Chen Fan got the beta version installation package of WeChat at WES, and went back to the office of the umbrella company to install it on his office computer. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Liu Wenhuan happened to be looking for him, saw the WeChat program on his computer, and asked, "The beta version was made so soon?" ”

Chen Fan said: "Zhang Xiaorong and his team all slept in the company, working day and night, I was afraid that he couldn't stand it, so I told him not to work too hard." ”

Liu Wenhuan asked Chen Fan: "ICQ has been released to 8 figures, and there are more than 10 million users worldwide, are you so confident to compete with them?" ”

Chen Fan smiled: "ICQ is very simple, at least in China, I don't regard it as a competitor at all." ”

Chen Fan logged in to WeChat and saw that Zhang Xiaorong and they were all still online.

He pointed to the friend list and said to Liu Wenhuan: "You see I added their friends over there, and I have their contacts when I log in here." ”

"ICQ, on the other hand, puts the contact list and user information locally, and if you change the computer or even just reinstall it, you have to apply for a new account."

Chen Fan smiled: "This is their own death." ”

"Why does WES use a digital account, can't I log in directly with a deep email account?" Liu Wenhuan asked Chen Fan, "I think the digital account has a disadvantage, it's good that the number is short now, and the number will be sent to 8 digits in the future, and the user may not be able to remember it at all." ”

Liu Wenhuan came to Chen Fan because of this matter.

Deepin has opened an email address, which supports logging in to Deepin with an email account and entering modules such as email, BBS, and online chat.

Chen Fan informed Deepin and asked Deepin to support WeChat ID to directly log in to Deepin and bind Deepin account - this is mainly based on WeChat ID, and Deepin account has become a dispensable account.

Liu Wenhuan came to Chen Fan for this, and he couldn't figure out why he didn't use a deepin account as the main account.

Chen Fan asked, "Do you remember your mobile phone number?" ”

Liu Wenhuan nodded.

Chen Fan said: "You see, as long as this string of numbers is important enough to you, you can easily remember it. ”

Is it easy to remember a string of 8, 9 or even more than 10 digits?

Of course it's not easy!

But this string of numbers becomes an important communication account for users, and users will be forced to remember it!

This is the advantage of digital accounts.

Are digital accounts a disadvantage?

Just kidding, you have no idea how those non-QQ mailboxes were killed!

The current mailbox capacity is very small, and after the mailbox war began, each company grabbed users from each other.

How to grab users?

Your mailbox can only store 5m mail, I can store 20m, your house is 100m, his house is 500m, and the next one can store 1g; If you spend a wallet month, I will use it for free.

Who do users choose?

After the user chooses, he will face the problem of registration, of course, which is convenient to remember which one, which is convenient to remember? It is impossible to have the same name of the English alphabet, followed by a butt of numbers? Then it's better to use numbers directly!

Users are quickly confused by their own accounts, because there are too many duplicate names, many people have different accounts on different websites, and there are too many accounts to remember, which is annoying.

At this time, the penguin mailbox does not have to do anything, and the email community is unified by lying on the ground......

Of course, Zhang Xiaorong's joining Penguin greatly improved the user experience of Penguin Mailbox is also an important reason, but the power of digital accounts is also undoubted.

Moreover, digital accounts also have their own exclusion function, and ordinary people are not willing to remember too many numbers.

It's hard to remember a long list of random numbers, and it's a big burden to remember more!

What most people are willing to remember is their mobile phone number and the mobile phone number of important contacts, car license plates, and important ID numbers, in addition to which are the most commonly used social accounts.

In Chen Fanmeng's dream, digital accounts have almost become exclusive to penguins in the Internet world, and almost no users are willing to remember the use of digital accounts by other companies.

Chen Fan asked Liu Wenhuan: "Is the traffic of the deepin website accounted for a large proportion of logged-in users?" “

Liu Wenhuan shook his head: "The proportion is very small, and most of them are tourists. ”

Chen Fan said with a smile: "Therefore, the value of the portal is in the traffic, and the stickiness of registered users is small, so there is not much value." Social apps are sticky, and the value of the number of registered users far exceeds that of portals. ”

Liu Wenhuan smiled: "Okay, you're always right, I even doubt that you have the ability to predict." ”

Chen Fan looked at him innocently: I am reborn, and you know this?

Liu Wenhuan continued: "It seems that you are indeed very optimistic about this wes! Tell me when wes will accept financing, and I will also enter some shares. ”

Chen Fan replied: "Not yet now, in the future, internal financing will be prioritized, and if the market competition is successful, let the umbrella buy it." ”

Liu Wenhuan said: "Will you still fail with you and Zhang Xiaorong?" ”

Chen Fan thought to himself, I can indeed predict the future, so I know that WES's biggest competitor is also going to break out of the shell......

As the ancient Chinese saying goes, we can learn from history to know the rise and fall.

Many people often do a lot of things and end up without the so-called success, and those who succeed do the right thing at the right time, as for whether they know what is the right thing at the time, I'm afraid it's not true, but if they don't do it, they will never succeed. In the midst of countless failures, success has long been implied.

It's just that the authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear. The greatest advantage of the reborn is actually that they have changed "learning from history" to "learning from the future".

And what he did to "learn from the future" is changing the future.

So now when I ask if WeChat will be successful, Chen Fan is not sure.

He put the treasure on Zhang Xiaorong because Zhang Xiaorong was the Chinese programmer he admired the most before his rebirth, and the general opinion in the IT world at that time was that Zhang Xiaorong's awesomeness had nothing to do with Tencent's strength.

Chen Fan replied to Liu Wenhuan: "I don't know if I can succeed, the market is always unpredictable......"

He opened the code tree function to Liu Wenhuan: "This is what wes is using, I plan to promote it to all program groups under the umbrella, what do you think?" ”

Liu Wenhuan carefully looked at the various functions of the code tree and thought it was good: "I think it's a good idea, you can try it." ”

The average age of the employees of the umbrella companies is only in their twenties, and they are more receptive to new things.

In Chen Fan's impression, Liu Wenhuan's team was mainly engaged in the development of the Chinese version of the open source software linux, and was very receptive to the idea of openness such as code trees.

In recent years, the talent gap in the computer industry is really big, in this era when the national average monthly salary is only a few hundred yuan, it is normal for better college computer graduates to get a salary of several thousand yuan.

On January 15, 1999, the umbrella company opened the code tree function and donated 10 million yuan to Central South University of Technology to strengthen the School of Information Engineering, Software School, Materials Science and Mechatronic Engineering of Central South University of Technology - the predecessor of Central South University of Technology was a school of metallurgy, and materials and electromechanical are its traditional strengths.

At the same time, the umbrella company decided to invest 100 million yuan to establish a small umbrella computer higher vocational college -- which is often referred to as a private higher vocational college.