WeChat's star founder on how China's super-app should evolve

WeChat's star founder on how China's super-app should evolve

An attendee walks through the entrance of Tencent Holdings Ltd.'s WeChat Open Class Pro conference in Guangzhou, China, on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. WeChat, the social network that is nearly ubiquitous in China, said at the conference that it has 580,000 mini-programs in operation. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Photo by Bloomberg

Allen Zhang stepped on stage to wrap up a long day of presentations at a Tencent Holdings Ltd. conference. Four hours later, the WeChat founder had methodically torn apart his own brainchild before mapping out the next act for China’s premier super-app.

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