mesbooks Chapter 128: Weibo Goes Online, Shen Fei’S Money Fraud Begins (3, Please Subscribe Automatically)
Chapter 128: Weibo Goes Online, Shen Fei’S Money Fraud Begins (3, Please Subscribe Automatically)
Three days later.
Shen Fei walked out of the bathroom refreshed.
"After filming this movie, contact Li Wei."
Glancing at Song Jia, Shen Fei said calmly: "You can sign with Wanli Film and Television. If there is a suitable role, I will ask him to arrange it for you."
"Thank you, Mr. Shen."
Song Jia said to Shen Fei obediently.
"Here's a check for a million dollars to buy a car."
Shen Fei gave her another check and told Song Jia: "If I have time, I will send you a message."
"OK.
Song Jia nodded quickly.
She understood what Shen Fei meant. To him, she was just a lover who could come and go as soon as he was called.
But that's fine, who is not following, not to mention such a rich and rich man, she is willing to give what she can give, everyone gets what they need.
Shen Fei watched her get up and clean up, and was quite satisfied with Wei Jia.
She has a good figure, a pretty face, and she is willing to go out of her way.
Speaking of being with her, there are more tricks than in some places in the previous life. Looking at the candles and whips on the ground, Shen Fei recalled the absurdity of the past two days, and was really a little helpless.
Other people's visiting team went to the set, but it was better for me, and the visiting team abducted the actress to the hotel.
It's outrageous!
A few hours later, Shen Fei got on the soft sleeper back to Yanjing.
He didn't take a plane because he felt that he wasn't in a hurry anyway and could rest and get some sleep by taking the train.
At this time, the train tickets had not yet been authenticated, so Shen Jun simply bought four soft sleeper tickets with a wave of his hand, so that Shen Fei and he could rest quietly.
Not to mention, Shen Fei slept soundly. By the time he arrived in Yanjing, he finally regained his energy.
As soon as I got off the car, I received a call from Ye Qinglian.
"Weibo is ready to go online on May Day."
Ye Qinglian said directly: "What are your instructions?"
"No, just go online and let Sohu help divert traffic."
Shen Fei smiled and said: "Since he has taken our shares, Zhang Chaoyang has to do something, right?"
"This is no problem, everything has been discussed."
Ye Qinglian said: "Do you need to have a ceremony or something?"
"No need."
Shen Fei shook his head and said: "Let me contact the artists and directors of Wanli Film and Television, and ask them to register a Weibo, and turn back to your book to get them an identity verification. Then contact Zhang Chaoyang and ask him to activate his network , also register a Weibo.”
"Forehead…………
Ye Qinglian was a little surprised and obviously ignored Shen Fei's idea.
"Celebrity effect."
Shen Fei laughed and then said: "It's just like a blog, do you understand?"
"Got it, advertising."
Ye Qinglian said with a smile.
Although she is not a professional management talent, she still knows this stuff very well.
"That's it, you are in charge, remember to prepare the server."
Shen Fei said slowly: "Don't let it freeze or anything like that. If the website crashes, it will be very painful for users."
"clear."
Ye Qinglian naturally understood what Shen Fei meant.
If a website that has just started has a server crash at every turn, the user experience will definitely be very poor.
Putting down the phone, Shen Fei tilted his head and thought for a moment, glanced at the time, and dialed Lin Yuan's number.
At this time in the United States, it happened to be night. Lin Yuan had finished dinner and was about to go out with Shen Juan for a fun trip, when he received a call from Shen Fei.
"If you don't give me a reasonable explanation, I think the next time you go on a date with my sister, you will receive a call from me every three minutes. Do you believe it?"
Putting down the red wine in his hand, Lin Yuan gritted his teeth and said to Shen Fei.
"There is an opportunity to cheat the Americans for a sum of money, are you here?"
Shen Fei said in a low voice: "Is there too much? Ten billion or so should be fine."
"hiss!"
Lin Yuan took a deep breath and said quickly, "What's the matter?"
Shen Fei's words immediately cheered him up. It's not a small matter to be able to cheat Americans out of billions of dollars.
He is very curious now.
"Easy, let's buy Twitter.
Shen Fei said slowly.
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Lin Yuan was stunned for a moment.
Thanks to Shen Fei, he has some understanding of Internet companies in Silicon Valley.
Naturally, he also knows the existence of Twitter, but the problem is, no matter how he thinks about it, Lin Yuan doesn't understand what the acquisition of this company has to do with tens of billions of dollars.
"Go talk and see how much they want."
Shen Fei thought for a while and said to Lin Yuan.
"no problem."
Lin Yuan nodded.
After hanging up the phone, Shen Fei took a deep breath.
If he remembered correctly, Twitter at this time was in a very difficult period. The whole company was in a state of panic and seemed to have encountered great difficulties.
Shen Fei, a later generation, has read a piece of news saying that Twitter was regarded as a huge rival by Facebook, and he planned to buy all the shares of Twitter with 500 million US dollars, but failed. And a few months later, Twitter raised 35 million U.S. dollars, with a valuation of 250 million U.S. dollars.
In the next eight months, another 100 million US dollars was raised, and the valuation reached 100 million US dollars.
Until the end of 2010, Twitter's valuation was as high as 3.7 billion US dollars, and it was hailed as the Internet super unicorn company most likely to surpass Facebook.
In fact, the development of Twitter is really great, and the valuation before listing has exceeded 15 billion US dollars.
Over the years, apart from Facebook, only Twitter has achieved such an achievement.
To know.
Facebook has experienced a longer period of development, and has raised more times, and finally reached a valuation of 50 billion US dollars before going public.
Twitter, on the other hand, has had a shorter history, and looks more promising.
It is precisely because of this that countless investors have full confidence in Twitter, as if it can create miracles after it goes public.
but.
From its listing in 2013 until it was acquired by Musk ten years later, Twitter's market capitalization did not reach 50 billion US dollars at its highest.
Even after being acquired, it also lost one-third of its market value.
It's just outrageous to the extreme.
This is why Shen Fei said that Americans can be cheated of a sum of money.
Because Shen Fei felt that he could acquire a part of the company's equity and sell it after it went public.
Although it sounds a bit outrageous, it is actually very operable.
certainly.
This requires a process.
Shen Fei is not in a hurry, after all, if he remembers correctly, the market value of this company will soar in less than three years.
The same is true for Facebook, except that the two Facebooks were at their lowest point in history in May 2009, when they were valued at 10 billion US dollars.
But one and a half years later, the valuation exploded to 35 billion U.S. dollars, and by the end of 2011 three years later, the valuation had exceeded 50 billion U.S. dollars.
It can only be said that in the era of rapid development of the Internet economy, money is often just a number.
What Shen Fei is doing now is trying to get a share of it, so that he can completely realize financial freedom.
Although it may be a bit unethical to do so, Shen Fei has no psychological burden at all because he is making money from Americans.
And he knows it too.
Sometimes I can't earn too much from my investments abroad.
If you really hold hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth abroad, it is really easy to become the object of coveted by others.
Shen Fei is really very clear about some of Ying Jiang's tricks.
Chinese people at least want to save face and pay attention to a diet that should not be too ugly, but American people don't know it. Whether it is capitalists or careerists in the United States, their eating posture is very ugly.
At that time, it is possible to directly bomb yourself.
Although Lin Yuan didn't know what Shen Fei thought, but since he was optimistic about the development of Twitter, Lin Yuan naturally started to get in touch with Twitter.
Really don't say it.
Like Shen Fei said [this company is really in trouble.
And, again, that very serious dilemma.
Even the general manager and CEO of the company have changed.
Twitter is a light blog that provides users with social networking and microblogging services.
Users can enter up to 140 updates via SNS, newsletters, emails, twitter sites, or twitter "third-party application updates.
Twitter's mission is to "connect people instantly with the things they care about most, anytime, anywhere."
One morning in 2005, Steve Jobs stood on the circular stage and excitedly showed the audience the latest generation of iPod. This little thing called "iPodclassic" can store tens of thousands of songs and tens of thousands of photos , More than one hundred hours of video. It is light and stylish with simple styling.
At the end of the feature introduction, Jobs also mentioned an obscure little feature: podcasting.
Anyone can create their own channel and post audio.
The audience present is full of anticipation: a new era has begun.
But in a small office in San Francisco, Jobs's speech made several people present flustered.
Evan William didn't say a word in front of the screen, but his eyes couldn't stop rolling.
Noah Glass sat on the sofa, complaining babblingly.
Jack Dorsey is standing against the wall, thinking of quitting his job altogether and becoming a costume designer.
Bizstone sat on the ground, trying to tell some jokes to ease the atmosphere, but he couldn't open his mouth.
The company that these four people belong to is called Odeo, which is the predecessor of Twitter.
Shortly thereafter, they shut down the company and started Twitter.
When Twitter first came out, the founders didn't know it would become popular.
The earliest server was Noah's laptop, and the logo was drawn by Biz himself.
But the growth of Twitter exceeded the expectations of the three people: within two years, the number of active Twitter users reached 1.4 million.
Just during this year's U.S. presidential election, 360,000 users updated the live events of the respective conventions of the two parties in real time.
Celebrities began to use Twitter to interact with fans, and TV stations such as Fox also opened their own Twitter channels.
Big star Ashton Kutcher is the first user with millions of fans, even surpassing the media giants.
But at this time, the back end of Twitter is in a mess.
Users often tweet halfway through, and the website dies.
0...asking for flowers...
When there are few users, you can persist. When there are more users, all servers will start to work abnormally.
There are "dead whales" every day, and at the most frequent times they die several times a day.
A few old users couldn't take it anymore and launched an online campaign of "Boycott Twitter". However, more users still choose to bear with it, and the engineers will fix it.
Engineers are working on it, but there's really nothing they can do.
Every time Twitter goes offline, several back-end engineers have to work overtime.
After getting up every night to repair, these few people just slept in the office in the end.
In order to "fight the fire" in time, the back-end engineers made an email reminder: as long as the server is down, the mobile phone can receive the email.
But they regretted it as soon as they got it out. The mobile phone rings one after another every day, either it is broken here, or it is hung up there.
Moreover, when Twitter was already hot, Jack Dorsey did not let go of recruitment, allowing these engineers to work overtime without recruiting new people.
Shareholders are concerned that, despite having 1.4 million active users, Twitter isn't making any money.
No advertising, no cooperation, let alone selling members.
Jack Dorsey has managed the website for two years, but the website doesn't even have a serious business model.
Twitter was originally updated by SMS on your mobile phone. Send a text message to Twitter, and Twitter will post your status on it.
At that time, the length of mobile phone text messages was limited, and it had to be within 160 characters.
Because sending a text message to Twitter requires a username, Twitter limits the length of tweets to 140 characters.
Because it is a text message service, Twitter has to pay tens of thousands of phone bills every day.
In addition, employee salaries, server rental, and rent in San Francisco are all considerable sums.
Ivan, the major shareholder, was really anxious as he watched investors' money being burned away day by day.
Back-end engineers are busy and investors are worried, but as CEO Jack Dorsey is relaxed and relaxed.
In addition to spending a few hours a day designing products, Jack spends a lot of time on leisure and entertainment.
He signed up for a painting class and lay on the board at six o'clock every night to draw nude models.
Later, Jack started practicing yoga again to relieve the stress of his work.
Then Jack recalled his dream of being a clothing designer and knitting new clothes every week.
Of course, you can’t just study, you also have to have fun.
With the growth of Twitter, Jack has also become famous himself, often attending meetings held by celebrities, politicians, and rich people.
He likes to be called the founder of Twitter, and he likes the envious looks from others.
Online and offline, Jack is the shining star.
Ivan didn't think so.
“You’re either the CEO of Twitter or you’re a clothes weaver, you can’t do both!”
Ivan gave him an ultimatum.
But Jack is very dissatisfied. Isn’t Twitter pretty good now? Doesn’t it have enough funds?
We are all adults, why do you care about me?
To put it bluntly, Ivan believes that Twitter is just a short blog, and the main purpose of people using it is to share news and current affairs.
Therefore, Twitter should be based on the website and supplemented by mobile phones.
Jack believes that Twitter is a personal status bar, which is used to show off oneself.
Eating and shopping, updated at any time.
Therefore, Twitter should be supplemented by the website and mainly by mobile phones.
This is why Jack doesn't care whether the website is up or not.
As long as it can be distributed, we can decide whether to read it or not later!
But what Jack didn't know was that the server backend was much more complicated than he thought.
Once Ivan asked a back-end engineer in front of two shareholders: "Is the database stable now? Is there a backup?"
The engineer was silent for a long time, and finally had to admit: the database was not backed up at all. If the database crashes, everyone's Twitter account will disappear, all the content posted will be wiped out, and Twitter will have to start from scratch.
then.
Shareholders exploded!
They told Jack Dorsey that if the website does not develop and make money within three months, you will get out.
But obviously, this is not enough.
Because the biggest problem of the entire website is the stability of the system and the company's profit model, not the release of new pages and new features.
The website is unstable and all the functions are nonsense.
No company can survive without a way to make money.
Twitter is already in danger, and the last thing it should do is add another egg to the pile.
After Jack Dorsey made a series of mistakes, Ivan had lost confidence in the company and was ready to sell his shares and give up the company.
At this time, Lin Yuan came to him.
"Hello, Mr. Ivan, I am Lin Yuan from Wanli Investment."
When Lin Yuan revealed his identity to Ivan, he was quite surprised.
Because Ivan is not just an ordinary investor, he is also the manager of a venture capital company on Wall Street.
He knew very well what the thousands of miles of investment represented by the Eastern man in front of him meant.
This company had just invested in Face a few months ago, and now it appeared in front of him. What did he want to do?
All of a sudden.
Ivan frowned.
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