Chapter 283 Mutual Understanding

Chapter 283 Mutual Understanding

Chapter 283 Mutual Understanding (5k)

News of the WeChat changes swept the entire Internet.

Alibaba acquired WeChat at lightning speed. Almost everyone who saw the news immediately realized how important it was and guessed that Alibaba and WeChat would face off in the field of mobile instant messaging for some time to come!
The issue is……

There was no clue at all before this!!
Zhang Chaoyang of Sohu said that WeChat has been defeated, Chen Yizhou of Renren said that the competition is over, and many industry experts, financial journalists and even spectators have seen the decline of WeChat after its brief glory, and they all believe that Penguin will end this brief chaos as expected.

Even though Penguin was in disgrace, even though the founder of WeChat created the "Yu Xing crying for the horse" public opinion incident.

However, before the news on Monday, everyone did feel that Yu Xing’s crying was a powerful irony to Penguin, and that it was Yu Xing’s final farewell to WeChat.

It is completely acceptable, completely understandable, and even completely praiseworthy that a company that has been established for less than a year ends its mission with such strong irony.

Looking back at Yu Xing, his Bai Xiaosheng was forced to upgrade its technology because of the public opinion caused by Computer World. His WeChat was unveiled after the 3Q public opinion and became a new force to resist monopoly. He was the joke leader on Weibo and the anti-goose pioneer in public opinion...

WeChat's number of users madly increased from 200 million to 2000 million, becoming the third largest instant messaging software in the country, forcing Penguin to compete with it regardless of its eating habits. Questioning Lu Shan forced him to cover his face and run away. He carried the pressure to connect many traffic resources and was invited to the banquet to complete the ultimate Yu Xing crying horse.

These experiences, which can almost be seen everywhere, have turned Yu Xing, the "intelligence chief" who knows everything, into the highly praised "Little Zhuge".

The news from the Penguin Seminar was not concealed. Even Yu Xing's lines were pieced together by the resourceful and gossipy netizens. They immediately knew that he had finished reading the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and went to the banquet, and he put on a performance imitating Zhuge Liang's story of mourning Zhou Yu.

Therefore, the name "Little Zhuge of Business" originated from the Baixiaosheng Forum and was also recognized on Weibo.

"I seem to have seen President Yu reading The Romance of the Three Kingdoms at night when he arrived in Pengcheng!"

"Not only do I know that he reads the Romance of the Three Kingdoms at night, I also know that he is reading the 57th chapter, 'Wolong mourns at Chaisangkou'. Ha, alas, how sad! I hope you will enjoy it!"

"Speaking of business Zhuge, if you count carefully, Pony is really angry three times. The first is 'the damn XX', the second is '360's QQ bodyguard', and the third is 'WeChat's violent attack'. Dr. Yu is indeed a returnee doctor!"

Yu Xing's crying for the horse at the banquet vented out all the things he had been feeling over the past period of time, and the title of "Little Zhuge Liang in Business" was the recognition of all this by many netizens and onlookers.

However, there are also some harsh voices emerging in such public opinion.

"Renrenchat has shut down, 360 is no longer in business, WeChat is just a forerunner, and Penguin still won the final victory."

"Does Yu Xing deserve such praise? Can he cry all day and all night and even kill the penguin?"

It is bound to be difficult for startups to compete with giants, so this voice may not sound good, but "success or failure determines a hero" is also a widely accepted view. Penguin's final victory is also considered by many media and experts to be the first ticket to mobile Internet.

Therefore, Yu Xing's "Little Zhuge Liang in Business" still has some bleak colors.

But after nine o'clock on Monday morning, everything was completely different.

WeChat is sold, Alibaba enters the game, Penguin’s ticket dream is shattered, and huge uncertainty emerges in the instant messaging battle!

How did all this happen so suddenly?
Isn’t it said that Alibaba’s strategy is entirely based on e-commerce? Isn’t it said that Alibaba’s focus is to re-list the company as a whole?

Why did such an e-commerce giant suddenly change its strategy and head straight for the social giant Penguin?

Along with the huge shock, various pieces of information were also pieced together.

The biggest doubt immediately caught everyone's attention.

WeChat just officially announced its sale on Monday, and just two days ago, on Saturday and Sunday, Yu Xing's Bai Xiaosheng ushered in a technical upgrade. It just so happened that during this period of technical upgrade, WeChat encountered a "Taobao link failure"...

The users of the Bai Xiaosheng Forum are people in the workplace, including several major Internet companies. Even employees of Penguin often show up. By piecing together the clues, a bold guess emerged.

It's not anyone else's fault, it's just you, Taobao!
And then, the deal was reached so quickly!

Is this to let Alibaba realize that it will be beaten if it falls behind? Is it to let it see what will happen after Penguin continues to dominate the telecommunications industry?
Is this... is this right??
Isn't this a forced sale?!
It's a bit of a wild guess, but...

"Oh my god, I met Mr. Yu in our Alibaba cafeteria on Sunday! He told me that he would solve the technical problems of WeChat! Does this mean that WeChat has become a real brother? WeChat is a brother unit? "

"I didn't hear any news at the company! But, Mr. Ma was originally abroad, and he showed up at the company on Sunday!"

"Excluding all impossibilities, no matter how unbelievable it is that they first banned her and then sold her body, it is still the truth!"

Users from Alibaba appeared on the forum and used their personal experiences to confirm the truth that was quickly pieced together - WeChat successfully reversed Alibaba's strategy in an incredible way and matched the Penguin with a competitor of equal strength!

The manipulator behind this is...

Yu Xing.

Yu Xing!

The fog of super transactions has been torn apart, and more confirming information is pouring in like sunlight.

Employees of WeChat also released on-site news this morning.

Mr. Yu gave a speech!
Penguin President Martin Lau is here!
Alibaba CFO and Arhats join the game!

The deal is settled!

This was obviously a sudden incident, and it was also obviously a deliberate operation by Yu Xing. Otherwise, why would Liu Chih-Ping be invited?
Authoritative information emerges, but more questions arise.

"Wait, wait, man, wait, wait, let me ask you, the company issued options before it was sold? Issued options worth 4100 million? All options are worth 2.97 million? Damn, is this right? This is not right!"

"The doctor wants Alibaba to also engage in follow-up competition? This is absolutely right!!"

"This is not a competition between Alibaba and Penguin, this is a competition between penguins!"

"Penguin even invited Mr. Yu to improve the brand. Come on, you've completely pissed him off. I don't want to play anymore. Ask someone else to play with you!"

"How can this be some little Zhuge Liang in business? He is the number one strategist in business. With his eloquence, he holds the seal of the prime minister, has personally entered the game, and is a giant in the business. He is the Su Qin of business!"

"Penguin won over Yu Xing's WeChat, but it relied on its status as a giant to create such a competition. Yu Xing was not convinced at all and would rather sell it to Alibaba than to Penguin..."

"This game has not yet come to an end, but Yu Xing has won half a point against Penguin in the first half. This half point really wants to kill Penguin!"

"Penguin taught Mr. Yu how the giants played their game. Then, after much thought, Mr. Yu decided that this game plan was not suitable for his WeChat, so he sold WeChat to a giant that was suitable for this game plan."

"Boss Yu is so cruel!"

"The first to do this will have no descendants. Penguin and Ali will have a lot of fun later."

"I remember there were a lot of financial reports last week saying that the competition between Penguin and WeChat has changed from a battle of moves to a battle of inner strength. WeChat has a version of the Dugu Nine Swords, but has been forced into a desperate fight by the Penguin with its deep inner strength. But Mr. Yu has another move besides the Dugu Nine Swords, the Flying Fairy from the Sky. I can only say that the industry situation is likely to be completely different from now on."

New discussions emerged on the pages of the Bai Xiaosheng Forum almost every moment, and millions of workplace users were activated by the explosive news. When they paralyzed the Bai Xiaosheng server, they were not satisfied and flocked to Weibo to continue the discussion, and frantically @ the experts who had made previous judgments, and frantically @ Yu Xing, the person involved.

This mega deal dominated the hot topics on Weibo, and the system was then experiencing a crash.

From last year to this year, the topic of penguins has been at its peak. The continuous public opinions have made users active on the Internet know the whole story. It was only recently when WeChat showed signs of decline that people began to pay less attention to penguins.

However, last week's Yu Xing crying for the horse brought Penguin back into the spotlight, and the entry of the giants on Monday this week has irritated everyone's nerves.

Secret Deal! Super Deal! Big Deal!

Regardless of the time, amount, or impact, this sudden exposure of the incident contains too much dense information worthy of attention.

Many people were just watching the fun and mocking the penguins.

Then, some people turned into clowns after seeing the news.

Tan Ruize officially joined the Penguin Instant Messaging team in January this year. He hopes to move up to the next level in the new year of 1. His position remains as deputy technical director. However, startups are different from giants, and both the treatment for job-hopping and the power that can be mobilized are different.

He is satisfied with the current situation and looks forward to the future.

As for the non-compete agreement...

It remains to be seen whether WeChat can survive, and Penguin has also promised to help deal with this matter.

Tan Ruize believes in Penguin’s legal team.

As for WeChat company...

Although Tan Ruize left without saying goodbye and although he did feel a little guilty, he really felt that there was nothing to say. He thought that Mr. Yu should be able to understand him. Besides, WeChat was built from scratch, and even if he had no credit, he had worked hard.

Well then, I won’t take the options or the year-end bonus anymore. From now on, our merits and demerits will be offset and we can go our separate ways.

Tan Ruize worked very hard during his half month at Penguin, hoping to help Weilian quickly take over WeChat. He also talked without reservation about various WeChat data and his discussion with Yu Xing on competition.

During this period, he also received a questioning call from WeChat's technical director Ge Zhijie.

"Lao Ge, you have to understand me. I have no choice but to leave. WeChat is already in this state. It can't compete with Penguin. Really, we all have to think about our own future. I sincerely suggest that you come here too. We can at least give you two or three times the salary here!"

Tan Ruize's suggestion was not adopted, instead he was scolded.

He was helpless and blocked Ge Zhijie's number. Seeing that this former colleague sent WeChat messages to curse him again, he had to block his WeChat again. Finally, he simply changed his number to register WeChat. Anyway, WeChat was only used to research new features.

From now on, WeChat is the future of mobile instant messaging. The furthest distance in the world is probably when you are on WeChat and I am on WeChat.

Tan Ruize had made all the psychological preparations and even organized his wording in response to Mr. Yu's call. However, he never received a call from Mr. Yu, so he thought that Mr. Yu could indeed understand his choice.

On January 1, Monday, Tan Ruize was silently thinking about the optimization of WeChat chat functions at his workstation. After a while, he felt some commotion around him.

He paid no attention and continued to work.

However, the commotion gradually turned into discussion, and then even a little noisy.

Tan Ruize looked up blankly. What happened?
Soon, he saw Song Xinlei's pale face.

Song Xinlei is my former and current colleague. She was previously the leader of the application layer group of WeChat, a very important development team. She came to Penguin half a month earlier than me.

After Tan Ruize jumped to Penguin, he still had a higher position, and because of the implicit rejection of Penguin employees on WeChat, he naturally became close to Song Xinlei, who was in a similar situation.

"What's wrong? What happened? What are you doing?"

Tan Ruize asked Song Xinlei who seemed a little dazed.

Song Xinlei came back to her senses, opened her mouth but couldn't say anything, and calmed herself down before speaking: "Yes, yes, it was WeChat that sold it to Alibaba..."

"WeChat sold to Alibaba?" Tan Ruize repeated the message, surprised, "Ali? Alibaba bought WeChat? Isn't Alibaba an e-commerce company? Why would it buy WeChat? Alibaba, is this true?"

Alibaba was previously caught in the vortex of transfer of control of Alipay. Whether it was dealing with its relationship with shareholder Yahoo or public criticism of its equity manipulation, it had no intention of entering the social and communications field.

Therefore, Tan Ruize was extremely surprised, but he quickly understood the significance of this news.

With a gloomy face, he opened the browser and couldn't help cursing in his heart, "Yu Xing is so unlucky!"
Why would Alibaba suddenly change its strategy?
Tan Ruize frowned, subconsciously thinking that this kind of transaction must be dominated by someone like Ma Dian.

Soon, when he reviewed the speculations on the Bai Xiaosheng forum and saw the ban, upgrade, appearance, and official announcement, he was surprised to find that this movement was not a rumor, but was most likely the result of Yu Xing's manipulation.

Yu Xing's smiling face seemed to appear in front of Tan Ruize.

Yu Xing... Although people outside say he is sharp, I have always felt that he is a good boss after getting to know him. No matter the requirements in terms of funding, traffic or technology, as long as it is within a reasonable range for everyone to discuss, even if it is a little out of line, he will accept and respect it and work hard to coordinate and resolve it.

It was not until last week's strategic seminar, when I heard Yu Xing crying for his horse and mentioned himself, that the legendary sharpness seemed to suddenly come true.

Now... Yu Xing can actually force Alibaba to compete with Penguin in this way...

Tan Ruize suddenly felt very uneasy. This kind of decisive style... seemed to be felt particularly deeply when one was standing in front of the other person.

He thought for a while about the impact of the latest news on the competition, and then came to his senses when he heard his Penguin colleague asking Song Xinlei questions.

"Song Xinlei, WeChat sold for so much money, how many options did you have there before?"

Song Xinlei smiled bitterly, did not answer the question, but turned her head to look at her old boss.

Tan Ruize was struck by this sad and even pitying look, and suddenly realized a huge problem... the option... the option that he had voluntarily given up...

He took a deep breath quietly and pretended to be calm. At this moment, he was no longer in the mood to think about the changes in the market situation, nor was he in the mood to deal with work on the computer. His mind was only filled with "options, options, options".

As the deputy director of technology, Tan Ruize has considerable options.

However, he was very happy at the beginning, but as the company gave out money once and again, he began to feel that this thing was just a pie in the sky for Yu Xing to tie everyone down.

Even Tan Ruize guessed Yu Xing's thoughts from this action.

If he really thinks WeChat has a chance of success, will he be so generous in handing out shares? Will he do it again and again?

Tan Ruize sat in front of the computer and felt his mouth dry. Another number kept appearing in his mind: 0.237%, 0.237%, 0.237%...

These are the options I received before leaving WeChat.

Tan Ruize didn't know that his face had turned red. He held the mouse tightly, bit his back teeth hard, stared at the screen, and suddenly saw a discussion post from Bai Xiaosheng.

He was screaming in his heart, don’t click, don’t click, don’t click!
However, the mouse has already clicked into the discussion on employee stock options at WeChat.

"I can only say that Mr. Yu was really kind this time. He finalized the deal in advance, knew the price, and knew the value of the options, but he still issued another option. Together with the last 4100 million, he issued a total of 4 options!"

"Fuck, what kind of company has issued options 1 times in less than a year since its establishment??"

"This isn't the last time, but the first three times are enough to justify everyone at WeChat!"

"That's awesome! Damn, next time Mr. Yu starts a new company, I'll be the first one to submit my resume!"

"I'm jealous. I heard that WeChat's technical director got nearly 2000 million in options this time! I'm so jealous!!"

Tan Ruize stared at the last word "2000 million" and his eyes really turned red!

Even if I don’t take the last option, the value of my 0.237% is more than million! !

Ten million!!!

Tan Ruize suddenly gasped heavily.

"Boss Tan, Boss Tan, are you okay?" Song Xinlei noticed that her old boss was acting strangely. Although she felt bad, she felt less bad when she thought of her old boss's money. She even called out out of sympathy, "Boss Tan, do you want to wash your face? Are you okay? Do you want to see... see a doctor?"

Song Xinlei lowered her voice unconsciously at the end.

Tan Ruize looked at Song Xinlei blankly, and then realized that he was gasping for breath.

He shook his head, stood up shakily, and said reluctantly, "It's okay, I, I'll go wash my face."

Tan Ruize clenched his fingers tightly in his palms. After taking a few steps, he heard the discussion on WeChat. He looked up and felt that his colleagues seemed to be looking at him, and there seemed to be a strange mockery in their eyes.

The further he walked, the more he felt his heart pounding in his chest. When he saw a colleague's polite smile coming towards him, he suddenly felt it was full of malice.

"what!!"

Tan Ruize slowly collapsed to the ground.

"Hey, hey, Mr. Tan, someone come! Someone come quickly!"

"The deputy director of WeChat fainted!"

"Come and help, call 120, come quickly, the traitor on WeChat has fallen!"

The news about Alibaba's acquisition of WeChat was still being hotly discussed, and suddenly someone fainted, causing a small chaos.

Song Xinlei watched her old leader being carried away with a distraught heart, knowing that he might not be able to accept such a huge loss.

She walked back to her workstation silently and suddenly heard a comment.

"Fuck, President Yu killed the traitor from a distance! Awesome!!"

Song Xinlei rolled her eyes helplessly.

She sat in front of her workstation in a daze, thinking of Mr. Yu's final attempt to keep her.

——Song Xinlei, if you leave now, you won’t be able to cash in the options you have. Just wait a little longer, and these things will be realized.

——How about this, I will add 20% to whatever Penguin gives you. You have been in WeChat for so long and have worked hard for our development. This is what you deserve. Similarly, you also deserve the redemption of options.

Mr. Yu told me that the options would be redeemed and he was willing to increase Penguin's salary by 20%.

Now that I think about it, he was willing to add 20% to keep me. The point was not to keep me, but to realize the value of the option.

Song Xinlei's breathing became a little rapid. She couldn't help but calculate the value of her options and got an answer of 400 million.

She bit her lips tightly until her lower lip bled before she slowly lay down on the table, the words she had said before coming to her mind again.

——Mr. Yu, please understand me. If you were me, what would you choose?
——Okay, I understand you, we understand each other.

Song Xinlei now understands what Mr. Yu meant by “mutual understanding”. You understand me, I understand you. If you let me down, I will let you down.

……

Public opinion was in turmoil, the industry was shaken, and the entire network was discussing it hotly.

At this time, 360's head Zhou Hongyi leisurely posted a latest emotional update on Weibo.

"I told you guys at the time that you guys arrested the wrong guy, you guys arrested the wrong guy, but you didn't listen."

(End of this chapter)