Chapter 2835 Talent Market

In the morning, an important guest came to visit, Sheryl Sandberg, the second in command of Facebook.

The purpose of the visit was nothing more than Facebook's development in China.

Unlike Google, Facebook has been working hard to develop in China. In the past few years, Zuckerberg has come to China several times and has given lectures in Chinese at universities, which has caused a great sensation.

However, the license has not been obtained.

Later, Zuckerberg changed his mind and did not plan to come to China in the name of Facebook. He would directly acquire a domestic website and operate it with a domestic team, but it still failed to get approval.

Although it was rejected one after another, Facebook obviously did not give up.

This time, it was not Mark Zuckerberg who came to China, but Sheryl Sandberg, who is known as the first lady of Facebook.

She has a good relationship with Zhou Buqi.

Privately, she invited Zhou Buqi and Zhen Yu to her home twice. Her lover is a househusband who is responsible for the daily life of the family and the care of the children. However, her lover is also a top student. While taking care of the family, he is also a senior investment consultant. It's just that her career was too successful, so she returned to her family to support her wife.

The first thing Sheryl Sandberg did during her visit to China was to visit Ziweixing.

Zhou Buqi couldn't neglect it either, and since she was also a well-known figure in the Internet industry, she called up the young and promising reserve executives in Ziweixing, including Fu Hongliang, vice president of the WeChat business group, Song Yansong, vice president of the media business group, Qin He, president of Xiaonei, and Zhang Zetian, to welcome and entertain the distinguished guests.

The first stop was not the headquarters of Ziweixing.

The business she was most interested in was Xiaonei.

So she went to Tsinghua Science Park first and visited the operation headquarters of Xiaonei. There were dozens of part-time college students here, and their young faces were really refreshing. The Internet industry likes young people the most, which touched Sheryl Sandberg and she said with emotion: "China has the best Internet talent market in the world, which is incredible."

Then she went to visit Beijing Science Park.

The scale here is much smaller, with a total of more than 20 part-time teams, mainly responsible for the operation and maintenance of the Xiaonei forum.

Xiaonei.com is definitely a magical website.

In fact, Facebook is also a "Xiaonei.com" that was created on a university campus. Facebook means "a book of Facebook profiles", which is actually the "yellow" side of pornography, gambling, and drugs.

When Zuckerberg was in college, some of his friends were discussing which girl was pretty and who they wanted to date.

He suddenly had an idea and created this website.

He hacked into the school's internal website, downloaded photos of female classmates, and then included them in a "book" like Facebook, so that students from all over the school could comment on all the pretty girls in the school intuitively and conveniently, and date whoever they wanted.

However, after so many years, Facebook has long forgotten its original intention and no longer has a dedicated campus business.

Seeing that there are still so many part-time college students on Xiaonei.com, and that it has been sticking to the campus market for college students for so many years, Sheryl Sandberg is somewhat touched, and her admiration for Zhou Buqi is also from the bottom of her heart.

In comparison, Zuckerberg is much worse than him. He has lost his feelings and has become a businessman controlled by stock prices.

After a long walk, everyone went to the headquarters cafeteria for lunch. The reception in Ziweixing's headquarters cafeteria was not shabby at all. There was no need to order dishes. Just like other employees, they took a plate and chose whatever they liked like eating at a buffet.

Occasionally, a few employees recognized her and greeted her enthusiastically.

It was a pity that Shirley could not speak Chinese.

In order to avoid being watched and disturbed by too many employees, Zhou Buqi chose a private room to eat, which made Shirley Sandberg feel a little regretful. She really wanted to eat with these energetic Chinese engineers to feel their humanity and spirit.

It was inconvenient for Zhou Buqi.

Zhang Zetian was by her side.

This is "Milk Tea Sister", a big internet celebrity.

If she was found to be with the big boss, it would inevitably lead to some unnecessary fantasies, as well as the heartbreak of a famous flower being taken and a goddess being occupied. For the sake of the majority of employees, it is better to keep a certain distance from them.

This is a private room.

It is more convenient to talk.

Soon, we got to the point.

Just as Zhou Buqi expected, Facebook did not give up, and they still had the fantasy of developing in China. Before, Mark Zuckerberg came, and this time, Sheryl Sandberg came. It can be said that they both showed enough sincerity.

However, Zhou Buqi knew that this was impossible.

The country paid such a huge price and caused such a bad international impact, and finally cleared Google out of the market... Sending Google away, and then welcoming Facebook? Isn't this asking for trouble and causing trouble for yourself?

Once these foreigners enter the market, it will be difficult to manage and punish them, which is a headache.

It is best not to let them enter the market.

So Zhou Buqi was not polite at all and poured cold water directly, "I suggest you look at other markets, South Korea, Japan, Australia, the Middle East, or India."

Shirley Sandberg was a little unhappy, "Zhou, Ziweixing has developed very smoothly in the United States without any obstacles. However, Facebook wants to develop in China, but it can't even pass the entry threshold. Do you think this is fair?"

"Unfair." Zhou Buqi was powerless and shrugged, "You know, this is not my decision."

Shirley Sandberg sighed, "I know, but this is too unfair after all."

Zhou Buqi said: "For me, it's actually the same. Whether it's Google or Facebook, they can't be Ziweixing's opponent in this market. When Google was still there, Ziweixing launched Weidian Search. Almost as soon as it entered the market, its market share was four or five times that of Google Search. This is the case with Google, and the same is true for Facebook. For Ziweixing, Facebook's coming to China will not pose any threat to us."

Shirley nodded, "I know it's not fair to complain about Ziweixing. However, the significance of Facebook's development in China is not only market-level competition, but also talent-level competition. We need to come to China. We can provide thousands of jobs for outstanding Chinese engineers and indirectly drive tens of thousands of employment opportunities upstream and downstream."

This is indeed the most important link.

Talent distribution can determine the direction of the industry.

In terms of technology, domestic technical engineers are indeed far behind those in Silicon Valley. However, China also has advantages that Silicon Valley cannot match. In terms of efficiency, execution, flexibility, and sensitivity, it can be said that it crushes Silicon Valley!

Such advantages are too important.

In the Internet industry, speed is even more important than technology!

Internet technology is a big copy of the world, with various open source frameworks. The technical gap is not obvious. Ordinary people can't tell the technical gap between Google and Ziweixing at all. Many people even think that Ziweixing has launched an artificial intelligence chess software like Rokid-go, and its technology should be better than Google, right?

However, in terms of team sensitivity, execution, speed and efficiency, Google really can't catch up with Ziweixing.

And a major feature of the Internet industry is speed!

Changes are too fast!

Many times, the market trend changes overnight, and the design, framework, structure, and operation of the product must change immediately. For China, this is nothing. China reports daily or even semi-daily, and work is done on a daily or half-day basis, with extremely fast response speed. Internet companies in Silicon Valley are not so good. The most efficient ones are all on a weekly basis, which is too slow.

Now is the early stage of mobile Internet, and it is not very obvious.

From the big trend point of view, Silicon Valley is still leading the industry.

But for some industry elites, they are very keenly aware of the huge differences in talent and organizational structure between the Chinese and American Internet industries, which makes many Silicon Valley elites feel the huge potential risks.

For example, why can't algorithm giants like Google and Facebook make TikTok later?

It can be said that the technology is not good.

But when it comes to technology, they have the best technical strength in the world.

The real gap is the constantly changing technology.

Not the height, but the speed.

TikTok's algorithm has never been static. The world is changing too fast, there are too many users of the product, and the trend of the trend is constantly changing. This requires the recommendation algorithm to be constantly updated and optimized, and to keep up to date with the user's preferences at any time.

One or two hot events appear every day.

In the face of different hot events, there must be different recommendation mechanisms, and even special designs must be made for international superstars such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Taylor Swift, and Curry...

Silicon Valley giants are really powerless to do this.

Only domestic technical teams can do it.

It's not that the technical level is high, but that the technology changes quickly.

Obviously, Facebook discovered this trend early on. Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg came to China one after another, not only because of the vast domestic Internet market, but also because of the domestic talent advantage.

Zhou Buqi shook his head secretly.

He totally disagreed.

Even if Facebook came to China and recruited thousands of domestic employees, it would have the same speed and efficiency as domestic Internet companies?

This is impossible!

Microsoft is doing well in China, but Microsoft China is a nursing home. The poor efficiency and waste of costs make domestic peers feel distressed.

Without a bit of ruthless exploitation spirit and PUA-like struggle theory brainwashing, it is impossible to mobilize all the enthusiasm of employees. In this regard, whether it is Microsoft, Google, Apple, or Facebook, it is impossible to be as competitive as domestic companies.

Zhou Buqi completely disagrees with Facebook's idea of ​​coming to China.

They will not be approved.

Even if they really come, they will not be able to do well.