Rebirth starts with small money

Chapter 373 Ma Xiaoteng Will Be Acquired By Ma Xiaoyun?
"Red Pony Technology ~ Ma Xiaoyun!"

"Tengxun Technology ~ Ma Xiaoteng!"

"Hello~ hello~!"

"Nice to meet you~!"

On this night of [-]~ Chen Li, who was always compared with others in his previous life, finally met.

The place where the two met was not a business gathering, but in Chen Li's inconspicuous small rental house.

A total of five people attended the banquet that night. Apart from the two tigers of Chen Li and Teng Xun, there were also two Arhats from the original Ari and an Internet "rogue".

Uh~ well~ In [-], this group of people didn't actually have these nicknames.

Not to mention that this time and space has been "messed up" by Chen Li. The original Ahri Eighteen Arhats are probably gone. As for whether the Fujixun Five Tigers will appear or not, it's hard to say.

Anyway, at the wine table that night, Ma Xiaoteng and Zeng Lijing kept promoting their OICQ to Ma Xiaoyun.

What worried Chen Li was that Ma Xiaoyun seemed really interested.

Speaking of it, life in OICQ in [-] was not easy.

Contrary to Chen Li's original imagination, the early OICQ was not so popular.

Compared with social software such as OICQ, many people actually prefer to use BBS forums and online chat rooms for online social networking.

Fortunately, Ma Xiaoteng and the others arrived at a very appropriate time, which is what many people later called the outlet!
From [-] to [-], a major reform took place in the domestic Internet industry.

With the promotion and application of broadband ADSL, the cost of surfing the Internet has been greatly reduced, which allows many ordinary people who originally thought surfing the Internet to be a luxury, to enter Internet cafes and start their own life of surfing the Internet.

There is an opportunity~ Naturally, there will be follow-up merchants, and many smart merchants have discovered the business opportunities, so Internet cafes all over the country began to spring up like mushrooms after rain.

And at this time, Fujixun, where Ma Xiaoteng works, launched their OICQ.

Afterwards, Ma Xiaoteng and the others set their sights on the new generation of young people, so in the beginning, besides Internet cafes, their focus of promotion was Shencheng and the surrounding colleges and universities.

Young people are naturally very receptive to new things, so Ma Xiaoteng and his OICQ quickly ushered in a leap in user base.

After going through the indifference period of the early OICQ social circle, Fujixun's OICQ soon ushered in their explosive period.

But new problems soon emerged.

With the gradual increase of registered users and online numbers, Fujixun quickly felt the pressure.

After all, Tengxun in [-] was only a small company among Internet companies.

The pressure brought by the skyrocketing number of users is actually a small problem. After all, the increase in the number of users is definitely a good phenomenon, which means that OICQ is loved by young people.

Although there is some pressure on funds~ but it has not reached the unbearable stage.

What makes Ma Xiaoteng and other Fujitora tigers unacceptable is that they cannot see the future of OICQ.

Yes~ Even if OICQ was created by Ma Xiaoteng and others, although it borrowed the concept of a certain foreign social software, but this thing was created by Ma Xiaoteng and others after all, it is impossible to say that they have no thought.

Especially at the beginning of this year, a company in the United States spent $2.87 million to buy a foreign instant messaging software company.

Yes~ It is the company that Ma Xiaoteng and others borrowed from. The product of this company is called .ICQ.

Many people mention Fujixun~ they will definitely think of their flagship product QQ.

The OICQ in [-] was actually the later QQ!

The reason for the change is that the American company that acquired ICQ later sued Fujitsu, and eventually OICQ changed its name to QQ.

To put it bluntly ~ the reason why Ma Xiaoteng and others came up with an OICQ is because they were not affected by the acquisition of ICQ by an American company that spent 3 million US dollars. Chen Li would definitely not believe it.

What Ma Xiaoteng and others did not expect was that ICQ could be sold for 1000 million US dollars with more than 2.87 million registered users in foreign countries, but in China, OICQ, which has now exceeded 20 registered users, is unexpectedly uninterested.

There are several reasons why this is the case.

Firstly, although there is no Chinese version of ICQ in foreign countries, ICQ with Chinese patches exists in China.

That is to say, although ICQ has not announced the Chinese version, in fact, some people in China are still using ICQ.

Of course~ because of its English interface, although there are not many people using ICQ in China.

At present, the most common social use of the Internet in China is actually the mailbox!

Later, due to the emergence of instant messaging software and the improvement of the function development of instant messaging software, the usefulness of mailboxes has become less and less.

But in the early Internet era in China, mailbox is definitely a must-have mark for every netizen.

At that time, when people communicated on the Internet, one of the most common things to do was not to leave the other party's own QQ number or mobile phone number, but to leave the other party's own mailbox.

Of course ~ mailbox is not instant messaging software after all, even the speed of sending emails is actually quite fast.

The real reason why many domestic businessmen are not optimistic about Fujixun's OICQ is actually related to a major leader in the computer industry.

Speaking of the leading overlord in the computer industry, you may have many choices.

Like Intel!
Like Dell!

Such as AMD!

Everyone's opinion is different, so everyone's choice will not be the same.

But no matter who makes this choice, it is estimated that they will choose a company.And the company's name is
Microsoft!

Yes~ There is another very important reason why many people in China don't know Fujixun's OICQ.

That is, Microsoft announced at the beginning of this year that Microsoft will launch an instant messaging software in the middle of this year.

And the name of this software is Messenger~ also known as the postman or the messenger!
Of course~ The software released by Microsoft is naturally in English, so the name of this software is called
Messenger!

If many people are not familiar with this word, then abbreviate this word, it becomes
MSN!

In fact, Chen Li doesn't really remember when MSN was launched, but he just saw the news that Microsoft will launch MSN this year some time ago.

This surprised Chen Li at the time!
Because in Chen Li's memory, the competition between Tengxun and Microsoft was definitely after the new century.

Later~ after Chen Li got to know some related news, he had a certain guess.

Microsoft did develop MSN in [-], but the time for this thing to enter China was a bit later than the time it developed MSN.

Chen Li vaguely remembered that MSN only entered the Chinese market after it achieved great success abroad.

Chen Li still remembers one thing, when Microsoft and Tengxun competed for a while.

At that time, there was a very nonsense topic on the Internet, that is, people who use MSN look down on people who use QQ.

Users who used MSN at that time had the confidence to be in line with international standards.
Moreover, in the commercial activities at that time, when exchanging contact information, many people were ashamed to provide their QQ and QQ mailboxes, but were more enthusiastic about using gmail or hotmail.

At that time, QQ was even considered a game, while MSN was the real social tool.

Yes ~ because the early user groups using MSN are mainly concentrated among tall business people, rather than grassroots and students.

At that time, MSN and QQ competed fiercely. It is said that some foreign-funded companies even banned employees from logging into QQ during working hours.

Of course~ these memories are scattered memories that Chen Li can recall.

As for the specific information~ Chen Li couldn't remember it at all.

For example, how QQ had the last laugh at that time.

But~ even if he couldn't remember, Chen Li could still make a rough guess.

After all, when he remembered the definition of MSN, he guessed that MSN would definitely fail in the end.

Of course~ these are things after the new century.

But at this moment in [-]~ when Microsoft announced that they were about to enter the instant messaging market, many people had already issued a "death notice" to the still weak Fujixun.

Perhaps many people will find it strange that Microsoft has not even developed instant messaging software, so why do people think so?

Hey~Microsoft really had such a big influence in the past few years at the turn of the century.

Microsoft these days is probably the most well-known company in the world, not even one of them!

Even many people who don't understand the computer Internet know Microsoft and Bill Gates, let alone people in the computer Internet industry circle.

When many people hear that Microsoft is going to launch instant messaging software, their first reaction is to hold a negative attitude towards other instant messaging software.

No way ~ Microsoft has too many global users.

With such a huge user base, how can other instant messaging software compete with the huge Microsoft?
Unless you don't use Microsoft's system, is that realistic?

So~ It is precisely because of this reason that many people are not optimistic about Fujixun's instant messaging software.

Of course ~ this is only one of the reasons.

There is an old saying that goes well ~ as long as you have enough interests, then anything is possible.

So ~ if Fujixun's OICQ can make money, then Fujixun actually does not lack buyers.

But here comes the problem~ At present, Fujixun's OICQ can't find any profitable points.

In fact, not to mention OICQ, even ICQ abroad has not yet achieved profitability.

Is there any point of profit, and it is about to face a strong competitor. This situation makes many people not optimistic about the future of Tengxun.

But but~ Among these people, Ma Xiaoyun was not included!
In fact, many business leaders in China these days hold a skeptical attitude towards the computer Internet.

In previous lives and later, many people on the Internet scolded why most of those well-known Internet companies have foreign investment backgrounds.

This is actually very nonsense, because these Internet companies in the early days were not favored by domestic people.

Only those foreign capitals who have witnessed the huge benefits of the computer Internet will boldly invest in those Internet companies.

It sounds depressing, but reality is reality.

Just like Ma Xiaoyun in the previous life, this guy was considered a liar by many people in China, but the one from Softbank dared to give him more than 2000 million US dollars.

It was only more than 2000 million U.S. dollars. Couldn’t the domestic business leaders at that time come up with it?

Of course they could, but they didn't believe that Ma Xiaoyun could succeed.

The same principle is also reflected in Ma Xiaoteng of Tengxun. Obviously, the investment that Tengxun received in the early days was the little Superman from Hong Kong Island and IDG Huaxia.

But these two ~ after discovering that the Internet bubble burst, faced with the temptation to exit smoothly, they easily chose to take money and run away.

In the end, the same foreign-funded MIH entered the venue~ a big package came directly.

why?

Because MIH believes that Fuji Xun and Ma Xiaoteng will achieve greater success in the end, but the little superman on Hong Kong Island and IDG Capital don't think so.

Is MIH a fool?Many people probably thought so at the time.

But in the end~ it turns out that those who left early are the real fools.

In the previous life, there were rumors on the Internet that the holding company behind MIH was a certain bank in China. This news was widely spread on the Internet at that time.

At that time, the news spread so fast that the truth of the matter was sunk directly into the sand.

It is said that the largest shareholder of MIH's parent company is actually a company controlled by a domestic bank.

Nine of the information in it are true and one is false~ This is also the reason why so many people can be fooled.

At that time, someone on the Internet produced a series of chains of evidence, most of which were actually true and valid.

But there is one thing~the domestic bank-controlled company~has actually sold the shares of MIH Group to other companies long ago.

So from the beginning to the end~ the bank in China has nothing to do with Fujixun at all.

The emergence of this evidence chain is said to be to prove that Fujixun is actually a state-owned holding company. This is actually meaningless at all.

Although~ Chen Li actually hopes that Fujixun is a state-owned enterprise, but facts are facts, and there is no need for far-fetched or anything like that.

Of course~ Chen Li in his previous life had nothing to do with these things, at most he was just watching the fun.

But now, under the premise of making Fujixun a state-owned enterprise, Chen Li suddenly panicked.

Because at this moment Ma Xiaoteng and Ma Xiaoyun are already negotiating the price.

"Wait a minute~!"

"You two wait a minute!"

"Brother Teng~ just wait a moment!"

Chen Li interrupted the chat between Ma Xiaoteng and Ma Xiaoyun, first apologized to Ma Xiaoteng, and then looked at Ma Xiaoyun.

"Brother Ma~ Did you drift away?"

"Uh? What's wrong.!"

Ma Xiaoyun was obviously confused by Chen Li's question, so he looked at Chen Li carefully and asked.

"It's such a big deal to acquire a company. Don't you ask the opinions of other shareholders first?"

"You have to know~Red Pony Technology Co., Ltd. is not your company alone."

"In the past. You started your own business, and you had the final say."

"But now... these things, you have to communicate with me and Zhou Hongyi first."

"The company...is not yours alone."

Chen Li was actually looking for an excuse, because he was worried that under the influence of alcohol, Ma Xiaoyun and Ma Xiaoteng would come and go and talk things over.

Others felt that Ma Xiaoteng's asking price was very high, and Tengxun was not worth the price at all.But Ma Xiaoyun definitely doesn't think so.

The reason is very simple, because under the influence of Chen Li, Ma Xiaoyun has a new understanding of the Internet.

At this moment, Ma Xiaoyun is very clear about how important Internet traffic and user base are.

And the most important thing is that what the Red Pony lacks at this moment is traffic and user base, and more importantly,
Ma Xiaoyun and Red Pony Technology Co., Ltd. are not short of money at all!
(End of this chapter)