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

Chapter 900 A villain's elaborate schemes are no match for a fool's quick thinking.

The Honor series has now become one of the most popular IPs in the world, and Beyond Games is also developing and expanding this IP, not only launching animations, but also exploring various game genres.

This game, called "Glory of Kings," is one such example. Like Capcom's "Street Fighter" series and SNK's "King of Fighters" series, the project team started and developed the game with the goal of "creating the best fighting game in China."

The characters in the game are the top 30 most popular players from the "Honor" IP, selected through big data analysis.

In his report annotations, Chen Mo suggested inviting Zeng Zhuojun (ID: Xiaohai) to serve as an experience officer and spokesperson.

If Sky Li Xiaofeng is the "first generation" of Chinese esports, then "Xiaohai" is the absolute king of the current fighting game world—his dominance is comparable to Faker in the League of Legends arena.

He checked the information and found that Zeng Zhuojun became famous at the age of 12 when he performed a stunning comeback in "The King of Fighters '97" on a domestic program, winning 25 games after losing 1 game.
Last year, he almost swept all the international championships in the King of Fighters XIV global tournaments, achieving a "world grand slam". Some players even joked that "even if Iori Yagami himself came, he would not be able to beat the Iori Yagami in the hands of a child".

With the existing Tiangong game engine and ink-wash particle effects technology from Beyond, coupled with Zeng Zhuojun's professional feedback, it is not difficult to create a high-quality fighting game that is "easy to learn, difficult to master" and emphasizes balance.

Chen Mo is very confident about this: if the quality is excellent, all he needs to do is invest resources in global promotion—he never hesitates to pay for such works.

He swiped his finger across the screen, continuing to delve deeper into this annual report that carried the future of the group.
2. Fintech and Enterprise Services

Fintech: WeChat Pay consistently ranks first in the industry in terms of daily transaction volume, and continues to expand its user base in areas such as microloans, wealth management, and insurance by leveraging the deep penetration of payment scenarios.

Cloud computing: Beyond Cloud's annual revenue increased by over 100% year-on-year, and the number of servers doubled.

With its in-depth solutions in gaming, video, finance and other fields, its market share has jumped to the top three in the world, and it has become one of the most important growth engines for the group in the future;

Cybersecurity: Leveraging the top-tier technical capabilities of the group's security laboratory, we have built a comprehensive protection system for internal business and external enterprise clients. Our market share consistently ranks first in China, making it the core competitiveness and cornerstone of trust for the group's B2B and B2G businesses.

Chen Mo pulled out Zhang Xiaolong's annual plan for this year.

This year, WeChat Pay will launch a major initiative: referencing the model of its competitor Ant Forest and Ant Farm, and deeply integrating Ant's strengths in gaming and payment scenarios.

Every purchase can be converted into game points, which enhance user engagement through interactive points activities. At the same time, in-game rewards provide rebates on purchases, creating a closed-loop business model.

Zhang Xiaolong initially suggested contributing to environmental protection, for example, Alibaba has Ant Forest, and Beyond could focus on conservation and environmental protection.

However, he rejected the proposal, arguing that saving was a false proposition, as the electricity and water bills of a wealthy household could be equivalent to those of hundreds or thousands of people.

Therefore, Chen Mo was disgusted by this kind of thief crying "stop thief" and doing something pointless, so he had WeChat Pay directly connect to the primary school that the other side had previously helped build, such as improving the children's breakfast, purchasing sports equipment, and providing extracurricular reading books.

In short, let Zhang Xiaolong and his team follow this line of thinking.

What the report did not mention was that WeChat Work overtook DingTalk last year to become the number one enterprise communication and office tool software in terms of market share. This was too detailed to be mentioned in Lu Qi's overall report, but it was reflected in Zhang Xiaolong's departmental performance report.

But Chen Mo had a deep impression of this matter. The core reason for his later success was not because the software was well-made, nor because the work was done perfectly.

One of the core features is that WeChat for Business has launched localized deployment, which addresses the core pain point that company owners are very concerned about: information leakage.

Even more dramatically, its rise coincided with the unscrupulous actions of its competitors, who delivered a huge gift. At that time, Wu Zhao was in charge of Alibaba's DingTalk. In order to cope with the challenges from WeChat Work and internal competitive pressure, he implemented a series of measures that Chen Mo considered 'suicidal' last year.

This means starting work at 9 a.m. for a morning meeting, shortening the lunch break to half an hour before work begins, and prohibiting the use of WeChat, Weibo, Zhihu, and other cross-border software during work hours.

At the same time, employees were encouraged to work together to overcome the difficulties, and the off-get off work time was changed to 12 o'clock, seven days a week.

Subsequently, rumors circulated about "Ali in northern Myanmar," directly targeting this department.

Not all employees could tolerate this inhuman work schedule. By the end of the year, the department had a total of 700 people, and more than 300 had left. More than 200 of them were specially recruited by Zhang Xiaolong to expand the WeChat Work team.

However, Wu Zhao personally went to the guillotine one day after midnight when he conducted a surprise inspection of the company's office area.

Faced with empty workstations, the genius called all the department heads together the next day, gave them a severe dressing-down in front of all the employees, and questioned: Why did you leave work early?

What's even more ridiculous is that later, some internal employees on the platform couldn't stand it anymore and leaked the information.

After the incident was leaked by an internal employee, Zhang Xiaolong immediately contacted Chen Tong to coordinate an amplification of the public opinion, triggering widespread ridicule online.

"There are truly no more moves."

"They're telling us to leave early at midnight? What kind of crazy company is this? Even big companies do this? They're utterly inhuman!"

"I've never understood one thing: most technologies are designed to improve efficiency, so why are we getting busier and busier? It doesn't make sense!"

“I’d like to suggest that everyone take turns sending messages to the boss at dawn every day to ask questions. If he doesn’t answer, we’ll directly call him out for not being diligent in the group chat.”

"That's a good point, but don't bring it up again."

A few days later, Alibaba officially announced a change of leadership at DingTalk, with "Wu Zhao" being demoted, making him a laughing stock in the industry.

Chen Mo heard this anecdote while soaking in a hot spring with Zhang Xiaolong some time ago.

After listening to Zhang Xiaolong's vivid description, Chen Mo could only utter one sentence:
"A bad person's elaborate schemes are no match for a fool's quick thinking—serves him right!"

3. Investment and Ecological Synergy

This year's strategic investments have yielded outstanding returns and greatly enriched the Group's ecosystem:
In the content sector, ByteDance (owned by Toutiao and Douyin) has performed impressively, with Douyin firmly holding the top position in the short video market and boasting over 4 million monthly active users.

Live-streaming e-commerce revenue hit a new record high, with total merchandise volume (GMV) exceeding 2000 billion yuan;
The overseas version of TikTok has demonstrated the characteristics of a global phenomenon, breaking into the top ten of app charts in many countries.

ByteDance has become the most important information flow and short video platform in China, forming a strong strategic synergy with the other side;
Local services: Taxi and Ele.me consolidate their leading positions in the market through competition, form an ecological closed loop by relying on WeChat entry and payment system, and have significant data synergy effects;

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