Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1599 Eric

The mass-connected collaboration software is the main reason why Kurian made a business report to Boss Zhou today.

He was the vice president of Oracle before, in charge of product and R&D. As a software giant, this type of office software is of course within Oracle's business scope.

However, Oracle did not do it.

Among them, Kurian is very optimistic about one direction, which is the online collaboration tool of Volkswagen Connect. He has set up 2 R&D teams for this purpose, and has successively acquired 4 start-up companies. He wanted to make a breakthrough in this field, but none of them succeeded. .

In this market, there is a very powerful obstacle - WebEx.

WebEx is a video conferencing product that can accommodate hundreds of people for online meetings at the same time.Later, it was acquired by the technology giant Cisco. With money, resources and technology, it firmly occupied this market.

As a result, Kurian tried to grab this market several times when he was at Oracle, but failed.

After joining Ziweixing, he still can't forget it!

He wants to make it happen!
In fact, Weishu also has the function of online video conferencing. It can also have dozens or hundreds of people online at the same time. It is even more powerful than WebEx. It can store the content of the video conference online in the cloud, so that users can watch it repeatedly after the meeting.

However, Weishu's mass connectivity is not strong.

Weishu is a pure enterprise-level B-end product. It is a small circle, and there is no product logic for cross-circle connection.For example, Ziweixing employees should use Weishu to connect with Ziweixing and Ziweixing’s partners, and they cannot connect to other companies such as Baidu and Ali.

This kind of enterprise office product has a lot of internal company documents and business secrets, and the product concept does not encourage cross-circle connections.

However, Weishu employees sometimes need to communicate with Baidu or Alibaba employees online. Of course, this can also be achieved, but under normal circumstances, both parties are quite repulsed by this, and there must be taboos.

Public connected office products are for the public, and there is no small circle.Even if there is a small circle, it can be broken without restriction.

This requires that when designing this product, company secrets should be avoided as much as possible.

Just like WebEx, the function is very simple, that is, online meetings and multi-person video.Users cannot generate more work contacts through this product like Weishu.This kind of product logic allows WebEx to have mass attributes and the possibility of targeting more users.

Therefore, Kurian said: "Weishu's products are very powerful, but the product design is very complicated. This means that the market space is relatively small, and most companies and institutions do not use so many functions. Want to have more If we want to cover more industry fields, we must have product designs with popular connections and relatively simple functions, such as WebEx."

Zhou Buqi's heart is like a bright mirror.

Although he didn't get along for a long time, he also got to know the working style of Indians through multiple channels.Strong abilities are strong, but there are also obvious shortcomings. He loves to show off, loves to show off, and loves to grab credit.

In fact, it is the externalization of inner inferiority complex, what is lacking and shouting for.

Indians are a minority. If they don't show themselves and don't fight or grab, how can they become masters step by step in a foreign country?

This is actually correct.

Just like blacks and Mexicans, power is hard earned.China, Japan and South Korea... South Korea is actually okay. Koreans are very fierce. In 92, a fierce gun battle broke out in Los Angeles. Koreans charged with guns in the street, making black people stupid.

The Chinese and Japanese expatriates are very sad, they are too content with themselves, thinking that as long as they are good enough and decent enough, they can be respected and have the power they deserve.

This is related to the national memory. South Korea was ruled by a dark military government. The Koreans couldn’t bear it anymore, so they took sticks and made petrol bombs to fight against the military’s bullets with their flesh and blood. Then the system of South Korea was changed. It surpasses North Korea in every field.Japan is no good. Everything in Japan is a gift from the United States. The Japanese people are used to kneeling and waiting for rewards, and they can only endure when they are bullied.

Kurian's idea is actually simple, he just wants to show off and win credit.

No matter how the Weibo is revised, it is a product developed and designed by the domestic team, and it is left to Kurian to operate the overseas market.

Of course he was not reconciled.

I just want to launch an office collaboration software to show my ability!

Zhou Buqi is happy to see this phenomenon. He knows the WebEx product, but he is skeptical, "WebEx? I seem to have seen some data. The market share of this product seems to exceed 75%, right? Except for a few Silicon Valley giants , almost all schools, research institutions and companies in the United States are using this product."

Kurian said with a smile: "The market of Weibo is unknown, and we need to verify it. The market of video conferencing is different, and WebEx has proved the demand of this market. Now, more and more companies need to hold remote meetings. , More and more schools have opened online courses, and there are many training institutions and research institutions that collaborate across regions, all of which require online meetings."

"I know this direction has potential, but..." Zhou Buqi gave him a deep look, "Do you really think we can make this market work? I remember that Google has made similar products, and the market has not responded at all. "

Kurian is full of confidence, "Google can't do it, Microsoft can't do it, Adobe, IBM can't do it, and my old company Oracle can't do it either. But, I think Ziweixing can do it."

"Oh?" Zhou Buqi was very interested, "How did you judge?"

Kurian smiled and said, "Because of you."

"Me?" Zhou Buqi was amused by him, and he waved his hands again and again, "I can still call the wind and rain in China, but when I come to the United States, I am not familiar with the place, and I am powerless in many things."

Kurian said seriously: "No, I think you can really!"

Zhou Buqi looked suspicious.

It doesn't feel like this person is flattering on purpose, but he really thinks so.

Kurian explained: "That's right. WebEx was founded in 96. Eric was the core person in charge of project development. He led WebEx from a small company with 10 employees to a large company with 800 employees. From zero to $0 million. Then, Cisco bought WebEx for $8 billion, and Eric was promoted to vice president of products at Cisco.”

"Eric..."

Zhou Buqi vaguely heard Kurian's meaning.

This Eric is the key to the success of WebEx!

To dig him up?
This is not realistic!

Kurian was previously the vice president of products at Oracle, and Eric was the vice president of products at Cisco. From a level point of view, the two are equal.Digging Eric over to help Kurian?Can people agree?
There was a somewhat mysterious smile on Kurian's face, "Eric's English name, his Chinese name is Yuan Zheng."

Zhou Buqi was stunned, "Chinese?"

"Correct."

"Is that so..."

This time, Zhou Buqi had enough confidence and momentum.

The Chinese are the headquarters of Ziwei Star!
Regardless of whether Yuan Zheng changed his nationality or not, the nature of the Chinese will not change, so he should join Ziwei Star as a matter of course.Over the past year or so, there has been an atmosphere in Silicon Valley that is very unfriendly to the Chinese.

When many technology companies promote their executives, they have extremely restricted and extremely demanding requirements for the Chinese.The big reason is that the domestic technology industry has started. Domestic companies have come to Silicon Valley and poached too many Chinese executives to return to China. As a result, the talents cultivated by Silicon Valley technology companies have worked hard to make wedding dresses for others, attracting collective vigilance.

When many world-class large companies divide the world, they will have the Asia-Pacific region.Under the Asia-Pacific region, there will be China, Japan and South Korea, Southeast Asia, India and so on.

In the past, the president of the Greater China region was often the president of the Asia-Pacific region, and it was the Chinese who dominated the Asia-Pacific market.However, after the outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis, the situation began to change. The presidents of the Greater China region were still Chinese, and more of the presidents of the Asia-Pacific region became Indians.

A more typical example is Hulu. People from the parent company Comcast even said a lot of politically incorrect words, and the Chinese executive team resigned collectively.

It is conceivable that under this trend, Yuan Zheng, as Cisco's vice president of products, must also be thinking of retreating.Joining Ziweixing International is of course the best choice.

Ziweixing International is the base camp for Chinese elites working in Silicon Valley.

Kurian said: "WebEx was created by Eric Yuan, and he did it very successfully. But there is no perfect product in this world. If there is one person in this world who understands the shortcomings of WebEx best, then it must be him. If you can invite him to come over and lead the development of a similar product to compete with WebEx, making use of strengths and avoiding weaknesses, you will be very likely to succeed! Google can’t do it, Microsoft can’t do it, Adobe can’t do it, Oracle can’t do it, but I believe he can do it!”

"Ah."

Zhou Buqi nodded, basically confirming this idea.

Next, the two exchanged some opinions on this idea.

If Ziwei Cloud wants to develop in the short term, it relies on cloud data centers all over the world with enough servers and storage space.In the longer term, we still need to provide better and better services.

"Cloud computing + software" is the direction of Saas. Whether it is Weidian Notes, Everledger, Impression Cloud Disk, Weishu and this video conferencing product under preparation, they are all Saas products and services.

Relying on the background cloud computing platform to provide support for these cloud products.

If these products are implemented, it shows that Ziwei Cloud has strong infrastructure capabilities, and it will attract more cloud products to settle on Ziwei Cloud.

In the later stage of Microsoft Cloud's efforts, it can gradually narrow the gap with Amazon Cloud. The fundamental reason is that Microsoft is a software giant, and Microsoft Cloud has the most abundant software products and services.

What Ziweixing lacks the most is the product capability of the software, and it really depends on Kurian to make this direction!
(End of this chapter)