My Age of Investment

Scape's CEO Nicholas called Xia Jingxing and informed the latter: "Daren, Skype is officially launched today. Guess how many registrations we achieved on the first day?"

"Five thousand? Or ten thousand?"

Nicholas was speechless, this can be guessed.

"Well, Darren, everything is as you expected, our first day's registration reached 10,000."

"Excellent, a number to celebrate."

Seeing Xia Jingxing finally showing his surprise, Nicholas smiled with satisfaction and explained, "We went to that Australian friend who bought Kazaa Software.

We have Kazza to help us do traffic promotion, and then Scape makes cross-border calls for free, which is why so many people are attracted to sign up. "

After listening to Nicholas' narration, Xia Jingxing was not too surprised.

As the first person to eat crabs, Scape deserves this result.

"Daren, we've been courting Facebook to help spread the word about Scape, now it's time to do it?"

Xia Jingxing replied readily, "No problem, fax an agreement, and I will ask the Facebook technicians to provide you with an advertising space immediately."

"Excellent, Darren, you are such a generous friend."

Xia Jingxing said with a smile, "Scape will have to advertise on Facebook in the future, otherwise I won't be able to report to the board of directors."

"No problem, it must be stated in the agreement."

"Good~"

After chatting a few more words, Xia Jingxing hung up the phone.

Skype has officially taken off, and it doesn't matter if there is Facebook to help promote it, it's just a favor.

After being in contact for so long, he felt that Nicholas was much easier to get along with than Jonas.

Jonas's scheming is much deeper. If it weren't for the potential of the project, he and Howard, who was invested by Defengjie, would have left long ago.

He was just thinking about Howard when the man called him.

"Daren, I heard that your Facebook is in a fierce competition with the dating network recently? How is the battle? Do you need De Fengjie to support you?"

After collaborating on Scape's case, Howard also established contact with Xia Jingxing.

After returning to the United States, Howard also investigated the background of Facebook and Xia Jingxing in detail.

Like Hoffman, Howard also called Xia Jingxing every now and then to ask if he needed an investment.

"Financing is not necessary for the time being. We are busy fighting now, but we don't have time to hold any financing talks. Let's talk about the outcome of the battle."

Howard laughed, Xia Jingxing didn't want to raise money, so he couldn't force it.

The two exchanged their views on Scape's business for a while before hanging up.

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In October, Facebook officially launched the high school version, opening registration for some high school students.

Fifty high schools in California became the first to settle in.

California high school students, who had heard of Facebook for a long time, but could not register due to their identity, began to register Facebook accounts on a large scale and upload their personal information.

On the high school campus, there are also students dangling around wearing Facebook Logo T-shirts.

The feedback is good in all aspects. High school students, like college students, like Facebook's minimalist website design and campus friendship model.

In addition to California, other forty-nine states continue to have high schools for Facebook officials

continue reading! Fang mailbox sent an email, hoping that Facebook would open up registration for their school.

With a wave of Xia Jingxing's hand, he expanded from one state in California to all high schools in the United States. As long as users with high school mailboxes are allowed to sign up for Facebook.

Except for a few college students who expressed their disapproval on Facebook groups and message boards, most college students held an indifferent attitude.

Because there are two circles, high school students can't add college friends, and college students can't interfere with each other.

After the registration was opened for high school students, the Facebook background showed that the number of registrations skyrocketed, and the total number of registrations continued to move towards the 10 million mark.

The whole company was suffocating.

We must kill the dating network and take the lead in breaking through the total number of users of 10 million.

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One day in October, Facebook’s photo tagging feature went live quietly late at night.

Xia Jingxing, Xiaodog and Yang Niu worked overtime with the Evans technology development team, ate snacks in the office, and watched the effects of the background operation.

On the desk sits a computer that displays what images the user has uploaded.

Everyone was anxiously waiting, waiting for the first image uploaded by the user.

"It's not because the user didn't find that the new function was online, right?"

The puppy looked at Evans, "Did you make a message scrolling reminder on the homepage of the website?"

Evans scratched his head, "As a reminder, it's been a few minutes, shouldn't it?"

The voice just fell.

The computer on the desk shows the first image - the Windows wallpaper.

Kristina laughed, "This is something that users won't use, right? Why did you upload a computer wallpaper."

"There should be users who are testing, we will wait a bit." Xia Jingxing felt that this should be the case.

After waiting for about half a minute, the second picture appeared.

The photo is of a man hanging out with his friends, ** on top and bottom in swimming trunks, it should have been taken on some beach...

And then the next picture is of a group of girls, going to some party...

Then there are more and more photos, which quickly fill the screen and require turning pages to view them.

"Someone started tagging friends, and our background is automatically sending emails based on the tag."

A programmer on Evans' team stared at another computer in the background and said suddenly.

Xia Jing walked over to take a look, and emails were sent out in a unified format—your friend uploaded your photo on Facebook...

"very good!"

Xia Jingxing looked at the employees who worked overtime together tonight and praised.

Evans and others also looked happy, and they also had a sense of accomplishment after seeing so many photos transmitted to the website.

Every programmer has an idea in mind that changes the world.

Although Facebook's current scale is far from reaching that height, it is also a very fulfilling thing to have millions of users using the website functions developed by itself.

Looking at the beaming group of programmers, Xia Jingxing still couldn't help pouring a basin of cold water.

"Be sure to pay attention to the photo review!"

Evans frowned. "Are you worried about someone uploading those pictures?"

Xia Jingxing nodded, "You must pay attention to photos of blood, violence, pornography, etc., and you must maintain the cleanliness of the Facebook community."

"No one should do that, right?"

Christina smiled and said: "

continue reading! Our website is all users with real-name authentication, so it's too embarrassing to do it, right? I see that many users usually speak very standardly. "

"The forest is getting bigger, and there will be all kinds of birds, and there will always be some people who don't follow the rules."

Xia Jingxing said with a smile, "We're actually okay, there are definitely not too many people like this, and it's hard to say about these non-real-name websites like Dating.com."

"Hahaha~"

A group of people began to gloat.