Vol 5 Chapter 867: look forward to

"Feng, I think we actually have a more effective way to compete with eBay." After boarding the plane, Sandberg, who had just joined the company for a few days, sat across from Feng Yiping and actively gave him advice.

Presumably she had also paid attention to the clash between Whitman and Feng Yiping just now. From then to now boarding, there is enough time in between so that she can fully understand the entanglement between Feng Yiping and Whitman.

Feng Yiping propped his chin with his hand and looked at the planes waiting to take off outside, not commenting on her statement.

Sandberg was a little disappointed. As a new member, she naturally had to work hard, but what does Feng Yiping mean? Having said something like this, shouldn't you just listen to what I said?

But for her, even a small setback is not a trivial matter, and it does not make her feel frustrated. It makes her feel that his attitude towards himself has changed immediately after accepting Feng Yiping’s employment. In the past, I was thirsty for talents, but now I am above everything else.

She didn't want to wait for Feng Yiping to ask questions, so she told her what she thought of. At this moment, Mike pulled her slightly and shook her head.

Sandberg is a little confused. Are you not interested in what I said? Do you know what I want to say?

Mike moved his index finger around the temple twice, and then gestured to Feng Yiping.

Oh, Sandberg understood right away, Feng Yiping is thinking now.

It seemed that he was thinking very much. As Gulfstream was getting faster and faster on the runway, he still kept that posture motionless when people could obviously feel some bumps.

It wasn't until Gulf Stream rushed into the skies that a person who had experienced a few days of rain and rain on an airplane saw the long-lost bright sunshine again, and he came back to his senses, "Sandberg, what did you just say?"

Just say that he is not such an arrogant person, just that he will not change his attitude drastically in just a few days, although even if this is the case, Sandberg will not feel depressed, but if it is not, it is naturally the best.

"I said we compete with eBay, there are actually better ways," Sandberg said with a good mood.

"Thank you," Feng Yiping nodded, Sandberg's way of supporting himself, naturally made him feel a little warm.

"I believe that what you want to say will be a very good way, but from the perspective of the company as a whole, the relationship between us and eBay is actually quite good."

In China, Jiasheng Mall and Ali do not need to show any sympathy for eBay's siege, but in the United States, although he uttered such cruel words in front of Whitman, in fact, there is absolutely no need to confront eBay. It should be something Amazon or other e-commerce companies should do. There is no need for your own company to act on behalf of others and win the world for free.

Strictly speaking, even in the group buying business, nextdoor and eBay have faced each other head-on, but eBay is not a competitor to its core business in the United States.

So there is really no need to fully confront it.

This point is also clear to its affordable Terman. Since the group buying dispute, eBay has never disputed what Feng Yiping and his American company have done, because the two companies’ business in North America can be said to be very different. take.

If you put your energy and resources on dealing with Feng Yiping and nextdoor and facebook, how can you still compete with other real competitors?

The several confrontations between Whitman and Feng Yiping also took place when they met, and did not involve the company level. It was a bit similar to Whitman because of various reasons before, that he was a bit uncomfortable with Feng Yiping.

Of course, whether it was the competition at the company level or the verbal confrontation at the personal level, Feng Yiping was no exception. He was unceremoniously succeeding and went back, so that Whitman never grasped the thrill of victory. There was a lot of frustration and resentment.

As the person in charge of the company, he must clearly know that the company should focus on the focus of its efforts. Obviously, taking some measures to expand the contradiction with eBay, at least should not be the focus of work in the United States at this stage.

Sandberg pondered for a while, why is there a good way to compete with eBay, he didn't even want to listen? Later, she also quickly figured out the key, and couldn't help but glance at Feng Yiping again.

At his age when he should be young and vigorous, it is indeed not an easy task not to decide the company's behavior based on personal preferences or emotions.

"You are right," Sandberg said.

She remembered Feng Yiping's last book again. In the blue ocean strategy, he advocated not a life-and-death zero-sum game.

An aggressive company may not necessarily be an excellent company, but it is clear that an aggressive company will naturally be more popular with users.

Feng Yiping nodded, "It's just a different angle,"

In fact, he is not so magnanimous, he just controls better.

The problem he thought about just now was related to dealing with eBay, but he still hoped that he would not be so narrow-minded and use this new product not specifically to target anyone, but to serve users.

"I just had a new idea," he said.

Both Sandberg and Mike were interested, which naturally referred to the question he had just thought about.

Feng Yiping beckoned, and Randolph immediately sat next to him.

"Do you think there is a connection between people who search for the same word on the Internet? Can we develop a product to connect them?"

"Yes," "Should have something in common," But, what about it, what business opportunities are there?

"Then I wonder if we can create another community, a community that accommodates a circle of friends who are interested in various issues. For example, if I personally like a star in Hollywood, then I can create a community in this community. The section named after the star provides a space for other netizens who also like the star to discuss and follow the star."

"For another example, I will assume and boast that Mike really likes my "Big Data" book, so I can create a section called Big Data in this community for those netizens who also like this book. In this space, exchange views and opinions on this book,"

"Bezos is interested in aviation, and he can also build a section with aviation as the theme. However, this section he built may face competition from the topic of flying to Mars founded by Musk," he did not forget. Those two took it out and rinsed them.

Obviously, this "new idea" of Boss Feng was launched the year before last, but the climate has not yet formed at this time, and later became the climate, but it has made many people see that their company is to a certain extent, or at least in many businesses. , Lack of social responsibility, only profit is the product of the essence, post it.

"The advantage of this is that in such a small circle, people can talk more deeply on certain topics," Sandberg said.

"I think profit is not a problem. For example, I really like the Star Wars series of movies. If I create such a topic, after the small circle of fans becomes lively, I can insert the products around Star Wars on the page. , There are also advertisements for games of similar nature," Mike seems to be very interested in this idea, and also very insightful.

"It's really good. If you manage it well, many users are expected to participate in discussions on topics they are interested in for a long time, or keep paying attention to that topic. This will obviously bring huge traffic," Randolph said.

He also understood what Feng Yiping meant. This is a product that provides a place to communicate with fellow likes, and how many common hobbies are there?

With so many common hobbies, there are only dozens or hundreds of people participating under one topic. What is the total number?

The reason why Feng Yiping thought of posting it is simple.

When Whitman was having trouble with him, he thought about it more than once and opened a new section on nextdoor to let everyone complain about the unpleasant experiences they encountered while shopping on eBay. It’s best to open another one at the same time. Everyone tells about the section of buying good things on Amazon.

He wanted to see if Whitman would spit out black blood with anger.

But that is obviously too stingy. It's better to try to serve this new product to more people. In this way, this product will have more vitality.

"The difficulty of development is not too high," Mike added from a technical point of view.

It is high, what is the problem for them?

They are now well-funded and have a good image. Who are they looking for? Under this premise, as long as there are good ideas, there will be no problems that cannot be developed.

"Then the next question is whether this new product will be placed under nextdoor or given to facebook at that time,"

He saw that Sandberg didn't even think about it and wanted to talk, waved his hand, "Everyone should seriously consider the pros and cons."

This is obviously impossible for youtube, but Randolph is not willing to be lonely and said, "At that time, we can build more topic groups about movies, and we can also advertise our DVD rentals."

This is also reasonable.

"It's all good, so everyone writes down their own thoughts, and we finally consider where to make it home, so the next thing is a related product,"

Still related?

"Since everyone has a lot of questions and they are looking for answers online, can we make a question and answer product?" Feng Yiping said.

"I know that Google already has similar products, and Yahoo seems to be getting involved in this area now, and now it claims to have tens of millions of visitors every day. I think this is also a good direction."

As a former Google employee, Sandberg did not rush to speak this time.

Since this is a product already on the market and a product that Mike and Randolph don't know much about, they didn't rush to speak.

"Everyone can also seriously consider whether we can make this product, and if we do, will it affect our relationship with Google?"

Feng Yiping believes that it will not affect it. Like many other products, Google Q&A has developed very unsuccessfully, and Google does not care about it. However, Feng Yiping hopes that several of them can learn from different aspects. Consider this question ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ for your own reference.

"Similarly, if you want to do it, then put it under nextdoor or join facebook,"

He watched Sandberg silently, thinking she had other thoughts, "Of course, this is extra work...,"

"No, Feng, this is naturally not extra work," Sandberg said. "I'm just very surprised. In just such a short time, you have considered so many questions and asked such good questions. I look forward to my future work very much."

"Hehe, you will adapt quickly," Mike said with a smile.

Among those present, he is indeed qualified to say such things.

"It's a pity that Feng, what you said today, has no direct connection with YouTube or Netflix, which makes me very sorry," Randolph said.

"Sorry? Please! How many ideas did Feng think about YouTube," Mike said immediately, "Besides, is it not enough to have such a good product as YouTube?"

"How about you, isn't it enough to have a good product like Facebook?" Randolph said tit-for-tat.

"Hey, everyone wants to get better and better," Mike said with a grin.

Randolph let him go, and then aimed at Feng Yiping, "Boss, you just said that you want to build a circle for a Hollywood star you like. Which star is that? Is it a female star? Do you know? , We have a lot of cooperation with Hollywood now, what do you think, we can directly tell the star,"

"Yes, which female star is it?" Sandberg asked with a smile.

Mike's small eyes also showed the gossip fire in his heart.......

These guys!