Chapter 644: 400 million users
The first stop in the global market is in the United Kingdom, which has deep historical ties with the United States.
Similarly, as with the promotion method in the United States, Zhang Ning still adopts the method of conquering the school first.
The University of Oxford, as a university with a longer history than Harvard, is also the first stop of Facebook.
In fact, there is no need for Zhang Ning to publicize it, Facebook is already very well-known at Oxford University.
As the University of Oxford, which is the same number of top universities in the world as Harvard, many Harvard students have told Oxford students in the past few months that they have a very well-known Facebook network at Harvard. Although this Facebook website looks like an ordinary website, this Facebook network can form a real social network for you.
At the same time, through the principle of six degrees of separation, in Facebook, you can get to know more people you don't know, but you want to know. Moreover, in the midst of this, everyone can also get together and interact, which is very interesting.
For the introduction of Harvard students, these Oxford students have been waiting for a long time.
It's just that Facebook didn't promote it to their UK.
At this time, Facebook had just landed in the UK, and it was instantly welcomed by countless Oxford students.
They quickly register accounts, quickly add friends around them, and quickly experience the various functions of Facebook.
Photo sharing, talk sharing, log sharing, chatting with a group of friends, so happy.
Then, after Oxford, there was the University of Cambridge.
Cambridge, which is as famous as Oxford in the United Kingdom and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, was also captured by Facebook.
Of course, in addition to these, there is also Canada, which also has an English system.
McGill University, Canada's most well-known university, has also quickly joined Facebook's footsteps.
Slowly, Singapore, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, France, Australia, New Zealand...... Even Japan, South Korea, and colleges and universities in these countries have joined Facebook's camp.
Among them, there is a series of promotions by Zhang Ning.
However, what is more important is the popularity of Facebook, which has made countless students excited.
They have long wanted to communicate with students from the world's top universities.
They have long wanted to see what kind of mystery is in Facebook.
Under the expectation of everyone, the promotion speed of Facebook has exploded again.
Moreover, the speed of this outbreak is even faster than the previous outbreak in the United States.
Previously, in the United States, although the speed of promotion was very fast, it only took a few months to occupy the national market.
But in any case, the speed of their transmission is state-to-state transmission, which is equivalent to province-to-province transmission.
However, in the present, it is directly the transmission between countries, the transmission between continents.
The original propagation speed was an airplane, and now the propagation speed is like a rocket.
This also means that Facebook takes a few days less time to spread in the global market than it does in the United States.
When Zhang Ning once again passionately said to all Facebook users that Facebook has landed in more than 100 countries and more than 400 million users have registered and used it, Facebook has once again become a sensation around the world.
The happiest are the members who bought the equity of Facebook.
Because after the news was sent, Facebook's stock soared again.
There have been bids of $20 per share for shares that were originally sold.
A few months ago, Facebook's share price was just $10.
A few months later, he had reached $20.
In other words, these members who bought shares in Facebook doubled their funds in just a few months.
Similarly, Facebook's valuation doubled to $200 billion after its share price rose below $20.
That's a staggering number.
$200 billion, although it can't be compared with Microsoft or Google, but with a valuation of $200 billion, it has become a supergiant in the global Internet industry, on an equal footing with Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo. What's even more shocking is that this is just Facebook's valuation. He has not yet been listed, but once Facebook really enters the US stock exchange, I am afraid that Facebook's valuation will reach an even more ungodly 300 billion...... Or......
How many billions will be behind, they don't dare to think about it anymore.
But they know that miracles are once again born from the Internet.
Facebook will also be famous in the history of the global Internet.
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Microsoft.
Bill and Warren Buffett have been good friends for many years.
One of them is an investment, and the other is an IT computer.
Although the content of the two is completely different, it does not hinder the friendship between the two.
What's more, in addition to their different jobs, the two have a lot in common with other hobbies.
Just like charity, both of them are very passionate about charity.
However, what Buffett is talking to Bill today is not about charity.
"Bill, why didn't you recommend Zhang Ning to me earlier."
Listen to Bill's push back from MSN in the Chinese market and how he coerces their Windows operating system...... and other events, the more Buffett listened, the more interested he became.
"Alas, this kind of embarrassing thing, how can I be embarrassed to tell you."
Bill said with some embarrassment, "Moreover, at that time, I only thought that he was in the Chinese market, and he had the support of the Chinese government behind him, and there were some laws in China that were not perfect, so I had no choice but to suffer a dark loss." I have been thinking in my heart that as long as he enters the global market, if he still does the same in China, he will inevitably suffer. It's just that I didn't expect that in just a few months, there will be one more giant company in the history of global IT. ”
"I'm shocked too, by the way, Bill, haven't you thought about launching a Facebook-like site?"
"Absolutely."
Bill nodded, "It's not just me, Yahoo's Yang Zhiyuan, Google's Paige, they all have this idea." Just ......"
"Just what?"
"It's just that we just finished the company's qualification application, but suddenly found that we don't have a chance. Facebook has expanded its market to the world in a few months, and we, even the company's specific personnel, have not yet been filled. Not to mention, our website is still unfinished. ”
Bill looked helpless.
"Huh...... Bill, you have a look like that. However, I think it should be the little guy who knows that you can be defended. That's why it's moving forward at a rapid pace. It's just that you and I are far from expecting that the speed at which they are advancing is too fast and too fast, so fast that we are not ready. ”