After ending the conversation with Shen Peng and others, Lu Liang found Little Ma alone in the corner of the banquet.
Perhaps due to his technical background, his nature was relatively introverted, or perhaps it was because the status gap was too vast, which deterred people from approaching him for a chat.
Lu Liang got straight to the point and stated his intention; he hoped that his future Public Fund would interface with WeChat's Tenpay.
Little Ma pondered briefly before agreeing readily; compared to Alipay, their Tenpay had always been lukewarm.
Mainly because users treated WeChat as a chat app and Alipay as a finance app.
Alipay's success as a finance app stemmed from platforms like Taobao Tmall and 1688.
Tencent had realized the importance of payments early on and had also dabbled in e-commerce with platforms like QQ Online Shopping and Paipai.com. However, despite not having shut down, they had basically flat-lined to date.
