My Age of Investment

"Daren, I've heard bad news."

Principal John, who had hardly been to the office of the incubation base, had a rare chance to come to Facebook, along with Andrew.

Xia Jingxing saw that both of them had dark faces, and asked with a smile, "What's wrong? What bad news?"

The old man John glanced at the programmer who was working not far away, and said in a low voice, "You call the dog, Christina, let's talk somewhere else."

Xia Jingxing saw that both of them were serious, not joking, guessing that something major happened.

He didn't dare to be negligent, called the dog, and then called the foreign girl who went to an e-commerce company to steal a teacher, telling her to come back quickly.

Principal John and Andrew walked in the front, and the puppy in the back whispered to ask what happened to Xia Jingxing.

Xia Jingxing shook his head, he didn't know.

After walking a few hundred meters, the four came to a vacant office in the incubation base.

After entering, Xia Jingxing looked at the exquisite and luxurious interior decoration, and complained that old John was not authentic, such a good office would not be used for Facebook.

He saw that Old John's face was not good, so he didn't say it as a joke, after all, he knew the occasion.

The office is large, and it also has a separate, very spacious conference room.

After the four of them sat down casually, Old John asked another student to bring a laptop.

The old man clicked on a webpage, pushed the computer to Xia Jingxing and the dog, and said indifferently, "Look at it, there is a big enemy on Facebook, and this company is located in San Francisco."

Xia Jingxing and Little Dog were stunned for a moment, and then carefully looked at the website.

The domain name is "".

Xia Jingxing recognized it, wasn't this website the world's first SNS website recognized in the previous life, also known as the "Originator of Social Network Services" dating network?

He didn't forget, he has been paying attention to when this company was born.

After waiting for so long, it finally appeared.

This website can be said to be the real first social networking site that has become popular, and it has also brought fire to the social network.

Tom Anderson, the founder of MySpace, and Xiao Mazi, the founder of Facebook, were both former users of Dating.com, and they all borrowed some of the functional designs and concepts of Dating.com in their respective entrepreneurial projects.

Therefore, the dating network is the real big brother-level, antique-level social networking site.

Xia Jingxing was recalling, while the little dog was looking at it carefully, observing what functions this website had and whether the detailed design was in place.

The puppy looked more and more frightened.

The site functions much the same as Facebook, and even has some small features that Facebook doesn't have.

The most frightening thing is that the website page design is not bad.

It can be seen that it is far from being comparable to the two senior students who plagiarized before, and there is definitely a mature technical development team behind it.

"How about it?"

Old John said with a serious face, "Is it a great enemy?

I am looking for you, but also to remind you that you must pay attention. "

Xia Jingxing nodded, "Indeed, it can be seen that this opponent has certain strength."

Seeing that Xia Jingxing had put his opponent at ease, Old John heaved a sigh of relief, he was afraid that the young man would be arrogant and look down on any opponent, it would be really bad.

Andrew also said: "I have checked the company's information, it was established in the second half of last year, but the product has been in development.

It wasn't until this month that the website was officially launched, and it is currently ramping up in California. "

The little dog frowned, "So, they have been planning for a long time? They came here specifically for us?"

Old man John shook his head, "Wrong, they are bigger than your ambitions,

Registration is open to anyone over the age of eighteen. "

"Including the campus market?"

Glancing at the website on the computer screen, the puppy asked with a frown.

"Including, of course, the other party has expressed his intention to win the most delicious cake on social networking sites."

After finishing speaking, old man John looked at Xia Jingxing and asked, "Daren, don't stop talking, talk about your thoughts."

Xia Jingxing said calmly: "We are deeply cultivating the campus market, and the number of users is now approaching the one million mark.

In a way, it has formed a competitive barrier with latecomers. "

"Barriers to Competition"

Old John repeated the word in his mouth, thought for a while, and then said, "Tell me carefully."

"The social field is different from other Internet fields. This is a winner-take-all track."

"The more extensive the user relationship chain of a website is, the more users love to use the products of that website."

"Facebook has now entered hundreds of universities, and initially started to establish relationship chains. Once users don't use our products, these relationship chains will be broken, and the replacement cost is too high."

Old John frowned, "What you said makes sense, but the dating network is aimed at the whole crowd.

If a student's family members and friends are all dating network users, do you think they will abandon Facebook? "

Xia Jingxing shook his head, "No!"

"why?"

Old John kept staring at Xia Jingxing and seemed to attach great importance to this issue.

Xia Jingxing and the old man looked at each other and replied confidently, "Because there is a generation gap between students and their families, I don't want family members to watch their every move online.

Mr Hennessy, think about your children, do they want you to discover how they present themselves online, what to follow, like, discuss? "

Old John was speechless, and nodded after a while, "You are right."

Xia Jingxing said with a smile, "So we don't need to panic at all, we are the leader, and Dating.com is just a chaser."

"I said if, ah, the dating network occupies the adult market, and Facebook only occupies the student market, is there any possibility of coexistence between the two?"

Andrew suddenly threw a question.

Xia Jingxing nodded, "There is definitely the possibility of coexistence. Facebook has its own characteristics. Even if they grow bigger, they cannot enter our territory."

"But that way, Facebook's imagination will be much smaller."

Old man John suddenly answered, "How many college students are there? 16 million!

What is the population of the United States? 288 million people, excluding minors, there are also 200 million.

At a one-to-ten ratio, Facebook is valued at 1 billion, and Dating.com is valued at 10 billion. "

"Then Mr. Hennessy, do you mean to let go of registration restrictions and enter the same starting line as this dating network?"

Xia Jingxing finally understood, the old man John had a great appetite, and when he saw the imaginative space for the development of the dating network, he was a little jealous.

"If you insist on the campus market, Facebook can only be a good website after all."

The old man John turned the conversation again, "But if the registration restrictions are lifted, it may grow into a social empire with hundreds of millions of users."

Afraid that it was not enough to be seductive, Old John also added another tone to the word "Empire".

The puppy heard his blood boil, and his eyes were full of fighting intent.

Xia Jingxing's expression was as usual, he was not incited at all, instead he felt that he was being looked down upon.

Only hundreds of millions of users?

Look down on me or what?

Use your imagination, think hard, think hard...

PS: Thanks to book friends Thunderbolt Golden Light and Head Ou for the reward!

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