My Age of Investment

Blog is actually a network log, network diary, also called Web??Log, abbreviated as Blog, is a blog.

The blog was born in the 1990s, and it only became popular around 2000. It entered China, and then became popular in 2004 because of Mu Zimei's XXOO diary.

Even portals that were originally not optimistic about blogs have also entered this field.

In the United States, the best development is the Blogger website, which once set a record of more than one million registered users in a single month.

But for a long time, it didn't make money, and it didn't even have an online advertising business.

If you can't survive, you can only sell yourself.

Google acquired the site in 2003, in the middle of last year, and it is still in the process of redesigning the page.

When Facebook wanted to launch a blog function, Xia Jingxing naturally investigated the industry.

At present, this industry is not too hot, mainly because it is difficult to realize.

This problem was not a problem for Xia Jingxing and could be temporarily ignored.

The first issue he considers is user growth, followed by website activity and stickiness.

Facebook already has a picture tagging function, which can be regarded as the prototype of picture social networking, but it still needs to be improved.

The video is not yet playable, so I can only focus on the text.

A blog is a good carrying tool for sharing life with words and sharing one's own views on something.

With the launch of this feature, it will also greatly enrich Facebook's existing functional applications, no longer only simple functions such as campus search to find people, photo sharing, group discussions, and message walls.

Especially those outside the school, they should prefer functions such as blogs, express their opinions, and let more people pay attention and leave messages for discussion.

"Daren, to implement the function you want, users to blog on their personal homepage, and to be able to import blogs from other blog service providers to Facebook, we need about a month and a half of research and development time.

Because our website now has tens of millions of users, considering the stability and carrying capacity of the architecture, the development difficulty is much greater than that of ordinary start-up products. "

Evans was approached by Xia Jingxing to chat a few days ago.

Then he went back to the technical team to hold a meeting, organized people to study the blog products on the market, and quickly came up with a detailed development plan.

As he spoke, he handed Xia Jingxing a document with their complete and detailed development plan.

Xia Jingxing took the document, looked at it carefully, estimated the time, and developed the blog function. It was almost like the end of February, and it was not too late.

So he put down the document and said with a smile, "Okay, then I'll give you a month and a half. Don't worry too much about the time, and performance stability is above everything else."

Xia Jingxing is well aware that as the scale of Facebook users gradually increases, like other large websites, they will also face problems such as high concurrency and high load.

?? QQ and MSN experienced many global paralysis incidents in 2004 and 2005. The external explanation was a virus attack, but it was actually a problem with their own systems.

The collapse of Dating.com is a lesson from the past. He now regards technology as more important than anything else, because technology is the cornerstone of Facebook, a high-rise building under construction.

The foundation stone is unstable, and even the tallest building will collapse at the slightest disturbance!

Evans rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "Daren, when the Series A financing is in place, our technology department still needs to continue to recruit some people.

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Because the current development and maintenance tasks are getting more and more onerous, everyone knows that the conditions are not allowed, so they are still insisting on it.

But it can't go on like this forever, and the technical force must be strengthened again. "

Isn't it just about recruiting a few programmers, Xia Jingxing responded graciously, "No problem, when the equity financing is in place, we will start a new recruitment plan, and you will submit an expansion plan for your department to me."

"The operations department also needs to expand manpower."

As soon as Yang Niu opened her mouth, the dog followed behind and shouted, "Our information analysis department also needs to replenish personnel.

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Xia Jingxing waved his hand, "Come on, when the money is in place, everything can be said."

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Andrew was entrusted by Xia Jingxing on a business trip more than half a month ago to go to Estonia to handle Scape's Series A financing on behalf of Xia Jingxing.

Now that things are almost done, Andrew flew back to San Francisco from Tallinn today.

So Xia Jingxing drove to the airport to pick up the other party, and at the same time, he learned about the financing and future development of Skype.

Standing at the exit of the passenger passage, Xia Jingxing saw a fat man wearing sunglasses walking towards him from a distance.

I don't know if Andrew didn't see him, or if the sunglasses affected his vision, he actually walked past him.

Xia Jingxing whistled several times before Andrew turned his head, took off his sunglasses, revealing two big dark circles under his eyes, and shouted with a smile, "Daren~"

"What sunglasses are you wearing in this winter?"

Xia Jingxing folded his arms around his chest and looked at this feigned perpetrator with a half-smiling smile.

"No way, Estonian beauties are too charming."

Andrew smiled and put his arms around Xia Jingxing's shoulders, and walked towards the parking lot with his shoulders hooked. As he walked, he shared his Estonian adventure.

It was only at this moment that Xia Jingxing noticed the dark circles under his eyes, and he understood everything.

He laughed and teased: "You're getting old, you have to take it easy!"

Andrew said nonchalantly, "What am I called... Lao Ji Fuzhen, Ye Yuqiannu."

Xia Jingxing sneered and stopped paying attention to this pretending to be a coercive offender.

When he came to the parking lot, Xia Jingxing sat in the driver's seat to start the car, and drove out with Andrew in the co-pilot.

After getting in the car, Andrew stopped talking and started talking about his trip to Estonia.

"...Scape's development speed is amazing, and several new venture capital institutions have a low profile, so the financing is very smooth.

The due diligence is almost done, you just need to type in the additional $1.44 million in equity financing.

Nicholas and the others plan to move their headquarters to Luxembourg, where taxes are low, and at the same time, it is quiet and can avoid the "harassment" of telecom companies in various countries. "

Xia Jingxing nodded, and while driving, he asked, "Did De Fengjie make any trouble?"

Andrew shook his head sharply, "No, Howard also chatted with me about Facebook. He said that he regretted not being able to invest in Facebook, but he couldn't do much about the company.

They are shareholders of Scape just like us, and they can't get us in trouble.

It's just that the investment in Facebook was unsuccessful. Defengjie's family has a great business and will not take it too seriously.

At Scape, everyone's interests are aligned. Things are one code at a time, and they are very bright. "

Xia Jingxing

continue reading! He smiled and said, "Howard is actually a good person, but he doesn't have a good boss.

If Defengjie has the highest price, I will definitely choose them to cooperate. "

"Speaking of cooperation, listen to Mr. Hennessy, you put Blayer hard."

Andrew smiled and looked at Xia Jingxing's profile.

Xia Jingxing glanced at Andrew, then took his eyes back, looked straight ahead, and said slowly, "I think they have too much power on the board, so I asked him to lose one board seat, and Breyer readily agreed. "

"Greetly agree?"

Andrew obviously did not believe this statement, and asked the truth of the matter.

Xia Jingxing still needed Andrew's support on the board of directors, and the two of them had a good personal relationship, so he told him the cause, process and end of the matter.

"Oh!"

After listening to it, Andrew suddenly realized, "No wonder Breyer is so confident in Facebook that he doesn't even blink his eyes when adding money.

But it turns out that his method is correct, and Facebook is now completely beating the dating network.

I heard it all in Tallinn, the dating network collapsed, the loss of users was serious, and Facebook was all the way to success..."

"Then have you heard that I was stuck in a car in the parking lot by the students? I was almost caught and beaten by the students."

Xia Jingxing also had lingering fears when he recalled the thrill of the previous days.

At that time, he was surrounded by a group of students in the parking lot, and he was not allowed to drive away. He almost smashed the window glass of his car. He insisted that he come out and make a statement and stop opening Facebook registration.

In the end, it was Heng Ha Second General who protected him and avoided the unavoidable disaster.

Andrew laughed, "Thank you for your hard work, have things calmed down now?"

Xia Jingxing nodded, no longer talking about this matter, it has already passed, it is meaningless to say more.

He went on to talk about Blayer.

"These venture capital institutions can do anything for their own interests, Andrew, on the board of directors, you have to take my side."

Andrew replied cheerfully, "That's for sure, the happiness of my next life depends on you.

Don't worry too much about Blayer, he's also putting his treasure on Facebook now, and he certainly won't do anything bad for Facebook.

In fact, as the old saying goes, it's called...

The crows in the world are generally black.

Breyer is also a fool. Huluo Pingyang was bullied by dogs, and he was even threatened by a hairy boy like you.

Believe it or not, you dared to tell Moritz and John Doerr what you said, and they immediately dared to flip the table with you, angered you, and forced you to jump on the Golden Gate Bridge. Believe it or not? "

"That's why I chose Axel, which is relatively easy to check and balance."

After finishing speaking, Xia Jingxing remembered that Andrew Gou said that he was referring to Sang and scolding Huai, "Who are you calling a dog?"

Facing Xia Jingxing's stern gaze, Andrew shook his head like a rattle, the fat on his face was trembling, with an innocent expression on his face.

"I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about the puppy."

The two drove the car all the way and chatted all the way.

Andrew glanced out of the car window and wondered, "This is the wrong way, where are you taking me?"

"To visit a startup together."

Andrew thought that he had just returned from a business trip and had not yet had a rest. As soon as he got off the plane, he was called to work again. He suddenly said with a bitter face: "No, the capitalists don't take you to exploit the working people like this, right?"

continue reading! "If you keep yelling, I'll find someone else to take the job."

Hearing this, Andrew suddenly changed into a smiling face, "No, what's the relationship between us.

Go, take a look, I think I can still hold on. "