Gu Cheng and Li Ying talked for a long time, and finally the two sides roughly reached a public announcement: they thought that Zuckerberg must be going to build an IM instant messaging software featuring "pornography, gambling, and drugs". Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

There is no other reason: the standard IM software for acquaintance socialization has long been saturated in the United States society.

Unless an epoch-making new application can be developed that saves users super phone bills, no matter what IM chat tool can fight its way out of the existing environment.

The stranger who catches who is talking to whom has made an appointment with a chat tool, and combined with Gu Cheng's experience in Huaxia's "Alipay Red Envelope", the scene that can be made is pornography-gambling-drugs.

It's an easy idea to come up with.

After all, in Huaxia, QQ is now being forced into a corner by YY and becoming a bubble tool. Zuckerberg wants to start his own business, which is nothing more than to make a similar product in the United States, benchmarking QQ, and improving it slightly.

After finishing it, Gu Cheng expressed his deduction as follows:

"I think Zuckerberg will start in several directions: First, rely on an existing third-party online payment tool to engage in convenient social payments. EVEN TRANSFER THE DRIFTING FUNDS OF THE AID JIAO IN THE FORM OF RED ENVELOPES, OR TRADE SOME CONTRABAND IN ONLINE P2P.

Secondly, this software will pay great attention to privacy, allowing old drivers to drive without leaving traces, such as getting a'burn after reading' function, after sending a large-scale *****, it is displayed as a mosaic state at first, and it can only be displayed for three or five seconds after clicking, and the computer screenshot function is locked in the background.

As a result, many girls will even dare to send their own fruit photos to men on this new chat app to solicit business. Even for girls who are reluctant to help JIAO and make an appointment, they can also use large-scale nude pictures to deceive onlookers and cheat red envelopes, as a tool to identify their own charm - all in all, this is destined to be a software that takes sexual and hormonal factors to the extreme. ”

Li Ying also thought so.

She also feels that only by taking this path can Zuckerberg put an end to the risk of being quickly chased by Gu Cheng and copycated.

Because Gu Cheng's YY network is a high-quality social networking site developed from the "Harvard/MIT alumni network". Even if he sees Zuckerberg's pornography-gambling-drug social sprung up, it is impossible for Gu Cheng to lie down in the quagmire of filth and compete with Zuckerberg for this market share in order to hold his identity.

The only thing Li Ying found unbelievable was the function point described by Gu Cheng that "burns immediately after reading and is convenient for old drivers to drive".

Not to mention that she didn't know what an old driver was in the first place, and asked Gu Cheng to explain this meat joke for her. Rao is Li Ying has a bit of courtesan potential and is not thin-skinned, and she was also slightly blushed by Gu Cheng.

"The function of burning after reading is so important? Needless to say, let's go back more than two years, QQ, YY, which just came out at that time, and even Microsoft's MSN, don't they all have no chat records? The chat history feature has not been around for a long time, and users are guilty of using a new IM chat software to "specifically don't want chat history"? ”

It's not surprising that Li Ying looks at it this way, because most people will think it's a poor toss.

If Gu Cheng hadn't known that six or seven years later, a person named Spiegel would make a SnapChat, and then use "burn after reading" to stir up a new wave of hormonal traffic, he would have thought so.

But Gu Cheng couldn't directly say the results of the later generations, so he could only find a reason to make Li Ying believe this:

"The function of 'burning after reading' I am talking about may not be of obvious use in the short term. However, within a year or two, as YY.com and other real-name circles have made the comparison of the Internet environment more and more intense, and stimulated the rebound psychology of users to 'prevent being over-shared by friends in the circle of friends', that function is very important. ”

Li Ying pondered for a long time, and felt that Gu Cheng's statement was a bit interesting.

"This is not surprising, just as the development of capitalism has always been more mainstream in the definition of wealth than in the creation of wealth - the development of the so-called social productive forces most of the time does not satisfy a need that human beings do not need, but redefines or even destroys and re-strips away from the rights/enjoyments that human beings have 'improvised', or that can be obtained naturally from the natural world without effort, to create GDP.

For example, there was no air pollution in the primitive era, so human beings did not need to buy fresh air, and in the future, capital will first pollute the world to the point of smog, and then it can sell fresh air - at this time, air, which has been naturally obtained for thousands of years, can be defined as GDP.

For example, in the era of no private ownership, human beings do not need door locks, do not need safes, after having private property, because of the risk of theft and robbery, we need to define the wealth of locks and safes. With the advent of virtual assets on the Internet, viruses have also emerged, so antivirus software has become a kind of wealth.

During the primitive savage growth period of the Internet, we can see that it unleashed an endless stream of non-real-name trolls. The emergence of social networks has also allowed people who are 'stronger than the people around them' to be able to show off a wider range. That's a pollution, a privacy pollution. Once human beings had the right to close their eyes and close the door to not be compared to others who were better than themselves all the time. Now, while human beings enjoy social networks, they are actually polluted with privacy and inferiority to be an ostrich.

Zuckerberg's new application, if the future is really bigger, it is also raised by us - we use forced socialization, forced to be shared, forced the weak to use toothpicks to open their eyelids and not close their eyes, forced them to see that the strong are stronger than them, and polluted people's hearts independently, and then Zuckerberg used 'burn after reading' to control this pollution and earn his share of profits - I think this idea is very clear. ”

Gu Cheng's words were very cold, but his thinking was extremely clear, and Li Ying shuddered when he heard it.

Gu Cheng traveled back in 2040, he has seen that kind of society, and he is naturally familiar with the extreme consumerism formed by the final struggle of capitalism. The examples that are said are naturally very vivid.

If humans all cook their own food, do their own laundry, and clean themselves, how can we create social payment mobility and GDP in an era when labor and jobs are massively eliminated? These actions rarely generate GDP, and people work for themselves, and they don't have to pay themselves.

The same thing, polluted, subdivided, and then society again divided labor. One of the three people is responsible for cooking for the other two, the other is responsible for washing the other two, and the last one is responsible for cleaning the other two.

That is, relying on people's "work", not making do, and surviving.

For polluting first, destroying first, and treating later, Gu Cheng is already familiar with it anymore.

"Maybe...... It's a real possibility. Then let me think about it, how to deal with it, Mark wants to engage in pornography, gambling and drugs, it can't be stopped, and we can't go down to rob it in person...... Why don't you do that? ”

……

That night, Li Ying worked overtime until late.

Early the next morning, she took out a solution and threw it on Gu Cheng's desk.

"Actually, two months ago, when I estimated that Mark was inspired by Alipay's red envelopes and was ready to start his own business, I realized that he might find a big guy with online payment resources and funds in the United States to invest in the future - after he refused you to invest in his A round the day before yesterday, I think this possibility is unprecedentedly high.

So I'd like to try to get the best potential investors that he wants to convince to us, do you think this will work? ”

Gu Cheng picked it up and glanced at it, and saw a string of names written on the document, and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Do you think that the best investor Zuckerberg will find is Peter Thiel?" ”

How could Gu Cheng not be familiar with Peter Tier?

That is the founder of PayPal, that is, the founder of the "American version of Alipay". Gu Cheng has been quite similar to this guy's trajectory since the beginning of his business, not to mention that Gu Cheng has repeatedly read Peter Thiel's "From 0 to 1" in his previous life, which is almost the bible of all monopoly seekers.

But at this point in time, Peter Thiel is no longer the boss of PayPal — two years ago, after the Internet winter ended, Peter Thiel sold his PayPal to E-BAY for $1.5 billion.

Of course, Peter Thiel has less than half of PayPal's shares, so the $1.5 billion isn't all his.

After the sale of the company, a group of angel investors led by Peter Thiel, including several major shareholders of the original PayPal founder, appeared in Silicon Valley, known as "PayPal-MAFIA" (generally translated as PayPal black state, but the literal translation should be PayPal black hand file). And then do all kinds of potential projects in Silicon Valley,

The group also included Elon Musk, who later made X-SPACE rockets and Tesla, and LinkedIn's majority shareholder.

Although PayPal has been sold, if you want to say who has the most resources and technology to do online payment in the United States, Peter Thiel said that he is second, then no one dares to say that he is first.

When you think about it, it seems very likely.

Moreover, when seeing Li Ying's analysis, Gu Cheng had a sense of historical destiny in his heart.

BECAUSE IN ANOTHER TIME AND SPACE, PETER THIEL WAS ALSO ONE OF THE EARLY INVESTORS IN FACEBOOK, AND IF IT WEREN'T FOR GU CHENG'S BUTTERFLY EFFECT, HE WOULD HAVE INVESTED $500,000 IN FACEBOOK AT THE END OF 2004.

Only this $500,000 made him a profit of 20,000 times after ten years, turning into more than $10 billion (of course, there were many rounds of follow-up investment, with a cumulative investment of hundreds of millions.) PETER THIEL OWNED ALL THE SHARES OF FACEBOOK, WHICH LATER WENT FAR BEYOND $10 BILLION, AND THE REST WAS GENERATED BY CO-INVESTMENT).

"It's very likely that you're going to test the other person to see if Zuckerberg is in contact with him? If there is contact, we will cut it off? Gu Cheng said with a deep groan.

"That's what it means, I'm sure I'll help you try it out, but the follow-up will be specific...... It's more difficult, Peter Thiel doesn't have a good relationship with us, and Zack's project seems to be very promising, so we have to convince Peter Thiel to bind our interests...... can only use the bait of 'allow him to invest in YY.com' to force the other party to choose one of the two. If you insist on not being willing to accept outside investment, then I will have to give up. ”

Li Ying said that she was also in a dilemma.

She has been stranded in the United States all the year round, and she only cares about YY's online stalls, and she is not clear about some of Gu Cheng's plots in China now.

Therefore, she didn't know that Gu Cheng had reached an equity cooperation with Huang Yi's Ding Sanshi in the content industry.

In Li Ying's eyes, Gu Cheng is still the stubborn two years ago who is stubborn about equity and extremely hates equity investment in the financial world.

Gu Cheng also knew that his initial performance was too deep-rooted, so he half-jokingly said, "What? Do I look like one of those pony lovers? Isn't it just to let Peter Thiel enter the shares, if it is conducive to the overall layout, I have no objection. I have only one requirement - to reflect the value of the shares. I will never allow outsiders to join the shares just to level the enemy, and I will not do anything to kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred. ”