Ten Years Against the Current of Rebirth

Chapter 251 Li Zhibin returns home in fine clothes

On February 7, we were on the expressway from Hangzhou to Shanghai.

Ma Yun was sitting in the back seat, with his legs crossed and the elbow of one hand resting on the armrest of the car door. He held a document in his hand and looked down at it with a thoughtful expression on his face.

WeChat, Qunxing, Tianshu Games.

Didi, have you eaten? Tianxuan Information Service.

In addition, there are also Listening to the Sound of Clouds, Going to the Sky, and Soaring Cloud Data.

Each noun and the meaning behind it are all clearly explained in this document, forming a very dense network in Ma Yun's eyes.

When he lowered his gaze to the bottom and saw the introduction information of the founder of this company, he couldn't help but look in disbelief.

With the information network and energy behind Alibaba, it is still very simple to simply know the basic information of a company owner.

So for Ma Yun, Xu Xing's identity is transparent to him.

But precisely because of this, Ma Yun could not believe that this Qunxing company was created by such a young man in his twenties.

For him who is nearly fifty years old, this is really a jealous thing.

You know, he started his business in 1995 and founded Alibaba in 1999. It has been more than ten years now. It can be said that he has participated in the entire process from the beginning to the rise of the domestic Internet.

This created the Ali Empire today.

But now this young man named Xu Xing, in just over half a year, relied on several popular mobile games to create an instant messaging software like WeChat.

He even bit off a piece of meat from Tencent’s QQ.

To be honest, if only mobile games become popular, no matter how great Tianshu Games is, Qunxing Company can only become a part of the Internet ecosystem.

It's great, but at least it doesn't have the ability to influence or change the situation.

But a WeChat message completely changed this situation.

As a traffic pool with huge potential, WeChat’s strategic position is no less than that of Alibaba’s Taobao and Alipay. Both are strategic weapons that can become the core of a group and ecological chain.

It’s not like Alibaba has never thought about developing social software for instant messaging before, but after many attempts, it basically ended in failure.

Tencent's QQ empire is solid and unshakable, with a user base of hundreds of millions. Once users' usage inertia is cultivated, the process is almost irreversible.

But no one expected that at the forefront of the mobile Internet era, Qunxing Company would seize a fleeting opportunity and complete a sneak attack by leveraging the convenience of mobile phones and the expansion of its user base.

Especially the showy operation of switching from a gaming platform to a social platform, even though Jack Ma has read the analysis reports several times, it still makes him feel bright.

The mobile games produced by Tianshu are all relatively simple types, which naturally attract a large number of mobile phone users.

After accumulating the first wave of users through mobile games, WeChat immediately used the rogue-level function of contact list friends.

Address book, a function that only exists on mobile phones, symbolizes a secret treasure in the mobile Internet era. It is there, but few people really notice it.

People who make Internet products know very well that if they want to increase users, the best situation is for users to spontaneously attract people around them.

And this move of contact book friends is a complete tactic that directly pulls a large number of mobile phone users into the ecological chain of WeChat.

Combined with the information at the WeChat 2.0 press conference, everyone quickly realized one thing.

Middle-aged and elderly people may not be the main force in Internet consumption, but they can become a chain connecting young users.

As long as relatively simple social software like WeChat can capture the basic needs of middle-aged and elderly people and create top-down relationship constraints in the social circle, relatively young people will have to use it even if they don't want to use it.

This move directly hit the weakest point of Tencent QQ and immediately opened up the situation for WeChat.

It has evolved to the present, with tens of millions of users. As long as WeChat continues to maintain its popularity, the future social software landscape will probably be turbulent.

It would be a shame if Ali couldn't have a hand in it.

However, if you want to take over a company that has no problem with cash flow, even has a large surplus, is developing rapidly, and has huge room for growth, you may have to pay a huge price.

Ma Yun frowned and looked through Xu Xing's personal information carefully. He was really not sure. He had to wait until he met the person before he could make a judgment.

…

Evening, clothing factory.

Xu Jian concluded the assembly line manufacturing-related meeting with the construction team and roughly determined the construction plan for the next year.

After everyone else in the meeting left, Xu Jian pressed the shoulder of Zhang Qiang, the leader of the construction team, and said with a smile: "Are you free tonight? I'll treat you to a meal."

Faced with the expansion of the production line, Xu Jian still paid more attention to it. After the meeting, he took several people from the construction team to the meeting to go out to eat, connect with each other, and get familiar with it in advance.

The engineers from the three teams headed by Zhang Qiang also readily agreed. There is still some time before the start of construction, and the construction plan has been finalized. The host is treating the guests, so they will naturally not refuse.

So Xu Jian drove himself and took them to the hotel they had booked in advance.

As a result, when he arrived at the door of the hotel, Xu Jian bumped into a group of young people. Seeing them sitting down at the round table in the hall, he always felt that they looked familiar.

Then he heard a familiar voice: "Uncle Xu?"

Turning around, Xu Jian raised his eyebrows: "Li Zhibin, right? Why are you here?"

"Oh, isn't this our class reunion?" Li Zhibin said with a naive smile, "Uncle Xu is here for dinner?"

"Well, I'm inviting guests to come for a meal." Xu Jian looked around and saw that they had booked at least three tables, so he asked, "Is that guy Xu Xing coming too soon?"

"No, Xu Xing can't come." Li Zhibin scratched his head, "I wanted to ask him to come, but he said he was not available."

"You're not free for the high school reunion?" Xu Jian clicked his tongue. How could he not be free if he didn't know about that kid? He clearly went to accompany his little girlfriend, and he went back to stay one night last night. .

I don’t know if the protective measures are in place, but don’t finish the first year of college and bring him a baby first.

While Xu Jian was chatting with Li Zhibin, the engineer who came with Zhang Qiang to have a meal also found his daughter Hu Hualin at the table, sitting next to Li Zhibin.

"Dad?" Hu Hualin, who was originally a study committee member in her high school class and was admitted to Beijing University. She went to school in Kyoto with Li Zhibin. When she saw her father, Hu Yanyu, she was a little surprised.

Hu Yanyu didn't talk much. He just nodded to his daughter and said, "I'm here to have a meal with my clients. You guys can have fun by yourselves."

Xu Jian led Zhang Qiang, Hu Yanyu and others into the box. Li Zhibin in the hall asked curiously: "Is that Dad?"

"Yes." Hu Hualin nodded, "Who were you talking to just now?"

"Oh, that's Xu Xing's father."

"Isn't that our boss's father?"

"you do not say."

Since Li Zhibin took over the business expansion of Chime in Kyoto, he has asked many classmates to help him. Hu Hualin, who was his high school classmate, was naturally among them and helped him a lot.

Coming to the high school reunion today can be considered a homecoming for Li Zhibin.

Although he is not a shareholder, Eatme has raised US$15 million, of which 5 million will be allocated to business expansion in Kyoto. For the person in charge of the Kyoto business, this is considered to be a powerful position.

Not to mention 5 million US dollars, 500,000 US dollars, 50,000 US dollars, which is enough for Li Zhibin to brag among his classmates.

On the contrary, after the number increased to millions, although the students were envious, they could not feel too much jealousy. Instead, they were a little numb.

Especially when they heard that this thing was invented by their classmate Xu Xing, it felt even more unreal, like a dream.

If Li Zhibin hadn't followed Xu Xingxing step by step, he might have felt the same as these people.

He also adjusted his mentality over and over again, and after a while, he was shocked by Xu Xingxin's operations and achievements. After being refreshed by this guy's understanding of the world, he slowly got used to this situation.

It was because of these training opportunities that he was able to take over the Chime business in Kyoto.

Fortunately, he majored in finance and economics, unlike Xu Xing and others who majored in computer science and had as many courses as they did.

With Li Zhibin's academic level, if he didn't participate in some miscellaneous club activities and competitions in the school and just attended classes, he could still take care of his career at the same time, and he wouldn't have to choose to take a break from school like Zhang Nong.

In addition, although the only person who went to Beijing University with him was Hu Hualin, there were also several people who were admitted to other universities in Kyoto. Now they were all pulled into the team by Li Zhibin. After returning to Shanghai, they became a small group.

"So Xu Xing really won't come?" Hu Hualin asked softly, "We haven't seen this boss since the summer vacation."

"We'll see you there, he's a busy man." Li Zhibin said in a low voice, a little helpless, "And he probably just doesn't want to come. After all, the gap is too big. If he comes, it will affect everyone."

Hu Hualin understands, after all, it is a takeaway with a valuation of hundreds of millions. As a high school classmate, she was not very impressive when she was in school, but she skyrocketed as soon as she entered university.

We haven't seen him for half a year, and he is already worth over 100 million. He is completely different from the same world.

If she hadn't happened to be a classmate and had a good relationship with Xu Xing, Li Zhibin was admitted to the same university, Hu Hualin probably wouldn't be able to have a relationship with such a person in her life.

But what she doesn't know is that Takeaway is just the tip of the iceberg on Xu Xing's career map.

Li Zhibin, who knew this, just smiled, thinking that when Xu Xing's true identity was revealed in the future, he didn't know how his high school classmates would react.

…

In the evening, Ocean International Building.

Xu Xing sat by the floor-to-ceiling window, tapping the armrests of his office chair with his fingers.

The sky outside the window has darkened. As the season enters deep winter, the nights in Shanghai come earlier than before. Before six o'clock in the evening, it is completely plunged into darkness.

But sitting on the tenth floor, looking down, this bustling city is still brightly lit.

"Mr. Xu, Mr. Ma from Alibaba is already on the expressway and will be at the hotel in about half an hour." Yan Chijue stood obediently beside the desk and reminded Xu Xing.

"Yeah." Xu Xing nodded, "We'll be there in fifteen minutes."

Just as he was talking, there was a knock on the door of the office. After Xu Xing answered, Liao Qinyu walked in from the door.

"Mr. Xu, the summary of WeChat data for the year has been sent to your mailbox."

"good."

Xu Xing returned to his desk, opened his mailbox, clicked on the data table, and briefly glanced at it.

Since the release of WeChat 2.0 in early February, in just one week, the number of WeChat users has rapidly grown to 70 million.

The mark of 100 million is not far away.

WeChat is now a behemoth that cannot be ignored in the Internet field. After all, it has 70 million users. Compared with its big brother QQ, it is definitely not enough, but if you look down, you will see that they are all younger brothers!

But if this momentum continues, 70 million to 100 million does not seem impossible.

But once the number of 100 million is exceeded, the meaning will be completely different.

At this stage, there is such a huge user base, especially these users are all connected through personal social networks.

This means that WeChat will have at least tens of millions of sticky users.

A person's network is all on this software, and you won't be able to uninstall it when the time comes. It's the same as QQ, or even tighter than QQ.

After all, in the computer era, there are still many middle-aged and elderly people who cannot use computers, let alone QQ accounts, and cannot understand how to play.

But in the mobile era, this group of people have slowly begun to use mobile phones, especially the middle-aged people who did not use QQ on computers in the past. Once captured by WeChat first, and radiated downwards, their stickiness will inevitably be even more exaggerated than QQ.

Xu Xing looked at the data, and after briefly scanning it, he focused on the usage rate of several new features in version 2.0.

Among them, the voice recognition function is not very mature yet, so its usage rate is relatively low, and the service center that integrates Didi Taxi and Chime Takeaway is still in its infancy.

During this period of time, many companies have approached WeChat and want to discuss cooperation. The purpose is to plug their own APP links into WeChat's service center and enjoy the irrigation of WeChat's traffic pool.

You should know that at present, Didi Taxi and EatMe takeaway are still regional services, covering only Kyoto and Shanghai.

Among them, Didi Dache has begun to expand to other cities after receiving a new round of financing, but the effects have not yet fully emerged.

Meeme’s takeaway is really limited to two core cities and has not yet spread.

Under such circumstances, there will naturally be many other companies that want to seize the C position of the traffic pool that is tens of millions or even billions in the future.

However, what makes Xu Xing most satisfied is the data in the circle of friends.

The daily usage rate reached 57.8%, and the weekly usage rate was 88.9%.

Of course, this is only the first week, and no specific trend can be seen yet.

But just looking at this week, the usage rate of Moments has been increasing dramatically every day.

"I don't know what conditions Mr. Ma will give after seeing this momentum."

Xu Xing clicked his tongue twice. Seeing that the time was almost up, he stood up and said, "Just keep the current situation on WeChat. Continue to collect feedback on various functions. Let's relax during the Chinese New Year."

"Okay, Mr. Xu." After Liao Qinyu reported on the data collection, he said goodbye and left.

Xu Xing packed up his clothes and waved to Yan Chijie: "Secretary Yan, take me to see Mr. Ma."

Yan Chijue followed Xu Xing obediently, lowered her eyebrows and said softly: "Okay, Mr. Xu."

"How are you adapting?" Xu Xing squeezed her little hand and asked in her ear.

"Mr. Xu, this is the company, please respect yourself." Yan Chijue took half a step back with a serious face, "I'll take you to the hotel."

I don’t know why, but the more serious Yan Chi Jiu was, the more interesting and exciting Xu Xing found it. If Mr. Ma hadn’t been arriving soon, he would have probably couldn’t help but push Yan Chi Jiu onto the desk and spank her.

"Let's go." Xu Xing opened the office door and walked out without bullying his little secretary.

(End of chapter)