Reborn 2005: The Internet Myth

The next morning, Wang Zheng met Diane Rothschild as scheduled at No. 237 Zhangxian Road.

Diane, who has restored her professional attire, is still perfect and refined, and her unique aristocratic temperament is outstanding and pleasing to the eye.

However, Wang Zheng really wasn't motivated by sex this time. In fact, he really had no interest in it. He wanted to touch her even though he knew he couldn't touch her. Isn't that stupid?

Sitting in the president's office, Wang Zheng and Diane sat across from each other, discussing Diane's position and salary details.

Because Diane had no work experience yet, but her academic qualifications were there, Wang Zheng, who was always generous in terms of basic salary, gave her 200,000 yuan a year, and her position was COO, which is also the chief operating officer.

However, her own goal is to become a CEO, so Wang Zheng gave her three months to prove herself with her actual abilities.

If she can really do a good job, Wang Zheng really doesn't mind letting her be the CEO of Tik Tok. As for the salary, we will discuss it at that time.

In fact, Wang Zheng already has a complete plan for Tik Tok, and he can just find an obedient tool to run it.

But Diane is a Rothschild after all, and this surname alone represents a lot of resources - Tik Tok is used to make money anyway, so why not make it more valuable.

Although it was his first formal job, Diane, who took office immediately, was full of enthusiasm: "Phil, what is our plan?"

In fact, Tik Tok products have almost been developed - the development work is not difficult, and the promotion work is not difficult. With the support of 365 Navigation, no matter how broken the website is, there will be traffic.

The key lies in the way information is released.

Wang Zheng explained: "There are essential differences between Tik Tok and Meta communities, but their operating habits will be highly similar. Tik Tok can only publish short articles of less than 140 words, and cannot post pictures, audios and videos for the time being, but users can

You can forward each other, or you can use @ to directly open a conversation with someone."

Diane didn't quite understand: "Why 140 words?"

"Because the length limit of a text message is 160 characters, excluding usernames, symbols and other content, 140 characters or less is the most optimal choice."

"That's why you're sitting here." Wang Zheng smiled: "I plan to cooperate with operators so that people can send information to Tik Tok's homepage through a text message."

There are four telephone operators in Midland, the largest are ATT and Verizon, followed by Sprint, Sprint and T-Mobile.

Wang Zheng had some knowledge of the development history of Twitter in his previous life. There was such a function at the beginning. Users could use their mobile phones to write text messages and send them to a fixed number. Then after background processing, the text message would become

Turn it into a tweet and post it on your homepage.

This function is indeed very practical, and the development department has also tested it and it is completely feasible, so Wang Zheng used it and installed it on Tik Tok.

However, this function needs to be connected with the operator. It is not possible to use an ordinary mobile phone number. If too many text messages are received, information will be blocked.

It just so happened that Diane, who had the reputation of Rothschild, naturally became her first task.

Because of Diane's arrival, Wang Zheng's plan was unexpectedly disrupted.

Originally, he wanted to recruit a suitable CEO and then leave the work of establishing the start-up team to him.

But now because the CEO is still an intern, he can only take on this task and start contacting the headhunting company to recruit the human resources department and the financial department.

The previous companies had very happy cooperation with headhunting agencies such as McKinsey and Heidrick & Struggles, so of course they continued to do so.

It’s okay to spend more money, as long as the people you recruit are reliable in terms of ability.

Throughout late June, the weather in California was ridiculously hot this year, but Wang Zheng was extremely busy all day long.

Starting a startup, especially managing multiple startups at the same time, is simply not something humans do.

There are so many things, big and small, that there is basically no chance to relax.

Because management work is also done by people, not every CEO can perfectly implement Wang Zheng's plan.

The most worry-free thing is the Meta community, where Sheryl Sandberg has demonstrated her strong management qualities.

We established branches in Europe, rented data centers, advertised, and launched our business in an orderly manner. The process was very clear.

Although the international expansion speed of the Meta community is not fast, the growth is very stable.

According to Cheryl’s plan, Meta can expand to Asia in three months—of course, it has to avoid Daxia.

Steve Ford is worthy of being a former executive of Microsoft's MSN business. He is also very comfortable with WeChat, and he is very able to understand Wang Zheng's core idea-closed loop.

His management style seems quite radical here on the West Coast. While WeChat is expanding globally, it has also recruited a large number of R&D personnel.

Steve must have been fed up with Microsoft's MSN being old-fashioned and unprogressive, so he made drastic changes in functional development, and his publicity strategy was also very active - just looking for faults everywhere.

The key is that he caught the wool of a sheep of his old employer Microsoft.

Today, people are saying that the IE browser is terrible. We at WeChat have had enough and have hired as many people as possible to develop a new one.

Two days later, he said that Microsoft's media player was so bad that I couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to develop one myself.

Anyway, it’s just a matter of frenzied efforts to maintain fame and popularity—not to mention, this marketing method is really effective.

There are also many fans of Midland, and many people actually like him very much because of this enterprising style, and then become WeChat users.

Especially after the We browser was launched a few days ago, it has received widespread praise. Functions such as multi-tabs, cloud favorites and address books, and spam removal are very popular, and WeChat has gained an unprecedented wave of craze.

If we compare Cheryl and Steve, one is making steady progress step by step, while the other is forging ahead with high-profile work.

I can't say which one is better, but they are both suitable for the business they are responsible for.

In comparison, Jed Raymond, who is responsible for Alpha, and Jim White, who is responsible for Ultron, are much more low-key.

Alpha's game business has not yet been launched, and Jade basically focuses all his energy on his own game engine and the production of "League of Legends".

And Jim is a typical person who makes a fortune silently. Even after three price increases, modular computer rooms are still in short supply.

The profits brought by this product alone are enough to sustain Ultron's own data center construction and host development work.

The development of the operating system that Wang Zheng is most concerned about is basically coming to an end. The actual test results are very close to the standards of a general-purpose distribution. Compared with winXP, it is more beautiful, simpler and has better performance.

For the two most important parts of the Hongmeng system, the public runtime library and the hardware driver library, we directly opened a cheat and transplanted them from the full version of Hongmeng.

With his current technical capabilities and funds, no one will doubt anything anymore.

However, there are still some big problems in the new system. The current main problems are still concentrated in two aspects, one is the Internet, and the other is cloud services.

In this day and age, not every computer can connect to the Internet. Even in developed countries like Midland, the penetration rate of broadband is not as high as imagined due to the vast land and sparse population.

There are some areas in Midland that will still be waiting for SpaceX’s Starlink network in another twenty years.

This is also why Microsoft's win system later had two user account systems, one is a local account and the other is a network account.

Hongmeng system also has to consider this issue, because its characteristics determine that the system basically cannot run without the Internet - without the Internet, you cannot download software, and if you cannot download software, isn't it just a decoration?

But asking Wang Zheng to give up the App Store is even more nonsense and impossible.