Rebirth: I Want to Surf

In 2010, Zuckerberg brought his Chinese-American girlfriend to China for the first time, met with Baidu CEO Li Yanhong, Sina CEO Cao Guowei, and visited Lama Temple Yunyun.

In the next few years, he visited four times, gave a speech at Tsinghua University, had a dialogue with Ma Yun, and led a group of people to run in front of Tiananmen Square in the smog of Beijing... It can be said that he has done enough.

There is only one purpose, let Facebook enter the mainland market.

This is of course impossible.

So after the failure, Zuckerberg's face changed drastically, and he attacked Chinese companies in various ways.

In the era of the epidemic, Facebook was facing various problems, such as aging users, loss of young users, TikTok competition, data security, being accused of assisting the king to ascend the throne, and so on.

The bankruptcy of the "Global Encryption Currency" plan that was implemented in particular puts the giant of the Internet world in a predicament that urgently needs transformation.

Zuckerberg chose Metaverse to transform, and stud directly.

So far it has not been successful.

The concept of the metaverse is correct, and the future is bound to have great promise, but this future is too far away, and it will take a long time to realize it with current technology. The same is true in reality, the Yuan Universe was still the hot topic in the first two years, and there was no movement this year.

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Yao Yuan came to visit, but he was not interested in the concept of Facebook. He just came to talk about game sharing, and established a long-term cooperative relationship by the way, and then took a few photos to promote it back home.

The two were sitting on the sofa, drinking Americano coffee. Zuckerberg had just shown Yao Yuan around, and naturally asked, "How do you feel about this place?"

"It's great. It's a dream that can only be made possible by the Internet, from a university dormitory to Silicon Valley, from a photo wall to a social product with 30 million users."

"That's right, only the Internet can do that!"

Zuckerberg agreed with this point of view, saying: "I don't understand finance, industry, or law. I can't be a banker, engineer, lawyer, or doctor. But fortunately, there is the Internet. The Internet has given our generation The best stage for young people to showcase..."

Cons This thing is like a piece of shit.

It's okay to see your own shit, but it's unbearable to see someone else's.

After chatting with Zuckerberg for five minutes, Yao Yuan decided decisively that the other party had the same shortcomings as himself: love to fool!

One big Chinese flicker, one American big flicker.

Zuckerberg was very interested and kept asking: "I am very happy to communicate with people similar to myself. I am very interested in your social networking site. What kind of product is it?"

"It was born 6 years ago, when it was still in the cold winter of the Internet. Unlike the current web2.0 and sns websites, it was originally a very traditional text social interaction."

"The BBS kind?"

"Yes, the starting point of social networking on the Internet is text. I think the upgrade of software and hardware, especially the improvement of network speed, is the factor that changes the quality of the product. With the increase of network speed, we only thought about whether we can upload photos and add more The service has changed from text social to photo social."

"This statement is very interesting, so is the next stage video social?" Zuckerberg laughed.

"No no, I think the next phase is functional social."

Yao Yuan paused, and said: "The model of the big community will make people bored, people will not always be keen to meet new netizens, and they will eventually fall into one circle after another.

Or like literature, like movies, like fashion, like parties, based on the functions generated by these needs, I think it is the product feature of the next stage. "

"..."

Zuckerberg disagreed, and just wanted to interrupt, but the other party was faster, and continued on his own: "When a product always hits a bottleneck, users cannot maintain high-speed growth forever. In fact, my The website has already encountered such a dilemma, which requires us to prepare in advance.

I am transforming it into a functional social product, turning a large community into a small circle. At the same time, I believe that technological leaps will bring qualitative changes to the Internet. I am also very concerned about artificial intelligence and virtual reality technology. "

"Virtual reality? The Matrix?"

"Yeah! If we were just content to be a social networking site, we're seeing the end of it now. The users are so simple that we need to give them something new that's kitschy and exciting.

A few years ago, we talked to people about e-commerce and SNS websites, but now everyone has accepted it. Artificial intelligence and virtual reality technology are not far away, and smart people will always stand in the wind, rather than good luck once or twice..."

Zuckerberg always thought he was good at speaking, but he didn't expect to meet someone who could speak better.

The mind jumps so fast, one topic after another, one idea after another, like a revolving lantern, which makes people overwhelmed, and in the end there is nothing left to understand.

He also had his own concerns and asked, "I'm not provocative, I just want to know, if Facebook wants to enter the Chinese market, do you have any suggestions?"

"First of all, China is an open and enthusiastic market..."

Yao Yuan opened his mouth and said, "We welcome creative companies to come in. We have a population of more than one billion and the number of netizens is growing very fast. It is impossible for any one company to eat it alone.

Like Amazon has come in, bringing us a refreshing vitality, Internet users need this vitality and competition.

As I just said, my website is abandoning the big community model and transforming into a functional product. But you come in a big community, and your big community is different from ours, which may bring freshness to users. "

"Do you think Facebook can succeed in China?"

"Of course! Absolutely! It's amazing!"

Yao Yuan was about to swear to the lamp, I said yes and it doesn't cost money, you are awesome if you can come in!

"I hope so, you are a true entrepreneur!"

Zuckerberg was very satisfied and praised Yao Yuan's broad mind.

After chatting for a while, Yao Yuan saw that the time was almost up, and finally said: "Let's talk about what we need now. My visit is actually for a few small social games."

"Social games?"

"Yes, this is a project of our functional community. To put it simply, it is..."

Yao Yuan introduced "Parking Space Grab" and "Friends Buying and Selling", and said: "Although Facebook has opened up the platform, it has not yet stipulated a sharing agreement for charging items. I hope to establish a long-term cooperative relationship."

"Of course, we can talk about it."

Zuckerberg feels that the game is good, but after all, it has not been tested in the US market and does not know how effective it will be.

After Yao Yuan and his party left, they assessed and researched, and the two sides communicated several times, and finally confirmed: the application fee on the Facebook platform is 30 to 70 cents, and Facebook takes 30 percent.

There is a troublesome place: Facebook does not have its own payment tool, and the electronic payment in the United States is messy, which will be inconvenient for users.

But in any case, going to sea is the first step.

The moment the cooperation was reached, people from Yao Yuan's side came to take pictures.

"The largest community in China and the largest community in the United States!"

"Mai Wo transforms, the game goes overseas!"

"A little social game moves both sides of the ocean!"

The value will be there at once, and the money spent by Softbank is not in vain.

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A few more days passed.

Fist Games has also completed the communication, and Mark and Brandon are willing to give up 25% of the shares at a price of 7 million US dollars.

(No... still coughing, still recuperating, how are you doing?

Thanks to the cute master of Zhengzhu. )