Although the original idea of the microblog was proposed by Zhang Yuanjun to the boss, Zhang Yuanjun did not dare to take credit for the success of Twitter's entrepreneurship.

The boss started to do Facebook, and then did Twitter, both of which are inseparable from one word - social.

He is very clearly aware that Internet social networking is a blue ocean, and it is a blue ocean that can incubate a trillion-dollar market value.

As for how much you can eat, it depends on the future development.

The boss and Zuckerberg broke up completely, and Twitter received investment and even acquisition offers when it first gained the attention of the investment community a few years ago.

Among them is from his old friend Zuckerberg.

But Facebook's offer was sternly rejected by Zhang Leping, who still minded that he was kicked out of the startup by his friend, and scolded Zuckerberg for being ungrateful in the office at the time: "I just disbanded Twitter and didn't sell him a single share!" ”

Even now he still holds a paltry 0.00042% stake in Facebook.

Zhang Leping is on the front line of the market as a business manager, and at the same time, he is also a Ph.D. candidate in computer science in Los Angeles, California, which means that he is still on the front line of the Internet academic community.

He was the first to come into contact with technologies that were not commercially available or that were emerging and had uncertain prospects.

He can also learn about some of the imaginative technical imaginations of the future development in the industry.

When Zhang Yuanjun came to see him at home, he made a few bold assertions with his younger brother:

"For individual consumers, the future must be the mobile Internet, the world of smart phones, TV, movies, and games will be integrated into mobile phones. In addition to some necessary work, the PC market will definitely shrink gradually in the future.

"Even cars will be Internetized in the future."

"Second, on the enterprise side, AI, cloud computing and big data must be the development trend. I attended an academic conference last month, and many experts have already had initial results and are pursuing commercialization. ”

Zhang Yuanjun didn't understand anything when he heard it, and he wasn't interested, so he asked his eldest brother: "When will you graduate?" How do I think you've been studying for a Ph.D. for six or seven years. ”

Zhang Leping said with a smile: "It's normal for a doctor to study for six or seven years. Don't worry, I'm already preparing my graduation thesis, and if it goes well, I'll graduate next year. ”

Although the younger brother doesn't understand computer science, Zhang Leping is still willing to talk to him: "Let me tell you, I recently discovered a fun thing called blockchain. ”

Zhang Yuanjun's temples jumped.

"I took a look at this thing, technically speaking, this guy named Satoshi Nakamoto is definitely a genius, but unfortunately, I sent him a message in the background to make an appointment to meet, but people ignored it."

"I thought about the application scenarios of this technology, finance, logistics, and public services, but I didn't figure out the specifics. But what kind of virtual currency did Satoshi Nakamoto use this technology to get, similar to game currency, isn't the currency on the Internet just a string of code, which can be valuable? Zhang Leping is obviously not optimistic about the so-called online virtual currency, thinking that it is a boring toy on the Internet.

"Do you have one?" Zhang Yuanjun asked casually.

"What's there?"

"That's the virtual currency."

"At first, I was also curious, and I got about 3,000 of them, but it was boring, so I threw them away." Saying that, Zhang Leping also smiled, "I also used this blockchain to water a few papers." ”

It seems that the value of blockchain to Zhang Leping is to help him with water papers.

"Where's your 3,000 coins?" Zhang Yuanjun asked.

"It's on my computer."

Fortunately, Zhang Yuanjun breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhang Yuanjun held the computer to search for relevant information on the Internet a few days later, and this thing had a special forum so early.

Until the 18th, Zhang Yuanjun found a "trading post" on a forum, the poster is called Laszlo Hanyecz, from Florida, saying that he wants to eat Papa John's pizza, and if someone can buy him two pizzas in the forum, he is willing to pay 10,000 coins.

At this time, Bitcoin transactions were not trusted at all, and there were few responses to the post.

But Zhang Yuanjun knew that this was his chance.

He was quick to leave a message saying that he was willing to make this "fun attempt" with two pizzas even though he was in New York: "Tell me your address and I'll call Papa John's Pizzeria and ask them to deliver two pizzas to you." ”

Hanyecz was quick to reply, saying he was glad to have someone with him to do this kind of fun experiment, and gave Zhang Yuanjun his address and the delivery phone number at Papa John's Pizza.

Zhang Yuanjun ordered two pizzas for him.

An hour later, Hanyecz posted a photo saying he had received the pizza: "That pizza looks delicious!" ”

and traded the promised 10,000 coins to Zhang Yuanjun - Zhang Yuanjun has no account, he uses the account of his eldest brother Zhang Leping, he is not optimistic about the future of Bitcoin, and the 3,290 coins in the account are also brought to the younger brother.

Hanyecz tasted the sweetness, saying that he was willing to continue to buy pizza with coins, and asked Zhang Yuanjun if he was willing to trade with him: "I still have more than 30,000 coins." ”

Hanyecz was afraid that Zhang Yuanjun would just stop doing it on a whim and taste the freshness of today's first transaction, so he used his eloquence to give value to their transactions: "We are beating the Internet, defeating the world, and we have obtained real food with virtual currency." Man, think about how cool it is, I didn't spend a penny to get free food. ”

Zhang Yuanjun thought to himself: "Nonsense, of course you didn't spend any money, I paid for the pizza!" ”

But he happily agreed to continue such an "interesting deal".

In the afternoon of the same day, Hanyecz bought a pizza meal from Zhang Yuanjun for another 10,000 yuan.

At noon the next day, Hanyecz ordered a burger meal for another 10,000 yuan, and ate pizza in the evening.

In this way, Zhang Yuanjun has 43,290 coins in his hand.

The transaction between Zhang Yuanjun and Hanyecz attracted the attention of many people in the forum, and they threw transaction requests to Zhang Yuanjun, a rare wronged leader who was willing to accept bitcoin.

But because Zhang Yuanjun is in New York, he is not the same as Hanyecz, and there happens to be a chain of pizza restaurants nearby to serve him.

So a lot of deals that look good can't be made, such as someone who wants to use 10,000 coins to get Zhang Yuanjun to fill up his car.

But it doesn't matter, there are Amazon and eBay in the United States, and the programmers of this group of water forums are also relatively receptive to online shopping.

They threw themselves into the online shopping platform, Zhang Yuanjun gave them online shopping goods, and they transferred bitcoin to Zhang Yuanjun.

The price is based on the pizza transaction, 10,000 coins is about 40 US dollars.

Zhang Yuanjun came to New York to start a new play!

As a result, the light water forum has been in the past few days!

The key is that the American express delivery is so slow, even if Zhang Yuanjun buys items online for the other party, within 10 days and half a month, the other party will not receive it, and the other party will not receive the goods, and he will not receive the return.

So the whole trading process is stretched out very long.

There are also scammers in this, who received the goods and did not give you coins, and Zhang Yuanjun was also mentally prepared for this.

It wasn't until the day of the launch of "Neverending" that Zhang Yuanjun announced on the forum: "I still need to work, so I won't do trading for the time being." ”

Zhang Yuanjun estimated what he had earned in the past few days, and he couldn't calculate how much he had earned, but it should be a lot.

When I was settled, I devoted myself to the work of the film.

Write a meaning, don't go into details.

(End of chapter)