What's wrong with me being a rich man?

Chapter 229 Vigor
The technical direction of WeChat development was still compromised.

According to technical director Ge Zhijie, this is a compromise, but for the new WeChat, the system architecture design that combines layering and distribution is still quite difficult and a considerable challenge.

But according to Yu Xing's understanding, this direction with a benchmark is much simpler than the frontier exploration. What needs to be done now is targeted recruitment, and WeChat still has some time. If we make the worst-case scenario plan, it can be postponed to the end of the year at the latest.

At that time, I'm afraid I'll have to fight with MiChat first.

February ended, the atmosphere of the Lunar New Year had completely faded, and Bai Xiaosheng was urged to get going because of the temporary job he had to do.

The technical level of Bai Xiaosheng Company is average, but the people doing recruitment business at Bai Xiaosheng are all veterans in the industry, and they can help WeChat find suitable talents quickly.

In the first week of March, Liu Jiankai of Today Capital made three consecutive trips because he was thinking about Bai Xiaosheng’s mid-year financing and was also curious about the new project that Mr. Yu was determined to incubate.

On the first trip, he intentionally or unintentionally went to take a look outside the fifth floor and found that the number of employees had reached nearly 30, while the last time he came, there were about 10 people.

The second time, he simply came in to observe and it seemed that there were several more people in just two days. At the same time, the discussion was very lively.

Liu Jiankai was deeply impressed by this trip.

On one side, people who had just met for a few days were communicating enthusiastically, and on the other side, computers and other office supplies were being moved in one after another. Because the space became relatively narrow, the former made way for the latter without a care, and then continued to chat enthusiastically.

This is probably a kind of vitality, right?

Liu Jiankai left a label in his heart.

However, when he visited the store for the third time, he suddenly discovered that the fifth floor had become empty, and even the name of the WeChat company on the wall had disappeared.

Liu Jiankai's first reaction was - finally gave up?!
You should give up. Now you know what kind of competition you are facing, right?
Oh, you really gave up. Even someone like you who talks so much about ideals has to give up...

The previous broadcast of "If You Are the One" led Yu Xing and other BOSS guests to extend their discussion on penguins into some public debate. "Life, death, penguin" is certainly a joke, but the dilemma faced by Internet entrepreneurs is really understandable.

Penguin has been involved in many fields in the past few years. Except for e-commerce and search, which have not achieved much, other businesses have made great achievements relying on huge traffic.

Judging from this performance, Baidu and Alibaba are indeed giants of the same level, and they even made Penguin return empty-handed.

Based on this background, Yu Xing was also given the title of "idealist".

What attracted even more attention was that 360's boss Zhou Hongyi also noticed the content and discussion mentioned by Yu Xing in the program, and took the opportunity to send a message to Penguin through the media and Weibo - "Penguin, you must have ideals."

However, his call did not receive a response from the party concerned, but instead he himself was subjected to considerable ridicule.

Someone commented on Zhou Hongyi's Weibo: "You let others talk about their ideals, why don't you talk about them yourself?"

The reason for such ridicule is that Zhou Hongyi himself has both good and bad reputations. He is known as the "father of rogue software". The 3721 he created left a very deep impression on the majority of Internet users, and he has since experienced many lawsuits.

If it seems fresh and clean for a young entrepreneur like Yu Xing to talk about his ideals, it seems absurd for the father of rogue software like Zhou Hongyi to talk about his ideals.

However, whether it was the program "If You Are the One" or competitors like Zhou Hongyi who were suddenly attacked during the Spring Festival holiday, Penguin did not respond at all, like an indifferent iceberg of difficult to estimate size.

Liu Jiankai hurried into Yu Xing's office, and the first thing he asked was, "Where's the WeChat on the fifth floor?"

"We went to the fourth floor." Yu Xing looked at Liu Jiankai strangely, and wondered, "The fifth floor is too small to accommodate the other half, and the fourth floor happened to be sublet, so the fifth floor will be used as Bai Xiaosheng's backup office. You don't think highly of us, so why do you care about this every day?"

Liu Jiankai suddenly realized that the rapidly increasing number of employees required a larger office space...

He breathed a sigh of relief for some reason and said honestly, "I'm not concerned, I just want to see what it will be like. Whether it's a complete or complete failure, it's quite rare to see a project that dares to charge at Penguin's core business."

Penguin is not without competition. It has to compete in every specific business it enters. However, those competitors are basically forced to fight back. People like Yu Xing who take the initiative to hit the stone with the egg...

I have to say it, even if the relationship is still okay, I really want to see the tragic situation of egg yolk flowing all over the floor.

At that time, maybe I can say, "I told you so."

"Is there even a glimmer of hope for success?" Yu Xing was not surprised by Liu Jiankai's choice of words, but asked with a smile.

"I'm not saying this, this... Never mind, Mr. Yu, I just can't figure it out. You are definitely a smart person." Liu Jiankai asked, unable to hide his confusion, "Do you think you have a chance? Bai Xiaosheng is not going to go public, can you be so arrogant?"

When Yu Xing heard this, he said, "Then why did you write 'Catching Goose' for me? You were so pessimistic about it, why did you write it like that?"

Liu Jiankai sighed: "From an investor's perspective, I would certainly like to see more Internet projects flourish, rather than constantly having to consider the movements of Penguin. However, my wishes are my wishes, and my wishes need to succumb to reality."

Yu Xing smiled slightly and said half a truth: "You don't have to think so much, I just think it's interesting."

"Interesting?" Liu Jiankai repeated the word, and then asked, "Is death also interesting?"

Yu Xing answered affirmatively: "Death is also interesting."

He took a sip of tea and said thoughtfully, "I was talking about this with Liu Wanying last night when we were having dinner. Since you've been here a few times, you've seen how fast WeChat is recruiting people. This is a move after the technical direction has been established."

When Yu Xing said this, he took out the report from the deputy technical director from a pile of documents, then stood up and walked a few steps to hand it to Liu Jiankai.

He waited until Liu Jiankai had browsed through it briefly before continuing, "In the past two years, I have run Guiai.com, Baixiaosheng.com, and Guiai Internet Cafe. They are actually businesses based on 'probability'. As long as the probability of getting married is low enough, there is a chance of success within a certain period of time."

"As for Bai Xiaosheng, its 'mechanism' is very important. The mechanism of the website generates a steady stream of content, and then embeds the appropriate recruitment business to improve revenue. For this mechanism, I need to bear the pressure, and you also need to bear the pressure."

"When WeChat first started, I experienced something completely different. We spent less than a week deciding on the technical direction and eventually settled on an architecture that required a larger-scale investment."

"Without it, WeChat's development will inevitably hit a bottleneck. With it, it may be able to bring relatively sufficient competitiveness."

"Similarly, the time I chose to incubate this project was the advent of the mobile wave."

"3G has made the Internet faster and smartphones more abundant. Without such technological progress, there would be no chance for disruption." "Technology, technology, I always feel a sentence echoing in my mind in the past half month, science and technology are the primary productive forces."

"Mr. Liu, you see, this is something I couldn't experience when I was working at Guiai.com and Baixiaosheng. You can't really understand what you learn from books. You have to practice it yourself. This is something very interesting that this project has brought to me personally."

Yu Xing talked so much, then sat back in his chair and said with a smile: "Let's not talk about what WeChat can bring to the industry. I think I have become interesting, and that's enough. As for failure, it's nothing more than failure."

Liu Jiankai really felt Mr. Yu’s sincerity to some extent.

"I am not afraid of failure. There will definitely be many profitable projects in the mobile era. I am still young, right?" Yu Xing added.

Liu Jiankai was silent for a while, and could only say: "Mr. Yu... it's good to be young."

This kind of young stubborn person is most suitable for talking about ideals...

However, the young stubborn ones don’t even talk about their ideals, and the old ones are indeed even more boring.

"Ge Zhijie is from Baidu, and Tan Ruize is from NetEase. These two engineers made me realize the importance of technology investment. Otherwise, WeChat might not be able to withstand the first wave of competition." Yu Xing talked about the project again, "I am actually a little painful about such investment, but this kind of pain is deepening my understanding. Fortunately, there are insightful people like Mr. Liu who are ready to make the move. Otherwise, I would be even more worried."

Liu Jiankai waved his hand: "Boss Yu, I won't act rashly."

Yu Xing nodded: "I understand. You have to see that WeChat really has some hope before you will be smart and take action."

Liu Jiankai fell silent again.

Although he had the reputation of winning the C round of financing in the middle of the year, didn’t he actually have the slightest desire for the success of WeChat?

A thousand difficulties are not as good as a "what if"...

Venture capital, venture capital, you have to take risks to invest!
Without risk, the opportunities to make money have already been fixed, or the money that can be made has become too little.

He shook his head and looked at Yu Xing: "Mr. Yu, you are really smart and stubborn."

"You guys who are in the investment business must have seen a lot of this," Yu Xing disagreed.

Liu Jiankai complimented: "But, Mr. Yu, you are still the most special one."

Yu Xing laughed and motioned Liu Jiankai to get up and go to the fourth floor to take a look. He didn't mind adding some persuasiveness to potential investors.

However, just as he brought Liu Jiankai to WeChat, a call came in from Alibaba. It was from Cheng Xiangwen, the deputy director of operations of Taobao Mall, who he had talked to many times before.

"Mr. Tan, please show Mr. Liu around and introduce him to his current job." Yu Xing waved over the deputy technical director and reminded him, "This is the second in command of Capital Today. You should pay attention."

Liu Jiankai immediately clarified: "Don't talk nonsense, I'm not a top player, don't let Mr. Tan take it seriously."

Yu Xing smiled and walked aside and had a conversation with Cheng Xiangwen.

There was nothing specific about work to talk about between the two, but they both felt good about their previous interactions. Yu Xing also gave Cheng Xiangwen some advice on mobile communication software, and since the WeChat company had already started, they had some common topics.

Cheng Xiangwen has been quite active in the Bai Xiaosheng forum recently, so he has seen some news about the incubation of internal projects at Bai Xiaosheng.

Others just watched it, but after he saw it, he felt that it was very likely that Mr. Yu had really started to take action.

When Cheng Xiangwen asked in detail, he found out that it was indeed the case, and he couldn't help but give some advice.

"I talked about it last time and felt there was some hope, so I put the plan forward, but there was no movement afterwards. I talked about it again this time, and the result... was completely rejected." Cheng Xiangwen said helplessly.

Yu Xing asked: "Do you think you can't do it? Do you think now is not a good time?"

"I also talked about the mobile transformation, but... Actually, I can't say that they are unreasonable. We have to do our main business well first. C2C is a priority, and Taobao Mall's B2C also has many tough battles to fight." Cheng Xiangwen said carefully, "Moreover, our own C2C and B2C are also facing the future of mobile transformation, which are higher priority."

Yu Xing did not refute it, but said: "It does make sense."

Cheng Xiangwen continued, “Then, I said, why not do a small project to test the waters? The response I got was, ‘It’s better not to do it than to test the waters.’ I had nothing to say.”

Yu Xing heard this and said with a smile: "You don't have nothing to say, you just think this is right. How can you just test the waters? If you only use the attitude of testing the waters, I guess there won't even be a splash in the market."

Cheng Xiangwen did not deny it. After a few seconds of hesitation, he asked, "What about you? You can't get much money from Bai Xiaosheng Company, right?"

Bai Xiaosheng is not a big company, and it is not certain whether the money it can put out can be comparable to Alibaba’s “test the waters”.

Yu Xing said seriously: "To be honest, Mr. Cheng, I am currently accompanying the vice president of Capital Today to inspect WeChat."

When Cheng Xiangwen heard the title, his heart moved, and he quickly said, "You have something important to say earlier, then we can talk later."

"Okay, let's talk later." Yu Xing said with a smile, "You are always welcome here. The company needs a fixed-term option before financing."

Cheng Xiangwen ended the call.

Yu Xing put his phone in his pocket. He was not surprised by Alibaba’s internal decision. Giving priority to e-commerce was correct. But if there was a ready-made fish on the table, that would be another matter. Cheng Xiangwen estimated that it would have some effect of "there is such a thing".

Seeing Yu Xing walking over, Liu Jiankai asked with a smile, "Who are you chatting with so happily? I can see the smile on your face from a distance."

Yu Xing replied calmly: "To be honest, I am a friend of Alibaba and I am very interested in instant messaging."

Liu Jiankai glanced at Yu Xing and didn't see anything, but he couldn't help but murmur in his heart. The momentum of recruiting here is very strong, Yu Xing is very determined, and the atmosphere inside WeChat is also very energetic...

This comes from Baidu, NetEase, and now Alibaba. Yu Xing’s ability to piece together projects has been fully demonstrated since Guiai.com. Could it be that he can really... give people a shock?
(End of this chapter)