What's wrong with me being a rich man?

Chapter 256 Attention
WeChat company has completed a new round of financing.

Yu Xing did not disclose the scale of this financing within the company, but whether it was the eagerness of the joint visit from IDG, Capital Today, and Qiming Venture Partners, or the successive visits from Xiong Xiaoge, Xu Xin, and Hu Xubo, these were enough to inspire the enthusiasm of the employees.

Even the WeChat company has seen persistent overtime work despite repeated bans.

In response to this phenomenon, Yu Xing specifically sought out Deputy Director Tan Ruize, hoping that he, who was responsible for managing part of the technical team, would not put too much pressure on everyone.

"Mr. Yu, there is no pressure, not a single bit of pressure, it's all motivation!" Tan Ruize answered sincerely, "This is the most proactive company I've ever seen! They give so much..."

The salary at WeChat is upper-middle in the industry, and that of the core team is above average.

However, in terms of options, it is probably one of the best companies...

From February to September, WeChat issued options twice. When Red Falcon invested $500 million for the first time, everyone calculated the total value and found that it was 1675 million Chinese yuan, which was distributed among colleagues in the range of 7 to 20 yuan.

Such numbers belong to...

According to Ge Zhijie, a technical director from a large company, "it's okay."

However, Red Falcon quickly added another $500 million, and the value of everyone's options clearly doubled.

Even someone like Ge Zhijie cannot be looked down upon lightly.

Furthermore, although Mr. Yu did not announce the financing this time, the value of the options in his hands must have increased, right?
How much is it worth now?
假设提高50%，这笔发放出来的期权总价值也有2592.9*1.5=3889.35万，折合到个人身上是21-60万。

What if it’s not 50%, but higher?
What if there is next round of financing?
Everyone knows that the company was established just before the end of the year, and now it hasn’t even been a year, but its valuation has been rising rapidly. There are only four words to describe it - the future is promising!
However, these inflated figures are only paper wealth, and whether the options can be cashed in depends on the company's final results.

The boss is willing to issue options, but can he convert the options into money by himself?

Don't we all have to work overtime?
Based on this situation, the employees of WeChat company have almost truly achieved the mentality of sharing the same breath, the same fate, and working together to encourage each other.

Everyone for me, and I for everyone!
Work hard today and be rich tomorrow!
Yu Xing was indeed willing to issue options, but he was still quite surprised to see the actual effect. He also understood how the technical team could always quickly resolve various problems, big and small, that were reported back.

The company's employees are working hard, and as a boss, he is also actively using his influence at this stage, going to Dragon TV every week to record "If You Are the One".

Different from before, Yu Xing recently appeared on stage as the CEO of WeChat. When talking about this latest product, he firmly positioned it within the campus and only said that it was a small gadget that was convenient for students to use.

Of course, whether or not the audience watching the show will use it is another matter.

Yu Xing never mentions Penguin, and even rarely participates in the discussion of the current 3Q dispute. At most, he talks about Fetion, criticizes China Mobile's sluggishness, and discusses the increasingly turbulent development of mobile Internet.

At the same time, the WeChat company that received the investment is already discussing larger-scale Internet promotion, and is ready to face the most powerful competitors with the most vigorous spirit when it can no longer hide.

Yu Xing was actually quite curious about when Penguin would notice the development of WeChat, but he had no way to verify it. He just wrote down this idea in his notebook, intending to piece together the complete situation during this period when more information emerged later.

However, in fact, some Penguin employees had already noticed the emergence of WeChat earlier than Yu Xing imagined.

On September 2, Peng Rongxian, the deputy director in charge of the promotion of Penguin Games, downloaded WeChat while sending his children to school.

Before this day, he had never heard of the name "WeChat". When he downloaded it from the Apple Store using his iPhone, he saw that there were not many reviews for this software, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

In the middle of the month, Peng Rongxuan wanted to ask his child about his school life while having dinner in the evening. Suddenly, he noticed something: the software he subconsciously opened was WeChat.

No phone calls, no text messages, no QQ, but my finger pressed WeChat.

Peng Rongxuan was stunned at this moment.

Then, after asking about the child's adaptation to college, he asked an additional question: "Do many of your classmates use WeChat?"

"A lot, most of them are in use, and there are also class groups."

Peng Rongxuan looked at the answer, thought for a while, and then asked: "Why use it?"

"It saves trouble and is convenient. There's nothing else to it."

Peng Rongxian frowned.

The next day, he learned about the software and found out that it was an internal project incubated by Yu Xingxin, the founder of Bai Xiaosheng, and was targeted at campus college students.

After careful consideration, Peng Rongxian went to discuss the matter with his colleagues.

However, when he opened the Apple Store in his hand to show the relevant comments, he suddenly noticed a detail.

"I remember when I first downloaded it, there were about 800 comments on this app. Now, in just two weeks, the number of comments has reached 4000! Song Tong, do you know how to roughly calculate the number of software downloads in the Apple Store?"

Song Tong didn't know, but she knew a colleague who knew about this. Sun Liyang, who was pulled over, faced the problem and easily gave advice from experience: "4000 comments. For this kind of communication tool software, the downloads and comments are estimated to be 30-50 times. Well, we can take a middle value of 40 times, and each comment is 1 downloads."

The increase in numbers over a two-week period became clear.

3.2→16

About 5 times growth!

The three people looked at the graph drawn by Peng Rongxian and saw a positive growth curve, and they all felt a slight strange feeling in their hearts.

"WeChat is used in schools and is a competitor to Fetion. Isn't its growth a bit too fast?" Song Tong hesitated and said in a low voice, "It's definitely not a threat to QQ, but the speed of this software is, well, really fast!"

How could a new software possibly affect QQ!

This is inevitable self-confidence!
but……

"At the beginning of the month, my brother and I went to send our children to school, but why didn't we see any WeChat promotion on campus?" Sun Liyang was a little puzzled.

The strange feeling in Peng Rongxuan's heart suddenly became stronger.

He simply contacted several colleagues who recently had children or relatives and friends in college, and was surprised to find that... some knew and some did not. The former who had entered university campuses were all in the northern region, and the latter were all in Guangdong Province and around Pengcheng.

"What can this prove?" Song Tong asked Peng Rongxian, who had a serious expression, in confusion after seeing the results of the sampling.

"This proves that WeChat, an instant messaging software that claims to be a rival to Fetion, is likely deliberately avoiding our area in its promotion." Peng Rongxuan said word by word, "What is it hesitating about? What does it want to do?"

Song Tong shook her head and smiled: "The sample size is too small, and the conclusion is too ridiculous. Are you saying that WeChat is not targeting Fetion, but is targeting our QQ? Rather than saying that it is bypassing our area, it is better to say that its headquarters is in Shanghai, and because of limited funds, it can only promote its surrounding areas."

Peng Rongxian thought this logic was correct.

Sun Liyang tried using the WeChat app he had just downloaded on his phone, and said without even looking up: "Brother Xuan, your conspiracy theory is not reliable. Unless Yu Xing is crazy, he wouldn't want to compete with us, but..."

Peng Rongxuan looked over.

Sun Liyang smiled and said, "However, this software is quite smooth. I'll ask the neighbor next door if they can make a similar one. I think it will get a lot of downloads."

Peng Rongxian was opposed by two colleagues. When he thought back on his own guess, he felt it was a bit outrageous. At the same time, he was quite confident in his company's ability to make similar competing products.

However, after that day, he has been paying attention to WeChat outside of work, collecting relevant information, and by the way, examining whether his logic is correct.

The more I collected information, the more something felt wrong.

Peng Rongxuan patiently searched the information displayed on forums and bulletin boards of colleges and universities in different regions, and found that WeChat still seemed to be circling around Guangdong Province and Shenzhen, and that different Android application markets were experiencing rapid growth similar to that of the Apple Store.

We had three days off for the Mid-Autumn Festival. As of September 9, the Apple Store had a vague estimate of more than 25 downloads. Android app stores such as Wandoujia and Anzhi Market had at least double that number of 20. In addition, the Symbian version of WeChat was difficult to count, and WeChat's company's opaque offline promotion...

With so many efforts, the user scale of WeChat may have exceeded one million!

If we base this number on...

Peng Rongxuan re-examined this software, which claims to be a rival to Fetion, and gave it a new definition - this is a free instant messaging software focusing on mobile Internet with more than 100 million users.

Is it still competing with Fetion?
Or is it just killing Fetion?

Peng Rongxian didn’t know whether other departments had noticed the rapid development of WeChat, but after much thought, he sorted out the information he had collected recently and wrote a report on WeChat. He sent one copy to B3, his superior, and one copy to R1, his neighbor – the QQ-related instant messaging line.

100 million users, instant messaging, rapid development...

The keywords from the report attracted a certain amount of attention from the instant messaging product department, and after a brief investigation, they recognized a certain threat posed by external competing products. Then, more information was integrated into the report and forwarded to the department's general manager Yin Yu.

However, before Yin Yu noticed the report, 360, which had been clashing with Penguin recently, suddenly released a software called "QQ Bodyguard" late at night on September 9, which has many functions including but not limited to blocking Q shows, software advertisements, mini homepage pop-ups and news pop-ups.

It goes a step further than the previously launched privacy protector, and is like a sharp arrow shot straight into the heart of Penguin, instantly grabbing the attention of Penguin's top management and bringing the raging 3Q dispute to its most acute moment.

That night, Penguin's senior management worked overtime to discuss the opponent's actions and the extent of the response, and many employees' vacations were temporarily cancelled.

"What are you thinking?"

The next day, the first day of the National Day holiday, Liu Wanying saw Yu Xing staring at the laptop screen and asked this question.

Yu Xing pointed to the discussion about QQ bodyguards in his own forum and said seriously: "The bloodbath is coming..."

(End of this chapter)