What really determines the height of life is the speed at which you do things.
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Social Network tells the story of Facebook's tortuous entrepreneurial history and legal disputes.
I'm not surprised by all this.
What surprised me most was Zuckerberg.
Especially the speed and execution of his work.
After Zuckerberg was dumped by his girlfriend, he hit the code on a whim that night. In a very short time, an application named FaceMash was created on the computer, which was used to compare and score avatars. Simply put, this application is to let beautiful girls on campus upload photos to the website and let passers-by score.
This simple and crude product has captured the college students' voyeuristic desire for beauty and the vanity of beautiful women, and established a competition mechanism through grading, so it has achieved great success.
Pay attention to the details of the film, and you will find the following facts:
Zuckerberg returned to the dormitory at 8: 0013 that night. In the evening 10: 17, I started to make FaceMash. At 2: 08 am, my classmate Savarin came back and provided the algorithm formula. After the product was launched, it was widely circulated among college students. At 4 o'clock in the morning, the website traffic was abnormal, which led to the paralysis of Harvard campus network and alarmed the school administrators.
In other words, it took him only six hours from design, research and development to product launch, which may be the daily workload of a small entrepreneurial team for two days.
In addition, the Winklevoss brothers and Zuckerberg, both studying at Harvard, are sworn enemies. They always say that Zach stole their ideas and got Facebook.
It is also the execution gap between Xiaozha and Winklevoss that contributes to the huge gap in the future.
When the Winklevoss brothers hesitated to join social networking sites, Xiaozha had already started Facebook.
When the two brothers were training for rowing, Xiaozha's Facebook was online.
When the Winklevoss brothers sent a lawyer's letter, waiting for Xiaozha's reply, Xiaozha announced that Facebook had entered Yale University, Columbia University and Stanford University.
When the Winklevoss brothers went to complain about Harvard President Summers, Xiaozha's Facebook had covered 29 schools with 75,000 registered users.
While the Winklevoss brothers were still in the UK for rowing competitions, Xiaozha's Facebook has become a hot topic in business schools in Cambridge, Oxford and London.
Driven by CEO's crazy execution and promotion, Facebook spread almost at a crazy speed on American university campuses, and then spread to every corner of the world.
Face? Social networking sites? When the idea was enough to promote the global revolution, the Winklevoss brothers refused to start working.
Zuckerberg chose to act like a mad dog.
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In addition, he has the ability to follow up projects quickly.
At the beginning of the launch of social products, it needs iteration. Once, Zuckerberg got it from a classmate? Social networking sites need to show students' emotional relationships? After enlightenment (single, in love, married or not), I immediately rushed back to the dormitory like a demon and added this function.
In this film, you can always feel that Zuckerberg has a cool rudeness.
The honesty and frankness peculiar to programmers.
Any ideas? Ok, do it in the next second!
Is something wrong? Ok, the next second will be solved immediately!
Is there a better plan? Ok, knock on the code for product iteration in the next second!
Yes, it is the next second, even the next second, the next second is too late.
When I first graduated, I was most proud of my unrestricted thinking, ideas and creativity, as if these things were worth 12 million gold, as if I could persuade other companies to offer me a high salary.
But after much experience, I gradually understand a sentence from the entrepreneurial circle:? Ideas are the least valuable things in the world, and execution is always the most important thing. ?
What determines the height of life is never the perfection of doing things, but the speed of doing things.
For example, if you are hungry now, you want to roast chicken wings. The first thing you have to do is not to conceive in your mind how to bake a pair of perfect chicken wings, how to prepare gravy, or which brand of black pepper to use, but to go to the market and buy a pack of chicken wings at once.
Speed is the first key, everything else is based on speed.
You didn't even buy chicken wings. What the hell?
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There is an interesting thing to share with you.
Because I'm going to travel on the eleventh, I was brushing the travel website last night, including the special fares of diaosi from major airlines. When I swiped my card at an online travel website in China, the name of my high school classmate appeared on the banner on the home page. When I look at the photo, it doesn't look like it. After I clicked in, I confirmed it was him.
The website page introduces travel customizers, hotel sleepers, travel columnists and contracted photographers of XXX magazine.
There are so many titles that I can't breathe.
It suddenly occurred to me that he had dropped out of college for a year and a half to travel. After that, I postponed graduation and got my diploma very late.
On the website, he shared his experiences along the way. He said that he wanted to go to Lhasa because he saw "Turn the Mountain" directed by Du Jiayi.
I booked a plane ticket that night, planned all the trips the next morning, went to the teacher's office to ask for leave in the afternoon, packed all my luggage at night, and checked the guide to 1 in the morning.
Then I set off in a hurry.
Maybe he felt that his soul had been purified after he went to Tibet. He thought traveling was so fun that he decided to take a year and a half off school and travel full-time.
How did he get the money for his trip?
Written on his personal homepage, half of it is borrowed from his parents, and the other half is working while traveling to earn money. I usually earn a lot by doing part-time wedding photography.
Potala Palace, Namco and Jokhang Temple in Lhasa; Shuanglang, Erhai and Cangshan in Dali; Lijiang Shuhe, Lugu Lake and Yulong Snow Mountain
Ok, now I randomly selected 10 people, and I'm afraid 9 of them fantasized about going to these places at some point in the future.
But only 1 person can do it.
Because the other nine have rotted their ideas in their heads.
Those thoughts, in a comfortable sleep at night, quietly melted and almost became a reality.
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I also met a buddy when I went to Beijing. He lives in Tuanjiehu.
Once on the roadside, he told me seriously that he had a wish to open a bookstore.
I said, open it.
He said, no money.
I said, you can drive without money.
He said, how to open it?
I asked him if there were any old books at home, and he said yes, a lot. I suggested that he start with the second-hand bookstall. Anyway, it's a personal interest, not making money, just having fun.
He looks a little evasive and worried. He asked me, what if there is an urban management? What if someone collects protection money? What if someone doesn't pay for books? What if someone bargains?
? Brother, do anything before you start. As long as we start, other problems are not problems. ?
He nodded.
Facts have proved that my idea is correct.
That night, I went to his rental house and confirmed the location of the booth, business hours and book prices with him. Then he borrowed two large paper boxes from the landlord and threw all his old books into the boxes. At 6 o'clock the next night, he and I set up an old book stand directly near Tuanjiehu.
I helped him for two days, and then he was all on his own.
What was the result?
That bookstall, it's doing very well. No one collects protection fees, no urban management drives them away, no one buys books without giving money, and few people bargain. This buddy has also made some book friends (including many sisters) and met many people of all kinds. At first, he didn't have the face to sit on the side of the road. Later, he simply moved a bench to sit on the side of the road and read by himself, and gradually moved back and forth freely.
How is he now?
This guy is looking for a suitable bookstore in his circle of friends recently.
He is going to open a bookstore.
Although it is selling second-hand books, it is basically moving closer to its own wishes.
In addition, by setting up a book stand, he made many book friends and formed an offline reading club. Now he is the president.
You see, he is no longer the young man who only talks nonsense with Nuo Nuo on the roadside.
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This is the best time and the worst time.
When you do things fast enough and have strong execution, you will be sure that this is indeed the best time.
Because everyone can find a place to settle down through their own specialties, skills and interests.
When you do things too slowly, you will complain: this era is simply too bad.
The money was earned by others, and the income during the dividend period was divided up by the pioneers. The flying pig on the tuyere will never be himself.
Your mentality is distorted day by day, and your original passion has already disappeared in repeated delays.
God, in fact, these people are dragging themselves down.
Most people are not incompetent or weak-willed Actually, it's just a little short. As long as you do, everything will change in the future.
You don't have to compare with those who are awesome at the top of the pyramid, just compare with those ordinary people who are successful enough.
When you compare yourself with those successful ordinary people, you will find that the difference between you and him is actually at the beginning? Did you do it? And then what? Didn't do it? The difference. The huge gap between you and him is the butterfly effect caused by a small execution at that time.
Everyone is an ordinary person, an ordinary face, an ordinary figure and an ordinary heart. No one is smarter than anyone else, and no one is smarter than anyone else. IQ is the average level of China people, about 105.
Those who don't say they did it in advance have a much higher chance of success than those who do it tomorrow.
Now suppose there are 100 people to do things.
I'm sure the mentality of 50 of them is:? Forget it, can we talk about it when we have time? , or? Next time! Will you do it next time? .
Among them, 30 people hesitated for a while and decided to give it a try, but they found it too difficult and annoying before they started trying, so they gave up.
Among them, 12 people promoted the plan, but stopped because of various obstacles.
Five of them, after completing the plan, have a little sense of accomplishment and stop here.
Only the last three people immediately laid hands on him, resolutely and decisively, seized the opportunity, seized the opportunity in advance, and followed up irregularly.
The speed at which these three people do things finally determines a fact.
They are bound to run ahead of most people.