Facebook Headquarters, Menlo Park, California.

At one point, the atmosphere of this large complex, which was completed only two years ago, shone as usual in the bright California sun, like the calm before a storm.

Office of the President.

Mark. Zuckerberg, Chief Operating Officer Cheryl. Sandberg and new WhatsApp creator Jane Sanderberg, who has joined Facebook's board. The three of them were staring at the news on the screen, and their faces were all very solemn without exception.

"This will be our biggest and most dangerous competitor." Cheryl spoke suddenly, unwaveringly, breaking the silence.

"I think so too." Zuckerberg nodded in agreement with his most powerful assistant, "Although it seems that Fantasy Space is a live video streaming platform on the surface, and the direct competitor should be Twitch, but in fact, the core of its hidden is the most critical sharing and communication of social networks, and from now on, those parts can be said to constitute the most direct all-round competition with our Facebook, Instagram and even Whatsapp." Compared to the Phantom Space, Snapchat is just a grinning golden retriever dog, and the Phantom Space is an unscrupulous arctic wolf, we should take countermeasures as soon as possible, otherwise when it grows strong enough, then we can't make any efforts to recover. ”

"That's true, I haven't slept all night, I'm all landing on the Phantom World space to study, the kind of free group meeting and communication environment similar to the ancient Internet chat room is too good for the stickiness of visitors, and the powerful artificial intelligence cooperation of the image clone, as long as the Phantom World glasses are half as strong as they advertise, then I can be sure that this new way of online social networking will definitely completely attract the attention of young people."

Simple. Coombe frowned, and said slowly from his perspective as a good tech entrepreneur: "Their expansion method was very wise from the beginning, and they chose celebrities who attracted the attention of the media and fans to drive it. It's important to know that the entertainment industry has always been a favorite resource for the media to prioritize reporting, and sometimes it can surpass political current events. So the launch event they held immediately attracted enough media and fans to participate, and then relied on excellent content services to retain most of them, and then these people spread to people they knew through various social tools, and quickly expanded their customer base, and we and Twitter became the best platforms to help them expand their customer base. "Speaking of which, Jane. Qom couldn't help but smile wryly. I think that in the beginning, Whatsapp used Facebook and Twitter to promote it, and now it is the turn of an extremely powerful opponent to use this method, which is really like drinking water and knowing it.

"And I just got the news." Cheryl glanced at the two of them, and then said: "The app of Phantom Space began to provide free downloads on Android and IOS this morning, and it has only been four hours now, and the number of downloads on both platforms has exceeded 50,000, and this APP can automatically scan the user's mobile phone's address book for viral promotion. According to the calculations of the Marketing Strategy Department, even if the Phantom World continues to maintain the status quo, it is certain that the number of their users will exceed 10 million within a month. This number would be unimaginable if there were more effective means of promotion. ”

After a pause, Cheryl let Zuckerberg and Coombe digest the information, took a deep breath, and continued: "What's even more terrifying is that Mirage Space is not a single content provider. According to my research on Transwarp's thinking field, which is almost the same source, Mirage Space is part of a complete ecosystem, an ecosystem that perfectly integrates both software and hardware. ”

"You mean Apple?" Zuckerberg asked.

"Nope. will be stronger, should say to add us. Maybe...... No, I can foresee that it is not impossible to add Amazon, plus Google, plus Microsoft, and also add IBM, I can only say that as long as they don't have problems in their future development. So it's completely unpredictable where they can go in the future. ”

"You're so optimistic about them?" Zuckerberg asked, somewhat surprised. This is not the first time he and Facebook have met a challenger, so he can still maintain his composure in his mentality, but his chief operating officer still has such an opinion that he is a little unexpected.

"It's just a possibility to develop on the basis of optimal conditions." Cheryl chuckled and shook her head, "Only God knows what will happen in the future, but Transwarp has shown the potential to go this far." ”

"Your opinion?" Zuckerberg asked.

"Acquisition of Phantom Space. If possible, Transwarp will also take it. "This is a categorical way that Forbes named the top 50 most powerful business female elites.

"Acquisition?"

Zuckerberg frowned and turned his gaze to Jane to the side. Coombe, which made the latter unnaturally a little embarrassed, because a few months ago, his WhatsApp was smashed by Zuckerberg for 19 billion revenue under Facebook.

"That's right, there is only acquisition, in fact, when we acquired WhatsApp and chose to use sky-high acquisitions to grow the scale, there is no other way to go, just like a puppy that keeps chasing its own tail, it becomes a dangerous cycle, once a more interesting social network suddenly appears, then we have to continue to eat to keep up with the market trend, and now Phantom Space is this more interesting player. Otherwise, if investors' expectations of us fluctuate, it may cause our stock price to be skimmed by a tenth or more at any time. Cheryl said bluntly.

This time it was Zuckerberg's turn to be a little embarrassed, because it was his personal decision at that time, and Cheryl put forward a different opinion, but at that time, Zuckerberg in order to avoid the failure of the acquisition of Snapchat again, so it took the shortest time to negotiate the price of the acquisition of WhatsApp, of course, this price will also be a sky-high price, which is undoubtedly a big burden for Facebook itself.

"So how much capital do you think will be needed to complete the acquisition?"

"At least 50 billion."

Zuckerberg and Jane Coombe gasped at the same time, knowing that Facebook now has a market value of 130 billion and a liquidity of 7 billion, how difficult it will be to complete an acquisition of this scale.

"So much? When we acquired WhatsApp, it was 450 million users, and the number of users that Phantom Space wants to reach in two years will not be reached, is 50 billion too much? Jane Coombe asked.

"It's different." Cheryl shook her head, "The acquisition of Whatspp is to expand the scale of users, consolidate our scale advantage, and form a market barrier that is difficult to overcome; But the acquisition of Phantom Space is different, it is for the other party's technology and the position of the ecosystem, that is, to buy our ticket to enter this ecosystem, which is to enter a completely different field. Needless to say, she knew Zuckerberg could understand.

Zuckerberg didn't speak, but pondered, and Cheryl and Jane Coombe were silent and thoughtful, and for a moment, the office fell silent again......

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While Facebook's leadership is worried about Transwarp, other high-tech companies have been similarly affected, only by varying degrees because of the intersection of their respective fields and Transwarp.

For example, Google's top management made the decision to increase the amount of MagicLeap (an augmented reality company) Series B financing within a few days, thus laying the foundation for the next generation of Google Glass's technological improvement. As for other companies, there are some targeted actions, but not as obvious as Google.

At a time when the outside world is in turmoil, as the core figure of Transwarp Technology, although Chen Peng does not need to participate in the company's many daily things, there are still many things that make him uncomfortable.

The further research and promotion of the Phantom series of technologies and the preparation for the completion of the foundation of quantum computer research are his main tasks recently, which involve countless branches and branches, which are no longer something he can do alone, so he is ready to set up his own secretarial team at Vanessa's suggestion to handle all aspects of things for him.

Pan Luyao is the direct person in charge of this team, so she has been desperately researching all kinds of information recently, enriching herself to the extent that she can really help Chen Peng, and taking care of Chen Peng's daily life.

However, when Chen Peng persuaded her to rest more, she was refused, and she seemed extremely stubborn, and her words at the time were "I don't want to be a burden to you".

At this point, Chen Peng couldn't persuade her, so he could only let her do what he wanted, and he secretly observed if there was any problem, and he was temporarily relieved after seeing that the emotions she showed during this period of time became better.

It's just that in this way, Pan Luyao will inevitably ignore him a little in daily interactions, Rachel and Vanessa are busy outside as a whole, and my mother stays in the laboratory in Germany and doesn't know when she will come back, which makes him a little bored recently.

As for going out, he didn't want to go out at all during this time. Since the fake scandal with Koloe has become the focus of heated discussions, several major newspapers and magazines have made relevant follow-up reports, such as Koloe was blocked by reporters at the headquarters of Transwarp Technology and accepted a simple interview, saying: "It is very troublesome to fall in love at this age, and people's hearts always change quickly, because I am only 17 years old, I don't want to be cautious and afraid of this." "You spend a few years in high school and college dating men, and after graduation you spend time in a relationship, then get married, and finally die, as if you have lived in a world of feelings all your life, which is not my way of life." and other remarks, confirming the rumors of parting ways with Brooklyn.

Later, there were further surprises, such as Brooklyn being seen the next day with French actress Sonia . Root. Amar went shopping together in Paris and behaved intimately, and later confirmed that the 16-year-old girl star was Brooklyn's new girlfriend.

And Chen Peng was not spared, the powerful media quickly found out the situation of Chen Peng's girlfriend Pan Luyao, and then immediately escalated the scandal of this love triangle into an intricate pentagonal relationship, which immediately aroused heated discussions among the audience, so there have been more reporters blocking the door in the past two days, and Chen Peng can only be an otaku at home in order to avoid trouble.

In order to make himself less boring, he can only focus on his work for now. (To be continued.) )