Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 764

Fang Zhuo flew to Houston after investigating Facebook and Twitter with Wang Yan and others.

Compared with Facebook, Twitter, which was just established in Silicon Valley this year, is a bit less decent.

When Fang Zhuo and his team arrived at the Twitter office, the three founders, Stone, Dorsey, and Williams, were all waiting.

But before there was any communication between the two parties, another man who also claimed to be the founder rushed into the office angrily and yelled loudly. An extremely silky squirt from the mouth of Glass's man.

The scene was once bad and embarrassing.

However, the office rented by Twitter is relatively cheap, and the security guard's response was quite slow, and they didn't show up for half a day.

Seeing that the people here couldn't handle it by themselves, Fang Zhuo had no choice but to ask his security assistants to invite Glass out after obtaining the consent of Twitter founder Dorsey.

When everyone sat down again, the three founders looked somewhat embarrassed.

Fang Zhuo observed the three people and felt that Dorsey was the most natural, followed by Williams, and Stone was the most restless.

Maybe it was a different role in a campaign to oust another founder, or maybe there was always someone with a thick skin in such an embarrassing situation, anyway, this is the initial impression of the three founders of Twitter. down.

In addition to the suspected problems of the team, the professional ability shown by Twitter also made the group of people who came to investigate look at each other in dismay.

When you come to Twitter, you naturally want to experience the product.

However, when Fang Zhuo, Wang Yan and others used their mobile phones to send text messages to the number designated by Twitter, they followed each other and did not receive a receipt from Twitter.

A group of people waited for ten minutes but there was no news.

In the end, after checking, Dorsey said slightly embarrassingly: "There are some problems with the server, and sometimes there will be some delays, but I believe that it will be received by night at the latest."

Fang Zhuo could only give a polite smile.

There is a problem with the team, there is a problem with the server, they are all here, so we can only talk about the business logic and the reason for starting a business.

During Dorsey's statement, Fang Zhuo found that the other founder, Stone, always looked at him with inexplicable eyes from time to time. He waited for a while, found a time for Dorsey to drink water, and asked why.

Stone then said: "Mr. Fang, the bird in our logo has a name. Guess what it's called?"

Twitter's logo is a bird.

But to guess the name from the bird...it's a bit of a challenge.

Fang Zhuo felt baffled, thinking deeply, and saw Stone's eyes were quite eager, and Dorsey and Williams beside him also watched this scene with smiles.

Such questions and such emotions must have roots.

He took a sip of water, turned his thoughts back and forth, and said slowly, "Could it be Larry?"

Stone smiled and gave a thumbs up: "Yes, I especially admire Larry Bird."

Larry Bird is a legendary star of the NBA giants Celtics, Bird's English bird also means "bird".

Fang Zhuo didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "This...well, you are from Massachusetts?"

The Celtics were in Boston, which was the capital of Massachusetts.

In general, locals are extremely supportive of local teams, especially since the Celtics have won many championships in history.

Stone nodded and announced: "Mr. Fang, if you are willing to invest in us, Twitter can add another rocket to the Logo."

Fang Zhuo: "..."

He pondered over and over again, this matter is unnecessary, just one bird is already fine.

And, whether to invest in Twitter is two things.

Twitter seems really disorganized these days.

Originally, there was a quarrel among the founders. It would take a sum of money to scatter it, and there might be something wrong with it. Maybe a company would be disbanded directly.

"I like the idea of ​​Twitter very much. Its social pressure is very low, unlike Facebook's atmosphere among acquaintance networks, and its content creation threshold is also very low, which is conducive to the activeness of users, not like Facebook. Blogs must find ways to activate the author's desire to create."

Fang Zhuo said this, but his eyes swept over the senior management of Sina.

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"Social networking is a very worthwhile project in the current era. Fb is developing rapidly, but Twitter can just form a differentiated competition with it. This is an extremely rare opportunity."

"But we must provide users with a better experience and create an ecological atmosphere."

"In addition to the advantages of social pressure and creative threshold, Twitter is not so much based on mobile phone text messages, but rather based on mobile devices such as mobile phones."

"Every user faces new events or emergencies. Mobile phones are more convenient than computers and laptops. It is also very important to make good use of this."

"If you guys can verify what's going on with Twitter, I think I'd be happy to invest in it."

"It will take half a year to a year. If you have any financial needs at that time, you can contact me."

In the end, Fang Zhuo gave a statement similar to Fb, but the degree of desire on both sides was obviously different.

He felt that if he asked for the acquisition, the three people in front of him would all want it.

However, creativity alone is not enough. It depends on what the team can do with the creativity. From a conventional point of view, even if the decision-making team has two college dropouts and one high school graduate, they will not be able to Prone to problems in business management.

Fang Zhuo's words were approved by the three people, whether it was a compliment or not.

Because of the relationship with a bird, Stone mixed his love for basketball, and the atmosphere of the conversation was much more relaxed.

Wang Yan and others have experience in running blogs in China, and also exchanged some experiences on ecology.

Finally, a new problem was found.

Twitter now does not back up user information at all...

At the end of the inspection, Dorsey, Stone, Williams and the Eastern guests bid farewell, wishing to pull President Fang down and chat for a few more hours, the rich boss of the Rockets, why can't you be proud?
"It doesn't look very mature." Wang Yan in the car said more tactfully, Twitter was chosen by Mr. Fang.

"Pretty immature." Fang Zhuo was not polite, "But this mode is still interesting."

Wang Yan agrees with this point, but for the time being, he is still a little confused. If Sina does such a project in China, how to do it well. Mr. Fang’s point of viewing mobile devices through text messages is very good, but this is not the case between the two countries. There are also differences between countries.

The most critical thing is not how a project is, but the important changes that the mobile era can bring.

Wang Yansi thought about this and felt that he was facing a very important exam question.

He suppressed all the thoughts in his mind temporarily, and asked Mr. Fang a question with a smile: "This Twitter is messy. If they can't do it well, can Mr. Fang learn from Penguin's micro-innovation in the United States?"

"Human energy is limited after all." Fang Zhuo pondered, "I still want to see how they can develop such a model."

He paused, and said, "If it really doesn't work, you can also try Penguin."

Hearing this, Wang Yan felt relieved.

(End of this chapter)