Rebirth of the Wild Age

Tencent has only one office, with an area of ​​more than 30 square meters. There are all bosses sitting in it, and there is no serious employee. The cleaners find the property management every week to solve the problem.

Even among the five founders of Tencent, three of them are still working in the original company. Because the company's prospects are unclear, it is possible to disband the partnership if it is said, and it is necessary to keep the previous job, at least to leave a way out for myself.

When Song Weiyang came to Tencent, there was only one person in the company: Zhang Zhidong.

Zhang Zhidong was frantically typing on the keyboard to write a program. When he heard the sound of the door, he didn't look up and said, "Li Qing is back? Is there any business?"

Song Weiyang laughed and said, "The blind monk has gone wild again?"

Zhang Zhidong realized that he had identified the wrong person, so he raised his head and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

"I'm looking for a pony." Song Weiyang said.

"Xiao Ma won't be here until after get off work, so please wait slowly." Zhang Zhidong continued typing on the keyboard while speaking.

Song Weiyang was not too polite, he directly turned on a computer, dialed up the Internet and started chatting in the chat room, exchanging words with a group of sand sculptures.

Suddenly, the blind monk who went out to fight in the wild came back.

Zeng Liqing yelled as soon as he entered the company: "Old Zhang, I got an order! Shencheng Information Port agreed to let us do the mailbox system, and the price was 300,000 yuan, a full 300,000 yuan!"

Well, Tencent is robbing NetEase's business again. They found that the email system is very profitable, so they used their previous personal relationship to receive email orders.

"Really?" Zhang Zhidong stood up abruptly. If there was no more income, the company would almost be out of business.

It was only then that Zeng Liqing discovered that there were two strangers in the company. He looked at Song Weiyang curiously and asked, "Old Zhang, are these two customers? They look familiar."

Zhang Zhidong said, "He came to look for Xiaoma."

"Looking for Brother Xiao Ma?" Zeng Liqing immediately realized, "You are Song Weiyang, Boss Song!"

"Hello." Song Weiyang smiled.

Zhang Zhidong also recalled it suddenly, shook hands again and again and said: "Boss Song, I was negligent just now, disrespect, disrespect!"

Song Weiyang is definitely a master in today's Internet industry. He has won Sohu.com with one hand. In the eyes of all Internet entrepreneurs, he belongs to the existence of a top boss.

China's top ten commercial websites this year are Sohu, Sina, 163 Electronic Post Office, Netease, Net China, People's Daily website, Shenghai hotline, abyte, Capital Online, and Yahoo China. They are all news and information portals, with almost no profit model. They only focus on traffic, and the content is second. Some rely on the support of the owner to develop, some rely on angel investment to grow, and some rely on the founder's programming to make a website.

Lianzhong Games has been established, but it is inconspicuous. The leader in red has also started to make a navigation website, named 3721, which can only be regarded as a small gadget. As for Sogou search founded by Ding Ming, after a period of exposure, it became unknown again. Although many netizens use Sogou, it is still not favored by the industry.

These days, portals are king!

Brother Xiao Ma is very low-key. Although he has a good personal relationship with Song Weiyang, he never shows it off everywhere, and only occasionally mentions it to one or two friends.

Including Zhang Zhidong and Zeng Liqing, they all know that brother Ma knows Song Weiyang. But what's the use of knowing? They never expected that the well-known Song Weiyang would personally visit this crappy company like Tencent.

Zeng Liqing was more active. After chatting casually, he took Song Weiyang to look at the computer, pointed to a piece of software and said, "Boss Song, this is the 'wireless network paging system' we developed, which can connect pagers and Internet users. We This system has many functions. Users can send messages to pagers online without making a phone call. There is also an email paging service. Users can see the subject and part of their e-mail on the pager. There is also a network secretary service, users can enter their daily schedule on the Internet, and the network secretary will send the schedule to the pager at the set time. By the way, we also have a virtual paging service. Users do not need to have a real pager, and friends can directly Make a call to the paging station, and the message will be sent to your e-mail. Isn’t it convenient? This system is very practical. If Boss Song is interested, we Tencent welcome you to invest.”

"You Tencent, are you in a relationship with pagers?" Song Weiyang couldn't help laughing.

In a few years, no one in China will use pagers. Tencent's development direction is quite unique.

Zeng Liqing said: "The wireless network paging system is our main business. We also have other businesses, such as helping people to create mailboxes, such as helping people to create web pages. Our company's technology is very powerful!"

Song Weiyang said: "I heard that you have made a Chinese version of icq?"

"Oh, you're talking about oicq," Zhang Zhidong said, "that program is still in internal testing, and new functions are constantly being added. It is more suitable for Chinese people than icq. As long as you buy our wireless network paging system, we will send it to you for free. Present the oicq applet."

Song Weiyang said: "That is to say, oicq is not open to the public, but an internal product for the paging station?"

Zhang Zhidong said: "We are also preparing to launch a public version, which has been put on the company's agenda. But this thing has no future, there are many similar products, and there is no profit point at all."

As early as 1997, a Chinese version of icq appeared in Wanwan, named cicq. This year, cicq launched a simplified Chinese version and changed its name to picq in mainland China. At the same time, a similar software called "Internet Genie" also appeared in mainland China.

With Xiao Ma's usual style, ICQ abroad has made so much money, how could he not pay attention?

Before founding Tencent, Xiao Ma planned to build a Chinese version of icq, but after discussing with many colleagues, everyone thought it was not profitable.

But why did Xiao Ma do it again?

This has to start with Huadu Telecom, which announced a bidding news, wanting to buy an instant messaging tool similar to icq. Brother Xiao Ma was worried that the company would not have any business, so he ran to bid while developing the software, but the result was of course nothing—Huadu Telecom had already selected a partner, which was the Wanwan company, and the public bidding was just a procedure.

Song Weiyang opened the oicq internal testing program and registered an account number 10006. After using it casually for a few times, Song Weiyang asked with a smile: "If this thing is replaced by another computer, will the friend list added before still be there?"

Zhang Zhidong said: "Of course it's gone, it must be added again."

"Why not make an online chat tool that allows you to see your friends even if you change computers?" Song Weiyang said.

Zhang Zhidong said: "Then you have to rent a server, which costs money."

Song Weiyang said speechlessly, "This reason is very real."

After chatting for a while, the other three founders of Tencent finally arrived in a hurry. They usually have to go to work, and only come to work in their own company after get off work or on weekends.

Of course, you can fish during working hours.

Brother Xiaoma often works at Runxun Company, which is in the paging business. He takes other people's wages and uses other people's phones to do telemarketing for Tencent all day long.

"Boss Song, why did you come in person!" Chen Yidan and Xu Chenhua were also surprised.

Coupled with Brother Xiao Ma, the Tencent Five Tigers are these five.

Song Weiyang pointed at oicq and said with a smile: "Brother Ma, if you give me number 10001, I will agree to invest in Tencent."

Brother Xiao Ma said indifferently: "You can take it if you don't invest."

"I'm serious." Song Weiyang said.

"Are you really willing to invest?" Brother Ma was quite excited.

Brother Xiao Ma is not stupid. Judging from the situation in the past few months, the wireless network paging system is a joke. Now that he has lost confidence, he really doesn't know what to do. Song Weiyang's investment is great news, at least it can keep the company alive for the time being.

The other four founders also looked at Song Weiyang nervously. They had invested all their wealth and had long been looking forward to someone taking over.

Song Weiyang said: "I can invest in Tencent, but Tencent must give up the paging business and focus on OICQ in the future."

Brother Xiao Ma asked: "Are you really optimistic about instant chat programs?"

Song Weiyang said: "When icq first appeared in foreign countries, I talked with you on the Internet. This is a huge potential market. But if you want to beat similar products in China, you must make improvements."

Brother Xiao Ma said, "Tell me about it."

Song Weiyang said: "First of all, the smaller the program, the better. Now the domestic Internet speed is extremely slow, and many of them surf the Internet in Internet cafes. The Internet fee is very expensive, and it only takes one or two hours to surf the Internet at a time. I just checked it. The size of your program doesn’t work, and when the user finishes downloading it in the Internet cafe, before they even start chatting online, it will take an hour or two.”

Brother Xiao Ma nodded and said, "It really should be improved."

Song Weiyang added: "Also, China is different from the United States. Many Internet users in the United States have their own computers, so they don't care much about losing their friends list when they change computers. Most Internet users in China surf the Internet in Internet cafes. Only a chat tool that does not lose the friend list can finally win the market."

"That's the truth." Little Ma said.

Song Weiyang continued: "Also, I changed the name oicq, it's too awkward to pronounce."

Brother Xiao Ma smiled and said, "Then you come and choose a Chinese name."

Song Weiyang said: "I don't need a Chinese name either, let's call it qq."