After coming out of the Building Block Software Company, Zhao Yi went directly to Xinghan Technology Company. When Zhao Yi arrived at the headquarters of Xinghan Technology, the company president Zhong Hanxiang was already waiting downstairs.
After the two exchanged greetings, Zhao Yi followed Zhong Hanxiang directly to his office. On the way, he took a look at the mental state of the company's employees, which seemed to be pretty good.
The current business of Xinghan Technology Company is very simple, which is to develop instant communication software for strangers to socialize. Since most of their employees are from Fanxing Software Company, their technical level is not bad.
So when Zhao Yi asked Zhong Hanxiang how the development of instant messaging software was going, Zhong Hanxiang said to him: "All testing work has been completed so far.
The debugging work of the backend server has also been completed, and we are just waiting for Mr. Zhao to confirm the launch time. The functions of the first version are relatively simple, with only a chat system, and the backend only has the functions of logging in and storing chat records.
Judging from the stability of the test, it has fully met the launch standards. After passing the stress test, it can meet the needs of millions of people chatting online at the same time. This scale should be sufficient in the initial stage. "
Hearing Zhong Hanxiang's words, Zhao nodded and said: "I'm very happy that you can complete it, but you have other projects that need to be started now.
I took a look at the office area just now. Your employees are still the same as when you were first established. There has been no increase. Your work in this regard is a bit inadequate.
The Internet is developing very fast, and the business will become more and more complex. If you have less than a hundred employees, you will definitely have no problem developing the first version, but as the subsequent functions increase, it will be a bit insufficient.
And I now have two tasks for your company. If done well, your company will definitely have a place among the future international Internet giants. "
Hearing Zhao Yi's criticism, the high-pitched application just now suddenly felt a little depressed. As Zhao Yi said, the company's employees have not increased in several months. As the president of the company, he really needs to review.
However, when he heard the two new businesses mentioned by Zhao Yi later, he immediately became interested. Since Zhao Yi said so, these two businesses must be great businesses, because Zhao Yi has never broken his promise.
"Although Mr. Zhao entrusts the task to us, we promise to complete the task on time and will never be delayed." Zhong Hanxiang quickly assured.
There can't be any hesitation at this time. It's not easy to get business from Zhao Yi, and it's such a serious application, which shows that these two businesses are not easy.
"Now that I have said it, I definitely intend to leave it to you. However, if these two businesses are to be carried out, your current number of personnel is not enough, and more employees need to be recruited.
But I also know that it is very difficult to find qualified employees now, so you should recruit more interns from juniors and seniors in universities, and you can also recruit senior high school graduates for training.
The current education situation in the country is like this. Insufficient talent reserves will be a long-term problem. You must develop an effective talent training mechanism and don't always improvise.
You are not thinking about too many employees and too much cost now. At least in the next few years, your company will be in the expansion period. You don't need to worry about too many employees, but you should worry about too few employees.
And you are all old employees who have your own opinions on software development. When you have time, write down your experiences for those who come after you to join the company and learn from them. Don’t keep it to yourself.
The Internet industry is different from traditional industries. It requires an open mind. You must be willing to share yourself and actively learn from other people's experiences and lessons. Only in this way can you stand out from the crowd of Internet companies.
Don't look at the fact that there are only a few of you Internet companies now. In the future, I think there will be more than 10,000 Internet companies in China, ranging from less than 100,000 to more than 10,000. Not only will there be many Internet businesses in new fields, but there will also be many homogeneous Internet companies.
Even though you have the upper hand now, it’s hard to predict the future because the Internet industry is developing so fast. It’s no exaggeration to say that it is changing with each passing day. If you are not careful and fail to keep up with the times, you will fall behind. It is possible to be eliminated.
Take your social networking software for strangers as an example. You may be content with the status quo because you have the upper hand and are developing well, and have insufficient insight into the market. Looking back, you find that they have already targeted social networking with acquaintances, and have already begun to do so. Specific scale.
Then when you enter other people's fields, you spend more than ten times as much energy and time as others, because socializing with acquaintances is more sticky than socializing with strangers, and the Matthew effect is more obvious.
The above example is to warn you that the Internet industry is very cruel. As long as you are still in this industry, you must be alert, always aware of market changes, and always provide the products you need to meet market demand. "
Seeing that Zhong Hanxiang had written down his words in notes, Zhao Yi admired this learning attitude very much, so he couldn't help but talk a little more, and he could no longer hide his attribute of being a good teacher.
After a pause and a sip of tea, he continued: "The social field on the Internet is very complex, like the instant messaging software you are developing with strangers.
Classified by relationship, it is weak social, classified by type, it is instrumental, and classified by content, it is message social. In the future, a voice chat function can be added to have the attribute of voice social.
In terms of positioning, this software has no clear definition. It can be regarded as a popular product and is suitable for use by all walks of life.
The above is summarized based on your product. At the same time, it can also be seen that there must be many other social products according to different classification dimensions.
For example, according to the relationship classification, there is a strong social relationship. The acquaintance social relationship just mentioned falls into this category.
Another example is classification by type: tool type, community type and media type, etc.; by content, it can be divided into: picture social, voice social, video social and text social, etc.; by user positioning, it can be divided into: grassroots, students, white-collar workers, elites wait.
Although the above categories are classified, they are not independent of each other. There may be several types intertwined with each other. The specific choice requires full consideration of market demand and user habits.
During development, not all functions are piled in. It is impossible to use one software to integrate all attributes. Not to mention the lack of professionalism, the difficulty in using the software caused by bloated software and huge functions is a problem. "
Zhao Yiben wanted to continue talking, but after thinking about it, readers might not agree if he continued talking, so he simply stopped here and the rest needed to be carefully considered by Zhong Hanxiang himself.
"Let's talk about social networking. Let's talk about two new tasks for you. The first task is that you must build a data center with 10,000 servers before the end of the year, and use cloud computing technology to externally Provide services.
This is part of our cooperation with government departments on the informatization of government affairs. You must pay attention to it. For this business, you need not a few employees.
Regarding the specific cloud computing technology, I will send you relevant information when I return. You must organize manpower to develop this technology as soon as possible.
Don’t underestimate the cloud computing business. This is an effective way to reduce costs and improve the efficiency of system deployment when small and medium-sized enterprises or units cannot afford huge hardware costs and do not have enough technical maintenance personnel.
When your cloud servers are used by tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of companies, then you can make a lot of money from this line of business alone. If you can expand the market internationally, you can earn hundreds of millions of dollars. Businesses may be your customers.
So you must pay attention to this matter, and this is not only your matter, but also related to my Internet promotion plan, which has the function of remembering the importance. "
Although he didn't know what cloud computing technology was, when he heard Zhao Yi talk about this matter so seriously, he had to take it seriously. At the same time, the prospect Zhao Yi said also fascinated him.
Their company's business is mainly social products, and if social products want to be profitable, they mainly rely on Internet advertising. However, there are currently very few Internet users and there is almost no advertising revenue.
Therefore, Zhong Hanxiang attaches great importance to every business that can bring them income. Although this cloud computing data center has a huge investment, the benefits it brings are real, and it will definitely become their main source of income in the future. .
As for technical issues, Zhong Hanxiang is not worried at all. They have seen Zhao Yi's terrifying technical strength before, and no problem can be difficult for him.
Since Zhao Yi requires that their cloud computing data center must be built before the end of the year and provide services to the outside world, it means that he has prepared the relevant technologies. Programmers like them only need to follow the diagrams, which is a physical job.
It may be a bit frustrating to say it, but it is the truth. When someone tells you the technical roadmap of each step, as well as the implementation method, and even the relevant algorithms and architecture are prepared for you, you only need to type the code.
As for the large investment, it is not a problem. With his boss's wealth, he will definitely prepare funds for them, so he is not worried about this at all.
"Don't worry, Mr. Zhao, we will go all out to build the data center and cloud computing related framework before the end of the year, and we will not delay the provision of external services." Zhong Hanxiang said without hesitation.
Faced with this problem, their only problem is the insufficient number of employees, but this is not a problem for him. The worst he can do is go to his old employer to recruit people. If Liao Xingkai complains, he will complain. After all, they are all the same boss.
Hearing Zhong Hanxiang's assurance, Zhao nodded and continued: "The second task is to develop an online payment system. Now that the Internet has just emerged, there is not much demand for online payment for the time being.
As more and more Internet value-added services become available in the future, the Internet payment system will become one of the basic tools of the Internet economy and a channel for tens of millions of Internet companies to obtain revenue.
Therefore, the Internet payment system is also the most important part of the Internet economy. Although it may not be very profitable in the early stage, and you may even pay for it, the market in this area will definitely be worth trillions of yuan in the future, and you must pay attention to it. "
Hearing Zhao Yi's trillion-yuan market size, Zhong Hanxiang's eyes almost shone. He was so shocked that he immediately felt that Zhao Yi had given these two tasks to his company. He was too partial to them.
You must know that it is not only Xinghan Technology Company that has no income, but also Qianxun Technology Company. They are all Internet companies. Although their business fields are different, the same thing is that they all made losses in the early days.
Although Zhao Yi said that there is a market size of one trillion yuan, the real situation may not be that easy. Zhao Yi cannot use the empty-handed method to operate payment tools like Dad Ma.
Moreover, online payment tools are essentially financial products. In order to avoid supervision, Zhao Yi insists on saying that he is a technology company. Zhao Yi really cannot be as shameless as his father.
Therefore, no matter what business is carried out in the future online payment system, it must be carried out in strict accordance with financial laws and regulations. You cannot ignore the hidden dangers that financial security brings to the national economy just because your own interests are involved.
Finance is different from other industries because it has a very obvious amplification effect. Once an accident occurs, it is not a small problem. A deposit of 3 billion yuan like Dad Ma can lend 300 billion yuan to the outside world, which is amplified 100 times.
This is impossible to happen in traditional financial banks, because every time a round of lending is made, capital will shrink. After seven or eight rounds of lending, the money on hand will be gone.
In other words, at most, the initial capital would be increased by seven or eight times. However, for its own benefit, Ant was not satisfied with doing this. Instead, it turned the debt into ABS products and continued to raise funds.
This is exactly the same as the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008. Debt was packaged into products, financed in the financial market, and then loaned out, and then the new debt was packaged and financed.
If this cycle continues, let alone 100 times, 1,000 times, 10,000 times are all possible. As long as the debt can be packaged and financed from the financial market, this kind of gameplay can continue forever.
If everything is normal and there are no problems, of course you are good to me, everyone is good, but if something goes wrong at one point, the consequences will definitely be more serious than the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008. This is definitely not a joke.
As for Dad Ma, he only has 3 billion in capital at any time, and all other losses will be borne by the banks and investors who purchased the debt they packaged.
The problem is that Dad Ma clearly knows the huge financial risks involved. For his own benefit, he ignores the national financial security and the interests of investors. He also bombards the regulatory agencies, saying that the regulatory agencies are outdated. It can be said that "their intentions are to be punished!!!" "
In fact, our country is already open-minded enough about Internet finance. Don’t think that only Ant has these Internet financial technologies, but a bunch of Internet giants like Yingjiang don’t have this technology
Why their Internet finance has not developed is not because their technology is not good, but because they were supervised according to the financial industry from the beginning. Of course, the lack of cooperation from traditional financial leaders is also one of the important reasons.
But domestic banking institutions are basically state-owned enterprises. Aren’t the interests of these banks damaged by Internet financial products? It’s definitely not the case.
The reason why these domestic banking institutions cooperate with these Internet financial institutions shows that the country is open to Internet finance and does not put a strict curse on Internet finance.
But what Dad Ma did was to slap his face on the nose, completely ignoring the huge financial risks behind this action. For his own interests, he turned a deaf ear to the interests of the country and the people.
You can also say that you are a businessman, and these things are not for them to consider. Then when they face supervision, they should not make nonsense. As a businessman, you should have basic morals, otherwise you will not be tolerated wherever you go.
Moreover, there has never been anything outdated or outdated in financial supervision, because the first element of finance is safety. The reason why my country has never had a financial crisis after reform and opening up is because of its cautious attitude towards finance.
Moreover, our currency is not the world's currency, and we cannot rely on printing money to make the world pay for our financial crisis.
When a financial crisis occurs in Yingjiang, the whole world suffers, but when a financial crisis occurs in our country, we are definitely hurt, because we cannot predict the losses and can only bear them silently.
Zhao Yi is not an ordinary businessman. It is impossible for him to sacrifice the interests of the country and the interests of the people for his own interests, then pat his own back, run out with the wealth, and leave the mess at home.
Others may do this, but Zhao Yi will never do this. As a person in charge, if such a crisis really occurs, he will probably invest his wealth into it and will not behave like this.
In life, there are things to do and things not to do. This is what a gentleman should do. "If you are poor, you can only benefit yourself; if you are rich, you can help the world."
The online payment system is one of the foundations of the Internet and is indispensable. Especially since my country's credit card system has not yet been established, this system is particularly important.
But this is just an online payment tool, and at most it can serve as a financial service platform. Zhao Yi does not want Xinghan Technology Company to personally participate in the future, as the risks this brings cannot be estimated.
This is why Zhao Yi wants to hand over the online payment system to Xinghan Technology Company, because in addition to their main business of social networking, this company is positioned as a user platform that brings together the entire network.
Even if Zhao Yi's companies get involved in e-commerce business in the future, their online payment tools must use Xinghan Technology's online payment system, and they are not allowed to develop their own online payment system.
Because this violates the basic business ethics, that is, the principle of avoidance of interests. Ant and Alibaba in the previous life actually seriously violated the principle of avoidance of interests, which is a serious lack of business ethics.
As a pioneer of the Internet in this life, he must set these rules. Anyone who violates these basic Internet business rules in the future will face his targeting.
This is not just talk, he has the ability to punish these unruly people and companies and create a better environment for our country's Internet ecology.
This is also the reason why Zhao Yiyi in his previous life was very dissatisfied with the chaos in the early days of the development of the Internet. Some people often did things that harmed others and benefited themselves for their own benefit.
The most common thing is that in order to get others to buy their anti-virus software, security software companies actually create network viruses themselves, or spread the technology to create network viruses.
Others, such as using pornographic information to attract viewers, are even more routine operations. Even later generations are still using this method for promotion. As everyone knows, the Internet is not divided into levels. If you do this, will the parents of teenagers agree
Those who participated in the development of the Internet in previous lives were from grassroots backgrounds and did not have many resources or money. It was understandable that they wanted to develop as quickly as possible, although in Zhao Yi's opinion, they were a class of people with no reputation.
But if it continues to develop like this in this life, Zhao Yi will not agree. The Internet environment has been set up for them, and even the venture capital Zhao Yi has many companies. It can be said that as long as they follow the right path, they can make it work.
Zhao Yi had no way of knowing what Zhong Hanxiang was thinking, and he continued: "In fact, the main difficulties in the Internet payment system are security and account connection with banks.
When it comes to money issues, security must always be the top priority. As long as users have an unpleasant payment experience, they will have doubts about online payments.
Therefore, in addition to using technical means to ensure security, you also need to handle payment issues that occur in a timely manner. You must set up a customer department that can respond quickly to properly handle payment issues that occur.
Another difficulty is connecting with the major banks, which involves not only security concerns, but also the relevant interests of the banks.
Since your company has just been established and is not well-known, it is estimated that it will be difficult for you to negotiate with various banks. Therefore, I will help you communicate on this task, and you must arrange a team to handle follow-up issues. "
"By the way, one thing I almost forgot is that you designed a user authorization login system. As long as other Internet companies want to use your user login system, you will approve it.
They can use the audit code to embed your user authorization system into their system, and then your social account users can log in to these authorized systems with their social accounts.
For example, Polaris Game Studio will launch two online games soon. You should know this. They can embed your user authorization system into their game login interface.
Then users can log in directly if they have your social account. You should be very clear about the benefits of doing this. First, it can help you quickly accumulate users in the early stage, and second, it can expand the influence of your social products.
In other words, in the future, your social account will not only be used for social networking, but can also provide many other services. With a social account, users can log in to almost all Internet products.
So this matter is very important to you. Now that the two online games from Polaris are almost in development, you must do this well before launching them.
I need to remind you that this user authorization system must ensure the security of user information. Information on social software is relatively private, so you must make account security a top priority. "
After saying this, Zhao Yi thought for a moment and continued: "Forget it, let me provide you with some design ideas to prevent you from groping blindly and delaying things.
Bring me a laptop and I'll get this done now so I don't forget about it later. "
After hearing Zhao Yi's words, Zhong Hanxiang immediately stood up, moved his computer over, and handed it to Zhao Yi.
After taking over the computer, Zhao Yi wrote a design document based on the ideas of some user authorization systems in his previous life. In fact, the technical difficulty of this is not high, and the rare thing is the design idea.
In this wild era of the Internet, there is very little research on Internet security, let alone the design ideas of third-party authorization for these users. It is estimated that they were all blind at the beginning.
In this way, the afternoon passed. When the sky gradually darkened, Zhao Yi finally wrote the design document, then handed the computer to Zhong Hanxiang and asked him to arrange manpower to develop the system as soon as possible.
When Zhong Hanxiang took over the computer, he took a rough look at the design document written by Zhao Yi. To be honest, he felt that it was exquisite. It not only took care of the convenience of third-party embedding, but also improved the security of social accounts here.
After finishing this matter, Zhao Yi took advantage of the time before dinner and asked Zhong Hanxiang to call the person in charge of the current social product development and the technical director over. He wanted to experience it on the spot and give his opinions by the way.
After everyone arrived, Zhao started to open the chat software. When he saw the ugly interface, he immediately lost interest. This was his first feeling.
Of course, he has been around and has seen too many excellent designs. Internet users in this era are young, so maybe such an ugly design can catch their eye.
Zhao Yi just explained the shortcomings of this login interface. He even gave a login interface size, color matching, password protection and other measures, and asked them to go back and make changes.
After logging in with an account, there is a friend list. Above the friend list is a search box for searching for friends in the friend list. Below it is an icon button to add friends. There is no problem with this.
But as I said before, it was too ugly. The search box was boxy and had no sense of design at all, and the color matching was not pleasing to the eye. Zhao Yitong asked them to modify it and add a skin-changing function.
In addition, they also need to add a friend grouping function. As for the group chat function, let them upgrade and develop it later. After all, group chat takes up too many resources, and they don’t have the energy to do this for the time being. They have just given it to them. So much work has been arranged.
When I clicked on the chat interface, I found that the chat history was displayed alone on the top, and the chat input box was below. There was nothing else. In this case, it always felt like something was missing.
Zhao Yi asked them to display the gender images of both parties on the chat interface, so that if a man and a woman were chatting, they would at least have some feeling. Otherwise, if there was no feeling at all with just text, how could the conversation continue.
Moreover, Zhao Yi also asked them to add the emoticon package function. In the early stage, there may not be too many emoticon packages, only the ones that can express daily greetings and simple emotions. There is no need to make it too complicated in the early stage.
People who use the Internet now are all novices. Many things are too complicated, which makes them too expensive to use. As a result, the utilization rate of these functions will drop significantly.
As for voice chat, Zhao just asked them to remember this and did not let them develop it for the time being, because this function may harm the interests of telephone operators. After a while, it will be added to see the situation.
However, the conversion of speech into text can be added in subsequent upgrades, but this technical difficulty is a bit high. It is estimated that the technical staff of Xinghan Technology Company will not be able to handle it in a short time. Because of the accent problem, the accuracy of the text conversion is too low.
After talking about these discovered problems, everyone's excitement was completely gone. Although they are all small things, the success of Internet products depends on these small details.
Zhong Hanxiang thought that this software was well developed before. However, after Zhao Yi took a look at it, he found that there were problems here and there, which prompted him to make up his mind to find better design talents when he went back. He did not want to do it a second time. ugly.
Dinner was eaten in the company canteen. Although the conditions here are relatively simple, the food in the canteen is still good, at least it tastes like home.
After dinner, Zhao Yi went to the guest house of the city government to stay. There is no decent hotel here, only the government guest house has a better environment. If Zhao Yi hadn't invested in so many industries here, it would really be a disaster. You must live in it.
After the headquarters of several companies here are built, there will be no need to wrong yourself so much. (End of chapter)