By Priscilla Jordan
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook in 19 years. Reid Hoffman was 35 when he helped found LinkedIn. But the Brazilian Pierre Grossmann evidence that venture into social networking market is not unique to young people.
At 71, he has inaugurated the Yes, I Can Do B2B, online tool for the interaction of companies wishing to do business.
With your smartphone on hand running the operating system Android, Google, and an iPad, Apple's ahead, Grossmann not intimidated by competition in the sector, which has grown exponentially.
"This tool goes far beyond Google and does what no other social network does. It can connect one to a Brazilian Chinese and make them close deals," he told Reuters.
A Yes, I Can Do is a B2B online environment that provides a meeting between companies, industries and service providers, ranging from the financial services and commodities to the mining, telecommunications and aeronautics.
Cruising the information of supply and demand of each register, the network makes suggestions for possible business partners.
The site offers a database of 500 000 classifications of products and services by following international standards. The company is in the library that offers the products and are looking for, and can record in your catalog site, giving it greater visibility.
"I realized that 99 percent of employers had difficulty doing research for ignoring the official name of its products," said Grossman, who also founded a company database of technical standards pioneered the use of Internet in Brazil in the 1990s the Easynet.
He never stopped using the Web and now communicates with her grandchildren on Twitter, and have a Skype account.
SEARCH REFINED
A Yes, I Can Do (B2B http://www.yesicandob2b.com/) provides a list of existing products and services divided by areas. The user will refine the search until you find the product offered or sought with its English translation.
In 2006, Grossman had already created a site that allowed companies to find the exact word to describe their products. However, he realized he was not actually offering what their customers needed.
"I realized that at the end of the day, what the entrepreneur wants to sell," he said. "There are more than 5 million small businesses in Brazil, and what they want is to find customers."
Thus, Grossmann launched last week the social network, by which to do business in real time through chat and online payment tool PayPal.
Despite having launched the network in Portuguese and English recently, the site is already being translated versions in Spanish, Italian and Simplified Chinese, among other languages.
Grossmann did not know exactly what amount contributed in social networks. He said Yes, I Can Do B2B is the result of investments made over recent years in its related businesses, requiring about $ 20,000 monthly.
The inscription on the social network is free. For the company register your product catalog, which effectively allow the closing of business on the site, will be charged an annual fee of $ 200. Another source of revenue Yes, I Can Do B2B advertising should be.
Pierre Grossmann(CSO)
Skype:PierreGro
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