Chapter 1735 General Manager of Pig Farm
After Li Mu sat down on the sofa, Mark Zuckerberg said nervously: "Mr. Li, let me report to you about our recent developments first."
Li Mu nodded and said, "Okay, please give me a brief introduction."
Mark Zuckerberg paused for a moment and said: "At present, our number of users in the United States has exceeded 30 million, of which one third of them are college students, with 2.3 million daily active users, and almost half of them are college students."
Li Mu asked curiously: "How many college students are there in the United States?"
Mark Zuckerberg said: "The data at the end of last year showed that it should be more than 13 million."
Li Mu praised: "More than 13 million college students and ten million are Facebook users. It seems that Facebook is very popular on university campuses."
"Indeed," Mark Zuckerberg said: "Our largest soil is currently on the university campus. The viscosity of college students is very high, but the biggest problem is the same. It is difficult for us to increase the conversion rate among the user groups outside the campus. Many non-campus students are not very interested in our products."
Li Mu smiled and said, "This is very normal."
As he said that, Li Mu said again: "Look, the college student group is a very special group. If we divide people into three classes, the first class has not entered society, such as infants, primary and secondary school students, and another class has already entered society. This scope is very wide. Those who have never attended school, start to live independently and make money, those who have gone to school and dropped out of school, all of whom are the second class, but the special one is the third class. This class has half of its body in society, half of its body is still in the ivory tower, and this class is college students."
"Most of the college students do not attend college in their cities. They may be in other states or even in other countries. These people have left their parents' protection, but have not really entered society and work hard on their own. Therefore, this group is very special and is often out of place with the other two classes."
"Facebook grows in such a soil, and the first thing it produces is the fruit suitable for this soil, sprouting here, rooting here, and fruiting here, so you are naturally loved by this soil, and users of other soils will inevitably not easily accept it at once. However, this is not because you have not done it well, but because you have completed the first stage of entrepreneurship, first take root and sprout in the soil you grow, and grow vigorously, so that you can develop and migrate to other soils."
Mark Zuckerberg nodded particularly seriously, but looked at Li Mu with a hesitation, and said, "Mr. Li, actually... to be honest... If Facebook goes out of the university campus, the biggest competitor we face is yy. Our product functions are highly coincidental with yy, but they are far less powerful than yy. If yy is from 1 to 100, we will achieve 21 to 30 at most. In this case, it is difficult to seize market share..."
Li Mu nodded in agreement and said to Mark Zuckerberg with a smile: "Mark, you are right. There is a Chinese saying, "There is no tiger in the mountains, and monkeys dominate the king." If there are no tigers in the mountains, with the wisdom and sensitivity of monkeys, they can dominate the entire forest."
As he said that, Li Mu paused slightly and said, "But if there are tigers in the mountain, although monkeys cannot be the king, as long as it searches carefully, it can still find many places where tigers are not touched or cannot be touched, such as high treetops, narrow caves, and steep ridges. Before Muye Technology began to go downhill, this is the direction of Facebook's future development."
In fact, Li Mu still has a lot to say.
When "monkeys" face "tigers", they are not only the treetops, but also the ridges, but also the cesspools.
Take Tengxun as an example. Tengxun is a domestic social giant and often has to set an example, so Tengxun cannot and dares to engage in gray fields, such as P-app software.
In fact, if it has the function, then Momo and Tantan will have no way to survive. However, with the size and status of WeChat, it is impossible to give itself a P-app software. Therefore, Tencent not only did not develop the P-app function in depth, but instead continued to cut off product functions with P-app attributes, such as drift bottles, and were actively offline.
The reason why I need to remove the drift bottle is because in the eyes of Tencent, this product function is more harmful than beneficial. It is not used for many people, but it hides dirt and often has some illegal gray content. So removing it is a kind of self-cleaning and protection.
In this case, even if a small company only produces a drift bottle function product, it can gain a group of users and a market.
It is absolutely impossible for Facebook to fight against Muye Technology in the future, and Li Mu will not let this happen. However, Li Mu hopes that Facebook can enter all areas that it cannot or is unwilling to enter.
This feeling is a bit like having more leftovers at home and not willing to eat leftovers. So, they might raise a pig or a dog. Otherwise, the leftovers will be thrown outside and will be eaten by stray dogs or taken back to feed the pigs.
Mark Zuckerberg fell into deep thought. Li Mu's words gave him some inspiration, but he couldn't grasp the inspiration and felt where the bottom was.
Seeing that he was a little frowning, Li Mu said, "Mark, the market in the future will definitely follow a rule, that is, in a certain field, there will usually only be one giant, but in addition to one giant, there will be several large companies and dozens or hundreds of small companies. Although Muye Technology is now a giant in the Internet social networking industry, there are no big companies of the same type in the industry. If Facebook can occupy the woods that monkeys are good at first, it will have the chance to become the first one."
Mark Zuckerberg's eyes lit up and he blurted out: "Mr. Li, what do you mean is, let's cultivate the market of universities first?"
Li Mu nodded and said, "There are more than 13 million college students in the United States. How many are there in the world? At least 100 million, right? If you can turn 80% of the 100 million college students into Facebook users, then your Facebook can become a big company second only to Makino Technology in the social field."
In fact, Li Mu has always felt sorry for the school network, namely Renren.
At the perfect opportunity when Facebook did not enter China, Renren was able to kill himself.
Renren was so popular in China at that time, and many people born in the 1990s and 2000s might not have imagined that at that time, not only college students were playing on campus, but all those who had been to high school would basically register for Renren.
Why do you like to play Renren? Because this thing is a social platform based on school and classmates' relationships, it is highly vertical, and even QQ cannot compare with it at this level.
At that time, Renren.com had to stand firm in the field of campus social networking, stand firm, and consolidate its foundation, even if it was impossible to replace QQ, it would never be much worse than Momo. What was the result? My buddy started to tear off his best label.
In Li Mu's opinion, the name of the School Net is definitely in the top ten even if it cannot rank among the top three of the names of China's Internet products.
This name makes people understand that this thing is closely related to the campus.
It’s so fucking affectionate! It’s a precious memory that some people will always miss, and some people are immersed in the beauty of it. Now, I don’t know which person who is tempted to jump out and changed its name to Renren.com.
wtf? What does Renren mean? What does it mean? You are a fucking vertical website! You don’t know the so-called name, do you think you are QQ?
Look at other people's Facebook and always stick to the brand Facebook. When did they change their name to Facebook? Or did they?
There is also QQ. The reason why people changed their name from OICQ to QQ is not because they wanted to be simpler, but because they asked IQ to sue it. In the end, they could only be more low-key and called QQ. As a result, they accidentally created the Q culture of the Chinese Internet.
What about you? What does your uncle mean? Is everyone for me? Am I for everyone? Or do you show off your face?
Not to mention anything else, China had 20 to 30 million college students at that time, and millions were added every year. If such a large user group was well cultivated, they would definitely live for the rest of their lives. The school network itself had a chance, but it ended up being self-defeated.
Now, if Facebook can make social products for college students around the world, it will at least become a large company with a market value of tens of billions or even a hundred billion US dollars in the future. And the most rare thing is that it does not have much conflict with its own yy itself.
Because yy wants to be a giant, if a giant wants to think about how to make the road wider and wider, it won’t think about how to get narrower and narrower. So the more vertical things are, the less the giant will not bother to do it. If you use the leftovers just now as an analogy, it is a billionaire. No, you don’t want to eat the leftovers of your own family. If you put it on an ordinary billionaire, you will lose the leftovers. Whoever likes to pick up whoever wants to eat whoever wants to eat.
But for Li Mu, leftover rice is also food. If you don’t eat it yourself, you can raise a dog and raise a pig to eat it? If there is a lot of leftover rice, then just set up a pig farm.
Raising pigs is indeed not very glorious, and they are dirty and smelly, but it doesn’t matter. If you don’t raise them yourself, you will find someone to raise them yourself. What is Mark Zuckerberg doing? Isn’t he the general manager of his pig farm in the future?
Li Mu was afraid that Mark Zuckerberg's ambition was too great and he was unwilling to be honest in his position as general manager of the pig farm. But it doesn't matter. Now he is just waking him up. If he can react, he can make a fortune by raising pigs in the future. But if he can't react and enters a field he shouldn't have entered, he will immediately turn against him and mobilize resources to destroy him.
To his size, he is a Thanos-level existence. Snapping his fingers is enough to destroy Facebook.
Chapter completed!