Chapter 141: Refusal
Regardless of what Zhou Shi thinks about YouTube. Unifying thinking is the most important thing, and only when there is no internal chaos can we not be taken advantage of by the outside world. Ideals and beliefs must be said to be politically correct, and no matter what their ultimate goal is, ideals must be put in the first place.
Only ideals are certainly not enough, the world is cruel, and people's minds are complex. Let everyone pay for the ideal, and it may be a shortcoming. Profit is the most direct and powerful tool. It's clear that YouTube is now growing much faster than Google, and it has a great chance of becoming the next internet giant. Everyone's equity can be a lot of money, and it's significantly less difficult to become an executive in a small company than it is to thrive in a large company. So, if you have confidence in YouTube, it's best to continue to operate independently.
Of course, things will not be so simple, the copyright dispute hanging over the head is a sword of Damocles, and not everyone has firm confidence in the development of YouTube. But after three days, they basically unified their thinking and asked everyone to give themselves and the company a year. The main thing is to develop YouTube, and rejection is their last resort.
Then Zhou Shi made an appointment to meet Moritz of Sequoia.
"You look good today, like an elite. "Moritz
"Thank you, but I'm not an elite!" Zhou Shi
"That's right, you're the leader of the elite. "Moritz
"I'm here today to get your help, and I want to push YouTube to go public. Zhou Shi didn't want to go around the bend, so he directly told Moritz what he meant.
"Oh, Google's offer didn't please you?" Moritz
"To be honest, I'm quite satisfied, after all, the company has only been established for so long. Our valuation is already very high. "Zhou Shi
"Then why don't you agree?" Moritz
"Because the company's future prospects are better than today's prices, we can become the world's largest television network and media group. "Zhou Shi
"Yes, that's where you're headed. "Moritz
"There is nothing new under the sun, the Internet is just a tool, and only when it is combined with reality can it have the greatest effect. With such a tool, YouTube can become the world's largest video sharing and promotion platform, and it can also become a TV station that allows viewers to choose their programs freely without waiting for the program to be broadcast on time and on time, which will greatly liberate the viewing habits of TV users and will have a profound impact on the future of media groups. As an Internet company, a TV network platform without borders, we can even become the largest media company. What's more, as long as we have a partnership agreement with other TV media groups, we don't even need to produce any programs. "Zhou Shi
"It's possible, but how can you guarantee success?" Moritz said
"This requires everyone's support, and if Google acquires YouTube, he can indeed strengthen Google's market position, but it will undoubtedly greatly limit his development. We originally hoped to become a 100 billion scale giant, and after being acquired, we may just be a vassal, Google is a pure Internet advertising company, and we are more of a media company. "Zhou Shi
"How do you need my help?" Moritz
"I wanted Shirley Sandberg to be in charge of our company's operations. "Zhou Shi
"You're so brave, do you think there's a chance she'll come?" Moritz said
"I don't know, but if I don't give it a try, how will I know?"
"You're here for Shirley today?" Moritz said
"I have two goals, one is to hope that you can agree to our rejection of Google's acquisition plan, and the other is to help us convince Shirley," Zhou Shi
"Hehe, that's a lot of requests. But I agreed to your first request, and I'm sorry for the second request, but it's up to you. This time, Zhou Shi felt that Moritz hesitated for a long time.
Zhou Shi looked at Moritz with a serious look, and he was relieved. Sure enough, I didn't reject all of the two answers. There are really too few things to get the best of both worlds, and Zhou Shi fortunately doesn't have too many extravagant expectations. However, pretending to be disappointed, Zhou Shi and Moritz separated.
Moritz looked at Zhou Shi's back, also silently in a daze. Google plus YouTube, the future of video advertising, do their plans need to be changed? Zhou Shi's plan undoubtedly made him see another possibility, those media that have been controlled by traditional forces may really be subverted by a new generation of wealthy people who have accompanied the rise of the high-tech industry. It's a pity that it's a Chinese.
"Mr. Zhou, how did you talk to Moritz, what is his opinion?" Li Lingyun
"It's not good, it won't hold us back, but it won't give us much support, it's all up to us. "Zhou Shi
"Oh, it's good if you don't object, I'm sure there will always be a way for Zhou. "Li Lingyun
"That's not necessarily, what can I do, I can't change anything by myself. "Zhou Shi
"Isn't there still us? I'll do my best. "Li Lingyun
"Thank you, it's good to have your trust!" Zhou Shi turned his head to look at Li Lingyun and found that this girl was getting more and more beautiful, and her face was much less green.
Li Lingyun also followed Zhou Shi's long-standing gaze, and her face slowly turned red.
"Oh, by the way, did they find Wang Xirui at Stanford?" Zhou Shi asked suddenly
"There's no news today, we'll find out when we get back in the evening. Li Lingyun said with some loss
Zhou Shi didn't care, this matter wouldn't be very simple. There are many more things to do with YouTube, and in order to make everyone more confident, it is imperative to expand the influence of YouTube. However, where to start needs to be considered, this year is still 2006, if it is this time in 2007, it will be good, Ao Guanhai wants to come to power, YouTube can give him great support.
hasn't made an appointment with Shirley yet, Zhou Shi came to Twitter first, and to expand his influence, Zhou Shi can only choose Twitter. Fortunately, he persevered at the time and did not cooperate with Sequoia, otherwise it would be really difficult to say how things would develop, and maybe Zhou Shi might be blocked by Sequoia when he asked for help on Twitter.
Thanks to the efforts of Jack Dorsey, Twitter has finally surpassed 50 million users worldwide. Relatively perfect functions, good user experience, instant information interaction, and the promotion of the concept of self-media have made Twitter's popularity rise a lot. And there is no interference, the perfect company management structure, advanced ideas make Jack Dorsey like a fish in water, and Twitter has a faint trend to catch up with Facebook.
Zhou Shi came here, in addition to inspecting the development of Twitter, and more importantly, discussing cooperation with Jack Dorsey and YouTube. What kind of method can be used to amplify the synergistic effect of the two and achieve the best results? It's a pity that the technology to embed videos into Twitter is not mature now, and it doesn't make much sense if it's not in the mobile era.
There are still several years before the advent of the mobile era, many methods are useless now, and the development of YouTube is still full of difficulties. But since he chose this path, Zhou Shi could only move forward.