Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

{Time: August 1, 2003}

{Location: United States-California}

After Chen Shijun's reminder, Ning Zimo remembered it.

Patent or company counter-search are definitely the best ways to find key contacts of dsidatotech.

Although Western countries have many shortcomings, they started much faster than Eastern countries in terms of patents and company management.

Therefore, dsidatotech is completely traceable through these two methods. This matter can be left to Zhang Miaoying, which is her area of ​​expertise. It just so happens that these days, they have also digested the information exchanged by Buffett at lunch, and they are

No time to do these things.

Ning Zimo felt very happy when he thought that smart devices had solutions in the software operating ecosystem, and that dsidatotech company also had solutions for the corresponding technology.

Turning to look at Chen Shijun, Ning Zimo raised his chin and asked, "How is [myspace] developing recently? Your rival Jennifer's [Celebrity Plan] is the most suitable promotion resource for [myspace]. Last month I saw

When we arrived, your development seemed to be quite good."

As two key projects that remain in Silicon Valley, although [Lingying] and [myspace] under [bing ecological chain] did not move as fast as skrpe in the early stages of development, the comparison has no direction.

In terms of previous lives, the current development is indeed good.

Lingying is currently developing towards the next million or 4 million users.

With the help of the [Celebrity Project], myspace has gradually returned to slow development after a surge of 3 million users in a month. At present, after half a year of development, myspace already has 8 million users. Because bloggers and celebrity users have come to myspace

The transfer has driven a large number of user groups to move to myspace.

When I occasionally talked to Chen Shijun about this on skrpe some time ago, he was always very excited. But today it was a little strange. Ning Zimo couldn't see any happy reaction on his face.

"It's okay. The number of users is slowly increasing, and functions are being added step by step. There are no big fluctuations." Chen Shijun said calmly.

From his "calm" tone, Ning Zimo noticed something strange and stared at him curiously.

Feeling Ning Zimo's attention, Chen Shijun turned his face to look at him, curled his lips and said, "The concept of myspace is very good, and it even made me full of passion for a time. But for some reason, I was in the process of pushing forward.

It gradually fails to ignite my passion."

After a pause, Chen Shijun spread his hands on the steering wheel and said, "Sachs and I have also talked about this topic. He thinks that my life is too dull, and to a certain extent, my broken love has caused me to lose my passion.

But I don’t think so. I originally planned to find a suitable time to chat with you. It was originally planned to be after this version update was launched. But you came during this time, but I didn’t even think about how to talk to you.

"

"You and Kelly broke up?" Ning Zimo was surprised.

Chen Shijun did not answer directly, but just nodded. After a pause, he added, "We are all adults. After all, we are not in the same circle, so this matter does not have a big impact on me."

Ning Zimo kept looking at Chen Shijun's profile, and his mind was racing to find the reason.

The breakup of Kelly and Chen Shijun, judging from the situation, was not the main reason why he lost his passion for MySpace. Although Ning Zimo once thought about letting Chen Shijun return to his previous life, after thinking about it, he still felt that he should help this old man first.

Man it would be better if he found the reason for losing his passion.

Chen Shijun didn't wait for Ning Zimo's reply, and continued talking to himself, "I've been wondering if it's because myspace itself is a product where concept trumps technology. But I remember that at the beginning, I was

Myspace is still very interested. And Sachs is still full of confidence in the future..."

"Perhaps you and Sachs, the two co-founders, don't have the same temperament. At the same time, you always like some challenging jobs." Ning Zimo suddenly thought of this question.

"???" Chen Shijun looked at Ning Zimo with a question mark on his face.

"When you were at Beiba, you were already used to working with a technical partner like me. But in the early days of myspace, I originally considered asking Sachs, a managerial person, to cooperate with you, but I never thought about the temperament of the two of you.

Still quite mismatched.

In addition, myspace is indeed not a very technical project, so for you who have been accustomed to unlimited creativity when you were at Beibao, after myspace gradually became formal, innovation has become a step-by-step work for the team.

Keeping an eye on every step without detail will cause you to lose your passion for innovation.”

Ning Zimo gradually understood and reversed the problem of his old partner.

Chen Shijun thought for a while, frowned and said, "emmmm, it's really because myspace is too untechnical, so if I continue to develop in such a step-by-step manner, I'm afraid I will become the first person to jump out of the myspace team if I lose my passion.

The founder of.”

Ning Zimo nodded, but couldn't think of how to explain.

During the two years since my rebirth, I have definitely missed every step. Every step I took was carried out according to the plan, and everyone around me revolved around me.

Originally, I always thought this was the best way, because only I know the future development direction best. But because of this, I never thought about the feelings of the people around me. Therefore, I unconsciously put the creative friends around me

They used screws.

This may bring considerable benefits to the future, but it turns out to be a person who simply pursues results.

If things go on like this, I will actually lose my passion.

And isn’t this the reason why I feel life is boring?

No wonder I always feel lonely in the dead of night.

It’s because I mix work and life and spend my time too mechanically.

"How about you give yourself a holiday and give me some time to think about what we should do next." Ning Zimo said with a smile, "It's all my fault that I have planned all the details in the past, so that you

Everything you do is limited.”

Chen Shijun glanced at Ning Zimo, and he saw the desolation on the old man's face.

Frowning, Chen Shijun shook his head and said, "Actually, you think too much. You have always been the creative guy in our small group. In addition to admiring you, our group is also learning from you. This is not

There is no problem. And among the key points you just mentioned, one thing is right. I lost my passion just because the myspace project is too boring."

???

When Ning Zimo heard Chen Shijun's words, he couldn't turn around for a moment.

This is, are you thinking too much?

"When a group of people work together, there must always be an absolute decision-maker. Just like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, because different leadership styles will create different team styles."

Chen Shijun glanced at Ning Zimo and said with a smile, "When you came to Beibao, if the CEO was Elon Musk, you wouldn't have much room for innovation at that time. On the contrary, it was Peter Thiel.

He didn’t understand technology, so he gave the technical team enough room for development. And you became the absolute leader of the technical team at that time.”

After a pause, Chen Shijun continued, "Everyone likes you, a creative guy, to lead us in the absolutely right direction, but everyone has slightly different views on value.

Just like Hoffman is good at networking, so he is very motivated to take the lead in leading the company. But Levchin specializes in technology, so he separated from the leading team and went to do the [senior programmer incubation center] you mentioned to play a greater role.

personal value.

Paul and Pan Yu, one is good at technology and the other is good at security, so they can work together on ACS.

Sachs is good at resource mobilization and market analysis, so he has full confidence in MySpace with the help of the "Red Man Project".

The reason why I lost my passion for the myspace project was simply because this project didn’t have any technical difficulty for me that made me unmotivated.”

After all, they are partners who often stay together for food, housing, transportation and work. Even if they were busy during that time in Beibao, the three people who grew flowers at Beibao would often chat, so that from that time on, the three of them had established a deep relationship.

friendship, trust and understanding.

With such a foundation of trust, Chen Shijun's analysis made Ning Zimo feel better. At least the old guys around him didn't have problems because of their own gesticulations, so they didn't have as many worries as he just did.

"That's good~~" Ning Zimo shook his head, "I thought it was my way that made it difficult for you."

Chen Shijun smiled when he heard this, and reached out to pat Ning Zimo on the shoulder, "Man, we are the iron triangle in Beibao. We will definitely be able to work together for a long time in the future. Although it is not forever, I believe that we will fight together to achieve great success.

Sometimes it can create more value and meaning for the society."

"Okay," Ning Zimo finally felt relieved. After thinking about it, he raised his eyebrows again, "Maybe I should tell you about another idea of ​​mine, and it is a very technical idea. It will definitely ignite you.

interest."

Chen Shijun stared at the boss, "Are you going too fast? How can you have new projects?"

"Of course." Ning Zimo nodded.

After a pause, Ning Zimo said, "Although only about 20% of users currently use high-speed Internet, I understand that the popularization of high-speed Internet is an inevitable trend. In the future, the development of the Internet will definitely enter a new stage starting from next year.

.

Just look at the fact that people now spend more and more time traveling on the Internet. Whether it is Lingying in the professional field or MySpace in the social field, they are all beneficiaries of this trend. Therefore, we all know that the future of the Internet is promising."

"Of course, myspace just doesn't have much technical content, but in terms of content, myspace is still quite good." Chen Shijun nodded and said, "In the future, the Internet will definitely penetrate into every place. There is no doubt about it."

"Well, then I will talk to you about the new project I want based on this."

Smiling, Chen Shijun curled his lips and said, "Come on, our creative genius, let's see if you have any challenges that can ignite my passion."

"The era of the Internet is the era of portals, because the network is a one-way provision by information providers and a one-way acceptance and understanding by network users; but after our Lingying and myspace went online, this model is changing.

This way of communicating between people using the Internet as a communication channel can be called an era. In this era, the Internet is a platform, and the provider of information has changed from a portal-type single sender to a platform where users provide information themselves.

And spread it to other users through the network, and obtain information from other users."

"Yes, that's right. It's great that you used software versions to explain the differences between the two eras of the Internet." Chen Shijun said with a smile.

After all, Chen Shijun was born as a software developer, so he could quickly understand it by explaining it in terms of versions.

Seeing that he understood, Ning Zimo continued, "Since the times are changing, the needs of Internet users in this era are also changing, and only by formally seizing this change can Lingying and Myspace stand out.

Then we can deduce the needs of people of the era from our current small successes, and we will definitely be able to find ideas that correspond to these needs.

For example, myspace develops user groups by leveraging people's individual needs for music and greatly strengthening the point of music.

According to the characteristics of myspace to enhance music, we appropriately diverged our thinking to consider.

Will people have demand for customized video content in the next stage?”

"video……"

Chen Shijun pondered.

But Ning Zi was impatient again, "People's demand for film and television content comes more from TV and movies. These are contents created by film and television companies and fixed content created by professionals. They have fixed routines and

There is no unlimited creativity. Just like the popular music on myspace, most of them are actually from niche music producers..."

"Yes, not everyone likes popular things, and people don't like their thinking to be controlled by popular aesthetics. So, no matter what aspect, in order to show individuality, everyone is actually very interested in creative content.

Radio stations, music charts, and TV programs all have fixed channels. Therefore, we need personalized content."

Ning Zimo added appropriately, "If there is content recorded by the user with a camera or camera..."

"Users record the content themselves and then upload it to the website for others to see. Because the producer has no established method, they are all personalized short videos."

“You can call it a short video!”

"Yes, yes, yes"

Chen Shijun nodded crazily and said excitedly, "In this way, we can expand a professional video site to serve those who have personalized video needs."

"The makers are users, and those who appreciate it are also users, and we are just a platform. But because it is a site owned by us, it is still a link in the [bing ecological chain]."

Chen Shijun's eyes sparkled and he said happily, "This is very challenging and I like it very much."

"Then the oil pipeline project will be left to you?"

"Oil pipe?"

Ning Zimo nodded and said with a smile, "Well, oil pipe, this is a project that will ignite your passion."