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Popular connected collaboration software is the main reason why Kurian made a business report to Boss Zhou today.

He was previously Oracle's vice president, in charge of product and research and development. As a software giant, this type of office software is certainly within Oracle's business scope.

However, Oracle did not start doing it.

One of the directions that Kurian is very optimistic about is the online collaboration tool of Volkswagen Connection. He has established 2 R\u0026D teams for this purpose and has acquired 4 start-up companies. He wanted to make a breakthrough in this field, but he failed. .

In this market, there is a very powerful stumbling block - WebEx.

WebEx is a video conferencing product that can accommodate hundreds of people for online meetings at the same time. Later, it was acquired by the technology giant Cisco. With money, resources and technology, it firmly occupied this market.

So much so that Kurian tried to break into this market several times when he was at Oracle, but failed.

After joining Ziweixing, he still misses it!

He wants to get this done!

Weishu actually also has the function of online video conferencing. It can also allow dozens or hundreds of people to be online at the same time. It is even more powerful than WebEx. It can store the content of the video conference online in the cloud to facilitate users to watch it repeatedly after the meeting.

However, Weishu’s mass connectivity is not strong.

Weishu is a purely enterprise-level B-side product. It is a small circle, and there is no product logic for cross-circle connections. For example, employees of Ziweixing should connect within the circle of Ziweixing and Ziweixing's partners through WeChat, and cannot connect to other companies such as Baidu and Alibaba.

This type of enterprise office product involves the transmission of many internal company documents and business secrets, and the product concept does not encourage cross-circle connections.

However, Weishu employees sometimes need to communicate online with Baidu or Alibaba employees. Of course, this can be achieved, but under normal circumstances both parties are relatively opposed to this, and they have to avoid it.

Publicly connected office products are for the public and do not exist in every small circle. Even if you have a small circle, you can break it without restrictions.

This requires that when designing this product, as many company secrets as possible should be avoided.

Just like WebEx, its functions are very simple, including online meetings and multi-person videos. Users cannot have more work contacts through this product like Weishu. This kind of product logic can give WebEx a public attribute and the possibility of targeting more users.

Kurian therefore said: "Weishu's product functions are very powerful, but the product design is very complicated. This means that the market space is relatively small, and most companies and institutions do not use so many functions. Want to have more To reach more users and cover more industry fields, there must be product designs with relatively simple functionality for popular connections, such as WebEx.”

Zhou Buqi felt like a mirror in his heart.

Although they didn't get along for a long time, he got to know the Indian working style through multiple channels. Although he is strong in ability, his shortcomings are also obvious. He loves to show off, loves to be in the limelight, and loves to grab credit.

In fact, it is the externalization of inner inferiority, asking for what is lacking.

Indians are an ethnic minority. If they don't show off, compete or compete, how can they become masters step by step in a foreign country?

This is actually true.

Just like black people and Mexicans, power is earned through hard work. China, Japan and South Korea... Korea is actually not bad. Koreans are very fierce. In 1992, a fierce gun battle broke out in Los Angeles. Koreans charged in the streets with guns and made the black people stupid.

Chinese and Japanese expatriates are very miserable. They are too self-sufficient. They think that as long as they are good enough and decent enough, they will be respected and have the rights they deserve.

This is related to national memory. South Korea was ruled by a dark military government. The Koreans couldn't stand it anymore, so they used sticks and homemade petrol bombs to fight the military's bullets with flesh and blood. Then South Korea's system changed. It has surpassed North Korea in all fields. The same cannot be said for Japan. Everything in Japan is a gift from the United States. Japanese people have become accustomed to kneeling and waiting for rewards. They can only endure when they are bullied.

Kurian's idea is actually simple, he just wants to be in the limelight and win credit.

No matter how Weishu is revised, it is a product developed and designed by a domestic team, and is left to Kurian to operate the overseas market.

Of course he was not willing to do this.

I just want to launch an office collaboration software on my own and show my abilities!

Zhou Buqi was happy to see this phenomenon. He knew about the WebEx product, but he was very skeptical, "WebEx? I seem to have seen some data. The market share of this product seems to have exceeded 75%, right? Except for a few Silicon Valley giants , almost all schools, research institutions and companies in the United States are using this product.”

Kurian smiled and said: "Weishu's market is unknown and needs to be verified. The video conferencing market is different. WebEx has proven the demand for this market. Now, more and more companies need to hold remote meetings , more and more schools are opening online classes, and there are many training institutions, as well as cross-regional collaboration between research institutions, all of which require online meetings."

"I know there is potential in this direction, but..." Zhou Buqi looked at him deeply, "Do you really think we can build this market? I remember that Google also made a similar product, but the market didn't respond at all. "

Kurian is full of confidence, "Google can't do it, Microsoft can't do it, Adobe, IBM can't do it, and my old club Oracle can't do it either. But I think Ziweixing can do it."

"Oh?" Zhou Buqi was very interested, "How do you judge?"

Kurian smiled: "Because of you."

"Me?" Zhou Buqi was amused by him and waved his hands repeatedly, "I can still control the situation at home, but when I came to the United States, I am unfamiliar with the place and I am powerless in many things."

Kurian said seriously: "No, I think you can really do it!"

Zhou Buqi looked suspicious.

It doesn't feel like this person is deliberately flattering, he really thinks so.

Kurian explained: "This is the case. WebEx was founded in 1996, and Eric was the core person in charge of project development. He led WebEx to grow from a small company of 10 people to a large company of 800 people, with annual revenue From 0 to $800 million. Later, Cisco spent $3.2 billion to acquire WebEx, and Eric was promoted to Cisco’s vice president of products.”

"Eric..."

Zhou Buqi vaguely heard what Kurian meant.

This Eric is the key figure in the success of WebEx!

Digging him out?

This is not very realistic!

Kurian was previously the vice president of product at Oracle, and Eric was the vice president of product at Cisco. From a level perspective, the two are equal. Hire Eric to help Kurian? Can people agree?

Kurian's face showed a somewhat mysterious smile, "Eric is an English name, and his Chinese name is Yuan Zheng."

Zhou Buqi was stunned, "Chinese?"

"right."

"That's it..."

This time, Zhou Buqi was confident and motivated.

The Chinese are the base camp of Ziweixing!

Regardless of whether Yuan Zheng changes his nationality or not, his Chinese nature will not change, so he should join Ziweixing as a matter of course. Over the past year or so, a very unfriendly trend toward Chinese people has emerged in Silicon Valley.

When many technology companies promote senior executives, they have extremely restrictive and demanding requirements for Chinese people. The big reason is that the domestic technology industry has developed. Domestic companies have come to Silicon Valley and poached too many Chinese executives to return to China. As a result, the talents that Silicon Valley technology companies have worked hard to cultivate have become wedding dresses for others, which has attracted collective vigilance.

When many world-class companies divide their world sectors, they will have the Asia-Pacific region. Under the Asia-Pacific region, there are China Region, Japan and Korea Region, Southeast Asia Region, India Region, etc.

In the past, the president of Greater China often also served as the president of the Asia-Pacific region, and it was the Chinese who dominated the Asia-Pacific market. But after the subprime mortgage crisis broke out, the situation began to change. The presidents of Greater China were still Chinese, and the presidents of the Asia-Pacific region became more and more Indians.

A more typical example is Hulu. People from the parent company Comcast even said a lot of politically incorrect things, and the Chinese senior management team resigned en masse.

It is conceivable that under this trend, Yuan Zheng, as Cisco's vice president of products, must also be thinking of a way out. Joining Ziweixing International is of course the best choice.

Ziweixing International is the base camp for Chinese elites working in Silicon Valley.

Kurian said: "WebEx was started by Eric Yuan, and he was very successful. But there is no perfect product in this world. If there is one person in the world who knows the shortcomings of WebEx best, it must be him. If we can invite him to come over and lead the development of a similar product to compete with WebEx, and use our strengths and avoid weaknesses, we are very likely to succeed! Google can't do it, Microsoft can't do it, Adobe can't do it, and Oracle can't do it, but I believe he can do it!"

"Um."

Zhou Buqi nodded, basically accepting this idea.

Next, the two exchanged some opinions on this idea.

If Ziwei Cloud wants to develop in the short term, it will rely on cloud data centers around the world with enough servers and storage space. In the longer term, we still need to provide better and higher-quality services.

"Cloud computing + software" is the direction of Saas. Whether it is micro-notes, impression ledger, impression cloud disk, Weishu and the video conferencing product being prepared, they are all Saas products and services.

Relying on the backend cloud computing platform to provide support for these cloud products.

If these products are developed, it will show that Ziweiyun has strong infrastructure capabilities and will attract more cloud products to Ziweiyun.

Microsoft Cloud's later efforts can gradually narrow the gap with Amazon Cloud. The fundamental reason is that Microsoft is a software giant and has the richest software products and services on Microsoft Cloud.

What Ziweixing lacks the most is its software product capabilities. It really needs to rely on Kurian to develop in this direction!