Reborn in 08, a heretical cultivator starting a business

Chapter 224 The Golden Triangle, Unearthing a Super Talent! (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

No matter how powerful a portal website is or how rich its content is, it can't compete with the power of a million forums!

Definitely.

Moreover, the big influencers cultivated by Weibo are all locked in with long-term contracts in advance, so even if the four major Weibo platforms wanted to poach them, they wouldn't be able to!
With the dual advantages of content and influential users, Weibo can achieve even greater success.

Discuz can also develop better!
The biggest weakness of Discuz as a forum building tool is that it doesn't have a server, which needs to be solved by yourself.

It doesn't support easy, quick forum creation; it requires a certain level of technical expertise, making it difficult for ordinary people to manage.

And Wanwang happens to have all of these!
Wanwang excels at servers and offers a user-friendly drag-and-drop website creation feature, allowing you to build a website in just half an hour. Creating a forum is even simpler.

With the help of Wanwang, we provide a complete set of services.

In the future, when users build forums using Discuz, Wanwang will provide server packages and drag-and-drop website building technology, greatly reducing the technical threshold for forum creation.

In the past, building forums with Discuz required certain IT skills, but in the future, it will be a completely user-friendly process.

With the support of Wanwang, Discuz has already achieved qualitative development.

If it's integrated with Weibo, with content flowing upwards and traffic flowing downwards, it'll be unbeatable!

"Weibo + Wanwang + Discuz can definitely form a golden triangle!"

Wang Junshan said, "This is also why I placed these three businesses in the Wanwang Building, so that you can perfectly integrate them and complement each other's strengths!"

"Don't let me down!"

"Yes!" everyone responded.

As instructed by Wang Junshan, everyone performed their duties and carried out comprehensive and in-depth strategic integration.

And the development of Weibo will also enter a new era.

Whether it's the Celebrity Hundreds and Thousands Lightning Project, the integration of Discuz, or the signing and cultivation of high-quality Discuz bloggers, all are beginning to be fully planned and promoted.

Wang Junshan, however, kept Tang Jinghe behind:
"How's the progress on Dr. Zhou Ping's end?"

Tang Jinghe sighed: "I met with Dr. Zhou Ping twice, but I still couldn't persuade him to leave Motorola and join Future Phone. However, I could tell that he was somewhat tempted."

Wang Junshan had a plan: "Motorola is currently in decline, and is facing internal divisions and massive layoffs. Zhou Ping is likely to be sacrificed, so finding a way out is only natural."

"Yes, but Zhou Ping is, after all, a senior engineering director for Motorola's domestic region. It won't be easy to persuade him to switch jobs."

"Okay, I'll leave Zhou Ping to you. Please arrange a meeting with him. Also, please arrange a meeting with Wang Yufei."

"Wang Yufei, Vice President and General Manager of Sina's Wireless Business Unit?"

Tang Jinghe knew this person: "Chairman, are you planning to invite him to join the Weibo business unit as president? Well, Tao Cheng is indeed not capable enough."

"It was clear from today's meeting that Tao Cheng is not up to the task; he's barely qualified to be an operations manager!"

Wang Junshan nodded: "That's right. The most important thing about Weibo is content operation, which requires flexible strategic deployment and correct decision-making. Tao Cheng, being such a blockhead, is clearly not suitable for taking the lead; he's only suited for executing tasks step by step! Wang Yufei, on the other hand, is a master in the field of content!"

Wang Yufei, also known as "Lai Qu Zhi Jian".

The future CEO of Sina Weibo!

However, Sina does not currently offer a microblogging service.

Wang Yufei is currently in charge of Sina's wireless business and was promoted to vice president last year.

In his previous life, after Sina Weibo was launched, Wang Yufei advocated "mobile first".

Unlike other microblogging platforms that focus on PCs, Sina Weibo has made a strong push into mobile, achieving rapid development and subsequently defeating NetEase Weibo, Sohu Weibo, and Tencent Weibo, making outstanding contributions.

With the advent of the mobile internet era, many giants from the PC era have fallen behind.

Even for the four major portal giants like Sohu.

Sina Weibo, however, has been able to thrive in the mobile internet era.

It's all thanks to Wang Yufei!

It was for this reason that Wang Yufei was promoted to senior vice president of Sina in 2013 after serving as a regular vice president for five years!

In 2014, he became the CEO of Weibo, and led the spun-off Weibo to a US IPO, making it a super giant.

It can be said that Wang Yufei is the soul of Sina Weibo!

In the previous life, it was Wang Yufei who advocated for a mobile-first approach, leading his team to focus on mobile platforms, frequently testing various new features such as @mentions, comments, private messages, and the ability to publish long articles. He astutely grasped the development of the other three major microblogging platforms and responded correctly, which enabled Sina Weibo to grow bigger and stronger and defeat its three major competitors!
Without Wang Yufei, Weibo would have been finished long ago, and Sina would have been finished too.

Not to mention taking down Tencent Weibo, NetEase Weibo, and Sohu Weibo.

Don't even think about it!

It was Wang Yufei's series of precise strategies and plans that enabled Sina Weibo to grow bigger and bigger, break through the encirclement of the Weibo war, and have the last laugh.

However, Sina Weibo has not yet been officially launched.

Wang Yufei is only the vice president of Sina, in charge of the wireless business unit.

If Wang Junshan makes a move in advance and recruits Wang Yufei to Future Technology to be in charge of Weibo!
Then there's no need to worry about the future of Weibo.

And there's no need to worry about Sina Weibo's future!

Soon, Tang Jinghe had everything sorted out:
"Boss, Professor Zhou Ping is away on a business trip for the past two days. He'll be back tomorrow night, and we've arranged to meet the day after tomorrow."

"As for Wang Yufei, as soon as he heard you wanted to see him, he said he was available anytime."

“Alright, tonight it is. Tao Cheng really has limited abilities,” Wang Junshan said.

With Weibo about to launch, we urgently need a capable general.

Wang Yufei is the best choice.

It's not so easy to persuade a Sina vice president to give up his future and switch jobs to join Future Technology.

It will take some effort!
That evening, Wang Junshan met Wang Yufei.

Similar to his impression of his past life, he was reserved and calm, yet humorous.

As it turns out, this kind of personality is quite popular.

In its previous life, Sina didn't offer cloud services, so Sina Weibo's servers frequently crashed, causing users to complain.

Especially some dramatic events in the entertainment industry, such as a celebrity making an official announcement that directly causes the server to crash...

Such a serious matter should have required Sina's crisis management.

But Wang Yufei personally stepped in, posting a self-deprecating Weibo post saying, "The server crashed again..."

Everyone just chuckled and that was the end of it.

He was the one who started the celebrity strategy and the fan economy.

It is precisely these factors that have enabled Sina Weibo to achieve long-term development and rapid progress.

"Chairman Wang, hello." Wang Yufei quickly stood up and extended his hand.

For him, it was a very rare occasion for Wang Junshan to come and see him in person.

To put it roughly, it's like having Lao Li from Baidu, or Jack Ma, personally meet with him.

This was truly a great honor for Wang Yufei, who was currently only the vice president of Sina, and he was even a little excited!
There's no way around it; Sina simply has too many vice presidents—at least a dozen.

In the future, it will grow to more than twenty vice presidents (VPs), and above them, there will be several senior vice presidents (SVPs)!
Even Chairman Cao is no match for Wang Junshan, let alone a mere Sina vice president.

Upon receiving Tang Jinghe's invitation, Wang Yufei immediately canceled all his plans for the next two days, just to wait for Wang Junshan!
"Hello, please have a seat!" Wang Junshan said with a smile.

After exchanging pleasantries, Wang Yufei finally calmed down a bit.

This young man has created a future technology that has the potential to rival BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent)!

Although this was achieved despite the fact that BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) was crippled by the financial crisis, the fact that this company has managed to reach this point is truly a business legend. Not just a domestic business legend, but a global business legend.

The last person to achieve this level of success was Zuckerberg.

On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook with his roommate Eduardo Saverin and others in his Harvard University dorm room!
In June 2008, Wang Junshan created YouTuan group buying in his dormitory at Binhai University, which later became WeChat, WeChat Farm, Vipshop, WeChat Pay...

It's ridiculously strong!
And so young, a sophomore in college!

So much so that Wang Yufei admired Wang Junshan to the point of complete awe!
After some pleasantries, Wang Junshan got straight to the point: "Yufei, what do you think of Twitter? Or microblogging? Mini podcasts?"

Since the advent of Twitter in 2006, the term Microblog has become a global phenomenon.

In 2007, the term "microblog" (literally "microblog") became widely popular in China, leading to the emergence of microblog platforms such as Fanfou, Tencent Taotao, and Jiwai.

Of course, some people call it a mini podcast, a microblog, or even a "microblog" in some media outlets.

However, these are just common names.

Wang Yufei became interested when microblogging was mentioned:

"To be honest, I am very optimistic about the development and future of microblogging. As an open social network, it is very suitable for the present."

"Several platforms have emerged, but I am not optimistic about their development prospects."

"For example, Fanfou.com has too much freedom of speech, which makes it easy for problems to arise."

"Wang Xing will most likely fail again this time."

Wang Junshan smiled.

It was a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If nothing unexpected happens, Fanfou.com will run into trouble a few months later.

In its previous life, Sina launched Sina Weibo by taking advantage of the unexpected situation at Fanfou.com!

After Fanfou was unblocked, the four major Weibo platforms emerged and all developed rapidly.

So much so that Wang Xing could only grumble and quit!
"If you were the CEO of Fanfou.com, what would you do?" Wang Junshan asked.

We can discuss the details later, but we must be highly consistent in the overall direction.

"If I were the president of Fanfou.com, I would immediately strengthen content review and change the overall direction immediately."

"We will shift the mainstream public opinion topics on Fanfou from sensitive dimensions such as politics and military affairs to the realm of everyday life, such as entertainment, sports, and celebrity gossip."

Wang Junshan nodded in agreement.

Developing a celebrity strategy and leveraging the fan economy are the right directions to take.

Fanfou.com, with its constant nagging about sensitive political and military content, is destined to shut down.

While the entertainment industry and the fan economy may not be considered high-end, they are popular with the public and are the safest sectors!

No matter how much drama there is in the entertainment industry, it's all the same.

At best, it's just a matter of a certain superstar's scandal falling apart, involving shady contracts and tax evasion; it's nothing that can truly change the situation.

But it's different in other fields; if things get out of hand, it could have fatal consequences.

"What about Tencent Taotao?" Wang Junshan asked again.

"Tencent's Taotao could have a bright future if Tencent goes all out. But I'm worried about internal strategic indecision within Tencent."

"Mr. Wang knows this best."

"Last year, when WeChat was just starting out, Tencent thought it was just another social platform for acquaintances, with no future and no need to care."

"Unexpectedly, WeChat has rapidly developed by leveraging the farm feature."

"At this point, Tencent began to waver and split, with some people believing that they should take all-out action to shut down WeChat."

"Some people believe that WeChat is not a concern, as its social networking among acquaintances has limited potential. They argue that Alibaba is the biggest threat and that they should invest in YouTuan Technology and use YouTuan.com and Vipshop to strategically contain Alibaba's e-commerce business."

"The internal sway actually gave WeChat the opportunity to continue to grow."

"By the time Tencent finally realized this, WeChat had already grown strong, with tens of millions of monthly active users."

"It was this wavering that caused Tencent to miss the best opportunity to crush WeChat, as well as the best opportunity to invest in U-Tuan and Vipshop."

"Similarly, Tencent Taotao is also like this."

"If Tencent goes all out to develop Tencent Taotao, as long as Fanfou and Jiwai encounter some unexpected problems, Tencent Taotao can quickly grow big and dominate the domestic microblogging market."

"But unfortunately, Tencent is now divided again."

"One group advocates focusing on Tencent's Taotao, while another group advocates following WeChat and building a social network among acquaintances."

"Plus, there's the already booming QQ."

“One company, three social media platforms, three directions—I’m worried for them.”

Wang Junshan's heart skipped a beat.

Sure enough, the butterfly effect occurred.

Because of Wang Junshan's emergence, WeChat was launched ahead of schedule, and through collaboration with the "stealing vegetables" game and YouTuan.com, it quickly grew in size, breaking the curse of low accessibility and difficulty in monetization in social networking among acquaintances.

This also showed Tencent the unlimited potential of social networking among acquaintances.

We also plan to follow suit and create social networks among acquaintances!

Undoubtedly, this will provoke resistance from the QQ division and opposition from Tencent's Taotao division.

After all, it's difficult for a company to launch three social media platforms at the same time!
This is unrealistic!

One of them is destined to be sacrificed.

As for sacrificing Tencent's Taotao? Or is it a social networking service among acquaintances?
That's the problem.

However, given Tencent's track record, it's highly likely they will waver and only make a decision at the very beginning.

Ultimately, the choice will most likely be to sacrifice Tencent's Taotao and develop social networking among acquaintances!
There's no other reason than that Tencent (the company behind Tencent) couldn't just stand by and watch WeChat grow bigger!

They will definitely introduce social networking services based on personal connections to suppress it.

Whether or not it can be suppressed, at least it can strategically restrain WeChat and act as a shield for QQ!

After some discussion, Wang Junshan became even more optimistic about Wang Yufei.

His abilities, overall perspective, and strategic judgment are all impeccable.

"How about it? Come to Future Technology, the group's vice president, and also the CEO of the new business unit!" Wang Junshan offered the biggest temptation directly.

The person in front of me is the vice president of Sina and the general manager of the wireless business unit. If the price is too low, it won't make a difference.

"The CEO of the new business unit?"

Wang Yufei was filled with disbelief.

He wouldn't even consider it if someone else invited him.

Why would someone give up their positions as vice president of Sina and head of Sina Wireless to jump ship and start a new business? Are they out of their mind?
joke!

But since it was Wang Junshan who invited him, that's a different story.

So far, none of Wang Junshan's projects have failed; on the contrary, they have all been incredibly successful, overcoming all obstacles.

By developing a social networking platform with over 100 million monthly active users, QQ is facing a formidable challenge.

In e-commerce, they've completely outmaneuvered Taobao Mall.

(End of this chapter)