Jane Coum and Brian Acton were already waiting when the car was parked downstairs of WhatsApp headquarters.

Kom is a Ukrainian with a very typical Eastern European face, a little taller hairline, and even when smiling, he looks a little serious.

Acton has a very ordinary face that cannot be found in the crowd, with the same high hairline and the same seriousness.

Compared with the two founders of Ins, these two of whatsapp are stubborn, stubborn, paranoid, cold, willful and arrogant, and are older. They have a sense of stubbornness like an old-school programmer. As soon as they meet, they give Li Rui a feeling that it is difficult to get close to.

In fact, the most difficult task to come to Magnesium this time was to convince these two stubborn guys to open whatsapp, but from the first glance, Li Rui subconsciously thought that this was an impossible task.

Kom and Acton obviously didn't know that Li Rui was not good at coming, so they came up enthusiastically to hug and greet him. Like Strom Krieg, they had a great affection for Li Rui, a generous investor who had met for the first time.

After Li Rui introduced the others to them one by one, he walked into whatsapp's headquarters.

The structure inside is similar to Ins. The only difference is that the place is a little larger, but the number of employees in whatsapp is much smaller than Li Rui imagined, including management, operation, technology and maintenance. There are less than seventy employees in various departments, and even fewer than Ins employees!

The company is not very good, and you can see an old-fashioned and simple impression everywhere, which is somewhat similar to the style of whatsapp software.

Although the market is full of competitors, all of which are innovating and using various new functions to attract users' attention, whatsapp always maintains a simple and a bit monotonous function, and it has been welcomed by people in Magnesium.

Currently, in the smartphone application markets of Magnesium and Maple Leaf Country, Facebook is naturally the first to use, Twitter is the second, and whatsapp is the third!

According to Koum, whatsapp currently has 150 million registered users, with an average monthly active user count of 45 million.

Last month, whatsapp sent 1.1 billion messages per day!

This is an extremely terrifying number. If whatsapp can maintain its current growth rate, it will only take about three years to exceed 400 million active users!

It should be noted that whatsapp is said here is the number of active users, which is the type of users who start whatsapp at least once a day, rather than letting the application sleep after registering.

Such a number of users can completely challenge Facebook’s dominance!

After listening to the data, Li Rui nodded and said, "Whatsapp's growth is very stable, and it has reached the top three in the application market. This is a very good result. As an investor, I am very satisfied with the current situation. It is very lucky that the company has two such excellent managers!"

Koum spread his hands and said, "It is also our luck to have a generous and tolerant investor like you!"

Acton also smiled and said, "It is our wisest choice to choose you instead of other investors who are obsessed with profit!"

Li Rui thought to himself, in fact, I am also obsessed with greed, but it is better to hide it.

But if you praise me like this, how can I speak later?

After chatting about serious things, it was lunch time, and the guests and guests had a pleasant lunch at a nearby restaurant.

After lunch, several people held coffee and started the next round of conversation in Koum's office.

Li Rui said: "After getting off the plane yesterday, I went to visit Ins. Their software has developed a comprehensive photo sharing community from a simple filter camera function. At present, this transformation is very successful. The number of registered users and active users have increased explosively. So I wonder if whatsapp has any idea of ​​improving and improving its functions, and will it emphasize social attributes more?

Li Rui is very clear that whatsapp has always had the so-called three principles, namely: don’t have advertisements! Don’t have games! Don’t have gimmicks!

But advertising, games and gimmicks are the foundation of survival of Internet companies. Looking at any successful Internet company in the world, which one can have nothing to do with these three?

Li Rui invested in whatsapp not to do charity, he wanted to make money.

Facebook in his previous life said it was high-sounding when he acquired whatsapp, but later on, wasn’t everything looking at money?

In the end, Kom Acton and Facebook had a big fight, and even the two publicly called on users to uninstall whatsapp, becoming a laughing stock in the Internet circle.

Of course, Li Rui also hopes that whatsapp can start advertising, games, gimmicks, make bigger and stronger, and make money quickly, but he is very calm.

He only has 38% of whatsapp shares, and he faces the same solid Kom and Acton. At this time, any idea that does not conform to whatsapp values ​​may be jointly punished by them.

Some things cannot be rushed, they need to be subtle, they need to penetrate slowly, and they need to moisten things silently.

When they found something was wrong, they had already boarded the pirate ship and could not get off!

So Li Rui did not start with Kom Acton's most planned advertising game, but instead discussed the matter of whatsapp adding social attributes.

Acton pondered: "Our current goal is to provide users with perfect messaging services, and the rest are secondary."

Koum also said: "We hope to stay focused and focus all our energy on instant messaging services."

The two of them have different opinions, but their meaning is the same: we only want to make news, not anything else!

Li Rui really wants to beat them.

Compared with Kom and Acton, Strom and Krieg are really cute.

There is a saying from Xiaguo that when people advise to eat a full meal, Strom Krieg will definitely have a full meal. As for Kom and Acton, they will probably starve to death in another era!

Li Rui coughed lightly and said, "I used the source code of whatsapp to transform two software. Ring is currently ranked first in the island country's instant messaging market, and Credit Suisse is ranked second in the Huaguo market, and is ready to overtake the first place at any time. The success of these two software is that it has added some new and interesting functions that meet the preferences of locals."

Li Rui first showed the ring's expression sticker, and then showed the people nearby Credit Suisse and Shake.

I thought Kom and Acton would be interested, but the two people's faces seemed to be stuck in glue and had no expressions. Li Rui was so angry that he wanted to punch them!
Chapter completed!