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This is where he built it with his own hands. It is completely based on its own ideas, reflecting the creativity of social networks as a company in the new Internet era.

There is no café overlooking the commercial street in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, which are dotted around, and there is a special three-dimensional projection under the brilliance of the city.

The glass and metal structure has a pleasant and cheerful colour.

Several rows of xbox derived from the entertainment area next to the main load-bearing column, the LCD TV of the PS2 console is also fixed in the picture of live football, and the leather sofa on the opposite side makes people want to be able to lie on it directly, and sleep well when the sun shines in.

There is a green billiard table with a light steel keel ceiling lamp overhead, and at night in the night of Xujiahui, it will always be lit by the staff who stay on Facebook Chinese overtime, laying out a fluorescent white light curtain.

In the past, there are self-service beverage machines that are available around the clock, and a total of eight kinds of drinks can be served, including Coke, Sprite, Mirinda, Orange Juice, Black Juice and so on. The next coffee table has a variety of coffee beans and wines to choose from. Originally, only Nestle bagged coffee was served here, but since the arrival of Kate, these returnees, personally reported to Su Can, "When you enter the company early in the morning, bask in the sun, and then pick up the report waiting for processing today, brew a cup of strong coffee, sit on the office chair and sniff it close to your nose, and enjoy the working atmosphere." As a result, when I thought of the cup of coffee in the bag, how tasteless would it be?,, this kind of American-like way of working and Su Can, who was rightly arrogant for a while, was speechless, but then started writing a batch, and the internal service department immediately set up a bar counter here for making coffee, and at the same time took out nearly 100,000 to build a bar counter. Although the money is only a drop in the bucket, it can take into account the feelings of employees in such a nuanced way, and the people-oriented characteristics of Facebook Chinese are fully expressed.

Next to the entertainment area is a dry cleaning machine, which can be used to deal with things like coffee spills from employees. In addition, there is an audio-visual room equipped with bass and drum kits, and a small bar for an inexpensive fee.

And so on, any regional division and detail within Facebook Chinese can reflect the approachability and humanity of this social network, but in today's conference room, there is an invisible increasing pressure.

Su Can turned his head sideways and saw that outside the conference room where the curtains were not covered, many employees were taking the opportunity to pass by or talk from a distance, looking inside through the gap.

Su Can knows that acquiring the equity of Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft is a big move within Facebook Chinese, and many people even speculate that Su Can's move is laying the foundation for entering the field of online games. But the negative effect of this is that some people began to question whether Su Can's move was worth it, because the $25 million table tennis money was just stuck in the throat where Facebook needed to expand at a high speed.

This money is even more than the market value of Facebook Chinese itself, and the cost of space and servers required by Facebook Chinese is also increasing, and various pressures such as employee operations are also attached to the pace of expansion. Don't think that Internet companies like Facebook Chinese don't have much pressure on the cost operation except for labor. Although it is not as good as the war years before the Internet bubble, the various expenses are still expensive and even expensive.

This involves the cost of rapidly expanding servers, equipment, bandwidth, and possibly the number of offices that will be set up, which is not a small amount.

At present, Facebook Chinese does not have a very viable profit model, and it is necessary to squeeze out the cash reserves of Facebook Chinese when the balance of payments is imbalanced, and the danger of this move has been foreseen.

Mark Zuckerberg's face appears on the other end of the video, and the videoconference begins.

The first thing everyone felt was that the eyes on the other side of the video were looking at them with a slow, even slightly wooden, but absolutely indifferent and mechanical look, which made people feel a chill that had been peeled off. At the mention of a person's name, someone stood up in a greeting, and Zach responded with a slight nod. This made the idea that he had previously hinted that this was just a kid younger than himself a little disillusioned.

Su Can knew that this was caused by the change in his whole temperament and state of mind that happened to Zach after he came out of the Harvard MBA management class, not to mention that this social network genius entered Harvard University to study psychology, and he had a spirit in his bones to overwhelm his opponents.

Kate, who was next to her, explained the plan for the entire acquisition and the financing measures to be taken. Zach didn't make a roundabout turn, he went straight to the topic, and his eyes fell on Su Can's position.

"Sue, what can we bring to the table by acquiring World of Warcraft, I admit it's a bold idea and it looks exciting, but is it really necessary? I don't see any data on this, including expected measurement trends, it's necessary for each of us to give out our share of the stock in exchange for such a large amount of money, and only get 30% of the shares, why can't there be more? Or even squeeze and Facebook's growth in this opportunity cost way, is it worth it, we will have a huge output value in the future" Mark Zuckerberg's programmer-like eyes suddenly burst into a kind of eagle-like depth at this moment, and he said word by word, "You should know this better than I do." ”

And now Zach questioned Su Can more directly, and in the Facebook Chinese Twelve Round Table it seems that this sentence with a lot of rhetorical questions looks like asking for detailed rules, but to some extent this is a question, and it shows one of Zack's views, he does not think this plan is feasible. The key is whether it is necessary?

An otaku may be very excited when he mentions the acquisition of Blizzard's subordinate games, but Zach is not a simple otaku, his current identity is more of a Facebook CEO who has decided countless lives, and every decision he makes must stand in the interests of the whole.

"I have a report on the customer base and scale accumulated in the game products developed by Blizzard over the years, as well as the user expectation survey of China Game Magazine in 30 provinces and cities in China, including Shanghai, Beijing, and Rongcheng, and the player expectations of Blizzard World of Warcraft have reached the highest level of all games in China. In addition to this, there are expected surveys of gamer groups in seven states including Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, the United States including Texas, Washington, Kansas, etc. You can take a look at the data shown above, and I can only describe it as unprecedented. So far, no other game product has been able to meet such expectations. Able to exceed this expectation. Of course, we must exclude countries such as Japan and South Korea, which have relatively developed and independent industries. "Interesting? I'll take a look at it right away." However, what other help does this have for us besides providing capital support?The game will only be officially integrated into operation in the fourth year, and our return on investment is the first to ask how much, the key is this cycle, can we still live to that day?" Zach spoke quickly, and immediately threw out the second question while pulling through the report mentioned by Su Can.

When Su Can was financing this year, he went to see Facebook's data center in the United States, the data center is south of San Francisco Bay, California, in a depressing and obsessed computer room, in which rows of servers continue to absorb huge heat energy through data exchange.

Facebook is expected to surpass 10 million users this year, and at that time there will be a redesign, and the data center will be moved to Texas, where there is a data industrial park implemented by the state government, which can accommodate a larger Facebook server group, and there are corresponding water and electricity cost concessions to help Facebook reduce costs. , Su Can understands Zack's concern, if all the cash obtained from open financing is used for the development of Facebook and Facebook Chinese, instead of being divided into a part for World of Warcraft, their expansion will be more calm, more calm and have sufficient confidence, but will not be left and right by various emergencies.

After all, the speed at which social networks burn money is so alarming that the $16 million they raised this year is quickly exhausted, even though they are fighting on both fronts between China and the United States, they have also achieved huge influence and become the number one social network giant in the United States, and quickly broke two million registered members. But the price is staggering.

"The lack of a profit model for social networks, at present, there are still drawbacks for us just by guessing the advertising revenue, guessing the advertising is a special advantage of our social network, but the disadvantage is that the higher the degree of guessing and subdivision in the future, the smaller the market will be. And this single capacity is not enough to cope with future changes. Therefore, we must expand, first of all, to expand social games and develop a large number of secondary consumer users who rely on social networks. The second vision is to combine online social networking and entertainment platforms to create an interactive entertainment platform, with the aim of bypassing operators and directly participating in the distribution of benefits, and this breakthrough is World of Warcraft. ”

"Without Blizzard's involvement, we can also enter the entertainment platform. Zach said with some emotion: "Don't forget that in the field of social networking, we are number one." "It's going to be more adventurous for me." Divide the well to build an entertainment platform, which requires a considerable game or audio-visual resources, we have a very low start, to do this, we must also participate in the acquisition of some relevant institutional departments, too much and too much will also cause an increase in our non-performing asset rate, so instead of blindly attacking from all sides, it is better to concentrate superior forces and carry out fixed-point blasting on World of Warcraft, which is also the way for Facebook to form a grand strategy in the future. ,, Su Can thought to himself that if he really missed Blizzard Entertainment, then it would be a real early risk for him.

Since Su Can became the owner of Facebook, this social network has deviated from its past trajectory and developed on another road, and now the way to integrate the entertainment platform is also unheard of by Su Can's later generations, he is trying, and he doesn't know where he will take Facebook again, but the ultimate strategic goal should be to build a social entertainment interactive platform from social networks to form a huge third country in the future world, with countless chains of interests as a behemoth of vascular delivery mechanism.

After Su Can finished speaking, everyone fell into a period of silence, some of these people held pens, some lowered their heads and frowned in thought, Zach frowned slightly, put his hands together and leaned against his mouth, after a while, nodded, "The financing will be carried out as soon as possible, I have figured out what you said, what kind of expression they will have in front of those investors who are above the top, the profit model is a key aspect that Silicon Valley has been criticizing us, I really hope you can come to Palo Alto once, I think those Silicon Valley venture capitalists must be looking forward to meeting you." ”

Facebook Chinese's video conference to determine the future of blue eyes ended, Qiao Cunxin gave Su Can a thumbs up at the door, to let the strong and arbitrary Zach nod and promise to decide the direction of the Facebook aircraft carrier, the entire Facebook social network empire, only Su Can alone. One

In 2002, a venture capital group led by Grayrock and composed of investors such as Meritech Capital, Thiel and Axel officially launched a new round of financing for Facebook.

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