"That's pretty much it, Bill, I need your help." Zhou Xin said seriously.

Bill Gates got up and walked around his office, still thinking about what Zhou Xin had just said to him:

"It's incredible, it's a product design that only you can think of.

I'd like to buy Quora even more, and you can just set a price.

I can already imagine that after the launch of this feature of Quora, Yahoo Q&A's efforts to promote it would be in vain, even paving the way for you.

And even if Yahoo wanted to develop a similar feature, it would take a long time to make it.

Newman, say a price, count me begging you. ”

Zhou Xin is very proud, you can copy one of my ideas, but can you copy my whole series of ideas?

This is the construction of the Internet ecosystem, and in this era, it is a dimensionality reduction attack.

"Alright, Bill, if it were you, would you sell Quora now?

I promised you before that I would sell Quora, but now the value of Quora has not been fully reflected, and it is a loss to sell it now. ”

Bill held out five fingers: "Five billion dollars in cash, pack NewPay together." ”

Zhou Xin shook his head: "Five billion is just the price of Quora, after the launch of this feature of Quora, I put Quora on the market this year, and his market value is definitely more than five billion dollars."

Similarly, if Microsoft succeeds in acquiring Quora, Quora will definitely rise by more than $5 billion in market value as part of MSN.

It's impossible for me to sell NewPay to anyone else for the time being. ”

Bill Gates has insight into the importance of NewPay: "In fact, NewPay is the core of all your businesses.

It doesn't matter if you sell your fist or Quora, as long as NewPay is around, you can still use NewPay to build an equally successful business.

NewPay is not good, NewPay is a payment application, this kind of application is similar to a bank, it needs credibility as a foundation, and it is impossible to set up a payment software at any time.

Reputation and users are the deepest moat of this kind of payment software, and now NewPay has occupied the first-mover advantage, followed by the precipitation and accumulation of time.

So you're willing to let Riot go public, you're willing to sell Quora to me, only NewPay, and you only accept A/B shares to accept shares. ”

Zhou Xin doesn't need to deny anything, because after Bill Gates realized that if the other party wanted to make payment software, he couldn't stop it, and there was no need to stop it: "That's right."

I'm most optimistic about payment software.

Payment software can be regarded as the infrastructure of the Internet, which is similar to the Windows operating system and is an indispensable part. ”

Bill Gates didn't say anything more on the subject, he asked, "If I don't say yes, who will you find to cooperate with you?" ”

Zhou Xin said without thinking: "Larry Ellison, he likes to be in the limelight, and he is also a Quora user, if you don't agree, I will contact him."

If it doesn't work, I went to Jerry Yang and asked him directly which app he thought was better, Quora or Yahoo Q&A. ”

Bill Gates laughed, "Jerry won't cooperate with you."

Ellison would, he really likes to be in the limelight and won't miss an opportunity like this.

Well, I promise you, you remember to sell Quora to me when the time comes, because I believe you will sell Quora to me, so Microsoft didn't do a quiz community. ”

This is pure falsehood, Microsoft didn't do it because Bill Gates didn't think it was necessary, and they had to face Yahoo and Quora at the same time, and they didn't have an advantage, so they simply didn't do it.

However, Bill Gates does want to buy Quora, especially after seeing Quora's new features.

While Yahoo advertised in various ways, Quora silently launched a paid Q&A feature.

"@Bill Gates, Bill, what do you think of conspiracy theories about yourself that you are carrying out unethical schemes through charitable foundations to control the global population and carry out secret schemes?" （100$）

This question is quite explosive, and the conspiracy theories about Bill Gates have begun since then, and the reason why Zhou Xin persuaded Bill Gates to answer this question is:

"You can respond positively to these questions in public. This is the best opportunity to prove yourself. And even those who accuse you have to pay you if they want to see your answers. ”

Quora has launched a paid Q&A feature that allows users to ask questions to a specific person for a fee ranging from $20, $20, $50, or $100.

Other users can view the answers after paying $0.5, and this part of the revenue is shared by both the questioner and the answerer.

Quora takes a 30 percent cut of it.

For example, Zhou Xin spent $100 to ask Bill Gates, Bill Gates received $70, and Quora received $30. If 10,000 users read this answer, then they pay a total of $5,000, and after deducting the $1,500 of Quora's commission, Bill Gates and Zhou Xin will divide the rest equally.

"Thanks to Newman's question, I have never been a member of a secret organization, and the vision of the Bill & Melinda Foundation has always been to fulfill my business aspirations and philanthropic aspirations, and to make my contribution to improving the state of global health, education, and the environment.

The conspiracy theories that have been surrounding me lately, the so-called attempt to control the global economy, politics, and even the global population, are utter nonsense.

If I had that ability, I wouldn't have to face the annual investigations and lawsuits of the Americon Judiciary and the Europa Commission against the Microsoft monopoly."

Quora's paid Q&A feature is quietly live, but as the most trafficked online forum, it's obviously not so calm.

In particular, the answerers and questioners are celebrities in the Ameriliken Internet scene.

For the general public, they find themselves able to use the paid Q&A feature, where they can only ask questions but not answer.

Bill Gates' answer was viewed more than 100,000 times in just 24 hours, which means that more than 100,000 users paid $0.5 to see what Bill Gates said.

Other internet forums are also discussing this.

"Can anyone send me an answer on how Bill Gates answered Newman?"

"Quora's paid Q&A feature is so great that anyone can ask questions for a fee, and if you ask a good question, it can also bring you revenue?"

"That means that if you spend $20 to ask a question, you only need about 114 people to read the answers and you can get back the cost, which is more than 114 people, that's the net benefit." This is definitely a post from a Chinese person.

"The premise is that you need to have a NewPay account, otherwise the money will not be able to reach your card."

"I tried asking questions, and NewPay was very easy to use."

Paid Q&A connects Quora with NewPay, which was previously only used by Riot Games, Ebay, and Amazon.

These shopping payment scenarios are not frequent enough, and they may only happen a few times a year.

Quora's ecosystem is completely different, it only costs $0.5 to see the answers, and you can get a $10 bonus when you sign up for a NewPay account.

Your registration account is enough for you to read 20 answers, this kind of high-frequency and low-value transactions can be regarded as the taxi software of later generations.

There is no shortage of crab eaters in this world, and more than 10,000 paid questions were asked within a week of the paid Q&A feature being launched.

About 5,000 questions were answered.

Both the questioner and the answerer benefit from it.

From Silicon Valley to Seattle to Washington, no one cares when Yahoo Q&A is live, what features it has, and which Nobel laureates are invited.

Everyone is concerned about how to ask a good question that will be answered by the respondent and that other users will want to read.

The paid knowledge Q&A function is borrowed from the Weibo Q&A of later generations, and tens of thousands of people are willing to spend money to read a random answer to a question.

The impact of this game on today's Internet users is huge.

Everyone is a novice, who has ever seen this kind of gameplay.

Some celebrities already like to gain attention, and with paid Q&A, they can make money and answer questions more actively.

Especially Larry Ellison, as a Silicon Valley madman and the founder of Oracle, has always liked the feeling of being sought after by everyone.

There are countless questions waiting for him to answer when he opens Quora every day, and now there are paid questions, followed by the amount that the other party has paid, which belongs to the combination of picking up money and hobbies.

Among them, the question that Ellison gets the most views is also related to Bill Gates.

"What do you think of Bill Gates' claim that the so-called conspiracy theory is slandering him, that he doesn't have so much energy?"

"I know Bill Gates but I don't know him well, but I think he has the energy, but I'm not sure if he will do it."

It was this answer that made conspiracy theorists seem to find corroboration, adding Ellison as a new character when they made up new conspiracy theories.

More than 10,000 people viewed this answer.

Quora's paid Q&A feature is being discussed all over Silicon Valley, as if whoever doesn't is left behind.

"Everyone must know about Quora's paid Q&A feature, and how we can use paid Q&A to inspire our products." The CEO of an Internet company focused on online forums asked employees.

"I think we can lock up some premium content that users who want to watch it need to pay."

"We can also launch a similar paid Q&A feature, and we have a lot of Q&A-related content on our forums, and I think we can take a cue from Quora."

"The question is that we don't have payment software, is NewPay willing to work with us?"

What is Yahoo Q&A? No one remembers Yahoo Q&A, only the huge face of the Nobel Prize winner on the roadside billboard, and the Yahoo Answers next to the face.

When Yang Zhiyuan drove from his home to the Yahoo office building, when he saw the wise eyes of the Nobel laureate, he even felt that he was laughing at him, mocking Yahoo for being completely defeated by Zhou Xin in creativity again.

"How long will it take for us to add paid Q&A?"

"It will take a month at the earliest, and the most mature payment application on the market is only NewPay, and the number of users of other electronic payment software will not exceed 100,000, and most of them only have a few thousand people.

Only the number of users of NewPay can meet the needs of a quiz community. ”

(End of chapter)