"Boss, here's what you're asking for. ”

Alvitatre took out a document bag from his bag and handed it to Andy and said.

Andy took the file bag and said to Bad Stone with a smile as he opened it, "Bard, the predator team is up to you, I want to hear more good news." ”

"Yes, boss, if there is nothing else, I'll go back to the office first. ”

Andy smiled and nodded, looking at the figure of Badstone leaving, and then looked down and began to look at the information in his hand, ten lines at a glance, it was not difficult for him to shorthand.

“。。。 Andy's fingers tapped lightly on those documents, squinting slightly, touching his chin with his right hand, and thinking with a very tangled look.

"Boss, do you want to buy this SHE network and microblogging service website called Twitter?"

Alvitatre saw his boss's tangled expression, and knew that his boss had encountered a problem that was difficult to decide, so he couldn't help but ask.

"I have this idea, but at the same time I have the idea of a new APP application software, and I want to set up a similar micro-blogging service on my own, Twitter is a ready-made company, if it can be acquired, it can save a lot of things. Andy Shu frowned and said to Al without the slightest concealment.

"I don't recommend buying this Internet company, I have carefully studied and analyzed this company, it is the next step in the logical development of the existing blog site, and it is also the initial stage of blogging. It's easy to type 140 words and send them to the web, and they streamline the information. The advantage is that it can provide direct and important information, which is unmatched by other SHE exchange sites.

But this company also has several big problems, the problem of SMS charging, will make users worry about the growth of SMS costs, after all, the boss you developed the Watspu has become the most popular chat tool at the moment, cross-platform mobile phone real-time chat, free information push, has begun to change people's use of paid SMS.

Originally, as soon as they debuted this year, they became the best way for netizens in the southern region of the United States to find a party, which seems to be very promising, but after the launch of HATSapp, Twitter's data traffic and the number of messages sent have shrunk significantly, and Watsp has begun to squeeze its living space.

And the most critical question, I can't see how Twitter makes money, and some media have also interviewed several founders of Twitter, and they also asked this question, and their answer was to ask the reporter rhetorically, and use Google as an example, that is, they themselves know that they don't have any way to make money. ”

Andy listened to Al's analysis, and nodded in agreement, even if Twitter was listed and financed in the previous life, it still did not solve the problem of profitability, which has always been criticized, "But the advantages of Twitter still cannot be ignored, after all, even if there is no network, it is still very advantageous to send messages to the outside world." ”

Alvitatre couldn't help but smile when he heard what the boss said: " Boss, even so, we don't have the need to buy, they have started to raise funds externally, hoping to find a venture capital to get money to burn, but it's not easy, the appearance of Watsp has shrunk the value of Twitter, but Twitter still stubbornly believes that their market value is 200 million US dollars, I don't think the boss will be willing to spend 200 million US dollars to buy this company, I think this money is enough to set up such a company yourself, and I believe that the boss you come up with a product will be better than theirs, as for the technical staff after the company is established, hehe, there are ready-made ones, isn't it？”

Andy's hand touching his chin froze suddenly, the corners of his mouth twitched, his eyes lit up, the corners of his mouth were full of upturns, showing a smile, looking at Al who was also smiling and said, "Hehe, you said that if Twitter was so difficult, would it be too much for me to poach its entire team?"

"Well, it's very excessive, hehe, however, we first have to solve some patent issues, even the current Twitter has been neglected, IBM's patent barriers, since it is a SMS push platform, it is impossible to avoid IBM, it is currently a potential infringement, Twitter is also a small company, IBM did not wave the patent stick to give it a fatal blow, I think it is not that IBM's legal department is not clear, but holding back, hoping to maximize benefits, if the boss you also want to launch this kind of microblog service platform, then I think we must first buy the relevant patents held by IBM, in order to obtain new technologies and establish a protective network for infringement litigation attacks。 Even if Twitter survives tenaciously in the future, we can also make them crippled!"

Andy deeply believes this, although his hatsapp is a new IT company, but so far it has 11 patents in its hands, and more than 60 patents are under approval, here is the United States, any new type of Internet company lacks intellectual property rights may make this company the target of lawsuits, and limit its ability to fight back by asserting its own patents, without establishing a patent protection network, then it is really stupid, the better the development, the more lawsuits will be eaten.

"It is inevitable that the think tank will list the relevant patents and potentially infringing patents, and we will pay to buy them, and this kind of thing must be resolved as soon as possible, and the purchase of patent rights will provide us with more complete intellectual property protection, and give us broader freedom of action to innovate on behalf of all who use our services." "Andy attaches great importance to patent barriers, why does Facebook like big fish to eat small fish, dare to play snake swallowing elephants, take the money from listing and financing everywhere to eliminate potential opponents, and all companies that think it may threaten it are acquired, because most of the companies acquired by Facebook are new Internet companies, in addition to eliminating opponents, with the establishment of strong patent barriers from acquisitions again and again, there is a popular saying in the IT industry in the United States, maybe in a certain garage has been born to replace your creativity!

With patent barriers, there is no need to worry about suddenly popping up a garage entrepreneur to become a new legend, a new challenger, a patent barrier alone can strangle these potential threats in the cradle, which is why the Internet industry in various countries has developed to the end, but has given birth to a giant monster oligopoly enterprise, and the reason why Internet entrepreneurship is becoming more and more difficult.

"Understood, manpower is already being arranged to start doing this. Al nodded to show that he understood, and had already ordered people to do it, he still knew his boss's personality very well, he liked to take the initiative in everything, and he didn't like to be controlled by others.

Sending Alvitatre away, Andy began to spin with a pen in his hand, and his brain was also running rapidly, this time not only to make Instagram Instagram, a social app running on the mobile terminal, Instagram is an app that can be used quickly, wonderfully and interestingly to share the pictures that users take at any time with each other. It is also necessary to combine microblogs to build its own unique platform website that can send 140 text messages like Twitter, and at the same time bundle the functions of Weibo and photo wall, after all, the value of a single Instagram photo wall can no longer meet Andy's current appetite.

In this way, this new Internet model can completely replace Twitter, which has not yet developed, and completely eliminate this opponent, of course, if Twitter can survive Andy's first round of attacks by digging into the wall.

Andy picked up the phone and successively called Korn Ferry Consulting and Heidwheel & Wise International Co., Ltd., the two largest headhunters in the United States, and they all had only one request, Twitter's development and management team, and he wanted it.

For Andy Smith such an important customer, no one wants to ignore, after hanging up the phone, the two companies immediately met to form a team, specifically responsible for the poaching task, as for the life and death of Twitter, it is not something they consider, since this big man has drawn the focus, then what they have to do is to do their best according to the requirements of customers, and customer satisfaction is their main task.

"You should know how much our youngest billionaire in the world likes to use professional managers, and every professional manager is fully trusted, and this time his goal is very clear, Twitter, a small company in San Francisco Silicon Valley, Mr. Smith's request is to poach Twitter's development team and all the management team except for the three founders. The CEO of Korn Ferry Consulting Co., Ltd., with his hands pressed on the conference table, looked around, leaned forward and pointed sharply at him, and said to everyone present.