Chapter 43 One Night

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In the double room of the Grand Harbour Hotel, Yang welcomed the morning sun, sat up from the bed, stretched his arms lazily, and yawned the first big yawn after waking up this morning.

"Morning, beauty!" Yang Huan greeted Zhang Ning on the opposite bed.

Getting out of bed, he didn't mind wearing a pair of underwear at all, and he went straight to the bathroom.

Zhang Ning took a peek at him and noticed the physiological reaction of a man in the normal morning. His face turned slightly red and he spat, but at least he didn't scream and yell at a pervert like he did at the beginning.

I have to admit that her immunity to Yang Huan's behavior has indeed improved a lot.

There was a movement of brushing his teeth and washing his face in the bathroom. Zhang Ning continued to sit on the bed, but instead of using a notebook, she used the iPhone that Yang Huan bought for her to log in to WeChat to send and receive messages.

The studio and some people around Yang Huan have been using this app for a long time.

"The old pig sent a message saying that the server needs to be upgraded."

When Yang Huan came out of the bathroom, Zhang Ning said.

It takes money to upgrade the server, and Zhang Ning is responsible for managing the money, and she is responsible for all the expenses of Yang Huan.

"Upgrade, upgrade, you can do it." Yang Huan said nonchalantly.

When Zhang Ning saw him like this, he was secretly laughing in his heart. Just keep pretending. I don't believe you don't want to know how many users there are.

You know, she secretly got up several times last night, just to care about how many users download WeChat.

The level of tension was as if she was tormented when she was waiting for the score line for the college entrance examination.

Yang Huan attaches so much importance to this application and makes great efforts to promote it. Will he care?

"By the way, what do you want for breakfast?" Yang Huan asked while wearing his clothes.

"Whatever." Zhang Ning answered casually, but asked again, "Wang Lin suggested recruiting a few more people to develop different language versions."

She wanted to see when Yang Huan took the initiative to ask.

"Well, you can, first develop the Chinese version, and then develop other languages, hurry up."

Yang Huan is very clear that there are no secrets in the Internet. When people see that you are popular, some people immediately follow suit.

Therefore, it is best to grab the beach and land quickly before everyone reacts to seize the market.

At the very least, a flag has to be planted first.

"By the way, you call Aston Martin in the morning and tell Ulrich Bates that if you don't get me a car quickly, I'll smash his broken factory!"

As soon as Ulrich Bates was mentioned, Yang Huan looked indignant.

The deposit has been paid for more than half a month, but the car has not yet been seen. The days of waiting for the car are really hard.

Although there is now a Bentley, Yang Huan still likes to drive by himself.

At the very least, it's easier to pick up girls when you drive the awesome Aston Martin.

"Oh." Zhang Ning agreed. Aston Martin seems to have encountered some problems with production capacity.

Yang Huan got dressed, walked to Zhang Ning's bed, sat down and put on his shoes, "By the way, how many users were on WeChat last night?"

When Zhang Ning heard this,

I'm happy in my heart, you pretend again, let you continue to pretend, and finally take the initiative to ask, right?

When she was still thinking about hanging Yang Huan's appetite, Yang Huan said something that made her laugh or cry.

"Is there a million?"

"One million?" Zhang Ning lost his voice. It's only been one night, and within twenty-four hours, do you want users to exceed one million?

Even if you are in China, even if the three BAT giants are pushing hard at the same time, it is difficult to do it, let alone you have nothing.

"No?" Yang Huan raised his head and looked at Zhang Ning's flowery face, then lowered his head and continued to tie his shoelaces, but he muttered, "Mummy, Zhu Liangcheng and Wang Lin are really useless, even a hundred If everything can’t be done, upgrade the server, upgrade the shit.”

Zhang Ning smiled bitterly, is it really easy to attract users?

"Now that the number of WeChat users has exceeded 100,000, it is already very impressive."

"Is it amazing?" Yang Huan sneered and shook his head, "You call Zhu Liangcheng and Wang Lin, and tell them, try your best to promote and promote on Facebook and Twitter, invite more sailors, create more momentum, and don't be afraid of wasting money. , the most important thing is to create momentum and make noise, in the next three days, I want to see the best results!"

Sun Yue formulated the entire promotion and marketing plan for Zlatan Ibrahimovic to join Southampton, a very important point of which is the news media, and Yang Huan hopes that WeChat can take advantage of this momentum to rise strongly.

Otherwise, why did he do everything possible to let Ibrahimovic get a star account?

Not only Zlatan Ibrahimovic, but also the star accounts of more and more stars such as Neymar and Balotelli, and even the official star account of Southampton, is to make WeChat into these stars A new platform for us to interact with our fans.

Raiola has promised to help Yang Huan pull more stars to sign up for WeChat star accounts.

The premise is that Yang Huan's team must operate this Ibrahimovic joining event well.

But what Yang Huan didn't know was that an operation that he was very dissatisfied with caused a big shock on the other side of the distant ocean.

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Red Rock Cafe, an entrepreneurial cafe located in Mountain View, Silicon Valley.

The most distinctive feature is the second floor of the cafe, full of crooked tables with various laptops on them, and in front of each table there is always a person writing code quietly.

A lot of people from Silicon Valley startups like to gather here because great ideas are born almost all the time.

Jan Koum and Brian Acton are the two founders of WhatsApp. They also like to stay on the second floor of the Red Rock Cafe, and they like to communicate with these young people who are waiting for entrepreneurial opportunities to stimulate the spark of creativity.

In the morning, they walked up to the second floor of the cafe as usual.

In normal times, they are the stars on the second floor of the cafe, and they are the focus of everyone's envy, but today, when they climbed the stairs on the second floor, they found that these people did not greet them with their eyes as usual Instead, they were discussing a novel topic.

WeChat!

"Their official Twitter announced that they have over 200,000 users!"

"It's not even twenty-four hours, is it?"

"It's too fast, what's the magic of this app? It attracted 200,000 users overnight!"

"It's mainly propaganda in newspapers, Facebook and Twitter, especially Facebook and Twitter, all kinds of retweets and links are indirectly helping them increase their users."

"Well, they seem to use a football star who has been very popular recently as a publicity stunt to attract the attention of the media and fans, and then use the user's attention to attract them to use the app."

"I downloaded the app and followed the star account, and it didn't seem to be anything special."

Both Jan Koum and Brian Acton were a little strange and walked up to a friend they usually knew.

"What's the matter? Is there another novelty?"

The man looked up, saw the two of them, and nodded immediately, "Well, in the UK, a group of college students followed your lead and created a mobile app called WeChat, and released it to IOS and Android for free. and users of platforms such as BlackBerry to download and use.”

"All for free?" Jan Koum was taken aback.

"Yes, it's free, they've already attracted over 200,000 users in less than 24 hours."

Jan Koum and Brian Acton were both surprised. "How is this possible?"

"We also think it is unlikely, but the facts are in front of us."

After a pause, the man tried to analyze again: "I think the main thing is to have a certain relationship with the European media. Football is their priority reporting resource. In the UK, even the divorce of stars can surpass current events and politics. , made the front page headlines, so the number one center called Ibrahimovic was making a move, and every move attracted the attention of the media and fans."

"You should take action as soon as possible."

Jan Koum and Brian Acton looked at each other and noticed a little panic in each other's eyes. This was the first time they had welcomed a challenger, and they were challengers who would push them to a desperate situation as soon as they came up.

free?

Their only income now is download fees!

Free is the same as killing their lives!

"Come on, we're also free for a limited time, let's grab some more users." Brian Acton was a little anxious.

It took them nearly a year from the release to 200,000 users, but this software took less than a day. It is foreseeable that if they continue to grow like this, they will inevitably become their confidants. Big trouble.

Free for a limited time can quickly attract users, but the problem is also obvious, that is, they not only fail to make money, but also lose a lot of money. Not much else to say, just say the mobile phone SMS verification during registration, which is A hefty expense.

And once there are too many users, whether the server can bear it is also a problem.

But all of this was ignored.

"Okay, free for a limited time, let's take a gamble too!"

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Also in Mountain View, there are a lot of people who keep an eye on the Internet and smartphones. People with a keen sense of smell have caught the news that WeChat has more than 200,000 users in 24 hours.

On Facebook and Twitter, more and more users are also starting to share their experiences using WeChat.

"Thanks to WeChat, I re-acquainted with a friend who I haven't contacted for a long time. He has been forgotten by me in a corner of my mobile phone address book. It was WeChat that allowed me to rediscover him."

"Using WeChat is full of surprises, and I find that more and more friends around me are using it."

"It is much more convenient than WhatsApp, it can automatically scan the phone's address book, WhatsApp is too cumbersome, as troublesome as an old lady's foot wraps, and has to do tedious manual settings, and more importantly, WeChat promises to be free forever. "

"It's a great user experience. I can use it to see if my friends are receiving, viewing and replying to my messages. It's so interesting. Was it really developed in just a week?"

There was praise all over the internet, as well as some users who blamed the app's way of scanning their phone contacts, arguing that the viral promotion violated users' privacy.

But more users don't think this is a problem, because the mobile phone contacts are basically close people who have each other's phone numbers. Compared with the convenient and interesting services provided by the application, the privacy problem is seems insignificant.

Therefore, on the Internet, there are two parties around privacy and fast and convenient services. These two seemingly irreconcilable topics have launched a debate. The point of view is more important and more accurate.

But in the end no one could convince anyone.

By the 32nd hour after its release, WeChat had more than 250,000 users, and the rate of increase was getting faster and faster, surpassing WhatsApp in one fell swoop.

That is, at this time, WhatsApp officially announced that it would be free for a limited time, which fired the first shot in the user battle between the two sides.

Yang Huan is not aware of the debate that Internet users have launched against WeChat, and he has not paid attention to the competition with WhatsApp for the time being. He had to come forward to mediate.

He couldn't understand.

What are you arguing about?

What's so noisy?

Isn't it just a few broken money issues?

He has always believed that a problem that money can solve must not be a problem.

Because he has nothing else but more money!