The Millennium Semiconductor Survival Guide.

Chapter 97 Newman's Charlie Rose Talk Show

Users are only the basis of electronic payment, and the degree of activity is the most critical factor in determining the value of an electronic payment software.

There are no registered users, and an app that these registered users do not use is worthless.

NewPay took advantage of the launch of Quora's paid question-and-answer function, and the number of transactions through Quora surged every day.

Finally, Zhou Xin said: "During this period of time, there will definitely be many Internet companies that want to refer to Quora's paid question-and-answer function and launch their paid links.

Including Yahoo, I guess Yahoo is likely to come to talk with us, don't reject them, as long as there are companies that are willing to connect NewPay, we will agree.

There is no need to shy away from the possible competitive relationship between these Internet companies and other companies under my name.

My vision for NewPay is that it can become the water and electricity of the Internet age in the future, everywhere and everyone needs it.

It is precisely because of this vision that we must not let other Internet companies think that NewPay is my personal tool, and we will use NewPay to attack other Internet companies.

NewPay will not be the wall I build for my own other Internet companies. "

What Zhou Xin said is very straightforward, because he has no way to pay attention to the specific things of NewPay in real time, so he needs to say something in advance.

If NewPay is not open to Internet companies that are in direct competition with Zhou Xin, in Zhou Xin's view, this is a loss of watermelon.

Even if Quora really monopolizes the entire market, so what? Its value is limited. This will affect the subsequent development of NewPay and make other Internet companies realize that they need to support another electronic payment company to avoid being constrained in the payment field. .

This is really not worth the candle.

After Yahoo's question-and-answer community was launched, even though Quora's activity soared after the launch of the paid question-and-answer function, with the help of Yahoo's own traffic, it still gained some users.

At the same time, there is no threshold for Yahoo Questions and Answers, and everyone can play, which also attracts some Quora users.

After the launch of Yahoo Answers, one of the hottest questions on it was: "Which product do you think is better, Yahoo Answers or Quora, and why?"

In other words, because Yahoo Answers has no threshold, questions that also do not require a threshold will be sought after by the public.

Because Yahoo Q&A went online too quickly, many functions are not perfect, for example, there is no recommendation algorithm with a complete set of logic.

This leads to the questions and answers that users see are filled with a lot of emotional answers instead of real valuable answers.

Among the answers to the above question, the one with the highest number of likes is:
"Quora is like a well-crafted work of art, and Yahoo Answers is an industrialized knockoff."

This kind of answer with only emotions but no content, in other words, an answer with only arguments but no arguments, the entire Q&A community is full of similar content.

No one cares about the answers of the Nobel laureates that Yahoo has made great efforts to invite.

The staff of Yahoo asked these Nobel Prize winners questions, all of which were very professional questions, which caused the answers of the Nobel Prize winners to be too unfriendly to most users.

It didn't have the effect Yahoo expected at all.

But Yahoo's executives and staff were unaware of the problem. They were still immersed in the dazzling data on the number of users and activity of Yahoo Answers.

"The knowledge quiz community has a natural advantage, and users like this form. After the launch of Yahoo Answers, even if Quora launches new features, it will not work against us.

As long as Quora is not open to all users for a day, the Yahoo Q&A community will naturally suck this part of users away. "Kevin looked very proudly at the data compiled by his subordinates.

He single-handedly led Yahoo Q&A, and relying on the data, he was able to boast in the company's semi-annual report, and Yahoo's stock price could rise by at least ten points.

"Jerry, it seems that your concerns have not been realized. Quora's high threshold has caused users to use a castrated version of Quora. Yahoo Answers has solved problems that have never existed for the majority of users.

We only need to continue to optimize Yahoo Q&A in the future, and sooner or later we will be able to achieve the effect of Quora.

The number of users is the basis for a question-and-answer community to survive benignly. Why can’t the question-and-answer communities of other Internet companies do it because their number of users is too small.

Yahoo naturally has such an advantage. "

While Yahoo execs were complacent about Yahoo Answers' impressive numbers, Quora launched Quorapedia, based on Nupedia.

All users are allowed to edit the content of Quora Encyclopedia, but after you edit the content, it does not mean that it will become the official content of Quora Encyclopedia for everyone to see.

For example, after you edit an entry, all the editors of this entry will get the scoring permission together, and the editors will vote for the entry, but they cannot vote for the entry they edited.

The content with the most votes will become the official content of the entry.

Of course, a manual review mechanism is also introduced. For example, when the number of votes is similar, other senior users in this field will be invited to judge.

When the user has edited 5 official entries in the corresponding field, he will get all the permissions of the corresponding field on Quora, and get a silver badge in this field, which is used to distinguish it from the gold badge of users who have passed the exam.

"Welcome to Charlie Rose's talk show, and today our guest is Newman Zhou, who is known as a genius in Silicon Valley.

Recently, with the launch of Quora, Newman has become more and more popular in Silicon Valley, and all my friends in Silicon Valley are discussing Newman.

They all agreed that Newman is the most outstanding product manager in Silicon Valley now. His ideas have the magic power of turning stones into gold. Let us welcome Newman! "

Yes, Zhou Xin also came to participate in Charlie Rose's talk show. In this era when Internet entertainment is not enough, TV talk shows have a strong influence.

Zhou Xin needs to expand his popularity in the minds of ordinary people, and at the same time highly bind his personal image with NewPay.

This is like Jack Ma is no longer the actual controller of Ant Group in later generations. After the adjustment of voting rights, he lost the majority of voting rights of Ant Group. Even so, when people mention Ant and Alipay, the first thing that comes to mind is definitely Jack Ma. .

Especially when you know that this company has a great possibility in the future, no, it is certain, American will try every means to kick him out.

The creation of this kind of image also requires long-term operation.

"Hi everyone, I'm Newman, the founder of NewPay and Quora." Zhou Xin walked onto the stage wearing a white short-sleeve with a Matrix pattern on it.

"Did you forget something?" Charlie Rose was dressed very formally, from a black suit to a black bow tie and white shirt.

Sitting with Zhou Xin, he is very similar to the time-space interlacing of Broadway opera actors in the 20s and Silicon Valley programmers in the 21s talking through space.

Zhou Xin smiled: "Well, maybe there is also the founder of Riot Games, these titles are not important to me."

Charlie Rose catches the message: "What's your favorite title?"

"I'm a Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley. I'm a Ph.D. candidate in the field of integrated circuits at Berkeley." Zhou Xin replied.

In later generations, it was this identity that benefited him the most, and it was this identity that allowed him to get in touch with Lighthizer's grandson before he could join ZTE.

It is precisely because of this identity that he was able to obtain a large amount of angel investment when he established Xinxin Technology, and investors will not make too many demands.

Charlie Rose applauded, and the audience in the audience applauded wildly and screamed: "It seems that our Silicon Valley ghost is reminding us that everything in Silicon Valley is just his sideline."

A ghost wizard also means a wizard.

"Well, I just interviewed Jerry Yang in this studio a week ago, and I'm here today to interview his fellow Silicon Valley success, Newman.

In this studio before, Jerry praised you very much, thinking that you are the best product manager in Silicon Valley, who can understand people's hearts.

Newman, what do you think of this, and what do you think of Jerry? "

Zhou Xin thought for a while and said: "Jerry is also a very good product manager, as to whether he is as good as me, I can't be both a judge and a contestant, which is unfair to both of us.

Also, my career as an internet product manager has only just begun, so it's too early to tell.

Jerry is a very nice person. As early as when the Riot Electronics community was launched, Jerry wanted to buy Riot Games for $3 million.

You must know that I was still an unknown person at that time, and Yahoo could completely build a game community by itself.But Jerry chose to talk to me about the acquisition. "

Charlie Rose took a look at the A4 paper with the weekly new information written in his hand, and then screamed: "You were only 20 years old when the Riot Electronics community launched.

You can get 20 million US dollars at the age of 3, your excellence is unbelievable.

But you are right that you did not choose to sell to Yahoo, the Riot Games community is now valued at $20 billion. "

Because the fist game has not yet been listed, this valuation is the valuation given by the media, and there will be a big difference from the market value after the real listing.

"So why didn't you consider Yahoo's acquisition at the time? Because you were already approaching Bill Gates?"

Zhou Xin shook his head: "No, I just don't like being acquired, I have a certain desire to control the company I founded.

I can't accept such things as acquisitions. "

Charlie Rose nodded slightly: "I didn't like this feeling of restraint when I was young, and I can understand you very well.

Newman, did Yahoo Answers cause you any stress before it went live?

In fact, I really want to know whether Quora’s paid question and answer function has been around for a long time, and they just waited for Yahoo to steal the limelight before it was launched, or is it a coincidence that the paid question and answer function and Yahoo’s question and answer were launched at the same time? "

Zhou Xin: "Actually, I don't care much about what my competitors have done, or what they are going to do.

I don't care about these, I only care about how I can better serve users and meet users' needs, which is what I care about.

As for whether it is a coincidence or not. "

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