My Age of Investment

"Potato Tudou, I am Digua, please answer if you hear me."

"Sweet potato, sweet potato, I'm Potato, please tell me something."

"The penguins have left the nest, requesting artillery support."

"Received, carpet bombing and barbecue fat penguin will start in three minutes. Comrade Sweet Potato, please be sure to pay more attention to your own safety."

"Bang bang bang~"

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In a conference room in Area A of the Fuxing Industrial Headquarters Park in Yizhuang Economic and Technological Development Zone, a unique "sweet potato and potato" battle is going on.

Zhang Dalong, codenamed "Diya", held a Fuxing FX2S mobile phone in his hand. He pointed the receiver at his ear for a while, then pressed the voice recording button to send a voice message to "Potato".

Xia Jingxing, codenamed "Tudou", also became playful. He took an Honor mobile phone that was only on the market for less than two months and tested the voice intercom function of the newly developed product WeChat with "Diya".

Also onlookers were Zhang Yong, Gao Lili, Shen Xinyi, Lin Bing, Zhu Zhaojiang and other domestic holding and Fuxing Industrial executives.

A group of people stared intently at the two magical mobile phones, or rather magical Internet applications, in their hands.

The birth of this magical application means that it will completely subvert the Internet instant messaging industry. People can use text and voice modes to chat in real time through WeChat. They no longer have to express their emotions through text as in the 2G era. and thoughts.

After playing for a while, Xia Jingxing put down his phone with satisfaction, and said with a smile to Zhang Dalong, who was about to speak into the phone's microphone: "Okay, okay, sweet potato, we won't play today, we're almost done with the test."

Hearing this, Zhang Dalong put away his cell phone and smiled at Xia Jingxing with an honest face.

The more Xia Jingxing looked at Zhang Dalong, the more he felt that this guy was reliable.

The WeChat project was established in August last year. In order to develop this project, Zhang Dalong resigned from his position as head of domestic mailboxes and general manager of the Yangcheng branch. He left his cozy home in Yangcheng with several close associates and backbones and came to the capital to reorganize WeChat development. team.

In just a few months, Zhang Dalong led his team to develop WeChat version 1.0. After testing and polishing this version, Zhang Dalong and his team also tinkered with the voice intercom function that was supposed to belong to version 2.0.

This work efficiency is beyond praise, a bit beyond Xia Jingxing's expectations.

In order to maintain confidentiality, Zhang Dalong and his team settled in the completed and renovated Area A of the Fuxing Industrial Headquarters a few months ago, becoming the first batch of departments and teams to settle in the Fuxing Industrial Park. Compared with many departments under the Fuxing Industry Also use the brand new office first.

However, Zhang Dalong and his team did not move here to enjoy the blessings. They worked overtime for several months, and the lights on their floor were often brightly lit until early in the morning. Their crazy hard work made many employees of Fuxing Industry feel guilty when they saw it. As expected, the Internet industry is too complicated.

Xia Jingxing had heard about all these things.

Today, when he saw the dark circles on Zhang Dalong's face and his constant yawning, he knew that the rumors were true. The WeChat team was really working hard, and the overtime level of 007 might not be as high as that of 007. , but it definitely far exceeds the work intensity of 996.

So Xia Jingxing said with a concerned look on his face: "Dalong, I see that you don't look good. You must be tired recently, right? Give yourself and your team a long vacation, recuperate your health, and then continue working."

Zhang Dalong immediately waved his hand, "Mr. Xia, there is no need to rest. There are many camp beds in the company. You can lie down and rest at any time when you are tired.

Now is a critical moment, and there is no room for delay. Let’s wait until WeChat reaches 100 million users before taking a break. "

As he talked, Zhang Dalong himself laughed. He was looking forward to the heyday of WeChat reaching 100 million users.

By then, there will definitely be countless people on the streets, in companies, at home... holding mobile phones and having voice chats.

As a developer, seeing such a scene is the greatest praise and affirmation for his career as a programmer, and it is considered a life well spent.

Just as Zhang Dalong was thinking about the future of WeChat with great expectation, Xia Jingxing suddenly poured a basin of cold water on his head, which chilled Zhang Dalong to his core.

“WeChat cannot publish it yet!”

Before Zhang Dalong could take the initiative to ask, the impatient Gao Lili had already spoken before him.

"Why? If you don't release Air Raid Penguin quickly for such a good product, why don't you keep it for the New Year?"

Xia Jingxing said in his heart, I really want to keep it for the New Year.

But that’s just a thought. There are many factors that need to be considered when launching a product.

Zhang Yong glanced at Gao Lili, who looked puzzled, and explained: "We have to consider the penguin factor!

If you think about it, Weibo was only online for half a month last year. As soon as the Olympics ended, Penguin immediately launched its own Weibo.

What will be the consequences if we hastily launch WeChat? Before we could promote this product on a large scale, Penguin's imitation products were already there.

And judging from past experience, QQ will definitely continue to serve as a traffic diversion tool.

We don’t have QQ as a big hit. Penguin’s mobile instant messaging product is likely to come first. Although it is our imitation product, it has successfully surpassed us as the original creator. "

Gao Lili argued: “The reason why Penguin Weibo went online so quickly was because Wu Yimin leaked the secret.

Under normal circumstances, Penguin found out that we were launching an instant messaging product and immediately decided to start the project, set up a team, develop the product, and test it. This whole process would take at least a few months. "

"Can WeChat's decisive advantage be established in a few months? Penguin has QQ to attract traffic, but we don't."

Zhang Yong's words sounded very reasonable and practical to everyone.

But Gao Lili felt that Zhang Yong was a little forward-thinking, but considering that this was her immediate superior and she wanted to save some face, she was basically planning to give up the debate. It was not until she saw Xia Jingxing's encouraging eyes that she continued to express her opinions.

"Mr. Zhang, we don't have QQ, but we have many products such as Hainei.com, Weibo, MOMO Voice, and domestic games.

After removing duplicates, our products can cover 200 million users across the country, which will help us promote WeChat.

As of December 31 last year, according to statistics from the China Internet Network Information Center, the number of Internet users in my country reached 384 million.

Just one domestic holding can cover more than half of the country's Internet users.

We can influence and reach the other half of Internet users through Ali, Ganji.com, Dianping, Qunar.com, Autohome and many other promising Internet companies.

Although our strength is somewhat dispersed compared to Penguin and QQ, we are not completely without the power to fight. "

Gao Lili paused, pointed at the silent Zhang Dalong, and said: "There is also Lao Zhang. He and his team worked day and night for hundreds of days and nights to develop WeChat.

If we can't go online in time, let's not talk about whether morale will be affected.

Just talking about market feedback, if there is not enough user feedback, how to upgrade and optimize the product.

I know that instant messaging is the lifeblood of Penguin. Once we expose the WeChat project, Penguin will fight back crazily.

But over the years, no project we have launched has not suffered from Penguin’s counterattack.

After going online on Weibo, Penguin followed up with a Penguin Weibo;

After MOMO voice was launched, Penguin immediately resurrected QQtalk;

The drift bottle function was launched in domestic mailboxes, and Penguin immediately copied it.

Competition is unavoidable, and plagiarism is unavoidable. All we can do is defeat Penguin as soon as possible and end the evil life of Penguin, a cancer in the industry.

And I think Penguin’s stock price is rebounding recently, which has created favorable conditions for them to launch a new round of fundraising. "

Zhang Yong just saw Xia Jingxing look at Gao Lili and knew that the other party was a representative of the opposition deliberately promoted by the boss.

As a representative of the positive side, he had no choice but to continue debating with the negative side.

"What you said is all right, but you ignored an important issue."

Zhang Yong moved his eyes to the other side and said with a smile on his face: "Mr. Lin, Mr. Zhu, you have the most say. Please come and say a few words on this issue."

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