If you go all out, the simplified version of WeChat can be developed in a month, especially Wen Xiaoguang's team, which is not short of money and people.

In fact, Mi Talk was launched within a month, and Xiaolong's team itself officially started research and development at the end of November, and the first generation for iPhone came out at the end of the month.

And his team is less than 20 people.

Later, they learned, it all started with a letter he wrote to Pony.

This was a very fortuitous factor, and Xiao Long would never have expected his future achievements when he wrote this letter, and he himself described it as a very fortuitous event, saying: If I had gone to play golf that day, or had gone to do something else at night, I probably wouldn't have had that letter.

When Pony receives the letter, he will not sit up in his dreams: Oh, my love will finally come to you! I've been waiting for you for a long time!

Jokes can't be nonsense. Later often exaggerated at the time. Only those who are in the middle of it know that a lot of it is accidental.

Pony really appreciates Xiaolong, treats him well, and is willing to leave the mailbox team in Guangzhou, because he is a technical background, and naturally knows that Zhang Xiaolong, who developed Foxmail, is a talent.

He feels a crisis about QQ, and he thinks that Xiaolong is a R&D talent, and Tengxun's family has a big business, so let's try R&D.

It will definitely not be like Wen Xiaoguang directing the team: I want this function, I don't want those, this is done like this.

Just be able to chat, what kind of bicycle do you want!

For the two of them in 2010, the future is a black fog, and no one knows that there will be WeChat in the future.

The presidents of QQ also thought that WeChat was useful, and even called Zhang Xiaolong in person to ask him to stop the WeChat project.

Are they moles?

No, they just don't know the future.

So if you want to think that he attaches the same importance to Xiaolong in 2010 as in 2011, it is a bit like the flavor of the line in the anti-Japanese drama:

[Comrades, the eight-year War of Resistance has begun]

You're right, you already know that the War of Resistance will take eight years. The screenwriter has in his head (smiling face).

Mr. Lei can also understand Wen Xiaoguang's statement that he wants to keep the WeChat project a secret.

This kind of thing can't be known to Teng Xun so quickly, fast reaction speed is one thing, the main thing is that this company is too good at this kind of rhythm...... I'll do what you do, and then I'll kill you by QQ.

He just didn't understand why Wen Xiaoguang was looking for Zhang Xiaolong, in his opinion, this person might be a cow, but it wasn't so exaggerated.

On the plane, he asked the question.

"Maybe I need a real product manager," Wen Xiaoguang crossed Erlang's legs, and the first-class cabin on the plane was still very spacious, "In my team, the people are very good, and the technical strength is also there, but what I really appreciate is the product manager who is obsessed with the product, and the person who can refute me in order to insist on himself." ”

Mr. Lei was stunned, "Really, you are a masochist? ”

"It is also possible that when I was a child, I read the newspaper and read it, and I had the impression in my mind that children will have some admiration for the kind of people who are talented and insist on themselves and would rather face poverty. ”

"I can understand you when you say this, but you don't know much about technology," Mr. Lei doesn't like to talk about others, but just said from the side: "Xiaolong is a very technical person, he is a programmer who can be ranked in the top 15, but it is far from the point where you admire." ”

Literati are light, and technical people are also light.

"You don't think he's a top-tier product manager?"

"Which product can prove that he is a top product manager?" Mr. Lei did not directly deny, but asked rhetorically.

Wen Xiaoguang thought about it, and yes, before WeChat came out, no one thought he was a top product manager.

Although foxmail is very successful, mailbox has always been an Internet product with a relatively high threshold, and ordinary people do not use it much. The media says there are tens of millions of users.

Big brother, if you think about it, our netizens are hundreds of millions, hundreds of millions.

"A few years ago, when I was in Jinshan, I was also very interested in foxmail, I went to talk to him about the acquisition, but I made a mistake and didn't go in person, and in 05 foxmail was not doing well and was sold to Tencent by the old owner. ”

It is true that Wen Xiaoguang knows very little about anything other than the media.

"In the three years since he was acquired, he has not had a good time. In 06, pony himself said that he didn't like to use QQ mailbox. At that time, Foxmail was moving from a client-side to a web product, and the transition was difficult, and the earliest versions were like the giants of the web, almost impossible to operate. I've been a little more optimistic in the past two years, but the mailbox industry is facing a lot of competitive pressure. ”

"As far as I know, they have also been trying to make products with different flavors based on mailbox usage scenarios, and the reading space seems to have been successful, but the qq mailbox broadcast effect is very bad, it is a Twitter-like product, and 163 mailbox has also tried, all of which have failed with the rise of Sina Weibo in the past year. ”

That's what a professional product manager says.

Wen Xiaoguang didn't understand what he heard, but he understood one thing, "Zhang Xiaolong doesn't have a product that really proves himself as a top product manager, and he has also made failed attempts. ”

"It's normal to fail, I'm not trying to belittle him, you can also bet on him to become a game product manager in the future, I'm just telling some objective facts to help you get a more complete picture of this person. ”

"Thank you. ”

It's probably because WeChat was too successful later.

So later people always mythologize it. But if he really is God, why not choose to succeed earlier.

So the truth is that Zhang Xiaolong himself is not the kind of genius who was born out of nowhere, he slowly transformed from a programmer and an ordinary Internet product manager.

The hard work and effort behind this is something we don't know.

Maybe without a little suffering and hard work, he wouldn't be able to achieve himself.

Even in the early days of WeChat, it was not taken seriously internally and was excluded, and few people heard of it.

We not only myth Zhang Xiaolong, but also myth Tencent, think that Tenxun's products can easily be successful, and the Internet people have also created a few industries, and they all go to buy other people's stocks.

In fact, there are constant challenges, and the Cardinal Master is on his way.

A few hours later, the plane landed in Guangzhou.

Wen Xiaoguang and Boss Lei went out of the airport together, there was no spotlight, no one paid attention, just like an ordinary trip.

Although Mr. Lei's evaluation of him was much lower than the ones he saw in the media later, it actually gave Wen Xiaoguang more confidence and let him know that this was a person who had not achieved so much success at least.

Guangzhou is hotter in summer, but probably Lei Jun is in a hurry, and Wen Xiaoguang has no intention of playing even if he comes for the first time, so after the weather is hot and leaves the airport, he will go directly to the agreed place to meet him.

Wen Xiaoguang's statement in the Internet industry is not obvious, but Mr. Lei is different, he is really famous, and it is no problem for such a person to ask the general manager of the QQ mailbox team.

Of course, Zhang Xiaolong still knows Wen Xiaoguang, he is an industry person, mixed on the Internet all the year round, using all kinds of products, Wen Xiaoguang's experience is about to be written by those advertorial authors, so just a glance can confirm that this is Wen Xiaoguang.

Of course, there are accidents, how could such a person find him in person, and the most important thing is that he also moved Lei Jun.

"First time we met, hello Mr. Zhang, I'm Wen Xiaoguang. ”