First gold panning mobile internet "accidentally" fan 50 million

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Xu Xian

Chengdu Fruit Technology Co., Ltd. CEO, the team developed mobile phone photography software "Camera360" many times on the top of the list of Apple stores, now more than 50 million users worldwide.

Xu Xian Experience >>>

High school graduation

Chengdu, the first recorded personal CD, recording MV Studio.

College age

The use of spare time to invent a graphics processing software, known as "China Photoshop."

2007

Invented the first color two-dimensional code in China.

2010

And his brother to develop mobile phone photography software "Camera360" and achieved unprecedented success.

2011

Its team launched the camera software "Movie360", soon defeated similar products to occupy the market.

Chengdu Fruit Technology Co., Ltd. CEO Xu Xian has always been a pursuit of the forefront of people. In his early 30, he has started his business 4 times in several areas. And looking back on his 10 years of the most special experience, or to count on the mobile internet for the first time in 2010, their team developed mobile phone photography software "Camera360", "accidentally" in the global popularity, many times to the top of the list of Apple stores, now more than 50 million people worldwide.

10 years ago, Xu Xian could not imagine the surging tide of mobile internet, but he said that a successful business needs vision and opportunity, he has the former, the 10 wave of time gave him the latter.

10 years groping

3 entrepreneurial failures, self-statement "too Advanced"

Xu Xian Teenager is a computer enthusiast, Windows95 just released, he gesanchaiwu to Chengdu Computer City, finally after one months to buy the CD. Gao Zhengyi graduated, he bought 3 professional editors under the aid of his father, and opened the recording studio of the first personal CD and recording MV in Chengdu. However, as a CD at that time to spend nearly thousand yuan, the cost is too high, can not be widely accepted by the market, only a year later, his studio closed.

At the age of 21, Xu Xian decided to go to college to study computer science. During his schooling, he remained "restless". He used his spare time to invent a graphics processing software, soon in the online fire, and even later known as the "Chinese Photo-shop." After graduating from university, he with this software to try to open a photo studio, and behold the impact of pirated "Photoshop", two years later again declared failure.

Xu Xian continues to explore in the field of image processing. 2007, he again, invented China's first color two-dimensional code, the color as a third maintenance, help mobile phone camera to identify two-dimensional code. But at that time, due to various conditions, eventually give up. "Probably my consciousness is too advanced." "Xu Xian joke:" I think that immediately fire things, it will be a few years before the fire. ”

Ten years of accumulation

Moving to the top of the Apple Store on the mobile internet

10 years ago, Xu Xian heard a sentence: "The future of enterprises and even roadside fruit shops, are inseparable from the Internet." "He has a strong belief in this and pays close attention to the rapid development of the Internet. A few years later, he was acutely aware that the people around him began to popularize smartphones, and that the "world" in the palm of his hand was full of tricks.

Xu Xian itself love chasing the trend, from Saipan to WindowsMobile, what the current popular mobile phone system, he bought back to delve into. When he owned his first Android phone, Xu Xian sniffed out the business of mobile Internet.

In the February 2010, Xu Xian and his brother, Xu Xian, made a decision: gold in the mobile internet frenzy. Different from the previous "pioneering", this time, his timing is just good. With their skills in the image field, the two brothers jointly develop mobile phone photography software "Camera360". In May of the same year, the public beta in the Androping release, creating a night of the Myth of Fame: Download the day to break through 40,000 times a week, the number of downloads exceeded 100,000 times. One months later, "Camer-a360" became the first multimedia software in Googlemarket. They immediately moved to Apple's iOS system, which is now on the top of the list of Apple stores, with users growing to more than 50 million worldwide.

Ten years of sentiment

Keep up the golden period of entrepreneurship and move on to the top

Wait for 10 in the Internet field, belong to Xu Xian the pioneering gold period finally came. "Camera360" in the launch of the Android platform soon, the two brothers found that the original individual entrepreneurship can also be supported by the government: one day, the owner of Tianfu Software Park venture to find them, invited them to register in Chengdu company, office space by the Government to provide free. "Before the venture capital, it will only look for private capital around." "VCs are also a remote concept for Xu Xian. But in October 2010, they got an angel investment from Jingwei venture. With this investment, they formally set up Chengdu Fruit Technology Co., Ltd., and become an important financial support for the later expansion. Not long ago, fruit also received a second round of financing from the Gobi investment.

Today, Xu Xian's team has been expanded from the first two brothers to more than 70 employees. "Camera360" to maintain an average of 20 days a update, half a year to upgrade the speed, he vowed to "Camera360" into "mobile imaging industry canon." Last November, the fruit also launched the camera software "Movie360", soon defeated the same products occupy the market, the beginning of the release of the Apple Store in China, the first photography category.

Tianfu Morning News reporter Fang Xin photography Fang Wei

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