Chapter 14: My Ideals? (End)
In many cases, the power of language is beyond human imagination.
The concept had been known for a long time, but when such a miracle was truly revealed, Parker found himself underestimating its horror.
Everyone around him was excited, and the tall young man on the stage clenched his fists vigorously, saying his ideals and promises in the midst of people's frenzied shouts and echoes.
The sound was vibrating, the sound of "not satisfied", the sentence of "can't", like the strongest stimulant, dopamine, adrenaline, stimulating people to chant after him.
"Microsoft can't!"
"Yahoo can't!"
"Google can't!"
"Only Facebook!"
Only Facebook!
What a powerful slogan, everyone's emotions were infected by him, he said, he promised that if he took over as CEO, he would maximize the freedom of thought of engineers, and he wanted to create an open and transparent meeting on Facebook, which everyone voluntarily attended, once a week or month, where everyone could speak freely. Technical, creative, ideation, as long as you dare to come up with ideas, as long as you can get other engineers to agree with your ideas and are willing to follow you to do it, then do it, Facebook will provide all the logistical support!
He promised that if he took over as CEO, he would promote the "hacker" culture throughout the company and to the outside world, and that Facebook would stay true to the hacker spirit and focus on the product rather than the business. He wants to show the world that the failure of the workplace network is only temporary, and he wants to establish a core, a core of Facebook.
And in the future, hundreds of millions of people will revolve around this core to form a great nation called Facebook!
So passionate and persuasive, the young and old engineers around him, who have long forgotten where this place is, are boiling for the importance of communication in his mouth; Passionate about the vision of the second revolution in the web, they let go of their commitment to engineers.
People stood up. Someone shouted loudly, someone waved their arms and burst into foul mouths in excitement, but more loudly it was, behind each of his promises. There are mountains and tsunamis-like responses!
“Yeah!!!”
This simple word. The attitude of all has been indicated. Everyone was fanatical, in front of them and behind them. Even Zuckerberg, Moskowits, and even, including him, on stage!
His words seemed to contain magic, and his mind became chaotic under that magic, and when Ahn Joon-hyuk raised his fist and shouted for everyone to follow him, follow Zuckerberg, and build a great empire like Alexander the Great, applause and wild screams began to become the main theme of this chamber.
People were hoarse.
People are venting their already boiling blood.
Parker also stood in the crowd, shouting along with the crowd, because what Ahn Joon-hyuk described was the vague wish that often flashed through his heart when he and Mark occasionally chatted.
Freedom, freedom, freedom!
Adhering to the spirit of freedom, we will build a country with free and barrier-free communication!
Mark always described it as "Rome's Italy", but that description was too vague and did not have a specific concept, and to this day, Ahn Joon-hyuk portrays it in plain language, and then uses it to conquer this group of free minds.
The chaotic brain almost stopped functioning, and I saw the fanatical and distorted faces of the people around me in my field of vision, the chair behind the podium, the same excited and confused Zuckerberg and Moskowitz, and the pale Breyer under the impact of the sound like a tsunami, and the shocked and even frightened Tyre and Sze.
At this moment, a thought suddenly came to my mind with great clarity -
Mark missed an opportunity......
But the thought was fleeting, and because of the cognitive relationship, Sean Parker only took his own idea as a flash, and it wasn't until much later, when Facebook began to grow into a new giant, that he slowly realized that he felt that Mark had missed an opportunity at this time.
A company is like a person, from the beginning, to slowly grow, in the process of growth, it will encounter many difficulties and setbacks, but one day, it will mature in the ups and downs.
Every company that has walked this path has a spirit that condenses its spirit, and this is true of Microsoft, Apple, Google, and every well-known company.
And the leaders who have accompanied them on that road have also accumulated great prestige in the spirit of the company's condensation.
Bill Gates, Larry Page, Steve Jobs, John Chambers, ...... Counting the experiences of these people, it is not difficult to find that the stability of their positions is after bringing the company from a difficult situation to glory.
Because they have accompanied them through that road, they have faced a desperate situation, they have turned the tide, and they have gathered terrifying influence and prestige because of it.
Humans are animals who are good at blind obedience, and if a person does one thing under almost impossible conditions, then in the eyes of others, he can do anything!
On the afternoon of August 15, 2006, Facebook's first extraordinary meeting of the year was aroused by Ahn Junhyuk's speech, so that it was held smoothly beyond people's imagination.
The meeting voted overwhelmingly 76% to reject the proposal of Breyer and other directors to accept Yahoo's offer and sell the company, and stipulated a one-year validity period, during which the proposal was not allowed to be submitted repeatedly, otherwise the shareholders' meeting had the right to re-elect the board of directors accordingly.
Also at the meeting, Zuckerberg's resignation application was unanimously approved, and Ahn Jun-hyuk was elected as the only candidate for Facebook's third CEO. It's just that the impromptu meeting didn't give candidates the power to take office immediately, but everyone understands that there are no surprises that can upend Facebook. Ahn Joon-hyuk will not have any resistance to officially taking over at the end of the year.
These resolutions, as the hour-and-a-half-hour session ended, quickly spread throughout Silicon Valley.
Although Facebook is still a small company with only a few dozen employees, Yahoo's huge acquisition offer has made it the object of attention of Silicon Valley and Wall Streeters.
Therefore, after the resolution of the shareholders' meeting came out, all those who saw the information. I subconsciously thought I had heard it wrong. After confirming it several times, the same thought came to mind-
Everyone in this company is crazy?
Unfortunately, Facebook is not a public company, and it is not obligated to make any internal changes public, details about the meeting. Naturally, outsiders do not have access to specific official information. Many of the deeper changes are indiscerning.
And Facebook doesn't pay any attention to the outside world. After the meeting, all the shareholders who were still excited stepped forward to shake hands with Ahn Junhyuk one by one. Groups of three or five went to the conference hall with their companions not far away, and the banquet hall that had already been prepared to enjoy the buffet.
When everyone was gone, Zuckerberg, who was at the back of the crowd, and Zuckerberg, who was accompanying An Junhyuk, excitedly ignored the height difference between the two, jumped up and grabbed Ahn Junhyuk's shoulders, and shouted: "Damn, damn it, I know that you can do it! That's cool! Man, do you know it? When you raise your hand at the back, I can't wait to lie at your feet and kiss your upper!"
“…… When did you have this perverted habit?"
"Hey, this is my ...... of adoration," Zuckerberg protested, and was about to say something more when he saw the exhaustion on Ahn Joon-hyuk's face.
The previous speech seemed to consume a lot of his physical strength, and at this time, the face that always had an indifferent expression, and the eyebrows were full of fatigue that could not be concealed, Zach paused, and then said with concern: "Ann, how are you?"
"It doesn't matter. Ahn Jun-hyuk waved his hand, "It's just that I'm a little tired." ”
"Do you need me to take you to a break?"
"No, you can go to the banquet hall and greet them, and I'll go to the bathroom and wash my face." ”
Everyone is a man, there is no need to be too mother-in-law, and after confirming that Ahn Jun-hyuk really doesn't look like a big deal, Zuckerberg nodded: "Okay, I'll go say hello first, and you can rest and come over later." ”
"Hmm!"
It's a bit tiring indeed.
But not physically.
Seeing Zuckerberg leave, Ahn Jun-hyuk exhaled softly when he turned around and walked in the direction of the bathroom, and a slight sigh was mixed with the smell of emptiness.
The speech was a success, there were no failures, and the administrative purpose was achieved, and the shareholders not only agreed to reject the sale of Facebook, but also imposed greater restrictions, and the engineers who had been provoked by him presumably set an expiration date on the rejected proposal in order to prevent another storm of selling and hindering their great goal of "building a new world".
Within a year, any proposal for Yahoo to buy Facebook would not be legal to be submitted again, which would have almost completely eliminated the impact of Yahoo's continued price increases.
The matter of taking over as CEO of Facebook was also unanimously approved, and everything was successful.
But the spirits could not be lifted.
Went to the bathroom, in the huge mirror, Ahn Joon-hyuk washed his face with cold water, the cold feeling stimulated his nerves, and the heavy confusion weakened a little, he did not pull out his handpaper to wipe them off, but let the water droplets slide down his jaw, falling on the edge of the white pool, shattering into countless tiny splashes.
Tick tock, tick tock!
He looked at himself in the mirror, a young man who stepped off the podium, restrained his light, no longer in spirit, and had a confused look in his eyes.
Even the cold "Ahn Jun Hyuk" in the dream has given many speeches, and "he" has a unique set of means, using language, gestures, and paragraph emphasis, and even the pronunciation of each syllable, to motivate and inspire, to give a noble proposition to a thing, and to sublimate the ideal into a mission.
"He" used these methods to let many people see the possibility of realizing their ideals and dedicate themselves to that noble mission.
But the irony is that until his death, "he" did not know what his ideals and mission were......
…… What's even more ironic is that I don't know what to do......
Lowering his head, he sighed, and in the distance, the noisy cheers of the banquet hall came, and here, in front of the cold mirror, there was silence...... (To be continued......)