After graduating from high school, Wu did not choose to go to college, because he dropped out of school after the senior high school entrance examination and went to China Academy of Art to study oil painting for two years. He returned to high school and discovered the domain name business. /kloc-When he was 0/8 years old, he became the first person to run domain name business in China, and started almost at the same time as his hometown Quanzhou, Cai Wensheng. If my father's factory hadn't encountered difficulties, Wu would be a standard rich second generation. After his father's factory closed down, his income from domain name business also returned home to some extent. Wu Chuangye 200 1. 300,000 yuan from high school started an enterprise website service company in Quanzhou, and went bankrupt in less than two years.

In 2003, he founded another dating website in Xiamen. This is the first batch of entrepreneurs in China who entered social networks, even earlier than Facebook, but ended in failure.

In 2005, Wu participated in the research and development and promotion of "YOK Super Search" software, and the number of users of "YOK Super Search" once reached 40 million.

From 2006 to 2007, Wu made nearly 30 products, most of which were websites, including stocks, videos and information. Anyway, all "products" are websites, and all games are based on traffic. Although it makes a lot of money, it always turns Wu off. "At that time, it was to earn traffic and have no sense of accomplishment."

Until the Martians appeared. The appearance of Mars converter is related to QQ group. At that time, many people liked to send all kinds of strange expressions and symbols in the dialog box. One day, Wu thought, why not introduce a set of writing forms suitable for the network context?

In the spring of 2007, it took Wu and his product team only three days to get Mars online. This product can satisfy the "cute" characteristics of many post-90 s children and instantly detonate the entire post-90 s group. By September, the number of Martian users had exceeded100000, and by the end of 2007, it had exceeded 40 million. At this time, the user base has spread to the post-85 market.

Where is the commercial space after the product form is finalized? This is a question that Wu began to think about at the end of 2007. He must think. At this time, the number of Martian users is still growing rapidly, but this makes Wu feel confused. "At that time, I felt that it was difficult for such a small exhibition space to have any way to realize business." More importantly, Wu basically doesn't use Martian, which makes him very painful: if a product doesn't use itself, what future can it have?

However, Wu doesn't want to lose the huge and unique user base behind this product. In a chat, Cai Wensheng mentioned two possible product directions: file compression and pictures. No matter from sensibility or rationality, Wu chose this painting without hesitation.

From June 5438 to October 2008 10, Meitu Xiu Xiu was launched, and the number of users exceeded 1 10,000 by the end of the year. From 20 1 1, Wu and Meitu Xiu Xiu began to welcome a series of key nodes: by the end of 20 1 1, the number of PC plus mobile users exceeded 1 billion; In 20 12 years, the number of PC users exceeded 1 100 million, while the number of PC plus mobile users exceeded 200 million; During the 20 13 Spring Festival, the number of mobile users will exceed 1 100 million. At this time, the user population also began to expand from the initial post-90 s to the post-80 s or even post-70 s.

In 2009, Wu officially became independent from his company, from a department leader to an entrepreneur, and from a boss to an angel investor.

201365438+1October 27th, Beauty Camera was released. Once released, this App that turned the mobile phone into a selfie artifact in one second was immediately sought after by users. For 12 days in App Store, users won five-star praise. After 88 days online, the number of users exceeded 20 million!

20 1 On May 9, 3, under the leadership of Wu, Meitu held a press conference in Beijing 798 to officially release Meitu's first hardware product-Meitu mobile phone1(formerly known as MeituKiss). Meitu mobile phone 1 is the world's first smart phone with a front-facing 8 megapixels, and it is also the world's first smart phone equipped with Fujitsu independent ISP image processing chip for the front camera.

On April 27th, 20 14, Meitu Company held the "Meitu Night-Meitu 20 14 Spring and Summer New Product Launch Conference" in Beijing Jingyuan, and released the king of selfie "Meitu Mobile 2", Meitu mobile operating system "MEIOS" and short video shooting artifact "Meipai". The iPhone version was launched only 1 day, ranking first in the total free list of the App Store! Hongkong, Macau, Taiwan Province Province, Malaysia and other regions ranked first in the overall list. On may 20 14, meipai won the global download champion of the App Store. 2014165438+1On October 24th, Meitu Company released the latest Meitu mobile phone-Meitu M2 smart phone, the latest Meitu mobile phone operating system MEIOS 1.5, and announced Angelababy as the spokesman of Meitu mobile phone.