Chapter 67： [Former employee of PayPal]

After an American party, I can get a lot of recognition from the employees here. Luo Sheng doesn't know, but they are all playing very well. The skin is real.

In fact, these local employees are also very surprised. I thought they were boring. I didn't expect the party held by the boss of Hua Guo could be so beautiful.

Luo Luosheng can easily integrate into American culture, but it is difficult for Americans to integrate into Chinese culture. This is the difference between the two sides.

"On the front foot, you only got $ 325 million in financing from Wall Street, and you are playing so crazy on the back foot. If investors would most likely regret it." Qin Weimu came to Luo Sheng, and stood in a nearby space.

派对 At this moment, the party is still going on. The North American employees who come here are more fun than one.

Luo Sheng smiled when she heard such a spit, calmly said: "That's right, including the previous investment, VC regretted the investment of the money before long, and then a batch of happy after a while , And throw money at me, and then regret it ... so repeatedly. "

Hey, that's right.

When the two were chatting, Luo Sheng saw a Chinese-American face. Among more than 80 employees, there were actually more than 30 Chinese-faced people. They were all engineers and their development capabilities were stronger than those of white people.

罗 When Luo Sheng heard someone calling the Chinese-American face "SteveChen", he subconsciously for a while.

Wu Qin Weimu glanced at him and found his slightly miserable expression, can not help but question.

"what happened to you?"

Luo Luosheng ignored Qin Weimu and immediately shouted to the Chinese employee: "SteveChen? Chen Shijun?"

When the Chinese face turned around, he saw that the boss really looked at himself, so he pointed to himself, and saw the boss nodded again. He was sure that the boss was calling himself, and he walked over.

"BOSS, are you looking for me?" Chen Shijun wondered how the boss knew his Chinese name.

At this moment, Luo Sheng wasn't quite sure whether he was the one he thought. After asking him to sit down, he couldn't help but ask, "Have you ever worked at PayPal before?"

Chen Shijun nodded, suddenly feeling a little awkward, but still said truthfully: "Yes BOSS, but how do you know? Yes, that was three months ago, when PayPal laid off staff, I was unfortunately one of them One of them, like me, is Chad Hurley and Judd Kalim, and we were lucky to get the Bluestar offer last week. "

After a brief explanation by Chen Shijun, Luo Shengdun felt astonished that after they were fired, they were unemployed and in debt.

余 The power of the bursting of the Internet bubble still exists, and many large Internet companies are cutting costs and cutting resources.

"OK, have fun." Luo Sheng confirmed the guess in his heart and chatted with him for a few sentences, and Chen Shijun left the table.

At this moment, Luo Sheng is in a good mood. It's really no effort to break through the iron shoes and find nowhere. The three founders of YouTube have actually joined the North American branch of Bluestar Technology and became their own employees.

The layout of the Internet video and audio business was originally a strategic plan laid out in his mind, which is also the focus of work in the next year.

Uh ...

Twenty-three days later, Luo Sheng came to Menlo Park again and met with a group of North American employees. With the previous party activities, Luo Sheng and the foreign employees also felt a lot of distance.

At this moment, more than 80 employees are gathered in the work hall, listening to Luo Sheng's speech.

"... Before I left California, we need to play with new tricks guys, I decided to create a brand new website in North America, the core is anonymity mechanism." Luo Sheng told everyone about the kernel.

When Luo Sheng described it roughly, everyone was caught off guard.

"BOSS, are you sure you are kidding me? This new website is simply the opposite of BlueSpace," said an employee named Vader Karim.

"BlueSpace is a real-name social mechanism, but this new website is a 180-degree change, too subversive." Chen Shijun said.

All the employees spoke freely. After a while, Luo Sheng looked around and laughed: "I believe, I know, because you were exposed at the party three days ago, I know your secrets, every member present I know that this group of people here are very innovative and like to challenge the rules and ways of doing things. At the same time, they behave freely and freely. Our entire team will become one, cooperate and cooperate with each other. "

Qin Weimu, who was also present, found that Luo Sheng can mobilize the emotions of employees. Whether it is domestic employees or foreign employees, they can always say the most appropriate words on the most suitable occasions, and twist the team most appropriately. Into a bundle.

This is not just a relationship between money and contracts, but also his personal charm. He seems to be a born leader.

"Only we would think of doing this, wouldn't we?" Luo Sheng added.

"Go ahead, so what is the name of the new website?" Said an employee named Russell Simmons eagerly.

"R-E-D-D-I-T ,!" Luo Sheng said briefly.

When everyone heard that the new website was the name, everyone couldn't help but laugh, and Vader Karim immediately said: "Sorry BOSS, I think this name is too popular. Can you change it to have a connotative point? "

Everyone nodded and thought that the name was too stupid. The Americans had a straightforward personality and said what they wanted.

Luo Sheng spread his hands and said helplessly, "The Internet domain name has been squatted too much. Now it is really difficult to apply for a name that is not occupied and easy to remember. Although I can spend money to buy it, Obviously, I don't want to spend money unjustly. In addition, Reddit also means 'readit'. Anyway, 'connotation' and so on are a bit. "

I was so determined by the boss's insistence.

"Reddit needs a significant feature, which is to give users great permissions, including the introduction of user message functions. We also need to be mentally prepared. After launching this website, the anonymity mechanism will inevitably be blamed, even if it is scolded. I'm not surprised that a site that's never been so stupid has also meant dealing with all kinds of human nature. "

Luo Sheng stood in the middle and described in an orderly manner, everyone said nothing, and many employees were surprised by the boss's remarks, because they found that the boss can always say something that makes people stand out. Creative.

For example, introduce the message function.

But for Luo Sheng, this feature is standard for all websites, but now it is just entering the time point of 2004, which is a very bold decision.

Luo Sheng added: "In the future, we should allow users to create sub-sections. We must be the first to challenge the inherent rules and concepts. Users can gather on Reddit through sub-sections of various topics, which allows them to Being more intimate and belonging to Reddit also allows Reddit to truly distinguish itself from other competitors. "

Users can create sub-sections by themselves, which is almost as few as the Post Bar, or even to some extent the mode of the Post Bar.

Russell Simmons frowned and said, "But is it really so good to give users such radical power? Like a double-edged sword, it may make administrators tired of management, even if it can bring ultra-high traffic, it is quite A lot of users share some violent content ... well, no wonder Boss, you would predict that Reddit will bring a lot of bad reviews, UU Kanshu okay ... "

If you think about it, Reddit's anonymous mechanism is definitely an outbreak of the evil side of humanity. It hides behind the computer screen and hits the keyboard with impunity, venting some things that you don't dare to do in offline life.

One of the core battlefields such as the Lishui Army and the Spout.

But this group of employees is inexplicably excited by this idea. Reddit may be built as a super chaotic and super bad community in history before it is online.

Luo Sheng told everyone in an orderly way: "For a long time, the state of the online community has been a game between managers and saboteurs. It will always be a contest between one foot and one foot high. The Internet is getting more and more As we go deeper into all aspects of people's lives, past concepts such as the safe haven principle, technology neutrality, and unlimited freedom of speech are being challenged, and more proactive efforts against vandals may become the new normal. So we need like-minded volunteers, and we maintain To this community. "

In the following week, Luo Sheng stayed at Menlo Park and worked with Chen Shijun, Wade, Judd, Chad and other employees to develop a Reddit development sequence. Among more than 80 employees, Chen Shijun, Russell, Judd and other 15 The individual was spun out and was responsible for the initial development of the Reddit project. Others remained intact and were responsible for operating and managing the BlueSpace website.

In just one week, Luo Sheng showed strong computer power here, completely convinced these people. If the wealth crushing made them feel unconvinced, but now the technology crushing strength is not convincing. .

A week later, Luo Sheng ended his trip to North America and gave Chen Shijun them a simple task before returning home, asking their development team to officially launch the website at the end of February.