Frank Arneson drove to London's Canary Wharf.
Canary Wharf is a famous yacht wharf in London.
Abramovich's world-famous Eclipse is always parked along the coast of Canary Wharf if it is not going out to sea.
Walking on the pier, you can immediately see the Eclipse, which is extremely white in the sunlight.
With a total length of 168 meters and a width of 21.5 meters, it is considered a giant in Canary Wharf.
Not only that, this is a yacht with amazing protection capabilities, equipped with a German-developed anti-missile system, two helicopters on standby, twenty jet skis, etc.
Every time he sees this yacht, Arnesen can't help but want to curse.
Rich people are so damn cool But now, the closer he got to the Eclipse, the more uneasy he felt.
He knew exactly why Abramovich had called him to Canary Wharf.
He messed up something very important Walking onto the Eclipse and going up the spiral staircase to the deck, Abramovich was sitting on the deck, opposite Chelsea's head coach Carlo Ancelotti, which surprised Arnesen.
"Boss."
Arnesen stepped forward.
Abramovich nodded, pointed to the seat opposite, and motioned for him to sit wherever he wanted, but he was staring at his phone.
Ding dong ding dong, two messages came from the phone in less than three or four seconds.
After reading the news, Abramovich couldn't help laughing.
This made Frank Arnesen and Ancelotti sitting on the side very strange.
What are you looking at so funny?
Abramovich handed over the phone and said, "Take a look."
Ancelotti was the closest and immediately moved over.
Arneson originally wanted to poke his head over, but when he saw Ancelotti getting there first, he immediately pulled back.
As the technical director, he did not get along with all the team's head coaches.
Before, he was with Mourinho.
When Mourinho left, Grant was a little better, but neither Scolari nor Ancelotti were with him.
He had a bad relationship.
It turns out that Abramovich was following Southampton’s press conference on the WeChat platform.
"Hello, Neymar, I am Rodolfo, a reporter from the Brazilian daily.
I want to ask you why you chose Southampton, which is a lower level, between Chelsea and Southampton."
There is nothing funny about this question, what is really funny is the expression below.
A cartoon of a cute version of Neymar that occupies half of the mobile phone screen, squatting on the ground for a break from school, grabbing his hair hard, with an exaggerated, distressed and embarrassed expression on his face.
Even though Ancelotti was well prepared, he couldn't help but smile when he saw this expression picture.
There was another ding, and Neymar's reply soon came.
Ancelotti pushed the phone back to Abramovich, who picked it up and looked at it.
Neymar replied: "Joining Southampton is a decision that my family and I made after careful consideration.
I am 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 Dinho and his predecessors, he first went to play for a low-level team to adapt to the European football style."
"Another very important reason is that through many contacts, I deeply felt the ambition and strength of Southampton.
The team introduced Ibrahimovic this summer, and they told me that they will also Continuing to bring in more stars, I believe we will soon return to the Premier League and enter the European competition.”
"I am still young, only 18 years old.
After two years, I have adapted to European football and the team has returned to the Premier League.
Then we will have the best Neymar."
"As for Chelsea, I have never had any contact with them."
Then there was another cute expression that took up nearly half of the screen, a cartoon of Neymar sticking out his exaggerated tongue.
Although he was putting Chelsea down, Abramovich couldn't hate him.
Instead, he found this cuteness very cute and endearing.
"Look."
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Abramovich pushed the phone in front of Arneson.
Arnesen took the phone, held it up and looked at it, feeling a little panicked.
He is indeed a bit casual about Neymar's transfer operation, because he feels that this is just another rookie who has been overly touted in Brazil and is not worth spending so much money.
So he made an offer of 20 million euros, but Santos paid back a sky-high price of 35 million euros.
It is impossible for Arnesen to agree to such a deal, that is too crazy, and 35 million euros is impossible.
Neymar's contract break clause is only 30 million euros.
Who would be stupid enough to use 35 million euros?
Bringing in Neymar "Southampton directly used the breach of contract to buy out Neymar's contract."
This is the news Arnesen got.
Abramovich nodded lightly, "I know."
After taking the phone handed over by Arnesen again, he stopped looking at it, turned off the screen, and put it on the table.
"All I want to know now is why we lost to a League One team."
This last sentence shows the anger in Abramovich's heart.
Even if he deliberately suppressed it, everyone could tell that he was holding back his anger.
He personally called out Neymar, and Ancelotti personally expressed his hope to introduce Neymar, but in the end he switched to other teams.
It would be better if it was Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United and other top clubs, but it happens to be a English League One team.
This is a slap in the face of Abramovich and Ancelotti.
I don’t know what people outside will say or think of them.
Everyone must be joking that Chelsea actually lost to a English League One team Arnesen was silent.
He couldn't explain anything.
It was indeed his problem.
It can only be said that he is too careless and too self-righteous.
"I'm sorry" Arnesen could only bow his head and apologize.
Apart from that, he can't do anything.
But the look he looked at Ancelotti was full of anger and hostility.
It must be this damn Italian snitching in front of the boss It must be him In a corner of Mountain View, Silicon Valley, the SA headquarters is on the second floor of a very ordinary office building.
Yankum stared blankly at the desk in front of him.
There was a computer on it, an Apple phone in front of the computer keyboard, and a handwritten note pinned next to the phone.
"No ads, no games, no gimmicks" The author of the handwritten note was in front of him, his partner, Brian Acton.
At this moment, both of them doubted for the first time whether the three don'ts on the note were correct.
Brian Acton put his hands on his desk and held his forehead, looking extremely distressed.
“According to the latest news we have received, their press conference is focused on making efforts in South America, and along with this press conference, they also updated the WeChat version and launched a new product called Mood Stamp. service.”
Since the launch of WeChat, sa has been having bad luck.
First it was free for a limited time, which caused the server to crash twice in a short period of time.
Then it crashed again because there were too many users and the server could not bear it.
Three times in a row, their reputation suffered.
A lot of losses were incurred and a large number of users were lost.
Today, the number of WeChat users has exceeded that of sa.
They exceed four million and are on the verge of attacking five million.
SA, on the other hand, has always stayed at 3 million, and is even in danger of slipping from the 3 million level.
This made the two founders worried.
What hurts their confidence even more is the creed by which they run the company.
Don't want a gimmick?
Opponents rely on gimmick marketing to surpass them "South America" Yankum's face was extremely serious, and he realized a problem.
"Is there any problem?"
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Brian Acton didn't understand for a moment.
Yankum wanted to say something, but his mind was in a mess.
It took more than a minute to organize before he stood up.
"Smartphone users in the United States usually adopt a monthly subscription system.
After the monthly subscription system, calls, text messages and Internet data are free, so they are not very willing to save text message fees."
Yancom's words completely awakened Brian Acton.
The monthly subscription system in the United States is a unique phenomenon.
This monthly subscription system is rarely adopted in other countries and regions such as Europe, Asia, and South America, so they are very interested in the services promoted by WeChat and sa.
Because it can help them save a lot of money.
In Europe, WeChat has already become famous, and now they are going to expand their efforts in South America and Asia.
"This is a conscious move to seize the market."
Yankum can swear 100% that his opponent was premeditated.
Brian Acton was also dumbfounded.
Their limited-time free service is more aimed at users in the United States.
The reason is very simple.
Registering to use sa requires SMS verification.
The SMS verification rate in the United States is the cheapest, only two cents.
Did you know that if you go overseas, such as the Middle East, Asia and South America, you will be charged 65 cents per item.
The more users there are abroad, the higher their operating costs will be.
In other words, SMS verification has become the rope that binds the rapid development of SA.
As for WeChat, they do not require SMS verification, so they can attract users from anywhere in the world without restraint.
The only trouble is, they have to have good enough servers.
But judging from the recent period, their server quality is quite excellent.
"What should we do now" Brian Acton was a little weak.
He discovered that the business model they thought was perfect before turned out to be full of mistakes.
And they simply don’t have time to slow down, fine-tune, and fill in the gaps.
The strong development of WeChat is forcing them to keep up quickly.
They first launched celebrity accounts, and now they have launched mood stamps.
They may launch more services one after another, which will allow them to attract more and more users.
Once users have accumulated a certain amount of social relationships, they will no longer be willing to easily transfer platforms.
In other words, these people will become hardcore users of WeChat Yankum didn't know what to do either.
Judging from their current situation, it is difficult to attract the interest of investors, and without anyone investing, they will not have enough funds to fight with WeChat, and they can only watch their competitors follow them step by step.
Open the gap and get away.
The company they had worked so hard for over a year to create was completely defeated in just one week.
At this moment, both of them were a little frustrated.
At this moment, Yankum's office door was knocked hard twice.
When it was opened, the panicked face of the employee was revealed, "Boss, our server has crashed again."
Yankum and Brian Acton looked ashen and even more desperate: