Rebirth: I Want to Surf

There is an engineer in Japan named Masahiro Hara.

He works for a company that produces parts for Toyota Motor. In order to manage the production process, each part will be coded and scanned for identification on the production line.

However, traditional barcodes can only store 20 characters, which cannot carry a large amount of information on parts. Yuan Changhong developed and researched it, and in 1994 invented the "two-dimensional code" that can accommodate more characters.

He applied for a patent for this technology, but there was no charge, and it was open.

At the beginning of 2000, some Chinese working in Japan felt that the QR code had great potential, so they brought it back to China to start a business, and they were the early promoters.

However, for a long time, QR codes had no use in China until 2013, when WeChat Pay debuted, and scanned codes were used as payment entrances.

Why 2013?

Because in this year, WeChat’s market development was completed, and smart phones were also popularized among major consumer groups. The time and place were favorable, and QR codes began to explode.

The QR code at this time is completely different from the original QR code in Japan. Domestic companies have made a lot of technological upgrades, some of which are real technology, and some are Porcelain.

For example, a company called Weika Times has sued Alipay and WeChat Pay for infringing the invention patent of "system and method for collecting and analyzing multi-field QR codes".

Litigation, did not win.

This is something for later, so I won't mention it for the time being.

Now the market size is too small, and technology development is also needed. Yao Yuan does not make payments for the time being. He made this QR code for adding friends. Scan it, and the other party’s information will appear...

It can be regarded as a foreshadowing in the early stage, not the main one.

The main feature is another function: circle of friends!

………………

January 4th, a working day.

This year's Spring Festival is early, and the 22nd is New Year's Eve, and the company's administrative department is already making preparations. Due to the 10th anniversary celebration, the scale of the annual meeting should be smaller, and the year-end awards and new year goods will be in place.

Actually very sad.

In the 1980s and 1990s, it was very simple, and everyone was happy to send out some wall calendars, octopus, apples and so on. Now that the conditions are good, and it is still a big Internet company, it has to lose a few catties of hair every year to distribute New Year's goods.

"The money is already in place, it doesn't matter whether you give things or not, you give too much, and everyone is too lazy to move, who is short of those hairtails now?

Make a desk calendar, magnetic stickers, dolls, and lucky characters, which are exquisite and light, as long as you think about it. "

Early in the morning, Jiang Chao came to the company early as usual, and was stopped by several familiar colleagues as soon as he arrived on the 18th floor, helping to make suggestions.

He is so obvious, Balabala said a lot, and then walked through the long corridor with the bag on his shoulders, and came to the door of President Yao's office.

"Brother Cheng? Why are you here so early?"

Jiang Chao was surprised to see that Cheng Wei had already cleaned the house, and hurried over: "Give it to me, I'll do it!"

"Okay, from today until before the Spring Festival holiday, I'll do it... you go have breakfast."

Cheng Wei refused, Jiang Chao blinked, but said nothing, put down his bag and went to eat.

In the blink of an eye, it was 8:30, and Yao Yuan wobbled back to work, shaking his thermos, and said, "Call the Weichat business department for a meeting!"

"good!"

A few minutes later, everyone gathered in the conference room.

Yao Yuan was still very succinct, and said: "The 10th anniversary is over, let it go, and the battle with WeChat will continue. The meaning of the competent department is very clear, as long as it is kept within this limit, they will not care.

Therefore, the channel blockade of China Unicom and China Telecom continues, and the Meilan conference will be held in a few days. Give me more strength than last year. By March, I want the number of users to reach 100 million! "

"For the two new functions, don't worry about the QR code, and vigorously promote the circle of friends, so I don't need to teach you how to do it?"

"Don't worry, we will definitely complete the task!"

"In addition, there will be some major adjustments to the group this year, and a unified notice will be announced later... Okay, the meeting is adjourned!"

Done in ten minutes.

Back in the office, Cheng Wei asked, "Notify you?"

"Um!"

He sent the document, Yao Yuan scanned it and said, "Yes, let's send it!"

Ever since, the employees of the entire 99 Group received an internal announcement.

Article 1: Maiwo Network will acquire Xigua Studio, and 99 Entertainment will acquire Qianqian Music Network and Maoyan Movie, and complete the target within this year.

If completed, Maiwo Network will have communities, web games, mobile games, and end games.

99 Entertainment owns Maili Video, Golden Harvest, Hugelive, Qianqian Music, Maoyan Movie, as well as artist brokerage, offline performances, etc.

Among them, Maoyan Movies also has shares of Lei Jun.

As for Yao Yuan's own 99 Network Technology, there are Weibo, Weichat, and Maimai, all of which are 100% controlled.

According to the data released on the 10th anniversary: ​​there are 300 million community users and 270 million Weibo users. The community is the last glory, and Weibo will soon replace it.

Yao Yuan is making a distinction: the rest of 99 Network Technology is social products, and Maiwo Network will become a game-based company.

There are several similar companies, such as Netease.

Started with mailboxes and portal websites, and turned into a game company through doing it. The market value of more than 60 billion US dollars is almost entirely supported by games.

It's a bit sad to say.

Yao Yuan has no intention of revitalizing the community. The remnants of the old era are remnants after all, and the wheels must roll forward.

The first announcement is a major adjustment, and the second is a personnel notice, to the effect that after the Spring Festival, Cheng Wei, the assistant to the chairman, officially resigns and will be replaced by Jiang Chao.

………………

The company canteen has four meals a day, including breakfast, lunch and dinner.

At dinner time, Cheng Wei returned to the office with two insulated lunch boxes, braised pork with preserved vegetables, fried octopus, braised chicken nuggets, stewed eggplant with potatoes, lettuce mushrooms, cucumber peels, and two servings of rice.

Jiang Chao left first knowingly.

Yao Yuan didn't order takeout today, so he washed his hands and looked at it, then said with a smile: "It seems the first time to eat canteen food seriously, is it drinking?"

"Have a drink!"

Then opened a bottle of wine.

Cheng Wei was not in a high mood, he took a breath first, his face flushed immediately, Yao Yuan waved his hand, motioned him to slow down, and said, "Don't be like a life and death, you got yourself drunk, how can I ask questions?"

"You ask!"

He puts down the glass.

"Have you found the office yet?"

"I've found it. I rented an office in Zhongguancun. After the company's registration, I recruited a front desk. I'll look for it next year."

"What about the software?"

"I'm looking for someone to do it, and I spent all my savings back and forth."

Yao Yuan thought for a while and said, "I'll give you 1 million US dollars, even if it's an angel investment, I want 15% of the shares."

"OK!"

Cheng Wei did not hesitate, nodded in agreement, and said, "I did some research, and there is already a taxi-hailing app called [Yidao] in the market, and they are for private cars.

The source of the car comes from a car rental company, each car is equipped with a dedicated driver, and the models are divided into three grades: high, medium and low. When passengers click on the software, they can see the vehicle closest to them, and then choose. "

"What are you going to do?"

"I want to start with taxis."

There are three types of taxi-hailing software: private cars, taxis, and private cars.

There are no legal regulations for private cars now, and they are easy to be punished. They are all wandering in a gray area-let alone 2012, even 2023 is a mess.

This meeting also does not involve mobile payment. It is to order a car online and pay offline.

"Taxi operations are relatively closed, and outsiders generally cannot get in. Moreover, most of the taxi drivers are middle-aged people, and their smartphone penetration rate is not high."

"I'm mentally prepared!"

Cheng Wei nodded, and said, "I've been with you for so long, I may not have learned much, but my self-confidence and execution ability are top notch."

"Well, I wish you a successful start and break out into a world!"

"Um!"

Cheng Wei raised his glass and clinked it. The more than 40-degree liquor dried up directly, and his face became even redder, even the circles of his eyes were red.

I can't bear to miss Mr. Yao!

I can't bear to spend my days and nights in Yingshi Building!

Yao Yuan still had to comfort him, but he was thinking in his heart that online taxi-hailing is a new and extremely broad growth point, and he has to go through life and death, just like group buying.

Didi, Meituan, and ByteDance are collectively called TMD, and they are the small three giants in the post-Internet era.

Not only that, they are miraculously connected with people's livelihood.

The three platforms of food delivery, online car-hailing, and live broadcast have received a large number of graduates, young people who are unwilling to enter the factory, and unemployed middle-aged people.

Of course, the unemployed group in later generations has spread to young people. It is said that there are 6 million people - working more than 1 hour a week is considered employment!

Yao Yuan didn't say much.

The competition in the car-hailing track is also a long process. It is useless to talk too much now, let Cheng Wei fight first.

(no more...)