Zhang Dalong's experience is actually quite interesting.

Born in 1969 in an unknown city in Nanhu Province, he was admitted to Huazhong University at the age of 18 and studied until he graduated from graduate school.

During his time at school, he had a dull and unkempt personality, going out in slippers during the day, and staying on the alcohol stove with his roommates at night, cooking instant noodles and playing "tractors".

In his spare time, Zhang Dalong likes to go to the pond outside the dormitory to fish for shrimp, watch videos, and play football.

In short, in the eyes of teachers and classmates, Zhang Dalong, like the people around him, is far from being a legend.

The only thing that is impressive is that he is talented and quick to learn anything.

The classmate recalled that no matter what Zhang Dalong played, as long as he practiced a little, he could reach the master level.

He likes Go, billiards, bowling and computer games, and most of the time the people who play billiards with him can only hold the club, sit on the sidelines, and wait for him to make mistakes.

When he was a graduate student, Zhang Falong was assigned to a microwave major, but he preferred software development, and he was depressed for a while.

A classmate said to him: What do you don't like, do what you like. At his instigation, Zhang Dalong focused all his energy on the C language, which had just had the first complete standard at that time.

In the autumn of 1994, 25-year-old Zhang Dalong graduated from graduate school, but because he did not like the dull and rigid atmosphere, he gave up the opportunity to work in the national telecommunications agency.

At that time, the domestic Internet industry was just starting, and Zhang Xiaolong went to Wuyang with high morale to join the Internet tide.

He has worked for two companies and is responsible for program development. Although he did a good job, he didn't want to be a small cog in a large company, and he was tired of living a routine life, so he began to enter a new stage of his life.

Zhang Dalong developed an email app that received a very good response, but because it was free, he didn't make any money.

When it was the most difficult, Zhang Dalong even wanted to give the software to a friend to manage and go to the United States to work by himself.

Because across the ocean, developers of free software can support themselves with advertising and sponsorship.

After struggling like this for several years, Zhang Dalong's fate suddenly reversed.

In April 2001, Boda announced that it would acquire his products for 12 million yuan and appointed him as its chief technology officer.

In 2005, after the listing, Penguin acquired Boda, and he stepped into Penguin as the "dowry" of his works.

In the two years of Penguin, Zhang Dalong was still responsible for the development of the mailbox, but the effect was not satisfactory. It wasn't until 2008 that Penguin Mailbox ushered in a big reversal and became Penguin's best-performing product of the year.

And now, it is only the beginning of 2007, which is another low stage in Zhang Dalong's life.

This is the best time for Jiang Hui to dig the foot of the wall.

"In my opinion, in another three years at most, or even faster, the mobile phone market will be dominated by smart phones", Jiang Hui saw that Zhang Dalong did not express his views easily, so he began to take the initiative to talk about his thoughts.

"Don't look at the fact that Nokia now occupies forty percent of the market share, and the ordinary mountain is across the mobile phone industry. But if they can't keep up with smartphones, the legendary company may have the most legendary moment of its life: bankruptcy or acquisition," Jiang Hui continues to spur Mr. Zhang.

"I also believe that smartphones will replace feature phones sooner or later, but the time should not be so fast", Zhang Dalong hesitated and said: "After all, 99.9% of the products on the market are feature phones."

Zhang Dalong's idea is actually quite correct, but he didn't expect the trend of smartphones to be so violent.

There is a feeling that suddenly like a spring breeze comes overnight, and thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloom!

"The technology of smart phones has matured, but it is just a finger to pierce this piece of paper, and now the glorious mobile phone has made this finger, and the speed of development in the future is by no means imaginable by ordinary people."

"Although I still have some doubts about this, Mr. Jiang has always had the title of golden finger in the Internet industry of the Celestial Empire, and I believe in Mr. Jiang's judgment."

"Since you believe that the era of smartphones will come soon, then we can communicate well," Jiang Hui said, "There are already some apps on Gphone, which are very popular with users."

"Mr. Jiang, look", Zhang Dalong smiled and took out his mobile phone from his pocket and said, "I use Gphone."

"Haha~ That's better communication", Jiang Hui laughed and said: "I think the current smartphone still lacks a special instant messenger."

"Isn't there already a penguin newsletter up there?".

"Penguin Communication is a product developed based on the Internet PC, and smartphones need their own special products."

In fact, in the previous life, most people in Penguin also thought that smartphones with Penguin communication were enough at first.

But in October 2010, an app called Kiki gained 1 million users within 15 days of its launch.

This quickly caught Zhang's attention, and while researching Kiki, he discovered that this new mobile instant messaging software could pose a lethal threat to Penguin Communications.

So, he wrote an email to Boss Ma overnight, suggesting that Penguin do this business.

Boss Ma didn't sleep either, and quickly replied to him with an email: I'll do it right away.

"The whole process started with an hour or two, and suddenly I got the wrong nerve, wrote this email, and it began," Zhang Xiaolong described the process in his later memories.

This email became the starting point for the microchat.

From this incident, it can be seen that the communication tools developed specifically for smartphones are necessary and marketable.

"Korn Ferry Group is going to make instant messaging tools?", Zhang Dalong asked: "Now Penguin and Microsoft MSN have basically carved up this part of the market, which is very difficult."

"Guanghui Group has never been afraid of difficulties, as long as this project is necessary to have a future, we will definitely and will be able to do it well", Jiang Hui said sonorously: "This is also the reason why I came to you today."

After a big circle, Jiang Hui's fox tail was finally revealed.

Zhang Dalong did not immediately answer Jiang Hui's words, but fell into deep thought.

In fact, Jiang Hui, as the general manager of Guanghui Group, took the initiative to invite himself to dinner, and Zhang Dalong had already guessed the theme of this dinner.

However, if Jiang Hui didn't take the initiative to mention this kind of thing, he would definitely be embarrassed to mention it, even if he had an idea in his heart.

Guanghui Group was born, and websites such as Intranet, Meituan, and Tudou were popular all over the world, attracting the attention of countless people.

If there is a good opportunity, a good position, in the entire Celestial Empire, few program apes refuse Jiang Hui's invitation. Even if Zhang Dalong rarely writes code by himself, he has become a senior program ape who manages the program ape.

(End of chapter)