My Age of Investment

  Chapter 83 Use your imagination

   "Daren, I heard bad news."

   Principal John, who had almost never been to the office of the incubator base, came to the Facebook company very rarely, and Andrew was also with him.

  Xia Jingxing saw that they both had a dark face, and asked with a smile: "What's the matter? What's bad news?"

  Old man John glanced at the programmer who was working not far away, and said in a low voice: "Call the dog, Christina, let's talk about it in another place."

  Xia Jingxing saw that they both looked serious, not like joking, guessing that something big had happened.

  He didn't dare to neglect, called Little Dog, and then called the foreign girl who had gone to steal a teacher from an e-commerce company and told her to come back quickly.

  Principal John and Andrew walked in front, and the little dog walking behind asked what happened to Xia Jingxing in a low voice.

  Xia Jingxing shook his head straight, he didn't know.

  After walking several hundred meters, the four people came to a vacant office in the incubator base.

  After entering, Xia Jingxing looked at the exquisite and luxurious interior decoration, and complained that the old man John was not authentic. Such a good office would not be used for Facebook.

  He saw that Old Man John had a bad face, so he didn't say a joke, after all, he scored the occasion.

  This office is very large, and there is also a separate, very spacious meeting room.

  After the four people sat down casually, Old Man John asked a student to bring a laptop.

  The old man clicked on a web page, pushed the computer to Xia Jingxing and the little dog, and said lightly: "Look at it, Facebook has emerged silently, and this company is in San Francisco."

  Xia Jingxing and Little Dog were both shocked, and then looked at this website carefully.

  The domain name is "Friendster.com".

  Xia Jingxing recognized it. Isn’t this website the world’s first SNS website recognized in the past life, and is also known as the dating network of the "originator of social networking services"?

  He has not forgotten, he has been paying attention to when this company was born.

  After waiting so long, it finally appeared.

  This website can be said to be the first social networking site to become popular, and it also brought the social circuit to the fire.

Tom Anderson, founder of   MySpace, and Xiao Mazi, founder of Facebook, were both users of Diaoyou.com, and they all borrowed some of the functional designs and concepts of Diaoyou.com in their entrepreneurial projects.

  So, Diaoyou.com is the real big brother-level and antique-level social networking site.

  Xia Jingxing is reminiscing, and the dog is carefully examining and observing the functions of this website and whether the detailed design is in place.

  The little dog looks more and more frightened.

  The function of this website is similar to that of Facebook, and there are even some small functions that Facebook does not have.

  The most frightening thing is that the website page design is not bad.

  It can be seen that, far from being comparable to the previous two senior students who engaged in plagiarism, there is definitely a mature technology development team behind it.

"How about it?"

  Old man John said with a serious face, "Is it a great enemy?

  I am looking for you to remind you that I must pay attention to it. "

  Xia Jingxing nodded, "Indeed, we can see that this opponent has certain strength."

   Seeing Xia Jingxing relieved the opponent, the old man John secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that the young man would be arrogant and look down on any opponent. That would be really bad.

  Andrew also said: "I have checked the information of this company. It was established in the second half of last year, but the product has been under development.

  It was not until this month that the website was officially launched, and it is currently being promoted in California. "

  The little dog frowned, "So, they have been planning for a long time? They came specifically for us?"

  Old man John shook his head, "Wrong, they are bigger than your ambitions and open registration for all people over the age of 18."

  "Also including the campus market?"

   glanced at the website on the computer screen, the dog frowned and asked.

   "Of course, the other party has already expressed its intention and wants to win the most delicious cake on social networking sites."

  After finishing speaking, Old John looked at Xia Jingxing and asked: "Dalun, don't stop talking, talk about your thoughts."

  Xia Jingxing said with a calm face: "We have been deeply involved in the campus market, and the number of users is now moving towards the one million mark.

  In a way, it has formed a barrier to competition with latecomers. "

   "Barriers to competition~"

  The old man repeated this word in his mouth, thought for a while, and then said: "Tell me carefully."

  "The social field is different from other Internet fields. This is a winner-takes-all race track."

  “The wider the user relationship chain of a website, the more users will love to use the products of which website.”

  "Facebook has entered hundreds of universities and initially started to establish relationship chains. Once users do not use our products, these relationship chains will be broken, and the cost of replacing them is too high."

  Old man John frowned, "There is some truth to what you said, but Dating.com is aimed at the whole crowd.

  If a student’s family and friends are all users of Dating.com, do you think they will abandon Facebook? "

  Xia Jingxing shook his head, "No!"

"Why?"

  Old man John had been staring at Xia Jingxing, and he seemed to attach great importance to this issue.

  Xia Jingxing looked at each other with the old man, and replied confidently: “Because there is a generation gap between students and their families, I don’t want family members to watch their every move online.

  Mr. Hennessy, think about your children. Would they want you to find out how they show themselves online, what things they follow, like, and discuss? "

  Old man John was speechless, and nodded after a long while, "What you said is right."

  Xia Jingxing said with a smile, “So we don’t have to panic at all, we are the leader, and Diaoyou.com is just a chaser.”

   "I said, if ah, Diaoyou.com dominates the adult market, and Facebook only occupies the student market, is there any possibility of coexistence between the two?"

  Andrew suddenly threw a question.

  Xia Jingxing nodded, “There must be the possibility of coexistence. Facebook has its own characteristics. Even if they become bigger, they cannot enter our territory.”

   "But in that case, Facebook's imagination will be much smaller."

  Old man John suddenly answered, “How many college students are there? 16 million!

  What is the population of the United States? 288 million people, excluding minors, there are also 200 million.

With a ratio of one to ten, Facebook is valued at 1 billion and Diaoyou.com is valued at 10 billion. "

   "Then Mr. Hennessy, you mean to let go of the registration restrictions and enter the same starting line as this dating network?"

  Xia Jingxing finally understood. John, an old man, has a big appetite, and he is a little jealous when he sees the development imagination of Diaoyou.com.

   "If you stick to the campus market, Facebook can only be a good website after all."

  Old man John’s talk changed again, “But if the registration restrictions are released, it may grow into a social empire with hundreds of millions of users.”

  Fearing that it is not enough to be fascinating, the old man John also emphasized the tone of the word "empire".

  The little dog was full of enthusiasm, and his eyes were full of war.

  Xia Jingxing's complexion was as usual, and he was not incited at all, but felt underestimated.

  Only hundreds of millions of users?

  Looking down on me or why?

  Use your imagination, give me to think hard, think hard...

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  (End of this chapter)