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From Zhou Buqi's point of view, he very much hopes that Facebook can enter the domestic market and make money, just like a "hostage".

The more money you make, the stronger the hostage effect becomes.

Microsoft and Apple are the most pro-China among the Silicon Valley giants because they have made enough money in the domestic market and their interests determine their stance. If more Silicon Valley technology companies have this attitude, it will be more conducive to Ziweixing's survival environment in the United States.

If Facebook cannot even get domestic entry tickets, when the two sides compete in the future, it is very likely that it will rise from the commercial to the geopolitical field. Just like the generals who went out to fight in ancient times, the whole family had to stay in the capital. In fact, they were "hostages." Once there are no hostages, the leading general can launch a rebellion without any pressure.

In this life, Zhou Buqi has two very good personal friends in the United States, one is Larry Page and the other is Mark Zuckerberg.

Although at the company level, we have a strong competitive relationship with Ziweixing.

But the personal relationship is very good.

I just hope that when the two parties compete in the future, they can stick to the bottom line, and commercial companies only compete at the commercial level, and do not divert conflicts and cause Ziweixing to suffer unreasonable disasters... Mainly Ziweixing International, there is no such thing in the shareholder structure of Ziweixing International A tiny bit of state-owned capital is different from the state-owned capital in the previous life where the state-owned capital had a veto power. Don’t hate it.

In order to allow Ziweixing International to develop smoothly internationally without restrictions in the future, it can be said that Boss Zhou has made efforts in all aspects in the past few years.

Although Zhou Buqi really hopes that Facebook can be launched in China, business belongs to business, and market belongs to market, but it is impossible for him to participate in helping. If he goes beyond this step, it will easily step on the sensitive nerves of many people. The most that can be done is to introduce Mr. Wang of Mobile to Sheryl Sandberg, and then sit back and watch her leave in despair after failure.

I thought I would take action today.

Unexpectedly, Sheryl Sandberg said that she hopes to start talks with mobile companies in two days. In these two days... first, we will visit the Internet companies in the capital, such as Baidu, Sina, Fantuan.com, as well as Alibaba, Penguin, and NetEase. branch in the capital.

What we want to visit today is naturally the headquarters of Ziweixing.

She wanted to visit every building.

Take a look at every department.

Come and experience the atmosphere and working atmosphere of the domestic Internet industry up close.

Of course this is possible. Zhou Buqi has visited Facebook so many times, but he doesn’t have time to accompany him, so he arranged for Qin He, the president of Xiaonei.com, and his secretary Ning Lu to accompany him throughout the whole process. Is there anything you need? Everything is arranged as much as possible, and confidential items can be referred to level two.

In other words, except for first-level confidential projects and materials, she can see anything she wants.

Zhou Buqi called Fu Hongliang and returned to his office. He said funnyly: "The efficiency of Americans is really bad. Talking about such an important business has to be postponed to the day after tomorrow."

Fu Hongliang said: "Maybe I want to use these two days to ferment and gain some influence from Ziweixing."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "It's useless to offend anyone for this kind of thing."

Fu Hongliang said with a smile: "A lot of things that are published and spread on the Facebook platform from time to time make a lot of people hate them. I finally caught the opportunity to take advantage of them. It's weird that I can approve it!"

Zhou Buqi stopped continuing the topic and invited him to the reception room. He took two cans of iced Coke, one for each person, "I invited Zhang Xiaolong over. Do you have any ideas in your mind?"

Fu Hongliang smiled and shook his head.

Zhou Buqi said: "It's normal to have ideas. WeChat was developed by you, and Zhang Xiaolong was your loser."

Fu Hongliang said "hmm" and said with a smile: "Of course you have your reasons for arranging this. The biggest contributor to the success of WeChat is not me, but you. I followed your design of this product. To develop ideas, I can be regarded as an executor at most.”

Zhou Buqi waved his hand and said, "I'm humble."

Fu Hongliang is an alumnus of him and is one year ahead of him. "Anyway, I will listen to your arrangements. Guo Pengfei told me that you have more important plans."

"There are more important arrangements." Zhou Buqi smiled, "I put Zhang Xiaolong in that position. The upper limit has been fixed. His career in this life will be like that. You can see the end at a glance. But you don't Same, we are all so young, you can still have more room for improvement in the future. This time Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is here, and you have seen it. What’s the point of fighting a civil war in the domestic market? When the time comes, it’s better to go global and compete with Facebook. This is called strength. There should be no upper limit in our career plan. WeChat only develops in the domestic market. The upper limit is visible to the naked eye, so you don’t have to worry too much.”

Fu Hongliang said: "No worries, I also feel that my mission on WeChat has been achieved. Penguin's Q letter has been given up, and Ali's contacts have also surrendered."

"Oh?" Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows, "Did you surrender?"

"Well, it's just about the past few days."

"give up?"

"It doesn't seem to have given up. It is said to be a transformation. It is transforming into the field of e-commerce and social networking. The products have been downgraded and there is no longer direct competition with WeChat. The wealthy people have no more product investment. It is basically surrendering. ”

"This old horse..."

Zhou Buqi shook his head. It seemed that Boss Ma still listened to his suggestion and gave up the relationship decisively.

Fu Hongliang said with a smile: "Laiwang is embarrassing enough. Do you know the two earth-shattering slogans he shouted when Laiwang first came out?"

Zhou Buqi was not sure, "I didn't pay attention, what is it?"

Fu Hongliang said: "One is 'Next summer, we will see fire burning the Antarctic'. The other is 'Instead of waiting to be killed, it is better to kill and go to the North Pole'."

Zhou Buqi burst out laughing.

It really fits Lao Ma’s style.

"Burning the Antarctic" means there will be no room for penguins to survive. This sentence is aimed at Penguin Company's Q letter; "kill towards the North Pole" also has a metaphor. The North Star is Ziweixing, and the spearhead is directed at Ziweixing's WeChat.

Zhou Buqi said: "Then your job at WeChat is very light?"

Fu Hongliang looked unnatural, "The power has shrunk a bit."

This is obvious.

Zhang Xiaolong came by air and served as the executive vice president of the WeChat business group. If he wanted to carry out his work smoothly, he must transfer some of the power and business that originally belonged to Fu Hongliang to him.

Zhou Buqi pointed out: "It's better to be free. You can go find Liu Qing."

"What are you looking for her for?"

"You go to work part-time in the investment department. She has invested in a project called GIF Kuaishou. Do you know that?"

"Yeah, I know!" Fu Hongliang knew this all too well, "It was also discussed intensively within WeChat! Now they have changed their name. It is no longer called GIF Kuaishou, it is called Kuaishou. It is no longer just a tool for making GIF pictures. Instead, I’m making short videos on mobile phones.”

There have also been discussions within Ziweixing about making short videos.

Zhou Buqi stopped it in time.

The time is not yet ripe.

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes, that's what I'm talking about. You go to the investment department to get a part-time job, and then participate in the Kuaishou investment project as an investor... In other words, you will be Ziweixing on the Kuaishou board of directors in the future. representative."

"This..." Fu Hongliang blinked and seemed to understand something, "We are going to make a short video?"

Zhou Buqi said: "We have to do it, but not now. We have to wait for the policy to be tilted, we have to wait for the traffic charges to be significantly reduced, we have to wait for the camera and video functions of smartphones to be greatly improved, and then we can participate in short videos." in the track.”

Fu Hongliang couldn't help but laugh. He had been with him since he started his own business on Xiaonei.com and had long been accustomed to Boss Zhou's speaking system. He joked: "You want me to use Kuaishou as a laboratory? Go and watch them do it." Experiment. We must record the successful part and learn from it; we must summarize the experience and learn lessons from the failed part, so that we can conduct experiments ourselves when the time comes.”

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Yes, that's what I mean! You are the representative of Ziweixing, so you can be more aggressive. You can copy experimental data and so on. Internal research and learning from each other's strengths are the shortcuts to the success of a product."

Fu Hongliang understood Boss Zhou's plan and took a deep breath, "So my future direction is short videos?"

"This is a broader field." Zhou Buqi nodded, "The success of Yahoo App is very representative... Regarding the development of Yahoo App, you can also have a good communication with Liu Qing. This can become a It is a rule to export Internet products from China to overseas. The field of short videos is not suitable for China now, and it is not suitable for overseas. Your workload on WeChat has been reduced. On the one hand, you can pay more attention to short videos. On the one hand, it is to deeply understand and explore the overseas development model of domestic apps.”