Chapter 384

At the beginning of the new year, wechat became famous all over the world, as well as various reports and news about Huizhong's valuation and Fang Zhe's refresh of China's richest man's value record. Fang zhe was relieved to lay out the future development of Huizhong!

If 2010 is a year from germination to vigorous growth of the global mobile Internet, the four years of 2011, 2012, 2013 and even 2014 can be regarded as a period of rapid growth of the mobile Internet in the world, from a small tree to a towering tree!

In the past four years, startups around the world have gradually grown into unicorns and small giants, all over all walks of life, like flowers. They have transformed one industry after another with the power of mobile Internet and changed the lives of hundreds of millions of people!

Therefore, in the next year or even three to four years, Fang zhe has planned several things to do for the most potential start-up company in the world.

First, without exception, it is natural to continue to vigorously develop wechat to ensure the smooth rise of wechat in the world and become a national mobile social software across the East and West in the mobile Internet era!

Second, the whole Huizhong company and all products of Huizhong have begun to change from tools to platforms, especially wechat, which has nearly 400 million users worldwide.

From tools to platforms to ecology, and from technology to services to standards, these two processes are the evolutionary criteria for an Internet company to become bigger and stronger.

From tool to platform, it refers to a product. Because it provides a very popular function, it has accumulated a considerable number of users, such as QQ under Tencent and wechat under Huizhong. In essence and principle, both of them are just two social software providing social communication functions, which can be regarded as more complex tool software.

However, the social nature of these two softwares is doomed to have a huge number of users. Just as Tencent QQ currently has nearly 700 million QQ accounts across the country. Of course, it is unknown how many of them have registered multiple accounts. Wechat has nearly 400 million registered users around the world.

The number of users of both of them is very large. At the same time, this means that if you only regard these two software as pure social software, it is simply looking for money in a golden mountain. You don't know that the mountain under your feet is the most valuable treasure!

Among them, Tencent QQ, which has started for many years, has been mining gold mines in Tencent empire by setting foot in various fields while QQ users are growing.

However, Tencent's practice of eating alone in Jinshan is obviously easy to be an enemy of the whole Internet industry. In last year's 3Q war and the subsequent Penguin diagnosis conference, Tencent changed its thinking of digging gold from closed to "open" and established an open platform, which changed from eating alone to sharing with "friends" in the whole industry.

What Huizhong needs to do, especially wechat, is essentially similar to Tencent QQ, that is, to make use of the huge wechat user resources and cooperate with friends in the global Internet industry and even all walks of life to explore this gold mine!

This is a simple understanding of the transformation from a tool to a platform. In fact, no matter Tencent QQ or Huizhong wechat, or foreign Internet enterprises with considerable user scale, such as mysapce and Facebook, have to or even have to do so.

Because every man is innocent and bears his own sin. Even if Tencent and Huizhong are powerful Internet giants, they can't be enemies with tens of millions of Internet companies in the whole industry. They are either your benefit sharers or your benefit contenders!

Tencent has personally proved this with its own experience and lessons, and Fang Zhe, as a reborn, has a deeper understanding of the decades of development history of Tencent, Alibaba and many top Internet companies in the world.

If wechat is now just a powerful Internet product and a strong one, wechat after becoming a platform will become an alliance between the strong and tens of millions of vested interests with strong and weak strength in the world.

It is not difficult for big country governments and even some top capital forces to unite and make great efforts and means to bring down the current wechat. However, if wechat binds tens of millions of enterprises around the world and involves the interests of hundreds of millions of people, let alone the top capital alliance, even some big country governments have to think about it.

As a platform, a big tree takes root, with all kinds of small and numerous branches and vines, so that the root of wechat, a big tree, is firmly rooted in the interests of tens of millions of enterprises and hundreds of millions of people around the world. In that way, even if the wind is strong, it is difficult to blow down wechat and Huizhong, which grow into a towering tree!

As for the future from platform to ecology, it involves a huge Internet company to make up for various loopholes in its business system and build an ecological closed loop, which is as prosperous, stable and prosperous as the ecosystem of nature!

This also involves the third point that Huizhong will do in the next few years, to explore and cultivate all kinds of start-ups, small giants and unicorns around the world.

If a company of Huizhong can only be regarded as a big tree, the various small giants and other companies discovered and cultivated by Huizhong can be regarded as other big trees.

A single tree does not make a forest, a thousand trees make a forest, and ten thousand trees make a forest. When these small giant unicorns excavated and cultivated by Huizhong grow into towering trees, that is, when Huizhong's ecosystem is gradually established and stable.

Moreover, with the advantage of Fang Zhe's rebirth, the small giants and unicorns discovered and cultivated by Huizhong in the future have far exceeded any other small giants and unicorns around the world's top companies.

By that time, Huizhong will not only become the world's top companies such as Microsoft, apple and IBM, but also the world's top companies in all ages.

Even at & T, which led the third industrial revolution in the last century, and the fairies that spawned Silicon Valley, are far less great than Huizhong in the future!

Great cause needs great ambition and perseverance, but also down-to-earth!

Since Fang zhe founded Huizhong for more than two years, he has become more and more aware of the profound truth from his previous ambition to his down-to-earth work.

As the helmsman of such a huge Internet company as Huizhong, Fang zhe can't live without these ambitious aspirations and pursuits. Just like Arima, who was very impressed by Fang Zhe in his previous life, always said: Alibaba can become a great company because we adhere to idealism!

A company without dreams is a company that can't go far. A company without dreams can't lead a company to glory and greatness.

However, Fang zhe understands the importance of being down-to-earth. Therefore, when Fang zhe implemented the three plans formulated for Huizhong in the future, the external Internet peers and competitors began to think again. Huizhong, what is this?

On February 28, 2011, the last day of February, Huizhong announced that it would wholly acquire Gaode map, a leading provider of digital map content, navigation and location service solutions in China, at a cash price of US $450 million!