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Chapter 2976 Advantages of High-Quality Users

Once everyone was gathered, we went to the home theater together to watch the upcoming new version of the "Spider-Man" movie produced by Marvel Pictures.

Zhou Buqi felt a little emotional.

When Ziweixing International was first established, it was extremely difficult to acquire a company. He often had to come forward, negotiate for several rounds, and offer a huge premium. Now, Ziweixing International is about to go public, and a new Internet social giant will make a stunning debut. It seems that all the troubles at the beginning are gone.

Others came to us on their own initiative, wanting to merge their own assets and become part of Ziweixing International.

While watching the movie, Hoffman's proposal kept lingering in Zhou Buqi's mind and couldn't be dispelled.

The more I think about it, the more plausible this seems!

Business networking is mostly aimed at social elites, and social elites are all very rich.

As long as it works well, we can tap into its potential.

More importantly, excellent business people can be promoted to social elites. The reason why they can improve themselves step by step and gradually become social elites is that they do not stagnate after working, they are also constantly learning and making progress.

This is the biggest difference between Chinese and Indian people in Silicon Valley.

When Indians have free time, they attend various classes and continue to work hard to improve themselves in order to fit into a new environment and new positions; it is different for Chinese, even if they continue to study, most of them will pursue advanced studies in their own majors.

Coincidentally, what Zhou Buqi is going to do next is online education!

  What kind of people are willing to spend money on education?

You must be a person with a determined goal.

There are mainly three categories.

One type is students, who pursue good grades and get into a good school; one type is taking exams and obtaining various certificates as a stepping stone to enter certain industries; the third type is those who, after entering a certain industry, are unwilling to be mediocre and want a higher platform to show themselves, and will continue to learn after completing their work.

LinkedIn, as a business social platform, happens to cover the latter two categories.

The last two categories are for adults who have separated themselves from their parents, can apply for loans on their own, and are very wealthy. But this is not the case during the student period. They are not independent and cannot take out loans on their own. They have to rely on their parents to pay for their tuition. However, many American families do not attach importance to education, have no surplus food at home, and are unwilling to take out loans.

  LinkedIn and online education are a perfect match!

"Sir, can I have a private date with you?"

Sitting next to Zhou Buqi was Emily VanCamp, a pretty new actress who had starred in "Captain America 2", who was whispering to him.

Zhou Buqi politely declined, "I'm already married."

"Oh, oh...I see..." Emily didn't seem to want to give up yet, and boasted, "I have a great figure. Many people say that I look pink and tight."

Zhou Buqi felt a headache.

  Depend on!

So many people have tasted it, and now it’s my turn?

Fortunately, Reid Hoffman came over again at this time.

The chubby body came over, hunched over, and exchanged positions with Musk next to him.

Zhou Buqi apologized to Emily, "Really, I'm married. There are many single people here, you can go and try."

Emily smiled sweetly, "Okay, thank you sir for giving me this opportunity today."

Hoffman sat down.

Movies like Spider-Man are a bit juvenile, lacking in depth and artistry, and are not very interesting to many people who have watched countless movies. Just like Emily VanCamp cannot arouse the interest of Boss Zhou, who has seen countless women and is indifferent to them.

Hoffman whispered, "Kurian from your company has approached me many times." Zhou Buqi could basically guess, "Business cooperation?"

Hoffman said, “Well, he wants us to deploy LinkedIn on Ziwei Cloud.”

Zhou Buqi said: "This is a very good suggestion. LinkedIn's user passwords were leaked some time ago. How terrible is that? This is not only the negligence of your technical security team, but also a mistake in your business architecture. If you deploy it on Ziwei Cloud, you will never be troubled by such incidents again. Ziwei Cloud has the most powerful security team in the world."

Hoffman said with a smile: "Many people are worried that they will lose their autonomy if they move to the cloud."

"What kind of talk is that?" Zhou Buqi disagreed. "Ziwei Cloud has millions of customers around the world. Which customer has lost their autonomy? This is a nonsense worry. Ziwei Cloud has great advantages in cloud services for social networking, streaming media and games. If LinkedIn and Ziwei Cloud cooperate, it can provide more development opportunities for LinkedIn."

Hoffman smiled and said, "As long as the two parties merge, won't you have the final say on all future structural planning of LinkedIn?"

Zhou Buqi laughed dumbly.

Hoffman said seriously: "In my opinion, the cooperation between Ziwei Cloud and LinkedIn is far more meaningful than this. LinkedIn's target customers are business people around the world. Ziwei Cloud has many products, such as online disk, collaborative office software, multi-person online video, including Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, etc., which can provide opportunities for both parties to combine. The acquisition of LinkedIn can reshape the productivity and business processes of Ziwei Star International."

Zhou Buqi nodded.

Hoffman said: "Ziweixing has many excellent businesses, including email, office supplies, CRM, communication products, search products, knowledge products, etc. Business people are an important group. There are many and various Internet products now. However, the easiest users for these Internet products are those... well, ordinary users, users who lack the ability to pay. The most difficult thing in the world is to gather a group of social elites on one platform. As far as we can see, there is only one product in the world that has done this, and that is LinkedIn."

"indeed."

Zhou Buqi admitted that what he said made sense.

Even though technology companies are all claiming equality, users are different. There is a distinction between low-quality users and high-quality users.

Low-quality users are easy to acquire. They come and go quickly, have low loyalty and poor spending power. They have poor subjective judgment and are easily swept along by the crowd, following the trend instead of following their heart.

Therefore, many products that mainly serve low-quality users have great operational risks. Once a more interesting competing product appears, users may all run away like a tide.

In contrast, high-quality users are different.

Not only are they richer and have stronger spending power, but they are also more loyal. They don’t have that much time and energy to constantly explore new products, nor will they easily follow the crowd and be led astray by collective thinking. They will have their own persistence.

Websites like Yahoo and AOL have survived all these years mainly because the Internet was not yet popular enough when these websites were at their peak, and all of their users were high-quality users with stronger stickiness and higher loyalty.

Even if there are many better products on the market, they will still insist on using Yahoo and AOL, which has become the survival support for these old websites.

LinkedIn is a business social networking product.

Most of them are high-quality users.

It is not easy to gain the common recognition of high-quality users worldwide, but LinkedIn has done it. At the same time, Ziweixing International's products such as Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Finance, Fandango, Quora, Weishu, EverZoom, EverBook, EverNote, etc. are mainly aimed at high-quality user groups.

There is a high degree of overlap with LinkedIn!

If only we could drive traffic to these products through LinkedIn…

  How much value would that bring?

Hoffman went on to say: "Ziweixing International has many excellent social products, such as Helo, Ucgram, Snapchat, Quora, etc., but these products are too homogenous and are all aimed at C-end users. LinkedIn is different. LinkedIn is aimed at professionals. It is a platform that shifts from individuals to enterprises. It can help Ziweixing International open up the entrance to B-end social networking, especially to help you actively promote Weishu, making Weishu a more popular collaborative office software among professionals."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Reed, have you really thought it through? To be honest, I'm already tempted by what you've said."

Hoffman smiled and said, "If there is an opportunity to merge into Ziweixing International, who would miss it? Last year, LinkedIn acquired SlideShare, an online document sharing service provider. But I think Weishu is a better product and a better collaboration partner."

Zhou Buqi said solemnly: "I will seriously consider it. The merger may really be a great cooperation to reorganize productivity."