Chapter 1962 No Reservations

Regarding virtual currency, some useful attempts have been made on NEXTDOOR, with great results.

In the virtual mall, the sales of some props used to like friends and use in mini-games sometimes made Feng Yiping sigh that the money really came too easily.

Although the average selling price of those virtual goods is not high, based on the number of users over 100 million and the number of active users getting closer and closer to 100 million, even if each of them consumes just like a drop of water, in the end, it can be combined into A sea.

Facebook, no matter what, naturally cannot let this go.

However, on NEXTDOOR, they refer to virtual malls, while Sandberg refers to virtual currency.

I think the focus is definitely different.

"Inspired by NEXTDOOR, we feel that we can choose to open some of our interfaces to third-party developers, such as game developers, at the appropriate time."

"NEXTDOOR's attempt allows us to see the potential of virtual product sales brought by games,"

To be honest, for an academic economist like Sandberg, she would have never expected that a game like the game on NEXTDOOR, which is a no-brainer and is purely a time-killing game, could actually will be so popular.

Not only is it so popular, it can also bring about such a large number of prop sales.

“However, NEXTDOOR’s current model has shortcomings, mainly because there are too few game varieties. If we can add a few more popular games, we believe that our related sales will be very large, beyond our imagination. ,"

"So, we think we can open our interface to other third parties. We believe that our huge user base will attract many powerful game developers to enter this field,"

"They can also sell related virtual goods, but they must pay with our virtual currency, and we will collect a certain share of their total revenue,"

"The proportion we have initially determined is based on the 30% of Apple iTunes,"

"Well, I think it's good," Feng Yiping said immediately.

In short, when it comes to charging, it shouldn't be wrong to follow Apple. Apple's high profits have always been what he is pursuing.

"Okay, let's set it at 30%," Sandberg immediately jotted it down.

"Also, regarding game development, I think I have some small ideas," Feng Yiping said.

"Really?" Sandberg was delighted.

What is higher than 30% revenue is naturally 100% revenue. If in the future, the most popular games on Facebook are developed by the company itself, then it will really make people happy to think about it.

She knew that the main idea for the most popular Xiaoxiaole on NEXTDOOR came from Feng Yiping. "I think the engineers will definitely be looking forward to your little idea."

"From my non-professional point of view, I think this idea may be a good one," Feng Yiping lowered his head and said.

The reason why he lowered his head was because he felt a little guilty.

Out of a sense of aloofness and worry that is not understood by many people, he has never been involved in the gaming field in China, but abroad, there is no need to have such worries at all.

Although he has not played all the popular games in the past, he must have at least heard of them. For example, for a while, it could be said that the "stealing food" trend swept the whole people, and even he followed the trend. He believes that this can attract all kinds of people in the country. Games for users of all ages and classes will definitely be popular abroad.

"It looks like we need to have our next meeting as soon as possible," Sandberg said.

"Get Zuckerberg to come back and attend this meeting," Mike added.

"I'm available anytime," Feng Yiping said.

They were acting in such a hurry that they couldn't let go. Besides, they had played Happy Farm themselves.

“Feng, it’s not that we are too urgent, but we are in urgent need of such a product right now. Despite NEXTDOOR’s successful experience, our proposed virtual currency still needs extensive testing. We need to collect users’ feedback on our virtual currency. Currency usage experience, we need to estimate the demand for our virtual currency...,"

"At the same time, I also believe that a successful, popular game on Facebook that will bring huge profits will definitely be a very intuitive and effective incentive for powerful game developers to enter this field,"

"What I like most is that because we develop the game ourselves, 100% of the revenue from it belongs to us," Mike said with a smile.

Well, this is also what Feng Yiping thinks.

Of course, if possible, Sandberg also hopes that the top few popular games on the website in the future will all be produced by the company itself.

"... After gaining relevant experience, we believe that our virtual currency has the following development direction. First, we can allow third-party websites to use our virtual currency for transactions,"

Sandberg’s words are grand!

The so-called "permission" should actually be said to be "agree".

But Feng Yiping liked this.

Think about it, if there are a lot of websites that use the virtual currency developed by Facebook for transactions, wouldn't it be equivalent to having a mint factory, or a virtual Federal Reserve?

That scene really makes me laugh out loud just thinking about it in my dream.

"In another direction, we believe that in the future, we can add applications with e-commerce functions to our website, allowing anyone to create and operate retail stores on the website,"

"The specific operations of these retail stores are the same as other e-commerce websites, including the ones we currently operate in China..."

“This is social commerce,” Feng Yiping blurted out.

"It really can be defined that way," Sandberg said.

Feng Yiping felt that he had found the right person.

Because he has never used Facebook, he does not know many of Facebook's functions. The biggest benefit of knowing these functions is that it can be used as a means of making money for the website.

If Feng Yiping himself could imagine the strategy about advertising that Sandberg stated, and it did not surprise him, then many of the strategies about virtual currency that she is describing now are already beyond his reach. taken into account.

In essence, he is not an all-rounder or a genius. This time, through his own hard work and improvement, and through systematic study at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management and Stanford Business School, he has become a high-quality talent in the traditional sense. Combined with his accurate grasp of the future, this has led to his current success in the mall.

However, his shortcomings are also obvious. For example, when operating e-commerce in China, he knows which direction to develop and what the focus is because he grew up with Taobao.

But for websites like Facebook, which he had never been exposed to at all, because it had little connection with him before, he had never studied the website even in his spare time. There were many places that he might not have thought of.

This is why he must recruit Zuckerberg and Sandberg.

"What's next? What's next?" Feng Yiping urged.

His urging was naturally the greatest affirmation of Sandberg, "What we plan to do next is to integrate the company's resources, including Netflix and YouTube,"

"On our website, we deeply integrate movies, TV series and other media content, including music,"

When speaking of this, Sandberg glanced at Feng Yiping again.

Feng Yiping knew her concerns. Not only was Apple now the leader in music sales, but he had a special relationship with Apple, especially with Steve Jobs. Speaking of which, he still contributed a lot to Apple's music business.

"It's okay," he waved.

Apple, that's different from Google.

Besides, Apple's music sales actually mainly rely on their iPod.

Sandberg continued, "This can effectively increase the time users spend using our website, and can also effectively convert traffic into advertising and related revenue..."

This is another sense in which the wealth does not flow to outsiders. Hey, Feng Yiping likes it very much.

"So, it seems that our virtual currency can first cooperate with Netflix," Feng Yiping said with a smile.

The monthly subscription plan launched by Netflix now allows users to purchase Facebook’s virtual currency first and then use the virtual currency to spend.

Sandberg's eyes lit up. "Yes, that is indeed a good idea,"

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While Wu Qian was working, she did not forget to pay attention to the ongoing meeting in the conference room, because this meeting, which did not seem to be over yet, had already added a lot of extra workload to her.

This meeting was planned to last only one and a half hours, but it was now close to 12 noon and had already lasted for more than three hours. This forced her to rearrange Feng Yiping's next schedule, and also to deal with those who were waiting and Feng Yiping. Those who met, including representatives from the banking group, did the explaining work.

Finally, when more and more colleagues went to the restaurant to eat, Feng Yiping smiled and walked out of the conference room with Sandberg and the others.

It’s over!

Wu Qian hurriedly greeted him, "Yiping, this is the adjusted schedule."

Feng Yiping waved his hand again, "Adjust it again,"

He looked at his watch and said, "I'm going to Google now. I'll talk about other things when I get back."

He took out his mobile phone and dialed Page's number, "Have you had lunch? That's just right. Just wait, I'll be right over."

"Hey, let the restaurant leave a portion of the boiled fish for us,"

"What's wrong?" Feng Yiping, who was walking out while making a phone call, looked back at Wu Qian, "Aren't you coming?"

"Oh, okay," Wu Qian was lamenting that her previous work was all in vain. She suddenly became happy again and could see two celebrities again.

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Mountain View, Google.

"Hey!" Page and Brin hugged Feng Yiping heavily, "You're finally here."

"I've wanted to come here for a long time. What do you think? Leave the food for me," Feng Yiping followed them towards the restaurant with a smile.

Before sitting down to start, he took a document from Wu Qian and threw it to them both nonchalantly, "This is Facebook's business strategy. Please take a look at it."

Wu Qian, who was helping Feng Yiping bring a glass of juice, saw a beautiful woman and glanced at her several times. She also glanced over there a few times, "What are you looking at?"