Chapter 814: The Father of WeChat

On February 12, 2008, the sixth day of the first lunar month, Shan Rao left.

After coming to Yanjing for four years, she had a lot of friends and colleagues, but when she left, she didn't tell anyone, and she left alone, only Li Bing saw her off.

After receiving a call from Li Bing to report that Shan Rao Shun had boarded the plane, Bian Xuedao sat quietly on the sofa at Zhonghai Triumph's house for more than an hour.

After more than an hour, he got up and looked at all the rooms one by one, and finally stood in the middle of the living room, staring at the photos of Shan Rao on the wall in a daze, and after a while, put on his coat, locked the door and left.

The more than an hour that has just passed is more than an hour that really belongs to Shan Rao, and no one thought about it while learning the Tao, completely recalling the bits and pieces when he was with Shan Rao in the past few years.

He will not come here again until Shan Rao returns to China.

As Bian Xuedao said when answering questions from his younger brothers and sisters at the celebration of Eastern Mori University, the shorter the time for people to let love dominate their lives, the greater the value of their lives.

For the current Bian Xuedao, he has too many things to do, and he doesn't have much time to reminisce about love.

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The eighth day of the first lunar month, February 14, Valentine's Day in the West.

Bian Xuedao sat in the office of the Kaichen World Trade Center of Youdao Yanjing Branch for a day, reading the text, listening to his subordinates come in to report on their work, and meeting Cheng Hao, the founder and CEO of Kaixin.com.

At 5 o'clock in the evening, after finishing the day's work, I sat in the boss's chair, looked at the mobile phone on the desk, and a wry smile appeared on the corner of my mouth.

Throughout the day, he didn't receive a single call or text message that he was expecting.

On Valentine's Day, he was "forgotten" by four women scattered around the world.

Well, people always need to have fun for themselves.

Calling Li Yu, Wu Sijie and Huo Dongfeng, the four of them drove to the restaurant recommended by Huo Dongfeng.

In the restaurant, the four of them chatted endlessly.

After reading the report for a day, Bian Xuedao took the time to ask Wu Sijie: "Old Wu, in your opinion, that value can authoritatively reflect the value of a company?"

Wu Sijie put down his chopsticks and said: "No value has the function of comprehensively and absolutely measuring the value of a company. Sales revenue cannot, price-earnings ratio cannot, market value cannot, per capita revenue and per capita profit can not. ”

Then, Wu Sijie changed his words: "But under the same model, shareholders must still prefer companies with higher per capita revenue and per capita profits." Because the total income per capita and the profit per capita can reflect the efficiency, management level and business model of a company in a certain way. If we have a more comprehensive number, and even make a chart of the total revenue/profit per capita of each company over a five-year period, we can see whether a company and team have maintained their initial efficiency and wolf nature. ”

Bian Xuedao asked: "In this case, why can the capital market tolerate and even like some manpower-intensive Internet companies?"

Wu Sijie said: "I don't know which manpower-intensive Internet company you are talking about, but I can say with certainty that if it can be favored by the capital market, the company must have its strengths, such as good business prospects, or high market share." However, it should be noted that if the company is in a fully competitive market, and it does not have an absolute advantage in market share and a high barrier to entry, it means that the company's efficiency and value are very low. Once its market share is eaten by others, it will immediately be underestimated by the capital market. ”

Because Bian Xuedao had already told Li Yu in private, let Li Yu sit in charge of the upcoming Ministry of Supervision, Li Yu knew that he had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders.

During the period around the Spring Festival, Li Yu bought a lot of management books and made up some management knowledge at home.

However, "what is on paper is shallow in the end", and taking the opportunity of eating, he asked Wu Sijie, the "master" who came back from Bian Xuedao, for advice: "Mr. Wu, is the disease of a large company not cured?"

Wu Sijie can mix to this day, his IQ and EQ are higher than ordinary people, he knows very well in his heart that if the "Ministry of Supervision" is the ancient Jinyiwei, this young Li Yu is the head of Jinyiwei, and he is definitely the henchman of Bian Xuedao.

As long as you work in Youdao Group for one day, don't underestimate this Li Yu, who seems to have ordinary ability.

Wu Sijie smiled and explained to Li Yu: "What are the characteristics of a large company? ”

As he spoke, his fingers tapped twice on the dining table, and Wu Sijie continued: "Take Youdao as an example, the company has two super platforms with hundreds of millions of users, Security Guard and Weibo, which can fight for performance in the market, but it can also have performance with company resources." In this way, people with weak abilities will have internal relationships, access to resources, protection, and performance. The other kind of people are not happy. The bigger the company, the more room there is to do this. ”

Li Yu asked, "So what?"

Wu Sijie said: "The solution is that the company's resources can be used, but it must be monetized according to the market price, and the brothers should settle the accounts." The cost performance of someone's resources is only half of the market and it is getting lower and lower, so don't use it. Maybe everyone makes about the same amount of money, but when you divide it by the cost, you know who doesn't wear leggings. The bigger the company, the more moths there are, and the greater the ability to trap dirt and dirt. ”

Li Yu is no longer the original Wuxia Amun, he then asked: "Non-core business can do this, but the company's core business should still be tilted, right?"

Wu Sijie nodded and said: "The core business, first independent incubation, and then full support." For non-core business, the result of monetization is to completely open up, and opening up is to marketize internal resources, regardless of relatives and relatives, and the highest price will be obtained, so that the solvent of the market can dissolve the internal hard knots. ”

Capturing the interesting part of Wu Sijie's words, Li Yu asked: "The core business is independently incubated? What does this mean?"

"The establishment of special zones gives greater autonomy, weakens bureaucracy and egalitarianism, allows in-house entrepreneurship, and retains people who are high-spirited, do not want to be tied down, and have the guts," Wu said. The cost of the SEZ is not high, but if the attempt is successful, the benefits are obvious. ”

Listening to Li Yu and Wu Sijie's Q&A, a storm blew in Bian Xuedao's mind.

Independent incubation ......

Special Zone ...... outside the group

Intrapreneurship ......

Sitting at the dining table, while learning to think of Zhang Xiaolong, the "father of WeChat" in his previous life.

In my memory, in 2005, TX acquired Foxmail software, and Zhang Xiaolong joined TX as the general manager of Yangcheng R&D Department, fully responsible for and leading the QQ mailbox team.

In 2010, TX WeChat was officially established, and Zhang Xiaolong was in charge.

In 2011, Zhang Xiaolong was appointed as the senior vice president of TX, responsible for the management of TX's Yangcheng R&D department, and participated in the management and review of the company's major innovation projects.

In August 2012, TX WeChat was launched4. Version 2. Less than two years after its release, WeChat has accumulated 200 million users.

Bian Xuedao clearly remembers that in a report in his previous life, it was said that Zhang Xiaolong's Yangcheng R&D Department was a relatively independent special zone, not in Shenzhen, not in Yanjing, far away from the boss, and not part of any Business-Unit.

Some people say that WeChat was a chess piece that Ma Hualong put a few years ago, and it turned out to be an unexpected joy.

Li Yu, Wu Sijie, and Huo Dongfeng discussed with great interest whether the Internet is to make money by searching or by games, and whether it is to make money by selling feelings or by selling information to make money.

At this time, Bian Xuedao's thoughts had drifted far, far away.

He suddenly realized that there was no need to recruit troops as originally planned, and opened a WeChat project department in Zhiwei Technology.

The smartest and most labor-saving way is to go to Yangcheng to dig up Zhang Xiaolong.

Acquire Zhang Xiaolong, his team and even the entire Yangcheng R&D department, and then fully decentralize power according to the trajectory of his previous life, so that Zhang Xiaolong can continue to independently incubate WeChat in Yangcheng.

In Bian Xuedao, WeChat settled in Zhiwei, which is definitely better than the business pattern of the previous life.

In the previous life, as similar communication tool products of the same company, WeChat and QQ squeezed each other in the user's mobile phone.

In this world, if WeChat becomes a product of Zhiwei, there is no need to redesign the business logic relationship between WeChat products and other products of Zhiwei, and there will be no internal disagreements that will lead to the slow progress of WeChat's commercialization.

WeChat and Mobile Security Guard can complement each other perfectly and become the "center" of the company's development on the mobile Internet side, and work together to capture the market.

That's it......

Bian Xuedao decided to send someone to Yangcheng to contact Zhang Xiaolong first, and if the negotiation was completed, he would go to Yangcheng to meet the "father of WeChat" in person.