Rebirth starts from e-commerce

Chapter 512 Time Thief
After staying in the United States for a while, Luo Xiu returned to China and asked Song Mingjia to take over his job.

He is still too unfamiliar with the working model in the United States, so he came here to supervise the work himself, more just to show his determination to do this thing.

In many cases, the degree of employee dedication to work depends on the importance of the boss.

Luo Xiu couldn't keep an eye on this branch in a foreign country all the time, so he could only express his attitude in this way.

Let them not live in troubled waters just because the mountains are high and the emperor is far away.

After finishing his trip to the United States, Luo Xiu returned to China to urge the development department to further improve the function of Douyin.

"Brother Xiu, you have been in the United States for so many days, how do you feel about this most developed country in the world?" Zhao Jianye asked.

Zhao Jianye has gradually replaced Yang Tianqi as the leader of the company's intelligent algorithm.

Now he is leading the team to make this application software for young people, and he really wants to understand the thinking of young people abroad.

"I found that their children are much better than our children." Luo Xiu said.

"Why do you say that?"

Luo Xiu said with a smile: "Our four or five-year-old children can only pee and mud, while other children can already speak fluent English."

"Brother Xiu, you are talking nonsense. I stopped playing such low-level games when I was four or five years old... Wait, why is it so strange that American children can speak English? I can speak Chinese at the age of one."

"Well, the biggest gap between China and the United States lies in education. An educator once conducted an experiment in which he gave Chinese and American children a glass of water and asked them to boil the water without using fire.

The Chinese children put the water in the sun for a long time, but they couldn't make the water boil.And the clever American kid brought four cups of 25-degree water and mixed them together, and easily heated the water to 100 degrees.This shows that rigid thinking can never train great scientists. "

Zhao Jianye said speechlessly: "Brother Xiu, your piece is as old as the parts wrapped in oil paper in the German sewer."

"When I say so much, I just want to tell you, don't always think about their children and our children. They are all human beings in essence, and there is not much difference. They all like beautiful women to twist their buttocks."

"There is still a difference. For example, I prefer anime beauties with twisted buttocks, and I have no feelings for three-dimensional beauties."

"Please don't compare your perverted hobby with normal people."

After Luo Xiu finished speaking, he ignored him, took out his mobile phone, opened the internal beta version of Douyin, and swipe casually.

He looked at it for a while, then frowned, and muttered: "No, what you did was wrong."

"What's wrong?" Zhao Jianye asked.

"Not addictive enough." Luo Xiu turned to him, "Have you been in a casino before? Do you know the characteristics of casino buildings?"

"I haven't been in it before. Is there any connection between the casino and our short video app?"

"Do you know how casinos make money? They don't rely on gambling skills, but rake. Take the simplest bet on the size of the bet as an example. Gamblers think that betting big or small has a [-]/[-] chance of winning. But in fact, they ignore that the dealer will take all when there is a "circle dice", and what the dealer earns is the commission when the "circle dice" occurs. "

"I still don't understand, we are not gambling by making short videos."

"Casinos earn a margin, that is to say, the more gamblers gamble, the more casinos earn, and casinos want to make more money, they can only find ways to keep gamblers staying in the casino longer.

And our APP mainly relies on advertising to make money. The longer users use it every day, the more we earn. Just like casinos, we make money based on user time. "

"I seem to understand a little bit, but as far as I know, in order to keep users in the casino for a long time, they will provide food and drinks, and our APP cannot provide these services."

Luo Xiu shook his head, "We still have a lot to learn. For example, the decoration of casinos is usually fully enclosed, without windows, and the inside is illuminated by lights 24 hours a day. Do you know why?"

"why?"

"In order to make gamblers forget the time." Luo Xiu said seriously, "When designing ordinary buildings, the lighting problem is considered, and the sunlight can shine in as much as possible during the day, but the casino adopts a fully enclosed building design. The aim is to make gamblers forget about day and night, lose their sense of time, and become addicted to the table."

"Sounds so scary!"

"If our APP wants to do this, we must hide the time display on the top, so that users don't realize the passage of time when they watch videos. They originally only wanted to watch Douyin for half an hour before going to bed, but the result After exiting the software, two hours have passed."

Many users understand the value of time, they all want to go to bed early, and they know in their hearts that they have to get up early to go to work tomorrow.

It's just that when you watch the video, the time is not displayed on the top of the software, and the time will flow away before you know it.

In the era of mobile Internet, the sum of users' time is fixed, and everyone's online time is only so much.

You need to grab other people's time, the longer the user stays in your APP, the less time is left for others.

Therefore, what Luoxiu needs to do is to disrupt the user's plan and make the user "addicted" to Douyin.

In fact, this kind of addiction is not a real addiction.

Most of the content of short videos is quite boring and does not provide a lot of fun. Normally, you want to turn it off after a while.

It's just that the user thought he had only swiped for one hour, but in fact he swiped for three hours, and the other two hours were stolen by time thieves.

Therefore, after users finish using Douyin, they will have a sense of guilt in their hearts: Why do I waste so much time?

These time are used to read novels or play games, but the inner guilt is not so high.

Because these times are what he himself wants to spend, not stolen.

After Zhao Jianye digested Luo Xiu's words, he couldn't help asking: "Brother Xiu, it doesn't seem too good for us to do this?"

If it were Li Shan, he would definitely not ask such a question.

Morality is not as important as making money, not to mention that you walked into the casino voluntarily, but no one forced you with a gun.

It can be said that the time was stolen on the first day, but what about the second and third days?
It's not enough to be fooled once, but you have to continue to come in and let others steal your time, which shows that your time is not very valuable to you.

If time was really that important to you, you would have deleted the app a long time ago.

Luo Xiu smiled and said: "So let's make the international version first, stealing the time of the Yankees, don't have any psychological burden."

"Then don't we still make the domestic version in the future?"

"Well, this is a big proposition, I will talk to you in detail next time."

(End of this chapter)