Global monopoly of technology

After an American party carnival, Luo Sheng doesn't know how much the employees here can agree with, but it is true that they are all very happy.

In fact, these local employees are also quite surprised. They thought it was boring. I didn't expect that the party organized by the Chinese boss could be so American.

Luo Sheng can easily integrate into American culture, but it is difficult for Americans to integrate into Chinese culture. This is the difference between the two sides.

"The front foot only got 325 million US dollars in financing from Wall Street. You played so crazy with the back foot. I would probably regret it if I were an investor." Qin Weimu came to Luo Sheng and took a seat next to him.

At the moment, the party is still going on, and the North American employees who came here are playing better than the other.

Luo Sheng couldn't help but smile when she heard her spit, and said calmly: "That's right, including the previous few investments. It didn't take long for the VC to invest the money in me and regretted it after a while, and then a group of happy people after a while. , And put money in me, regretting it again... Repeatedly."

That's it, that's right.

When the two chatted, Luo Sheng saw a face of Chinese descent. Among the more than 80 employees, there were actually more than 30 faces of Chinese descent. They were all engineers and had better development capabilities than whites.

When Luo Sheng heard someone calling that Chinese face called "Steve Chen", he subconsciously stunned for a while.

Qin Weimu glanced at him and found his slightly surprised expression, and couldn't help but ask questions.

"what is up?"

Luo Sheng ignored Qin Weimu and immediately shouted to the Chinese employee: "Steve Chen? Chen Shijun?"

The Chinese face turned his head and saw that the boss was really looking at him, so he pointed to himself, and saw the boss nodded again. He confirmed that the boss was calling himself, so he walked over.

"BOSS, are you looking for me?" Chen Shijun wondered how the boss knew his Chinese name.

At this moment, Luo Sheng was not sure if it was the person he thought he was. After asking him to sit down, he couldn't help but ask: "Have you worked at PayPal before?"

Chen Shijun nodded, suddenly feeling a little embarrassed, but still said truthfully: "Yes, but how did you know? Yes, that was three months ago. At that time, PayPal laid off employees and I was unfortunately one of them. One member, like me, there are Chad Hurley and Judd Kalim. We were lucky to get the Bluestar offer last week."

After Chen Shijun’s brief explanation, Luo Shengdun felt that after they were fired, they were unemployed and in debt.

The aftermath of the bursting of the Internet bubble is still there. Many large Internet companies are reducing revenue and reducing expenditure, and layoffs if they can lay off.

"OK, have fun." Luo Sheng confirmed the guess in his heart and talked with him for a few words before it was over. Chen Shijun also left the table.

At this moment, Luo Sheng was in a good mood. It was really no effort to get through the iron shoes. The three founders of YouTube actually joined the North American branch of Bluestar Technology and became their own employees.

The layout of the Internet audiovisual business was originally a strategic plan he had laid out in his mind, and this was also the focus of his work in the next year.

...

Three days later, Luo Sheng came to the town of Menlo Park again, and met again with a group of North American employees. With the previous party activities, Luo Sheng and these foreign employees also had a sense of distance.

At this moment, more than 80 employees gathered in the work hall, listening to Luo Sheng's speech.

"...Before I leave California, we need to play some new tricks, folks, I decided to create a brand new website in North America, the core is an anonymous mechanism." Luo Sheng told everyone about the core of Reddit.com.

When Luo Sheng described it roughly, everyone was caught off guard.

"Boss, are you kidding? This new website is simply the extreme opposite of BlueSpace." An employee named Vader Karim said.

"BlueSpace is a real-name social mechanism, but this new website is a 180-degree change, too subversive." Chen Shijun said.

All the employees spoke freely. After a while, Luo Sheng looked around and smiled: "I believe, I know, because you all showed off at the carnival three days ago. I know your secrets. Every member present here. , I know that this group of people here are very innovative, like to challenge the rules and establish the law, and at the same time behave uninhibitedly and freely and naturally. Our entire team will become one, cooperate with each other and cooperate with each other."

Qin Weimu, who was also present, found that Luo Sheng was able to mobilize the emotions of employees. Whether it was domestic employees or foreign employees, he could always say the most appropriate words on the most appropriate occasions and tie a team in the most appropriate manner. Into a bundle.

This is not only based on money and contract relationships, but also personal charm. He seems to be a natural leader.

"Only we would think of doing this, wouldn't it?" Luo Sheng added.

"Go ahead, so what's the name of the new website?" An employee named Russell Simmons said eagerly.

"REDDIT, Reddit.com!" Luo Sheng said concisely.

When everyone heard the name of the new website, everyone couldn't help but burst into laughter, and Vader Karim immediately said: "Sorry, BOSS, I think this name is inferior. Can you change it to something more meaningful?" "

Everyone nodded their heads, feeling that the name was too stupid. The Americans had a straightforward character, so they could just say what they were thinking.

Luo Sheng said with a helpless expression: "There are too many domain names on the Internet. Now I want to apply for a name that is not occupied and easy to remember. It is really difficult. Although I can buy it with money, Obviously, I don't want to spend wrong money. In addition, Reddit also means "readit", anyway, "connotation" is a little bit."

So, at the insistence of the boss, Reddit.com settled.

"Reddit needs a distinctive feature, which is to give users great permissions, including the introduction of user message functions. We must also be psychologically prepared. After launching this website, the anonymity mechanism will inevitably be criticized, even if it is abused. I am not surprised that there has never been such a stupid website, and it also means dealing with all kinds of evil in human nature."

Luo Sheng stood in the middle and described it in an orderly manner. Everyone said nothing. Many employees were surprised by the boss's remarks because they found that the boss can always unwittingly say something that makes people shine. Creativity.

For example, introduce the message function.

But for Luo Sheng, this function is the standard configuration of all websites, but now it has just entered the time of 2004, which is a very bold decision.

Luo Sheng added: “In the follow-up, we should let users create sub-forums. We must be the first to open up the atmosphere and challenge the inherent rules and concepts. Users can gather together through sub-forums on various topics on Reddit, which allows them Having a sense of intimacy and belonging to Reddit can also truly differentiate Reddit from other competitors."

Users can create sub-forums by themselves, which is almost as small as the post-bar, or even copy the post-bar model to some extent.

Russell Simmons frowned and said, "But is it really good to empower users so radically? Like a double-edged sword, it may make administrators tired of management, even if it can bring super high traffic, it is quite A large number of users share some violent and sensual content...well, no wonder Boss, you predict that Reddit will cause a lot of bad reviews, well..."

Think about it, too, Reddit's anonymous mechanism is definitely an explosive place for the evil side of human nature, hiding behind a computer screen, typing on the keyboard and unscrupulously venting some things that I usually don't dare to do in offline life.

One of the core battlefields such as navy and tanzi.

But this group of employees are inexplicably excited about this idea. Reddit may be designated as a super-chaotic and super-bad community in history before it goes online.

Luo Sheng methodically said to everyone: "For a long time, the state of the online community has been a game between managers and saboteurs. It will always be a contest between one ruler and another. The Internet is growing. Going deeper into all aspects of people’s lives, past concepts such as safe haven principles, technological neutrality, and unrestricted freedom of speech are being challenged, and more proactive confrontation with spoilers may become the new normal. So we need like-minded volunteers, and we maintain them together. To this community."

In the next week, Luo Sheng stayed at Menlo Park to formulate Reddit development sequence with Chen Shijun, Wade, Judd, Chad and other employees. Among the more than 80 employees, Chen Shijun, Russell, Judd and other 15 The individual was spun off to be responsible for the initial development of the Reddit project, and the others continue to maintain the original state and are responsible for the operation and management of the BlueSpace website.

In just one week, Luo Sheng showed strong computer skills here, which completely convinced this group of people. If they were not convinced by wealth rolling before, but now they are showing the strength of technical rolling. .

A week later, Luo Sheng ended his trip to North America and gave Chen Shijun and them a simple task before returning to China, asking their development team to officially launch the Reddit.com website by the end of February at the latest.