Ten Years Against the Current of Rebirth

WeChat got out of the circle through hot searches. Although Xu Xing had thought of it before, he didn't expect it to come so quickly.

On the one hand, this is because there are indeed many people with a sense of smell in the market. On the other hand, it is also because WeChat’s iteration speed is too fast and the number of users has increased so alarmingly that it has grown unknowingly and it is too easy to attract the attention of others.

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Normally, the update speed of one iteration per week is actually very abnormal.

Unless there is a long period of preparation in the early stage and sufficient version update planning is done, all the functions to be updated in several versions will be completed in advance and updated when the time comes.

Otherwise, it will be difficult to achieve the version iteration speed like WeChat.

But WeChat is different here.

Because there is a reborn person like Xu Xing.

Although Xu Xing's own technical level can only be said to be normal, the most special thing about him is that he is a boss who understands technology and has a complete product in mind.

On this basis, every version update of WeChat does not need to consider the testing and screening of various new functions, there is no need to think about which functions should be launched, and there is no need to turn around and turn around after half of the new functions are rejected.

Make another new feature.

The products made by others are all twists and turns. They have to go through various meetings to discuss, compare data, apply functions, and face various obstacles and detailed problems.

But here in Xu Xing's case, the starting point is here and the end point is here. He only needs to draw a straight line to reach the end point.

This simply beats other products in terms of efficiency.

If it weren't for this advantage, WeChat would not have been able to iterate three times in a row within just one month of its launch, each time with a very important new feature.

but.

Just before Xu Xing faced the rapid growth of WeChat and waited for the social software launched by other large companies to pursue WeChat.

Just a few days after WeChat became a hot search topic, secretary Peng Yuxuan once again reported something.

"Mr. Xu, the company mailbox just received an email. It was sent from the 2D drama website Aizhan." Peng Yuxuan sent the email to Xu Xing's personal mailbox, then stood up and came to his desk and said

, "It has been sent to your email. The general content is that you want to acquire Bizhan. Please read the details in person."

"Acquiring Bizhan?" Xu Xing was stunned, not understanding what this operation was.

The current actual controller of Aizhan is Cheng Shaojie from Bianfeng Network.

As early as two or three years ago, the original founder of AiZhan chose to sell AiZhan to Cheng Shaojie for 4 million yuan due to the conflict between his studies and the management of AiZhan.

During the National Day last month, Xu Yi, the founder of Bizhan, went to Kyoto to seek investment. After unsuccessful efforts, Cheng Shaojie came to visit him.

At that time, Cheng Shaojie proposed to acquire Bizhan. The two of them agreed on a price of 2 million, and the deal was already about to be completed.

However, because Cheng Shaojie's assistant showed no respect for the second dimension, Xu Yi angrily rejected the acquisition.

As a result, he was successfully intercepted by Xu Xing, who purchased 95% of the shares of Bizhan at a price of 2 million, becoming the actual controller of Bizhan.

Today, Xu Yizai is still responsible for the management and operation of Bizhan. Xu Xing is just temporarily burning money to support it. The monthly cost of more than 100,000 yuan is not a big deal for the current Qunxing Company.

Nowadays, the territory of Qunxing Company has gradually become very large.

The cash flow with the game business as the core supports the company's overall working capital. With WeChat's social business as the core, building the traffic pool entrance belonging to Qunxing Company is the core product that Xu Xing mainly controls.

These two points interact with each other and are the two most important businesses of Qunxing Company. They are also where Xu Xing spends the most energy.

Outside of this, the rest of the projects are in the stocking stage.

On the takeaway side, Xu Xing only occasionally puts forward some opinions on the general direction, and the actual operation is left to the three roommates.

Hot News has already started, with Dai Zhuoshan responsible for promoting it. It is still in the stage of perfecting the algorithm. Although Xu Xing is very clear about the specific effects of this recommendation algorithm, the actual algorithm technology still needs to be developed step by step by Dai Zhuoshan and his team.

, is not such an easy thing.

In addition, Xu Xing did not have much control over the investments far away in Kyoto.

Apart from asking Gong Ao to connect with several cloud computing and big data companies over there and design an internal system for the company, Xu Xing, a layman, didn't have much involvement.

On the Didi taxi side, after Dai Zhuoshan was responsible for creating a taxi app for Chen Wei, Chen Wei had already begun to conquer the city in Kyoto and was competing with Shake-hailing.

Xu Xing did nothing else. After all, this kind of promotion and marketing involving local promotion was not his strong point. His only action was to connect the user accounts of WeChat and Didi Taxi.

WeChat users in Kyoto can directly log into Didi Taxi and enjoy taxi services.

Similarly, user accounts on websites such as Eat.me’s food delivery platform and Bizhan can also be directly bound to WeChat, allowing one account to communicate with multiple software without the need for additional registration.

But like Eat.me and Didi Taxi, Xuhang also adopts a free-range policy for Bizhan.

Although he has some understanding of some of Bizhan's future development plans, he is definitely not a good player in terms of specific operations.

Xu Xing's idea is very simple, professional matters must be left to professionals.

So he has been waiting, waiting for the most suitable person to take the helm of Biz Station for him.

After all, even in his previous life, that person was ridiculed and criticized by many Bizhan users, and even gave birth to many famous mocking memes.

But on the development path of Bizhan, you have to admit that this guy is indeed on the "right" path.

It's just that this "correctness" is probably not for users.

For any user, free ones are definitely more comfortable than paid ones, being able to enjoy all services without membership is better than having to open a membership, and having no ads is definitely better than having ads...

But obviously, free prostitution is always the most expensive. When capital burns money to invite users to come to free prostitution, in fact, fate has already anchored the price in the future.

This is true for Bizhan, the field of live broadcasting, the field of taxi-hailing, the field of food delivery and other fields.

It’s just that the original slogan shouted by Bizhuan was indeed too ideal, which gave many people the illusion of beauty.

So much so that when this illusion was shattered by the man who yelled the slogan, it seemed very ironic.

But in the final analysis, it is difficult for Xu Xing to find a more suitable candidate to take the helm of Bizhan and help him share the operational energy.

As a result, I haven't waited for that person yet, but now I'm waiting for the acquisition intention from Aizhan.

With this idea in mind, Xu Xing casually clicked on the email, not too interested in the content.

After all, Bizhan and Aizhan are already competitors in the two-dimensional video field. On the premise that he does not intend to sell Bizhan, this acquisition intention actually has no practical significance.

After opening the email, Xu Xing glanced at the content above.

Sure enough, Aizhan was willing to acquire Bizhan for 4 million, which was fully double the price Xuhang acquired for Bizhan last month.

No matter how you say it, this is a very sincere performance.

In one month, the investment return doubled. If you are an investor who is not optimistic about the future development of Bizhan, you may be happy and sell it directly.

At this time, Bizhan has not yet fully developed, and the resources of users and up owners are all diverted from Aizhan.

To put it bluntly, at this stage, AiZhan is still the well-deserved No. 1 2D website in China.

In this case, if someone is not clear about the development trajectory of Bizhan in the future, they may sell Bizhan directly on a heartbeat and earn 4 million, directly doubling the income. It is a completely profitable business.

But here in Xu Xing, rejection is a certainty.

But just when Xu Xing was about to ask Peng Yuxuan to reply to an email to decline the acquisition intention, his eyes suddenly focused on the signature of the email.

[——Chen Rui, CEO of AiZhan]

Xu Xing: "???"

What the hell?

Uncle, why did you surrender to the enemy?

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In the afternoon, when he discovered that this email was actually sent by Chen Rui, Xu Xing's brain shut down for a moment and he couldn't figure out the logic behind it.

Is it possible that because of the changes in the world line, Chen Rui did not fall in love with Bizhan and instead hooked up with Aizhan?

What happened in the meantime?

Xu Xing looked at the signature above [AiZhan CEO Chen Rui], pursed his lips, then looked at Peng Yuxuan, and ordered: "Tell Dai Zhuoshan and ask him to help me check the recent news about the equity change of AiZhan.

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"Okay Mr. Xu."

After watching Peng Yuxuan walk out of the office, Xu Xing pondered again, found Xu Yi's phone number and called him.

"Hello?" After Xu Yi answered the phone, he asked in a confused tone, "Mr. Xu, what's the matter?"

"Well, I received an acquisition intention from Aizhan. Do you know about this?" Xu Xing asked.

"Oh, Aizhan's intention to acquire Bizhan?" Xu Yi curled his lips when he heard the news, "Mr. Xu, don't you know that Aizhan has wanted to acquire Bizhan before?"

"But they don't take the two-dimensional business seriously at all. They are just diverting traffic to the live broadcast business of the broadcaster."

"I received this thing a few days ago, but I didn't take it seriously and rejected it directly."

Rejecting the acquisition is a trivial matter. After all, even if Chen Rui came to negotiate the acquisition on behalf of Aizhan, Xu Xing would not be able to sell Bizhan at a low price of 4 million.

Let the game make money. He didn’t invest in Bizhan just to make money.

After all, Bizhan in his previous life had never made a profit from the beginning to the end and was always burning money. Xu Xing had already made preparations for Bizhan to raise funds independently. It was impossible for Qunxing Company to keep such a money-losing guy forever.

What he really values ​​​​is the pan-2D user group that Bizhan can absorb in the future, as well as the hidden 2D mobile game market traffic behind it.

In addition, it was also his early layout for connecting to the WeChat port and getting involved in the video field.

To put it bluntly, I am not here to make money from Bizhan.

It's only 2 million in and 4 million out. Xu Xing can no longer look down on this little money.

What Xu Xing really cares about is Chen Rui.

"What about before? Before AiZhan sent the acquisition intention, did his CEO Chen Rui send an email?" Xu Xing continued to ask.

"Chen Rui?" Xu Yi thought about it carefully, "Mr. Xu, please wait a moment. I'll check my email. I seem to have some impressions."

There was the sound of a chair moving on the other end of the phone. Xu Yi sat down at his desk and opened his computer mailbox to check.

A few minutes later, Xu Yi said: "Oh, there was an email from someone. It was just after the National Day."

"What did he post?" Xu Xing asked.

"They said they wanted to invest in our Bizhan." Xu Yi scratched his head, "But at that time Bizhan had received investment from you, Mr. Xu, and there was no shortage of money in the account, so I refused directly."

Xu Xing: "..."

It would be okay if I refused directly...

Logically speaking, this kind of investment intention must be decided by him, the major shareholder.

But Bizhan is just a grassroots team. Xu Yi just graduated from college. After graduation, he has been generating electricity for love at Bizhan. He is not a technical expert or operational veteran in the industry.

Various rumors about the founder of Bizhan in his previous life were mostly of the unseemly type. Later, Bizhan's rise was mainly due to Chen Rui.

In this regard, Xu Xing should have reminded Xu Yi before, but he was too busy during the National Day period. Later, he focused on the promotion of new games and WeChat, and some of his energy was taken up by the food delivery platform.

All kinds of things were mixed together, so he ignored it.

After all, although Chen Rui invested in Bizhan very early in his previous life, it has been 14 years since he actually joined Bizhan as CEO.

But who would have thought that Chen Rui would turn around and fall into the arms of Aizhan after Xu Yi decisively refused to invest.

This development was so bizarre that Xu Xing was still a little bit dumbfounded at the moment.

But if you think about it carefully, it actually makes sense.

Chen Rui came from a technical background. After graduation, he joined Jinshan Drug Tyrant and was favored by Lei Jun as a technical assistant. Later, he started his own business and the company he established was acquired by Jinshan, and he immediately became financially free.

Because Chen Rui has been a two-dimensional person since he was a child, and he is optimistic about this market, he placed a code on Bizhan.

However, in this life, Bizhan was intercepted by Xu Xing in advance, leaving Chen Rui with nowhere to say anything, and Xu Yi refused to invest.

So Chen Rui could only turn his attention to AiZhan, which is still the big brother in the two-dimensional market.

I can only say that fate is so strange sometimes.

And this also gave Xu Xing a wake-up call.

Today's Qunxing Company has made a lot of moves. Although it seems like small moves at the moment, if you look at it from a macro perspective, every move it makes will have a profound impact on the future direction.

Coupled with the existing changes in the world line, I can no longer take it for granted in the future. Instead, I have to analyze specific issues based on the changes I have made and the general direction of subsequent social and market development.

Otherwise, if you continue to follow the context and details of the previous life, you will be completely trying to find a sword.

At this time, facing Xu Xing's sudden silence, Xu Yi on the other end of the phone felt a little uneasy.

"Mr. Xu, are you planning to sell Bizhan?" Xu Yi tentatively asked, a little worried, "Our future development prospects are still very good. Mr. Xu, you should think about it again."

Xu Yi was very repulsive to the current management of Aizhan because of what happened with Assistant Cheng Shaojie.

If Bizhan really falls into the hands of Aizhan, it will definitely not end well.

He himself is a two-dimensional otaku, but his family is relatively wealthy, which is why he has been supporting him to run Beep Station until now, when Xu Xing took over.

For a paradise like Bizhan that belongs exclusively to two-dimensional users, Xu Yi really doesn't want it to fall into the hands of bad people.

"Don't worry, I won't sell it." Xu Xing reassured him, said a few more words, and hung up the phone.

Although he won't sell it, Xu Xing will not change his mind about changing Bizhan's helm.

After understanding the basic situation from Xu Yi, Xu Xing put down his phone, took a deep breath, looked at the emails on his computer, thought for a while, and then started to reply to the messages.

No matter what, it's okay to make an appointment with Chen Rui first and get to know each other.

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On the weekend evening, Xu Xing finished working overtime at the company and returned to the shared house exhausted.

When he entered, he answered the phone.

So he said while changing his slippers: "Okay, let's meet in the evening. Just send me the address via WeChat."

After saying that, Xu Xing hung up the phone.

Xu Niannian, wearing an apron and holding a spatula in his hand, tied his long hair into a ponytail, exposing his snow-white neck and collarbone, and poked his head out of the kitchen with a suspicious look on his face: "See you tonight? Are you looking for a woman outside?"

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"Are you sick? Meet your future collaborator." Xu Xing rolled his eyes at her, walked to the kitchen in his slippers, and added halfway, "A man."

"It's the weekend and you're still so busy? Do you have to go out to meet people at night?" Seeing the tiredness on his face, Xu Niannian couldn't help but frown, "Is it something very important? Do you want me to accompany you?"

"What are you going to do?"

"I'll be your secretary." Xu Niannian winked at him and said playfully, "I recently collected materials for the game and just bought a hip skirt and black stockings~"

"Isn't your dress-up game based on traditional costumes from various places?" Xu Xing was speechless, "Where did the hip-hugging skirt and black stockings come from?"

"Don't worry about the collection of materials." Xu Niannian blushed slightly and glared at him, then continued to ask, "So do you want me to be your secretary?"

"When I go to talk to people, it's not like I'm playing house." Xu Xing thought of Xu Niannian's long legs wearing a hip skirt and black stockings, and felt that walking became a little difficult, but he still refused, "

You two should stay at home. If you really need to wear something, just wear it at home."

With that said, Xu Xing walked into the kitchen smelling the aroma, glanced at Yan Chiju who was cooking inside, and asked curiously: "The sun came out in the west today? Are you cooking instead of eating hot pot?"

"Don't look, don't look!" Xu Niannian saw him looking into the pot and quickly reached out to cover his eyes, "You can't look until we're done."

"What the hell?" Xu Xing was pushed back to the living room by her, "I can't watch you cook a meal?"

"Just wait and eat later." Xu Niannian chuckled.

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Twenty minutes later, Xu Xing sat at the dining table and looked at the two dishes and one soup.

A portion of tomato scrambled eggs.

A serving of sweet and sour pork ribs.

There is also a bowl of green vegetable soup.

"Come on, come on, have a try." Xu Niannian handed the Kuaizi over and stuffed it into Xu Xing's hand, "Tomato scrambled eggs and sweet and sour pork ribs were made by me and Jiu Jiu respectively. Eat and see, guess who it is.

Made.”

Yan Chijuan, who was still wearing an apron, stood aside and looked at Xu Xing expectantly, her little hands nervously clasped in front of her chest. It was her first time cooking for Xu Xing, and she was still very nervous.

"You won't eat dead people, right?" Xu Xing was a little hesitant, looking at the two dishes in front of him, just looking at the color, they looked quite similar.

"Is this how you talk when I'm kind enough to cook for you?" Xu Niannian said dissatisfied, "Hurry up and comment after eating."

"Okay." Xu Xing raised the kuaizi with difficulty, wavering between sweet and sour pork ribs and tomato scrambled eggs.

Every transfer of tachyons can cause Xu Niannian and Yan Chijuan to feel nervous, hoping that Xu Xing can eat the food they cooked first.

As a result, Xu Xing wandered around, and Kuai Zi directly reached into the vegetable soup, picked up a piece of vegetable leaf without haste, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it carefully.

"Hmm...it tastes pretty good."

"By the way, who cooked this soup?"