Chapter 144: American Friends Network

Just finished an interview with a major American newspaper, and the festival ushered in an interview with the domestic media. Although it is not a new flower society, in addition to the three major portals of the Internet, there are also interviews such as Phoenix Satellite TV. Cheng Shijun had a lot of interviews with Taiwanese media, but they all tacitly did not come to Zhou Shi.

Seeing the domestic website, Zhou Shi blushed a little, this is too much praise.

"16 billion in 20 months, Chinese geniuses dominate the Internet" MMP, making Lao Tzu seem to have killed Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. This kind of cow can also blow?

"Peking University genius refused to acquire 16 billion yuan and wanted to be a 100 billion enterprise. "This is slightly normal

"Chinese teenagers dominate Silicon Valley, and their net worth may skyrocket by more than 5 billion. "That doesn't seem wrong

"Forbes China's Rich Edition Re-arranged, Talented Teenagers Rush into the Top 30 in China in a Year"

Forget it, forget it, if you look at it again, Zhou Shi feels that he is going to swell, and the explosive wealth growth in the next few years has not yet begun, and he is just taking a lead. Like next year's listing of Country Garden, a 26-year-old young girl will have a net worth of more than 120 billion. Compared with her, Zhou Shi is still a little far behind.

This wave of publicity interviews was endless, YouTube closed the interview channel, and Zhou Shi returned to work. At this time, Mike Jackson's agent visited again.

"Do you want us to increase the amount of sponsorship?" Zhou Shi looked at this guy in surprise, do you have any brains, I will sponsor you in the first year in order to open up the market, and it will be very good if I don't ask you for money in the future.

"That's right, Mike's endorsement has brought you very good results in the past few months......"

"You don't need to say it, I can tell you clearly, this is impossible" Zhou Shi said with some hatred, "Is your brain in water, so many people hacked Mike before, and no one supported him, we now provide you with a platform to speak independently, so that those Hollywood giants can't do whatever they want to Mike, you must know that our Internet companies don't need to ask for endorsements at all, I have shown my sincerity, you are still like this...... It's really sad," Zhou Shi finished speaking, and sent him out. Find a lawyer again, and once Mike defaults, he will take the opportunity to do another wave of publicity. Propaganda? That's right, propaganda. The justice of the law is not as important as making money.

Shirley Sandberg is like a big boss, Zhou Shi can't be defeated, the only thing to be thankful for is that the other party did not refuse Zhou Shi's visit, and every time she and her husband warmly entertained Zhou Shi. Moreover, Zhou Shi gave a lot of suggestions for the operation of the oil pipeline.

Friends established a branch in the United States, registered in Delaware, and established in Silicon Valley. As for why you registered in Delaware, it's actually quite simple. Delaware is known as the "Corporate Capital of the World" and is home to more than 400,000 companies. Most of the listed companies on the "New York Stock Exchange" and more than 60% of the "Fortune 500" companies are registered here; In addition, about 30,000 foreign companies are established in Delaware every year. The specific reasons are as follows: Delaware has no sales tax, personal property tax, inventory tax, intangible property tax, etc., and companies that do not have a substantial transaction in Delaware are not required to pay income tax to the state. Non-Delaware residents are not subject to state tax on their shareholdings. It can be seen that it has a very good duty-free advantage. In addition, Delaware's court system and efficiency are among the highest in the United States. Delaware's corporate law has well-established legal precedent, and its courts are nationally respected for their expertise in corporate law.

RB's friends network is still progressing very smoothly, with more than 100,000 registered users in just over a month, being a true self and discovering a better world has become their homepage slogan. No matter how cruel RB society is to young people and how complex it is, the yearning for a better life should be universal. Zhou Shi's vision for the U.S. branch is also to gradually move towards independent operation. The United States' methods are many times more powerful than the rabbit country, and even if it doesn't want you to operate, it will find a high-sounding reason, such as privacy, such as national security. With Silicon Valley's open market environment and Delaware's unique legal protections, Zhou Shi believes that a lot of trouble can be avoided. The head of the U.S. branch, Zhou Shi, was handed over to Lu Qi, who had a strong will, and the COO candidate was recruited by a person named Shen Haoyu, who served as the vice president of the personal card issuance department of American Express, the world's largest credit card company, and has deep international and cross-industry management experience.

In his previous life, he served as Baidu's vice president of commercial operations in July 2007, and was later promoted to senior vice president of Baidu, and in August 2011, he served as the first chief operating officer (COO) of JD.com, and played a very key role in JD.com's major milestones.

The rise of Zhou Shi's popularity has greatly increased the popularity of his enterprises at the same time. Although he still doesn't want to fight Facebook head-on, with the recent exposure of the Wall Street Journal's friend.com, Zhou Shi doesn't have so many choices. Unless you give up the U.S. domestic market, it will be difficult to compete with Facebook in the future. It just so happens that there is money now, Friends invested 15 million, and Galaxy Capital invested 15 million, and the equity was distributed according to the ratio of seven to three. It's not that they don't want other VCs to join, it's that none of them want to. You know, this is where many bigwigs' dreams begin.

The technical preparation of the open platform strategy is nearing completion and is being debugged. But in addition to patent applications, this function obviously can't be released at the first time, and it has to wait until a certain number of users are accumulated to have the best effect. And Zack is developing campus users, and Zhou Shi can only take the career route. Maybe you can maintain a close relationship with him for a while, considering that their biggest rival right now is MySpace, who has nearly 100 million users. far surpasses Zuckerberg, and is many, many times more than the network of friends that has not yet been established.

If you want to surpass MySpace, the first thing is to have a minimalist design interface, smooth access speed, and a secure and stable architecture.

For the initial promotion, Time Browser, which had been divided into UC, also handed over the operation rights of Europe and the United States to Friends.com, and directly bound Friends.com as the homepage after installing Time Browser. Of course, they don't dare to force the browser homepage to be modified back after changing it like in China. Not to mention whether it is illegal or not, user reputation will also be swallowed up, and the current competition is very large. In addition to the time browser on the PC side, there is also the UC browser on the mobile side. In short, this is a good promotion tool, as long as the situation is opened, everything will speak according to the ability.

In addition to browsers, Twitter and YouTube can also help. Especially for YouTube video sharing, with Twitter, you can also open up a button to share to your friends. For the start of the American Friends Network, Zhou Shi is full of confidence.