The Millennium Semiconductor Survival Guide

In just one week, although Quora has only a little over 100,000 users, the number of page views and searches on major search engines have soared to the top ten in the United States.

Not only Silicon Valley is discussing Quora, students in major universities are even more proud of having Quora accounts.

A large number of college students in American have questions, and they hope that people with Quora accounts around them can help them ask questions on Quora to get answers.

This is like the ChatGPT of later generations. ChatGPT is unusable for IPs in mainland China. Although everyone is discussing this new thing, few people have actually used it.

This also gave birth to a business opportunity, which is to help you ask questions to ChatGPT, and the cost of asking questions is not expensive.

You can use Douyin without using ChatGPT. There are many alternative entertainment options. As for using ChatGPT as a productivity tool, it is inconvenient to use someone else’s account, and it involves leaking your personal privacy.

Because ChatGPT conversations will be saved in the account. If you use someone else's account to chat and then delete it every time, then you have to re-exercise ChatGPT, which is very inconvenient.

But today, when Internet entertainment is scarce, there is no Facebook, no Ins, no YouTube, college students can’t play Quora as uncomfortable as having ants crawling on them.

Everyone was already dissatisfied with Zhou Xin’s setting of the threshold. The threshold of the fist game community can be solved by buying the cheapest game, which is only 10 dollars. This is a trivial matter for users who can afford a computer. Tolerance is over.

You can’t buy a Quora account with money. Even if you go to Ebay to buy a verification code transferred by someone else, you still have to start at $50. This price is not affordable for everyone.

So much so that everyone launched a "We need Quora" activity on major forums to show their dissatisfaction with the high registration threshold of Quora.

Quora has influence in college students through Larry Sanger, and sent some verification codes to college students, but the number is very small.

Each university is assigned less than two hundred registration verification codes.

It's a sweet annoyance for any Internet business that potential users are so loud.

It's just that the spread is too fast, which doesn't match Zhou Xin's original operation plan.

"Newman, the question we need to think about now is whether we want to follow the previous rhythm, or let go of the restrictions on user registration."

Quora's management consists of only Zhou Xin, Jimmy and Larry Sanger. Among them, Zhou Xin is in charge of strategic planning, Jimmy is in charge of specific management, and Larry Sanger is in charge of product operations.

When the two joined Quora, they brought the entire Nupedia staff together, which means that Quora bought Nupedia.

Zhou Xin gave them a total of 10% of the shares.

Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wells have never seen this scene before. Friends around them are looking for verification codes for their account registrations. You can see posts asking for registration verification codes on Quora in any online forum.

When I started Nupedia before, I didn't even have a thousand users.

There are only 100,000 users now, and it has abruptly created a posture of tens of millions of users.

For example, only one hundred people subscribe at the beginning, but each chapter can say that there can be one thousand articles.

Although they all have entrepreneurial experience, they do not have the experience of becoming popular. Larry Sanger thinks that the operation of Quora needs to be discussed with Zhou Xinlai.

They have no experience, Zhou Xin has, and Zhou Xin makes one product and one product become popular, and this experience cannot be richer.

Zhou Xin didn't speak immediately, but paused for a moment to organize his words in his brain: "We can discuss what we should do according to the situation.

First of all, the user's suggestion is just a reference, and we cannot be interrupted by the user's suggestion.

Secondly, I think there are several options on whether to let go of the restrictions on user registration.

The first is to directly open the user registration restriction, and any user can register. The advantage of this is that we will quickly acquire a large number of users, easily breaking one million, or even breaking ten million. The problem with this is that the surge in the number of users will also increase the difficulty of our management.

We need users to register with their real names, and we need to manage users' answers. Now we can manage the scale of 100,000 users, and the difficulty of management will increase exponentially after a million users.

Moreover, the surge in the number of users will bring about a rapid decline in the quality of answers.

Now after a question is asked, at least five of the top ten respondents really understand the question and can give valuable answers.

Once the registration is open, after a question is asked, there may be a valuable answer only after getting the first 50 respondents, and the other answers are either of limited value or not answering the question.

Similarly, after the number of users surges, the proportion of users with sufficient judgment will decrease, and the answer with the highest number of approval is not necessarily a truly valuable answer. It may just be that his answer conforms to the psychology of more individuals.

For example, regarding political views, after the registration is opened, extreme views will get more approval.

Simply put, completely opening up user registration restrictions will lead to a decline in the quality of the Q\u0026A community. If Harvard enrolls all college students, its gold content will drop, and it cannot guarantee that the level of every graduate is above a certain line. "

Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wells were quickly convinced, because the online encyclopedia Nupedia they made before was a purely academic online encyclopedia, and if you want to edit it, you must be at least a Ph.D.

They naturally agree with this elite community and raise the threshold.

Before chatting with Zhou Xin, they were worried that Zhou Xin would not be able to withstand the temptation and would be coerced by public opinion and open user registration on a large scale.

As a result, Zhou Xin thought more deeply about this matter than both of them.

Zhou Xin took into account many points that they hadn't considered.

Jimmy Wells and Larry Sanger looked at each other, and they both knew what the other was thinking: Newman deserves to be Newman.

Jimmy Wells also had doubts: "If we don't open up user registration permissions on a large scale, what should we do if other knowledge question-and-answer communities that copy our model use this wave of enthusiasm to attract these users away?"

This is also a question that entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, and even entrepreneurs in all industries, need to think about, that is, how do you maintain your own advantages in the face of homogeneous competition.

Larry Sanger is also worried about this problem.

This is a typical psychology of wanting to be a prostitute and want to be a prostitute. I don't want to open registration permissions to all users, and I don't want users to go to similar knowledge quiz communities to enjoy similar services.

Zhou Xin asked rhetorically: "If we let go of user registration, can other Internet companies stop doing knowledge quiz communities?

In other words, will other companies not compete directly with us because of our large number of users?

Many times, slow is fast. "

I'm lazy again. I wanted to write 6k today to save the manuscript for the shelf, but I sat in front of the computer and played for more than two hours before I started writing.

My procrastination is so bad...