Entertainment World: The Wild God of Gourmet

On the last day before New Year's Day, Wacipu's founder Jane Comme announced that he had left the team and formally applied for resignation from the company. Chairman Hero-Chen approved it on the same day.

At the same time, he also issued a statement through the official Twitter blog: "Thanks to Jane Comme for his outstanding contribution to the company, thanks to his talented mind and creativity, for bringing this excellent product to everyone. ."

"I am grateful for everything you have done to connect the world and everything you have taught us, including encryption, and the ability to take power from centralized power and put it back into people’s hands. These ideas will always be Wrocspur’s core."

"In the future, Wacipu will continue to follow the three rules set at the beginning of the business: no ads, no privacy violations, and go all out to provide a reliable user experience. Those who initially helped Wacipu succeed in the'focus, simplicity The concept of'high efficiency' will also accompany the company for life. We will miss the time of working closely with you."

Colm also said on his personal Twitter, “Working with these great people is a wonderful experience. But now is the time for me to move on. I am honored to be with such an unparalleled small team. Work, and witnessed the legend that an account turned into an application and then used by so many people in the world."

"Although I am leaving, people use hatsapp in a variety of ways beyond my imagination. This team will be stronger than ever after having hero-Chen, and will continue to do things that shock the Quartet. That is I took time out to do things that I enjoy, things that have nothing to do with technology, such as collecting rare air-cooled Porsches, researching my cars and playing Ultimate Frisbee. I am still a big fan of hatsapp-just from the perspective of an outsider .Thank you to all those who have fought side by side with me!"

His shares were sold to Facebook.

As for the last place to go, it is most likely to go to Facebook.

Chen Ergou also appointed one of the founders Brian Akton as the company's new CEO. As Comme's early start-up partner and investor Brian Ekton, his stay has played a very positive role in maintaining the company's stability.

Compared to Colm's paranoia, Akton is an optimist.

In the past, as the ceo Comme, he was more concerned about products, and Iketon was the one who paid attention to bills and taxes. The final implementer of all decisions is actually him, "I am only responsible for ensuring that everything is done in order."

Chen Ergou has a surpassing vision, confidence in decision-making information will not be worse than that of others, and will not go wrong for at least ten years, not to mention he has a dog's help. Therefore, it is more beneficial for him to retain such a executor as the CEO.

The 42-year-old Akdon has a beautiful face and a rosy complexion, which is in sharp contrast with the beard and dark complexion of Colme. "Our founders are all in their 30s. We focus on the sustainable development and revenue of the company, rather than getting bigger as soon as possible. We always act low-key; we take mobile as our top priority; we focus on the world from the beginning ."

Hatsapp also released some data immediately to eliminate the social impact of the main founder's departure.

"Two years after its release, hatsapp has sent more than 38 billion messages every day, with more than 500 million registered users."

Compared with the number of registered users of the company before Chen Ergou became the owner, the number of registered users of the company was less than 50 million. It can be said that Chen Ergou's entry this year has brought not only financial assistance, but also public opinion effects and the right direction. , So that many of the company’s decisions have taken many detours.

This explosive performance growth is the most ironic proof.

This is his credit.

This time, he took the initiative to announce the "number of active users" instead of the number of registered users, which is also the attention of Chen Ergou. This can better reflect the main difference between hatsapp and its competitors.

As he said: "Comparing registered users with active users is like comparing a Ferrari 250gto with a skateboard." It is worth mentioning that most of them will pay hatsapp 1 pound, 1 euro or 1 dollar a year.

But this fee-for-profit project will be cancelled after New Year's Day.

When hatsapp released the data, it also officially announced that hatsapp will be free after New Year's Day.

This series of operations also made the once ignorant Hengdian food officer become more and more of an IT elite.

This series of changes can't help but make the outside world have many speculations about the future direction of hatsapp. Without charging for profit, it is inevitable that more commercial attempts will be made in the future. Users are mainly worried about whether it will affect the user experience?

However, this series of reports did not hit this new company, but made Wocup more attention. "So many people are using it, but I don't know. Isn't it too outdated." Under the follow-up effect, the number of download users worldwide has surged, quickly grabbing a large market share.

This is also a blessing in disguise.

fb has controlled 18% of the company's shares and officially entered the company's board of directors to become the second largest shareholder. At the same time, fb also once again issued a purchase request to Chen Ergou to acquire 75% of his shares. The latest offer has reached 8.5 billion U.S. dollars, and he is willing to provide him with an additional 3 billion U.S. dollars of restricted stock.

According to this quotation, the market value of hatsapp has risen again, and the latest valuation has exceeded 15 billion US dollars.

hatsapp has undoubtedly become the most popular and profitable mobile application in the world.

He was also inquired about the price of the ins, which is currently quoting 500 million U.S. dollars.

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The news was reported frantically in the US financial circles, and it was also very timely to return to China. The friends were all shocked.

This...The net worth of their "dog" has not shrunk, but it has nearly doubled? ! A group of troublemakers @王Principal, let him not tire of it.

What's the situation, one step closer to the richest man? Now even some established entrepreneurs can't understand, "The U.S. Internet market is crazy!"

They still don't know that the crazier era has yet to come. But this offer was still rejected by Chen Ergou. He can accept fb to enter the company's board of directors, but he does not want to lose this territory.

Occupation now is the best time, and it will be difficult to come in in the future.

Now that I have decided to fully intervene, I naturally don't want to lose control. But now that the situation is bound to transfer part of the equity out, he decided to open financing channels.

Now the company's weight level is no longer an angel period. With mature products, the company has a complete and detailed business and profit model for normal operations ~ www.readwn.com ~ has a certain status in the industry and user reputation.

Although the company still didn't make much money, it was still losing money because it expanded too quickly, and it was in urgent need of burning money.

Then it is time to start a round of financing.

Suddenly, there was a sudden rise in the capital world, and Japan's Softbank, fb... even the great penguins of the Celestial Dynasty wanted to get a share.

The former rival Sequoia Capital also came again.

I think that they were the closest people to hatsapp at the beginning, but Chen Ergou was killed halfway. They hesitated because of millions of dollars of funds, which led to their angel investment failure. Now I don't know how much regret I regret. The opportunity appeared in front of them again, and they didn't want to miss the second time.

The partner Chen Ergou actively contacted is actually more anxious than him. With huge user traffic, it is self-evident to Amazon, which runs a shopping website. Moreover, according to the explosive user growth rate of hatsapp today, it will exceed one billion in a few years.

It's just that financing obviously won't be effective in a short period of time, so let's start the new year.

New Year's Day, Times Square, New York.

An unprecedented lively New Year's Eve concert will be held here.

As the first Chinese on this stage, Chen Ergou has attracted the attention of the whole network.

The song he is going to sing has already been determined. It is the famous English song "hallof". As the most popular song in the second half of the year, it has only fewer hits on the tubing than Justin Bieber's "baby".

Chen Ergou, who hasn’t updated his Weibo for a long time, also updated a message in due course, “Live broadcast notification: New Year’s Eve concert in Times Square, New York, will you watch it? Let you see how popular I am in the United States, and then try to hack me. , Don’t cherish me!/dog head"

The water friends exploded in an instant.

"Gouzi, you have changed."