Chapter 206

Fang zhe heard Zhou Feng say this and breathed a long sigh. Do you think I don't want to put it on my own cloud? But we can't afford our own cloud products now!

Any ordinary data center has to invest hundreds of millions to start, not to mention in the world. At this stage, international giants such as Amazon and IBM have the funds and ability to carry out cloud business around the world. We are too poor!

Although Huizhong is now supported by two core businesses: mobile games and page games, and its products are launched one after another, its monthly revenue has stabilized at more than 400 million and its net profit has reached more than 200 million.

But after all, Huizhong was established for a short time and has not saved much money. In April, the international version of happy farm, the main foreign product, had such a big wave, and its revenue was greatly affected.

By the end of April, happy ranch had gradually recovered its stability after it was launched. In May, Huizhong invested another 50 million yuan in the payment industry. Now, Huizhong's cash reserve is only over 300 million, which is not as good as Apple's half day net profit in the previous life, and more than half of the funds have been reserved by business planning, including the overseas expansion of page tour platform, Pay business development subsidies, promotion fees for happy fishing ground and happy town to be launched soon, etc.

When Fang zhe planned to build a global mobile chat software, one of the reasons why he said it was a gold devouring beast was that he took into account the cost of building a data center around the world. However, it is obvious that today's Huizhong has no ability to build its own independent data center around the world.

The richer, the poorer! Fang zhe realized another meaning of this sentence for the first time. When you want to spend more money than you have and earn more, you will feel poor, whether you have tens of thousands or hundreds of millions.

Fang zhe glanced at Zheng Siwen, turned to Zhou Feng and said, "ask our cashier, how can we afford our own cloud business now? We can only hold their thighs first and build our own data center when the money is enough!"

Zhou Feng got Fang Zhe's explanation and stopped worrying about it. Looking at general Fang's answer, it was obvious that he had planned for it long ago.

Next, Fang Zhe, Zhou Feng and Zheng Siwen discussed the details of wechat launch and operation in detail. Although there was a special operation team responsible for operating wechat after the launch, they certainly didn't have the two product producers Fang Zhe and Zhou Feng to know more about the products. Many things also need to be considered in advance.

On June 8, Zhou Feng and seven other people went to the new office in Xierqi to report, and soon adapted to the new environment. The new office is about one kilometer away from Huizhong headquarters, which is also convenient for Fang Zhe in the past.

The reason why they are allowed to avoid Huizhong alone is to avoid many people's eyes. Now Huizhong's every move is stared at by many people and companies. Fang Zhe's mentality is to hide it as long as he can. The longer he hides it, the greater the advantage of making a fortune.

Here, the operation team, including many foreign friends, has a total of 20 people. It is basically enough to temporarily cope with the launch of the first version of wechat. In the follow-up, we will recruit people while developing.

In the previous life, when WhatsApp had 1 billion users worldwide, the number of the whole company was only in its early 50s. Although Fang zhe admired its operating costs and single person output, he gave up thinking of the simple product content and operation mode of WhatsApp before it was acquired by Facebook.

This life is no exception. WhatsApp should still do this than their morning line. Fang zhe has long analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of its pure tool chat software and wechat chat software, which is made into a platform and even an ecological chat software. In the early stage of this life, Huizhong wechat will prefer WhatsApp to operate light. When the number of users reaches a certain number, Then turn to the platform and ecological operation mode of Tencent wechat in the previous life.

Don't you see that Facebook and its products abroad also began to learn from wechat in China? In Fang Zhe's opinion, at the level of Internet products, foreign product managers are really not as strong as domestic product managers!

After Zhou Feng moved here, he began to run in with the operation team and cooperate with the launch preparation of the first version of wechat. This is also the problem that their company is large and pays too much attention to products. You see, WhatsApp was launched and developed by the producer. After the test, there was no problem, so he threw it directly into the app store.

Fang Zhe and Huizhong are so well prepared. If Fang zhe had just started his business, he would probably have the same product thinking as WhatsApp. But now that he is the trump product of Huizhong, he is so casual that he will die and leave his life to God at random.

Although today, including the upcoming wechat and Huizhong's many overseas products and businesses, servers are deployed on Amazon cloud, IBM cloud and the fledgling Microsoft cloud, this does not mean that Fang Zhe and Huizhong do not want to start their own cloud business as soon as possible!

Cloud computing! It represents the server and data resource solutions in the 3G, 4G and even 5g era of mobile Internet. In the past, the most famous products abroad were the products of several large companies such as Amazon cloud, Microsoft cloud and IBM cloud.

Before Fang Zhe's rebirth in China, the most famous ones were Alibaba cloud under Alibaba, Tencent cloud under Tencent and Baidu cloud under Baidu. From the development of cloud computing in the past, this kind of thing was not made by ordinary small companies. The reason is very simple. Small companies can't afford to play at all. Any data center often starts with hundreds of millions, Not to mention that we want to make a general cloud service product that serves tens of millions of enterprises or developers.

Fang zhe remembers that in his previous life, Alibaba cloud established the company in September 2009. Before that, the preparatory team had begun to develop Alibaba cloud's "Feitian" cloud computing system.

The person in charge of Alibaba cloud is Dr. Wang Jian, former vice president of Microsoft Asia Research Institute. From the talent level, he is no worse than Lin Xiaobin, vice president of Google China Research Institute, whom Fang zhe knows. Such talents are already a small group at the top of the domestic Internet industry.

Even so, Ali cloud's start is also very difficult. At the beginning of its creation, Ali cloud has been unable to find the exact direction of development. Many people in the Alibaba company have great doubts about cloud computing. Even Wang Jian, the responsible person, has been scolded by many employees in the internal network many times, saying that he is a liar, saying that cloud computing is a bubble and so on. Many Internet users in China, including President Ma of Tencent and President Li of Baidu, doubt cloud computing. This is the current situation of cloud computing in China.

Wang Jian was under great pressure for this. A man in his 40s cried several times at the annual meeting. Fortunately, President Ma, the leader of Alibaba, has been benchmarking his overseas rival Amazon. Amazon has made cloud computing popular. President Ma has always believed in the future of cloud computing and given Wang Jian enough trust to let him slowly do Alibaba cloud.

Before Fang Zhe's rebirth, Alibaba cloud was already the largest cloud computing manufacturer in China, creating tens of billions of revenue for Alibaba every year and maintaining an ultra-high growth rate. In 2018, the independent Alibaba cloud business was valued at nearly $70 billion by the capital market, which is equivalent to a JD or meituan!