Wall Street Legend

   Chapter 163 Public Beta (34)

  Beta version, meaning test version.

Ye Dongqing spent more than 20 million US dollars to acquire the Skype technology and patents from the Estonians. When he got it, it was almost completed, but it was not very stable. At that time, he had a little unstable call when he was actually testing in Rome. question.

After a group of Facebook employees worked overtime day and night to optimize and improve, it seems that they can enter the public testing stage. According to Ye Dongqing's idea, users only need to enter the corresponding Facebook account, and they will be able to call people who also have a Skype account. Other users can use this to bundle it with Facebook, and easily introduce Facebook users into Skype, avoiding secondary promotion and wasting money in vain.

This is just the initial version at the moment. In the future, instant text chat and video call functions can also be added, turning Skype into a subsidiary independent of Facebook. Even if you don’t use Facebook, you can use it as an independent communication Promote the platform.

  He asked Mr. Alfred and said: "Is it open for download now? I don't seem to be able to use it yet. The page does not respond after clicking."

   "No, I need to ask for your permission first, and I specially recruited a few young people to redesign the company's official website page, which looks much neater than before, right?

  If you agree to open the test, I can get people to start it now, the advertisement has been designed, and the promotion word is the one on the download page: a free calling program that can drive communication operators crazy. "

"It's more bright, but I will definitely be targeted by those operators, but who cares, anyway, those people make money and don't take me points. Let's open the test and see how many users can use it. Find more Get someone to improve it, and it would be great if you can introduce a few people talking together."

  Skype is in hand, and it will develop into online video calls in the future. It is certain to mess with a bunch of communication operators, but it is not a big problem.

  Compared to this group of people, Ye Dongqing should be more worried about the pressure from other aspects. Recently, he has rejected too many requests to try to buy shares in Facebook.

  This aspect is worthy of attention, but it is not a big deal. Every time I reply to potential investors that there is no financing plan for the time being, I don’t say anything dead, and give them a little hope.

For example, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, etc., who hope to act as an agent for listing at that time, all have contacts with Ye Dongqing. Whoever is so arrogant that he can cover the sky with one hand will only push Ye Dongqing into the arms of others.

It sounds ambiguous, but that's what it means. Right now, he just needs to increase his exposure to let more people know about himself. If he is pushed, he can learn from a certain real estate tycoon and use social platforms to expose the shady scene. Under the pressure of public opinion, Ye Dongqing can do this kind of thing.

Mr. Alfred replied: "The technology of multi-person calling is not difficult. We can add it in the next update. Are you sure it will be launched today? I can't guarantee that it will be able to support so many users at the same time. The probability will cause the server to be paralyzed."

   "Then open it to some users first, how to do it safely, don't you still have funds in the account, the money that should be spent does not need to be saved, the user experience is the most important."

Ye Dongqing opened the drawer and took out a cigar. She was not nervous. After all, there were no competitors in the market. It was more like celebrating in advance. According to the previous idea, new Skype users would get 100 hours of free calling time , and then you need to recharge.

The call fee is about one-third of the normal call fee, and his heart is still a little dark. In his previous life, the Skype call fee was only about one-tenth. He felt that it would not be too late to reduce it after competitors appeared. He has more advantages in international long-distance business. All at the same price.

I was talking on the phone with Mr. Alfred, and my mind has already gone to other places. Unlike Facebook, Skype is more like a **** stick in Ye Dongqing's eyes. It is the kind that can easily cause trouble for the upper body. I don't know how strong the resistance of those telecom operators will be. It's hard to guess just by guessing. You'll know when Skype spreads...

   About half an hour later, many users of the English version of Facebook received an official push message.

   Someone is using Facebook, and they click in to check out this new beta program called Skype out of curiosity, and they think Facebook is cool, so they think the new product will be cool.

Richard Rockefeller was one of them. He just met a girl from Brown University at a party. He was talking on the phone with her. A girl interacts under the photo.

  In terms of the degree of chaos in life style, Ye Dongqing is nothing compared to him.

  Received the official push news at this moment, Richard clicked the mouse to check it out. After seeing the concise and clear product introductions, he couldn’t help but find it interesting, so he downloaded it casually, and told the female student on the other end of the phone about it.

In 2003, the network transmission speed was not bad, and the installation was confirmed soon. I followed the guidance and entered the FB account and password, agreed to open Skype, and allowed some friends to view the numbers randomly assigned by Skype. The communication list inside was empty, and no one was added. people.

   When he returned to Facebook, Richard found a green "SK" logo under the FB account, indicating that he was online.

It was even more interesting, and urged the female student to sign up for one, dialed on the phone, and at the same time used Skype on the computer to make a call, quickly plugged in the headset, Richard hung up the phone and said: "Wow, you can hear Am I talking? I'm calling you on this Skype, are you there?"

"I can hear you, sorry, my roommate came back just now, and now I'm chatting with you on the balcony, this app is so cool! After I finish the small tasks, I can get a total of 150 hours of free talk time, if My friends use it too, so I can save a lot of money on phone bills in the future, as long as I have internet, I can use it!"

Richard Rockefeller thought more, he smelled a strong business opportunity, and said with a smile: "The boss of Facebook is a cool Chinese, and very smart, I am not surprised at all to come up with such a good program, the only regret What is only available on the computer.

When the number of users increases, those communication operators will definitely be furious. They spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a communication infrastructure. They planned to make money from phone bills, but they didn't expect it to be cheaper for others. Maybe it might get into a lawsuit... "

  (end of this chapter)