Chapter 45: Kim Fan-so's Troubles
The moon is faintly lit, the sky and the earth are dim, and there is a faint spread of desolation and loneliness, as if interpreting its unique and vague sadness. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The leaves fall to know the autumn, inadvertently, it came like this, as for when it came, I really don't know, maybe it's the rain, maybe it's the gust of wind, maybe it's the fallen leaves, I want to say it's still off, but it's cool and autumn......
The night breeze is light, bringing bursts of coolness, the air seems to carry a faint fragrance of osmanthus flowers, if there is no entanglement wind dance, in such a refreshing and pleasant autumn night, Jiang Minjing, who is hired to stand up, is a little impatient.
Hum! This damn bastard, how many people are crying and shouting to invite Miss Ben to dinner, he is good, he ignores it, he is either busy or has no time, and he finally made an appointment, but he made people wait so long.
Do you need to wait?
In fact, there is no need, Jiang Minjing has his own car, followed by a taxi, but Han Muxuan needs to delay time, there must be a process in the middle, send a car to prove sincerity, such a lofty reason, Jiang Minjing has no room to refuse.
Li Haili is tepid, unlike Bai Fumei next to her, she was born in an ordinary family, and her personality is more gentle, not to mention that she knows that she can't be the protagonist at night, and she is barely a plus, so she is not arrogant or impatient, she is very leisurely.
For the two women in front of him, Zhang Minyu has no other senses, the only feeling is that he is a little amazing, especially the tall woman, although the sunglasses block most of the face, but the exposed skin is fair and dazzling, faintly exuding a halo at night, coupled with a beautiful and delicate aura, he is a little dizzy and dare not look directly.
Zhang Minyu lowered his head and successfully sent Jiang Minjing and the two to the car, intimidated by a somewhat solemn atmosphere, he didn't dare to speak, but because of the task, he still had to speak hard, "I'm sorry, my stomach is a little uncomfortable, please wait a while, I'm sorry." Respectfully bent down to apologize, the embarrassed Zhang Minyu didn't even dare to raise his head, closed the car door neatly, and walked away at a flying speed.
The two people in the car looked at each other and were speechless, even the indifferent Li Haili was no exception, this situation was really speechless.
At the same time, Han Muxuan, the main owner who invited him to dinner, was already in an old office building in Tongque District.
Messy documents and materials are placed everywhere, stacks of office equipment, an unknown number of desks and computers, and many employees who are immersed in programming, making the cramped space crowded, and it seems that there is no gap in the air circulation.
It is hard to imagine that such a bad office environment can give birth to a popular communication software throughout South Korea, and even become the king of the Korean instant chat software territory, it is kakaotalk, the future with free messaging services to replace mobile phone text messages, in order to change the way Koreans communicate with a new type of software.
Han Muxuan stood quietly and observed silently, not affected by the noisy and noisy environment, he looked at it while secretly flipping through the memories of kakaotalk in his mind, and not long after, a middle-aged man with an ordinary appearance and medium stature walked over.
"Mu Xuan, I'm sorry, I was waiting for you at the door, but something went wrong just now, I went to deal with it, I didn't have to wait long."
Han Muxuan smiled faintly, indicating that it was okay, and then the middle-aged man guided him to the office inside.
This inconspicuous middle-aged man is Jin Fanxiu, who met Han Muxuan in a bar, and Jin Fanxiu, who asked him to come over to inquire about something.
Forty-three-year-old Jin Fanxiu is not good-looking and has a quiet personality, how tranquil is it? The answer is simple, you only need to know that he once saw a psychiatrist because he couldn't be angry, such a careless man, who single-handedly built Kakaotalk and became the most successful Internet entrepreneur of all time in South Korea.
Kakaotalk is not the first company he created from scratch, the first company he founded, Hangame was just an Internet café at first, and then slowly developed into an online game developer, the key is that Hangame merged with another search company to form Korea's No. 1 portal/search engine website - Naver.
For Jin Fanxiu, Han Muxuan can only admire, South Korea is a rigid society where the son inherits his father's business, such as Jin Fanxiu, who was born poor and has difficult conditions, and there are not many successful stories of rising from the grassroots to start a business.
Unfortunately, in 2005, Naver has grown into a huge force in South Korea, so Kim Fan-so moved to Silicon Valley in the United States to try to introduce the company's game business to the American market. He worked hard for two years, but the result was that he left Naver completely.
It was the window period of these two years away from the center of power that made him kicked out by his partner Li Haizhen, and after dropping a fig leaf that he could only part ways with a disagreement, a hard-working founder was completely isolated, and the ending of the hero's hatred was embarrassing.
Since they got acquainted that day, the two have kept in touch, and occasionally take time to get together, so the two who are familiar with each other don't need to greet each other at all, and after sitting down, Han Muxuan asked bluntly, "Brother, what are you looking for me, are you encountering any difficulties?" ”
Jin Fanxiu hesitated a little, seemed to be a little embarrassed to speak, and after a long silence, he slowly explained the matter.
In June 2009, WhatsApp launched its own free texting service, which uses a mobile phone's data connection instead of a telecom carrier's dedicated SMS server to send messages, and it quickly gained its own fans in South Korea. The reason why it was so fast was simple was that mobile users in South Korea at the time, like mobile counterparts in many countries, had to pay for sending and receiving text messages.
Inspired by whatsapp and inspired by Han Muxuan, the two got married because of their mobile phones, and Han Muxuan would deliberately guide them when they discussed, so Jin Fanxiu started to develop the same software at the end of 2009, that is, at the end of last year, and finally successfully released Kakaotalk in January this year, because of the unexpected factor of Han Muxuan, it was two months earlier than the original release time.
Kakaotalk immediately topped the Korean app store charts upon its release, with the number of users surpassing 1 million in June. After another four weeks, Kakaotalk reached 2 million users, and by September of this year, that number was already 5 million. As of today, the number of users has exceeded 6 million, and according to this momentum, it is believed that it will not be long before the number of users exceeds 10 million.
10 million is an extremely critical node, when the number of users really exceeds 10 million, the network effect will start to play a role, forming a kidnapping linkage effect, you don't need to use it at that time, because your friends are using it.
At that point, Kakaotalk's scale will be an insurmountable barrier, even for domestic rivals such as NaverTalk and a Samsung app that comes pre-installed on Galaxy phones.
Shouldn't we rejoice in such a great situation? Why bother?
The answer is very simple, there is an urgent shortage of materials, a shortage of people, a lack of materials, and a lack of everything, and the real root cause is a lack of investment, that is, money.