At about 8:10 a.m. on August 3, Xu Qing picked up Brooke who was waiting at the door of the company, and then went to the Four Seasons Hotel in the Bay Area.

AOL's press conference was held at the Four Seasons Hotel, where Xu Qing has held several press conferences.

In the same car as Xu Qing, there are also Fei Qi, 3 people sit in the back seat, fortunately, the car space is large enough, and the 3 big men are not crowded when they sit.

Because this is a bulletproof car, usually the owner will be accompanied by bodyguards, or even multiple bodyguards.

In order to better protect the owner, the space of the bulletproof car must be large enough, on the one hand, there must be enough space for weapons, and on the other hand, there must be enough space for multiple bodyguards.

The owner of the car sits in the rear seat, and there is a bodyguard on the left and right sides, which clamps the owner like a sandwich biscuit.

Now Xu Qing is still sitting in the middle of the back row, with Brooke on the left and Fei Qi on the right, which is convenient for Xu Qing to talk to the two.

Xu Qing first said to Fei Qi, "Fei Qi, are you completely ready?"

Feige rolled his eyes: "Nonsense." ”

Xu Qing touched his nose in embarrassment, talking to Fei Qi can make Fei Qi angry, anyway, looking at Fei Qi's expression today, he should be ready.

Xu Qing had seen Feiqi's computer strength at Feiqi's residence before, and it was indeed very powerful.

Xu Qing was puzzled that Fei Qi had such powerful computer strength, and there was no need to worry about the Xiangche * female mansion at all.

But Feige drove a very ordinary Ford, lived in a very ordinary place, and watched small * movies in his residence.

Feige, Stranger!

At about 8:40, Xu Qing's car came to the Four Seasons Hotel, and as soon as he got off the car, someone came to greet Xu Qing, a vice president of AOL, and he welcomed Xu Qing very warmly.

In terms of etiquette, AOL is not picky, and it seems that he has no enmity with Xu Qing, who is a good friend of AOL.

Xu Qing squinted, saw the media who were taking pictures of him not far away, chuckled a few times, and followed the vice president into the hotel.

When he came to the conference room where the press conference was held, Keith came out to greet Xu Qing, and he was also very enthusiastic: "Mr. Xu, I feel very honored to welcome you to AOL's press conference. ”

"AOL's press conference is a big event in the Internet industry, and since I was invited, I definitely want to come and see it. Xu Qing smiled.

Keith said to Xu Qing with a confident expression: "Mr. Xu, I can guarantee you that you will meet the most powerful community website in history later!"

"Then let me congratulate Mr. Case. Xu Qing said lightly.

"Mr. Xu is not angry, and the name of the first community website of the future community will be taken away by the AOL community in a while. Keith stared into Xu Qing's eyes.

Xu Qing shrugged: "Why should I be angry, if the AOL community really surpasses the future community, it means that the future community is not as good as others, and the AOL community deserves its name." ”

Keith suddenly smiled and said, "Mr. Xu's mind is broader than I imagined, I admire him." ”

Keith led Xu Qing to the right of the first row, Brooke sat on Xu Qing's right, and after Keith led Xu Qing to his position, he quickly left the conference room and came to a room next to the conference room.

There was Paul and his assistant in this room, and they were chatting, and when they saw Keith come in, they stopped chatting and greeted Keith.

Seeing Case's not-so-good-looking face, Paul asked with concern, "Case, what's wrong with you?"

Keith waved his hand: "I'm fine, but I chatted with Xu Qing a few words just now, and I don't feel good." ”

"Xu Qing said something nasty to you?" asked Paul again.

"No, on the contrary, what he said was normal. Keith said.

Paul wondered, "And what did he say?"

Keith told Paul about the conversation between him and Xu Qing, including the tone and expression of Xu Qing when he spoke at that time.

Paul was silent for a while, and said: "It seems that Xu Qing doesn't seem to have any problems, but no problem is the biggest problem, we made an enmity with him, invited him to attend the press conference, and shouted such a slogan."

As long as he is a normal person, he should be angry, not to mention that Xu Qing's age is less than 20 years old, how can he behave so calmly when he is officially young and vigorous!"

"He's acting too normal, it's not normal, so I always feel like there's going to be a problem at the press conference," Keys said. ”

At this time, Paul said confidently: "Don't worry, I have invited a few top computer experts to sit in this press conference, and there will be no problems." ”

Keith nodded, but the worry in his heart didn't go away.

This press conference is very important for AOL, to make such a big formation, if there is a problem, it will be a huge blow to AOL.

So Case, who has experienced fighting with Allen and Gates in turn, is still inevitably unbalanced.

And Paul is just an outsider, the AOL problem does not affect him much, he can find another collaborator, Keys is not very confident in Paul's self-confidence.

Keith and Paul stayed in the room until about 8:53, Paul went out first, came to the conference room, and then a few minutes later, Keith came to the conference room.

Paul sat in the middle of the first row, a few seats away from Xu Qing, who had never seen Paul, but had seen Paul's photos.

Paul is the same, he nodded to Xu Qing and said hello, in so many people's occasions, especially so many media, Paul attaches great importance to his etiquette, even though he and Xu Qing have a feud, he still greets Xu Qing.

Xu Qing also nodded in response to Paul's greeting, not that Xu Qing also attaches great importance to etiquette, paying too much attention to etiquette is a kind of hypocrisy, Xu Qing doesn't like that.

But Paul greeted him politely, Xu Qing would respond in the same way, and if Paul glared at him angrily, Xu Qing would respond in the same way, Xu Qing's etiquette often depends on the other party's attitude.

At 9 o'clock, AOL's press conference officially began, and the process was similar to everyone, first the host went up to give the opening remarks, and then Keys went up to introduce the functions of the AOL community.

Xu Qing carefully looked at the function introduction of the AOL community and found that the functions of the AOL community were almost the same as those of the future community.

It's not exactly the same, some features have been optimized, some new features have been added, and overall, it is a little better than the future community in terms of functionality.

Xu Qing was not very surprised by the functions shown by the AOL community.

The community website jointly developed by AOL and IDG, and there is also the template of the future community, it is normal to be a little stronger than the future community in terms of functionality, otherwise the AOL community would not have made such a big position.

But with these features alone, the AOL community now reaches 400,000 registrations within 3 hours of going live, which is very unlikely.

First of all, the function of the AOL community is only a little stronger than that of the future community, and it is not very attractive to netizens.

And then more importantly, the community website, which has community attributes, does not attract users with good functions, and the users of the community website usually have strong stickiness.

At least Xu Qing is quite confident in the user stickiness of the future community.