Chapter 2041 Taboo

It should have worked, Feng Yiping put down the phone and pondered for a while. Whitman is not someone who is easily persuaded.

However, the advantage is that when a person is excellent, it is difficult to analyze and deal with some problems calmly and objectively after being trapped in a circle.

Just like those who go to the so-called masters on the street or in high-end office buildings to give them advice, most of them don’t actually want the master’s advice, but just a confirmation.

According to the information, Whitman regards the integration of Skype as the key to improving eBay’s performance, especially after she has done so much work to acquire Skype. Facing his words, which should be regarded as sincere and heartfelt from any angle, Feng Yiping feels that even the Queen of Silicon Valley should choose to believe.

More importantly, what he said is really as true as real gold. No matter when, the truth is always the most convincing.

The only thing Feng Yiping concealed was that, yes, he could make Skype profitable in the next two years, but the amount of profit would only indicate that the profit was positive, not negative.

The bigger problem is that even if the number of users increases to 500 million or 600 million in the future, the situation will not change much.

These days, Feng Yiping has also done a lot of thinking about why Skype was sold back and forth, while Penguin in China later flourished.

There are many reasons, such as Zennstrom may have made up his mind at the beginning to take action when he saw the good, rather than insisting on development, which should be a major reason.

But the most critical point should be the difference in the main business of the two products at the beginning.

We all know that QQ only supported users to chat online at the beginning, while Skype was online voice at the beginning.

Think about the shock or anger of domestic telecom operators when WeChat was launched, and you can understand why Skype has so many users but it is difficult to make money.

At present, the main source of income for telecom operators in various countries is voice calls. Now Skype suddenly pops up and says that voice calls are free. What is this for? This is not to cut off people's financial resources, but to cut off their lives. Who else can they deal with?

Even though Skype currently only supports free computer-to-computer voice calls, this has already annoyed telecom operators, because their biggest profit was originally international long-distance calls, and now more and more people choose to make them through Skype.

Even if the call quality may be a little worse, even if there are sometimes delays, please, it's free...

In other words, we can fully imagine that if Penguin was not engaged in online text chat at the beginning, but took online voice as its main direction from the beginning, then it would either be acquired by China Telecom, China Mobile, or China Unicom, then it would probably disappear, and our little brother Ma would probably only be an "ordinary family".

Only when it has grown to a certain extent, and when Internet-based voice calls abroad have made great progress, or when this has become a certain trend, it will launch WeChat. With the support of hundreds of millions of users, the three major companies can only choose to swallow their anger.

For most people, the biggest change brought by WeChat is not social interaction, but the original communication fee of hundreds of dollars, which is now only tens of dollars - and this is exactly what Skype did at the beginning, and in terms of timeliness, it is better than WeChat.

Further consideration, why did Zenstrom choose online voice service at the beginning, while Penguin chose online text communication at the beginning?

This may have a lot to do with the fact that Westerners are used to voice messages, while domestic users are more accustomed to text messages.

If Skype did not follow the habits of Westerners at the beginning and used text instead of voice, its development would definitely not be as rapid as it is now, but in time, it may become a foreign version of Penguin.

So, sometimes, for some things and some people, we can only say that it is time and fate...

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It is difficult for Skype to achieve large-scale profitability. This is the only part that Feng Yiping has reservations about Whitman in such a speech. Of course, this is also the most critical part. Whitman's team should have considered this issue, but it is estimated that they will consider it more optimistically.

Because with Skype's huge user base, as long as it can convert 5% of them into paying users, it will be able to make a lot of money.

At a time when everyone's annual growth target for their company may exceed double digits, 5% seems to be a very insignificant goal.

Moreover, the most fundamental purpose of their acquisition of Skype is to integrate it into eBay to serve their main e-commerce business. Such convenient communication will definitely improve user satisfaction, and Skype's many users naturally have a high probability of converting into eBay users, which is nearly 200 million!

Therefore, in the mall, the seemingly good opportunity may be the biggest trap, and some challenges that seem difficult to deal with may contain excellent opportunities.

And this is precisely the most attractive charm of the mall, which can attract countless heroes.

Feng Yiping's biggest advantage is that he knows best which ones are sugar-coated poison and which ones are real opportunities.

Seems a little unfair? However, since you have the advantage, haha, then it’s not fair.

He looked downstairs with a smile on his face. His son's mother was taking the opportunity to make a call on her mobile phone. She seemed to be walking this way unintentionally, but in fact, she was walking this way intentionally.

Is this also to congratulate me? So this time, can you try something new?

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In Songlan Mountain, before Fang Yingzhi closed the door, she took a careful look and saw that Zheng Jiayi was still sleeping soundly without even moving.

It seemed that she was really worried. Before Fang Yingzhi fell asleep last night, she had been listening to her tossing and turning in the bed next door.

When she went down to the hotel garden, she couldn't help closing her eyes and taking a deep breath. The garden at the foot of the mountain and next to the mountain was indeed not comparable to those parks in the city.

If the lungs could make sounds, they would be happily humming a tune by now.

She took out her mobile phone and walked a long way in the garden before finally standing still and dialing the number.

The line is not busy, but it has rang more than ten times, why is it still not answered? too busy?

Just when she was thinking about hanging up, "Hi Yingzhi," Feng Yiping's voice came over.

"Hello Yiping, is this a good thing? You are so excited?" Fang Yingzhi asked as soon as she heard his voice.

Can you hear this?

Feng Yiping looked at Ma Ling, who was covering his eyes and his chest was still heaving rapidly. He was excited, that was for sure.

"There is good news. The results should be available soon." He looked at his watch. "Aren't you traveling outside? Why did you get up so early? This is a rare opportunity. You can go back and catch up on some sleep."

In such a beautiful time, you sleep on yours and I work on mine, how beautiful is it?

Fang Yingzhi didn't hear his subtext. She only felt warm in her heart. She stretched her arms happily and said, "I rarely sleep so late.

"Yiping, aren't you busy now? There is such a thing that I want to talk to you about,"

"You're not busy, just tell me," Feng Yiping stood up helplessly, patted Ma Ling's hand gently, walked as smoothly as possible to the lounge inside, picked up a bath towel and wrapped it around himself.

Although Fang Yingzhi didn't know the situation here, it was always awkward to talk to her like this.

When he was about to come out, Ma Ling, wearing only a shirt and holding other clothes, walked in quietly. When she saw Feng Yiping's eyes rolling around, she blushed and glared at him fiercely. .

"Wait for me," Feng Yiping mouthed to her, "Well, what's wrong with Jiayi?"

"Jiayi's mother, Director Fang..." Fang Yingzhi relayed Zheng Jiayi's worries to Feng Yiping.

She knew that Zheng Jiayi was unwilling to have this conversation with Feng Yiping, but as Zheng Jiayi's friend, she felt that she could definitely help with this, and she could also call him legitimately.

"That's right," Feng Yiping sat down on the sofa and couldn't help but press his temples. This was a difficult problem.

Given his current status, doing such a favor is actually taboo.