My rebirth is different

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The three sat down by the sofa, and Hu Jingjing brought tea.

Now Hu Jingjing has officially served as Yu Wenfei's secretary, serving tea and water is of course one of her tasks.

But she is also handy in doing it, and she never tires of it.

Lu Qi first handed over Li Xin's resume and asked Yu Wenfei to read it first.

After flipping through it, Yu Wenfei smiled and asked, "Did Mr. Li resign from AOL?"

"Yes, ICQ Division." Li Xin replied briefly.

"Then why did Mr. Li leave there? ICQ is the originator of instant messaging software in the world. After being acquired by AOL, the company has strong strength and the salary should be very good." Yu Wenfei asked.

"The idea is different!"

Li Xin doesn't seem to like to talk too much, and he always answers very briefly.

Now Yuwenfei is more interested. ICQ has done so well, and the global users have already exceeded [-] million. Some people say that such a dominant software has a different concept from it?

"Then Mr. Li, can you explain what's wrong? What's your product concept?" Yu Wenfei asked.

This question seemed to hit Li Xin's "itch", and his face became bright.

"Everything is based on user value, and put user value first!" Li Xin said with emphasis.

Yu Wenfei nodded, "people-oriented", this is the most basic thing for a good product.

"We want to be friends with users, kindness is more important than intelligence, and respect for users and individuals. The underlying logic of the product is to discover needs from users and serve them."

"Kindness is more important than smartness. How to be good to users is more important than smartness."

"Many product managers are very smart people, because everyone will think of many, many ways to deceive users. Deceiving users is the easiest thing to do, because it is only necessary to be smart. This is wrong, because although it is very easy to deceive users It’s easy to get traffic and clicks from users, but it will eventually drive away users.”

"I think kindness is essentially a kind of ability. The kindness I am talking about is not a kind of moral kindness, nor is it a kind of moral cleanliness. Only when we treat users with a real rational kindness will we make users more Use our products for a long time."

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Li Xin couldn't hold back when he talked about it. The core of his product concept is "kindness"!

This point is quite unique.

Ordinary Internet companies, as he said, are all smart people and high-achieving students from prestigious schools. Everyone gathers together and tries every means to deceive users. When the traffic is large, you can think about monetizing the traffic.

Whether it is selling to VCs or directly cutting leeks from users, you can always make money.

For Li Xin's product concept, Yu Wenfei has limited approval.

Because Li Xin's starting point is to look at problems from the perspective of a product manager, or a purely technical perspective.

However, Internet companies are companies after all. Since they are companies, they are not simply technical issues.

Companies need to pay attention to operations, look at profitability, and plan for the future. It is of course very important to make a good product, but that is only the foundation, not everything.

"This is a very good product manager with a craftsman spirit that ordinary people don't have, but he is not a qualified executive." In his heart, Yu Wenfei had already made a final decision for Li Xin.

After a long talk, Li Xin felt a little parched, and grabbed the water glass in front of him. The water was cold, so he drank it down in one gulp.

Then he looked at Yu Wenfei and asked, "Boss, what do you think of my idea? Can you tell me what kind of company Star Technology will become in the future?"

Yu Wenfei nodded lightly, and said, "Star Technology is going to become a great company!"

As soon as he opened his mouth, Li Xin was shocked, great company?

There was a sneer on his face, and he wanted to ask Yu Wenfei, do you understand what greatness is? !

In the Internet industry, dare to be called great at present, is there anyone?

Even Microsoft dare not call it that.

Maybe IBM is one?

Chapter 351 Good tempered boss

Before Li Xin could speak sarcastically, Yu Wenfei went on to say: "Create a great product, a product that can change people's way of life, change or even subvert the traditional economic model! Is such a company considered great?"

Li Xin smashed it, smashed it, there is no way to refute it, if it can be done, it will indeed be called great.

"What product can change people's lifestyle and subvert the traditional economic model?" He asked curiously.

Yu Wenfei just smiled, "This question can only be accessed after you join Star Technology and make enough achievements. It is still a company secret."

Although it is a pity, Li Xin also understands that he is not a member of Star Technology, and of course there are some things that he cannot tell himself.

"I'm really looking forward to seeing such a great product as you mentioned one day! If I join Star Technology, can I freely arrange my work time and content? Just do what I want to do." He looked at Yu Wenfei.

This request was a bit too unreasonable, and Lu Qi beside him began to shake his head.

As a result, Yu Wenfei replied straightforwardly: "Under the general framework stipulated by the company, you can arrange the working time and content by yourself. I only look at the results and not the process! If you are confident that you can produce satisfactory products, then what else? It’s not a problem! Technicians have never been able to make good products by commuting to and from work on time, what they need is inspiration and self-sufficiency.”

In fact, after reading Li Xin's resume, Yu Wenfei had an idea.

That is, since Li Xin has worked in ICQ for two years, the company's network instant messaging software can be entrusted to him.

I believe that he has enough ability to make a good product. The thing itself is not a high-tech thing. It is more about user experience and details.

In this regard, Li Xin's "stubbornness" is just right.

"Then what product does the company want me to do?" Li Xin asked.

"In addition to the ongoing main project, the company will open many other projects. I can authorize you to form a project team and develop a network instant messaging software, similar to OICQ." Yu Wenfei said with a smile.

This is exactly what Li Xin wants!

The reason why he left ICQ was because he felt that ICQ had changed after being acquired by AOL.

Originally, ICQ was developed to allow Internet users to communicate more freely and smoothly, but after being acquired by AOL, ICQ became a tool for AOL to make profits.

AOL's acquisition of ICQ cost a huge sum of money, a total of [-] million US dollars!

Of course, this money must be recovered, so after AOL acquired ICQ, it began to monetize traffic frantically.

After you open a chat window, ads are everywhere!

Open screen advertisements, pop-up advertisements, and even every sentence is followed by an advertisement. The user experience is extremely bad!

It is because of AOL's short-sightedness that ICQ was able to easily dominate the global network instant messaging. As a result, many "little brothers" emerged to compete with it for food.

Li Xin also couldn't stand ICQ becoming an "advertising tool", so he resigned angrily.