Zhang Xiaolong
Zhang Xiaolong
Zhang Xiaolong, born in Dongkou County, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province on December 3, 1969, is the founder of Foxmail, the founder of wechat and the senior vice president of Tencent.
Zhang Xiaolong graduated from the Department of telecommunications of Huazhong University of science and technology with bachelor's degree and master's degree respectively. He developed Foxmail, a domestic e-mail client, and developed Tencent wechat after joining Tencent. He was praised as the "father of wechat" and "2012 Chinese innovative figure" by the Wall Street Journal. Mainly responsible for the management of Tencent's Guangzhou R & D department, and participate in the management and evaluation of Tencent's major innovation projects.
On October 10, 2019, Zhang Xiaolong ranked 351 in the list of Hurun 100 rich in 2019 with 11 billion yuan. On February 26, 2020, with a wealth of 11 billion yuan, it ranked 1805th in the "2020 Shimao Shenzhen Hong Kong International Center · Hurun global rich list". On December 18, 2020, he was selected into the top 500 Chinese brand characters in 2020, ranking 54.
Biography of characters
Zhang Xiaolong was born in Gaosha Town, Dongkou County, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province on December 3, 1969. His ancestral home is Weijiaqiao Town, Shaodong City, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province.
He was admitted to the telecommunication department of Huazhong University of science and Technology (formerly Huazhong Institute of Technology) in 1987 and graduated with a master's degree in 1994. In the same year, I worked in Guangzhou, engaged in software development. Since then, Foxmail has developed an excellent e-mail client.
In January 1997, Foxmail 1.0 beta (English version) was released and published on winsite.
On April 18, 2000, Zhang Xiaolong sold Foxmail to Boda at a price of 12 million yuan and became Vice President of the company.
On March 16, 2005, Tencent acquired Foxmail software, and Zhang Xiaolong joined Tencent as the general manager of Guangzhou R & D department, fully responsible for and leading the QQ email team.
On November 20, 2010, Tencent's wechat project was officially established by Zhang Xiaolong;
On August 2, 2011, Zhang Xiaolong served as the senior vice president of Tencent, responsible for the management of Tencent's Guangzhou R & D department, and participated in the management and evaluation of the company's major innovation projects.
In August 2012, Tencent wechat launched version 4.2. Since wechat was first released, it has accumulated 200 million users in less than two years.
On July 30, 2013, after a year of cooperation, wechat and China Unicom jointly launched "wowechat card" to break the ice of Ott's cooperation with operators. At the same time, Tencent, the owner of wechat, has injected a dose of reassurance, because it means that wechat will not face the hot issue of "differential charging" at the policy level.
On the evening of May 6, 2014, Tencent announced that it would adjust its organizational structure and set up a wechat business group, with Zhang Xiaolong as the president of the wechat business group (senior executive vice president level), leading the work of the wechat business group and reporting to Liu Chiping, the president of the company.
On February 11, 2015, he was selected into the award-winning list of "2014 China Internet person of the year".
On December 26, 2019, he will be selected into the list of 100 Hunan people in the 70th anniversary of new China.
Award winning record
At the end of 2012, he was selected by the Chinese edition of the Wall Street Journal as the science and technology winner of "2012 China innovative person Award".
On the evening of January 24, 2014, the "2013 China Science annual news person" selection activity sponsored by China Science Daily, science popularization Department of China Association for science and technology, and China Science and Technology Journalism association was officially announced. Zhang Xiaolong was one of the 10 winners.
On February 11, 2015, Zhang Xiaolong was shortlisted for the person of the year award of "2014 China Internet person of the year" activity.
On May 11, 2017, "father of wechat" Zhang Xiaolong was awarded "outstanding alumni of Huazhong University of science and technology".
Character evaluation
Comments of the jury of "2013 China science news person of the year"
"Foxmail was born in his hands 17 years ago, benefiting 4 million email users;
Six years ago, he led the team to innovate and reshape QQ mailbox with the pursuit of Seven Star products, bringing the product back to life;
Three years ago, he successfully developed wechat, an epoch-making product, and created China's mobile Internet market;
In 2013, he continued to improve wechat, wechat payment flourished, with 100 million users all over the world. He is a natural perfectionist who advocates technology. His products are constantly updated and iterated, and the user experience is close to the extreme again and again. He made an Internet product suitable for all ages. He believes that simplicity is beauty, and he advocates subversive thinking.
He is Zhang Xiaolong, a wechat developer and senior vice president of Tencent. "
Anecdotes of characters
The most playful person in the eyes of students
During his study, Zhang Xiaolong had a wide range of interests and hobbies. No matter what he played, with a little practice, he could always reach the level of amateur experts. Go, billiards, tennis, bowling and computer games were always among the most powerful people around him. In addition to playing, his professional courses are also very good. "He was the first one among us to learn C, which was just born." Zhang Tieyuan, a classmate of Zhang Xiaolong, recalled that in addition to software, Zhang Xiaolong was also good at hardware. Graduate tutor to xunxian evaluation of Zhang Xiaolong: "like to play computer, like to sleep in young people."
Founder of Foxmail
In the autumn of 1994, Zhang Xiaolong, who had just turned 24, successfully graduated from Huazhong University of science and technology. Fortunately, he soon got a good opportunity to work in the telecommunications department. This iron rice bowl job is the envy of many friends around, but Zhang Xiaolong doesn't think so. Every time he saw the government office building, he felt "a kind of suffocation enveloped from the top", so he gave up his iron rice bowl in the telecommunications department and resolutely devoted himself to the vigorous Internet industry.
Early Internet entrepreneurs mostly chose a certain field to make a product, such as Ma Huateng's social software QQ, Robin Li's choice of search engine for Baidu, and Zhang Xiaolong's opening, too, but it's hard to imagine that anyone can make an excellent software like Foxmail.
In 1997, Li Xueling, then a reporter of computer daily and later founder of duowan.com, once described: "as long as you stand at the intersection of Huangzhuang and shout, I'm Foxmail Zhang Xiaolong, there will be a large group of people around to ask you to sign." Four years later, Foxmail had 2 million users, while Tencent had only 100000. Foxmail is known as an email software that can compete with Microsoft Outlook.
The first pot of gold in life
In September 1998, Lei Jun, who was just the general manager of Jinshan, contacted Zhang Xiaolong to buy Foxmail. Zhang Xiaolong offered a price of 150000 yuan at will, and Lei Jun agreed directly. But unexpectedly, Lei Jun, who has been the general manager of Jinshan for only one month, is beset with affairs. The person in charge of the contact doesn't understand the value of Foxmail and ignores it.
It was not until the Internet bubble came in 2000 that the cold wind blew. At this time, Zhang Xiaolong, who has completed Foxmail technology adjustment, rarely optimizes and updates, which can not arouse his career enthusiasm. He plans to return to the right track of Internet entrepreneurship and sell Foxmail. Good luck came to the door like this. Boda Internet company offered 12 million yuan to buy Foxmail. In just two years, it soared from 150000 yuan to 12 million yuan. This is the magic, absurdity and charm of the Internet. Zhang Xiaolong won the first pot of gold.
Tencent, perfect counter attack
In 2005, Zhang Xiaolong, who has been silent for five years, reappeared in people's vision and joined Tencent as the general manager of Guangzhou R & D department. The declining Boda Internet company has transferred Foxmail team and Zhang Xiaolong to Tencent. During his five years in the University, Zhang Xiaolong almost disappeared in the world. Many programmers and product managers of his time have become Internet giants.
The emergence of Tencent is another turning point of Zhang Xiaolong's Internet career. In the face of strong competition from MSN, Ma Huateng hopes to find a way to make his QQ mailbox beat his hotmail. Zhang Xiaolong went up to meet the difficulties. In only three years, QQ mailbox has changed greatly and become a popular product of Tencent.
The birth of wechat and the return of the king
At the end of 2010, Zhang Xiaolong, who has always been reticent, sent an email to Ma Huateng, suggesting that Tencent make mobile social software. Zhang Xiaolong believes that the mobile Internet will have a new communication tool in the future, and this new communication tool is likely to pose a great threat to QQ. Ma Huateng quickly replied to the email, agreed with Zhang Xiaolong's idea, and asked him to lead Tencent's Guangzhou R & D department to start the project.
In early 2011, wechat IOS was launched, but the user growth was not ideal. Zhang Xiaolong suddenly realized whether he was too rational on wechat, and whether it would be better to add some literary or human elements? Maybe wechat in 2011 is too utilitarian and realistic. From then on, Zhang Xiaolong gave up rational thinking and began to arm himself into a literary youth. At the same time, wechat began to add some functions closer to human nature, such as finding nearby people, circle of friends and shaking
In 2012, Zhang Xiaolong put forward a new viewpoint: wechat is a way of life. Many people think that Zhang Xiaolong is less and less like a rigorous Cheng
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