"Boss, this is the information you want."

Alvitre took out a paper bag from his bag and handed it to Andy.

Andy took the file bag, opened it and smiled to Budstone, "Bud, the predator team will give it to you, I hope to hear more good news."

"Yes, boss, if there is nothing else, I'll go back to the company first."

Andy nodded with a smile, watching the figure of Bardstone leaving, then lowered his head and began to look at the information in his hand, ten lines at a glance, which was not difficult for him to shorthand.

"..." Andy tapped on those documents with his fingers, squinting his eyes slightly, touching his chin with his right hand, thinking in a very tangled manner.

"Boss, do you want to buy this website called Twitter Shejiao and Weibo?"

Arvitelli saw the tangled expression of his boss and knew that the boss encountered indecisions and asked.

"I have this idea, but at the same time I have a new app application idea, and I want to run a similar microblogging service shejiao platform myself. Twitter is a ready-made company. If you can buy it, you can save A lot of things come. "Andy Shu raised his eyebrows and said nothing to Al.

"I do not recommend the acquisition of this Internet company. I have carefully studied and analyzed this company. It is the next step in the reasonable development of existing blog sites and the initial stage of blogging. It is very convenient to type 140 words and send them to the Internet. They also realized the flow of information. The advantage is that they can provide direct and important information, which is incomparable with other websites.

However, this company also has several major problems. The problem of SMS charging will make users worry about the increase in SMS costs. After all, the Watzp developed by your boss has become the most popular chat tool nowadays, and it is a cross-platform mobile phone. Real-time chat and free information push have begun to change people's use of paid SMS.

As soon as they debuted this year, they became the best way for netizens in the southern United States to find a party. It seems very promising, but after the launch of whatsapp, the amount of data traffic and information sent by Twitter has shrunk sharply. It has begun to squeeze its living space. If Watts has a shejia platform, I think Twitter will definitely not get better.

There is also the most critical question. I do n’t see how Twitter is profitable, and some media also interviewed several founders of Twitter. This question was also raised. Their answer was to ask reporters and ask Google. Let's take an example, that is, they themselves know that they have no profitable way. "

Andy nodded in recognition of listening to Al ’s analysis. Even though Twitter in the previous life did not solve the problem of profit even after it was listed and raised money, this has always been criticized. "But the advantages of Twitter are still impossible. Ignore, after all, even without a network, it is very advantageous to be able to send messages to the outside world. "

Arvitelle smiled when he heard what the boss said: "Boss, even so, we don't have the need to acquire. They have started financing externally, hoping to find a venture capital to get money to burn, but this is not easy, Watts The appearance of general has reduced the value of Twitter, but Twitter still insists that their market value is 200 million US dollars. I do n’t think that the boss will be willing to spend 200 million US dollars to acquire this company. With this money, I want to establish myself. There is such a company, and, I believe the boss, the products you come up with will be better than them. As for the technical staff after the establishment of the company, haha, are there ready-made ones? "

Andy's hand slumping with his chin, his mouth twitched, his eyes lit up, his mouth full of upturned, smiling, and looking at the same smile Al said, "Oh, you say if you are pushing When it ’s so difficult, will it be too much for me to dig up the entire team? "

"Well, it's very excessive, huh, but we must first solve some patent problems, even current Twitter has been ignored. Since ibm's patent barrier is a SMS push platform, it can't avoid ibm. It is currently a potential infringement. Twitter is also a small company, and IBM did n’t wield a patent stick to give it a fatal blow. I do n’t think it ’s not clear to IBM ’s legal department. It ’s stubborn, hoping to maximize the benefits. If you are the boss, you will also launch this microblog Service platform, then I think we must first buy the relevant patents held by IBM in order to acquire new technology and establish a protection net for infringement lawsuits. Even if Twitter stubbornly survives in the future, we can also make them crippled ! "

Andy is deeply impressed by this. Although his whatsapp is a new it company, so far he has 11 patents in hand and more than 60 patents are under review. This is the United States, any new Internet The company's lack of intellectual property rights may make this company the target of lawsuits and limit its ability to counterattack by claiming its own patents without establishing a patent protection network, which is really stupid. The better the development, the better the lawsuit will be. more.

"Let the think tank list the relevant patents and potentially infringing patents, and we pay for them. This is unavoidable. Such things must be resolved as soon as possible. The purchase of patent rights will provide us with more complete protection of intellectual property rights. And give us greater freedom of movement, and innovate on behalf of everyone who uses our services. "Andy attaches great importance to patent barriers, why Facebook likes big fish to eat small fish, dare to play snakes and swallow elephants, and hold the market The financing money wiped out potential opponents everywhere. Any company that thought it might threaten it was acquired because most of the companies Facebook acquired were new types of Internet companies. In addition to eliminating competitors, it also built a strong presence from acquisitions. The patent barrier in the United States is a popular word in the IT industry, maybe in a certain garage has been born to replace your creativity!

With patent barriers, there is no need to worry about a sudden emergence of a garage entrepreneur to become a new legend, a new challenger, a patent barrier alone can kill these potential threats in the cradle, which is why the Internet industry in various countries The more it develops to the end, it has spawned giant monster oligopoly companies, and the reason why Internet entrepreneurship is becoming more and more difficult.

"Understood, we are already arranging manpower to start this work." Al nodded and understood that he had been instructed to do it. He still knew the character of his boss very well. He liked to take the initiative and dislike everything. Subject to people.

After sending away Alvitelie, Andy started to rotate with the pen in his hand, and his brain was moving rapidly. This time, it was not just to create an Instagram photo wall, a shejiao application running on the mobile terminal, instagram It is an app that can quickly, wonderfully and interestingly share pictures captured by users at any time to share with each other. You also need to combine Weibo to build your own unique platform website that can send 140 text messages like Twitter. At the same time, combine the functions of Weibo and photo wall. After all, the value of a single Instagram photo wall can no longer meet the needs of Andy. Appetite.

In this way, this new type of Internet model can completely replace the yet-to-be-developed Twitter and completely eliminate this opponent. Of course, if Twitter can survive the first round of attack by Andy's digging method, it will survive.

Andy picked up the phone and called Korn / Ferry International Consulting Co., Ltd. and Heidrick & Struggles International Co., Ltd., two of the largest headhunters in the United States, with only one requirement. The development and management team of Twitter, he both had wanted.

For an important customer like Andy Smith, no one wants to ignore it. After hanging up, the two companies will immediately meet to form a team to take charge of this cornering task. As for the death and death of Twitter, it is not their consideration. Now that the big man has made the point, what these headhunters need to do is to do everything possible to complete according to the customer's requirements, and to satisfy the customer is their main task.

"Everyone should know how our youngest billionaire in the world likes to use professional managers, and each professional manager has been fully trusted. This time his goal is very clear. Twitter, San Francisco's Silicon Valley A small company, Mr. Smith's request is to dig out the development team of Twitter and all the management teams except the three founders. This is the goal of this time. "The CEO of Korn / Ferry International Consulting, pressing his hands on the conference table, Looking around for a week, the body leaned forward and pointed sharply, and said to everyone present.

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