Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2974 Business Social

There was a time when Zhou Buqi thought that interpersonal relationships were only necessary to do business in China, but not in the United States.

But in fact, interpersonal relationships are social relationships.

This is especially important in the United States.

Fortunately, Zhou Buqi is very good at this, and he also has very matching and enviable personal connections.

This time he came to Los Angeles, his schedule was three days.

On the second day, he was going to have a party at home to meet up with his good friends in the circle on Christmas Eve. They would watch a movie at home and then chat together. His friends in the circle were all from Silicon Valley and all men.

It's really boring for seven or eight men to get together.

Good thing this is Hollywood.

Zhou Buqi invited five Hollywood actresses. Because the movie they watched was "Spider-Man" which would be released during the Christmas season, all the actresses invited were from Marvel Studios, namely Scarlett Johansson, Emily VanCamp, Elizabeth Olsen, Evangeline Lilly and Jennifer Lawrence, the leading actress of "The Hunger Games".

The friends who attended the party were Evan Spiegel of Snapchat, Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn, Nata Blechik of Airbnb, Daniel Ek, founder of Spotify, Elon Musk of Tesla, Sergey Brin of Google, Don Mattrick and Fu Sheng of Changyou, and Paul Graham, founder of YC Investment, who was invited to attend.

There are more men than women, so it doesn't seem like women are being neglected.

Zuckerberg was originally on the invitation list.

However, perhaps because of the Panda Mobile incident, he was still angry and did not participate.

The main purpose of this kind of social gathering is to get to know each other and become familiar with each other.

For example, he wanted to introduce Zhou Buqi's subordinates such as Spiegel, Daniel Ek, Mattrick, Fu Sheng and others to others. For example, Zhou Buqi also wanted to meet Paul Graham, who invested in YC.

The location is Zhou Buqi's home in Beverly Hills.

So the house was cleaned up early.

The wife and children are not there, and the Japanese maid is not there either. It has become a very typical American mansion and super mansion.

After the guests arrived, a very interesting scene occurred.

The actresses all dressed up, wearing high heels and evening gowns. It was not easy to dress up like this in the winter, just like attending the Oscars. After getting off the car, they took off their coats, and appeared as bright as walking on the red carpet, with spring breeze on their faces.

Zhou Buqi’s friends are different.

They are all bulging down jackets.

After taking off his down jacket, he was wearing only those $100 hoodies. All his belongings added together were not as valuable as a pair of shoes worn by the actress.

Zhou Buqi is quite familiar with these actresses, especially Scarlett Johansson. As Marvel's top female star, she has had contact with Boss Zhou several times and has seduced him several times, but unfortunately she has not been successful.

In the end, Scarlett had no choice but to give up the idea.

"Zhou, who...who is Sergey in the blue plaid shirt?" Scarlett had just chatted with a guy for 20 minutes and ran over to ask Zhou Buqi about the situation.

Zhou Buqi took a look and said with a smile: "Sergey Brin."

Scarlett whispered, "He's rich, isn't he? He's a very nice guy."

Zhou Buqi nodded. "Yes, he is very rich. He is probably in the top 20 of the world's richest people. He is the founder of Google."

"That's it!"

Scarlett took a deep breath.

As expected, those around Mr. Zhou are all big shots.

Zhou Buqi knew what she meant and said with a smile: "However, I think it will be difficult for you to have a chance to get close to him."

Scarlett had seduced Boss Zhou several times. She even stripped naked once and stood in front of him for him to admire. She also carefully selected a few nude photos of herself and sent them to him. So she was not shy at all and said directly, "He doesn't like pretty girls?"

"He may not like this approach. You can choose him..." Zhou Buqi cleared his throat and pointed to Spiegel of Snapchat, "He is single and has been anxious to find a partner."

"I've dated him." Scarlett shook her head, then covered her mouth and giggled, lowering her voice, "He's a quick shooter, I don't like him."

Zhou Buqi almost burst out laughing, then pointed at Fu Sheng and said, "That guy might be able to do it, you can go and give it a try."

At this time, a young man came over.

He was not invited by Zhou Buqi.

Musk brought this person, a SpaceX executive. He was a bit of a tech geek, and his EQ was low. He didn't care if this was the female companion of Mr. Zhou. He handed Scarlett Johansson a business card and said with a smile, "If you want to see the spacecraft, you can contact me."

When the actress ran over to talk to Fu Sheng, a fat man weighing more than 300 kilograms came over - Reid Hoffman.

This is a heavyweight in Silicon Valley. There is no one in Silicon Valley that he doesn't know.

In his early years, he was Musk's deputy and served as senior vice president at PayPal. After leaving PayPal to work on his own, he became unstoppable, investing in many large companies and founding LinkedIn, a business social platform.

Hoffman smiled and said, "Where's Mark? Why isn't he here?"

Zhou Buqi said: "There are more and more business frictions between me and Facebook, and he may not feel comfortable about it."

"No way?" Hoffman laughed, "I thought it was because of me!"

"You? What's wrong with you?"

"Facebook is also doing business social networking and has launched Facebook_work to compete with LinkedIn in this field. I have already asked LinkedIn to fight back against them in a comprehensive and ruthless manner."

"what?"

Zhou Buqi couldn't help laughing.

What a big tone.

Ziweixing can confront Facebook head-on, but LinkedIn is also going to attack Facebook ruthlessly?

Isn’t that a bit exaggerated?

LinkedIn’s current market value is less than one-tenth of Facebook’s.

Hoffman asked, "I've always wondered, why don't you do business networking?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "It's impossible for me to cover every field."

“That doesn’t seem to be a reason.”

Hoffman is an Internet expert, known as the "network king" of Silicon Valley, and this wording cannot fool him.

Zhou Buqi said: "LinkedIn has done a great job in this field. I don't see the possibility of surpassing LinkedIn. Maybe if some new opportunities emerge in the future, or if LinkedIn makes some mistakes, I might also enter this market."

This is not true either.

The real reason is the lack of experiments.

LinkedIn is more than just a recruitment website, it is a business social platform where business elites can post and share workplace content and communicate with each other. It is a social platform specifically for business elites.

However, there is no such field in the domestic Internet.

Ziweixing also has recruitment products in China. It was a job search website for fresh graduates in the early years, but now it has developed into a job search app for mobile devices. It is the recruitment app with the largest number of mobile users, with more than 1000 million daily active users.

But this is just a recruitment product.

There are no social features.

There is no market for business social networking in China, which is also related to the overall environment.

With high work pressure and busy schedules, business elites in China simply don’t have the spare time to share things about the workplace. Even if they do, they are reluctant to share their valuable experiences for free, lest they teach their apprentices and starve the masters.

The situation is different in some developed countries in Europe and the United States. The working environment is more relaxed, it is easy to find a job, and the competitive pressure is small. After work, you can share your work experience and workplace experience and communicate with more people in the workplace.

Because he had never done similar business in China, Zhou Buqi lacked a deep understanding of business social networking.

He had no idea how to do such a business in the American market.

Hoffman hesitated for a moment, then suddenly asked, "What do you think of LinkedIn?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Very good! Don't forget, I also invested in LinkedIn, and I read the financial statements every issue."

Hoffman turned his head and stared at him. "Have you ever thought about merging Ziweixing International and LinkedIn?"

"what?"

Zhou Buqi was shocked.

He really hadn't thought about it!