Wall Street Legend

   Chapter 129 New Ideas

A few days later, there were eight more arowanas in the dragon tank. Among them, the bright black one was the most conspicuous. It was said to be quite precious. A few fish cost him more than 50,000 dollars in total. The aquarium staff flew to Los Angeles to help Ye Dongqing choose , the appearance is very good.

There is also an extra-large tropical aquarium in the study room, because the room temperature is kept at more than 20 degrees all year round, and they are not afraid of them dying due to the low water temperature. He will definitely be laughed at to death. This small problem is no longer within his consideration. The most important thing is his own comfort.

After pots of green plants were moved in and the decoration was completed, Ye Dongqing went to settle the final payment with the decoration company this morning, and then came to the office building where Facebook is located. Everything went well with Freshwater Fund, and he was going to keep an eye on this Internet company , Let’s talk about cultivating the user group first.

Staring at the numbers on the screen every day, feeling happy or uncomfortable about rising or falling, that kind of feeling is not good. After a long time, it is easy to get heart disease, so I simply let it go. Ms. Vigo has returned to Freshwater Fund as a "consultant" , Responsible for coordinating the group of interns to enter the working state.

   "Have you thought about a slogan? I thought of one before going to bed last night. I think it's very suitable for our company."

  As soon as Ye Dongqing came to the company, he said loudly with great interest that he was going to add a slogan on the homepage, simply and directly, explaining the theme of this program in one sentence.

  An employee responded cooperatively and said, "What?"

   "Your community network communication platform."

   "...Well, it looks pretty good, boss."

  All the employees in the company are older than Ye Dong, so it is really stressful for them to flatter him. Fortunately, Facebook is not popular, and the atmosphere is more relaxed and free.

As the boss, Ye Dongqing has the greatest right to speak, and immediately made a decision: "That's the decision, remember to add it later, and I hope you can redesign a more comprehensive set of registration information, so that users can rely on these Information, easily find your classmates who are also registered, and show it to me when you are done."

Mr. Alfred didn't seem to sleep well last night, and clapped his hands lazily to attract attention: "Go to the forum where you left a message yesterday, don't post a message and ignore it, we must let more students see us products, use your brains to attract them to sign up.”

  The extremely brief morning meeting ended in two minutes, and all the more than fifty employees on site began to get busy.

The importance of product optimization is temporarily placed second. The primary problem is to attract users first. This is probably like a baby learning how to crawl first, and then thinking about how to walk. They didn’t notice this a while ago. Get the product right.

I spent more than 10 million U.S. dollars on the supporting server customized by Oracle, and it is too late to return it now. If you invest so much money, but end up tinkering with a failed start-up company, it would be a great shame to Ye Dongqing, no less than I copied the answers but got a zero.

  He returned to the office, logged into a simple program developed by his company, and used it to check yesterday's user data.

It shows that more than 6,700 new users have been added. The total number of accounts logged in yesterday is more than 10,400. The total number of registered users has exceeded 24,000. Satisfied.

  The date displayed in the lower right corner of the computer was February 4th, and it had been three days since he asked the company employees to go to the forum to attract new users.

  It’s too inefficient to let people send product news by themselves. Ye Dongqing was forced to ask former hacker friend Paul Kutcher for help, trying to get him to hack ICQ and send a Facebook URL to every user.

   Leaving aside the matter of shamelessness, the method is quite good, but it is a pity that Paul clearly told him that he could not do it on his own, and thanked him on the spot for thinking so highly of himself.

You know, ICQ's parent company has already been acquired by AOL. Although AOL's stock price has turned into a junk stock after the avalanche, it has ruined Time Warner Group and caused hundreds of billions of dollars in wealth to evaporate. However, the scale should not be underestimated, and the firewall is not so easy. breach.

  The shortcut is blocked, and I have to continue to work **** my own. The efforts of the past few days are not ineffective, and the number of users is increasing day by day.

  Considering the social circle of the students, as long as there are two or three people playing together, it is possible to attract dozens of new users. Ye Dongqing is cramming and has seen similar views in books.

The people in the company have been busy browsing the forums in recent days, copying and pasting, leaving messages and links about Facebook and leaving quickly. Mr. Alfred is also trying to contact the administrators of some large forums to negotiate with them The advertised price is expected to cost more than four million dollars.

It's a pity that the school doesn't have classes recently, otherwise Ye Dongqing would definitely pick a hundred or eighty schools and go to those universities and middle schools to put up billboards. It will be too low, but the possible effect should be very good.

No matter how anxious you are about cultivating users, it may take a few years to get ahead. Ye Dongqing stayed in the office and read the financial report for January, and then began to browse some interesting news through Google. Played "Red Alert" and tried to play several other small games to pass the time.

   This is probably the difference between a boss and an employee. Others think he is busy, but actually hide in the office to play games, and no one will say anything about him even if he is seen.

A young girl with an unremarkable appearance knocked on the door and walked into Ye Dongqing's office. After putting the documents on the table, she told: "Mr. The contact information of the forum administrators, and the quotation they ask for, if you think it is OK, we will start to cooperate."

Ye Dongqing picked it up and took a look. There are two charging models, one is based on the number of clicks, and the other is the total price per day or week, which is equivalent to renting an advertising space in Times Square or a certain subway station, except that the advertising Moved to the Internet, a website with a daily page view of more than 50 million, charges up to 100,000 US dollars a day, 3 million US dollars a month.

  No one wants to do things that are thankless. There is no free lunch in the world. The most mainstream money-making model in the Internet industry is advertising fees. He sighed deeply, thinking that when his Facebook can also make money like this, it would be great.

   From the beginning to the end, I said in my mouth: "Just contact them according to this quotation, try the short-term effect first, and stop immediately if it doesn't meet expectations."

   "Good boss."

  Bright and neat, the female employee turned her head and left, and turned back after leaving the door, taking the quotation with her very embarrassedly.

  …

  Facebook has the foundations of the fire.

Ye Dongqing has built it as a big company from the very beginning, where money should be spent, experts should be invited, timeline, personal information homepage, main page, etc., are designed directly according to the future mature version, and recently even Trying to develop a program that allows users to chat with another person online in real time and seize ICQ's market share.

Many users have already felt this mature social mode. The trouble is that unless you buy a digital camera, you can’t upload photos for others to see. Therefore, users who send mood texts are far more than those who send pictures. Many users.

Currently he is still renting a server, and his own server is still being developed by Oracle Corporation. He always feels that there is no sense of substitution. After Ye Dongqing entered the Facebook personal homepage, he updated his message and pushed a text, which read: "We Facebook is being optimized, if you have any comments, please feel free to send us through the service interface, this is a brand new program, invite your friends to join this online community!"

  He has an account, and as long as the user joins in, it will be automatically displayed in the recommended friends list, with the note "Facebook founder". Currently, more than 3,000 people have followed Ye Dongqing's news.

  Just as he was about to turn off the computer and leave, Ye Dongqing suddenly thought of another function that could be added. He was thinking that since he was planning to add text communication, why not be more direct and integrate the call function into it?

  Since Skype is so popular, I should be able to develop it myself now. I searched the company "Skype" decisively, but there was no news.

Immediately got up and went to Director Alfred, and told him about it. After the other party found several outstanding software engineers to inquire, why not: "Are you sure this is possible? There may be some technical difficulties, similar I've heard the theory, but no one's actually making it, the difficulty is high, and we're understaffed."

   "If there are not enough people, we will recruit more. Just think about it, even some people will use our products to save phone bills. It can make Facebook more perfect."

  Ye Dongqing made up his mind decisively, and then told Mr. Alfred: "You don't have to worry about the money, I will get more money soon, so you think our company is still short of people, right?"

   "Yes, we need a few software engineers who have experience in this field to assist in the development. I remember reading this article, and we should be able to find suitable candidates in Silicon Valley..."

   Confused.

  Ye Dongqing took the reluctant Mr. Alfred House with him the next day, and they took a plane to the West Coast. They planned to meet a few people in Silicon Valley and try to develop a product for making calls through the Internet.

  New York’s Internet entrepreneurial environment is far behind that of Silicon Valley. As long as you are willing to spend money, you can find all the software engineers you want in Silicon Valley.

  He doesn’t know when skype will appear suddenly, he must hurry up and prepare in advance...

  (end of this chapter)