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"Boss, here is the information you want."

Alvitley took out a document bag from his bag and handed it to Andy.

Andy took the file bag, opened it and said to Bardstone with a smile: "Bad, the predator team will be handed over to you. I hope to hear more good news."

"Yes, boss, if there is nothing else, I will go back to the company first."

Andy nodded with a smile, looked at Bardstone's leaving figure, then lowered his head and began to look at the information in his hand, ten lines at a glance, shorthand is not difficult for him.

"..." Andy lightly tapped on the few pieces of information with his fingers, squinting his eyes slightly, touching his chin with his right hand, thinking in a very tangled look.

"Boss, do you want to acquire this social networking and microblogging service website called Twitter?"

Alvetrie saw the tangled expression of his boss, knowing that the boss encountered a problem that was difficult to decide, so he couldn't help asking.

"I have this idea, but at the same time I have an idea for a new app application software, and I want to build a social platform similar to microblogging services. Twitter is a ready-made company. If it can be acquired, it can save money. There are a lot of things to do." Andy stretched his brows, and said to Al without any concealment.

"I do not recommend buying this Internet company. I have carefully researched and analyzed this company. It is a reasonable next step in the development of an existing blog site and the initial stage of a blog. It is very convenient to type 140 words and send it to the Internet , They also realize the flow of information. The advantage is that they can provide direct and important information, which is unmatched by other social networking sites.

But this company also has several major problems. The charging of SMS will make users worry about the increase of SMS fees. After all, the Vacup developed by you, boss, has become the most popular chat tool and cross-platform mobile phone. Real-time chat, free information push, has begun to change people's use of premium text messages.

Originally, as soon as they debuted this year, they became the best way for netizens in the southern United States to find gatherings. They seemed very promising, but after the launch of hatsapp, the data traffic and the number of sent messages on Twitter shrank significantly. It has begun to squeeze its living space. If Wattsup also has a social platform, I think Twitter will definitely have a hard time.

There is also the most critical question. I don’t see how Twitter makes money, and some media also interviewed several founders of Twitter, and they also raised this question. Their answer was to ask the reporter and take out Google For example, that is to say, they themselves know that they have no way to make money. "

Andy listened to Al's analysis, and nodded in agreement. In his previous life, even though Twitter was listed for financing, it still failed to solve the problem of profitability. This has always been criticized, "But the advantage of Twitter is still the network. It is very advantageous to still be able to send messages to the outside world under such circumstances.”

Alvetrie couldn't help laughing when he heard what the boss said: "Boss, even so, we don't need to acquire. They have already started financing from the outside world, hoping to find a venture capital to get the money to burn, but it is not easy, Watts The appearance of Pu made the value of Twitter shrink, but Twitter still stubbornly believes that their market value is 200 million U.S. dollars. I don’t think you, the boss, are willing to spend 200 million U.S. dollars to acquire this company. With this money, I think it’s enough to set up your own business. Such a company already exists, and I believe that the products you come up with, boss, will be better than theirs. As for the technical personnel after the establishment of the company,

Hehe, there are ready-made ones, right? "

Andy's hand touching his chin stopped suddenly, the corners of his mouth tugged, his eyes lit up, the corners of his mouth were turned up, and he smiled, looking at Al who was also smiling, he said: "Hehe, you said that if you are pushing Wouldn't it be too much for me to hire his entire team when it's so tough?"

"Well, it's too much, hehe, but first, we have to solve some patent issues, even the current Twitter has ignored, ibm's patent barriers, since it is a SMS push platform, it is impossible to avoid ibm, currently it is a potential infringement, Twitter is also a small company. IBM did not wield a big stick of patents to give it a fatal blow. I don’t think that IBM’s legal department is not clear, but that it is holding back bad news and hoping to maximize profits. If you are the boss, you also want to launch this kind of microblog service platform, then I think we must first buy the relevant patents held by ibm to obtain new technologies and build a defense network for infringement lawsuits. Even if Twitter survives tenaciously in the future, we can also make them crippled !"

Andy is deeply convinced of this. Although his hatsapp is a new IT company, he has mastered 11 patents so far, and there are more than 60 patents in the process of approval. This is the United States, any new type of Internet The company's lack of intellectual property rights may make the company a target of lawsuits and limit its ability to fight back by asserting its own patents. If it does not establish a patent protection network, it is really stupid. The better it develops, the more it will suffer from lawsuits. more.

"Let the think tank list the relevant patents and potential infringement patents. We spend money to buy them. This is unavoidable. This kind of matter should be resolved as soon as possible and cannot be delayed. The purchase of patent rights will provide us with more complete protection of intellectual property rights. , and give us a broader freedom of action to innovate on behalf of all those who use our services." Andy attaches great importance to patent barriers, why does Facebook like big fish to eat small fish, dare to play snakes and swallow elephants, and take it public The financing money eliminates potential opponents everywhere, and acquires all companies that it thinks may threaten it, because most of the companies acquired by Facebook are new Internet companies. Patent barriers, there is a popular saying in the IT industry in the United States, maybe an idea that replaces you has been born in a certain garage!

With patent barriers, there is no need to worry about a garage entrepreneur suddenly popping up to become a new legend, a new challenger, a single patent barrier can kill these potential threats in the cradle, which is why the Internet industry in various countries The more it develops to the end, it has given birth to a reason why it is more and more difficult to start a giant business.

"Understood, I'm already arranging people to start doing this work." Al nodded to express his understanding, and he had already ordered people to do it. He still knows his boss's personality very well. He likes to take the initiative in everything, and he doesn't like Subject to people.

Sending Alvitley away, Andy began to spin with a signature pen in his hand, and his brain was also working rapidly. This time, he was not only going to create an instagram photo wall, a social application that runs on the mobile terminal, instagram It is an app that can share pictures captured by users at any time in a fast, wonderful and interesting way. We also need to combine Weibo to build our own unique platform website that can send 140 text messages like Twitter, and at the same time combine the functions of Weibo and photo wall. After all, the value of a single instagram photo wall can no longer satisfy Andy's current situation. Appetite is gone.

In this way, this new type of Internet model can completely replace Twitter, which has not yet developed, and completely eliminate this opponent. Of course, if Twitter can survive the first round of attacks by Andy.

Andy picked up the phone and called Korn Ferry International Consulting Company and Heidrick \u0026 Struggles International Co., Ltd., the two largest headhunting companies in the United States. There was only one request, and the development and management team of Twitter Inc. wanted.

For an important customer like Andy Smith, no one wants to ignore it. After hanging up the phone, the two companies immediately held a meeting to form a team to be responsible for this poaching task. As for the life and death of the Twitter company, it was not something they considered. , now that this big shot has set the key points, what these headhunters have to do is to do their best to fulfill the client's requirements, and satisfying the client is their main task.

"Everyone should know how much we, the youngest billionaire in the world, like to use professional managers, and every professional manager has been fully trusted. This time his goal is very clear. Twitter, San Francisco Silicon Valley For a small company, Mr. Smith’s request is to poach Twitter’s development team and all the management teams except the three founders.” The eo of Korn Ferry Consulting Company pressed his hands on the conference table, Looking around for a week, leaning forward and looking at him sharply, he said to everyone present. )!!