"This is roughly what happened, Bill, I need your help." Zhou Xin said seriously.
Bill Gates got up and walked around in his office, still thinking about what Zhou Xin had just said to him:
“It’s incredible, only you can think of such product design.
I want to acquire Quora even more. Just tell me, you can set any price.
I can already imagine that after the launch of this feature of Quora, Yahoo Answers’ time spent on publicity will be in vain, and it may even pave the way for you.
And even if Yahoo wants to develop similar functions, it will take a long time to do so.
Newman, name a price, I beg you. "
Zhou Xin is very proud. You can copy one of my ideas, but can you copy my entire series of ideas?
This is the construction of the Internet ecosystem, which in this era is a dimensionality reduction attack.
"Okay, Bill, if it were you, would you sell Quora now?
I promised you before that I would sell Quora, but the value of Quora has not yet been fully realized, and it would be a huge loss to sell it now. "
Bill held out five fingers: "Five billion dollars in cash, package NewPay together."
Zhou Xin shook his head: "Five billion is just the price of Quora. After Quora's feature was launched, I listed Quora this year. Its market value is definitely more than five billion US dollars.
Similarly, if Microsoft successfully acquires Quora, and Quora is part of MSN, Microsoft's market value will definitely increase by more than 5 billion US dollars.
It is impossible for me to sell NewPay to others for the time being. "
Bill Gates has already seen the importance of NewPay: “In fact, NewPay is the core of all your businesses.
It doesn’t matter whether you sell your fist or Quora. As long as NewPay is still there, you can still use NewPay to establish an equally successful business.
But NewPay cannot. NewPay is a payment application. This type of application is similar to a bank. It requires reputation as a foundation and cannot set up a payment software at any time.
Reputation and users are the deepest moat for this type of payment software. Now that NewPay has taken the first-mover advantage, it will only take time for it to accumulate.
So if you are willing to let Riot go public, and you are willing to sell Quora to me, only NewPay will accept shares, and you will only accept the A/B share structure. "
Zhou Xin doesn’t need to deny anything, because after Bill Gates realizes that if the other party wants to make payment software, he can’t stop him and there’s no need to stop him: “That’s right.
What I am most optimistic about is payment software.
Payment software can be regarded as the infrastructure of the Internet. Its status is similar to the Windows operating system and is an indispensable part. "
Bill Gates did not say more on this topic. He asked: "If I don't agree, who will you find to cooperate with you?"
Zhou Xin said without hesitation: "Larry Ellison, he likes to be in the limelight, and he is also a Quora user. If you don't agree, I will contact him.
If not, I went to Jerry Yang and asked him directly which application he thought was better, Quora or Yahoo Answers. "
Bill Gates laughed, "Jerry won't cooperate with you.
Ellison does, he really likes to be in the limelight and won't miss such an opportunity.
Well, I promise you, you will remember to sell Quora to me when the time comes. It is because I believe that you will sell Quora to me, so Microsoft does not build a knowledge question and answer community. "
This is a pure lie. Microsoft doesn't do it because Bill Gates thinks it's unnecessary. If it does, it will face Yahoo and Quora at the same time. They have no advantage, so they just don't do it.
But Bill Gates does want to acquire Quora, especially after seeing Quora’s new features.
While Yahoo advertised in various ways, Quora quietly launched a paid question and answer function.
“@Bill Gates, Bill, how do you feel about the conspiracy theories about you personally and that you carry out unethical plans to control the global population and implement secret programs through your charitable foundation?” (100$)
This question is quite explosive. Conspiracy theories about Bill Gates have started since then. The reason why Zhou Xin persuaded Bill Gates to answer this question is:
"You can answer these questions head-on in public. This is the best opportunity to prove yourself. And even those who accuse you have to pay you to see your answers."
The paid Q&A function launched by Quora allows users to ask questions to designated people by paying. The payment amount is at least 20 US dollars, ranging from 20, 50, and 100 US dollars.
Other users can view the answers after paying $0.5, and this part of the revenue is shared by the questioner and the answerer.
Quora takes a 30% commission.
For example, Zhou Xin spent $100 to ask Bill Gates a question, and Bill Gates received $70, while Quora received $30. If 10,000 users read this answer, then they will pay a total of US$5,000. After deducting US$1,500 from Quora's commission, the remaining US$5,000 will be divided equally between Bill Gates and Zhou Xin.
"Thank Newman for asking. I have never joined any secret organization. The vision of the Bill and Melinda Foundation has always been to realize my business aspirations and philanthropic aspirations, hoping to improve global health, education, and the environment. And make my contribution.
The conspiracy theories that have surrounded me lately, about trying to control the global economy, politics, and even the global population, are completely nonsense.
If I had such ability, I wouldn’t have to face the annual investigations and lawsuits against Microsoft’s monopoly by the American judicial department and the Europa Commission.”
Quora's paid Q&A function was launched quietly, but as the Internet forum with the largest traffic volume, it obviously won't be so quiet.
In particular, both the answerer and the questioner are stars in the Amerikan Internet community.
For the majority of ordinary users, they find that they can also use the paid Q&A function, which can only ask questions but not answer them.
Bill Gates' answer received more than 100,000 views in just 24 hours, which means that more than 100,000 users paid $0.50 to see what Bill Gates said.
Other internet forums are also discussing the matter.
"Can anyone send me Bill Gates' answer to Newman?"
"Quora's paid Q&A function is so powerful. It means that anyone can ask questions by paying money. At the same time, if you ask good questions, it can also bring you income?"
"In other words, if you spend 20 US dollars to ask a question, you only need about 114 people to read the answer to get your money back. If more than 114 people, it is a net profit." This is definitely a Chinese post.
"The premise is that you need to have a NewPay account, otherwise the money will not be transferred to your card."
"I tried asking questions and NewPay is very easy to use."
Paid Q&A connects Quora and NewPay. Previously, NewPay was only used in Riot Games, Ebay, and Amazon.
These shopping payment scenarios are not frequent enough and may only occur a few times a year.
Quora's ecology is completely different. It only costs $0.50 to read answers, and you can get a $10 reward when you sign up for a NewPay account.
Registering an account is enough for you to read 20 answers. This kind of high-frequency and low-amount transactions can be regarded as the taxi-hailing software of future generations.
There is no shortage of cheaters in this world. Within a week after the paid Q&A function was launched, more than 10,000 paid questions were asked.
About five thousand questions were also answered.
Both the questioner and the answerer benefited from it.
From Silicon Valley to Seattle to Washington, no one cares when Yahoo Answers will be launched, what features it will have, or which Nobel Prize winners it will invite.
Everyone is concerned about how to ask a good question so that the respondent can answer it and make other users willing to read it.
The paid knowledge question and answer function is based on the later Weibo question and answer function. If Sicong answers a question casually, tens of thousands of people are willing to pay to read it.
This set of gameplay has had a huge impact on current Internet users.
We are all newbies, who has ever seen this kind of gameplay.
Some celebrities already like to gain attention, and they are more active in answering questions after they can make money through paid Q&A.
Especially Larry Ellison, as a Silicon Valley madman and the founder of Oracle, has always liked the feeling of being sought after by everyone.
Every day when I open Quora, there are countless questions waiting for him to answer. Now that there are paid questions, there is also the amount paid by the other party. This is a combination of collecting money and hobbies.
Among them, Ellison's most viewed question is also related to Bill Gates.
"What do you think of Bill Gates's claim that the so-called conspiracy theory is slandering him and that he does not have such great energy?"
"I know Bill Gates but not very well, but I think he has the energy, but I'm not sure whether he will do it."
It was this answer that made conspiracy theorists seem to have found evidence, and they added Ellison as a new character when making up new conspiracy theories.
This answer has been viewed by more than 10,000 people.
The entire Silicon Valley is discussing Quora's paid Q&A function, as if anyone who doesn't discuss it is falling behind.
"Everyone must be familiar with Quora's paid Q&A function. How can we use paid Q&A to inspire our products." The CEO of an Internet company that focused on online forums asked the employees.
"I think we can lock some premium content and users who want to watch it have to pay."
"We can also launch a similar paid Q&A function. Our forum also has a lot of Q&A-related content. I think we can learn from Quora's ideas."
"The problem is that we don't have payment software. Is NewPay willing to cooperate with us?"
What is Yahoo Answers? No one remembers Yahoo Answers. Only the huge face of the Nobel Prize winner on the roadside billboard and the Yahoo Answers next to the face still have some sense of existence.
When Jerry Yang drove from home to the Yahoo office building, when he saw the Nobel Prize winner's wise eyes, he even felt like he was laughing at him, laughing at Yahoo for being completely defeated creatively by Zhou Xin again.
"How long will it take if we want to add the paid Q&A function?"
"It will take a month at the fastest. Currently, the most mature payment application on the market is NewPay. The number of users of other electronic payment software does not exceed 100,000, and most of them only have a few thousand users.
Only NewPay has enough users to satisfy the needs of a knowledge question and answer community. "
(End of chapter)
