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It also integrated some functions of QQ space that impressed Xu Liang deeply.

For example, drift bottles, and Facebook shows similar to QQ shows.

With this, Facebook has gained a monthly revenue of 3.75 million US dollars, but this revenue is completely unable to balance Facebook's huge expenditures.

But better than nothing.

Of course, the ‘Facebook Show’ is still developing and its revenue is growing.

In addition to the above functions, there is also a music button on Facebook. Just click it and it will jump to the Hongmeng Music webpage.

Similar is Twitter.

The combination of several websites has richer functions and is more playable than Facebook alone.

Naturally, it can also attract more users to register.

"Dear, although the log and comment functions can make Facebook more fun, they cannot create profits. Now Facebook has more than 20 million registered users.

After the acquisition of Mete, coupled with our own growth, we will definitely exceed 30 million users within half a year.

Ideally, it could even exceed 35 million.

So can we seriously consider the issue of profitability?

It is difficult to support Facebook’s revenue by relying solely on the ‘Facebook Show’. "

Xu Liang thought about it briefly and said, "I will figure this out. Your most important task now is to give birth to the child safely."

"All right."

He picked up the Twitter development report next to him and read it.

Compared to Facebook, Twitter is undoubtedly developing much faster.

The reason is also very simple, there are basically no competitors.

On Facebook, there are Rose Network, MySpace, and Mete, but on Twitter, he is the only one.

In this era, blogs and forums are actually more popular.

Only a maximum of 140 characters are allowed to be posted and only 9 photos are allowed to be uploaded to Weibo. There is no profit point at all.

In this environment with few competitors, Twitter's registered users have also grown rapidly with the help of Facebook's development.

It currently has 32 million registered users.

A large part of the reason why there are so many users is that Universal Music has introduced all its contracted singers to Twitter.

And allows singers to post links to their new songs on Twitter.

At first the singers just dealt with it.

But as the number of registered users on Twitter increases, more and more people are downloading and listening to songs through links to the singer’s homepage on Hongmeng Music.

They also gradually paid attention to it.

This trend soon spread to the acting profession.

After all, many people are stars in movies, TV shows, and singing.

Actors also promote their new films on it.

These celebrities have huge fans.

Soon Twitter's user base grew faster than Facebook's.

But Christina, like Helen, also has a headache about Twitter's profitability.

Although Twitter has introduced embedded advertising, there are very few ads for overall effectiveness, and its current monthly revenue is only US$1.3 million.

The gap between the investment of $3.2 million per month and growing is too big.

"Christina, have the 'Hot News' function and the celebrity ranking function been implemented?"

"It's been released.

The effect is very good. "

Xu Liang nodded. Celebrity rankings are easy to attract fans and create hot spots.

In the last generation, Weibo made this list ridiculous. Fans fought every day for their idols to rank higher, which kept Weibo's traffic high.

It's a pity that I was too obsessed with traffic and neglected management, so I was directly blocked by the above.

Xu Liang nodded.

"Now Twitter's advertising profit model has been well developed, but advertising alone is not enough to improve Twitter's revenue."

Christina beamed.

"Husband, do you have any better way?"

Xu Liang nodded.

“This method is called ‘Twitter authentication’, which provides authentication services to public figures and well-known companies and earns a certain amount of revenue.

The reason I didn’t tell you this method before is because we don’t have enough users to convince companies to pay.

Now that we have 32 million users, we can try this approach.

As for the specific payment ratio, you can discuss it with Twitter’s management. "

"Thanks husband."

Christina directly rewarded Xu Liang with a kiss, and then looked at Helen next to her provocatively.

Not to be outdone, the latter directly hugged Xu Liang's right arm.

The already abundant headlights have become one size larger due to pregnancy.

Xu Liang's right arm pressed against it. It was big, soft, and slippery, and the experience was incomparable.

After rubbing it again and again, the nephrite was warm and fragrant, and Xu Liang's head softened.

If Christina hadn't joined him next to him, he would have almost agreed.

"Ahem.

Helen, don't worry. I have long-term plans for Facebook's future, and now is not the time to develop a profit model. But don't worry.

When Facebook's registered users exceed 50 million, I will develop a second profit model for Facebook. "

"Can't you do it now?" Helen said unwillingly.

"no.

Facebook's dominant position in social networking sites has not yet been fully established. If it is released rashly, it will be easy for others to follow suit.

At that time, it will not only attract more capital, but also make it more difficult for us to compete for the social market. Wise people will not do this. "

Helen nodded and did not continue.

"Christina, continue to invite more stars to sign up for Twitter, which is related to Twitter's more profit methods."

"good husband."

"It's getting late, just take a quick shower and go to bed to rest."

After settling the two big-bellied women, Xu Liang came downstairs.

Sure enough, my parents weren't asleep yet.

"Is everything settled?" Lao Xu asked.

"Well, everyone is asleep."

"No trouble?"

"We're already an old couple, what's the fuss?"

Seeing his son taking it for granted, Lao Xu was a little envious. Why didn't he have the blessing of hugging him from left to right?

"Son, there are quite a few women around you, Xiaoyang, Yuhui, Kaiyue, Mingzhen and Yizhen, plus Christina and Helen, there are seven.

We have had enough with three wives and four concubines, is it time to calm down? Wang Lingxiang said.

"Mom, I listen to you."

Waving his hand and slapping him on the shoulder, Wang Lingxiang said angrily: "Stop it, when I saw you like that just now, I knew you didn't listen to what I said."

"Mom, what a wish. What I say is full of sincerity."

"I'm sincere. I raised you. I know my son better than my mother. I'll know what you're doing when you stick your butt out. ...Son, having too many women is not a good thing.

Have you not looked at the emperors in ancient times? How many of them lived a long time?

Why?

Didn’t he know no restraint and died on a woman’s belly? "

Xu Yongpei also helped.

"Son, we are doing this for your own good. Didn't you hear the old saying?

The body of twenty-eight beauties is like a crisp,

He holds a sword at his waist and kills ordinary people.

Although no one was killed,

Secretly I teach you that your bones are dry.

Even if you don't do it for us, do it for yourself. "

Seeing the two elders speaking earnestly, Xu Liang understood that he had done a lot of homework in advance.

"Mom and Dad, don't worry, I will control myself and will never act recklessly."

"real?"

"Absolutely true."

After Xu Liang made repeated promises, his father and mother finally let him go.

Back in the study, Xu Liang picked up his cell phone and called Lu Hui.

"Mr. Xu."

"Rent a villa as soon as possible, and when Xinmei arrives, let her live in it."

The due date of the birth of two pregnant women is still half a month away. In addition to the postpartum recovery time, he has to be a monk here for at least two months. For Xu Liang, who is used to the smell of meat, this is simply torture.

So I brought Fukuda Shinmei over from Japan again, whom I hadn’t seen for a long time.

"Okay, Mr. Xu. What kind of villa do you want?"

“It doesn’t need to be too big, 1,000 to 2,000 square meters is enough.”

Xu Liang is used to manors of several thousand square meters, or even tens of thousands square meters.

A house of one or two thousand square meters is really small in his eyes.

After the explanation, Xu Liang hung up the phone.

The next day, after spending some time with Christina and Helen, Xu Liang came to No. 2104 Shaqiu Road, the office of Hanhua Silicon Valley.

"Mr. Xu."

His eyes quickly swept over everyone.

"Everyone, take a seat."

After everyone sat down, Xu Liang continued with a smile.

“It has been more than half a year since we last met. In this short period of time, Hanhua has gone one step further and now has two branches in New York and Silicon Valley and six funds.

We also have two new comrades among us. "

His eyes turned.

"Javid, Chad, welcome to join Hanhua."

Two middle-aged white men in their thirties, one thin and one fat, stood up quickly.

“I am honored to join Hanhua, a group that has created countless honors, and I am happy to work with you all.

I hope to achieve dazzling achievements under the leadership of BOSS in the future and realize my life ideals. "

Javed Karim, head of the venture capital arm of Fund 13, said.

Noticing everyone's attention, Chad Hurley, the head of Fund 14, thought for a while.

"Me, too."

Xu Liang was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect to hear the "me too" thesis here in the United States.

But he quickly reacted, applauded and laughed.

"It's a wonderful speech. Please take a seat, both of you."

Javed Karim and Chad Hurley are both venture capital elites that Jiang Xiaoyang picked out from thousands of people.

However, the former is good at the Internet and consumer fields, while the latter is mainly in the biomedical field.

Compared with Javid, who is full of witty words, Chad is not good at words, but he is very shrewd and good at seizing investment opportunities.

His most successful investment case is the discovery of the famous biomedical company Agilent Technologies.

In the five years since I entered the venture capital field, I have invested in 29 projects and successfully exited 16 of them. The probability is more than half, and the results are very good.

But everyone has pros and cons.

Chad Hurley, who is not good at words and has a hot temper, ran away angrily because of conflicts with the president of Kleiner Perkins Caufield \u0026 Byers over the investment in Biogen Idec.

He was recruited by Hanhua with a high salary and was in charge of Fund No. 14, managing US$500 million.

Javid doesn’t have his stellar resume, but he’s also an industry veteran.

“There are two main things announced today.

First, for the increasingly fierce competition in the venture capital industry.

The head office decided not to interfere in the specific investment business of the US branch.

In other words, starting from today, except for a few auxiliary businesses such as finance, personnel, and security, everything else will be decided by you. "

The head office's further loosening of restrictions made everyone's faces show excitement.