Chapter 257： HOLA Mini Program Platform

Fall in love with youkanshu.com, the road to fame and fortune in America

It can be said that even though Bill Gates always behaves very elegantly in public, in fact, after contacting him during this period, William Chen found that this old boy is quite wild.

It's like his relationship with Epstein is very unusual. After Bill Gates divorced his wife after William Chen's previous life, his wife once complained to the media, saying that he had long been advised to stay away from Epstein. Such a person, but Bill Gates never listened.

That small island is an open secret among some of the super-rich in the United States, and Gates invited William Chen to go there for "entertainment", but William Chen declined.

He is very romantic, but he still has a bottom line when it comes to women, and some sanctimonious American entrepreneurs are really eye-opening, especially those who are shipped to the United States from all over the world through certain channels. Those girls, some of the worst, can refer to a certain movie "xx Inn".

There is a saying that, like the sun, there is also human nature.

"How is your Tianshu Fund, William, have you found a good investment direction?" Bill Gates asked casually.

"Yes, I will mainly invest in the stock market. I have found several good companies, including Microsoft."

"Haha, are you telling me that some of the money I invested in Tianshu Fund is actually invested in Microsoft?"

"It's only part of it, Mr. Gates."

However, when he heard Bill Gates' words, William Chen did feel a little interesting.

Bill Gates nodded, paused for a moment, and said, "Although technology companies have good growth, they are not easy to invest in. After all, only a few succeed."

What he said is indeed very reasonable. Don't look at those successful technology companies, all of which have tens or hundreds of times the income, but behind that, the dead companies are also dozens or hundreds of times.

Don’t look at venture capital institutions such as Sequoia and Softbank. There are always reports that they invested in a company in the early stage and obtained multiple times the right returns, but in fact, they have invested in countless companies. Several outstanding performance, the total average income is not high.

If it really makes money by investing in technology companies, why are those big funds seldom designed in this field and crowded into traditional industries? Even a successful technology company has very big risks. Companies with new technologies are eliminated, just like Google eliminated Yahoo.

And can you succeed if you spend most of your money on R&D? There is still a lot of luck in it. Maybe you have invested billions in R&D, but you don’t get the results you want, but other companies only invest hundreds of millions or thousands of dollars. Wan, just happened to get the correct result.... To a certain extent, investing huge amounts of money in research and development is really like a gamble, and there is no reason at all.

And even if you develop results, can you succeed? Maybe your R&D route will not be accepted by the market, but instead accept the standard of another route, then your huge investment will be wasted.

Just like the dvd standard, the competition between Blu-ray and HD, in the end Blu-ray won, and the years of research and development of companies in the HD camp were wasted. The battle between plasma and LED for LCD TVs also ended with the defeat of plasma TVs

In each of these competitions, the losing party was greatly injured, and even declined.

It is precisely because of the huge risk of investing in technology companies that large funds will not easily touch this field. To be able to see more accurately in the technology industry, you need to be senior people in this industry, but the leading investors are Wall Street financial people, how can they determine which company has a future?

Therefore, the founders of technology companies often perform well after they become investors. And Wall Street bets heavily on companies that rarely succeed.

However, those in the technology industry usually do private investment or small-scale venture capital. No one has done a private equity fund with a scale of tens of billions of dollars like William Chen.

"My investment is also based on prudence, and it is a long-term investment, focusing on the value of the company.

"Oh, this is very similar to my friend Buffett, but he never invested in the technology industry, preferring traditional industries such as Coca-Cola."

It is also true that Buffett never invests in technology companies, especially Internet companies. The only Apple company to invest in is also said to have made a decision after Bill Gates' repeated persuasion

The number of users in the world has officially exceeded 50 million. At present, overseas offices have been established in Europe, South America and South Korea. Japan, a joint venture between Japan and Softbank, is responsible for domestic business in Japan. In China, a joint venture between China and Alibaba, Responsible for business in Greater China.

In order to support the global expansion of its business, meta technology company plans to build three new big data centers in Iceland, Lijiapo, and Huaguo Yungui, in addition to the big data center in the Silicon Valley headquarters, to undertake global data storage. and dealing with stress.

This time, William Chen went to Science and Technology and talked with David Jones about adding an open applet platform to China, so that APIs can be opened and third-party software developers can develop applications that run on China.

This is similar to the WeChat mini-program platform in the previous life, allowing developers to quickly promote their programs to a large number of users, so that as long as they develop interesting and useful applications, they can quickly pass user recommendations. , to achieve promotion.

For users, the convenient thing is that the download of the app is eliminated, and various small applications can be used directly in it.

In fact, this kind of open platform has been done by some companies for a long time. Facebook has launched its own application platform in May 2007, and later opened the source code.

However, Facebook's platform is mainly aimed at users on the PC side, and what it wants to do is an application platform on the mobile side.

This step is one of the steps that will transform it into an all-round app. As users can use more functions in the app and apply them to life more quickly and conveniently, the user stickiness will also increase. In the field of mobile social networking position is becoming more and more stable.

Just like venmo, which was just acquired by meta technology, this software for mutual payment between friends can be fully made into an application in the applet platform, giving full play to its social attributes, allowing friends to have dinner, When you play, you can easily make aa payment.

In William Chen's description, David Jones couldn't help but get excited when he saw the infinite possibilities after owning the Mini Program platform:

"It's such a brilliant idea, I can't wait to look at him, boss."

The difficulty of developing such a platform is not too high. After all, Facebook has already made a similar open platform and made it open source. Although their open platform is based on a PC-side system, it still has great reference value, which allows the team to develop a mobile-side applet platform more quickly.

Another point is that when William Chen was using it, he also found a problem, that is, when adding friends now, in addition to adding them directly through the address book, they can only search and add them through the other party's mobile phone number or the set code. There is no function of adding a QR code business card.

The use of QR codes is very important in the future whether it is social or payment fields, and can greatly increase the convenience of user operations.

However, the QR code will not only be used in applications, but also in various projects of the entire meta technology company. Therefore, he directly requested to increase the research projects of QR code application and mobile phone code scanning in the R&D center of meta technology.

The two-dimensional code was originally invented by Teng Hongyuan of Densowave Company in Japan, and it was originally applied in the industry. However, William Chen knows that QR codes have the characteristics of large storage capacity, high confidentiality, high traceability, strong damage resistance, large redundancy, and low cost, and will be widely used in various fields of the mobile Internet in the future.

And when the two-dimensional code was first invented, Teng Hongyuan directly opened the patent, so they could directly study the two-dimensional code, expand its application, and at the same time upgrade the technology of the two-dimensional code to increase its confidentiality and security, after all Later, it will involve the field of payment, which is an area where security is very important.

In addition, to realize the technology of scanning code on mobile phones, this is a part of the hardware design, and it is also necessary to find relevant technical personnel to solve it.