On the last day before New Year's Day, Janen Coum, the founder of Wotsp, announced that he was leaving the team and officially applied for resignation from the company, and Chairman Hero-Chen gave approval on the same day.

At the same time, he also issued a statement through Twitter: "Thank you Janen Kom for her outstanding contribution to the company, and thank him for his genius mind and creativity to bring this excellent product to everyone." ”

"I'm grateful for all you have done to connect the world and all the things you've taught us, including encryption and the ability to take power from a centralized authority and put it back in people's hands. These ideas will always be at the heart of Wozep. ”

"In the future, Wocipu will continue to follow the three rules set at the beginning of the company: no advertising, no invasion of privacy, and all efforts to provide a reliable user experience. The original 'focus, simplicity and efficiency' philosophy that helped Wozp succeed will stay with the company for the rest of its life. We will miss working closely with you. ”

Kohm also tweeted on his own personal Twitter, "It's been a wonderful experience to work with these wonderful people. But now it's time for me to move on. I've had the privilege of working with such an unbeatable team and have seen the legend of an account being turned into an app and used by so many people around the world. ”

"Even though I'm leaving, people are using hatsApp in more ways than I could have ever imagined. The team will be stronger than ever with Hero-Chan and will continue to do things that will shock the world. It's time for me to find time to do things I enjoy, things that have nothing to do with technology, like collecting rare air-cooled Porsches, studying my cars, and playing ultimate frisbee. I'm also a big fan of hatsApp – just from an outsider's perspective. Thank you to everyone who has fought alongside me!"

He sold his shares to Facebook.

As for the last destination, it is likely to go to Facebook.

Chen Ergou also appointed Brian Ekton, one of the founders, as the company's new CEO. As Comm's early startup partner and investor, Brian Ekton, his retention has played a significant role in maintaining the company's stability.

Compared to Comm's paranoia, Ekton is an optimist.

In the past, as the CEO, Cohm was more interested in products, while Ekton was the one who focused on bills and taxes. In fact, he is the final implementer of all decisions, "I am only responsible for making sure that everything is in order." ”

Chen Ergou has a transcendent vision, and his decision-making information confidence will not be worse than that of others, and he will not make mistakes in at least ten years, not to mention that he is assisted by dogs. Therefore, it is more beneficial for him to retain such an executor as CEO.

The 42-year-old has a delicate, ruddy face, a stark contrast to the bearded, swarthy Cohm. "Our founders are all in their thirties. We focus on the sustainability and revenue of the company, rather than growing it as quickly as possible. We've kept a low profile, we've made mobile our top priority, and we've been global from the start. ”

Hatsapp also released some data to eliminate the social impact of the main founder's departure.

Two years after its launch, Hatsapp is sending more than 38 billion messages a day and has 450 million monthly active users. More than 500 million registered users. ”

Compared with Chen Ergou before he became the owner, the number of registered users of the company has not exceeded 50 million, it can be said that Chen Ergou's entry into the year has not only brought the help of funds, but also the effect of public opinion and the correct direction of progress, so that many decisions of the company have taken many detours.

This explosive performance growth is the most ironclad proof.

It's his credit.

This time, the initiative to announce the "number of active users" instead of the number of registered users is also Chen Ergou's attention. This is a better representation of the main difference between hatsApp and its competitors.

As he puts it: "Comparing registered users to active users is like comparing a Ferrari 250 GTO to a skateboard." "It's worth mentioning that most of them pay hatsApp £1, €1 or $1 a year.

However, this fee-based profit program will be cancelled from New Year's Day.

At the same time as the data was announced, Hatsapp also officially announced that Hatsapp will be free after New Year's Day.

This series of operations has also made the once ignorant Hengdian grain supervisor more and more of an IT elite model.

This series of changes can't help but make the outside world speculate about the future direction of hatsapp. Without the profit of fees, it is inevitable that more commercial experiments will be made in the future, and users are mainly worried about whether it will affect the user experience.

However, this series of reports did not hit this emerging company, but made Wocipu more concerned. "So many people are using it, but I don't know, isn't that too outdated. "As a result of the following trend, the number of downloaders around the world has surged, and it has quickly seized a large market share.

It's a blessing in disguise.

FB has taken control of 18% of the company's shares and officially entered the company's board of directors as the second largest shareholder. At the same time, FB once again sent a request to Chen Ergou to buy 75% of his shares. The latest offer is already as high as $8.5 billion, and he is willing to provide him with an additional $3 billion in restricted shares.

According to this offer, the market value of Hatsapp has climbed again, and the latest valuation has exceeded $15 billion.

Hatsapp has undoubtedly become the most popular and profitable mobile app in the world.

was also inquired about, as well as the INS in his hand, which is currently quoted at $500 million.

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The news was frantically reported in the American financial circles, and it was very timely to send it back to China, and the friends were shocked.

This...... The net worth of their "dog" has not shrunk, but has nearly doubled? ! A group of troublemakers have @Principal Wang, which makes him tired of it.

What is the situation, one step closer to being the richest man? At this time, even some veteran entrepreneurs cannot understand, "The Internet market in the United States is really crazy!"

Little do they know that a more crazy time is yet to come. But this offer was still rejected by Chen Ergou, he could accept FB to enter the company's board of directors, but he didn't want to lose this territory.

It's the best time to occupy it now, and it's hard to get in later.

Now that you have decided to fully intervene, you naturally don't want to lose control again. But now that the situation is bound to transfer part of the equity out, he decided to open a financing channel.

Now the company's magnitude is no longer an angel period, with mature products, the company's normal operation has a complete and detailed business and profit model, and has a certain status and user reputation in the industry.

Although the company still didn't make any money, it was in a state of loss because it was expanding too fast, and it was in urgent need of burning money.

Then it's time to launch a Series A funding.

For a time, the capital industry suddenly became popular, and Japan's SoftBank, FB...... Even the great penguins of the Celestial Empire want to come and get a piece of the pie.

The former rival Sequoia Capital also came again.

Thinking that at the beginning, they were the closest people to hatsapp, but they were killed by Chen Ergou halfway, and they hesitated because of millions of dollars in funds, which led to the failure of their angel investment, and now I don't know how much I regret it. Once again, they didn't want to miss a second time.

And Chen Ergou's partner who took the initiative to contact was actually more anxious than him, sitting on a huge user traffic, and the importance of Amazon, which operates the shopping website, is self-evident. What's more, according to the explosive user growth rate of hatsapp today, it will exceed one billion in a few years.

It's just that financing is obviously not a short-term success, so let's start with New Year's Eve.

New Year's Day, Times Square, New York.

An unprecedentedly lively New Year's Eve concert is about to be held here.

As the first Chinese to appear on this stage, Chen Ergou has attracted the attention of the whole network.

The track he will sing has long been confirmed, which is the English famous song "Hall of Fame", which was selected as the most popular song in the second half of the year by YouTube, and it has only fewer hits on YouTube than Justin Bieber's "baby".

Chen Ergou, who hasn't updated Weibo for a long time, also updated a message in a timely manner, "Live broadcast notice: New York Times Square New Year's Eve concert live broadcast, do you want to watch? Let you see how popular I am in the United States, and if you try to hack me again, don't cherish me well!/Dog head"

The sailors blew up in an instant.

"Dog, you've changed. ”