One on the east coast, the other on the west coast, the flight was almost the same as the flight from New York to London, and it landed in San Francisco after more than six hours.

The company had a car, and Mr. Alfred sent someone to pick him up at the airport, and I heard that the employees of the new company were working overtime a lot, from morning to night, so they waited until the Santa Clara area to meet.

After the adjustment of the management, many capable enterprise managers and technical experts have been added, and it is no longer Mr. Alfred's decision, but Ye Dongqing still likes to get first-hand information by contacting him, and for this reason, he has also given a position as a product director, without the intention of unloading the mill and killing the donkey.

A total of four floors were rented, full of desks and computer equipment, at 6 p.m. West Coast time, some employees went back first, and some voluntarily chose to stay overtime, calculated according to 1.5 times the hourly wage, the company provided them with dinner, sandwiches, pizza, Western Chinese food, bread and other changes to purchase, which is quite kind.

Facebook needs to hurry up and improve, and Skype is too, plus video communication, instant text chat and other functions need to be developed independently, resulting in a very busy lately, if you leave early, it will drag down the progress of a whole group, and invisibly force the vast majority of people to extend their working hours.

Ye Dongqing doesn't want to do this either, but he must seize the opportunity, a product similar to Facebook has appeared recently, but the threat is not big for the time being, he wants to continue to maintain the leading position, so the product must be more competitive.

As soon as we met, Mr. Alfred told him the bad news: "Boss, it's nice to meet you, but I have to tell you one thing, a former Google employee told me privately that his old company had a division and was secretly developing a photo social program, similar to Facebook, that might be available to users next month." ”

"Google is also eyeing it?"

"That's right, they have almost three times as many employees as we do, they're pretty fast to develop, and with Facebook as a proven template, there's a good chance that it will have a direct impact on our business, given the hundreds of millions of users around the world. ”

"Check it out again, find more useful information for me, maybe it's time to start advertising again, and find the person in charge of the promotion planning department later." ”

This is the first known giant company to try to compete with itself, Ye Dongqing feels that in terms of the number of Google users, it may be a great threat, and it has been smooth sailing for nearly half a year, and finally encounters the most undesirable situation.

Since you can't dodge, you have to continue to rush, after all, it is no longer a small company that can be manipulated by others, even if it is Google, which has a scale of more than 10 billion US dollars, it can fight hard.

Most of the search engines are not as good as Google, but when it comes to social platforms, he is confident that he will provide users with the most complete products, which are all good things that have been tested by time, as long as there is no problem with the capital chain, there is no reason to lose to anyone.

A little worried, but not too worried, there were no competitors before, and they slowly accumulated users out of saving considerations, and then it is estimated that it will not work, Ye Dongqing is ready to spend money to continue to seize the opportunity, so that the part of netizens who have not yet used Facebook can join in.

In recent years, the number of Internet users in the United States has exceeded 200 million, and there is still a lot of room for development, and the number of Internet users in Japan, Germany, Britain, South Korea, France, and other countries is close to half of their own population, and they will not only expand in the United States, but also abroad will not let go, and now nearly 95 percent of Facebook users are from the United States, indicating that the promotion efforts are far from enough, and there is still an opportunity to take the lead in seizing the market before the rise of other similar products.

Originally, the freshwater fund could bring more benefits to Ye Dongqing, but now it has been replaced by Facebook, and with the increasing valuation, the book value has increased by almost $1.6 billion in the first five months alone.

Just last week, the determined SoftBank Group offered to raise money at a valuation of $1.4 billion, which would make the total amount almost $1.6 billion, one price a day as the number of users grew.

It's no wonder that people often say that it is easy to invest in Internet companies to make money, for these founders, it is indeed relatively easy, come up with an idea, and then develop it, as long as it is recognized by users, it will make a fortune inexplicably, Ye Dongqing likes this feeling of skyrocketing value, it is estimated that no one will not like it.

In the middle of 2003, the Internet industry showed a strong recovery, and mergers and acquisitions of big fish eating small fish continued to occur around the world.

As one of them, Ye Dongqing clearly saw the signs of his success, and was not in the mood to talk about anything else, first under the introduction of Mr. Alfred, he learned about the development progress of Skype's various functions, the instant text messaging function has been born for a long time, and it is estimated that it will be available next month, and there are some problems in video communication, which may be solved by acquiring off-the-shelf technology.

When he came to his office, he said to Mr. Alfred: "This morning a guy came to me and talked to me about Skype, and even threatened me a little, don't get excited, he's negotiating with me on behalf of companies like Verizon and AT&T, which think I'm threatening their interests, and that's exactly what happened." ”

Alfred listened patiently, both companies were valued at nearly 100 billion dollars, and the energy behind them should not be underestimated, and asked, "Then what are you going to do?"

"The development continues, but the previous development idea needs to be changed, and Skype is likely to be blocked by communication operators in the future, whether it is the United States or other countries, so it is better to let it develop separately and not involve Facebook.

What I mean by this is to abandon the ability to add text chat and video messaging to Skype and promote it as a standalone product, and if Facebook doesn't have a text chat feature in the future, it will seriously hinder its upward prospects. ”

Knowing what Ye Dongqing meant, he nodded after thinking about it, and told: "This is really better, you've already decided, right, then I'll hold a meeting later and talk to the programmer supervisors?"

"Yes, in the future, mobile phones will replace computers and become the most important product for people to communicate with the Internet. ”

"Then there are a few projects that need to be cut, and I'm going to tell them now, so as not to waste my energy. Some of the code doesn't work, and I have to tell them the bad news......"