Maybe everyone's self can be represented by this black villain, we are born to be lonely, but the connection of WeChat can always give us a trace of warmth.
WeChat has been updated for many generations, but every time you open WeChat, people can see a small person standing alone outside the huge earth, looking at the blue home from afar.
Maybe you don't know that that villain is Zhang Xiaolong. With a super app, Zhang Xiaolong is the person who has changed China's business society the most in recent years, and he is the Internet die-hard who actually has the most time at the disposal of Chinese.
What kind of person is Zhang Xiaolong?
"Geniuses are on the left, madmen are on the right", geniuses often have a deeper understanding of the world, can perceive things that ordinary people can't perceive, and can do things that ordinary people can't do, but relatively speaking, they are often not understood by others.
He is the biggest Kent (cigarette brand) consumer in Guangzhou late at night, and he is as silent as a fan-like man.
One of the few product managers in China with a humanistic temperament, he is the kind of person who bought the copyright from Xu Wei because he liked the lyrics of "Blue Lotus" and hung it on the QQ mailbox entrance.
If there's a new app in the world, within 48 hours of launch, if you download and try it out, you might come across someone named Allen.
If this person is silent, and doesn't even have an avatar, then you may have met Zhang Xiaolong.
Some say he's a genius, some say he's crazy, and some say he's a lonely paranoid......
And all along, Zhang Xiaolong, the middle-aged man who dominates China's hottest social app, has always left people with an unfathomable and mysterious impression.
As one of China's Internet treasures, Zhang Xiaolong was born on December 3, 1969 in Dongkou County, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province.
After being admitted to the Department of Telecommunications of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, he soaked in the library every day, constantly browsing the programming works of major IT tycoons.
After graduating with a bachelor's degree, he received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree respectively. After that, he was admitted to the graduate school and continued to study Internet technology and knowledge system in depth.
In the fall of 1994, at the age of 25, Zhang Xiaolong graduated from graduate school. Because he didn't like the dull and rigid atmosphere, he gave up the opportunity to work in the national telecommunications agency.
At that time, the domestic Internet industry was just starting, and Zhang Xiaolong went to Guangzhou with high morale to join the Internet tide.
Zhang Xiaolong was in charge of program development in two companies, and although he did a good job, he was tired of living a routine life.
He decided to start from the early stage of the Internet field and developed a mailbox that not only conforms to the habits of Chinese, but also can be used for free - Foxmail.
Founder of Foxmail, founder of WeChat, Senior Vice President of Tencent.
Zhang Xiaolong proved himself through his own efforts and developed a free, easy-to-use email Foxmail.
Foxmail quickly exploded, with hundreds of thousands of sign-ups. While removing all kinds of redundant ads, pop-ups and other annoying operations, Foxmail is also very stable to use, and the user reputation is excellent.
The success of Foxmail did not satisfy Zhang Xiaolong, who wanted to do even more in the Internet field. Tencent wanted an email address that had an impact in the market, so Foxmail came into Ma Huateng's field of vision, and Zhang Xiaolong also joined Tencent at this time.
With his outstanding wisdom and professional skills, he has brought Tencent a thriving and infinite potential.
Zhang Xiaolong, after joining Tencent, developed Tencent WeChat After countless days and nights of hard work, Zhang Xiaolong finally launched the first version of WeChat in August 2011.
Although there weren't many users at first, as time went on, more and more people began to pay attention to and use WeChat.
In just three years, WeChat has become an application that will inevitably be installed on almost every smartphone in China, and WeChat can have this influence, not only because of the shelter and nourishment of Tencent's "towering tree", but also because of the polishing and control of the product by the WeChat product team.
At the same time, the WeChat team led by Zhang Xiaolong also showed strong execution and innovation capabilities. They continue to break through technical bottlenecks and optimize the product experience, so that WeChat has always maintained a leading position in the highly competitive social market.
Even in the face of competitive pressure from the world's major giants, the WeChat team has never flinched, and they firmly believe that only by constantly innovating and surpassing can they remain invincible in the digital wave.
Zhang Xiaolong, the "father of WeChat", Lei Jun was reluctant to give him even 150,000 yuan back then, but now his annual salary is as high as 300 million, which is jaw-dropping.
At that time, Zhang Xiaolong valued his work Foxmail very much, and because he wanted to sell it at a price higher than the market price many times, he was refused. He offered a price of 150,000 yuan, but Lei Jun's employees denied it.
However, two years later, after 217 days of moonlight treasure box, Foxmail sold it to Boda, a family company with a good relationship with Lei Jun, at a high price of 12 million yuan, in the money made by Haibo Feida and Mega-info Technology, and the software was later acquired by Tencent.
Feng Dahui, the big name in the CTO, said that without Zhang Xiaolong, of course he would not be able to achieve WeChat, but it is better to believe in Zhang Xiaolong than without Zhang Xiaolong.
With the gradual enhancement of marketization, WeChat has become more and more mature. In 2018, his annual salary also reached 300 million.
"Zhang Xiaolong + WeChat team + Tencent" can achieve WeChat, and only then can we achieve those product philosophies that others dare not think of.
Today, Zhang Xiaolong and his WeChat empire are still growing and expanding. They are actively planning the future development direction and exploring more possibilities.
Zhang Xiaolong, also known as the "Father of WeChat", is mainly responsible for the management of Tencent's Guangzhou R&D department, and also participates in the management and review of Tencent's major innovation projects.
Tencent, as a leading enterprise in China's Internet, in addition to Ma Huateng, the symbol of mankind, also has Zhang Xiaolong, the "father of WeChat".