Chapter Forty-Nine: The Turtle Goes Online

Sun Buqi dodged Chen Shijun's bear hug, and couldn't help but complain, "Could it be that if you change taking a bath at night to taking a bath in the morning, you will become an American?"

Picked up the hamburger on the table, pretended not to see the black face of his little friend, and swallowed it with gusto, "Or eat hamburgers every day and every meal, and you can become an authentic American stomach?"

Chen Shijun continued to cut bread, smeared butter, put in vegetables and sausages, and handed it to Sun Buqi, "Your other two compatriots, this is not the case, so far they have not followed the customs......

The company reimbursed the expenses, Bi Sheng and Zhang Yang rented a small house nearby, and occasionally cooked by themselves. This does not match the overall working atmosphere of the company, and it has been difficult to integrate in.

Sun Buqi solved the hamburger in three or two bites, signaled that he was full, and solved the problem of not knowing whether it was breakfast or lunch, and couldn't help but argue,

"In China, if you eat and live with your employees and spend more time together than your relatives or husbands and wives, you must be a gang member or a pyramid schemer. Normal people have their own lives, where can they endure this kind of work and rest time?"

Chen Shijun was not angry and triumphant, "You are right, we used to be called the PayPal gangster!"

He was an early employee of PayPal, and although he was not the main founder, he was very nostalgic for that period of life.

In the early days of the business, Chen Shijun completely copied the PayPal system, and now in the company, except for Sun Buqi's team, he has had PayPal experience and is very suitable for that kind of working atmosphere.

After more than 30 hours of debate and debugging, the new version that meets Sun Buqi's requirements was finally released.

After a simple double-blind test, the new version has a higher score and is undoubtedly loved by more people.

In the face of the facts, Chen Shijun was speechless, and quickly adjusted his mentality, unified his opinions, and promoted the new version.

On the fourth day of Sun Buqi's arrival, everything was finally ready, and only the east wind was owed.

Chen Shijun glanced at the engineers who had been busy for nearly half a year, and then at Sun Buqi, who was hooking up with Judd, and in the ridicule and sarcasm of everyone, he gave the order to launch the website of the turtle.

The server was connected to the network, everyone typed in the URL, found the familiar page, and they all breathed a sigh of relief and began to raise a glass to celebrate.

Within an hour of the site's opening, there were few pageviews and the video library was still empty.

Sun Buqi frowned, and couldn't help asking, "If others don't upload videos, why don't we?"

Judd shrugged, "No, it's cheating!"

Sun Buqi pressed his shoulder, Judd's shoulder, and said solemnly: "There is a great company in China, the name is Tencent QQ. The software has just been launched, and I went out in person, playing the role of a girl and chatting with netizens. If something fails, how many people will remember the loser?"

Karim was a little moved, quickly registered a new account, and uploaded the first video in the history of the turtle.

Not long after the upload was successful, everyone refreshed the database and finally saw the new video.

The film is only 19 seconds long, and in the video, Karim stands in front of an elephant at the San Diego Zoo in California and says, "These guys have a good look, a long nose, so cool!"

With the exemplary effect, everyone uploaded their treasured videos to the website one after another, and the video database was finally no longer empty.

Fortunately, my colleague is not brainless, Sun Buqi breathed a sigh of relief,

"The framework of the website has been set up, and now only the content is missing. Without fresh videos, no matter how many advertisements we do and how many people we pull, it will not help, and we will not be able to retain customers at all. ”

After speaking, he smiled at a few people, "I haven't completely reversed the jet lag, so I sleep first." ”

The second time, I wrapped myself in a blanket, found a random corner, and fell asleep.

……

When I woke up, the room was brightly lit, and I couldn't tell the time at all.

Several people sighed and frowned, and the room was filled with the smell of cigarettes.

Chen Shijun beat his spirits, and his urn voice was angry, "Sun, tell you bad news......"

Sun Buqi put his arm on the other party's shoulder, "What's the bad news? Our servers have exploded, and we need to continue to buy more servers." Or is there nothing to eat in the room and I'm going hungry?"

Chen Shijun spread his hands, "On the contrary, the website has been online for a while, and few people have registered. Tourists take one look and leave immediately, and the average browsing time is low. ”

Sun Buqi laughed and clapped his palms, "Guys, you want the website to go online, countless people are flocking to it, give up this idea as soon as possible! ”

Judd's face was bitter, and his voice was low and full of loss, "Sun, even so, it shouldn't be so. The whole day......"

Sun Buqi slapped the other party's shoulder vigorously and smiled evilly, "If you want to be hot, it's very easy." Sign up for a member, upload 5 short videos, we will give 3 dollars for free, invite a new member, the other party will open an account, and give another 2 dollars. All in all, it costs $5 for a membership and $1 for a video!"

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing how to answer.

Sun Buqi was a little helpless, "PayPal gives 10 dollars, they have a fee item, and the wool is out of the sheep." Our website is completely free, and we can't recover the cost of advertising at all, so we can only be stingy!"

"PayPal's proposal for an email payment system was groundbreaking at the time, and it faced issues such as security and risk. Everyone had to find another way to do alternative publicity. We have no competitors now, which will give users a bad impression, there is no need to burn money, and it will reduce the loyalty to the website. ”

Chen Shijun shook his head desperately in opposition, and others also expressed their opposition against this radical plan.

Sun Buqi spread his hands, "Okay, you convinced me. Since you don't want to burn money, let's give up illusions and develop step by step. In the coming month, in addition to maintaining the website, everyone will have other jobs: providing content for the website. 10 videos per person, how about that number?"

Judd frowned, "Chinese Sun, you are too whimsical. ”

Chen Shijun shook his head, "We are engineers and should not be assigned extra work. Besides, uploading shoddy videos is not in line with our values. We're just building a platform......"

Sun Buqi coughed lightly twice, interrupting the other party's tirade,

"If we don't love our products, how can we ask others to like them? It doesn't have to be a wonderful video, it can be the scenery when traveling, everyone cooking, doing crafts, or singing by themselves, or even filming their own work. Share yourself, find more like-minded friends, or let the layman know what life is like in a professional. ”

Finally, he lowered his voice and used a seductive tone, "Everyone has the intention of voyeurism, and we just satisfy his desires." ”

Judd looked excited and kept nodding, "Sun, you are such a great orator, agitator. I can't wait to put my art online. Maybe you can sell it for a big price and you won't have to continue working. ”

He graduated from Indiana University's Fine Arts Department, and when he was about to graduate from college, he saw a job advertisement for PayPal magazine; during an interview, he was asked to design a company logo for PayPal and entered the IT industry by mistake.

With the demonstration effect, the engineers were also inspired and eager to upload videos on their mobile phones.

Sun Buqi made a final decision, "It may not be your own work, the work shared on the Internet, as long as there is no copyright, everyone can share it on the Internet." We don't produce videos, we're just porters of videos!"