Internet 2010

The next day, on the Air China plane.

Wang Qiangdong was sitting in the middle of the three consecutive seats, Zhou Da was seated by the window, and a strange passenger was next to him.

As for Zhou Kai and Shao Yue, they naturally sat together in the row behind Wang Qiangdong.

"Sir, is it convenient to change seats?"

Wang Qiangdong, who was closing his eyes, heard a familiar voice, and saw that the owner of the voice was communicating with the strange passenger beside him.

Zhou Da gave Wang Qiangdong an elbow, and he had to shrug.

Seeing Wang Lina sitting down, Wang Qiangdong said, "Why, I can't stand loneliness for a few hours?"

Wang Lina squinted at the cabin roof, "If you don't go over, I'll change over."

"Okay." Wang Qiangdong pretended to be stupid.

......

Science and Technology Park.

Lu Zhou sat in the new office and was a little uncomfortable.

A few days ago, Dream Valley Advertising entered the B round of financing, adding several new departments, and the personnel also carried out another round of expansion. The original space was obviously not enough, so Wang Wenjun rented the rest of the free office on this floor.

This is the office that Wang Wenjun specially left for Lu Zhou.

The "chairman's" office is not too big, with a desk, rows of bookshelves, separated by a screen, and an assistant workstation at the back.

But think about it, Lu Zhou can also understand Wang Wenjun's approach. The boss of the company sits in the staff and writes code every day, which is not a serious thing.

In particular, when new employees of the company see a boss who is too approachable, it is inevitable that they will feel weird.

It is usually a good communication job to sit in the staff, but it is a little more troublesome when I get to the office.

After cleaning up his mood, Lu Zhou didn't take it too seriously. He first logged into the code repository to check the progress, and then clicked on the work mailbox to check.

Now, the development of the three companies in Dream Valley is different.

The main business of Dream Valley Advertising is rarely updated and very stable. Occasional revisions are just updates of the client app, and there are few adjustments in the general direction of the business.

In addition to the application market, the two earliest players, 91 and Wandou, are not very competitive. The one-acre land of Mengguang is the most stable among the three companies of Luzhou.

Lu Zhou held his cheeks and recalled some memories, and an important event came to mind - "the acquisition of 91 Assistant for 1.9 billion US dollars".

If Menggu advertising and the banana market continue to expand and maintain the leading position in the industry, the protagonist of this matter may become bananas, or Qiandu will not spend 1.9 billion to acquire 91.

It is obviously not suitable to sell bananas in the market, and now there is a cooperative sand sculpture advertising project between Mengguang and WeChat. Seeing that the content ecology of the official account is slowly starting, Mengguang will definitely be able to enjoy this wave of dividends from WeChat in the future, so even if the price is higher in a few years, Luzhou will not be able to sell it.

If this is the case, Luzhou can only choose to go public on its own. The time, naturally, had to be chosen in 1314.

The tuyere of the mobile application market was around 1314. At that time, mobile phone manufacturers were still busy laying out and shipping, and their own channels were not developed for the time being. In terms of valuation, it should be able to achieve a level similar to that of 91 Assistant.

I have my own preparations, such as quickly pushing the Dream Valley advertisement into the B round, asking Wang Wenjun to raise the audit committee and supervision department, hiring independent non-executive directors and so on.

But in the end, it still depends on the development of Dream Valley Advertising in the next two years. Biting the first position is a simple matter, if not, then maybe we can only wait for WeChat to get up and then merge internally.

As for cloud computing, it really gave Lu Zhou a headache.

Especially in the case of the Singapore node, it is not difficult to see that going overseas is easier said than done, and the time cost and communication cost are quite high.

If you want to go abroad, you can’t stop at home. Mao’s calculation is indeed as Ma Yun said, one billion a year can’t be collected.

But it will take a few years for the earnings to get better.

But in the final analysis, the pace of overseas promotion of Menggu Cloud is closely related to WeChat's overseas decision-making. At least for the next two years.

Wherever WeChat wants to go, Mengguyun has to march first, which should be the pace.

And only after satisfying WeChat, Mengguyun will open up redundant computing power and sell it.

"Ring bell bell..."

Before Lu Zhou could sort out the WeChat situation, a rush of cell phone ringing interrupted Lu Zhou's thoughts.

"Good afternoon, I'm Ma Huateng."

Lu Zhou, "..."

Listening to Ma Huateng's tone, he was calm, but Lu Zhou really didn't know what his sudden call meant.

"Hello, Mr. Ma."

Who knows that Ma Huateng is also unambiguous and goes straight to the point, "2 billion. 500 million in cash, 1 billion in Penguin stock, 500 million in restricted shares. Penguin wholly acquires WeChat."

Lu Zhou smiled when he heard it. Naturally, there is no need to ask about the currency unit. If it is Hong Kong dollars or RMB, then Ma Huateng is really confused.

This price tag is also quite solid. The valuation of WeChat A round is only 200 million, and Ma Huateng directly turned it over 10 times.

"Mr. Ma, everyone understands. It's only the end of March. In a few more months, WeChat will soon exceed 100 million. The scarf should be faster than us."

Ma Huateng, "Okay. Then I'll wait and see."

"Dudududu..."

The entire call was less than two minutes.

Can Ma Huateng not understand? Lu Zhou smiled, just to try his luck.

Of course, Penguin's stock will increase several times according to the future development. But in the end, doing it yourself is two different things from lying down and watching others do it.

For Lu Zhou, enjoying the process may be more important than the final result.

Lu Zhou smiled and put the phone on the table.

Now WeChat will soon exceed 50 million users. Judging from the current growth rate, it is expected to exceed hundreds of millions of users by August and September this year.

Without a doubt, this is the fastest growth rate ever. If you count the results of Southeast Asia in March, it is much more than that.

However, the daily use of ~www.readwn.com~ by users in China exceeds one billion messages per day, and the entire server system needs to process 700,000 conversation messages per second.

80 million pictures are posted on Moments on a daily basis, and during peak hours, more than 300,000 users post pictures and likes on Moments every second.

The service crowd is far south and north, all over China.

The official account has accumulated 200,000 registrations, 20,000 active content creators, and more than 10,000 articles are generated every day, of which 40% of the creators have obtained a fee share through sand sculpture advertisements. In just one month, the total share reached 20 million.

In most cases, the outside world is unknown and relies on speculation. And think about it, this is also the reason why Ma Huateng came to try his luck.

......

However, everything has just begun.

In particular, WeChat's overseas pace has just taken off.

If Lu Zhou let go in this way, it would be too much of a joke.