Hello, 1983

The lunch was very rich, and the shareholders of Earth Network, big and small, also had a good time.

After leaving Chinatown, we drove together to the company's location.

This place in Silicon Valley, Liu Qingshan is really the first time to come here, I feel very interesting.

In his imagination, such a high-end place would definitely be incomparably prosperous, a scene of high-rise buildings and elites everywhere.

In fact, sitting in the car all the way, it feels a bit like the countryside.

The vegetation is very lush, and there are not as many high-rise buildings as imagined. Maybe the car turned a corner, and in the shade of the trees, I saw the mark of the apple that was bitten by someone.

There are also many later giants in the Internet industry, who don't know what to do at this time.

The headquarters of the Earth Network, then there is nothing to see, it is a small two-story building, and it looks pretty solid.

No way, San Francisco is a famous earthquake zone here.

The company's logo is quite eye-catching, and it is also from Liu Qingshan's creativity: a pair of hands, holding an azure planet.

"Nice environment."

Liu Qingshan took a deep breath and looked at the surrounding trees, but he kind of liked this kind of place, better than all those reinforced concrete shells.

At least work in such a place, the air is fresh, and it is beneficial to the body and mind.

When he entered the company, Liu Qingshan felt that the office conditions needed to be improved. At least he had to be equipped with a decent computer chair. Don't let these employees who sit there all day typing code be disabled.

There are about forty employees working in a large office with cubicles, and each person is basically equipped with a computer.

Liu Qingshan pays attention to observe, the Chinese can account for nearly one-fifth of it.

Jiang Renyi clapped his hands to attract the attention of the employees:

"Everyone, stop the work at hand first, and let me introduce to you, this is the chairman of our earth network, Mr. Liu Qingshan!"

A low exclamation sounded, and then the employees began to applaud enthusiastically.

Although most of them are seeing the true face of Liu Dong for the first time, they still know a little bit through channels such as TV or newspapers.

After all, Liu Qingshan is here, and he is not a small celebrity, especially in the past month or so, the limelight is in full swing.

As for understanding through the Internet, well, the Earth Network is the first portal website.

What Yahoo, MSN, and America Online and the like, all have no shadow.

That's right, Liu Qingshan's earth network, regardless of how it develops in the future, must first grab the world's number one title.

So far, two have been successfully grabbed: the first company to set up free mailboxes, and the world's first portal website.

The next goal is to be the first in the world to provide free antivirus software.

Liu Qingshan smiled and waved to the employees: "Good afternoon, everyone. Although this is the first time we meet, I have already felt everyone's enthusiasm for work."

"Everyone here is mostly young people, which makes me feel energetic. This is also completely in line with such a sunrise industry as an Internet technology company. Let's work together and hold up the earth network with both hands."

Liu Qingshan didn't say too much. A company needs a process to form its own unique culture. It's not just a few words of chicken soup.

As long as the earth network develops smoothly, the benefits of employees continue to improve, coupled with the stimulation of the share incentive mechanism, employees will naturally be of one mind and the company.

"BOSS, let's take a look at our website first." Hunter is eager to show their greatest achievements.

Because in this era still dominated by paper media, the originality of the portal website, Earth.net, does appear to be very different, and of course it also appears to be very high-end.

At present, the Internet is considered by everyone to be an emerging industry with an extremely bright future and future.

But there is no clear direction and goal for how the future will develop and what it can develop into.

It can be said that many companies,

Now it belongs to the trial and error stage, because it will also cause waste of resources, and even take a lot of detours.

More often, they walk and find that they have walked into a dead end, and then the company will naturally go bankrupt.

However, for Liu Qingshan, this problem does not exist. He can take the shortest path and reach the correct nodes smoothly.

As for the way to make money on the Internet, this is still being explored.

The current situation is that everyone realizes that the Internet is a big piece of fat, but they just can't eat it in their mouths and have dry eyes.

Therefore, most Internet companies are burning money.

Just like the Earth Network, it sounds like a good one, but in fact, the profit last year was only more than half a million US dollars, which was not enough to even pay salaries to the company's employees.

However, after the listing and financing, the situation should be able to improve.

That's right, Internet companies like Earth.net are considered good now, at least they have a point of profit. Most of them are making a profit at a loss.

At this stage, when the army is in chaos, many companies are entering the Nasdaq to make money in the name of Internet technology companies.

The big deal, after this wave is over, change another company and continue to play.

Of course, Liu Qingshan's Earth Network is prepared to continue, and making money is not the main purpose.

Hunter led Liu Qingshan and the others to a computer, and then turned on the sign of a small earth on the desktop. The next step was to wait patiently.

At this time, the speed of the Internet, you can't ask for too much.

After finally entering the page of the website, Liu Qingshan also saw the long-lost scene:

From top to bottom, the web page is pulled open little by little, as if there is a snail below it, pulling slowly.

That feeling made Liu Qingshan recall the first time he went to an Internet cafe to surf the Internet, he had to wait for a few minutes to see a picture...

The page of the earth network is very clean and concise, and it is not good if it is not concise. The speed of the network does not allow you to add too much content.

Textual things are better. If you put a few pictures in it, then you can wait patiently until the flowers are all gone.

The content of the earth network is mainly news at present, and there are not many news, only a dozen or so.

Including several current affairs news, both from the US side and from the world.

For example, there is an article in the world news: The Iran-Iraq War has officially ended.

In addition, there is news about literature, art, sports, etc. Liu Qingshan saw a very interesting news, and it is also the only news with pictures in the earth network.

In the picture, it is Liu Qingshan with his fist outstretched to greet boxing champion Ali.

"Boss, our own website, of course we want to promote you." Hunter is proud of his achievements, and it is estimated that he got this news.

The content of the news is that the boxing champion Ali received acupuncture and Chinese medicine treatment. Valley

Liu Qingshan clicked with the mouse, there was a very conspicuous link under the news, so he clicked in.

It is actually a comment area, or a small forum.

After registering on the earth network, you can speak and discuss and interact.

At the beginning of the development of the Internet, this was the most popular and most loved content. After all, it was possible to communicate with people thousands of miles away.

There are already more than 20 comments in it, and Liu Qingshan has a look, there are wishes for Ali's recovery.

Of course, there are also people who say that they are urgently ill and go to the doctor, and they question that Ali's brain is completely broken.

"Boss, I heard that you came up with this idea. It's amazing. After reading the news, everyone wants to have something to say."

"Since joining this discussion function, more and more users have registered for our earth network, and now there are nearly 80,000 users in total!"

Hunter admires Liu Qingshan, not only because the other party is his boss, but these technologists are actually very proud in their hearts.

If you want to convince them, you must either surpass them technically or convince them creatively.

As for 80,000 users, this is quite a lot at the moment.

The servers currently purchased by the Earth Network can only accommodate a total of 100,000 users.

At this time, Executive Vice President Adrian interjected: "Boss, we have collected some feedback from computer practitioners on the Earth Network these days."

"Most of them think that our earth network is too simple. Should we improve this aspect?"

This is also a common problem for Internet companies and companies. Practitioners all believe that the Internet and computers should be high-tech. Of course, the more complex the better, so that they can surpass those users.

It is this high-level attitude that makes many companies complicate simple problems, causing users a lot of trouble and trouble, and they often enjoy it.

"Adrian, we don't need to listen to those people's opinions." Liu Qingshan looked around and saw that many people were casting their gazes, obviously everyone was in the general mood.

So he decided to change the wrong thinking of employees:

"Let's imagine that if we are ordinary users of computers, we don't have professional knowledge, right? It's even the first time to surf the Internet, and we belong to the kind of computer novices who don't understand anything."

"Hee hee, computer novice, this term is very interesting." Hunter couldn't help but interject.

Liu Qingshan nodded: "Yes, Xiaobai, if you are such a Xiaobai, you click into our earth network, if we set the webpage into a maze, you operate randomly, and you don't even see any news, you Do you have the urge to scold your mother?"

The employees in the office let out a burst of snickering laughter, apparently agreeing with Liu Qingshan's statement.

"So the more concise and clear the page of our Earth Network, the better. Like the link in this discussion forum, if it is not obvious, it may be ignored, and naturally no one will click on it to discuss it."

Many employees began to nod their heads, so that after thinking in other positions, the order became much clearer.

Liu Qingshan continued: "As computers enter the home, there are more and more such computer novices. This requires that the simpler and more practical the things our developers design, the more acceptable to people."

"Please remember that this is the general trend of the development of this industry. I hope everyone will not take detours!"

Most of the employees started to nod their heads, and the rest were also concentrating on thinking.

You must know that the theory that Liu Qingshan is talking about runs counter to the mainstream at the moment.

Liu Qingshan casually clicked on the free mailbox link on the webpage, and registered a mailbox number, which took about a minute:

"It's like this mailbox, if the user takes ten minutes to register successfully, and we now, take one minute to register, which one will the user like?"

No one smiled, and the answer was self-evident.

Liu Qingshan then continued: "So I remind everyone that you must consider the problem from the user's point of view."

"Just like the free mailboxes we launched, compared with the paid mailboxes, which one do users like to use, I don't need to say it?"

The employees nodded in unison: if you have the advantage, it is the egg. This principle applies all over the world.

At this time, another question was raised, this time it was Nathan, who likes music:

"Boss, but we give users free mailboxes, what's the benefit for us, we didn't get any benefits?"

Someone immediately added: "And we obviously have to pay for the addition of large-capacity servers and other equipment."

How to make money is a big problem that plagues all Internet practitioners nowadays.

Liu Qingshan smiled and returned to the registered mailbox page: "There is a text in it. If you want to use our mailbox for free, you must agree to this agreement, allowing the website to push emails to users."

Most of the people present were developers, of course they knew it best, but they had not yet understood the mystery.

Liu Qingshan paused and saw that everyone was still confused, so he continued to guide: "So, what emails will we push to users?"

Everyone present thought about it. Suddenly, Executive Vice President Adrian's eyes lit up and he shouted, "Advertising!"

Liu Qingshan cast an approving look at him: "Yes, it's an advertisement."

When it comes to this, the people present also understand that the money-making model of advertising is not clear to them.

But advertising on the computer and the Internet really refreshed their cognition a bit.

"Oh, I didn't expect that, boss, you're a genius!" Hunter started to flatter with excitement.

No, he was definitely not flattering, but was genuinely conquered by this idea.

Others looked at Liu Qingshan with a little more respect.

The earth network has such a leader, and the future prospects will definitely be extremely bright.

"However, boss, will users be disgusted by advertisements?" Adrian thought about the problem comprehensively.

Liu Qingshan smiled: "If you want to use email for free, you have to pay a small price, and for people who have just learned to use computers, they don't think advertising is spam."

This principle is just like when you first started watching TV, even if it was an advertisement, everyone still watched it with relish.

The most excited is Adrian. Before, he had been struggling to find a way to make money. Now, he can justifiably go to advertisements.

Other employees are also very excited. The arrival of Liu Qingshan has given them a clearer understanding of the future, and at least clarified the general direction of development.

Seeing that the people's hearts are available, Liu Qingshan clapped his hands again: "Everyone, we are going to be listed on Earth.com. Everyone is a hero, and the company will not treat everyone who contributes badly."

"So I announce that the first batch of employees of Earth Network, that is, everyone here, will receive a certain amount of shares in the company!"

"Although some people may only get a few tenths or a few tenths of shares, everyone believes that when our earth network becomes a large company with a market value of billions or even tens of billions, the shares in everyone's hands will create much value."

When Liu Qingshan announced the completion, cheers broke out in the office immediately.

In mid-air, there seemed to be a stack of printing paper flying around.