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There was a time when Zhou Buqi thought that interpersonal relationships were only needed for doing business in China, not in the United States.

But in fact, interpersonal relationships are social relationships.

It is especially important in the United States.

Fortunately, Zhou Buqi is very good at this, and he also has very matching and enviable network resources.

This time in Los Angeles, his schedule is three days.

On the second day, he will have a party at home and get together with good friends in the circle on Christmas Eve. Watch a movie at home, and then everyone will chat together. His friends in the circle are all from Silicon Valley, all men.

It’s really boring for seven or eight men to get together.

Fortunately, this is Hollywood.

Zhou Buqi invited five Hollywood actresses. Because the movie they watched was "Spider-Man" which will be released during the Christmas season, all the actresses invited were Marvel actresses, namely Scarlett Johansson, Emily VanCamp, Elizabeth Olsen, Evangeline Lilly and Jennifer Lawrence, the female lead of "The Hunger Games".

The friends who attended the party were Evan Spiegel of Snapchat, Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn, Nata Blechek of Airbnb, Daniel Ek, founder of Spotify, Elon Musk of Tesla, Sergey Brin of Google, Don Mattrick and Fu Sheng of Changyou, and Paul Graham, founder of YC Investment, who was invited to attend.

There were more men than women, so that women would not be neglected.

Zuckerberg was also on the invitation list.

However, he was still angry about the Panda Mobile incident and did not attend.

The purpose of this kind of social gathering is mainly to get to know each other and get familiar with each other.

For example, to introduce Spiegel, Daniel Ek, Mattrick, Fu Sheng and others who were under Zhou Buqi, and Zhou Buqi also wanted to meet Paul Graham, who invested in YC.

The location was Zhou Buqi's home in Beverly Hills.

So the house was cleaned up early.

The wife and children were not there, and the Japanese maid was not there either. It became a very typical American mansion and super mansion.

After the guests arrived, a very interesting scene appeared.

The actresses all dressed up, with high heels and evening gowns. It was not easy to dress up like this in the winter, just like attending the Oscars. After getting off the car, they took off their coats, and appeared as bright as walking on the red carpet, with spring breeze on their faces.

Zhou Buqi's friends were different.

They were all bulging down jackets.

After taking off the down jackets, they were all wearing hoodies that cost $100 each. All their belongings added up were not as good as a pair of shoes for the actresses.

Zhou Buqi was quite familiar with these actresses, especially Scarlett Johansson. As the top female star of Marvel, she had contact with Boss Zhou several times and seduced him several times, but unfortunately she failed.

Scarlett finally had to give up the idea.

"Zhou, who is that Sergey in the blue plaid shirt?" Scarlett had just chatted with a guy for 20 minutes, and ran over to ask Zhou Buqi about the situation.

Zhou Buqi took a look and smiled, "Sergey Brin."

Scarlett whispered, "He is very rich, right? He is a very nice person."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Yes, very rich, in the world's richest list... probably in the top 20, he is the founder of Google."

"Is that so!"

Scarlett took a deep breath.

Sure enough, the people around Mr. Zhou are all big shots.

Zhou Buqi knew what she meant and smiled, "But I think it's hard for you to get close to him."

Scarlett had seduced Boss Zhou several times, and even once stood naked in front of him for him to admire. She also carefully selected and sent him a few nude photos of herself, so she was not shy at all and said directly, "Does he not like beautiful girls?"

"He may not like this method. You can choose him..." Zhou Buqi coughed and pointed to Spiegel of Snapchat, "He is single and has been anxious to find a partner."

"I dated him." Scarlett shook her head, then covered her mouth and laughed, lowering her voice, "He is a quick shooter, I don't like him."

Zhou Buqi almost burst out laughing, and then pointed at Fu Sheng, "That guy might be okay, you can go and try."

At this time, a young man came over.

He was not invited by Zhou Buqi.

He was brought by Musk, a senior executive of SpaceX.

This guy is a bit of a tech geek, with low EQ, so he doesn't care whether this is the female companion of Mr. Zhou. He handed Scarlett Johansson a business card and said with a smile: "If you want to see the spaceship, you can contact me."

When the actress ran over to talk to Fu Sheng, a fat man weighing more than 300 pounds came over - Reid Hoffman.

This is a heavyweight in Silicon Valley, and there is no one in Silicon Valley that he doesn't know.

In his early years, he was Musk's deputy and served as senior vice president of PayPal. After leaving PayPal to work alone, he couldn't stop, invested in many large companies, and founded the business social platform LinkedIn.

Hoffman smiled and said: "Where is Mark? Why didn't he come?"

Zhou Buqi said: "There are more and more business frictions between me and Facebook, and he may not feel comfortable."

"No way?" Hoffman laughed, "I thought it was because of me!"

"You? What's wrong with you?"

"Facebook is also doing business social networking, launching Facebook_work, entering this field to compete with LinkedIn. I have made a request that LinkedIn must fight back against them in an all-round way, without mercy."

"Ah?"

Zhou Buqi couldn't help laughing.

This is really a big tone.

Ziweixing can confront Facebook head-on, and LinkedIn must also be ruthless to Facebook?

Isn't it a bit exaggerated?

The current market value of LinkedIn is less than one-tenth of Facebook.

Hoffman asked: "I have always wondered why you don't do business social networking?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "It is impossible for me to cover every field."

"This doesn't seem to be a reason."

Hoffman is an Internet expert, known as the "network king" of Silicon Valley, and this wording can't fool him.

Zhou Buqi said: "LinkedIn has done a good job in this field, and I don't see the possibility of surpassing LinkedIn. Maybe there will be some new opportunities in the future, or LinkedIn will make some mistakes, and I may also enter this market."

This is not true either.

The real reason is the lack of experimentation.

LinkedIn is not just a recruitment website, it is a business social platform. Business elites can post and share some workplace content here and communicate with each other. This is a social platform specifically open to business elites.

However, there is no such field in the domestic Internet.

Ziweixing also has recruitment products in China. The early fresh graduate job search website has now developed into a mobile job search app. It is the recruitment app with the largest number of mobile users, with more than 10 million daily active users.

But this is just a recruitment product.

There is no social function.

There is no market for business social networking in China, which is also related to the overall environment.

The work pressure in China is high and the work is busy. Business elites have no free time to share some workplace things. Even if they have, they are unwilling to share their valuable experience for free, so as not to teach the apprentice and starve the master.

Some developed countries in Europe and the United States are different. The working environment is more relaxed, it is easy to find a job, and the competitive pressure is small. After work, you can share your work experience and workplace experience and communicate with more professionals.

Because he had never done similar business in China, Zhou Buqi lacked a deep understanding of business social networking.

He had no idea what to do in the US market.

Hoffman hesitated for a moment and suddenly asked, "What do you think of LinkedIn?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Very good! Don't forget, I also invested in LinkedIn, and I read the financial statements every issue."

Hoffman turned his head and stared at him, "Have you ever thought about merging Ziweixing International and LinkedIn?"

"Ah?"

Zhou Buqi was shocked.

He really hadn't thought about it!