Odaily Wang Mengdie: The blockchain industry is evolving from being led by pioneers to being led by professional teams | POD New Area Summit

On November 28, the 2018 POD New BlockTrend Blockchain Summit, co-hosted by Odaily and 36Kr Group, was held in Beijing.

On November 28, the 2018 POD New BlockTrend Blockchain Summit, co-hosted by Odaily and 36Kr Group, was held in Beijing.

At the meeting, Wang Mengdie, the founder of Odaily, believed that the industry is currently experiencing the process of squeezing the bubble, and the unprofessional media supported by speculators are beginning to be eliminated, while the teams and projects that truly create value will survive.

On the basis of adhering to original content and media value, Odaily will expand more data services and incubate businesses. Recently, with the support of government departments, Odaily is launching local sites. Odaily will eventually become a comprehensive media that serves blockchain companies.She also said,secondary title

The following is the transcript of the speech:

The following is the transcript of the speech:

First of all, thank you very much for being able to brave the smog and brave the severe winter to participate in our event today. Odaily is a blockchain industry media whose core team comes from 36Kr and has reached a strategic cooperation with 36Kr Group. I will simply talk to you for a few words and then invite our guests to share with you.

Now "bear market" may be an unavoidable topic when meeting friends in the circle. I don't need to repeat how bleak the market is, but yesterday my editor discussed with me, saying how about we do such a problem, those in the bear market What real industry people are doing. We can see that in this bleak situation, there are still many powerful companies and some leading companies that are silently laying out their plans and waiting for their accumulation.As our host just said,

We very much hope that our platform can serve the real people in the industry and give them the traffic and voice.Although now everyone hears that many people are selling mining machines, in fact, there are also many bigwigs who may be silently deploying mines. Although many projects have become worthless, in fact, there are also many technically focused teams who think that this is a window period for their hard work. At the same time, some big companies like Ant Financial, who came to our venue today, came to discuss cooperation with us and said that at this node, they want to empower such valuable entrepreneurial projects with a very open attitude and share themselves. The technology, platform, experience and resources are used to promote the implementation of blockchain in various scenarios. Then my editor told me that this is actually the period when these capable people hoard goods, when the blockchain is relatively cold.

He asked if we could include ourselves in it. They hoard mines and coins, and we "hoard people."

The core team of Odaily comes from the content team of a blockchain channel within 36Kr. We became an independent company in May this year, and currently have our own APP, website, and products. Maybe we appeared later than hundreds of so-called blockchain media in the industry. But I think there are many, and there are very, very few professional media practitioners. Moreover, many peers are positioned as an advertising platform, and they take some speculators' money to distribute business content casually. We feel that when hot money pours into the wind, everyone's mentality does not know where to go.

But I can proudly say that our team has been adhering to the values ​​and ethics of the media. The content we report has never been charged, and we adhere to our principles in accordance with the operating norms of technology media. This also made it difficult for us to recruit people at that time, because our requirements were very professional and strict, but we could not pay the wages that those colleagues who were "making money every day" could pay. But I was very happy, and later we found a small partner with the same values.

Compared with the flashiness of blockchain media in the past, many well-known blockchain media teams have fallen into turmoil and even disbanded recently. Many people recently submitted their resumes to us, hoping to come to us for a job, and the most talked about is that they recognize our brand. I feel very happy. Maybe this is a result of the market bubble being squeezed out. The unprofessional team and unprofessional media supported by some speculators should also be eliminated by the market at this time.

So to say something that is more beaten, every time when some blockchain media is blocked, my friends will come to congratulate me. Because we are very clear that we are a media that has always focused on technology, remained neutral, and never participated in cutting leeks.

So, after working for half a year, I can say with confidence that our Odaily is the best blockchain media in the industry.

This good is multidimensional. First of all, our content is professional, and we have the deepest understanding and interpretation of technology. Our platform has published more than 3,000 original articles. At the same time, based on 36Kr's genes, we are the closest to entrepreneurs.

In the past six months, we have reported hundreds of high-quality blockchain start-up projects, and at the same time, 90% of the projects were first launched on our platform during equity financing.

Recently, when everyone thinks that there is no traffic and not so many people pay attention, we still insist on producing, original, exclusive and in-depth content. For example, the BCH fork that everyone was most concerned about some time ago, we had an exclusive interview with CSW at that time, and then produced a series of exclusive reports. A single article has nearly 10,000 traffic on the official account. Of course this does not count our product website and many distribution channels.

Everyone has also seen that the blockchain industry held meetings every day before, and they didn’t know what was really discussed. Now no one holds meetings. But we still hope that we can gather people who really create value, so that we can calm down and have a chat at this time. It is also very hard here for our colleagues in the marketing department. Please come to the bosses to hold such a good party.

A few days ago, there was an article on 36 Krypton, which had hundreds of thousands of views, and I don’t know the tens of thousands of reposts. It probably means that the golden age of entrepreneurship is over.

I also have personal experience that the dividends of the Internet and mobile Internet have indeed passed away. When we were interviewed as reporters, those entrepreneurs were all full of passion, and they shouted in their hearts to become the next BAT and subvert BAT. Today, everyone's ultimate goal is to sell to BAT. The era of the Internet and mobile Internet has changed.

But many people say that the blockchain can still solve things that the Internet, including the mobile Internet, cannot solve, so I think there are still many dividends and opportunities in it.

36Kr has been established for 7 years. Today, the group has many business lines. We have also seen that the WISE Conference also has various venues and sections. Our group has nearly 2,000 people. I think 36Kr is accompanying the entire Internet, including mobile Internet and innovation. I grew up in the circle, and enjoyed the dividends of this growth process.

So I also hope that our Odaily can grow up in the blockchain industry, and in the process of growing from scratch, we can also take advantage of the dividends in it, and also export our value, and accompany the industry in the long-distance running.

Having said a lot, I still want to say that there will always be new opportunities in this industry, and those who can seize these opportunities must not be speculators, but everyone who can come to our event today in the cold winter.