Chapter 2152 Cheer Up

"Everyone, I think you have heard the good news about YouTube. Yes, YouTube has been allowed to enter the world's largest and most promising market,"

"But, as I told you before, this does not mean that Facebook will also be allowed to enter soon," Hearing this, both Mike and Sandberg in front of Feng Yiping, and Zuckerberg in Bangalore, India, could not help but look a little depressed.

In the world, Facebook can be said to have emerged as a dark horse. In many well-known countries in the world, especially in Europe, where developed countries gather, in addition to the United States, it has expanded very smoothly.

It can be said that looking around, it currently has no strong competitors in the world.

In addition, it has already achieved very good development in the United States and Europe, which means that the business plan that Facebook is closely preparing, that is, the open self-service advertising platform proposed by Feng Yiping, will have a bright future once it is officially launched.

Within NEXTDOOR, Facebook naturally has no competitors, but YouTube, which was launched before and after it, is always inevitably compared with it.

There is also such a trend between their two teams.

After all, it is also a pioneering product with global influence and is equally popular.

Of course, because YouTube's requirements for network conditions, such as network speed, are relatively high, Facebook's development is originally far ahead.

However, that was before YouTube was allowed to enter mainland China.

No matter how much prejudice Americans have against China, they must be aware of one fact: China is the most populous country in the world.

At least everyone here knows that China is much stronger than the second most populous country in the world, India, in terms of comprehensive national strength and economic growth rate.

Judging from the sales of PCs, there is still a gap between China and India.

From the news brought by Mike, Zuckerberg, and Sandberg after participating in the West Lake Forum, they have learned that the number of Internet users in China has exceeded 100 million, and is continuing to grow at a high speed of more than 20 million new users each year.

At the same time, considering the boss's influence and good reputation in mainland China, combined with YouTube's product strength, how many new users can YouTube develop after entering mainland China?

10 million? 20 million? That seems to be a piece of cake.

30 million is definitely no problem, and 50 million is not out of the question.

So, they, who were originally firmly ahead of YouTube, may fall behind in terms of the overall number of users.

This is not a pleasant thing anyway.

"Of course, including me, many colleagues are continuing to work hard on this matter, but I think everyone understands that this is a very complicated matter that involves many problems. Frankly speaking, this problem will definitely not be solved quickly," Feng Yiping further said.

Therefore, if you want to maintain your advantage over YouTube as before, the difficulty really seems not too small.

"I understand everyone's feelings," Feng Yiping said.

He is naturally not unaware of the intentional or unintentional trend of the two teams, Facebook and YouTube.

He is actually happy to see such competition, which will make both teams work harder and more committed.

"So I also hope that everyone can follow my request and further cultivate and develop points into pieces, and then connect pieces into surfaces in the areas where we are currently popular,"

"Of course, in some key countries, we still have to continue to make great strides,"

"As for which countries, this is actually a very simple question, that is, the two countries with the largest populations in the world after the United States, that is, the fourth and fifth most populous countries in the world, Indonesia and Brazil,"

These are the only two countries in the world with a population of more than 200 million, except for China, India and the United States.

It just so happens that Feng Yiping knows that Facebook later developed well in Indonesia and is the most popular social product there.

As for the development of Facebook in Brazil, he is not too clear.

However, considering Brazil's attitude towards foreign investment and considering that it is also one of the BRICS countries, Feng Yiping feels that the development of Facebook in Brazil should not be wrong.

"Another key point is Mexico, which is our closest neighbor and also has a population base of over 100 million,"

"Africa is also a market with great potential. Although many places there do not have the conditions to use our products at present, our current decisions must focus on the future,"

"We all know how valuable the first-mover advantage is in the Internet field,"

Facebook has always been the leader in the social field, which has a lot to do with it being the first global social product.

People are lazy. When we get used to a product, we don't have much motivation to use other new products with the same utility.

"We all know the network effect of Internet products,"

"That is, although you may not have any impression of a product, if your good friends are users of that product, then you are also likely to use the same application or service to keep in touch and interact with them,"

"Feng, we understand," Mike said immediately, "In terms of marketing, we will continue to strengthen, further consolidate and expand our first-mover advantage,"

"We will also develop more language versions as soon as possible," said Zuckerberg, "At the same time, we will further improve our products and develop more functions,"

"Very good, then let's work together, everyone, now is our excellent period of development, I hope, starting with everyone present, our entire team will not slack off at all, and work hard to establish our dominant position in the social field,"

"My private wish is that in the future, we will not have any similar products that will threaten us in the world and in the social field,"

"We think so too,"

At this time, everyone's spirits finally lifted.

"Haha, then it seems that our wish will definitely come true," Feng Yiping also relaxed.

"In this case, we have to make some plans that are in line with our future image,"

Such public products and a good public image are naturally very important.

If Facebook wants to become a leader in the social field in the future, it can't just focus on making money. It must take actions in public affairs that match its status.

"Whether from the perspective of the entire human race or the development of the Internet, allowing more people to access the Internet is a very beneficial thing. I hope we can do something in this regard,"

"I want to set up a new project in the company, a project that allows more poor people in the world to access the Internet for free,"

For such a decision, he never needs to seek the consent of others, "Zuck, I hope your department can set up such a department from now on to tackle this project,"

"No problem, boss," Zuckerberg agreed very readily.

Mike and Sandberg also agree with this plan.

According to the boss, this should be a long-term project that will not squeeze out too much of the company's funds at once.

At the same time, they can immediately understand that the boss's plan, from a small perspective, will have at least two benefits.

This free Internet project can directly allow those who benefit from it to first contact Facebook, which is actually another clever way for their products to maintain their first-mover advantage.

Secondly, they believe that in the future, many of these free users will consciously convert to paying users after using their products and other Internet products, because they will definitely want to get a more complete and thoughtful user experience.

Of course, through this project, the boss's original intention can naturally be reflected.

From a broad perspective, such a public project targeting poor users around the world will greatly improve Facebook's global reputation, and thus gain more people's welcome and support.

So, this is indeed a good project that is beneficial to both the public and the private.

Mike and Sandberg immediately expressed their opinions, "We fully support it."

"Then, the next is another milestone in our development. Shirley, do you think there will be any difficulties in launching our advertising system at the beginning of next year?" Feng Yiping asked Sandberg.

Sandberg glanced at everyone and said loudly, "No problem at all!"

The atmosphere suddenly became warm.