My Age of Investment

As night fell and the lights came on, ants-like migrant workers walked out of the high-tech park in Pengcheng with exhaustion, and formed a long queue at the subway entrance.

The Fiyta Building located in the Science and Technology Park is still brightly lit. Behind the speed of Pengcheng is the sway of youth and the struggle of explosive people.

"Bonny, all the data has been calculated."

Liu Zhiping pushed the door open and walked into Ponima's office, where the latter was sitting on the boss chair smoking a cigarette.

"how's it going?"

Bonnie immediately stubbed out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, rubbed his hands, and there was a hint of anticipation on his face.

Only then did Liu Zhiping notice that the ashtray on the table had densely piled up more than a dozen cigarette butts.

After sniffing, the whole room was filled with a long-lasting smoke.

"How many cigarettes have you been smoking?"

Liu Zhiping's tone was more casual. Although he was a subordinate of Ponima, he was not the kind of subordinate who would respond to his demands.

The importance to Ponima is no less than that of Zhuge Liang to Liu Bei.

When he first joined Penguin last year, Liu Zhiping was only the chief strategic investment officer. This year, he has been promoted to the president. His authority within Penguin is second only to Pony Horse, the absolute number two.

Bonima smiled at Liu Zhiping, but said nothing. He was actually a little anxious, worried that the promotion of QQ alumni would be unfavorable.

Xiaonei.com was renamed Hainei.com, which made him fully see Xia Jingxing's wolfish ambition, intending to overthrow the Penguin Dynasty and change the dynasty.

How can this be tolerated?

So he had no choice but to rush the ducks to the shelves, and put the QQ alumni that had been developed in a hurry online.

It's not that he doesn't want to polish the product carefully, but that time waits for no one, and if the delay continues, Haineiwang will reach the doorstep, or it has already reached the doorstep, and the next step is to kick their penguin's door.

In his view, first solve the problem of "nothing", and then slowly upgrade the product to optimize the user experience.

In addition, launching products earlier can keep up with the pace of Hainei.com and give full play to their housekeeping skills of "imitation + micro-innovation".

"This is the number of registered QQ alumni on the first day of its launch, and the data is as of 6 pm."

Liu Zhiping handed the document in his hand to Ma Huateng, and the latter took a look, with an unstoppable joy on his face.

"1.2 million users!"

Seeing the long string of numbers on the document, Ma Huateng finally put his heart into his stomach.

He has always worried that netizens will not accept the real-name social networking system. After all, QQ has been socializing with strangers since the day it was born, and has never asked for identity verification.

This suddenly requires identity verification, which is contrary to the model that QQ has implemented in the past, and the success or failure is still uncertain.

"Haha, thanks to Hainei.com, they have helped us educate the market well during this period of time. For the real-name system, users are not as strongly resisted as we imagined."

Liu Zhiping smiled very proudly. Overseas Net spent 200 million yuan to organize a popular campus singer contest across the country, which completely ignited the concept of SNS community, which also provided convenience for Penguin to promote QQ friends.

I don't know if the young richest man would jump in anger when he heard the news.

Ma Huateng laughed loudly, "We have to thank our good shareholder for never forgetting to support Penguin."

After the two teased Xia Jingxing for a while, they started talking about serious business.

"This data was only counted until 6 pm. In the evening, everyone got off work and went home to surf the Internet. After receiving the QQ message pop-up, there should be a wave of registration peaks, reaching the goal of 2 million registrations. I think there should be no problem. big."

Ma Huateng is already very satisfied with this result. After all, real-name authentication is required, which will cause users to be very vigilant and worried.

If it weren't for Hainei.com to take the lead, the resistance to promotion might be even greater.

"However, we can't be too optimistic. There may be a wave of registration peaks in the first few days of going online. After a week or two, the growth trend should gradually stabilize.

The total number of users reached more than 10 million or even 20 million,

It is a relatively reliable estimate.

The rest of the market needs to be transformed slowly.

In other words, we can match Hainei.com in terms of the number of users, but we can’t do it directly. It will take time and competition. "

Ma Huateng nodded, "That's not bad, we spent ten days and half a month, and directly equaled the efforts of Hainei.com for a year.

The real-name system is not yet a major trend, and it is extremely normal for most people to choose to wait and see. "

Liu Zhiping nodded slightly, "Well, there's no need to rush this. As long as we can catch up with Shanghai Intranet and rely on the huge user base of QQ, the balance of victory will naturally tilt towards us."

Ma Huateng smiled and said, "That's right, Xia Jingxing wants to build a social empire in China, so we have to ask whether we agree or not."

Liu Zhiping smiled, "However, we can't be careless. Our current achievements are all dependent on the resources of QQ itself."

Ma Huateng is still very clear-headed, not too optimistic and blind.

He stood up and glanced at the brightly lit technology park through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Then he turned his head and glanced at Liu Zhiping again, "Martin, do you know?

When I started my business, I set a small goal: Three years later, Penguin will have 18 employees, and the office of more than 100 square meters must be filled!

Now three years have passed, and the third three years will soon be over.

Penguin's office has long been moved from the SEG Science and Technology Park in Huaqiangbei to the Fiyta Building, and it has also rented an 8-story office building with more than 3,000 employees. "

Ma Huateng became more and more excited as he talked, overlooking the vast science and technology park, his chest was full of pride.

"I cherish everything I have now. If anyone wants to take it away, I will fight him hard."

Liu Zhiping walked up to Ma Huateng and stood side by side with him, "I, like you, regard penguins as a lifelong career."

"Martin!"

"Boney!"

The four eyes met, the two big men had a big night, couldn't help it...

"Crack!"

Clap.

it is more than words.

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Today's penguins are no longer the penguins of previous years.

Since July, driven by the good performance of the previous year and the industrial environment, Penguin has performed strongly in the capital market, with its stock price hovering around HK$14, and its peak market value once reached US$3.3 billion, even exceeding the combined market value of TOM and Sina during the same period.

It is not an exaggeration to call Penguin a new generation of Internet giants, but it deserves its name. It has already shown signs of replacing the three major portals.

This new Internet giant made a small show of his hand and immediately shocked the entire Internet circle.

On the first day of its launch, QQ Friends gained more than 2 million real-name users.

To borrow a sentence from Da Gangzi: Who else?

The shameless and shameless media directly praised the penguin to the sky. No matter how they praised the nasty words on Hainei.com before, they used it on the penguin again.

This is still a decent media!

The media with no lower limit, in order to attract attention, even produced "Shock! Sensational headlines like QQ Friends catching up with Hainei.com’s half-year efforts in one day, and expecting to overtake the total number of Hainei.com users in at most half a month.

what else can we do?

They have magic tools like QQ, so Xia Jingxing can only watch from the sidelines, waiting for the gust of wind to pass.

Of course, the worst thing is definitely not Hainei.com.

The Thousand Oaks Group was completely in disarray in the wind, with bad news one after another.

The students are on summer vacation, and Thousand Oaks has no channels to reach them.

But Penguin has the high coverage of QQ, which determines that they can launch activities whenever they want.

A QQ pop-up message directly wiped out the 200 million investment in advertisements and competitions on the domestic network.

There are still 20 million users on the domestic network, and the foundation is there, and there is still the power to compete with Penguin.

As for Thousand Oaks Group, it was miserable. Zhanzao.com, 5Q Campus.com, and Youyoumi all had three to four million users in total, but they were not on one website, and the resources were extremely scattered, making integration quite troublesome.

Maopu has more than 20 million users, but it is not an SNS community.

Chen Yizhou glanced at the cards in his hand, and he didn't know how to play anymore.

For this reason, the most serious disagreement broke out since the establishment of the Junior One League.