"It's an absolute coincidence, just like last year when Microsoft launched the MSN portal, Yahoo followed up with a similar portal, My Yahoo.

Quora has always been committed to providing users with better services, and the paid Q&A feature is based on the previous Quora feature, and combined with a certain reward mechanism, the new feature has been developed.

Seriously, I don't really think of Yahoo Q&A, maybe Yahoo does a great job in the areas of portals and personal Internet navigation, but in the field of Q&A community, Quora is not afraid of any competitor.

Quora was first launched and became popular all over the United States very quickly, and I had a private chat with Bill Gates, and he said that Microsoft is also trying to develop its own quiz community, and I said, you can come. ”

Zhou Xin showed great confidence on the show, and later saw that the audience of the TV show had a new understanding of Zhou Xin.

Previously, the media from Silicon Valley to New York all portrayed Zhou Xin as a taciturn Chinese genius.

This kind of image is not likable in any era of American, it needed to be developed obscenely, but now it is growing, and Zhou Xin knows that he has to reshape his image in the eyes of the public.

That's why he participated in programs like Charlie Rose's interviews, including how to express himself on the show, Zhou Xin thought about it before he came.

This and the image of future generations of entrepreneurs in front of the public must have been set by themselves, and then the whole team worked together to create it.

The most famous should be Jobs, who always wears Issey Miyake's simple black sweater and jeans, tying himself to the depth of innovation.

Charlie Ross also didn't expect the genius from Huaguo to be so arrogant, he asked: "So in fact, your character has never been afraid of any challenge, and you dare to face any challenge."

I'm curious, when Yahoo advertises its upcoming quiz community, do you feel like your ideas are being copied? Do you think Yahoo is acting wrong? ”

Zhou Xin said without thinking: "No." ”

"Because a model innovation like the Q&A community is a model innovation, model innovation can't ask competitors not to do this.

It's like an online forum, after the first BBS online forum came out, it couldn't ask everyone else to stop developing online forums.

If you can do that, it's a monopoly. For model innovation, more enterprises enter this field, which will put pressure on the leading enterprises and promote new innovation and better user experience.

It is also an important source of vitality for Silicon Valley.

Instead, I'd love to see a big player like Yahoo come in, and he'll help us educate our users on what a quiz community is, and then when those users know what a quiz community is, they'll know that the best quiz community in the world is Quora.

In the end, they will switch to Quora. ”

Zhou Xin grinned after saying that, as a person who went back to 1998 in later generations, it was difficult for him to see Yahoo as a real competitor.

Although after really coming to this era, Yahoo can be seen almost at any time when surfing the Internet, but knowing the inevitability of history, it is difficult for Zhou Xin to feel a substantial sense of oppression.

Of course, after supporting Robin to establish Baidu in Silicon Valley, Zhou Xin is not afraid of Google, and Baidu may not lose to Google if he is born in Silicon Valley.

The audience began to applaud again, and the Ameriken audience liked the guests who expressed their ambitions so bluntly.

Why in the future at Ameriken, arrogant people like Musk can be sought after, and Bill Gates's various charitable acts will be sprayed from multiple angles and in all directions.

Of course, there are almost as many people who hate Musk as there are people who like Musk, but Bill Gates only hacks him, and there are almost no people who help him speak.

Or is it that Bill Gates's image is too perfect, too perfect to be true, including the later Epstein incident.

Later, after his divorce from Melinda, his image in the minds of the Ameriken people changed for the better, and it turned out that Bill Gates also liked the new and hated the old human side.

People who like Musk see his wild words as a sign of self-confidence, which is also a kind of truth.

In Silicon Valley in 1999, entrepreneurs were all nerds, geeks, and immersed in their own world.

Charlie Ross was also clapping, and then gestured for the director to play a video on the screen behind them:

"I think we can beat Quora, and beating Quora has never been Yahoo's goal." Yang Zhiyuan's face appeared behind them.

The audience in the audience became even more crazy, you must know that this is to make Yang Zhiyuan and Zhou Xin fight in the ring in the air, and all kinds of screams come and go.

Charlie Ross explained: "These are the original words that Yang Zhiyuan said when he participated in the show last week. ”

"He's just as confident as you, no, you're more confident than him.

I like that confidence. The director also recorded what Newman had just said, and the next time the two of them participated in the show, whoever lost would play this conversation repeatedly. ”

Charlie Rose, who was still laughing just now, instantly restrained his smile and suddenly became serious: "Before Jerry came to our show, he said that Yahoo's vision is to become a new media company in the Internet era, providing users with a lot of high-quality content.

We know you have a lot of businesses under your name, from Quora to NewPay to Riot, that haven't merged into one group.

But I can look at him as a whole, you've achieved so much at such a young age, so what's your vision? ”

Zhou Xin also pretended to think: "My experience is not rich enough, I think I also hope to bring more and better products to users."

Other than that, what I hope most is to get my PhD from Berkeley. ”

Charlie Rose nodded: "It is not difficult for you to fulfill either wish."

Quora and NewPay have already brought us a big surprise, and many viewers may not have used NewPay in front of the TV, but I have used it.

I used to have to go to the bank to transfer money to my son, but now I can just use my computer.

Very convenient payment software. ”

Zhou Xin said: "Charlie, thank you for helping NewPay advertise. ”

Charlie Rose: "I still have a sentence to finish, don't forget to leave my email address when you register an account,"

Zhou Xin also joked: "Okay, it turns out that you have such an idea, and I will ask NewPay's operation to cancel your incentive plan at that time." ”

"Newman, you're not like a Chinese, you're so bad, the Chinese I've seen aren't as cunning as you." Charlie Rose complained.

Zhou Xin: "It may be that you have seen too few Chinese. ”

Charlie Ross took the opportunity to ask a pointed question: "What do you think of the black people who think that the threshold set by Quora is not friendly to black people?" ”

Zhou Xin was speechless in his heart, and his face was silent: "I don't quite understand what it means?" ”

Charlie spread his hands: "Some black scholars believe that due to historical reasons, blacks are inferior in the acquisition of knowledge, and the examination mechanism set up by Quora is very unfriendly to blacks.

A recent survey conducted by a team focused on human rights protection at Yale University showed that less than 5 percent of black people who pass the Quora user registration test are unfair and racial. ”

Zhou Xin knew that this hat must not be touched, and at this time, it is necessary to use magic to defeat magic, "I myself am a minority, and it is absolutely impossible to discriminate against African-Americans, who are also minorities like Chinese."

Secondly, the threshold exam set by Quora only makes it impossible for users to ask questions and answers, and does not affect the user's ability to view the answers and questions of the historical stock.

At the same time, we have also launched a search function, if you have any questions, you can directly search within Quora to find similar problems.

Including the post-launch paid questioning function, it provides a variety of options for users who are hungry for knowledge.

This is just a pure product strategy and has nothing to do with deliberately unfair. ”

Although the political correctness of Silicon Valley, Hollywood and Washington in later generations made Zhou Xin jaw-dropping, this wind has not blown to Wall Street.

It shows that the old money is still sensible, and the provocation of racial issues is to provoke racial issues, and they will not burn this fire on themselves.

Fortunately, it is far from being exaggerated in later generations, and Zhou Xin's answer in later generations is obviously not passable.

Charlie Rose: "So why did Quora set such a high bar, you don't seem to have responded to this question in a formal setting.

This is something that many of my friends in Silicon Valley can't understand.

Before Quora, there has never been an Internet company that has tried everything possible to push users out, everyone thinks that users are wealth, only Quora, Quora seems to naturally set a very high threshold.

The user test is like a gold sign at the entrance of a luxury store, telling passers-by that his audience is only the rich. ”

Zhou Xin replied half-truthfully: "I solemnly state here that Quora has never meant to drive users out.

The Q&A community, like other online communities, is a content provider, and any user can browse Quora's web pages, use Quora's search function, register as a Quora user, and use our paid question function.

We set thresholds for questioners and answerers to ensure the purity of the content provided by the Q&A community.

In order to attract attention and attract attention, many users speak arbitrarily on the Internet without any scruples.

At the same time, there is no accountability for the comments on the Internet, and the questions that you don't understand at all are answered indiscriminately.

Or even make up something to answer.

I'm not saying that all users do this, but Quora prefers to set a threshold to filter out most of the content in order to ensure purity, and we only need the best part. ”

The chaos that Zhou Xin said is the chaos of Zhihu in later generations.

Charlie Ross asks, "Are these users completely free of talking nonsense now?" ”

Zhou Xin said: "I can't guarantee it, but it is not easy for accounts to get permission to ask questions and answers, and they will be banned if they make inappropriate remarks, which leads to the vast majority of users cherishing their permissions." ”

It's been 6k today, 3k in the morning, 3k in the evening, I don't know if there's more.

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