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Chapter 188 For a different style of play, Weixin sets sail overseas!

On April 4, Germination Building.

In addition to Zhao Mingchuan, Jiang Yue, and Zhang Shuo's office, there was also Lu Kai who came here from Xiangjiang.

Everyone sat together and discussed the issue of Weixin's overseas version of Wichat.

Counting it, Weixin 3.0 was updated on January 1st, and it has been almost four months since now. Of course, it is impossible for Qinghe Technology R&D Department to say that it only came up with the heavy update of "Video Chat".

More energy is spent on the research and development of the overseas version of Wichat.

According to Zhao Mingchuan's previous idea, he planned to set up branches in major overseas markets in accordance with the conventional routine and through the channels of Sunshine Holdings to promote Weixin's overseas version.

It was just rejected by Zhang Shuo.

The reason is also very simple. The original space-time Weixin has little influence overseas. Although overseas users are also claimed to exceed [-] million, they are mainly Chinese students studying abroad and overseas Chinese.

Then there is the crooked nut that has business dealings with Huaxia.

Weixin, who dominates domestically, may not be said to be uninterested overseas, but it is true that it has not been able to become the mainstream social software in the local area, and its market share has never been high.

There are many reasons for this.

For example, after Weixin goes overseas, some functions that are very useful in China will be restricted and cannot be used.

For example, video cannot be used in some countries, and even the voice function cannot be used in some countries and regions. Even the most convenient Weixin payment is restricted everywhere.

After all, Weixin is tailor-made for the daily life of ordinary people in China, and when they go abroad, they must be somewhat uncomfortable.

Then there is the domestication effect of Washbasin on users for a long time.

As a dating software that dominates the world, Washbasin.com started early, has great influence, and has relatively simple functions. It is mainly used for users to share pictures, moods, short articles, etc.

This has caused many crooked nuts to get used to this kind of software with a single function.

Compared with social software like Weixin, which can socialize and post their mood at the same time, they would rather use one software for socializing and one for posting their mood.

Just weird.

In addition, in the social field, Washbasin itself has a first-mover advantage, so it is difficult for Weixin to get involved.

But it doesn't mean that Wichat has no chance at all, because Wichat's target is not Washbasin, but WhatsApp, which also does communication and social networking.

WhatsApp was born in 2009 and only launched a non-IOS version last year.

The pace of development is not fast.

It was not until 2014 in the original time and space that Washbasin acquired WhatsApp at a sky-high price of 190 billion US dollars, and the latter ushered in a real explosive growth, slamming Wichat in many overseas countries.

The goal Zhang Shuo wants to achieve.

It is to develop Wichat and then achieve the purpose of replacing WhatsApp.

But even if it is just to achieve this secondary goal, it is estimated that it will not be possible to achieve it if it is still played according to the original time and space Tengda.

Need to find another way.

"My opinion is that Sunshine Holdings should take the lead in registering an independent technology company in the beautiful country, operating Wichat independently, and at the same time introducing investors such as Pirates Saint Group." Zhang Shuo took the lead in expressing his opinion.

Although Wichat was developed by Qinghe Technology, as long as Qinghe Technology signs a technology transfer agreement with Sunlight Holdings, this part of Wichat's assets can be injected into Sunlight Holdings.

Of course.

Although it belongs to the same holding company, the technology transfer fee should still be paid.

"Mr. Zhang, haven't you always opposed the introduction of venture capital?" Jiang Yue was puzzled.

"It's not contradictory."

Zhang Shuo explained: "Before I opposed the introduction of venture capital. One was that Germination was not short of money, and the other was that it was limited to the domestic market. In overseas markets, to be honest, we really don't have the confidence to reject capital now."

He is just, not reckless.

Especially in the territory of the beautiful country, you don't follow other people's rules of the game, and you still want to develop?

Dream it!
Furthermore, Germination's style of play at home and abroad is completely different.

In China, Weixin can take a platform-based development path and use Huaxia's convenient infrastructure advantages to integrate functions such as small programs, mobile payments, and smart cities.

This is also what Huaxia users are happy to see.

As long as it is not like Tengda in the original space-time, it will lose money in the end. It is not enough to control the largest traffic entrance, and it has to insert advertisements in the circle of friends.

It's outrageous!

As for the overseas market, Zhang Shuo didn’t have so many ideas at all. His only idea was to use the power of capital to push Wichat into the IPO, and he would leave after he made a profit.

Even if it is not listed, Washbasin's 190 billion US dollars is still very greedy.

With the help of the system's cover, Germination can easily flow the huge amount of money harvested from the beautiful country back to the country to help upgrade the domestic mobile phone, electric vehicle and other industries.

Doesn't it smell?

A simple summary is that domestic sprouts still have feelings, while overseas is purely business.

"All right!"

Jiang Yue probably understood.

The domestic market is Zhang Shuo's bottom line, an existence that cannot be touched.

"If we operate in this way, won't Wichat occupy Weixin's overseas market in the future?" Zhao Mingchuan also raised his worries and concerns.

If Wichat operates independently, Weixin's overseas development will definitely be limited.

"Let's squeeze it out. Weixin mainly focuses on the domestic market. If it's great, it will expand its sphere of influence to Southeast Asia, Africa and other regions." Zhang Shuo is very optimistic.

Social software itself has strong localization attributes, coupled with privacy, big data and other considerations, countries with a little strength in the Internet field will basically develop their own social apps.

After all, it is only a purely application-level thing, and it does not have any high threshold like chips.

The development difficulty is very small.

Even in the markets of Korea and Japan, Weixin couldn't squeeze in.

For example, Korea has Kakao Talk, Japan has Line, Beast League uses messenger more, and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, South Asia, Africa, and some Western European countries use WhatsApp more.

"Uh, okay!"

Zhao Mingchuan was a little surprised, and didn't understand why the boss had so little confidence in Weixin's overseas promotion.

According to his previous understanding of Zhang Shuo, he thought that with Zhang Shuo's lofty ambitions and relatively strong family and country feelings, he would propose the grand goal of letting Weixin dominate the world.

did not expect.

When it was time to be pragmatic, Zhang Shuo was more pragmatic than anyone else.

"Sprout's goal is to tell a good story to Wichat, put on a beautiful coat, and then pack it up and market it. This kind of thing, you should be the best at it?" Zhang Shuo looked at Lu Kai with a smile.

"Don't worry, leave it to me."

Lu Kai also did his part, and finally he was able to give full play to his strengths.

"That's settled then."

Zhang Shuo scanned around the three executives. To make this happen, Qinghe Technology needed to cooperate on the product side, Sunlight Holdings needed to work on the market side, and Jiang Yue coordinated on behalf of the holding company.

It's basically done.

The current Germination has long been different from the time when it was first established. It has elite soldiers and strong generals. Many things only need Zhang Shuo to set a general direction, and the executives can execute them perfectly.

Sometimes it even exceeds Zhang Shuo's expectations.

Like Jiang Yue's Yaya Real Estate, although there are four projects under its name, Qingyun Data Center, Yaya Houhai Headquarters Building, Youth Apartment, and Yaya Houhai Global R&D Center, all of which are in operation at the same time.

But it was handled in an orderly manner.

Another example is Green Orange Retail. Ever since Pei Weiping took over, Zhang Shuo has hardly been worried. Even if he made a small mistake, he was quickly corrected.

Managed more than a hundred stores at the same time, and nothing went wrong.

Not to mention the big Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment, Zhang Shuo is a ruthless "planning machine", and Cao Yanhua is in charge of the rest, making Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment's plate bigger and bigger.

should say.

The basic team of the germination department has been stabilized.

I'm thinking about it.

Cao Yanhua knocked on the door and came in. I really missed Cao Cao, and Cao Cao was there.

"Mr. Zhang, the fish is hooked."

Unlike the depression of the last meeting, Cao Yanhua was very happy this time.

"How to say?"

Zhang Shuo smiled and asked Cao Yanhua to sit down.

"According to your instructions, we specially asked Shuiqilin Studio and Zhelong Studio to make some noise and release bait, and Tengda was really fooled. In just one week, he bought six game studios. Basically, what do we mean? , Tengda will follow wherever, and then resolutely buy at a premium." Cao Yanhua was a little sour.

Teng Dahao was arrogant, it was really a waste of money.

"Okay."

As the behind-the-scenes planner of this matter, Zhang Shuo was also very excited.

With these six game studios, plus the two previously acquired in the capital, Tengda acquired eight game studios in a very short period of time.

It is indeed more arrogant than Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment.

But the problem is, after Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment acquired the game studio, Zhang Shuo will basically give new game plans to ensure that the studio can run quickly.

And what about Tenda?

Tengda hopes that the acquired game studio can bring them surprises and produce a mobile game that can compete with Jade Bird Huyu.

That was bound to be a disappointment.

Not only that, because of high expectations, Tenda will transfer capable personnel from the headquarters to the newly acquired game studio to speed up the development process.

And this is further into the quagmire.

When the game is produced, Tenda will spend a considerable amount of channel resources and marketing expenditures to promote these so-called "seed players".

The final result.

Of course, he was slapped in the face by the market and voted by players with their feet.

The direction was wrong at the beginning, and the harder Tengda worked, the more he would deviate from the track.

No luck.

"One more thing, Tengda's poaching of Jade Bird Huyu has basically stopped." Cao Yanhua said.

"That's good."

Zhang Shuo reckoned that the conversation between him and Ma Erye that day might have played a role.

It seems that Tengda still has some face.

Cao Yanhua also quietly breathed a sigh of relief, if Tengda continued poaching people, he would not be able to stand it.

Although the lost talents can be re-recruited in the market, it will eventually affect the production progress of major game studios, which means that both sides suffer.

Tenda is willing to stop, of course it couldn't be better.

(End of this chapter)