Giant of the times

More than a month later, after a series of operations by Li Zetian, Weibo became very popular in the United States, and it was also very popular in other countries. Weibo has become a phenomenal product on the Internet. It seems that if netizens don’t use Weibo, it means they are falling behind.

At this time, Facebook also rose rapidly, developing into major colleges and universities across the United States, and won the love and support of many people, with the number of registered users exceeding 1 million. However, this achievement of Facebook seems to be overshadowed by Weibo, so it has not attracted media attention.

However, Sequoia Capital is still very concerned about Facebook. Because last time William mentioned that there will be a financing in June, Sequoia Capital will have the opportunity to invest in Facebook, so it is naturally very concerned about its development.

Paul said: “The two most popular websites in March are undoubtedly Weibo and Facebook! It’s just that Weibo is too dazzling and covers up Facebook. In addition, Facebook does not allow people outside the university to register as users, so it is not very attractive. Notice."

"It's almost the end of March, and the number of Weibo users has exceeded 28 million. It's really scary!" Another executive director of Sequoia Capital exclaimed, "I suspect that by the end of this year, the number of Weibo users may exceed 100 million. !”

Paul nodded and said, "I think so too, but I'm afraid Chronos Li won't give us the opportunity to invest in Weibo, so we'll mainly focus on the Facebook website!"

"Paul, did you hear that people from DFJ are in contact with Mark Zuckerberg from Harvard University?"

"I heard about it, but Facebook is developing better right now, and Facebook has a strong background and is more likely to succeed in the future. So I think we should still spend huge sums of money to invest in Facebook, and we will definitely gain huge rewards in the future!"

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Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Lee's mansion.

Li Zetian felt much more relaxed at this time. Weibo was on the right track and had almost formed a monopoly, so there was no need for Li Zetian to worry. In the previous life, competition on Weibo was huge. In China alone, there were Sina Weibo, Tencent Weibo, NetEase Weibo, Sohu Weibo, etc. Everyone felt that Weibo was the leader and a hot outlet, so they crowded in one after another. In the end, the crowd was so crowded that only Sina Weibo succeeded.

The first-mover advantage of Internet products cannot be underestimated. Sina was the first to launch Weibo in China, and after it reached a certain scale, even if it was as strong as Tencent, it was eventually defeated by Sina Weibo.

Now that Li Zetian has mastered Weibo, he has mastered the right to speak in new media. Seeing how George W. Bush registered on Weibo in order to run for President of the United States, you will know how important Weibo is.

When Facebook develops in the future, the power of new media controlled by Li Zetian and his family will be terrifying, and their social status and influence will further increase.

"William, how do you defeat your competitors? I heard that DFJ plans to invest in Mark Zuckerberg!" Li Zetian said.

"On the one hand, I plan to launch more new products to attract users, and on the other hand, I plan to speed up expansion and win over smaller universities and colleges in the United States and Canada, as well as major European universities. As long as those famous European universities take the lead in using Facebook, then Europe will Those ordinary universities in the world will also use Facebook! In addition," William thought for a moment and said, "I plan to launch the high school version of Facebook in a while!"

"Well, it's very logical to expand from university to high school. Those college students won't have much resistance. They just came from high school." Li Zetian nodded and said, "However, you said that we need to launch more new products. What new products are there to attract users?”

William smiled and said: "Dad, um... isn't Weibo very popular recently, so... hey, you know!"

Li Zetian was stunned and suddenly speechless.

William smiled dryly and said: "Don't worry, dad, it's not a complete plagiarism! I want to add tags, embedded pictures, and comment Weibo and blog services to the Facebook notepad function. At the same time, users can import from other Weibo and blog services . In addition, Facebook has cooperated with Apple’s iTunes to provide users with free music single downloads!”

Hearing this, Li Zetian nodded with satisfaction, "Well, you have a good idea!"

Then he said: However, you develop your own application software, after all, your energy is limited. Facebook could launch an application programming interface (API). Through this API, third-party software developers can develop applications that run on the Facebook website. "

Speaking of this, Li Zetian deliberately paused to let William think for a moment, and then said: "This is called the Facebook open platform! If third-party software developers develop application software for Facebook, there will naturally be more software on Facebook. There will definitely be many excellent software among them to attract users.”

William's eyes lit up and he nodded repeatedly: "That's right, Dad, you are right!!!"

Li Zetian smiled: "Haha, otherwise why do people often say that ginger is still hotter when old! You are still too young and need to exercise!"

William touched the back of his head, smiled, then stood up from the sofa and said goodbye: "Dad, my mind is filled with what you just said! I have to go to the company right away!"

"Okay, go ahead." Li Zetian nodded. Looking at William's leaving figure, Li Zetian murmured, "After Facebook launches the application programming interface (API), I will have people develop the game "Happy Farm". Or "Plants vs. Zombies" again..."

With a father's love as strong as a mountain, Li Zetian naturally felt sorry for William, so he decided to quietly help him develop the phenomenon-level web game that was popular all over the world in his previous life. Therefore, he also took the opportunity to propose Facebook to launch an application programming interface.

Afterwards, Li Zetian returned to the study, turned on the computer, and began to write a game plan.

That night, Li Zetian had written both "Farm" and "Plants vs. Zombies". However, he did not plan to launch two games at once. Instead, he would launch "Farm" first and wait for "Farm" to become popular. Introducing "Plants vs. Zombies".

The next day, Li Zetian called Selena over and asked her to register an overseas offshore company and then form a game development team.

“This is a web game I designed for the Facebook website, but I don’t want William to know about it,” Li Zetian said.

"I understand!" Selina nodded.

"Well, once the new company is established, you can quickly get someone to develop "Happy Farm" first!"

"Yes!" Selina responded, taking the file.

Selena returned to her desk and couldn't help but open the file out of curiosity to see what kind of game "Farm" was. After all, this was a game designed by the most talented game designer recognized in the world!

A few minutes later, Selena read the document and she was shocked~~

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