Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 213 The Dragon Returns to the Sea
"Everyone, this is Zhang Xiaolong. He will serve as the company's vice president and product director of the WeChat division. He will be responsible for the product iteration and development of WeChat. Now, let Zhang introduce himself to everyone. Welcome everyone."

At the headquarters of Bi'an Technology, a high-level management meeting was held, with the heads and deputy heads of each business unit present.

Chen Mo is introducing the new student Zhang to other students.

At that time, Zhang Xiaolong was not as famous as he is later. He did not have an annual salary of 2 million yuan or the halo of being the father of WeChat products. Now Weichat is always the second largest player, and few people know that the man behind Weichat is him.

Even Tencent’s official announcement of the replacement of WeChat leaders was just a passing mention, not conspicuous, and no names were mentioned.

In fact, there are two other people who have heard of Zhang Xiaolong's name before, namely Xu Chaojun and Chen Tong.

As veterans who have been working in the Internet industry since its inception, the two knew that Zhang Xiaolong was a programmer of the same era as Lei Jun and the developer of FoxMail. Unfortunately, there was no news from Zhang Xiaolong after Tencent acquired his product and department.

I didn’t expect that we could work together here. It really feels like a strange fate for the two of us.

There was polite applause of welcome, but as Zhang Xiaolong introduced the former general manager of Guangyan Center and former head of WeChat Chat, everyone couldn't help but exclaim.

You know, if you want to take the head of a general in the midst of thousands of troops, that is the exclusive privilege of war gods like Xiang Yu and Lu Bu. I didn't expect that the boss suddenly disappeared for half a month and actually instigated the enemy's commander to rebel. What's the point of this micro chat?

Then they looked at their wise and powerful boss, their eyes full of admiration.

They were even looking forward to the next time, wondering if Xiao Ma Ge would stand here and introduce himself.

If Chen Mo heard everyone's thoughts at this moment, he would definitely curse, you are dreaming, this is a commercial novel, not a science fiction novel.
Li Jianchao put away his originally somewhat disapproving expression. Weichat has been in a love-hate relationship with WeChat for more than half a year since it was launched. Perhaps no one except his boss knows better than him the oppressive feeling that follows this somewhat serious man in front of him.

He knew his own strengths well. If it weren't for the boss's presence, he would have been defeated in just a few rounds.

Unexpectedly, the boss quietly recruited this great person, which made Li Jianchao more confident about the future development of WeChat.

After Zhang Xiaolong finished his introduction and sat down, Chen Mo introduced the friends present and they greeted each other. At least they had a preliminary impression of each other and the rest was just about getting to know each other during work.

After a brief introduction, the other side high-end meeting officially began. Chen Mo first asked about the progress of each department in recent times.

Platform Division: The Bi'an Mobile Assistant has been developed and is in ready status (everything is ready and can be launched at any time), and has been connected with Xiaomi MIOS.

Zhiyan Business Unit: The app has been launched and is currently being developed according to the previously planned second phase plan, while also addressing some optimizations and suggestions raised by users.

Game Division: Crazy Chicken and Happy Match have completed development and testing, and will enter the company-wide internal testing phase in the second half of the month. Warcraft Legend and Ancient War are still under development as planned, and are expected to be ready by the end of July.

Chen Mo thought for a moment, "Next, I will ask WeChat, Zhiyan, and games to all be placed on the assistant, and to connect them horizontally, and also Ziwei!"

"exist!"

"Pick out "Airplane Wars", "Jump", and "Oh My God" and put them on the assistant."

Zhang Xiaolong made his first suggestion since he came to Bi'an, "After these three mini-games are launched on the assistant, their data will be interoperable and they will operate for an undetermined period of time. Later, I suggest that WeChat remove these three mini-games from the shelves."

There are no concerns, no right or wrong, just say what you want to say, study any good things you think of, and start doing it when you are sure. This is Zhang Xiaolong's style of doing things.

"You've said what I wanted to say in advance. What should I say? But you need to give me the specific reasons."

Chen Mo wanted Zhang Xiaolong to perform more and let everyone know that he did not find a mediocre person.

“Now, with the increasing number of mini-games, the WeChat entrance has become a little impure and has begun to become complex, which is not friendly to WeChat’s positioning. Social networking is definitely the first priority, and mini-games are just a temporary supplement.

There are two solutions. One is to directly add a game center in WeChat, collect and focus the games there, and prevent them from affecting each other.

The other option is, as Mr. Chen said, to separate the mini-games and put them into the mobile assistant, so that social networking can focus on social networking and games can be games.

Clap, clap. Everyone applauded. An expert could tell the success or failure at a glance. In just a few words, Zhang Xiaolong clearly pointed out the relationship between WeChat and games and gave two solutions.

As soon as I said this, I got everyone's approval.

This was also what Chen Mo wanted to see, and he then ordered, "Li Jianchao and Zhang Xiaolong, the next major version of WeChat, V1.6, will have video and voice chat in addition to the original functions."

When the meeting of "Mingbai＊2" was over, Chen Mo kept Chen Tong, Sun Ziwei and Zhang Chao in the hall.

"Lao Chen, how are the preparations for the press conference going?"

"The venue has been booked. When will the campaign start on Friday, July 7?"

"Well, the situation on WeChat is becoming clearer, so let's start from now."

Chen Tong took the order and left, leaving only Sun Ziwei and Zhang Chao in the room.

Chen Mo looked at the confused duo and smiled, "Since netizens have asked for it before, let's make an awesome masturbation video."

Then Chen Mo talked about the general idea. Referring to the style of Raiden, the aircraft is divided into several parts, each of which can be upgraded. The firepower varies according to the accessories. When it reaches a certain level, the fighter can also transform like a space fortress.
These parts can be accumulated through daily activities. If you don’t want to spend time, you can buy boxes by spending money, which is similar to drawing cards.

Chen Mo mentioned these key points in general, and left them with the specific game styles and details to enrich and improve.

Chen Mo named this game "All-People Fighter" and asked the original "Aircraft War" project team to develop it.

Finally, the four current game production teams were transformed into studio models and named respectively, and asked to prepare the CG and actual machine demonstration videos of their respective games for the press conference and send them to Chen Tong.

That night, Chen Mo and Li Jianchao got off work together. On the way to the underground parking lot, the latter seemed to have a premonition of something and said frankly,

"Boss, I know my talent is limited and my ceiling is high. This feeling is even more obvious after talking to Zhang Xiaolong. You don't have to worry about me having any thoughts. I will do my best to be a supporter and instructor. As long as WeChat and Bi'an can be better, I don't care."

Chen Mo was moved. "Brother Chao, in my heart, ability has never been the first priority. Being in agreement with me is the first priority. I am very happy that you think so. Is your sister-in-law still working in the cake shop?"

When Li Jianchao mentioned this, he couldn't help but curl up his lips. "Thanks to you, my wife is at home as a housewife, taking care of her husband and children. I couldn't even imagine the treatment I have now before. It's like showing a slide. But..."

Seeing that Li Jianchao seemed to be hesitant to speak, Chen Mo smiled and said, "Is there anything you can't tell me? What are you worried about?"

Li Jianchao was rarely afraid. "I'm not being mean. Zhao Peng played Infernal Affairs before. I was worried that this might be a trap set by Tencent's Pony Ma to throw Zhang Xiaolong out to play a game of being in Cao's camp but with his heart in Han."

After half a month of getting along and understanding each other, Chen Mo believed in his own vision and intuition, shook his head,
"I don't think so. Zhang Xiaolong is not that kind of person. I always trust people I employ, and I won't employ people I doubt. Even if we take a step back, with you by my side and me above me, any problems will be discovered immediately. By the way, I went to our computer room and you did a good job!"

The first thing Chen Mo did when he came back was to check the corresponding systems and measures of WeChat's computer room. This was the task he assigned to Li Jianchao before he left. It included but was not limited to the expansion and security of the server, and it was completed very well overall.

"Brother Chao, work hard. I will not treat our own people unfairly." Chen Mo patted Li Jianchao on the shoulder and left.

Zhang Xiaolong did not go to the other side alone this time, but brought with him several core technical personnel who had been given graduation packages by Tencent.

Chen Mo was also very generous and gave them a salary package that was much higher than that of the Guangyan Center. These were high-level talents who were worth ten times as much as Chen Mo.

Overall, the treatment is similar to that of senior technical talents on the other side.

The WeChat business unit became more powerful after these people joined. Although there were only 7 people, after a few days of running-in, the new things they brought made very useful suggestions for improvements and perfection of WeChat from the underlying architecture to the upper-level functions.

After reading it, Chen Mo exclaimed that it was great value for money.

Originally, Zhang Xiaolong was a little worried that he would not get along with Li Jianchao. After all, the other party was ostensibly the head of the WeChat business unit. However, as the work progressed in an orderly manner, he found that the other party was deliberately cooperating with him, perhaps with the instructions of Chen Mo. As the product director, he had full decision-making power.

Li Jianchao is responsible for technology, while Zhang Xiaolong is responsible for products, and both of them are involved in both products and technology.

Sometimes, when Chen Mo attends meetings on WeChat, he doesn't need to say too much. He just gives an introduction and Zhang Xiaolong can immediately get what Chen Mo wants to express. The two have a highly unified understanding of WeChat, and some details are even more complete and outstanding than Chen Mo imagined.

WeChat is now leading the micro-chat industry by a large margin, and with Zhang Xiaolong, the future founder of WeChat who will be worth tens of billions of dollars, joining the team, there is no need to worry about not achieving great things.

WeChat is starting to run wildly on the right path
Chen Mo has finally gotten rid of WeChat, and he only needs to occasionally determine the final product and technical solution, and regularly pay attention to the data of WeChat and competitors.

Most of the remaining energy can be invested in organizing the press conference.

(End of this chapter)