Reborn multinational giant

At the beginning of the new year, the global hustle and bustle of WeChat, as well as the various reports and news about Huizhong's valuation and Fang Zhe's another set of China's richest man's worth record, were not interrupted. Fang Zhe, who is at ease in the future development of Huizhong!

If 2010 is the year when the global mobile Internet has grown from germination to growth, then 2011, 2012, 2013 and even 2014, these four years can be regarded as the growth of the mobile Internet globally. Long growth and rapid popularity, a period of rapid growth from a small tree to a towering tree!

In the past four years, startups that have emerged from all over the world have gradually grown into unicorns, small giants, spreading across all walks of life, like a flowery blossom, using the power of the mobile Internet to transform one industry after another, and change The lives of hundreds of millions of people!

Therefore, in the next year or even three to four years, Fang Zhe has planned several things to do for Huizhong, the world's most promising startup company founded by himself.

First, without exception, it is natural to continue to vigorously develop WeChat to ensure the smooth rise of WeChat in the world and become a mobile social software for all people in the mobile Internet era, spanning east and west!

Second, the entire Huizhong company, as well as its products, have begun to transform from tools to platforms, especially WeChat, which has nearly 400 million users worldwide.

From tools to platforms to ecology and from technology to services to standards, these two processes are the evolutionary principles for an Internet company to become bigger and stronger.

From tools to platforms, it refers to a product. Because it provides a very popular function, it has accumulated a large number of users, such as Tencent's QQ, Huizhong's WeChat, etc., in essence and principle In other words, both of them are just two social software that provide social functions, and can be regarded as more complex tool software.

However, the social nature of these two software is destined to have a huge number of users. Just like Tencent QQ currently has nearly 700 million QQ accounts nationwide, of course, how many of them have one person registering multiple accounts? Unknown, WeChat has nearly 400 million registered users worldwide.

The number of users of the two is very large. At the same time, it means that if you just treat these two software as pure social software, you are simply looking for money in a golden mountain, and you don’t know the place under your feet. Mountains are the most valuable treasure!

Among them, Tencent QQ, which has been in business for many years, has continued to tap into the Tencent empire by setting foot in various fields while QQ users continue to grow.

However, Tencent’s practice of eating alone while guarding Jinshan is obviously easy to be an enemy of the entire Internet industry. Last year’s 3Q war and later Penguin Diagnostics Conference, Tencent changed from closed to “open” and established an open platform. The idea of ​​gold mining has changed from eating alone to sharing it with "friends" in the whole industry.

What Huizhong has to do, especially WeChat, is similar in essence to Tencent QQ. It is to use the huge resources of WeChat users, cooperate with the global Internet industry, and even friends from all walks of life, to explore this Gold mine!

This is a simple understanding of the transition from tools to platforms. In fact, whether it is Tencent QQ or Huizhong WeChat, or foreign Internet companies with a considerable user scale such as mysapce and facebook, they have to do so. do.

Because Piff is not guilty of guilty, even if companies such as Tencent and Huizhong are powerful Internet giants, they cannot be enemies with tens of millions of Internet companies in the industry. They are not your benefit sharing. Who is the contender for your interests!

Tencent has used its own experience and lessons to prove it personally. As a reborn, Fang Zhe understands the development history of Tencent, Alibaba, and many top Internet companies in the past few decades. More profound.

If we say that the current WeChat is just a powerful Internet product and a strong one, then after becoming a platform, WeChat will become an alliance of the strong and tens of millions of strong and weak vested interests around the world.

Governments of major powers, and even some top capital forces, unite and take great efforts and methods to destroy the current WeChat. It is not difficult to do. But if WeChat is tied to tens of millions of companies around the world, hundreds of millions of people are involved. So let alone the top capital alliance, even if some major governments start their hands, they have to think about it.

To be a platform is to take roots of big trees, various small branches and vines, so that the roots of the big tree of WeChat will be firmly rooted in the interests of tens of millions of companies and hundreds of millions of people around the world. It’s hard to blow down WeChat and Huizhong that have grown into towering trees!

As for the future from platform to ecology, it involves a giant Internet company that makes up for various loopholes in its business system and builds an ecological closed loop, which is as prosperous and prosperous as the natural ecosystem!

This point also involves the third point that Huizhong will do in the next few years, to discover and cultivate a variety of startups, small giants and unicorns around the world.

If one company in Huizhong can only be regarded as a big tree, then the various small giants and other companies discovered and cultivated by Huizhong can be regarded as other big trees.

A single tree does not become a forest, a thousand trees become a forest, and a thousand trees become a forest. When the small giant unicorns discovered and cultivated by Huizhong grow into towering trees, the ecosystem of Huizhong is gradually established and When it's solid.

Moreover, with the advantages of Fang Zhe's rebirth, the small giants and unicorns that Huizhong will discover and cultivate in the future have far surpassed any other small giants and unicorns around the world's top companies.

At that time, Huizhong will not only become the world's top companies like Microsoft, Apple, and IBM, but I am afraid that it will be, throughout the ages, the world's top top companies.

Even AT&T, which dominated the third industrial revolution in the last century, and the Fairchild who reproduced Silicon Valley, are far less great than Huizhong in the future!

A great cause requires great ambition and perseverance, but also a down-to-earth!

This is more than two years since Fang Zhe founded Huizhong, he has gradually realized the profound truth from his former high spirits to the present down-to-earth.

As the helm of a giant Internet company like Huizhong, Fang Zhe can’t live without these lofty ambitions and pursuits, just like the words of Ali Ma, who was very impressed in Fang Zhe’s previous life: The reason why Alibaba can become a great company The company is because we insist on idealism!

A company without dreams is a company that will not go far, and a company without a dream can lead a company to glory and greatness.

However, Fang Zhe better understands the importance of being down-to-earth. Therefore, when Fang Zhe’s three plans for the future Huizhong are implemented, the outside Internet peers and competitors began to think again. What are you doing?

On February 28, 2011, the last day of February, Huizhong announced that it would acquire AutoNavi Maps, a leading digital map content, navigation and location service solution provider in China, with a cash price of US$450 million!