The same situation occurred at Columbia University and Yale University, and Facebook puts opponents under pressure.

In the next ten days, Natalie's team did the same and promoted Facebook to the entire Ivy League. It was unstoppable and could always arouse fanatical pursuits wherever it went. At Dartmouth College, more than one-third of the undergraduates became their users in just one day.

In early March 2004, Facebook's registered users reached 20,000. However, this was just a fire of stars. People kept writing letters asking Facebook to enter their schools, almost all over the United States. Zach Jr. was exhausted by a large number of emails. Fortunately, it was announced in time that Natalie was the official spokesperson of Facebook and announced Natalie's official email address. Only then could she calm down and write programs with peace of mind.

At the same time, in order to cope with the problem of joining the new school, he also invited high school classmate D'Angelo, who is good at programming, to assist in team promotion.

In less than half a month, the number of Facebook users rose sharply, while the number of online users remained at tens of thousands.

Obviously, during this period, Facebook's rapid rise inspired the entire entrepreneurial team. At the same time, Zach Xiao and Ye Feng were able to recruit new talents to join. Based on their own strengths and positions, Facebook's management structure gradually became clear.

Ye Feng and Keer were not idle.

The two rented office space and servers, recruited professional finance, legal, administrative personnel and a large number of programmers, and quickly built the operation of Facebook. They really enjoyed the "passion" of starting a business.

However, between expansion and profit, the team started a fierce debate and no one could convince anyone.

So, Ye Feng invited members of the founding team and new members to hold a meeting and discuss in the new office building.

“This is so cool!!”

On a sunny Friday afternoon in April, Facebook’s founding team arrived at the newly renovated office building in Palo Alto, California.

Zach Little is full of energy.

"What does this wall mean?"

After the door inspection, the first thing that caught Zach's eyelid was a "huge wall".

Keer smiled and told him, "This is called a 'think wall'. Everyone, including visitors, can leave their ideas on it."

"It's so cool!!" Zach felt full of surprises.

This is his Facebook empire.

The overall design of the building adopts an open layout.

Each team had their own small office. A small deer head, a small sofa and some small-sized posters were hung on the wall.

“While everyone has their own desk in their offices, you often see open-air sofas and chairs in some quiet little corners, it provides Facebook employees with a quiet office environment that they can’t provide in those bustling teams.”

Keer continued: “We provide a comfortable and energetic office environment for Facebook employees. If you want to find a particularly quiet place to 'hide for a while', our office library will provide you with everything you want.”

"I like this environment very much, I like to stay here and write programs." Zach was very satisfied.

If there are people operating the company, it feels different. He can work attentively and without any disturbance.

On the way, he saw a variety of snacks in many corners. After asking Keer, he realized that all the food and drinks were free.

...

"Everyone talk about it. Who do we choose between expansion and profit? Everyone has the right to speak!"

After everyone sat in the conference room, Zach Xiao raised the question of whether Facebook should be commercialized immediately.

"I will say first that Facebook's servers are overwhelmed. We must continue to rent servers or build our own servers." Moscowwitz spoke first.

"During this period, office building rental and renovation and recruitment of a large number of personnel. The financial expenditure was $2 million. The server rental cost $300,000. We still have $2 million in our account. But I want to remind everyone that we are now a regular company operating. The company will pay wages and pay taxes for each employee starting this month." Keer announced the accounts on behalf of the Finance Department, and the newly recruited financial manager has not yet taken up his post.

"So, we have to find a way to increase our income? After all, survival is more important than growing. For a small company with a low foundation, nothing is more important than a stable business." Zach frowned.

"I think we can wait a little longer. At this stage, our main task should be to continue to expand." Ye Feng opposed it: "At the moment, we can only rely on accepting advertisements. With the current scale, big advertisers don't take us seriously, and small advertisers can't pay much money. The situation is in an embarrassing stage. So we should focus on expanding, as long as our number of users increases, we don't have to worry about big advertisements coming."

“Hey…”

Everyone held their own opinions and spoke one after another.

Zach didn't want to charge advertising fees so early, because after advertising, it was very bad for the user's experience. But he dared not agree to Ye Feng's suggestion.

If there is no income, the company will have no money sooner or later.

What if there is no money? It can only continue to raise funds. His shares will be further reduced.

"Let's do it, we continue to promote it. As long as the Facebook users exceed 300,000, we will start to accept advertisements. However, the way to place advertisements must be decided by ourselves." Zach Jr. finally proposed a compromise.

At this time, the number of Facebook users exceeded 100,000, covering 34 top universities in the United States. It has become a certain attraction to advertisers.

One month later.

As expected, Facebook users exceeded 300,000. An advertising agency y2m decided to place advertisements on Facebook. The first batch of advertisements posted by y2m included a credit card service provided by Mastercard to college students.

At first, Mastercard's influence on Facebook was skeptical and adopted a harsh cooperation method: the advertising fee was paid only when customers applied for a card through advertisements on Facebook.

As a result, within one day after the advertisement was released, Mastercard received more than twice the total application volume in the previous four months.

"The effect explodes!!" Facebook's platform advantages have attracted the attention of all parties.

y2m and Mastercard extended an olive branch to express their investment intentions in Facebook. The team was unmoved and claimed that they would not negotiate until at least $100 million, which scared all investors away.

Despite the start of commercial operation, the team was extremely demanding on advertising, and only those eligible advertisers could post advertisements on his website. Zach Jr. rejected the attractive advertising price codes from Goldman Sachs and Mercer Consulting because their advertising was too serious and commercial.

To be fair, the team has no intention of serving advertisements, but considering the survival of the website, they have to make appropriate compromises.

Even so, the team still showed a strong dominance, making mandatory regulations on advertising format, size, title, etc. It seemed to make those rich advertisers understand that in the world of Zach and others, they are the rulemakers.

To some extent, such regulations avoid Facebook's over-commercialization and maintain a humorous and playful style. If you abandon these fascinating traits in order to get advertising fees, it is tantamount to "killing a chicken to get an egg".

Facebook hasn't received much money yet.

However, Natalie counted the money and found her hands cramped.

"Natali, you are popular!! You have become the dream lover of college students across the United States!!"

Back at the apartment, Keer said to Natalie: "Do you know? There are tens of thousands of emails in your mailbox. Half of them are to date you."

As he said that, Keer clicked on emails from various universities: "...Look, it's all about pursuing you...How about it? You're very satisfied..."

"Tsk, it's just a bunch of stinky guys (scrolls)..."

Natalie was unmoved, took off her high heels and clothes, and walked around the room in her underwear, her beautiful figure was undoubtedly revealed.

These days, she has to dress up carefully every day and post her updates on Facebook. She also accepted the invitation of Light and Shadow Media to take a set of photos and a life documentary.

It has aroused the pursuit of young students across the United States.

"Oh my god!! Look at this post..."

Keer clicked on a forum established for Natalie's Passing Gate somewhere.

"I can die for Natalie!!" said the post.

"I can drink Natalie's niao, do you dare?" Er Hu was the only one who took the initiative.

"I can eat..." There were a group of crazy netizens downstairs.

"It's so disgusting!" Natalie closed the web page. "Can you stop reading this?"

"I just like to see them, who are sour when they can't get you. They don't know that the goddess in their hearts is walking around in front of me now in a beautiful underwear."

Keer smiled and said, "Okay, let's say another good news. Your value has increased. With your current popularity among young people, your pay and endorsement fees have increased by 50%. Several manufacturers are asking you to endorse products, but I have refused."

"Reject?" Natalie asked back.

"Yes, your popularity is far from reaching its peak. When Facebook users reach tens of millions, your value can truly stabilize at a new level. There is no need to worry at all." Ke'er smiled.

"Oh, it's really my luck to know you and Ye Feng." Natalie heard that her value could still rise, her eyes were shining, her legs were clamped, her cheeks were flushed, and she was so excited that she shook her giggled, "Why better call Ye Feng over and let the three of you celebrate."
Chapter completed!