American Fortune Life

September 10, 2007.

In the early morning, in the presidential suite of the Four Seasons Hotel, Andy walked out of the bathroom in a pair of shorts and a tight white T-shirt. He had just washed up after sweating in the fitness room, feeling refreshed.

As soon as he arrived in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, he went to his two companies to hold two meetings non-stop. He is very satisfied with the development of his IT company. In the current world, only Internet unicorn companies can quickly accumulate wealth. It is modeled by various successful precedents, which is why Silicon Valley in the Bay Area has attracted worldwide attention, and every entrepreneur with ideals will plunge into Silicon Valley.

Pushing open the door of the bedroom, Andy looked at the little assistant who was still sleeping soundly under the blanket, and couldn't help sighing softly, he was getting lazy, well, it was still very comfortable to be served by her last night It's cool, she has now put more attention on how to serve him.

She bent down and picked up a pair of black jumpsuits from the tail and the carpet, a set of Air France flight uniform she got from somewhere, last night I saw her wearing a tight and flat black dress when she appeared in front of her , with a bright red bow belt, black windbreaker and silk wa, it is indeed very amazing.

At the beginning, Andy was a little dumbfounded, but she played role-playing seriously, and provided airline services, and she always provided super VIP services in all clothes, ahem, well, it is indeed a high-quality enjoyment, and at the same time, it is a great experience for the little ones. The assistant's thoughtfulness is extremely gratifying.

We had a lot of fun last night, but it’s already past eight o’clock in the morning. This Tori seems to want to go to bed again, so he ignored her and picked up his laptop and a black leather bag from the table beside him. The book walked out of the bedroom.

In a while, he will go to the new company that is newly formed and has not yet started operation to show up, and hand over the source code of the Instagram photo wall that he wrote during this period to the new company's eo Noah Glass.

This Noah Glass was one of the original members of the original Twitter's four-member team, and participated in the programming of Twitter throughout the entire process, but because of the division of labor at the time, the other three devoted their energy and time to developing and promoting tweets. Sir, he was in charge of the company's previous technical services. When the Twitter trio decided to leave their original company to start Twitter, Noah Glass was naturally excluded.

It was tantamount to betrayal. When the headhunting company locked the target according to Andy's request, Noah naturally became the primary target. Contact, persuasion, and promise, everything went smoothly.

Andy's Instagram photo wall has changed from the simple fast, wonderful and interesting way of sharing pictures captured at any time in the previous life. He decided to join the social platform and push text content, which is a bit closer in general Like Facebook, but text can be sent via SMS just like Twitter.

Although this is a social application running on the mobile terminal, because of the social platform, it will naturally compete with Facebook. Of course, if the Instagram photo wall will pose a threat to Facebook, it will still Don't think about it, but he knows what the status of mobile social applications will be in the future, so he will naturally not let go of this field.

In the dining room, Andy was eating breakfast while reading emails on his laptop. Hearing the sound of footsteps, he raised his head to look at the girl in a nightgown, with a ruddy complexion on her fair and pretty face, with a lazy smile on her face. Tori walked in.

"You are not afraid of Christina and the others.

"Andy ran into the restaurant with her hair a little messy looking like she had just woken up, complaining a little speechlessly.

"Even if they know, they don't dare to talk nonsense. The non-disclosure agreement they signed has many special clauses, and they won't make fun of their careers." The assistant is no longer the simple workplace in the beginning. The newcomer, walked to the refrigerator and opened the door, took out a bottle of lemonade from inside, unscrewed it and took a sip, put it aside, and took out a box of cornflakes and fresh milk from inside.

"You still have to pay attention, no one can keep a secret forever, even with restrictions." Andy warned with a serious expression.

"Oh, I see." Seeing the serious expression on the big devil's face, the little assistant couldn't help but tremble inwardly, and hurriedly agreed.

"Well, it's good to know. I said, there are so many foods here, what kind of cornflakes do you eat?"

The little assistant stuck out her tongue and said, "I like to eat, well, I'm going to wash up first..."

After finishing speaking, he quickly left the restaurant, and Andy shook his head looking at her graceful back.

"Kacha Kacha"

The sound of chewing corn flakes was heard by his ears. Andy closed the newspaper in his hand, looked up at Tori who was using a spoon to put the corn flakes soaked in milk into his mouth, stood up and took the newspaper to Walk outside the restaurant.

"You go shopping for an evening dress during the day, and attend a dinner party with me at night..."

Hearing the Great Demon King's words, Tori couldn't help but smile, his eyes narrowed into a crescent shape. While eating breakfast, his thoughts had already gone to nowhere.

"100% Free custom designed filters and borders such as...

Real-time sharing on its own social platform, Facebook and other social platforms,

Parallel and radial tilt-shift blur effects for additional depth-of-field effects,

Unlimited uploading, just shoot and share;

Interact with friends by receiving and sending likes and comments;

Full support for cameras of various mobile phones.

You can use text messages to send 140-character text messages to social platforms. That’s right, it’s the same mode as Twitter pushes information, but our Instagram is a mobile software application.

Although our social platform is open, I think users will prefer the micro-community formed by Instagram. After all, this app will automatically search for users who also use this app in the phone book, and choose to establish a link. "

The curtains were closed, and in the dimly lit spacious conference room, Andy was holding a small remote control in his hand, changing slides, and explaining in detail the general idea of ​​the Instagram photo wall to the new company programmers who were sitting in the conference room.

Although Andy wrote the source code of Instagram, he is very clear that the source code is only for him to firmly control the copyright. The real software is still many streets away from the finished software, especially To add the function of Twitter.

Of course, in order to belong to his own patent and copyright, he shamelessly described the function of pushing messages as an auxiliary function. In the patent copyright at a passive disadvantage.

Noah Glass is an excellent manager, but also a genius software development engineer. Hearing what the new boss said, he couldn't help but look at the people sitting in the conference room, and couldn't help but feel as if he wanted to complete the new boss For this application software, there are not enough developers for the new company at present.

The establishment of social platforms and the development of software applications require the formation of separate teams to implement the plans separately, and simultaneously carry out compatibility, and finally achieve a perfect fit, so that this mutated version of Instagram will finally take shape.

After Andy finished introducing the entire software application, turned off the projector, opened the curtains, and restored the meeting room to a bright environment, Noah, the new company's eo, asked, "Boss, this is a very talented person." Creativity has more advantages than monotonous text push, but I have a question to ask."

"Excuse me."

"Platform strategy is the way Internet companies have grown over the years, but the way the platform is played has its own way. It doesn't mean that once it is open and a platform, it can achieve good results. How to make money? I have participated in the development of Twitter, One problem that has been elusive from the very beginning is the means of profitability."

Andy smiled calmly, looked around, and saw that everyone was focusing on him, because he had signed a confidentiality agreement before, and he was not afraid to speak out.

"Instagram celebrity account certification; selling business accounts based on Instagram's popularity; printing out users' photos on Instagram, even making them into calendars and stickers; designing more personalized digital photo frames for online sales, etc. Profit means, of course, the targeted delivery of advertisements based on big data analysis will be the most important means of profit.”

After Andy's voice fell, everyone in the conference room was amazed and stunned, especially Noah was shocked and exclaimed with a wry smile: "This may be the most correct career choice for me. With this idea and reliable means of profit, our financing will become very easy!"

Andy could only respond with a smile. In fact, he knew better than anyone else that, apart from targeted advertising and enterprise accounts, the rest of the profit methods were small-scale, earning a service fee, hard money, but in the end It is a means of making money. Mosquito meat is still meat no matter how small it is. It is enough to fool venture capital.

Except for game companies and app software application stores, these two companies will not seek venture capital. The remaining Internet companies will raise external financing when they develop to a certain level. This is the best way to expand rapidly, unless he goes crazy. He also knows that many people have been waiting for him to let go and open the opening for external financing. Not only are they waiting silently, but many times, when attending receptions and dinners, some bankers, Regal, the investment bank will actively communicate with him, hoping to get financing opportunities.

External financing is not just about having more money for these companies to burn, but more importantly, benefit sharing. As Andy deepens his understanding of American politics and the economic superstructure, he also becomes more and more aware of the existence of It is a benefit distribution system, only by following the rules of the game can we get help, otherwise we will be squeezed out and suppressed. ) Download Free Reader!!