Chapter 43 Overnight

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In the double room of the Grand Harbour Hotel, Yang welcomed the morning sun, sat up from the bed, stretched his arms lazily, and yawned for the first time since waking up this morning.

"Good morning, beautiful!" Yang Huan greeted Zhang Ning, who was sitting opposite him with a naked face.

He got out of bed, not caring at all, and went straight into the bathroom.

Zhang Ning took a sneak peek, her face slightly reddened, and she spat, but at least she didn't scream and shout "pervert" like she did at the beginning.

She had to admit that her immunity to Yang Huan's style of doing things had indeed improved a lot.

The sounds of brushing teeth and washing face came from the bathroom. Zhang Ning continued to sit in the bathroom, but she was not using her laptop. Instead, she was using the Apple phone that Yang Huan bought for her to log into WeChat and send and receive messages.

The studio and some people around Yang Huan have been using this app for a long time.

"Lao Zhu sent a message saying that the server needs to be upgraded."

Zhang Ning spoke only after Yang Huan came out of the bathroom.

Upgrading the server requires money, and Zhang Ning is in charge of the money. She is responsible for all of Yang Huan’s expenses.

"Upgrade if you want, it's up to you." Yang Huan said nonchalantly.

When Zhang Ning saw him like this, he secretly laughed in his heart and said, "Just keep pretending. I don't believe you don't want to know how many users there are."

You know, she secretly got up several times last night just to check how many users had downloaded WeChat.

The level of nervousness was as painful as when she was waiting for the college entrance examination scores.

Yang Huan attaches so much importance to this app and puts a lot of effort into promoting it, so would he not care?

"By the way, what would you like to have for breakfast?" Yang Huan asked while getting dressed.

"Whatever." Zhang Ning answered casually, but then asked, "Wang Lin suggested that we recruit more people to develop different language versions."

She wanted to see when Yang Huan would take the initiative to ask.

"Yes, sure. Develop the Chinese version first, then other languages. Hurry up."

Yang Huan knows very well that there are no secrets on the Internet. Once people see that you are popular, they will immediately follow suit.

Therefore, it is best to quickly land and seize the market before everyone reacts.

At the very least, we have to put up a flag first.

"By the way, call Aston Martin this morning and tell Ulrich Bates that if he doesn't get me a car soon, I'll go and smash his lousy factory!"

When Ulrich Bates was mentioned, Yang Huan's face became filled with indignation.

It has been more than half a month since I paid the deposit, but there is still no sign of the car. The days of waiting for the car are really unbearable.

Although he now has a Bentley for transportation, Yang Huan still prefers to drive himself.

At the very least, it's easier to pick up girls when you're driving a cool Aston Martin.

"Oh." Zhang Ning agreed. It seemed that Aston Martin had some problems with its production capacity.

Yang Huan put on his clothes, walked to Zhang Ning's bed, sat down and put on his shoes, "By the way, how many users did WeChat have last night?"

When Zhang Ning heard this, he was delighted. You keep pretending, and I’ll let you continue pretending. You finally asked me on your own initiative, right?

When she was still thinking about whetting Yang Huan's appetite, Yang Huan said something that made her laugh and cry.

"Is there a million?"

"One million?" Zhang Ning was speechless. It was only one night, less than twenty-four hours, and they wanted the number of users to exceed one million?

Even if you are in China, even if the three giants BAT push it together, it is difficult to do it, not to mention that you have nothing.

"No?" Yang Huan raised his head and looked at Zhang Ning's beautiful face, then lowered his head to continue tying his shoelaces, muttering, "Damn it, Zhu Liangcheng and Wang Lin are really useless. They can't even handle one million, and they're still upgrading the server. What the hell is that?"

Zhang Ning smiled bitterly, thinking that it was so easy to attract users?

"Now the number of WeChat users has exceeded 100,000, which is already very impressive."

“Is it that great?” Yang Huan sneered and shook his head. “Call Zhu Liangcheng and Wang Lin and tell them to do their best to promote and advertise on Facebook and Twitter. Hire more online trolls to build momentum. Don’t be afraid of wasting money. The most important thing is to create momentum and make a fuss. In the next three days, I want to see the best results!”

Sun Yue developed the entire promotion and marketing plan for Ibrahimovic joining Southampton, a very important point of which is the news media, and Yang Huan hopes that WeChat can take advantage of this momentum and rise strongly.

Otherwise, why would he go to great lengths to get Ibrahimovic to create a celebrity account?

It's not just Ibrahimovic. In the future, more and more celebrity accounts of stars such as Neymar, Balotelli, and even Southampton's official celebrity account will be launched. The goal is to make WeChat a new platform for these stars to interact with their fans.

Raiola has promised to help Yang Huan attract more stars to register celebrity accounts on WeChat.

The prerequisite is that Yang Huan’s team must handle the Ibrahimovic joining event well.

But what Yang Huan didn't know was that an operation that he was very dissatisfied with had caused quite a stir on the other side of the ocean.

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Red Rock Cafe is a startup cafe located in Mountain View, Silicon Valley.

The most distinctive feature is the second floor of the cafe, which is full of crooked tables with various laptops on them, and in front of each table there is always a person sitting quietly writing code.

Many people from Silicon Valley startups like to gather here because brilliant ideas are born here almost every moment.

Jan Koum and Brian Acton are the two founders of WhatsApp. They also like to stay on the second floor of Red Rock Cafe, communicating with these young people who are waiting for entrepreneurial opportunities and stimulating sparks of creativity.

In the morning, they went up to the second floor of the cafe as usual.

Normally, they were the stars on the second floor of the cafe with their modest achievements, and were the focus of everyone's envy and jealousy. But today, when they climbed the stairs to the second floor, they found that these people did not greet them with their eyes as usual, but were discussing a novel topic.

WeChat!

"Their official Twitter account announced that the number of users has exceeded 200,000!"

"It's been less than twenty-four hours?"

"It's so fast. What's so magical about this app? It attracted 200,000 users overnight!"

"It's mainly the publicity in newspapers, Facebook and Twitter, especially Facebook and Twitter, all kinds of reposts and links, which indirectly help them increase their users."

"Well, it seems that they used a recently popular football star as a publicity stunt, which attracted the attention of the media and fans, and then used the users' attention to attract them to use this app."

"I downloaded the app and followed the celebrity account, but there didn't seem to be anything special about it."

Jan Combe and Brian Acton both felt a little strange and walked over to a friend they were familiar with.

"What's going on? Is there a new and novel gadget coming out?"

The man looked up and saw that it was them. He nodded immediately and said, "Well, in the UK, a group of college students followed your lead and created a mobile app called WeChat. They also made it available for free to users of iOS, Android, Blackberry and other platforms."

"Completely free?" Jan Kum was surprised.

"Yes, it's free. In less than 24 hours, they have attracted more than 200,000 users."

Jan Koum and Brian Acton were both shocked. "How is this possible?"

"We all think it's unlikely, but the facts are there."

After a pause, the man tried to analyze it again: "I think it has something to do with the European media. Football is their priority reporting resource. In the UK, even the divorce of a star player can surpass current political affairs and make the front page headlines. So the number one center forward named Ibrahimovic is threatening to transfer, and every move he makes attracts the attention of the media and fans."

"You should take countermeasures as soon as possible."

Jan Kum and Brian Acton looked at each other and noticed a little panic in each other's eyes. This was the first time they faced a challenger, and it was a challenger who was going to push them into a desperate situation right from the start.

free?

Their only income now is download fees!

Free is equivalent to revolutionizing their lives!

"Why don't we just offer it for free for a limited time and then attract more users." Brian Acton was a little anxious.

It took them nearly a year from release to 200,000 users, but this software only took less than a day. It is foreseeable that if they continue to allow them to grow at this rate, it will inevitably become a major concern for them.

Free limited-time services can quickly attract users, but the problem it brings is also obvious, that is, not only do they not make any money, but they also lose a lot. Without going into other things, just the SMS verification during registration is a considerable expense.

And once there are more users, whether the server can handle it is also a problem.

But all of this was out of the question.

"Okay, it's free for a limited time, let's take a chance!"

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Also in Mountain View, many people who are always paying attention to the developments in the Internet and smartphone fields and have a keen sense of smell have captured the news that WeChat’s 24-hour user base has exceeded 200,000.

On Facebook and Twitter, more and more users are beginning to share their experiences using WeChat.

"Thanks to WeChat, I got to know a friend I hadn't contacted for a long time. He had always been forgotten in a corner of my phone's address book. WeChat helped me rediscover him."

“Using WeChat has given me a lot of surprises. I find that more and more friends around me are using it.”

"It is much more convenient than WhatsApp. It can automatically scan the phone's address book. WhatsApp is too troublesome, as troublesome as an old lady's foot binding. It also requires tedious manual settings. More importantly, WeChat promises to be free forever."

"Its user experience is amazing. I can use it to know whether my friends have received, viewed, and are replying to my messages. This feeling is so interesting. Is it really developed in just one week?"

The entire Internet is full of praise for the app, but some users are also criticizing the way the app scans mobile phone contacts, believing that this viral promotion method violates user privacy.

But more users do not think this is a problem, because the phone contacts are basically close friends who have each other's phone numbers. Compared with the convenient and interesting services provided by the application, privacy issues seem insignificant.

So on the Internet, the two sides started a debate over privacy and fast and convenient services, two seemingly irreconcilable topics. Both sides began to present their own evidence to convince the other side and prove that their own views were more important and more accurate.

But in the end no one could convince anyone else.

By the 32nd hour after its release, WeChat had more than 250,000 users, and the rate of increase was accelerating, with the momentum to surpass WhatsApp in one fell swoop.

It was at this time that WhatsApp officially announced that it would be free for a limited time, firing the first shot in the tit-for-tat battle for users between the two sides.

Yang Huan was not aware of the debate launched by netizens against WeChat, and he did not take the competition with WhatsApp seriously for the time being. But at this moment, in front of him, there were two guys arguing with each other, and he had to step forward to mediate.

He couldn't understand it.

What are you arguing about?

What's there to argue about?

Isn't it just a matter of a few bucks?

He has always believed that if a problem can be solved with money, it is definitely not a problem.

Because he has nothing else but a lot of money!

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