Reborn multinational giant

As early as the beginning of this year, Huizhong had already launched WeChat Pay and its derivative red envelopes in China.

It's just that these functions are currently only available in the Chinese version of WeChat, and the English version and other international versions are not available. The reason is simple. It is more difficult to open a mobile payment abroad than to re-establish a Huizhong.

In China, the technology behind WeChat Pay is Alipay, which was spun off from Huizhong. As Alipay is a purely domestic-funded third-party transaction platform, it obtained a third-party payment license in China and allowed mobile payments and other businesses. .

However, in foreign countries, different online payment tools exist in various countries and regions, and since mobile payment involves the extremely important financial system of each country, it is extremely difficult for foreign companies to enter.

Just like in China, only purely domestic-funded third-party payment tools can obtain payment licenses. In developed countries such as Europe and the United States, the supervision of the financial system is even stricter.

Therefore, under the curve of saving the country strategy, WeChat wants to realize mobile payment in overseas areas, and it has become one of the best ways and choices to cooperate with various existing overseas payment tools and payment companies. Paypal, the current overseas area The largest third-party online payment tool has become Fang Zhe's first choice.

Mobile payment is an important part of WeChat’s transformation from a social communication tool to a platform, and it is also an important basic service function for WeChat to move from a platform to an ecosystem in the future. So even if Fang Zhe knows that there are many difficulties, it may even fail, but He still has to work hard. In Fang Zhe's view, the development trajectory of WeChat in this life is far different from the previous life. Now the history of WeChat is written by himself and Huizhong!

At around 21:00 PM Eastern Time on October 4, Fang Zhe’s special plane landed at San Francisco International Airport.

On the way from the airport to the Clement Hotel in Silicon Valley, Li Wen, who was in the car with Fang Zhe, took out an iPad from his bag, connected to the Internet, and handed it to Fang Zhe, who was sitting in the back row.

"President Fang, this is the video of Apple's new iphone4s conference this morning."

Fang Zhe, who was closing his eyes, opened his eyes when he heard the words, did not pay attention to Li Wenju’s ipad in the air, but turned his head and looked out the window. Under the brightly lit night, there were various English signs and different shapes and skins on the street. The foreigners gave Fang Zhe a strange feeling.

"No matter how great a cause is, what meaning does it have in the face of death?" Fang Zhe thought wildly in his mind.

Without exception, Fang Zhe thought of Jobs. If history has not changed, Jobs will leave the world tomorrow!

Looking at Fang Zhe, who has little interest, Li Wen recalled the iPad with interest. In the past, Fang always paid much attention to Apple’s press conferences. Even if he didn’t have time to watch the full video, he would understand the main content of Apple’s press conferences. In my own words, Apple is the main pioneer and leader of the mobile Internet and smart phones. Its every move determines the development direction of the entire industry.

Li Wen, who took back the iPad, suddenly remembered something very important. He said: "Oh, yes, this time the conference is presided over by the newly appointed CEO Cook two months ago. It seems like an external rumor. Jobs’ physical condition may be..."

Fang Zhe did not answer Li Wen’s words. He recalled the three meetings he had with Jobs in his mind, two in Silicon Valley and one in China. No matter how arrogant, paranoid and selfish Jobs was in his life, his contribution to the world was It is obvious to all, so in Fang Zhe's view, he can be regarded as a great man of this era.

But even a great man, at the end of his life, is no different from ordinary people. To this world, to the long history of human civilization, and even the vaster universe, all of this is meaningless. Compare yourself to being an unprecedented The rebirth, even if he makes earth-shattering careers in his life, he can't escape the loess in the end.

However, life is like a book. If you read the ending directly, everything will seem dull and meaningless. All meaning and value are found in the process of reading.

Fang Zhe, who has been reborn for more than three years, has long since become very determined. Instead of thinking about the meaning of life and philosophical principles, it is better to think about how to persuade paypal to cooperate with Huizhong, and even think about what to eat at night!

The next morning, Fang Zhe, who was still sleeping late, was awakened by a rush of phone calls and connected. Li Wen heard a somewhat anxious voice on the other side: "Fang, are you up? I just got news from Apple. Mr. Jobs passed away early this morning!"

Although he was prepared, Fang Zhe was still stunned for a few seconds when he heard the news.

Hanging up Li Wen's phone, Fang Zhe took a shower, and then came out to pack up. When he saw Li Wen, Huang Siyi and others, Fang Zhe was no different from usual.

Fang Zhe remembered that in his previous life, he knew about the news of Jobs' death, but he just looked at it as a piece of ordinary science and technology news, and he didn't even leave a comment.

However, in this life, Fang Zhe and Jobs will have a long-lost friendship by chance. The two are also "young and promising" and have similar interests in the mobile Internet industry, plus the identity of Zhang Zhe who died once and Jobs. After years of fighting against cancer, the two of them can talk about their values ​​and outlook on life.

However, Fang Zhe did not feel grief for the death of Jobs. At most, he regretted the death of a genius. In Fang Zhe's heart, all these things that he could not change are fate!

"His life is arrogant, paranoid, selfish, but..."

"I met Mr. Jobs three times..."

"Really, I still can't eat Kaygetsu's sashimi, but the taste of tempura shrimp is still the same!" Fang Zhe, who had lunch at Kaygetsu Japanese restaurant near Menlo Park in Silicon Valley, deleted it twice after having lunch. , Posted such a Weibo, two years ago, he met Jobs for the first time, it was at this restaurant to eat together.

The death of Steve Jobs caused a huge shock in the global technology industry, from US President O*Ma to Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates, Google’s founder Larry Page, Dell’s founder Michael Dell and even the domestic two horses. Famous people such as Mr. Li, Mr. Lei, Teacher Li, etc. all expressed their condolences through various channels.

Jobs is gone, but this era is not over. The next morning, Fang Zhe and Li Wen and other entourages appeared at the paypal headquarters in Mountain View, Silicon Valley!