rebirth from small pockets

If we just talk about the products themselves, Chen Li is actually very confident in the products of Red Pony Technology that are not yet on the market.

Needless to say, the "Red Pony Security Guard" was transformed by Xiaomeng's black technology before it was redeemed.

On the one hand, it makes this product more suitable for the current mainstream configuration, on the other hand, it enhances the functions to a certain extent.

At the very least, at this point in time in 1999, Security Guard's functionality was most likely the strongest in the industry.

In fact, according to Xiaomeng, Security Guards currently ranks first in the world in terms of network protection.

But there is a problem, that is, the security guard's own programming technology is not like "The Ultimate Patch of the Y2K Vulnerability".

The reason is simple: "The Ultimate Y2K Bug Pudding" is not a technological product of the current era.

"Red Pony Security Guard" was originally a security software developed by Zhou Hongyi a few years later.

Although it has been blessed by the system, the technical core of Security Guard is still the technical school of the current era.

Once the security guard is officially launched, there will definitely be industry elites studying this security guard.

This is why Chen Li clearly handed over the security guard to Ma Xiaoyun last month, but Red Pony Technology Company has not released this software for a long time.

It’s very simple ~ Ma Xiaoyun needs to ensure that Red Pony Technology itself has sufficient understanding and knowledge of this software.

Because as early as when Chen Li handed over the software to Ma Xiaoyun, Chen Li said that the team behind him would not be responsible for subsequent research and development.

After all, for Chen Li, if he did not redeem a version, he would have to pay the corresponding mall currency.

As for Red Pony Technology, they cannot always count on help from outside the company itself.

To put it more bluntly, Chen Li can help Red Pony lay a foundation, but what kind of house Red Pony will build in the future is what Ma Xiaoyun and Zhou Hongyi need to consider.

Of course, this does not mean that Chen Lizhen will not care about Red Pony Technology. In fact, he will not only care about it, but will even give Red Pony a lot of support when appropriate.

He just needs to give the Red Pony itself a certain space for development, otherwise the Red Pony will just blindly rely on the team behind Chen Li. That would be meaningless.

What Chen Li can guarantee is that he will come up with the right thing at the right time.

But the problem is that the operation of a company sometimes does not just rely on its products.

Although Chen Li in his previous life had never done business or been his own boss, it did not prevent him from understanding some situations in the Internet circle.

For example, in the Internet circle, the big bullies the small!

In fact, this problem exists in every industry. Some people think this is normal business behavior, while others think it is a kind of commercial hegemony.

But no matter which point of view you hold, such things are real.

Ordinary people only see the prosperity of the Internet, but behind this prosperity, there are countless gray and even black realities hidden.

The reality is this. Many people pay attention to the many emerging Internet companies that pop up around the world every year, but few people pay attention to the small businesses that go bankrupt every year.

Among these small businesses that failed, some were due to poor management, some were due to lack of funds, and some were

Well~ in short, there are many reasons for failure! But one of them is that when small companies compete with large companies, the competition fails.

It would be fine if it was just a failure in product competition, but sometimes things beyond the product itself can have a huge impact.

If you want to get rid of these influences that go beyond the development of the company and the product itself, the only solution is to put a layer of armor on your company itself.

To put it more bluntly, it means that the company itself is looking for a background or backer with a strong enough relationship.

Don't underestimate this, sometimes industry competition can be quite cruel.

The most famous one is probably the "Oriental Micro-Point Case" that happened around 2005!

At that time, after MicroPoint proposed the "active defense" anti-virus core, it encountered refutation from many domestic anti-virus software.

If the two parties are just competing in a normal industry, that's it. At worst, they can rely on the quality and reputation of their products to speak for themselves.

But this matter finally developed to the point of "off-market recruitment", which also put Weidian Company, which was in a great situation at the time, into a huge dilemma.

Ma Xiaoyun and Zhou Hongyi can't imagine such a thing at present. They don't think that industry competition will reach that level.

But as someone who has experienced this, Chen Li has experienced a lot on the Internet back then.

So he knows very well that sometimes speaking out about the dirty tricks in some industries can make people sick to death.

In fact, if it were competition from other industries, then Chen Li would be happy to take advantage of it. But now the red pony is facing the same dilemma as the original Weidian.

Because the security guards transformed by Xiaomeng themselves also follow the "active defense" school.

To put it bluntly, this is equivalent to Red Pony Technology Co., Ltd. directly reaching out to grab food from the bowls of other anti-virus software companies.

No~ If Red Pony just releases an anti-virus software, then at most Red Pony and other anti-virus software companies will compete for food.

But as soon as this active defense school came out, it was not just grabbing food, but directly taking away everyone else's rice pot.

Therefore, if there are no accidents, the Red Pony Safety Guard will definitely encounter various crises after it is launched.

Although, the red pony is not without its amulet.

After all, Chen Li's previous donation of 50 million US dollars and Ma Xiaoyun's 2 million US dollars were not in vain.

If you really want to count, Ma Xiaoyun has met several big leaders. This is actually a potential personal relationship of Red Pony Technology Co., Ltd.!

But~ don’t think that with such connections, no one will have any evil intentions towards the red pony.

After all, your red pony has already started carrying the pot, so why don’t you allow people to jump up and hit you on the knee?

And those leaders are not low-level~ It is impossible for the red pony to just go and trouble others when something happens.

As the saying goes, the King of Hell is easy to meet~The kid is difficult to deal with. As long as the other party makes some small moves, the red pony will definitely be passive.

However, this situation is actually quite easy to solve.

You only need to introduce one or two companies with sufficient capital to enter the Red Pony. Even if those people make some small moves, there will naturally be people who will help the Red Pony solve all this.

After all, capital will not allow the money it has invested to be thrown into the water by some inexplicable means.

If you are not as strong as others or have a problem with your investment vision, that's fine. But if you are fooled by some off-market moves, then it is estimated that even the capital side will be looked down upon.

And in order to safeguard the interests of the capital side, the capital side will definitely do its best to help the enterprise.

After all, only when the enterprise itself develops can capital gain more benefits.

In business, profit is king.

Marx said:

As long as there is 50% profit, capital will dare to take risks!

If there is 100% profit, capital will dare to trample all human laws!

And when there is a 300% profit, capital dares to commit any crime, even risking being hanged!

Therefore, from Chen Li's perspective, he actually hopes that Red Pony will find one or two suitable capital sources for financing.

Because this also involves a big reason~that is, the Internet bubble is about to burst.

With the current capital reserves of Red Pony, if it does not suffer from those "off-market moves", it can actually operate in a healthy manner.

But the competition on the Internet is cruel.

Especially now that the domestic Internet security market has long been divided up, the sudden emergence of a red pony is bound to be collectively boycotted by the original Internet security giants.

Not to mention that the red pony is taking another path, a path that once the red pony goes down, other security companies will probably have no way to go.

If the red pony is allowed to continue smoothly, then other security companies will either have to blaze new trails, or they will only be eliminated by the times.

Therefore, in order to avoid such a situation from happening, the red pony will definitely face very high competitive pressure.

This also means that if Red Pony wants to gain a foothold in the security industry, sooner or later it will have to compete with these established security companies.

But if that's the case, then Red Pony's current cash flow is not so safe.

Shortage of funds is definitely the most common problem in enterprise development and also the most difficult to solve.

But fortunately, the red pony is not afraid of this. At least, before the Internet bubble burst, the red pony was not afraid of this.

Nowadays, many investment institutions, including SoftBank and Goldman Sachs, are very optimistic about the prospects and future development of Red Pony Technology Co., Ltd.

It can be said that as long as Ma Xiaoyun lets go, Red Pony will immediately have a large amount of funds in his account.

However, correspondingly, Red Pony also needs to part with a portion of its equity in exchange for these funds and the help of these investment institutions.

Just like Ding Sanshi, after accepting the investment from the capital behind Xuxing, Wangnan not only received a large amount of funds, but also found a CEO.

This was requested by Ding Sanshi himself, because he is a technical man and does not know much about business management.

So Ding Sanshi asked the investors to help find a professional manager.

Although this incident can be regarded as laying a huge hidden danger for the future internal disputes of Wangnan, it even caused Wangnan to be almost sold.

But at the moment, Ding Sanshi is still very happy, because he does feel the benefits of capital.

After all, people give money to others, so Ding Sanshi only needs to concentrate on technology.

And the most important thing is that what he paid was actually not as much as imagined.

And this~ is the brilliance of Xu Xing.

Greed is actually a kind of nature!

But being too greedy is not an option.

How to measure the degree of this is a question that managers like Xu Xing need to consider.

During the investment process, some investors will extract too much value from enterprises for profit reasons.

But facts have proven that this may be able to achieve better "results" in the short term, but in the long run, this is actually very undesirable.

Xu Xing knew the ropes very well, so he was relatively measured when making investments.

Of course, this "measurement" is only relative.

The reason why Ma Xiaoyun did not agree to the investment from SoftBank and Goldman Sachs was not that he did not want the other party’s money and resources, but because these two investment institutions gave less and wanted much more!

But this is understandable, because although the red pony has shined in the previous millennium bug problem, the red pony also faces many competitors.

In addition to those established Internet security companies, this year Yinshan also launched its own security software.

And the most important thing is that there is a big crocodile behind the Silver Mountain.

Fantasy technology!

This is a giant in the domestic PC market~well-deserved NO1!

It can be said that with the support of Fantasy Technology, Yinshan Antivirus has a much greater advantage than other Internet security companies.

Coupled with other established Internet security companies, it is still difficult for Red Pony to make a breakthrough in this industry.

To put it bluntly, if it weren’t for Red Pony’s outstanding performance in the previous millennium bug issue, Red Pony Technology Co., Ltd. would be just that.

Mainly because there is a big problem here, that is, the team that solved the Y2K crisis is not affiliated with Red Pony Technology.

If the team behind Chen Li really exists and is still a red pony, then investment institutions such as SoftBank and Goldman Sachs will naturally increase their ratings of the red pony.

But it's a pity that this team was originally created by Chen Li, so it was naturally impossible for him to let this "team" come to the forefront.

That's why when Ma Xiaoyun was talking about investment with investors from SoftBank and Goldman Sachs, the talks collapsed.

In Ma Xiaoyun's eyes, even without the bonus of Chen Li and the team behind him, the value of the red pony is still very high.

Because the red pony holds the killer weapon "Security Guard", it is enough to achieve a huge victory in the product competition.

Therefore, just after hearing the quotes from investment institutions such as SoftBank and Goldman Sachs, Ma Xiaoyun temporarily blacklisted them in his heart.

Hmm. This is actually very spiritual for the time being.

Because Ma Xiaoyun knows very well that when a company reaches a certain stage of development, it will inevitably have to deal with these capitals.

It's just that Ma Xiaoyun plans to wait until "Red Pony Security Guard" is launched, and then talk to these people about investment after achieving certain results.

At that time, these investment institutions will naturally look at the red pony with admiration, and accordingly, these investment institutions will naturally increase the valuation of the red pony by N levels.

But if you do this, then "Red Pony Security Guard" will inevitably be attacked by other competitors after it is launched.

Without the help of capital, Red Pony will definitely encounter a lot of trouble.

So the problem arises!

It is to first accept investment, and then use the investors' resources to help fend off competitors.

It is better to wait for the results first, and then use the excellent results to seek better investments.

This is a multiple choice question!

However, at this moment, a person who was not particularly "greedy" appeared, and this person was Xu Xing.

So~ when Chen Li brought his girlfriend to the appointed restaurant that night,

What Chen Li saw was Ma Xiaoyun and Xu Xing with smiles on their faces~!

From just one glance, Chen Li knew very clearly that the two people should have reached an intention to cooperate.

So, Chen Li decided to order some more expensive dishes tonight!