Chapter 2605 Too Cruel

Lao Ma smiled and looked at the three entrepreneurs across from him who were all well-known in Silicon Valley. He heard that they were quite popular, and he couldn't help but shake his head.

You young people really don’t know what’s important.

Did you only see his gentle smile and forget who you were facing?

In front of him, no matter what the reason is, if you still dare not to unite, then you are asking for trouble.

Thinking about the resumes of the three people opposite him, he clearly felt for the first time that a team composed entirely of college dropouts was indeed unreliable.

But what makes it more difficult for Dorsey and others to accept is that sometimes, Feng Yiping doesn't stop at the click.

"I'm also very curious about whether you can determine Twitter's development strategy first, or whether you can end your internal fighting first,"

Hearing him click it directly, the three people on Twitter didn't know how to express their feelings.

Several entrepreneurs started fighting among themselves before the company's most critical strategy was finally clarified. This sounds like something that would really make everyone shake their heads.

If word gets out, their good reputation will cease to exist, and they will probably only become the target of ridicule even if they get the chance to appear on Forbes or the Oprah show.

Because before, everyone only paid attention to their internal fighting, but currently only Feng Yiping pointed out that their strategic goals were unclear.

Twitter’s infighting is really not news.

As we all know, they originally had four founders, and the other founder was the one who named Twitter. At Twitter, Noah Glass, who is as senior as Jack Dorsey, has been kicked out, and it is said that he did not get much compensate.

"Williams, I know that you do have successful entrepreneurial experience in the past, and you do have the ability to lead Twitter,"

Feng Yiping's words made both Williams and Dorsey look bad.

This time, Williams began to explain hurriedly, "No, Feng, you misunderstood, I didn't think that way,"

Feng Yiping was unmoved, "What I want to tell you is that even if Twitter is acquired, you will still have the opportunity to be the helmsman of Twitter. Therefore, there is no need for you to stop Dorsey's attempt to find new investors. "

Williams suddenly felt as if all the calculations in his heart were revealed in front of Feng Yiping.

Speaking of which, he can be considered successful. He is a well-known in the United States, or it can be said that he is the founder of the world-famous blogging website Blogger. The predecessor of Twitter, the podcasting company Odeo, is Noah Glass who works at Blogger. A company I tinker with in my spare time.

After Blogger was acquired by Google, Evan Williams, who became a billionaire, felt that Noah Glass's Odeo could be invested in. But since he invested, he was still a famous entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, and Odeo was not yet mature, so he felt , you should be the person in charge.

Affected by his fame, former Blogger employee Biz Stone followed, and Jack Dorsey also joined.

Originally, Odeo was developing well, but one morning in 2005, when Steve Jobs released the new iPod, he drove them to a dead end.

At the end of introducing the main parameters and functions of the new iPod, Jobs also mentioned by the way that this iPod has a small new function: podcasts.

From now on, anyone can create their own channel and publish audio.

The audience present was full of expectations: a new era had begun, and the four Odeo people immediately panicked.

Their company has no way of competing with Apple, which has the most fashionable designers, the smartest programmers, the most abundant funds... and Steve Jobs.

Therefore, it is wise to sell the partnership as soon as possible.

But Noah was unwilling to give in, and neither was Dorsey, who had no achievements at that time.

In the end, Dorsey felt that he had found a breakthrough because of his own experiences.

So I excitedly went to discuss it with Noah, and the essence of his idea was to create a completely independent information dissemination method, which was different from the reporter-media-audience dissemination method of traditional media.

This idea was supported by Noah... and thus, the prototype of Twitter was born.

Therefore, Feng Yiping’s question is undoubtedly correct. When Twitter was founded, what they wanted to do was mainly disseminate information.

In fact, some clues can be seen from their "limit of 140 characters" rule.

As for social networking, they only added new features after they saw that social networking became popular.

However, due to the instability of the team and the lack of funds, they want to balance the two, but the result is that neither aspect is ideal at the moment.

Although domestic Weibo almost copied Twitter in its entirety, they clearly positioned themselves on social media. This clear positioning was also the main reason why Weibo’s market value later overtook Twitter’s.

After Williams teamed up with Dorsey to drive away Noah and let Jack become the CEO of the new company, he is now dissatisfied with Dorsey and has only 1.4 million active users (even Feng Yiping doesn't know this. A number that I couldn’t even imagine), I haven’t made a penny, and I really don’t know how to make money.

Frankly speaking, as the most successful one among the four people, and he was once the boss of all three others, he felt that if he were the leader, even if he took ten thousand steps back, he would be no worse than Dorsey.

Unexpectedly, his plot was so easily seen through by Feng Yiping, and he even said it in front of Dorsey...

This is embarrassing!

Seeing Williams speechless, Dorsey's face was livid and he kept silent, Stone lowered his head and said nothing, Lao Ma couldn't help but sigh again, it's really not on the same order of magnitude.

Feng Yiping's few words put you on the edge of internal strife, so what kind of result do you plan to have?

He felt that he really opened his eyes today.

"Or," Feng Yiping threw another question, "Can anyone tell me whether Twitter can solve the problem of downtime, and can you give a rough deadline?"

Downtime is the most annoying thing for Twitter users.

Often you are writing a tweet, halfway through, Duang, the fucking website crashed.

How often does this happen?

It's common to crash several times a day.

The highest month, the cumulative downtime was 37 hours!

The main reason why Feng Yiping is interested in Twitter is that he thinks that under such circumstances, their users can still grow, so their products are still desirable.

This time, Williams immediately gave a clear answer, "We will be able to solve this problem soon."

Everyone can hear that he said "we", but what he actually meant was "me".

Old Ma immediately wanted to find popcorn, it was exciting. Hey, he glanced at Dorsey, will you guys fight face to face next?

Since Williams had clearly stated his intention, Dorsey couldn't help but fight back, "Feng, we will launch a new feature that will attract more users next..."

Williams said almost at the same time, "We will let the technicians focus all their energy on the stability of the system..."

Then, they looked at each other and stopped talking at the same time, and the air suddenly became quiet.

Old Ma was a little disappointed. Tsk, such a wonderful scene, I can't even enjoy it with popcorn, what a pity.

Because, the speeches of these two people can be said to be completely opposite.

Dorsey meant that we will add new features, and Williams's meaning was very clear. The key now is not the new features. The website is unstable, and any features are bullshit.

Feng Yiping smiled again, "Dorsey, let me guess, the new feature that you said can attract more users, is it the presidential campaign page?"

Dorsey's reaction undoubtedly showed that Feng Yiping guessed correctly.

"Do you think this new page may attract more users than the related pages on Facebook, NEXTDOOR, and YouTube?"

He didn't know much about Twitter before, but after Twitter was founded, it immediately asked Facebook to strengthen its news work, and Facebook is currently doing quite well in this regard.

NEXTDOOR and YouTube are also doing well.

Although they are inferior to Twitter individually, they are better than Twitter when added together.

It's just that they have not been effectively integrated at present, and they are more particular about related news.

How should I put it? The amount of information spread by Twitter is large, but many of them are quite unreliable.

As long as we think about the news about "a certain Weibo revelation" that often circulated on the Internet later, we can understand what kind of character it is.

"I have another question for you. Whether it's launching new features or stabilizing the system, does Twitter have the funds to support these efforts?"

"And given the current situation, how confident are you that you can find the funds?"

The other party was silent again.

"Finally," Feng Yiping began to close his computer, "Since you started with a quote, I'll end with one too," he held up two fingers, "$200 million,"

Old Ma immediately stood in awe of Feng Yiping, an idol!