Re: Zhang Xiaolong 49 years of age 240 million annual salary: determine the outcome of life is the 5 laws.
compared with Zhang Xiaolong, Liu Chengmin is the elder of this company. He has rich contacts and working experience. Before the software development, not many people were optimistic about Zhang Xiaolong, who was skilled in technology.
who would have thought that Zhang Xiaolong, who was not optimistic at last, had made a great product.
Dong Lu recalls that Zhang Xiaolong's index finger and middle finger are yellowish, which is a proof of smoking habit developed by long-term day and night programming.
from product function to image pixel, every place Zhang Xiaolong pursues perfection. Small details are enough for him to argue with product manager all night.
"how to say, this person is too simple." Zhou Hongyi said. This entrepreneur, who is known for his crafty and good fighting in the business world, compares Zhang Xiaolong, who is one year older than he.
"what did Jobs's success explain?" In the know community, Zhang Xiaolong replied: "the statement can only be successful." Zhang Xiaolong, who has already put WeChat on orbit, may still want to uphold this purity from the bottom of his heart.
to judge what is to do
life is to give up
2018 at the beginning of the year, and Zhang Xiaolong gave a 1 hour speech at the WeChat open class.
, in which he said a paragraph, I think it's particularly worth playing: "
" a lot of people say WeChat is very restrained, WeChat is very sentiments, but we have never said "feelings" of two words, nor have we ever said that we have to restrain our desire, because doing a good thing is not restraint. But to judge what kind of thing is to do, what is right, what is wrong, such a series of judgments is a very rational process, not by a sense of "I am so very sentiments".
so people see WeChat as if every version is not very big, but it contains a lot of choices, more is a kind of abandoning, a lot of things we do, but we don't feel good, we give up. "
review Zhang Xiaolong's experience of making products over the past more than 20 years, from Foxmail, QQ to WeChat, he made a lot of choices and went through some detours, but always practise a principle.
"it's hard to know what you want, but it's easy to know what you don't want. Therefore, it is recommended for most products to say "no".
early entry into Tencent, he was highly regarded by Ma Huateng. After taking over, he fell into the crazy imitation of MSN. Six months later, a mailbox product called "Big Mac" came out, but it was extremely cumbersome and extremely slow. It had no value in operation.
for the next 3 years, he spent a lonely time. Because of this, when he had time, he stopped to think about how to give the product a living soul. At the end of
2006, the transfer appeared. The mailbox team led by Zhang Xiaolong decided to abandon the previous play and create a new version with streamlined and light thinking. In the spring of second, the problem of QQ mailbox speed was resolved and on-line, everything returned to normal, and the volume of users began to grow slowly. In
2008, QQ mailbox was reborn from the near death state and won the title of "Seven Star products". Zhang Xiaolong's team also won the company's annual Innovation Award.
at the crossroads of life, Zhang Xiaolong keeps giving up, he says:
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in these years, WeChat users are growing, and its commercial value is becoming increasingly prominent.
now Zhang Xiaolong is also gradually accepting commercialization. But he still hates harsh and rigid business implants. He feels stiff and destroys perfection.
in order to prevent the frequent flush of a screen like micro-blog, a flood of advertising water army, he insists that every marketing number can only push one message every day, and insists that the advertising fee of every friend circle should be above 10 million. He feels that powerful companies can make beautiful advertisements and never allow their works to be tarnished by those who have no bottom line advertisers.
some people say that Zhang Xiaolong is a man who lives in his own world. He likes to control his world and is totally not interested in things that he can not control. Each product development is closely watched to ensure that every line of code and product details developed by the team instilled his feelings.
25 years old, he gave up the iron job job in the telecommunications department; 28 years old, he chose to develop software alone, a person wrote Foxmail for three or four years; 36 years old, he joined the Tencent, with great pressure, took 3 years to make the uncolored QQ mailbox to be the best product of the word of mouth under the flag; 42 years old, he grabbed the opportunity to develop. WeChat, who influenced the world later, was 49 years old. He stood in the lecture hall of WeChat open class and talked about WeChat's trade-offs.
Yang Lan once said, "deciding what you are, not what you have, but your choice."
looking back over the past 24 years, you will find that Zhang Xiaolong has been making the right choices and moving forward in the direction of light in addition to some minor mistakes, and this driving effort has brought him to a new height.
"if there is no WeChat, Zhang Xiaolong may not become a celebrity, but even without WeChat, he is one of the best programmers in China." An Internet industry person said so.
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