"Programmers change the world. It turned out that these big guys were all programmers. Now they are worth more than 100 million yuan. In the new era of the Internet, IT has a lot to offer. 』
Last time Poniu talked about "model worker" Lei Jun, today’s protagonist is the developer of Foxmail that was almost acquired by Lei Jun for 150,000 yuan- Zhang Xiaolong , It’s wrong. Lei Jun asked a colleague to talk because of participating in an event, but was rejected by this colleague. The reason was:
"That thing, we can make it in a month or two, is it worth it?"
Zhang Xiaolong was born in Shaoyang, Hunan in 1969. Both his parents are authentic farmers. Not only his family is poor, but his relatives and friends are not rich.
Zhang Xiaolong was a technical house when he was young. He often worked overtime to write code and developed the habit of sleeping during the day and staying up at night, and this was entirely out of hobby.
Zhang Xiaolong has two characteristics since childhood: love to read and good grades, and these two aspects are often associated with the term " extraordinary life ".
In 1987, 18-year-old Zhang Xiaolong was admitted to Huazhong University of Science and Technology Department of Telecommunications,During his master's degree, Zhang Xiaolong came into contact with the development of C language, and had a strong interest in it , which laid a solid foundation for the future.
(Zhang Xiaolong in the middle)
Zhang Xiaolong, who was unwilling to lie in the office building all day, also resigned from this "iron rice bowl" in the wave of going into the sea. came to Guangzhou, the holy land of reform and opening up alone.
works of art foxmail
Zhang Xiaolong's main research software is extremely sensitive. Zhang Xiaolong, who came to Guangzhou, is very eager to develop his own software.
But there is no partner or colleague, so I can only do it myself and type the code line by line. has more than 70,000 lines, all done by himself.
Kung fu pays off,In 1997, a piece of software belonging to Zhang Xiaolong was born, and foxmail was launched.
In two years, he has won more than 4 million users worldwide, Zhang Xiaolong became famous.
But it is strange that Zhang Xiaolong did not benefit from it, because this is a completely free software without any business model. is still a "poor man" who pursues product art .
At that time, he had been in Guangzhou for 3 years. When he was the poorest, he only had 3 yuan on him. He was desperate and overwhelmed. sold foxmail in despair, and went alone. Tibet started the spiritual refinement that lasted for 5 years.
"I'sold' Foxmail." After saying this, I suddenly felt a deep sense of loss, as if I realized at that moment that Foxmail is really leaving me . A partner who has been with me day and night for four years, a work that I have meticulously carved over the past four years, from soul to appearance, I can count every detail and every allusion of it.
I suddenly felt an urge to regret it. I have written a program for ten years. For the first time, I have lost such a powerful loss for me to no longer own one of my works. Only when I lose it can I know that it is precious. 80% of Foxmail is done in the dead of night. I just want to sculpt it into a work of art. "
Zhang Xiaolong this romanticism was later extended to the QQ-mail, micro letter ...
revive the QQ
2004 Nian ,China's Internet has begun to take shape. Tencent's Ma Huateng , Ali 's Jack Ma, Baidu 's Li Yanhong , and many business giants are coming.
Only Zhang Xiaolong, who will call the wind and rain in the future, is alone in a dark corner, as if abandoned by the world .
In 2005, Tencent bought the former foxmail at a high price, and Zhang Xiaolong was also brought to Tencent by mistake.
Ma Huateng was very optimistic about this young man who had been teased by fate. He gave Zhang Xiaolong a QQ mailbox that could not be helped by several waves, hoping that he could make some noise.
The QQ mailbox at that time was stinky and bad in the impression of outsiders, and had less than 2 million daily logged-in users .
But Zhang Xiaolong does not believe in evil, has set up a "military order", and must collect feedback from each product manager within a month. Do 10 user surveys.
Zhang Xiaolong also asked Guangyan’s internal mail system,Replace all with QQ mailboxes and make yourself your own user.
At the beginning, the development team did not understand Zhang Xiaolong's approach. They felt that these things should be done by the customer service. Now, in the face of user abuse and bad reviews, feels very depressed.
After 3 months, they found that every time a product problem was solved, they could quickly gain users’ recognition and praise. With the deepening of the improvement, QQ mailbox gained users’ word of mouth, and their heart was Gradually stable and pleased.
Soon, the QQ mailbox came back to life, the number of users is the first in the country, , and Zhang Xiaolong takes the lead.
However, Zhang Xiaolong has always been difficult to develop Kunpeng's ambitions. After all, he is just the project leader. In the end, he has nothing.
Big Mac-WeChat
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that year,He saw KIKI, an instant messaging software, and at a glance determined that it was an instant messaging software that could defeat QQ. This potential huge crisis was caught by Zhang Xiaolong.
So he quickly applied to Ma Huateng for a communication software belonging to Tencent. The reply he got was only four words, and immediately made . But no one was optimistic about this project at that time, because the QQ volume was already large enough, so why bother to do so!
The truth is often only in the hands of a few people . Two months later, WeChat was launched. At the beginning of the launch, it did not cause turmoil on the Internet. On the contrary, it spread in a small area. The minimalist style is well received by users.
Zhang Xiaolong did not stand still. knew that to bring out the human desires, he had to innovate something. .
Based on this philosophy, WeChat launched the WeChat voice message . You must know that QQ at that time did not have such a function, which is enough to show that Tencent attaches great importance to WeChat.
In this way, with the novel gameplay, WeChat quickly absorbed a large number of user groups. After the number of users reached 100 million, WeChat launched a circle of friends. hopes to pull Weibo off the horse .At the same time, the WeChat public account was launched, and completely photographed traditional media on the beach.
In 2014, WeChat continued to flourish, and Zhang Xiaolong, who was full of talents, launched the WeChat red envelope function. Overnight, WeChat red envelopes were spread all over the country. Everyone used and everyone was learning , completely hiding the cash in their wallets.
In the past ten years, WeChat daily active users surpassed 1.2 billion , Zhang Xiaolong had the last laugh. This is unimaginable in the current Internet world.
This may be what Zhang Xiaolong said, WeChat is more of a way of life .
Actually, there are so many geniuses. Behind Zhang Xiaolong's success, is all competing with himself and constantly innovating.
Many people in the workplace stay at the same level for a period of time. At this time, the whole person has become rigid, even began to rely on the old , always thinking that the seniority can also wait for the promotion and salary increase.
In fact, this kind of thinking is completely wrong, even if a person has a longer working life,Once the mechanical monotonous repetition begins, there is no possibility of growth. Therefore, we should learn to compete with ourselves.
is reproduced in the official account, dark horse video library
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