In the United States, between Second Street and Third Street in San Francisco, there is a building called South Park.

In Office No. 164, Coke bottles, coffee cans and toilet paper were scattered on the floor.

The curtains were tightly drawn, and only the computer screen gave off flickering light.

Kevin! Kevin! The server exploded again!

Mike Krieger held his head and shouted in frustration.

When can we change to a large-capacity server? This is the third time today that it has been down. If this continues, all of our users will be lost!

Krieger is a graduate student who graduated from Stanford University. He currently serves as a product experience designer and engineer at Instagram and is one of the two co-founders of Instagram.

He held his gold-rimmed glasses and looked at the mirror hanging on the wall. The little fat man in it had a haggard face, his hair was as messy as a bird's nest, and his eyes were bloodshot.

He had not slept for thirty-six hours, and he felt like he would die suddenly at any time.

Partner Kevin Systrom is not much better. As another founder of Instagram, he gave up his well-paid job at Google to create Instagram. He thought it would be a good start, but he did not expect it.

Tired like a dog.

Fortunately, he slept for a few hours yesterday. At this time, he crawled out of the sleeping bag with difficulty and said with a bitter look on his face: There is nothing I can do. We have expanded the capacity three times and all the money has been spent. If the user continues to do this

If the price continues to rise, even if all my organs are sold, it won’t be enough!

Then go find the money. Krieger complained, isn't your job just to find the money?

I still had a lot of work to do, so I found a guy to take my place. His name was Josh Riddle, and he was supposed to report in today. Systrom washed his face with cold water and moved to the computer.

The next second, he forgot his worries, raised his arms and cheered loudly.

200,000! 200,000! 200,000! We have 200,000 users! Hahaha, Mike, how many days did it take for us to go online, four days, five days, or six days? We have 200,000 users so quickly, wowhahahaha,

We are going to succeed!

Krieger glared at him: Shut up, if we can't solve the server problem quickly, these 200,000 users will be gone in one day. See, I just restarted the server and the load has already reached 75%!ъìqυgΕtv.

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I don’t have any good ideas! Systrom muttered, unless we can find investment. I hope Josh can live up to his bragging and bring in a lot of money!

Why don't we ask Jack to invest? Krieger asked doubtfully.

Jack in his mouth is the founder of itter.

Twitter is the imitation object of vblog. It was first founded in 2006 and has grown to have 150 million users at this time. It is very popular and can be called Facebook's only rival in the social market.

When Systrom was working at Google, he met many people in the industry, including Jack Dorsey.

Before the launch of Instagram, Jack Dorsey also became the first batch of seed users to help promote it.

Jack Dorsey showed a strong interest in Instagram and also proposed investment intentions, but Systrom was reluctant. He naturally had a sense of resistance to large companies and always felt that after accepting investment, he would become useless.

autonomy.

But the problem now is that without money, the server cannot be expanded, and without expanding the server, there is no way to accommodate more users, so instagram will never be able to grow and develop.

Freedom or survival, that is the question.

I will consider it when Josh comes and ask him to ask Ronnie and Chris if they are interested. Anyway, we need money. Strom sighed.

Just when the two of them were feeling a little depressed, the doorbell rang.

It must be Josh! Systrom jumped up and rushed to the door.

A few seconds later, a scream came from the door.

Krieger stood up and walked over. After seeing the visitor clearly, he was also surprised.

Those who came were not the typical Silicon Valley engineers wearing plaid shirts and wild hair, but two girls with Chinese faces.

Two beauties, what's the matter with you? Strom asked strangely.

The visitors are Yu Na and Zhu Xiaoya. They skipped their classes at Stanford and traveled across most of the Bay Area to come here.

Is this an Instagram company? I wish Xiaoya had a more cheerful and lively personality and asked loudly.

That's right, who are you looking for?

We are international students from China. My name is ya and her name is na. We are currently studying at Stanford University. We were entrusted by a friend and hope to discuss something with your company. I wish Xiao Yadao.

People from China also know about our company? Systrom just finds it incredible.

To him, Hua Country was a distant country that existed only in concept. It was hard for him to imagine that anyone in such a distant place would know about his small company that had only been established for a few days.

Of course, we are also a country that is keen on the Internet. Yu Na also spoke up. My friend recommended your app to me on the first day it was launched.

Your friend is a very discerning man. Strom nodded.

At this time, Krieger said: Kevin, it is impolite to let two beautiful ladies talk at the door. Can't you invite them in?

Um, do you two want to come in and have a Coke?

Yu Na and Zhu Xiaoya exchanged glances. They felt that the two haggard people in front of them, who looked like they hadn't slept for several weeks, didn't look like bad guys, so they plucked up the courage and walked into the office.

It was said to be an office, but in fact it was almost like a garbage dump. There was only a large long table with computers and various photographic equipment piled on it.

The most eye-catching thing is a whiteboard facing the door, which is full of various symbols. It looks like there have been many brainstorming sessions.

Please sit down. After Strom said that, he realized that there were only two chairs in the office, and they were stained with his and Krieger's sweat. They were really not suitable for girls to sit on.

You're welcome, let's get straight to the point. Yu Na quickly said, we are here mainly to ask for your contact information for a friend who wants to invest in your company.

What? Strom and Krieger were both surprised.

Investment from China?

They never dreamed that they would hear such news.

Are Hua people very rich?
Chapter completed!