Chapter 636 World War
Yang Huan had to admit that Qiu Zaifei's preparations were indeed very thorough.
As a veteran football fan for more than 20 years, and having been active on major football websites and forums on the Internet for more than a decade, he understands the needs of current mobile Internet football fans better than anyone else.
Although many of the ideas he proposed were somewhat different from Yang Huan’s previous ideas, they were eye-opening.
For example, Yang Huan initially wanted to include live broadcast of the game, but Qiu Zaifei felt that it was unnecessary.
"Live broadcasts of games consume so much data that users rarely use their mobile phones to watch them. Even if they do, the first choice is definitely a professional video application, which is fast, has no lags, and provides a good user experience."
"On the contrary, for short video programs such as game highlights and wonderful goals, I think users will choose to watch them in a wifi environment, when they have free time, or when browsing the news, so the latter is more necessary!"
After listening to his in-depth analysis, Yang Huan also felt that what he said made sense.
For the current WeChat company, every time a product is launched, it does not need to consider the user issue at all, because what they have the most is users. Therefore, what Yang Huan and others discussed the most is how to provide users with the best experience and retain high-level users.
In terms of originality, Yang Huan, Zhang Ning and Qiu Zaifei initially established a virtuous cycle route after discussion.
That is to attract users with excellent experience and high-quality content resources. A good atmosphere and active interaction among users will give birth to more and better content resources, thereby attracting more users.
In this virtuous cycle, there are many key nodes to deal with, but Qiu Zaifei has obviously been prepared for this. Zhang Ning and everyone present are the core talents of WeChat company, and their ability to think and solve problems is extraordinary.
Often, as soon as a problem is raised, someone will immediately come up with a solution, or even several people may come up with different solutions at the same time.
Finally, find the most effective and reasonable solution from many solutions.
So, the entire meeting was spent in this cycle of raising questions, solving problems, raising questions again, and solving problems again.
Sometimes, they would even argue over a certain issue until they were red in the face.
But in the end, the meeting reached a consensus.
Yang Huan's "Douqiudi" project was eventually led by Zhang Ning, with Qiu Zaifei serving as deputy project leader.
This guy was promoted from product manager to deputy project leader all of a sudden. Especially since this project was proposed by Young Master Huan himself and he personally appointed the leader, he immediately became a celebrity in the WeChat company.
It is said that many female employees in the company have turned this guy from a junk stock that no one cares about or even avoids into a potential stock with promising prospects, which has suddenly changed overnight and is attracting a lot of customers.
Even a female colleague who had rejected Qiu Zaifei in person before found an opportunity to come up to him and chat with him.
It turned out that this guy was quite principled. He refused directly without any hesitation and even said something that made everyone applaud.
"You ignored me yesterday, but today I'm going to make you feel out of my league!"
Yang Huan knew nothing about what was happening inside WeChat company in the country.
During his time in the United States, he was basically busy socializing and dealing with people from various fields.
Including Wall Street!
Ever since WeChat, founded by Yang Huan, became a huge hit, there have been endless rumors about its listing in the past year.
There were even a few times when Yang Huan deliberately took advantage of some opportunities to mention it vaguely.
As a result, almost every time he came to the United States, he would make Wall Street bankers and investors excited.
They all came running over, boasting and flattering, saying a lot of good things and praising WeChat company, and American newspapers and media also reported and paid attention to it.
This has led to a steady increase in the valuation of WeChat.
But the terrible thing is that even after one or two years of rumors, Yang Huan still kept it secret. Not to mention listing it, he didn't even bring in venture capitalists. This also puzzled many people.
But Yang Huan has his own logic.
Whether it is sold or not is one thing, but whether there is anyone who wants to buy it is another.
One of the important reasons why WeChat did not introduce venture capital is that once venture capital is introduced, as investors, their first priority is to make money, so they have to cash out and leave.
In other words, as long as there is an opportunity, they will do everything they can to force you to go public!
But now it’s different. There are no venture capitalists. Although the company’s employees hold shares, WeChat company is still controlled by Yang Huan. No one else can decide whether to sell the company or not. Only he has the final say.
What Yang Huan is doing now is, let me take the things out for you to see, do you want to buy them?
Buy? Okay, make your bid!
What? Just a tiny amount? I'm not happy. I won't sell it!
As a result, Wall Street bankers, world-renowned venture capital funds, and major American newspapers and media all returned home with regret and despair, closed the door, and thoroughly reflected on what exactly caused Uncle Yang Huan to suddenly decide not to sell.
The final conclusion is usually that the valuation is not high enough!
Just kidding, WeChat is now the leader in the mobile instant messaging field, with such an astonishing number of global users. Even if the game company becomes independent, it still has such popular applications and the two major black technologies of virtual reality and augmented reality.
In addition, over the past year, WeChat has made a big push into the artificial intelligence and robotics industries and has achieved quite outstanding results. From any perspective, the future is bright.
If we don’t give a high valuation to a company like this, who should we give it to?
Therefore, every time there was news that WeChat was going to go public, the company's valuation would soar.
"Master Huan, I think it should be about time!"
Walking out of the door of a top hotel in Manhattan, New York, and sitting in the back seat of the Aston Martin Lagonda Conqueror driven by the driver, Zhao Yuanfang said to Yang Huan with a smile.
Just now, they met with a delegation from a world-renowned bank and had an in-depth conversation.
From the current perspective, the US market's valuation of WeChat is generally around US$200 billion.
And this is after it divested its gaming company, the self-destructing messaging app, and the WeChat Research Institute in China.
This is already a pretty scary statistic!
Yang Huan also laughed and nodded, "Well, it's almost done!"
The Internet industry is updating and replacing at a very fast pace. You may be the most popular software application today, but by next year, you will be out of fashion, or even the year after, no one will care about you at all.
Of course, relatively speaking, WeChat is now relatively stable, but the growth rate in the number of users has also begun to decline.
In this case, if WeChat can go public in a way that creates a great media news effect and allow media around the world to advertise for it for free, the number of WeChat users will experience explosive growth.
Except for China, it is no longer impossible for the number of users to exceed 1 billion, reach 1.5 billion, or even 2 billion!
By that time, WeChat will become a global unified mobile instant messaging platform!
If it really comes to that, who can easily shake WeChat's position?
Isn't it because those bankers and investors saw this prospect that they came rushing over, and even though they were rejected again and again, they were still eagerly waiting for WeChat to go public?
Why is Google so awesome?
Is it just because of their search engine?
Or is it because of their Android system?
Or is it their bunch of cool tech that sounds good and looks good but isn’t practical at all?
Obviously neither!
The most amazing thing about Google is that the company has collected all kinds of information and data about users through various software, applications and channels.
As we all know, almost everyone agrees that the next few years will be the era of big data.
In other words, effective user data will become the most valuable resource for major companies in the future.
Just think about it, is there anything more effective and comprehensive than the user data held by mobile instant messaging platforms?
In other words, no matter from which field we look at it, the time has come for WeChat to go public.
"Yuan Fang, in the next few years, the world war on the Internet is about to begin!"
After hearing what Master Huan said, Zhao Yuanfang's face became solemn, even a little panicked, and a little excited.
China's Internet has always been isolated from the world's Internet, but this situation will not last long.
More and more Chinese Internet companies are not only satisfied with domestic business, but are beginning to want to go abroad and develop globally.
For large companies including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Twitter, the sudden emergence of a group of Chinese Internet giants with a user base of hundreds of millions will inevitably disrupt the original power structure, which will make them worried and even fearful.
This is because the Chinese Internet giants, who have been cultivated and trained by more than one billion users, may be inferior to American Internet giants in terms of technical strength and innovation capabilities, but in many other aspects, they are better than those American Internet giants.
For example, the current game mode.
Adding props for free is a technique that has become boring in China, but it has quickly swept the world in recent years.
As for technology and innovation, this can never guarantee victory!
Therefore, more and more people in the industry are looking forward to the Chinese Internet giants going abroad in the next few years. At the same time, they are also full of anxiety and worry about the upcoming world war of the Internet.
But in Yang Huan's opinion, he was more excited and thrilled.
"When the world war comes, the user resources we currently hold will become the ultimate weapon that both sides are eager to fight for!"
When Yang Huan said this, a hint of cruelty flashed in his eyes.
"I hope to see the day when Chinese Internet companies dominate the world's Internet!"
Zhao Yuanfang also felt his blood boiling after hearing this. How could he not hope to see this day?
As long as he can wait until that day, as long as he thinks that he can contribute to the arrival of that day, he will feel excited and full of strength!
"Let's go, let's go eat and celebrate!"
Yang Huanle patted Zhao Yuanfang's shoulder happily and spoke in a very high-spirited tone.
Go public in the United States, use Americans' money to strengthen their own strength, and then help their compatriots to kill American companies.
This feeling is so fucking great!
But just as Yang Huan was on his way out of the hotel, he suddenly received a call from the UK.
Ron Gourlay, Southampton's chief operating officer who stayed in the UK, told Yang Huan that Kaka's agent Gaetano Paolillo called the club, expressed his willingness to join Southampton, and put forward specific requirements for the player.
"Tell him we will give you an answer when we return to Southampton!"
Yang Huan hung up the phone, looked out the car window, and couldn't help laughing.
Kaka, the former world number one superstar, now has to come to Southampton and start from scratch!
This made Yang Huan feel proud and proud, but also full of expectations.
It is obviously impossible for the Brazilian to return to his peak form, after all, he is already 31 years old.
But it is quite exciting to see how much help the advertising effect brought by the former top superstar and his transformation on the court can bring to the team.
I am very optimistic about you, Kaka!
Don't let me down!
Yang Huan thought to himself with a smile on his face!