What’s Wrong With Me Being a Rich Man?

Chapter 229

The technical direction of WeChat development is still compromised.

According to the view of technical director Ge Zhijie, this is a compromise, but for the new WeChat, the system architecture design combining layered and distributed is still difficult and is a considerable challenge.

But according to Yu Xing's understanding, this kind of benchmarking direction is much simpler than cutting-edge exploration. What you need to do now is to recruit soldiers in a targeted manner, and WeChat still has a certain amount of time. If you plan for the worst, the latest one is the latest one. It's OK to push it until the end of the year.

At that time, I'm afraid I'd have to fight with MiTao first.

As February ends, the atmosphere of the Lunar New Year has completely faded, and Bai Xiaosheng is activated because of the temporary job of jumping into the country.

Baixiaosheng's technical level is average, but Baixiaosheng's recruitment business is all veterans in the industry, which can help WeChat quickly find adaptable talents.

In the first week of March, Liu Jiankai of Today Capital was concerned about Bai Xiaosheng's mid-year financing and was curious about the incubation of new projects that President Yu had made up his mind, so he went three times in a row.

On the first trip, he went outside the fifth floor intentionally or unintentionally and found that the number of employees was almost 30, and the last time he came here was about 10 people.

On the second trip, he simply came in and watched it. He felt that there were several more people just two days later. At the same time, everyone's discussion was also very lively.

Liu Jiankai left a deep impression on this trip.

On the one hand, people who have known each other for a few days are having a busy exchange, while on the other hand, office supplies such as computers are being moved in one after another. Because the space has become relatively narrow, the former makes way for the latter without caring about it, and then continues to chat.

This is probably a kind of vitality, right?

Liu Jiankai left a label in his heart.

However, on the third trip, he suddenly found that the fifth floor had become empty, and even the name of the WeChat company on the wall was gone.

Liu Jiankai’s first reaction was—had he finally given up? !

You should give up, you finally know what kind of competition you are facing, right?

Alas, you really give up. People who talk about their ideals like this must give up...

The previous broadcast of "You're the One" allowed Yu Xing and the boss guests to discuss Penguin to extend some public opinion refutations. "Life, death, Penguin" is certainly a joke, but the dilemma faced by Internet entrepreneurs is still real. It's quite understandable.

Penguin has involved many fields in the past few years. Apart from the two items of e-commerce and search, other businesses have made great achievements in large and small businesses relying on huge traffic.

Judging from this performance, Baidu and Alibaba are worthy of being the same-level giants, and Penguin has failed.

Based on this background, Yu Xing was also named an "idealist".

What attracted even more attention was that Zhou Hongyi, the boss of 360, also noticed the content and discussions mentioned by Yu Xing on the show, and used this to call the penguin through the media and Weibo - "Penguin, you must have ideals."

However, his voice did not receive a response from the parties involved, but he was still ridiculed.

Someone commented on Zhou Hongyi's Weibo: "Why don't you tell others about your ideals?"

This ridicule is because Zhou Hongyi himself has mixed praises and criticisms. He is called the "father of rogue software". The 3721 he once created left an extremely deep impression on the majority of Internet users, and he has experienced many lawsuits since then.

If it is still a fresh and refreshing to talk about ideals for young entrepreneurs like Yu Xing, it is ridiculous to talk about ideals like Zhou Hongyi.

However, whether it is the show "You're the One" or the competitor like Zhou Hongyi who has been raided during the Spring Festival holiday, Penguin has not responded at all, just like an indifferent iceberg that is difficult to estimate its size.

Liu Jiankai hurried into Yu Xing's office, and the first sentence he met was: "Where is the WeChat on the fifth floor?"

"I'm going to the fourth floor." Yu Xing looked at Liu Jiankai in an inexplicable tone and wondered, "The half floor of the fifth floor cannot be put down, and the fourth floor has been subleted. The fifth floor is just considered Bai Xiaosheng's spare office. You don't like us, why do you care about this every day? "

Liu Jiankai then suddenly realized that the rapid increase in employees already needed larger office space...

He was relieved inexplicably and said honestly: "I don't care either, I just want to see what it can be like. Whether it's a failure or a failure, this kind of project that dares to charge against Penguin's core business is still a project that dares to launch a charge on Penguin's core business. It's quite rare."

Penguin is not without competition. It has to compete in every specific direction of business it enters, but those competitors are basically forced to fight back, like Yu Xing, who actively touches the stone with eggs...

Even if the relationship is OK, I really want to see the tragic situation where the egg yolk flows all over the ground.

At that time, maybe I can say something, "I'll tell you a long time ago."

"Is there any trace of hope for success?" Yu Xing was not surprised by Liu Jiankai's words, but asked with a smile.

"It's not me, this... Forget it, Mr. Yu, I just can't figure it out. You are definitely a smart person." Liu Jiankai asked in confusion, "You think you can have a chance? Bai Xiaosheng is also Didn’t it mean that you could expand to this level after it went public?”

When Yu Xing heard this, he said, "Then do you write me a 'geese'? Are you so unsupervised, and you still write that way?"

Liu Jiankai sighed: "From the perspective of investors, of course I would like to see more Internet projects blooming, rather than often needing to consider Penguin's movements, but my will is my will, and my will needs to be succumbed. To reality.”

Yu Xing smiled slightly and said half the truth: "You don't have to think so much, I just think it's interesting."

"Interesting?" Liu Jiankai repeated the word and asked again, "Is it interesting to die?"

Yu Xing replied affirmatively: "It's interesting to die."

He took a sip of tea and said thoughtfully, "I talked about this when I was having dinner with Liu Wanying last night. Since you have come a few times, you have also seen the speed of recruiting people on WeChat. This is a matter of establishing Actions after the technical direction.”

When Yu Xing said this, he took out the previous report from the deputy technical director from a stack of documents, then got up and walked a few steps to hand it to Liu Jiankai.

After Liu Jiankai browsing briefly, he continued, "I have been in Guiai.com in the past two years and Baixiaosheng. Guiai.com. It is actually a business centered around 'probability', as long as the probability of finally getting married is low enough. It has the possibility of success within one stage.”

"Where is Bai Xiaosheng, its 'mechanism' is very important. The mechanism around the website is derived from a steady stream of content, and then it is embedded with adaptive recruitment business to improve revenue. For this mechanism, I need to bear the pressure. , you also need to bear the pressure."

"At the beginning of WeChat, I experienced something completely different. We spent less than a week making a decision on the technical direction and finally determined such an architecture that requires larger investment."

"Without it, the development of WeChat will inevitably encounter bottlenecks. With it, it may bring relatively sufficient competitiveness."

"Similarly, the time when I chose to incubate this project is also the arrival of a wave of mobile."

"3G makes the internet faster and the smartphones are richer. If there is no such technological progress, there will definitely be no chance of subversion." "Technology, technology, I always feel that there is a saying in my mind in the past half month. Echoing in, science and technology are the primary productive forces.”

"Mr. Liu, look, this is something I can't understand when doing Guiai.com and Bai Xiaosheng. I'm always shallow in my understanding of it. I have to practice it myself. This is what this project brings to me personally. Very interesting point."

Yu Xing talked so much, then sat back on his chair and said with a smile: "Not mentioning what WeChat can bring to the industry, I think I have become interesting, that's enough. As for failure, it's nothing more than failure. .”

Liu Jiankai really felt Mr. Yu's sincerity to a certain extent.

"I am not afraid of failure. There will definitely be many projects that can make money in the mobile era. I am still young, right?" Yu Xing added.

Liu Jiankai was silent for a while and could only say, "Mr. Yu... I'm very good at young."

This kind of young stubborn species is the most suitable for talking about ideals...

However, even if the young stubborn people don’t talk about their ideals, it’s really even more boring to buy vegetables.

"Ge Zhijie comes from Baidu, and Tan Ruize comes from NetEase. These two people who work on technology have made me a little deeply aware of the importance of technical investment. Otherwise, WeChat might not be able to bear the first wave of competition." Yu Xing talked about returning to the project again. "I actually feel a little painful to invest in this kind of investment, but this correct pain is deepening my understanding. Fortunately, there are knowledgeable people like Mr. Liu who are ready to move, otherwise, I will only feel even more nervous."

Liu Jiankai waved his hand: "Mr. Yu, I won't move just by just being stupid."

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

Yu Xing nodded: "I understand, you have to see that WeChat really has some hope to be smart and want to move."

Liu Jiankai was silent again.

Although he has the reputation of Bai Xiaosheng's mid-year round C financing, does he actually have no covetousness for WeChat's success in his heart?

It's so difficult that it's not as good as a "what if"...

Venture capital, venture capital must take risks before investing!

Without risks, those opportunities to make money have been fixed, or the money that can be made has become too little.

He shook his head and looked at Yu Xing: "Mr. Yu, you are so smart and stubborn."

"You investing people should have seen more." Yu Xing disagreed.

Liu Jiankai complimented: "But, Mr. Yu, you are still the most special group."

Yu Xing laughed and signaled Liu Jiankai to get up and go to the fourth floor to take a look, not minding adding some persuasion to potential investors.

However, he just brought Liu Jiankai to WeChat company and a phone call from Alibaba company came in, but it was Cheng Xiangwen, deputy director of Taobao Mall operations who had talked many times before.

"Mr. Tan, take Mr. Liu to show him the current work." Yu Xing waved and called out to the deputy technical director, reminding him, "This is the second in command of today's capital, please be careful."

Liu Jiankai immediately clarified: "Don't talk nonsense, I'm not a big deal, don't let President Tan take it seriously."

Yu Xing walked aside with a smile and had some communication with Cheng Xiangwen.

There is no specific work to talk about between the two, but they felt that they had contacted each other before. Yu Xing took the opportunity of mobile communication software to give Cheng Xiangwen a tip, and in addition, the WeChat company has started, so there are common topics.

Cheng Xiangwen has been very attentively on the Baixiaosheng Forum recently, so he saw some news from the incubation of Baixiaosheng's internal projects.

Others just looked at it, but after seeing it, he felt that it was very likely that Mr. Yu had really started to act.

Cheng Xiangwen asked in detail, and it was true that, and he couldn't help but give advice.

"I talked last time. I felt a little hopeful, and the plan was put forward, but there was no movement at all. This time I went to talk about it, but I was completely beaten back." Cheng Xiangwen said helplessly.

Yu Xing asked: "Do you think you can't do it? I think it's not a good time?"

"I also talked about mobile transformation, but... In fact, we can't say that others have no reason. We have to do our main business first. Not to mention the priority of C2C, there are also many tough battles to fight on Taobao Mall." Cheng Xiangwen considered "Moreover, our own C2C and B2C are also facing future mobile transformation, which are all with higher priority."

Yu Xing did not refute it, but said, "It does make sense."

Cheng Xiangwen continued, "Then, I said, I can try the waters in a small project, and the response I got was 'It's better not to do it than to try the waters', and I had nothing to say."

When Yu Xing heard this, he smiled and said, "You are not saying nothing. You think this is right. You just try the waters and do what you can do. Just use a test waters attitude. I guess there is not even a splash in the market. ”

Cheng Xiangwen did not deny it, and after pondering for a few seconds, he asked, "What about you? You can't afford much money from Bai Xiaosheng Company, right?"

Bai Xiaosheng is not a big company, and it is not certain whether the money it can afford to compare with Alibaba's "testing waters".

Yu Xing said seriously: "To be honest, Mr. Cheng, I am now accompanying the vice president of Today Capital to inspect the WeChat company."

When Cheng Xiangwen heard this name, he felt a little moved and said quickly, "You have something serious, you should say it earlier, so let's talk about it later."

"Okay, let's talk back." Yu Xing said with a smile, "I welcome you at any time. You need to have regular options before the company raises funds."

Cheng Xiangwen ended the call.

Yu Xing stuffed his phone into his pocket, and it was not surprising that Alibaba's internal decisions were made. E-commerce priority was correct, but if there were ready-made fish on the table, that was another matter. Cheng Xiangwen estimated that it could play a role in "has it." That's the effect of a single thing."

When Liu Jiankai saw Yu Xing pace over, he asked with a smile: "Who can you chat with so much? You can see the smile on your face from afar."

Yu Xing replied calmly: "To be honest, he is a friend of Alibaba and is very interested in instant messaging."

Liu Jiankai glanced at Yu Xing and didn't see any clues, but he couldn't help but mutter. The momentum of recruiting people here is very strong, Yu Xing's determination is very firm, and the atmosphere within the WeChat company is also very energetic...

This comes from Baidu, NetEase, and now there is Alibaba. Yu Xing’s ability to piece together projects has been fully demonstrated since Guiai.com. Could it be that he really... a scare goose?

(End of this chapter)