Chapter 48

"I studied abroad for half a year and found that the American way of thinking is more open. This time when I returned to the country and met with a few classmates, we indeed had some ideas for new internet social products."

"I designed such an internet social platform where everyone is an acquaintance, one pulling another, everyone knows each other, and they can communicate, make friends, post updates, and share their lives on it..."

Seeing Lu Kuan listened to his endless chatter for more than ten minutes before he couldn't help but interrupt.

"Isn't what you're talking about just Friendster? What do you mean you designed it?"

Wang Xing was somewhat tongue-tied; he hadn't expected an outsider far away in the country to know about internet software that had just started abroad.

"This, President Lu, my idea is innovative; for example, our definition of an acquaintance is..."

"Stop right there!"

Boss Lu prepared to cast his 'Great Prophecy' spell to strike him precisely and completely smash this contrarian's spirit into the dust.

"Your so-called acquaintance social networking is nothing more than based on?"

The Six Degrees of Separation theory, which states that you can know any stranger through at most six people, is the foundation of the acquaintance social model.

Zhuang Xu watched Wang Xing's expression become increasingly awkward and felt secretly pleased, refilling his junior brother's cup with chrysanthemum tea and crossing his legs to watch the show.

Serves him right!

"Your approach is too textbook-based and rigid. I'll just point out one fatal flaw."

"The social habits of our people are different from those of the West. Our people are introverted and won't enthusiastically hug someone they see on the street like in the American West. Similarly, on your social website, acquaintance social networking without segmentation is extremely scattered; there is no core handle at all."

Wang Xing was just about to habitually argue with him a few times, but then frowned and became somewhat tongue-tied.

"If I were to do it, I would define it directly as acquaintance social networking based on campus users, for example!"

"Start from the universities in Beiping, using each school and class as a unit, restricting the user's registration address, allowing only university students to register, and from them, start exercising the function of six degrees of separation to perfect your user base."

Wang Xing's heartbeat seemed to skip a beat. The handsome young man in front of him, whose image made him feel ashamed, was able to raise targeted questions and solutions just 5 minutes after he explained his genius theory!

The key was that it was sharp and hit the nail on the head, leaving him unable to refute!

"President Lu... this... you..."

"Xiao Wang, your ideas are still very good, but the American West, after all, has a gap with our national conditions."

"If you want to make internet products suitable for our people, you must return to this!"

Boss Lu pointed his index finger downward, pointing at the marble floor tiles with the demeanor of a big boss: "Return to the land that nurtures our people, and your product will not suffer from 'acclimatization' issues."

This was the truth; negative examples like Oracle, Uber, LinkedIn, and Amazon were everywhere.

Wang Xing fell into an intense internal struggle, still somewhat unwilling to give up: "I want to hear President Lu introduce the product you want me to manage."

"You went abroad to study last year; I don't know if you caught 9/11, but you should have heard of the American Blogger platform."

Wang Xing was very sharp. Being obsessed with the internet and entrepreneurship, he of course knew the name of the Blogger platform and said excitedly: "Is the Web 2.0 you mentioned the domestic blog?"

In later generations, the first person to propose the concept of blogs in the country was Fang Xingdong, but his concept was also taken from several blog-like products abroad.

All articles under heaven are copied; in this life, it would be Seeing Lu Kuan's gain.

"That's right. The current internet development stage and user mindset in the country are exactly the right time to develop the blog business."

Seeing Lu Kuan spent more breath, starting to expound on his development philosophy in great detail.

The blog website architecture was extremely simple. Fang Xingdong, the founder of the blog website known as the 'Father of Chinese Blogs', had also just let an intern from Beihang University cobble together the first-generation website back then.

Others, such as the need for simple operation: after the first-generation users applied for registration, they only needed to set it up according to the management platform's template and could provide content directly to publish;

For example, the need to open up interactivity, setting up friend links, gift-giving, etc., to let users generate interactive functional modules;

"Also, we need to set up some data systems such as levels and points to give users a sense of growth in experience and enhance stickiness." Seeing Lu Kuan transformed into a product manager, looking at Wang Xing, who was already stunned, and instilled his ideas in a structured way.

"Finally, a very important point: set up an update plan in advance. Don't release all the features at once; slowly improve the user experience."

Wang Xing was puzzled: "Why?"

Zhuang Xu also joined the discussion from being a bystander: "Internet plagiarism is rampant in the country, and the technical difficulty of blogs is too low; what's important is product creativity."

Seeing Lu Kuan smiled and gave his senior brother a thumbs up, gulping down a cup of herbal tea.

Looking at the table full of dishes that had already been served, he personally opened a bottle of Wuliangye and poured it into the cups in front of the three of them.

"How about it? Xiao Wang, are you interested in participating in the great cause of creating a new internet landscape in the country?"

The devilish Boss Lu struck directly at the contrarian's G-spot.

The contrarian had already begun his crazy fantasies: if he were allowed to sit on the throne of the number one internet product manager in the country, if he were allowed to carry 1 billion blog users to punch Penguin and kick Sina, if...

"President Lu! Thank you for thinking highly of me; I'll take this job!"

"Good!" Zhuang Xu also cooperatively raised his glass to drink, although he still didn't know why his junior brother was so determined to poach this little contrarian the first time they met.

Wang Xing was still not satisfied and chased after Seeing Lu Kuan, who was like an entrepreneurial godfather in his mind, asking many questions about entrepreneurship.

Seeing Lu Kuan did remember one thing: "Wang Xing, your studies?"

"It's fine, I'll apply for a leave of absence first." As intelligent as he was, he still left himself a way out.

Wang Xing in later generations also gave up his PhD halfway when he returned to start a business in 2003; for a second-generation rich kid like him, making such a choice was not difficult.

Because money was not the key factor influencing their life decisions.

His father was a mason by trade and started his own business in 1992; by 2023, he had grown to be the largest in Fujian Province. Wang Xing's entrepreneurial genes were carved into his bones.

As for whether he was a person who 'would not be willing to live under others for long', at least Seeing Lu Kuan was not worried now.

Use people to their strengths, use people to their full potential; first use him to build the organizational structure, build up the momentum, and find venture capital.

When things happen, build bridges and open roads; there will be ways to deal with them.

The meal lasted until 12 o'clock. The thirsty-for-knowledge Wang Xing couldn't care about his contrarian instincts, absorbed a lot of spiritual nourishment from Boss Lu, and completely turned into Seeing Lu Kuan's shape.

Seeing Lu Kuan gave his senior brother some instructions on registering the company and building the team, and only then did he fall into a deep sleep, dragging the exhaustion of the day.

(End of Chapter)