"I am very grateful to have so many loyal Quora users come to participate in Quora's product launch."
"The success of Quora today is inseparable from Quora's high-quality users. Quora is just a platform, and the high-quality content in it is created by every user."
"Behind me is a Quora LOGO composed of the verification codes of millions of registered users of Quora. It is because of you that Quora exists."
The poster complained: Zhou Xin really loves verification codes.
"Everyone in Silicon Valley says that I am the best Internet product manager. Even if I am the best Internet product manager, I cannot make Quora become what it is today without users."
"In the past six months, many products similar to Quora have been launched throughout Silicon Valley, such as infoworld, wired, MERCURY, etc. These products that tried to copy Quora have not been successful."
"Why? Because they don't have great customers like Quora."
Ten o'clock in the morning in San Francisco is one o'clock in the morning in Yanjing.
At one o'clock in the morning, the Tianya Chat section in the Tianya community was still very busy, especially the posts from the live Quora press conference.
Wu Shiqiang was watching this live broadcast at his home.
The live broadcast posts are updated very quickly. Once Zhou Xin says something, the post will be updated, and the time delay is only fifteen minutes.
After Wu Shiqiang returned to China, his work did not go smoothly.
Because now not only Internet companies in Silicon Valley are hot, but Internet companies in Zhongguancun are also hot. There is no shortage of hot money in the entire market.
Wu Shiqiang was able to win the favor of entrepreneurs with his reputation as Zhou Xin, but he asked a lot of questions and did not invest in these entrepreneurs.
This caused his reputation in Zhongguancun to gradually become bad, and he was even nicknamed Wu Sanshe, which meant that he had to stay away from him when he saw him.
Wu Shiqiang doesn't know how to invest real money anyway.
Wu Shiqiang opened Huwei again, which is a knowledge question and answer community launched by Sohu. There are similar questions in it: "How to evaluate Quora's first launch?"
Someone is also updating the answers in real time above, but the update in Suspicion is about every fifteen minutes, so it needs to be refreshed constantly.
Once the contents of the two press conferences are combined, you can roughly know what the boss is talking about, Wu Shiqiang thought to himself.
There is definitely a gap when returning to Zhongguancun from Silicon Valley. Especially among the entrepreneurs I met in Zhongguancun, their ideas almost all copied Amerikan’s business model.
After Quora was launched, Sohu launched Hudu, Sina launched Xinwen, and NetEase launched Yiwen.
Even a small company called Tencent in Pengcheng launched Gowen.
When Wu Shiqiang saw Xinwen for the first time, he thought the boss had returned to China to start a business. When he saw Goosewen, he suspected that he had gone to the official website of a goose farm.
At present, it seems that Huhu has done the best job. With Zhang Chaoyang as the matchmaker, a group of scientists and experts in the humanities and social sciences were found to settle in. The quality of the community is the best.
Xinwen is the favorite place to post news for discussion, and it is also related to Sina.com’s business. At the same time, it is filled with a large number of What’s Your Country? The answer to the fixed question.
As for Yi Wen, the response was mediocre and no one cared about it.
Goosewen is much better. With the large number of users on QQ, some of the above color issues have caused the popularity to remain high.
After Zhou Xin learned about it from Wu Shiqiang, he thought to himself, you all have so many names, why is there no one named Zhihu?
The most projects that Wu Shiqiang saw during his time in the office were copied from Quora. We would wait until the regulatory requirements for electronic payments were relaxed and we would be able to make a profit immediately.
The Riot Games business format will not work in China, not only due to rampant piracy and lack of supervision, but also because China’s current productivity and per capita disposable income simply cannot support the birth of a large number of genuine users.
Even if it is moved to China, it will be downloaded by one person and then shared on major online forums.
Therefore, no Internet company has ever thought of moving the fist form.
As for NewPay, regulation does not allow it, and regulation is relaxed, so it is not something that ordinary entrepreneurs can do well.
Only Quora was caught by Chinese entrepreneurs.
A group of entrepreneurs came to Wu Shiqiang with plans. There is no such thing as PPT entrepreneurship. PPT entrepreneurship had to wait until the mobile Internet became popular.
They all say the same thing. We have already set up the website. When your funds are available, we will immediately use the funds to hire academic experts and sociologists, and then use them to attract college students and finally ordinary users.
This is the gameplay of Husui. The product can be borrowed from Quora, and the play style can be borrowed from Husui.
Later, Wu Shiqiang did not allow entrepreneurs to see him, so he went to find entrepreneurial projects.
At this time, Tencent, the company behind Ewen, successfully attracted Wu Shiqiang’s attention with its rapidly increasing number of users.
After he went to Yanjing Internet Cafe for a walk, he found that QQ under the name of Goose Chang was used by almost everyone who surfed the Internet.
This quickly aroused Wu Shiqiang's interest. He has already contacted Tencent and bought a ticket for Wednesday.
As for why Zhongguancun entrepreneurs believe that the controller behind emerging investments is Zhou Xin? In this era when there is no Qi Cha Cha.
This is because on Zhou Xin’s Quora personal homepage, it says Emerging Investment Founder in Chinese.
Coupled with the photo of him and Zhou Xin in Wu Shiqiang's office, the combination of the two is the most powerful evidence.
Returning to the San Francisco press conference, Zhou Xin continued: “After the news came out that I was going to sell Quora, the private message box of my Quora account was about to explode.
I originally received tens of thousands of messages every day. In the days after the news was made public, my daily message column was filled with 50,000 messages.
Most of them are Quora users telling me how much they like Quora and urging me not to sell it.
It is said that if a big company were to manage Quora, they would only pursue profits and never consider the feelings of users.
Now Jerry and Bill are in the audience. Bill, Jerry, I believe you guys are not right? "
The camera was shown to both of them at the same time, and two big faces appeared on the screen behind Zhou Xin.
Yang Zhiyuan thought to himself, I didn’t mention this link.
He and Bill nodded awkwardly.
Zhou Xin continued: “Look, they promised, and we have 12,000 Quora users on site to testify.
Okay, no kidding, how you want to operate it after the sale is your business, I will not and have no right to interfere.
When I saw so many people trying to keep me, I said to myself: Brother, I think you are probably doing a good job, so many people want you to stay.
But a journey has an end, and the days I can spend with Quora are also limited.
In my hands, Quora has reached a bottleneck. It is difficult to break through this bottleneck with my own efforts.
I believe that both Yahoo and Microsoft can better help Quora break through this bottleneck based on the foundation I have built. "
There were a lot of whispers in the audience.
Zhou Xin continued: “But before I leave, I need to release the last feature of Quora, the last feature developed by me.
I have been thinking about what Quora is, and I now realize that Quora is a medium, and everyone can become a medium on Quora.
Your answer spreads information to all users who follow you and will see your answer.
Compared with online communities, Quora increases the stickiness between users.
If you have a hundred followers, then you are a campus newspaper; if you have a thousand followers, you are a local media in a town; if you have 10,000 followers, then you can influence a smaller one. Cities; what if there are a hundred thousand, a million or even ten million?
When you have 10 million followers, I believe your influence will be comparable to that of the New York Times.
So since Quora lets users become the media, why doesn’t Quora itself become the media?
That’s why we launched Quora Gold Picks! "
This is similar to the combination of Zhihu Daily and Zhihu Salt Selection. Amerikans understand gold mining better, so they use Jinselection.
This artistic conception cannot be achieved when choosing salt from foreigners.
Zhou Xin paced on the stage: "Quora Golden Selection is released every three days, and it will collect the answers with the highest number of likes on Quora in these three days.
Different answers to the same question will not be selected repeatedly.
For example, there are two answers to question A. The second-ranked answer has more likes than the first-ranked answer to question B. We still will not choose the second-ranked answer in question A.
The entire Quora Gold Pick consists of 20 answers. We have tested it internally, which is roughly the content of a New York Times.
The 16 answers are sorted by the number of votes and the questions are not repeated. Four of the questions are generated based on your preferences.
We have developed the latest recommendation algorithm. The recommendation algorithm will calculate the questions you are most interested in based on your browsing and your likes, and then select the answer with the most likes to push to you. "
Robin Li is indeed a top talent and has extremely in-depth research on search engines.
Recommendation algorithms are not new and can be traced back to 1992.
At that time, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center proposed a recommendation system based on collaborative filtering algorithm and used it for spam filtering. This is the earliest recommendation algorithm.
But it wasn't until 2003 that Amazon began to use recommendation algorithms to try to recommend products to users that they might like.
Zhou Xin just proposed this concept to Robin Li and roughly explained his understanding. In just three months, Baidu completed a commercially available recommendation algorithm and applied it to the Quora Golden Selection.
After Zhou Xin mentioned the Quora Golden Pick, the screen behind him also changed from Quora to Quora Featured.
Zhou Xin continued: “The price of each copy of the New York Times is US$0.75, and the price of the Sunday New York Times is US$1.50.
Quora adopts a monthly subscription system, and you can purchase it on a monthly basis. After purchasing, Quora's gold selection content will be sent to you regularly through the email address you entered when purchasing.
Our pricing is $7 a month, which is slightly lower than the price of 10 copies of the New York Times.
At the same time, Quora officials will take 30% of the money users subscribe to Quora Gold Picks.
The remaining 70% is allocated to each user who answered based on content contribution.
For example, Quora Gold selected 10 issues this month, with a total of 200 answers, of which 160 are fixed answers that all users will see.
Then these users will receive 0.5% from 70% of the Quora Gold Selection sales fee for that month.
One answer is 0.5%, and 40 flexible answers will allow you to enjoy corresponding benefits based on the number of viewers. "
The Quora Gold Selection was launched to further improve the electronic payment ecosystem, and implement a monthly subscription system and automatic deductions.
Please ask for a monthly pass at the end of the month! Please give some to the crow, the crow wants a monthly ticket!
(End of chapter)
