After an American party carnival, Luo Sheng didn’t know how much favorable and recognition the employees here could get, but it was real.

In fact, these local employees were also quite surprised. They thought it was quite boring, but they didn't expect that the party held by the boss of China could be so American.

Luo Sheng can easily integrate into American culture, but it is difficult for Americans to integrate into Chinese culture. This is the difference between the two sides.

"You have just received $325 million in financing from Wall Street. You are so crazy about it. If I were an investor, I would probably regret it." Qin Weimu came to Luo Sheng and was in a vacant seat next to him.

The party is still going on at this moment, and the North American employees who came here have fun and fun.

Luo Sheng couldn't help but smile when she heard her complaining and said calmly: "You are right, including the previous investments. VC regretted it not long after investing it in me. Then, after a while, I was happy again and invested it in me, and I regret it again... so repeated."

That's right, that's right.

While the two were chatting, Luo Sheng saw a Chinese face. Among the more than 80 employees, there were actually more than 30 Chinese faces, and they were all engineers, and their development capabilities were stronger than those of whites.

When Luo Sheng heard someone calling the Chinese face "steve chen", he was subconsciously stunned for a while.

Qin Weimu glanced at him and found his slightly surprised expression, and couldn't help but ask questions in confusion.

"What's wrong with you?"

Luo Sheng ignored Qin Weimu and immediately shouted to the Chinese employee: "steve chen? Chen Shijun?"

The Chinese face turned around and saw that the boss was really staring at him, so he pointed at himself and saw the boss nodding again. He confirmed that the boss was calling him, so he walked over.

"Boss, are you looking for me?" Chen Shijun was surprised in his heart how the boss knew his Chinese name.

At this moment, Luo Sheng was not sure if he thought he was the person he thought. After asking him to sit down, he couldn't help but ask: "Have you worked in Paypal before?"

Chen Shijun nodded, suddenly feeling a little embarrassed, but he still said truthfully: "Yes, boss, but how do you know? Yes, that was three months ago. At that time, Paypal layoffs, and I was unfortunately one of them. Chad Hurley and Judd Karim were the same as me. We were very lucky to get bluestar's offer last week."

After Chen Shijun's brief explanation, Luo Sheng suddenly realized that they were unemployed and in debt after being fired.

The power of the bursting of the Internet bubble remains. Many large Internet companies are increasing revenue and reducing expenditures, and laying off employees if they can be laid off.

"Okay, have fun." Luo Sheng confirmed the guess in his heart and chatted with him for a few words before it was over. Chen Shijun also left the table.

Luo Sheng was in such a good mood at this moment. He was so tired of searching for it without any effort. Youtube's three founders actually joined the North American branch of Blue Star Technology and became his own employees.

The layout of the Internet audio and video business is originally a strategic plan he has arranged in his mind, which is also the focus of his work in the next year.

...

Three days later, Luo Sheng came to Monroe Parker Town again and met with a group of North American employees. With the previous party activities, Luo Sheng and these foreign employees also felt a lot closer.

At this moment, more than 80 employees gathered in the work hall and listened to Luo Sheng’s speech.

"... Before I leave California, we need to play some new tricks. Guys, I decided to start a brand new website in North America, with the core of anonymity mechanism." Luo Sheng told everyone about the kernel of reddit.

When Luo Sheng roughly described it, everyone was caught off guard.

"Boss, are you sure it's not a joke? This new website is simply the opposite extreme of bluespae." An employee named Vad Karim said.

"bluespae is a real-name social mechanism, but this new website has undergone a 180-degree transformation, which is too subversive." Chen Shijun said.

All the employees spoke freely. After a moment, Luo Sheng looked around and smiled and said, "I believe, I know, because you were exposed at the carnival party three days ago. I knew your secret. Every member here, I know that the group of people here are very innovative and like to challenge rules and make laws. At the same time, they behave unrestrainedly and freely and naturally. Our entire team will be one, collaborate with each other, and cooperate with each other."

Qin Weimu, who was also present, found that Luo Sheng was able to motivate the emotions of the employees. Whether it was domestic employees or foreign employees, they could always say the most appropriate words in the most suitable occasion and tie a team together in the most appropriate manner.

This is not only based on money and contractual relationships, but also on his personal charm. He seems to be a natural leader.

"Only we would think of doing this, right?" Luo Sheng added.

"Then do it, so what's the name of the new website?" said an employee named Russell Simmons eagerly.

"r-e-d-d-i-t,reddit.!" Luo Sheng said concisely.

When everyone heard that the new website was the name, everyone couldn't help but smile. Vad Karim immediately spoke, "Sorry boss, I think this name is so bad. Can you change it to a more connotational one?"

Everyone nodded, thinking that the name was too stupid. Americans had a straightforward personality and said whatever they wanted.

Luo Sheng spread his hands and said helplessly: "The Internet domain names have been registered too many times. Now it is really difficult to apply for a name that is not occupied and easy to remember. Although I can buy it, obviously, I don't want to spend money in vain. In addition, reddit also has the meaning of 'read it', no matter how you say 'connotation', it's a bit."

So, with the boss's insistence, reddit and decided to do so.

"Reddit requires a distinctive feature, which is to give users great permissions, including introducing user message functions. We must also be mentally prepared. After launching this website, the anonymity mechanism will inevitably be criticized. Even if it is scolded by others, I am not surprised that the website has never been so stupid. It also means dealing with all kinds of evil in human nature."

Luo Sheng stood in the middle and described it in an orderly manner. Everyone said nothing. Many employees were surprised by the boss's remarks because they found that the boss was always able to inadvertently express some eye-catching functional creativity.

For example, introduce the message function.

However, this function is the standard for all websites for Luo Sheng, but now it has just entered the 2004 time node, which is a very bold decision.

Luo Sheng added: "In the future, we should let users create sub-sections. We must be the first to set the trend and challenge inherent rules and concepts. Users can gather them through sub-sections of various themes on reddit, which makes them feel more intimate and belonging to reddit, and can also truly distinguish reddit from other competitors."

Users can build their own sub-sections, which is almost the same as Tieba, and to some extent, they even copy the Tieba mode.

Russell Simmons frowned and couldn't help but say, "But is it really good to give users such radical power? It's like a double-edged sword, which may make administrators exhausted from management. Even while bringing super high traffic, a considerable number of users share some violent content... well, no wonder boss, you predict that reddit will attract a lot of bad reviews on the online launch, okay..."

Think about it, the anonymous mechanism of reddit is definitely the place where the evil side of human nature explodes. He hides behind the computer screen and typing on the keyboard to vent some things that he dare not do in offline life.

One of the core battlefields such as navy and trolls.

But these employees were inexplicably excited about this idea. Before reddit was launched, it might be designated as a super chaotic and super bad super community in history.

Luo Sheng said to everyone in an orderly manner: "For a long time, the status of the online community has been a game between managers and destroyers. It is always a contest of one foot high and one foot high. The Internet is increasingly deeply involved in all aspects of people's lives. The principles of safe havens, technological neutrality, and unlimited freedom of speech are all being challenged. More proactive in fighting against destroyers may become the new normal. So we need like-minded volunteers and we maintain this community together."

In the next week, Luo Sheng stayed with Monroe Parker and Chen Shijun, Wade, Judd, Chad and other employees to formulate a reddit development sequence. Among more than 80 employees, he separated 15 people including Chen Shijun, Russell, Judd and others to be responsible for the initial development of the reddit project. The others continued to remain the same and were responsible for the operation and management of the bluespae website.

In just one week, Luo Sheng showed his strong computer strength here, completely convinced these people. If it was the crushing of wealth before that they felt that they were not convinced, but now they showed the crushing of technology.
Chapter completed!