Rebirth 2003: Dominate the Tech World

The next morning, the morning light shone through the carved window lattices, sprinkling on the quaint wooden bed. Ye Yunzhou gently opened his eyes, feeling the coolness and tranquility unique to autumn.

He got up, put on a soft silk nightgown, and walked to the window. Outside the window, the golden ginkgo leaves swayed gently in the breeze, like dancing butterflies. The sweet-scented osmanthus tree in the yard exuded a rich sweet fragrance, as if the whole yard was immersed in fragrance.

He opened the door and stepped on the bluestone path, making a slight sound under his feet. There was a thin layer of fallen leaves on the ground, and every step was like an intimate contact with the poetry of autumn.

The sky was as blue as a gem, with a few white clouds floating leisurely. Under the eaves of the quadrangle, a few strings of red peppers and golden corn were hung, adding a bit of life to this ancient courtyard.

Ye Yunzhou took a deep breath of the fresh air, and a satisfied and comfortable smile appeared on his face, as if the whole world stopped for him at this moment.

In the kitchen, his parents have been busy preparing breakfast. Ye Yunzhou can smell the aroma of soy milk, fried dough sticks, and pancakes.

After breakfast, Ye Yunzhou walked out of the house and stopped a taxi. After about half an hour, Ye Yunzhou finally arrived at the Yanjing Science and Technology Building.

Because it was morning working time, Yanjing had already started to be congested. But Ye Yunzhou thought it was okay because he had seen the congestion in Yanjing 20 years later.

The president’s office of Alphabet Company is a single room of about 10 square meters. Although he hasn’t been to the company for a long time, the company’s cleaning staff still comes to clean every day, so it is very clean.

“President, do you have any work arrangements today?” Shangguan Wan’er, the president’s assistant of Alphabet Company, came to Ye Yunzhou’s office and asked after delivering a cup of coffee.

Ye Yunzhou carefully looked at the assistant in front of him. To be honest, it was the first time he had seen him. Before, Zhao Man reported on the phone that she had hired an assistant for him. He thought it was a man, but Zhao Man found him a beautiful woman.

At this time, Shangguan Wan’er was also looking at Ye Yunzhou, thinking, I didn’t expect the president to be more handsome and elegant in person than in the photo.

As the campus belle of Fudan University, he had seen too many outstanding men, but a minor had founded two technology companies, one of which was said to be valued at more than 10 billion US dollars. This was the first time she had met such a boy.

She blushed a little when she looked at Ye Yunzhou, but fortunately, she had good professionalism and quickly returned to normal.

“Notify all executives to meet in the conference room at 10:30.”

“Okay, President.”

Shangguan Wan’er left the office, closed the door gently, patted her chest, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and thought, “The president’s aura is so strong, and it’s so oppressive.”

Outside, the new employees heard that the company’s founder and president suddenly came to the company. They were so curious that they wanted to see what the president looked like.

The team leaders of various departments also began to warn their team members to put all their energy into it and let the president see everyone’s mental state.

Most of these team leaders were recruited in the first or second batch. Of course, they had met Ye Yunzhou. Although Ye Yunzhou usually looked amiable, once things were not done well, he would criticize people mercilessly and punish them without mercy.

For many Alphabet employees, being able to work in this company is simply the happiest thing. Not only are the salaries and benefits at least 1.5 times higher than those of their counterparts in Yanjing, but the overtime pay is also very sufficient, and you will be paid overtime for working overtime for ten minutes.

However, except for the technical department, other departments do not work overtime much, so many people envy the people in the technical department for being able to work overtime.

September 25, 2003, 10:30 am

Alphabet Company Conference Room on the 7th floor of Yanjing Technology Building.

Ye Yunzhou sat in the main seat, and the company’s executives sat on both sides.

The meeting was chaired by Ye Yunzhou himself.

After everyone sat down, Ye Yunzhou said: “Xu Lei, please tell me about the current situation of Facebook.”

As the company’s vice president and chief marketing officer, Xu Lei is the second-in-command of the company. When Ye Yunzhou is not around, he is basically in charge of the company’s affairs.

Xu Lei nodded and said: “President, partners, I have a good news to share with you. Since Facebook went online for more than a month, the number of registered users has reached 16 million. Our Facebook has become the number one social network product in Daxia.”

After Xu Lei finished speaking, warm applause broke out in the conference room.

Ye Yunzhou was shocked because the speed was too fast. You know, when Facebook founded by Mark Zuckerberg had one million registered usersBut it took 10 months. It took QQ eight or nine months to grow from 0 to 1 million users. It only took more than a month for me to reach 16 million users?

However, there is a more exaggerated one in the future than his Facebook, that is chatgpt, which has more than 100 million registered users in less than two months. But that was 20 years later. At that time, there were at least 5 billion Internet users in the world. How many are there now?

After everyone stopped applauding, Xu Lei continued: “Although our Facebook has become the number one social networking site in Daxia, it still faces many challenges. At present, there are many products imitating our Facebook in the market. Among them, Tencent recently launched a social networking site called Campus Network, which is exactly the same as ours. In addition, they have products like QQ to attract traffic. After only one week of launch, the number of users has exceeded one million.”

Ye Yunzhou was also a little surprised when he heard this, because Tencent now controls the largest instant messaging software in Daxia, and it is too easy to attract traffic to a new product.

Ye Yunzhou interrupted Xu Lei’s report. He opened the webpage and searched for Campus Network. Well, familiar interface, familiar functions.

“This campus network is a complete pixel-level copy of our Facebook. Did you take any action after their product went online?” Ye Yunzhou frowned and asked.

“Our legal department has submitted a lawyer’s letter to Tencent, and we have also submitted a complaint to the Yanjing People’s Court. However, since our country’s laws and regulations on intellectual property protection are not perfect and the enforcement is not strong, the chances of resolving it through the law may be small.” Xu Lei replied.

“Of course, in addition to taking legal action, we also vigorously publicized the fact that the campus network copied our Facebook on the Internet, but Tencent has not responded much.”

After Xu Lei finished speaking, he looked at Ye Yunzhou and waited for his instructions.

Ye Yunzhou frowned and asked Xu Lei: “By the way, what stage has our beauty pageant marketing plan reached? How is the effect?”

“Not bad, the beauty pageant will be over in about two weeks. However, the campus network also imitated our beauty pageant, and they have a lot of borderline content, which is quite attractive. Should we also…”

“Stop. Our Facebook will be a global social networking site in the future. Don’t go down that evil path. We must establish our Facebook as a great, glorious and positive model.”

Ye Yunzhou didn’t want the Facebook he founded to eventually become a “pao” dating software.

After hearing Ye Yunzhou’s words, Xu Lei blushed a little. It seems that his vision is small and he still needs to learn from the president.

Seeing that everyone was in deep thought, Ye Yunzhou coughed, attracted everyone’s attention and continued: “There are a few things we need to do next. First, continue to sue Tencent for plagiarism. We must sue it in a big way. Aren’t they going to go public? We just want the whole world to know that their products are plagiarized from us, and let their investors know that such behavior will affect their stock price. The second point is about the beauty pageant marketing. We must continue to do it. If they try to skirt the rules, we will promote positive, sunny, healthy, happy and other concepts. At the same time, the budget can be appropriately increased. As long as the effect is good, don’t be afraid to spend money.”

Ye Yunzhou paused, drank a sip of water and continued: “The third point is about the update of Facebook functions.”