Chapter 760： undivided attention

760 Concentration

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Harvard University is indeed a good place to concentrate on study, because there is this environment here, even if the school is noisy, it will definitely not affect the hard-working students. Although Harvard students enjoy life more than the next-door Massachusetts Institute of Technology, there are still nerds everywhere in the school who walk and read with books all day long.

There was a meeting on the development of "Facebook (k in the dormitory that day. Evan Bell felt that a large number of advertisements should not be planted, which would destroy the user's sense of identification with "Facebook". This led to a long speech by Eduardo Savalin. Since he and Evan Bell met for the first time, he still had a little scruples and maintained a serious expression. "discussion.

Evan Bell is naturally not familiar with the question of "how to make a website profitable". He has not been in this business in his two lifetimes. He is indeed a foreigner. However, he believes that "Facebook" is indeed not suitable for implanting sizing ads, and he believes that it can be profitable through the internal functions of "Facebook".

For example, "Facebook" users and students can buy so-called "ads". For a simple example, today Mark Zuckerberg wants to hold a large party, and he can buy so-called advertising spaces on "Facebook" to conduct Publicity, let the students in the school know that this is an effective way of publicity, and the cost of such advertising is only more than one hundred yuan per day.

For another example, students who like Evan Bell's music can gather in a group, and for each new user who joins the group, Evan Bell pays a dollar, setting a minimum amount each month. This allows fans to gather in one group, replace the name "Evan Bell" with "McDonald's" fans, or "Eleven Brand" fans, and you can get sponsorship.

The above two kinds of advertisements can be regarded as a kind of advertisement, but they are not regular banner advertisements. Of course, if you go to Silicon Valley and find a suitable venture capital company or individual investor, it is also a means to get sufficient funds for the early development of "Facebook".

So, Evan Bell thought, since Mark Zuckerberg created "Facebook" to be different, to provide a service close to students, why not make students feel completely different?

Mark Zuckerberg and other programming maniacs fell into contemplation after listening to it, because several solutions mentioned by Evan Bell have not been implemented on "Facebook", because the website is in a state of rapid development in the early stage. They have a feeling that the improvement of the function can't keep up with the speed. Now, the new features proposed by Evan Bell have a crucial role in the future development of the website, which naturally makes Mark Zuckerberg and others excited.

However, Evan Bell's whimsical ideas mean nothing to Eduardo Savalin. The well-behaved Eduardo Savalin thinks this is not feasible at all, because it is "impractical" and he does not think it can make the website profitable. bring in revenue", not to mention "these features are all fantasy, and even if they are made, it is impossible to know whether users will pay for it."

In fact, Eduardo Savalin represents the general population, just like when Evan Bell launched the commercialization of digital music, everyone shouted that the wolf is coming, this is an impossible dream, because no one will Paying ninety-nine cents for a song is like the "threat" that television posed to movies back then. Therefore, Evan Bell can't blame Eduardo Savarin, both of them just stick to their own ideas.

In the end, the meeting broke up and the two sides did not reach a consensus in this regard. After all, whether it is Evan Bell or Eduardo Savalin, neither of the two plans can be realized for the time being. Eduardo Savalin needs to pull advertising sponsorships, which takes time; Evan Bell believes that either developing new features to attract users' idle funds, or going to California's Silicon Valley to develop, which will not be possible before the end of the semester, even if Mark - Zuckerberg and others are willing to go to Silicon Valley, at least until the summer vacation. Therefore, the meeting was left for later discussion.

Despite this, Mark Zuckerberg talked with Evan Bell for a long time that night, and once again recorded Evan Bell's countless whimsy. In Mark Zuckerberg's view, Evan Bell always seems to have countless ideas in his head, which has repeatedly surprised him.

After investing another $10,000 in Mark Zuckerberg to rent a server, Evan Bell threw himself into his busy schedule.

Evan Bell first spent half a month on the post-production of "Mysterious Skin". In fact, whether it was editing or soundtrack, Evan Bell already knew it during the shooting process, but this was his first In the later stage of independent completion, he will inevitably be more cautious. So it took a little longer than expected.

Then, Evan Bell threw himself into the ocean of libraries. At Harvard, there are countless more industrious students than Evan Bell, and it is not unusual for Evan Bell to stay in the library all day long. It's just that for Evan Bell, in the past two years, he has hardly been so devoted to his studies.

Psychology books, architectural design books, books related to the geography of Wyoming, and books related to the 1960s, including books related to historical facts about xìng love... Evan Bell just felt that every day was not enough. When a person devotes himself to the ocean of knowledge, he will only feel that he is too small. Because no matter how almighty people in the world are, there are always parts that they cannot take care of. Even if he is not doing his job properly, like Evan Bell, now let him tinker with computer programming, he is still at a loss.

He has been reading psychology books for more than four years, but there are still a lot of areas that he has not touched. Even if it is a book with the same theory and a different theory, from the perspective of different writers, there will be new things appearing. Not to mention architectural design, if you want to study urban planning and construction, water conservancy project planning, interior design, etc., it is estimated that even if Evan Bell finishes his Ph.D., he will not be able to understand all aspects.

During this period of time, it can be said that Evan Bell is busy, because he does not even have time to eat, and many times it is just a sandwich. But it can also be said that Evan Bell is leisurely, because he only needs to devote himself to books and focus on one thing. Movies and music are temporarily left behind, and all reporters seem to have forgotten the world. There is also an existence called Evan Bell, Harvard University has become the last clean place in Evan Bell's life. Such a concentrating attitude was not seen even when writing the thesis back then.

During this period, Mark Zuckerberg approached Evan Bell twice, which means that in addition to the countless chats in the dormitory, he specifically asked Evan Bell twice. The two times were not long. After all, two people talking at the same speed as shooting a gun, and being polite, just talking about the key points, it really didn't take too long.

Mark Zuckerberg mainly talked to Evan Bell about his future development plans for "Facebook", most of the time Mark Zuckerberg spoke, Evan Bell listened, and occasionally gave some Opinion. That's all.

Among them, Mark Zuckerberg asked Evan Bell in detail about his views on financing. This is a bit strange, because this should be Eduardo Savalin's major, but think about it carefully, Evans is an orthodox businessman who is not interested in venture capital companies, and Evan -Although Bell is a foreigner, Mark Zuckerberg will not forget that the two major plans for the commercialization of digital music and talent shows came from Evan Bell.

In fact, Evan Bell knows that venture capital is a double-edged sword. In this time frame, with promising growth prospects and rising costs, such a new Silicon Valley company typically seeks large cash injections from VCs. But if VCs are putting in a lot of money, they stand to gain by brazenly taking the company's high-quality assets: say, a quarter or even a third of the company's assets. In fact, Napster founder Sean Parker went through this process, losing a battle of wills with VCs and getting kicked out of his company. Therefore, although the investment and human resources of venture capital are very powerful, they often make the company lose control.

In the past, Evan Bell didn't know much about these things. He just had a simple idea: Venture capital is a short-term investment, injecting capital, getting a return and then withdrawing. This idea is actually too naive. But since the idea of ​​Pixar Studios, he has more or less in-depth knowledge, and Teddy Bell is obviously much smarter and more advanced than Eduardo Savarin.

Therefore, if "Facebook" goes to Silicon Valley to seek financing, venture capital is a good solution, but at the same time, independent investors will be a better choice, because it can maintain Mark Zuckerberg's personality and control The detached status of a strong founder. In addition, going to Silicon Valley for capital is one aspect, and the talent pool there is also an important reason.

After Evan Bell and Mark Zuckerberg passed by, they didn't ask too much about it. It was not until the end of April that Evan Bell knew that Mark Zuckerberg had met Sean Parker, and Sean Parker also proposed to let Mark Zuckerberg go to Silicon Valley, Do not advertise sponsored claims. This led to two violent arguments between Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Savalin, each time Mark Zuckerberg more or less asked Evan Bell for his opinion.

It seems that, unknowingly, everything is still developing according to the historical track.

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