Reborn multinational giant

"That's the situation. According to the news that our overseas contacts have learned, three of the eight teams that did stranger projects in Silicon Valley before have received investment, and the remaining five are either transforming or supporting themselves."

On the special plane from Yanjing to San Francisco, Huang Siyi, the head of Huizhong Investment Department who rushed back from Hong Kong, briefly reported to Fang Zhe about Momo's overseas launch.

Because of Huizhong’s support behind it, whether it is recommended by major app stores such as appstore and 91 assistants, or various channel resources such as advertising exposure, Momo’s launch is modeled after Huizhong’s WeChat play, and it is fast and accurate. Global promotion.

Although most ordinary people overseas do not understand the China Internet Entrepreneurship Competition, with the support of Huizhong's resources, Momo, which has only been online for less than a week overseas, has won nearly 10 million registered users. For Momo The global Internet industry, especially Silicon Valley, has shown sufficient vigilance.

WeChat’s lessons learned are praised by many Silicon Valley and European and American Internet industry peers as the shame of the Western Internet industry. If WeChat had not held a few thighs when the global users exceeded 100 million, I am afraid that WeChat would have long been used by various major Internet companies in Europe and America. A bunch of start-up companies are running on food, so the Internet industry in Europe and the United States, especially Silicon Valley, which is known as the leader of the global Internet industry, does not allow similar things to happen again.

Although the idea of ​​socializing with strangers comes from the Chinese project called Tang Yan and Mo Mo, who said that hundreds of millions of Americans and Europeans cannot come up with such an idea?

Therefore, this time, many Silicon Valley people no longer care about the so-called innovation and plagiarism debate, all in order to protect the US and global markets that Silicon Valley regards as a thing in the bag, or better speaking, all in order to match the money.

Fang Zhe had already anticipated these situations in Silicon Valley. Although Silicon Valley prides itself on protecting innovation and the leader of the global Internet industry, in the face of interests, all this has to be calculated separately.

"President Fang, there have been some overseas voices recently saying that Momo is a tool for the Chinese government to steal and collect the privacy of overseas users, especially Momo uses the user's geographic location information. Media and some politicians in many countries have said In order to protect the privacy of citizens and users and national security, we must block Momo!"

"Blocked? Mo Mo has just launched overseas, how could it cause such a big reaction?" Fang Zhe said with a sneer.

"You mean?" Huang Siyi thoughtfully.

Fang Zhe nodded: "I'm afraid that some overseas Internet companies have already taken action. Although they obviously disdain to care about a small company like Momo, just a few words behind them are enough to influence the overseas situation! And, I have one idea. This intuition, their goal is not just a Momo that few foreigners have heard of!"

"We?" Huang Siyi said two words and did not continue.

Fang Zhe looked at him and said slowly, "You know, many people in the United States and Western countries have been very hostile to China. Even if we try to weaken the Chinese elements of WeChat, most overseas users don’t even know that WeChat is a Chinese version. Software, but there are still many negative voices against WeChat overseas at all times. Our overseas public opinion monitoring department collects more than a thousand negative news on Huizhong and WeChat every day.

And more importantly, the big overseas Internet companies can not tolerate us eating this big cake. Since we launched the platform strategy at the beginning of this year, WeChat has transformed from a social communication tool to a social platform, and the potential of WeChat has exploded. The space for development and development is also growing. The board of directors was opened two days ago. The equity representatives of Japan's Softbank and Carlyle of the United States all expressed their hope that we will conduct the next round of financing as soon as possible!"

"Financing?" Huang Siyi understood the intentions of SoftBank and Carlyle in a blink of an eye. Huizhong's current development is not bad for money. They want Huizhong to raise funds. Obviously, they want to increase investment and further control Huizhong. The greater good!

Huang Siyi didn’t answer Fang Zhe’s words. Although he wanted to ask Fang Zhe’s plans and thoughts, it was clear that this kind of thing was not something he could worry about. However, Fang Zhe did not hide from him. Huang Siyi was a veteran and capable of following his own business. Gan Jiang, under Huizhong’s equity incentives over the past two years, he has already belonged to the vested interests of the senior executives of Huizhong, and he is firmly tied to a chariot with Fang Zhe. Fang Zhe trusts him very much, otherwise he will not. Let him be responsible for an important department of Huizhong's external investment business.

"Hmph, greed is human nature, but now we WeChat has 600 million users around the world, millions of media and companies are using our official account and subscription account and other related services, we are no longer a child, they Don’t even think about getting more cakes casually!"

The good development of WeChat in the world has given Fang Zhe and Huizhong different confidence and confidence. Now Huizhong, even if there is still a big gap with multinational giants like Microsoft and Google, it is at the quasi-multinational level. With the accumulation of time, WeChat's global roots will only become deeper and deeper, and the ability to respond to and resist external difficulties and attacks will become stronger.

"On the whole, our WeChat development strategy in the past two years has remained unchanged from a tool to a platform. Since there are more people outside who want to share this piece of cake, it is worse than we take the initiative to send it to them. At least we can maintain Enough initiative, so this time we go to the United States to negotiate with eBay, we only need to succeed, not to fail!"

When Fang Zhe said this, he dismissed Huang Siyi and leaned on a cabin chair to rest. This time he went to the United States. Fang Zhe’s main purpose was to negotiate cooperation with eBay.

eBay, one of the giants in the overseas e-commerce industry, is the same as domestic Taobao, mainly doing C2C and B2C business, but what is interesting is that in China, Taobao and Alibaba, which are very similar to ebay business, far exceed Amazon is very similar to Jingdong, but in foreign countries, the two are the opposite.

Of course, Fang Zhe did not intend to intervene in the overseas e-commerce industry. Although his girlfriend and sister-in-law have started vertical e-commerce, he and Huizhong did not intend to do it personally, because in this field, even Fang Zhe He is a rebirth, and he sighs that he can't have Ma and Alibaba do better.

The main goal of Fang Zhe's cooperation with eBay is actually paypal, a payment tool under eBay.

Paypal is a third-party payment tool like Alipay under Huizhong and Alipay. It was co-founded by the real "Iron Man" Elon Musk and his friends at the end of the last century.

In 2002, PayPal was bought by eBay for 1.5 billion U.S. dollars. Today, PayPal has more than 200 million payment users worldwide, and its annual transaction volume exceeds 200 billion U.S. dollars. It is currently the world’s largest third-party online payment in non-China regions. Tool, the purpose of Huizhong's cooperation with paypal is to connect paypal to WeChat payment in overseas areas!