A few days later, there were eight more arowanas in the dragon tank, among which there was a bright black one that was the most conspicuous, it was said to be quite precious, and a few fish cost him a total of more than 50,000 US dollars.

There is also an extra large tropical aquarium in the study, because the room temperature is kept in more than 20 degrees all year round, and they are not afraid that they will die due to the low water temperature.

Wait until pots of green plants are moved in, and the decoration is all over, this morning Ye Dongqing went to settle the final payment with the decoration company, and then came to the office building where Facebook is located, everything is going well on the side of the Tamsui Fund, he is ready to stare at this Internet company, and cultivate the user group first.

Staring at the numbers on the screen every day, happy or uncomfortable for the rise and fall, that is not a good taste, after a long time, it is easy to get a heart attack, simply let it go, Ms. Vigo has returned to the Freshwater Fund as a "consultant", responsible for coordinating the interns into the work state.

"Have you thought of a slogan, I thought of one before I went to bed last night, and I think it fits our company. ”

As soon as Ye Dongqing came to the company, he said loudly with great interest, and he was going to add a slogan on the homepage, simple and direct, with a sentence to explain the theme of this program.

An employee answered very cooperatively: "What?"

"Your community-based networking platform. ”

“…… Well, it seems like a pretty good look, boss. ”

All the employees of the company are older than Ye Dong, and it is very stressful to let them pat him on the back, but fortunately, Facebook is not popular, and the atmosphere is more relaxed and free.

As the boss, Ye Dongqing has the greatest right to speak, and immediately made a decision: "It's decided, remember to add it later, and I hope you will redesign a more comprehensive set of registration information, so that users can easily find their classmates who are also registered with this information, and bring it to me to show after getting it done." ”

Mr. Alfred didn't seem to have slept well last night, and clapped his hands lazily to attract attention: "Let's go into the forum where I left a message yesterday, don't leave a message and ignore it, be sure to let more students see our products, and use more brains to attract them to come and register." ”

The extremely short morning meeting ended in two minutes, and more than 50 employees on the scene began to get busy.

The importance of optimizing the product is temporarily put on the second side, and the first problem is to attract users first, which is probably like a baby learning to crawl first, and then thinking about how to walk, and they didn't notice this some time ago, and patronized to get the product right.

It cost more than 10 million dollars from Oracle's customized supporting server, and now it's too late to return it, if you invest so much money, but in the end you drum up a failed startup, it is a great shame for Ye Dongqing, no less than copying the answer but getting a zero score.

He went back to the office and logged into a simple program developed by his company, which he used to see yesterday's user data.

It shows that there are more than 6,700 new users, and the total number of accounts logged in yesterday is more than 10,400, and the total number of registered users has exceeded 24,000, and the base is still very small, but this increase is enough to make Ye Dongqing satisfied.

The date shown in the lower right corner of the computer is February 4th, and it has been three days since he asked his company's employees to go to the forums to attract new users.

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

Shamelessness aside, it was a good idea, but Paul made it clear that he couldn't do it on his own, and thanked him on the spot for thinking so highly of himself.

You must know that ICQ's parent company has already been acquired by AOL, although AOL's stock price has become a junk stock after the avalanche, which has pitted Time Warner Group and caused hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth to evaporate, but the scale should not be underestimated, and the firewall is not so easy to break.

The shortcut is blocked, and you have to continue to work hard to do it yourself, and the efforts of the past few days are not without effect, and the number of users is increasing day by day.

Considering the social circle of the students, as long as there are two or three people playing together, it is possible to attract dozens of new users, Ye Dongqing temporarily crammed and saw similar views in the book.

The company has been busy browsing forums for the last few days, copying, pasting, leaving messages and links about Facebook and quickly leaving, and Mr. Alfred is trying to contact the administrators of some of the big forums to negotiate the price of the ads, which is expected to cost more than four million dollars.

It's a pity that the school doesn't hold classes recently, otherwise Ye Dongqing will definitely pick a hundred and eighty schools, go to those universities and middle schools to put up billboards at the gates, everyone puts them, and make sure that all students see them, this requires a lot of help, and the cost will probably not be too low, but the effect may be very good.

It's useless to be in a hurry to cultivate users, it may take a few years to get ahead, Ye Dongqing stayed in the office and read the January financial report, and then began to browse some interesting news through Google, and after suddenly thinking of something, he also took the time to play "Red Alert", and tried to play a few other small games to pass the time.

This is probably the difference between the boss and the employee, others think he is busy, but in fact he hides in the office and plays games, even if he is seen by anyone, he will not say anything.

A young girl who didn't look amazing knocked on the door and walked into Ye Dongqing's office at this moment, put the documents on the table and said: "Mr. Alfred asked me to send the information, on which are the contact information of several young people's favorite forum administrators, as well as the quotations they requested, if you think it is okay, we will start cooperating." ”

Ye Dongqing picked it up and took a look, divided into two charging models, one is according to the number of clicks, and the other is the total price per day or week, which is equivalent to renting advertising space in Times Square or a subway station, but the advertisement is moved to the Internet, and the website with a daily page view of more than 50 million charges as much as 100,000 US dollars a day, which is 3 million US dollars a month.

No one wants to do thankless work, there is no free lunch in the world, and the most mainstream money-making model in the Internet industry is advertising fees, he sighed deeply, thinking about when his Facebook can also make money like this.

From the beginning to the end, he said: "Just contact them according to this offer, try the short-term effect first, and stop immediately if it doesn't meet expectations." ”

"Good boss. ”

Crisp and neat, the female employee turned around and left, just went out and turned back, and was embarrassed to take the quotation with her.

……

Facebook has the foundation of the fire.

From the very beginning, Ye Dongqing built it as a big company, where the money should be spent, the experts who should be invited, the timeline, the personal information homepage, the main page and the like, directly designed according to the mature version of the future, and recently even tried to develop a program that allows users to chat with another person online in real time through it to seize ICQ's market share.

This mature social model, many users have already felt, the trouble is that unless you buy a digital camera, you can't upload photos to others, so now there are far more users who send mood texts than those who send pictures.

At present, he is still renting a server, his own server is still being developed in Oracle, and he always feels that there is no sense of substitution, after Ye Dongqing entered the Facebook personal homepage, he updated his information casually, and pushed a text, which read: "We are optimizing Facebook, if you have any comments, please feel free to send it to us through the service interface, this is a new program, invite your friends to join this network community!"

He has an account, and as long as the user joins, it will automatically appear in the list of recommended friends, with the note "Facebook founder", and more than 3,000 people currently follow Ye Dongqing's dynamics.

When he was about to turn off the computer and leave, Ye Dongqing suddenly thought of another function that could be added, and he was thinking about how to add text communication, why not be more direct and integrate the call function into it?

Since Skype can be so popular, it should be possible to develop it now, and decisively search for the company "Skype", but there is no information.

I immediately got up and went to Director Alfred and told him about it, and after asking a few excellent software engineers, he asked, "Are you sure this is okay? There may be some technical difficulties, I have heard of similar theories, but no one has actually implemented it, the difficulty is very demanding, and we are short of manpower." ”

"If you don't have enough people, you go and re-hire, and if you think about it, even if some people are going to use our products to save money on phone bills, it can make Facebook even better. ”

Ye Dongqing made up his mind decisively, and then told Mr. Alfred: "You don't have to worry about money, I will be able to 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 area to help with the development, remember to read the literature, you should be able to find the right person in Silicon Valley......"

Muddleheaded.

Ye Dongqing took the reluctant Mr. Alfred House the next day and flew to the West Coast together, and they planned to go to Silicon Valley to meet a few people and try to develop a product that could talk over the Internet.

The Internet startup environment in New York is more than a little bit different from that in Silicon Valley, and 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......