Chapter 759 Series C Financing (5)

"Mr. Yang and fellow shareholders, I am Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook."

Sheryl Sandberg?

Yang Cheng glanced at this woman in surprise. He has been famous for this famous Silicon Valley strong woman for a long time. With Donna Round who is now working under his command, both of them are women who have stood on the top of the pyramid. Considering Donna Round's popularity, the outside world's evaluation of Sheryl Sandberg is mixed.

She is a staunch feminist, but she is also a good wife and mother who can maintain a good family relationship. As the most successful feminist in the world, she often calls for equality between men and women. She believes that the reason why women do not have the courage to join the leadership is not Dare to let go of her steps to pursue her dreams, more out of inner fear and lack of self-confidence, so she often encourages all women, encourages women to be brave to accept challenges, and pursue their life goals with enthusiasm, and because of this, many women He regarded her as an idol, and even suggested that she go to participate in the presidential election.

Well, these have nothing to do with Yang Cheng, but Yang Cheng still quite recognizes her work ability, but a considerable number of management experts think that Cheryl is dispensable to Facebook, because she often makes mistakes. Some stubborn mistakes, such as her insistence on being tolerant of polar bears on the Internet, made many Americans very upset. God knows how Americans are hostile to polar bears under the brainwashing of careerists.

But no matter what, as Mark Zuckerberg's capable man, Cheryl's presence can still arouse everyone's interest, even more interesting than Berkshire Hathaway sending someone.

"Hello, Ms. Sandberg, New Era Media welcomes you. I don't know what you think, but it's okay?" Yang Cheng asked politely.

Cheryl bowed slightly, and said generously and calmly, "Facebook and Toutiao app have many possibilities for cooperation. I am here this time to represent Facebook's in-depth cooperation with Toutiao app, such as jointly building a popular search push mechanism. On the popular recommendation homepage of the Toutiao app, push Facebook’s popular posts, and add a hot news section on the Facebook homepage, and the source of the news is recommended by the Toutiao app.”

The senior officials of New Era Media began to analyze the possibility of cooperation between the two parties, especially the chief operating officer of Toutiao app, Sampaoli, was particularly interested in this proposal, and kept winking at Eddie.

Yang Cheng seemed to lack interest. Apart from being able to break through the user barriers between each other, there seemed to be no more benefits, and this can also be achieved by sharing accounts between the two parties, which is not so cumbersome at all.

Moreover, Facebook has reached its peak in the social field, and now it has to consider horizontal expansion. Yang Cheng doesn't want to lure wolves into the house. Even after returning from Switzerland, he and Mark have a good chat, but the personal relationship cannot be involved in business affairs.

Yang Cheng's worries are more than that. Facebook has its own constitution to recruit black people. Many things that happened in the past few years are related to Facebook, not to mention the Facebook user data leakage case that will cause a lot of trouble a few years later, then tm is a In Tiankeng, if Toutiao breaks through with Facebook, it will be implicated. Xiao Zha can barely pass with the help of Jews with an innocent face. What about Yang Cheng?

In the past few years, Facebook has slowly deteriorated. It has lost its original intention of socializing. It has continuously moved towards a black-hearted advertising company. It has often caused the collapse of journalism and the truth. It has made countless enemies in the media industry. Yang Cheng really needs to go. Is this muddy water?

This is not Yang Cheng's rumors. It is already recognized that Facebook is an advertising company through and through. With its massive user data under its single-handed control, it not only resells users' personal data as commodities to various political forces with malicious intentions , also through artificial intelligence and algorithms, more accurately help these political forces carry out their respective schemes, and they don't care who is behind the money.

Facebook's powerful information filtering and distributing capabilities are gradually replacing people's normal social activities, and also replacing people's right to choose what information to access. What they have in common is that Toutiao is still very weak, and it focuses on the news market, which affects users far less extensive than the social field.

This is no wonder for Yang Cheng. The current world is mainly affected by two long-term trends: first, life is becoming more and more dematerialized; second, AI is getting smarter.

These two trends overlap at the algorithmic level affecting digital content consumption, with opaque social media algorithms increasingly replacing humans themselves in determining what people write, who they keep in touch with, their views and opinions, and the feedback they get.

However, the contradiction with the above is that, to a certain extent, Facebook is the natural enemy of Toutiao app: because of the powerful intermediary role of social media, the relationship between the young generation and "news" has undergone a qualitative change, and it no longer maintains the same relationship with China. The similar news viewing and listening habits of the older generation have turned into a relationship with "news" by chance. When you encounter it, you know something, and if you don't encounter it, forget it. "News" is at most they are immersed in socializing in their spare time. Affiliate activities within the network.

Some experts call this phenomenon "unexpected news". For the younger generation who are deeply influenced by social media, fragmented information deprives them of the opportunity to have a comprehensive understanding of the world image. If things go on like this, they will not only Lack of a deep understanding of the present and history, and may no longer have interest in knowing.

And this kind of "unexpected news" is not an accident, but a deliberate manipulation. What's even more frightening is that it makes the stupid people even more stupid, and the paranoid people become more paranoid. The prosperity of books, the collapse of news, and the disintegration of truth happened almost simultaneously.

If Toutiao hadn't been born, I'm afraid young people would not even have the last channel willing to take the initiative to get close to the news. Therefore, it is said that to a certain extent, Facebook is already the natural enemy of Toutiao app, and there may not be bloodshed between the two in the future. Collision, in order to avoid being controlled by others in the war, Yang Cheng feels that it is very necessary to keep Facebook out of the door now.

According to Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook is planning to replace it with equity and Toutiao app. However, Yang Cheng is only interested in making money from Facebook's shares. After all, Facebook's stock price will soar in the next few years. Orange is unwilling to miss it, but he can also achieve it through the four-dimensional space, and there is no need for a strategic exchange.

Once the equity exchange is completed, it is impossible for Facebook not to ask for more, such as executive positions and board seats, because without real power, it is impossible to seek benefits for itself. It will cause dissatisfaction among other shareholders. At that time, everyone will ask to send someone into the management. Will Yang Cheng still manage the company? Should the group continue to develop?

These all need him to consider, some things are better to take precautions before they happen.

The more Yang Cheng thought about it, the more she felt that she couldn't have anything to do with Facebook. This was a scam, whoever touched it would die.

But other people seem to be a little bit excited, especially the executives. They stand from different perspectives and are not as comprehensive as Yang Cheng. On the surface, the cooperation with Facebook is completely one plus one greater than two, which is beneficial to both parties, but Actually? Was sold by Facebook and counted the money for others.

Yang Cheng looked at the executives with excited eyes, wishing to slap them one by one, and then kick them all out of the company, a group of short-sighted people who only value immediate interests.

Well, he was just angry for a while, and didn't make any excessive moves. After a little hesitation, he said politely, "We can talk about the cooperation with Facebook slowly. Now is the meeting to discuss financing."

As if she didn't understand, Cheryl hurriedly said, "Of course, our goal is to participate in the financing of New Era Media. Regardless of cooperation, investing in New Era Media is also a guaranteed profit."

This sentence once again aroused the goodwill of the executives, and even made some shareholders feel a sense of identity. This group of people is headed by the bastard David Ellison. This guy lives in California all the year round. Entrepreneurs and management elites know each other very well, so he has extra confidence in Sheryl Sandberg.

Jumping up to cheer for Cheryl, "I think we can consider introducing Facebook. There are many places where we can cooperate with Toutiao app, such as intelligent algorithms and so on. This is a win-win cooperation."

Yang Cheng really wanted to roll his eyes at him to death, because he was everywhere.

Looking at the other shareholders smiling and not saying a word, it seems that they have expressed their support by default. Yang Cheng felt dizzy for a while. I don't really want to be associated with Facebook.

Who knows that he hasn't figured out a way to refuse, and Cheryl said, "I heard that Mr. Yang and Mr. Zuckerberg have a good personal relationship. If this cooperation goes well, the cooperation between the two of you can become a big deal." A beautiful story that has been passed down through the ages.”

Yang Cheng cursed in his heart, "It's still passed down through the ages? I'm thankful that I didn't get nailed to the pillar of shame by Zuckerberg for thousands of years."

But there was a forced smile on his mouth, "I did have many pleasant exchanges with Mark. He is undoubtedly a legend. Facebook is the greatest invention of the Internet in the 21st century."

He boasted on his lips, but he thought completely differently in his heart. In his opinion, Xiao Zha is hypocritical and cruel enough, which is very similar to Yang Cheng, and the philistine face exposed by money is exactly the same , but Yang Cheng himself is such a person, so he knows the danger of such a person.

This is the same reason that smart people can never be friends with smart people. No smart person likes people who are smarter than themselves. Everyone likes to use IQ to crush others, but they don’t like to be crushed by IQ. This is human nature selfishness.

Just like now, on the surface he admires Xiao Zha very much, but secretly he doesn't want to cooperate with him.