Chapter 58 1 It Must Be Him!

Frank Arneson drove to London's Canary Wharf.

Canary Wharf is a famous yacht marina in London. If Abramovich's world-famous Eclipse is not at sea, it always stops along the coast of Canary Wharf.

Walking on the pier, at a glance, you can see this Eclipse, which is particularly dazzling white in the sun.

With a total length of 168 meters and a width of 21.5 meters, such a large size is considered a giant in Canary Wharf.

Not only that, but this is a yacht with amazing protection capabilities, equipped with a German-developed anti-missile system, as well as two helicopters on standby, twenty jetskis and so on.

Every time he saw this yacht, Arneson couldn't help but want to scold.

Rich people are so fucking cool!

But now, the more he walked on the Eclipse, the more uneasy he felt.

He knew very well why Abramovich had called him to Canary Wharf.

He screwed up a very important thing!

Stepping up to the Eclipse and following the spiraling stairs to the deck, Abramovich sat on the deck opposite Chelsea manager Ancelotti, which surprised Arneson.

"Boss." Arneson stepped forward.

Abramović nodded, then pointed to the seat opposite, motioning him to sit casually, but he was staring at the phone.

Ding dong ~ ding dong, within three or four seconds of the phone, two messages came one after another.

Abramovich couldn't help laughing after reading the news.

This made Frank Arneson and Ancelotti sitting on the side very strange.

looking at what? so funny?

Abramović handed over the phone, "You guys have a look."

Ancelotti was the closest, and immediately leaned over, and Arnesen wanted to look over his head, but when he saw that Ancelotti had taken the lead, he immediately retracted.

He, the technical director, is not compatible with all the head coaches of the team. He used to be with Mourinho. When Mourinho left, Grant was slightly better, but whether it was Scolari or Ancelotti, he was with Mourinho. He has a bad relationship.

It turned out that Abramovich was following Southampton's press conference on the WeChat platform.

"Hello, Neymar, I'm Rudolph from the Brazilian daily, I want to ask you, why did you choose Southampton, a lower level, between Chelsea and Southampton?"

There's nothing funny about this question, what's really funny is an expression below.

A cartoon picture of a cute version of Neymar occupying half of the phone screen, squatting on the ground for a rest, but grabbing his hair hard, with an exaggerated, distressed and embarrassed expression.

Rao is that Ancelotti was already prepared, and when he saw this expression, he couldn't help but smile.

There was another ding dong, and Neymar's reply soon came.

Ancelotti pushed the phone back to Abramović, who picked it up to take a look.

Neymar replied: "Joining Southampton was a decision made by me and my family after careful consideration. I was eager to play for a European team, but joining a giant like Chelsea is too risky, so I decided to be like Ronaldo and Ronaldo. Like his predecessors, Dinho first went to a low-level team to get used to the European style of football.

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"Another very important reason is that I have deeply felt the ambition and strength of Southampton in many contacts. The team introduced Ibrahimovic this summer. They told me that they will also Continue to bring in more stars and I am sure we will soon be back in the Premier League and into Europe."

"I'm still young, only 18 years old. After two years, I have adapted to European football and the team has returned to the Premier League. That's when the best Neymar will come!"

"As for Chelsea, I never had any contact with them."

Then there is another cute emoji that occupies nearly half of the screen, a cartoon of Neymar with an exaggerated big tongue.

Although he was pushing Chelsea down, Abramovich couldn't hate it. Instead, he thought this cuteness was cute and likable.

"Look." Abramovich pushed the phone to Arneson.

Arneson took the phone, picked it up and pulled it up and down to read it, feeling a little flustered.

He is indeed a little careless about Neymar's transfer operation, because he feels that this is just another rookie who is touted too much in Brazil, and it is not worth spending so much money at all.

So he made an offer of 20 million euros, but Santos returned a sky-high price of 35 million euros.

Arneson can't agree to such a deal, it's crazy, and 35 million euros is impossible, and Neymar's break-up fee is only 30 million euros, who would be stupid enough to spend 35 million euros Introducing Neymar?

"Southampton directly used the break-up fee to buy out Neymar's contract." This is Arnesson getting the news.

Abramovich nodded lightly, "I know."

He took the cell phone handed over by Arneson again, and he stopped looking at it, just turned off the screen and put it on the table.

"I just want to know now, why, we lost to a League One team?"

The last sentence showed the anger in Abramovich's heart.

Even if he deliberately suppressed it, no one could hear that he was holding back his anger.

Neymar was called out by him, and it was also what Ancelotti said he wanted to introduce, but he ended up switching to another team.

If it is Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Manchester United and other top giants, it is not bad, but it is a League One team, which is to slap Abramovich and Ancelotti in the face.

What will people who don't know outside say? How would you treat them?

Everyone will joke that Chelsea lost to a League One team!

Arneson was silent, he couldn't explain anything, it was indeed his problem.

It can only be said that he was too careless and too self-righteous.

"I'm sorry!" Arneson could only bow his head and apologize.

Other than that, he can't do anything.

But the look in Ancelotti's eyes was full of anger and hostility.

Must be this damn Italian snitching in front of the boss!

Must be him!

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In the corner of Mountain View, Silicon Valley, WhatsApp headquarters, the second floor of a very ordinary office building.

Jan Koum stared blankly at the desk in front of him. There was a computer on it, an Apple mobile phone was placed in front of the computer keyboard, and a handwritten note was pinned to the side of the mobile phone.

"No ads! No games! No gimmicks!"

The author of the handwritten note was in front of him, his partner, Brian Acton.

And at this moment, both of them doubted for the first time whether the three nos on the note were correct.

Brian Acton rested his hands on the desk and held his forehead, looking extremely distressed.

"According to the latest news we got, their press conference is focused on making efforts in South America, and with this press conference, they also updated the WeChat version and launched a program called Mood Stamp. service.”

Since the launch of WeChat, WhatsApp has been unlucky. First, it was free for a limited time. As a result, the server crashed twice in a short period of time. Then it crashed again because there were too many users and the server could not carry it. Three times in a row, their reputation suffered. Lost a lot and lost a lot of users.

Today, WeChat has more users than WhatsApp, they have more than 4 million users, and they are attacking 5 million.

WhatsApp, on the other hand, has been stuck at 3 million, and there is even a faint danger of slipping from the 3 million level.

This makes the two founders have to worry.

What hits their confidence even more is the creed under which they run the company.

Don't make a gimmick?

Opponents rely on gimmick marketing to surpass them!

"South America?" Jan Koum's face was extremely grim, and he realized a problem.

"Is there a problem?" Brian Acton didn't understand for a moment.

Jan Koum wanted to say something, but his mind was in a mess, and it took more than a minute to organize before he stood up.

"Smartphone users in the United States usually use a monthly subscription system. After the monthly subscription system, calls, text messages and Internet data are all free, so they are not very willing to save text messages."

Young Kom's words completely awakened Brian Acton.

The monthly subscription system in the United States is a unique phenomenon, which is rarely adopted in other countries and regions such as Europe, Asia, and South America, so they are very interested in this kind of service implemented by WeChat and WhatsApp.

Because it saves them a lot of money.

In Europe, WeChat has already made a name for itself, and now they are going to expand in South America and Asia.

"This is a conscious act of seizing the market!" Jan Koum could swear 100% that his opponent was premeditated.

Brian Acton was also dumbfounded. Their limited-time free service is mostly aimed at users in the United States. The reason is very simple. Signing up to use WhatsApp requires SMS verification. The SMS verification fee in the United States is the cheapest, only two cents.

Do you know? If it is abroad, such as to the Middle East, Asia and South America, each will be charged sixty-five cents.

The more users abroad, the higher their operating costs.

In other words, SMS verification has become the rope that binds WhatsApp's rapid development.

As for WeChat, they don’t need SMS verification, so they can attract users anywhere in the world without fear.

The only trouble is that they have to have good enough servers.

But in recent times, the quality of their servers is pretty good.

"What should we do now?" Brian Acton was a little weary.

He found that the business model they thought was perfect in the past turned out to be full of mistakes.

And, they simply don't have time to slow down, fine-tune, and fill holes.

The strong development of WeChat is to force them to keep up quickly.

They first launched star accounts, and now they launch mood stamps, and they may launch more services one after another, which will make them attract more and more users.

Once users have accumulated a certain social relationship, they will no longer be willing to transfer platforms easily.

In other words, these people will become die-hard users of WeChat!

Jan Koum also doesn't know what to do?

Judging from their current situation, it is difficult to attract the interest of investors. If no one invests, they will not have enough funds to fight with WeChat, and they can only watch their competitors follow their own step by step. Open the gap and leave.

After more than a year, they worked hard and spent more than a year. The company they created was completely defeated in just one week!

At this moment, both of them are a little frustrated.

At this moment, the door of Jan Koum's office was knocked hard twice, and when it opened, the employee's panicked face was revealed, "Boss, our server has crashed again!"

Jan Koum and Brian Acton looked ashen, even more desperate!