What made Xia Ruxuan breathe a sigh of relief was that the development of the social networking site that came out of Harvard in the United States did not produce some bad variables because of his intervention, early and renaming, but as Xia Ruxuan and Zuckerberg expected, it covered the entire Ivy League colleges and universities on the occasion of Christmas, with a trend of wind and lightning speed.

However, he thought about it and quickly realized that friendbook is a social networking site that Harvard people are about to come out, and Harvard students are looking forward to the emergence of such an online roster at the moment, which is like a charcoal in the snow.

In addition, there are enough funds and sufficient preparation to promote the development of this website even better - better than the beginning of the dazzling trajectory in history, when it took more than a month to start attacking other universities because of problems with the funding server.

Although Xia Ruxuan has not seen what the Facebook that appeared at Harvard in history looked like at the beginning, he believes that the version that is now popular in the United States must be much more elaborate than the one at that time.

After all, it was just a gadget that Zuckerberg spent half a month working on during the holidays, and this time, he discussed with Zuckerberg for more than a month, and finally it was made by the friend network team behind Xia Ruxuan, and then handed it over to Zuckerberg to make some changes to adapt to the surname, which was definitely better than the one at that time, after all, it was Zuckerberg in the same time period, there was no gap in ability, and it can be said that every day is a new breakthrough for friendbook.

In the email, Zuckerberg sent a few pictures, it was a clearly visible report, the time was the third day after Xia Ruxuan returned to China, and the huge English headline made Xia Ruxuan smile at the corner of his mouth: "friendbook swept the entire Stanford campus!" This is an article from the Stanford University Journal, which revealed that more than 2,900 students had registered in a week's time, and that number was rising dramatically.

For example, FriendBook has more than 30,000 active users in the United States by now, and the number of servers has increased to five, and Zuckerberg estimates that the budget for spending in this area will increase to several thousand dollars in January of '04 - this is estimated by Zuckerberg to be five times the current demand, and Xia Ruxuan quickly agreed.

The server aspect is a part that must not be hesitated and hesitated, you must know that friendster, which has been popular in the United States for a while, has lost users' confidence in it because of the dismal server, giving himself and Zuckerberg a loophole and opportunity.

That's the first thing Zuckerberg told, and the second thing he talked about is that FriendBook's management team has grown from three to four, and in addition to his previous roommate Dustin Moskowitz, another programming genius he had previously had at Este High School, Adam D'Angelo, Zuckerberg said they are now working together to write programs to add new school users. And his mailbox is already crowded with applications from major colleges and universities across the United States who want to join FriendBook, and he only needs to wait until a ripe time to start a new registration process.

Now that we're in the middle of the winter holidays at U.S. universities, it's time to wait until mid-January when colleges and universities begin their spring semesters.

I sorted out all my opinions and thoughts, and then sent Zuckerberg an email back -- in fact, quite a part of it was based on the trajectory of Facebook in my memory. The $200,000 funding means that Zuckerberg doesn't have to worry about any financial problems for a considerable part of the time, and he also mentioned that there are problems with the website's advertising, which now receives some simple ads, such as relocation services, T-shirts and advertisements for products commonly used by college students, which will be posted in January, all of which are short-term.

But it is already possible to get some revenue for the website, at least to fill the needs of the server. Although Xia Ruxuan has come up with enough funds, it does not mean that these funds can be squandered.

As for the domestic part, the promotion of the Southern Jiangsu College Singer Contest is in full swing, and the number of users of the website has increased from five digits to six digits on December 23, officially entering the 100,000 level.

That day, in the office building on Zhongshan North Road, several young people who were not very old were holding a bottle of champagne and toasting together. Everyone seemed a little excited, the company now has less than 10 people, but the website is already quite large.

Among these people, Mougin, the current main person in charge of the company, is the oldest among them. On this day, his face was also filled with a bright smile - of course, these 100,000 registered users have a lot of moisture, and many of them must have registered for the purpose of voting for this competition. But it doesn't matter, it won't be long before the number of active users will grow to 100,000.

“cheers！” Xia Ruxuan smiled and drank all the wine in the wine glass, and then everyone laughed and toasted together.

"Boss," one of the employees leaned over, "you see that the website is gaining momentum so well, do you have to pay a bonus?" ”

"Well, wait a year to wrap a big red envelope for everyone." Xia Ruxuan nodded in agreement.

"Yay!" In the cheers of everyone, Xia Ruxuan turned around and waved to Mougin, and walked into the small conference room.

Hearing that there are red envelopes to take everyone, everyone is even more motivated, and everyone is working with their own energy.

Regarding the fact that Xia Ruxuan is the boss of this company, it did surprise some people at first. But gradually learning that even the website was built by this young man who was not yet twenty years old, and these people only had respect in their eyes. In the world of programmers, it's as simple as that, and if you have the ability, you will be respected by others. So now, as long as Xia Ruxuan appears in the company, he seems to have become the center of everyone, and several meetings on the development of the website have gradually turned the respect in everyone's hearts into worship. The boss is young and extremely capable, but his surname is excellent, which also makes several young programmers less inhibited.

In those big companies, which boss is not a serious face, or how is he called a boss?

It's just a boss like Xia Ruxuan...... It should be more cute, right?

"Boss." With a smile on his face, Mougins followed up and greeted.

Xia Ruxuan raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "How can you follow them to coax." ”

"How can I count the coaxing, I'm helping you work now." Mu Ran blinked his eyes and smiled, "Why, I heard Su Mohan say that you went to the United States, and the meaning of letting me register a company last time is here." ”

"Hmm." Xia Ruxuan nodded, pondered for a while, and said, "Domestic and foreign, I want to go as two markets." ”

"That's good." Mu Ran suddenly laughed as if relieved, "I was afraid at first that you were too ambitious and wanted to do it together. I feel like it's going to be a big problem, because I've been in the U.S. for a few years, and the internet environment is really different between the two countries. ”

"I want you to be responsible for this part of the country." Xia Ruxuan suddenly turned his head to Mu Ran and said, "Now everything is going to be normal, and your credit is the greatest in the past month or so, even I, the boss, have done nothing." He handed Mougins a cigarette, "I've thought about it for a long time, maybe I have some advantages in creative ideas, but not the others, even programming is a lot worse than those professionals outside." I do need manpower, and now is the time to identify your problem. ”

"My problem?" Mougins still had the glass of champagne in his hand.

"yes, it's still undecided, how about - do it with me." Xia Ruxuan raised his head and looked at him, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "It's just that I don't have much money to pay you as a salary, so let's do it, what was your salary in that small network company before." I'll pay you an additional 10 percent at that rate, and of course we will increase it later when our company gets bigger. ”

Mu Ran kept looking at Xia Ruxuan with a gentle smile on his face, but a look of disappointment flashed in his eyes. However, before this disappointed look could disappear from his face, Xia Ruxuan, who lowered his head again, suddenly spoke again, "I know this price is very low, but you can just order it." He is also one of the shareholders of the company. ”

Mu Ran was stunned for a moment, obviously not coming back to his senses, "Shareholder? ”

"Well, I'll give you five percent of the company's shares in addition to that salary. So in the future, you will be working for yourself. ”

"Are you sure?" Mougins was silent for a moment, "You should understand how many benefits this success represents." ”

"I know," Xia Ruxuan interrupted him with a wave of his hand, "You're worth that price." ”

Xia Ruxuan stood up and patted Mu Ran's shoulder, seeing the blazing look in Mu Ran's eyes, he nodded with satisfaction. At this moment, he was like an old fox in the mall.

He knew how to win people's hearts, so that Mougins was stable.

He is different from Zuckerberg, for that genius-like geek, Xia Ruxuan must use a huge number to envelop him. If one day he is dissatisfied and leaves, he will not even find a replacement. That's why he ruthlessly opened a price of fifty to fifty.

And Mougin, all he wants is the position of a patriarch, so Xia Ruxuan will give him a position, so that he will become more and more desperate. I believe he must have seen the potential in this. Ishei is already a reasonable enough bargaining chip for him. Of course, in the current situation, the domestic and American parts are obviously two separate reading companies.

This day is only one week away from the end of 2003.

Xia Ruxuan left the company in a hurry, it was already night, and there were still people staying in the company to do server maintenance work, everyone was so motivated. He likes such a dynamic scene, and now his friend's company only occupies a small room, but Xia Ruxuan believes that one day, this sapling will grow into a tall and towering tree.

December 24 is a long-awaited day for college students in major colleges and universities in southern Jiangsu, the grandest carnival of colleges and universities in southern Jiangsu will begin on this day, and the finals of the college singer contest, which has been prepared for almost two months, will be officially held in the gymnasium of South Jiangsu University on this night -- this is the first time that such a competition has been made on the scale of a concert.

Xia Ruxuan sneaked to the gymnasium in the afternoon to take a look, the staff was dealing with sound and lighting, and someone was talking in the microphone from time to time. And the stage that was set up was several laps larger than the one in the auditorium of the Conservatory a month ago.

Xia Ruxuan leaned on the railing of the upper stand, watching the busy student union members below and some of the professionals invited to be busy, in a sense, it can be regarded as a small satisfaction of Yin Xia's dream. Thinking about Yin Xia standing on the stage and singing, he felt a lot warmer in his heart.

(To be continued)