Wall Street Legend

A few days later, there were eight more arowanas in the tank, among which a bright black one was the most conspicuous. It was said to be quite precious. The fish cost him more than 50,000 US dollars in total. The people from the aquarium flew to Los Angeles to help Ye Dongqing select them. , the quality is very good.

There is also an extra large tropical aquarium in the study. Because the room temperature remains at more than 20 degrees all year round, there is no fear that they will die due to low water temperature. If a person with tens of millions of dollars in wealth says that he cannot afford the electricity bill, then He will definitely be laughed at. This small problem is no longer within his scope of consideration. His own comfort is the most important thing.

After the pots of green plants were moved in and the decoration was completed, Ye Dongqing went to settle the final payment with the decoration company this morning, and then came to the office building where Facebook is located. Everything went well with Tamsui Fund, and he was ready to keep an eye on this Internet company. , first cultivate the user group and then talk about it.

Staring at the numbers on the screen every day, feeling happy or sad about the rise or fall, is not a good feeling. Over time, it is easy to get heart disease. If you just let it go, Ms. Vigo has returned to Freshwater Fund as a "consultant" , responsible for coordinating the group of interns to get into work.

"Have you guys thought about a slogan? I thought of one before I went to bed last night and thought it would be suitable for our company."

As soon as Ye Dongqing arrived at the company, he said loudly and enthusiastically that he was going to add a slogan to the homepage, a simple and direct sentence to explain the theme of the program.

An employee responded cooperatively: "What?"

"Your community network communication platform."

"...Okay, it seems pretty good, boss."

All the employees in the company are older than Ye Dongqiang, and it is very stressful for them to flatter him. Fortunately, this is not popular on Facebook, and the atmosphere is more relaxed and free.

As the boss, Ye Dongqing had the greatest say and immediately made the decision: "That's it. Remember to add it in later. Also, I hope you can redesign a more comprehensive set of registration information so that users can rely on these Information, you can easily find your classmates who are also registered, and show it to me after you finish it."

Mr. Alfred didn't seem to have slept well last night. He clapped his hands lazily to attract attention: "Please go to the forum where you left yesterday's message. Don't leave a message and ignore it. We must let more students see us. products, use your brain to attract them to sign up.”

The extremely brief morning meeting ended in two minutes, and all the more than fifty employees on site began to get busy.

The importance of optimizing the product is temporarily put in the second place. The first problem is to attract users first. This is probably like a baby learning to crawl first, and then thinking about how to walk. They did not notice this some time ago and patronized Get the product right.

I spent more than 10 million US dollars on a customized supporting server from Oracle, and now it is too late to return it. If I invested so much money and ended up building a failed startup, it would be a great shame for Ye Dongqing, no less than I copied the answers but got a zero score.

He returned to the office and logged into a simple program developed by his company to check yesterday's user data.

It shows that there are more than 6,700 new users. The total number of accounts logged in yesterday was more than 10,400. The total number of registered people has exceeded 24,000. The base is still very small, but this increase is enough for Ye Dongqing. Satisfied.

The date displayed in the lower right corner of the computer was February 4th. Three days had passed quietly since he asked company employees to attract new users in the forum.

Asking people to send product news by themselves was too inefficient. Ye Dongqing was forced to ask his former hacker friend Paul Kutcher for help, trying to get him to hack ICQ and send a Facebook URL to each user.

Putting aside the matter of being shameless, the method was pretty good, but unfortunately Paul told him clearly that he couldn't do it on his own, and thanked him on the spot for thinking so highly of himself.

You know, ICQ's parent company has already been acquired by AOL. Although AOL's stock price collapsed and turned into a junk stock, causing a disaster for Time Warner Group and causing the evaporation of hundreds of billions of dollars in wealth, the scale is still not to be underestimated, and firewalls are not that easy. Break through.

The shortcut is blocked, so you have to continue to work hard on your own. The efforts in recent days are not without effect, and the number of users is increasing day by day.

Taking into account the students' social circle, as long as two or three people play together, it is possible to attract dozens of new users. Ye Dongqing hesitated because he had seen similar opinions in books.

People in the company have been busy browsing forums in recent days, copying, pasting, leaving messages and links about Facebook and then leaving quickly. Mr. Alfred is also trying to contact the administrators of some large forums to negotiate with them. The price of advertising is expected to exceed US$4 million.

It's a pity that schools are not in session recently. Otherwise, Ye Dongqing would definitely pick out one hundred and eighty schools and put up billboards at the entrances of those universities and middle schools. Everyone would place them, making sure that all students could see them. This would require the help of many people and would probably cost a lot of money. It will be too low, but the possible effect should be very good.

There is no point in being anxious about cultivating users. It may take several years to get ahead. Ye Dongqing stayed in the office and read the financial report for January, and then started to browse some interesting news through Google. After suddenly thinking of something, he still found the time. I played a round of Red Alert and tried a few other mini-games to pass the time.

This is probably the difference between a boss and an employee. Others think he is busy, but he is actually hiding in the office playing games. Even if someone sees him, he will not say anything.

A young girl with an unattractive appearance knocked on the door and walked into Ye Dongqing's office. She put the documents on the table and said, "The information Mr. Alfred asked me to send contains the favorites of several young people." The contact information of the forum administrator and the quotation they requested, if you think it can be done we will start working together.”

Ye Dongqing picked it up and took a look. There are two charging models. One is based on the number of clicks, and the other is the total price per day or week. It is equivalent to renting advertising space in Times Square or a certain subway station, except that the ads are Moving to the Internet, websites with more than 50 million daily views charge as much as 100,000 US dollars a day, which is 3 million US dollars a month.

No one wants to do a thankless job. There is no free lunch in the world. The most mainstream money-making model in the Internet industry is advertising fees. He sighed deeply and thought about when his Facebook could make money in this way.

Watching it from beginning to end, I said, "Just contact them based on this quote. Try the short-term effect first. If it doesn't meet expectations, stop it immediately."

"Okay boss."

Simply and neatly, the female employee turned around and left. As soon as she left the house, she turned back and took the quotation away with her in embarrassment.

…

Facebook has the foundation to catch fire.

Ye Dongqing has been building it as a big company from the beginning, spending money where it should be spent, hiring experts where needed, timelines, personal information homepages, homepages, etc., are designed directly according to the mature version of the future. Recently, even Trying to develop a program that allows users to chat online with another person in real time to seize ICQ's market share.

Many users of this mature social model have already felt that the trouble is that unless they buy a digital camera, they cannot upload photos for others to see. Therefore, the number of users who send mood text is far more than the number of users who send pictures. Many users.

He is still renting a server, and his own server is still being developed by Oracle. He always feels that there is no sense of substitution. After Ye Dongqing entered his Facebook profile, he updated his information and pushed a text that read: "We Facebook is being optimized. If you have any comments, please feel free to send them to us through the service interface. This is a brand new program. Invite your friends to join this online community!"

He has an account, and as long as the user joins, he will automatically appear in the recommended friends list with the note "Founder of Facebook". Currently, more than 3,000 people are following Ye Dongqing's updates.

Just as he was about to turn off the computer and leave, Ye Dongqing suddenly thought of another function that could be added. He was thinking that since he was planning to add text communication, why not be more direct and integrate the call function?

Since Skype is so popular, I should be able to develop it myself now. I searched decisively for the company "Skype" and found no information.

I immediately got up and went to find Director Alfred and told him about the matter. After the other party called in several outstanding software engineers to inquire, he asked: "Are you sure this is possible? There may be some technical difficulties. Similar I’ve heard of the theory, but no one has actually implemented it, the difficulty requirements are very high, and we already don’t have enough manpower.”

"If you don't have enough people, just recruit more. Think about it, even if some people want to save phone bills, they will use our products. It can make Facebook more perfect."

Ye Dongqing made a decisive decision and then told Mr. Alfred: "You don't have to worry about money. I will get more money soon, so you think our company is still short of people, right?"

"Yes, we need a few software engineers with experience in this field to assist in development. I remember reading this article. I should be able to find suitable candidates in Silicon Valley..."

Confused.

The next day, Ye Dongqing grabbed the reluctant Mr. Alfred House and flew to the West Coast together. They planned to go to Silicon Valley to meet a few people and try to develop a product for making calls over the Internet.

The Internet startup environment in New York is more than a little different from that in Silicon Valley. As long as you are willing to spend money, all the software engineers you want can be found in Silicon Valley.

He didn't know when Skype would suddenly come out, so he had to hurry up and prepare in advance...