Zhou Shi didn't want to go to war directly with Tengxun, but this guy saw that their QQ space and QQ friends couldn't compete with time friends, so they began to use abnormal means, such as high-salary poaching, hacker attacks, slander and rumors, etc., if it weren't for maintaining a good relationship with Baidu, Time Friends might have a big loss. During this period, Time Holdings also invested in NSFOCUS Technology due to security needs.

Come and not be rude, passive defense is not Zhou Shi's choice. After a lot of discussion. They decided to directly attack the core of Fuji Xun and launched their own IM tool, Mtime Message, or MM for short.

In addition to this, Zhou Shi launched the first round of financing of Friends.com. As soon as the news was released, ghosts, snakes, and gods from all walks of life flocked to it. Zhou Shi originally thought that not many people in China saw the value of the friend network, but this time after the financing news was released, he realized his mistake. However, in order to screen out suitable investors as soon as possible, Friends has set up conditions: talents and funds. $500 million valuation, highly qualified technical talent.

In addition to financing, there are also employee stock ownership plans. Zhou Shi had never been in contact with this aspect in his previous life, so he had to ask Yu Wei to ask Wang Zhanshen for assistance. However, as soon as the employee stock ownership and financing plan came out, the friend network, which was disturbed by Tengxun, also regained its former spirit.

The Growth Team, as the name suggests, is the department responsible for the growth of the number of users and their activity as a whole company, as well as other key data. The business unit that adopts the engineering-based approach to achieve natural and healthy growth of users, rather than relying on local push and throwing money for offline activities, and of course, rarely advertises on traditional channels (such as TV), but more to use the Internet to achieve viral growth of users. Focus on online marketing channels such as SEO, pay-per-performance, and email marketing, and rigorously optimize these channels for user and advertiser acquisition and retention.

The idea is good, but the implementation is very difficult, Wang Xiaochuan has been working overtime day and night in the past few days, but he still doesn't have much confidence. Friends have a huge amount of data, so it needs to use a very large server cluster and the most cutting-edge software architecture in the field of big data. These are not something he can solve alone, which is why Zhou Shi decided to start the first round of venture capital in advance. Originally, he thought that he could hold on until next year, but he didn't expect this idea to be so unrealistic.

As soon as the financing conditions of Friends.com were introduced, many people who wanted to fish in troubled waters were scared away. Sequoia, SAIF, Kleiner Perkins, IDG, DFJ, CDH, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, etc. have all entered the game. Zhou Shi Lu He and Li Ying also had access to many people who were difficult to contact directly, including many geniuses at Microsoft Research Asia. Like Ma Weiying, Zhang Hongjiang, Zhao Feng, Hua Xiansheng, Zhang Yiqing, these were famous in the previous life, like Ma Weiying is the vice president of Toutiao, Zhang Hongjiang is the CEO of Jinshan, and Zhao Feng is the CTO and vice president of Haier. This is still not the best character, the most bullish is Luqi recommended by Lehman Brothers. At this time in his previous life, Lu Qi was supposed to be the senior vice president of Yahoo, and this time, for some reason, he didn't get this position. This is a well-known boss in his previous life, the president and chief operating officer of Baidu Group. Zhou Shi decided to attack Lu Qi in an instant, if he could dig up the others at the same time, then he would wake up laughing when he slept.

Time friends things are going on in an orderly manner, the launch of MM has not caused much reaction, and now there are too many IMs in the domestic market, almost every big Internet company has been involved, and Baidu is said to be trying Baidu Hi. I'm afraid that in the eyes of most people, to stand out among so many giants, MM's difficulty is not the slightest. But how do they know what a social network empire is, although it has only been launched for a week, and the number of users who have downloaded and used it is only about 200,000, Zhou Shi is not worried about the development of MM at all.

Wang Xirui was about to set off, and Zhou Shi probably couldn't accompany her to leave. And her mother has also been in Beijing in the past few days, resulting in Zhou Shi not being with Wang Xirui for many days. Her father seems to be a senior executive in a state-owned enterprise, and her mother is an associate professor at a university, and she has not yet started school and has time to accompany her to the United States. Moreover, their family still has relatives in the United States, and Zhou Shi will also arrange for Fan Liuyi, who is still in the United States, and the staff of YouTube to pick up the plane, so there should be no problem. But this is just Zhou Shi thinks it's okay, things obviously won't be so simple.

"My mother wants to see you today," Wang Xirui said playfully

"She knows, how much does she know?" Zhou Shi was a little nervous

"I know everything I need to know!" Yajun said. "Wang Xirui

"Where do you say we're going to meet?" Zhou Shi

"Whatever," Wang Xirui

"Don't be so scary, okay, what's casual?" Zhou Shi

"You can just set a better grade," Wang Xirui

"Well, you can't just tell me how I don't have time to study this. "Zhou Shi

"It depends on your sincerity," Wang Xirui said with a smile

"Well, I'll try. "Zhou Shi

The mother-in-law is almost one of the most terrifying creatures in the world, but he still has to face this unexpected surprise.

If there is something to do, the secretary is fine...... , It's okay, it's okay, Zhou Shi hasn't evolved to that level of elegance yet.

"Help me book a high-end restaurant, and invite my mother-in-law for dinner" Zhou Shi

"Why don't I book you a restaurant at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse!" Li Lingyun

"Diaoyutai State Guesthouse is open to the public?" Zhou Shi asked curiously

"It's been open for a long time, but it's a bit expensive, but I don't think you care about this money, do you?"

"Who said I didn't care?" Zhou Shi

"Then I'll change places!" Li Lingyun

"Forget it, it's better to choose a better one for the first meeting, just here, I'm also extravagant." Zhou Shi gritted his teeth and said, I knew that this place was open, why should I bring my parents over to experience it first, MMP, let my mother-in-law take the lead!

"Then I'll go" Li Lingyun

"Go, go, hurry," Zhou Shi said without annoyance, he didn't know what test he would face at night, should he let his parents meet her?

But something that bothered him even more happened immediately, and after setting the place, Zhou Shi sent the time and place to Wang Xirui. But Zhang Hongjiang, who has not responded since the last time they met, finally agreed to meet this evening. This is the president of the Microsoft Asian Academy of Engineering, the chief CTO of Microsoft China R&D Group, although Zhou Shi feels that there is not much hope, but he will not be willing to try his best.

"Li Ying, what do you think I should do?" Zhou Shi threw this headache to others

"Cold salad, what's the matter with me!" Li Ying left without looking back

"Xiaochuan, what should I do?" Zhou Shi then asked

"Explain it to them, and one is 7 o'clock in the evening, and the other is more than 8 o'clock in the evening. Hurry up and eat, you're in a hurry!" Wang Xiaochuan

"It seems to be true, I'll do it! It's not a loss to Ogawa, it's amazing. "Zhou Shi