Chapter 217: F2F
"Oscar-winning actor Daniel. Sandler arrived in New York yesterday to attend and speak at a humanitarian aid conference as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). This is believed to be part of his extensive influence, and after winning the title of youngest Oscar winner last month, he has been involved in two themed films, "Hotel Rwanda" about the 1994 genocide in the small African country of Rwanda, and "The Pianist", which tells the story of a Polish pianist during World War II, both of which have exceeded 60 million, and according to the well-known analysis company Mountain Eagle, they may set new box office records for similar films. This seems to further illustrate Daniel's strong appeal among fans these days. ”
Local New York television outlets reported on Daniel's trip at the end of April.
This is the work that he had to find time to complete during the promotion of "Fake Gods".
An international conference on humanitarian aid was held in New York, and Daniel was invited by the organizing committee to give a keynote speech.
In the past 10 days, news from Iraq has continued to reach the United States, and the death toll of the British and American coalition forces has exceeded 100, and the number of wounded has exceeded 300. As the coalition forces occupied Baghdad for a longer time, the media continued to break out that the Iraqi government forces did not resist with all their might, but dispersed and withdrew, using their local familiarity to continue attacking the British and American coalition forces, and many of the dead soldiers were not killed on the frontal battlefield. This somewhat confirms Daniel's assertion that the Iraqis will use asymmetrical means such as suicide bombs, car bombs, and street fighting against the Anglo-American coalition.
At present, the Anglo-American coalition is trying to form a pro-Western government in order to achieve the goal of changing the color of the regime. However, the surging anti-protests across Iraq have gradually spread to the international community.
There is a lot that the Americans do not understand, in their view, the soldiers of their own country came to Iraq at the cost of their lives, just to save the Iraqi people from the tyrannical rule of Saddam, and now, their husbands, sons, and fathers are dying in Iraq, without the slightest recognition of the Iraqis. On the contrary, we see a growing sense of hatred.
This incomprehension further contributed to the growth of the anti-war side.
Similarly, as the first speaker of the judgment, Daniel's voice in such matters has increased.
This invitation is also one of the results of this trend.
This is Daniel's first visit to New York after winning an Oscar. "The Pianist" and "Hotel Rwanda" have very few promotional sites, New York is not one of them, and he has not actually participated much, in addition to dealing with intensive social affairs in the past month. His main job was to discuss with Raymond and Javier the use of the large sums of money that had been rolled in from the oil market.
Part of it must be used for the development of MB, so that he can raise funds when there are more users and greater value, and the fewer and later the financing rounds, the less Daniel's profit will be lost. Since "Greek Wedding" opened a new era of publicity, not only movies, but also businesses from all walks of life have begun to use this very active platform for commercial promotion, of course, this kind of active publicity. The impact on the user experience is relatively small, because if you don't pay attention, it will be difficult for the other party to reach your homepage, even if the other party posts more. MB obviously didn't go to the point of commercial promotion, which is to shoehorn some information into your interface.
Moreover, with Daniel's further investment, Blogger and the Google behind it must also inject further capital, because it is now impossible for either Daniel or Google to agree to dilute their stake in MB.
As MB reaches the 10 million user mark, it is valued at more than $1.2 billion — a 20% increase from the post-Greek Wedding offer.
In addition to the development of MB. Daniel and Javier were primarily thinking about the F2F (face-to-face) he wanted to form, which is a variant of Facebook, and he considered using Facebook directly, but the name was not recognized. After discussion, it was decided that F2F was a bit more appropriate, because in Daniel's description, this is an online community, and the main selling point is to build a network, which is very different from Twitter. The connection between Twitter users is very thin, in fact, Twitter itself is an extremely flat social network, posting information and then people who follow you are able to receive it. The difference between F2F is that it has the information sharing mechanism of Twitter, and at the same time, it also includes various functions such as pictures, text, sharing, etc., which form an online community similar to social interaction.
And the origin of the name Facebook is not to say that it is the most apt. It's because of Mark. Zuckerberg started by developing a web page to compare the beauty and ugliness of his Harvard classmates and invite people to like them. Later, the page was banned by the school, and then he and his two roommates started a classmate website, which is usually a thick book, which is where Facebook's name comes from.
Now that Daniel is using MB to promote this system, he doesn't have to start in college, so he doesn't have that name.
F2F is obviously a much more intuitive way to convey intent.
Therefore, Daniel is also as good as a stream.
The question now is how F2F should be promoted, whether to do it under MB or start anew. From a capital point of view, of course, it is more appropriate to start from scratch, at least he is not short of money now. However, the most important problem is that if F2F needs to develop rapidly, it must rely on the power of MB, which is the controlling shareholder of MB, but still has to consider Google's intentions. In other words, there is a problem of profit output, and he channeled MB's interests to F2F, and Google's interests were significantly damaged.
In addition, he hopes to poach his brother Mark from Google, of course, add some technical personnel and managers, to put it bluntly, the F2F team, he hopes to poach from several major technology giants, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Oracle, etc.
As a result, his relationship with Google will suddenly become strained. Silicon Valley is definitely not an open place, and in fact, a few years later, several giants, led by Apple, signed a secret agreement that they would not accept employees from each other's companies - which was later sued in court.
Therefore, in terms of plan, technology, and promotion, many complex issues need to be discussed and formulated, which makes Daniel not get any rest at all at the Oscars.
Then there was the promotion of "Fake Gods" right away, and then there was today's meeting.
He was even talking to Javier on the phone before getting in the car and heading to Manhattan.
"I'll have to talk to Page when I go back this time."
"Mark has accepted your invitation?" Kusa and Daniel were in the same car, he happened to come to meet his family, after the family crisis of the Damon family, he communicated with the family a lot more frequently, Daniel asked some directly, and learned that the Damon family took this opportunity to withdraw from some unclean industries.
When the proposal was handed to him, he thought it was interesting. You know, Mark has been regretting that when I invited him to MB, he coveted his place in Google. With the age of Page and Blinken, how can he not survive at the top, not to mention, Google has introduced a lot of top management in recent years, and the competition is also very large. ”
Kusa nodded, "So he's just scrupling Larry right now. Paige's attitude? Or is it nostalgic for Google's equity? ”
"Page is his leader after all, and Google has come to where it is today, and he has a lot of feelings. As for the equity, I'd like to be able to keep it for him. "Mark's stake is not the same as that of Shanying's management, and his stake is fully owned, which means it can be sold. But Google will hold an IPO next year, as a company with annual revenue of $2.5 billion and profits of more than $200 million, the price-to-earnings ratio is estimated to be at least 40 times or more, in fact, Daniel knows that this number is a terrifying 80 times, when Mark's equity, 4 million out of a total of 270 million shares, will be worth more than 300 million, which is still calculated at a lower issue price.
Basically, if Page doesn't agree with Mark leaving, Daniel would rather let Mark join F2F after August next year. Google's IPO will undoubtedly create a large number of billionaires, Daniel will not want to deprive Mark of the opportunity to become one of them, of course, he can also let Mark own equity, the value may be greater, but this kind of thing is irreplaceable, Google for Mark, is not just a dollar meaning.
Moreover, Mark has also looked for some candidates for him within Google, such as Shirley. Sandberg - Zuckerberg, who was originally Facebook's chief operating officer, trusts her very much, and Shirley has a lot of decision-making power in day-to-day operations.
These have to be with Larry. Paige communicates, not to get his permission, but to gain an understanding that everyone eats in a circle and is polite to each other, there is no harm.
But Paige, a technical man, is really worrying.
"I've asked Raymond to ask him out, anyway, sooner or later there will always be a knife."
"But it's a blissful cut, isn't it?"
The two laughed and walked out of the door, Miller standing on the side, all the fans and members of the public who had learned of his itinerary standing in the doorway, Daniel smiling and waving to them.
"Bang!"
A gunshot rang out, followed by screams all over the ground. (To be continued.) )