Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

Feeling a chill running down the screen and past his eyes, Rothschild suddenly remembered the scene that occurred during the Skype negotiation yesterday.

"Because, people who have no lower limits will make people who have no lower limit ideas become a secret!"

Those were the words he heard just yesterday. The always gentle young man showed an evil expression that he had never seen before.

And his penetrating gaze at that time had an even greater impact on him than the fact that Ling Shengnan was his girlfriend.

A sudden blow,

through the eyes,

Straight to the heart.

Suddenly, when Rothschild thought of this sentence again, he suddenly realized that that sentence was not just a warning, it was more like a beginning.

And he seemed to have touched a certain button in an area inadvertently.

This button has now sent some kind of start signal to the outside world.

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Silicon Valley, located in California, has been very lively recently. First, Skype changed hands again and today Facebook released a new product.

Jenny, who was sitting in her office in Mountain View and watching the live broadcast, holding a cup of coffee, had been chatting with her partners.

But when Ning Zimo's short image appeared on the screen, her surprised expression immediately attracted the attention of the two people opposite her.

Meg Houlihan was curious, "What's the matter, you are surprised by the boss's new image?"

"This short hair exposed all the shortcomings of his handsome face." Jenny curled her lips.

"What's wrong with that face?" Meg Houlihan frowned.

Jenny stretched out her hand and pointed at the screen, and her finger landed on Ning Zimo's forehead exposed on the screen.

"Did you see that short hair makes him look fierce when he frowns?"

"But shouldn't the boss be a little dignified?"

"But, this way you are not as handsome as usual."

Evan Williams watched helplessly as the two partners skipped the topic and started discussing the appearance of his boss, and suddenly felt helpless.

One minute they were discussing their recent work arrangements, and now the lens of a boss has drawn the attraction between the two partners together.

Although he was also his boss, it was always a strange feeling to listen to two female partners who often stayed together discussing another man.

Could it be,

envy?

He couldn't help but shake his head. This action was noticed by the two partners on the side, and they looked over curiously.

"What's wrong, Evan," Jenny laughed, "don't you support my opinion?"

Evan could only say helplessly, "I said, guys, we are discussing important work. Although the boss itself is related to work, but he skipped work and talked about appearance..."

"Okay, let's continue talking about work." Jenny spread her hands, "Anyway, I can only look at the boss's handsomeness."

Seeing that she quickly pulled back, Evan Williams calmed down and returned to the topic.

"After the topic of social dominance has been raised at this time today, there will still be a lot of work that the three of us need to work together."

Evan Williams, Jenny Bass, and Meg Houlihan were the people in charge that Ning Zimo brought in when he established the [Red Man Project] and [Blog] in 2002. Now, they are in charge of Twitter respectively.

Influencer programs and blogs.

Due to various promotional activities, the three of them have always been in close contact with each other.

In the past few years, they have cooperated tacitly, not only operating the [Influencer Plan] and [Blog] properly, but also effectively connecting the influencer promotion resources, benefiting Gmail, LinkedIn, YouTube, ACS, Bing and even Twitter itself

Very shallow.

The three of them sat together today and have been discussing a very important matter.

Although there was a little hiccup, the three people who returned to the topic quickly adjusted themselves.

Jenny took over Evan's words and said, "I have arranged for the information on the topic of social dominance to be released to the Internet celebrity 'WikiLeaks' who has been working with me for many years, and he will transmit it through blog posts."

"I have arranged corresponding exposure," Meg Houlihan followed up. "The blog has done a lot of preparation work, and users in the blogosphere will continue to see the exposure of this article today."

"The same goes for Twitter," Evan Williams nodded. "In less than a day, I can guarantee that his topic will be in the top three of the trending list."

"We have been preparing for such a long time. Although we have temporarily changed the method, the result is the same." Jenny smiled and looked at Evan, "Next, when you come to the stage, don't forget our contribution."

"Of course, every step we have taken today is the result of our cooperation." Evan said in a deep voice, "Even if we welcome new results, it must be us together."

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In the social network of 2008, due to the emergence of short message platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, blogs, which had been popular since 2004, were gradually driven out of the center of Internet social networking due to their lengthy content and closed circles.

In particular, Twitter, as a broadcaster, has occupied an important part of the emerging social network since the day it appeared because of its widely advertised conductive attributes.

But on the day when Facebook was busy launching products, a sudden revelation on Twitter suddenly shifted people's attention to the blog.

"Skype changed owners yesterday, and today Facebook released a new product. The Internet has recently been surrounded by undercurrents surrounding social networks, but how many people know how powerful social networks are today?"

A user named "WikiLeaks" posted this content. Since it happened to occupy the hot spots of the day, this content, which was only released in the morning, quickly climbed to the third place on Twitter's hot topic list.

It immediately attracted many clicks from other users, but when users who followed the list clicked in, they discovered that the tweet itself had no substantive content.

But how can a tweet without any substantive content attract the attention of others?

Out of curiosity, curiosity finally drove people to click on the blog link directed by this tweet.

Then, the title still led people into an unknown world.

"The Social Overlord You Don't Know"

With the word "overlord" in the title, it immediately attracts the user's attention.

Curiosity drives people's desire to explore the past, and the mysterious content is revealed nakedly in front of everyone.

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In recent days, the Rothschild consortium’s acquisition of Skype has fired the first shot in the unknown social network war.

Many people may be wondering why this descendant of the four traditional families suddenly joined the Internet world, and why he is said to have fired the first shot in the social network war.

It doesn't matter, everyone, listen to me. Let's start with Rothschild.

Speaking of the Rothschild consortium, we have to mention its founder - Richard Rothschild.

This man is the youngest brother of the contemporary head of the Rothschild family, and a top student from the top British school - Eton College.

Coming from one of the traditional four major families, coupled with his status as a top student at Eton College, this young wealthy N-generation was a unique existence when he first appeared on the Internet.

This unique existence first appeared in front of people in an unknown year in 2003.

In those years when social networks were not developed, the rich N generation who had already acquired Inktomi search in advance, because of his successive layouts, forced Yahoo, which was eager to develop its search engine, to acquire him for US$1.63 billion.

Its Overture search engine was acquired.

You know, Overture was one of the most important searches in the early 21st century. Before Bing assumed dominance, Overture occupied a considerable share of the search market.

Richard Rothschild acquired Overture in advance with his extraordinary vision a long time ago. According to the final acquisition price of Yahoo, Richard Rothschild obtained as much as

Hundred times return on investment.

I have to say, this is a genius investment.

It's just that the portal website at that time only reported Yahoo's acquisition worth more than one billion, and on the contrary, this investment genius was omitted.

But in any case, that was the first time that Richard Rothschild, a disciple of the four traditional families, appeared on the Internet.

It was also this appearance that made him develop an indissoluble bond with the Internet.

At this point, you may think that he is the social overlord I am talking about.

Emmmm, yes, because his company confirmed that it acquired Skype and defeated a creative genius that Silicon Valley talks about, it is easy for everyone to come to this conclusion.

But it doesn’t matter. There is always a larger volume under the iceberg than what can be seen. Let us peel off the cocoon and draw out the details.

Richard Rothschild is a top student at Eton College and a son of a wealthy family. In addition, he was very successful when selling Overture in 2003, which suddenly made him famous in the Internet industry.

Fame and strength were his important pillars for investing in the Internet industry. After that, Richard Rothschild began his unfailing investment.

This investment genius, who became a billionaire in 2003, has continued to accumulate his own capital through constant investment and sales over the years.

It was not until 2008 that he finally saw an excellent opportunity with his keen vision.

This opportunity is MySpace, owned by News Corporation.

Different from the operations in the past few years, Richard Rothschild acquired MySpace for a high price of up to 600 million US dollars because he was obviously optimistic about the future of social networks.

This time he no longer uses investment, but leads his team directly into the social field.

I believe that at that time, no one was optimistic about their acquisition. Because MySpace, which was declining in the social field at that time, was more like a hot potato that had been drained of all its oil by News Corporation.

It wasn't until the dust settled on the new sellers of Skype that those who had not been optimistic about MySpace in the past suddenly realized it.

If Skype's user base is combined with MySpace, a new social empire will definitely be formed.

At this time, people who had originally laughed at MySpace being acquired during its decline began to praise the wisdom of the acquirer, Richard Rothschild.

Because everyone realizes that as long as he acquires Skype, he can revive MySpace, which has already reached its peak.

After all, in everyone's mind, Skype has the largest user base in the social field. This huge user base will definitely become the biggest reliance on the combination of Skype and MySpace.

At this time, the Silicon Valley genius who founded and then sold Skype and MySpace became a new target of ridicule.

Because he founded Skype and MySpace.

These two once dominant software were sold to others in a "short-sighted" way when he was doing well, and then he bought Facebook for US$50 million to quench his thirst.

Now, the brilliance he once created has been connected by another investment genius.

Obviously, the two "former overlords" who are connected in series will make Facebook, which he invested at a low price, face an opponent with a huge user base.

I think most people should hold this view.

Even Facebook's new product launch conference to be held today will be seen as Facebook's helpless counterattack in silence.

But if my article is just to praise Richard Rothschild, the investment genius, like you, I believe it will have little value.

So, no matter what, I have to bring you something new.

It's just that all the new things I describe are very inconspicuous.

Just a few hours before I published the article, Twitter, a social network platform that has always been unknown, finally announced its operating statements for the first three quarters of 2008 on their official website.

In the first three quarters of 2008, Twitter, which has 100 million users worldwide, has quietly earned US$2.5 billion in revenue.

Perhaps, this information is not so eye-catching after the integration of Skype and MySpace.

But hidden behind Twitter's financial report is the news that they are about to go public.

Perhaps, you are curious about how Twitter is directly related to the topic of this article.

Then I will tell you silently that Twitter publishes operating statements in order to go public, and before going public, Twitter's equity formula must include the disclosure of shareholder identity information.

And just a few hours ago, in the shareholder structure disclosed by Twitter, the name Ning Zimo was clearly listed, and he held as much as 67% of the shares!

In other words, when people are still "worried" about how Facebook can compete with the behemoth of Skype and MySpace.

Ning Zimo lifted the veil and revealed to everyone the social empire he had been operating silently.

And after all these displays are done, everyone will definitely see a social war.

A social war between Skype plus MySpace and Facebook plus Twitter.

An unprecedented battle between investment genius and creative genius.

In this eternal battle, there will only be one winner in the end.

And this winner must be the future social overlord!

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