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Young dreams have no end

Young dreams have no end

By Mohandas YorkPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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There is such a free image processing software, it is both popular and easy to use, the user does not need to learn to picture beauty, jigsaw set the scene, add borders and other special effects processing, it also provides selected network material, so that your photos can make a studio-level effect. It has a nice name: Meitu Xiuxiu, developed by Meitu, whose chairman and CEO is Wu Xinhong.

Wu Xinhong, born in Xiamen, Fujian Province, is a "post-80s". He likes painting and photography. After graduating from junior high school, he took a two-year leave to study oil painting. In high school, he started investing in domain names and made his first fortune. From then on, he was determined to do business with the Internet idea.

After graduating from high school in 2001, Wu began his entrepreneurial journey. In Quanzhou, he set up a business web services company, but in less than two years went bankrupt and closed. In 2003, Wu Xinhong bought a good domain name 520.com and began to make friends. Two years later, the same failure.

The experience of two failures, let Wu Xinhong fall into meditation. It took him a long time to understand why. He thinks that he likes painting and photography, is quiet and introverted, and usually does not like to chat with people, how can I do a good job in service companies and dating websites? But at that time, he was not discouraged, he thought, business difficult hundred battles, just two failures, not what, he must stick to it.

Just at this moment, the CAI Wensheng's elder brother that is helpful to him when doing domain name business early invites Wu Xinhong to join his company. Then, Wu Xinhong temporarily leave his entrepreneurial dream, and the company that joined CAI Wensheng does product manager. In the two years since, Mr. Wu and his team have worked on more than 30 products, each of which looked like fun, but failed to make it big. At this time, the team began to shake, and some people advised Wu Xinhong to give up the dream of entrepreneurship, but Wu Xinhong was not defeated by failure and did not lose heart, he still had firm faith, firm his entrepreneurial dream. He thought, one more time, maybe the next station is successful.

An accidental opportunity, Wu Xinhong invented a Martian text converter, the product did not do any promotion of the case, but a year later has 40 to 50 million "after 90" users. The success of Mars text, let Wu Xinhong think again, he concluded that because of the catch "after 90" users of the non-mainstream demand, to meet their personalized requirements. But it seems difficult to find a profit model in the Martian language, which makes Wu Xinhong vexed. He wondered if he could develop a product that was profitable and still targeted the post-90s generation. Wouldn't that transfer the Martian users?

But what is such a product? Wu Xinhong thought hard. One day, he picked up his long-lost paintbrush and took out his beloved SLR, ready to take a picture of his hand-drawn painting and upload it to WeChat. Subconsciously, he searched the Internet and found that there was a great demand for personalized avatars and images, but traditional software like Photoshop, which was popular at the time, was difficult for the average user. Wu Xinhong suddenly realized, why not do a simple and easy-to-use picture processing software? He is a huge fan of photography, both interested and talented in this area. Wu Xinhong was excited, he finally found a suitable for their project, he wants to do a suitable for Chinese people, simple image processing software.

Wu Xinhong started his own business again. He founded Meitu Network and launched Meitu Xiuxiu software in October 2008. When the software was first launched, despite its shortcomings, it was still popular among young Internet users, which strengthened Wu and his team's determination to keep improving it. After continuous improvement and upgrading, Meitu Xiuxiu has been recognized by more and more netizens. It has hundreds of millions of users not only on PCS but also on mobile. As of January this year, it has 120 million mobile client users, 5.6 million daily active volume, processing nearly 28 million pictures for users every day, in Apple's official mobile app store AppStore2012 annual list, it ranked in the top 10 together with QQ, WeChat and Weibo. And Wu Xinhong, also in one fell swoop become worth over 100 million entrepreneurial new rich, praised by everyone.

Wu Xinhong finally succeeded. Once a reporter interviewed him and asked him to share his successful experience, he said, "I have a young heart. In my opinion, there is no failure in being young." Because my youth fire burning eternal, I am willing to use all my enthusiasm for a time, so that the young dream has no end.

Yes, the young dream has no end, stick to it, and you will be able to see the day of success.

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