You call this entrepreneurship?

Chapter 118 We are the future
After receiving his first investment, Zuckerberg seemed to be motivated.

He immediately redesigned the interface and layout of the website and added new functions.

Qin Shaoyan's words enlightened Zuckerberg and made him determined to change.

There is no way to survive by plagiarizing Facebook. You can only survive by making your own website.

In less than three days, Zuckerberg completed the redesign of the website.

Qin Shaoyan immediately sent congratulations to Zuckerberg, praising him for his courage to change, and calling this day the new life of the "Graph" website.

Zuckerberg doesn't know whether the "Graph" website has been reborn. He is still confused about the future direction of the website and whether it is the right thing to do.

But Qin Shaoyan quickly told him with practical actions that there was nothing wrong with what you did.

One morning, Qin Shaoyan solemnly informed Zuckerberg, "Wear more formally, we are going to meet Yahoo's investment manager."

Zuckerberg was a little confused. Why was he suddenly going to meet Yahoo's investment manager? Is this progress a bit too fast?

Qin Shaoyan didn't give Zuckerberg any time to think, and directly dragged him into the car and went straight to the airport.

After arriving in Silicon Valley, Qin Shaoyan asked Zuckerberg to put on a suit and go to the Yahoo headquarters.

After entering the headquarters building, Qin Shaoyan walked straight to the front desk and said with a smile: "My surname is Qin. I made an appointment with Mr. Steve."

After checking at the front desk, he responded enthusiastically: "Please wait a moment, Mr. Steve's secretary will come to pick you up soon."

At this time, Zuckerberg's nervous legs didn't know how to move, and he looked around secretly, "John, what should we say to the investors when we meet later?"

"Don't be nervous. I'll go in to talk first and then ask you to come in, so you won't be nervous." Qin Shaoyan soothed.

"Then what should I say after I get in?" Zuckerberg asked nervously.

"You just need to demonstrate the website functions to Mr. Steve, and I will do the rest." Qin Shaoyan showed a relaxed smile, "Relax, it doesn't matter even if you mess up, just think of it as accumulating experience. If Yahoo can't do it, we will try again." If you go to Microsoft or Sequoia, if our website is so great, there will always be people interested.”

"That's my website," Zuckerberg corrected.

"Yes, it's your website." Qin Shaoyan showed a meaningful smile, "Your website is great."

At this time, a blond beauty came over and said, "Mr. Qin, right? I am Mr. Steve's secretary. He is waiting for you in the office."

Qin Shaoyan stood up and dragged Zuckerberg to Steve's office. When he walked to the door, he smiled and said to his secretary: "Sorry, can you help this gentleman find a place to rest first?"

The secretary was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile: "Of course, please come over here."

After watching the secretary take Zuckerberg to the next door, Qin Shaoyan opened the door and walked into the office.

Steve was standing in front of the coffee machine, fiddling with it, "Hello, Mr. Qin, we finally meet, what would you like to drink?"

"No, I don't like coffee." Qin Shaoyan declined with a smile.

"Then you missed a delicious dish. This is authentic Blue Mountain coffee. I spent a lot of effort to get it." Steve stirred the coffee and slowly walked to the sofa opposite Qin Shaoyan and sat down.

"How's it going? Mr. Qin, have you considered selling Facebook?"

"No, I have never considered selling Facebook." Qin Shaoyan said lightly, "I am very optimistic about Facebook's future prospects."

"That's such a pity. We have already offered $8.5 million. Didn't your partner tell you?" Steve sighed, "As long as you nod, you will become a billionaire in no time."

"Thank you for your kindness." Qin Shaoyan refused with a smile.

Steve frowned, "Then why did you come to me this time? Is it just to reject me face to face?" "Of course not." Qin Shaoyan said with a smile, "Although we can't reach cooperation on the Facebook project , we can also cooperate on other projects.”

"Oh?!" Steve was a little surprised, "For example..."

"A new website, a new model." Qin Shaoyan said confidently, "I call it the light blog model."

"Light blog?" Steve frowned, thinking about the word.

He knew what a blog was, but he had never heard of a light blog.

But it doesn’t matter. What the Internet sells is concepts. If you can package this concept into a good story, you can sell it.

"Yes, light blog." Qin Shaoyan said with a smile, "The blog model has been developed for many years, but the development is not ideal. Basically, it can only make money by selling advertisements."

"The blog itself has great limitations, because the amount of information conveyed by the text itself is limited, and it also has a certain reading threshold."

“Visually, images can convey more information than text, are richer, and are easier to understand.”

Steve nodded, that was true.

"So why don't we change the text blog into a picture blog?" Qin Shaoyan asked, "Bloggers can express the information they want to express only through pictures."

"Rich pictures or videos, coupled with short text descriptions, lower the threshold for people to read."

“I call it light blogging mode.”

Steve looked interested and asked, "How did you come up with this?"

"The development of the Internet has made it more convenient for people to obtain information. Everyone receives more information every day than in the pre-Internet era." Qin Shaoyan said eloquently, "From newspapers to television to the Internet, every technological development is an information explosion. .”

"A hundred years ago, ordinary people obtained information from the text in newspapers. Fifty years ago, ordinary people obtained image information from television sets. In the Internet era, people are still reading text using tools developed by human high-tech technology. This is simply too much. Ridiculous."

"Ordinary people have access to more and more information, but words carry too little information. From words to pictures to images is an inevitable process, and the elimination of blogs is also an inevitable result."

Steve nodded in agreement, "That makes sense, is there anything else?"

"Of course there is." Qin Shaoyan said with a smile, "From the perspective of the progress of the times, light blogging is the future. From a market perspective, light blogging has a broad market base."

"Huh?" Steve was a little surprised, "What does this mean?"

"Mr. Steve, have you paid attention to how many people in the United States have dyslexia?" Qin Shaoyan asked.

"This..." Steve hesitated, he really hadn't paid attention to this issue.

Qin Shaoyan sighed, "In 1988, the United States conducted an adult literacy survey. It was found that 21%-23% of adults had severe reading difficulties and could only reach or even lower than level 1."

The standard for this level 1 level is that you can write your own name, you can find the name of the country contained in a paragraph of text, you can find the validity period on your driver's license, and you can understand the total amount of your deposit when making a bank deposit.

“A 1992 study of [proficiency] in passages (the ability to read and understand the information provided by passages) showed that only 51% of U.S. college graduates could be classified as proficient.”

"The same study in 2003 found that only 41% of college graduates were proficient. With the development of social economy, the reading ability of American college students has declined instead of rising."

"So judging from the survey, there are more and more people with dyslexia. The demise of text-only blogs is inevitable. Pictures and videos will be the mainstream in the future."

Steve's face became serious. If it is true as Qin Shaoyan said, the light blogging model will indeed become the mainstream method.

"Our light blog is the future." Qin Shaoyan concluded.

(End of this chapter)