The next phase of WeChat
Thousands of people gathered Wednesday night in a the southern part of Chinese city to hear Zhang Xiaolong, Tencent’ s low-key executive who also built WeChat eight years ago. It’ s no longer adequate to contact the app a messenger, for this now enables myriad functions that will infiltrate Chinese people’ s personal and public lives. It wasn’ to just the tech circles tuning in to the event. Civil servants, real-estate realtors, salon owners, fruit vendors, educators, artists — anyone who uses WeChat to facilitate daily work viewed attentively for news and ideas that came out of the annual meeting. Zhang, nickname Allen, is by nature the hardcore product manager. He visited great lengths during his four-hour speech, telling people productivity is definitely WeChat’ s holy grail, and that this individual wants to make user sessions “ short and efficient. ” He or she called out apps obsessed with maintaining … Continue reading














