Entertainment World: The Wild God of Gourmet

On the last day before New Year's Day, the founder of Worthpus, Jane Comb, announced his departure from the team and formally applied for resignation from the company. Chairman hero Chen approved it on the same day.

At the same time, he also issued a statement through his Twitter official blog: "Thanks to Jane Comb for his outstanding contribution to the company, thanks to his genius mind and creativity, and brought this excellent product to everyone. .”

"I am grateful for all that you have done to connect the world, and all that you have taught us, including encryption, and the ability to take power from a centralized authority and put it back in the hands of the people. These ideas will always be Wattsup core."

"In the future, Wattsup will continue to follow the three rules set at the beginning of the business: no advertising, no invasion of privacy, and go all out to provide a reliable user experience. Those initial "focus, simplicity" that helped Wattsup to succeed And the concept of high efficiency' will also accompany the company for a lifetime. We will miss the time of working closely with you."

Koum also said on his private Twitter, "Working with these excellent people has been a wonderful experience. But now is the time for me to move on. I am honored to be able to work with such an incomparable small team work, and have seen the saga of one account turned into an app used by so many people around the world."

"Although I'm leaving, people use hatsapp in more ways than I can imagine. This team is stronger than ever with hero Chen and will continue to do amazing things. It should be I'm taking time off to do things I enjoy, non-tech things like collecting rare air cooled porsche, researching my cars and playing ultimate frisbee. I'm still a big fan of hatsapp - just an outsider's perspective .Thank you to everyone who fought alongside me!"

His stake was sold to Facebook.

As for the final destination, it is very likely to go to Facebook.

Chen Ergou also appointed one of the founders, Brian Ekton, as the new CEO of the company. As Colm's early entrepreneurial partner and investor Brian Ekton, his retention played a positive role in maintaining the company's stability.

Compared with Colm's paranoia, Acton is an optimist.

In the past, as the CEO, Koum paid more attention to products, but Acton was the one who paid attention to bills and taxes. The final implementer of all decisions is actually him, "I am only responsible for ensuring that everything is in order."

Chen Ergou has a transcendent vision, and his confidence in decision-making information is no worse than that of others, and he will not make mistakes for at least ten years, not to mention he is assisted by Goudan. So it is more beneficial for him to retain such an executor as CEO.

Acton, 42, has a fine-faced, ruddy face that contrasts sharply with the bearded, swarthy Koum. “Our founders were all in their thirties. We focused on sustainability and revenue, not on getting big as fast as possible. We kept a low profile; we had mobile as our top priority; we were global from the start .”

Hatsapp also released some data immediately to eliminate the social impact of the departure of the main founder.

"Two years after launch, hatsapp has sent more than 38 billion messages every day, and has more than 500 million registered users."

Compared with before Chen Ergou took over, the number of registered users of the company did not exceed 50 million. It can be said that Chen Ergou's taking over this year has brought not only financial assistance, but also public opinion effects and the correct direction of progress , so that the company has avoided many detours in many decisions.

This explosive performance growth is the most iron proof.

This is to his credit.

This time, Chen Ergou took the initiative to announce the number of "active users" instead of the number of registered users. This can better reflect the main difference between hatsapp and its competitors.

As he said: "Comparing registered users with active users is like comparing a Ferrari 250gto with a skateboard." It is worth mentioning that,

Most of them pay hatsapp £1, €1 or $1 a year.

However, this fee-based profit-making project will be canceled after New Year's Day.

When hatsapp announced the data, it also officially announced that hatsapp will be free after New Year's Day.

This series of operations also made the once ignorant Hengdian food supervisor more and more a role model for IT elites.

This series of changes can not help but make the outside world have many speculations about the future direction of hatsapp. Without charging profit, it is inevitable that more commercial attempts will be made in the future. Users are mainly worried about whether it will affect the user experience?

However, this series of reports did not hurt this emerging company, but instead attracted more attention to Wattsup. "So many people are using it, but I don't know it. Isn't that too outdated." Under the effect of following suit, the number of download users around the world has surged, and it has quickly seized a large market share.

This is also a blessing in disguise.

FB has already controlled 18% of the company's shares, officially entered the company's board of directors and became the second largest shareholder. At the same time, fb also once again issued an acquisition request to Chen Ergou, wanting to acquire 75% of his shares. The latest offer has reached as high as US$8.5 billion, and he is willing to provide him with an additional US$3 billion in restricted shares.

According to this quotation, the market value of hatsapp has risen again, and the latest valuation has exceeded 15 billion US dollars.

Hatsapp has undoubtedly become the most popular and profitable mobile application in the world.

He was also inquired about the price of his ins, which is currently quoted at 500 million US dollars.

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The news was frantically reported in the financial circles of the United States, and it was sent back to China in a timely manner. The friends were all shocked.

This... The net worth of their "dog" not only did not shrink, but nearly doubled? !A group of troublemakers have @王主演, making him tireless.

What's the situation, one step closer to the richest man? Now even some veteran entrepreneurs can't understand, "The Internet market in the United States is really crazy!"

They don't know yet that crazier times are yet to come. But this offer was still rejected by Chen Ergou. He could accept fb to join the company's board of directors, but he didn't want to lose this territory.

Now is the best time to occupy it, and it will be difficult to get in later.

Now that he has decided to fully intervene, he naturally does not want to lose control. But in the current situation, part of the equity is bound to be transferred out, so he decided to open financing channels.

Now the company's magnitude is no longer an angel period. With mature products, the company has a complete and detailed business and profit model for normal operation, and has a certain status in the industry and user reputation.

Although the company still doesn't make much money, it is still in a state of loss because of too fast expansion, and it is in urgent need of burning money.

Then it's time to start the A round of financing.

All of a sudden, rumors in the capital world suddenly rose, Japan's Softbank, fb... even the big penguins of the Celestial Dynasty wanted to get a piece of the pie.

The former rival Sequoia Capital also came again.

Back then, they were the closest people to hatsapp, but they were killed by Chen Ergou halfway, and they hesitated because of millions of dollars in funds, which caused their angel investment to fail, and now I don’t know how regretful it is. The opportunity appeared before them again, and they didn't want to miss the second time.

The partner Chen Ergou contacted was actually more anxious than him, and with a huge user traffic, the importance to Amazon, which operates a shopping website, is self-evident. What's more, according to hatsapp's explosive user growth rate today, it will exceed one billion in a few years.

It’s just that financing obviously won’t yield results in a short period of time, let’s start with New Year’s Eve.

New Year's Day, Times Square, New York.

An unprecedentedly lively New Year's Eve concert is about to be held here.

As the first Chinese to appear on this stage, Chen Ergou has attracted the attention of the whole network.

The track he will sing has already been determined, and it is the famous English song "hallof". As the most popular song selected by YouTube in the second half of the year, its number of clicks on YouTube is only less than Justin Bieber's "baby".

Chen Ergou, who hasn't updated Weibo for a long time, also updated a message in due course, "Live notice: New Year's Eve concert in Times Square, New York, will you watch it? Let you see how popular I am in the United States, and try to blackmail me , don’t cherish me well! /狗头”

The water friends exploded in an instant.

"Goofy, you have changed."