After Toutiao's website opened for registration, the internal beta test of the app came out not long after. In just one month, the number of registrations exceeded 500,000.
Some people watch it while eating and before going to bed. The time spent pooping has doubled, and there are endless incidents of people queuing up at the dormitory door to curse.
The most interesting thing is that some teachers in the school are also watching, and sometimes they even forget to go to class until something wakes them up and they rush over.
"Damn, this thing is addictive." "It's really awesome."
"I don't think the stuff here is news at all, but it's really interesting."
In fact, in the PC era, there are already many giants in the news field, such as NetEase News, Tencent News, and Phoenix News...
However, the contents of these news websites are almost all published with the same caliber, and most of the people who write news are from a professional background. They still insist that news content must ensure objectivity and factual principles, and there should be no subjective color in the text.
But Toutiao’s positioning is different.
Most of Toutiao’s content creators are part-time college students from major universities and are very sensitive to pop culture.
They will choose the news they are interested in online, combine their own thinking and understanding, and re-create the content. The content produced will be interesting, diverse, and with novel perspectives.
For example, Tencent News published a story about a certain actress attending a red carpet, describing what she wore and what posture she posed. However, this news has changed in today's headlines. A certain actress rarely appears, and her figure is no longer what it used to be.
What kind of news has to be objective? It’s all fucking subjective to me.
How is it possible that it is so weak that it makes people laugh to death and macho men shed tears? It perfectly explains what prejudice and arrogance are. However, compared with mainstream news portals, it is more attractive, more thoughtful and valuable for comment.
The first feeling many people have when opening Toutiao is that the multi-faceted world suddenly unfolds before their eyes... In addition to the hot news that has been re-created, a large part of the content in Toutiao comes from old news.
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For example, the life of xx, the legendary experience of xx, how much do you know about the unpopular history, tips on maintaining health before going to bed, and three things you must not do.
Seeing no one around, a middle-aged male teacher secretly clicked on the news page "Three Secret Recipes for Improving Sexual Performance, Who Still Don't Know?", and a single college student casually clicked on the news page "How to Get the Opposite Sex Quickly in QQ Chat"
Interesting articles about "Favorability".
"Have you used Toutiao today?"
"I used it. It's the one advertised on Zhihu. I read gossip on it every day. It's so interesting." "I checked the news until midnight yesterday and followed several accounts."
Hearing the discussion, Zhuang Chen couldn't help but turn his head and look at Jian Chun: "Chun Chun, are you making headlines recently?"
Jian Chun nodded: "I'm brushing. Sometimes I don't remember what I brushed, but the time passes right away."
"I am also using it, and I feel that my horizons have broadened a lot. This is an epoch-making work. Compared with Toutiao, some Internet products are really rubbish."
"What's so rubbish?"
Zhuang Chen clapped his fingers: "Like some web games and pirated websites, they are all rubbish, and Zhihu is not that good either." Song Qingqing stared at the sound: "What are you talking about? Why is Zhihu rubbish?" "A bunch of people College students spend all day posting posts to find partners, or spreading gossip about different departments and departments. The atmosphere in the school has become exaggerated, and it doesn’t look like 985 at all. Isn’t it rubbish? I never use it. Know almost."
When trendy things develop to a stage and are recognized by the public, there will indeed be some pretentious people who do the opposite, thinking that others are not using me, so I am very noble and elegant.
Zhuang Chen feels like this now. Everyone uses Zhihu to chat about gossip, but I am the only one who is different from others, which shows that I am not ordinary.
After hearing this, Jiang Tian couldn't help but ask: "What's the difference between using Zhihu to read school gossip and using Toutiao to read entertainment industry gossip?"
"That's different. At least the gossip articles on Zhihu are meaningful and thoughtful, and many of the opinions are well-founded!"
"Isn't it because you hate Jiang Qin?"
Zhuang Chen was very magnanimous: "I'm not that superficial, I'm just discussing the matter. Don't you think the developers of these two products are not at the same level in terms of ideological level? What do you think of Guangfa?"
Zhang Guangfa turned his head when he heard the sound and looked at him: "Whatever, don't take me with you."
"But to be fair, Zhihu is much better than pirated websites. I'm not saying it's useless, it's just that it has no value. It can't be compared with Toutiao."
The teacher kept talking in class, and Zhuang Chen was pressing behind him. The three girls who were listening were agitated.
But at this moment, a figure suddenly ran towards the door, attracting everyone's attention. Although this girl was not from the School of Finance, most people knew her because she was Jiang Qin's secretary, Wen Jinrui.
Wen Jinrui knocked on the door: "Hello, teacher, excuse me, I am Jiang Qin's secretary. Is our boss here?" "Jiang Qin?"
The professor pushed up his reading glasses and looked around: "Your boss is not here, but Feng Nanshu is." Wen Jinrui said again: "Then can I waste a little time and have a word with our boss?" "Okay, Go ahead."
Wen Jinrui immediately ran into the classroom and placed a folder with Toutiao recruitment report in front of Feng Nanshu. The huge red and white logo on the cover looked very dazzling.
"Boss boss, I'm here to deliver documents to my boss. He said he would come to the classroom later, but I seem to be early. Can you hand it over to me? I have to go to the headquarters later."
Feng Nanshu looked up at her: "Jinrui, you are a good person."
Wen Jinrui was a little flattered: "Ah? Thank you... thank you boss lady for the compliment."
Seeing this scene, Song Qingqing couldn't help but smile brightly: "Oh, it turns out that such a deep and high-end product also belongs to my male idol."
Zhuang Chen was silent for a while and then said: "Then I won't say it's bad. Today's headlines are indeed good."
Zhang Guangfa turned his head when he heard the sound and glanced at Zhuang Chen. Damn it, Jiang Qin didn't learn his entrepreneurial skills, but he learned a lot about his bad mouth.
Zhuang Chen turned his head at this time, his expression a little solemn: "I find that I don't understand myself more and more..." "You are possessed."
"What's the meaning?"
Zhang Guangfa lowered his voice: "It's okay if you were not convinced before. He now has 180 million. Why are you not convinced? Because of your big face?"
Zhuang Chen frowned: "I just want Jian Chun to notice me."
"Then don't care about Jiang Qin's existence. Just bring out the advantages you have." "What advantages do I have?" "You...you have a pretty good hair style."
While the two were chatting, a figure suddenly walked into the classroom quietly, with light hands and feet, and was worse than a thief.
People around were still marveling at the fact that Jiang Qin was the one making headlines today, but when they saw this figure, they couldn't stand it anymore. Is this the big boss with 180 million in his hands?
At this moment, the old professor turned around after writing on the blackboard and saw Jiang Qin who had sneaked halfway. The atmosphere between the two looked at each other was a bit awkward.
"I'm sorry, Professor, I'm late."
"It's okay, it's only forty minutes late. There are still five minutes left. Sit down."
Jiang Qinxin said you should have told me earlier, so I came in swaggeringly, and then he sat next to Feng Nanshu. Cao Guangyu couldn't help but pat him from behind: "You developed Toutiao today? Aren't you a group player?
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"A random pen, a bit of clumsiness, a joke."
Young Master Cao took a deep breath and thought to himself, "You really can show off. Damn it. I spent half the night reading it yesterday and couldn't stop at all. As a result, when I came to you, I was a bit clumsy. He clicked the ballpoint pen, and then
He took out his notebook and wrote down this sentence.
In fact, Jiang Qin is not pretending. Currently, group building is the top priority of his entire business layout, and Toutiao is indeed not his main business.
At the very least, it is not the focus of development at this stage.
But now that he has started, Jiang Qin still hopes to get it done quickly.
At this time, Feng Nanshu took out the document sent by Wen Jinrui and handed it to Jiang Qin: "This is from Jinrui." "Is the recruitment over?"
Jiang Qin reached for the folder, opened it and looked at it. The content management department had hired about ten people and the review team had twenty people.
In addition, Wei Lanlan also identified several algorithm engineer candidates through recruitment websites, and the information sheets were also among them.
After Toutiao enters the self-media stage in the later stage, the amount of content will increase infinitely, and it will be troublesome to manually find content of interest, so precise push will be the main development direction in the later stage.
This thing involves algorithms, so Jiang Qin asked Wei Lanlan to look for some candidates.
Of course, in addition to Toutiao's need for algorithm engineers, the later stage of group-building unification of the market also requires the blessing of algorithms to achieve precise promotions.
For example, recommendations for good products and careful selection for group shopping require precise data to be pushed to users who may be interested in purchasing, so the formation of an algorithm team is essential.
This is the second step of the company's development strategy, called the talent plan.
The current mobile Internet has just started, and everyone is competing for the market, so talents are relatively easy to obtain.
Wei Lanlan had previously interviewed these engineers by phone through the recruitment company, and also asked about salary requirements, which were marked on their files at this time.
Jiang Qin turned his head, snatched the clicking ballpoint pen from Cao Guangyu, and marked every file. The principle was that he was not afraid of spending money.
He returned the pen and glanced at Cao Guangyu.
If he revealed how much money he had raised, Master Cao would probably not be able to sleep for a month.
This chapter has been completed!