Chapter 1291 It’s Hot Here

"Feng, when we talk to Google, if I demand too much from Google, do you have any objection?" Cummins asked Feng Yiping in the parking lot.

"Of course, it must be demanding," Feng Yiping said with a big laugh, "You only need to be responsible for NEXTDOOR,"

He had no doubt that Cummins would lose his sense of propriety, and he said this just to flatter himself.

Look, Feng, you are still a major shareholder of Google.

This time, when he went to Google to discuss several cooperations, it was naturally not just Cummins who was alone. He also brought a team of 6 people, from Netflix, Facebook, and YouTube, which was also about to go online. The strategy had actually been determined long ago.

Before this small convoy started, a group of excited men and women walked out of the building quickly, talking loudly as they walked, and each of them exuded a momentum to make achievements and conquer the world.

When she saw Feng Yiping's car, a girl walking in front of him had her eyes brightened and ran to the car. "Mr. Feng, can you give us a few words?"

"Feng, you should say a few words. It's okay. Let's go first," Cummins said as he rolled down the window.

The key is that he had to say a few words. These guys who were about to leave for other countries surrounded the car.

Feng Yiping was not very willing to do such things as farewell or practice because they were somewhat sentimental. But now that the employees were so strongly demanding, he had no choice. Fortunately, he had arranged to go to Google for the rest of the morning, so he had relatively loose time.

"Why not call those who are about to go to the domestic promotion to the conference room, and I will give you a few words,"

Who told me that I have never been arrogant in the company, and everyone likes to listen to my speech?

Five minutes later, Feng Yiping returned to the conference room. There were much more people in the conference room than in the meeting he had just finished. Those guys were standing one by one. When they saw him, the big boss who was younger than all of them, walk in, they immediately applauded.

"Everyone is an elite selected from various companies. I don't think I need to tell you how to complete the assigned tasks. Everyone has their own ideas. I just want to tell you the significance of our work,"

"This is not your first job. I believe you all know about the cold snap a few years ago, which makes many people in Silicon Valley dread it now,"

"Actually, for me, such a cold snap is not scary," he waved his hand gently.

"Because at that time, the entire Internet field, including Microsoft, was generally having a hard time,"

"And the companies that froze to death in such a cold wave were those that had problems and loopholes and ultimately could not stop the cold wave. I can say that even if there was no such cold wave, those companies would still go bankrupt in the end, but not so quickly,"

"For companies like us that do not rely on hype concepts, what we fear most is not such an extraordinary period, but precisely the prosperous times like now,"

"When the industry is generally good and the company is developing well, it is easy for us to become dazed and become lax,"

"Everyone knows that in the Internet field, there are indeed companies that rise rapidly because of a concept or a model, and there will be more and more such things,"

"With the progress of the times and the development of technology, social networking, this field that will always occupy a considerable amount of our lives, will definitely undergo great changes in form and content,"

"Don't We seem to be quite successful at present, but no one knows whether a small company among the many companies established today will not easily replace us in the future. "

"So, in order to make the company invincible in the foreseeable future, the first thing we have to do is to ensure that we are on the right path. Judging from the performance of NEXTDOOR, the path that Facebook will take is undoubtedly correct."

"Then the most important task next is just two words, users! The number of users determines how successful we will be and how long we will be able to maintain our leading edge."

"We all hope that our work can make the world a better place. I hope everyone can understand that the launch of our website is a major event that will change the social field and then change the world. I think such a thing is worth all our efforts."

When speaking in the United States, you should focus on individuals and the world, so that they can resonate more.

Sure enough, although Feng Yiping's words were a bit exaggerated, the guy present was a little excited. Feng Yiping had no doubt that some of them now even had the courage to develop users in turbulent Africa.

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Because of this delay, Feng Yiping arrived at Google more than ten minutes later. What was rare was that he actually saw Page and Brin sitting on a bench next to the lawn in front of the building.

"Hi, you two," Feng Yiping walked up to them. They hadn't noticed yet and were still busy on the computer. "What are you doing?"

"Ha Feng, you're here. You're right. Your website is really cool," Page said.

"You know, I've seen more than one engineer from Microsoft's Seattle headquarters on it," Brin said excitedly, "I had a good chat with several of them,"

"Hey, man, it's not good to mess with Microsoft at this time,"

He remembered that a fierce conflict broke out between Google and Microsoft because of their aggressive poaching of Microsoft.

But it is not wise to do such a thing during this sensitive time of sprinting to market.

Alas, it is difficult to say that Microsoft is the boss. The rising stars, one by one, all unanimously regard it as their own talent pool. This is the case with Google, and the same is true with Facebook later.

"Of course I understand, that's not what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is, this is the best viral marketing,"

Of course, the viral marketing he is talking about is not the method used by rogue software. The virus refers to the way this marketing method spreads faster than you expect.

Viral marketing has several forms, and this kind of natural communication characteristic based on user word-of-mouth is the best one.

Brin said, "I think it was probably an employee of your Coin Star who recommended it to his friends at Microsoft at first. Later, the person at Microsoft thought it was very good and immediately recommended it to his colleagues. What is this? What is this? Isn’t it the best kind of viral marketing?”

"There are already Amazon users," Page interjected. "If our search for this product could be as lucky as yours, it would really save us a lot of money."

Much of the current growth in Facebook users is apparently spontaneous among users, which means that these users cost the company almost nothing.

"It has natural communication characteristics," Brin said with a hint of envy. "For this reason, I believe that after a period of time, your website will experience explosive growth."

"I hope so," Feng Yiping said. "What I care about is how many people in the company have registered as users of the website."

"By the time I get off work today, I estimate that the vast majority of people will become Facebook users," Page said. "I think the rapid growth in users of your website has something to do with your NEXTDOOR, which has cultivated I have received many users who like this new website,”

Naturally, "I'm going to promote Apple this afternoon. You two, please introduce me to your friends more this time."

"That's natural, but if I'm right, there are some friends you don't want us to introduce right now," Page said.

"who?"

"Those friends on Dune Road,"

"This, you really need to take it slow,"

He understood what Page meant by what he said. He was now in contact with the guys on Sand Dune Road. He knew very well what those guys would do after knowing about this. They would definitely call him immediately hoping to invest.

Although they would know sooner or later, Feng Yiping still hoped that the time would be as late as possible, so that he could at least answer fewer calls.

"I feel more energetic. Let's go to the restaurant." Brin closed the computer.

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Although Google is still short of money in general, and the standard of the restaurant is naturally far inferior to what it was later, every time Feng Yiping comes, he feels that this place will get better, of course, mainly in terms of ingredients and taste.

These two guys are not only geniuses in programming, but also geniuses in how to let employees spend more time in the office and at work.

If possible, Feng Yiping felt that the two of them hoped that employees would consider the company their home - it seemed that there were indeed single employees at Google who stayed at the company for several days in a row without going home.

But this is not enough for some people.

"When we have sufficient funds in the future and we build new office buildings, I hope to build a few offices that can be locked from the inside and where you can work alone for at least a day or two without being disturbed," Page said.

"Forgive me for being a business student and not understanding engineers' enthusiasm for work?"

"I don't understand? How is that possible? Have you never worked for dozens of hours without taking a break because of a great idea or project?"

"Well, it does. However, my usual work and rest are still very regular. You two, you still have to pay attention to your work and rest time. Don't wait until we finally successfully listed at the ideal issue price and you two fall down,"

"No, when we first started in the garage we were working longer hours than we are now,"

But you will be younger then, Feng Yiping wanted to say.

"Feng, as you know, everything is going well at the moment regarding the listing," Brin said.

Feng Yiping often received reports from Schmidt on the progress of the listing work, so he was naturally very aware of this matter.

The reason why it went so smoothly had a lot to do with the hard work of these two people on the yacht in Lake Tahoe.

"Yes, I'm very happy to see that everything is going well so far,"

"I'm very looking forward to it now, very excited about having so much money. Did you...?"

Feng Yiping immediately understood what the child wanted to ask.

"This is normal. It's not wrong to have money. With money, we can make the people around us live a better life and be able to do more meaningful things. How great is that?"

Feng Yiping saw that Page had also relaxed a little. It was not like he had never thought about such a problem.

"After our IPO is successful and the company has sufficient funds, what do you most want to do?" he asked.

"We need to hire more capable engineers," Page said.

"Buy a building in Seattle, then," Breen said.

"Poach people from Microsoft," the two said almost simultaneously.

Feng Yiping also guessed that this was the case. At this moment, he really sympathized with Microsoft.

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At the entrance of Apple Park in Cupertino, Feng Yiping looked at the building with a complicated expression and said to Owen, "Let's go."

This product, which will not have any adverse impact on Apple, is also promoted smoothly in Apple. Even Jobs gave face and became a registered user of Facebook.

What Feng Yiping felt uncomfortable about was that Jobs, who looked thinner than before, still rejected Feng Yiping's proposal for surgical treatment.

Feng Yiping always felt a little regretful.

But since Laurene couldn't convince Jobs, what could he do?

The phone rang, and Mike said happily, "Feng, I have good news to tell you. Including Hawaii, all states in the United States currently have our registered users."

This speed of spread is really amazing!

I didn't expect it to be so smooth unexpectedly. Feng Yiping couldn't help but patted the seat hard, "Good!"

Page was right. It should be that NEXTDOOR has cultivated too many mature customers to make such a good start.

From this point of view, it seems to be a matter of course that there will be such a result on the first day.

"Tell everyone to keep up the good work! I hope we can hold a celebration party for the 3 million registered users as soon as possible,"

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