After an American-style party, how much favor and recognition can be obtained from the employees here Luo Sheng doesn't know, but it's real that they are all very happy.

In fact, these local employees were also quite surprised, they thought it was boring, but they didn't expect the party held by the boss of Huaguo to be so American.

Luo Sheng can easily integrate into American culture, but it is difficult for Americans to integrate into Chinese culture, which is the difference between the two sides.

"You just got $325 million in financing from Wall Street on the front foot, and you're playing so crazy on the back foot, if I were an investor, I would probably regret it." Qin Weimu came to Luo Sheng's side and took a vacant seat next to him.

The party is still going on, and the North American employees who come here are having more fun than the other.

Luo Sheng couldn't help but smile when he heard her complain, and said calmly: "That's right, including the first few investments, VC regretted it not long after investing the money in me, and then after a while, I was happy again, and invested money in me, and regretted it again...... And so on and so forth. ”

That's right, that's right.

While the two were chatting, Luo Sheng saw a Chinese face, among the more than 80 employees, there were actually more than 30 Chinese faces, and they were all engineers, and their development skills were stronger than those of white people.

When Luo Sheng heard someone call the Chinese face "Steve Chen", he was subconsciously stunned for a while.

Qin Weimu glanced at him and found his slightly stunned expression, and couldn't help but ask questions.

"What's wrong with you?"

Luo Sheng ignored Qin Weimu and immediately shouted to the Chinese employee: "Steve Chen? Chen Shijun? ”

The Chinese face turned his head when he heard this, and saw that the boss was really looking at him, so he pointed to himself, and saw the boss nodding again, he confirmed that the boss was calling himself, so he walked over.

"BOSS, ARE YOU LOOKING FOR ME?" Chen Shijun was surprised how the boss knew his Chinese name.

At this moment, Luo Sheng was not sure whether it was the person he thought he was, and after inviting him to sit down, he couldn't help but ask: "Have you worked at PayPal before?" ”

Chen Shijun nodded, suddenly feeling a little embarrassed, but still said truthfully: "Yes BOSS, but how do you know?" Yes, that was three months ago, when PayPal laid off employees and I was unfortunate enough to be one of them, along with Chad Hurley, Judd Karim, and we were lucky enough to get an offer from Bluestar last week. ”

After Chen Shijun's brief explanation, Luo Shengdong suddenly felt that after they were fired, they were unemployed and in debt.

The aftermath of the bursting of the Internet bubble still exists, and many large Internet companies are opening up sources and reducing expenditures, and they will lay off employees if they can.

"OK, have fun." Luo Sheng confirmed the guess in his heart and chatted with him for a few words before it ended, and Chen Shijun also left the table.

At this moment, Luo Sheng's mood is called a good one, it really takes no effort to break through the iron shoes and find nowhere to find it, and the three founders of YouTube have actually joined the North American branch of Bluestar Technology and become their own employees.

The layout of the Internet audio-visual business was originally a strategic plan that he had arranged in his heart, and it was also the focus of his work in the next year.

……

Three days later, Luo Sheng came to the small town of Menlo Park again to meet with a group of North American employees, and with the previous party, Luo Sheng and these foreign employees also became a lot closer.

At this moment, more than 80 employees gathered in the work hall to listen to Luo Sheng's speech.

“…… Before I left California, we needed to play some new tricks, guys, and I decided to start a brand new website in North America with anonymity at its core. Luo Sheng told everyone about the core.

When Luo Sheng roughly described it, everyone was caught off guard.

"Boss, are you sure you're not kidding? This new website is simply the opposite of BlueSpace. An employee named Vader Karim spoke.

"BlueSpace is a real-name social mechanism, but this new website is a 180-degree transformation, which is too subversive." Chen Shijun spoke.

The major employees all spoke freely, and after a while, Luo Sheng looked around at everyone and smiled: "I believe, I know, because at the carnival party three days ago, you all showed your stuff, I know your secrets, every member here, I know that this group of people here is very innovative, like to challenge the rules and laws, and at the same time behave uninhibitedly, free and natural, our whole team will be one with each other, cooperate with each other, and cooperate with each other." ”

Qin Weimu, who was also present, found that Luo Sheng was very able to mobilize the emotions of employees, whether it was domestic employees or foreign employees, they could always say the most appropriate words on the most appropriate occasions, and twist a team into a bundle in the most appropriate way.

It's not just about money and contracts, it's about personal charisma, and he's like a natural leader.

"Only we would think of it, wouldn't we?" Luo Sheng added.

"So what's the name of the new website?" An employee named Russell Simmons said enthusiastically.

“R-E-D-D-I-T，！” Luo Sheng was concise and to the point.

When everyone heard that the name of the new website was this, everyone couldn't help but laugh, and Vader Karim immediately spoke: "Sorry boss, I think this name is inferior, can you change it to one with connotation?" ”

Everyone nodded their heads, and they all felt that the name was too stupid, and the Americans had a straightforward personality, and they said what they thought in their hearts directly.

Luo Sheng spread his hands and said helplessly: "There are too many domain names on the Internet, and now it is really difficult to apply for a name that is not occupied and simple and easy to remember, although I can spend money to buy it, but obviously, I don't want to spend money in vain." In addition, Reddit also means 'read it', so I guess it's a little bit like 'connotation' anyway. ”

So, at the insistence of the boss, it was settled.

"One of the distinguishing features of Reddit is that it gives users a lot of permissions, including the introduction of a user comment feature. We also have to be mentally prepared, after the launch of this website, the anonymity mechanism will inevitably be scolded, even if I am scolded by people who have never been so stupid and exploded the website, I am not surprised, but also means to deal with all kinds of evil in human nature. ”

Luo Sheng stood in the middle and described in an orderly manner, everyone was silent, and many employees were surprised by the boss's remarks, because they found that the boss was always able to inadvertently say some eye-catching functional ideas.

Let's take an example of the message function.

But for Luo Sheng, this function is the standard configuration of all websites, but now it is just entering the time node of 2004, which is a very bold decision.

Luo Sheng added: "In the future, we should let users create subreddits, we should be the first to open up the atmosphere, challenge the inherent rules and concepts, users can be cohesive through subreddits on various topics, which makes them feel more intimate and belonging to Reddit, and can also make Reddit really distinguish itself from other competitors." ”

Users can create their own subreddits, which is similar to the post bar, and even to some extent copies the mode of the post bar.

Russell Simmons frowned and couldn't help but say, "But, is it really good to empower users so aggressively?" Like a double-edged sword, it can be exhausting for administrators, and even if it can bring super high traffic, a significant number of users share some violent content...... well, no wonder the boss predicted that the Reddit launch would attract a lot of bad reviews, okay......"

Think about it, Reddit's anonymity mechanism is definitely an explosion of the evil side of human nature, hiding behind a computer screen, tapping on the keyboard and unscrupulously venting some things that you usually dare not do in offline life.

One of the core battlefields such as trolls and trolls.

But the staff are inexplicably excited about the idea, and Reddit may be able to be established as a super chaotic and super bad community in history before it goes live.

Luo Sheng methodically said to everyone: "For a long time, the state of online communities has been a game between managers and disruptors, and it will always be a contest between the top and the best, and the Internet is becoming more and more penetrating into all aspects of people's lives, and the past concepts such as safe harbor principles, technology neutrality, and unrestricted freedom of speech are being challenged, and more active confrontation with saboteurs may become the new normal." So we need like-minded volunteers, and together we sustain this community. ”

In the following week, Luo Sheng stayed in Menlo Park and worked out the Reddit development sequence with Chen Shijun, Wade, Judd, Chad and other employees, and among the more than 80 employees, 15 people including Chen Shijun, Russell, and Judd were spun off to be responsible for the initial development of the Reddit project, and the others continued to remain the same, responsible for the operation and management of the BlueSpace website.

In just one week, Luo Sheng showed a strong computer strength here, completely convincing these people, if it was the wealth crushing that made them feel unconvinced, but now they show the strength of the technical crushing and they are not convinced.

A week later, Luo Sheng ended his trip to North America and gave Chen Shijun a simple task before returning to China, asking their development team to officially launch the website by the end of February at the latest.