Reborn multinational giant

Fang Zhe heard Zhou Feng say this, and he took a long sigh. Do you think I don't want to put it on my own cloud?But our family still can't afford its own cloud products!

For any ordinary data center, the investment has to start with several hundred million, let alone to do it in the world. At this stage, international giants such as Amazon and IBM have the capital and ability to develop cloud business globally. We Huizhong, too So poor!

Although Huizhong now has two core businesses supporting mobile games and web games, and its products have been launched one after another, its monthly revenue has stabilized at more than 400 million yuan, and its net profit has reached more than 200 million yuan.

But after all, Huizhong has only been established for a short period of time and has not yet accumulated many homes. In April, the international version of "Happy Farm", the main product abroad, made such a big wave, and its revenue was greatly affected.

It was not until the end of April that "Happy Ranch" gradually recovered stability. In May, Huizhong invested another 50 million yuan in the payment industry. Now, Huizhong's cash reserves are only over 300 million yuan, which is not as good as the previous life. Apple’s half-day net profit, and more than half of the funds, have been booked by the business plan, including the overseas expansion of the web game platform, payment business development subsidies, and the promotion fee for the upcoming "Happy Fishing Farm" and "Happy Town" and many more.

When Fang Zhe planned to build a global mobile chat software, one of the reasons why he said it was a gold swallowing behemoth was that he considered the cost of building data centers around the world. However, it is obvious that Huizhong has not built it globally. The ability to own an independent data center.

The richer the poorer!Fang Zhe realized another meaning of this sentence for the first time. When you want to spend more money than you have and earn more, you will feel poor, no matter if you have tens of thousands or hundreds of millions. Worth.

Fang Zhe glanced at Zheng Siwen, turned his head and said to Zhou Feng: "You ask our accountant, how can we afford our own cloud business now! We can only hold the thighs of a few of them and wait for the money. When enough, we will build our own data center!"

After receiving Fang Zhe's explanation, Zhou Feng stopped worrying about this matter. Looking at Mr. Fang's answer, it was obvious that he had already planned for this matter.

Next, Fang Zhe and Zhou Feng and Zheng Siwen discussed in detail the details of the launch and operation of WeChat. Although there is a dedicated operation team responsible for operating WeChat after the launch, they are definitely not like Fang Zhe and Zhou Feng. The two product producers have a better understanding of the product, and many things need to be considered in advance by both of them.

On June 8th, Zhou Feng and the seven people reported to the new office in Xierqi, and they soon adapted to the new environment. The new office was about one kilometer away from Huizhong headquarters, which was convenient for Fang Zhe.

The reason why they are allowed to avoid Huizhong alone is to avoid crowded eyes. Nowadays, Huizhong’s every move is not known by how many people and companies are staring at it. Fang Zhe’s current mentality is that he can keep it for as long as he can. , The longer you hide, the greater the advantage of making a fortune.

Here, the operation team, including many foreign friends, has a total of 20 people. It is basically enough to cope with the launch of the first version of WeChat for the time being. In the future, we will recruit people while developing.

In the past life, when WhatsApp had 1 billion users worldwide, the number of the entire company was only in the 50s. Although Fang Zhe envied its operating costs and single-person output, he thought of how simple whatsapp was before it was acquired by Facebook. The content of the product and the mode of operation are nothing more.

There are no exceptions in this life. They should do this more than the whatsapp online in the morning. Fang Zhe has long analyzed the pros and cons of its pure tool chat software and WeChat chat software that makes a platform and even an ecology. In the early stage, WeChat will favor the lightweight operation of Whatsapp. After the number of users reaches a certain number, it will switch to the platform and ecological operation method of Tencent WeChat in the past.

Don’t you see, did Facebook and its products in previous lives start to learn from WeChat in China?In Fang Zhe's view, foreign product managers are really not as good as domestic product managers in terms of the level of Internet products!

After Zhou Feng moved in, they began to work intensively with the operation team, and at the same time cooperate with the preparations for the launch of the first version of WeChat. This is also the problem of their company being too big and paying too much attention to the product. Look at the previous WhatsApp launch, the producer Developed, just tested it and there was no problem, so it was thrown directly to the appstore.

How much preparation is like Fang Zhe and Huizhong. If Fang Zhe had just started a business, he would probably have the same product thinking as whatsapp, but now that it is the flagship product of Huizhong, it would be so casual if it were to die. And give my life to God to go random.

Although nowadays, including the upcoming WeChat and Huizhong's many products and businesses overseas, servers are deployed on Amazon Cloud, IBM Cloud and the just-started Microsoft Cloud, but this does not mean that Fang Zhe and Huizhong do not want to be as early as possible Start your own cloud business!

cloud computing!It represents the server and data resource solutions in the era of mobile Internet 3G, 4G and even 5G. The most famous products in the past foreign countries are Amazon Cloud, Microsoft Cloud, IBM Cloud and other large companies.

Before Fang Zhe’s rebirth, the most famous were Alibaba’s Alibaba Cloud, Tencent’s Tencent Cloud, and Baidu’s Baidu Cloud. Judging from the development of cloud computing in the past, this kind of thing is not done by ordinary small companies. Yes, the reason is very simple. Small companies can't afford it. Any data center can start at hundreds of millions, not to mention that it wants to be a general cloud service product that serves tens of millions of companies or developers.

Fang Zhe remembers that in his previous life, Alibaba Cloud established the company in 2009, which is September this year. Prior to this, the team had been preparing to develop Alibaba Cloud's "Flying" cloud computing system.

The person in charge of Alibaba Cloud is Dr. Wang Jian, former deputy dean of Microsoft Research Asia. From the perspective of talent level, Lin Xiaobin, deputy dean of Google China Research Institute whom Fang Zhe knows, is no different. Such talents are already domestic Internet A small group at the top of the industry.

Even so, the start of Alibaba Cloud can be described as extremely difficult. At the beginning of its establishment, Alibaba Cloud has been unable to find an accurate development direction. Many people in Alibaba have great doubts about cloud computing, even Wang Jian is responsible. People have been scolded many times by many employees on the intranet, saying that he is a liar, that cloud computing is a bubble, etc., including Tencent's President Ma, Baidu's President Li and many other Internet people have doubts about cloud computing. , This is the current status of cloud computing in the mainland.

Wang Jian was under tremendous pressure for this. A man in his 40s cried several times at the annual meeting. Fortunately, Mr. Ma, the leader of Ali, has been benchmarking its overseas rival Amazon. Amazon has done cloud computing. With wind and water, President Ma has always believed in the future of cloud computing and gave Wang Jian enough trust to let him slowly build Alibaba Cloud.

Before Fang Zhe’s rebirth, Alibaba Cloud was already the largest cloud computing vendor in China, generating tens of billions of revenue for Alibaba every year, and it has maintained a very high growth rate. In 2018, the independent Alibaba Cloud business, The capital market has given a valuation of nearly 70 billion U.S. dollars, which is worthy of a Jingdong or Meituan!