Chapter 768: Messy

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

Compared with Facebook, Twitter, which was just established in Silicon Valley this year, is a bit out of place.

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 angrily rushed into the office and shouted loudly, using words such as "despicable", "shameless", "expulsion" and "stealing results" from this company named The extremely silky squirt came out of Glass's man's mouth.

The scene was once bad and embarrassing.

Unfortunately, the office rented by Twitter was relatively cheap, and the security response was very slow and did not show up for a long time.

Seeing that the people here could not handle it on their own, Fang Zhuo had no choice but to ask his security assistants to invite Glass out with the consent of Twitter founder Dorsey.

When everyone sat down again, the three founders seemed a little embarrassed.

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

Perhaps it was the different roles they played in an event to oust another founder, or perhaps there was always someone who could be shameless in such an embarrassing situation. In short, this was the initial impression of the three founders of Twitter. down.

In addition to the suspected problems with the team, the professional ability shown by Twitter also made the group who came to inspect look a little bit confused.

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 numbers designated by Twitter, they followed each other and did not receive a reply from Twitter.

A group of people waited for more than ten minutes but heard nothing.

Finally, after checking, Dorsey said slightly: "There are some problems with the server, and sometimes there will be some delays, but I believe that I will definitely receive it by the evening at the latest."

Fang Zhuo could only give a polite smile.

The team has problems, the server has problems, they all come, so we can only talk about business logic and reasons for starting a business.

While Dorsey was describing this, Fang Zhuo noticed that Stone, the other founder, would always look at him with incomprehensible eyes from time to time. He waited for a while, found an opportunity when Dorsey was drinking water, and asked why.

Stone then said: "Mr. Fang, the bird in our logo has a name. What do you think it is called?"

Twitter's logo is a bird.

But trying to guess the name based on the bird...that's a bit overwhelming.

Fang Zhuo felt baffled and pondered deeply when he saw Stone's eyes looking very eager. Dorsey and Williams next to him also looked at this scene with smiles.

Such questions and such emotions must have roots.

He took a sip of water, his thoughts turned over and over again, and he said slowly: "It's not called Larry, is it?"

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 word "bird" also means "bird".

Fang Zhuo was a little dumbfounded: "This... um, are you from Massachusetts?"

The city where the Celtics live is Boston, and Boston is the capital of Massachusetts.

Generally speaking, local people will support local teams extremely much. In particular, 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, there was no need to do this, just a bird would be fine.

And whether to invest in Twitter is a matter of two opinions.

Twitter seems really disorganized right now.

Originally, the founders were quarreling among themselves, and if they needed to spend a large amount of money, they might stir up some trouble, and the company might simply break up.

“I like the idea of ​​Twitter very much. Its social pressure is very low, unlike Facebook’s atmosphere of a network of acquaintances. Moreover, its content creation threshold is also very low, which is conducive to the activeness of users, rather than being like a network of acquaintances. Blogs must find ways to activate the author’s creative desire.”

As Fang Zhuo said this, his eyes scanned Sina's senior management.

It sounds great!

Study hard!

"Social networks are a worthy project in the current era. Facebook is developing rapidly, but Twitter can form 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 as it is based on mobile devices such as mobile phones.”

"When faced with new news or emergencies, mobile phones are more convenient than computers and laptops for every user. It is also important to make good use of this."

"If you can verify the growth of Twitter, I think I would be happy to invest in it."

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

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

He felt that if he opened his mouth to make an 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 make of the creativity. From a conventional perspective, the decision-making team, which includes two college dropouts and a high school graduate, will not be successful even if they have entrepreneurial experience. It is easy to have problems in business management.

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

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

Wang Yan and others had experience in operating blogs in China, and also exchanged some experiences about ecology.

Finally, a new problem was discovered.

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

After the inspection, Dorsey, Stone, Williams and the Eastern guests said goodbye reluctantly, and they wanted to pull Fang down to chat for a few more hours. The rich boss of the Rockets, why can't you be generous?

"It doesn't look very mature." Wang Yan said in a more tactful way in the car. Twitter was chosen by Fang.

"It's quite immature." Fang Zhuo was not polite, "but this model is still interesting."

Wang Yan agreed with this point, but he was still a little confused for the time being. If Sina does such a project in China, how should it be done well? Fang's point of looking at mobile devices through text messages is very good, but there are differences between the two countries.

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

Wang Yan thought about this and felt that he was facing a very important test.

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

"After all, human energy is limited." 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."

Wang Yan was relieved when he heard this.