rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 488 Xiao Ma seeks advice from Da Ma?

"I don't understand~!"

"Dong dong dong~!"

"I remember I told you before that if there is financial pressure, I can help."

"Why did you just sell the company?"

"Dong dong dong~!"

"And even if you want to sell, you can tell me in advance, right?"

"It's not like I don't have money~ and we're still friends!"

"Tell me~ why are you doing this?"

"Dong dong dong~!"

In the office, Chen Li scolded Brother Ma across from him and banged the table.

To be honest, his hands were numb from the action, but he still didn't stop doing this.

Because he really doesn’t understand!

It’s only eight million, and it’s not like he, Chen Li, can’t afford it now. If Brother Ma really decides to sell the company, then he, Chen Li, will definitely spend the money to buy Tengxun and OICQ.

But the problem is~ until the news came that Tengxun was sold, Chen Li didn't get any news from his netizen and friend Xiao Ma Ge.

This is why Chen Li was angry and angry, and also why Brother Ma was so embarrassed before.

"Old Chen~ It's really my fault for this!"

"But don't get angry yet~ Just listen to my explanation!"

"It was difficult to talk about this matter online before, so this time I came to Yanjing for business, I came over to explain this matter to you."

"Look at this first~!"

Brother Xiao Ma looked at Chen Li helplessly and pushed his laptop over.

"Haha~ Then I would like to listen to your explanation."

Chen Li smiled reluctantly~ After all, he really didn't understand why Brother Ma did what he did.

He has long expressed his interest in Tengxun, and he has a certain personal relationship with Brother Ma, so Brother Ma should give him an explanation both in public and private matters.

Then he saw the email open on Brother Ma's laptop.

"Your English is better than mine, so you don't need me to translate, right?"

Brother Xiao Ma stood up, walked to Chen Li's side, stretched out his hand and tapped the computer screen and said:

"It was because of this email that I sold the company as quickly as possible."

"We are friends~ so I won't hide it from you, and I can't hide it from you either."

"This email is genuine, I have confirmed it."

"And what is said above is actually true."

After saying these words, Brother Ma returned to the seat opposite Chen Li, picked up the water glass and took a sip of water.

At this time, Chen Li had already turned his attention to the laptop in front of him - no, it was the email on the screen.

Although this is an email, it is also a lawyer's letter.

To be precise, this is a letter from a lawyer on the other side of the ocean, the United States.

The person who sent this lawyer's letter to Brother Ma - no, it should be said to be a company, but a company in the United States called America Online.

Chen Li had some impression of this company, but he didn't think of it for a while, but when he saw the content of the lawyer's letter, he instantly remembered some information about the company.

America Online is the parent company of ICQ.

It is ICQ~not OICQ. The two seem to be very close, but they are not the same thing.

But in fact, there are many connections between the two.

ICQ~ is an instant messaging software launched by an Israeli company in 1996.

Once this software was launched, it received an immediate global response and quickly gained a large number of users around the world with its unprecedented creativity.

Even in Asia, where the Internet was not very developed at the time, the number of users in the market accounted for 70%.

Six months after its launch, this software became the most popular instant messaging software in the world at that time.

A year and a half later, in 1998, ICQ was acquired by America Online for a high price of US$280 million.

And it is said that in order to acquire the company, America Online paid an additional US$120 million to ICQ's founding team.

In other words, America Online spent a full US$400 million to acquire ICQ!

It is worth mentioning that the time of this transaction was 1998. You can only imagine how valuable this $400 million was!

And perhaps it was because of seeing this transaction that Brother Ma came up with such an OICQ at that time.

Yes~OICQ is actually a copycat of ICQ.

Even though OICQ and later QQ achieved far better results than ICQ, a copycat is a copycat.

No matter from the product concept or operation method, even the name has not been spared.

OICQ and ICQ have almost the same meaning as Master Kong and Shuaifu Kang later.

Of course, it’s actually understandable that Xiao Ma has done this before.

After all, this thing was originally designed to bid for network paging systems.

It doesn't matter if we choose a name like OICQ. Anyway, after the bidding is successful, the name will probably be changed by Party A.

I just didn’t expect that the bidding for this thing actually failed, and in the end, Xiao Ma and others had to run the project themselves.

At this time, ICQ, an instant messaging software, had actually entered the domestic market.

It's just that the computer Internet in China is not that developed these days, so ICQ doesn't look down on the domestic market at all, and has not made any adjustments to the domestic market.

So. At this time, OICQ appeared.

Perhaps they wanted to capitalize on ICQ’s fame~ Fujin News didn’t even bother to change the name and just continued to use the name OICQ.

To be honest~ At this time, Xiao Ma had no idea that OICQ would become a big hit.

The reason why they operate this software is actually to sell this thing after achieving certain results.

It's just that they didn't expect that foreign ICQ sold for 400 million US dollars, and their OICQ was actually lost.

But at this time, the Five Tigers of Tengxun were actually a bit stuck.

After all, after spending so much time, effort and money on it, it’s impossible to pay back the money, right?

So a few people just gritted their teeth and persisted until the beginning of the year. Brother Ma went to Yanjing to find people to invest or to see if anyone was interested in OICQ.

In his previous life, Brother Ma's trip to Yanjing must have been a failure.

After all, the domestic Internet industry is still in its infancy, and the domestic market for this so-called instant messaging software is not large.

There are not many personal computer users in the country, and the mainstream of the market is BBS and online chat rooms.

So no one is interested in this thing at all.

But this time, Xiao Ma's trip to Yanjing was obviously influenced by Chen Li, the butterfly.

Because Chen Li, the butterfly, valued OICQ, Ma Xiaoyun, an Internet upstart who was influenced by Chen Li, directly offered a high price of three million!

This little Ma is not a fuel-efficient guy. Looking at Ma Xiaoyun’s offer for three million, maybe someone else will offer a higher price later.

Although the cold reception later made Brother Ma somewhat sober up, it also made him realize that OICQ was not as useless as he thought before.

Otherwise, Ma Xiaoyun would not have been able to offer such a high price to acquire it.

So the five tigers of Tengxun gathered together another million and planned to carry on.

With this million, the development of OICQ naturally accelerated to another level, and then it was sued by ICQ.

Yes~ The email on the laptop in front of Chen Li at this moment is exactly the lawyer's letter sent by America Online to Tengxun.

The other party plans to appeal against the fact that OICQ plagiarized ICQ.

After hearing this, Chen Li finally understood why Brother Xiao Ma was selling so happily, and at the same time he also understood the tricks in it.

But he was even more confused.

Because this incident also happened in the previous life?

In the previous life, OICQ changed its name because of the lawsuit filed by America Online.

So isn’t this just a matter of changing the name? Why did you let Brother Xiao Ma sell the company?

Chen Li looked at the lawyer's letter and fell into deep thought.

He didn't ask Xiao Ma directly because he knew about the past life, but Xiao Ma didn't know!

Don't tell me~ Chen Li thought for a long time and really understood some of the tricks in this.

In the previous life, ICQ probably sued Tengxun at this time, but Tengxun at that time could be said to have nothing.

In addition to the continuous growth in the number of users, Tencent's OICQ had no income ~ only expenses. Even at that time, Tencent had no money to buy servers due to financial pressure, and OICQ had several operational problems.

The most important thing is that no one wanted Tengxun at that time.

To put it bluntly, OICQ at that time could not be sold at all.

In that case~ Xiao Ma had no choice but to grit his teeth and finally chose to change OICQ's name to QQ, which allowed him to survive the lawsuit.

To be honest, Chen Li doesn't believe that just changing his name can get rid of this problem.

Among them, it is estimated that cross-border lawsuits are difficult to fight and the background behind Xiao Ma.

But this is just Chen Li's guess. After all, changing the name can solve the problem. In Chen Li's opinion, it's a bit nonsense.

But that was a previous life, and no one cared about OICQ at that time, but this is not the case with OICQ now.

The purchase price of 3 million given by Ma Xiaoyun is there. In addition, Brother Ma leaked the news before. He probably wanted to use this to increase Tengxun's "worth".

Therefore, although the current Tengxun and OICQ cannot be said to be popular, they are definitely on the attention of some people.

It's just that Xiao Ma and others should have been waiting for a price before, but they didn't expect to be beaten directly by America Online. Then Xiao Ma and others quickly cut through the mess and sold OICQ and Tenxun together for 800 yuan.

Ten thousand.

Eight million~according to the proportion of shares, several of the Five Tigers of Tengxun can get a large amount of money.

With this money, wouldn't it be better for everyone to start a new company and start a new business than to hang themselves to death on a small sapling like Tengxun?

In particular, OICQ is a product they created, and it is meant to be sold.

So. This has become the current situation.

Regarding this, Chen Li expressed his helplessness!

He is really helpless ~ because Ahri, the three giants of the Internet in his previous life, is gone, and now Tengxun will be gone too.

Chen Li believes that without the Five Tigers' Tengxun, it would be difficult to reach the heights of his previous life.

Moreover, Tencent’s current product only has one OICQ, and what really made Tencent prosperous was the online game industry.

Of course ~ OICQ is a cornerstone of Tencent's entry into the game industry. It is precisely because of OICQ's huge user group that the subsequent Tencent gaming empire was established.

But without the OICQ of Tencent Five Tigers, it’s hard to say whether it can reach the level of QQ in its previous life, let alone online games that have not yet appeared.

Perhaps it is possible that OICQ will lead to better development after being sold.

But in Chen Li’s opinion, this possibility is unlikely!

Perhaps after being sold, Tencent and OICQ will still become an important force in the domestic Internet industry, but if they want to reach the scale of their previous lives, Chen Li simply doesn't believe it.

The same principle~ Can the Five Tigers who have left Tengxun and OICQ still be as successful as in their previous lives? Can Brother Ma still become the richest man in China?

Chen Li is actually not optimistic either!

Just like Ma Xiaoyun today, Chen Li does not think that the other party can still sit as the richest man in China like in his previous life.

After all, the market in the Internet security industry is so big, and it is almost impossible for Ma Xiaoyun to reach the peak of his previous life.

Unless the red pony transforms in the later period and starts to develop like other technology industries, computer Internet security alone is simply impossible!

Thinking of this, Chen Li almost wanted to cry.

His butterfly just killed two of China's richest men?

Uh~ Speaking of which, Chen Li seems to know one of the richest men in China, Ding Sanshi from Wangnan.

Fortunately, this guy is very little affected by Chen Li's butterfly. I guess he will still become the richest man in China, right?

But it’s hard to say~ Anyway, now Chen Li feels that the Internet industry at this time has become a mess.

The future e-commerce overlord is gone, and the future gaming overlord is gone, but there may be one more overlord in the computer and Internet security industry.

As for what industry Xiao Ma and others will enter in the future, and whether they will achieve dominance in the new industry, who knows?

Anyway, Chen Li couldn't have guessed it. Now he seriously doubts those memories from his previous life~ They may be able to provide him with help in the future. Not much!

"Okay~!"

"The company has been sold anyway, so there's no use talking about it!"

"Then Brother Ma~ what are you going to do next?"

At this point, Chen Li didn't know what to say.

Although he lost his temper at Brother Ma, he also knew that losing his temper was meaningless.

Of course~ This kind of depressed emotion should be released when it should be released, otherwise it will easily cause problems if it is held in for a long time.

But after losing his temper, it’s time to talk about business. After all, he and Brother Ma can be considered friends now.

"Well!"

"To be honest, brother, I came to Yanjing this time to learn from you."

Brother Xiao Ma pondered for a while, adjusted his glasses, looked at Chen Li and said.

"Learn from the experience?"

"Haha~ You won't come to me for advice, will you?"

"My main business is raising chickens, you can't"

Chen Lilian was stunned for a moment, and then he suddenly became happy. This little brother Ma wouldn't want to learn from Ding Sanshi in his previous life and become interested in the breeding industry, right?

"No, no~!"

"Old Chen, where are you thinking? I don't know anything about the breeding industry."

"I came to Yanjing this time to learn from Mr. Ma!"

Brother Ma waved his hand and directly stated his plan.

"Learning from Brother Ma?"

"What's going on? Are you planning to work on Internet security too?"

Now Chen Li's eyes widened. This little pony brother wouldn't come to be the red pony's competitor, would he?

That wouldn’t be easy!

In Chen Li's opinion, whether it is Ma Xiaoyun or Xiao Ma, these people probably have an aura around them.

This halo is probably called the "success" halo.

People like them, even under the influence of Chen Li's butterfly, have deviated from the track of their previous life.

But perhaps because their achievements in the previous life were so impressive, Mr. Chen always felt that this group of people would be successful no matter what they did.

"No, no~ don't get me wrong!"

Just when Chen Li was wondering if Brother Ma wanted to grab some food, Brother Ma shook his head again.

"I'm coming to see Mr. Ma this time."

“I want to ask about e-commerce!”

"Didn't Mr. Ma plan to engage in e-commerce before? It is said that he even went to the United States for inspection?"

"So I plan to come here to learn from it and listen to Mr. Ma's opinions on e-commerce!"

As Brother Xiao Ma was talking, he suddenly noticed that Chen Li's expression on the opposite side changed drastically, and then.

"Fuck~ isn't it?"

(End of chapter)