches to all guests in the hall.
In fact, the content of the speech was no different from the first time. Huang Zheng simply read from the script again. However, even those who had participated in the first roadshow couldn't help but gasp when they heard the data of oo network.
Let alone the financial institutions attending the roadshow for the first time. Although they had received the relevant data in advance, hearing oo network confirm it firsthand still felt completely different.
Could there really be such a profitable company in the world?
Perhaps to address this doubt, oo network also introduced a small gimmick during this roadshow: the projection screen behind them was directly connected to the backend data end of oo network. This data end could continuously display every income transaction recharged through the oo network platform. Of course, the account names were hidden to avoid leaking user information.
However, it didn't matter whether the data names were displayed or not, because the entire screen, like a rapidly spinning wheel, was desperately sliding upwards. Moreover, the refresh rate of the screen couldn't keep up with the refresh speed of the data, resulting in a weird dropped frame state. Thus, you couldn't expect to see the specific data clearly.
Of course, such a thing seemed too much like deliberate cheating. So, oo network also thoughtfully designed another projection screen, which displayed some overall data.
The first piece of data was a timer, showing the time elapsed since 8 AM that morning.
The second piece of data showed the number of recharge orders, also reportedly starting from 8 AM until now, displaying the total number of recharge orders generated.
The third piece of data was the total recharge amount behind these recharge order quantities. These were three simple and direct pieces of data, but they perfectly showcased oo network's sales data.
If any guests still felt that these three pieces of data were easy to fake, then oo network had also set up over a hundred Tian Zhou terminals on-site. These Tian Zhou terminals were fixed on bases, and users could click on them just like clicking on a touchscreen computer.
However, on the first desktop of these Tian Zhou terminals, there was only one application: "oo network Recharge Query." Attendees could directly check the specific situation of each recharge order through this program. This excluded usernames, as that would involve infringing on privacy.
Of course, one could argue that this could still be faked. But oo network was too lazy to prove anything further. If people still didn't believe it by now, then so be it.
However, later, some smart financial institutions thought of a way: they arranged for their subordinates to conduct a large number of simultaneous recharges in batches. For example, they would recharge 10,000 orders of $1 each at the same time, and then check based on this timestamp to see if a large number of other orders were inserted in between.
Since these orders were recharged at the same time, they should have been clustered together. Even if there were other orders in between, their number should be very small.
But if many orders were inserted in between, it would indicate that these orders had a very high probability of being automatically faked by a computer, because these faked data were often inserted into normal orders according to a fixed pattern.
However, all these verifications proved that oo network was not faking. This was real data.
In any case, the over 100 Tian Zhou terminals on-site were very popular, with almost everyone using them to query data, and many people queuing behind to check.
But if you observed the screens of these Tian Zhou terminals carefully, you would find that actually, only a few of these 100 devices were genuinely checking data. Most were experiencing other functions of the Tian Zhou terminals, such as taking photos, browsing web pages, watching videos, chatting on WeChat, playing games, and so on.
Well, these people were definitely not taking the opportunity to play. They wanted to experience the Tian Zhou terminal comprehensively and see what kind of product this new offering from Jiangnan Group was truly like.
After all, although the Tian Zhou terminal was no longer too scarce, and during the 8th batch of public sales, one could still buy a device at the original price even if they were about half an hour late, many people still had prejudices against such a product from China and were unwilling to purchase it.
Especially these Wall Street big shots, who all considered themselves elites among white people, how could they look up to things from China?
But now, the Tian Zhou terminal was closely related to the future of oo network. It was possible that oo network would directly integrate with the Tian Zhou system, becoming the sole global program store for Tian Zhou terminals. This would be a huge positive for the future of oo network, so they naturally had to pay attention to the performance of the Tian Zhou terminal.
And once they used the Tian Zhou terminal, they would immediately understand how vast the gap was between this new device and traditional mobile phones. Many people couldn't bear to put it down and even directly approached oo network representatives to ask if they could pay on the spot to buy the device.
The answer was naturally no. So, they turned around and ordered their subordinates to go to the nearest Atari store to buy a Tian Zhou terminal.
Well, actually, most Atari stores didn't have regular versions in stock, and one had to pre-order several days in advance.
However, the luxury version, which was more expensive, was almost always in stock at every store. And these financial magnates naturally wouldn't care about a few hundred dollars difference, so they all became users of the luxury version Tian Zhou terminals.
Let's not dwell on this for now. In conclusion, after the second roadshow, no financial institution would doubt the future of oo network, but they were also speechless about oo network's bizarre subscription conditions.
Of course, everyone was smart enough to know that this was entirely a tactic used by Jiangnan Group, the controller behind oo network, to promote their Tian Zhou terminal and the five-digit computer system.
This made them feel very shameless, thinking, "How can they use such an unscrupulous method for marketing?"
Then they immediately started calling the official website of Jiangnan Group to book university students from Jiangnan University to help them develop applications for the Tian Zhou terminal.
Well, although this method was very shameless, as long as it could make money, it didn't matter. After all, making money wasn't shameful!
As a result, after the second roadshow, the orders received by Jiangnan Group once again surged, leading the official website of Jiangnan Group to post a notice stating that all third-year and fourth-year students from Jiangnan University had been fully booked. As for the second-year students, their abilities were not yet sufficient, and if customers wanted to book them, Jiangnan Group could not guarantee their work capabilities, so all customers should make their decisions cautiously.
The result was that this announcement had no effect. That evening, over 2,000 second-year students from Jiangnan University were also fully booked. Although Jiangnan Group had clearly stated that their work capabilities were not guaranteed, these students had at least mastered the skills of programming using the new language, and they could lead a team in programming. Otherwise, these institutions and development companies wouldn't even know how to use the Xing language, let alone master its core techniques.
Even more frightening was that the next day, many people were still calling to book students.
Even when the customer service of Jiangnan Group informed them that all second, third, and fourth-year students had been booked and there was truly no one left to rent out, they were still persistent.
"Don't you still have first-year students?" a person in charge of an institution shouted into the phone.
"But these students will only enroll in September, and they have only studied for two months so far, they..."
"Just answer me one question: can they program using the Xing language now?"
"Probably yes. Our first math lesson is mastering the Xing language, but they have only learned it very superficially, I'm afraid..."
"Don't be afraid, it's better than us who don't understand Chinese. Just give me a dozen first-year students, as long as they can teach our people how to program!" the person in charge pleaded.
Finally, even the first-year students were booked due to the frantic calls. These university students, who had only been in college for two months and hadn't even undergone military training, were suddenly informed by their class advisor that they had been hired. They were temporarily told to stop studying and go to large software companies in the United States to lead teams and teach them how to program using the Xing language!
Upon hearing this, these freshmen were stunned. Some students weakly asked, "Teacher, we've only learned a dozen classes ourselves and haven't fully mastered the techniques. Can we really lead a team?"
"Don't worry, you have teachers behind you. Each of us teachers will set up a Q&A group. If you encounter problems you don't know how to solve while leading the team, you can directly ask our teachers through this Q&A group!"
"Actually, this is also another form of teaching, putting education into practical production processes, which is far better than listening to lectures in class!" the teacher explained.
"Teacher, what you are doing is too much. We are students, here to study, not to work for you. We demand to attend classes!" some students with very independent, new-era thinking immediately stood up to protest.
"That's fine too. Those who want to attend classes can continue to attend classes. Just register with me. However, you won't receive the $2,000 monthly salary!"
"Report, teacher, I was wrong. I think I should also learn through practice!" the independent-minded students immediately said.