What's wrong with me being a rich man?

Chapter 250 Silent Development
September is the start of the school year.

As a freshman, Chen Zhixuan was so excited that he tossed and turned and didn't sleep well yesterday.

After he was admitted to Shanghai University of Technology, he had a blast for more than a month to vent his high school frustrations. Now he is looking forward to college life.

When Chen Zhixuan heard that his friend went to school by bus, he planned to come here alone as well, but he couldn't persuade his parents, so in the end, the whole family of three came to Shanghai.

As soon as I got off the car, a variety of welcome slogans rushed into my sight.

Chen Zhixuan, carrying his bag, looked at the senior student who was coming towards him skillfully with both curiosity and helplessness.

"What's your major, junior?"

After hearing these words, I completed the rest of the enrollment report in a daze. It was not until I put my luggage in the dormitory that I came to my senses.

Chen Zhixuan arrived early, and thinking about being alone in school, he suddenly felt sad, but he didn't want to show it, so he suggested: "Dad, Mom, let's go out for a walk before eating."

The family of three strolled through the busy orientation campus, and their moods calmed down a lot.

"Hey, hello, Junior Brother, come download some mobile phone software, and then you can send text messages for free when uncle and aunt go back."

Chen Zhixuan's distracted gaze was interrupted when he saw the sweet senior schoolmate standing next to the small stall under the welcome banner.

He asked curiously: "Mobile phone software? How much is it?"

The senior student smiled and said, "It's free. Have you heard of Fetion? It's the Fetion of China Mobile, but Fetion can only send free text messages to China Mobile users. This WeChat can send text messages to all China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom networks. It's free. You just need to download the software. What phone do you have?"

Chen Zhixuan was still hesitating, and his mother next to him had already stepped forward after hearing the word "free".

In less than two minutes, the software on my mother's phone was ready.

In this case, the father and son had no time to hesitate and quickly downloaded and registered WeChat.

Chen Zhixuan looked at the software on his phone and hesitated, "Then what?"

"That's it." The sweet sister blinked and asked in confusion, "What else? Oh, the software may launch other features later, but they will all be free."

Chen Zhixuan looked into the senior's eyes, and suddenly blushed for no apparent reason, and then ended his downloading journey.

The sweet sister was not surprised and continued to perform her part-time promotion work.

At noon, when Chen Zhixuan was having lunch outside the school, he tried WeChat on his mobile phone, sent a few messages, and used text messages to check the remaining balance of the package. Sure enough, apart from the reduction in traffic, there was no other consumption.

While eating, he asked in confusion: "Why don't you want money?"

Compared to his son's confusion, the father seemed more tolerant and said, "This is Shencheng."

He thinks that's how big cities are, no one is too surprised by anything new.

Chen Zhixuan's confusion was dispelled.

By the evening, the anxiety of not having my parents around had been completely replaced by the novelty of college life, and then while lying in bed, I was able to gradually open up my hearts to my roommates.

Chen Zhixuan inadvertently mentioned the WeChat downloaded on his mobile phone and wanted to recommend it to his roommates, after all, it is free text messages.

"It's down, it's down, everyone has downloaded it." Yin Yujie, my roommate on the upper bunk, smiled as he leaned on the bed. "Someone came to the dormitory to promote it in the afternoon, so we all downloaded it. Only you haven't joined yet. Add it, add it, there's also a dormitory group chat."

Chen Zhixuan was surprised: "There is also a group chat? It feels similar to QQ."

He rarely uses Fetion and doesn’t know if Fetion has group chat.

"It's almost the same." Yin Yujie tilted his head and thought about it, then jumped down from the upper bunk, "I'll add you and then pull you in."

Chen Zhixuan opened WeChat, added a friend, and then noticed that in addition to the dormitory group chat, the roommate’s phone also displayed a group chat name of “Dance Association”.

He wondered, "Why do you have a dance association here?"

Yin Yujie smiled and said, "I went to see the association in the evening. There were a lot of girls in the dance association. I saw they were applying, so I joined them and applied too."

He has a cheerful personality and continued to talk nonstop: "I asked the senior who came to promote in the afternoon if I could go and see if I could do some promotion tomorrow. He said it's a part-time job. I think this kind of part-time job is not difficult and it doesn't cost money."

When Chen Zhixuan heard the word "part-time job", he was also excited. Being able to get his own salary seemed to symbolize the beginning of "self-reliance".

He was too embarrassed to mention money, so he pretended to be mature and said, "Then I'll go with you tomorrow and see what's going on."

The two of them started chatting about part-time jobs, and other roommates soon joined in to join in the fun.

However, in the end, only Yin Yujie got the part-time job from the agency.

Chen Zhixuan felt a little regretful, but he didn't take it too seriously. Soon, the class meeting came and he met the counselor and classmates from all over the world.

The counselor was very friendly and made various arrangements and also gave the QQ group number of the class group.

Chen Zhixuan opened QQ on his mobile phone and applied to join.

After everyone introduced themselves on stage, it was time for free discussion. A boy in the front row whose name I couldn’t remember suddenly turned around and said, “Come on, join our WeChat class group.”

Chen Zhixuan wondered, "Isn't there a QQ group?"

The boy curled his lips and said: "The counselors are all old-fashioned. Why join a QQ group? QQ is only used by high school students."

Although it has only been a short time since I left high school, the boundaries seem to be very clear.

As Chen Zhixuan took out his mobile phone, he felt that this logic was not right. How could QQ be both antique and high school student?

But he also thinks WeChat is quite simple and easy to use.

or……

Chen Zhixuan joined the WeChat class group and thought of a word in his mind.

concise.

The start of the school year in September is very lively, and the latest product from WeChat has quietly entered the campus amidst this bustle.

Yu Xing has rich experience in this area, and he also worked with Zhong Zhiling, Lu Haiying and others to find out the shortcomings and make up for them, in order to complete the campus activities.

There are both online forums and offline promotions. The former manually sets up a chain of contempt, while the latter recruits part-time and full-time people to demarcate areas.

There are both door-to-door visits to dormitories and overall drive by the association. The former penetrates into the inside, while the latter creates conformity.

Not only do they arrange welcome materials, they also put up posters on campus, and some schools also collaborate with campus media for promotions.

The last batch of funds from Red Falcon did not choose traditional media or online advertising. Almost half of it was invested in campus actions, and then the fission effect was clearly seen. Among them, the largest group of secondary growth was parents.

Unlike the natural growth in July and August, as soon as September started, funded campus activities immediately prompted a leap in the growth of WeChat's user base.

With funds burning through and actions being taken within the school, it gradually attracted the attention of the outside world.

There is a middle-level director in the mobile company named Yu Guohao who happens to be in contact with the Fetion team. His child was admitted to university this month, and within a few days, he sent him the software for use, claiming that it was much better than Fetion.

Yu Guohao was disdainful at first, but he was shocked when he used it himself. He then learned a little about the software and found that it was an expanded version of Fetion that included three operators.

And...the people behind WeChat are not unknown people.

Whenever he has nothing to do, Yu Guohao likes to read gossip on Bai Xiaosheng. Recently, he has been keeping an eye on the developments of 3Q. He never thought... this would unexpectedly collide with his work without him noticing.

He took it very seriously and called the Fetion team, asking them to study the latest software.

"Okay, Mr. Yu, we will make a careful assessment."

The Fetion team who received the call took it very seriously, but as soon as the call ended, they became indifferent.

"What are you doing over there?"

"Hey, there's nothing to do. That guy, Xiao Liu, who just joined this year, let him go and do some research and report back to China Mobile."

With the development of mobile technology, Fetion, which offers a castrated version of free text messages, has reached its most glorious moment. The number of registered users has jumped from 1.84 million last year to nearly 5 million this year, and its prospects look particularly bright.

However, it was not China Mobile itself that was responsible for Fetion. This business was outsourced to Shenzhou Taiyue Company, and both the technology and the team were mediocre.

China Mobile is reluctant to give up the fat of SMS charges, and Shenzhou Taiyue can easily develop a huge number of users with the support of the operator. There is not much competition in the market. As for the user experience... it's fine as long as they are all similar.

Shenzhou Taiyue Company hired an intern for the report, and the intern started working on the research.

It was a week later when Yu Guohao received the report. He looked at the final conclusion of "not much competition" and stuffed it into the thick document with a frown.

Not much competition?

Yu Guohao opened his mobile phone and clicked on WeChat again and again. After hesitating for a while, he gave up the idea of ​​reporting.

Forget it, Shenzhou Taiyue said the competition isn’t that big, so let’s not cause trouble.

(End of this chapter)