rebirth from small pockets

Regarding the fate of hao123, Chen Li is undoubtedly the one who knows the best.

After hao123 was acquired by Qiandu in its previous life, it caused quite a stir at the time and even made a considerable contribution to Qiandu’s subsequent listing.

But in fact, soon after hao123 was acquired, almost all the Internet websites of the type of website navigation it represented suffered a very obvious industry hit.

With the development of the Internet, and as Chinese searches become more and more common, the role of this type of website navigation becomes smaller and smaller.

Later, even new Internet users only needed to type the corresponding search content in Pinyin, or even simply use Pinyin to easily find what they wanted to search on the Internet.

And by that time, the so-called website navigation will naturally come to the end of its own industry.

Anyway, in the previous life, even twenty years later, even Chen Li's mother would not be able to use the so-called website navigation.

Although Ms. Wang doesn’t quite understand how to use computers to surf the Internet, she is better at using smartphones than Chen Li, and she often recommends some health public accounts to Chen Li that she doesn’t know where to find.

Of course, twenty years may be a long time, but basically by 2005 and 2006, Qiandu almost occupied the vast majority of the domestic search market share.

At that time, it’s not that no one used these URLs to navigate, but only a very small number of people used them.

At that time, there was a popular saying on the Internet, "If you don't decide on foreign affairs, ask Google; if you don't decide on internal affairs, ask Qiandu"!

As for the URL navigation websites that were extremely popular in the early days, almost none of them made any waves.

If Chen Li wants to continue to develop hao123, he will have to increase investment to transform hao123 from a single URL navigation into a search website.

This is actually not impossible~ Even Chen Li has thought about this aspect.

But in the end, Chen Li gave up this idea.

There is no way~ A person's energy is too limited, and he himself is not very proficient in Internet technology.

So when it came to getting involved in the Internet industry, Chen Li finally decided to focus on investment.

Maybe in a few years, when he has enough capital, he will start a technology company, but it may not necessarily be based on Internet technology.

The technology company Chen ideal wants is one that can bring the black technology products in that system into reality.

However, this goal has been put on hold for the time being.

After all, if he wants to redeem the technological products in the system, he will need a large amount of mall currency.

After Chen Li asked the system elf Xiaomeng, he found that the fastest way to obtain mall currency was through traditional industries.

Whether it is manufacturing, breeding, or even other traditional industries, the efficiency of obtaining mall currency is much faster than on the Internet.

Just like every time a chicken is raised in a chicken farm, Chen Li can obtain a piece of mall currency from the system.

Although the mall currency given by a single product is very small, as the quantity increases, the efficiency of obtaining mall currency will naturally increase.

On the other hand, those technological products, such as the "Y2K Ultimate Patch" and "350 Security Guard" that Chen Li exchanged before, no matter how much money these products sold or how many copies were sold, Chen Li's mall currency did not

Increase.

Chen Li had a vague guess in his heart that this seemed to be the system deliberately set up this way. As for the reason, Chen Li had a slight guess, but he was not sure.

Therefore, Chen Li has not entered the Internet and technology industry for the time being, but this is not a big problem. After all, the development of China's private technology does not happen overnight.

Give yourself a base first, lay a solid foundation, and then slowly plan your plans in the future. This is also the right path.

Of course, there is another reason, and that is the appearance of Qiandu.

Yes~ Although Chen Li doesn't know when Qiandu appeared in his previous life, Qiandu has appeared now.

Moreover, the other party's office is just below the floor where Red Pony Technology is located.

Even Mr. Li from Qiandu went to Red Pony Technology to visit under the guise of learning.

But this is not surprising, because among domestic Internet companies these days, apart from the three major portals, the most famous one is probably Red Pony Technology.

Mr. Li first went to Wangnan to visit, and then, through Ding Sanshi's relationship, he went to Red Pony Technology.

The reason why these two companies agreed to Mr. Li's study and visit actually had a very ridiculous reason.

They all want to recruit Mr. Li!

Many people’s impression of Mr. Li is probably his later name as CEO of Qiandu.

Those who know a little bit probably still know that this man was admitted to Yanda University as the top scorer in his hometown, and then went abroad to study in the United States ~ and the content of his study was exactly in computer-related fields!

It was also his study abroad trip that gave rise to Qiandu.

However, few people know that Mr. Li actually worked several jobs after graduating.

This Mr. Li first interned at Panasonic, and then got an appointment letter from Dow Jones. If there are people who don’t know much about Dow Jones, then I guess many people have heard of it in the famous "Wall Street Journal".

This newspaper, which ranks second in circulation in the United States, can almost be said to be one of the standard items for elites in the financial and business fields.

At that time, Mr. Li first served as a senior consultant to Dow Jones, and then became one of the designers of the real-time financial information system for the online version of the Wall Street Journal.

However, although these resumes may seem luxurious, they actually don’t mean much to the current Internet users and red pony.

What matters most to both Internet companies is the job that Mr. Li took after leaving Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal.

Infoseek is an information search company.

Of course, this company is relatively unfamiliar to most people.

But when this company started to develop search engines, the two people at Google were still playing in the mud!

Okay~ This is definitely an exaggeration, but Infoseek launched its own search service in 1994, and the later famous Google was only established in 1998.

Mr. Li from Qiandu worked for Infoseek before returning to China.

Even Mr. Li is one of the core engineers of Infoseek.

It was precisely because of his previous accumulation at Infoseek that Mr. Li founded one of the three Internet giants that later became famous after returning to China for inspection.

Thousands of degrees!

The reason why Chen Li knows so well is that the source of the information cannot be his memory, but Ma Xiaoyun.

Ma Xiaoyun valued the work experience of Mr. Li, who was not Mr. Li at the time, and wanted to invite him to work at Red Pony Technology.

As for Wangnan, let alone it. Perhaps because of the influence of Chen Li's butterfly, Wangnan today is very concerned about the field of "search", and this Mr. Li is simply the technical talent that Ding Sanshi dreams of.

It's just a pity that the ideas of these two companies fell through.

The reason is simple. Mr. Li had already received a venture capital investment before returning to China from abroad.

To put it bluntly, people have already investigated it, and the purpose of returning to China this time is to open a company.

Under such circumstances, it is naturally impossible for him to go work for some Internet network and red pony. Wouldn't he be a good boss?

So shortly after visiting Red Pony Technology, Mr. Li directly founded his own company, and the name was exactly the "Qiandu" in Chen Li's memory.

What’s more funny is that at the beginning of Qiandu’s business in his previous life, it was said that Mr. Li directly rented two rooms for a long time in a hotel under the name of Yan University.

But now~ this newly founded company has directly settled in a building in Zhongguancun, and the change between this is actually the result of Ma Xiaoyun.

The reason why Ma Xiaoyun did this made Chen Li dumbfounded.

"This guy has some skills."

"Let's get him closer~ This way we can better understand their company's situation."

"When they encounter any difficulties in the future, hey, let's buy him a deal!"

Good guy~ Chen Li really called him "good guy" at that time! The old horse's abacus was crackling!

At that time, Chen Li wanted to refute Ma Xiaoyun. After all, there are thousands of people. Those were the three Internet giants in the future. How could he be recruited by his old horse?

But Chen Li's rebuttal hadn't been spoken yet. He suddenly thought of Mr. Zhou of Red Pony Technology.

That week Hongyi became the technical director and chief engineer of Red Pony Technology. So it seems that it is not impossible for Red Pony Technology to incorporate Qiandu and Mr. Li?

In particular, Chen Li also knew that before Qiandu succeeded, he actually encountered difficulties!

The 3721 dispute between Mr. Li and Zhou Hongyi from the previous life was quite heated.

If Zhou Hongyi hadn't been too quick at that time, Mr. Li of Qiandu might have sold Qiandu to Yahu.

If this is the case, then maybe Zhou Hongyi should have a place among the three Internet giants in the past and later generations.

Well, of course, these speculations are all nonsense. After all, these are all speculations without talking about facts, so they have no specific meaning at all.

But the difficulties that Qiandu encountered were all real.

If Qiandu still encounters such a predicament now, then it is not impossible for Red Pony Technology to recruit the opponent!

Of course, these are some predictions made by Chen Li from an almost "God's perspective" position.

As for what the future will look like in the end, it’s hard for Chen Li to say!

But no matter what, Chen Li didn't want to compete with a smart man like Mr. Li.

Just like Chen Li is unwilling to compete with Ma Xiaoyun and Ma Xiaoteng, Chen Li is also unwilling to compete with Mr. Li in the future.

After all, no matter what kind of troubles Qiandu encountered in his previous life, he did succeed in the end.

Instead of fighting to the death with those successful people in his previous life, Chen Li might as well give up this idea, directly choose another industry, and look for opportunities to see if he can make friends with them.

If you can find an opportunity to invest, that would be perfect.

For example, sell hao123 to the other party at a "good" price at the right time.

However, Chen Li will definitely not choose to ask for cash. What he wants is naturally shares!

Of course, it’s a bit early to say this now, but Chen Li has already begun to prepare for hao123’s future transformation.

To be precise, it should not be said to be transformation, but to reopen new businesses.

But this time, after some consideration, Chen Li finally chose the new goal of hao123 Studio.

Dianping.com!

I believe that when seeing these three words, the first thing that pops up in many people’s minds is Dianping.com, which later merged with a certain group buying website.

That’s right~ Chen Li’s idea came from that Dianping website.

The so-called Dianping.com should actually be called an independent third-party consumer review website.

This website not only provides users with information services such as business information and consumer reviews, but also provides transaction services such as group purchasing, restaurant reservations, takeaways, and electronic membership cards.

Of course, it’s only 1999, and many of the services provided by Dianping.com are basically impossible to realize these days.

However, it is still possible to provide users with merchant information, consumer reviews and even consumer discounts.

When Chen Li told Song Xiaolan about his idea, this senior majoring in computer science at the Polytechnic University, who had not even graduated this year, was already shocked by Chen Li's idea.

"Boss, how did you get such a brain?"

It was obvious that Song Xiaolan recognized Chen Li's idea and expressed her shock at Chen Li's thinking.

If it were other people, they might not necessarily understand the benefits that Chen Li's proposal would bring. However, as the webmaster of hao123, Song Xiaolan knew the concept very well.

Since hao123 was officially commercialized, Song Xiaolan's most troublesome thing is probably to find a website provider that is both suitable and willing to cooperate with hao123 website.

But in 1999, the domestic Internet industry had just started, so although there were not many websites that met these conditions, there were not many who were really willing to spend real money to cooperate with hao123.

But this is because of the overall environmental impact of the entire domestic Internet industry, which started late after all!

But if you replace these websites with other traditional businesses, such as restaurants and hotels, etc.

Then this market is much bigger than the Internet environment in 1999!

Especially after Chen Li talked to Song Xiaolan about how the website itself could be mutually beneficial to businesses and provide free services to users, Song Xiaolan couldn't help but feel a sense of admiration for Chen Li, a boy who was three years younger than her.

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No wonder Chen Li has already become a big boss at such a young age. With his brains, you, the average person, really can’t come up with these ideas.

"Hey~ What a brainless person, I actually got inspiration from others."

"You know Michelin, right? At least you should have heard of it, right?"

"I'm not selling tires. What should I tell you?"

Chen Li was a little speechless. He ignored that ordinary people in 1999 did not know as much about so-called Michelin restaurants as they did later.

Michelin tires, on the other hand, have been advertised on TV, so many people have some impressions of them.

"Michelin not only sells tires, they also run a magazine."

"This magazine will select some delicious restaurants and rate these restaurants according to the selection criteria."

"My inspiration comes from here, and I plan to move this magazine to the website."

"Of course, our website itself will not rate these merchants."

"The right to rate merchants should be given to users who have gone to merchants to make purchases."

"And~ we are not just limited to restaurants, but also other stores~supermarkets, etc., we can provide reviews."

"so.!"

Chen Li stayed in this office for the whole morning, and finally he finally made Song Xiaolan fully understand the Dianping.com he wanted.

"Boss~ I understand what you mean."

"However, this matter is not a trivial matter! Leave such a big matter to me. Me."

After hearing what Chen Li was going to give her, Song Xiaolan suddenly backed down.

God knows~ She is now a senior who has not yet graduated! Her classmates are basically still working as interns and odd jobs serving people tea and water.

But now Chen Li asked her to take charge of the development of such a website, and she was really worried.

Panic!