Why was it like this?
In the beginning.
There had been a long internal discussion about this matter.
At that time, many people in the company thought that YY, as a ready-made instant messaging device that had been successful in the country, could be launched globally. They could use the influence of Huanyu Technologies to defeat MSN and ICQ. The company did not need to develop another instant messaging device.
However, under the guidance of Chen Yu, Li Nan made a decision.
He wanted to develop an instant messaging device that was completely different from YY.
Although YY was already very mature, its maturity was built on the foundation of the PC.
Many of its businesses might not be very popular on smartphones.
Moreover, YY was a social app for strangers.
Although there was still a huge potential for development in social networking, the experience of WeChat told everyone that social networking with acquaintances was the future.
WeChat was an instant messaging app for social networking with acquaintances.
How to work on instant messaging with acquaintances?
The first step was to create a WeChat friend system based on the phone's contact list.
In other words.
The registration mechanism of WeChat was not the same as YY. It was to apply for an account number or letters.
WeChat's registration was based on mobile phone number verification.
In other words, your mobile phone number was your WeChat ID.
How to add friends?
You could import your mobile phone's contact list into WeChat and add friends in your mobile phone's contact list.
"Boss Lee, I'm very confident in our WeChat."
Zhang Xiaolong said firmly.
"Oh, Xiaolong, tell me your opinion."
"I don't have any opinion."
"Then why did you say that?"
Li Nan revealed an expression of being defeated by Zhang Xiaolong.
"Boss Lee, it's mainly because I remembered what Boss Chen said."
"Boss Chen …"
Speaking of Boss Chen, Li Nan was a little surprised. "What did Boss Chen say to you?"
"Actually, it's nothing. At that time, we were eating in the cafeteria and Boss Chen happened to sit in front of my table. Then, we chatted during the meal. Boss Chen said that in fact, some of the overseas Internet giants looked very strong, but in fact, they were paper tigers. Once we meet them, we will find that these overseas Internet giants are just little brothers. "
"Little brothers?"
Li Nan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Do you think MSN is a little brother?"
"In any case, I believe Boss Chen's words."
"If Boss Chen says that we have ten thousand users, would you believe it?"
"Boss Chen said the same thing."
"No way, did Boss Chen really say that?"
"Yes."
Zhang Xiaolong nodded in confirmation.
A few days later.
Huanyu Technologies' subsidiary company in the United States, Huanyu Communications, officially released a brand new instant messenger, WeChat.
It was different from other instant messaging and different from other companies.
Although WeChat was not well known, and WeChat was just a newly launched instant messaging service.
But as long as he had the word Huanyu on him, he was always so eye-catching.
Huanyu's communications director, Li Nan, only held a press conference, and more than 100,000 people downloaded WeChat on the same day.
They didn't know what kind of instant messaging software WeChat was.
They didn't even know what functions WeChat had.
None of that mattered.
What mattered was that it was released by Huanyu Technologies.
Among them, there were super fans who worshipped Huanyu Technologies.
Among them, there were also some onlookers who saw the news and wanted to try it out.
Among them, there were a series of competitors from Huanyu Technologies.
Microsoft and AOL.
One of their products was MSN, and the other was icq.
In the U.S. market, MSN's usage rate was undoubtedly higher than icq's.
But in the global market, icq's usage rate was much higher than MSN's.
But no matter how good these two instant messaging services were, they were much more powerful than the freshmen's WeChat.
Not only were they more powerful than the freshmen's WeChat, but they were even more powerful than YY in China.
Under normal circumstances.
For a newly launched instant messaging service like this, it was impossible to attract the attention of WeChat and AOL.
It wasn't too difficult to develop an instant messaging app. As long as one was an undergraduate computer programmer, he or she could write an instant messaging app.
But.
It was too difficult to introduce an instant messaging service to the world.
So.
After I was launched, they didn't meet many competitors.
Although MSN lost to YY in China, that was because MSN was launched later than YY.
But …
If this instant messaging service was launched by Huanyu Technologies, it would be a different matter.
Even if it was just launched, even if it didn't have many registered users, Microsoft and AOL were the first to pay attention to WeChat.
Moreover, the person in charge even downloaded WeChat to try it out.
"WeChat."
Staring at the downloaded CEO "Joseph" on Pear's phone, he quickly registered his phone number.
The way he registered his phone number didn't surprise Joseph too much.
Because many companies had done this before.
It was just that …
When "Joseph" registered and tried it out, Joseph discovered a setting that surprised him very much.
In the "Add Friends" column, there was a column that said "Add Mobile Contacts".
At first, Joseph didn't know what this meant.
When he clicked on it, he realized.
It turned out that this "Add" was to add friends from his phone's contact list as his WeChat friends.
Social with acquaintances.
At this moment, Joseph thought of WeChat Friends.
WeChat Friends was a social network that was launched between acquaintances.
And it was launched globally.
He didn't expect WeChat to also learn this trick.
Moreover, their trick was even more brilliant.
Although WeChat Friends was a social network for acquaintances, their way of adding friends was obviously not as convenient as WeChat. It was also not as accurate as WeChat.
WeChat was based on the phone's contact list.
In other words …
You could instantly turn all your friends in reality into your WeChat friends.
As for the worry that they wouldn't add you or that they hadn't opened WeChat yet …
This didn't matter.
For friends who hadn't opened WeChat, you just needed to remind them. Then the system would send a text message to your phone's contact list friend. When your phone's contact list friend successfully downloaded and registered the recommendation reward of USD …
Perhaps you would find the recommendation troublesome.
It wasn't.
You just needed to click lightly and the recommendation would be complete.
If you had more than 100 or even hundreds of friends on your phone, you might earn a few hundred USD after clicking all of them.
Of course.
This wasn't the point.
Not to mention the monetary reward, even if there wasn't a monetary reward, you might recommend a friend in your phone's contact list to use WeChat.
Although Joseph was the CEO of MSN, he knew instant messaging very well.
He knew very well. For example, when you really wanted to chat with a beautiful woman in reality, but you couldn't always call her? Then what should you do?
The best way was to recommend an instant messaging device to her.
Then, you can chat as much as you want in the instant messaging.
You can chat as much as you want.
Alright.
The above wasn't the main point.
The main point was that the following trial had completely shocked Joseph.
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