"It's because of eBay Talk?"

After listening to Steve Ballmer's report on eBay's achievements, Chen Geng was surprised, but also a little crying and laughing: Is this an unintentional insertion of willows?

But if you think about it in retrospect, you can understand that after all, this is the world's first online instant chat software, nearly a year ahead of ICQ, and it is normal to have such a reaction.

Of course, there are other reasons, such as eBay is Chen Geng's company, which is naturally trusted, and for example, this is the world's first online shopping software, and everyone is very curious about this thing............ In short, there are many reasons, and eBay's success can be said to be the result of many factors.

Looking at the trading volume in the past ten days, it has remained stable at an average of more than 300,000 US dollars per day, Chen Geng nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, very good, this data can slap many people in the face." ”

From the daily turnover of more than 10 million US dollars on the first day to the current stable daily turnover of more than 300,000 US dollars, this decline is a bit strong, but even so, this figure is far beyond Chen Geng's imagination, which means that if it can stabilize at this level, eBay's annual transaction volume will reach more than 100 million US dollars.

"Yes, Boss, we didn't expect eBay Talk to be so appealing to everyone. Steve Ballmer said honestly.

Chen Geng smiled and nodded: "You came here today, not just to tell me the reason why eBay can be popular, right?"

"Yes boss," Steve Ballmer admitted, nodding happily, "I'd like to hire some more people in the future, especially in the cybersecurity area, where hackers have already launched attacks on our website." ”

"Yes," Chen Geng nodded: "You just do it...... As I told you before, you're the CEO of eBay, and it's not just about hiring people, it's about adding servers, increasing bandwidth...... And so on, as long as you think it is necessary, you can do it, and you don't have to ask me for everything. ”

Steve Ballmer didn't expect Chen Geng to trust him so much, and nodded gratefully: "Thank you, boss, I know...... But boss, there's one thing I'd like to ask for your opinion about. ”

"Oh?" Chen Geng raised his eyebrows: "You say." ”

"That's right, boss," said Steve Ballmer, "and now more and more users are signing up for eBay, as of yesterday, the number of registered users on eBay has exceeded 1 million, but the vast majority of these 1 million users are coming to eBay Talk's online live chat function, we analyzed the background data, and found a lot of eBay." The users of Talk are all college students, and these users occupy a very strong bandwidth, and even affect the use of normal users, so I wondered, should we introduce a rule, such as how long a user does not shop, we will directly ban his eBay Talk account?"

"Blocking an account?"

Chen Geng almost choked on saliva!

If it weren't for Steve Ballmer's request at this time, Chen Geng would never have thought that this guy would hate those guys who don't shop after registering an eBay Talk account!

However, Steve Ballmer's hatred for these guys who take up the pit and don't is understandable, after all, as soon as the number of registered users is large, eBay needs to add servers and increase bandwidth, and these all cost money, as a professional manager hired by Chen Geng, Steve Ballmer must be responsible for his boss.

But this kind of thing is absolutely not allowed!

Chen Geng did not hesitate to express his opposition to Steve Ballmer's approach.

"But boss, those guys take up a lot of our server resources and bandwidth, and with more and more new registrations, we need more servers and more bandwidth to meet the needs of the operation," Steve Ballmer didn't understand Chen Geng's approach: "And we only ask them to buy things once a month, isn't this too much?"

After a deep sigh, Chen Geng said: "Thinking about this from the perspective of the CEO of eBay, Steve, it is really not too much for you to ask them to buy at least one thing a month, but Steve, you have to understand that these eBay Talk users are potential users of our eBay, they may not have money now, but it doesn't matter, we can slowly cultivate their habits now, as long as they buy things on eBay in the future." ”

Hearing this, Steve Ballmer's expression relaxed a lot, but he still hesitated: "But...... Boss, can I ask you a question?"

Chen Geng nodded: "You say." ”

"When do you want eBay to be profitable?" Steve Ballmer asked, "You didn't give me a business goal before that......"

Without waiting for Steve Ballmer to finish, Chen Geng patted his head: he had made a common-sense mistake.

For Internet companies ten years later, the capital is not eager for the requirements and time of corporate profitability, such as JD.com, such as Daqiangzi, such as YouTube, such as YouTube...... They are all difficult households that have not made profits for many years, but this does not prevent capital from being optimistic about them, as long as they can stake their land and occupy the land first, the rest is easy to say.

But now is still the time when Internet companies have just begun to pass the embryonic stage, and the executives of Internet companies are thinking more about the problem from the perspective of the traditional computer industry and stand-alone software companies: it is necessary to achieve profitability as soon as possible, if the enterprise cannot be profitable as soon as possible, maybe the enterprise will collapse and cannot hold on.

From this point of view, it is normal for Steve Ballmer to have the idea of restricting eBay Talk users, although this guy has not told himself, but in fact, I am afraid that this guy has silently set a goal for himself in his heart that "eBay must make it profitable in X years".

Looking at Steve Ballmer, Chen Gengzheng said: "Steve, let me tell you clearly, within three years, eBay is not allowed to make money! And eBay will not be able to make a profit in the next ten or twenty years, there is no problem." ”

“......”

Looking at Chen Geng, Steve Ballmer's eyes widened in surprise: There are still bosses who don't want to make money? It took more than ten seconds for him to ask Chen Geng in a trembling voice: "Boss, you're not kidding?"

"Of course," Chen Geng nodded affirmatively: "This is my negligence, Steve, the first demand of eBay in the future is not profit, but the total number of users, the number of new users, the growth rate of new users, and the growth rate of sales...... In short, what I want is an eBay that has a rapid development of both users and transaction volume, but not an eBay that makes money. ”