Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Storm of Innovation Asks for Recommendations, Monthly Tickets, and Rewards
The next day, Ahn Joon-hyuk woke up from his sleep, and Zuckerberg and Sean Parker had already arrived at the hotel early, and the three met at the hotel restaurant. Ahn Jun-hyuk, who had a good night's rest, looked much better in his mental state than yesterday, and even joked to Sean Parker, who had been busy for a long time yesterday and obviously didn't sleep well: "Sean, don't work too hard, you make Mark feel so distressed that he can't even eat breakfast." β
Zuckerberg, who happened to tell the waiter who came to place an order that he didn't want to eat, choked up when he heard this, glared at Ahn Junhyuk fiercely, and quickly changed his words to ask for two hamburgers, saying that one of them was given to his dearest partner Ahn Junhyuk, and said in a weird way: "Make.hamburger.out.of.somebody!"
was smug, when he saw An Junhe loosening his cuffs on the other side, "Don't think I don't understand American slang, Mark, you want to beat me into a meatloaf, depending on your physique...... Hehe!" he clenched his fists, and his suddenly tense muscles suddenly rounded his cuffs.
"......" stared at the arm incredulously, and for a moment, Zuckerberg swallowed his saliva, then got up and walked out without saying a word.
Sean quickly stood up and shouted, "Hey, Mark, where are you going?"
Zuckerberg didn't answer, and ran away in a blink of an eye, Sean had to sit down again and smile bitterly at Ahn Junhyuk: "Okay, you successfully drove out our chairman." β
"Isn't that the relationship between the CEO and the chairman? You get rid of me, I'll get rid of you. Everyone cosplayed back and forth. Ahn Joon-hyuk shrugged his shoulders and joked.
Looking at him, there was silence, and Sean said meaningfully: "But I don't want Facebook to have this kind of relationship, let alone Zuckerberg to meet such a CEO." β
Scold!
Ahn Joon-hyuk chuckled, knowing that among the people close to Zuckerberg on Facebook, Sean Parker had the most complicated attitude towards his arrival. Others are more likely to be psychologically similar to Moskowitz, either concentrating on technical work, having no administrative ambitions at all, or just being accustomed to being a sound bug. Ahn Joon-hyuk took over as CEO without making any changes that did not meet their expectations. So they support it.
Only Sean Parker has a good impression of Ahn Joon-hyuk and remains vigilant. On the one hand, it was Ahn Joon-hyuk's emergence that alleviated Zuckerberg's difficult situation. Saved Facebook from the brink of sale. And on the other hand. The longer he has been at the helm of Facebook, the more powerful and influential he has become within the company, and he is the second largest shareholder of the company. It's okay to have the same goal in the short term, but in case there is a disagreement in the future......
Ahn Jun-hyuk's eyes were deep, and no one could see what kind of emotions were contained in them, and he smiled: "I don't want Facebook to have this kind of relationship either." β
Hearing what he wanted to hear, Sean secretly breathed a sigh of relief, so he accepted it as soon as he saw it, no longer touched on this topic, and began to talk about the results of his notice yesterday: "According to what you mean, the middle and senior managers who are currently in Palo Alto or surrounding cities will come back to attend the meeting today, and if they have already gone abroad or the time schedule is inconvenient, they will be given a briefing after the meeting...... I also informed Apple, but the results were not ideal......"
"Jobs didn't want to come over?"
"Yes, he probably thinks it's a waste of his time!" said that, Sean was a little annoyed, he was most tired of this kind of reserved and high-minded attitude of large enterprises, if he made a decision, Jobs was unwilling to come, and he wouldn't even invite, so as not to humiliate himself, but the current CEO is Ahn Junhyuk, even if he doesn't think so, he still continued: "But he agreed to give 10 minutes to watch the live video of the meeting." β
Ahn Jun-hyuk is not surprised by this result, Jobs's personality is not a secret in the industry, when he was kicked out of Apple, some media openly ridiculed him as a megalomaniac with obsessive-compulsive disorder, perfectionism and narcissism, so that his partners could not tolerate him.
Of course, Ahn Jun-hyuk doesn't care about the facts, and the current Facebook really has no reason for Jobs to "waste time".
However, soon there will be ......
The short breakfast lasted 20 minutes, during which Sean Parker worried several times about where Zuckerberg had gone, and when the two had finished breakfast and were about to leave for the company, when he called Zuckerberg's mobile phone, he happened to pass by the two people in the hotel's fitness center and heard Zuckerberg's familiar mobile phone ringtone.
Looking inside, there was a space near the door of the fitness center, next to the aisle, a row of sandbags hanging, and Zuckerberg, who Sean thought was angry and ran away, stood in front of a sandbag with a red belt on his forehead and a serious expression.
Sean Parker opened his mouth and was about to ask Zuckerberg why he didn't answer the phone, when he suddenly screamed: "Ahββββ"
Crackling, pounced on it, hugged the sandbag and punched randomly, then jumped up and kicked it!
"Ahββββh
"Bang!", the sandbag swayed high, and a very accomplished Berg smiled in the posture of Mr. Bodybuilder.
"Whew!", and the sandbag fell down again.
Sean couldn't bear to look away.
"Bang!"
"Ahh......h
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At 9:10 a.m., Jobs had just finished a meeting. The postponement of the release conference not only brought pressure to spare parts suppliers such as Samsung, but also the pressure on Jobs, and at the previous meeting, several shareholder representatives vaguely said that it was possible to agree to Google's request to abandon the acquisition of Android, or simply stop using Google's products.
But Jobs couldn't allow himself to have an idea that was better than the original, but he couldn't use it, and he never shied away from the fact that he was a perfectionist, nor did he shy away from his almost paranoid desire for control.
"I won't agree to Google's request, not now, not in the future! Within a year of the iPhone being on the market, I won't allow a relatively mature one on the market. The design concept is close to the iPhone.OS operating system appeared. I also won't give up using Google's products, I don't care what you do, anyway, I want Google to get their products to me by the middle of next month!"
After speaking, he didn't care about the ugly faces of those people at all, and directly announced the dismissal of the meeting.
"Steve, they must hate you to death. Phil Schiller, one of Jobs's most loyal followers, followed him out of the conference room on his way back to the office. So faintly said.
Jobs didn't care: "They hated me for many years. But what does it matter? Phil, they drove us away, but they had to ask us back again, do you know what we do? Because we're going to make money. They won't! because I'm a genius. They are all fools. It's that simple!"
"Oh!" said Phil Schiller, whose face was expressionless, "and they will hate you even more when they hear that." β
"Ha Lu Ha. As long as these two simple reasons remain the same, what can hatred change? Nothing can change! As long as I can continue to make profits for Apple, they will hold me on top of their heads all the time, even if they want to drink my blood and eat my flesh, but when I appear in front of them, they will still show the kindest smile and cheer for me!"
The dark floor-to-ceiling windows of the corridor reflected Jobs's confident figure, and when he caught a glimpse, he immediately stopped, looked thoughtfully at himself inside, and after a moment of silence, asked Phil Schiller beside him: "Phil, what do you think would happen if I raised my right arm now and yelled 'Hey! Jobs!' (Nazi salute)?"
Jobs always had a lot of strange thoughts, and after following him for so many years, Phil Schiller had long been surprised, and he didn't even move his eyelids, and replied dryly: "You will die a miserable death." β
And then...... Then Jobs took the warning: "Hmm...... What you say makes a lot of sense, thank you Phil!"
"You're welcome. β
In the eyes of outsiders, these two people are like neurotics, but it is precisely such "neurotics" that are leading Apple's rapid rise.
"Ah, it's 9:15, what's next for me?"
It was supposed to be a secretary or an assistant's job, but Phil Schiller knew that Jobs didn't like to listen to people who didn't have his respect, so he didn't have a secretary at all, and most of his schedules were recorded by engineers or executives around him β including Phil Schiller β so he quickly replied, "You have a 15-minute break, and at 9:30 a.m., you're going to sit in on a Facebook management meeting." β
"Well, yes, yes, I remember, that little guy named Ann...... Phil, what do you think he's going to surprise me?"
Phil pondered, and shook his head after a while: "There is not enough information to refer to. β
"Hopefully he's not coming to me to pitch Facebook. While speaking, the two had already come to Jobs's office, and while reaching out to push the door, Jobs shrugged his shoulders to Phil Schiller behind him: "To be honest, some of the words of that Korean Ann are really eye-catching, but I think he is more of a boast, I have to say, he has the same good eloquence as me." β
In this regard, Phil just spread his hands, "Yes, yes, maybe it will scare you this time." β
"Ha, I hope so!"
Fifteen minutes passed in a hurry, and at 9:30, Phil connected to the video channel provided by Facebook on time, and the moment the huge screen lit up on the wall on one side of the office, the picture of a small conference room also changed from blurry to clear, showing the two of them.
There were already more than a dozen people sitting at the round conference table, facing the screen, at the head of the conference table, a young Asian American was looking down at something, Phil looked back at Jobs, who was already seated, and then coughed into the microphone: "Hello everyone on Facebook, sorry for keeping you waiting!"
At the same time, far away at the Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, the electronic screen in the conference room also received a feedback signal, Ahn Junhyuk raised his head, and at that moment, even if it was separated from a distant space, even if it was just a frame of pictures transmitted by telecommunications, Jobs still seemed to feel a scorching light in it.
It's a familiar light, just like he looks at himself every time he is interviewed or given a speech on TV......
Jobs, who was still a little careless, straightened his sitting posture slightly, and heard Ahn Junhyuk on the other side of the video greet him: "Mr. Jobs, it's an honor to invite you to observe this meeting." β
A respectful attitude towards him. Jobs was noncommittal. But it was probably the first impression, and he didn't show any bitterness, just nodded: "You have 10 minutes." β
"Thank you for your generosity!" Ahn Junhyuk bowed his head again to show respect, then sorted out the materials and stood up.
The conference room was quiet, in fact, because the meeting was held in a hurry, some people rushed back to the company almost overnight, and they didn't know what was going on when Jobs appeared on the screen. It also scared a few people.
Among them is Moskovitz. He had just arrived from Boston overnight on a flight and didn't know what to do, when he couldn't help but look at Zuckerberg beside him in a bit of confusion, and Sean Parker had been relieved of his administrative duties. Not here.
"Hey. Mark. Did something happen?"
"I don't know, let's hear what Ann has to say!"
"Oh...... Speaking of which, what's wrong with your head?"
ββ¦β¦ Shut up!"
Whisper. whisper
Pete Tyle, who was sitting at the bottom left of Ahn Jun-hyuk, glanced at Jim Breyer beside him, and when he saw him looking, Jim whispered, "Do you know what he wants to do?"
Pete Thiel shook his head slightly.
With Ahn Junhyuk's support, Zuckerberg did not hide his disgust at all for their attempts to sell Facebook, and for several months, Zuckerberg repeatedly vetoed their proposals at board meetings without giving any leeway, and at the same time, Ahn Jun-hyuk, as the CEO, was slowly adjusting their division of labor and eating away at the power in their hands little by little.
But even with a clear understanding of these, Thiel and Breyer have little choice but to defend passively, and by now, the equity of the two agents in their hands is losing - except for their own holdings, the small shareholders who were originally co-opted by them, apparently think that the joint camp of Ahn Junhyuk and Zuckerberg is now more valuable.
However, passive defense does not mean that there is no ability to resist, Ahn Junhyuk's strength, although it dilutes the power in their hands a little bit, but it also forces the two to unite more closely than before.
Let's wait and see what happens!
The two exchanged a look, remained silent, and looked at the head of the conference table with a puzzled face like everyone else, Ahn Jun-hyuk stood up and coughed: "Before the meeting, on behalf of Facebook, I would like to welcome Mr. Jobs of Apple to the audience, and Mr. Kim Jung-wook, president of J.H. Network, to attend the meeting. β
The middle and senior managers at the conference table, with his opening remarks, either doubted or scrutinized or silently looked at Jobs in the bottom electronic screen, and Kim Jung-wook sitting next to the electronic screen.
J.H whose industry is it, everyone here knows that under the eyes of everyone, Kim Jung-wook nodded with a smile, in fact, he was already nervous in his heart, and he was also confused now, I don't know what Chairman Lu Dao suddenly called yesterday and asked him to attend this meeting.
Ahn Junhyuk ignored the changes below, and continued to say loudly: "Initiating this meeting today, I am going to put forward an important idea related to Facebook, Apple, and J.H, if this idea is successful, it can determine the ecological pattern of the mobile device industry and the mobile Internet industry in the next few years!"
As soon as the words fell, there was a buzzing sound below, and the middle and senior managers present were completely confused.
Facebook is an Internet company that has no connection with the mobile industry at all, so why did this idea suddenly appear?
Before they could raise their doubts, Ahn Jun-hyuk had already bent his fingers and said, "I am here today to launch an initiative to invite Apple and J.H Network to jointly establish a map company that provides free digital map use business!"
Buzz.
The conference room exploded in an instant, and if it was just confusion just now, then now, everyone couldn't sit still.
"Ann, what do you mean? The company is now making every effort to develop rich Facebook functions, and we are still exploring the Internet business, why do you suddenly want to launch the mobile business again?"
"Yes, Ann, now our engineering team is all focused on developing third-party access programs, and we really don't have the energy to attack the mobile business. I know that from the very beginning of your tenure, you have emphasized the importance of mobile business. I'm not denying your vision, it's just that this step is too big?"
"Yes, don't talk about that, we don't have any experience in the map business at all, Ann, do you want to think about it again?"
These are people who usually get close to Ahn Junhyuk, such as Moskowitz and others, mainly in the form of exhortation.
Other professional managers, appointed or recruited by capital companies, immediately rebounded.
"Ann. You are the CEO of the company. But it doesn't mean that this company is completely dictatorial by you, I firmly oppose any map business, now there are mature map products on the market, Google Maps has been developing for 2 years. Features are being rapidly enriched. That's when we started a map company. There is simply no way to compete. β
"I don't see any business connection to the idea of this map company, and I firmly oppose it!"
There was a lot of noise, Ahn Joon-hyuk at the bottom left of Thiel and Breyer. After a brief moment of stunned contemplation, they came to their senses, and suddenly saw a strange color in each other's eyes.
β¦β¦ This is the opportunity......
There are not many opportunities to seize Ahn Junhyuk's attack, and Breyer, who is still in charge of financial work, immediately put on a dignified and serious look, raised his hand and shouted: "I am also against it, the company's financial situation is deteriorating, and the most important problem facing Facebook now is not to expand into other areas, but to strive to catch up with competitors who are still pressing on our heads, but to try to find a healthy profit model to support the company's operations!"
As he spoke, his eyes became deep, like the streets of Brooklyn at night, projecting a distorted and malicious darkness: "Executive Ahn Junhyuk, I hope you will withdraw this proposal, otherwise, I will propose to convene an extraordinary shareholder meeting in the name of the major shareholder and deprive you of the CEO position!"
As soon as these words came out, the room was suddenly silent, and the manager of the fund recruitment glanced at Breyer with strange eyes, of course they knew what he wanted to do, in the past few months, it was no secret that Breyer and Thiel were suppressed by Ahn Jun Hyuk, and in the past, if Breyer said such a thing, they would not agree, but now...... Several professional managers squirmed their lips and fell silent.
On the other hand, Moskowitz and others glared angrily at Breyer, especially Moskowitz, who was the co-founder and had little power in his hands, but his status was extremely high, and he was about to speak, but he happened to catch a glimpse of Zuckerberg, who was silent next to him.
Moskowitz's heart struck, with Zuckerberg's temper and his relationship with Ahn Joon-hyuk, he should have stood up and supported it at this time, but ......
The meaning of this silence is truly terrifying!
Thinking about it, Moskowitz hesitated for a moment, then slowly closed his mouth again.
There was an eerie silence in the conference room for a moment, and on the other side of the screen, Phil looked back at Jobs. Such a change of situation was really unexpected by him, he turned off the microphone, looked back and called softly, "Steve......"
The faint nonchalance on Jobs' face completely dissipated the moment Ahn Jun-hyuk proposed to jointly establish a map company, and the old man frowned tightly and looked at Ahn Jun-hyuk on the screen without blinking.
He saw Ahn Jun Hyuk glance at the conference table with an indifferent expression, and waved his hand to Phil: "Continue to listen to him!"
Wandering in the strange quiet office, Ahn Junhyuk, who was subjected to doubts and accusations, was as calm as a deep pool, and when others questioned him, he listened silently, and then it was quiet, he put down the information in his hand, walked to the writing board hanging on the wall behind him, picked up the chalk in the complicated eyes of everyone, and wrote the big letters "Facebook".
Then he turned his head and looked at the middle and senior managers around the conference table, looked at Jobs on the other side of the screen, crossed his hands in front of his chest, frowned and stared, and smiled slightly: "Guys, can anyone tell me what is Facebook's greatest wealth?"
People looked at each other, wondering what he meant by mentioning this.
Ahn Junhyuk didn't seem to think about them answering, and the moment the question came out, he slapped his palm on the writing board and slapped it on the huge "Facebook" letter, "Facebook's greatest wealth is the tens of millions of users who have accepted our sharing and opening up ideas. Ladies and gentlemen, I promised at the beginning of my tenure that I would lead Facebook to find a healthy, long-term profit model that complements Facebook's products and features...... I've been thinking about it for the past few months. Where should this profit model be mined? I used to target advertising, but in my few ideas, Facebook's alternative advertising model has a natural weakness!"
"Our ideal is to make Facebook a huge social circle, where users, their first choice is to communicate, they don't have the desire to buy here, if we focus on advertising, we have to do everything we can to get these users who don't want to buy to generate purchase intent. This is undoubtedly difficult. And it is contrary to Facebook's liberal thinking. β
"I used to think that the opportunity was in the data flow, and the 'News Feed' feature made me realize the rich potential of Facebook recording everyone's behavior. What sites did they go to. What news was checked. What products were visited...... This information is recorded and aggregated into Facebook's data stream, if its potential can be tapped. I'm sure Facebook will be the greatest company in the world, but the difficulty at the moment is that we don't have a clue how to tap it. These data streams are chaotic, and if you want to mine them, you need to sort them out for easy querying and management, which is something that is not currently possible with the technology, and this is something that we have discussed countless times in recent months. β
"Then I noticed the real building blocks of Facebook β the people!"
Ahn Joon-hyuk patted the writing board, dropped the chalk casually, and glanced at everyone's eyes, as bright as the summer sun: "Gentlemen, Facebook users have the cutest qualities in this world, they are willing to share, they are willing to open up their privacy, they are willing to report to friends and strangers what they are doing now, they are happy to share the things in the real world around them to this virtual society, so as to get like-minded partners...... I thought, why can't we take advantage of this?"
As he spoke, he suddenly paused and looked at Moskowitz: "Dear Dustin, tell me, is it difficult to make a digital map simply?"
Dustin Moskowitz was stunned, everyone looked at him, he swallowed nervously, thought about it, and replied: "I haven't done it, but I have learned relevant knowledge, if the requirements are not high, a simple digital map, only need to buy a topographic map from the national surveying and mapping agency to make a tile base map (only the general terrain, such as rivers, lakes, mountains, forests), plus a layer of vector layer (road distribution) and POI layer (building location) can be, but ......"
"Yes!" Ahn Joon-hyuk interrupted him and continued his speech, "a very simple construction, a tile basemap, a vector layer, and a POI layer...... Of course, such a map is still very rudimentary, and it needs to be constantly refined and corrected for accuracy, which requires a lot of money and effort, and the gentlemen who opposed me before considered it the same, right?"
The engineers below nodded silently.
Looking at them, An Junhe smiled slightly: "But, why do we have to do it ourselves?"
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There was a moment of astonishment below, and in their confused, surprised, and ignorant eyes, Ahn Joon-hyuk picked up a piece of chalk again and wrote "Users" under the huge letters of "Facebook" on the writing board, and "Crowdsourcing" under "Users".
"We have tens of millions of users who are willing to share, why can't we fully mobilize their strength, and let them complete the subsequent improvement and correction of the map for what we want?" Ahn Junhyuk used arrows to connect the three letters, "We can make this map into a game, and in the brainstorming session last month, our designer, Ms. Susan, came up with the idea of making a virtual gift and selling it to users to generate revenue." Here, we can change it a bit, associate the virtual product with the map game, invite the user to share his or her surroundings, roads, buildings, and get a part of the points for each person's correction to be recognized by others, and these points will become the currency of the virtual kingdom of Facebook, and users can use it to buy our virtual products and give them to friends......"
"Even, we can go a little deeper, every user who successfully corrects the map has the right to leave his or her Facebook ID in the comments of the layer he or she corrected, which is convenient for users to contact directly if they find that the layer is wrong, and it will also mobilize the user's enthusiasm and participationββ"
βwhile sharing. Get benefits and honors, share the most successful users, and will also receive a medal made by Facebook, as well as the opportunity to visit the headquarters...... By extension, the map can be effectively integrated with all of Facebook's features, such as our developer platform. When the POI layer is gradually improved and the developer platform is launched, we can invite every restaurant, mall, and entertainment venue that appears on the map to develop their official app on the platform, and they can carry out various activities on the official app. Like what. Group Shopping ......"
Ahn Joon-hyuk started a new line and wrote "Group.purchase": "This is a concept that I came up with, where merchants determine how much a certain item can be discounted when a certain number of people buy it together. And we. Display this information on a map. And according to the user information to provide interested users, the final product transaction, the merchant can be based on the number of participating users. Pay to our platform. This is a matter of mutual benefit, which can solve the problem of promotion and promotion of merchants to a certain extent......"
"On the other hand......"
As he explained more and more deeply on the stage, the middle and senior managers who had originally shown various expressions at the conference table were already dumbfounded.
Such a whimsical idea is completely beyond their comprehension, but more importantly, as Ahn Junhyuk writes down one noun after another, explaining the operating concept little by little, they find that what he says is indeed feasible.
On the other side of the screen, in Cupertino, in Jobs' office, looking at the young man on stage, Phil looked at the time.
It's been more than ten minutes, but Steve Jobs behind him, with his chin in one hand, is listening intently to Ahn Junhyuk's commentary, Phil knows that the young man on the other side of the screen has successfully attracted Jobs's attention with his innovative thinking.
And that's just the beginning.
After talking about some ideas for mining map business opportunities, Ahn Joon-hyuk finally talked about mobile: "...... I have always believed that the future development of smartphones is not limited to simple calls and text messages, I prefer to call it a terminal device, a terminal device that has the functions of a mobile phone and a computer, and can be moved!
As he spoke, Ahn Joon-hyuk wrote "Location.Based.Services" in a blank space at the end of the dense writing board that had been written.
This is another new concept, and the people below, including Kim Jung-wook, as well as Jobs and Phil on the other side of the electronic screen, have been stunned by the feasible concepts he proposed, and they are silent at the moment, waiting for him to tell.
Looking at the people waiting quietly, Ahn Jun Hyuk made various poses to assist his speech, and his tone was impassioned!
"Ladies and gentlemen, we are living in the best era, the mobile network is covering this blue planet, is really connecting the whole world into one, with the high-speed mobile network, the final network speed will be as fast as the telecommunications network! Under such a high speed, if a small GPS chip is integrated into the smartphone in the future, what will be the result? What is the significance to our map products?"
He turned around and drew a simple picture on the writing board.
A few circles represent buildings, two parallel lines represent roads, and on the road, a small square represents a car. This is a simple and easy-to-understand GPS navigation screen, but the next moment, he drew a cartoon-like dialog box next to the building represented by the circle, and wrote in the dialog box -
ββXXX goods in our store have arrived, and you can enjoy a 20% discount when you buy them......
The sound of chalk hitting the board like raindrops quickly wrote this line of handwriting, and Ahn Joon-hyuk jerked off the "Services" at the end of "Location.Based.Services" and replaced it with "Advertising".
"Location.Based.Advertising" β Location-based advertising.
The moment when the chalk falls a little later.
There was a buzz, the silence shattered, and the indoor air vibrate!
Jobs on the other end of the screen couldn't sit still anymore and stood up suddenly. (To be continued......)
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