Wind Rises 2005

Chapter 612 Good Brother

When Ma Liang took Su Xiaomi downstairs to the hotel door, assistant Wan Yaoxuan was waiting by the car with her roommate.

"Mia, are you okay?"

Seeing Su Xiaomi following Ma Liang with a strange expression, as if she had been wronged, Li Li hurriedly stepped forward to express concern, turned to Ma Liang and said,

"Marlon, please stop blaming Mia. I am also a partner, otherwise you can just scold me.

At worst, after the two of us graduate, we can slowly work and make money to survive..."

I have to say that this beautiful mixed-race roommate is really capable and quite loyal. She actually knows how to share the difficulties.

Li Li thought Ma Liang was angry and blamed them for stealing his money.

Su Xiaomi hurriedly shook her head and explained: "Lily, it's okay, he didn't do anything to me."

"Oh, that's good!" Li Li instantly turned from worry to joy, "I knew it wouldn't happen.

How can a man who can invest in Twitter care about $30, hehe..."

After saying that, he looked at Ma Liang, who was about to get in the car, with little stars in his eyes.

Seeing this, Su Xiaomi quickly pinched her roommate and reminded her vigilantly: "Hey, hey, hey, I told you that's enough. Are you a nymphomaniac again?"

"No way, this is just my pure appreciation for outstanding men."

Li Li hurriedly explained, fearing that he would make his roommate unhappy again, but he couldn't help but look at Ma Liang's back.

Su Xiaomi had no choice but to drag her nymphomaniac roommate into the car.

After a while, a few people took a car to the Twitter headquarters and went all the way upstairs to the executive office floor.

They didn't encounter any obstacles on the way, and many people even nodded when they saw them.

No way, Ma Liang has been here a lot lately. Many people know him as the angel investor who single-handedly helped Twitter get up.

Especially when they heard that this young investor had successfully helped the company secure Series B financing, with hundreds of millions of dollars about to arrive, everyone respected him even more.

According to the Administration Department, the CEO is already looking for a new office, and everyone's office conditions will be more comfortable by then.

It will also be equipped with a staff canteen for the first time, and the dining standards will be based on those of Google, which makes everyone look forward to it.

The most gossipy thing is that internal rumors have been spreading wildly in the past few days. Once the Series B financing is completed, the company will implement an option plan.

By then, all of them, old employees, will have a match.

This makes everyone very happy. After all, everyone risks their career to join a startup like Twitter just for the options.

Therefore, when meeting Ma Liang, a great benefactor, everyone is respectful and respectful.

Even if you don't want to bow, it's not too much to give a polite nod or smile to show your gratitude.

Su Xiaomi and Li Li were dumbfounded when they saw people paying tribute to Ma Liang from time to time.

This is America, where everyone is very arrogant. It is not easy to gain the heartfelt respect of so many people.

Generally only those who are particularly admired by others can do it, such as Gang Leader Qiao.

Although they all knew that Ma Liang invested in Twitter, they never expected that he would receive such courtesy from employees.

With a trace of curiosity, the two of them followed to the COO's office.

Ma Liang did not go to Jack Dorsey and the others to exchange pleasantries, but went straight to Dick Costolo's office.

Today I brought the eldest girl to see the other party, specifically to ask him to help solve the problem.

After all, when it comes to website downtime, who has more experience than Twitter?

There are so many users around the world, with millions of people accessing it every moment, and there are countless interactions between them, which can easily overwhelm the Twitter website.

And Dick Costolo, a master of technology, is a major contributor to helping Twitter overcome the outage problem.

Without his participation, the website would still be troubled by downtime.

For an early online video website like BitFun, asking Dick Costolo to solve the technical problems of downtime is just like playing.

Ma Liang brought the two girls to the COO's office and knocked gently on the door.

In fact, the door is not closed at all, but you still have to be polite.

"Marlon, why is it you? What do you want from me?" Dick Costolo raised his head and saw that it was him, excited and curious.

After all, Ma Liang has met more with Big Ivan and Jack recently due to financing matters.

I rarely come to communicate with him as the COO, who makes him mainly responsible for technology and operations.

Ma Liang nodded when he heard this, and immediately responded: "Yes, Dick, I just have a troublesome thing that I want to ask you for help with."

"Haha, there's no need to be so polite. If you have anything to say, just say it!" Dick Costolo agreed happily after hearing this.

Ma Liang hurriedly made an introduction: "This is my sister Mia. She and her roommate also created an online video website, but they recently encountered a technical problem.

So I brought them here to ask you, the technical expert, for advice. "

The reason why he calls Su Xiaomi his sister is because he is afraid that the other party will not pay enough attention to her. After all, helping the big girl solve technical problems may involve Twitter's technical secrets.

That's why Ma Liang deliberately emphasized it to prevent the other party from being perfunctory.

Human nature is like this, and you should think more.

"Hey, what kind of expert am I?

What kind of technical problem is it, and I don't know if I can help? "Dick Costolo didn't dare to speak too fully, so he quickly said modestly.

So Ma Liang gestured to Su Xiaomi, and she briefly described:

"Mr. Costolo, the situation is like this. Our website has experienced a huge increase in visits recently and often encounters downtime problems..."

Communication between professionals often does not require too detailed explanations, and each other can already understand the meaning in just a few words.

"Okay, okay, this question is not difficult."

Dick Costolo secretly rejoiced, fearing that he would be really stumped, "Wait a minute, let's go to the conference room, I'll find a few people to come over and meet and come up with a solution for you."

With that said, he led the people towards the conference room, and yelled towards the hall along the way.

"Barry, Marshall, Jim, Egbert. You bastards, stop trying to fish and come to the conference room."

When he shouted as a leader, the entire office hall instantly turned upside down.

Five or six technical backbones quickly adjusted their positions, grabbed their laptops, and rushed into the small conference room.

Everyone sat down, and the technical geeks looked at the two beauties in front of them with curious faces.

Immediately afterwards, Dick Costolo told these technical backbones about BitFun's downtime problem.

As a result, everyone had very strange expressions and looked at their immediate superiors in confusion.

Just for this?

Does such a simple problem require such backbones to take action? Isn't this killing a chicken with a sledgehammer?

Everyone showed a look of disdain. Nowadays, small troubles like this are usually left to the new people under Twitter to deal with.

Dick Costolo became anxious when he saw this, and immediately reprimanded: "You bastards, please be more serious.

They are a start-up company with a limited budget, so they really think it is our Twitter.

Let’s discuss it quickly and come up with the most cost-effective solution, otherwise everyone’s bonus this month will be deducted…”

"You don't play like this!"

"That's right, you are just a pure squeeze coolie..." ˆ ˆ ˆ "I'm going to sue you, you bastard!"

Dick Costolo replied with an indifferent expression: "Stop talking nonsense, we can't come up with a solution, and you're not allowed to get off work today."

After saying that, he led Ma Liang out of the conference room, leaving only Su Xiaomi, Li Li and a group of technical backbones to continue discussing the details of technical problems.

After all, for such a small matter, he, the COO, needs to be personally involved.

After Dick Costolo and Ma Liang left, looking at the two beauties sitting opposite, the technical geeks suddenly became excited again.

Previously, in front of the leader, he was just talking arrogantly, but now in front of the beautiful woman, he wanted to show off more and fully demonstrate his intellectual charm.

"I would say build more cache servers. This is the fastest solution!"

"Fart, that's just treating the symptoms but not the root cause. Capacity planning is the top priority, otherwise no matter how many cache servers you have, it won't be enough..."

"Dual data centers are the ultimate solution. Once downtime, it can be restored in time."

The technical geeks chatted with each other and began to make suggestions one after another, discussing various solutions to the website downtime.

Although everyone is right, Rome was not built in a day, and many suggestions are not suitable for start-up websites.

BitFun has limited funds at this time, so it has to use iterative thinking to slowly upgrade and optimize.

Su Xiaomi and Li Li also explained more details in a timely manner, while helping a group of technical elites provide solutions that are more suitable for the current stage, while learning the most cutting-edge technology in the industry.

It has to be said that professionals are just different, and it is simply not difficult for them, the best programmers in Silicon Valley.

After all, BitFun is just a start-up website. No matter how many users visit it every day, it is still several orders of magnitude behind today's Twitter.

The discussion only lasted for an hour or two, and the technical geeks came up with a complete set of solutions.

The reason why it is so fast is that what everyone is discussing is just a problem-solving idea, and the specific operation requires Su Xiaomi and two to go back and write the code themselves.

But this has helped a lot. As the saying goes, "Those who are difficult can't do it, but those who can do it can't be difficult." In many cases, the most important thing is to give some advice.

The second is that a group of technology geeks just simplified Twitter's successful experience and gave BitFun a relatively growth-oriented construction plan.

After all, it is difficult to learn from scratch, but it is much easier to copy a set.

As the user base of the BitFun website continues to expand, it is necessary to gradually upgrade related configurations. This is the most cost-optimized solution.

When they left the conference room, Su Xiaomi and Li Li seemed to be in a dream.

"Mia, I feel like our hard work was in vain. If we knew it would be so simple, we should have come to Marlon for help earlier!"

Unexpectedly, the problem that had troubled them for several months could be solved so easily.

Su Xiaomi was depressed for a while when she heard this, and was so angry that she rolled her eyes on the spot: "You talk a lot, how could I know that bad guy has such abilities..."

She felt very uncomfortable and even a little angry.

Hum, I must study hard and learn more techniques in the future. Sooner or later, I will impress that bad guy.

……

On the other side, in the CEO's office, Ma Liang was having a heart-to-heart talk with Jack Dorsey.

"Jack, you are different from Big Ivan. He is already a successful entrepreneur, but you are still struggling, so you should understand my painstaking efforts.

Twitter's business model cannot be completely copied from Facebook's and must stand on multiple legs.

And with the popularity of mobile Internet and smartphones, social networks will become the largest traffic portal, and games are the best way to monetize traffic.

Although Twitter is not focused on games as its main business, this does not prevent us from earning huge amounts of cash flow through games.

The traditional game company model is obviously no longer suitable for the development of the times.

If you want to monetize games, you must acquire more excellent game companies like Zynga.

The game-raising model allows these game companies and studios to compete internally and strive to produce the best products.

I have already made a lot of arrangements in this regard, and you can also pay more attention to it.

As long as there are suitable targets, they can be acquired and let them create hundreds of millions in revenue for Twitter like Zynga.

As long as there are more game companies like Zynga, Twitter will be invincible in the future.

Not only does it have sufficient funds to develop itself, but it can also make various investments abroad.

As long as it follows this path, Twitter will definitely become a great company like Google and Apple. "

Ma Liang was doing ideological work for Jack Dorsey carefully, just to win over this ally.

After all, among the four giants of Twitter, the one in front of him has always been close to him.

Although Ma Liang made a sudden attack on the board of directors last time, which made Jack Dorsey feel resentful, smart people will definitely understand that he was completely motivated by the overall situation.

There will be similar operations in the future. In order not to cause collective protest from the four giants of Twitter, they can only recruit a helper first.

"I understand, I understand, but the same cannot be said for others. No matter what, Marlon, you should discuss it with everyone!" Jack Dorsey responded quite dissatisfied.

Ma Liang quickly comforted him: "Don't worry, Jack, I will definitely communicate with you in advance next time.

You know, I've always been the most supportive of you.

As long as I am on the board of directors, I will support you to secure your position as CEO, and this will never change! "

"Well, no matter what, we still need to communicate more with each other in the future!

As for the business model you just mentioned, I also very much agree with it.

And I actually know a few good game studios, so I can pay more attention to them later.

If the other party really has good game products, they can also acquire them in advance. "Jack Dorsey's attitude finally softened, and he followed Ma Liang's words and expressed his position.

As Twitter develops better and better, that guy Big Ivan is also jumping up and down, even eyeing him as the CEO position.

Now that he had received Ma Liang's assurance again, he reciprocated the favor and expressed his sincerity.

Ma Liang naturally wanted it: "That's right, just do it, I will give my full support.

After all, the better Twitter develops, the better for all of us. "

The two of them each got what they needed, and for their own interests, they formed an offensive and defensive alliance in private.

After he finished talking about the business, he saw Su Xiaomi and Li Li waiting in the reception room.

Ma Liang took advantage of the situation and said to the big girl: "It's no problem now. I'll give you a few more days to deal with it. Once it's resolved, you can come back to China with me next week."

"Oh!" Su Xiaomi didn't dare to refuse anymore and agreed obediently.

After all, I already have the ideas, and I can continue to overcome problems even if I go back to my country.

But as soon as she agreed, Li Li couldn't help but ask: "Marlon, can I go back with you with Mia?"

"You? It's not convenient!" Ma Liang declined without even thinking about it.

When Li Li heard this, he immediately became anxious: "It's convenient, I won't cause any trouble to you.

Good brother, please take me with you! "

This girl didn't know where she learned the words. She even called her "good brother" and gave up on Ma Liang on the spot.

"You can discuss it with Xiaomi yourself, I don't care!"

With a sheep to drive and two naughty children to take care of, Ma Liang simply left the trouble to the big girl to worry about.

(End of this chapter)