Chapter 355: Timing of listing
After getting rid of three related households, the next trip became more relaxed. Except for Director Wang who was a little suspicious, the entire Chinese delegation relaxed.
Especially the college students, as if their shackles have been removed, they are visibly active.
In the past, due to lack of self-confidence and language inconvenience, Chinese college students rarely communicated with college students from other countries.
After this small accident, Chinese students began to actively chat with students from other countries to learn about each other's country's customs and customs.
Due to the delay of two days, the next itinerary is very full.
Students of the International College Student Summer Camp visited famous universities such as MIT and Harvard, and also went to Silicon Valley to visit world-famous Internet companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo, and Amazon.
The content of the visit is full of elements of showing off from the United States and the United States, and is specially designed to show these college students from abroad the strong, advanced and cutting-edge side of Millikin.
Students not only entered companies such as Intel, AMD, and IBM, but even went to Boeing's Everett factory.
The factory covers an area of approximately 100 acres - equivalent to 50 football fields and was built in 1967.
There are more than 30,000 employees in the entire factory, and the assembly plant can accommodate 2 747 production lines, 1 767 production line and 2 777 production lines at the same time
When they saw the huge jetliner production line, everyone was fascinated. The spectacle shocked me.
The huge factory building is thirty meters high, one thousand meters long and five hundred meters wide. Standing in front of the huge factory door, people look very small. Looking at the production line, there is no end in sight, and it is densely packed. A large passenger plane that has not yet been completed.
The spectacle of this man-made giant is full of visual impact, revealing industrial beauty and shock everywhere.
The students watched excitedly and took many photos.
But on the way back, students from other countries were discussing what they had just seen, while the Chinese students' discussion became lower and lower, and finally fell into a strange silence.
Qin Shaoyan didn't care about this at all. He brought these students here just to see the real world, whether it's good or bad, they have to see it.
We must face up to the gaps and shortcomings, and do not belittle or belittle ourselves.
Qin Shaoyan did not follow him during the visit. He stayed in Silicon Valley most of the time to deal with Facebook matters.
Discuss next steps in marketing hype with Facebook executives.
For Facebook, the "International College Summer Camp" event has achieved unprecedented success.
These college students from Europe are all Facebook users. During the event, they will post updates and photos on Facebook every day, and some will also write articles about their experiences along the way. .
Facebook will focus on these accounts, arrange special staff to review and handle them, and appropriately give these accounts more traffic and exposure.
At the same time, Facebook has placed a considerable number of advertisements in different European countries.
This combination of punches has achieved very good results. A large number of European netizens flock to Facebook to register every day.
The members of those summer camps suddenly became Internet celebrities in their respective countries, and their fan base showed explosive growth. Advertisers have already begun to contact them and ask for quotations.
Faced with this wealth that fell from the sky, college students from various European countries were so excited that they almost went crazy.
Most of them come from ordinary families and are burdened with expensive tuition fees. Many of them take loans to go to school. If they rely on themselves, it will take a long time to pay back the money.
But after participating in the "International College Summer Camp", they all became famous Internet celebrities on the Internet, which not only brought fame, but also brought financial gains.
These students then updated their Facebook accounts more diligently, expecting to live a prosperous life with this wave of luck.
Facebook, which acted as the black hand behind the scenes, smiled even more happily. Compared with the investment of promoting a few accounts to become an Internet celebrity, the huge returns obtained by Facebook are not worth mentioning.
The cost of acquiring a single registered user has plummeted since the start of the campaign, even lower than the cost of acquiring users in the early days of Facebook.
This huge cost-effectiveness has even alarmed the venture capital institutions investing in Facebook. They have begun to proactively contact Facebook to discuss the next round of financing.
Facebook is now like a sports car with a rocket engine, growing by leaps and bounds.
The product managers even made a map of Europe, marking the number of registered users in each country every day, so that employees can intuitively feel the results of their work.
Fred Weisler, CEO of Facebook, excitedly said to Qin Shaoyan: "John, if this situation continues, we will be able to go public in one or two years!" "My attitude is cautiously optimistic." Qin Shaoyan He said with a smile, "Now we have only opened the European region, and there are still many maps waiting for us to open up. At this rate, it will take at least two years."
Fred is still very happy. , said enthusiastically: "But users in the United States and Europe alone are enough for us to operate Facebook."
"No, no, no." Qin Shaoyan refuted the other party's words, "Only continuous expansion, The capital market will love you if you keep getting new users. Facebook’s expansion cannot stop.”
Fred was a little regretful, “Then how long do we have to wait to go public?”
"About three years." Qin Shaoyan said casually, "We can start preparations in 2007 and wait for the NASDAQ listing in 2008!"
"That must be a very wonderful picture." Frey De's face was full of longing.
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Compared to European students who go online with crazy intensity to update Facebook content, Chinese college students spend their breaks every day studying, preparing homework, and looking for information.
Of course Chinese students are accustomed to studying, but another important reason is that they do not have access to the Internet.
Students from other countries all bring laptops, and it is very convenient to access the Internet. Just use the hotel's network cable.
For Chinese college students, laptops are an out-and-out luxury. Each laptop is worth 20,000 to 30,000 RMB, which is several times more expensive than a desktop computer.
This is much more expensive than the camera they have.
This "International College Summer Camp" event allowed them to see the real foreign country, and they felt an inexplicable sense of crisis in their hearts.
Everyone held a Chinese-English dictionary, worked hard to look up information, and wrote down their experiences and travel notes.
At the same time, they are still working hard to prepare for the next phase of the event.
According to the schedule, the following activities include fewer visits and lectures, and more college students participating in various social activities, as well as speech and debate competitions.
This makes Chinese college students nervous, who have had little exposure to these activities before.
Although the university has organized similar social activities and organized debate competitions, they are not sure whether it is the same at home and abroad.
Everyone was anxious for a while, fearing that they would perform poorly and embarrass the country and the school.
However, to the surprise of the Chinese students, the subsequent social activities were almost effortless.
In other words, these social activities are different from what they imagined.
Led by American students, their social activities are a bit like a show.
For example, in environmental protection activities, everyone was taken by bus to the beach to clean up garbage.
While Chinese students have begun to pick up garbage seriously, American students are busy posing for photos, giving speeches in front of the camera, and finally starting to pick up garbage next to the Chinese students.
Of course, American students are not all waste for show. These elite students quickly demonstrated excellent speech eloquence and organizational skills, and are proficient in dealing with various institutions and are extremely proficient in various social practice activities.
For example, when raising food donations for homeless people on the streets, they can quickly find sponsoring companies and institutions and arrange the food distribution in an orderly manner.
When being interviewed by reporters, express your views fluently, talk about some views on politics, society and other related topics, and explain your own ideas and thoughts.
When raising funds, they will even show some talent performances, such as violin, piano and other musical instrument performances to attract the attention of the crowd, and then give a speech to raise funds on the spot.
Chinese college students can only follow behind, obey the arrangements of American students, and do some chores.
It seems that these American students all seem to be all-rounders.
Both are college students, why is the gap so big?
Compared to the United States, is there really something wrong with China’s education system?
The students were confused. Could this be the legendary quality education?
(End of this chapter)