When I opened my eyes, the morning light was like a fish's belly on the edge of the mist, the city that had not yet awakened was still silent, the lower half of the tall buildings in the distance was wrapped in mist, like a girl holding a pipa and half-covering her face, and more buildings were submerged, occasionally revealing shadows like floating clouds in the rolling mist.

The huge floor-to-ceiling windows of the hotel bedroom incorporate such a view, projecting it into the eye, and the sky light is long, Ahn Junhyuk was stunned for a while and got up.

Just after changing clothes and freshening up, there was a knock on the door, and I gritted my toothbrush to open the door, and outside the door was Zuckerberg in a hooded sweatshirt and slippers.

"Hey, Ann!" he said hello and squeezed in the door, casually joking as he looked around, "Just about to wake you up for breakfast, man, how does it feel to have a hangover?"

Ahn Jun-hyuk, who was full of foam, returned to the bathroom and rinsed his mouth, splashed a handful of cold water on his face, and after a while, pressed the corner of his forehead, and replied weakly: "Headache." ”

Outside, Zuckerberg laughed.

Pulling a towel and wiping his face, Ahn Jun-hyuk walked out of the bathroom, saw Zuckerberg still looking around, and asked him strangely, "What are you looking for?"

"Why don't you have a hot girl?" Zach looked frustrated, "I gave such an exciting speech yesterday, and there were no hot girls automatically sent to the door?"

In response to him was Ahn Joon-hyuk's raised middle finger.

More than ten minutes later, the two appeared in the hotel's restaurant, because someone paid for the full cost, plus after the meeting. Everyone drank a lot, so almost all of the engineers who attended the shareholders' meeting yesterday stayed in the hotel.

When the two arrived at the restaurant, every time they walked past a table, their ears were full of greetings and greetings, and the effect of that speech did not seem to cool down because of a night, and the engineers who were ignited with passion relished the social future depicted by Ahn Joon-hyuk.

It wasn't until I found a seat that my ears cleared up. Unlike Ahn Joon-hyuk, who is dizzy. Zach looked pleased with the result: "Ann, you've managed to get into their hearts, and this is a very good start, honestly. Yesterday before the meeting began. I'm also worried about what to do if you mess up. Now it seems, man, you do fit the position better than I do. ”

Ahn Joon-hyuk with throbbing pain in his forehead. Wen Yan rolled his eyes: "The price of accepting this position is that I have become the target of everyone? Yesterday, more than 20 people asked me to toast, Parker and Dustin came to help me, only you! Mark, only you are gone!"

"Uh......" Zach rolled his eyes slyly, "I didn't run away, I just ...... I happened to go to the toilet. ”

"Oh, and then when you get back, we happen to be almost drunk again?"

"That's it!"

So another middle finger.

Of course, these were all just jokes, and it wasn't long before Parker and Dustin arrived, and the four of them ordered a simple breakfast and had a brief, director-to-board meeting as they ate.

"The resolution made at yesterday's meeting may have been noticed by those who are interested, and the temptation of $1.3 billion is not something that anyone can resist. Ahn Joon-hyuk said, "Some people don't understand our pursuit, and most of them will publicize this matter to the media as an interesting story, and I personally prefer to actively publicize it instead of passively welcoming the media at that time." ”

"Propaganda for what?" Zuckerberg wondered.

"Propaganda we rejected $1.3 billion!"

Zuckerberg and Moskowitz looked at each other, and in their eyes, the rejection of Yahoo was taken for granted, and such propaganda was like a clown selling himself, which was really embarrassing. Only Parker nodded in agreement: "Yes, it has to be promoted, and it is better to let everyone in Silicon Valley know that Yahoo's declining earnings are an outdated topic, and what is trending now is a social networking site called Facebook that rejected Yahoo's huge $1.3 billion acquisition." ”

"The scope doesn't have to be limited to Silicon Valley!" Ahn Joon-hyuk picked up his words, "It should be expanded to make it even bigger and more people know about it." $1.3 billion is an astronomical amount that many ordinary people will never see in a lifetime, or even completely unimaginable, and we need to use this to attract attention to Facebook. ”

Hearing his thoughts, not only Zuckerberg was hesitant at this time, but even Parker was a little hesitant.

"Is it necessary to span so much? Our current user range has only expanded to high school ......."

Looking at the worried expressions of the three people in front of him, Ahn Junhyuk sighed secretly.

A failure of the workplace network, coupled with the recent pressure from investors and disengaged shareholders, has become a little timid, but this is also a matter of course, even if he has tasted failure, so he can face it calmly.

After thinking about it, Ahn Jun-hyuk put down the fork in his hand and did not continue to explain his idea, but asked rhetorically: "Mark, Parker, and Dustin, according to your ideas before I came, how are you going to develop Facebook?"

The three of them looked at each other, hesitated for a moment, and Zuckerberg said: "We don't have a specific idea yet, but Parker, Dustin, and I all think that the failure of the workplace network is that we are too aggressive, we have been doing a social networking site for college students, and suddenly it involves the adult field, and we can't compete with MySpace at all, which is our most unfamiliar business, so we decided that we should suspend the pace of expansion, stabilize the current users first, increase adhesion and recognition, and then consider further promotion!"

"Well, a very mature idea. Ahn Jun-hyuk nodded.

Probably didn't expect to be recognized by him, Zuckerberg was stunned for a moment, then laughed, and was about to say something more, Ahn Junhyuk changed his words and splashed a basin of cold water on his head: " In traditional enterprises, such a step-by-step development rhythm is indeed the most secure, but Mark, social networks are not traditional enterprises, you need to understand one thing, now more and more people realize the inevitability of the development of WEB2.0, with the expansion of Facebook and MySpace users day after day, more and more people realize the potential interaction desire of Internet users...... Don't treat Facebook as a one-of-a-kind. Mark, not to mention that there are MySpace, LinkedIn in front of us, there are also a number of new websites in the back to catch up, time does not allow us to slowly, step by step to stabilize the ground, now, we need to take advantage of the fact that people have not completely woken up, as soon as possible to seize the market, only to occupy the market, there is a chance. Otherwise it's all empty talk!"

Zuckerberg was hesitant. It was Parker, after thinking for a moment, his eyes suddenly widened and he looked at Ahn Junhyuk: "Ann." Do you want to take this opportunity to push for full openness on Facebook?"

Hesitant Zuckerberg and Dustin. I also looked at it in amazement.

In their gaze, which could almost be called shocked. Ahn Jun Hyuk said: "Yes, since you launched the workplace network as early as May. Paving the way for full opening, it's clear that the technical problem has been solved, and since there is no problem with the technical technique, it's time to launch it!"

"But, Ann, the workplace network ......"

"I know that the workplace network has failed. Ahn Joon-hyuk raised his hand to stop Zuckerberg from shouting anxiously, "In the past few days preparing for the meeting, I have tried the workplace network, and I don't know how to use technology, so I can't tell the good from the bad, but I have a vision as a user, do you know how I feel after using it?"

Without waiting for the three of them to answer, Ahn Junhyuk raised his index finger with a focused and solemn expression: "In that network, I don't feel the slightest taste of Facebook, to be honest, it's like a bright-havent imitation of MySpace, an imitation, how can it compete with the genuine product?"

In fact, this evaluation is not the first one proposed by Ahn Junhyuk, and most of the people who have used the workplace network have already given the answer online.

However, when Facebook asked some of the people who gave the reviews to try out the Facebook network that currently runs for high school and college students, they also gave comments that they were not interested in it, saying that Facebook was not as attractive as MySpace at all.

This made Zach very annoyed for a while, the reason why he hesitated to move forward on the full opening up was not a technical problem, and he had no way to grasp the psychology of users, and the tendency of users became unpredictable.

This is also a major problem for the Facebook team to overcome, and Facebook believes from top to bottom that if it doesn't know what users want, then any new network will face failure, and Facebook can't afford to experience more failures.

Zuckerberg spoke out these concerns in detail, hoping to dispel Ahn Junhyuk's idea of adventurousness, but all he got was Ahn Junhyuk shaking his head slightly.

"Mark, have you ever thought about what those people are saying that Facebook doesn't have the appeal of MySpace?"

"Of course I thought about it. Zuckerberg replied, "I think it's because of the style, they're white-collar workers, they've gone out into society, their social circles are starting to be more elite, and the people around them are on mature, playful and bohemian Facebook, which is not to their taste." ”

"That's what you understand?"

Asking rhetorically, Ahn Jun-hyuk looked at Parker and Dustin again, and also asked rhetorically, "You think so too?"

"Of course!"

"Pretty much, I think it's a matter of style, too. ”

"It's not just the three of us, most of the engineers in the company also think it's because of the style, you know, Ann, a lot of people in Silicon Valley describe Facebook as a pimping website, full of hormones that college students have nowhere to vent, and we can't ask people who have already entered the society to be as energetic as college students. ”

"So you're going to turn the workplace network into a serious website that's not fun at all?" Ahn Joon-hyuk asked amusefully.

The three of them didn't know what they said wrong, and they were stunned.

Under their gaze, Ahn Junhyuk thought for a while and began to change to a more vivid description: "Let's look at the problem from a different perspective, put aside the website or something, just talk about reality, Mark, I'm going to work in a new place, there are no my friends, my relatives, my classmates, the whole city is strange to me, you think about it from my perspective, you say, do I like this new city right away, or do I miss the old city where I used to live?"

Zuckerberg replied without thinking, "Of course it's the old ......" and he paused abruptly, his mouth wide open.

Next to him, Parker and Dustin froze stupidly.

Looking at their reactions, Ahn Jun-hyuk sighed: "You guys were thinking in the wrong direction at the beginning, Mark, they don't like Facebook, not because of its frivolity, it's lively, I don't dare to conclude what people's desire to interact with on the Internet is, but I dare to say that no one will refuse a social atmosphere full of joy and always full of vitality." ”

"They don't like it just because they don't have their friends on Facebook!" (To be continued......