Super Boy Reborn

Early December, 2005.

Heavy snow suddenly invaded the entire California, with snowflakes flying in San Francisco, and Stanford University, which is close to San Francisco, added a bit of silver-covered charm after the heavy snow.

In a certain staircase in the teaching area, an elderly professor Charles is using slides and detailed data to analyze the current international financial market. The content of this day is mainly a summary and summary of the learning in the past few months.

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After he spitted for a while, he looked down at the time, then held his eyes, and said with a little regretful tone and the sparse students, "Happy time is always very short," A burst of kind laughter surged throughout the staircase classroom. This sentence was the old professor's catchphrase, "Happy time is always very short." Every time he said this sentence, what he wanted to say must be the end of get out of class. It was fine at the beginning. Later, every time the old professor opened his mouth, everyone couldn't help laughing.

The old man looked at everyone with a warm smile on his face. The very comic surname suddenly took out a Christmas hat, "It's time for you to enjoy your private space again. This is our last international financial analysis of the year.

For courses, I wish you all a Merry Christmas, please don’t forget to send me the paper before December 18th.”

As he said that, the old professor put his Christmas hat on his head, grinned and clapped his hands, "Dear boys and girls, see you next year." Everyone in the whole group classroom stood up and applauded, then held it

My own things left the classroom one after another, and only the old professor was still sorting out his lesson plans and slides on the wide podium.

It was not until ten minutes later that he slowly raised his head and took off his Christmas hat and put it in his bag. Then he raised his head to leave the classroom, but he saw the boy with thick black hair sitting in the corner, stunned.

After thinking about it, he took his stuff and walked up to him and said, "Xia, why haven't you left yet? Haven't you date?" He smiled, and his face was quite funny with a winking look on his wrinkled face.

Sitting here is Xia Ruxuan, who has been studying at Stanford University for several months. The old professor's expression made Xia Ruxuan laugh involuntarily. He has deeply felt the learning environment on this world-class university campus and the domestic universities.

What is the difference? He has really benefited a lot from the three months he came here to study.

I finally felt how thin this financial knowledge system without a perfect system was even though I had studied with Xia’s financial elite for a while. In short, at Stanford, he was just a silent person.

Most international students who are unheard of in their minds are trying hard to absorb all the knowledge they can reach like a sponge.

In Xia Ruxuan's view, the professors' teaching attitude is probably the biggest reflection of the cultural differences between China and the United States. In China, professors all have a stern face and look majestic, and they are also silent during class.

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But this old man who can be competent in such a first-class university still has a virgin heart. In his class, even rigid and boring classes such as international financial analysis will often make everyone laugh.

He often gets along with young students.

"No." Xia Ruxuan shook his head truthfully, "I just have some small problems with this course..."

"Oh?" The old professor smiled, but said with a serious look, "Young people should not always focus on such boring academics. They should relax and relax when it is time to rest. I'm like you

When I was old, I was still thinking about how to make those girls notice me every day. You know, I am not that eye-catching." The professor stood up straight, then gestured his height, it was indeed not tall, "Miss

They all like handsome guys like you."

He said with some regret, "My favorite girl back then fell in love with a strong young man. Oh my God, his arms are so thick." The professor gestured with an exaggerated look, which made Xia Ruxuan unable to help but look thick.

Smile, it's almost the same thighs as this thick, the old professor was still talking nonstop, "So I told myself that such big guys are simple-minded... Oh, of course, I didn't say what you mean, you understand...

…You are not that…uh… big.” At the end of the story, the professor laughed haha. I have to say that the differences in cultures between the two countries lead to a very different laugh points.

However, Xia Ruxuan still smiled kindly. The old professor patted Xia Ruxuan on the shoulder and turned seriously, "Tell me, what kind of doubt will a genius boy from the East have?"

This old professor has a very profound knowledge. When talking about financial issues, he is very knowledgeable about the classics and classics, which makes Xia Ruxuan amazed. All the problems that were confused in his heart for a while were solved by the old professor's explanation. Xia Ruxuan was like this.

The enlightenment became clearer and clearer.

"If you don't know anything in the future, you can send a message to my email or leave a message on my friendbook. You should add my friendbook friend." The old professor blinked and smiled, "Sorry, you know,

I don’t remember every one of them.”

"Well, I understand, not yet." Xia Ruxuan nodded and stood up with his own things. However, he didn't expect that the professor was also using the friendbook, but it was nothing. Although the friendbook was not open to the society at this time,

Every employee working in a university will have an email provided by the school. However, since the professor mentioned the friendbook, Xia Ruxuan was a little curious and smiled, "Mr. Charles, what kind of site do you think this friendbook is?"

"Oh my God," the old professor slapped his head, "Xia, you Eastern students always like to study all their energy in the academic field, but this is not necessarily a good thing. I think you really should

Focus on some interesting things. If you don't even know about your friendbook, I think your life will be extremely depressed. You should know that you have to stay here for two years or even longer

, Friendbook, a community that is popular in universities across the United States, can make you more friends. I think your language is definitely not a problem now, so just do what I said." Charles paused and glanced.

His mouth, the beard at the corner of his mouth, was funnyly raised, "Register a friendbook account, and then send an email to every girl on the Stanford Popularity List, "Hey, I'm a handsome guy from the East with a very exotic style,

Can I invite you a drink?'," the old professor imitated the tone of the young man, with a unique vitality, and then he looked at Xia Ruxuan, "I promise you will gain something." He said that, and looked at his watch,

Then he patted Xia Ruxuan on the shoulder, "Enjoy your Stanford career, which is something that most people in this world will never enjoy. By the way, the girls here are very enthusiastic."

The old professor laughed a few times and left directly. The entire staircase classroom suddenly became quiet. Xia Ruxuan looked at the old professor and left, then looked down at the teaching materials in his hand, picked them up and left the classroom.

Looking back on the entire 2005, it can be said that friendbook swept every university in the United States with lightning speed, and walked in front of every social network with an amazing coverage rate.

In the message received in September 2005, Friendbook's website has officially covered almost every university in the United States. More than 90% of American college students are their users, and more than 75% are their users.

Users log in to the site more than once a day. Friendbook has increased the number of colleges that it has opened to register to nearly 2,000, and the number of users has exceeded 8 million, reaching 9 million. It should be noted that there is only one in the United States.

To reach 11 million college students, this means that if the strategy is not relaxed, then the friendbook will stop here. This is obviously not in line with Xia Ruxuan and Zuckerberg's ambitious hearts, so Xia Ruxuan comes

In August of the United States, the entire team held countless meetings and discussions on the issue of 'what'. Is it going to take an international route or to save graduates and strive for young adult users at the same time.

...And in Zuckerberg and Xia Ruxuan's plans, these are not the most important things. At this time, what is more important is to win the hearts of high school students.

Friendbook must move towards an 'omnipresent' direction. There are 11 million college students in the United States, but more than 16 million high school students. Conquering cities and villages on high school campuses will bring a large number of users to Friendbook

increase.

In August, under the auspices of Xia Ruxuan, friendbook officially decided to start attacking high school campuses.

However, some people in the team are questioning that nowadays, the brand of Friendbook is unchangeably linked to colleges, and college students may not want to see high school students join them, so some people suggest that it will be open to high schools.

This is not the only problem encountered in development. Another more serious problem is how the server determines the user's identity after a high school student connects to a friendbook, protects the real name system and real identity.

Cultural traditions are an extremely important thing. The reason why universities can guarantee this is that they will send educational emails with the suffix of .edu. However, among high school students, only a few private high schools will send email addresses to students.

For such a problem, the company's new legal counsel initially launched a small campaign to convince high schools to send email addresses to students as an online security measure. But the plan didn't work

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When everyone was in a dilemma, Xia Ruxuan proposed a method that made people amazed, that is, to identify the real identity within a period of time after registering with a friendbook, that is, a high school student must have an online friend guaranteed identity.

This is like encouraging first-year college students to invite their friends who are still in high school to join. In other words, the first problem is also solved in this way - after all, high school students come in through social circles

Rather than the existence of reading, Xia Ruxuan initially decided to create a separate network and user group for 37,000 public and private middle schools across the United States. At the beginning, the two networks of reading led to slow user growth.

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During the month of contact, there was no phenomenon of college students excluding high school students. Many college students even became more active after discovering a new social group. So in mid-September, one month later, two

The business was eventually merged, and the worries of many people in the team were quickly eliminated by the actual situation.

Continuous communication between high school students and college students, and the result of the merger has led to a gratifying overall increase in the site. So far, there have been nearly one million high school users. Today, friendbook is a user group that is close to one

Tens of millions of behemoths, and more than half of the users log in to the site more than once a day. Users browse more than 300 million pages on the site every day, which leads to the revenue of the site exceeding two million US dollars per month, which is close to every month.

The expenditure is just generally in a loss state, but no one is worried about this.

According to the forecast, just tonight, a celebration party of 10 million users will be held at the new headquarters of Friendbook. You should know that it has only been more than a year since the queue of 1 million users. In the first year, it has been more than a year since the queue of 1 million users.

The stations range from zero to one million, and the next year, from one million to ten million, was an order of magnitude, and it was certainly impossible to accommodate the increase in the small apartment on Emerson Street in Palo Alto.

The station staff now moves to a building not far from Stanford University, a modern glass office building, just across the street from Google’s first headquarters.

(To be continued)