Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

Skype's US headquarters is not big, and the CEO's office is already the most comfortable place surrounded by glass on both sides.

It was precisely this conspicuous position that made the COO become so enthusiastic that it was imprinted in the eyes of all employees at Skype's US headquarters.

traitor?

What traitor?

When employees who heard the word up close were curious about this question, they suddenly realized that their COO and CEO were gone, not just temporarily but forever.

But when the two executives left, one was silent and the other was in a state of enthusiasm, not at all as lonely as being fired.

On the contrary, because of the last burst of energy, they seemed to be out of trouble early and could walk with great ease!

What they didn't expect was that they thought the new owner would react violently. But they didn't expect that the group of people who should be furious quickly closed the door to the CEO's office.

This goes back and forth,

What happened?

…

The closing was not an order from Rothschild, but it was caused by him.

Just now, he thought he would have been furious at the fired executive's arrogant attitude.

But an unintentional sentence from the COO made him frown and glance at the computer screen in front of him.

Then, he was shocked by the content broadcast on the YouTube live broadcast on the screen.

The young face shown on the screen was a photo he had seen more than a month ago. What was sent with the photo at that time was the young man's new project information that was launched in November.

The young man's name is Lin Changxin, and the project he created is a social Internet project that their team is very optimistic about - Instagram. It is a classic project focusing on picture sharing, and has a social network with more picture attributes than Facebook

website.

The important thing is that this project has been designed with a mobile APP as its main focus since its launch. Because of this unique audience focus, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the best "module" for MySpace to complement the vertical field of pictures.

Therefore, before implementing the acquisition of Skype, he also asked his Aztec company to negotiate the acquisition.

He purchased 40% of the shares at a price of 50 million US dollars. He left enough room for negotiation from the beginning and showed enough courage. In any case, this price was absolutely unacceptable for the project that had just been launched for one month.

It is attractive enough.

The young man's response at that time was to think about it, because the Skype negotiation was imminent, so he kept the team in close contact, and then turned all his attention back to the Skype project.

Unexpectedly, a month and a half later, they were now sitting in Skype's US headquarters to complete this large-scale acquisition. But the young man showed up with his photo wall project in a place he least expected to see.

The blue Facebook logo background version on the camera is particularly eye-catching.

What made him even more dazzled was Ning Zimo's short hair makeup that flashed past the audience.

In particular, the person sitting next to him is none other than Sheryl Sandberg, the current iron lady CEO of Facebook.

Rothschild felt bad and quickly turned up the computer volume.

I happened to hear the voice of the host coming from the influence, "Now, I would like to invite Ms. Sheryl Sandberg to come on stage to give a speech for the photo wall project to officially join the Facebook company..."

"You are his opponents now, but you are not his opponents!"

The voice coming from the speaker merged with the shouting of the Skype COO at the door.

After saying these words, the recently fired chief operating officer of Skype rushed out of the door.

But the people in the room didn't pay attention to him.

Because, compared with his badness, the photo wall and official inclusion on Facebook are the most important things!

The moment Winston closed the door, he was still in a daze.

He was a little confused about the current situation. When he turned his head, he saw his boss Rothschild staring at him gloomily.

***+***

"Unlike Facebook, which is strong in the PC field, Lin focused on the mobile client field from the beginning when he founded the photo wall."

Standing on the podium at the Facebook product launch in San Francisco, Sheryl Sandberg raised her arms and praised the young Chinese man on the right.

If Skype, founded by Ning Zimo, the boss behind it, had not fallen into the hands of the MySpace group, she would have even told the public the story of how the young man named Lin Changxin grew up as a Skype programmer.

You know, a few months ago, when Ning Zimo introduced to him the project that Lin Changxin and Ye Xiu were going to develop, she didn't pay enough attention to it now.

But in just a few months, the photo wall that was first launched online has already made its name known to many people across the United States.

Sheryl Sandberg put away her thoughts and continued,

"As users have seen over the past two months, in this presidential election year, Photo Wall has joined this social feast in a completely different way from traditional social networks.

It is precisely by focusing on the new mobile Internet field of the smartphone iPhone 0 that Photo Wall has become a must-have social software for more than 40% of smartphone users around the world in less than 3 months."

Sheryl Sandberg glanced at Ning Zimo in the audience without leaving any trace, but she couldn't suppress the emotion in her heart.

"Don't worry too much about the new generation of mobile Internet. As long as you occupy the commanding heights in the competition with MySpace, I will inject new energy into Facebook in new areas."

This was what Ning Zimo said to her privately when she was still in the United States before the release of iPhone Zero. Unexpectedly, he had already fulfilled it in less than half a year.

Eyes facing each other,

Passed by in a flash.

Sheryl Sandberg put away her memories and continued, "It was the photo wall that was the first to try something new, which not only allowed us to understand the huge potential of this social software, but also took advantage of its opportunities to

We clearly see the potential for mobile Internet to change people’s lives in the future.

To this end, I will announce here that Facebook will officially incorporate the photo wall into a Facebook subsidiary. We will exchange 30% of the shares for US$100 million. At the same time, we will develop a Facebook membership system for the photo wall.

At the same time, although Photo Wall will soon become a subsidiary of Facebook, Facebook headquarters will give up any voting rights and will give full power to the founder, Mr. Lin, to decide on the future development of Photo Wall.

Because we know that Mr. Lin will be the correct helmsman of the photo wall after Facebook’s capital injection..."

boom,

The audience immediately went into a frenzy.

This is Facebook's new product launch conference, and the addition of the photo wall is regarded as Facebook's new product expansion.

But the cost of joining the Facebook subsidiary of the photo wall is too high.

That’s 100 million US dollars in exchange for 30% of the shares!

This means that the photo wall, which has only been in operation for more than 2 months, is estimated to have a market value of more than 300 million US dollars!

This price is not high for the current Internet, but it is an extremely high price for a new Internet player.

The reporters made noisy noises everywhere, even tending to interrupt Cheryl's further speech.

But she did not stop it but allowed the undercurrent to surge, and her thoughts followed the reporter's commotion.

The iPhone Zero, owned by Emperor Penguin Yugong Technology, has been on the market for more than four months. In less than half a year, as an important member of the Emperor Penguin family, she has witnessed the rapid development of 3G mobile Internet.

As of the end of November, that internal Emperor Penguin report listed iPhone zero sales.

With sales data of 6.75 million units per month, iPhone Zero has quickly occupied the market as an emerging mobile phone brand.

Although this kind of data is not comparable to the big traditional communication brands - Nokia, Motorola, and Samsung, this kind of performance is much better than that of the Apple mobile phone, which is also known as a "smartphone".

Such achievements are due to Ning Zimo’s advance layout, which allowed the iPhone Zero Wandoujia system to include numerous third-party applications. Just this move has already allowed the iPhone Zero and Apple mobile phones to dominate the competition in the field of smartphones.

Advantage.

Looking at the essence through the phenomenon, Cheryl feels more and more that the mobile Internet will be the most important Internet market in the future as the Internet extends to mobile terminals.

Today's pioneer in the social field - Photo Wall, can already illustrate the future trend of the mobile Internet. It is only an English language version, and with a 40% zero-terminal share of iPhone, it suddenly breaks away from the boundaries of Internet countries and regions.

Spread to the world.

Cheryl became increasingly aware that representatives of smartphones, mainly iPhone Zero, had taken the first step in the mobile Internet.

According to internal information, several smartphone brands using the Spark Android operating system as the core of mobile phone systems will also be launched on the market early next year.

In the future, the mobile Internet will continue to develop rapidly following this wave of smartphones.

And Facebook must quickly occupy a larger social share in this wave.

When the future described by Ning Zimo gradually appeared in Cheryl's mind in a huge star map, she gradually came back to her senses.

After a few seconds of not paying attention, the audience was already threatening to explode. She slowly raised her arms.

Gently pressing her palms down in front of her, Cheryl drew everyone's attention to herself.

Immediately, she cleared her throat and continued:

"Everyone, through the photo wall, we at Facebook have realized the importance of social networks on the mobile Internet, which will gradually grow in the future. Therefore, at this new product launch conference, in addition to the photo wall, we will also introduce to you the next

Our core product.”

Cheryl spoke again, making the already quiet venue suddenly become even quieter.

Social networks and mobile Internet, these two keywords were instantly engraved in the minds of reporters in the audience.

Originally, social network was just a synonym for Internet projects with social attributes in recent years.

But at this moment, social networks seem to have the possibility of becoming a future trend through Facebook's new product launch.

The mobile Internet mentioned by the Facebook Iron Lady seems to be an important part of the future of the Internet.

The sharp-thinking reporters even thought of more things. While recording on their laptops or notebooks, they also had to pay attention to the upcoming new product introductions of the iron lady on the stage.

"Now, please allow me to introduce to you the founder of another important project under Facebook - Ye. He will bring you another piece of software from Facebook -!"

***+***

Although Christmas is approaching, California's proximity to the equator still brings warm sunshine to the land.

But the temperature of over 20 degrees at noon did not make the few people in the office of Skype CEO feel warm.

It's just a morning's work, just a computer screen.

Rothschild had a chilling feeling of falling from heaven to hell.

Just yesterday, he spent the largest share of funds in the company's history and led his team through nearly 50 days of negotiations to defeat the opponent he most wanted to defeat. And from his hands, he successfully transferred Skype, which was created by the opponent himself.

Pocket it.

Even if the girl he has always wanted is taken away, he can at least be considered successful in his career but frustrated in love, right?

Because after he accepted Skype, he could build a new high wall through Skype, which has a huge number of users, and only hold an excellent opportunity in his hand to crush his opponents.

Who would have thought that the brilliant .asxs.. he had planned in his mind would hit an invisible wall from the first day he officially took over.

Facebook is at war.

photo wall,

,

Facebook mobile.

Although the strong lady of Facebook did not express that they were targeting anyone, this new product launch conference belonging to Facebook still put huge pressure on him who had just taken over Skype.

Rothschild frowned and looked at the screen. On the screen was the scene of Ning Zimo, who appeared in a new image of several reporters, delivering a speech.

He didn't quite understand why such a young man who was several years younger than him would give him such an aggressive feeling.

Suddenly, Ning Zimo's gaze penetrated towards the screen.

"As you can see, the rapidly developing Internet brings new information to everyone every day, allowing everyone to see new future possibilities. But I don't think Facebook's launch of new products will be the most popular Internet consultation this Christmas."

Ning Zimo scratched the short stubble on the top of his head, and the hard touch on his fingertips made him frown unaccustomedly.

The image of short hair and the stern expression in the triangle between his eyebrows makes his image, which rarely appears in the media, look extremely serious.

A chill ran down the screen and crossed someone's eyes, just like the scene that happened during the Skype negotiation yesterday.

A sudden blow,

Penetrate the heart.

But he suddenly realized,

This seems to be just the beginning.