Chapter 884 The Future of WIMI

Two days later, Zhou Buqi, Wang Yaojin, Feng Muer, his assistant Wang Xing, and two employees from the administrative office went to Shanghai together.

Go to the branch first.

The team atmosphere of WIMI Xiutu is a little quiet. With the failure of product marketing, their small team is likely to be disbanded.

Looking back on the days when we all worked hard together in the past few months, it is really embarrassing.

There are more painful things.

On the branch side, there is another project team - 91 Mobile Assistant, which is eagerly recruiting, and it looks like it is going to be a big deal.

Just like the team at WIMI a few months ago.

Zhang Xuhao had already revealed to them in private before that after the team disbanded, they would not lose their jobs, and would find a relationship to arrange them all into the 91 assistant project.

It seems that there is no way out, and WIMI Xiutu will be banned.

Even when they heard that the big boss came to inspect the branch, the employees were all depressed. It's such a shame that all the hard work of the past few months went to waste.

If it's just an ordinary job, then it's fine, you get paid. But when they were making WIMI Xiutu, they devoted themselves to it and spent a lot of effort in this product.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Xuhao received an email in the morning, then made a phone call and chatted for more than two hours. Even the big boss's team came to inspect, but they couldn't go out to greet them.

After Zhou Buqi came over, Zhang Xuhao had recovered his fighting spirit.

"Um?"

Zhou Buqi was quite surprised to see him like this.

Zhang Xuhao was very excited, but afraid of changes, he lowered his voice, "My team seems to be saved!"

The office environment of the branch office is very simple.

There is not even a separate office, and there is no meeting room. Everyone just stands in the corridor and communicates in a low voice.

"Is it saved?" Zhou Buqi didn't quite believe it. WIMI Xiutu is a good product, but the market share is too far behind Meitu Xiuxiu. "Can you beat Meitu?"

Zhang Xuhao shook his head and said: "Stop fighting, internal fighting is meaningless!"

"Um?"

Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows.

Wang Xing next to him seemed to know something inside, and said with a smile, "Did Tang Binchen look for you?"

"Huh?" Zhang Xuhao was slightly taken aback, "You know?"

Wang Xing said with a smile: "During this time, you asked for help everywhere, and Guo Pengfei was too annoying, so you asked me to find a solution. Coincidentally, I also participated in the construction of the Japanese team."

Zhou Buqi didn't know about this, and asked, "What's going on?"

Wang Xingdao: "After I went to Japan, I discovered a very interesting phenomenon. Japanese women, no matter if they are fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls, or fifty or sixty-year-old old women, when they go out... they will deliberately dress up. .It is almost impossible to see things like going out in China without makeup and wearing casual clothes.”

"Um."

Zhou Buqi nodded.

Wang Xingdao: "Later I asked someone specifically, and they said that this is a cultural phenomenon in Japan and a requirement for female virtue. You can be casual at home, but you must wear makeup when you go out. For them, going out without makeup It's very disrespectful and disrespectful."

Zhou Buqi said: "It seems that South Korea is also like this? Women's virtues, a big Confucian cultural circle. It is not respected in China, but South Korea and Japan still care about it. No wonder the beauty products of these two countries are so popular."

Wang Xing said with a smile: "Maybe, I didn't pay much attention when I heard it. Yesterday Guo Pengfei came to me and said that he wanted me to find a way to help Weimei Xiutu find a way out. I just remembered this incident. Japanese girls have to put on makeup and wear more formal clothes even when they go out, and they will pay more attention when they post their photos online.”

Zhou Buqi's eyes lit up, "Good idea!"

Wang Xingdao: "Photoshop is too difficult. Whether it is domestic or foreign, girls are not very good at this kind of engineering software. But from the perspective of society and culture, Japanese women should need such a photo editing software more than domestic women."

Zhou Buqi took it seriously, "South Korea and Japan are now popular in medical cosmetic surgery, and they are all producing artificial beauties in large quantities... There is also a strong beauty culture, and their women are indeed stronger than domestic demand in terms of beauty. "

Wang Xing gave an argument, "A patriarchal society. In large companies in the world, the number of female executives is generally around 35%-40%. In Korean and Japanese companies, the scale is directly reduced by ten times. If it is on the board of directors , it is almost impossible to have a female director.”

In fact, the country is not much better.

Especially the rich in Hong Kong and Macau, as well as some family businesses in the Mainland, often reject women. When the Zhou family used to be headed by grandfather Zhou Guangshan, women were not allowed to participate in every family meeting, thinking that women would bring bad luck.

It's all the dross of traditional culture.

The mainland is better, the four old ideas have been abolished a lot. Some Chinese families in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand are also deeply influenced by traditional culture.

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "Female virtue is still very necessary. In the past few years in China, women's rights have been too much...cough cough, that's fine, let's not talk about this. I think it is better to promote a simple and easy-to-use photo editing software in Japan. It is very necessary."

Wang Xing nodded and said: "I thought so too, and then I sent an email to Tang Binchen last night and asked him to judge. It seems that he listened."

Zhang Xuhao next to him was a little dumbfounded. He didn't expect such a complicated matter. Seeing that Boss Zhou came over, he hurriedly said: "Yes, Tang Binchen also thinks it is necessary to promote a photo editing software in Japan. Japanese The blogging industry is very developed, and blog posts are often accompanied by some photos. There is a demand in this market, but there is no supporting product, we entered, just to fill this gap. The competitiveness is definitely stronger than Photoshop.”

Zhou Buqi glanced at him, "Since we are going to do it, why don't we choose the more successful Meitu Xiuxiu instead of you?"

Zhang Xuhao said with a smile: "The national conditions are different. Meitu Xiuxiu mainly makes some filters to whiten, remove acne and slim the face, focusing on face repair. Weimei can also add some interesting tags, such as adding a Pikachu in the background. The retouching of Japanese girls is not only about face retouching, but also stylized, which will add a lot of kawaii elements."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Is this matter decided?"

Zhang Xuhao said: "Not yet, I just have a general intention. Tang Binchen said that he would come over to talk to me some time in the next few days. Hmm... Maybe he will also visit Meitu Xiuxiu."

Zhou Buqi glared at him, "If you can't even seize this opportunity, write your resignation report as soon as possible!"

Zhang Xuhao took a deep breath, "I promise to complete the task!"

Zhou Buqi thought for a while and asked, "What level are you at now?"

"M2."

"What? Only M2?"

"this……"

Zhang Xuhao looked awkward, a little embarrassed.

Zhou Buqi asked again: "Where is that Xiong Jun from the 91 mobile phone assistant? What level is he?"

Zhang Xuhao said: "Same as me, also M2."

Zhou Buqi said: "He is a newcomer who just joined, and he is at the same level as you? What have you been doing these past few years?"

Zhang Xuhao sighed, feeling very helpless, "It was agreed that I would be promoted to M3, but was suppressed by the headquarters. It seems that Pei Yao specially said hello, saying that I would wait until Weimei Xiutu's results are released, and then mention it. I don't know how I offended her."

Zhou Buqi frowned, and snorted: "You are right! You are suppressed like this, and this Weimei Xiutu has not been done. If you are promoted, wouldn't the proud soldier be defeated?"

Zhang Xuhao gritted his teeth and said, "This time I'm going all out. Even if it means dedicating my life, I still have to get Tang Binchen out of the way and develop the Weimei Xiutu project to Japan."

Zhou Buqi pondered for a while, then nodded, "Well, if you can convince Tang Binchen and win the opportunity to develop overseas, then you can be promoted to M3."

"Ah?" Zhang Xuhao was slightly taken aback, "This...isn't it appropriate?"

Zhou Buqi said: "There is nothing suitable or not. You don't judge a hero by success or failure. Your level is there. It's not surprising to mention M3."

Then, I went to the project team of 91 Mobile Assistant for a tour.

Coming out of the branch, Zhou Buqi said to Wang Xing: "Japan's Internet industry is far behind that of China, and it is a developed country with the highest population density in the world, huge output value, and really stupid people with a lot of money. This market must be developed.”

Wang Xing knew what he meant, at least Zhang Xuhao's promotion could not be so hasty, so he tentatively asked, "You mean... the mobile phone assistant?"

Zhou Buqi didn't expect him to understand his thoughts so well, and said with a smile: "Yes, that's what it means. The penetration rate of smartphones in Japan is much higher than that in China, especially the iPhone, which is the second largest market outside the United States. Without a simple and convenient mobile assistant, using a smartphone is too much trouble."

Wang Xing said: "Are we going to fully develop Internet business in Japan?"

Zhou Buqi nodded, "That's what I mean. I just got the news a few days ago that Baidu was praised again. It is said that they will be given a national contribution award next year."

Wang Xing raised his eyebrows, "Because of going overseas? To develop the Japanese market?"

"right."

"I don't see how successful Baidu has done."

Zhou Buqi said: "Since we are going to do it, we still need to make more preparations. Well, go to Yangcheng later and meet with the management team of UC Youshi. Ask them if they have any plans to expand in the Japanese market .In the field of mobile browsers, UC is quite competitive.”

"Um."

Wang Xing nodded.

Boss Zhou had something in his words, he said he was going to ask... It was almost like an order. Ziweixing is the major shareholder of UC, and just helped UC's management resist Lei Jun's seizure of power.

In the domestic market, UC mobile browser is the absolute overlord on mobile phones.

Next year, it will be the subprime mortgage crisis.

Rare opportunity!

Both Silicon Valley giants and Yahoo Japan will fall into operational crisis, and Japan's Internet market will be extremely weak and need foreign assistance. This opportunity to go to sea to grab territory will be easier than any other moment.

Zhou Buqi said: "If there is no problem with Zhang Xuhao, he will be promoted to M3, and the Modu branch will be positioned as the international department of Ziwei Star, with the Japanese market first."

Wang Xing asked: "Cooperate with UC?"

"right."

"deep cooperation?"

"Well... Let's go back to the decision-making committee and discuss it to see if there is a need for a merger."