It wasn't until Facebook had a user base that Ye Dongqing had the idea of contacting celebrities, politicians, singers, models, etc., and asking them to register and authenticate users for free.

It's a win-win situation, they can get a higher following, skip the media and interact with a large number of people, while Facebook can use their star power to attract more new users and retain them.

It's a very good idea, isn't it, at present, a team has been set up to be responsible for this aspect, and more than a dozen large brokerage companies have been contacted, the first batch of red users are appearing one after another, and there is a little difference from ordinary accounts, in Ye Dongqing's opinion, young people will like these, just like moving real social gossip into the digital network.

This is the benefit of rebirth, let him know what he wants to do from the beginning, understand which direction is most beneficial to him, at present, making money is only secondary, and it is still in the initial stage of frantically attracting new users, not to mention the Eurasian region, even the North American continent has not yet fully expanded, and it is still very early to let down his guard.

According to the news that Ye Dongqing has mastered, there are already many large companies eyeing Facebook's new social model, such as a founder of Google, such as OICQ, a subsidiary of AOL, and a large number of companies that follow the trend for development, mainly gathered in Silicon Valley, and must first seize most of the market.

The market here, in his eyes, refers to nearly two or three billion people in dozens of countries, the reason why Ye Dongqing remembered Google early on, is also because he hopes to use this platform to achieve some degree of bundling in the future, after having Microsoft's anti-monopoly experience, I believe that I can find ways to avoid monopoly accusations, such as developing a software sales platform, and putting his products in the front position.

At present, he is just busy accumulating capital, which belongs to the initial stage of small fights, and the era that really belongs to him will not be possible until the future, and the ambition and ability are there, it depends on luck.

Not surprisingly, after Richard Rockefeller proposed the idea of financing, he was also rejected by Ye Dongqing on the grounds that he had no financing plan for the time being......

gave a $60 million offer, and then Mike Howell's real estate agent once again had no news, he couldn't be the master, only the seller could call the shots.

When Ye Dongqing received his call again, it had been six days, and in these six days, he went to Silicon Valley, busy with the placement of the new company, in fact, there was not much work for him to deal with, mainly in front of the new employees, the employees in New York will soon move to the new headquarters to work, the Santa Clara area has developed well in recent years, many apartments are idle, and there is no place to live.

In order to avoid impulsive consumption, Ye Dongqing landed on the small island in the Long Island area again, and decided to buy it after the visit, buying it in the name of Freshwater Investment Group, and handing over the specific matters to the lawyer to help deal with, the seller was cooperative enough, and it took only one day to complete most of the procedures, the total price was 62 million US dollars, the seller bears all the taxes, the total down payment is 12 million US dollars, and the rest is paid in three years.

It's hard to make money, it's too easy to spend money, so it's easy to buy a small island with a total area of more than forty-eight acres, about an hour's drive from Manhattan, Ye Dongqing feels that it seems necessary to look at the price of a helicopter or speedboat in the near future.

The performance of Tamsui Investment Group has not fluctuated much, and the valuation of Facebook has risen again and again, mainly because new users continue to join in, breaking through 20 million registrations at an almost terrible speed, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, who had a little holiday with Ye Dongqing last time, just opened an offer of 100 million US dollars, just to account for 25% of the shares, combined with the Skype call program that has not yet been put into the market and is being optimized, the famous rich man has guessed what Ye Dongqing wants to do, and he is quite optimistic about it。

The rapid growth of users has led to the continuous escalation of the plan to recruit new employees, from 300 to 800, otherwise it is difficult to get busy, because in addition to Facebook, Skype is short of manpower, and his new idea of a video-sharing platform is also short of people, I thought it would be enough to rent two floors of office space, and now I rent two more floors to prevent it from being too old in the future and the embarrassing situation of being divided by other companies.

Recently, Facebook has been so popular, it is worth Ye Dongqing to spend a lot of money to raise a group of people, only in April, some media even asserted that it will be the most successful Internet company in 2003, following the sweep of a bunch of colleges and universities, many adults in their twenties and thirties are also trying to use it, the Japanese version, the Spanish version, the French version, etc. will soon be put on the market, as for the specific optimization for different regions, it will take a while to find time to start to carry out.

To be honest, even Ye Dongqing himself never thought that he would succeed so quickly, there are no competitive products of the same type on the market for the time being, you must know that it has only been more than five months since it was launched before Christmas last year, and he feels that even if a billion dollars is offered, there are now people who dare to take money to gamble.

Look at Google, in 1999, its founders tried to sell Google for $750,000, and now Google has not yet gone public, and its valuation has reached nearly $10 billion, and the valuation was only about $5 billion last year when Ye Dongqing first paid attention to it.

This shows that investors have not really lost confidence in the Internet industry, but they no longer believe in lies and know how to distinguish what companies are worthy of investment.

It is impossible to sell, last year Google founder Larry Page said that he would not sell if it was less than $5 billion, Ye Dongqing had a better vision, and he did not plan to accept financing if it was less than $10 billion, unless there was a reason to have to raise money, such as the capital chain was about to break, combined with the enthusiasm of potential advertisers, it is estimated that there is no need for financing, all in all, this trip to Silicon Valley made him feel much better.

At this moment, Ye Dongqing took several employees of a well-known architectural design firm to visit around the island.

The apron and dock need to be renovated, and the main building where the Morgan family lived also needs to be renovated, in fact, it is okay to live directly, but he doesn't want to make do with this kind of thing, more than 60 million US dollars have been spent, how can there be a lack of this decoration money.

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