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Zuckerberg was once selected as Time Magazine's Person of the Year because social networks have really changed the world to a great extent, making information more transparent and connecting the world together.

To some extent, Zhou Buqi is the first person in social networking. However, the friend network business he was doing at that time was mainly in China, and Zuckerberg's Facebook was overseas, which allowed Xiao Zuckerberg to take away all the reputation that originally belonged to Zhou Buqi.

Including Time Magazine's Person of the Year.

Now, Ziweixing International has established a foothold in Silicon Valley, and has built a relatively complete industrial system in overseas markets, and even acquired Yahoo...

Then you're welcome!

In the field of social networking, Zhou Buqi wants to regain his own glory!

Dominate the picture social market first!

Then, take over the field of short video social networking.

Without hesitation, Zhou Buqi took the next step and took the lead in promoting the merger of Pinterest and Flickr to create an Internet giant centered on the social field of pictures.

This market is too big for Ucgram alone to capture.

We can’t let Facebook take advantage.

Tang Binchen flew from Europe to Silicon Valley specifically for this purpose and met with Zhou Buqi to discuss the matter.

Zhou Buqi felt a little strange, "Don't you look down on Flickr?"

Tang Binchen said: "No, but is it necessary to push Flickr to Pinterest?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Pinterest is a company invested by Ziweixing. It has invested in two rounds and holds nearly 30% of the shares. With this merger, the shareholding may reach 50%."

Tang Binchen shook his head, "Even if it's 50%, he's still an outsider. Ucgram's 100%, he's one of our own."

Zhou Buqi glanced at him and said amusedly: "What are you doing? Are you afraid of competition? Even if Pinterest really grows, it will be better than Facebook growing, right? Besides, Pinterest and Flickr are completely different types from Ucgram. Competition It’s not that sexual. It’s not like Facebook.”

Tang Binchen asked: "I mean, why not just acquire Pinterest?"

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "Why do you think it is? The acquisition of Snapchat is almost turning the world upside down. I can't digest it, I'm almost choking to death, and I'm still buying it!"

Tang Binchen smiled and said: "They don't know, I don't know yet? Haven't you made a lot of preparations a long time ago, and you are still worried about money? Aren't Ziweixing Digital Media and Ziweixing Global going public? Don't talk about anything else. , isn’t there still a lot of Google stock left, worth at least $3 billion.”

Ziweixing International holds a lot of Google stocks, initially selling YouTube, then Admob, and later Twitter.

Whenever I'm really short of money, I rely on selling Google stocks to make a living.

Zhou Buqi said: "There is still some left, which was obtained by selling Twitter. There is still one year left before the ban is lifted. And I have no plans to sell it in the short term. I can rely on this relationship to maintain good cooperation with Google."

Tang Binchen said: "Anyway, I think it would be more appropriate to take over Pinterest directly. 80% of Pinterest users are female users, and they share photos of travel, food, beauty, luxury goods, etc. How valuable this is ? Isn’t it similar to Wei Mi? We can target these female users and launch e-commerce business in the future. Isn’t Shi Jinglin going to do cross-border e-commerce? Isn’t this an opportunity?”

"Little Red Book" is actually imitating Pinterest, and its operating model is almost exactly the same.

However, Zhou Buqi never used Xiaohongshu in his previous life, nor did he use Pinterest in this life, so he didn’t know much about this product.

Listening to what Tang Binchen said, it really makes sense.

Women are often the main force in e-commerce consumption.

However, this did not convince Zhou Buqi. He said: "In fact, there is a more important management factor in promoting the merger of Flickr and Pinterest, which is to separate Flickr from Yahoo's system."

"Yahoo..."

Tang Binchen now knew Boss Zhou's true plan.

Acquisition is easy, restructuring is difficult.

The biggest difficulties that Ziweixing International currently encounters are actually from Yahoo. It's really a bit of indigestion. Not only has it caused financial tensions, but it has also greatly increased the complexity of management.

Zhou Buqi said: "I have never paid much attention to Flickr, but Yahoo insiders all believe that Flickr is Yahoo's core asset, tied with Yahoo Finance, and even higher than Yahoo Search and Yahoo Mail. 'Yahoo' brand products , it’s really hard to move. Fortunately, Flickr was acquired by Yahoo for US$35 million in the early years, and it does not use the name ‘Yahoo’, so it is easier to operate.”

Tang Binchen could feel the trouble Boss Zhou was encountering.

If Yahoo's affairs were left in China, they would have been dealt with swiftly and quickly, and anyone who didn't like it would have been fired. It is better to be cautious when traveling abroad and not to be too hasty.

"Well, merging Flickr and Pinterest is really a good excuse." Tang Binchen smiled, "It's better than the previous plan to package and sell Flickr. If it really needs to be sold... Yahoo Korea will be sold first, and then Flickr will be sold. If it is sold, there will definitely be panic within Yahoo."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Yes, that's what it means."

Tang Binchen won’t say anything more to him. Ucgram, which he oversees, is currently the most popular photo social product in the world and one of the three most popular apps on smartphones.

The so-called three major apps are Facebook, Helo and Ucgram.

They are all favorites of young people.

Ucgram has beaten Facebook to pieces in the field of picture social networking, and he is very confident about this.

"By the way, I heard... Shi Jinglin is giving birth? Can I go and visit?"

Tang Binchen hesitated for a moment and then said it.

He is Zhou Buqi's confidant, and he knows some things.

When Zhen Yu gave birth before, he didn't come because he wasn't familiar with Zhen Yu.

Shi Jinglin was different. When they were in China, they both worked at Ziweixing. They were colleagues. At one time, Shi Jinglin even led him.

Zhou Buqi didn't hide it and said with a smile: "Okay, her family is here and she doesn't need anything. Just go over and stop and say a few words to comfort her."

Before giving birth, Shi Jinglin's mood seemed to fluctuate again.

Some old friends came to comfort and encourage her, which made her feel more relaxed.

"By the way, there's one more thing." Tang Binchen paused, "Mobile Internet is here, but it's a bit too slow in Europe. I plan to ask Ziweiyun to launch a support activity for start-up companies to provide these services at the lowest price. Startups provide cloud services to make their startup costs lower and product operations more efficient. They can join forces with YikYak and Ucgram."

Supporting European Internet startups is false, but promoting Ziweiyun and the two social products he oversees, YikYak and Ucgram, is true.

Cloud products are extremely efficient.

For example, if a team develops an App and wants to release it... this requires a major premise: how many servers and storage should be prepared for the App. This preparation time will take at least 6-8 weeks.

This time is called "time response" in the industry.

However, it would be much easier if Ziweiyun was used for deployment.

It only takes 30 minutes to get everything done and launch the App into major application centers for the market.

Therefore, the more start-up companies are, the more urgent they are for cloud services.

Zhou Buqi thought this was a good idea, "Okay, just tell Kurian."

Tang Binchen said: "I don't want to see him."

Zhou Buqi felt a little helpless, "Then you can type up a piece of information. I'll sign it and forward it to Zi Weiyun so that they can cooperate with you. You are the president of the European region, and Zi Weiyun's European business is to some extent I also need you to coordinate."