The Millennium Semiconductor Survival Guide.

Chapter 98 Newman's Charlie Rose Talk Show 2
"It's absolutely a coincidence that last year Microsoft just launched the MSN portal, and Yahoo immediately launched a similar portal, My Yahoo.

Quora has always been committed to providing users with better services. The paid question and answer function is based on the previous Quora function, and combined with a certain reward mechanism, a new function has been developed.

To be honest, I don't take Yahoo Q&A very seriously. Perhaps Yahoo has done a good job in the fields of portals and personal Internet navigation, but in the field of question-and-answer communities, Quora is not afraid of any opponents.

Quora became popular all over the United States very quickly when it was first launched. At that time, I had a private chat with Bill Gates. He said that Microsoft was also trying to develop its own knowledge question-and-answer community. What I said was, you just come. "

Zhou Xin showed great confidence on the show, and viewers who watched the TV show later had a new understanding of Zhou Xin.

Previously, the media from Silicon Valley to New York all portrayed Zhou Xin as a taciturn Chinese genius.

This kind of image is not pleasing to the American in any era. Before, it needed to be wretched to develop, but now it is getting more and more wings. Zhou Xin knows that he has to reshape his image in the eyes of the public.

That's why he participated in the Charlie Rose interview, including how to express himself on the show, Zhou Xin thought about it before coming.

This is the same as the public image of future generations of entrepreneurs. It must be set by the entrepreneur himself, and then the entire team will work together to create it.

The most famous should be Jobs who always wears Issey Miyake's simple black sweater and jeans, tying himself to the depth of innovation.

Charlie Rose also did not expect a genius from China to be so arrogant, he asked: "So in fact, your character has never been afraid of any challenges, and you dare to face any challenges.

I'm curious, when Yahoo advertises that it is about to launch a quiz community, do you feel that your ideas have been plagiarized?Do you think Yahoo's behavior is wrong? "

Zhou Xin said without thinking, "No."

"Because the question-and-answer community is a model innovation, model innovation cannot ask competitors not to do it.

It's like an online forum. After the earliest BBS online forum came out, it was impossible to ask others not to develop an online forum.

If you can do that, it's actually a monopoly.For model innovation, more companies entering this field will put pressure on leading companies and promote new innovations and better user experience.

This is also an important source of vitality for Silicon Valley.

On the contrary, I am very happy to see a big player like Yahoo enter the market, he will help us educate users what is a quiz community, and then these users will know what the quiz community is, and they will know the best quiz community in the world It's Quora.

In the end, they will all switch to the arms of Quora. "

After Zhou Xin finished speaking, he grinned. As a person who went back to 1998, it was difficult for him to regard Yahoo as a real competitor.

Although in this era, Yahoo can be seen almost anytime when surfing the Internet, but knowing the inevitability of history, it is difficult for Zhou Xin to feel the substantive sense of oppression.

Of course, after supporting Robin to establish Baidu in Silicon Valley, Zhou Xin is not afraid of Google. Baidu may not lose to Google in Silicon Valley.

The audience in the audience began to applaud again, and the American audience likes guests who candidly express their ambitions.

Why in later generations in American, arrogant people like Musk can be sought after, while Bill Gates' various charitable acts will be sprayed from multiple angles and all directions.

Of course, there are almost as many people who hate Musk as there are people who like Musk, but Bill Gates only hates him, and almost no one speaks for him.

It is still because Bill Gates' image is too perfect, so perfect that it is unreal, including the Epstein incident later.

Later, after he and Melinda divorced, his image in the eyes of the people of American improved. It turns out that Bill Gates also has a human side that loves the new and hates the old.

People who like Musk think his wild words are a manifestation of self-confidence, which is also a kind of truth.

In Silicon Valley in 1999, entrepreneurs were all nerds, geeks, and immersed in their own world. In these images, a guy like Zhou Xin who was full of confidence was very few.

Charlie Rose was also applauding, and then gestured for the director to play a video on the screen behind them:
"I think we can beat Quora, and it was never Yahoo's goal to beat Quora." Jerry Yang's face appeared behind their backs.

The audience in the audience became even crazier. You must know that this was Yang Zhiyuan and Zhou Xin fighting in the air, and all kinds of screams came and went.

Charlie Rose explained: "That's what Jerry Yang said last week when he was on the show."

"He's as confident as you, no, you're more confident than him.

I like the confidence.The director also recorded what Newman said just now, and the next time the two of them participate in the show, whoever loses will play this conversation repeatedly. "

Charlie Rose, who was still laughing just now, stopped his smile and suddenly became serious: "Jerry came to our show before, and he said that Yahoo's vision is to become a new media company in the Internet age, providing users with a lot of high-quality content.

We know you have a lot of businesses to your name, from Quora to NewPay to Riot, companies that are not consolidated into one group.

But I can see him as a whole, you have achieved so much at such a young age, so what is your vision? "

Zhou Xin also pretended to be thinking: "My experience is not rich enough, I think I also hope to bring more and better products to users.

In addition to this, what I hope most is to successfully get a Ph.D. from Berkeley. "

Charlie Rose nodded: "It is not difficult for you to realize these two wishes.

Quora and NewPay have brought us great surprises. Many viewers in front of the TV may not have used NewPay, but I have.

Before I sent money to my son, I needed to go to the bank to transfer money, but now I can directly use the computer to operate it.

Very convenient payment software. "

Zhou Xin said: "Charlie, thank you for helping NewPay advertise."

Charlie Rose: "I still haven't finished my sentence. Don't forget to leave my email address when you register your account.[email protected]"

Zhou Xin also joked: "Well, it turns out that you have such an idea. I will ask NewPay's operations to cancel your incentive plan."

"Newman, you are not like the Chinese, you are too bad, the Chinese I have seen are not as cunning as you." Charlie Rose complained.

Zhou Xin: "That may be because you have seen too few Chinese."

Charlie Rose took the opportunity to ask a sharp question: "Some black people think that the threshold set by Quora is unfriendly to black people. What do you think?"

Zhou Xin was speechless in his heart, and his face remained calm: "I don't quite understand what that means?"

Charlie spread his hands: "Some black scholars believe that due to historical reasons, blacks have a disadvantage in acquiring knowledge, and the examination mechanism set by Quora is very unfriendly to blacks.

Recently, a team of Yale University focused on human rights protection conducted a survey. The survey showed that less than 5.00% of blacks passed the Quora user registration test. Is this a phenomenon of unfairness and racial *discrimination? "

Zhou Xin knew that this hat should never be touched, and at such a time, magic needs to be used to overcome magic, "I am a minority, and it is absolutely impossible to discriminate against Africans who belong to the same minority as the Chinese.

Secondly, the threshold test set by Quora only prevents users from asking and answering questions, and does not affect the answers and questions that users can view historical stocks.

At the same time, we have also launched a search function. If you have any questions, you can search directly in Quora to find similar questions.

Including the paid question function after it goes online, it provides a variety of choices for users who are eager for knowledge.

This is pure product strategy and has nothing to do with intentional unfairness. "

Although Zhou Xin was dumbfounded by the political correctness of Silicon Valley, Hollywood and Washington in the later generations, this trend has never reached Wall Street.

It shows that the old money is still sensible, teasing racial issues is teasing racial issues, and will not burn this fire on themselves.

Fortunately, the present is far from being exaggerated by later generations, and Zhou Xin's answer in later generations obviously cannot pass the test.

Charlie Rose: "So why does Quora have such a high bar, you don't seem to have responded to that in a formal setting.

This is also something that many of my friends in Silicon Valley cannot understand.

Before Quora, no Internet company has tried every means to push users away. Everyone thinks that users are wealth. Only Quora, Quora seems to have naturally set a very high threshold.

The user test is like a sign made of gold at the entrance of a luxury store, telling passers-by that his audience is only the rich. "

Zhou Xin replied half-truthfully: "I solemnly declare here that Quora has never intended to drive users away.

Like other online communities, the Q&A community is a provider of content. Any user can browse Quora's webpage, use Quora's search function, register as a Quora user, and use our paid question function.

We set thresholds for questioners and answerers, also to ensure the purity of the content provided by the Q&A community.

In order to attract attention and eyeballs, many users speak freely on the Internet without any scruples.

At the same time, the comments on the Internet cannot be held accountable, and I randomly answer questions that I don't understand at all.

Even make up something to answer.

I'm not saying that all users will do this, but Quora prefers to set a threshold to filter out most of the content in order to ensure purity, and we only need the best part. "

The chaos that Zhou Xin talked about is the chaos of Zhihu in later generations.

Charlie Rose asked: "Aren't these users talking nonsense at all now?"

Zhou Xin said: "I can't guarantee it, but it's very difficult for current accounts to obtain permission to ask questions and answer questions. If they make inappropriate comments, their account will be blocked. This makes most users cherish their permissions."

　It has been changed to 6k today, 3k in the morning and 3k in the evening, I don’t know if there is any more.

　　
　
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